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__label__wiki	0.917801	0.917801	UK – Publication of Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission Research Report No. 4: Survey of Child Maintenance Options Outcomes 2009/10 UK – Facebook allows natural parents to track down adopted children, charities warn UK – College of Social Work opens for business Filed under Family Law (Public) The College of Social Work formally opened its doors to paying members this week. Employed social workers will be able to join for £60 a year in return for which they will receive benefits such as indemnity cover, online resources and peer mentoring. The College aims to “provide the profession with strong, independent leadership and give social workers a resonant voice on the national stage”. A planned joint membership deal between the College and Unison was suspended in December, following concerns raised by the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) and a committee of MPs that public money was being used to unfairly promote the union. BASW, which has set up its own arms-length trade union, and the College had been working towards a possible merger, but the negotiations broke down in September over the Unison deal. The College said a decision on the Unison deal would be taken by its first board, which will be elected in Spring. Maurice Bates, the college’s interim co-chair said: “We want to attract significant numbers of social workers to join the College so that they can determine its future direction and build a professional body that is the equal of the royal colleges in the medical field.” Membership fees are £10 a year for students and £90 for self-employed social workers. http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/04/01/2012/117906/college-of-social-work-opens-for-business.htm Permanent link to this article: http://operationfatherhood.org/family-law-public/uk-college-of-social-work-opens-for-business/	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1446
__label__wiki	0.852469	0.852469	The New Normal: How Industry Magazines Are Navigating the Pandemic From diving head-first into webinars to making up for suddenly irrelevant editorial calendars, leaders at five magazines tell us how they’re making it work. The extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic will impact publishing is still coming into focus, and, as our content director noted last month, will likely take years to fully assess. Absent the luxury of planning years, months or even weeks into the future, publishers of all sizes have been forced to make important decisions quickly to adapt to the moment and remain valuable to their readers, especially those whose magazines serve professionals in explicitly defined industries, many of which are facing unprecedented disruptions of their own. “It certainly took a huge toll on our industry and our revenue streams, and we had to really make some decisions,” says Rich Luna, director of publishing at the meetings industry association MPI and editor-in-chief of its flagship publication, The Meeting Professional. “We decided to stop printing the magazine. Whether it’s temporary or not, we don’t know yet, but at least for the near future.” Although internal surveys suggest most readers prefer the print product, Luna says the shift to digital-only was partially driven by logistics; most members were getting the publication sent to their offices. But with lower production costs, The Meeting Professional was also able to distribute the digital edition not just to MPI members, but to anyone who has signed up for a webinar or an online course or attended an MPI conference in the past, doubling its distribution from 50,000 in print to 100,000 for the digital edition. “They might not be members, but they certainly are part of our community,” Luna says. “We really felt it was important to get the news out on what’s happening within our industry to as many people as possible.” For a publication that had, in recent years, been focused on ramping up the amount of original content it published online, the shift to a digital edition was a windfall, Luna says. In the first week after the digital May issue debuted, pageviews, sessions and unique visitors tripled, compared to previous months. Read more at: https://www.foliomag.com/navigating-crisis-professional-magazines/	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1451
__label__cc	0.713543	0.286457	I am currently an Associate Professor in the School of Community and Global Health at Claremont Graduate University where I also serve as Director of the PhD program in Health Promotion Sciences. I earned my MPH from the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA and my PhD in Epidemiology from the Department of Preventive Medicine at USC’s Keck School of Medicine. Subsequently I completed a three-year post-doctoral fellowship at UCLA in environmental neuroepidemiology as well as a one-year internship in communicable disease control and prevention at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. I hold certifications in Public Health (CPH), SAS, Geographical Information Science (GIS), and college teaching. My research focuses on environmental, occupational, lifestyle and genetic risk and protective factors for cardiovascular and neurological diseases, specifically Parkinson’s disease as well as cognitive impairment and dementia. In 2009, I co-founded the Milagro Allegro Community Garden, a vibrant and thriving community space that integrates urban farming, art and education in the Highland Park neighborhood of Northeast Los Angeles. In 2010, inspired by Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign, with colleagues I developed LA Sprouts, a nutrition/cooking and gardening intervention aimed at reducing the risk of childhood obesity in predominantly Latino elementary school aged children. During 2012-17, I led the evaluation of the Little Green Fingers project, which constructed eight community gardens across Los Angeles County. In 2014, I was a recipient of the Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award. In 2018, I was awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant to teach epidemiology to public health professionals at the National Center of Public Health in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. In February 2020, I was named a Fulbright Scholar and, in 2021, will travel to Iceland to teach and do research at the University of Iceland. I am a member of professional societies including the American Public Health Association and the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology. I serve as a reviewer for prominent public health journals including Environmental Health Perspectives, Journal of the Neurological Sciences, and Public Health Nutrition, and will serve as guest editor for the journal Cancers on a special issue on environmental carcinogens. I am a native Angeleno inspired by the work of Wangari Maathai who founded the Green Belt movement in Kenya, and Alice Waters who created the Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley, CA. Click Here to Download my CV Click Here to Download my Bio	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1453
__label__cc	0.515832	0.484168	Home Health Centers Neuroscience Neurological Conditions and Diseases Neurological Conditions and Diseases See All Back and Neck Pain See All Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries See All Brain and Spinal Tumors See All Epilepsy and Seizures See All Multiple Sclerosis See All Neurological Infections See All Neuromuscular Diseases See All Other Neurological Conditions See All Parkinson's and Movement Disorders See All Peripheral Nerve Conditions See All Low Back Pain in Back Pain, Care of the Back Everyone has experienced low back pain at one time or another. Most people can recover from low back pain with home treatment, such as changes in activity, weight loss, quitting smoking, and other steps. Sometimes medicine or surgery is needed. ...more Pinched Nerve in Back Pain Radiculopathy, commonly called pinched nerve, often occurs in the lower back. ...more Injectable Corticosteroids in Care of the Back Corticosteroid injections can treat many skeletal, muscular, and spinal conditions. Some of these injections can be done by your healthcare provider during a routine clinic visit. Others require a referral to a pain specialist. ...more Neck Pain in Neck Pain Your neck is at risk for injury because of its location and range-of-motion. Neck pain can be caused by injury, age, or inflammatory disorders....more Cervical Spondylosis in Neck Pain Cervical spondylosis is a type of arthritis that affects your neck. This condition becomes more common with age, and most people who are older than 60 have it. ...more Head Injury in Brain Injuries A head injury is a broad term that describes many injuries that occur to the scalp, skull, brain, and underlying tissue and blood vessels in the head. Head injuries are also commonly referred to as brain injury, or traumatic brain injury (TBI), depending on the extent of the head trauma....more Traumatic Brain Injury in Brain Injuries Acquired brain injury hapens when a sudden, external, physical assault damages the brain. It is one of the most common causes of disability and death in adults....more Acute Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) in Spine Injuries Car accidents, falls, and other injuries are a common cause of acute spinal cord injury....more Spinal Cord Compression in Spine Injuries Spinal cord compression can occur anywhere along your spine. Symptoms include numbness, pain, and weakness....more Anatomy of the Brain in About Brain Tumors The brain is an important organ that controls thought, memory, emotion, touch, motor skills, vision, respiration, and every process that regulates your body. ...more Brain Tumor: Risk Factors in About Brain Tumors Doctors do not know exactly what causes a brain tumor, although certain factors appear to raise your risk: exposure to radiation or pesticides, an impaired immune system, and a family history of brain tumors....more Brain Tumors: Chemotherapy in Deciding on Treatment Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill cancer cells. The medicines attack and kill cells that divide rapidly. Some of these rapidly dividing cells are cancer, but others are normal cells in the body. ...more Brain Tumors: Radiation Therapy in Deciding on Treatment There are 2 main types of radiation therapy. Healthcare providers can give it from a machine outside the body or from small radioactive pellets placed inside or near the tumor. ...more Spinal Cord Tumor Overview in About Spinal Tumors A tumor forms when an abnormal cell grows to form a mass of abnormal cells. Spinal cord tumors are tumors that form on the spinal cord or in the area around it....more Epilepsy and Seizures in Epilepsy and Seizures Epilepsy is a brain condition that causes a person to have seizures. It is one of the most common disorders of the nervous system....more Status Epilepticus in Epilepsy and Seizures A seizure that lasts at least 30 minutes is called status epilepticus, or a prolonged seizure. This is a medical emergency that may lead to permanent brain damage or death. Many medical experts become concerned that a seizure is status epilepticus after it lasts 5 to 10 minutes....more Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in Multiple Sclerosis Multiple sclerosis is a disease in which the fatty tissue that surrounds the nerves is destroyed. When this happens, the nerves are unable to conduct electrical impulses to and from the brain. It causes muscle weakness, impaired coordination, and fatigue....more Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis in Multiple Sclerosis Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease that interferes with your brain's ability to operate your body....more Bacterial Meningitis in Neurological Infections Bacterial meningitis is an infection of the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord. It causes headache, stiff neck, and high fever....more Meningitis in Neurological Infections Meningitis is inflammation of the membranes that surround the brain. Meningitis can be caused by either a virus or bacteria. Bacterial meningitis may be life-threatening....more Types of Muscular Dystrophy and Neuromuscular Diseases in Neuromuscular Diseases Muscular dystrophy is a group of inherited diseases that are characterized by weakness and wasting away of muscle tissue, with or without the breakdown of nerve tissue....more Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD) in Children in Neuromuscular Diseases Muscular dystrophy (MD) is an inherited (genetic) disorder of the muscles. It is called a neuromuscular disease. There are several types. Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) is a rare type....more Acoustic Neuroma in Other Neurological Conditions Acoustic neuroma is a rare noncancer tumor. It affects hearing and balance when the tumor presses on the nerves in the inner ear. ...more Bell's Palsy in Other Neurological Conditions Bell's palsy is an unexplained episode of facial muscle weakness or paralysis that begins suddenly and worsens over 48 hours. It is caused by a damaged facial nerve....more Parkinson Disease in Parkinson's Disease Parkinson disease is a motor system disorder that causes trembling, stiffness and trouble moving....more Parkinson Disease and Dementia in Parkinson's Disease Parkinson disease is a movement disorder that can cause muscles to tighten and become rigid. It can make it hard to walk and engage in daily activities....more Ataxia in Other Movement Disorders Ataxia means without coordination. People with ataxia lose muscle control in their arms and legs, which may lead to a lack of balance, coordination, and trouble walking. Ataxia may affect the fingers, hands, arms, legs, body, speech, and even eye movements....more Dystonia in Other Movement Disorders Dystonia is a body movement disorder. It causes your muscles to contract, move involuntarily, or get stuck in an abnormal position. ...more Brachial Neuritis in Peripheral Nerve Conditions Brachial neuritis is nerve damage that affects the chest, shoulder, arm, and hand. It causes pain, weakness and lack of muscle control and lack of feeling in the shoulder or arm....more Brachial Plexus Injuries in Peripheral Nerve Conditions The brachial plexus can be injured in many different ways - from pressure, stress, or being stretched too far. The nerves may also be damaged by cancer or radiation treatment. Sometimes, brachial plexus injuries happen to babies during childbirth....more	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1459
__label__cc	0.608276	0.391724	You need to upgrade your Flash Player Please download the latest Flash Player. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - pavee small complications In the 19th century, the name of "Milleret" was an old family name anchored in the Jura Mountains in Switzerland. In the old days, a lot of farmers, including a Milleret family, developed small watch-workshops at their home to occupy the long winter season days. After practice on pocket watches belonging to gentlemen and dealers of the high society, a few self-taught and ingenious of these autodidacts created single mechanical pieces which have become invaluable timekeepers now. This know-how has been transmitted through generations and belongs now to our heritage. The second and current part of Milleret's story started in London. It was during an auction at the end of the nineteenth century when a businessman in fine diamonds and jewellery, saw a beautiful silver pocket watch branded Milleret 1883. As a fervent watch lover, his wish to develop this name based on an historical source made its way in his mind... and after a few years of work in the backstage the new Milleret has been introduced with a touch of freshness and spontaneity. By combining traditional hand-craftsmanship and more than 40 years of experience in fine diamonds and jewellery business, Milleret successfully entered the universe of luxury and precision watch-making. From its name and location Milleret has inherited a great know-how and has a huge respect for the Swiss watch- making values. Making best use of its affiliation to a jewellery group, Milleret matures in its independent atmosphere balanced between purity of diamonds and refined style. Milleret timepieces are created with the most contemporary watch-making technologies, making use of the ultimate tools of our time: the skilled hands of designers, watchmakers and diamonds setters. These men are real artists expressing their creative potential, originality and passion through every single pieces coming out from their workshops. Independent and intuitive, Milleret applies itself to perpetuate this art. Milleret manufactures its products and shapes the various faces of its success making us of its first and main area of expertise: diamonds, the most solid stones in the world. Based on the historic skills of its founders in the art of cutting diamonds to turn them into timeless witnesses, Milleret has always aimed at first quality choice and can therefore create audacious combinations of design and diamonds. Diamonds are eternal. And above all, there are "women's best friends" because of their beauty, brilliance and uniqueness, just like the woman who wears them. The thing that everybody forgets to mention is that diamonds do for you what neither machines nor technological inventions will ever do : they touch a woman's heart. We offer you the way to reach it with our Milleret collection. "Solstice" is the topic of our new visuals. Etymologically, "solstice" means "the sun stood still". It is this period of time when the sun appears to rise and set at almost exactly the same place during consecutive days. The solstices are these two opposite and slightly ambiguous moments of the year … the shortest day, the longest night or the longest day and the shortest night. Solstices were and are still celebrated in some communities. They crossed the centuries with intense mysterious tones, but always tinged with subtlety, delicacy and wordless beauty. Through our new campaign, we tried to perpetuate this kind of surrealistic hours when reality meets the world of dreams, when daylight meets the darkness of the night in an atmosphere full of inspiration, emotions, passion and suggestiveness. Like a rain drop with its pure and aesthetic lines, the ANACONDA reproduces an original and harmonious expression of femininity. Its distinctive curved profile makes it unique. It can't fail to fit the wrist perfectly, reinforcing your own identity and feeling of independence. See it... feel it... allow yourself to be enticed by our steel bracelet. A special steel bracelet designed by Milleret to fit its case in perfect harmony. Available in two sizes, this line offers a choice of diamonds settings and dials. For the woman who manages a corporate takeover and rush hour traffic, all in a day's work. Through an inspiration of modern and every day luxurious way of living, Diva pays tribute to her independent spirit. Elegant, it fits perfectly into an active, social lifestyle. Available in two sizes, this line offers a choice of diamonds settings and dials. Available on steel bracelet. When charm meets sensuality... Elegant and seductive, GALA will catch everybody's eyes. Through the Gala "Black Dress" and its setting of black diamonds, the secrets of the Solstices are almost unveiled. This model reflects an inimitable and distinctive character like the woman who will wear it. Available in seductive small size or in magnificent large size, this line offers a choice of diamonds settings and dials. Own a piece of eternity... A contemporary piece transformed with modern sensibility and passion for excellence. The Pavée shines like a star in the sky. Isn't this the ultimate jewellery to express your love or to mark an important moment of your life, making it an unforgettable memory? In accordance with your preference, this model is available with a yellow or white gold case. For an increased glamorous effect, it is also available on its elegant gold bracelet. The elegance of the curves and the symmetry of the lines come together, balanced in the most harmonious way, to create the Eighteen Forever family. Shaped in precious material set with diamonds, the round and squared lines reinvent "art-deco" style with a modern retro feeling. The strong appeal of our XXL models is the essence of the contemporary watch-making, with its modern interpretation of the classical watch shape. A perfect balance between concept and beauty in large size. From classic-elegant style to a free sportive attitude, every single man will find the model which best suits him. Also available in stainless steel bracelet. Small complication watches for men are made to be perfectly adapted to any situation a man may go through during his life. Strong and refined lines give these models the typical character a man is looking for. In the aftermaths of the "art that can be worn" appeared the compelling desire to develop this limited edition. Unifying the meticulous works of master craftsmen, this skeleton watch will provide the exquisite touch to its daring and open-minded owner. Thank you for your interest in Milleret. Please do not hesitate to contact us should you need any further information. We will be pleased to assist you. Milleret SA Rue du Milieu 20-24 CH - 2500 Bienne 4 Phone: +41 (0) 32 342 10 23 In a world of mass production and extreme competition, who hasn't dreamt of possessing a prestigious handcrafted timekeeper? Whether we achieve our dreams or not, we want to keep them and make them last forever. Designed to function 24 hours a day for several generations, your quartz or mechanical Milleret watch deserves the best possible care. The battery lifetime featured in our quartz models will remind you at regular intervals that it is time to hand it out to the good care of our watchmakers. Good care and attention are necessary with mechanical watches, but the lubricants and seals, as they age, will tell you the time to offer your watch a rejuvenating session. Please take a moment to read the booklet you receive with your watch and simply follow the instructions. In doing so, you will maintain the reliability and precision of its various functions and enjoy it for years. Together with our partners, we commit ourselves to offer you irreproachable quality of after sales services. Any defaults in the manufacture or in the materials will be covered for a period of 3 years; damages resulting from careless handling excepted. Information and contact :	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1472
__label__wiki	0.61204	0.61204	Home » Australia approves trade operation for incidental harvesting of CITES species – Smooth hammerhead shark Australia approves trade operation for incidental harvesting of CITES species – Smooth hammerhead shark Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION I, PAUL MURPHY, Assistant Secretary, Wildlife Trade and Biosecurity Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment, have considered in accordance with section 303FN of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), advice on the ecological sustainability of the operation. I am satisfied on those matters specified in section 303FN of the EPBC Act. I hereby declare the operations for the incidental harvesting of specimens that are, or are derived from Sphyrna zygaena (smooth hammerhead shark), taken in the South Australian Marine Scalefish Fishery, as defined in the Management Plan for the South Australian Commercial Marine Scalefish Fishery 2013 made under the South Australian Fisheries Management Act 2007, to be an approved wildlife trade operation, in accordance with subsection 303FN(2) and paragraph 303FN(10)(d), for the purposes of the EPBC Act. Unless amended or revoked, this declaration is valid until 24 September 2015. Dated this 23rd day of January 2015 ….…………………Paul Murphy…..………………… Under the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975, a person whose interests are affected by this decision may apply for a statement of reasons and for independent review of the decision. An application for a statement of reasons may be made in writing to the Department of the Environment within 28 days of the date of the declaration. An application for independent review may be made to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal on payment of the relevant fee within 28 days of the date of the declaration, or if reasons are sought, within 28 days of receipt of reasons. Further information may be obtained from the Director, Sustainable Fisheries Section. Australia’s obligations under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) are met through Part 13A of the EPBC Act. Specimens of species listed in Appendix II of Australia’s CITES list under section 303CA of the EPBC Act may only be exported, under a CITES export permit issued under the EPBC Act, if Australia’s CITES Scientific Authority has issued a non detriment finding for that species. Further information, including a list of species for which non detriment findings have been issued and the fisheries from which they may be sourced, is available from http://www.environment.gov.au/topics/biodiversity/wildlife-trade/internationally-endangered-plants-and-animals-cites/how-export. Source: Published by the Commonwealth of Australia in Gazette – C2015G00119	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1473
__label__cc	0.705314	0.294686	Human Values Project in Kazakhstan Forty Sathya Sai volunteers from five cities of Kazakhstan participated in 35 projects serving children as part of the Serve the Planet global initiative of the Sathya Sai International Organisation between January and October 2015. Volunteers organised a camp on education in the village Sairam, located… in Education, Human Values, Service, STP - Serve the Planet, Zone 8 Whitsun Festival in Germany The Whitsun Meeting, coinciding with the Christian festival of Pentecost, started at a regional level more than 20 years ago and has now grown to a national annual festival. Held at Stemwede in northern Germany, this springtime event attracts Sathya Sai followers from all over… in Devotion, Human Values, Zone 7 Clothes for Infants in Brazil The Work Cradle is a service project established in August 1986 by a member of the Niterói Sathya Sai Centre in Rio de Janeiro to make layettes for newborn babies whose mothers were unable to afford them. As of 2014, Sathya Sai devotees have sewn… in Service, Zone 2B Meals for the Homeless at St. Anthony of Padua Church, Italy Several years ago, the Sathya Sai Centre of Bologna began working with a group of volunteers led by Don Giovanni Nicolini, parish priest of St. Anthony of Padua’s Church at La Dozza, near Bologna. The volunteers supported an initiative, known as Piano Freddo (Cold Weather… Remembering Elderly Veterans in Kazakhstan On 9th May 2016, Sathya Sai members from Aktau visited a nursing home to felicitate the elder residents on Victory Day, a national holiday commemorating Easwaramma Day Celebrated in Trinidad and Tobago The Sathya Sai Garden of Blooms Early Childhood Care and Education Centre in Longdenville celebrated Easwaramma Day on 6th May 2016, with the permission of the Ministry of Education. The singular value highlighted in the school during the week of celebration was Love, and the… in Education, Zone 1 Regional Retreat in Germany During 6th to 8th May 2016, about 80 SSIO members and office bearers from southern Germany gathered at Wartaweil, near Lake Ammersee, for a regional retreat on the theme, “Human Values – Our Inner Treasure.” The group divided into three focus groups to concentrate on… Children’s Project in Ukraine In Kharkov, Ukraine’s second largest city, Sathya Sai volunteers have given lessons to children in the regional children’s asylum, semi-annually for the past three years. At the 19th September 2015 session, themed “Wisdom of Mandalas,” in Service, STP - Serve the Planet, Zone 8 Conference in Northwest Russia From 4th–7th May 2016, the SSIO hosted a conference in the northwest region of Russia near St. Petersburg. Approximately 183 SSIO members from Russia as well as six neighbouring countries participated in the conference, themed “Unity through Love, Love through Unity.” On the first day,… Humanitarian Relief for Earthquake Victims in Japan On 14th April 2016, a strong earthquake of magnitude 6.5 rattled the Kumamoto area of Kyushu, followed by a second quake of magnitude 7.3 on 16th April 2016. The two earthquakes caused the death of at least 49 people and injuries to about 3,000 others….	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1474
__label__cc	0.582334	0.417666	SAVANNA-TULA.RU Confucius Analects of Confucius \| The Pink Classics The Analects,Analects of Confucius, Lun Yu,Author Confucius Confucius Analects of Confucius The Analects of Confucius. Language: bilingual Chinese and English Confucius The Analects of Confucius Confucius (551-479 BC) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be suppressed in favor of the Legalists during the Qin Dynasty. Following the victory of Han over Chu after the collapse of Qin, Confucius's thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known as Confucianism. <P>"The Analects of Confucius" consists of 20 books (chapters), translated into English by William Jennings, with contextual footnotes. Confucius The Analects of Confucius (Wisehouse Classics Edition) The Analects (literally: “Edited Conversations”), also known as the Analects of Confucius, is a collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled and written by Confucius’ followers. It is believed to have been written during the Warring States period (475 BC–221 BC), and it achieved its final form during the mid-Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD). By the early Han dynasty the Analects was considered merely a «commentary» on the Five Classics, but the status of the Analects grew to be one of the central texts of Confucianism by the end of that dynasty. During the late Song dynasty (960-1279) the importance of the Analects as a philosophy work was raised above that of the older Five Classics, and it was recognized as one of the “Four Books”. The Analects has been one of the most widely read and studied books in China for the last 2,000 years, and continues to have a substantial influence on Chinese and East Asian thought and values today. They were very important for Confucianism and China’s overall morals. Reading Time The Complete Confucius: The Analects, The Doctrine Of The Mean, and The Great Learning Confucius THE ANALECTS Chinese Classics Reading Book The Analects of Confucius With Pinyin Phonetic for Kids Children Early Education Конфуций The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) The Analects of Confucius - Indiana University The Analects of Confucius . i . Introduction . The Analects of Confucius is an anthology of brief passages that present the words of Confucius and his disciples, describe Confucius as a man, and recount some of the events of his life. The book may have begun as a collection by Confucius’s immediate disciples soon after their Master’s death in 479 BCE. Analects of Confucius The Analects of Confucius The Analects are a collection of the teachings and thoughts of Confucius; they also contain fragments of dialogues between the great Chinese philosopher and his disciples. The name in English derived from the word "analect" which means a fragment or extract of literature, or a collection of teachings. A: Analects of Confucius \| Week In China The Analects often begins with the phrase “Confucius says” but the exact origins of Confucian values have been the subject of heated academic debate for thousands of years. That began with Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, who unified the Middle Kingdom in 221 BC. Analects of Confucius 論語 - Charles Muller In the Analects, Confucius imbues the term with a special meaning. Though sometimes used strictly in its original sense, it also refers to a person who has made significant progress in the Way ( dao ) of self-cultivation, by developing a sense of justice 義 , by loving treatment of parents 孝 , respect for elders 弟 , honesty with friends 信 , etc. An Introduction to The Analects of Confucius In fact, Confucius’s Analects does deal with the big questions. Questions don’t get any bigger than how we should live our lives with and among others. The Confucian Approach. In years past, the consensus among students and professors of Chinese studies was that Confucius was an impractical, rulemaking bore. The general view was that he had little to teach us in modern society and that the ... The Analects of Confucius Summary \| GradeSaver The Analects of Confucius is an anthology of brief passages that present the words of Confucius and his disciples, describe Confucius as a man, and recount some of the events of his life. The Analects includes twenty books, each generally featuring a series of chapters that encompass quotes from Confucius, which were compiled by his disciples after his death. Analects of Confucius Summary and Study Guide \| SuperSummary The Analects is a text compiled of the remarks and conversations of the Chinese philosopher, Confucius, during the later years of his life (72-75 years old). The text, with its dialogues and reflections, takes place during the Warring States Period (475-222 BC)—a period of great turmoil and geopolitical restructuring when the vassals of the then incumbent sovereign (Zhou Dynasty) defected and declared themselves independent of Zhou, thereby becoming kingdoms in their own right. It is in this The Analects of Confucius by Waley, Arthur, ed. \| eBay The Analects of Confucius by Waley, Arthur, ed. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less . Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Shipping and handling. This item will ship to United States, but the seller has not specified shipping options. Contact the seller- opens in a new window or tab and request a shipping method to ... ANALECT OF CONFUCIUS PDF - pontecagnano.info Confucius believed that the social chaos of his time was largely due to China’s ruling elite aspiring to, and claiming, titles of which they were unworthy. When these things proceed from the princes, as a rule, the cases will be few in which they do not lose their power in comfucius generations. The Analects of Confucius GENA2322A Re-recording of lecture 2a- Confucius, recording ... View GENA2322A Re-recording of lecture 2a- Confucius, recording, 2020 (3).pptx from GENA 2322 at CUHK. Confucius (551- 479 B. C.) Confucius 孔子 (551-479 B.C.) Was born in 551 B.C. in the State The Analects, by Confucius - Free ebook \| Global Grey ebooks The Analects, or Lunyu, also known as the Analects of Confucius, is the collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been written by Confucius' followers. Confucius Quotes from The Analects - The Spiritual Life Confucius (551 B.C. – 479 B.C.) was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese thought and life. The philosophy of Confucius emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. The Internet Classics Archive \| The Analects by Confucius The Analects by Confucius, part of the Internet Classics Archive. Home : Browse and Comment: Search : Buy Books and CD-ROMs: Help : The Analects By Confucius Written ca. 500 B.C.E. The Analects has been divided into the following sections: Section 1 [58k] Section 2 [61k] Section 3 [64k] Section 4 [57k] Download : A 151k text-only version is ... The Analects of Confucius = (1997 edition) \| Open Library The Analects of Confucius = Lun yu This edition was published in 1997 by Oxford University Press in New York. Edition Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Other Titles Lun yu. Classifications Dewey Decimal Class 181/.11 Library of Congress PL2478 .L513 1997 The Physical Object Pagination viii, 216 p. : Number of pages 216 ID Numbers Open Library OL986870M ISBN 10 0195061578 ... Analects - Wikipedia The Analects, also known as the Analects of Confucius, is an ancient Chinese book composed of a large collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled and written by Confucius's followers. It is believed to have been written during the Warring States period, and it achieved its final form during the mid-Han dynasty. By the early Han dynasty the Analects was considered merely a ... Confucius - Wikipedia The Analects of Confucius In the Analects , Confucius presents himself as a "transmitter who invented nothing". He puts the greatest emphasis on the importance of study, and it is the Chinese character for study ( 學 ) that opens the text. PNTV: The Analects of Confucius by Confucius - YouTube http://www.PhilosophersNotes.com Time for some more Old School love in this PN TV episode where we'll take a look at some of my favorite Big Ideas from Confu... The Analects of Confucius Books VI and VII Summary and ... The Analects presents much of Confucius's teachings in this manner. At other times, Confucius is merely quoted as plainly stating the attributes of a gentleman or observance of propriety. Book VI continues in much the same vein, discussing public figures and disciples, as Book V did. ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS: Amazon.de: Confucius ... ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS \| Confucius \| ISBN: 9780368695674 \| Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. The Analects of Confucius - Audiobook - YouTube This recording is in the Public Domain, free download: http://librivox.org/the-analects-of-confucius/ The Analects, or Lunyu, also known as the Analects of C... The Pedagogy of Confucius - The Great Courses Daily Analects 10.14: “When other villagers engaged in the nuo ritual to exorcise spirits of disease and pestilence, Confucius mounted the eastern stairs and, wearing court regalia, stood in the position of host.” Analects 10.15: “When asking about someone living in another state, Confucius would bow low twice before seeing him off.” The Analects of Confucius: Good Government, Filial Piety ... “The Analects of Confucius,” translated by William Jennings from Chinese Literature, 1900. Sayings of the Master:— "Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it. "The ‘Book of Odes' contains three hundred pieces, but one expression in it may be taken as ... The Analects By Confucius Written ca. 500 B.C.E. Part 1. The Master "Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? "Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? "Is he not a man of complete virtue, who feels no discomposure though men may take no note of him?" Analects of Confucius: on virtue - BrownBeat Analects of Confucius: on virtue. September 1, 2015 Richard Brown Leave a comment. Virtue (德/d é) is a key ethical term with a range of meanings that shift with context. It is sometimes also translated as “moral power” in the sense that it creates its own environment, radiates influence, and attracts followers. A true leader leads simply by being virtuous rather than trying to persuade ... Confucius - Quotes, Philosophy & Life - Biography ‘Analects of Confucius’ Lunyu, which sets forth Confucius’ philosophical and political beliefs, is thought to be compiled by his disciples. It is one of the "Four Books" of Confucianism that... Confucius' Analects \| Udemy Welcome to the course studying the most important educator in Chinese history---Confucius and his Analects. This course studies 61 selected chapters from Analects--- the most important work of Confucius. Study of Confucianism is quintessential for understanding Chinese culture and Chinese society shaped by it through centuries. The Analects of Confucius - 1516 Words \| Report Example The analects of Confucius is an influential form of literature for the Asian society. This book was translated by Legge James in honour of the original work written by Confucius (K’ung Fu-Zi) who was a popular Chinese philosopher. As translated by Legge, this book emphasises on the need to adhere to one’s traditions and above all, it advocates for acceptable human behaviour that is guided ... Analects Of Confucius , Sample of Essays - EduCheer! Thoughts of Confucius are carried through history in a book called the Lun-yu. According to Hucker, “the title means discourses and is normally translated Analects (77).” It is also important to explain that Confucius himself does not write the Analects. They are but “a collection of Confucius’s sayings that appear to have been ... Moral and Ethical Rules of Analects of Confucius Book ... The following paper under the title 'Moral and Ethical Rules of Analects of Confucius' presents the Analects of Confucius which is an anthology comprised of a collection. StudentShare. Our website is a unique platform where students can share their papers in a matter of giving an example of the work to be done. If you find papers matching your topic, you may use them only as an example of work ... The Analects of Confucius - Book 3 The Analects of Confucius - Book 3 Confucius on Abuse of Proprieties in Ceremonial and Music. This is Book 3 of the Analects of Confucius. Find the complete text of the Analects of Confucius. Horse-Face, guardians of the Underworld in Chinese mythology. Painted around A.D.1200 BOOK III . Abuse of Proprieties in Ceremonial and Music. Alluding to the head of the Ki family, [4] and the eight ... Confucius Analects MAIN MENU 論語孔子夫子電子書多國語言翻譯子曰四書五經張威麟 Translation of the Analects of Confucius in Arabic, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese ... Analects - Wikisource, the free online library Analects. From Wikisource. Jump to navigation Jump to search. English-language translations of The Analects. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, quotes, Wikidata item. The Analects or Lunyu (论语) is a Chinese classic text containing anecdotes concerning and dialogues including the philosopher Confucius. English-language translations of The Analects include: Complete ... Reasonings About Confucius’ Analects \| Society of Friends ... Reasonings About Confucius’ Analects Note: The Analects seem to be, like the Qur’an, disorganized: a mishmash of a scripture that must be studied in an order other than how it’s organized. Therefore, throughout these reasonings I’ve mostly utilized the text from The Original Analects by E. Bruce Brooks and A. Taeko Brooks, which are organized by subject with commentary. The Complete Confucius: The Analects, The Doctrine Of The ... Confucius is one of our very best thinkers, a model for living a self-aware and virtuous life. "The Complete Confucius: The Analects, The Doctrine Of The Mean, and The Great Learning," brings together the most important Confucian texts with an introduction by Nicholas Tamblyn, and is part of The Essential Series by Golding Books. The Analects of Confucius - Sayings of Confucius ... The Analects of Confucius, Sayings of Confucius, quotes. PREFACE Confucius lived about 2500 years ago in China. His Analects or sayings, have been repeatedly translated over the last 25 centuries because they embody ideas that transcend time and apply to human behavior in all societies. Analects of Confucius Book 1: overview \| by Richard Brown ... The Analects of Confucius Book 1 introduces many of the core themes of Confucius’s teachings by examining the role of the individual in society and exploring how he can make a positive ... Analects of Confucius Important Quotes \| SuperSummary Analects of Confucius Important Quotes. 1. “The real gentleman goes for the root, when the root is solid the (beneficent) process starts growing, filiality and brotherliness are the root of manhood, increasing with it.” (Book 1, Section 2, Page n/a) In this passage Confucius provides the two foundational principles for the cultivation of moral virtue or what he calls “manhood ... Confucius: Quotes \| Britannica Confucius: Analects; Knowledge and Learning. When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it: this is knowledge. Confucius: Analects; Prudence and Foresight. Chi Wen Tze always thought three times before acting. Twice would have been enough. Confucius: Analects; Inspire your inbox – Sign up for daily fun facts about this day ... The Analects Quotes by Confucius - Goodreads ― Confucius, The Analects. tags: philosophical. 57 likes. Like “The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.” ― Confucius, The Analects of Confucius. 41 likes. Like “Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.” ... Analects of Confucius: On Goodness - BrownBeat Analects Book 14: Confucius fails to mention his audience with Nanzi; Leadership Lessons from Confucius Project: Week 1, 2021 updates; Notes from the field: Apple car rumors not much of a surprise; Notes from the field: a hectic start to the year! Goodness in Analects Book 14: more than just an ethical gold standard; Recent Comments. Archives ... Confucius Analects Research Papers - Academia.edu View Confucius Analects Research Papers on Academia.edu for free. Analects of Confucius Book 7: new English translation \| by ... Read this new English translation of the Analects of Confucius Book 7 to learn more about the teachings of China’s most famous philosopher. It provides a vivid portrait of the sage’s ... ARTHUR WALEY THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS PDF Trivia About Confucius and Lao The Analects of Confucius is one of the central books of Chinese literature and Chinese thought; memorized and studied for many centuries, it has been certainly one of the most influential books in world history. Kristina UK marked it as to-read Sep 10, Since the ancients conffucius the true order of heaven and earth, it waldy that the Chinese past was an ... Analects of Confucius Example \| Topics and Free Essays The paper "Analects of Confucius" is a good example of a philosophy assignment. The sayings of Socrates do not apply much to the politics of today. As it has been rightly discussed in the text that political persons of today maintain an ambiguous role and most of them look for their own benefit rather to the virtues like wisdom and enlightenment of the society. It is very hard to find ... ‎Analects of Confucius on Apple Books Analects of Confucius is a collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled and written by Confucius' followers. It is believed to have been written during the Warring States period (475 BC-221 BC), and it achieved its final form during the mid-Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). By the early Han ... The Analects of Confucius - University of Hawaiʻi The Analects of Confucius The most important of the schools of Chinese Philosophy, certainly in terms of its pervasive influence upon Chinese civilization, is the one founded by Confucius (551-479 B.C.). Confucius lived in a time of great political and social unrest, a time when China was divided into a number of warring states each ruled by rulers who ruled by force, and whose subjects lived ... Confucius, The Analects - 10 \| US-China Institute Confucius, The Analects - 10. The Analects Attributed to Confucius [Kongfuzi], 551-479 BCE by Lao-Tse [Lao Zi], Translated by James Legge (1815-1897) December 13, 1901. Print. Chapter 10 Confucius, in his village, looked simple and sincere, and as if he were not able to speak. When he was in the prince's ancestral temple, or in the court, he spoke minutely on every point, but cautiously. When ... Understanding the Analects of Confucius \| Reading Religion In my view, Ni Peimin’s Understanding the Analects of Confucius accomplishes this feat impressively. It offers readers a new perspective for understanding Confucius and his teachings as recorded in the Analects. This is achieved mainly in two ways. The first is by providing extended annotations on the passages. Unlike many other translations, Ni’s annotations not only include traditional ... Confucius did not regard himself as an innovator, but as the conservator of ancient truth and ceremonial propriety. He dealt with neither theology nor metaphysics, but with moral and political conduct. The Lun Yu, Analects or Sayings of Confucius, were probably compiled, says Legge, «by the disciples of the disciples of the sage, making free use of the written memorials concerning him which they had received, and the oral statements which they had heard, from their several masters. And we shall not be far wrong, if we determine its date as about the beginning of the third, or the end of the fourth century before Christ.» Sheba Blake Analects of Confucius A to Z Classics The Complete Confucius: The Analects, The Doctrine Of The Mean, and The Great Learning Confucius THE LIFE, LABOURS AND DOCTRINES OF CONFUCIUS Confucius The Ethics of Confucius Confucius Confucius The Analects of Confucius - The Original Classic Edition The only translation that is a pleasure to read for both its language and its profundity. Legge buries the stodgy old Confucius and introduce us to a vibrant thinker–the kind of intellectual magnet that attracted hundreds of followers in his own time and millions throughout history. <p> Since the standard translations, there have been great strides in understanding the philosophy of Confucius time. Legge is not only expert in the language but is at the cutting edge of ancient Chinese philosophy. This book questions many basic presumptions about Confucius philosophy and deserves thoughtful consideration. <p> This particular translation of the Analects is wonderful. The author begins the book by introducing some terms that are difficult to translate or have multiple implications. In the text itself, these words are frequently left untranslated so that the reader can fully appreciate the diversity of the meaning. <p> A great book alltogether. Confucius The Analects (Translated by James Legge with an Introduction by Lionel Giles) Confucius was a Chinese teacher, statesman, and philosopher who lived in the 5th and 6th century BC. One of the most influential philosophers of all time, and still deeply regarded amongst the Chinese people, his ideology is one which emphasizes the importance of the family, as well as justice, sincerity, and morality in both personal and political matters. Confucius did not regard himself as an innovator, but as the conservator of ancient truth and ceremonial propriety. He dealt with neither theology nor metaphysics, but with moral and political conduct. The “Analects” or “Sayings of Confucius,” is the classic collection of his teachings compiled by his disciples over several centuries following his death. Confucius believed that the welfare of a nation depended upon the moral character of its people, and that the cultivation of this character began by a devotion to the well-being of others, starting with one’s immediate family. The impact of this work on Eastern philosophy cannot be overstated, as it stands to this day as one of the most important philosophical works from ancient times. This edition is translated by James Legge and includes an introduction by Lionel Giles. Группа авторов Confucius Now Written by the most important scholars in contemporary Confucian studies, these approachable essays focus on the relevance of Confucius’s ideas to modern living, with special attention given to the Analects, his seminal text. Topics covered include tradition and creativity, grief and mourning, the doctrine of correcting names, Confucian kungfu, and moral cultivation. Confucius The Wisdom of Confucius - 6 books in One Edition Confucius The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches savanna-tula.ru — Каталог цен и описаний на компьютерную и бытовую технику, товары для офис и дома, электронику, товаров для сада и дачи. Мы занимаемся поиском лучших цен в интернет магазинах по всей России, знаем где купить Confucius Analects of Confucius The Pink по оптимальной цене в онлайн-магазинах. 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__label__wiki	0.597381	0.597381	All dictatorships eventually fall. And so too will Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. Which will fall sooner than expected. We have seen this in history over and over again. Hitler had the most impressive European country with the most impressive economy. It fell. So did Mussolini, so did Franco and so did every single dictatorship that you can think of? Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore dictatorship, just as all the others, relies on them ordering and the people obeying. It is a one way street. It leaves no room for detraction with just one simple rule. Either you submit or are destroyed. This might be OK in peasant economies where people know no better and are content with 3 meals a day. But Singapore is not like that. Singapore is bustling small city state where English happens to be the business language, where people can travel, and leave if they don't like it. A society such as this demands a little more than just 3 meals a day. And dictatorships find such people difficult to subjugate. The only way to succeed in such places is to conform your public image and actions to suit the master. Davinder Singh, Lee Kuan Yew's defamation lawyer is periodically deployed to abuse the law of defamation, with the help of Lee's judges, to eliminate his opponents. Singh knows what he is doing is wrong. He knows there is no basis in law or fact to punish Lee's critics through defamation actions, by sending them to jail or bankrupting them. He knows what he does is thoroughly dishonest. Yet he does it, because in Singapore, this is the only way one achieves high office. Singapore's state controlled media routinely splash his picture in their pages claiming him to be the best lawyer that ever lived. The people know better than this of course. But he does not care what anyone thinks, because in Singapore, as Lee Kuan Yew's personal lawyer he can do anything he wants, say anything he wants and get away with anything; as long he does not criticize his master. I had criticized Judge Belinda Ang for having prostituted her position as a judge to please Lee Kuan Yew in a defamation case last year, for which he sent me to prison in Singapore for 3 months. I happened to be in Singapore when I said it in this blog. Since he can twist the law any which way he wants within Singapore, I was arrested and sent to prison. This judge, Belinda Ang abuses her authority, prostitutes her office as a judge by abusing the law to punish an innocent man Dr. Chee Soon Juan because he criticized Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. For that she fines him a sum of $430,000.00, no less. She knows Dr. Chee is not liable in law to Lee Kuan Yew. She knows she is prostituting her position as a judge, not to follow the rule of law but to be used as a political tool for Lee Kuan Yew. She knows what she is doing is wrong. But yet she does it, because that is the only way to succeed in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. And like Said Zahari had called Lee Kuan Yew a "political lair" you can see that these 2 are similarly cowardly liars. You see, only a coward will challenge an opponent when he knows that his opponent is helpless, because he can abuse the system. So had I written this blog calling both Davinder Singh and this Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean dishonest cowards in Singapore, I have no doubt I would be arrested and sent to prison as Lee had done it before. Even though my audience remains the same, since it is Singaporeans who are reading this blog, if both these people had any reputation at all, they should be suing me yet again or have me arrested and sent to prison in Singapore. But you see they won’t. They won't because both these people just as all these minions like them in Singapore are plain and simply cowards. It is not as if these 2 persons had no recourse against me for the harm I have done, if indeed harm has been done. They can both commence action in Singapore courts, win their cases as surely they will, and then try to enforce their judgments in the Federal Courts in the US. Surely a judge of the Singapore high court, a supposedly respectable office, should not be scandalized in this manner. If indeed I have insulted this judge, and as Singaporeans are reading this blog, like they have done in the past; surely this woman, Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean should not remain silent. Surely she must take some action to protect not only herself but also the reputation of the Singapore courts. Surely she has to do something. But you see, they won't. They are themselves ashamed of what they do for a living. They know that other countries have little respect either for Singapore or their administration of justice. The cat is out of the bag. If they did attempt any action, they would not succeed in enforcing their judgments in the US, because US follows the rule of law. Had it been any other country, it would have been different. A British Australian or Canadian court will have the confidence to commence action within their jurisdiction and have it enforced in the US. This is because the laws of these countries are held in respect in the USA. Singapore’s has been the object of ridicule odium and contempt. In this system, where dishonesty is rewarded with high office and lucrative jobs, the government finds it more and more difficult to find good people to join their ranks. The government has admitted this recently when Goh Chock Tong, the Senior Minister made this confession. It should not come as any surprise to anyone since most people, whether in Singapore or elsewhere are not the type like Davinder Singh or Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean because they have certain principles. This results in Singaporeans not wanting to join the civil service or any government organization like the police force. As a result, the government has no choice but to rely on lesser and lesser qualified candidates. This has been recently shown by Dr. Chee Soon Juan in his blog where even highly experienced Singapore police officers have no knowledge the law. As admitted by these poorly qualified police officers, all they can do is to follows orders. Although I have no personal knowledge of this, I would not be surprised if at this very moment Judge Judith Prakash, another dishonest and corrupt judge who permits herself to be used by Lee Kuan Yew for his political ends, is packing to leave for Australia. She knows the prospects for Singapore are not good. She knows that she is being thoroughly used by Lee Kuan Yew for a political purpose. She knows that she has been put to shame before the Singapore public. She finds it is embarrassing to show herself in public. She fears what would happen to her when the 86 year old Lee Kuan Yew, her patron and provider all these years were to die. Will she be held to account? Will she have to answer for her actions? Will she have to spend time in the very prison to which she sent her innocent victims? So she quite naturally wants to leave while the going is good. Perhaps if she was in Australia, she will be safe from Singaporean’s fury when the time comes. I do not know but I won't be surprised of this. Since Singaporeans know this government to be thoroughly dishonest and corrupt and since many Singaporeans do not wish to earn a living in the shameful way that this man Davinder Singh and this Judge Belinda Ang Saw do, the government has to rely on foreigners who have no loyalty and no meaningful ties to Singapore to fill the vacuum. This is mediocre workers with mediocre skills, incomparable to native born Singaporeans. This lack of good talent again impacts this government's ability to perform well and weakens it. Then, a desperate government such as this relies on giving scholarships to good students by sending them abroad, and making them serve decades with this government under a scheme which is in fact involuntary servitude. In this area too, the government is failing in getting candidates. Students are aware that if they accept these scholarships, they will have to spend their entire career serving this government to persecute and harm their fellow citizens to please their master. This knowledge has made many capable students either refuse government scholarships or causes them to break their contracts they signed with the government, since it was wrong for this government in the first place to demand this forced labor from them for decades. And then you have the problem of massive emigration from the island. The problem of insufficient children being born in the country. With abortions reaching astronomical proportions. With suicides increasing. With unemployment escalating. With crime escalating. With people having lost all respect for the administration of justice or the civil service. With all these problems, the Singapore dictatorship has to fall just as all the other dictatorships around the world. And the biggest problem of all is that Singaporeans are not allowed to participate in the political process of the island, unless it is to sing praises for Lee Kuan Yew's government. This isolates and alienates an entire section of the population who are the very ones that are needed to come up with new ideas and enterprises. Since Lee Kuan Yew only likes to hear praises, the one's who are capable of independent thinking have shut themselves off. And without them, and these million dollar ministers and sycophants like Davinder Singh and Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean cannot save Singapore. Posted by Gopalan Nair at 10:59 PM 3 comments: Singapore. Correction and editing to "A legal system disgraced. The case of Miss Lim Hong Eng, executive director of Shin Min Daily News" Some corrections and details are necessary from my last post on Miss Lim Hong Eng. First, the rider of the motorcycle and pillion were not Malays as I had earlier said. The rider was David Jermais Pattiselanno, probably an Italian expatriate by the name who was 70 at the time of the accident which was New Years Eve, 2006. His pillion who died was his Indonesian maid, Melania Melianiawati, who was then 24 years old. Had she lived, she would have been 27 now. Mr. David Jermais Pattiselanno has been out of the hospital and now walks with a permanent limp. I do not know whether he is still in Singapore. I had said that a person committing her crime could have been jailed for more than 5 years. This is incorrect. It appears the maximum jail time for this offense is 5 years in prison. Miss Lim's actions were more serious than I thought. The accident occurred at the junction of Dunearn and Whitley Road. Pattiselanno's motorcycle was stationary along Dunearn Road waiting for the light to change. When the light turned green he rode ahead. Miss Lim failed to stop at the junction and ran a red light while she was speaking on her cell phone with her left hand to her ear. She was not paying any attention. Her vehicle struck Pattiselanno's motorcycle permanently in injuring him with a permanent limp and killing his pillion the 24 year old Melianiawati. Miss Lim was convicted of dangerous driving causing death. For this the Singapore appeal court sentences her to 1 day in jail and $2,000.00 fine! Had she done this in California, she would have been convicted of homicide not amounting to murder which carries a long prison sentence. As I had said, being a friend of Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore, she is immune from punishment for any crime. It is justice, Singapore style. I beg your pardon for the correction and clarification. Singapore. A legal system disgraced. The case of Miss Lim Hong Eng, executive director of Shin Min Daily News Singapore's state controlled newspaper, Straits Times in it's online edition of April 18, 2009 has this story "Editor's jail fine reduced. 1 1/2 year jail term for dangerous driving reduced upon appeal". This is another instance of the common everyday occurrence in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore's courts where he uses the law any way he wants at his pleasure. In Singapore, it is one law for Lee Kuan Yew's minions and supporters and quite another for the ordinary Singaporean. And then there is another third category for Lee Kuan Yew's political dissidents where the law will be abused to severely punish any criticism. Miss Lim Hong Eng is the Executive Editor of a Singapore newspaper the Shin Min Daily News, a state owned and controlled newspaper just as all the other newspapers there. You could say correctly that her job is to write the propaganda that Lee Kuan Yew's government wants her to write. Miss Lim was driving a car some time earlier and was not paying attention which resulted in her knocking down a motorcyclist and killing his pillion rider. The evidence was that she was not paying attention while driving. The offence being very serious, normally an offender having caused serious injury and death would have been sent to jail for at least 5 years. That is, if the offender was an ordinary Singaporean. But you see, Miss Lim was hardly an ordinary Singaporean. She happens to be the editor of a Singapore newspaper which Lee Kuan Yew's government relies upon to disseminate his propaganda in the island. The Singapore press as you know has been judged 154th down the list of countries for lacking press freedom, by Reporters Without Borders, the international monitor for press freedom in the world. As Lee Kuan Yew relies on her to do his dirty work as a fiction writer (another way to describe Singapore State controlled news), it would not suit him for her to be incarcerated. The lower court judge who had tried her case apparently did not get the full message. He did what he thought he should do to please Lee Kuan Yew by only sentencing this woman who had not paid attention while driving and killed another human being to 1 1/2 years jail and $12,000.00 fine. Although this sentence was thoroughly inadequate and unfair to others who would have normally been sent to jail for 6 years, still Miss Lim was being punished with a jail sentence, for her reckless behaviour resulting in a woman's death. But Lee Kuan Yew will have nothing of this. He is telling us that in his courts, his minions and sycophants such as Miss Lim will be treated preferentially over ordinary mortals. He is trying to tell us that his propaganda editor will not be sent to jail no matter what she does, regardless of whether she kills one or 10 human beings while driving recklessly. He is trying to tell us that his agents and collaborators such as Miss Lim can drive any way they want and knock down as many as she pleases. He is trying to tell us that Miss Lim being who she is, his propaganda editor, is beyond the law! Therefore, Miss Lim is promptly advised by Lee Kuan Yew government to appeal, which she does. The hand picked appeal judge for this purpose is Judge Choo Han Teck. He is given the instruction not to send Miss Lim to jail at all and to have the fine reduced to a paltry figure instead of the $12,000.00. This judge, as expected of him obeys Lee Kuan yew's orders. He reduces the jail sentence to 1 day. The few hours that Miss Lim had to spend with Lee Kuan Yew's police is treated as 1 day having been served. Which means she will not have to spend any time in jail. Further, as ordered Judge Choo Han Teck, reduces the fine from $12,000.00 to just $2,000.00. In the meantime, the motorcyclist who was driving is now in hospital permanently crippled and in intensive care. His pillion rider died upon impact and has since been buried. You might want to know that the permanently crippled rider and his deceased pillion were low income Malays, with little education and little money. They had neither affluence or influence with Lee Kuan Yew or his People's Action Party. Miss Lim by the way is a Chinese woman and an integral part of the Lee Kuan Yew machinery. This is Singapore justice. You would be pardoned if you burst out laughing if told that Singapore was aspiring to be an international legal center for international disputes. Singapore leaders have, believe it or not, claimed that Singapore is a shining beacon in the region for the rule of law! By the way, you would also want to know that Judge Choo had expressly ordered that this case should not be relied as a precedent for future cases. This means of course that if another politically unconnected Malay were to drive and kill a couple of people, they cannot expect to receive a days jail and $2,000.00 fine, like Miss Lim, the executive editor of a Singapore newspaper! Singapore. Peaceful Singaporeans protest to be held on May 02, 2009. Time: From 10am, morning Location: Junction of Orchard Road and Grange Road next to Mandarin Hotel at the walkway Dress: Preferably wear red Things to bring: Placards, buntings and leaflets Purpose: To protest the Public Order Act criminalizing peaceful protest I am calling for a peaceful protest of all Singaporeans who are outraged by the passing of the illegal Public Order Act recently in Singapore. This law is a clear violation of the Constitution which clearly allows peaceful protests. With the political situation in Singapore being what it is, you are completely denied any redress of any wrongs committed by this government. You are aware that the courts are not impartial, the elections are rigged in favor of Lee Kuan Yew and his friends and supporters, the press is controlled leaving you no avenue whatsoever for redress. If your right to protest is also taken away, you will be left with nothing. Absolutely no rights whatsoever. If you feel this way, take this opportunity to come along to this peaceful protest. Please make sure to bring along enough cameramen to take pictures and videos of the event and any arrests being made and put it up on the web for all to see. The purpose is to widely publicize and expose the excesses and abuse of law by this government There will be no violence but at the same time, there is no need for you to submit to the unlawful demands of the police. If they order you to disperse, refuse and sit or lie down. They will have to carry you away. Film their actions and put it up on the web. Make sure to clearly photograph the faces of the policemen who do this work for the Lee Kuan Yew dictatorship and shame them by putting it up on the Internet. You will recall DSP Deep Singh practically running away from the scene when attempting to arrest Dr. Chee in front of the Istana, when faced by cameramen, not wanting the people to know what he does for a living. The Lee Kuan Yew dictatorship, should not be permitted to get away with this, this time. They have gone too far. They should be stopped. And the time is now. Please remember, Singapore is yours too. Do not be afraid of these bully boys. Good Luck guys. Singapore. The case of Dr. Tan Bin Seng. Was it justice or was it persecution? Singapore's on line edition of the state controlled paper (by the way, the entire media is state controlled)the Straits Times of April 22, 2009 has the article "GP struck off 2nd time". It is the case of a Singapore doctor who was struck off the role of medical practitioners for among other things, over prescribing the drug benzodiazepines, a hypnotic drug. Normally this story should not be of much interest to anyone. A doctor who had misbehaved had his licence revoked. But this case is not so cut and dry, because of one twist; one very very big twist. And that is, Dr. Tan Bin Seng, it so happens, was a prominent opposition politician, a senior member of the Worker's Party, in fact it's former president, who had contested against Lee Kuan Yew's Peoples Action Party over several elections! And immediately the case of JB Jeyaretnam, the case of Tan Liang Hong, and all the other series of cases where the law courts of Singapore have been used by the Singapore strongman Lee Kuan Yew as a political tool to destroy his opponents, comes to mind. And from these cases, one can come to one conclusion and one conclusion alone, that is, the Singapore judicial system is not independent and works at the behest of Lee Kuan Yew and his government to destroy political opponents. And therefore the question that now arises is obviously this. Was Dr. Tan Bin Seng's licence to practice medicine revoked because he improperly dispensed the hypnotic drug, or was the accusations entirely made up to punish him for opposing Lee Kuan Yew and his government. I do not know the answer. In Singapore you cannot expect to know the truth, without an independent press, since the media is state controlled. Perhaps he did after all improperly dispense the drug. Perhaps he did not. But knowing Singapore, a more intelligent guess, knowing the state of the legal system under Lee Kuan Yew's orders, is this. In all probability, he is entirely innocent. And Lee Kuan Yew is once again at his dirty tactics of abusing the law to punish another political opponent. And that is why I believe Singapore has no chance at all to achieve greatness, once the law has been discredited, just as Lee Kuan Yew, single handedly, has so successfully done. You see, everything in a country depends on the the people's faith in the rule of law and the administration of justice. The morale of a people depend entirely on their knowledge that they will get justice in their courts. Once a government such as this, publicly abuses the legal system, everything else begins to suffer. They fear to speak openly. They fear to think independently. They fear to protest. They fear to question authority. They fear to do or say anything unconventional lest Lee Kuan Yew is displeased and turns the law against you. In a situation such as this, trade suffers, because one is not sure if the courts will independently uphold contracts. One is certain that the government supporter will invariably win a lawsuit against his opposition opponent. If Lee's police arrest you for anything, you are almost certain to receive the harshest punishment if you were the opposition. Educated and capable people don't like it. They take their families and leave Singapore. Foreigners begin to lose confidence in a state where there is no rule of law. With the Singapore judiciary being so discredited as it is, I think we can all give Dr. Tan Bin Seng the full benefit of the doubt. I do not think he did anything wrong. His only crime was to be living in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore and the temerity to stand for elections against Lee Kuan Yew and his dictatorship when it was truly an opposition party under the leadership of the late JB Jeyaretnam. Dr. Tan Bin Seng, you have my full support. I know you are innocent and so do a great many Singaporeans. The most egregious of the abuses was in 2008 at the Lee Kuan Yew vs Dr. Chee Soon Juan, defamation case. In it, Lee Kuan Yew's judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean was so shamelessly biased that I had correctly described in this blog that "she had prostituted her position as a judge to become nothing more than an employee of Lee Kuan Yew and his son". For saying that in this blog, a statement which was in every respect correct, I was sent to jail for 3 months using a Penal code Section which had nothing to do in a situation such as this. Since we are now more than sure that the Singapore Law Courts under the orders of Lee Kuan Yew routinely abuses the law to destroy his opponents, can any reasonable right thinking human being be able to accuse Dr. Tan Bin Seng of any wrongdoing? Surely that is impossible. Surely this is sufficient to absolve Dr. Tan Bin Seng of all blame. And what is more, during the 1980s while I was an opposition Workers Party politician in Singapore, I personally knew Dr. Tan Bin Seng. He was a brave and honest man, a man of high integrity and an excellent doctor dedicated to his calling. It is impossible for him to have done the things Lee Kuan Yew and his government accuse him of. Singapore. No matter how humble or insignificant your dissent, it all adds up. It weakens this dictatorship. So do what you can. Although JB Jeyaretnam did not live to see the fruits of his struggle, his actions were not in vain. His greatest achievement was to expose this Singapore dictatorship to the people. With Lee Kuan Yew's non stop persecution of Jeyaretnam and Jeyaretnam in turn refusing to give in to the tyrant; he was able to tell not only Singaporeans but the world that Singapore is indeed a dictatorship. That it has no rule of law. That it's judges are instruments for political repression against opponents. This revelation, which Lee Kuan Yew managed to keep under wraps for years through a clever public relations campaign; finally emerged from underneath the woodwork. Jeyaretnam finally managed to tell the world what Singapore really was. A dictatorship no less, run by a petty minded tin pot tyrant, strutting about in his small island, and terrorizing everyone! A government that has lost the respect of the people finds itself in many unexpected way, handicapped. For instance, when respect for a government is lost, it becomes difficult to find capable people to join them. Capable people leave the country to reside elsewhere. Countries who consider human rights as important, refuse to invest in it. This leaves them to bring in lesser qualified workers from abroad to replace those who left. These foreign human imports not only are lesser qualified, they also lack any loyalty, resulting in the end in the country turning into a revolving door; foreigners leaving only to be replaced by other lesser qualified foreigners. All this weakens Lee Kuan Yew's plan for perpetual dictatorial rule over his people. Everyone in the past and now, who stand up to this tyranny manages to weaken it. You have heard of the "Marxist Conspirators" 22 young men and women who were arrested by Lee Kuan Yew and jailed for doing social and religious work to help the poor and unfortunate. Lee Kuan Yew falsely brands them "Marxists" when none of them had anything to do with Marxism. He found them a threat to his rule. So he arrests them using his willing police force, and puts them away, labelling them any name he wants. Although the 22 arrested have no doubt suffered by this, Lee Kuan Yew has suffered much more. Singaporeans and the world have seen yet again, how Lee Kuan Yew manages to stay in power; by abusing the law, the law courts and the police force to put away his opponents. The brave actions of the 22 has weakened Lee Kuan Yew and his government; by the people's awareness of the repression. On March 15, 2008 19 young Singaporeans peacefully stood outside Parliament House with placards and banners to protest against unbearable food prices. All of them have been arrested and have been put on trial. They will all be sent to prison, no doubt. But if these young men and women are inconvenienced, Lee Kuan Yew and his dictatorship suffer many times more. Everyone in Singapore and abroad are told yet again that this is a small minded government that only manages to stay in power by punishing criticism. Dr. Chee Soon Juan has repeatedly been jailed, sent to prison and bankrupted. Even now, he is on trial for this peaceful protest. No doubt he has suffered but the harm that Lee Kuan Yew suffers is unimaginable. Dr. Chee's punishment has resulted in many foreign governments shunning Singapore; it has resulted in the International Bar Association writing a scathing attack against the lack of rule of law and it continues to cause a flood of talented Singaporeans leaving the small island state. Lee Kuan Yew continues to be seriously weakened by Dr. Chee Soon Juan. And the more he punishes Dr. Chee for no rime or reason, the more Singapore becomes known as a ruthless one party Leninist state. What Singaporeans should realize is this. This government has lost all credibility both inside and outside Singapore. Larger countries might be able to withstand this but a small island like Singapore cannot. I believe that every single person in that island has lost any respect for the institutions of government. And the credit for this is proudly taken by all of us. We take the punishment when the government unjustly punishes us. But at the same time, we manage to weaken both the dictator and his government. And if we continue the onslaught, in very little time, there will come a point beyond the threshold of tolerance. And that is when this tyranny will come to an end. It is not as difficult as you may think. So I ask Singaporeans to do whatever you can. In May last year, I did my small contribution to the cause of freedom by being arrested for criticizing Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean for her bias in the defamation lawsuit brought on by Lee Kuan Yew against Dr. Chee, by being sent to jail for 3 months. Although I was punished, I managed to hurt the credibility of Lee Kuan Yew and his government by exposing his abuse of the law. My action has also managed to expose Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean as a political judge who uses her position to silence dissent. Her reputation has been completely and permanently destroyed, no matter how many times Lee Kuan Yew will sing praises for her in his state controlled newspapers. No matter how insignificant or small your actions, it all adds up. It helps in toppling this dictatorship. So distribute leaflets, write blogs, take part in peaceful protests, write to your government, write to foreign governments, write to your friends, do anything you can. Your individual actions combine to become a powerful force, which will bring about change. Please don't stop. Posted by Gopalan Nair at 11:27 PM 13 comments: Singaporeans, do not underestimate your power. It is the effort of all of us, no matter how insignificant or small that brings about change. That unseats dictators. That brings about change. Please remember this. Take what I did in May of 2008. I wrote a blog criticizing Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean for bias in the Lee Kuan Yew vs Dr. Chee Soon Juan trial. My passport was detained and I was deliberately kept in Singapore for 6 months waiting for my trial, and finally sending me to jail for 3 months. The purpose of Lee Kuan Yew's government was firstly to punish me for daring to criticize one of his judges. Secondly he was sending a clear signal to every Singaporean that they have no right to criticize and criticism means jail. So in order to do that, they had to give full publicity to my case in their state controlled press. But all this not only turned out completely counterproductive to Lee Kuan Yew's dictatorship, it hurt them much more than it hurt me. International organizations all over the world picked up my story and Singapore became known as the country that now imprisons bloggers. The European Union, American legislators and human rights organizations all over the world have now been informed of the extent of the repression in that island. Dr. Chee Soon Juan is repeatedly sued and jailed for his exercise of human rights. Lee Kuan Yew's purpose is to silence him by the punishment. But he refuses to be silent. So this battle goes on unabated, a battle between good and evil, a battle between a tyrant and a human rights activist; and while this happens Singaporeans and the world are reminded daily of the shame of this administration. And day by day, Dr. Chee becomes a martyr who suffers under the yoke. If Dr. Chee has been hurt, Lee Kuan Yew is hurt ten fold and counting. Recently you have the Kangaroo T shirt case. 3 Singaporeans were jailed just for wearing T shirts with pictures of kangaroos on them. Judge Judith Prakash, who is truly a kangaroo judge for being another of Lee Kuan Yew's lackeys like her shameless predecessor Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean, sends them to jail, this fact is widely published in the state controlled press as a signal to all that they cannot exercise their right to criticism. In the end of it, if these 3 were inconvenienced by having to go to jail, Lee Kuan Yew, his government and his suppliant judges like this woman Judith Prakash have not just been inconvenienced. They have been thoroughly discredited and their reputations permanently destroyed, by being shown as political judges who use their positions as judges to silence Lee Kuan Yew's political opponents. Reference the Tak Boleh Tahan protesters. They were peaceful protesters who stood outside Singapore Parliament House on March 15, 2008 to highlight the plight of the poor in Singapore. Just for that, they were all arrested and are now facing trial. If Lee Kuan Yew had hoped to punish and silence them, they have all said they remain defiant. Yet again the world has been put on notice of the abuse of the government that goes on. If these protesters have suffered, has not Lee Kuan Yew and his government suffered much more in their injustice being exposed? Lee Kuan Yew and his minions do not appear to realise this fact. These peaceful activists are simply not prepared to give up. They are determined to continue. And the more you try to punish them, the more they are determined to stand up to their rights. As this punishment on the one side and defiance on the other goes on between these 2 sides, the world becomes progressively aware of the shame that lies underneath the high rise glass towers and manicured lawns of Singapore. I want to tell you this. It is not my work alone that has weakened this despot. Neither has it been the work of Dr. Chee alone. It is the work of everyone no matter how insignificant. It was the work of the protesters. The "Marxist conspirators" as Lee called them. It was the work of Mr. Seng who doused Lee Kuan Yew's politician and set him alight causing 3rd degree burns. It was the work of the rag and bone man who threatened to finish off another PAP MP. I do not subscribe to violence, but we cannot discount the fact that it has the effect of discrediting this tyrannical administration. So you can all do your part, if you dare. Even a single protester standing along Orchard Road with a placard, a lone Singaporean distributing leaflets at Toa Payoh Central, a blogger who announces the injustices, someone who Emails others to expose the tyranny. Each one of these acts no matter how insignificant, contributes and combines into a powerful force. A powerful force for change. Each one of you can do your part. I have done mine and I continue my agitation. I refuse to stop. The trick is to continue and show this tyrant that you are not afraid. Your daring to stand up to him is what he fears most. Just as any other small time bully round the corner. Singapore. Total control. It is reported by Reuters on April 13, 2009 "Singapore says new law will prevent meeting disruption", Singapore Public Order Act became law in that one party dictatorship. As it is, Singaporeans do not have any civil rights. 5 or more people require a police permit to assemble. A permit is needed to speak in public. All newspapers are government owned and controlled. No permits have ever been issued to anyone if the intent was to criticize the government. 82 out of the 84 members in Parliament belong to Lee Kuan Yew's party. The 2 remaining opposition politicians have been thoroughly neutralized, fearing arrest if they truly criticized government policies. In any case Lee Kuan Yew's government ignores completely them, making criticism in that rubber stamp Parliament a waste of time. And of course, Lee Kuan Yew uses the law courts as a weapon to eliminate his opponents by jailing them and bankrupting them by abusing the law. Singapore today cannot claim by any measure that it has the rule of law. Not satisfied with this total control over then people that it already has; Singapore being now effectively a police state run by a dictatorship; the screws have been tightened yet again. Since the people have been thoroughly silenced now, I wonder why the need to silence them even further. While previously only 5 or more people needed a permit to assemble, with this law, even a lone peaceful protester will be arrested and sent to jail if he did not have a permit. And by the way, no one in the entire history of Singapore has ever got one! The people are now in a thoroughly hopeless situation. You cannot get redress in Parliament since there is no one to speak for you. You cannot get it published in newspapers since they are state owned and controlled. You cannot win in court since all the judges are government lackeys. You cannot print and publish your grievances since you need a permit, which you will not get. You cannot even blog about it openly as Vivian Balakrishnan, Lee Kuan Yew's minister has threatened to send bloggers to jail, as I was! And now finally, even though the Constitution guarantees free speech and expression, you cannot peacefully protest or assemble in public under this law. If you were not a complete slave before, now you are. You are completely at the mercy of this Lee Kuan Yew dictatorship. You can either live in Singapore with your mouth shut uncomplaining and obedient like a dog, or you can speak and get yourself into trouble. It is not just I who can see this. Growing numbers are unwilling to live this shameful way and they leave; they emigrate. Singapore is losing increasing numbers of highly skilled people. To replace them, increasing numbers of Chinese from Communist China are given citizenship. Communist Chinese imports are a completely different breed. They have no history and no tradition or experience in democracy. To them all that matters is more affluence. These people find Singapore excellent. They have a better standard of living than in China and that is all that matters. But for local Singaporeans such a life is not enough. Unlike Chinese from China, we inherited British traditions which treated civil liberties as the most important quality for any nation. Local Singaporeans regardless of their ethnicity will not and cannot accept living in bondage under Lee Kuan Yew much longer. With increasing education, there has to emerge Singaporeans who will dare to question these unjust laws. And in this regard, Singapore Democratic Party should take the lead in organizing peaceful non violent protests throughout the island urging citizens to stand up to this injustice. Singapore activists should not be looking for what is expedient or even what will please the people. Singapore activists should instead do what is right. And the right thing to do now is to stand up to this despotic regime. Singapore. Ex "Judge" Choor Singh dies. From my experience with this man Choor Singh who recently died, I can tell you this. He wasn't truly a "judge" although he sat in a courtroom and wore judge's robes. He was another of Lee Kuan Yew's “judges”, like what I wrote here about the likes of Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean; someone "who prostitutes her position as a judge" to favor Lee Kuan Yew and demolish his opponents by abusing the law. From my personal experience with him in my case, I can tell you this. He had no shame. No shame at all. The state controlled Singapore newspaper, just as the entire media in Singapore is state controlled, in its online edition on April 1, 2009, April Fool's day, a day befitting a man such as him, carries the article "Ex-judge Choor Singh dies". A backdrop is necessary. In the late 1980s while I was in Singapore and a member of the Worker's Party with the late JB Jeyaretnam the following occurred. JB Jeyaretnam who was the victim of Lee Kuan Yew's numerous defamation lawsuits had been charged this time, with criminal breach of trust for allegedly diverting funds from the Singapore public trustee to himself of a petty sum of $200 or so and not telling the truth in a statutory declaration which he had filed with them by not declaring this petty sum. The matter arose from the fact that the Workers Party had been declared bankrupt through another of Lee Kuan Yew's numerous lawsuits against him. Although JB Jeyaretnam was not guilty of any of these trumped up politically motivated charges against him, the Singapore High Court predictably reversed his acquittal on appeal and found him guilty on all charges. When JB Jeyaretnam appealed his conviction to the Privy Council of England, on the matter of his disbarment from the rolls of lawyers, they correctly ruled that he was not guilty of any of the charges and ordered his re-instatement to the rolls as an Advocate. Since the Singapore law did not have appeals to England on criminal convictions, the British law lords could not reverse his convictions. They therefore suggested that he petition the President of Singapore for a full pardon. After he did this, the President of Singapore, upon the advice of the then Attorney General of Singapore, Tan Boon Teik, who I understand now lives in Singapore and plays the piano to spend his time, refused any pardon. His argument was that Jeyaretnam did not deserve a pardon for the following reasons. Firstly, he says the British judges had denied him natural justice because he was "not given an opportunity to be heard before the British Court" even though there is clear evidence that they began to hear the case only after the solicitor for the Law Society of Singapore expressly said that the Singapore government was aware of the case and did not wish to be heard. Secondly he argues that Jeyaretnam is not deserving of a pardon because "he has not shown remorse repentance or contrition for the crimes he had committed" despite the fact the British law lords had expressly stated that he was not guilty of any crime! When I read this totally unacceptable response from this Attorney General from the Singapore Straits Times, I was naturally outraged. How could this man, Tan Boon Teik say things which were totally untrue and get away with it? I could not remain silent. So I wrote to him to explain why he said what he said, when the facts were clearly something else. First he wrote to me telling me that if I had any questions I should address them to Mr. Jeyaretnam. Not satisfied with this totally unresponsive answer, I wrote to him again telling him that if he was not going to give me an acceptable answer within 14 days, I will make the letters passing between me and him public. To that, his response was that he was going to report me to the Law Society for unethical conduct! The Law Society's was then as now, a tool of Lee Kuan Yew to silence his critics. Their charge against me were that I had falsely accused the Attorney General of improper conduct and secondly, that I had threatened him by threatening to make the 2 letters public. Although anyone in his right mind would find it impossible to see any unethical conduct on my part here, in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore anything can be turned around if necessary to become unethical or unlawful to silence and punish his critics. Here is where this man Choor Singh comes in. The Law Society's disciplinary hearings against me were heard before this man presiding as the judge. JB Jeyaretnam was my lawyer. Madan Assomull, a lawyer who practices in High Street Plaza, the building along High Street where Burmese workers now congregate, was the prosecutor. From the word go, one thing was very clear. He wanted to find me guilty no matter what the evidence, and he wanted to do it as quickly as possible. Had he been a real judge, he would have thrown out these charges against me that very minute. Anyone in his right mind could have seen I was not guilty of anything. First, JB Jeyretnam was not my client when I wrote that letter to the Attorney General and therefore I was not acting in a professional capacity when I wrote that letter to the Attorney General. Second, how can merely writing a letter to the Attorney General asking for an explanation amount to falsely accusing him. And thirdly, how could a "threat" to make public letters passing between him and I amount to anything unlawful! When the case started, Madan Assomull, trying hard to do the dirty work entrusted to him, made various applications for adjournments claiming that the Attorney General was overseas in China and various other countries, in the hope that I would feel the heat and succumb by pleading guilty. Since I was not prepared to do this, the case eventually started. When the time came for Madan Assomull to cross examine me, I tried to answer him by explaining my stand, which included my stand that these entire proceedings were politically motivated, an abuse of the law and a travesty of justice. To that, Choor Singh interjected demanding that I answer with a "Yes" or "No" answers and not say anything else. I refused of course. What I told him was that I was going to answer the way I wanted or else, I was refusing to answer any questions. Finding himself in a bind, he reluctantly allowed me to answer the way I wanted. And I took the opportunity to state in court exactly what little I thought of Singapore's justice in Lee Kuan Yew's courts. By this time, having practiced in Singapore’s courts for nearly 10 years, I had lost all respect for the legal system in Singapore. I had also by this time, made up my mind that I was going to leave Singapore for California. I was determined as my last stand against this regime to give them a run for their trouble. I was determined to take this opportunity to tell this court what I really thought of them. I knew of course that being a known dissenter to Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew; I stood no hope of ever winning this case. So I fought it to the fullest. The case dragged on for as long as 2 months. The Attorney General was cross examined by JB Jeyaretnam rigorously. Although he was completely at a loss to explain why my actions were in the remotest manner objectionable, in the end predictably I was found guilty. This was at the end of 1991. There was a moment of hilarity which I still remember. On the issue of whether the Attorney General of Singapore was given an opportunity to be heard at the hearing in London, the following occurred. It appeared that the British Law Lords had asked the solicitor for the Law Society whether the "Singapore authorities" were aware of the proceedings. To this, Madan Assomull asked Martin Thomas QC, who had appeared for Mr. Jeyaretnam before the British Court, whether they might have referred to someone else other than the Singapore Attorney General when referring to "Singapore Authorities". After Madan Assomull had repeatedly reminded him that the British Judges had referred to "Singapore Authorities" and did not use the words "Singapore Attorney General", Martin Thomas Qc said this. He said he was sure the British Judges were referring to the Singapore Attorney General and not anyone else. He said, he was sure the British Judges were not referring to the "Hong Kong Fire Brigade" when they said "Singapore Authorities" and that he was sure it meant the "Singapore attorney general"! Let me make this clear. Choor Singh was a disgrace to humanity, to his Sikh community and to the law when he found me guilty of unprofessional conduct merely for writing a letter to the Attorney General asking him to explain himself when he advised the President not to give a pardon to JB Jeyaretnam. He is responsible together with the likes of Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean for having brought the Singapore legal profession into disrepute and turning it into the laughing stock of lawyers around the world. Choor Singh, when he sat in judgment in the case Law Society vs Gopalan Nair was not serving the law. He was serving Lee Kuan Yew. How Lee Kuan Yew's son will "Fix" Kenneth Jeyaretnam! At a PAP rally during the last elections, Lee Kuan Yew's son, whom he placed as Prime Minister of Singapore made his plans very clear. It is all right, he said, if there were one or two suppliant opposition members such as Loh Thia Khiang and Chiam See Tong. If there were any more, he said, he will "have to fix them and buy over his voters"! We know from Singapore's sad history that this is not just rhetoric, it is real. As long as you are no real threat to them, such as Loh Thia Khiang who has given up fighting the PAP, you are welcome and will face no harm. But if you happen to be a true defender of the people, then you are in for trouble, big trouble. Especially so if you have the abilities and qualifications to go with it. Kenneth's father, the late JBJ suffered a great deal of "fixing". He was repeatedly sued, fined and imprisoned for no rime or reason, and effectively kept out of Parliament. Francis Seow, the former Solicitor General was arrested after he stood for elections. Had he not fled Singapore he would still be in a Singapore jail. He too was effectively "fixed". Tang Liang Hong was "fixed" with criminal charges and defamation charges just because he had lodged a police report against Lee Kuan Yew senior. Dr. Chee soon Juan, a highly qualified nueropcychologist, of the Singapore Democratic Party continues being "fixed" even now as he undergoes a "fixed" legal proceeding for a peaceful protest. I too was "fixed" more than once for allegedly being in contempt of the Singapore's courts. The one common thread among all these people who have so far been "fixed" by either Lee Kuan Yew or his son is this. They were all made of the real stuff; meaning they really wanted to further the people's cause; not the sort of half hearted opposition like Loh Thia Khiang of the Workers Party. Kenneth Jeyaretnam has not said whether he intends to contest the coming elections. So we don't know one way or the other. But if he does intend to contest the elections and if he is the made of the real stuff, that is, if he truly intends to defend the people's rights, then I can tell you this much. He will be "fixed" just as all the others before him. Just as his father was "fixed". If there is anyone in the world that Lee will not let alone, it is Kenneth Jeyaretnam. He is too big a threat. Look at him. He is highly educated. He is obviously doing this for the people and not for personal gain, since finding work, with his good qualifications, is not a problem. And from what he has said so far, it does appear that he does not intend to pull any punches. And with these qualifications, Kenneth Jeyaretnam becomes a terrible threat to Lee Kuan Yew and his oligarchy. In the past, Lee Kuan Yew, has on occasions tried to buy over his opponents with money and bribes. But in this case, they will not even try, as Kenneth Jeyartnam appears to be an man of integrity and purpose. If Kenneth decides not to contest elections but merely remain a member of the Reform Party, there in nothing much to fear. But if he does, then, as sure as sunrise, there will be another round of "fixing". It is easy to do it in Singapore. I reckon, as in the past, if he does make any rally speech, it would be used against him in a defamation action, with Davinder Singh in the prosecutorial role and Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean as the "judge" who will return a predictable verdict of $2 million in damages. After this, Kenneth will be promptly bankrupted and cast into oblivion. Another successful "fixing" for you. But all this "fixing" does not go in vain. Every one of us who have been "fixed"; JB Jeyaretnam, Francis Seow, Tang Liang Hong, Dr. Chee Soon Juan, the so called "Marxist Conspirators" have all managed to discredit Lee Kuan Yew and his PAP. If Lee Kuan Yew thought that he has hurt his opponents, he has been hurt tenfold, by the public knowledge of his dirty tactics. This lowers his reputation and that of his government. Now if he does try to "fix" Kenneth Jeyaretnam, he should keep in mind that he would lose much more than Kenneth. So to Kenneth Jeyaretnam, I say this. Stand up to these bullies. Contest the elections. You will win by exposing the dishonesty of this tin pot regime once again. That alone is sufficient victory. At this moment, when Lee Kuan Yew has lost all credibility, he will not be able to withstand one more onslaught. Lee's PAP may imprison Dr. Chee Soon Juan and SDP leadership during elections! Watch out! I have a fear which I have to say. You know the Tak Boleh Tahan trials are now going on. The illegal arrest and prosecution of 19 peaceful protesters who cried out against rising food costs in March of last year. You have heard also of the possibility of elections being held in the immediate future, with Lee embarking once again in illegal gerrymandering; boundaries being re-drawn so as to ensure a PAP victory once again. My fear is this. Since Lee Kuan Yew will do anything he wants without even an ounce of shame, will he arrange things in such a way so that the 19 SDP members and sympathizers of which Dr. Chee Soon Juan and SDP leadership among them find themselves in jail during the electioneering period, which would mean that they would find themselves incapable of doing anything for their election candidates. As Lee Kuan Yew no longer cares what anyone thinks of him or his actions, he could simply say that the sentencing of these defendants and it's timing was the decision of the judges and he had nothing to do with it. Of course we know otherwise. That is why Dr. Chee and the SDP should consider bringing their cases to a close immediately and serving their sentences now, so that a possibility of conflicting with the elections will not arise. If anyone not attune with the strange goings on in Singapore might question why I am so certain that Dr. Chee and the protesters will be convicted and jailed. To them, I will say this. Read a little about Singapore. And once you know a bit more, you too will be certain that Dr. Chee and everyone with him will be convicted and jailed. As we are certain the sun will rise tomorrow. Congratulations Kenneth Jeyaretnam My tribute to Kenneth Jeyaretnam Gopalan Nair Attorneys at Law April 09, 2009 By Air Mail Kenneth Jeyaretnam The Reform Party 18A, Smith Street Dear Kenneth, I congratulate you for your courageous decision in joining the Reform Party. You have chosen the honorable path by this action. There is no doubt this momentous decision that you made was not for any personal gain but to do the right thing for the people of Singapore. Singapore today is a one party totalitarian dictatorship which is a far cry from what it was meant to be in 1963 when it broke from colonial rule. I have personally known your father throughout the 1980s when I was his colleague in the Worker's Party. He was an honest man, passionately committed to democracy in Singapore. Sadly he did not live long enough to see the fruits of his struggle. With this vindictive government in Singapore, I have no doubt that this is the beginning of your troubles. I am sure you too are fully aware of it. If you stood by your principles to fight for Singaporeans rights, to use Churchill's words, you have nothing to hope for but "blood toil tears and sweat". This is how, this small minded government goes about it's business to stay in power. At least this is how it must be in the immediate future. But I am sure, in the end, if you have the courage to stand your ground, without faltering, without wavering and without baulking; in the end you will be vindicated. I have no doubt in my mind of it. The memory of your illustrious father lives with you and walks with you. That memory alone which is vivid in the minds of all Singaporeans will cause many to join you and the political opposition. Your attraction is also your admirable qualifications as an economist. You are walking the righteous path. You have my admiration and respect. I have no doubt that you will succeed. I wish you success. Said Zahari calls Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew "a political coward" Said Zahari was a Singapore opposition politician, jailed 17 years without trial by Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's strongman. On Feb 2, 1963, in what was called Operation Coldstore, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew arrested 107 people, arbitrarily jailing them for allegedly being communists. Although none of them were in fact Communists and there was nothing illegal in it, Lee Kuan Yew used the Internal Security Act, a law put in place by the British, to put away his political opponents through the expedient that they were Communists and therefore a threat to Singapore's security. In the video "Zahari's 17 years" by Singapore filmmaker Martyn See, Zahari publicly called Lee Kuan Yew "a political coward". He said only a coward would resort to jailing his opponents instead of taking them in a political discourse and letting the best man win. According to Zahari, Lee Kuan Yew knows that he cannot win in a contest of ideas with his critics. Fearing he would lose, he eliminates his opponents by abusing the law, using his police force and compliant judges to put away those who disagree with him. According to Zahari, these are the acts of “a political coward”. You can watch Martyn See's film, "Zahari's 17 years" on his blog "the Singapore Rebel" www.singaporerebel.blogspot.com. The film was shot in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia where Zahari lives as a permanent resident. Zahari is still a Singapore citizen. There is no doubt. Zahari was spot on when he said Lee Kuan Yew is "a political coward". His cowardice continues to this day. Yes, Singapore has some skyscrapers and manicured lawns. But these things do not make him any less "a political coward". These are some shameful instances that drive home this fact. JB Jeyaretnam, a worthy opposition politician of the Worker's Party challenged Lee Kuan Yew's policies since 1974. As Lee Kuan Yew feared taking on the late JB Jeyaretnam in free and fair elections, instead he repeatedly uses the law with compliant judges and compliant police officers to arrest imprison and bankrupt Jeyartnam, effectively removing him from the political arena. I need not list out the details as most Singaporeans are aware of the injustices perpetrated against him by this man whom Zahari calls "a political coward". In May 21, 1987, Lee Kuan Yew arrested 22 church and political activists in Operation Spectrum generally known as the Marxist conspiracy claiming they were planning to overthrow the government and replace it with a Marxist government. This of course was totally untrue. All they were trying to do is to replace this dictatorship with a democratic government. Coincidentally, at this time, in the Philippines, there was massive unrest in the streets of Manila against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. Fearful as to what may happen to him if this happened in Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew yet again, as the "political coward" that he is, removes them through the misuse of the Internal Security Act to arrest, and torture them. Then we have Dr. Chee Soon Juan of the Singapore Democratic Party another of his dissenters, whom he repeatedly jails and bankrupts, through his minions such as Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean. Just like his other minions, she shamelessly abuses the law by ordering him to pay Lee Kuan Yew $410,000 in court ordered damages merely for legitimate criticism. Zahari's charge that he is "a political coward" is again borne out by these facts. If he is not "a political coward" which is a damning charge, why does he not sue Zahari in court either in Singapore or in Kuala Lumpur? Over the years, he has sued others for saying much less. Francis Seow has written various books from his home in exile in the USA saying not just this but even more. Why is he not suing Francis Seow? In Sept 17, 2008, while I was in Singapore, I was sent to jail for 3 months for "insulting" (according to Singapore's dictatorship) Judge Belinda Ang Saw Ean by calling her a stooge of Lee Kuan Yew and a corrupt judge in this blog. All I did was to say that she "prostituted her position as a judge" by favoring Lee Kuan Yew as against Dr. Chee Soon Juan in a defamation trial brought on by Lee. After I left Singapore, from the United States I have said this again in this blog. If the purpose of sending me to jail was to stop me from calling her his stooge and to stop people in Singapore from reading my criticism, why then is he not suing and charging me while I am here in the US? Why is he not applying to have me extradited to Singapore for being a fugitive having broken the laws of Singapore? Are Singaporeans not continuing to read the charges that I level against these corrupt judges? Is this not further proof of what Zahari had leveled against him; that he is nothing more than "a political coward"? Lee Kuan Yew had hoped that he could abuse the law, like he has done with all his other political opponents, and send me into oblivion after a 3 month jail term; and thereafter I would be forgotten as so many other of his political detractors. But I simply refuse to go away and remain determined to continue exposing his abuse of the law and state institutions in Singapore. Blogs such as this and the literature on the Internet continue to weaken his authority. Only a few days ago the state controlled newspaper the Straits Times reports the increasing difficulty he faces in attracting Singaporeans to join his political party to contest elections, despite the fact they would stand to profit by millions of dollars and a great career. The only reason for this is that people now know his days in power are numbered and they don't want to take the risk of backing the wrong horse. As Singapore does not have any investigative journalism, since the media is state controlled, one will never know the whole truth. But if I could take a guess. Civil servants are leaving their jobs in droves and there are no new recruits; the Singapore Police Force is not achieving their recruiting target as Singapore policemen are leaving and there are no new entrants, with places being filled up by foreigners such as Malaysians. The legal profession continues to shrink with the lawyer population being less than 3,000 in a country of 4.5 million! It is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit new lawyers into the Singapore Legal Service to serve as government lawyers. With the Singapore Administration being a pyramid, with Lee Kuan Yew at the top and everyone taking a queue from him; as he is now roundly disgraced, it sends jitters down the spine of each and everyone of his minions that the horizon is no longer safe. He is not the horse that a wise punter should be backing. This is the moment when every Singaporean who cares about Singapore to realize that something can be done. With the prospect of changing this government through civil parliamentary elections almost impossible, the only avenue remaining is peaceful protest and civil unrest. And such an action in this precarious position this dictator finds himself in, has great prospect of success. So this is the moment. Carpe Diem. Seize the day. Fortune is on the side of the truth. It must only be so. All dictatorships eventually fall. And so too will... Singapore. Correction and editing to "A legal syst... Singapore. A legal system disgraced. The case of M... Singapore. 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__label__wiki	0.6998	0.6998	Early Workers Alfred Magowan Revised January 11, 2017 View photographs of Magowans in TTT Photo Gallery About Alfred Magowan Outline of the History of a Peculiar People from 1900-1931 Testimony of a Witness for the Defence, January 13, 1956 Cross-Examination of a Witness and Address to the Jury, 1956 Letter to Wilson McClung, January 21, 1931 (Head Worker of New Zealand) Letter to George Walker, February 21, 1954 Letter to Edward Cooney, November 7, 1953 Letter to Jack Carroll, December 1, 1954 Letter to Willie Hughes, July 1, 1957 Letter to John and George, February 19, 1958 Other Statements by Alfred Magowan Magowan Family Tree (Sources of documents and material: David and Daniel Magowan, 2016; Stephen Magowan 1997). Testimonial Letter by Sara K. Dawson, August 18, 1913 Testimonial Letter by Jessie Dawson, August 8, 1913 The quality of a man may be revealed by what he emphasizes and by what he lightly passes over. TTT Editor's Notes: Alfred is sometimes called by the nickname "Alphie." His last name is pronounced Ma-GOW'-an, and is sometimes misspelled "McGowan" and"McGowen." John Alfred Magowan was born on October 24, 1883 in Drumgor, Co. Armagh, Ireland to James and Jane (McNabb) Magowan. He died November 13, 1960 in Portadown, Armagh, Northern Ireland, aged 77 years. Alfred was 18 when he professed in a mission held in January, 1902 by Joe Kerr and Edward Cooney in Balteagh School, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland. Alfred wrote to Ed Cooney: "Memory has been unusually active, serving up recollections of the 50 years of our spiritual acquaintance (52 years it will be in January since two peculiar strangers invaded our coasts to preach the Gospel to us, and thereby give us a new outlook in life)..."The name BALTEAGH stands to me for deliverance from guilt, and nagging fear, and the deep inner gloom that was the accompaniment of unforgiven sin. It stands to me as a beginning of days with its prospect and promise of Abundant Life; a blotted-out past; a cleansed heart and a comforting instead of an unbraiding conscience." (November 7, 1953 Letter) On October 9, 1903, Alfred, almost 20 yrs old, sailed on the SS Pretorian from Londonderry, N. Ireland to Quebec, Canada. Soon after, he moved to Detroit and worked as a bookkeeper, possibly at Sears Roebuck. He crossed over to Detroit USA on July 25, 1906. "He first worked on his father's farm up until October 1903 when he immigrated to Quebec being the first of his siblings to do so. At this point he was a bookeeper and remained so until 1907 when he became a preacher within a group known as the Testimony which included both William Irvine (1863-1947) and Edward Cooney (1867-1960)." (Source: ancestry.com public Magowan Family Tree by Daniel Magowan) On May 15, 1907, Alfred, age 23, departed from New York for Liverpool, England and Queenstown, Ireland on SS Caronia, his first return visit and his last visit to the UK until 1929. It was while he was in the U.K. in June of 1907, that he first met Jack Carroll at Cambuslang, Scotland where he was also baptized. He attended the July, 1907 Crocknacrieve convention where the Living Witness Doctrine began to be preached that year and where John Long was excommunicated that year. Alfred returned from Liverpool to New York on the maiden voyage of the SS Lusitania, arriving on September 13, 1907. At that time, the Lusitania was the worlds largest passenger ship. After returning to America in 1907, Alfred became reacquainted with the workers in the USA. Wm. Irvine convinced Alfred to go in the work at that time. Alfred McGowan (should be "Magowan") is shown on the 1907 Pittsburgh & Chicago USA Convention Workers List. His first mission began on October 21, 1907 in the heart of Kentucky. He was about 24 years old, and his companion, John Burns, was 19. They had $5.00 between them. He and John Burns also preached together in Ohio. Alfred is shown in Indiana on the List of Worker Locations after 1912-13 Conventions--possibly companion of Fred Croft; and in Illinois on the 1915-16 Workers List, possibly companion of Alex Anderson. On October 19, 1917 Alfred and Sarah Kerr Dawson married in Terre Haute, Indiana. View marriage announcement. Sara and her twin Janet (Jessie) Scott Dawson were born on June 24, 1869. Their address in 1913 was the home of their Aunt E. Hughes at 79 Grove Park, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland. Sara, age 31, is shown on the 1911 Irish census as a visitor and evangelist with Mary Moodie. Sara, age 32, arrived in Philadelphia, PA on September 2, 1912 on SS Dominion and preached in Indiana and Illinois. After they married, Alfred and Sara may have continued preaching as a married worker couple for a couple years. Jessie Dawson, age 32, also a sister worker, arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA on October 3, 1911 on SS Merion. Jessie died February 18, 1969 in Bedford, PA. View her Tombstone. Alfred spent twelve years in this work in the states of Kentucky, Alabama, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. "I was later excommunicated but the excommunicators would hardly call themselves that. If they were asked, they would likely say they did not excommunicate anybody and we went out from them because we were not of them." (A. Magowan personal interview by Doug Parker and personal communication, November, 1954, Page 69-70, #1). On September 27, 1919, on the Illinois Convention grounds, Alfred was excommunicated by Jack Carroll, George Walker and James Jardine. George Walker pronounced Alfred to be "unregenerate." Alfred wrote E. Cooney the reason was "on the ground of incompatibility of spirit. I have never been born again!" According to Alfred, the cause given was a letter he had written to a Irish boyhood friend, Tom Lyness. I thought it would be good to set my spiritual relationship house in order by writing to the separators. And so it happened that my first letter was to Jack C. [Carroll]; and then to George W. [Walker]; and it was only a few months ago that a door was opened to write to James J. [Jardine]: these were the three who had to do with my 'going into the wilderness' from the Illinois convention of 1919. And as I recall, this was the way the matter was put by one of the three: 'If you do not believe in us, why do you come to the convention?' It was not a matter with me of not believing in men, but of not agreeing with some of the things they did. Then it came as something of a shock when Jack brought a specific charge against me: that I had written a letter to one of the workers (who happened to be a boyhood companion, and a brother to my stepmother) [Tom Lyness]. I admitted the writing, but could not see the offence. In the letter I said something to the effect that it would be nice if he and I could return home to Ireland the same year; go over old ground; and perhaps have a mission or two together. But whatever crime Jack saw in it, he said that it barred the way to any understanding and fellowship between them and me; and so there was nothing to do but come away; and I have not seen one of them since. (A. Magowan's July 1, 1957 Letter to Wm. Hughes) Willie Edwards wrote Caseys in New Zealand, December 20, 1942: "When Alphie Magowan was on trial with the head workers and judges, he asked if he might read a letter from me ["me" is Willie Edwards]. Jack Carroll asked if he corresponded with me. He said, 'Yes.' “Well then, he said, 'We need no further witness, as that is enough.' " Alfred related to Doug Parker in a personal interview in 1954: "On the 27th September 1919 [Saturday], I appeared before a special court and on the 28th [Sunday]took a train for the wilderness. I need hardly tell you what manner of men the judges were. The one who knew least about the case summed up the evidence in four words: I wrote a letter. That was all and it was enough; and the sentence was banishment for life, and I suppose eternal damnation thereafter. "My separation from them cut into me deeply at the time and I went down to St. Louis to get my bearings. For six months I was there working as an auditor in a railroad office. Trying to freeze me to death by the cold treatment of exclusion from "the one true way" or trying to starve me to death by closing all supply doors against me, has been like trying to drown a fish... We have not known persecution in its time-glorified forms; and what we have suffered would hardly be worth mentioning in the light of the greater sufferings of others; but for myself I must confess that there were times when I could have borne very little more. What with slurs and insults, hints and insinuations, misunderstandings and prejudices, dark looks and averted faces where formerly there had been smiles and friendly greetings; and what I considered my good hatefully evil spoken of...Not only have I survived, but my spirit toward mankind in general, and towards my one time fellow servants in particular, is as sweet and wholesome as it ever was-and for that I give thanks to God...If I was to bring one charge against the good companions of our youth, who later became religious rulers and exactors, it would be a very dreadful one; they erred against compassion." (A. Magowan personal interview by Doug Parker and personal communication, November, 1954, Page 69-70, #1;) "Our only sendoff in the dusk of that early morning in September, 1919 was the slipping of some dollars into our hand by my sister Harriett who looked broken-hearted at the strangeness of the parting. Those first days in St. Louis were memorable in many ways: I walked the streets looking for work like a man in a trance. The whole thing seemed like some horrible nightmare. I got a job auditing the Liberty Bond account of the Federal treasurer of the St. Louis and San Francisco railway; and was there about six months--long enough to get our spiritual bearings again, and to get the means for getting on the road again." (Alfred Magowan's letter to Alex Waddell November 18, 1954) "And giving my testimony I would say that I have lived abundantly. The ‘great experiment’ W. Irvine spoke of in Jerusalem was transmuted for me into a great experience, to the enrichment of my life beyond anything I could have anticipated or imagined had it followed any other course." (Letter to Doug Parker, December 6, 1954) Alfred wrote: "William Irvine's first letter from Jerusalem written the day after his arrival there (November 28, 1919) was written to me." After his excommunication, Alfred wrote countless letters, poetry and books, including a hymnbook. Grover Muttersbaugh, a former preaching companion and lifelong friend, supplied all his writing materials: paper, typewriter ribbons and carbon paper etc. He kept copies of writings (excluding letters) from 1939 to 1949. These are typewritten poems and essays he bound into books 1 to 17, with pages numbered from 1 to 2,728 - about 1,000 of these are in verse. Most of the essays are comments on world affairs, starting in 1942. Several books followed: If our Civilization had been Christian, Echoes of World Voices, Purpose and Design, a hymnbook and others. After a heart attack in 1951 he started keeping copies of typed letters; there are thousands of pages all bound into book form. As he explained to George Beattie, "There are three reasons for the writing of these letters: First to give food for thought to the person addressed. Second to leave a record of my 1954 thoughts for the later enlightenment of my boys. And third for the satisfaction to myself of writing--as we read in Proverbs: 'he that watereth shall be watered also himself'. And to add a fourth: to heed an inward prompting to use a talent which too many of my 'true way' friends have done what they could to compel me to hide in the earth. But as I, and not they, had it committed to me for use, I and not they will have to answer for it." (Letter to Geo Beattie Sept 28, 1954) As he explained to George Walker: "a man must express what is given him for that purpose, or be like the man who hid his talent in the earth--miss the purpose of it and lose it into the bargain: Why do I write? Because I must express The thoughts that through my mind their waters pour. Lest in the ocean of forgetfulness They unexpressed be lost forevermore. I had a wondrous dream last night--in verse. When I awoke I thought it would remain. I lay and laboured to the lines rehearse, But conscious effort proved to be in vain. And I have come to that place where I do Believe we are no more than messengers Sent to make known the beautiful end true, And of the old-time witnesses the heirs. So I have mourned when something I had heard Slipped from my mind forever undeclared." (Alfred Magowan's Letter to George Walker, February 21, 1954) The author feels greatly indebted to the valuable insight and information Alfred put in writing. Alfred, along with two other Irish men, John Long and Goodhand Pattison, have left on record the most thorough, comprehensive writings about the Early Days found to date. Two of these men were excommunicated and all remained unsectarian and true and faithful to Christ all their lives. After his excommunication, Alfred and Sarah moved to western USA where he worked as an auditor in a railway office. In the early 1920's, they moved to an area called Juniper Flats in southern California, where they stayed with Clarence M. and his wife Georgia Skinner. They returned briefly to Ireland on June 3, in 1929 on SS California. Then on November 25, 1930, they travelled on the SS Orford, giving their occupations as Ministers of Religion, from London to Freemantle, Western Australia; and then to New Zealand, returning to California in 1931. The purpose of their trip was "to give a little aid and comfort to God-fearing people who for one reason or another were looked upon as aliens among their own spiritual kinsmen." On or after this trip in 1931, Alfred wrote a letter to Wilson McClung, headworker of New Zealand and also a play titled: Outline of the History of a Peculiar People from 1900 to 1931. Sarah died in May 30, 1934 at the age of 52 at the home of John West, Rossahilly, formerly of Crocknacrieve. She was buried June 1, 1934 in the Wilson Grave at Syndare Cemetery in Irvinestown, N. Ireland. Alfred wrote a lovely tribute to his wife Sarah and dedicated the Hymnbook he compiled to her. In 1938, Alfred and Wm. Robert Irwin from Enniskillen went on a 49-day trip abroad during which they visited Wm. Irvine in Israel and then travelled on to Australia and New Zealand. (See Wm. Irvine's Letters to Edwards dated 5/18/38, 5/28/38 and 6/2/38). It was during this visit in 1938 that Wm. Irvine made his famous, often quoted statement to Alfred Magowan: "It was A GREAT EXPERIMENT" to which Alfred replied, "It was A GREAT EXPERIENCE. (See Testimony of a Witness for the Defence by Alfred Magowan 1/13/56, p 5) The second war had just started in 1939 when Alfred married Isobel Waugh on Armistice Day, November 11, 1939. They had four sons between 1940 and 1948. Isobel was born September 10, 1908 in Newtownards, Down, Northern Ireland and died on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 2005 in Belfast, Antrim, N. Ireland, age 97 on what would have been her 55th wedding anniversary. They made their home near Portadown, Co. Armagh, Ireland. Currently, two sons reside in Northern Ireland, one son lives in Africa and the youngest son lives in Kentucky, USA. Doug Parker visited Alfred and his family in his home in Ireland in October, 1954, and they corresponded after that. In 1954 Doug published and distributed his pamphlet "A Spiritual Fraud." Subsequently, Alfred write two booklets as a way of balancing Doug's material. They were titled: Testimony of a Witness for the Defence, January 13, 1956 and Cross-Examination of a Witness and Address to the Jury, 1956. Alfred died November 13, 1960 of a coronary thrombosis, and is buried in Lurgan, Co. Armagh, N. Ireland in the grave of his sister Margaret Edith Chambers and her husband William. (Sources: David & Daniel Magowan, 2016; Stephen Magowan 1997; permission granted to post any of their father's letters on TTT). Companions of Alfred while he was in the work for 12 years (1907-1919): John Burns (1907), John Grooms; Forest Ruby (1909), Edgar Hawkins, Sam Charlton, Dave Lyness, Grover Muttersbaugh, Willie Wilson (1911-12 from Scotland); and possibly: Fred Croft and Alex Anderson. ALFRED MAGOWAN's FAMILY TREE Revised 12/16/16 Paternal Grandparents: Lived in Moyraverty, Armagh, Ireland Grandfather: Samuel Magowan (1827-1902) farmer Grandmother: Hannah Jane Ward (1830-1911) Maternal Grandparents: Grandfather: John McNabb (1825- )farmer Grandmother: Margaret Jones (1829-) Father: James Magowan - born 1855; died June 2, 1930, Northern Ireland Mother: Jane (McNabb) Magowan - born 1858; died May 15, 1894, Lurgan, Ireland Sister: Eliza Jane - born February 12, 1879 in Moyraverty, Armagh, Ireland. Married Thomas White on April 17, 1911. Emigrated to the USA in 1912. Lived most of their lives in Pennsylvania. Died December 8, 1945 in Los Angeles, CA. Brother: Samuel - born March 29, 1881 in Drumgor, Armagh, Ireland; unable to trace after 1901 census. According to Alfred his last words to his father were " I must be going now." Sister: Harriett Isabella - born August 6, 1882 in Drumgor, Armagh, Ireland. Arrived in New York June 15, 1912 on SS Celtic. Harriett was in the work at least by 1913, perhaps earlier, and preached in Indiana and Illinois. On September 16, 1936, Harriett, her companion, Edith Allingham and their professing driver, Ralph Doan, all died when a freight train struck their truck at a crossing. She is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Illinois, USA--was a sister worker. Self: John Alfred - born October 24, 1883, Drumgor, Armagh, Ireland; died November 13, 1960 in Portadown, Armagh, N. Ire, aged 77 years. Married Sarah Kerr Dawson on October 19, 1917 in Vigo County, Indiana, USA. Sarah Dawson was born June 24, 1879 and died May 30, 1934, age 52, in in the home of John West, Co. Fermanagh, Enniskillen, N. Ireland . She entered the work in Ireland in ??. Alfred was remarried to Isobel Waugh on November 11, 1939 in Newtownards, Co. Down, N. Ireland. They had 4 sons between 1940 and 1948. Isobel was born September 10, 1908 in Newtownards, Co. Down, N. Ireland and died November 11, 2005 in Belfast, Antrim, N. Ireland. Sister: Charlotte Anna - born February 15, 1886, Drumgor, Armagh, Ireland. Married George Hopps on September 26, 1908. After he died in 1917, she married Thomas Davison and moved to Toronto in 1929. Sister: Margaret Edith - born June 15, 1887, Drumgor, Armagh, Ireland. Married William Chambers on December 12, 1912 and died a year after her husband on December 21, 1944 in Belfast, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland. Sister: Mary (May) Evelyn - born April 2, 1891, Drumgor, Armagh, Ireland. Emigrated to the USA in 1912 and married Philip Redwine (1889-1975) on December 26, 1916. They lived most of their lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. She died at the age of 94 on December 2, 1985. Is buried near her sister Harriettt. After Jane (McNabb) Magowan died on May 15, 1894, James Magowan married Eliza Lyness on October 26, 1894. Children of James Magowan and Eliza Lyness: Sister: Lillian - born March 19, 1897 Sister: Georgina - born June 29, 1898 Sister: Annie- born October 16, 1900 in Drumgor, Armagh, Ireland. Married Thomas Victor Andrews on September 9, 1932 in Waringstown, Co. Down. Her husband died in WW2 and she died on July 20, 1980 in England. Sister: Sarah Ann - born Dec 11, 1901 Brother: James - born April 13, 1904 in Corcreeny, Waringstown, Co. Down, Ireland. James inherited his father's farm. Married Frances __? Died May, 1974. Click here for Daniel Magowan's Family Tree on ancestry.com The following quotes are found in the book, The Secret Sect by Doug & Helen Parker, 1982 (in chronological order). There are no additional quotes in Patricia Roberts' books. "We were said by the religious people who rested 'in the finished work' to not understand the gospel at all. All sects upbraided us for preaching works when they preached grace. They said we were working our way to heaven instead of depending on the merits of Christ. They said we did not believe the blood of the Son of God was sufficient to atone for sin." (Secret Sect Page 100, #6; A. Magowan in letter written about 1930) "It was a revolution against the respectable and comfortable members of the community who, while claiming to be Christians, were in high positions looking down on the improvidence of the poor. Many of us were moved to go forth against the giant of Mammonistic Christendom. We forsook all we had. We emptied ourselves of all worldly ambition to have, to be, to hold, to accumulate, to climb, to shine, and to rule over our fellow men. We were uncompromising towards Christendom's institutions and establishments because they were as much a part of the world as its commerce, its finance and other dyed-in-the-wool institutions. We were so zealous that no arguments against us could have made the slightest effect. Minds were unalterable and irrevocably made up. The need seemed so great. It was a chance to live heroically in an age afflicted with dullness. We despised clericalism and fought against it. We broke idols. We were fanatical and attacked the building of cathedrals alongside the slums. We carried the war into the enemies' hands and spoke ill of the church and the clergy. We believed that we were the last hope of the world and that ours was an honest-hearted revolt. We set out to form a brotherhood where all would be equal. We wanted to break from all tradition and become a people neither Catholic nor Protestant, with no regulations, no authority, no machinery or human control, to be free to serve God and make people free like ourselves. We put all worldly ambition behind us, none of this world's satisfactions or regards held an attraction, we had no theology to propound, no congregations to please, we saw ourselves as workers but not bosses." (Secret Sect Page 26 #10; A. Magowan letter to E. Cooney, November 9, 1953)--incorrect source--quote is not found in this letter. "Whatever else may be said about it, our religion was a religion of preachers . . . an heroic religion making such an appeal to youth that hundreds of young men were prepared to do violence to desire and ambition that they might be counted among those who were sent on holy missions before them. Nothing could have damped down the fire of their ardour and no obstacle would have been allowed to stand in the way of their progress toward the GOAL OF THE AGES ... to be counted worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection of the dead." (Page 4, #12; A. Magowan letter to George--possibly George Walker, September 28, 1954) "We built a church at a little place called Gesto, Ontario." Then Irvine declared, "All public worship is abomination to God." (Page 35, #8; Doug Parker Personal Communication, December 16, 1954) "I recall W. Irvine saying that the home was the original God-ordained institution: the roof under which we should be born; from which we should be married; and from which at the last we should be buried. "And as for the meeting in homes-what virtue Pagan or Christian is in that! The early disciples met behind locked and bolted doors for fear of the Jews we are told. They met secretly not by choice but by the necessity of the persecution situation that everywhere confronted them. They were driven underground in Rome, and had their meetings in what are called catacombs there. Where they met was a matter of no spiritual importance; but WHAT THEY MET FOR was vital to them as hunted and driven disciples of Jesus. "There is no commandment about the church in the home. There were reasons for it in the early days-which we could not give in our time. The building of a house of worship would have been an invitation to have it destroyed-persecution of the followers of Jesus being almost the air that the world breathed at that time. Homes were safer, and people could slip, into them one by one without being observed." (Personal communication April 26, 1954 to Clarence and Georgia Skinner; personal communication, December 16, 1954) (Page 35, #9; Secret Sect) Alfred Magowan, R. Irwin and Edward Cooney travelled to Jerusalem to visit him in 1938. Mr. Irwin from Enniskillen recalled the following incidents: "He showed us over some of the places he had been lodging in for the past twenty years and he was living under very good circumstances. At that time he was lodging with an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church. We went away for several days to Nazareth and on our return to Jerusalem he had quite a mail to collect which I had the privilege of picking up for him. I would say there were between fifty and sixty letters, and as he opened them I witnessed that there was money in most of them." Mr. Magowan commented that Irvine "had many friends, especially in California, who made sure that he never lacked anything. When he had more than his needs required he used the surplus with a free hand. I heard that he once sent one hundred pounds to the poor people of Kilsyth his home town." (Page 65, #20; Transcript of personal interview, R. Irwin, A Magowan, 1954 by Doug Parker) "We did not believe in paid preachers. But should preachers starve? "The laborer is worthy of his hire"; and that was said by our Lord Himself about those He was sending to preach... I am prepared to say that it was a dreadful thing to make preachers the exception to the universal law of work and wages ... a fundamental law that God wrought into the constitution of the world at creation, and well expressed in these words "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox which treadeth out the corn." (Page 45, #10; A. Magowan personal communication to Doug Parker, December 6, 1954) "I spent twelve years in this work in the American states of Alabama, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. I was later excommunicated but the excommunicators would hardly call themselves that. If they were asked, they would likely say they did not excommunicate anybody and we went out from them because we were not of them. " On the 27th September 1919, I appeared before a special court and on the 28th took a train for the wilderness. I need hardly tell you what manner of men the judges were. The one who knew least about the case summed up the evidence in four words: I wrote a letter. That was all and it was enough; and the sentence was banishment for life, and I suppose eternal damnation thereafter. " My separation from them cut into me deeply at the time and I went down to St. Louis to get my bearings. For six months I was there working as an auditor in a railroad office. Trying to freeze me to death by the cold treatment of exclusion from "the one true way" or trying to starve me to death by closing all supply doors against me, has been like trying to drown a fish... We have not known persecution in its time-glorified forms; and what we have suffered would hardly be worth mentioning in the light of the greater sufferings of others; but for myself I must confess that there were times when I could have borne very little more. What with slurs and insults, hints and insinuations, misunderstandings and prejudices, dark looks and averted faces where formerly there had been smiles and friendly greetings; and what I considered my good hatefully evil spoken of... But I was only one and have heard the testimony of many. I watched the "judge advocate" as he pronounced the death sentence, for that is what it was to Gus Halb. I saw the sweat break out on him as the full meaning of the thing came home to him. He never spoke a word and when he felt himself dismissed he turned and walked out of the room like a man in a dream... Not only have I survived, but my spirit toward mankind in general, and towards my one time fellow servants in particular, is as sweet and wholesome as it ever was-and for that I give thanks to God... If I was to bring one charge against the good companions of our youth, who later became religious rulers and exactors, it would be a very dreadful one; they erred against compassion." (Page 69-70, #1; A. Magowan personal interview by Doug Parker and personal communication, November, 1954) "We had rich variety and experience which was fairly evenly divided between the pleasant and the disagreeable. I recall one occasion when our audience went home and left us to shift for ourselves with empty bellies under the stars. John remarks: 'I think they take us for angels'; and when I seemed puzzled he explained, 'They give us credit for having wings but no stomachs!' There was always the sky...if other roofs failed! John and I sampled it in Ohio." (Page 33 #32; A. Magowan personal communication with Doug Parker, February 24, 1955) "It was an error to believe in a "one true way" which was in the power of men. We ought to have known better than to think God would limit Himself that way, or put our salvation at the will or in the power of men no matter how wise and even saintly they might be. There is ONE TRUE WAY, but that WAY is a PERSON: "No man cometh unto the Father but by me." The preachers are neither ashamed nor afraid to commend themselves as the only true servants God has on earth in our time!" (Page 108, #2; A. Magowan personal communication with Doug Parker, March 24, 1955) Other Notable Quotes by Magowan: "Tramp preachers did everything but sweat blood in the days of their going forth to strange lands and without visible means of support. They knew what it was to live on raw turnips in Scotland and oranges in California. They also knew what it was to go for days without anything to eat; and I can speak with authority, seeing I was one of them. We slept under the stars, in schools, in churches, in halls, in empty store buildings - with neither bed nor bed covering. We tramped through the snow from morning till night in more than 40 degrees of frost. And speaking for myself, I know what it is to have my tramp preacher companion rub frost out of his frostbitten ear with snow. We were tramps by tramping but we never begged. We were preachers by calling but we took up no collection. We worked in the daytime when people were responsive enough to our preaching at night to ask us into their houses to sleep and eat. We looked about to see if anything needed to be done on the premises or in the fields so as not to be burdensome to them." (January 13, 1956; Testimony of a Witness for the Defence by A. Magowan) "I explained what was meant in these words: 'IT WAS A GREAT EXPERIMENT.' An experiment in brotherhood, where all were on one level; where possessions had no power over the hearts of men; where there was no desire for honours or titles or distinctions; where men could walk together, and call each other by their first names; where there was faith enough to believe preachers would not starve if they went out into the world without visible means of support. An experiment in passing through this world without conforming to it; and where spiritually-minded men could maintain their pilgrimage, when Establishment was calling to them, and pulling at them from every side. An experiment in serving, without expectation of reward in this life; where something of the sufferings of Christ was to be expected; and where the soul could be disciplined by all that it would be required to pass through—unto the final purifying of the heart. A very Great Experiment indeed, and in which thousands of young men and women took part—to be made in an image and likeness not to be attained in any other way, or by any ordinary means."(Cross-Examination of a Witness and Address to the Jury* by A. Magowan, circa 1958)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1488
__label__wiki	0.591624	0.591624	Ron Paul: “Secret Government” Responsible For Fanning Russia Hysteria (Prison Planet) Former Congressman Ron Paul blamed the “secret government” for fanning the flames of hysteria over President Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin. Asked why the legacy media was so irate with Trump over his confab with the Russian President in Helsinki, Paul said that the hand of the shadow government was at work. “It’s hard to say, but we usually describe that there is a secret government that likes to control things and most people know what we talk about when we talk about the ‘deep state.’ And they do have a lot of clout, they are very much involved in the media and the leadership of both parties, so both parties and the media are very, very, annoyed with Trump [being so] independent,” said Paul. The former Congressman also made the point that the deep state is paranoid about how much will be revealed about its own meddling in the affairs of foreign countries if Trump and Putin continue the dialogue. “I guess it would come out on how much we’ve been involved when we shouldn’t be involved, for instance in Ukraine, and how that occurred,” he said. Paul went on to call out media and political personalities who he said had become “completely unhinged” over Trump’s attempts to move towards peace. Trump was savaged by the media for putting Russia’s interests before America’s when he appeared to throw the nation’s intelligence agencies “under the bus”. However, Trump was clearly referring to elements of the deep state who control the intelligence agencies, the secret government that exploits America’s name and resources to further its own interests. Categories Politics Tags Ron Paul, Shadow Government Post navigation Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls For Occupation of Airports, ICE Offices Uber Driver Kicks Black Conservatives with MAGA Hats Out of His Car	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1489
__label__cc	0.512073	0.487927	UN Rejects Israel’s Claim To The Golan Heights As Top Rabbis Await The Messiah’s Imminent Arrival The UN Security Council has unanimously rejected Israel’s claim to sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and this is likely to cause tensions in the Middle East to rise even higher. On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boldly declared “that the Golan Heights will remain under Israel’s sovereignty permanently.” After close to 50 years of control over the Golan Heights, this should not have been much of a shock. But the Arab world immediately went into an uproar, and the UN Security Council has taken action. In a unanimous decision, the UN Security Council has announced that Israel’s claims to the Golan Heights are “null and void and without international legal effect.” So once again the United Nations and the nation of Israel are directly at odds with one another, because the truth is that Israel is never going to leave the Golan Heights as long as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in power. The following comes from CNN… Israel’s Prime Minister has declared that the Golan Heights will remain permanently under the country’s control, during Israel’s first Cabinet meeting held in the territory. “The time has come for the international community to recognize reality, especially two basic facts,” said Benjamin Netanyahu during a Cabinet meeting Sunday. “One, whatever is beyond the border, the boundary itself will not change. Two, after 50 years, the time has come for the international community to finally recognize that the Golan Heights will remain under Israel’s sovereignty permanently.” Asking Israel to give the Golan Heights back to Syria is kind of like asking the United States to give Texas back to Mexico. It just isn’t going to happen. But thanks in large part to pressure from the Islamic world, the UN Security Council remains bound and determined to take that strategically important sliver of land away from Israel. On Tuesday, the UN Security Council expressed “deep concern” that the Israeli government is claiming permanent sovereignty over the Golan Heights… “Council members expressed their deep concern over recent Israeli statements about the Golan, and stressed that the status of the Golan remains unchanged,” China’s U.N. Ambassador Liu Jieyi, president of the 15-nation Security Council this month, told reporters after a closed-door meeting. He added that council resolution 497 of 1981 made clear that Israel’s decision at the time to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration in the Golan was “null and void and without international legal effect.” Council statements are adopted by consensus, which means all its members, including Israel’s ally the United States, backed it. Of course the Obama administration was definitely going to go along with this UN Security Council statement, because it has consistently proven to be the most anti-Israel administration in modern U.S. history. Late last year, there was a lot of talk about a potential UN Security Council resolution which would have permanently divided the land of Israel and the city of Jerusalem and that would have set the parameters for a Palestinian state. At that time, the Obama administration was not quite ready to pull the trigger. However, now that the end of Obama’s second term is rapidly approaching, it appears that things have changed. There has been a lot of talk in the mainstream media about how such a resolution is now “on the table”, and members of Congress were so alarmed that 388 of them sent a letter to Obama urging him not to do this. The following comes from the Wall Street Journal… Several hundred Democratic and Republican lawmakers are urging the White House not to back any resolution at the United Nations that sets parameters for Israeli-Palestinian talks, a move President Barack Obama has been considering. In a letter to Mr. Obama, 388 members of the House, including Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California, said U.S. support for a U.N. Security Council resolution would “dangerously hinder” the prospects of resuming direct negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians. “We are deeply troubled by reports that one-sided initiatives may arise at the U.N. in the coming months concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” the letter says. As you can see, even Nancy Pelosi is opposing Obama on this. But will that stop him? Meanwhile, top rabbis over in Israel are convinced that the arrival of the Messiah is imminent. Two extremely prominent figures in the Jewish faith recently got together for a very important conversation, and this made headlines all over the world… Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch,Vice-President of the Rabbinical Court and the Head of the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem, paid a rare visit to Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky at his home in Bnei Barak. They are two of the most prominent Torah figures alive today. Conversations between such great men have enormous significance and the Hebrew-language website Kikar Shabbat recorded the dialogue between these two great rabbis. Much of their conversation centered on expectations regarding the coming of the Messiah. As you can see, they clearly believe that it could happen at literally any time… Rabbi Kanievsky said that troubles were to be expected. “It is the days before Messiah,” he explained. Rabbi Sternbuch agreed. “In the End of Days, those who fear God will despair and their hands will loosen from fighting God’s war against the sinners, and there will be no one to rely upon except God,” he said, adding, “We have to bring the Messiah.” Rabbi Kanievsky answered that the Messiah should be arriving in the very near future. He quoted the Talmud (Megillah 17b) again, saying, “In the year after shmittah the Son of David will come.” The year after the Shemitah on the Jewish calendar ends this October, so until then messianic expectations will be running high in Israel. But at the same time, a geopolitical drama is playing out on the world stage which may eventually result in a great war coming to the land. If the UN Security Council does decide to pass a resolution permanently dividing the land, that is going to cause tensions in the region to go through the roof. In the Bible, we are told that Israel will be playing a central role in the events of the last days, and this is definitely shaping up to be the case. In a recent episode of our television show, my wife and I discussed this extensively. Even though the land of Israel is only about the size of New Jersey, and even though only a tiny fraction of the global population lives there, the attention of the rest of the planet is constantly focused on it. Unfortunately for the United States, the Obama administration has chosen a path that is radically anti-Israel, and that is going to end up having very serious implications for all of us. About the author: Michael Snyder is the founder and publisher of End Of The American Dream. Michael’s controversial new book about Bible prophecy entitled “The Rapture Verdict” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. Categories Faith, Featured, World Tags Barack Obama And Israel, Golan Heights, Israel, Pro-Israel, The Middle East, The UN Is Anti-Israel, War In The Middle East Post navigation Scientists discover that a bright flash of light marks the moment when life begins The Future Of America? – More Than Half Of All U.S. Adults Under Age 30 Now Reject Capitalism 2 thoughts on “UN Rejects Israel’s Claim To The Golan Heights As Top Rabbis Await The Messiah’s Imminent Arrival” Let us be clear about one thing. The United Nations is about as obsolete as the League of Nations before it. We need to disenfranchise this organization and help them pack their goods and leave this country period. Just like the other organizations, we as members, need to invite them to leave. We as a nation decide what happens within our borders not the United Nations period. I think Israel thinks the same way. I suggest that somewhere within Israel’s borders is the source of all major religion in the Western world. The problem is it “aint necessarily so”. We may have documents within that area that might disprove a lot of things and that is a conflict no one wants to get into. What historians do not get into is the fantastic world of the past. Where “gods” were worshipped and these at one time may have been living “gods”. Meaning the myths of the past might have been partially true. What the Arabs are fighting is control over real estate that may contain enormous ancient technology we have no way of knowing about. It might even be the Temple of Soloman site. Which may mean under the activation of said site God himself may come through. All speculation unless you are an expert in ancient culture and religion. Was there a portal as Mike has suggested in other articles? If that portal were re-activated what might happen? And that is the reason why everyone is getting hot under the collar about the Golan Heights. It too may be a site of things we know little about. There is a mosque on the site of at least one historic place and the Jews would like it back and they want to put a temple on it. if and when that happens we will be on the verge of a World War. The line that is crossed by the United Nations was never supposed to be a part of their franchise. That line is determining what happens internally in any nation. The entire premise of an international body should be that people have the right to regulate their own internal affairs. When that stopped happening then the United Nations becomes the spectre of a world government. Effectively controlling what happens to everybody. That is why I suggest it is time to disenfranchise the whole United Nations. It is none of our business what people of various nations do within their borders.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1490
__label__wiki	0.853405	0.853405	History of Leprosy Biological Characteristics Clinical Presentation/Diagnosis Elimination Campaigns Leprosy has tormented humans throughout recorded history. The earliest possible account of a disease that many scholars believe is leprosy appears in an Egyptian Papyrus document written around 1550 B.C. Around 600 B.C. Indian writings describe a disease that resembles leprosy. In Europe, leprosy first appeared in the records of ancient Greece after the army of Alexander the Great came back from India and then in Rome in 62 B.C. coinciding with the return of Pompeii's troops from Asia Minor. Throughout its history, leprosy has been feared and misunderstood. For a long time leprosy was thought to be a hereditary disease, a curse, or a punishment from God. Before and even after the discovery of its biological cause, leprosy patients were stigmatized and shunned. For example, in Europe during the Middle Ages, leprosy sufferers had to wear special clothing, ring bells to warn others that they were close, and even walk on a particular side of the road, depending on the direction of the wind. Even in modern times, leprosy treatment has often occured in seperate hospitals and live-in colonies called leprosariums because of the stigma of the disease. Leprosy has been so prevalent in various areas as certain times throughout history that is has inspired art work and influenced other cultural practices. Nigerian Mask: A representation of leprosy disfigurement Photo credit: Charles Davis. Photo courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine. Modern History of Leprosy: a timeline of trials and treatments Dr. Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen of Norway was the first person to identify the germ that causes leprosy under a microscope. Hansen's discovery of Mycobacterium leprae proved that leprosy was caused by a germ, and was thus not hereditary, from a curse, or from a sin. early 20th century: Until the late 1940s, leprosy doctors all over the world treated patients by injecting them with oil from the chaulmoogra nut. This course of treatment was painful, and although some patients appeared to benefit, its long term efficacy was questionable. Chaulmoogra Nut http://www.herbs2000.com/herbs/herbs_chaulmoogra.htm Chaulmoogra Oil Injection http://www.leprosyhistory.org/graphics/gallery/chaul3.jpg U.S. Public Health Service established the Gillis W. Long Hansen’s Disease Center in Carville, Louisiana, which became known as “Carville.” It became a center of research and testing to find a cure for leprosy and a live-in treatment center for leprosy patients. 1941: Promin, a sulfone drug, was introduced as a treatment for leprosy. It was first identified and used at Carville. Promin successfully treated leprosy but unfortunately treatment with Promin required many painful injections. 1950s: Dapsone pills, pioneered by Dr. R.G. Cochrane at Carville, became the treatment of choice for leprosy. Dapsone worked wonderfully at first, but unfortunately, M. leprae eventually began developing dapsone resistance. 1970s: The first successful multi-drug treatment (MDT) regimen for leprosy was developed through drug trials on the island of Malta. 1981: The World Health Organization began recommending MDT, a combination of three drugs: dapsone, rifampicin, and clofazimine. MDT with these drugs takes from six months to a year or even more, depending on stregnth of leprosy infection. Now: MDT with a combination of dapsone, rifampicin, and clofazimine is still the best treatment for preventing nerve damage, deformity, disability and further transmission. Researchers are working on developing a vaccine and ways to detect leprosy sooner in order to start treatment earlier. MDT Blister Packs http://www.who.int/tdr/research/progress/lep_afr/treatment.htm	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1495
__label__wiki	0.744566	0.744566	Valiant Entertainment Sets Their Sights on New BLOODSHOT Series Posted on March 15, 2019 by The Valiant Voice Artwork by Declan Shalvey New York, NY (March 15, 2019) – Before Vin Diesel breaks the box office as Bloodshot in Sony Pictures’ upcoming feature film, Valiant Entertainment is thrilled to announce an explosive new BLOODSHOT ongoing series from an all-star creative team, debuting in September! As first revealed on Deadline, Bloodshot, the unstoppable supersoldier trapped in a never-ending war, has arrived! Written by the electrifying Tim Seeley (Revival) and featuring artwork by industry icon Brett Booth (Teen Titans), this tremendous team is crafting a Bloodshot adventure full of badass action, surprising stories…and then some more badass action! Declan Shalvey (Return of Wolverine) will illustrate covers for the series. Once, he was the perfect living weapon, created to follow orders. Now, Bloodshot works alone, using his lethal skills to protect those who cannot protect themselves. But a mysterious and powerful organization is watching, and they’re not about to let something as dangerous as Bloodshot remain free… Artwork from BLOODSHOT (2019) #1 by Brett Booth. Inking by Adelso Corona, coloring by Andrew Dalhouse. “I don’t feel like I need to reinvent the wheel with Bloodshot,” said Seeley. “What I need to do is tell a BIG, CRAZY story that can only be done in comics, and I need it to be powerful and emotional and relevant in a way only comics can do.” Seeley plans to take a fun and fast-paced approach with Bloodshot. “I want to go back to basics and tell a story about a guy who was made to be a weapon but isn’t allowing anyone to use him ever again. He’s an outcast, an outsider, and he can’t help but use his indestructible body to help people, even though all it ever does is get him in trouble. With great power comes a great big pile of shell casings!” Superstar artist Brett Booth spoke about how he’s having a blast with Seeley’s exciting script. “I’ve been looking for a project I could really cut loose on,” Booth expressed. “The first issue is pretty nuts. It gets right to the action, which I love, and then sets up the rest of the story. It’s a great jumping-on point.” Artwork by BLOODSHOT (2019) #1 by Brett Booth. Seeley also explained why Booth’s art is the perfect fit for the book. “His style synthesizes what ’90s comic book artists figured out—how to do big, cool action comics that look visceral and powerful. That melds perfectly with my approach to this book.” Valiant is set to distribute free copies of a brand-new BLOODSHOT short story by Seeley with artwork by Tomás Giorello and Diego Rodriguez on Free Comic Book Day (May 4, 2019) through participating retailers. The story leads into the new series. VALIANT: BLOODSHOT FCBD 2019 SPECIAL Cover Artwork by Dan Brereton. BLOODSHOT is the latest release from Valiant Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of DMG Entertainment, founded by Dan Mintz. Since acquiring the publisher in early 2018, DMG Entertainment has placed a premium on developing and expanding upon Valiant’s publishing arm, continuing to build out its vast universe of characters. DMG Entertainment will also play an integral role in producing Valiant’s features in conjunction with the studios. About Valiant Entertainment Valiant Entertainment, a subsidiary of DMG Entertainment, is a leading character-based entertainment company that owns and controls the third most extensive library of superheroes behind Marvel and DC. With more than 80 million issues sold and a library of over 2,000 characters, including X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, Harbinger, Shadowman, Archer & Armstrong, and many more, Valiant is one of the most successful publishers in the history of the comic book medium. Valiant consistently produces some of the most critically acclaimed comics in the industry and has received numerous industry awards and accolades, including a Diamond Gem Award for Comic Book Publisher of the Year. For more information, visit Valiant on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and ValiantEntertainment.com. For Valiant merchandise and more, visit ValiantStore.com.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1497
__label__wiki	0.668946	0.668946	Monday 13 July 2020 (other days) Monday of week 15 in Ordinary Time or Saint Henry About Today · Readings at Mass · Office of Readings · Morning Prayer · Terce · Sext · None · Evening Prayer · Night Prayer · Yearly calendar · Universalis site · Settings · Tweet · Show QR code Let us come before the Lord, giving thanks. Year: A(II). Psalm week: 3. Liturgical Colour: Green. St Henry (973 - 1024) He was born in Bavaria in 973 and succeeded to the dukedom at the age of 22. He became Holy Roman Emperor in 1014. He was noted for his support for the reform of the Church and for his encouragement of its missionary activity. He set up many bishoprics, and he and his wife Cunegunda founded many monasteries. He died in 1024 and was canonized by Pope Eugenius III in 1146. See also the article in the Catholic Encyclopaedia. Other saints: St Teresa of Los Andes 13 Jul (where celebrated) Juana Fernández Solar was born in Santiago, Chile on 13 July 1900. Her parents Miguel Fernández and Lucia Solar raised her in the Christian faith along with her three brothers and two sisters. She grew up surrounded by her extended family. Juana was educated in the college of French nuns of the Sacred Heart. At age fourteen, she became strongly convinced that God was calling her to the life of a religious. Juana’s desire was realised on 7 May 1919, when she entered a tiny monastery of Discalced Carmelite Nuns in the township of Los Andes, some 90 kilometres away from her hometown of Santiago. On 14 October Juana was clothed in the Carmelite habit and began her novitiate with the religious name Teresa of Jesus. She expressed a fervour for her mission to make God known and loved. Early in the following year Sister Teresa contracted typhus and faced both interior struggles and physical suffering. On 7 April, because of danger of death, she made her religious profession and soon after, on the evening of 12 April 1920, entered into the loving embrace of the God she desired. Juana’s life on earth was short, but like those Carmelites named Teresa before her, she discovered the simplicity of faith in living, believing and loving. About the author of the Second Reading in today's Office of Readings: Second Reading: St Ambrose of Milan (340? - 397) Ambrose was born in Trier (now in Germany) between 337 and 340, to a Roman family: his father was praetorian prefect of Gaul. Ambrose was educated at Rome and embarked on the standard cursus honorum of Roman advocates and administrators, at Sirmium, the capital of Illyria. In about 372 he was made prefect of Liguria and Emilia, whose capital was Milan. In 374 the bishopric of Milan fell vacant and when Ambrose tried to pacify the conflict between the Catholics and Arians over the appointment of a new bishop, the people turned on him and demanded that he become the bishop himself. He was a layman and not yet baptized (at this time it was common for baptism to be delayed and for people to remain for years as catechumens), but that was no defence. Coerced by the people and by the emperor, he was baptized, ordained, and installed as bishop within a week, on 7 December 374. He immediately gave his money to the poor and his land to the Church and set about learning theology. He had the advantage of knowing Greek, which few people did at that time, and so he was able to read the Eastern theologians and philosophers as well as those of the West. He was assiduous in carrying out his office, acting with charity to all: a true shepherd and teacher of the faithful. He was unimpressed by status and when the Emperor Theodosius ordered the massacre of 7,000 people in Thessalonica, Ambrose forced him to do public penance. He defended the rights of the Church and attacked the Arian heresy with learning, firmness and gentleness. He also wrote a number of hymns which are still in use today. Ambrose was a key figure in the conversion of St Augustine to Catholicism, impressing Augustine (hitherto unimpressed by the Catholics he had met) by his intelligence and scholarship. He died on Holy Saturday, 4 April 397. Liturgical colour: green The theological virtue of hope is symbolized by the colour green, just as the burning fire of love is symbolized by red. Green is the colour of growing things, and hope, like them, is always new and always fresh. Liturgically, green is the colour of Ordinary Time, the orderly sequence of weeks through the year, a season in which we are being neither single-mindedly penitent (in purple) nor overwhelmingly joyful (in white). Mid-morning reading (Terce) 2 Corinthians 13:11 © Brethren, be joyful. Try to grow perfect; help one another. Be united; live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. Noon reading (Sext) Romans 6:22 © Now you have been set free from sin, you have been made slaves of God, and you get a reward leading to your sanctification and ending in eternal life. Afternoon reading (None) Colossians 1:21-22 © Not long ago, you were foreigners and enemies, in the way that you used to think and the evil things that you did; but now he has reconciled you, by his death and in that mortal body. Now you are able to appear before him holy, pure and blameless. Fri 15 January Friday of week 1 in Ordinary Time Saturday of week 1 in Ordinary Time or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sun 17 January Monday of week 2 in Ordinary Time Saint Wulstan, Bishop, Religious or Saint Fabian, Pope, Martyr or Saint Sebastian, Martyr Thu 21 January Saint Agnes, Virgin, Martyr or Saint Vincent, Deacon, Martyr Calendar used England - Clifton Scripture readings taken from The Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright © 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd and Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc, and used by permission of the publishers. For on-line information about other Random House, Inc. books and authors, see the Internet web site at http://www.randomhouse.com. This web site © Copyright 1996-2021 Universalis Publishing Ltd · Contact us · Cookies/privacy	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1500
__label__wiki	0.955933	0.955933	Seminole Treaty (Articles Pertaining to the Freedom of Slaves and the Adoption of Freedmen as citizens) Whereas existing, treaties between the United States and the Seminole Nation are insufficient to meet their mutual necessities; and Whereas the Seminole Nation made a treaty with the so-called Confederate States, August 1st, 1861, whereby they threw off their allegiance to the United States, and unsettled their treaty relations with the United States, and thereby incurred the liability of forfeiture of all lands and other property held by grant or gift of the United States; and whereas a treaty of peace and amity was entered into between the United States and the Seminole and other tribes at Fort Smith, September 13 [10,] 1865,a whereby the Seminoles revoked, canceled. and repudiated the said treaty with the so-called Confederate States; and whereas the United States, through its commissioners, in said treaty of peace promised to enter into treaty with the Seminole Nation to arrange and settle all questions relating to and growing out of said treaty with the so-called Confederate States; and whereas the United States, in view of said treaty of the Seminole Nation with the enemies of the Government of the United States, and the consequent liabilities of said Seminole Nation, and in view of its urgent necessities for more lands in the Indian Territory, requires a cession by said Seminole Nation of part of its present reservation, and is willing to pay therefor a reasonable price, while at the same time providing new and adequate land for them: Now, therefore, the United States, by its commissioners aforesaid, and the above-named delegates of the Seminole Nation, the day and year above written, mutually stipulate and agree, on behalf of the respective parties, as follows, to wit; ARTICLE 1. There shall be perpetual peace between the United States and the Seminole Nation, and the Seminoles agree to be and remain firm allies of the United States, and always faithfully aid the Government thereof to suppress insurrection and put down its enemies. The Seminoles also agree to remain at peace with all other Indian tribes and with themselves. In return for these pledges of peace and friendship, the United States guarantee them quiet possession of their country, and protection against hostilities on the part of other tribes; and, in the event of such hostilities, that the tribe commencing and prosecuting the same shall make just reparation therefor. Therefore the Seminoles agree to a military occupation of their country at the option and expense of the United States. A general amnesty of all past offences against the laws of the United States, committed by any member of the Seminole Nation, is hereby declared; and the Seminoles, anxious for the restoration of kind and friendly feelings among themselves, do hereby declare an amnesty for all past offenses against their government, and no Indian or Indians shall be proscribed or any act of forfeiture or confiscation passed against those who have remained friendly to or taken up arms against the United States, but they shall enjoy equal privileges with other members of said tribe, and all laws heretofore passed inconsistent herewith are hereby declared inoperative. ARTICLE 2. The Seminole Nation covenant that henceforth in said nation slavery shall not exist, nor involuntary servitude, except for and in punishment of crime, whereof the offending party shall first have been duly convicted in accordance with law, applicable to all the members of said nation. And inasmuch as there are among the Seminoles many persons of African descent and blood, who have no interest or property in the soil, and no recognized civil rights it is stipulated that hereafter these persons and their descendants, and such other of the same race as shall be permitted by said nation to settle there, shall have and enjoy all the rights of native citizens, and the laws of said nation shall be equally binding upon all persons of whatever race or color, who may be adopted as citizens or members of said tribe. ARTICLE 3. In compliance with the desire of the United States to locate other Indians and freedmen thereon, the Seminoles cede and convey to the United States their entire domain, being the tract of land ceded to the Seminole Indians by the Creek Nation under the provisions of article first, (1st,) treaty of the United States with the Creeks and Seminoles, made and concluded at Washington, D. C., August 7, 1856. In consideration of said grant and cession of their lands, estimated at two million one hundred and sixty-nine thousand and eighty (2,169,080) acres, the United States agree to pay said Seminole Nation the sum of three hundred and twenty-five thousand three hundred and sixty-two ($325,362) dollars, said purchase being at the rate of fifteen cents per acre. The United States having obtained by grant of the Creek Nation the westerly half of their lands, hereby grant to the Seminole Nation the portion thereof hereafter described, which shall constitute the national domain of the Seminole Indians. Said lands so granted by the United States to the Seminole Nation are bounded and described as follows, to wit: Beginning on the Canadian River where the line dividing the Creek lands according to the terms of their sale to the United States by their treaty of February 6, 1866,a following said line due north to where said line crosses the north fork of the Canadian River; thence up said north fork of the Canadian River a distance sufficient to make two hundred thousand acres by running due south to the Canadian River; thence down said Canadian River to the place of beginning. In consideration of said cession of two hundred thousand acres of land described above, the Seminole Nation agrees to pay therefor the price of fifty cents per acre, amounting to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, which amount shall be deducted from the sum paid by the United States for Seminole lands under the stipulations above written. The balance due the Seminole Nation after making said deduction, amounting to one hundred thousand dollars, the United States agree to pay in the following manner, to wit: Thirty thousand dollars shall be paid to enable the Seminoles to occupy, restore, and improve their farms, and to make their nation independent and self-sustaining, and shall be distributed for that purpose under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior; twenty thousand dollars shall be paid in like manner for the purpose of purchasing agricultural implements, seeds, cows, and other stock; fifteen thousand dollars shall be paid for the erection of a mill suitable to accommodate said nation of Indians; seventy thousand dollars to remain in the United States Treasury, upon which the United States shall pay an annual interest of five per cent.; fifty thousand of said sum of seventy thousand dollars shall be a permanent school-fund, the interest of which shall be paid annually and appropriated to the support of schools; the remainder of the seventy thousand dollars, being twenty thousand dollars, shall remain a permanent fund, the interest of which shall be paid annually for the support of the Seminole government; forty thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars shall be appropriated and expended for subsisting said Indians, discriminating in favor of the destitute; all of which amounts, excepting the seventy thousand dollars to remain in the Treasury as a permanent fund, shall be paid upon the ratification of said treaty, and disbursed in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may direct. The balance, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the losses ascertained and awarded as hereinafter provided, shall be paid when said awards shall have been duly made and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. And in case said fifty thousand dollars shall be insufficient to pay all said awards, it shall be distributed pro rata to those whose claims are so allowed; and until said awards shall be thus paid, the United States agree to pay to said Indians, in such manner and for such purposes as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum from the date of the ratification of this treaty. ARTICLE 4. To reimburse such members of the Seminole Nation as shall be duly adjudged to have remained loyal and faithful to their treaty relations to the United States, during the recent rebellion of the so-called Confederate States for the losses actually sustained by them thereby, after the ratification of this treaty, or so soon thereafter as the Secretary of the Interior shall direct, he shall appoint a board of commissioners, not to exceed three in number, who shall proceed to the Seminole country and investigate and determine said losses. Previous to said investigation the agent of the Seminole Nation shall prepare a census or enumeration of said tribe, and make a roll of all Seminoles who did in no manner aid or abet the enemies of the Government, but remained loyal during said rebellion; and no award shall be made by said commissioners for such losses unless the name of the claimant appear on said roll, and no compensation shall be allowed any person for such losses whose name does not appear on said roll, unless said claimant, within six months from the date of the completion of said roll, furnishes proof satisfactory to said board, or to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, that he has at all times remained loyal to the United States, according to his treaty obligations. All evidence touching said claims shall be taken by said commissioners, or any of them, under oath, and their awards made, together with the evidence, shall be transmitted to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for his approval, and that of the Secretary of the Interior. Said commissioners shall be paid by the United States such compensation as the Secretary of the Interior may direct. The provisions of this article shall extend to and embrace the claims for losses sustained by loyal members of said tribe, irrespective of race or color, whether at the time of said losses the claimants shall have been in servitude or not; provided said claimants are made members of said tribe by the stipulations of this treaty. ARTICLE 5. The Seminole Nation hereby grant a right of way through their lands to any company which shall be duly authorized by Congress, and shall, with the express consent and approbation of the Secretary of the Interior, undertake to construct a railroad from any point on their eastern to their western or southern boundary; but said railroad company, together with all its agents and employees, shall be subject to the laws of the United States relating to the intercourse with Indian tribes, and also to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for that purpose. And the Seminoles agree to sell to the United States, or any company duly authorized as aforesaid, such lands, not legally owned or occupied by a member or members of the Seminole Nation lying along the line of said contemplated railroad, not exceeding on each side thereof a belt or strip of land three miles in width, at such price per acre as may be eventually agreed upon between said Seminole Nation and the party or parties building said road--subject to the approval of the President of the United States: Provided, however, That said land thus sold shall not be reconveyed, leased, or rented to, or be occupied by, any one not a citizen of the Seminole Nation, according to its laws and recognized usages: Provided also, That officers, servants, and employés of said railroad necessary to its construction and management shall not be excluded from such necessary occupancy, they being subject to the provisions of the Indian-intercourse laws, and such rules and regulations as may be established by the Secretary of the Interior; nor shall any conveyance of said lands be made to the party building and managing said road, until its completion as a first-class railroad and its acceptance as such by the Secretary of the Interior. Robert Johnson, his x mark. <--------(Freedman) United States interpreter for Seminole Indians. Geo. A. Reynolds, United States Indian agent for Seminoles. Ok-tus-sus-har-jo, his x mark, or Sands. Cow-e-to-me-ko, his x mark. Che-chu-chee, his x mark. Harry Island, his x mark. <-------(Freedman) United States interpreter for Creek Indians. J. W. Dunn, United States Indian agent for the Creek Nation. Perry Fuller. Signed by John F. Brown, special delegate for the Southern Seminoles, in presence of, this June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six-- W.R. Irwin. J. M. Tebbetts. Geo. A. Reynolds, United States Indian agent. Robert Johnson, his x mark, United States interpreter.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1502
__label__wiki	0.506366	0.506366	C20th Avant-Garde Archived exhibition 4th Floor Gallery Lucia Nogueira 22 September–29 October 2016 Monosyllable (1993) Hair, wood Pause (1990) aluminium, steel, wire, wax earplug & petrol 28 x 20 10 cm ... (1992 ) Silk, sand, zinc, steel, hessian Without This, Without That (1993) Wooden cabinet, gesso, rubber plug, metal chain Wood, clockwork toys, glass, metal Installation at Annely Juda Fine Art (detail of Mask 1986, plastic, 13 parts, 24.5 x 11.9 cm each) (2016) Untitled (square cage piece) (1989) metal and gauze Untitled (Black Box with Red Shoes) wood, Dr Martens shoes, thread, crocodile clip box dims: 18.5 x 32.5 x 50.7 cm Installation at Annely Juda Fine Art (2016) Untitled (Golden Flex with Large Lightbulb) lightbulb, cable and plug size variable installation at Annely Juda Fine Art (in foreground 'Step' 1995, oriental carpet & broken glass) (2016) installation at Annely Juda Fine Art (in foreground 'At Will and The Other' 1989, metal organza, polystyrene, black beans, feather pillow, 42 x 135 x 165 cm) (2016) Untitled (installation at Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 2016) (1989) silk organza, Brazilian black beans, glass and graphite 120 x 75 x 100 cm Annely Juda Fine Art is delighted to announce an exhibition by Lucia Nogueira. Nogueira was an artist of Brazilian heritage who relocated to London in 1975 staying until her untimely death in 1998. Nogueira’s body of work comprises installation, sculpture, video and drawing. The material and psychological relationships in the interplay of objects, space and language is at the core of her artistic practice. Many of her works incorporate detritus found discarded on the streets of London, or acquired in army surplus, medical and second-hand shops. Nogueira had an extraordinary eye for the potential of the apparently least promising discovery and her ability to place objects in significant conversation with spaces was uncanny. A fascination with the structure of language infiltrated her titles but also expressed the particular force of her bilingual ambivalence. Nogueira’s art eludes classification. Despite frequently suggesting a Brazilian sensibility, for example in the frequent use of dried black beans as capsules of energy, it does not sit comfortably within the paradigm of most Brazilian art, but neither does it reflect what was taking place in London at the time. It is suspended in a complex cultural partnership and expresses relationships that are at the root of our attempts to negotiate experience. Nogueira’s work, despite her use of language, is not representational or narrative. On the contrary, it is concerned with the range of poetic and philosophical stimuli that can be generated by a single, precise point of connectivity. Nogueira was born in 1950 in Goiânia, Central Brazil and studied Journalism and Communications in Brasilia and photography in Washington DC before visiting London in 1975. Planning to stay for just two weeks to see her brother, she ended up staying for the rest of her life. She studied painting first at Chelsea College of Art (1976–79) and then at the Central School of Art and Design (1979–80). Starting her professional career as a painter, her work was first exhibited in London at Riverside studios in 1984. Nogueira’s first solo exhibition was at the Carlile Gallery in Islington in 1988 (one work from that exhibition is included in the current exhibition). Major shows soon followed including at the Serpentine Gallery, London; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; and Camden Arts Centre, London. She was the recipient of a Fondation Cartier residential fellowship at Versailles in 1993 and was a Paul Hamlyn Foundation award winner in 1996. A retrospective exhibition was staged at the Museu Serralves in Porto in 2007. Her work is in the collection of the Tate, The Arts Council, Leeds City Art Gallery, The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Museu Serralves and many other important UK and international collections. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London. A fully illustrated catalogue is available. Please click here to see an online version. 4th Floor, 23 Dering Street London W1S 1AW E .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Gallery temporarily closed to the public Website: William Joseph	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1504
__label__cc	0.59317	0.40683	TITAN GROUP DEMO TITAN Group is independent, vertically integrated cement and building materials producer with more than 113 years of industry experience. With its headquarters in Greece – where the parent company has been listed on the Athens Stock Exchange since 1912 – TITAN Group’s vertically integrated activity spans 13 countries. The Group employs more than 5,500 people world-wide and is growing as a multi-regional, vertically integrated cement producer combining an entrepreneurial spirit and operational excellence with respect for people, society and the environment. TITAN’s business success and reputation are based on the application of best available technologies (BAT), for production procedures and distribution methods, on systematic research and constantly upgraded know-how, and on its high-quality human resources. TITAN aims to grow as a multi-regional, vertically integrated cement producer, combining an entrepreneurial spirit and operational excellence with respect for people, society and the environment. TITAN’s four-pronged Strategy We extend our business through acquisition and greenfield development into attractive new markets, to build production scale and spread the risk of over reliance on too few markets. Continuous Competitiveness We implement new efficiencies throughout our business to reduce costs and compete more effectively. We extend our business into other product areas in the cement value chain, gaining greater control over our markets and accessing new profit opportunities. Focus on Human Capital and CSR We develop and continuously improve our good relationships with all internal and external stakeholders for mutual respect and understanding. Headquartered in Athens, Greece, the Group employs 5,482 (31 DEC 2016) people worldwide and sells products to 29 countries in North Africa, Western Africa, Canada, USA East Coast and Gulf of Mexico, Central America – Caribbean, Balkans and Western Europe. We have cement plants in nine countries and our operations are organized into four geographic regions: USA; Greece and Western Europe; Southeastern Europe; and Eastern Mediterranean.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1505
__label__cc	0.670201	0.329799	September 2016 \| Volume 74 \| Number 1 Relationships First Pages 84-85 Show & Tell: A Video Column / Two Times Ten Conversations Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey How can we win the trust of a challenging student? Mahad was a newly enrolled 11th grade student at our school. He left class whenever he wanted to. He was on his phone a lot. He yelled out to other students in the middle of class. And he was failing all of his classes, having done none of the work during his first few weeks of attendance. A quick review of his cumulative files from his previous schools showed multiple suspensions, disciplinary actions, and failing grades. He was at risk for becoming a statistic, and not a good one. Instead of taking drastic measures, Mahad's teaching team decided to give him three weeks of leeway, hoping that each day would get better. Marisol Thayre, Mahad's English teacher, began to build a relationship with him through a systematic process called 2 × 10—an adult interacts with the student in relationship-building conversations for 2 minutes a day for 10 consecutive days.1 (In the case of Mahad, Ms. Thayre shortened the 2 × 10 strategy to five days but met with Mahad twice on each of those days.) In Conversation with Mahad With his mother's permission, we recorded a series of daily interactions between Mahad and Ms. Thayre. The video that accompanies this column shows several of these conversations, which took place after Mahad had been in the class for a few days and Ms. Thayre had had a chance to get to know him. In several conversations that happened during those first few days, Ms. Thayre had asked about Mahad's aspirations, saying, "Who do you want to be and what do you want to be?" Mahad had talked a bit about wanting to be respected and mentioned that he wanted to make enough money to support his family. In one of those conversations, the two also used a sentence frame to share one fact at a time about themselves. Taking turns, each of them completed the sentence "If you knew me, you would know ____." After several exchanges, Ms. Thayre completed the sentence by saying that her dad had died the year before. Mahad teared up, revealing that his dad had died as well. The video starts with two conversations in which Ms. Thayre pulls Mahad aside to address his disruptive behavior. She lets him know her expectations for the classroom and invites him to share solutions. As is common, at first Mahad offers no useful clues. He's likely expecting to be punished or shamed for his actions as he has been so many times in the past, and he's willing to sit through the lecture he believes is coming. But that's not what happens. Ms. Thayre uses her emerging relationship with Mahad to let him know that she has noticed his actions and that she expects him to behave differently. She doesn't scold him, punish him, or threaten to send him to the vice principal. Instead, she solicits his input in addressing the situation. Ms. Thayre approaches Mahad in the role of problem-solver rather than disciplinarian. She asks him to help her find ways she can support him in altering his behavior. She shares parts of her life with Mahad and learns a little about him. When you know someone's story, you see them in a different light, and it's hard to be disrespectful to them. Over time, we see Mahad begin to respond, seeking out Ms. Thayre to tell her about his internship experience and offering a solution for how he and Ms. Thayre can navigate his difficult moods. They agree to implement his idea—that he move to a separate part of the classroom when he's too distracted or upset to participate—and it works. Ms. Thayre's role changes as she begins to broker relationships between Mahad and his other teachers, often meeting with another teacher and Mahad together. She offers Mahad advice about the actions he can take to become the person he says he wants to be. Impromptu Conversations To build a productive relationship with a challenging student, the adult will probably have to initiate the connection. Of course, some students seek out teachers and enjoy the company of adults in the school. But these are not likely to be the students who are failing, who misbehave, or who are frequently absent. For those students, adults have to be the ones to open the lines of communication. The 2 × 10 strategy generally works well to get a relationship started. It starts with brief conversations on 10 consecutive days in which the adult interacts with the student, not about school, but about hopes, dreams, fears, likes, dislikes, family life, work situations, or just about anything that allows a relationship to develop. Because relationships are reciprocal, the adult needs to share about his or her life and invite the student to do the same. Even if the responses at the outset of the relationship are fairly superficial, the student usually appreciates the added attention. Once a relationship has been established, the conversations can move to include academic and behavioral concerns. That doesn't mean that no further relationship development is necessary, but the interactions can now include discussions about expectations, feedback about performance, and plans for correction. For example, the teacher might say, "What assumptions do teachers make about you that are not true?" "What obstacle is holding you back right now?" and "Let's make a plan to get you where you want to be."2 The key elements in successful impromptu conversations include Brevity. These conversations typically last under two minutes. Student voice. Students are invited to share their version of events. Honesty. Teachers share their own feelings. Accountability. Students aren't threatened with punishment, but they are reminded that they are accountable to others. A solution orientation. Students are invited to suggest ways to resolve the problem. On a Better Path As a result of his growing relationship with Ms. Thayre, Mahad's behavior improved and his learning accelerated. In just a couple of weeks, he went from being a disengaged and disruptive student to being one who sought out his teacher for advice. By the end of the semester, Mahad had passed all his classes and was a pleasure to have in class. Were there hard days? Of course. But he had developed productive relationships with the adults in his school, improving the quality of life for everyone. Mahad is still going to be a statistic, but now it's the right kind. He wants to be a massage therapist so that he can work while he goes to nursing school. In his words, "I'm pretty good with people. They respond to me, and I like to help, so I think that would be a good match." As we noted earlier, when you know another's story, you see them in a different light. See how a teacher uses positive, nonjudgmental communication to help a student come out of his shell. Editor's note: For more information about "2 x 10" conversations, see Smith, R., & Lambert, M. (2008). Assuming the best. Educational Leadership, 66(1), 16–21. 1 Wlodkowski, R. J. (1983). Motivational opportunities for successful teaching [Leader's Guide]. Phoenix, AZ: Universal Dimensions. 2 For a list of sample questions and statements for impromptu conversations, see Smith, D., Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2015). Better than carrots or sticks: Restorative practices for positive classroom management. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, p. 105. Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey are professors in the Department of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and teacher leaders at Health Sciences High and Middle College. They are ASCD authors, and their work inspired ASCD's FIT Teaching® program. 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__label__cc	0.564293	0.435707	Our bipartisan leadership comprises some of the nation's leading budget experts, including many past heads of the House and Senate Budget Committees, the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of Management and Budget, the Government Accountability Office, and the Federal Reserve Board. As an independent source of objective policy analysis, we regularly engage policymakers of both parties and help them develop and analyze proposals to improve the country’s fiscal and economic condition. These efforts have reinforced the Committee’s role as an authoritative voice for fiscal responsibility and an educational resource for policymakers and the general public. It is also a trusted budget watchdog that assists journalists across the country in understanding fiscal developments in Washington. For an in-depth look at our impact in Washington and beyond, read our mid-year update for the first half of 2020. To learn more about our impact throughout the 2016 presidential campaign and citation in multiple presidential debates, read our report – Campaign 2016: Driving the Debt Debate. We are continuing this work in the 2020 election with US Budget Watch 2020 and The Cost of the Trump and Biden Campaign Plans. In 1980, Robert Giaimo (D-CT) and Henry Bellmon (R-OK) both left Congress. Mr. Giaimo had served in the House of Representatives for 20 years, including four as Chairman of the House Budget Committee. Mr. Bellmon had served 12 years as a Senator and was the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee from its inception in 1975. These two fiscal policy leaders convened a group of other former Budget Committee Chairmen, former Directors of the Office of Management and Budget, leading economists, and business leaders. The group concluded that the country needed an organization outside government that was committed to a sound budget process. They formed the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and it was incorporated on June 10, 1981. Since then, the Committee has continued to leverage its high-quality research and objective policy analysis to engage lawmakers from both parties – regularly meeting with members of Congress and their staff, hosting several policy briefings, and offering practical solutions that can achieve bipartisan support and put the country on a sustainable fiscal course. To interview Maya MacGuineas or one of our policy experts, or learn more about the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, please contact John Buhl, director of media relations, at buhl@crfb.org.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1512
__label__wiki	0.500316	0.500316	Truth in Addison Addison Community The Truth About Kanter, Part 1 “There are a lot of politics surrounding my work” The Truth About Kanter, Part 1 “There are a lot of politics surrounding my work” By Susan M. Halpern Former Addison Councilmember (1992-1999) In a meeting held on November 21, 2014, Addison employees Chris Terry and Cheryl Delaney expressed concern to accountant Larry Kanter that he was not treating Addison’s staff respectfully, and that Kanter “often failed to present all the facts or left out pertinent information which resulted in casting staff inappropriately and unfairly in an unfavorable light.” Kanter’s response was that his hiring was “a very political process” and that “THEY SHOULD BE AWARE THAT a lot of politics [were] going ON surrounding his work.” This confirms – IN KANTER’S OWN WORDS — what we’ve said all along: Kanter’s work was politically motivated. It also confirms that KANTER KNEW that his work was politically motivated. But these words – and Kanter’s damning acknowledgement of the political nature of his work – were actively concealed from Addison voters by Addison’s council, led by Todd Meier. The concealment of Lea Dunn’s January 4, 2015 memo, quoted above, made it possible for Meier to run a shameful campaign of misinformation and lies in an effort to influence the May election. The whole thing was premised on Kanter’s now-demonstrably-false claims of non-cooperation by Addison’s staff, as well as Kanter’s inflammatory, baseless and politically-motivated claims about supposedly untraceable “millions.” It was all a big lie. A charade. A performance. And no part of it would have been possible if Addison had obeyed the Open Records Act, and produced Lea Dunn’s memo in response to my February 25, 2016 request. The public was DENIED the chance to know the truth by the wrongful withholding of this document. Let’s start there. Lea Dunn’s memo was withheld because Addison claimed that it contained attorney-client privileged information. It doesn’t. It’s not a close call. I’ve practiced law for 33 years, and I’ve prepared privilege logs in countless lawsuits. Lea Dunn’s memo isn’t privileged. There isn’t a phrase – not a word – that would justify a claim of privilege. This document was withheld for political reasons. It would have exposed Meier’s campaign of misinformation and lies. And here’s the thing: this is exactly the scenario that the Open Records Act exists to prevent. But it happened, and the truth is that this document would have remained hidden if Meier’s campaign had succeeded. Meier has made countless claims regarding “transparency,” but the concealment of this document is the reality of his regime. Of course, as the inevitability of the release of Lea Dunn’s memo became apparent, Meier employed another favored tactic: revisionist history. Meier began to tell people that he actually favored releasing Lea Dunn’s memo, always adding that this is why he had directed the staff and Addison’s attorney to submit the matter to the AG. I hope no one was fooled by these utterly misleading claims. It’s this simple: you don’t go to the AG to produce documents, you go to the AG to WITHHOLD documents. Addison asked the AG to bless WITHHOLDING Lea Dunn’s memo. The direction to go to the AG was a direction to the staff to WITHHOLD Lea Dunn’s memo. And of course, we know that the AG signed off on – well – something. This flawed process allows Addison to submit “examples” of withheld documents, and then use an AG ruling to withhold other documents. The problem is that neither the “examples” nor the other withheld documents are identified. In this case, I don’t know what Addison submitted to the AG and claimed was an “example” of documents being withheld, nor do I know what other documents Addison is withholding based on this “example.” It is a fundamentally flawed system. Municipalities who will wrongfully withhold documents, as I believe Addison certainly did with respect to Lea Dunn’s memo, can easily manipulate the process. Think: fox guarding hen house. For his part, our illustrious AG seems willing to rubber-stamp anything. In allowing the WITHHOLDING of Lea Dunn’s memo and apparently other documents, the AG accepted Addison’s representations that Lea Dunn’s memo to the Finance Committee was actually a communication “exchanged between the town’s attorney and the town’s consultant,” even though the face of the document reflects that it was Lea Dunn sending it to the Finance Committee. The Kanter memo quoted in Lea Dunn’s memo was likewise sent to the Finance Committee. In fact, I have yet to see any document “exchanged between the town’s attorney and the town’s consultant,” the description and representation made to the AG. So it looks like the AG suspended reality to approve Addison’s withholding of Lea Dunn’s memo, and other undefined documents. Think of it this way: Addison sent the AG a pig and represented that it was a horse. The AG looked at what was obviously a pig, but still wrote back and accepted Addison’s representation that the pig was a horse. Then, since horses could be hidden, the AG approved Addison’s withholding of the pig, apparently because Addison was willing to falsely claim that the pig was a horse. If it sounds ridiculous, it is. The Open Records Act is a very serious matter. It is a critical element of the public’s ability to demand accountability from its elected officials. And in this case, the system failed Addison’s residents in a very significant way. The system allowed Meier and his cadre to lie to the public and to conceal Kanter’s wrongful conduct. No matter who they supported, all Addison residents should be deeply concerned about a “tone at the top” that seems determined to ignore the Open Records Act. Because of this lack of transparency, we witnessed our own mayor disparaging Addison with no fear that the truth would come out. Meier embarrassed Addison in front of the entire Metroplex. And he mercilessly – AND UNJUSTIFIABLY – attacked prior staff and management. All for perceived political gain. It was no less than an effort to steal an election based on a platform built of lies: lies made possible by concealment and secrecy. The current council must take steps to ensure that nothing like this happens again, including by taking steps to end the aggressive and misguided resistance of many legitimate Open Records Act requests. As well, everyone in Addison should be interested in understanding how Kanter’s work was allowed to be conducted in secrecy. The answer is somewhat complicated, and best addressed in parts. So stay tuned. You won’t want to miss this. Upcoming Council Meetings: The Council meets in regular sessions on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at Town Hall, 5300 Belt Line Road. The agenda is posted at Town Hall and on the Addison, Texas web page the Friday prior to the meeting. The public is welcome to attend all Council meetings. Connect to Town News & Info: www.addisontx.gov Archives: Reports on Important Addison Matters Concerned Citizens Deserve to Know the Facts Stories of Service: We Love Our Addison Employees © 2021 Truth in Addison	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1516
__label__cc	0.541395	0.458605	CHARLIE'S MANUEL Charlie Manuel frequently makes poor strategic decisions. The 11-million dollar scoreboard in left field would probably do a similar job. We guarantee a post analyzing Manuel's decisions for every Phillies game. Please click on our aliases below to email us. Blog Archive August 2013 (3) June 2013 (19) May 2013 (8) April 2013 (8) February 2013 (2) December 2012 (2) October 2012 (7) September 2012 (25) August 2012 (29) July 2012 (24) June 2012 (27) May 2012 (31) April 2012 (23) March 2012 (1) February 2012 (2) January 2012 (1) December 2011 (1) November 2011 (3) October 2011 (10) September 2011 (30) August 2011 (26) July 2011 (27) June 2011 (27) May 2011 (31) April 2011 (26) March 2011 (1) January 2011 (1) December 2010 (1) November 2010 (1) October 2010 (20) September 2010 (29) August 2010 (33) July 2010 (34) June 2010 (28) May 2010 (30) April 2010 (23) March 2010 (7) February 2010 (1) January 2010 (4) December 2009 (11) November 2009 (13) October 2009 (22) September 2009 (31) August 2009 (31) July 2009 (30) June 2009 (32) May 2009 (40) April 2009 (43) March 2009 (31) February 2009 (29) January 2009 (15) December 2008 (23) November 2008 (25) October 2008 (41) September 2008 (42) August 2008 (50) July 2008 (53) June 2008 (7) 95% Phillies, 4% Eagles/Flyers/Sixers/Big Five, 1% Nonsense .... Contact us: Scott Graham ~ Andy Musser Game 74: Phils down to 5 regulars after Utley's injury in loss (40-34) The Phillies have the best record after 74 games than any other season under Charlie Manuel, but after last night's 7-3 loss and the placements of Placido Polanco and Chase Utley on the DL, it doesn't seem like it. Kyle Kendrick struggled last nigh. Manuel may have left him in slightly too long, but there's really nothing to complain about from last night. Tonight's game, however, is a different story (Greg Dobbs should never bat second for this team, regardless of the injury situation). Tonight Joe Blanton faces RHP Mike Leake as they try to avoid the series loss. Posted by Andy Musser at 7:07 PM	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1517
__label__wiki	0.839535	0.839535	News Releases > With tobacco, what you don't know can kill you sooner Half of U.S. adults believe e-cigarettes to be just as harmful as traditional cigarettes, according to findings from UB public health researchers. Public shows “considerable lack of knowledge” about the risk associated with different types of tobacco products, UB researchers say By David J. Hill Share This Print “A mistaken belief can change your behavior in ways that will shorten your life. ” Lynn Kozlowski, professor of community health and health behavior Downloadable high resolution portrait of Lynn Kozlowski Lynn Kozlowski, professor of community health and health behavior. Downloadable high resolution portrait of Marc Kiviniemi Marc Kiviniemi, associate professor of community health and health behavior. BUFFALO, N.Y. – Most people know smoking is risky. But that’s not news smokers can use. What they can benefit from is knowing the varying levels of risk associated with different tobacco products, according to public health researchers at the University at Buffalo, who found that a large number of people aren’t aware of the differences. “Even for e-cigarettes, half of the public incorrectly believed them to be just as dangerous as cigarettes and an overwhelming majority of respondents incorrectly believed smokeless tobacco to be just as dangerous as traditional cigarettes,” Marc Kiviniemi, associate professor in the Department of Community Health and Health Behavior in UB’s School of Public Health and Health Professions, and co-author Lynn Kozlowski, a professor of community health and health behavior at UB, write in the paper, published in the July issue of the journal Harm Reduction. Kiviniemi and Kozlowski also report that 75 percent of U.S. adults misperceive smokeless tobacco products as being as harmful as cigarettes, calling it “both a considerable lack of knowledge and a serious public health problem.” Smokeless varieties of tobacco include chewing tobacco, snus and snuff. Of course, that doesn’t mean these products are safe—just safer when compared to cigarettes. “Nobody is saying there’s no risk associated with smokeless tobacco use or e-cigarettes,” says Kozlowski. “But the best evidence we have is that they are not as risky as traditional cigarettes. When people are making decisions, that difference in risk is important. There seems to be this perception that all tobacco is equally bad and that doesn’t fit the expert understanding of reality,” adds Kiviniemi. Think of it this way: For people who continue to smoke, there are better alternatives to cigarettes that, while still hazardous, aren’t as lethal. For nonsmokers considering taking up tobacco, there are better options than reaching for a pack of cigarettes. “A mistaken belief can change your behavior in ways that will shorten your life,” says Kozlowski, a nationally recognized expert on tobacco and e-cigarettes. “The public has the right to know about the differential risks of these products.” It’s also important to note, Kozlowski says, that cigarettes and smokeless tobacco are protected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, meaning they can’t be banned. The FDA’s warning labels on smokeless tobacco products don’t help consumers understand that they are in fact safer when compared to cigarettes. “There’s an analogy here. If you think about the difference between crossing the street in the middle of the block at rush hour versus crossing at a crosswalk with the stop signs, you could say these are both not safe because in some sense there’s a chance that you can get hit by a car. But there’s very real differences in the amount of risk," Kiviniemi says. "So saying this is not a safe alternative is essentially saying there is some risk associated with smokeless tobacco use, which is true in a very limited sense," he adds. "I think the more important message is, cigarette smoking is much more risky than smokeless tobacco. Smokeless still has some risk but not as much, and the current warning labels don’t capture that very important nuance.” Kiviniemi and Kozlowski’s paper also found that a “concerning number” of adults think that some cigarettes, such as light and mild varieties, are safer than so-called full flavor. While the FDA banned such descriptors, the color coding on the packages remains. “Taste differences exist between these products and there’s good reason to believe that if you’re smoking something that feels milder, or is easier on your chest, it’s easier to think you’re better off using that one over another,” Kozlowski says. The researchers analyzed data from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) 4 Cycle 2, a population-representative survey of U.S. adults conducted between October 2012 and January 2013. Among the paper’s findings: 35 percent of U.S. adults did not know that various cigarettes are equal in risk. Current smokers were twice as likely as former smokers to believe that some cigarettes are safer than others. 13 percent of U.S. adults believe that some types of cigarettes are less harmful than others. Perceptions varied among smokers, former smokers and people who’ve never smoked. For example, current smokers were more likely than former smokers to perceive some cigarettes as being less risky. 90 percent of U.S. adults aren’t aware that smokeless tobacco products are less hazardous than cigarettes. 51 percent think e-cigarettes are less harmful than regular cigarettes. “It’s easy to say ‘This is safe, this isn’t safe,’ but reality is more nuanced,” says Kiviniemi. “If you really are considering switching from traditional cigarettes to another product, or if you’re a nonsmoker and you’re thinking about starting it because you think they’re safe, then you really owe it to yourself to dig a little deeper and get the more nuanced knowledge.” David J. Hill Director of News Content Public Health, Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Sustainability davidhil@buffalo.edu Meet an Expert Read the latest in your favorite channels. UB Mobile Take UB With You. Wherever. Download UB Mobile App	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1520
__label__wiki	0.592523	0.592523	Phone: Postal Code: * New Hamilton County Listings Select an Agent Across the Tennessee Valley, signs point to one simple truth: Ours is a community rich in history yet characterized by progress. Nestled in the heart of the Ocoee Region in Southeast Tennessee, our area offers unsurpassed natural and physical beauty, charming homes and ranches, a galvanized and focused business community, quality education at all levels, plenty to see and do year-round, and traditional family values and an overall exceptional quality of living. Below you will find valuable information on our warm and friendly communities, and just a few of the reasons why we love to live, work, and play in East Tennessee. Bradley County and the City of Cleveland Living costs in East Tennessee are about 9.2 percent below the national average based on the third quarter 2005 ACCRA report. Based on the prices of 59 different items, the report measures intercity cost differences for consumer goods and services. Taxes and non-consumer expenditures are excluded. In the all-items index, which includes grocery items, housing, utilities, transportation, healthcare, and miscellaneous goods and services, Cleveland's living costs are 90.8 percent. The U.S. average is 100 percent. Housing costs in Cleveland and Bradley County are 17.6 percent below the national average as reflected in the second quarter 2004 ACCRA cost of living survey. Per Capita City Income: 2000-$19,412 Effective Buying Income: 2000-$35,870 Cleveland, Tennessee, enjoys a moderate climate with four distinct seasons. Summers are temperate, allowing residents to enjoy all sorts of outdoor activities without the discomfort of extremely high temperatures. Fall colors rival those of the New Beautiful sugar maples and hardwoods produce a rainbow of colors. Winter brings just enough snow for the kids to have fun, but adults can still get around. Spring blossoms with the beauty of dogwoods and wildflowers in a symphony of aromas. Average Hi-Lo Temps Avg. Frost-free days-228 JAN-47/39 degrees F Average Rainfall-54.6 inches APR-71/44 degrees F Relative Humidity- 72% AUG-87/64 degrees F Average Snowfall- 5" NOV-61/36 degrees F Cleveland : 37,192 Charleston :700 County : 50,073 Cleveland has a wealth of recreational activities, including three municipal community centers, the Boys & Girls Club, the YMCA, three municipal pools, three private club pools, a private racquetball club, city parks with 11 tennis courts, one municipal golf course, a county park with fitness trail, softball and baseball fields, two private golf courses, two bowling alleys, four theatres, a stock car racing track and BMX track, and organized programs in youth and adult softball, baseball, soccer and football. Camping, hiking and fishing are available in nearby state and local parks. Hamilton County and the City of Chattanooga Hamilton County was created by an act of the Thirteenth Tennessee General Assembly meeting at Murfreesboro on October 25, 1819. The county then did not extend south of the Tennessee River. The section south of the river, including the site of Cherokee Chief John Ross's Landing in present-day Chattanooga did not become a part of Hamilton County until the disputed Treaty of 1835 that led to the Indian Removal and the "Trail of Tears." The creation of the new county from the frontier of Southeast Tennessee was brought on by a treaty with the Cherokees in 1817 known as the Hiwassee Purchase. By its terms, the Indians yielded large sections of Alabama and Georgia as well as the Sequatchie Valley and the area that became Hamilton County. The county was named in honor of Alexander Hamilton, who was secretary of the treasury in George Washington's administration. At the time of the 1820 census, Hamilton County reported 821 residents. Today, Hamilton County boasts an estimated 295,000 residents. Rich in history of the American South, blessed with scenic beauty that enhances every aesthetic experience, proud of its heritage and excited about its future, Hamilton County offers a bounty of cultural and recreational activities which enhances its reputation as a thriving business center and a great place to raise a family. Chattanooga, the 4th largest city in the state, is located in Southeast Tennessee near the border of Georgia at the junction of four interstate highways. The city has received national recognition for the renaissance of its beautiful downtown and redevelopment of its riverfront. The city boasts the most productive affordable housing program in the nation, and is notable for leveraging development funds through effective public/private partnerships, with significant civic involvement on the part of private foundations. Chattanooga was one of the first US cities to effectively use a citizen visioning process to set specific long-range goals to enrich the lives of residents and visitors. A Thriving Community The Chattanooga Convention and Trade Center is solidly booked by groups who return to the city year after year for a good time and a great facility that has recently been expanded. Public entities and private citizens worked together to build the 20,000 seat Max Finley Stadium completed in 1998. The city and county have developed an extensive greenway system which includes 5 miles of constructed riverwalk beginning downtown and meandering through the historic art district and several parks. The city supports a downtown shuttle fleet of zero-emission electric buses - manufactured here in Chattanooga - for commuters and visitors wishing to park-and-ride. Things to do. Attractions such as the Tennessee Aquarium, Lookout Mountain, Civil War battlefield sites, the African American Museum, and the Appalachian Trail bring thousands of people to the area, as do events like the Riverbend Festival, Bessie Smith Strut, Fall Color Cruise, the Creative Discovery Museum for children, and the Southern Writers Conference. Chattanooga is the home of NCAA Division I-AA national football championships and hosts the national softball championships every year. People who love the out-of-doors use Chattanooga as a base for hang-gliding, bass fishing, mountain climbing and caving expeditions; the verdant Smoky Mountains and Tennessee River watershed support the greatest variety of flora of any area in the United States . Commerce, Jobs and Economy The local economy includes a diversified mix of manufacturing and service industries, four colleges, and several preparatory schools known throughout the South. "Sustainability" is a key concept for industry and government working together for enlightened development. With its scenic beauty, stable population and economy, civic vitality and cross-sector partnerships, fiscal integrity, and strategic location, Chattanooga enters the 21st century as one of the most progressive and livable mid-size cities in the US. In this decade the city has won 3 national awards for outstanding "livability", and 9 Gunther Blue Ribbon Awards for excellence in housing and consolidated planning. Property Search \| Buying \| Selling \| Agents & Offices \| About Us \| Sitemap \| Admin Login © 2018 Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. All Right Reserved. Coldwell Banker ®, the Coldwell Banker logo, Coldwell Banker Previews International® and the Coldwell Banker Previews International logo are registered service marks owned by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. 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__label__cc	0.645893	0.354107	JISD Students Take to the Water Members of the Honors Chemistry Class of Jefferson High School gathered with chemistry instructor Alma Rivera and staff members of Collins Academy to spend a day in the great outdoors in the woods and on the water at Caddo Lake. These students make up the Jefferson Conservation Leadership Team and started their day performing water quality monitoring at the City of Jefferson’s public boat launch. After documentation of their water quality findings, the journey to Goose Prairie at the Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge was made. Collins Academy Director, Gary Endsley and wildlife biologist Robert Haynes directed the students on a two mile trek through the woods searching for plant, animal and bird species. The students were able to locate many young tree and cricket frogs, which indicate a healthy lake environment; many Northern Parula Warblers, sensitive Scarlet Buckeyes, Black Swallowtail butterflies, and several fern species including the Resurrection Fern. They were also able to see the flooded areas, from recent rains. Upon their return from the nature hike, students were fitted for personal flotation devices as they teamed up in canoes and kayaks to discover the beauty of the lake and Cypress trees. After their boating excursion, students gathered at the newly constructed Starr Ranch Pavilion for sack lunches and grilled hotdogs. After one last paddle around the lake, the students boarded their bus for the trip back to school. The students expressed excitement about their “outdoor classroom” trip, and enjoyment of the hands-on lessons. Tenth grader James Roraback said he really likes Mrs. Rivera’s class, “she always plans unique activities for us along with Collins Academy.” Students attending were Mathew Perez, Sir Charles Johnson, James Roraback, Mason McNeely, Mariah Williams, Robert Sachtleben, Sharday Turner, Caleb Wallace and Valkyrie Neel. For information on Collins Academy science programs, call (903) 665-2900. Filed Under: news Tagged With: caddo lake Making New Memories Many lifetime memories and friendships were forged among the initial 3,000 employees of Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant located in Karnack, Texas, during its years of operation. The plant, some years after it was deactivated by the Army, became the Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge, and was officially dedicated in September, 2009. Today, the Refuge offers a host of outdoor opportunities for the public, including an auto route, frequently used by former employees wanting to take a trip down memory lane. “You can see it on their faces”, said one volunteer of the refuge, folks wanting to drive around and remember. They are eager to talk about the importance of their mission there, producing ammunition for the military, which area they worked in, and about the good times they had there, in particular the memories they made and the affection they all shared for a simple wood frame structure, clad in native stone known as Starr Ranch, where company picnics, parties, family cookouts, camping, hunting and fishing trips occurred. It was their gathering place. Time, nature and neglect took a toll on the structure, which until recently stood, almost in defiance of the elements, a symbol of simpler times. Over the years, many proposals were made to rehabilitate and save the structure, but in the end the costs to do so were prohibitive. But due to the efforts of members of the Friends of Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service and the generosity of individual donors, things are beginning to change. If you travel to the north end of the Refuge acreage by Goose Prairie, you will see a new building springing up that will pay homage to the original Starr Ranch. The building was designed and built by Paul Fortune, and will open to the public in early spring. The new 800 square foot rustic structure utilizes as much of the original materials as possible. Staff members of the Refuge have cleared the area of much of the overgrowth, enlarged the parking area, and repaired the old boat ramp, which will allow for easier access to the new Starr Ranch Pavilion for boaters. While it is not the old Starr Ranch, it is becoming a new one, where once again visitors can begin making new memories. Gary Endsley, President of the Friends of Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge said, “The new day use structure will outfit an additional entryway to the refuge for the public and provide another outdoor venue for groups of all ages.” Plans for the official opening of the pavilion will be announced soon. Filed Under: news Tagged With: caddo lake, friends of caddo, Starr Ranch	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1522
__label__wiki	0.558668	0.558668	09/11/2017 04/08/2019 @cruisetotravel Behind the scenes at Cirque du Soleil at Sea on board MSC Meraviglia MSC Cruises has revealed a look behind the scenes of Cirque du Soleil at Sea. The long-term partnership with Cirque du Soleil will result in a total of eight original shows that will be exclusively available on MSC Cruises’ four Meraviglia generation ships, coming into service between 2017 and 2020. A vison to take MSC Cruises on board entertainment to the next level Mr. Vago, Executive Chairman of MSC Cruises, had the vision to take the entertainment offered on board to the next level. Since MSC Cruises always seeks to work with innovative, world-class leaders, it was only natural that they would look to approach Cirque du Soleil. A first contact was made back in 2013, through Cirque du Soleil’s events and special projects division, 45 DEGREES. That led to a trip to Las Vegas with Mr. Vago, architect De Jorio, and other members from MSC Cruises to experience two of their shows. From there, a dream was born; MSC Cruises began to work with Cirque du Soleil’s 45 DEGREES’ team to create a purpose-built entertainment lounge and the first two Cirque du Soleil shows for MSC Meraviglia. Four years in the making Work began on the partnership in back in 2013 and the plans for the purpose built Carousel Lounge were integrated in the ship design with construction beginning in 2015. In 2016 the creative process began and the concepts for the two shows were finalised. Cirque du Soleil’s 45 DEGREES’ team then recruited the cast and began workshops in Montreal. The performers and creative team moved on board whilst the ship was still at the shipyard in St Nazaire to finalise the shows in May earlier this year and rehearsed in the space, putting the finishing touches to the performances. The first show was then performed for a select audience at the Christening in Le Havre on June 3rd. During a widely attended press conference Mr. Vago and Mr. Onorato, CEO MSC Cruises, presented us with a preview of Sonor and Viaggio and extended an invitation to the gathered press to revisit the ship to view the two Cirque du Soleil at Sea shows. An invitation we will gladly accept! You can read more on the Christening ceremony in “Exploring a wonder: 2 days on board MSC Meraviglia“ Eight unique shows exclusive for each ship The Cirque du Soleil at Sea shows have been specially created for MSC Meraviglia and cannot be seen anywhere else in the world. For each ship there will be two very different, contrasting shows, each with a different concept, ambiance and storyline. Each show features an original soundtrack, staging and costumes. Work is already underway for the next two new shows for MSC Bellissima, which comes into service in 2019. A cast of very special artists All of the artists were carefully selected by Cirque du Soleil to meet the specific needs of the shows. Some of the artists had performed in other Cirque du Soleil shows whereas others were chosen specifically for the Cirque du Soleil at Sea shows. All of the artists were selected for special skills and trained to the high standards required of Cirque du Soleil performers., The Cirque du Soleil team needed to find artists that were multi-disciplinary, with a background in dancing and character work for most as the artists all would have to have a very strong presence on stage due to the intimate nature of the theatre. The challenges of a show at sea For the shows on the ship the artists needed to get used to performing at sea and we have worked on ensuring that the shows can be adapted to the sea conditions all the while ensuring that the audience experiences the same quality of show each night.. The shows are tightly choreographed but always have different scenarios so that if conditions are rough or an artist is injured, the performance can be adapted. Finding their “sea legs” has been easier on some then others! Performances designed for the Carousel Lounge The Carousel Lounge is one of the most intimate venues that Cirque du Soleil has created a show for, challenging the Creative team to expand the boundaries of their imagination with this performance space. The ceiling height is a much lower than for a usual show, so one of the challenges was to look at different kinds of aerial acts and to incorporate new and fascinating visuals. The Carousel Lounge abounds technical elements: a 40 metre LED screen, a rotating stage, lifts, retractable staircase, to name a few, all elements that gave fuel to the creative team in dreaming the concepts of both shows. Some acts you can find in the shows: aerial hoop, silk, straps, roue Cyr juggling, cheerleading, dancing, acrobatic duets, ladder and a beat-boxer. Previous Royal Caribbean International’s 2019-2020 deployment Next Venice to ban large ships from sailing close to the city	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1526
__label__cc	0.601307	0.398693	Flow – Go With It Lame Stream Media It started as a relatively modest groundswell as average citizen awoke to the path politicians were forcing us down. The groundswell was followed by a trickle as more folks got engaged and even the main stream media started to actually report rather than cheer on the Obama White House. The groundswell and trickle has lead to a flow! The first example is the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart. Jon is a liberal stalwart who generally leans severely left while occasionally getting it “right.” While the rest of the lame stream media ignored the Climategate scandal, Stewart made this broadcast. This must have been a shock to Stewarts audience. Ordinarily I would embed the video here, but it is no longer available on YouTube. This link will take you to the clip. Separated At Birth – Zoidberg/Axelrod Dr. John A. Zoidberg: If you have ever watched the animated television series, Futurama, you are familiar with Dr. John A. Zoidberg. Dr. Zoidberg seems to be a hapless character who is not well liked and is not particularly competent at his job as the medical officer for his company, Planet Express. His beliefs are backwards as he thinks food is digested in the heart and cannot tell the difference between robots and humans. He seems to be unaware of common human customs and socially inept to the point that most cannot stand to be in his presence and detest him. Update – Life Meanders When I posted Life Meanders, I had just found out that I was being furloughed (layoff without the possibility of parole or being called back). It was a crappy time in my life. I actually had a lead on a job within a few days and interviewed four days after my last day. It took another two months to actually start the job. Being out of work once you know that you eventually have a job takes the pressure off…somewhat. The latest novel in Susan Wittig Albert’s China Bayles mystery novel leaves behind her usual cast when China travels to Kentucky to visit a Shaker Village. In Wormwood, Albert alternates between two stories, both involving intrigue, love, theft, and murder. In the main story, China Bayles travels with a friend to investigate shady dealings at a historic Shaker Village. It isn’t too long before China finds a body. This is a good, light mystery as you would expect from an Albert book. What I thought was a nice component of the novel was the parallel story that takes place in the same Shaker Village, but a hundred years earlier. I had heard of Shaker furniture, but did not know anything about the people. A deeply religious and chaste people, their story also involved intrigue, love, theft and murder. Americans With Deep Pockets Act “A Florida nonprofit that has sued more than 700 businesses claiming they violate disability access laws targeted at least two Pittsburgh hotels in its latest round of court action.” That is the first paragraph in a story carried in our local paper about a group that targeted two Holiday Inn Hotels for violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act. When you look at the surface of the story it sounds like a worthy organization (it is a nonprofit) is suing a big corporation (it is for profit) on behalf of disabled people. A few things jump out from the article: News Briefs – Volume III Brief 1: The Associated Press reported that a man stripped off his clothes and began to jog near the White House. He was quickly apprehended and taken to a hospital for mental health observation. The nude jogger posed no threat to the President, who was home at the time. It was unclear, however, whether CNBC’s Chris Matthews would be available for his Hardball telecast or would be committed to a mental health facility for further observation. An angry Keith Olberman was overheard saying, “That damn Matthews. I wish that I had thought of that. That would make Obama love me more.” Create-A-Right There is a local story about the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (“UPMC”) who own most of the hospitals in the surrounding area. They do not own all of the facilities, but they are getting there. Even though they are a non profit organization, You can always tell a true "grassroots" protest by the large crowds holding hand lettered signs. they are still a business and have to make some unpopular decisions. A few months ago UPMC announced that it was closing one of its hospitals that did not have enough patients to make it viable. Ever Wonder Why? Starting a book like this is a daunting task. Thomas Sowell is one of my favorite writers and I marvel at the ease in which he dissects complex subjects in a very practical and entertaining way. Ever Wonder Why is a collection of past articles and “other controversial essays” covering race relations, taxes, black history month, public education, the media, and much more. Because of the format, none of the articles is more than three pages and sometimes the subject left me wanting more from Sowell. New Symbol For Party As I was watching and listening to the debate over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s comments about President Obama it reminded me of a nature show that I recently saw. Democrats are falling all over themselves to come to the aid of a beleaguered Reid. Both white and black Democrats are hitting the talk shows and circling to defend Reid. This behavior mimics the tactics used by the musk oxen to defend their young. Fee-tation Without Representation Politicians like to create villains before raising taxes or using today’s nomenclature raising fees. Politicians do not raise taxes, they charge fees. Groups like the evil health insurance companies, big pharma, Wall Street, big oil, and big defense have all been in the sights of liberals/politicians/progressives.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1530
__label__wiki	0.648054	0.648054	Portuguese Institute of International Affairs (IPRI) Edalina Rodrigues Sanches, Ana Monica Fonseca Edalina Rodrigues Sanches, ICS-UL and IPRI-UNL National economic issues overshadowed European topics In Portugal the 2014 European Parliament elections were held in the upshot of the three-year Economic Adjustment Programme (EAP), which had been subscribed by the Socialist Party (PS), the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Democratic and Social Centre-Popular Party (CDS-PP) in May 2011. Due to this timing, much of what was debated during the campaign had to do with the effects that this programme has had on the economy and with whether the country would be able to negotiate an ‘Irish style clean exit’. The governing right-wing coalition, the PSD and the CDS-PP, faced a huge test at this election, since they had committed not only to fulfil this programme but to go beyond it. At the close of 2013, the minimum wage was 485€ (frozen since 2011), unemployment had increased to 16.3 percent, emigration escalated to over 100.000 and the economy contracted by 1.4 percent (PORDATA: http://www.pordata.pt/). In the first quarter of 2014, a slight decline in unemployment rates and in Portugal’s 10 year bond spread, followed by the last review of the EAP, created momentum for the PSD and the CDS-PP to emphasise the successful implementation of the programme and to blame the PS (and former Prime Minister José Sócrates) for the country’s need of a bailout. The PS, in turn, saw no reasons to celebrate and mainly highlighted the negative repercussions of the austerity measures carried out over the last three years as well as the country’s poor economic performance. Despite the fact that the conclusion of the EAP overshadowed all other political issues during the campaign, there was still some room for EU issues, at least in the parties’ manifestos. Aliança Portugal (the PSD and the CDS-PP coalition) strongly supported the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance (TSCG) and the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). These were perceived as crucial mechanisms to prevent future scenarios of crisis. Under the lemma of ‘change’ the PS manifesto endorsed these policies but it also expressed a will for changes to happen both at the EU and national level, particularly in what regarded the implementation of policies encouraging economic growth. On the far-left, the Left Block (BE), the Communists and Greens coalition (CDU), and the LIVRE-Freedom, Left, Europe and Ecology (L) held more critical stances towards the TSCG and the SSM, which they considered ineffective at addressing the causes and the consequences of the crisis. With a more populist approach the conservative MPT rather criticised the EU democratic deficit and the lack of transparency in the decision-making processes. Euroscepticism primarily promoted by small parties of the far-left Euroscepticism was relevant in the campaign, particularly for smaller political parties of the far-left. As in the past, the BE held critical stances towards the EU. Even though it supported the single currency, it maintained that Portugal’s public debt should be restructured under a different framework and strongly opposed both the Economic Adjustment Programme and the TSCG. The Communist Party, the only one opposing the Portuguese EU-accession in 1986, also remained loyal to its eurosceptic views. Several times it has shown preference for withdrawing from the Euro or some of the other EU building-block policies, and this election was no exception. More radical parties of the far-left, notably the PCTP-MRPP (Portuguese Workers’ Communist Party) and the MAS (Alternative Socialist Movement), also held similar positions. Beyond strong antagonism towards foreign intervention in the country, these parties suggested the realisation of a referendum to decide whether the country should continue using the single currency or not (see parties’ websites: http://www.mas.org.pt/ and http://www.pctpmrpp.org/). The newcomer L presented itself as a pro-European party, yet it also defended a new framework where the European Parliament is granted more powers and where there is an improvement of the mechanisms of transparency and fiscal activity surveillance. The mainstream parties, from the right (PSD and CDS-PP) and the left (PS) side of the political spectrum displayed more positive stances towards the EU. Record abstention and fragmented Portuguese party spectrum in the EP Abstention levels reached a record of 66 percent; with several factors contributing to this figure (CNE: http://www.cne.pt/). First, the EP elections have always attracted lower levels of interest and abstention has been above 60 percent since 1994. Second, the absence of TV debates between the candidates and the focus on national issues did not contribute to enlighten the voters about what really divides the parties in the run-up to the elections. Lastly, this year abstention in the emigration circles was 98 percent. While this figure is only one percentage point higher than the one from 2009, it is worth noting that the number of nationals leaving the country strikingly increased between 2011 and 2013 and this might have also increased the ‘technical abstention’. At the party level these elections delivered the most fragmented result ever. The PS came first polling 32 percent, closely followed by Aliança Portugal which got 28 percent. CDU improved its results to 13 percent and so did the MPT, which recorded the best electoral result ever with 7 percent of the vote cast. The BE was one of the main losers of these elections; its 5 percent represented a drop of six percentage points from 2009. At the end Portugal’s 21 members of the EP were distributed as follows: PS elected 8 parliamentarians, Aliança Portugal 7, CDU 3, MPT 2 and BE 1 (CNE: http://www.cne.pt/). To a certain extent these results revealed that the citizens decided to punish the parties that had signed the Memorandum of Understanding and the Loan Agreement. In fact together the PSD, the CDS-PP and the PS received the lowest share of votes since 1987. This has benefitted the CDU, but most of all the MPT. Based on a more populist approach, this party essentially emphasised the need to re-establish the core political values of Europe, namely democracy, justice and solidarity. In the new left, the L might have captured some of BE voters, which has been losing ground since 2011. The post-electoral scenario is now wide open. The incumbent parties lost but to a narrow margin and might after all have a chance in the upcoming legislative election in 2015. Having been unable to obtain a landslide victory, the PS is now facing an internal leadership battle from where the next Prime Minister candidate will emerge. On the far-left, BE’s decline and L’s encouraging result is likely to push further talks for convergence. Alexandra Machado, Passos Coelho "dá" 17 de Maio aos portugueses, Jornal de Negócios, 4 May 2014. Jornal Sol, Sócrates rejeita culpa na entrada da troika, 5 May 2014. Jornal Sol, Assis: Não vejo razão nenhuma para comemorar fim do programa da troika, 25 May 2014. Partido Socialista, Fim do plano de resgate - António José Seguro (Video), 4 May 2014. Jorge Fernandes and José Santana Pereira, Os Programas Eleitorais Das Europeias De 2014: Uma Análise Preliminar Das Principais Dimensões De Competição, RELAÇÕES INTERNACIONAIS MARÇO 2014, Vol. 41, pp. 81-95. Edalina Sanches and José Santana Pereira, Which Europe do the Portuguese Parties Want? Identity, Representation and Scope of Governance in the Portuguese Euromanifestos (1987-2004), in: Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 2010, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 183-200. José Santana Pereira and Edalina Sanches, “Portugal”, in: Nicòlo Conti (Ed.), Parties for Europe, Parties against Europe. Party Attitudes Towards the EU in the Member States, 2013, Routledge, New York, pp. 115-132. Marina Costa Lobo and Pedro C. Magalhães Room for Manoeuvre: Euroscepticism in the Portuguese Parties and Electorate 1976–2005, South European Society and Politics, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 81-104. Ana Monica Fonseca, CEI-IUL and IPRI-UNL Low interest in the European neighbourhood In a general manner, the Eastern European border is seen in Portugal as something too far away to concern its interests. That is reflected not only on the absence of any public statement from the Portuguese government regarding Russia (Portugal’s foreign policy follows, in these matters, the line of action from the EU general resolutions or official positions) but also on the lack of a broad public discussion in the Portuguese media concerning the topic. Even the news regarding the energy supply issues receive little attention from the public, as one can observe from the comments on the online editions of the major Portuguese newspapers (Publico, Diário de Noticias, Jornal I). However, the exception is among the intellectual/academic elite, which follows attentively the matter and discusses it in conferences and Seminars, both at the University level and at the think-tank level. There is not much discussion regarding the options taken by the Kremlin’s leadership by the general public. The most recent poll conducted by the German Marshall Fund of the US (GMFUS), the Transatlantic Trends 2013, reveals that a majority in Portugal sees Russia’s leadership in world affairs as undesirable (54 percent), whereas 51 percent of the respondents have an unfavourable opinion regarding Russia. This is the highest value of the last three years. In 2010, only 44 percent of the respondents had an unfavourable opinion of Russia, which decreased in 2011 (30 percent). Detachment from Eastern Partnership countries Likewise, the same detachment is felt in what concerns the Eastern Partnership countries. There is not much attention being given to the Eastern Partnership countries, in as much it is understood that it does not directly affect Portugal. In a general manner, the Eastern enlargement was seen as politically necessary, as it was a very important factor for the consolidation of the post-communist democracies - as it had been the case with Portugal in the 1980s. However, there is a negative view regarding the possibility of future enlargements, as there is now a general idea that more member-states will bring a bigger dispersion of the EU funds and greater competition to Portugal. This matter has been more intensively discussed by the academic/intellectual elite, namely through the organisation of seminars and conferences. There has been also great attention by the Portuguese media and some opinion makers, who look at the topic from the European point of view, more than at the national perspective. In terms of strategic and security issues, there is obviously some concern about the stability of the continent and an eventual increase of North-American forces in Europe is always used to discuss the relevance of a US base in Azores. However, the most recent events in Ukraine have also contributed to the strengthening of the cooperation with the United States in the field of energy, as Bruno Maçães, the Secretary of State for European Affairs has argued in an opinion article. Maçães argued that it was necessary to diminish Europe’s dependency of the Russian gas in order to increase its competitiveness internationally. Nevertheless, in terms of the official position of the Portuguese government, there is a tendency to follow the EU’s official position. Indifference towards Turkey’s EU accession This is a topic very rarely discussed in Portugal. In general, the Portuguese are not very supportive of further EU enlargement, but there is not any direct discussion regarding the specific case of Turkey. Not even at the level of the academic elite is this topic discussed. However, through the Transatlantic Trends 2013 data, one can formulate a general view from the opinion in Portugal regarding an eventual membership of Turkey in the European Union. The majority of the Portuguese respondents (57 percent) see Turkey’s membership perspective as “something neither good nor bad”, whereas 21 percent consider it as negative and only 13 percent see it as a positive thing. The evolution in the last decade has shown that these answers are more or less constant. The highest rate of positive answers to an eventual Turkish membership in the EU was reached in 2009 and 2010 (23 percent), whereas in the last two years that this question was asked (2011 and 2013) the assessment of Turkey’s accession to EU only reached its peak at 21 percent. German Marshall Fund of the United States, Transatlantic Trends Topline Data 2013. Bruno Maçães, Acordo com os EUA abre a porta a um novo mundo do comércio, Publico, 9 March 2014. Divided views on Germany’s role in the EU There is a gap between the political elite’s point of view regarding Germany’s role in Europe and that of the general public. Regarding the political elite, the government parties, a coalition of centre-right political parties, PSD and CDS-PP, see Germany as the example to follow and in Berlin the political leadership of the European Union. On the other hand, the major opposition party, the PS, as well as the other left-wing formations (PCP and BE) present some alternatives to the German leadership - which they acknowledge but see in a negative manner. The BE (Bloco de Esquerda, Left Bloc), for example, argues that there should be greater action from the other countries affected by the crisis in Europe — and here the appeal towards the unity of the other Southern European countries is sound. In what concerns the general public opinion there is a much more critical vision to Chancellor Merkel’s government. In fact, nowadays Germany is associated with the austerity policies imposed on the Portuguese by the Troika and the Portuguese government is associated with following Berlin’s instructions too closely. Again, through the inquiries made by the Transatlantic Trends, we can assess the Portuguese opinion regarding the Chancellor in the last two years (2012 and 2013), when the question was presented. In 2012, the average approval rate of the Chancellor was around 35 percent, while its disapproval was about 61 percent. In the last year, 2013, the values have changed to an increase in the disapproval of the German head of government to 65 percent. Breaking down these results in a more detailed manner, 40 percent of the respondents “strongly disapprove” Chancellor Merkel’s handling of the economic crisis, whereas 25 percent only “somewhat disapprove” it. In the last year these values were much more balanced, with 29 percent answering “somewhat disapprove” and 32 percent “strongly disapprove”. Whereas Germany’s growing role in Europe may be sometimes seen by the average Portuguese as an effort to dominate the continent from the economic point of view, the importance of Germany for the stability and international relevance of the EU is also acknowledged. Nowadays, because of the crisis, we observe an intense migration of young people towards Europe: as in the 1960s, tens of thousands of young Portuguese are moving north, including Germany, to find better living opportunities and the jobs missing at home. Left-right divergence regarding solutions for economic crisis In Portugal there is a clear left-right divergence regarding the solutions for the economic crisis, in particular concerning the debate on austerity vs. growth. Generally speaking, the centre-right political parties, PSD and CDS-PP, which form the governing coalition, tend to insist on the benefits of the austerity policies followed since the international intervention - the Troika is in Portugal since 2011. The austerity policies are also very closely associated with the policies followed in Germany and supported by Angela Merkel’s government. On the other side of the political spectrum, there is a greater tendency to favour the increase in state expense and thus supporting and favouring the economic growth. However, the Portuguese Socialist Party, as it was also one of the signatories of the Adjustment Program, adopts a more ambiguous position, as it is compromised with the Program, but also wishes to distance itself from the Government policies. In the general public’s point of view, there is a preferred option towards a European solution for the economic crisis, as the most recent Eurobarometer data shows. Portugal is in fact one of the greater supporters of closer cooperation of the European countries to overcome the financial and economic crisis (91 percent), being one of the greatest defenders of a more important role of the EU in regulating the financial services (82 percent) and for a greater coordination of the economic and financial policies among the countries of the Euro area (79 percent). Additionally, another poll reflects the priorities of the Portuguese regarding the State’s expenditure. Through the Transatlantic Trends (GMFUS, 2013), one can understand in which areas the respondents consider that the Portuguese government should spend more money, and in which there should be less investment. A clear majority of the respondents consider that the government should decrease State spending in general (70 percent in 2013, while in 2010 it was 80 percent), but there are some particular areas in which the respondents think that the Portuguese government should in fact increase spending or, at least, maintain its current levels of spending: in the welfare state programs (31 percent say that there should be an increase of spending; 38 percent say it should be maintained) and in Science, Technology and Education (55 percent in favour of increasing the spending, 34 percent in favour of maintaining it). On the other hand, the majority of the respondents are in favour of a clear decrease in the spending on Defence (46 percent), whereas 41 percent say that it should be kept at the same level. No one should leave the Union The United Kingdom is one of Portugal’s oldest allies and Lisbon has always closely followed London in its foreign policy - including the first years of Portuguese membership in the Union. As the UK takes a stronger stance in regard to its membership — felt more acutely in the summer of 2014 because of Cameron’s reaction to Jean-Claude Juncker’s nomination for the EU-Commission Presidency — the possibility of a UK exit seems to be closer. However, in Portugal the general position, both of the political elite and the general public, maintains that no one should leave the Union, as there is not any real alternative in terms of international integration. The UK is seen as a fundamental member state of the European Union as it assures the “Atlantic,” a topic very dear to the Portuguese leadership. European Commission, Standard Eurobarometer 80, Autumn 2013. \| Tags: EU-28 Watch No. 10, Portugal	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1534
__label__wiki	0.60783	0.60783	CLUB STATEMENT: 2020 Season. Home / News / CLUB STATEMENT: 2020 Season. May1111th May 2020 By Ben WeeksIn The Cheetahs can announce today that, subject to any further information from the government and BAFA, we will be postponing all planning for the 2020 season. The Executive Committee have taken this decision in light of recent government announcements, with the view that we think it extremely unlikely that there will be any meaningful football activities permitted this year. Alongside the costs incurred since training started in October, the club will still have some ongoing costs in order to maintain readiness for future seasons. We have taken steps to reduce these considerably. To this end, postponing season preparations now means we anticipate that all club members will be offered a 70% refund on the season. Members who have already paid subs exceeding this amount will have three options: Claim a refund by contacting their team representative. Defer the payment, putting it towards next season. Donate the existing payment to the club, in order to help maintain solvency. The Executive Committee will continue to run the club in the meantime with the support of the wider committee, preparing for the 2021 season and a safe return to football. Of course, if it does become apparent that the season will be able to progress, we will make every effort to ensure the club is ready to compete at the highest possible level. The Executive Committee would also like it to be known that an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) can be held with the support of 20 club members, if this is a route that members would like to take. If you have any further questions, please do ask your team representative. Thank you for your support so far, and we appreciate your patience with the club and committee as we work through what we realise is a disappointing outcome for everyone. Andy, Amy, Yas, Hollie, Max and Ben. Academy player wins “Opportunity for Excellence”CLUB UPDATE ON ONGOING SITUATION	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1539
__label__wiki	0.942282	0.942282	Facebook faces revenge porn trial over teenager’s image September 30, 2016 Isha Facebook has lost its bid to stop a lawsuit by a 14-year old girl whose naked photo appeared on the platform. The girl, who cannot be named because of her age, is suing Facebook (FB, Tech30) and the man who repeatedly posted her photo on the social network. A judge in Belfast, Northern Ireland, rejected Facebook’s request to dismiss the case on Monday, meaning it will now go to a full trial. [fbnative_at] The company argued in court that it took the picture down on more than one occasion as soon as it was notified. The girl’s lawyers said Facebook should have prevented republication of the photo by using a process to identify and track the image. Back in 2011, Facebook said that it uses Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) technology called PhotoDNA to detect child exploitation material. The tool can prevent photos from ever being uploaded on the site. The company is still using the tool. Responding to the judge’s ruling, the company said it does not allow nudity and sexual exploitation on its network. “There’s no place for this kind of content on Facebook and we remove it when it’s reported to us,” a spokesperson said. Facebook did not comment on why this image — once flagged — wasn’t caught by the PhotoDNA system. The girl’s lawyers said the photo was posted on Facebook as an act of revenge. They compared posting the photo to a method of child abuse. They also said the posts amounted to hate speech. The girl is seeking damages for misuse of private information, negligence and breach of the Data Protection Act. Paul Tweed, a media law expert and senior partner at Johnsons Solicitors, said the case suggested a lack of consistency in how Facebook deals with nude images. “Facebook has the tools to remove images promptly and block them, but it is not consistent…compare it with the case when Facebook took down a 1972 war photo last week and then self-policed to bring it back,” he said. Facebook ran into trouble last week for censoring the “Napalm Girl” Vietnam War photo. The image, which shows a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack, violated Facebook’s ban on images of naked children, the company said. But after fierce criticism, Facebook reversed course and allow users to post the photo. Breach Child Abuse Court Facebook Girl Lawyer Mark Zuckerberg Microsoft Nudity PhotoDNA Revenge Sexual Teenager Videos Why Coding Is Your Child’s Key to Unlocking the Future #DearZindagiTake1: The teaser of Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt starrer will make you smile	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1541
__label__cc	0.51821	0.48179	This Day in My History 2001: Having a Whale of a Time 2002: Be It Ever So Humble 2003: Going Nowhere Fast 2004: Rescue My Bathroom SHEILA's BLOG We always look so fierce when we play--but really we love each other. Charlie was on the Today Show the other day. Seeing him on the screen, I was instantly hit with tons of memories. Walt also burst into my office shouting "HEY!" and pointing to the screen. We hadn't seen him in a very long time. "Charlie" is Charles MacCormack, the current head of Save the Children, who was talking about the work that his organization is doing for the children affected by the disaster in Indonesia. When I knew Charlie, however, he was the president of The Experiment in International Living. I have never joined an organization where I was able to sit back and just be a "member." I've always ended up helping to run things, and The Experiment in International Living was a perfect example. Really, all I wanted to do was the experience of getting to know a foreign student. Eduardo came in 1980--came to spend 3 weeks and stayed 5 months. The experience of dealing with his group was so much fun that when the woman who had coordinated the group told me that she was retiring from being the coordinator, there were only two choices--either I took over for her, or the program would die in Davis. Naturally, I said I'd do it. And naturally, I was woefully unprepared. But over the next year or so, I placed a lot of foreign students in a lot of homes. I guess I worked hard because I was invited to join the "President's Council," which consisted of some 30 people from around the country, representatives for their area (my area was California and Nevada--and maybe Hawaii. I'm not sure about Hawaii--Hawaii was in my area when I was working with La Leche League!) The Council met twice a year, in various locations. The first meeting was in my own back yard--in San Francisco, where I first met my friend Roz, who remains my friend today, 20 years after we first met. The next meeting was in the fall and they decided to bring us to the Experiment Headquarters in Brattleboro, Vermont. It was my first opportunity to see fall color in New England and it was amazing. I think our next meeting was in St. Louis and then we went back to Vermont again. There may have been another meeting in there. I can't remember. They paid all our expenses and flew us around the country. Such a deal. The council was headed by other people, but Charlie would make an appearance to thank us for all our hard work and we all got the chance to know him. He was a lovely man and the thing I remember most about him was that his family went through a terrible tragedy, which I won't recount here, but it may have resulted (this is only a guess on my part) in his moving from The Experiment to Save the Children. The Experiment in International Living was an ultimately painful experience for me, at least the hierarchy of the volunteer wing. On the one hand it was the start of our getting to know some 70 people from other countries, some of whom came thru The Experiment, some of whom were friends of friends. Working on the President's Council was a lot of fun and got me a very nice friendship in Roz and Stan. But it also was brought me one of the worst days of my life to that date. At the last council meeting I attended in Vermont, I was "invited" to meet with the heads of the council. "Sounds like I'm being called to the principal's office," I joked to the volunteer president. "Oh nothing like that," she laughed. "We just wanted to talk with you." In the preceding months, several very unpleasant things had happened as a result of poor preparation of the students on the part of the sending countries and I had expressed my frustration with those things, so I assumed that they wanted to talk to me about that. I can still picture it to this day. They sat me in a chair in a dark room facing a table where about four people sat. And they proceeded to tell me how unfit I was to be a host parent. It seems that ONE of the students we had hosted had complained about the condition of our house. I was told that unless I could "clean up my act," I could never host another student. Only it wasn't that cut and dried. These people who had never set foot in my house were passing judgment on me, and refusing to look at the file full of praise for the homestay experience that all the preceding students had had with us. I left with my tail between my legs. I contined to work for The Experiment for another six months or so. The final blow came when papers came through for Olaf. Olaf was from Germany and his letter of introduction read like he'd been living in our house forever. He was into theatre and all the things we liked. So I decided to be honest with Olaf. I wrote to him and told him everything, but said that we really would like to host him if he thought it sounded like an OK deal with him. Olaf was thrilled. He said that we sounded perfect for him and that the important thing for him was interaction with people, not condition of the house. So I decided to host him and sent my letter and his letter to the head of the volunteers. I received a call and was told that because I had contacted him ahead of time, I was not permitted to host him. I quit on the spot. But I had the last laugh. Olaf was placed with a family in Texas that he hated. We corresponded during his homestay and I invited him to come and visit us during Easter. He did, on his own, we blended the way we knew that we would, and he has remained a part of our family ever since--and he never communicated with his host family after his homestay was finished. He came to spend some time with us at the end of his homestay before he returned to his own home. When Paul was traveling around Europe, he went and spent time with Olaf's family. Olaf also came to visit us again to introduce us to the woman who would become his wife. He hadn't communicated with his host family in years, he told me. None of this had anything to do with Charlie, of course. Charlie ran the entire School for International Training, of which The Experiment in International Living was only a small part. Charlie was a very nice man and I'm thrilled to see him heading up Save the Children. It gives me confidence that Save the Children is a good, honest organization. bitter? who me?? 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__label__wiki	0.9759	0.9759	Irrfan Khan dies after long battle with cancer Reuters Wed, 29 Apr 2020 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 Indian actor Irrfan Khan arrives for the screening of the film "Dabba (The Lunchbox)" at the 38th Toronto International Film Festival September 8, 2013. REUTERS/Mark Blinch Mumbai: Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan, who brought a modern sensibility to recent hit movies and featured in several Hollywood films such as “Life of Pi” and “The Namesake”, died on Wednesday. Khan’s death, after a prolonged battle with cancer, was confirmed by a spokesman for the actor in a brief statement. Khan was among the first Indian actors to make a consistent mark in western cinema, following earlier crossover pioneers like Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth and Om Puri.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1543
__label__cc	0.644314	0.355686	New Filings USA EQUITIES CORP. - FORM 10-Q - May 21, 2012 EXCEL - IDEA: XBRL DOCUMENT - USA EQUITIES CORP. Financial_Report.xls EX-32 - EXHIBIT 32 - USA EQUITIES CORP. exh32.htm ý QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2012 For the transition period from to Commission file number 0-19041 AMERICAN BIOGENETIC SCIENCES, INC. (State of Incorporation) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 40 Wall Street, 28th Floor 10005 Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (212) 400-7198 On March 31, 2012, the Registrant had 1,088,740 shares of common stock outstanding. Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes x No ¨ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Large accelerated filer ¨ Accelerated filer ¨ Non-Accelerated filer ¨ Smaller reporting company x PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS AND PLAN OF OPERATIONS. ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK. 9 PART II - OTHER INFORMATION ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS. 9 DEFAULT UPON SENIOR SECURITIES. MINE SAFTY DISCLOSURE. ITEM 6. EXHIBITS. 9 ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Back to Table of Contents Balance Sheets - March 31, 2012 (Unaudited) and December 31, 2011 3 Statements of Operations - Three Months Ended March 31, 2012 and 2011 (Unaudited) 4 Statements of Cash Flows - Three Months Ended March 31, 2012 and 2011 (Unaudited) 5 Notes to Financial Statements 6 Balance Sheets Back to Table of Contents Total Assets $ 0 $ 0 LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT Accounts payable - trade $ 10,068 $ 7,568 Accrued interest expenses 22,800 20,520 Convertible note, related party 76,000 76,000 Advances from and accruals due to related party 143,113 129,113 Total liabilities 251,981 233,201 Stockholders' Deficit: Preferred stock, 10,000,000 shares authorized, $0.0001 par value; none issued and outstanding - - Common stock, 900,000,000 shares authorized, $0.0001 par value; 1,088,740 shares issued and outstanding 109 109 Additional paid-in capital 46,191 46,191 Total Stockholders' deficit (251,981) (233,201) Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Deficit $ 0 $ 0 See notes to unaudited interim financial statements. Statements of Operations Three Months Three Months Ended Ended (Unaudited) (Unaudited) Revenue $ 0 $ 0 General and administrative 16,500 23,102 Interest expense 2,280 2,280 Total costs and expenses 18,780 25,382 Net loss $ (18,780) $ (25,382) Basic and diluted per shares amounts: Basic and diluted net loss $ (0.02) $ (0.02) Weighted average shares outstanding: Basic and diluted 1,088,740 1,088,740 Statements of Cash Flows Net loss $ (18,780) (25,382) Adjustment required to reconcile net loss to cash used in operating activities: Fair value of expenses provided from related parties 14,000 19,000 Increase in accounts payable and accrued expenses 4,780 6,382 Cash flows used in operating activities $ 0 0 Cash used in investing activities 0 0 Proceeds from the issuance of common stock 0 0 Advances from related parties 0 0 Cash provided by financing activities 0 0 Change in cash 0 0 Cash - beginning of period 0 0 Cash - end of period $ 0 $ 0 Notes to Unaudited Interim Financial Statements Note 1. The Company American Biogenetic Sciences, Inc. (the "Company", “We” or "ABS") was incorporated in Delaware on September 1, 1983. Prior to ceasing its operations in 2002, the Company was engaged in the research, development and production of bio-pharmaceutical products. On September 19, 2002, the Registrant filed for bankruptcy under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of New York. On November 4, 2005, the Company emerged from Bankruptcy Court. Note 2. Going Concern The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern. The Company has incurred losses, has negative operational cash flows and has no revenues. The future of the Company is dependent upon Management success in its efforts and limited resources to pursue and effect a business combination. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. These financial statements do not include any adjustments that might arise from this uncertainty. Note 3. Basis of Presentation The Financial Statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited financial statements include all adjustments, consisting of only normal recurring accruals, necessary for a fair statement of financial position, results of operations, and cash flows. The information included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the accompanying notes included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011. The accounting policies are described in the “Notes to the Financial Statements” in the 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K and updated, as necessary, in this Form 10-Q. The year-end balance sheet data presented for comparative purposes was derived from audited financial statements, but does not include all disclosures required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2012 are not necessarily indicative of the operating results for the full year or for any other subsequent interim period. Use of Estimates: The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statement and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from the estimates. Cash and Cash Equivalents: For financial statement presentation purposes, the Company considers those short-term, highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less to be cash or cash equivalents. Fair Value of Financial Instruments: ASC # 825, "Disclosures about Fair Value of Financial Instruments," requires disclosure of fair value information about financial instruments. Fair value estimates discussed herein are based upon certain market assumptions and pertinent information available to management as of March 31, 2012. These financial instruments include accounts payable and accrued expenses. Fair values were assumed to approximate carrying values for these financial instruments since they are short-term in nature and their carrying amounts approximate fair values. Earnings per Common Share: Basic net loss per share is computed using the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted net loss per common share is computed using the weighted average number of common and dilutive equivalent shares outstanding during the period. Dilutive common equivalent shares consist of options to purchase common stock (only if those options are exercisable and at prices below the average share price for the period) and shares issuable upon the conversion of issued and outstanding preferred stock. Due to the net losses reported, dilutive common equivalent shares were excluded from the computation of diluted loss per share, as inclusion would be anti-dilutive for the periods presented. There were no common equivalent shares required to be added to the basic weighted average shares outstanding to arrive at diluted weighted average shares outstanding as of March 31, 2012 or 2011. Income Taxes: The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with ASC # 740, "Accounting for Income Taxes," which requires recognition of estimated income taxes payable or refundable on income tax returns for the current year and for the estimated future tax effect attributable to temporary differences and carry-forwards. Measurement of deferred income tax is based on enacted tax laws including tax rates, with the measurement of deferred income tax assets being reduced by available tax benefits not expected to be realized. FIN 48 requires that the Company recognize in its financial statements the impact of a tax position, if that position is more likely than not of being sustained on audit, based on the technical merits of the position. Management of the Company is not aware of any additional needed liability for unrecognized tax benefits at March 31, 2012 and 2011. Impact of recently issued accounting standards There were no new accounting pronouncements that had a significant impact on the Company’s operating results or financial position. Note 4. Convertible Notes to Related Party In October 2009, we issued a convertible promissory note in the amount of $76,000. The note bears interests of 12% per annum until paid or converted. Interest is payable upon the maturity date. The conversion rate is $0.001 per share. The note was issued in consideration of cash advances made and for services provided to the Company by our President. In accordance Accounting Standard Codification ( “ASC # 815”), Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, we evaluated the holder’s non-detachable conversion right provision and liquidated damages clause, contained in the terms governing the note to determine whether the features qualify as an embedded derivative instruments at issuance. Such non-detachable conversion right provision and liquidated damages clause did not need to be accounted as derivative financial instruments. Note 5. Related Party Transactions Fair value of services: Our President provides services to the Company, which services are accrued and are valued at $2,000 per month. The total of these accrued expenses for the period ended March 31, 2012 was $6,000 and is reflected in the statement of operations as general and administrative expenses. An entity controlled by the Company’s President provided office space to the Company valued at $1,000 per month. The total of $3,000 during the three months ended March 31, 2012 was recorded as accrued expenses and is reflected in the statement of operations as general and administrative expenses. An entity controlled by the Company’s President provided corporate securities compliance services to the Company valued at $5,000 during the period ended March 31, 2012, which was recorded as accrued expenses and is reflected in the statement of operations as general and administrative expenses. Due Related Parties: Amounts due to related parties consist of fair value of services provided by our President, accrued office space expenses, corporate regulatory compliance expenses and cash advances received from our President and control shareholder. Such items due totaled $143,113 at March 31, 2012 and $129,113 at December 31, 2011. Note 6. Commitments and Contingencies There are no pending or threatened legal proceedings as of March 31, 2012. The Company has no non-cancellable operating leases. ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS AND PLAN OF OPERATIONS Back to Table of Contents Some of the statements contained in this quarterly report of American Biogenetic Sciences, Inc., a Delaware corporation discuss future expectations, contain projections of our plan of operation or financial condition or state other forward-looking information. Forward-looking statements give our current expectations or forecasts of future events. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "could," "would," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "continue," or the negative of such terms or other similar expressions. General Background American Biogenetic Sciences, Inc., a Delaware corporation, is sometimes referred to herein as "we", "us", "our", "Company" and the "Registrant". The Registrant was formed in 1983 for the purpose of researching, developing and marketing cardiovascular and neurobiology products for commercial development and distributing vaccines. The Registrant's products were designed for in vitro and in vivo diagnostic procedures and therapeutic drugs, and its products had been identified for use in the treatment of epilepsy, migraine and mania, neurodegenerative diseases, coronary artery diseases and cancer. The Registrant commenced selling its products during the last quarter of 1997 but did not generate any sufficient revenues from operations to fund its operating expenses. On September 19, 2002, the Registrant filed a petition under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York. On November 4, 2005, the Bankruptcy Court approved an order authorizing a change in control and provided that the Company, subsequent to the bankruptcy proceeding, is free and clear of all liens, claims and other obligations. We have no present operations or revenues and our current activities are related to seeking new business opportunities, including seeking an acquisition or merger with an operating company. If our management seeks to acquire another business or pursue a new business opportunity, it would have substantial flexibility in identifying and selecting a prospective business. Registrant would not be obligated nor does management intend to seek pre-approval from our shareholders. Under the laws of the State of Delaware, the consent of holders of a majority of the issued and outstanding shares, acting without a shareholders meeting, can approve an acquisition. The Registrant is entirely dependent on the judgment of its executive officer/director in connection with pursuing a new business opportunity or a selection process for a target operating company. In evaluating a prospective new business opportunity or an operating company, he would consider, among other factors, the following: (i) costs associated with effecting a transaction; (ii) equity interest in and opportunity to control the prospective candidate; (iii) growth potential of the target business; (iv) experience and skill of management and availability of additional personnel; (v) necessary capital requirements; (vi) the prospective candidate's competitive position; (vii) stage of development of the business opportunity; (viii) the market acceptance of the business, its products or services; (ix) the availability of audited financial statements of the potential business opportunity; and (x) the regulatory environment that may be applicable to any prospective business opportunity. The foregoing criteria are not intended to be exhaustive and there may be other criteria that management may deem relevant. In connection with an evaluation of a prospective or potential business opportunity, management may be expected to conduct a due diligence review. We will use our limited personnel and financial resources in connection with seeking new business opportunities, including seeking an acquisition or merger with an operating company. It may be expected that entering into a new business opportunity or business combination will involve the issuance of a substantial number of restricted shares of common stock. If such additional restricted shares of common stock are issued, our shareholders will experience a dilution in their ownership interest in the Registrant. If a substantial number of restricted shares are issued in connection with a business combination, a change in control may be expected to occur. On March 31, 2012, we had no assets and had total liabilities of $251,981 consisting of $143,113 in advances from and accruals due to related parties, a short-term note in the amount of $76,000, accrued interest expenses of $22,800 and accounts payable of $10,068. In connection with our plan to seek new business opportunities and/or effecting a business combination, we may determine to seek to raise funds from the sale of restricted stock or debt securities.We have no agreements to issue any debt or equity securities and cannot predict whether equity or debt financing will become available at terms acceptable to us, if at all. There are no limitations in our articles of incorporation on our ability to borrow funds or raise funds through the issuance of restricted common stock to effect a business combination. Our limited resources and lack of operating history may make it difficult to do borrow funds or raise capital. Our inability to borrow funds or raise funds through the issuance of restricted common stock required to effect or facilitate a business combination may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and future prospects, including the ability to complete a business combination. To the extent that debt financing ultimately proves to be available, any borrowing will subject us to various risks traditionally associated with indebtedness, including the risks of interest rate fluctuations and insufficiency of cash flow to pay principal and interest, including debt of an acquired business. ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK Back to Table of Contents We have not entered into, and do not expect to enter into, financial instruments for trading or hedging purposes. ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES Back to Table of Contents Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures. As of March 31, 2012, the Company's chief executive officer/chief financial officer conducted an evaluation regarding the effectiveness of the Company's disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) or 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act. Based upon the evaluation of these controls and procedures, our chief executive officer/chief financial officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the date of filing this quarterly report. Changes in internal controls. During the quarterly period covered by this report, no changes occurred in our internal control over financial reporting that materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting. ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS Back to Table of Contents ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS Back to Table of Contents In addition to the other information set forth in this report, you should carefully consider the factors discussed in Part I, “Item 1. Description of Business, subheading Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, which could materially affect our business, financial condition or future results. The risks described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K are not the only risks facing our company. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem to be immaterial also may materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and/or operating results. ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS Back to Table of Contents ITEM 3. DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES Back to Table of Contents ITEM 4. MINE SAFTY DISCLOSURE Back to Table of Contents ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION Back to Table of Contents ITEM 6. EXHIBITS Back to Table of Contents (a) The following documents are filed as exhibits to this report on Form 10-Q or incorporated by reference herein. 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__label__wiki	0.657351	0.657351	Now all the players in the team are standing and playing Now all the players in the team are standing and playing. As we said before, I have the athletic ability to run, that is, pants. It’s about the same as Daniel Green. Now, James is not the same as James in the past. Now, James’s playing style has changed to a certain extent. But I’m not sure why James changed like this or went to the playoffs. Ah, he fought back with all his strength. James, who doesn’t really like to break through and break the ball, doesn’t like to do this thing. He just concentrates all his energy on you running, I’ll pass you to me to preach, right? Put too much energy on this, instead of saying, if I have a chance, I’ll break through without a chance. Now James, no, this way, playing, ah, so these players, ah, fixed-point shooters, you, standing on the head is no use, you must run, like the warriors want to run, run out of the opportunity to James, pass, and then you project in, they said that now really assists a lot of assists. You, it depends on whether it is the loss of his own desire to attack, or the loss of his own attack. The main reason for my personal observation is to play the playoffs, because after all, the older the age, the more injuries, the higher the probability of illness. In the playoffs, for the regular season, for one or two games, I said that for the ranking of the regular season, I also said that the Los Angeles team had reached the first place in the Western Conference. What surprised me was that it could be closed, but it could be dropped to the second and third place. This is no problem. The playoffs are, the most, the most serious, the need for you, the serious is the need for you. I think it’s a very good time to deal with this problem. Paul, George and their leaders have been taking continuous breaks and illness to manage their physical fitness. Up to now, the record is very good, very good. His only problem is whether the two players will have problems in kneading and wait for the last 20 games. I think it’s a two pronged approach, the best chance for double stars to shine. At the end of the game, you can play the playoffs by making a dash to make it up to you. So is the Laker team. What’s the problem after trading lebertans, that is, if there is a fixed-point three-point ball after Bertens. For the Laker team, other players, outside pitchers, small players, still need to run or create more space to save energy for James and break through the ball at the critical moment. Gotans pitches three shots in each game. You do not need to have more contributions, three balls are enough to solve the problem, as long as the outside God, sniper’s cover and propulsion will be very easy. Posted on June 30, 2020 June 30, 2020 Categories Uncategorized In the 1990s, it was the most glorious era of Colombian football and perhaps the most chaotic era in the country. Although Colombia ranked the top in the world before the opening of the 1994 World Cup, the fourth place was football. There are countless connections between the first-degree murder of bran. In the whole country, the king of drugs, Pablo, escoba, a note that although it’s also called escoba, it has no blood relationship with the player who was shot before. That’s the influence of this Pablo escobata. He once used the proceeds of drug trafficking to finance the medical education and football of the poor, which was regarded as a hero by the people at the bottom of the society, and became the eyesore of the government. In Colombia’s underground order, the largest drug lord in history was killed by the military in December 1993. The collapse of this place, at that time, the murder and crime rate of the country, once ranked first in the world, could be called a country of crime. The fall of Pablo, not only has no basis, but also has led to a situation that is already terminally ill, even worse, chaos, and endless gunfire in the streets. All day long, people are frightened and frightened. This kind of atmosphere of self danger has also affected the national team’s World Cup preparation. Before the Colombian legendary goalkeeper iquita was arrested for kidnapping in 1993. It is said that the real reason behind his arrest is that he and Pablo ESCO have a close personal relationship, while Oscar Cordoba, who temporarily replaced iquita as the first goalkeeper, is embarrassed Any time in the world cup opening game 1-3 defeat by Romania, the game, a series of mistakes, indirectly, led to such a defeat, and in the next game against the United States. The whole team, including the head coach, Maturana, even received death threats from China. The toxic owl even made it clear that he hoped to manipulate the team’s starting lineup. Under pressure, they had no choice but to follow and do, so Colombia was in such a weird way. In the background, I stepped on the court with a complicated mood. On the faces of the players, you can hardly see a smile. Instead, there are many sad faces, such as gloomy clouds. Finally, the unfortunate fate has come to Escobar. A very shocking shooting case, the 40 year old Colombian football used to look colorful, but in fact it was as disillusioned as a mirror. On the one hand, the club that lost the nourishment of dirty money could hardly keep famous stars. Posted on June 29, 2020 Categories Uncategorized Howard has a good chance to take part in the rematch On June 24, all NBA teams are preparing for the rematch. Because the League does not force all players to participate in the rematch, many teams are still trying to persuade as many people to return to the field as possible. The Lakers are facing this problem. Dwight Howard and Avery Bradley, two of the team’s top players, have expressed their opposition to the rematch. Although all sides of the Lakers have said they are confident that all the players will play in the rematch, they still haven’t finally nodded. As a team starter and a representative of the Lakers players’ Union, Danny Green has to take corresponding responsibilities in this process. In an interview today, Green said Howard should be OK, but he hasn’t got in touch with Bradley. “I’m going to talk to some guys this week, I’ve talked to Howard this week, and I’ve had an opportunity to talk to Bradley earlier this week, and I tried to get in touch with him last weekend, but I haven’t been in touch recently, so I don’t know what he’s like.” But I had a conversation with Howard. It’s bigger than basketball. You don’t know a guy’s family. Manager of Steeler: medical experts are satisfied with the progress of recovery of quarterback Ross lisberg Almost four months ago, Ben Roethlisberger returned to passing training. After that, there were more videos of him passing the ball on the Internet. But Steelman manager Mike Tomlin has yet to witness his training as a quarterback. In an interview, Tomlin said roslisberg was “satisfied” with his performance, and “the medical experts are satisfied with his progress in the recovery process and the prospect of his return in 2020.” Last season, roslisberg injured his right elbow in the second game, leaving him out for the rest of the season. It is the first time in his 16 years that he has failed to play at least 11 games in a single season. In his absence, the Steelers’ offensive team performed badly, which led Tomlin to say earlier that roslisberg would firmly occupy the starting position. How the 38 – year-old can recover from his worst injury in his career will determine whether the Steelers can end their embarrassing two-year absence from the playoffs. NFL reopens its headquarters office in New York When New York City began to restart, some NFL employees returned to the headquarters office. Roger Goodell, President of the alliance, is one of the employees returning to work in the headquarters office. Goodall has been working in his basement since the headquarters office closed in March, including hosting this year’s NFL draft. In addition, Troy Vincent, executive vice president of competition operations, and other executives returned to work. Brian McCarthy, NFL’s vice president of communications, tweeted photos of himself entering the office. In the next few weeks, about a quarter of employees will return to work in the League Headquarters Office. That’s less than the guidelines for a New York restart. According to the regulations, the office can accommodate up to half of the employees to work and all must cover their faces when they are within 6 feet of others. Cardinal quarterback Murray plans to take over and train together In the past three months, quarterback Kyler Murray has spent most of his time in Dallas, but that hasn’t delayed his training. “I was born to live in isolation,” Murray said in an interview. In addition to training and passing, I don’t want to go out Murray trains four times a week in weightlifting, running and passing. He also plans to train “soon” with his off team successors. “For me, life, breathing, eating all have Rugby effects,” Murray said. I can’t wait to train with my teammates One of the strongest outside takeovers in the league is the new lark signing, de Andre Hopkins, who has little chance to break in with Murray. “I can study football in any way.” “It’s natural for me,” Murray said. Whether it’s sticking out or watching. It’s hard to watch, because sometimes we don’t do well But eventually we’ll be on the court. I’m not worried about the impact of the lack of off-season training, but I’m not going to deny their benefits Bear Coach: cross player karil Mike tries to prove himself in the new season Before the end of last season, Khalil Mack expressed dissatisfaction with the team’s performance. Mike was disappointed that the Chicago bear didn’t make it to the playoffs and that he had slipped. Now he’s trying to make sure the same doesn’t happen in the new season. “Carlisle is not lacking in fighting spirit, never in fighting spirit,” said Ted Monachino, coach of the outside guard of the bears, on Thursday. “But what I’m going to tell you is that he’s treating this off-season like he’s trying to prove himself – I think it’s going to inspire all of us.” “It’s exciting when a player of his level treats his work the way he does.” The bear team, which won the league’s North Zone championship in 2018 and is considered to be a strong contender for the Super Bowl Championship, declined in both attack and defense last season. The final 8-8 record was disappointing, as was Mike’s data. He only got 47 tackles, the lowest in his career, while 8.5 tackles and 14 strikes to the quarterback were the lowest since the rookie season. “I’ve never seen anyone else train like him before,” Monachino said Is there a big difference between the food for spring training of major league and minor league? Baoshu replied: of course. For rookies who have just scored, you will hear a lot of stories about big league players’ tall food. Let’s not mention the major league players. Every time you upgrade in the minor league system, the meals before and after the game will be more delicate and delicious. We are all very happy to see the major league players being rehabilitated by the minor league below, because in the team tradition, these major league players will invite the whole team to eat after playing. All minor league players have three meals in the form of buffets on the court and at the hotel. Now all the players’ lounges are going to do a little bit more to prepare the food and drink to ensure that the players have a balanced diet. As for the diet of the major league, so to speak, it’s just one of the driving forces for playing hard and being called into the major league! Netizen Natha asked: is spring training and preseason the same thing? Baoshu replied: Yes. I prefer spring training. When you hear the word “spring training”, you can smell the fresh fragrance of the freshly mowed lawn and hear the crisp impact of the wooden bat. In the changing room, will new people receive some “special treatment”? To make a long story short, the answer is yes. There are so many stories like this. The vast majority of new people’s “first lesson” is some fun prank. They are also one of the “traditions” of the team. When I was a rookie, one of my teammates once put some ointment such as ointment for pain and dampness in my hat. When I went out and put on my hat… I don’t need to continue what happened later. My forehead felt hot all day that day. Who is the higher salary in NBA and NFL? First of all, whether it’s the NBA or the NFL, the salary is 369. I don’t know a lot about NBA salary. The general impression is that the core players of each team are 35-40 million, the middle class is 10-20 million, the veteran and rotation are 3-8 million, and the edge players are hundreds of thousands. Apart from the rookie contract, only on the renewal contract, NFL players’ contract size is not only related to their own strength, but also greatly affected by the position on the field. For example, even if it is the contract of the most powerful main runner, his contract can not be greater than even the main quarterback in the middle and lower reaches of the league. This is a very different part of the NFL players’ salary from that of the NBA. In the NBA team, both forwards and defenders can be the core players (even now the NBA is gradually blurring its position on the field). 1. In NFL, the first group with the highest income is undoubtedly the elite and excellent quarterback QB, because the excellent quarterback has excellent passing ability, which can not be compared with any other position. At present, the QBs with the highest salary are between 30 million and 35 million. The signing period is usually 4-5 years, and the guarantee part is also very high. In addition, several senior quarterbacks who just signed the contract this spring are between 25 million and 30 million, with a service life of 1-2 years, giving full play to their last remaining heat. The other regular quarterbacks, who are usually signed for two years as the team’s waning and lousy transition, earn a little over 20 million. 2. Since the most important person in a team is its own quarterback, the second important person must be the one who can deal with and oppress the opponent’s quarterback, that is, the defensive end front of the defensive team or the outside guard OLB, collectively referred to as edge rusher. Now, the annual salary of three people has exceeded 20 million, and the annual salary of other elite transfer players who have signed contracts in recent years is basically between 16 million and 20 million. As for some of the older, but still powerful, cross setters, there are about 13 million. What are the heat transfer decorative films and what are their applications? Heat transfer decorative film can be divided into leather decorative film, 3D Plaid TPU high and low temperature decorative film, zipper decorative film, frosted decorative film, etc. 1. Leather decorative film: clear texture, wear-resistant, washable, concave convex strong, three-dimensional grain, realistic leather effect suitable for shoes, clothing, bags. The leather decorative film adds a sense of line to this Gucci famous bag and enhances the overall perspective aesthetic feeling. 2. 3D Plaid TPU high and low temperature decorative film: it has strong concave convex feeling and three-dimensional texture, which is suitable for shoes, clothing, bags and bags. Three dimensional embossing effect, applied to outdoor footwear, sports shoes, hats, bags, etc. The dark green 3D pattern appears on the leather texture bag in the form of matching color, adding the fashion sense of this bag. 3. Zipper decorative film: zipper closure, water-proof performance, widely used in outdoor stormsuits, outdoor equipment for tent lights. 4. Frosted decorative film: commonly used for textile fabric decoration, suitable for sports clothing, sports shoes, hats and bags industry. With the fashion design, with the multi-functional decorative film, high-end brand luggage atmosphere, the upper gas effect will come out! Posted on June 1, 2020 Categories Uncategorized	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1546
__label__wiki	0.666322	0.666322	1929 Stanley Cup - Boston Bruins The Boston Bruins and New York Rangers met in the 1929 Stanley Cup finals. It was the first time two American teams faced off for the Stanley Cup - a trophy originally designated for the top Canadian amateur team. The Bruins were definitely the favorites entering the series. They owned the Rangers in the regular season, winning five of six matches. The Bruins were powered by a new line - Cooney Weiland with Dit Clapper and Dutch Gainor on the wings. The explosive line would later be nicknamed the Dynamite Line. The Bruins had also had the rambunctious Eddie Shore providing the surprise offense from the rear; and Tiny Thompson in nets, allowing just a miniscule 1.15 goals against per game on average. The Rangers, the defending champions, returned with mostly the same team from their championship year, with Frank Boucher and brothers Bill and Bun Cook wowing audiences everywhere. The most notable change was in net. Gone was Lorne Chabot, who was injured for most of the previous Stanley Cup finals anyways. In was John Ross Roach, described as "something of a playboy," but very stingy between the pipes. In the four previous playoff games Roach allowed only one goal! The final series was reduced to a best of three, while the previous round was upped to a best of five. This was designed to theoretically reduce the chance of upsets. Game one was at the new Boston Garden, where a reported 18,000 fans, many blaring trumpets, watched a Clapper and Gainor score 2nd period goals and witnessed a perfect game from goalie Thompson in a 2-0 victory. Game two moved to Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, but the Bruins could not be stopped. Harry Oliver scored the opening goal and assisted on Bill Carson's winner with just 118 seconds left in the game, giving Boston it's first Stanley Cup championship. Harry Oliver recalled the winning goal, which surprisingly did not send the Bruins players into an instant euphoria: "I was going down the right side. I saw Bill Carson loose on the left side. I passed him the puck and wingo! It was in on the left side. "Today they make a big fuss about a goal, hugging each other . . . jumping up and down. We just gave a tap on the shoulder, nice going, and that was all. Today they're more emotional after a goal. The Cup didn't have all those bands at the bottom. It had just one or two bands. We had a team dinner in Boston the next night and went home. The Bruins gave use each a bonus of five hundred dollars in twenty dollar gold pieces. And the Stanley Cup playoff money was around a thousand dollars. Labels: 1929 Stanley Cup Derek said... If I may elaborate on this great Cup victory. The Top Line of the Bruins going into the playoffs was that of: "Doc" Carson, Harry Oliver and Perk Galbraith. Through the season Harry Oliver led the team in points for the third consecutive year. He was always teamed with Galbraith on the top line. One looks at Galbraith's numbers and would not expect that he was a top line guy - He was an outstanding defensive player. Doc Carson had been acquired from Toronto midway through the season. He scored 2 of the 9 goals that Boston needed to score to win this cup. The "spares" Rookie Cooney Weiland, Dutch Gainor, and Dit Clapper were more offensively gifted than the top checking line. After Oliver they finished 2-3-4 among Bruin forwards in scoring throughout the season. Shore was already a hockey legend and Lionel Hitchman was just as important. They formed a wall. Tiny Thompson had to be superb against the Habs in the first round and Rookie Thompson's star first shown super-star during this Stanley Cup playoff. Aside from these 2 forward lines and the wall of 3 - nobody needs mention -- but George Owen, ex-Harvard star did well in times that he had to give Shore or Hitch a break. The real series in this playoff was against the Habs - The playoff system pitted the Top team in each division against each other first in a best-of-five. Montreal had only lost 7 of their 44 games this season and shut out opponents in every other game 22 shutouts in 44 games. Boston won the first 2 games at the Garden by scores of 1-0. Both goals scored by Weiland. In game 3 Boston trailed 2-0 in the second before Eddie Shore led the way and the Bruins won 3-2.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1549
__label__cc	0.674183	0.325817	Five Novels Every Child Should Read. My love for books is something that occupies a very special corner of my heart. Every book is a window into a new world -- they are full of excitement, horror, mystery, romance, adventure. The gamut of human emotions can be experienced through the written word. Without books, our lives would be so much more bland and grey. In my experience, there are certain remarkable books which transcend time. Their ageless nature can convey wisdom, altruism, love, compassion and honor -- no matter the age of the reader or from which generation they're from. Though, such distinctive novels are best read when a child is growing and developing into a young adult. Their minds are open to a world of possibilities. These special stories can help mold them into more complete human beings. Here are five books that I believe every youth should read. The impact that they can have on a person's life is profound. The examples I've cited have certainly made a difference in my personal journey. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) - This enduring novel from Betty Smith recounts the story of the Nolan Family. The live in the Brooklyn tenement of Williamsburg, surrounded by poverty and despair. Lead protagonist Francie, whom grows from age 11 to 17 throughout the course of the novel, gives the reader a glimpse into a world where there's no hope for success. Through it all, Francie's indomitable spirit pushes her to work harder and learn faster. She never gives up on herself, even when the world around her does. Addressing many of the factors that shaped early Nineteenth Century life in America (poverty, the lives of immigrants, alcoholism, abuse), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a novel for the ages. You can survive -- you just have to want it bad enough. Silas Marner (1861) - Written by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe exemplifies the value of charity, compassion and sacrifice. Silas Marner, an unhappy and altogether bitter man, comes to let go of his personal demons and hatred through young Eppie, a toddler he finds wandering at night in the snow. Taking the orphan in as his own daughter, he develops into a selfless and loving person. Eliot's work is a testament to the power of love -- what was once broken can be made whole again if you just give it enough time and care. It also conveys the notion that doing the right thing is rarely easy. Brave New World (1932) - Set in the future London of the year 2540, Brave New World paints an altogether bleak portrait for the reader to process. This might be a novel filled with elements of science fiction, but it's not wholly of the genre. Instead, it functions much like a cautionary tale. What happens when the people of the world are content with their lot in life? What happens when no one wants to improve or become better? The global population is strictly regulated in number and ability; they exist in five different castes. Those at the top revel in lives of shallow luxury, with little thought for their fellow man. Those at the bottom exist merely for labor and industrialization, with no desire to become smarter or more independent. Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel is eerily similar to the climate which we now live in -- it is a future we desperately do not want to experience. Fahrenheit 451 (1953) - Ray Bradbury's magnum opus warns of a society where individual thought has been criminalized. State-sponsored censorship has led to the abolishment of books; owning one is a punishable offense. Firemen no longer serve to extinguish fires, but to set books ablaze if found. The vast majority of human beings exist in a state of illiteracy; citizens are now completely obsessed with pop culture and hollow entertainment. Sound familiar? It's chilling how much Bradbury got right about the future. Ironically, Fahrenheit 451 has been frequently banned by school districts since its publication. A book about the dangers of censorship being banned... go figure. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (1865 / 1871) - In reality two books published six years apart by author Lewis Carrol (pen name for Charles Dodgson), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass can be considered as one larger narrative. The young Alice ventures through a fantastical world filled with nonsense and wonder -- nothing seems to quite makes sense. Yet, the illogical nature of the world painted by Carrol serves to spark the imagination and tempt the reader. What is the nature of reality? What is real? What is imaginary? The tale doesn't merely exist to entertain for a short while; it makes the reader ponder the nature of the universe. Mathematics and logic problems are regularly lobbed at the reader by the vivid cast of characters. You don't just read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland... you experience it. On a much broader scale, the two parts can be viewed as mirror images of each other. Whereas the first part is wrapped in a theme of playing cards and takes place outdoors, the second part is enveloped by chess in a mysterious interior. Inherently, Carrol suggests that life is but one large game; it's completely up to you how you play it. The same holds true when reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass -- how the story plays out is ultimately left up to the reader and the manner they interpret it! And there you have it -- five monumental novels that deserve to be read by every child, from all walks of life. Though, let me be clear. These books aren't just for the young. I still re-read these books on a regular basis. No matter how old you are, head to your local library (you know, those places where people go to surf the internet) and check one out. You can thank me later. Posted by Jared Manning at 9:08 PM Labels: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Aldous Huxley, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Betty Smith, book, books, Brave New World, children, Fahrenheit 451, George Eliot, Lewis Carrol, Ray Bradbury, reading, Silas Marner About Jared Unzipped... BROAD IN SCOPE FOR SMART READERS! With this blog, I like to discuss a multitude of subjects, including but not limited to: '80s & '90s nostalgia, cinema, music, science, art, beer, food, travel, hobbies, old toys, video games, social and political topics... and even my family. I'm also an angry man in recovery. This is my little corner of the internet where I produce content for your enjoyment (and mine). 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__label__wiki	0.772413	0.772413	Homepage > Tessa Thompson Tessa Lynne Thompson (born October 3, 1983) is an American actress, producer, singer, and songwriter. She began her professional acting career with the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company while studying at Santa Monica College. She appeared in productions of The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet, the latter of which earned her a NAACP Theatre Award nomination. Her breakthrough came with leading roles in Tina Mabry's independent drama film Mississippi Damned (2009) and Tyler Perry's drama film For Colored Girls (2010). Thompson was was raised between Los Angeles and Brooklyn, New York. Her father, singer-songwriter Marc Anthony Thompson, is of Afro-Panamanian descent and is the founder of the musical collective Chocolate Genius, Inc. Her mother has white and Mexican ancestry. She has a younger half-sister, Zsela, who is a singer and songwriter. Thompson attended Santa Monica High School, where she played Hermia in a student production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She then attended Santa Monica College (SMC), where she studied cultural anthropology and is a member of the alma mater. While at SMC, she also attended lectures by Lisa Wolpe of the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company (LAWSC). This page is based on a Wikipedia article written by contributors. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1559
__label__cc	0.562217	0.437783	Filters: Author is G. R. Hamell [Clear All Filters] Hamell, G.R., 1983. A 19th Century `Apostle Potter': Heber Kimball, Mormon Leader, `Received the Spirit' in His Upstate New York Pottery. The New York-Pennsylvania Collector 8, 12B-14B. Hamell, G.R., 1981. Earthenwares and Salt-glazed Stonewares of the Rochester-Genesee Valley Region: An Overview.. Northeast Historical Archaeology 7-9, 1-14. doi:https://doi.org/10.22191/neha/vol9/iss1/1 Hauptman, L.R., Hamell, G.R., 2003. George Catlin: The Iroquois Origins of His Indian Portrait Gallery. New York History: Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association 84, 125-151. Starna, W.A., Hamell, G.R., 1996. History and the Burden of Proof: The Case of Iroquois Influence on the U.S. Constitution. New York History 77, 427-452. Hamell, G.R., 1994. Introduction, in: Syracuse University Press, (Ed.), Skunny Wundy: Seneca Indian Tales By Arthur C. Parker. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York, p. xv-xx. Hamell, G.R., 2007. The Iroquois and the World's Rim: Speculations on Color, Culture, and Contact, in: Kerber, J.E. (Ed.), Archaeology Of The Iroquois: Selected Readings & Research Sources. Syracus University Press, Syracuse, New York, pp. 306-320. Hamell, G.R., 1992. The Iroquois and the World's Rim: Speculations on Color, Culture, and Contact. American Indian Quarterly 16, 451-469. doi:10.2307/1185292 Hamell, G.R., 1998. Long-Tail: The Panther in Huron-Wyandot and Seneca Myth, Ritual and Material Culture, in: Saunders, N.J. (Ed.), Icons Of Power: Feline Symbolism In The Americas. Routledge, New York, pp. 258-286. Hamell, G.R., 2005. A Look Back: "Old Indian Life Groups.. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 1, 5. Hamell, G.R., 1984. Metaphor, Myth, and Contemporary Iroquois History. The Iroquoian 9, 24-31. Hamell, G.R., Rogers, W.B., 2001. A Mohawk Iroquois Village: A Virtual Exhibit at the New York State Museum. Albany, NY. Hamell, G.R., 1987. Mohawks Abroad: The 1764 Amsterdam Etching of Sychnecta, in: Feest, C.F. (Ed.), Indians And Europe: An Interdisciplinary Collections Of Essays. Editions Herodot, Rader-Verlag, Aachen, Germany, pp. 175-193. Hamell, G.R., 1987. Mythical realities and European Contact in the Northeast During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Man in the Northeast 33, 63-87. Miller, C.L., Hamell, G.R., 1986. A New Perspective on Indian-White Contact: Cultural Symbols and Colonial Trade. The Journal of American History 73, 311-328. doi:10.2307/1908224 Miller, C.L., Hamell, G.R., 2000. A New Perspective on Indian-White Contact: Cultural Symbols and Colonial Trade, in: Marshall, P.C., Merrell, J.H. (Eds.), American Encounters: Natives And Newcomers From European Contact To Indian Removal, 1500-1850. Routledge, London, pp. 177-193. Hamell, G.R., 1981. North Bay Pottery. The New York-Pennsylvania Collector 6, 3-4. Starna, W.A., Hamell, G.R., Butts, W.L., 1984. Northern Iroquoian Horticulture and Insect Infestation: A Cause for Village Removal. Ethnohistory 31, 197-207. doi:10.2307/482621 Hamell, G.R., Fox, W.A., 2005. Rattlesnake Tales. Ontario Archaeology 79/80, 127-149. Hamell, G.R., 1987. Review of "Onondaga: Portrait of a People" by Dennis J. Connors, Laurence M. Hauptman, and Ray Gonyea. Ethnohistory 34, 407-410. Hamell, G.R., 2004. Seneca Iroquois Carved Wooden Ladles. Members Update 15, 6.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1565
__label__cc	0.646511	0.353489	Задње објављено Soon start project of building 20 apartments From now on, a one-stop system of issuing a certificate of house number in the Municipality of Vlasenica Officials from the municipalities of Vlasenica, Milici and Srebrenica talked with the Indian ambassador Општина Власеница Општина Власеница About Vlasenica Department of General Administration Department of Economy, Social Affairs and Inspection Affairs Department for Spatial Planning and Housing and Communal Affairs Municipal Assembly President of the Municipal Assembly Professional service of the Municipal Assembly Investmenst and projects Industrial and business zones Economic council Economic entities in Vlasenica Home » Current projects Municipality of Vlasenica and the World Bank Group work together on the regulatory reform of the administrative procedures within the competence of the Municipality, attracting investors and creating favorableconditions for investment, as a part of the “Life” project. Within the framework of this project, meetings of representatives of the World Bank Group and members of the Municipal Working Group were held, where the recommendations for simplifying the administrative procedures, presented by representatives of the World Bank Group, were discussed after the legal analysis was conducted. The adopted recommendations are defined by the internal act of the Mayor. Also, by establishing an electronic register, through this project it will be possible to increase transparency, forcasting and reliability of the procedures and information, and improvementof municipal services and increase of efficiency. The project is financed by Vlasenica Municipality, the World Bank Group/International Finance Corporation and the British Embassy in BiH. EU flood recovery program On 15 August the European Union launched the EU Floods Recovery Programme for Bosnia and Herzegovina worth 43.52 million EUR, out of which the EU’s contribution is 42.24 million EUR, while UNDP participates with 1.28 million EUR. The Programme consists of different components all of which aim to assist with the normalization of peoples’ lives in flood-affected areas and communities in 24 most-affected municipalities. The activities focus on the immediate restoration of vital public sector infrastructure and reinstatement of key public services, the emergency reconstruction of private dwellings for the most vulnerable and marginalized people, the revitalization of local economy and agriculture production and rehabilitation of communal infrastructure in selected municipalities. Supporting SMEs to create new jobs in the processing industry or agriculture The United Nations Development Program UNDP and the Municipality of Vlasenica, within the framework of this project, award grants to economic entities (companies) registered or operating in the territory of the Municipality of Vlasenica, in order to support job creation and inclusive employment policies. Paving the road section towards Cikotska Rijeka As part of the project “Rehabilitation and paving of the road section of the Vlasenica-Cikotska Rijeka road, part of the road was paved, in the length of 1,500 meters, as investors – the Municipality and competent ministries for refugees and displaced persons of Republic ofSrpska and Federation of BiH, invested around 190,000 BAM, which enabled a better life for the inhabitants of this area who are of different nationalities. Project in the area of traffic safety The Municipality of Vlasenica signed the Contract on co-financing the project in the area of traffic safety with the representatives of the Agency for Safety of Transport of Republic of Srpska. (5,000 BAM Agency/5,000 BAM Municipality). The project documentation for horizontal and vertical signalization in the municipality of Vlasenica is in preparation phase. In this area, there is a quite unregulated situation, and this represents a systematic approach to addressing traffic safety problems in the Municipality of Vlasenica. This project will contribute to increasing the traffic safety. Recycling center construction project The feasibility study for the construction of Recyclingcenter in Vlasenica is under preparation, which is mainly co-financed by the Environmental Protection Fund, and within this project, procurement of large 5 m3 containers will be carried out. Guarantee fund of Republic of Srpska The Mayor of Vlasenica signed a Protocol on Cooperation with the Guarantee Fund of Republic of Srpska, which, among other things, refers to the improvement of the industrial, agricultural production, development of tourism, small and medium-sized enterprises. With the protocol, this financial institution, which has access to financial resources of the banks and other financial institutions in the Republic of Srpska, has committed itself to supporting development programs of the Municipality of Vlasenica. Establishment of an Address Register The Municipality of Vlasenica signed an agreement on the establishment of an Address Register in the area of the municipality with the Administration for Geodetic and Property Affairs of the Republic of Srpska. An Address Register represents the records of all the streets and house numbers of residential and commercial buildings in the area of the local community, a database that is essential in the modern age. Projects in the field of agriculture – German NGO “Help” and Municipality ofVlasenica, within the project “Sustainable job creation through targeted support in agricultural sector” supported 30 beneficiaries/agricultural producers with awarding of the equipment. The total value of the project is 100,000 BAM. – Within the project “Improvement of raspberry production at the territory of the municipality of Vlasenica”, raspberry production equipment was distributed to agricultural producers: 15 motor-hoes, 15 sprayers for treatment of raspberries, 15 nets for anti-hail protection and 15 complete irrigation systems. The value of about 45,000 BAM was co-financed by USAID, the Government of Sweden and the Municipality of Vlasenica. – Through the project “Experimental field” a number of activities have been implemented aimed at contributing to rural development and employment through targeted assistance to fruit and vegetable production in Vlasenica. In a greenhouse of 500 m2 surface, with automatic regulation of the microclimate conditions, 3000 pepper seedlings were planted and an irrigation system was installed. Previously, two greenhouses, 50 and 100 m2, were installed, and in late March an orchard with a modern fruit growing system of 0,8 ha was planted, for which the irrigation system was also provided. Existing and potential fruit vegetable growers from the region of Birač, as well as pupils and students, will have an opportunity for education and improvement in the experimental field. The project is funded by CARE International, UNDP and Vlasenica Municipality. A session of the Chamber of Commerce was held The 12th regular session of the Municipal Assembly was held Notification to agricultural producers assembly economy municipal administration projects society sport 14. March 2018. Representatives of the Municipality of Vlasenica participated in the final conference within the Project “Birač” Municipalitiy Vlasenica Svetosavska 14, 75440 Vlasenica E-mail: info@opstinavlasenica.org Copyright protection and terms of use Општинска управа општине Власеница © 2018	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1567
__label__wiki	0.637707	0.637707	Yellowstone National Park Quarter The second coin released under the United States Mint’s America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program was the 2010 Yellowstone National Park Quarter from Wyoming. Yellowstone’s 2.2 million acres of land is not only unique in size but the location has the distinction of being the first national park ever created by the government. The final reverse design for the quarter-dollar was announced by the U.S. Mint on March 24, 2010. The coin entered circulation channels on June 1, 2010. The official release ceremony held at the park itself and conducted by the Mint and other officials occurred two days later on January 3, 2010. The Yellowstone National Park quarter design, shown above, was both created and sculpted by Don Everhart. It features Old Faithful geyser and two bison — one mature in the foreground and another located closer toward the middle scenery alongside the geyser. The design was selected by the Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner after receiving recommendations from U.S. Mint Director Ed Moy. Prior to its selection, there were three "design candidates" that made it to the final round. These were reviewed by many parties, including the United States Commission of Fine Arts and the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee — two bodies that review all American coins and medals. For reference, the images of the Yellowstone quarter proposals and the CFA and CCAC comments about them are included below: Yellowstone Park Quarter Design WY-01 (Click to Enlarge) The Commission of Fine Arts rejected all candidate submissions for the Yellowstone National Park Quarter, stating "poor quality" as their reasoning. They did feel that using Old Faithful was appropriate for the design but wanted more development. Using the word "strongly," the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee showed a preference for design candidate WY-01 which features bison in the foreground and background. It also shows the Old Faithful geyser mid-eruption. Committee members felt using the bison showcased not only the landscape but the wildlife of the park. It is this design that made its way onto the quarters. Yellowstone National Park information Aside from a few fur trappers, the Yellowstone area was only known to the local Native American tribes. But by the mid 1800’s, many naturalists including a man named F.V. Hayden became concerned that Yellowstone would become too commercialized if not protected by the government. To this end, he led an expedition complete with a large format photographer into the area to capture the splendor of the scenery. Then, using these photographs he was able to persuade Congress to remove the land from public auction and eventually create Yellowstone National Park. This seemingly insignificant event was, in fact, setting a precedent for the protection of public lands for decades by becoming the first national park ever created. With the help of (and sometimes exploitation by) the transcontinental railroads, Yellowstone quickly became a tourist attraction drawing thousands of visitors from the East eager to see its rugged beauty and wildlife. Today, over 3 million people visit the park annually, most of whom head straight for a viewing of Old Faithful geyser which erupts at intervals usually between 60 and 90 minutes.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1573
__label__wiki	0.527082	0.527082	Creating From the Right Side of History Inspired by Brandon Easton’s Eisner Awards nomination last year, I decided to submit my own original works for the 2016 contest. Over a year of building excitement heralded the eventual disappointment I felt this morning when I discovered that the first 6 of 10 titles of my Tales of Sinanju: The Destroyer graphic novel series didn’t make the nominees cut. I’m proud of my story, developed from the love of a True Fan’s sensibility, in the mode of skilled writing talents like Kurt Busiek and Alan Davis. Readers appreciated that I was able to capture the essence of the mainstream pulp fiction novel series and its main characters, as was my goal. “This should be the guy to write the new movie screenplay!” one Amazon reviewer remarked and I liked that, too. lol A True Fan’s sensibilities certainly weren’t used during past efforts to translate the property into different mediums, with it often falling victim to the infamous corporate executive meddling into the creative process that genre works are traditionally abused by. But now is a different day! Today the most successful movies took the fans of the translated properties VERY seriously, which really validated the decades-long fanboy grumblings. In addition to this, I also brought my own sensibilities as an African-American to my story. Since the novel series has always be written from the Caucasian-American point of view, there were many times when I frowned reading the author’s treatment of my people between the pages. My graphic novels presented an opportunity to calibrate the Destroyer-verse’s racial dynamic to a more balanced center. Racism is EVIL, and the only people who should engage in it at all in this story are the bad guys. Some can argue that Master Chiun has shown racist traits within the mainstream novels, but that was clever projection from the authors that made little sense from the storyverse’s perspective. ‘Racism’ as we know it is a Western world invention, birthed from the unprecedented practice of delegating a specific racial group to permanent chattel status. Someone like Chiun would have no reason to be racist; his prejudices would be ethnic group and national origin based, not physical racial group based. The House of Sinanju has worked for powerful empires throughout history, and all over the world – seen world leaders of literally every skin tone. His character would know above all others that “race” doesn’t mean anything, and I've always found it unbelievable that he would continuously harp on Remo’s “whiteness.” I left that out of my books, and instead had Chiun zero in on Remo’s Western-American birth for his teasing. Of course the ghost writers on the series didn’t echo that opinion, with one in particular going so far as to turn me off of the mainstream books altogether. The character Harold W. Smith is a WW2 era, former OSS/CIA agent, and occasionally the original writers would have him come from behind his desk and kick butt himself out in the field. Tapping into their influences from characters like Steve McQueen or Clint Eastwood, those scenes with Smith would be great good fun! Full of old school macho swagger, and no-nonsense, tough guy stuff from ’60s-70s action films, it fit in with the Men’s Adventure tradition and worked well. Unfortunately this ghost writer didn’t do any of that. He had Dr. Smith frightened and confused as he confronted a group of Black youth, and proceeded to slaughter them all with his revolver. The scene was a projection of all of the “black thug” paranoia directly responsible for the abuse and deaths of unarmed Black people in the news today. I was FURIOUS, and couldn’t bring myself to pick up another novel. What I DID do was seek to address the issue in my comics, depicting my people where they weren’t evil and worthy of being killed in the streets just because they were Black and poor. When my Remo Williams says he's not a racist, you can actually believe him. I felt that all my decisions actively improved the Destroyer Universe. As a fan myself, it deserved better than being allowed to become a sounding board for ignorant intolerance and a hateful mindset. Other groups were reading it, too, so why deliberately slight them by sounding like an anti-minority propaganda piece? All of this made me proud of my story, and I talked about it with friends and family enthusiastically. I felt it was a no-brainer I would get nominated for SOMETHING! But then I saw the 2016 Eisner Awards nomination list this morning, beginning with this line: “The biggest news this year is that 49 women have received a record 61 nominations (compared to 44 last year) and are represented in 27 of the 30 categories.” That made me pause; took me aback. Instantly I realized that there was no way my six books would get the nod. The members of the Eisner Awards committee were on the right side of history, and ruled from such. For all my personal pride in having carefully excised the vile racism tumor, I deliberately left another one in... one that’s a far worse evil. Misogyny. The Masters of Sinanju are men trained in a super martial art that makes them kickass better than anyone else on earth. It also makes them irresistible to women, and of course the perfect heterosexual male fantasy projection tools for the readership. “Men’s Adventure!” was the technical category on the book shelves, and the stories featured all that the title may imply. In my books, I refused to allow them to take on the ‘between-the-lines’ true title of “White Men’s Adventure!” that mainstream genre books traditionally fed, but I failed to consider my other sensibilities as an African-American MALE. I told myself that I significantly softened the misogyny part of the story because, even though I did have women treating Remo Williams like he was God’s Gift to the gender, that because I didn’t show him having hot, sloppy, buck-naked, uncensored sex with them like the mainstream novels would often graphically describe, that my stories were somehow more progressive. That’s literally what I’d been brainwashing myself with all these months, that my books were healthier and better for the woman’s rights movements because I had left out the graphic sex scenes. Meanwhile I actually thought I would have a shot at getting nominated, when I saw the percentage of males in the judges’ box. I was NOT operating from the right side of history, but living and breathing the foulest part of the Men’s Adventure spirit I was channeling to write my tales. When I saw that line about the record number of women nominees on the Eisner Award page, I felt a tinge of guilt that I even submitted them in the first place, which meant, that my conscience knew better. I love my story, and will always be a True Fan of the property, I just no longer believe that we should be rewarded for creating beloved tributes to properties that hold concepts within them that represent the worst aspects of our society – aspects that NEED to be left in the past to die, and reexamined only as lessons to learn from, not resurrect. I shouldn’t have written the misogyny scenes into the story in the first place, and should've thought about the potential psychic damage as carefully as I thought out the removal of the racism aspect. Now that I am confronted with the stench of having deliberately overridden my conscience to put them in there, I genuinely regret not doing so, and will withdraw from other contests I've entered as well (When researching the judges for this year's ECBACC, I noticed that one of them has me blocked on Facebook! I have no active memory of arguing with her, and certainly not over anything feminist since that group isn't my enemy, but I suspect it may be a residual blocking as support for a different opponent she may have felt I disrespected. Who knows...?). The bottom line is that I shouldn't have been lazy, and took the time to solve the problem of how to allow Sinanju to super-charge Remo's pheromones, but without taking away the women's dignity as they expressed themselves as sexual beings. Instead of defaulting to Male Sexual Fantasy Template #2 or whatever. I am not changing my books; I'll let them stand as a memorial to the Death of the Old in my own personal character, and do my best to do better now that I know better moving forward as a responsible genre creator. R.I.P., Prince (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) BOOK REVIEW – The Asin Adventures: The Lands of Darke The Truth About "Islamic" Slavery Nephew Spelled Backwards is DEATH!!!	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1576
__label__wiki	0.972818	0.972818	Blake Lively injured on set Blake Lively has been injured while filming new movie 'The Rhythm Section'. The 30-year-old actress has thrown herself into shooting the upcoming spy thriller, and production has had to be temporarily halted after hurting her hand during an "action sequence" for the film. In a statement to Us Weekly, a spokesperson for the production confirmed: "Paramount, Global Road (formerly known as IM Global) and producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli today confirmed that filming has been temporarily suspended on The Rhythm Section as Blake Lively sustained an injury to her hand whilst filming an action sequence. "Production will resume as soon as possible." Lively - who has been married to Ryan Reynolds for five years, and has daughters James, two, and 13-month-old Ines - is yet to comment on her injury while working on the film. 'The Rhythm Section' sees 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' star appear as Stephanie Patrick, who wants to uncover the truth behind a plane crash that killed her family. Stephanie embarks on a mission to find out the truth and becomes a skilled assassin who goes on an action-fuelled hunt to find those responsible for ripping her family apart. James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson - with their production company EON - are teaming up with 'Meadowland' director Reed Moreno on the project that has been adapted from Mark Burnell's forthcoming novel of the same name. Hollywood starlet Lively rose to fame as Serena van der Woodsen in 'Gossip Girl' and was last seen on screen in edge-of-your-seat thriller 'The Shallows', admitting she performed stunts for the shark-movie whilst pregnant. She explained in a behind-the-scenes clip: "They didn't hire a stunt double till the last two weeks of shooting. Every single day there wasn't a single scene that wasn't stunt-heavy. "Whether I was in the tank or when I was in the ocean, I was about 300 yards away from shore. They would drop me off on this rock that was three feet by three feet."	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1583
__label__cc	0.738186	0.261814	BREAKING: Governor Nyesom Wike Makes Major Announcement On His 2019 Presidential Move, Shuts Down The Entire Federal Capital Territory Abuja, the nation’s capital was agog on Tuesday, over the posters in a major part of the city, announcing the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, as Vice Presidential candidate in the forthcoming 2019 elections. However, in a swift reaction on Wednesday, Wike distanced himself from posters in Abuja, which insinuated he is bidding for the Vice President position in the 2019 Presidential poll. The Governor, urged Nigerians to disregard the posters which he described as the “handiwork of mischief makers.” In a statement by his Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, the Governor said the posters were from political mischief makers, who forgot in their haste that nobody runs for the office of Vice President. “We urge Nigerians to disregard these posters, as they have no link with the Rivers State Governor. “Nobody runs for the office of Vice President. “The Rivers State Government has the mandate of the good people of Rivers State, and he is focused on delivering quality projects and programmes for the people. “Governor Wike will not be distracted by the antics of misguided Politicians, who want to mislead Nigerians”, he said.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1584
__label__cc	0.646547	0.353453	President Obama's response to Benjamin Netanyahu's address before Congress Speaking from the Oval Office with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Tuesday, President Barack Obama responded for just under 11 minutes to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s address to Congress. President Obama claimed that Netanyahu any “viable alternatives” to the current nuclear deal being pursued with Iran. “Keep in mind that when we [inaudible] to that interim deal, Prime Minister Netanyahu made almost the precise same speech about how dangerous that deal was going to be, and yet over a year later, even Israeli intelligence officers — and, in some cases, members of the Israeli government — have to acknowledge that, in fact, it has kept Iran from further pursuing its nuclear program. “Prime Minister Netanyahu has not offered any kind of viable alternative that would achieve the same verifiable mechanism to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon,” President Obama said. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVo07ioEpOY] Below are President Obama's full remarks concerning Netanyahu's speech: Well, this is going to be the first opportunity that I have to get an extensive debriefing from Secretary Carter, who took a trip last week to Afghanistan and other parts of the region. He’ll be giving me some impressions about how we’re planning our drawdown and transition in Afghanistan, and talk about some other regional issues. One issue that we will be discussing is Iran. And obviously that’s been a topic of great interest today, so let me just make a couple comments on that. I did not have a chance to watch Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech -- I was on a video conference with our European partners with respect to Ukraine. I did have a chance to take a look at the transcript and as far as I can tell, there was nothing new. The Prime Minister appropriately pointed out that the bond between the United States of America is unbreakable, and on that point I thoroughly agree. He also pointed out that Iran has been a dangerous regime and continues to engage in activities that are contrary to the interests of the United States, to Israel, and to the region. And on that, we agree. He also pointed out the fact that Iran has repeatedly threatened Israel and engaged in the most venomous of anti-Semitic statements. And no one can dispute that. But on the core issue, which is how do we prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, which would make it far more dangerous and would give it scope for even greater action in the region, the Prime Minister didn’t offer any viable alternatives. So let’s be clear about what exactly the central concern should be, both for the United States and for Israel. I’ve said since before I became President that one of my primary goals in foreign policy would be preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons. And with the help of Congress and our international partners, we constructed an extraordinarily effective sanctions regime that pressured Iran to come to the table to negotiate in a serious fashion. They have now been negotiating over the last year, and during that period, Iran has, in fact, frozen its program, rolled back some of its most dangerous highly enriched uranium, and subjected itself to the kinds of verifications and inspections that we had not previously seen. Keep in mind that when we shaped that interim deal, Prime Minister Netanyahu made almost the precise same speech about how dangerous that deal was going to be. And yet, over a year later, even Israeli intelligence officers and, in some cases, members of the Israeli government, have to acknowledge that, in fact, it has kept Iran from further pursuing its nuclear program. Now, the deal that we are trying to negotiate that is not yet completed would cut off the different pathways for Iran to advance its nuclear capabilities. It would roll back some elements of its program. It would ensure that it did not have what we call a breakout capacity that was shorter than a year’s time. And it would subject Iran to the most vigorous inspections and verifications regimes that have ever been put in place. And the alternative that the Prime Minister offers is no deal, in which case Iran will immediately begin once again pursuing its nuclear program, accelerate its nuclear program, without us having any insight into what they’re doing, and without constraint. And his essential argument is that if we just double down on sanctions, Iran won’t want to do that. Well, we have evidence from the past decade that sanctions alone are not sufficient to prevent Iran from pursuing its nuclear ambitions. And if it, in fact, does not have some sense that sanctions will be removed, it will not have an interest in avoiding the path that it’s currently on. So the bottom line is this: We don’t yet have a deal. It may be that Iran cannot say yes to a good deal. I have repeatedly said that I would rather have no deal than a bad deal. But if we’re successful in negotiating, then, in fact, this will be the best deal possible to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Nothing else comes close. Sanctions won’t do it. Even military action would not be as successful as the deal that we have put forward. And I think it is very important not to be distracted by the nature of the Iranian regime’s ambitions when it comes to territory or terrorism -- all issues which we share a concern with Israel about and are working consistently with Israel on. Because we know that if, in fact, they obtain a nuclear weapon, all those problems would be worse. So we’re staying focused on the central issue here: How do we prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. The path that we’ve proposed, if successful, by far is the best way to do that. That’s demonstrable. And Prime Minister Netanyahu has not offered any kind of viable alternative that would achieve the same verifiable mechanism to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. So I would urge the members of Congress who were there to continue to express their strong support for Israel’s security, to continue to express their strong interest in providing the assistance Israel needs to repel attacks. I think it's important for members of Congress, on a bipartisan basis, to be unified in pushing back against terrorism in the region and the destabilizing efforts that Iran may have engaged in with our partners. Those are all things in which this administration and Israel agree. But when it comes to this nuclear deal, let’s wait until there’s actually a deal on the table that Iran has agreed to, at which point everybody can evaluate it; we don’t have to speculate. And what I can guarantee is that if it's a deal I’ve signed off on, I will be able to prove that it is the best way for us to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. And for us to pass up on that potential opportunity would be a great mistake. It's not one that I intend to make, and I will take that case to every member of Congress once we actually have a deal. I’ll take one question from Julie. Go ahead. Q Now that you’ve had a chance to read the Prime Minister’s remarks at least, do you feel like the speech he gave was appropriate, considering his upcoming elections and the upcoming deadline? And you also talked to other foreign leaders today -- the call on Ukraine. Did Iran come up at all, and are you expecting any signs of support from them vis-à-vis your position versus the Prime Minister? THE PRESIDENT: No. All the folks on the call today share my position that we should see if we can get this deal done. It was not a topic of conversation. With respect to the decision of the Speaker to offer up the House Chamber two weeks before Mr. Netanyahu’s election to make this case, I think that question should be directed to Mr. Boehner. As I said, it is very important for us not to politicize the relationship between Israel and the United States. It's very important for all of us Americans to realize that we have a system of government in which foreign policy runs through the executive branch and the President, not through other channels. And I think it's important for us to stay focused on the problem at hand. And the specific problem that is being debated right now is not whether we trust the Iranian regime or not -- we don’t trust them. It's not whether Iran engages in destabilizing activities -- everybody agrees with that. The central question is, how can we stop them from getting a nuclear weapon. And what we know is that if we’re able to get a deal, not only do we cut off all the various pathways for Iran getting a nuclear weapon, but we also know that we’ll have a verification mechanism and an inspection mechanism where if they cheat and if they engage in a covert program we are far more likely to see it in time to do something about it. What I also know is if we don’t have a deal, as Prime Minster Netanyahu suggested -- if, in fact, he’s right that they’re not trustworthy, they intend to pursue a covert program, and they cheat, we’ll be far less aware of it until it is potentially too late. What I also know is, is that he made the same argument before this current interim deal, and even officials in his own government had to acknowledge that Iran has, in fact, maintained their end of the bargain. So what I'm focused on right now is solving this problem. I’m not focused on the politics of it, I'm not focused on the theater of it. And my strong suggestion would be that members of Congress, as they evaluate it, stay similarly focused. All right. Thank you, guys. From the Wire FBI arrests 'hardcore leftist' plotting to violently attack pro-Trump protesters at Florida Capitol over rioting at US Capitol Leo Terrrell: Democrats ‘Play Race And Hate Card 24/7’ While Donald Trump ‘Denounced The Klan As A Terrorist Group’ Your garden needs soil amendments. Here's where pros suggest you buy them	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1585
__label__wiki	0.56297	0.56297	Patricia Quinn: 34 videos A Christmas Carol (1977) - 11 minutes 30 seconds (540x418, 25 fps, 77.0 MB). Patricia Quinn plays the Ghost of Christmas Past in this BBC adaptation of the Dickens classic, with Sir Michael Horndern as Ebenezer Scrooge. Originally aired on December 24th, 1977. Bergerac (1988, "Crossed Swords" Part 1) - 1 minute 38 seconds (540x408, 25 fps, 10.9 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Dolly Hayward in Season Six Episode Two ("Crossed Swords") of this BBC detective series. Originally aired on January 9th, 1988. Bergerac (1988, "Crossed Swords" Part 2) - 1 minute 10 seconds (540x408, 25 fps, 7.8 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Dolly Hayward in Season Six Episode Two ("Crossed Swords") of this BBC detective series. Originally aired on January 9th, 1988. Fortunes of War (1987, Episode 6 "Autumn 1942") - 1 minute 25 seconds (541x360, 24 fps, 9.4 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Mona Castlebar, husband of Bill Castlebar (played by Sir Robert Stephens), in Episode Six of this BBC novel adaptation. Patricia Quinn and Robert Stephens were already a couple in real life as well at the time this series was being filmed, though they would not marry until several years later in 1995. Originally aired on November 15th, 1987. Fortunes of War (1987, Episode 7 "January 1943") - 2 minutes 41 seconds (541x360, 24 fps, 18.0 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Mona Castlebar, husband of Bill Castlebar (played by Sir Robert Stephens), in Episode Six of this BBC novel adaptation. In this scene she hears from the doctor about her husband's medical condition, which he later dies from. We then see her as a widow at his funeral, in a horrible bit of foreshadowing for later real life events. Patricia Quinn and Robert Stephens were actually a couple in real life at the time this series was being filmed, though they would not marry until several years later in January 1995. Less than a year later in November 1995, Robert Stephens passed away. Originally aired on November 22nd, 1987. Fox (1980, Episode 1 "King Billy") - 3 minutes 19 seconds (512x382, 25 fps, 22.2 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Liz in Episode One ("King Billy") of this ITV series. Here she confronts and then stabs the man she's been having an affair with, a member of the Fox family. Originally aired on March 10th, 1980. Fox (1980, Episode 2 "Arched Fingers for Bach, Flat Fingers for Love" Part 1) - 59 seconds (540x413, 25 fps, 6.6 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Liz in Episode Two ("Arched Fingers for Bach, Flat Fingers for Love") of this ITV series. Here she wanders the streets in the wake of stabbing her lover, a member of the Fox family. Originally aired on March 17th, 1980. Fox (1980, Episode 2 "Arched Fingers for Bach, Flat Fingers for Love" Part 2) - 2 minutes 9 seconds (540x413, 25 fps, 14.4 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Liz in Episode Two ("Arched Fingers for Bach, Flat Fingers for Love") of this ITV series. Here she's found and comforted by her lover, a member of the Fox family who has apparently recovered from being stabbed by her. Originally aired on March 17th, 1980. Hammer House of Horror (1980, "Witching Time" Part 1) - 6 minutes 53 seconds (447x333, 25 fps, 46.1 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Lucinda Jessop, a witch, in Episode One ("Witching Time") of this ITV series. Here she's welcomed into modern times. Originally aired on April 12th, 1980. Hammer House of Horror (1980, "Witching Time" Part 2) - 55 seconds (447x333, 25 fps, 6.1 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Lucinda Jessop, a witch, in Episode One ("Witching Time") of this ITV series. Here she proves she's not a ghost by getting naked and forcing the man of the house to grope her. Makes sense to me! Originally aired on April 12th, 1980. Hammer House of Horror (1980, "Witching Time" Part 3) - 22 seconds (447x333, 25 fps, 2.4 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Lucinda Jessop, a witch, in Episode One ("Witching Time") of this ITV series. Here she lounges around topless in bed after seducing the man of the house. Originally aired on April 12th, 1980. Hawk the Slayer (1980 - Part 1) - 3 minutes 59 seconds (612x360, 30 fps, 26.7 MB). Patricia Quinn plays "Woman", a sorceress and a larger role than you'd expect despite lacking a proper name, in this 1980 film. Here Hawk saves her from being burned as a witch. Hawk the Slayer (1980 - Part 2) - 38 seconds (612x360, 30 fps, 4.2 MB). Patricia Quinn plays "Woman", a sorceress and a larger role than you'd expect despite lacking a proper name, in this 1980 film. Here she assists Hawk with gathering his party. Hawk the Slayer (1980 - Part 3) - 1 minute 30 seconds (612x360, 30 fps, 10.0 MB). Patricia Quinn plays "Woman", a sorceress and a larger role than you'd expect despite lacking a proper name, in this 1980 film. "Woman, we need the use of your magic". Here she assists Hawk and company by providing the cover of smoke before battle. Hawk the Slayer (1980 - Part 4) - 4 minutes 2 seconds (612x360, 30 fps, 27.0 MB). Patricia Quinn plays "Woman", a sorceress and a larger role than you'd expect despite lacking a proper name, in this 1980 film. Here she rescues Hawk and company by taking out their guard with... a silly string blowgun! I kid you not! She then initiates the final battle with flaming ping pong balls (at least that's what they look like). Enjoy the 1980 special effects! Minder (1982, "Rembrandt Doesn't Live Here Anymore" Part 1) - 2 minutes 7 seconds (372x284, 25 fps, 14.2 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Monica in Season Three Episode Three ("Rembrandt Doesn't Live Here Anymore") of this ITV criminal drama series. Originally aired on January 27th, 1982. Minder (1982, "Rembrandt Doesn't Live Here Anymore" Part 2) - 2 minutes 53 seconds (372x284, 25 fps, 19.3 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Monica in Season Three Episode Three ("Rembrandt Doesn't Live Here Anymore") of this ITV criminal drama series. Originally aired on January 27th, 1982. Monty Python's Meaning of Life (1983 - Sex Education) - 2 minutes 23 seconds (670x360, 30 fps, 16.0 MB). Patricia Quinn as Mrs. Williams assists John Cleese with sex education class, demonstrating sexual intercourse for the assembled (bored) students in this 1983 Monty Python film. Shoulder to Shoulder (1974, "Annie Kenney" - Part 1) - 7 minutes 19 seconds (518x398, 25 fps, 49.0 MB). Patricia Quinn has a featured role as Christabel Pankhurst in all six episodes of this 1974 BBC series about the women's sufragette movement. Episode Two focuses on Annie Kenney, a mill worker who joins the cause. Originally aired on April 10th, 1974. Tales of the Unexpected (1980, "The Stinker" - Part 1) - 3 minutes 15 seconds (509x381, 30 fps, 21.8 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Phyl Tinker, wife of Harold Tinker (played by Denholm Elliott), in Season Three Episode Seven of this ITV series. Here she "encourages" her husband to take a better job from an old schoolmate who used to bully him. Originally aired on December 7th, 1980. Tales of the Unexpected (1980, "The Stinker" - Part 2) - 4 minutes 52 seconds (509x381, 30 fps, 32.6 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Phyl Tinker, wife of Harold Tinker (played by Denholm Elliott), in Season Three Episode Seven of this ITV series. Here she tarts it up at a dinner engagement with her husband's new boss (and former bullying schoolmate). Originally aired on December 7th, 1980. The Alf Garnett Saga (1972 - Part 1) - 44 seconds (540x403, 25 fps, 4.9 MB). Patricia Quinn has a small role as "2nd Bird" in this 1972 film. Here they're distributing their winnings from the racetrack and hiding from Alf Garnett. The Alf Garnett Saga (1972 - Part 2) - 1 minute 50 seconds (540x403, 25 fps, 12.3 MB). Patricia Quinn has a small role as "2nd Bird" in this 1972 film. Here they're dancing at a night club. The Alf Garnett Saga (1972 - Part 3) - 26 seconds (540x403, 25 fps, 3.0 MB). Patricia Quinn has a small role as "2nd Bird" in this 1972 film. Patricia Quinn's Irish accent is particularly thick here. The Box of Delights (1984, Episode 3 "In Darkest Cellars Underneath") - 5 minutes 12 seconds (540x404, 25 fps, 34.8 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Sylvia Daisy Pouncer, partner of Abner Brown (played by Sir Robert Stephens), in Episode Three of this BBC children's novel adaptation. Patricia Quinn and Robert Stephens were already a couple at the time this series was being filmed, though they would not marry until over a decade later in 1995. Originally aired on November 15th, 1984. The Box of Delights (1984, Episode 4 "The Spider in the Web") - 2 minutes 40 seconds (508x382, 25 fps, 17.5 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Sylvia Daisy Pouncer, partner of Abner Brown (played by Sir Robert Stephens), in Episode Four of this BBC children's novel adaptation. Patricia Quinn and Robert Stephens were already a couple at the time this series was being filmed, though they would not marry until over a decade later in 1995. Originally aired on November 22nd, 1984. The Box of Delights (1984, Episode 5 "Beware of Yesterday") - 1 minute 56 seconds (540x401, 25 fps, 12.9 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Sylvia Daisy Pouncer, partner of Abner Brown (played by Sir Robert Stephens), in Episode Five of this BBC children's novel adaptation. Patricia Quinn and Robert Stephens were already a couple at the time this series was being filmed, though they would not marry until over a decade later in 1995. Originally aired on November 29th, 1984. The Professionals (1978, "Look After Annie" - Part 1) - 1 minute 43 seconds (448x335, 25 fps, 11.5 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Isla in Season One Episode Twelve ("Look After Annie") of this ITV crime action drama series. Originally aired on March 17th, 1978. The Professionals (1978, "Look After Annie" - Part 2) - 1 minute 17 seconds (448x335, 25 fps, 8.6 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Isla in Season One Episode Twelve ("Look After Annie") of this ITV crime action drama series. Originally aired on March 17th, 1978. Up the Chastity Belt (1971) - 52 seconds (510x286, 25 fps, 5.8 MB). Patricia Quinn has a bit part as "Wife" in this 1971 Frankie Howerd film comedy. Here he sells a chastity belt to Patricia Quinn's husband before he goes off to the Crusades, and then makes a fortune selling spare keys to everyone else. Up the Front (1972) - 36 seconds (351x193, 25 fps, 4.0 MB). Patricia Quinn has a bit part as "Magda, Mata Hari's maid" in this 1972 Frankie Howerd film comedy. Mata Hari is played by Zsa Zsa Gabor. Believe it or not, this is the larger of Patricia Quinn's two scenes. Later on, she's only glimpsed through a keyhole canoodling with Sergeant Major Groping. Van der Valk (1972, "Destroying Angel") - 5 minutes 16 seconds (540x404, 25 fps, 35.2 MB). Patricia Quinn plays Yvonne, a dominatrix, in Season One Episode Two ("Destroying Angel") of this ITV detective series. Originally aired on September 20th, 1972.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1587
__label__wiki	0.80292	0.80292	Virginia Governor Candidates 3 years ago Jack Foley (https://images.scribblelive.com/2017/10/6/8afe4623-f64a-4177-ba61-d08e4346812d.jpg) Gracie Miller \| gmiller27@radford.edu Election Day is approaching fast, so it’s important that you know who is running for what office. There are three statewide offices up for election in Virginia this year, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General. The Virginia House of Delegates also has their elections this year. Radford University is within the 12th district, which will be one of the most competitive Delegate races in the entire state. All constitutional offices in Radford City will be up for election this year as well. Three people are running for Governor in Virginia this year. The first candidate is Ralph S. Northam, running for the Democratic Party. Ralph is a Military Institute graduate, Army Veteran, and Pediatric Neurologist. Northam served as a State Senator from 2008 until he took his current post as Lieutenant Governor in 2014. He is running for Governor to build onto Virginia’s economic process and defend our values against those who want to take us back. As a Democrat he will be representing the incumbent party, as Terry Mcauliffe, also a Democrat is the current Governor. Running for the Republican Party is Edward “Ed” W. Gillespie. Ed is a conservative leader and a business owner. He started his political career as a Senate Parking lot attendant and worked his way up to becoming Counselor to President George W. Bush. He was also a former Chairman of the Republican party of Virginia and the Republican National Committee. Gillespie previously ran for United States Senator in Virginia against Mark Warner, in which he lost by less than 1% of the total vote. The Libertarian candidate running is Clifford D. Hyra. Clifford is a socially inclusive, fiscally responsible, mainstream Libertarian. He has an undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering that he got at Virginia Tech and a law degree from George Mason University. The two Lieutenant Governor candidates this year are Jill Vogel and Justin Fairfax. Jill Vogel is the Republican Party nominee, who has served as State Senator since 2008 and is a lawyer who has her law firm. Justin Fairfax, the Democratic nominee, who is former Assistant U.S. Attorney and primary candidate for Virginia Attorney General in 2013. The current Attorney General, Mark Herring, is running for reelection. Herring, a Democrat, served as a State Senator until from 2006 until he took his current position as Attorney General in 2014. Running against him is John Adams, the Republican nominee. Adams currently is a partner with the McGuire Woods law firm in Richmond; he is on leave during his campaign for Attorney General. According to his televisions commercials, he is related to the second President of the United States John Adams. Running for Delegate in our district this year for the Republican Party is Joseph R. Yost. Yost graduated from Radford University, earning himself a Bachelor’s of Science and a Masters of Arts in Criminal Justice. Yost is also the Executive Director of the Giles County Historical Society and running for re-election this year. The Democratic candidate is Chris L. Hurst. Hurst was previously an evening news anchor for WDBJ7 until he left the news station to pursue a career in politics. The 12th district of Virginia was one slightly by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, making this a very competitive race for both parties. There are no contested races for any of Radford City’s constitutional offices this year, and all current seat holders are running for reelection. The candidates are Chris E. Rehak Democratic Candidate for Commonwealth’s Attorney for Radford City, Mark R. Armentrout Republican nominee for Sheriff, Cathy P. Flinchum Democratic nominee for Commissioner of the Revenue, and Janet H. Jones Democratic nominee for Radford City Treasurer. Voting for all eight offices will take place on November 7th from six a.m. – seven p.m. Students who are registered to vote in the East Precinct, which is where Radford University is located, will vote at the Radford City Recreation Center. Latest posts by Jack Foley (see all) How to Graduate with Less in Student Loans? - November 7, 2017 Interested in the Environmental Issues? Professor Kovarik’s New Class is For You - November 7, 2017 Virginia Governor Candidates - October 31, 2017 Tags: Clifford D. Hyra, College, Edward “Ed” W. Gillespie, George W. Bush, Governor Candidates, Jill Vogel, Justin Fairfax, Mark Herring, Mark Warner, News, Radford, Ralph S. Northam, Tartan, Terry Mcauliffe, Virginia Previous Students Homeless for a Night Next Demi Lovato opens up about her sexuality, mental illness, and eating disorder Radford Student Radford Professor Radford Faculty Radford Alum Parent of a Radford Student RU an established, or fledgling journalist? Or maybe you just love to write, and this might be your first time showcasing your hidden talent? Want to bring your opinions and unique views to the masses? Love the idea of reporting on and off campus news, voicing your opinion on topics ranging from movies, laws, and on the many fun, and sometime’s unusual, attractions going on around campus? Then give Radford University’s Student-run Newspaper a shout and email us today! (Find out more)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1588
__label__cc	0.726075	0.273925	Posts Tagged ‘Ken Settle’ Rascal Flatts – 07-20-12 – Changed Tour 2012, DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI Rascal Flatts performs on July 20th, 2012 during Changed Tour 2012 at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Jul 22, 2012 \| Have your say » Little Big Town – 07-20-12 – Changed Tour 2012, DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI Little Big Town performs on July 20th, 2012 during Changed Tour 2012 at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Eli Young Band – 07-20-12 – Changed Tour 2012, DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI Eli Young Band performs on July 20th, 2012 during Changed Tour 2012 at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Young Jeezy – 03-10-12 – The Fillmore, Detroit, MI Young Jeezy performs on March 10th, 2012 in support of “TM 103 Hustlerz Ambition” at The Fillmore in Detroit, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Wilco – 12-10-11 – The Fillmore, Detroit, MI Wilco perform on November 10th, 2011 in support of “The Whole Love” at The Fillmore in Detroit, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Dec 14, 2011 \| Have your say » Nick Lowe – 12-10-11 – The Fillmore, Detroit, MI Nick Lowe performs on November 10th, 2011 at The Fillmore in Detroit, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Puscifer – 11-19-11 – Masonic Temple, Detroit, MI Puscifer perform on November 19th, 2011 in support of “Conditions of My Parole” at Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Carina Round – 11-19-11 – Masonic Temple, Detroit, MI Carina Round performs on November 19th, 2011 at Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Sting – 11-06-11 – Fox Theatre, Detroit, MI Sting perform on November 6th, 2011 in support of “Best of 25 Years” at Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Chickenfoot – 11-05-11 – The Metro, Chicago, IL Chickenfoot perform on November 5th, 2011 in support of “III” at The Metro in Chicago, Illinois – photos by Ken Settle Roger Daltrey – 10-01-11 – Caesars Windsor Hotel & Casino, Windsor, Ontario, Canada Roger Daltrey perform on October 1st, 2011 on the Tommy Tour 2011 at Caesars Windsor Hotel & Casino in Windsor, Ontario, Canada – photos by Ken Settle Oct 03, 2011 \| Have your say » George Clinton & P-Funk – 09-05-11 – Arts, Beats & Eats, Royal Oak Music Theatre, Royal Oak, MI George Clinton & P-Funk perform on September 5th, 2011 during Arts, Beats & Eats at Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Sep 08, 2011 \| Have your say » Vince Gill – 09-04-11 – Arts, Beats & Eats, Royal Oak Music Theatre, Royal Oak, MI Vince Gill performs on September 4th, 2011 during Arts, Beats & Eats at Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Ted Nugent – 09-03-11 – DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI Ted Nugent performs on September 3rd, 2011 at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Tedeschi Trucks Band – 08-25-11 – Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL Tedeschi Trucks Band perform on August 25th, 2011 in support of “Revelator” at Chicago Theatre in Chicago, Illinois – photos by Ken Settle Alice Cooper – 08-27-11 – DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI Alice Cooper performs on August 27th, 2011 at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Ace Frehley – 08-27-11 – DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI Ace Frehley performs on August 27th, 2011 at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Chris Robinson Brotherhood – 08-19-11 – DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI Chris Robinson Brotherhood perform on August 19th, 2011 at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle The J. Geils Band – 08-19-11 – DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI The J. Geils Band perform on August 19th, 2011 at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle U2 – 06-26-11 – 360 Tour, Spartan Stadium, East Lansing, MI U2 perform on June 26th, 2011 on the 360 Tour at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Warren Haynes Band – 06-14-11 – Royal Oak Music Theatre, Royal Oak, MI Warren Haynes Band perform on June 14th, 2011 in support of “Man In Motion” at Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Robin Trower – 05-26-11 – Royal Oak Music Theatre, Royal Oak, MI Robin Trower performs on May 26th, 2011 at Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle May 31, 2011 \| 1 Comment » Dierks Bentley – 05-06-11 – The Fillmore, Detroit, MI Dierks Bentley perform on May 6th, 2011 in support of ‘Up on the Ridge’ at The Fillmore in Detroit, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Iggy And The Stooges – 04-19-11 – Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI Iggy And The Stooges perform on April 19th, 2011 in part of ‘Ron Asheton Tribute Concert’ at Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, Michigan – photos by Ken Settle Apr 20, 2011 \| 2 Comments »	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1590
__label__wiki	0.7931	0.7931	Inquires into Contemporary Sculpture: What about Power? Wed, Apr 15, 2015, 6–7pm New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium This panel unpacks some of the themes that emerge in the new publication Inquires into Contemporary Sculpture: What about Power? (published by SculptureCenter and Black Dog Publishing, London). Co-editors Mary Ceruti and Ruba Katrib will lead a conversation with contributors Malik Gaines, Candice Hopkins, and Margaret Lee about the various power dynamics embedded in and surrounding contemporary sculpture. As part of SculptureCenter series of books Inquiries into Contemporary Sculpture, the second title What about Power?, looks at the contemporary intersections of power and sculpture. From ritual to monument, sculpture has been embedded within various power dynamics, whether political, spiritual, erotic, or otherwise. Sculpture's relationship to power is distinct from other artistic forms, as it is engaged with particular spatial and physical realms. Hinged on issues around architecture and the body, sculpture reflects on will, subjugation, desire, fetish, scale, etc. These relationships have shifted throughout time, where do they stand now? What is the power dynamic around sculpture today? Does sculpture wield power today? If so, what kind? Is it necessary to understand sculpture through power relations? What are the potentials of this kind of reading, its pitfalls? Other contributors to What about Power? include Gregg Bordowitz, Dominic Eichler, Jörg Heiser, Chris Kraus, and Jumana Manna, among others. The series takes an earnest look at what constitutes, excites, entangles, and necessitates ideas and questions around sculpture now. Each topic is determined through a closed think tank meeting with a small group of artists, curators, and historians. The first book in the series, Where is Production?, was published last fall and features contributions by Michelle Kuo, Camille Henrot, Ei Arakawa, Carol Bove, Miki Kaneda, Trevor Paglen, and Shahryar Nashat, among others. What about Power? is co-edited by Mary Ceruti, Executive Director and Chief Curator at SculptureCenter, and Ruba Katrib, Curator at SculptureCenter. Malik Gaines is an artist and writer based in New York. He has performed and exhibited extensively with the group My Barbarian and his newer collaboration, Courtesy the Artists. Gaines has written about art and performance for magazines, exhibition catalogues, artist monographs, and journals including Art Journal and Women & Performance. His first book, on 1960s black performance, is in the publication process. He is assistant professor of Art at Hunter College. Candice Hopkins is an Albuquerque-based curator and a writer. She has held curatorial positions at the National Gallery of Canada, The Walter Phillips Gallery, and The Western Front. She is presently Interim Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. Her writings on art, history, and vernacular architecture are published widely. Her co-curated exhibitions include Unsettled Landscapes, SITE Santa Fe (2014); Sakahàn, National Gallery of Canada (2013); Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, Plug In ICA (2010); Before the Internet: Networks and Art, Western Front (2007), and Jimmie Durham: Knew Urk, Reg Vardy and Walter Phillips Gallery (2005). Margaret Lee lives and works in New York. As an artist she has exhibited extensively both in the US and abroad and has been included in exhibitions including Made In L.A. 2014, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the 12th Biennale de Lyon, France; New Pictures of Common Objects, MoMA PS1, New York; and The 6th White Columns Annual, New York, amongst others. As a curator, Lee founded the artist-run space 179 Canal from 2009-2010 and has curated projects at White Columns, New York and the X-Initiative, New York. In 2011, Lee partnered with Oliver Newton to open 47 Canal, a commercial gallery in New York which acts as an extension of her curatorial practice and ongoing commitment to supporting emerging art.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1593
__label__wiki	0.563122	0.563122	quis custodiet ipsos custodes "Who shall guard the guards?" Juvenal, Satires LawCite AUSTLII Vic unreported Vic legislation Criminal Procedure Act blog Evidence Act blog JCV VicBar VLRC Swear it's fixed at 11:20 pm Posted by Kyle Late last year we discussed the case of DPP v Marijancevic [2011] VSCA 355, where the wheels spectacularly fell off the criminal justice wagon when it came to light some police weren't swearing affidavits for search warrants as required. That decision was delivered on 11 November 2011: the date is significant when you read the legislative amendments discussed below, as they relate to purported affidavits signed before 12 November 2011. Apparently the problem was big. Really big. According to The Age and The Herald-Sun, thousands of cases were at risk of dismissal because of this problem. Today, the Government rushed through emergency legislation, passing the Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment (Affidavits) Act 2012 in the Legislative Assembly. The Act isn't yet online — it has to pass the Legislative Council, which is sitting on 29 Feb, and receive Royal Assent — but the Bill is available here. It will amend the Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1958, inserting two new sections. Section 165 attempts to remedy the problems created with affidavits that weren't sworn. 165 Validation of certain acts and documents (1) If an affidavit signed before 12 November 2011 by a person and by a person duly authorised to administer oaths contains words indicating that the first person states that the affidavit is made on oath or affirmation— (a) it is not, and was not at any time, necessary that— (i) the oath or affirmation be made orally; or (ii) the first person signed the affidavit in the presence of the person duly authorised to administer oaths; or (iii) the person duly authorised to administer oaths signed the affidavit in the presence of the first person; or (iv) if the first person signed the affidavit in the presence of a person duly authorised to administer oaths, the person so authorised observed the person signing the affidavit; or (v) the affidavit contained the statement required by section 126; and (b) the words indicating that the first person states that the affidavit was made on oath or affirmation are and are taken always to have been effective by way of oath or affirmation even if anything referred to in paragraph (a)(i) to (v) was not done or did not occur. (2) A warrant, an order, a summons or other process issued or made by a court or a judicial officer in reliance, directly or indirectly, on an affidavit referred to in subsection (1) is not invalid only by reason of the fact that, but for subsection (1), the affidavit would not have been duly sworn or affirmed. (3) For the purposes of the prosecution of an alleged offence, the fact that, but for subsection (1), an affidavit would not have been duly sworn or affirmed is to be disregarded in determining whether evidence obtained in reliance, directly or indirectly, on that affidavit ought to be admitted. (4) Subject to subsection (3), this section does not limit a discretion of a court— (a) to exclude evidence in a criminal proceeding; or (b) to stay a criminal proceeding in the interests of justice. (5) This section does not affect the rights of the parties in— (a) the proceedings known as Director of Public Prosecutions (Vic.) v. Marijancevic (No. 264 of 2011), Director of Public Prosecutions (Vic.) v. Preece (No. 263 of 2011) and Director of Public Prosecutions (Vic.) v. Preece (No. 265 of 2011) in the Supreme Court of Victoria, Court of Appeal; or (b) any other proceeding in which a court, before the day on which the Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment (Affidavits) Act 2012 receives the Royal Assent, has made a ruling on the validity of— (i) an affidavit referred to in subsection (1); or (ii) a warrant, an order, a summons or a process issued or made in reliance, directly or indirectly, on an affidavit referred to in subsection (1); or (c) any other proceeding in which a court, before the day on which the Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment (Affidavits) Act 2012 receives the Royal Assent, has made a ruling on the admissibility of evidence obtained under a warrant, an order, a summons or other process issued or made in reliance, directly or indirectly, on an affidavit that, but for subsection (1), would not have been duly sworn or affirmed. (6) In this section affidavit includes a document purporting to be an affidavit. This section seems to cover everything that might make an affidavit deficient, aside from the mention of the absence of the use of a holy book for swearing an affidavit. Section 103 of the Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1958 provides that there is no need to actually use a religious text when making on oath. (Or to even have any religious beliefs!) Section 126B creates an offence for purportedly swearing an affidavit. 126B Miscellaneous False or misleading statement as to swearing etc. of affidavit (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person must not make a false or misleading statement as to— (a) the circumstances in which an affidavit or a document purporting to be an affidavit was sworn or affirmed; or (b) whether or not an affidavit or a document purporting to be an affidavit was sworn or affirmed— knowing that the statement is false or misleading. Penalty: 10 penalty units. (2) This section applies— (a) only in relation to a statement made on or after the commencement of section 4 of the Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment (Affidavits) Act 2012; and (b) whether the affidavit or the document purporting to be an affidavit was sworn or affirmed before, on or after that commencement. Labels: evidence, legislation Links to this post Oral evidence on sentencing at 12:18 am Posted by Kyle Witnesses give evidence on oath in sentencing hearings quite commonly in the higher courts. It virtually never happens in the Magistrates' Court. One reason for this (it might be suggested) is the time constraints of the summary jurisdiction. I don't think that's why. Magistrates often go to great lengths to learn more about an offender when deciding their sentence. More likely the reason it's rarely done is because it's rarely done; what was a habit has now become a tradition, verging on a rule. (Another reason might be that with the lower number of cases and more serious offending involved in the higher courts, the prosecution is more prepared to challenge assertions favourable to an offender.) It's true that preparing a witness to give evidence is time-consuming, and sometimes difficult. But oral evidence can frequently be more effective than even the most well-crafted written reference. It's the human touch. Nonetheless, it’s usual — especially in summary courts — for assertions by an accused to be received without insistence on formal proof. Authority for this practice is found in R v Storey [1998] 1 VR 359 at 371 – 2: We have spoken of ‘proof’. Ordinarily, much of what is relied on in sentencing is not the subject of evidence given on the plea. Judges have always relied heavily on what is asserted from the bar table and we see no reason why that practice should not continue. We are not to be taken as suggesting any departure from current practices on sentencing hearings. As we have said, judges can, and commonly do, act in such hearings on matters that are not proved by evidence that would be admissible at trial. There will, however, be cases, we venture to suggest relatively few cases, in which there will be significant disputes of fact that can be resolved only by the ca11ing of appropriate evidence. But that is to stop well short of adopting the procedure by way of so-called ‘Newton hearing’ that has been adopted in England and Wales. The procedures for hearing pleas in this State have not been shown to be wanting, and while we readily accept that “Nothing gives a bigger sense of injustice to a convicted man than false statements being made about him after the verdict” we do not accept that present procedures are deficient in this respect: R v Storey [1998] 1 VR 359 at 371 – 2. So, what happens in those cases when there are disputes of fact at sentence? It was settled in R v Storey, and is now given statutory force at s 141 of the Evidence Act 2008, that the standard of proof for an accused in a criminal hearing (including on a plea, if the rules of evidence have been imposed) is on the balance of probabilities. When the prosecution objects to or disputes assertions favourable to the accused, they need to be proved by admissible evidence. What I have said is not to deny that the sentencing judge should be fully informed, or that desirable practices as they have developed should not continue. In practice sentencing proceedings are conducted with a degree of informality. Unnecessary insistence on the strict rules of evidence is in no one's interests in sentencing proceedings, and the customary co-operation between the Crown and the offender and making of admissions by the offender should so far as possible be insisted upon. But if there is good reason for objection to evidence in sentencing proceedings the objection when taken must be resolved and, apart from statute, must be resolved by application of the rules of evidence. In the absence of a direction pursuant to s 4 of the Evidence Act, the law of evidence unaffected by that Act applies: Bourchas (2002) 133 A Crim R 413 at [61]. The typical formulation of this is that when a sentencer proposes to take into account matters favourable to an offender, those matters need only be proved on the balance of probabilities; when the sentencer wishes to take in account matters adverse to the offender, they need be proved beyond reasonable doubt. But the court is not bound to accept the view of events most favourable to the accused unless they can be disproven by the prosecution. For example, in a drug conspiracy case it was put at the sentence hearing that the offenders had abandoned their conspiracy, based on answers in their record of interview. The Victorian Court of Appeal gave that submission short shrift. If the applicants had been serious in their contention that the project had been abandoned they could have given sworn evidence to that effect before the sentencing judge. It is remarkable how seldom accused persons are prepared to go into the witness box to lend verisimilitude to the sometimes bald and unconvincing assertions which counsel make on their behalf: R v Raptis, Lilimbakis and Sinclair (1988) 36 A Crim R 362 at 366 per Young CJ, O'Bryan and Tadgell JJ. A lawyer is, on occasion, given instructions that strain credulity. One wonders if those instructions would be pressed so firmly by the client if it was the client, and not their advocate, who would have to explain their story to the court. But then, that's the raison d'être for advocates: to act as a buffer between their client and the Bench, and to articulate those matters the client might not be able to adequately articulate themself. But it's not all one way. Occasionally, prosecutors will insist that a Prosecution Opening (or in the Magistrates' Court, the police summary) represents the One True Version of the Truth, and that if the offender wants to put anything different, they must give or call evidence. This occurred in Ashton v The Queen [2010] VSCA 329 at [12] – [23]. Counsel for the offender told the Court the offender disputed one of the facts contained in the Prosecution Opening. She submitted that if the disputed fact were accepted it was an aggravating feature, and hence for the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. The sentencing judge said ‘... if you want to assert something that is to the benefit of your client apparently and is inconsistent with the Crown case you are going to have to call evidence on it’ (quoted at [13] of the judgment). After further discussion, the prosecutor stated the Crown intended to proceed on the Opening provided, and submitted that the offender ought to give evidence if he wanted to put anything different. On appeal, the Court of Appeal held this was not the proper way to use a Prosecution Opening. [20] ...The critical issue is that the judge accepted the disputed fact as established, and relied on the fact as a matter adverse to the appellant. The difficulty is that, as counsel made plain from the outset, the fact was disputed. In those circumstances, if the Crown wished to persist with that allegation of fact, it was for the Crown to call evidence sufficient to satisfy the sentencing judge of the fact beyond reasonable doubt. [21] ... [22] ...In my view, the judge erred by approaching the matter in that way. The starting point is that, as conventionally occurs, the Crown opening constitutes an agreed factual basis upon which a judge passes sentence: R v LJF [2009] VSCA 134 at [3]. However, in this case a fact in the opening being disputed, it was for the Crown to call the victims to give evidence in substantiation of the fact, which effectively meant providing the appellant’s counsel with the opportunity to cross-examine them. By taking the course that he did, the judge denied the appellant that opportunity, and acted upon facts that were not before him. Labels: advocacy, evidence, sentencing Links to this post Offending on bail at 2:35 pm Posted by Dr Manhattan Section 16(3C) of the Sentencing Act 1991 creates a presumption that imprisonment imposed for offences committed on bail will be served cumulatively, unless the sentencing court directs otherwise. The Full Court (McInerey and Crockett JJ, Gillard J agreeing) said in R v Gray [1977] VicRp 27; [1977] VR 225: As to the circumstance that offences were committed whilst the applicant was on bail, it is, we think, permissible for a sentencing judge to take this into account at least to the extent of assessing the prospects of the applicant's reformation. The circumstance that an applicant has committed offences while on bail is, of course, a circumstance justifying a court in making an order for revocation of that bail--see R v Hill, [1967] VicRp 59; [1967] VR 556. Bail is granted on the supposition that the applicant will answer to his bail and is most certainly not granted to enable the offender to commit further offences whilst on bail. Indeed, it has often been said that the commission of offences whilst on bail is an abuse of the privilege of bail. Whether or not bail is to be regarded as a privilege or as a right need not here be determined, though the weight of history is, we consider, in favour of the first view. The real point is that the commission of offences whilst on bail indicates contempt for or disregard of the system of law under which bail was granted to the offender; it suggests that the offender has small regard for the law and little intention of obeying its commands. Furthermore, it may be said that the person who commits an offence on bail has abused or betrayed the confidence reposed in him by the tribunal which granted him bail. The fact that a crime has involved a breach of confidence or trust, e.g. by a solicitor or bank manager or member of the police force, has always been regarded as a matter relevant to the question of sentence--cp. R v Wright (No.2), [1968] VicRp 17; [1968] VR 174, at p. 181. Prima facie the quantum of sentence is dependent on the circumstances of the commission of the crime and its immediate consequences, and should not be increased by reference to events occurring after the offence has been committed. But just as conduct subsequent to the commission of the offence which indicates a clear intention to reform is a matter which the offender is entitled to have taken into account in his favour, so also conduct tending in the other direction, i.e. showing that the offender is unlikely to reform, or has at least not yet reformed, is a matter relevant to the sentencing discretion, if or in so far as it suggests that to extend clemency would serve no useful purpose or that leniency likely to be abused. It follows, we consider, that the sentencing judge was entitled to take into account the fact that all the offences except those the subject of counts 1 and 2 were committed whilst the applicant was on bail or on probation. What weight the sentencing judge was to assign to that circumstance was a matter for him. But whether he was entitled to increase the sentence which he would otherwise have awarded by reference to the circumstance that the applicant was on probation or on bail is a matter which we find unnecessary to decide on this application. It must not be overlooked that breach of a recognizance for bail exposes the accused to proceedings under s5 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1958 (as amended by Acts Nos.7900 and 8124) with the possibility of imprisonment if the amount of the recognizance be not paid--cp. Re Baker, [1971] VicRp 87; [1971] VR 717; Re Condon, [1973] VicRp 40; [1973] VR 427. However, it must be borne in mind that such consequences follow not from commission of an offence whilst on bail but from the failure to answer to bail. I'd always assumed that the mere fact that the offender was on bail at the time of offending is not an aggravating feature itself; rather it's a matter to be considered when looking at other factors particular to the offender such as remorse, prospects for rehabilitation and so on. The Judicial College's Sentencing Manual points to a case of Basso & Frazzetto (1999) 108 A Crim R 392 that says otherwise. In that case Chernov JA said (Batt and Charles JJA agreeing) at 21: The approach by this Court, albeit often unstated in terms, has been to regard the commission of an offence whilst the offender is on bail as an aggravating factor. In R. v. Storey [1998] 1 V.R.359, for example, this Court considered, inter alia, the issues of the onus and standard of proof in sentencing. Winneke, P., Brooking and Hayne, JJ.A. and Southwell, A.J.A. recognised, at 365, that the fact that the offence was committed whilst the offender was on bail, could be described as a "circumstance of the offender". At 366, however, their Honours rejected the utility of drawing a distinction between circumstances of the offender and those of the offence as a basis for "recognising proof of facts which bear upon sentence". A relevant distinction, they said at 369, was between circumstances adverse to the offender (aggravating factors) and circumstances in favour of the offender (mitigating factors). It would follow that since the fact of the commission of an offence during the period of bail is against the interests of the offender for sentencing purposes, it is to be treated as an aggravating factor. Labels: bail, sentencing Links to this post The quality of your argument is not improved by its duration We haven't done a post about oral advocacy for a while. It's a shame, because advocacy is - or should be - an essential part of legal practice, in one form or another. I guess it's hard (nay, impossible) to say something about it that hasn't already been said. By someone else. Better. So, putting aside any expectation of being fresh and original, here's a reminder of the importance of keeping things brief. The Elucubrator pointed to a number of well known speeches as examples of effective advocacy in one of our earlier posts. John F. Kennedy was one example given: ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. That post was about syntax, but what struck me about each example was how the speaker kept the point they were trying to make short and simple. This was reinforced for me recently when I stumbled across the Wiki fact that Kennedy's inaugural address (probably the most famous inaugural in presidential history) was the fourth shortest in history, running for less than 14 minutes. (And for those curious, the longest was an hour-and-forty-five-minute speech delivered by William Henry Harrison in a blizzard in 1841. He died of pnuemonia a month later, which might explain why later presidents have kept things shorter). It's well known that Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was spoken in just over two minutes. Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 was 17-minutes long. If you have a point worth making, it's rarely worth surrounding with many others that aren't. Labels: advocacy Links to this post VRs and VLRs easier to find at 4:35 am Posted by Dr Manhattan AustLII have revamped their site over the hiatus, with changes big and small. One new feature I've noticed to Victorian Law Resources is new tabs for the Victorian Law Reports (1875 - 1956) and Victorian Reports (1953 - 1996). They don't have the headnotes but it's still useful to have these report series arranged in their original order. The VLRs are presented in searchable text format. Labels: legal research Links to this post DPP v Novakovic: new drink-drive appeal? at 1:02 am Posted by Kyle Down at Geelong on Friday I heard about a new case that seems likely to head to the Supreme Court: DPP v Novakovic. Apparently it's listed before the Supreme Court on 16 February 2012 to set down the questions of law, and timetable for filing materials before it is set for hearing. As I understand it (based on a short precis from my source) it concerns a motorist required to accompany the police to a police station and remain for a blood test, based on a requirement under s 55(9A). Apparently, the dismissed charge described an offence of refusing a blood test, rather than refusing a requirement to accompany or remain. It seems the prosecution relied on Uren v Neale (2009) 196 A Crim R 415, particularly at [124]. (See our post about that case here.) In relation to charge one, when one looks at the whole of the evidence and the context in which the initial statement was made by Ms Neale I think it is clear, beyond argument, that Mr Uren must have understood that he was being required to provide a blood sample. He had done his best, the Magistrate appears to have concluded, to avoid giving a breath sample. The provision of a blood sample was the next logical step well known to most members of the community. The words uttered by Ms Neale, in the light of the aborted breath test, must have alerted Mr Uren to that fact that the next step was for the police to seek a blood sample, and further that this was the requirement being made of him. Common sense would have told him this as well. His initial answer, I readily infer, (despite the conflated nature of Ms Neale’s requirement), was given on the basis that he understood that there was a requirement that he provide a blood sample. In my view he knew that he was required to take a blood sample and he refused. In that case, the Supreme Court held that the offence of refusing a blood test was made out when the evidence was Uren was asked to remain for the purpose of a blood test. The offence of refusing to remain was not established, because the police had not told him how long he had to remain. (Affirmed in DPP v Piscopo (2011) 59 MVR 200.) I guess the debate will centre around that finding in Uren v Neale — and, perhaps, if it's correct that courts can presume most members of the community know that blood tests follow breath-test attempts or infer that in some circumstances? — and the requirement for a s 49(1)(e) charge to identify the particular requirement relied upon under s 55: DPP v Kypri (2011) 207 A Crim R 566 at [12]; DPP v Greelish (2002) 4 VR 220 at [12] – [16], [25]. Labels: appeals, road safety act Links to this post DPP v Serbest [2012] VSC 35: choice to refuse is no defence DPP v Serbest [2012] VSC 35 is the latest drink-driving appeal dealing with an offence of refusing to accompany police for a breath test, contrary to Road Safety Act s 49(1)(e). Serbest considered if the police need to formally require a motorist to accompany them, and if the motorist needs to understand they arerequired to accompany the police. It was the third and last of several appeals resulting in adjournments for other prosecutions. The other two were Kypri, and Piscopo (with Rukandin). The Court of Appeal decision in DPP v Kypri (2011) 207 A Crim R 566 largely dealt with the need to identify the relevant requirement made under s 55 in a charge contrary to s 49(1)(e). (See our post here.) And in DPP v Piscopo (2011) 59 MVR 200 and DPP v Rukandin (2011) 59 MVR 222 (discussed in our post here), the Court of Appeal decided that a requirement to accompany and a requirement to remain are distinct and separate requirements under s 55. Only a requirement to remain must specify the purpose and duration of that requirement, and that will only occur when a motorist is at the place where they should remain — typically, a police station or booze-bus. At 3:40 AM on 6 December 2009, Constable Michael Howard and Sergeant Bell stopped Erhan Serbest as he drove along the Nepean Highway at Moorabin. He took a preliminary breath test. It showed he had alcohol in his system. Constable Howard spoke with Mr Serbest (at [4]): THE ACCUSED: ‘Am I over?’ THE INFORMANT: ‘The test indicates your breath contains alcohol.’ THE ACCUSED: ‘What police station?’ THE INFORMANT: ‘Moorabbin Police Station’, and he motioned up the road. THE ACCUSED: ‘Do I have to?’ THE INFORMANT: ‘You are not under arrest but the decision is yours. There is important information I need to give to you if you don’t.’ THE ACCUSED: ‘I don’t want to.’ THE INFORMANT: ‘If you fail to accompany me for a breath test you will commit an offence which if you are found guilty carries a fine and imprisonment and two years loss of licence.’ THE ACCUSED: ‘No I don’t want to.’ Constable Howard then read from proforma notes, which the Supreme Court observed at [5], "set out what must be said to a person who has failed a preliminary breath test, and how a request to accompany the police officer to the police station must be worded." Unfortunately, those words aren't contained in the judgment, so it's not very helpful when determining why those words turned out to be okay. At the appeal, the DPP argued it was at this stage that the offence of refusing to accompany the police was complete. The police went back to their car to check Serbest's licence. He walked over and spoke with them, and they told him — incorrectly, as it later turned out — that his licence was suspended and so his permissible alcohol concentration was .00. This conversation was recorded, and showed that Serbest refused to attend the police station because he was told he couldn't have any alcohol in his system. Serbest testified that he didn't remember being told the consequences of refusing to accompany the police. He said: They gave me a choice, it’s up to you. I didn’t think I had to do it if I didn’t blow over. I asked if I have to I’ll go, I thought it was relating to my licence suspension. The Magistrate held that the prosecution must prove that the accused understood he had to accompany, and the potential consequences of non-compliance, at [13] – [14]. The accused thought he had a choice, and so chose not to accompany the police. Because he was not required — in the sense of obliged, compelled or mandated — to accompany the police, the Magistrate dismissed the charge. Mr Serbest didn't attend the appeal, so the only submissions were from the DPP. The Court reviewed most of the main authorities in this area, noting that in DPP v Foster (1999) 2 VR 643 at [29] the Winneke P noted police powers under s 55 are facilitative not obligatory. And in Sanzaro v County Court of Victoria (2004) 42 MVR 279 at [11], the Court held that a demand wasn't necessary; a request would suffice; and all that was needed was for the intent of the police and the obligation on the motorist to be clear. In Serbest at [35], the Court identified the Magistrate's error in holding the prosecution had to prove Serbest understood he had to accompany the police. In fact, he had a choice, even if it was one of the caught-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place kind. As the officer told the accused, he had a choice. That is, there was no compulsion on him to comply with the requirement of the police officer to accompany him to the police station. Obviously, there were consequences and, indeed, serious consequences if the accused failed to comply with the requirement of the police officer. The accused was clearly told of these consequences. The learned Magistrate proceeded on the assumption that the police were required to prove that the accused understood that he had to go to the police station. That is made clear when she says, ‘The informant has asked the accused but has then not expressed to him that it is a requirement that he accompany’. The driver's subjective state of mind about whether they must accompany the police is not relevant. I'm surprised that DPP v Vaa (2005) 42 MVR 511 wasn't mentioned in this case. That dealt with a refuse PBT charge contrary to s 49(1)(c), and held the prosecution didn't need to prove the driver was aware of the consequences of a refusal. Though it dealt with a different offence section, the reasoning there seems to have some relevance in this case. (Coincidentally, that case too came from Dandenong Magistrates' Court.) It's not clear from the judgment when in fact the offence was complete. Was it after the first conversation, or the second? Even if it was the second, it probably didn't matter if Serbest thought he could have some alcohol in his system: once there was a requirement in the terms described in Sanzaro, and Serbest understood that much, the offence was complete if he didn't comply with the requirement. But there might then also have been a possibility of raising a defence like that in DPP v Moore (2003) 6 VR 430, where the police dissuaded the driver from taking a blood test that would confirm or cast doubt on a breath test, and so the court had discretion to exclude evidence of the breath test. Though the bow would have been a bit longer in this case, the police view about the prescribed concentration of alcohol might have had some bearing on this. The case was remitted to Dandenong Magistrates' Court for determination according to law. Labels: appeals, licence, road safety act Links to this post The definition of injury The definition of injury provided at s 15 of the Crimes Act 1958 reads, injury includes unconsciousness, hysteria, pain and any substantial impairment of bodily function; It's an inclusive definition. We know that those things referred to are injuries, but we don't know what isn't. Is giving someone a disease (other than one referred to in s 19A) an injury? Maybe. Is a mental illness? I don't know. There is no requirement that an injury be construed ejustem generis with the statutory list. The meaning of serious injury at s 15 is equally vague. serious injury includes- (a) a combination of injuries; and (b) the destruction, other than in the course of a medical procedure, of the foetus of a pregnant woman, whether or not the woman suffers any other harm; Reference to the old statute books (and interstate and overseas authorities) about the division of assaults into felonies and misdemeanours, bodily and grievous bodily harm, etc. may be of some assistance. Probably not. The Court said in R v Rhodes (1984) 14 A Crim R 124 [Brooking J at 12, Young CJ and Crockett J in agreement]: Once the jury has been given the usual short definition of grievous bodily harm, it is not the practice, and would indeed be unwise (Director of Public Prosecutions v Smith [1961] AC 290 at p.335) to attempt a more elaborate exposition of the meaning of that phrase. The law gives only very general assistance to juries in this regard. While some injuries are manifestly too slight and some injuries clearly sufficient to answer the legal test, there remains an infinite variety of situations in which a jury might reasonably take either view. R v Weeding is, in this respect, no more than a judgment on its own facts. The question is one of fact and no principle of law emerges from Weeding that can be used as a fetter in later cases, other than the obvious principle that a finding of fact cannot stand where there is insufficient evidence to support it. In R v Welsh and Flynn (Unreported, Supreme Court of Victoria, Court of Criminal Appeal, 16/10/1987, Crockett, King and Tadgell JJ) the Court said, [Crockett J at 10, the other learned judges agreeing], There is no exclusive definition of the word "serious" in the Act. It was left to the jury to determine as a matter of fact what injury or injuries in combination might properly be categorised as being serious having regard to the fact that the word "serious" is an ordinary English word, the meaning of which must be taken as well understood by the members of the jury. This accordingly required that it be left to the jury to determine as a fact whether the injuries as it found them to have been should have been properly treated as "serious" injuries. There must, of course, be a stage in which it would be impossible having regard to the ordinary meaning to be given to the word, for any tribunal of fact to find that an injury proved to have occurred could be classified as serious. If the stage were reached where it could not be so categorised then, of course, there would be insufficient evidence for the jury to make a finding of an injury as being serious in such an instance. In that case, it would be for the Judge to remove the matter from the jury's consideration. And later, A determination whether a given injury or series of injuries can be categorised as 'serious injuries' in terms of s 16 of the Crimes Act will no doubt involve a value judgment. That judgment will in turn involve comparison between the injury or injuries in question alleged to be serious and an injury or injuries which would, according to ordinary human experience, be commonly regarded as slight, superficial or trifling and therefore falling short of being 'serious injury'. Labels: assault, judgments Links to this post School days 2012 The relevant gazette for 2012 is Government Gazette S 393, published on 2 December 2011. It contains a table of the declared school days for the coming year: School Days Period 1 = 30 January 2012 to 30 March 2012 School Days Period 2 = 16 April 2012 to 29 June 2012 School Days Period 3 = 16 July 2012 to 21 September 2012 School Days Period 4 = 18 October 2012 to 21 December 2012 These days are school days unless there is local signage that says otherwise. This information has been added to the TABLE menu on the right. Labels: road safety act, tables Links to this post Judicial College's CCO info The Judicial College has produced an information package about Community Correction Orders. Chapter 14 of the Sentencing Manual explains the new regime. Their summary of the changes is here. They've also got a quiz, divided into parts A and B. Edit: The Sentencing Advisory Council's take on the changes can be found here. Labels: law reform, Magistrates' Court, sentencing Links to this post Welcome one and all for another year. 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__label__cc	0.521948	0.478052	William Murdoch Wilson (1899-1986) William Murdoch Wilson Ballarat, Victoria Mr Hugh John Wilson, Station Master, Little River. Railway Station, Little River Telegraph messenger Fawkner Memorial Park “William Murdoch Wilson (1899-1986),” Wyndham History, accessed January 16, 2021, http://www.wyndhamhistory.net.au/items/show/2583. Wilson, William Murdoch No.51735 Private William Murdoch Wilson William Wilson was born at Ballarat in 1899 to Hew John Wilson and Mary Margaret Kilgower/Kilgour. They had married in 1894 , and had six children: Samuel Roy Wilson, born at Nhill, Certificate No.1896/5728 Jean Walker Wilson, born at Ballarat - Cert. No.1898/396 William Murdoch Wilson, born at Ballarat - Cert. No.1899/15330 (A.I.F. No.51735) Hew Alex Wilson, born at Ballarat - Cert. No.1905/494 Mary McClelland, born at Ballarat - Cert. No.1908/16345 George Kilgour Wilson, born at Ballarat - Cert. No.1911/8447 Prior to his enlisting in the A.I.F., William Wilson worked for the Post Office as a Telegraph Messenger, and lived with his parents at Little River. When the Wilson family left Little River in 1918, an article was published in the local press paying them tribute. Mr Hew Wilson, their esteemed Station Master was the best that they had ever had. As a secretary of the Presbyterian Church, he was missed. Mrs Wilson was one of the best workers in the Little River Red Cross. Miss Wilson had been the organist at the local Presbyterian Church. They were farewelled at special functions in the Little River Hall on 15 November 1918, and also at the local church. Werribee Shire Banner, 21 November 1918, p.3. William Murdoch Wilson enlisted in the A.I.F. at Geelong on 10 July 1917, and was sent to the Military Camp at Broadmeadows for Initial Training. This was completed on 13 August 1917, and he was appointed as a Private with the 25/14th Reinforcements with the 2nd Depot Battalion. He then spent time as an invalid at the Macleod camp, until he returned to the 2nd Depot Battalion on 2 October 1917. He was then appointed to the 8/38th Reinforcements with the 2nd Depot Battalion at Broadmeadows, between 18 November and 10 December 1917. Between 10 December 1917 and 4 March 1918, he served with the 10/46th Reinforcements with the 2nd Depot Battalion at Broadmeadows, when he was again invalided. Private Wilson marched in to the 1st Depot Battalion at Broadmeadows on 4 March 1918, where he prepared to embark for overseas service. At the age of 18 years, Private William Murdoch Wilson embarked from Sydney on 5 June 1918, per R.M.S. Orontes. He was a member of the 3rd Victorian Reinforcements. During the voyage to England, he spent five days in the ship's hospital. He disembarked from the R.M.S. Orontes at Liverpool on 11 September 1918, and three days later, marched in to the 9th Training Battalion at Fovant. While there he was allocated as a reinforcement for the 39th Battalion. Two months later the Armistice was signed to end the war, so he didn’t go overseas to France. On 13 December 1918, Private Wilson was detached to the A. A. Postal Corps at the Sutton Veny Camp. While at this camp, he went Absent Without Leave over the period of 26 August 1919 until 9 September 1919. For this crime he was awarded 21 days in Detention, and a loss of 35 days pay. Private Wilson returned to Australia per Port Sydney. He embarked from England on 22 September 1919, and disembarked in Melbourne on 12 November 1919. He was discharged from the A.I.F. on 5 December 1919. The Electoral Roll for 1921 records that William Murdoch Wilson was then living at 56 Lorne Street, Moonee Ponds, and he was working as a mail assistant. In 1929, William Murdoch Wilson married Isabelle Martha Jane Clark in Victoria. (Certificate No.6497/1929) find my past - Victoria Marriages 1836-1947 Between 1934 and 1954, he lived at 118 Tennyson Street, Essendon, and he was then working as a Public Servant. Also at the same address was Isabella Martha J Wilson – Home Duties. William was then working as a Wireless Licence Inspector, and his name is on numerous summons, issued in 1938, which were heard in the Petty Sessions Courts. https://search.findmypast.com.au/record?id=s2/anz/vicpettysessions/101966377/00033&parentid=anz/vic/pettysessions/00822125 1963 saw William and Isabella at 137 Ellesmere Parade, Macleod West, and was retired. William Murdoch Wilson died on 6 July 1986, aged 87 years, and was cremated at the Fawkner Memorial Park on 9 July 1986. Name on the Werribee Shire Oak Board: Wilson W. N. [The initials W.N. on the Oak Board should read W.M.] Name on the Little River Honour Board: Wilson W. M. Name in the Werribee Shire Banner’s Roll of Honor: Wilson, W. N. – Little River Digger – Federation Index, Victoria, Marriage Cert 1894/6094 ** Ancestry.com - The Victoria, Australia, Death Index, 1836-1988 also lists both of his parents.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1604
__label__cc	0.651769	0.348231	Electric Vehicle Stocks See Mixed Short Seller Action Short interest moves among automakers’ stocks were evenly mixed during the two-week reporting period that ended on November 30. Of the companies we watch, short interest decreased on three of six electric vehicle (EV) makers and increased on one of the traditional carmakers. Tesla Inc.’s (NYSE: TSLA) short interest slipped by 3% in the latest period. Short sellers hold 46.5 million shares of Tesla stock. Days to cover fell from two to one. The share price soared by 39% in the two-week reporting period. The stock’s 52-week range is $70.10 to $654.32 (split-adjusted), and it closed at $649.88 on Wednesday after posting the new high. Shares traded down about 1% Thursday morning. Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA) short interest dipped by 1.7% in the two weeks to November 30. About 47.4 million shares were short, representing 32.9% of the company’s total float. Days to cover rose from four to five. Nikola’s share price fell by 3.6% during the reporting period. The stock’s post-IPO range is $10.29 to $93.99, and shares closed at $18.31 on Wednesday and traded down by about 15% Thursday morning at $29.38. Nio Ltd. (NYSE: NIO) short interest rose by 5% in the period ending November 30. The stock’s 52-week range is $2.11 to $57.20, and shares closed Wednesday at $44.01. The stock traded down about 4.4% Thursday morning, after gaining more than 13% during the two-week reporting period. Workhorse Group Inc. (NASDAQ: WKHS) short interest data tumbled by 34% in the two-week period. Some 25.8 million shares were short, or about 24% of the total float. The share price jumped by 32% in the period, and the stock closed at $21.04 on Wednesday and traded up by less than 1% Thursday morning. Its 52-week range is $1.32 to $30.99. Li Auto Inc. (NASDAQ: LI) saw its short interest increase by more than 27% in the two-week period. About 11.1 million American depositary shares were short, representing about 2.4% of the China-based company’s total float. The share price rose by more than 15% in the period. The post-IPO range is $14.31 to $47.70, and the stock closed at $32.03 on Wednesday. It traded down about 1.3% Thursday morning. Xpeng Inc.’s (NYSE: XPEV) short interest totaled 11.1 million shares, up about 27% in the two-week period. Short sellers held about 6.3% of the company’s total float. Shares jumped by 40%, in the two weeks and closed at $44.65 on Wednesday, in a post-IPO range of $17.11 to $74.49. The stock traded down less than 1% Thursday morning. General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) short interest decreased by 17% in the latter half of November. About 21.5 million GM shares were short, or about 1.6% of the company’s float. Days to cover remained at two. Shares rose by about 6.4% in the two-week period and closed Wednesday at $44.43. The 52-week low is $14.33. The stock traded down about 3.4% at last look. Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) short interest increased by 8% to 98.3 million shares, or about 2.5% of the total float. Days to cover remained at two. The stock price increased by 6.3% in the reporting period, and shares closed at $9.45 on Wednesday, in a 52-week range is $3.96 to $9.57. Shares were down about 2.1% Thursday morning. 5 Dividend-Paying Pharmaceutical Stocks to Buy for Solid 2021 Total Return Read more: Autos, F, GM, LI, NIO, NKLA, TSLA, WKHS, XPEV, short interest Tesla Should Be Worth as Much as Alphabet -- Analyst Early Investors in EV Maker Canoo Are Cashing Out Short Sellers Jump on Electric Vehicle Stocks Nio Prices $1.5 Billion of New Debt at Guaranteed 50% Premium	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1606
__label__wiki	0.618994	0.618994	Walmart to Go Driverless in Arkansas Test of 'Middle Mile' Delivery For the past year, Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has been testing a self-driving vehicle with a human driver on-board on a two-mile route in the company’s hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas. Beginning next year, the human driver will be removed and the delivery truck will operate fully autonomously along a prescribed, “middle mile” route. The vehicles, called Box Trucks, are manufactured by Gatik, a California-based startup that struck a deal to provide delivery between a Walmart warehouse in Bentonville and one of the company’s Neighborhood Markets. The trucks follow a route that is both fixed and predictable. Gatik calls this “structured autonomy” that is both safe and efficient “because it enables us to constrain the challenge of autonomy, thereby heavily over-optimizing our delivery routes and minimizing edge-cases.” The deal with Gatik has not been Walmart’s only move into autonomous vehicles. Last November, the retailing giant signed a deal with Cruise, the autonomous driving division of General Motors, to test a home delivery service in Scottsdale, Arizona. This service is usually called “last mile” delivery. In addition to the change to fully autonomous vehicles in Arkansas, Walmart and Gatik also will begin testing a 20-mile route between New Orleans and Metairie, Louisiana. These trucks will operate with a human safety driver. Another interesting thing about the expanded autonomous driving tests is the use of what Walmart calls “dark stores.” These are buildings (perhaps even previously retail stores) that are dedicated to fulfilling online orders. The COVID-19 pandemic has sped up the process of converting to or building new dark stores. Amazon converted six of its Whole Earth stores to fulfilling online orders and built a new dark store in Brooklyn earlier this year. Walmart also has converted a store in New Hampshire to a dark store. According to Fast Company, Bed, Bath & Beyond plans to convert a quarter of its retail stores to dark stores. In metropolitan areas, a dark store could use a self-driving vehicle to deliver goods packed orders to retail outlets where customers could then pick them up. In Walmart’s case, the company claims that 90% of Americans live within 10 miles of a Walmart store. As Tom Ward, a senior vice-president at Walmart U.S., noted in Tuesday’s announcement, “a closer store isn’t always the answer. Perhaps it’s just a pickup location, with an autonomous vehicle making deliveries on a constant loop.” Walmart shares traded at $145.80 early Tuesday. The stock’s 52-week range is $102.00 to $153.66, and the consensus price target is $161.44. Walmart pays a dividend yield of 1.48%. ALSO READ: 5 BofA Securities US 1 Stocks to Buy Pay a Higher Dividend Than the S&P 500 Read more: Retail, WMT, Corporate Performance	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1607
__label__cc	0.558826	0.441174	The Collaborative What Is Active Efficiency? Join The Collaborative Performance-Based Utility Programs People And Partnerships: Energy Management Lessons From The U.S. Custom House In Philadelphia Keep up-to-date with the latest in Active Efficiency. 07/16/20 ~ Mikelann Scerbo, Manager, Research, Alliance to Save Energy As the Alliance’s Active Efficiency Collaborative works to integrate the benefits of traditional energy efficiency measures with the opportunities presented by digital technologies, we’re reflecting on lessons learned from past projects that withstand the test of time. Back in 2005, the energy management team at the U.S. Custom House in Philadelphia partnered with Phil Coleman of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to tackle the historic building’s $700,000 annual electric bill. Through operational changes such as pre-cooling aimed at lowering demand charges, the team was able to save energy and cut the Custom House’s bill by 14%. The following is a discussion with Phil about the origin of this project, why it’s still impressive, and what it can teach us as about load management and deploying new technologies today. Q: What problem was the Custom House trying to solve, and why did they want to tackle it? The Custom House faced very high demand charges – $30/kW per month – and a ratchet, racking up the total electric bill to $700,000 per year. A ratchet demand charge means that one month’s high peak demand levels can impact demand charges of future monthly energy bills, even if future demand is lower. The charges are meant to compensate the utility for having to furnish enough power to satisfy facilities’ peak power draws, but they can really add up on a customer’s energy bill. The Custom House needed to find a way to scale back their demand charges to save costs. I’m a rate geek and explored the ins and outs of PECO’s (formerly the Philadelphia Electric Company’s) rates so we could figure out our options for lowering costs. Q: What was the approach you and the Custom House facilities team decided on? We knew the cooling loads were driving up the demand charges, so we decided to pre-cool the building during the hottest nights using one of two chillers at the Custom House. The strategy was to leave one chiller totally off, and to turn on the other chiller at 2 a.m. along with the hundreds of terminal induction units (whereas normal operation was to start them at 6 a.m.). It was the facilities team’s idea to install a solenoid valve on the system to enable the terminal units to run in the middle of the night. Pre-cooling drastically lowered their cooling needs during the day, allowing them to cool the building using just one of the two chillers, and successfully reduced the facility’s peak demand by about 25% (400 kW). We were thrilled that not only did they save about $100,000 per year on their electric bill, but that many occupants reported they were more comfortable, telling us, “Whatever you’re doing, keep it up.” Q: It sounds like there was a collaborative approach to this project. How did you achieve buy-in with all the partners involved? We already had commitment from leadership at the U.S. General Services Administration since they had seen the value of lowering demand charges in other projects. But we still had to win over the operators on the facilities team. The pre-cooling strategy wouldn’t work without having the people running the equipment on board to make it happen, so we invited the operators to the table to discuss the strategy. I also made regular phone calls and in-person visits to keep the communication lines open throughout this project. Q: Given that the building sector now has more advanced technologies at its disposal, what aspects of this project remain relevant today? The success of a project comes down to people and partnerships. Aim to win over the people in the boiler room. New technology, particularly better controls, makes it even more important to involve building operators to make sure all questions and concerns are addressed and to encourage ideas. We may not have implemented the solenoid valve solution if we didn’t have open communications with operators at the Custom House. You also have to make sure operators are fully trained on how to use the technology. We can’t forget that even with high tech equipment like advanced control systems, there are people behind the equipment running them. Proper training is key for making sure operators know when a system isn’t running properly and can fix it. Q: What key takeaways should today’s project developers take from your work at the U.S. Custom House? Again, don’t overlook the importance of operators and operational changes. And rates vary regionally, so understand your rates! If your demand charges are high and the ratio of your average kW to peak kW is low, then it may be worth looking into ways to change the timing of your operations to save on costs. Lowering your peak demand will be good for the grid too. Tried-and-true practices to support energy optimization – such as getting buy-in from the energy management team or making the most of time-variable pricing – must be underscored as energy efficiency enters the digital age. The project at the U.S. Custom House in Philadelphia demonstrates the value of the people behind the technology (e.g., operators and building management) who will be essential to maintaining and strengthening a solid foundation of energy efficiency best practices for Active Efficiency measures to build upon. Active Efficiency News Active Efficiency in Action Why Active Efficiency? As energy efficiency enters the digital age, we must coalesce around a shared vision that integrates well-established energy efficiency approaches with the capabilities of smart and connected technologies, distributed energy resources, and key decarbonization strategies. All content copyright 2020 © Alliance to Save Energy. All rights reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1610
__label__wiki	0.59551	0.59551	Division on South Asian Americans Division on Women Division on Filipinx Americans Filipino American Psychology Scholarship Division on Students Division on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning Division on Practice Division on Asian Americans with Multiple Heritages AAPA Fellows AAPA Post-Doctoral Leadership Fellows Programs Asian American Journal of Psychology AAPA Annual Awards and Grants AAPA Newsletter AAPA Reports AAPA Digital History Project AAPA Undergraduate Consortium Bullying Awareness Campaign Bullying Resource Guide for Parents LGBTQ AAPI Resources Job Board -> The AAPA is participating in the WHIAAPI Bullying Prevention Awareness Campaign. WHIAAPI (White House Initiative on Asian American and Pacific Islanders) has formed the AAPI Bullying Prevention Task Force and are seeking national partners to partner with their initiative. You can find out more about the WHIAAPI work here: http://sites.ed.gov/aapi/aapi-bullying/ AAPA is an official supporter of the WHIAPPI’s Bullying Prevention Awareness Campaign that is set to launch in mid-October. WHIAPPI has also lined up major support from Twitter, YMCA of USA, the Center for Asian American Media, and Brown Girl magazine. Please email us at ulashmind@gmail.com and sumie.okazaki@nyu.edu if you’d like to be a part of this effort. List of AAPA resources: Guidelines On Bullying and Victimization For AAPI K-12 Students to School Professionals And Parents AAPA members Dr. Sumie Okazaki, Ulash Thakore-Dunlap LMFT, Dr. Cixin Wang, and Dr. Munyi Shea received the American Psychological Association (APA) PILC award to work on creating and disseminating a resource based on guidelines on bullying and victimization among Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) K-12 students to school professionals and parents. AAPA aims to address the lack of knowledge and resources on AAPI students experiencing bullying in the community by creating a practical resource for teachers and parents on AAPI bullying and to disseminate the materials online in ways that are accessible by school administrators, academic counselors, school-based mental health professionals, teachers, and to parents. The guidelines have been created in 4 languages (Chinese, English, Korean, and Vietnamese) to distribute through conferences and workshops. We plan to also disseminate the guidelines electronically by sharing the products and materials with the APA Safe and Supportive Schools Program as well as other social media tools and websites, making it accessible to all. Please feel free to download and share the below links as a resource for your community: Bullying Parent Guide_AAPA in English Bullying Parent Guide AAPA in Korean Bullying Parent Guide AAPA_in Simplified Chinese Bullying Parent Guide AAPA in Traditional Chinese Bullying Parent Guide AAPA in Vietnamese AAPA Asian American Bully Fact sheet References for manucsripts on Asian American discrimination: Alvarez, A. N., Juang, L., & Liang, C. T. H. (2006). Asian Americans and racism: When bad things happen to “model minorities.”. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 12(3), 477-492. Alvarez, A. & Juang, L. (2010). Filipino Americans and racism: A multiple mediation model of coping. Journal of Counseling Psychology 57, 167-178. Benner, A. D. & Kim, S. Y. (2009). Experiences of discrimination among Chinese American adolescents and the consequences for socioemotional and academic development. Developmental Psychology, 45(6), 1682-1694. Benner, A. D. & Kim, S. Y. (2009). 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Impact of perceived racial discrimination and collective self-esteem on psychological distress among Vietnamese-American college students: Sense of coherence as mediator. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 77, 370-376. Liang, B., Grossman, J.M., & Deguchi, M. (2007). Chinese American middle school youths’ experiences of discrimination and stereotyping. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 4, 187-205. Liu, L. L., & Lau, A. S. (2013). Teaching about race/ethnicity and racism matters: An examination of how perceived ethnic racial socialization processes are associated with depression symptoms. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 19(4), 383-394. Niwa, E., Way, N., Qin, D., & Okazaki, S. (2010). Hostile hallways: Asian American adolescents’ experiences of peer discrimination in school. In F. Leong, L. Juang, D. Qin, & H. Fitzgerald, (Eds.) (2011), Asian American Child Psychology and Mental Health, Vol 1: Development and Context, Vol 2: Prevention and Treatment. 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Racial Microaggressions and Daily Well-Being Among Asian Americans (PDF, 151KB). Journal of Counseling Psychology®. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0031736. Sue, D. W., Capodilupo, C. M., Torino, G. C., Bucceri, J. M., Holder, A. M., Nadal, K. L., & Esquilin, M. (2007). Racial microaggressions in everyday life (PDF, 800KB). American Psychologist®, 62(4), 271-286. Wei, Meifen, et al.( 2010) Racial Discrimination Stress, Coping, and Depressive Symptoms Among Asian Americans (PDF, 124KB). Asian American journal of psychology 1.2 (2010): 136-150. Maffini, C. S., Wong, Y. J., & Shin, M. (2011). The potential impact of violent victimization on somatic symp-toms among Asian American adolescents: A national longitudinal study. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 2, 157-167. Peguero & WIlliams (2011) Racial and ethnic stereotypes and bullying victimization. Youth & Society. 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__label__wiki	0.728968	0.728968	Our site saves small pieces of text information (cookies) on your device in order to deliver better content and for statistical purposes. You can disable the usage of cookies by changing the settings of your browser. By browsing our website without changing the browser settings you grant us permission to store that information on your device. Leggi l'informativa I agree Patrizia Azzi STEM area: Physics Competences: elementary particle physics, nuclear physics Keywords: particle physics, top quark Staff researcher for INFN(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Italy, Section of Padua After completion of her Physics Diploma at the University of Padua in 1992, she pursued a PhD in Physics in 1996. Immediately after she wins a grant for continuing her studies as a post-doctoral scientist at the INFN Section in Padua. In 2008, 2012 and 2014 is awarded several grants for collaboration as a Scientific Associate at the CERN laboratory in Geneva(CH) and the Fermilab National Laboratory in Chicago (USA). Currently she is leading studies for the prospects physics measurements in the context of future projects for new particle colliders to be realised after the end of the LHC. In 1996, as a member of the CDF collaboration, observes for the first time the decay of the top quark (the heaviest fundamental particle in the Standard Model) and measures its production rate and and mass developing original analysis methods of background estimate from real data. In 2004 becomes a member of the CMS collaboration at the LHC of CERN laboratory in Geneva (CH). She has participated to the discovery of the Higgs boson in the role of responsabile of the data quality to be used for the analysis. Throughout her career Patrizia Azzi has focused her interest on particle physics and their properties to explain the fundamental law of physics. Azzi has been also coordinating several research projects: from 2002-2004 she has been leading the Top physics group for the CDF collaboration at Fermilab to plan and realise the measurements of the top quark properties during the Run 2 of the Tevatron collider, coordinating a group of about 200 physicist from all countries. As a member of the CMS experiment she has been coordinating various groups, among which the "Physics Performance and Dataset" that insured the data quality for physics in 2012/2013 and the physics group "B2G" that focuses on searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model in 2014/15. Currently she is leading the physics group that studies the future prospects for the project High Luminosity LHC that will start in 2024. Patrizia Azzi is also an active proponent of the Future Circular Collider project (FCC) where she studies in particular the potential for the most precise measurement of the top quark mass at a new lepton collider. Editorial work and publications She is author of vaste number of publication national and international, we quote here some of the most relevant: (2016) CMS Collaboration, Khachatryan S, [...] Azzi P, et al. Search for vectorlike charge 2/3 T quarks in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV.Physical Review D, 93:012003. (2014) CMS Collaboration. Search for top-quark partners with charge 5/3 in the same-sign dilepton final state.Physical Review Letters, 112:171801. (2014) Bicer M, [...] Azzi P, et al. First Look at the Physics Case of TLEP. The Journal of High Energy Physics, 01:164. (2012) The CMS Collaboration. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC.Physics Letters B, 716:30-61. (2009) CMS Tracker Collaboration, Adam W, [...] Azzi P, et al. Performance studies of the CMS Strip Tracker before installation.Journal of Instrumentation, 4. (1999) CDF Collaboration, Abe F, [...] Azzi P, et al. Measurement of the top quark mass with the Collider Detector at Fermilab.Physical Review Letters, 82:271-276. (1997) CDF Collaboration, Abe F, [...] Azzi P, et al. First observation of the all hadronic decay of t pairs. Physical Review Letters, 79:1992-1997. (1995) CDF Collaboration, Abe F, [...] Azzi P, et al. Observation of top quark production in p collisions. Physical Review Letters, 74:2626-2631. (1994) CDF Collaboration, Abe F, [...] Azzi P, et al. Evidence for top quark production in pcollisions at √s = 1.8 TeV.Physical Review Letters, 73:225-231. (1994) Amidei D, Azzi P, et al. The Silicon Vertex Detector of the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 350:73-130. 2014-2015: Scientific Associate at CERN(Switzerland) 2013 European Physical Society High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, for an outstanding contribution to High Energy Physics, awarded to the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, “for the discovery of a Higgs boson, as predicted by the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism” 2012-2013 LHC Physics Center Fellow at Fermilab (USA) 2008-2009: Scientific Associateat CERN(Switzerland) Daniela Bortoletto Competences: experimental physics, quantum physics Keywords: atlas, CERN, dark matter, fermilab, higgs boson, particle physics, top quark Region: ABROAD Head of Particle Physics at the University of Oxford (September 2018-to present) Daniela Bortoletto graduated in Physics from the University of Pavia, Italy in 1982. She earned her MA (1986) and PhD (1989) from Syracuse University. In 1989 she joined the Faculty of Purdue University as Postdoctoral Research Associate (1989-1992), Assistant Professor (1992-1995), Associate Professor (1995-2001), and Full Professor (2001). She became the Edward M. Purcell Distinguished Professor of Physics in 2010. In 2013 she joined the University of Oxford where she is now the Head of the sub department of particle physics. Daniela is passionate about increasing female participation in Physics and other sciences. She has enabled efforts aimed at giving young women the resources, motivation, and confidence to pursue careers in Physics. This includes the creation of the Purdue Women in Physics Organization, the development of Purdue Sciencescape, and leadership in the APS Conference Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP). She has taken CUWiP in the UK where the conference has been extraordinarily successful. She has made important contributions to heavy flavour physics at CLEO (Cornell, USA) and CDF (Fermilab USA). She is a co-discoverer of the Higgs boson (CERN, 2012) and the top quark (CDF, Fermilab, 1995). She is currently studying the properties of the Higgs boson and searching for new physics at the LHC with the ATLAS experiment at CERN. She is also searching for new physics in very rare decays of muons with the mu3e experiment at the Paul Sherrer Institut. Daniela played an important role in the construction of the muon system for the CLEO detector, the SVX II silicon system for CDF, and the CMS Forward Pixel detector. She was the US CMS Upgrade coordinator for over 7 years and led the activities of over 40 US Universities for the phase 1 and phase 2 upgrade of CMS. She is currently participating in the construction of the ATLAS ITK for the High Luminosity LHC, high voltage CMOS sensors, and ultra-radiation hard silicon sensors. She is the Deputy Scientific Coordinator of the Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators (AIDA 2020) Editor of Nuclear Instrument and Methods. Author of over 1500 publications. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society (2004), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013) and the Institute of Physics (2015). She has received the Purdue University Ruth and Joel Spira for Excellence in Undergraduate Education (2004). She was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1994), the Early Career Award of the US National Science Foundation (1997) and the US NSF Career Advancement Award (1994). She has been a member of the UK STFC grants panel (2018), the UK STFC Detectors Strategic Review Panel (2018), US Particle Physics Projects Prioritization Panel (P5, 2005-2007, 2008, 2010), the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP, 2005-2008) to the US DOE and NSF, and the Mathematical and Physical Science Advisory Committee (MPSAC, 2008-2014) to the NSF and the chair of the Fermilab Program Advisory Committee (2014-2017). Angela Bracco Competences: nuclear physics in the field of experimental physics Keywords: gamma spectroscopy, nuclear physics, nuclear structure and astrophysics, radiation detectors Region: Lombardy Full professor of Physics at University of Milan and President of Italian Physical Society After graduating in Physics at University of Milan, she obtains the PhD in 1984 at University of Manitoba (Canada), which is one of the founding universities of TRIUMF of Vancouver (Canada), where she carries out her research in the field of experimental Nuclear Physics, with focus on gamma spectroscopy for nuclear structure. After returning to Italy as a researcher she spends several periods at the ORNL laboratory (USA) and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. In Milan she becomes a full professor in 2002. Between 2005 and 2011 she is president of the National Scientific Commission of Nuclear Physics of INFN. In 2011-2015 member of the INFN Board of Directors as MIUR representative and since January 2020 she is president of SIF. She has been member and often chairperson of several international scientific committees and of evaluation panels. The research which was carried out during the years concerns the study of nuclear structure with experiments using gamma spectroscopy and light and heavy ions from accelerators. This research has focused on the collective excitations of nuclei, in particular that of electric dipole type. This excitation is a probe for nuclear properties such as shape, coupling to complex excitations that have similarities in other manybody physical systems. More recently attention has been paid to dipole vibrations in unstable nuclei with an unnatural number of protons and neutrons. These nuclei are generated in stellar explosions, and some of them are produced in the laboratory as "radioactive beams". Knowledge of dipolar oscillations in these nuclei offers the possibility to give relevant information for the nucleosynthesis patterns of heavy nuclei. This research therefore concerns a chapter of nuclear physics that has implications in the field of nuclear astrophysics. In particular, she is currently performing investigations of nuclear properties dealing with neutron oscillations at the surface of the nucleus; their understanding is relevant to the description of neutron stars which are themselves sources of gravitational waves. Over the years she has also participated in the development and construction of new scintillation and of solid state detectors highly segmented for the measurement of gamma radiation. The new detectors were designed for highly selective measurements that made it possible to obtain new data relevant to the understanding of nuclei in uncharted regions which have astrophysical implications. Angela Bracco is editor of the Italian Physical Society journals, supervisory editor of the Nuclear Physics A (Elsevier) e membro dello Steering Committee di EPJ (Springer and Nature). She is author of vaste number of publications we quote here some of the most relevant: (2019) Bracco, A.; Lanza E. G.; Tamii, A. Isoscalar and isovector dipole excitations: Nuclear properties from low-lying states and from the isovector giant dipole resonance.PROGRESS IN PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS,106: 360-433. (2018) Morales, A. I.; Benzoni, G.; Watanabe, H.; Bracco A. et al. Is seniority a partial dynamic symmetry in the first vg(9/2) shell? PHYSICS LETTERS B, 781:706. (2017) Nakatsuka, N.; Baba, H.; Aumann, T.; A. Bracco et al. Observation of isoscalar and isovector dipole excitations in neutron-rich O-20, PHYSICS LETTERS B768: 387. (2017) Leoni, S.; Fornal, B.; Marginean, N.; Bracco, A. et al. Multifaceted Quadruplet of Low-Lying Spin-Zero States in Ni-66: Emergence of Shape Isomerism in Light Nuclei. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 118 , 162502. (2015) Ceruti, S.; Camera, F.; Bracco, A.; et al. Isospin Mixing in Zr-80: From Finite to Zero Temperature. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 115, 222502. (2016) Bocchi, G.; Leoni, S.; Fornal, B.; Bracco A. et al. The mutable nature of particle-core excitations with spin in the one-valence-proton nucleus Sb-133. PHYSICS LETTERS B 760, 273. (2015) Bracco, A.; Crespi, F. C. L.; Lanza, E. G. Gamma decay of pygmy states from inelastic scattering of ions. EPJA 51, 99. (2014) Pellegri, L.; Bracco, A.; Crespi, F. C. L.; et al. Pygmy dipole resonance in Sn-124 populated by inelastic scattering of O-17. PHYSICS LETTERS B (2014) Volume: 738, 519. (2013) Crespi, F. C. L.; Bracco, A.; Nicolini, R.; et al. Isospin Character of Low-Lying Pygmy Dipole States in Pb-208 via Inelastic Scattering of O-17 Ions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 113, 1, 012501. (2013) Bracco, A. Concluding remarks on the EMIS2012 conference. NIM 317, 810. (2013) Larsen, A. C.; Blasi, N.; Bracco, A.; et al. Evidence for the Dipole Nature of the Low-Energy gamma Enhancement in Fe-56, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 111, 242504. Member of the European Academy Member of the Committee on International Scientific Affairs (CISA) dell'American Physical Society (APS) In 2011 she received the EnergyLab Foundation Award In 2018 she received the GENCO membership award from the GSI Exotic Nuclei Community (GSI, Laboratory, Germany) Maria Antonia Brovelli Competences: geomatics Keywords: cartography, digital cartography, geographic information systems, gps, remote sensing, territory Full Professor and former Vice Rector of Politecnico di Milano for the Como Campus. After obtaining a degree in Physics at the University of Milan in 1986, she continued her education with a PhD in Geodetic and Topographical Sciences that she obtained in 1991 at the Interuniversity Consortium of Milan, Turin and Pavia. From 1992 to 1994, she was Researcher at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, where she helped create the International Geoid Service (IGeS) of the International Geodesy Association (IAG) and became part of the IGeS Bulletin committee, becoming its chief editor. In 1994, she became a researcher at the Politecnico di Milano, and four years later an associate professor. In 1997, she founded and coordinated the Geomatics Laboratory at the Como Campus of the Politecnico di Milano. From 2006 to 2011, she was a lecturer of GIS at the Federal Polytechnic of Zurich (ETH). Since 2010, she has been Full Professor of Digital Mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at the Politecnico di Milano and from 2011 to 2016 she was Vice Rector of Politecnico for the Como Campus. Maria Antonia Brovelli is editor of the Applied Geomatics journal published by Springer, co-author of three textbooks on the statistical processing of data, of a volume on orthophotos, i.e. geometrically correct and georeferenced aerial and satellite imagery, and digital terrain models, and author of over 150 scientific publications including: (2018) Brovelli MA, Zamboni G, A new method for the assessment of spatial accuracy and completeness of OpenStreetMap building footprints, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 7(8),289. (2016) Brovelli MA, Minghini M, Zamboni G, Public Participation in GIS via Mobile Applications, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 114, pp. 306-315. (2015) Brovelli MA, Molinari ME, Hussein E, Chen J, Li R. The First Comprehensive Accuracy Assessment of GlobeLand30 at a National Level: Methodology and Results. Remote Sensing, 7(4):4191-4212. (2008) Brovelli MA, Crespi M, Fratarcangeli F, Giannone F, Realini E. Accuracy assessment of high-resolution satellite imagery orientation by leave-one-out method. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 63(4):427-440. (2004) Brovelli MA, Cannata M, Longoni UM. LIDAR Data Filtering and DTM Interpolation Within GRASS. Transactions in GIS, 8(2), 155-174. In September 2015 she was awarded the Sol Katz Award 2015 for her contribution to Free Software and Open Source Geospatial during the FOSS4G 2015 conference in Seoul, South Korea. Maria Antonia Brovelli was one of the Directors of OSGeo (International GIS Open Foundation). She is Chair of the working group IV / 4 "Collaborative Crowdsourced Cloud Mapping (C³M)" of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), member of UN-GGIM Italy, Chair of the "Capacity Building" working group of the United Nations "UN OpenGIS", Deputy chair and member of the International Task Team (single woman) with the task of supporting the United Nations for the geospatial aspects (UN-GGIM). She was co-organizer of the annual "Europa NASA World Wind Challenge" event, which involved students and professionals in developing applications based on the virtual globe of NASA. Finally, she is a member of ACEO, the Advisory Committee for Earth Observation (ACEO), which is the main interpreter of the views and needs of the European scientific community on access to space experimentation and data exploitation in Earth science programs. Marta Burgay Competences: astrophysics Keywords: neutron stars, pulsar, relativity, space, stars Region: Sardinia Researcher at the Cagliari Astronomical Observatory of the Italian National Intitute for Astrophysics (INAF) After graduating in Astronomy at the University of Bologna in 2000, Marta Burgay continued her studies at the same university where she obtained her PhD in 2004. A few months later she became a researcher at the INAF - Cagliari Astronomical Observatory, where she works on compact objects (studying ultra-dense stars). In particular she is an expert in observations and studies of radio pulsars (one of the manifestations of the compact neutron stars, so called because they are observed through pulses of radiation appearing at short regular intervals). Since 2012 she is part of the scientific team operating the new 64-m Sardinia Radio Telescope. She is also a member of the European and the International Pulsar Timing Array experiments for the detection of gravitational waves from supermassive black holes, and of the GRAWITA (GRAvitational Wave Inaf TeAm) collaboration to search for the electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave events. The scientific activity of Marta Burgay is focused mainly on neutron star studies and in particular on observations and investigations of pulsars. Her name is linked to the important discovery of the binary system J0737-3039A / B, the first and, to date, the only system formed by two pulsars. Thanks to its many peculiarities, thisdouble pulsar represents a unique laboratory in several fields (nuclear physics, plasma physics, relativistic gravity...): in the field of general relativity, for example, the study of the times of arrival of the pulses of the two stars allowed her team to test the validity of the theory of general relativity with a precision of 99.95%. Continued observations of this system, still underway, will allow to further improve this limit and to test alternative theories of gravity. Since 2008 Marta Burgay has been part of the High Time Resolution Universe Survey project for pulsars and transients searches, and since 2013 of the SUPERB survey (Survey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts). Thanks to these projects almost 200 new pulsars have been discovered, including more than 30 extremely fast rotating millisecond pulsars, a magnetar (a different type of neutron star with a huge magnetic field) emitting radio waves, a pulsar with a "diamond" planet, and a new class of transient sources, the Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), of yet unknown origin. Marta Burgay is (co-)author of 140 refereed articles published in international journals (including 4 in Nature and 5 in Science) that have received a total of more than 9000 citations. She is (co-)author of 22 telematic scientific communications (Astronomer's Telegram, GCN Circulars) and (co-)author of 58 conference proceedings. She is editor in chief of a volume of conference proceedings. [2016] Keane E F, Johnston S, Bhandari S, Barr E, Bhat NDR, Burgay M, Caleb M, Flynn C, Jameson A, Kramer M, Petroff E, Possenti A, van Straten W, Bailes M, Burke-Spolaor S, Eatough RP, Stappers BW, Totani T, Honma M, Furusawa H, Hattori T, Morokuma T, Niino Y, Sugai H, Terai T, Tominaga N, Yamasaki S, Yasuda N, Allen R, Cooke J, Jencson J, Kasliwal MM, Kaplan DL, Tingay SJ, Williams A, Wayth R, Chandra P, Perrodin D, Berezina M, Mickaliger M, Bassa C. The host galaxy of a fast radio burst, Nature, 530:453. [2013] Papitto A, Ferrigno C, Bozzo E, Rea N, Pavan L, Burderi L, Burgay M, Campana S, di Salvo T, Falanga M, Filipovic MD, Freire PCC, Hessels JWT, Possenti A, Ransom SM, Riggio A, Romano P, Sarkissian JM, Stairs I H, Stella L, Torres DF, Wieringa MH, Wong G F. Swings between rotation and accretion power in a binary millisecond pulsar, Nature, 501:517. [2013] Thornton D, Stappers B, Bailes M, Barsdell B, Bates S, Bhat N D R, Burgay M, Burke-Spolaor S, Champion D J, Coster P, D'Amico N, Jameson A, Johnston S, Keith M, Kramer M, Levin L, Milia S, Ng C, Possenti A, van Straten W. A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances, Science, 341:53. [2011] Bailes M, Bates SD, Bhalerao V, Bhat NDR, Burgay M, Burke-Spolaor S, D'Amico N, Johnston S, Keith MJ, Kramer M, Kulkarni SR, Levin L, Lyne AG, Milia S, Possenti A, Spitler L, Stappers B, van Straten, W. Transformation of a Star into a Planet in a Millisecond Pulsar Binary, Science, 333:1717. [2006] Kramer M, Stairs IH, Manchester RN, McLaughlin MA, Lyne AG, Ferdman RD, Burgay M, Lorimer DR, Possenti A, D'Amico N, Sarkissian J M, Hobbs G B, Reynolds J E, Freire PCC, Camilo F. Tests of General Relativity from Timing the Double Pulsar, Science, 314:97. [2003] Burgay M, D'Amico N, Possenti A, Manchester RN, Lyne AG, Joshi BC, McLaughlin MA, Kramer M, Sarkissian JM, Camilo F, Kalogera V, Kim C, Lorimer DR. An increased estimate of the merger rate of double neutron stars from observations of a highly relativistic system, Nature, 426:531. Marta Burgay has received several awards, from the beginning of her career, in addition to covering important scientific and institutional roles. Her PhD thesis "The Parkes High-Latitude Pulsar Survey and the Discovery of the First Double Pulsar" received the 2005 Tacchini Prize of the Italian Astronomical Society (SAIt). In 2005 she also received the Descartes Prize for excellence in scientific collaborative research, as a member of the group PulSE (Pulsar Science in Europe). In 2006 she was awarded with two important prizes, the Italian Society of General Relativity and Gravity Physics (SIGrav) Award for young researchers, and the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Award for young physicists. In 2010 she won the Marsden Prize of the European Astrosky Network and the Vainu Bappu Award of the Astronomical Society of India. In 2011, the XXIII edition of the Marisa Bellisario Award dedicated to Women, Innovation and Human Capital assigned her a prize in the special awards section for young talents in research fields. In 2014 she was named "Chevalier de l'autonomie" of the Valle d'Aosta region and in 2015 she was designated "Sardinian woman of the year" by the Lyones Club of Cagliari. In 2017 the International Astronomical Union attributed to the asteroid n. 198634 the name Burgaymarta. Laura Cadonati Competences: astrophysics, gravity waves Keywords: birth of the universe, Einstein, gravity waves, universe Associate professor at theGeorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States. After graduating in Physics at the University of Milan, she continued her studies at the Princeton University, earning first a master's degree in 1998 and then a PhD in Physics in 2001. In the same year she became a post doc member at Princeton University, while, from 2002 to 2004 she held the same position at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). In 2005 she was a research scientist at MIT, a role she held until 2007, when she became assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. At the same university she worked as associate professor from 2012 until 2015. In 2014 she has been visiting scholar of Cardiff University for about six months. Since 2015 she is associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her scientific research concerns gravitational waves, specifically it deals with identifying, characterizing and interpreting those of short duration produced by huge astrophysical events such as the collapse of the supernova core or the collisions of black holes. In February 2016 a press conference was held to present the discovery (which took place in September 2015) which changed the way astrophysics is understood: Laura Cadonati and her international research team showed the existence of gravitational waves theorized by Albert Einsten in the Theory of General Relativity. The discovery was carried out by the LIGO gravitational observatory in the United States, in collaboration with an international team of a thousand scientists, including those responsible for the Italian experiment Virgo, in Cascina. Thanks to this result there will be new applications in the field of theoretical physics and applied physics: indeed the discovery is not limited to providing a better understanding of the theory of relativity, but it offers new possibilities for scientific research in the field of the birth of the universe, and of the understanding of the forces that surround us. Laura Cadonati’s previous research activity included the detection of solar neutrinos with the Borexino experiment and participation in the DarkSide project for the research of Dark Matter, both experiments took place in the Gran Sasso National Laboratories. Laura Cadonati is the author of numerous presentations of international conferences and workshops, as well as seminars and parts of university books such as: “Listening to Space with LIGO.” L. Cadonati. State of the Universe 2007 - New Images, Discoveries, and Events, 2006 Springer Praxis Books, Popular Astronomy Series. Ratcliffe Editor. Moreover, she is author of numerous scientific publications, including: (2016) LIGO-Virgo Collaboration. GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence. Physical Review Letters ,116, 241103. (2016) LIGO-Virgo Collaboration. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger. Physical Review Letters, 116, 061102. (2016) LIGO-Virgo Collaboration. Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914. Classical & Quantum Gravity, 33, 134001. (2016) LIGO-Virgo Collaboration. Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions. Physical Review D, 93, 122004. (2016) LIGO-Virgo Collaboration. Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Living Reviews in Relativity, 19, 1. (2014) Clark J, Bauswein A, Cadonati L, Janka HT, Pankow C, Stergioulas N. Prospects For High Frequency Burst Searches Following Binary Neutron Star Coalescence With Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors. Physical Review D, 90, 062004. (2014) LIGO-Virgo Collaboration. Methods and results of a search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts using the GEO600, LIGO, and Virgo detectors. Physical Review D, 89,122004. (2014) LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, NINJA Collaboration. The NINJA-2 project: Detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations. Classical & Quantum Gravity, 31, 115004. (2014) Borexino Collaboration. Neutrinos from the primary proton–proton fusion process in the Sun. Nature, 512, 383–386. (2008) Borexino Collaboration. Direct Measurement of the Be 7 Solar Neutrino Flux with 192 Days of Borexino Data. Physical Review Letters, 101, 091302. She has been working for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration since 2002. In 2010 she received the Career Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), in the same year she was elected to the executive committee of the Topical Group on Gravitation of the American Physical Society. In 2014 she was chosen in the Chair-line of the APS Topical Group on Gravitation (currently called “Division of Gravity”). The following year she joined the Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2016 she became a member of the Advisory Board of the Classical and Quantum Gravity Journal. Patrizia Caraveo Keywords: astrophysics, cherencov telescope array, geminga, high energy astrophysics, neutron stars, pulsar, radio emissions, space, stars She has the rank of Research Director and works at the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (INAF) in Milano. She is also Professor of “Introduction to Astronomy” at the University of Pavia. PATRIZIA CARAVEO got her degree in physics in 1977 at the Milano University. Since 2002 she has the rank of Research Director and works atthe Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (INAF) in Milano. She is also Professor of “Introduction to Astronomy” at the University of Pavia She took part in several international space missions dedicated to high energy astrophysics, starting from the European mission COS-B. Currently, she is involved in the exploitation of ESA’s Integral, of NASA’s Swift, of the Italian Agile and of the NASA Fermi missions, all fully operational in orbit. She also represents INAF within the CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array) Collaboration Board. She is a recognized leader in the study of neutron stars behavior at different wevelengths. Her work lead to the discovery (and to the understanding) of Geminga, the first radio quiet neutron star. Indeed, her career in astronomy was based in an interdisciplinary approach, using data from space and ground instruments. Her list of publication can be seen at http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~pat/WEBpage/pat-pub.pdf . It features: Ø 432 papers published on international referee journals Ø 150 conference papers (several invited papers) Ø Hundreds of papers for the general public Ø 2 books However measured, her impact factor is very high. ADS, the system widely used by the astronomical community, quotes an h index >110, with more than 47,300 citations. Owing to the Geminga success story, she won the Premio Nazionale Presidente della Repubblica in 2009. Moreover, she shared with her Swift, Fermi and Agile colleagues the Bruno Rossi prizeof the American Astronomical Society in 2007, 2011 and 2012. In 2014 she received the Outstanding Achievement Awardfrom the Women in Aerospace European Society and was included by Thomson Reuters in the list of Highly Cited Researchers for Space Science In 2017 she was awarded the title of Commendatore dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana Isabella Castiglioni Competences: applied physics Keywords: artificial intelligence, computer technology, diagnostic imaging, image processing, molecular diagnostics Researcher at the IBFM-CNR (Institute of Molecular Bio-images and Physiology - National Research Council) in Milan. After graduating in Physics at the University of Milan in 1993, she received a scientific education in the field of physics applied to medicine, (more recently to cultural heritage and the environment), in particular in applications of imaging diagnostics combined with advanced computational techniques. Since 1997 she is Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology of the National Research Council (IBFM-CNR), where, since 2011, she is also a member of the Council of the Institute. From 2010 to 2016 she was professor on contract at the University of Milano-Bicocca. She gained experience in research responsibility through the creation and management of her own research group at the IBFM-CNR, which was consolidated in 2011 in a research laboratory (Integration & Innovation Laboratory in Molecular Imaging, INLAB www.inlab.ibfm.cnr.it), which currently hosts 10 researchers with expertise in the field of bioimaging, computer science, biology and biotechnology. She obtained important scientific results in: 1) physical characterization of diagnostic imaging systems, in particular positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission tomography (SPECT), computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MRI), fluorescence imaging/bioluminescence and near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), 2) development of methods of acquisition and processing of diagnostic images for medical and cultural applications, 3) development of methods and models for the correction of physical effects, noise sources in diagnostic imaging studies (eg attenuation, dispersion, partial volume effect), 4) development of methods of quantification and extraction of characteristics from diagnostic images (for example analysis of statistical parametric mapping, radiomics, analysis of main components, machine learning), 5) creation of databases of synthetic medical images for the validation of processing methods and quantification of medical images. Since 2010 she has coordinated 13 scientific research projects financed on competitive tenders or through contracts, for a total non-repayable net grant of 2M €, and 12 research projects in agreement with IRCCS and Hospitals. She showed her research achievements in more than 50 seminars and lectures at national and international conferences, universities and research institutes. She is co-inventor of four softwares for the extraction and quantification of biomarker images and biomedical data in use at national and foreign health facilities. From 2012 to 2015 she was Mentor of two spin offs in the biomedical technology sector. She is credited with 112 scientific publications in ISI scientific journals, including: Science, Nucleic Acids Research, Theranostics, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Medicine, Cerebral Cortex; she is in pole position (with the role of first, corresponding or last author) in more than 70% of her publications. [2005] Berti A, Bottini G, Gandola M, Pia L, Smania N, Stracciari A, Castiglioni I, Vallar G. Shared cortical anatomy for motor awareness and motor control. Science, 309(5733):488-91. [2014]Picchio M, Kirienko M, Mapelli P, Dell'Oca I, Villa E, Gallivanone F, Gianolli L, Messa C, Castiglioni I. Predictive value of pre-therapy (18)F-FDG PET/CT for the outcome of (18)F-FDG PET-guided radiotherapy in patients with head and neck cancer.Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 41(1):21-31. [2015] Bertoli G, Cava C, Castiglioni I. MicroRNAs: New Biomarkers for Diagnosis, Prognosis, Therapy Prediction and Therapeutic Tools for Breast Cancer. Theranostics, 5(10):1122-43. [2015] Salvatore C, Cerasa A, Battista P, Gilardi MC, Quattrone A, Castiglioni I; Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Magnetic resonance imaging biomarkers for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: a machine learning approach. Front Neurosci, 9:307. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00307. eCollection 2015. [2016] Colaprico A, Silva TC, Olsen C, Garofano L, Cava C, Garolini D, Sabedot TS, Malta TM, Pagnotta SM, Castiglioni I, Ceccarelli M, Bontempi G, Noushmehr H. TCGAbiolinks: an R/Bioconductor package for integrative analysis of TCGA data. Nucleic Acids Res, 44(8):e71. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv1507. [2017] Antunovic L, Gallivanone F, Sollini M, Sagona A, Invento A, Manfrinato G, Kirienko M, Tinterri C, Chiti A, Castiglioni I. [18F]FDG PET/CT features for the molecular characterization of primary breast tumors. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 44(12):1945-1954. [2017] Berti A, Della-Torre E, Gallivanone F, Canevari C, Milani R, Lanzillotta M, Campochiaro C, Ramirez GA, Bozzalla Cassione E, Bozzolo E, Pedica F, Castiglioni I, Arcidiacono PG, Balzano G, Falconi M, Gianolli L, Dagna L. Quantitative measurement of 18F-FDG PET/CT uptake reflects the expansion of circulating plasmablasts in IgG4-related disease. Rheumatology,56(12):2084-2092. [2018] Gargano M, Galli A, Bonizzoni L, Alberti R, Aresi N, Caccia M, Castiglioni I, Interlenghi M, Salvatore C, Ludwig N, Martini M. The Giotto's workshop in the XXI century: looking inside the “God the Father with Angels” gable. Journal of cultural heritage: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2018.09.016 [2019] Cantini L, Bertoli G, Cava C, Dubois T, Zinovyev A, Caselle M, Castiglioni I, Barillot E, Martignetti L. Identification of microRNA clusters cooperatively acting on Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition in Triple Negative Breast Cancer. NAR, in press (Published on-line). [2019] Musazzi L, Sala N, Tornese P, Gallivanone F, Belloli S, Conte A, Di Grigoli G, Fenghua C, Treccani G, Bazzini C, Castiglioni I, Nyengaard JR, Wegener G, Moresco RM, Popoli P. Acute inescapable stress rapidly increases synaptic energy metabolism in prefrontal cortex and alters working memory performance. Cerebral Cortex, in press. From 2007 to 2009 she was Foreign Scientific Visitors Tutor for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). She is a scientific evaluator of research projects for International Institutions (Engineering in the Medical and Biology Society, Fundacao para a Cienca and in Technology FCT – Portugal, French Institute National du Cancer, Poland National Science Center, Horizon2020). She is a scientific reviewer in international scientific journals in the field of bioimaging and molecular diagnostics and carries out publishing activities, as Associate Editor and Guest Editor. In particular she was Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Frontiers in Biomarkers for Theranostics" in Frontiers in Bioscience - Landmark, of the Special Issue "Frontiers from Radiomics in Molecular Imaging" in Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging, and of the Special Issue "Imaging biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of neurodegenerative diseases” in Frontiers in Neuroscience. Maria Luisa Chiofalo Competences: physics education, quantum physics, responsible research and innovation, science and society Keywords: gender equality, high-temperature superconductivity, quantum technologies, women and science Region: Tuscany Associate Professor at University of Pisa After obtaining the MD in Physics at the University of Pisa in1992 and the PhD at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) in 1996, both cum laude, at the SNS she has been postdoc and then researcher (1998-2002, 2004-2007), working in 2002-2004 with Professor Anna Nobili. Since 2007 she is associate Professor at the University of Pisa (habilitated as full professor). She teaches two elementary-physics courses for BSD and MD in Pharmacy, one specialized course for MD and PhD in Physics, and Physics of everyday life to teach physics teaching. She contributes to the Interdisciplinary Center Sciences for Peace, Interdepartmental Center for Education Research, and the Responsible Research&Innovation group of the University of Pisa. She has coordinated disciplinary or physics education research projects funded by CINECA, SNS, ASI, INFN, MIT-UNIPI, KITP, Erasmus+, and CISIA. Part of her research activity has been carried out at international scientific Institutions, such as: IRC Cambridge, TU-Eindhoven, Institut Poincaré (Paris), CNRS (Grenoble), University of Auckland, Strathclyde University (UK), ICTP, ECT e CRS-BEC (Trento), and Los Alamos National Labs, Aspen Center for Physics, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford, Harvard e MIT (US). Long and strong ties are with JILA (Boulder, US), where she has investigated quantum fluids for 1-2 months almost every year since 1995 in the groups of Murray Holland or Debbie Jin, around the pioneering experiments of the Nobel laureates Carl Wiemann and Eric Cornell. She has developed the bipolaronic theory for high-temperature superconductivity, published in a monography, while contributing to the study of strongly correlated charged bosons. Since the observation in 1995 at JILA and MIT of Bose-Einstein condensation in ultracold (i.e. at billionths Kelvin above absolute zero) atoms, she has focused on the study of these systems as a platform to engineer quantum technologies under the accurate control of temperature, interactions, and spatial dimensions. To this aim, she has also developed simulational and theoretical methods, among the latter the time-dependent density functional theory for superfluids. The most relevant and recognized work has been conceiving with Murray Holland the theory of resonant fermionic superfluidity, later observed by Debbie Jin at JILA. During the happy research parenthesis in the group of Anna Nobili, she has developed the simulational environment for the Galileo Galilei on the Ground test of the equivalence principle, with macroscopic bodies. Such cross-disciplinary approach keeps characterizing the research activity, nowadays along two directions: quantum technologies for fundamental physics with atomic interferometry (she is coauthor of a number of proposals, among which Atomic Experiments for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration in Space submitted to the ESA call Voyage2050); developing a “quantum black box” to solve quantum problems which, by means of on-purpose conceived videogames, modelling human behavior, and using machine learning, integrates the power of human-mind creativity and intuition with the power of machines (classical or quantum). In fact, she coordinates with Sabrina Maniscalco (Turku University) the cross-disciplinary proposal Integrating Human&Machine Minds for Quantum Technologies (IQHuMinds) crossing quantum physics, neuroscience, computer science, gamification, with European and US partners from Universities (Pisa and Turku, ICFO, JILA) and sectoral companies (VIS, MiTale, QuSide, IBM-Zurich, Unity). She parallels the disciplinary research with physics education research and outreach. She has created a number of formats and events for radio (e.g. Hallo, Science! with Sara Maggi), videos, and art&science shows. She has collaborated on science&society with Rai-Radio3, Repubblica, Focus Junior, Scienzainrete, Ingenere, Corriere della Sera, DireDonne. [2019] Lucchesi L and Chiofalo ML, Many-body Entanglement of Fermi Gases with Short-Range Interactions. Phys. Rev. Lett. 123: 60406. [2018] Colella E, Citro R, Barsanti M, Rossini D, and Chiofalo ML, Quantum Phases of Spinful Fermi Gases in Optical Cavities. Phys. Rev. B 97: 134502. [2014] Iadonisi G, Cantele G, Chiofalo ML, Introduction to Solid State Physics and Crystalline Nanostructures, SPRINGER VERLAG- Italia (2014) 685 pp. [2008] Ivanov V, Alberti A, Schioppo M, Ferrari G, Artoni M, Chiofalo ML and Tino G, Coherent delocalization of atomic wavepackets in driven lattice potentials. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100: 43601. [2007] Citro R, Orignac E, de Palo S, and Chiofalo ML, Evidence of Luttinger liquid behavior in one-dimensional dipolar quantum gases, Phys. Rev. A Rapid Comm. 75: 51602. [2006] Chiofalo ML, Giorgini S, and Holland MJ, Released Momentum Distribution of a Fermi Gas in the BCS-BEC Crossover. Phys. Rev. Lett. 97: 070404. [2003] Nobili AM, Bramanti D, Comandi GL, Toncelli R, Polacco E, and Chiofalo ML, GALILEO GALILEI-GG: design, requirements, error budget and significance of the ground prototype. Phys. Lett. A.318: 172. [2001] Holland MJ, Kokkelmans SJJMF, Chiofalo ML and Walser R, Resonance superfluidity in a quantum degenerate Fermi gas. Phys. Rev. Lett. 87: 120406. [2001] Chiofalo ML and Tosi MP, Time-dependent density-functional theory for superfluids. Europhys. Lett. 53:162. [2001] Burger S, Cataliotti FS, Fort C, Minardi F, Inguscio M, Chiofalo ML and Tosi MP, Superfluid and Dissipative Dynamics of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Periodic Optical Potential. Phys. Rev. Lett. 86: 4447. [1998] Iadonisi G, Schrieffer RJ and Chiofalo ML Eds., Models and Phenomenology for conventional and high-Tcsuperconductivity, Proceedings del CXXXVI Corso della Scuola Internazionale di Fisica "Enrico Fermi", IOS. [1997] Holland M, Jin J, Chiofalo ML and Cooper J, Emergence of interaction effects in Bose--Einstein condensation. Phys. Rev. Lett. 78: 3801. She has been awarded the Prize for MD students by the Italian Physical Society (1997). The work on Time-dependent density functional theory for superfluids has been selected among the INFM Highlights (1998). She has been awarded the Prizes Culture of Solidarity (Pistoia, 2014) and Successful Women (Sportello Donna, Pavia, and Fondazione Gaia, Milan, 2016, event Beijin+20). According to Ladynomics, she is among the 150 most influential feminists 2019. She has organized a number of events as component of scientific board, among which the CXXXVI International School of Physics Enrico Fermi (Varenna 1997, on high-temperature superconductivity) with the directors R. J. Schrieffer (Nobel laureate) and G. Iadonisi. She has created and directed the Festival MusicalMente for the Arts Campus in Sangemini, and chairs the Conferences series Quantum gases, Fundamental interactions, and Cosmology (2017-). She is part of the scientific boards of the CISP Magazine, the series Culture and training (D. Pardini and M. Agujari eds.), and the Cosmos Award for popular science, chaired by Gianfranco Bertone. She has served as peer reviewer for VQR 2011-2014, ERC Starting Grant 2019, and academic Institutions (Stanford, Harvard, LKB Paris). She is in the board of Photonics. She is reviewer for Physical Review (Letters, A, B, E, X), Nature, NJP, EPJ, Europhysics Letters. Paola Corradi Competences: ICT (Informazioni and Communications Techology), telecomunications Keywords: cloud, environment, management, smart city, startup, women Full professor of pharmacology at the University of Bari After graduating in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Bari in 1979, she specialized in Neurology at the same university. She then obtained a scholarship from the Mario Negri Institute in Milan and, in 1984, moved as a researcher to Duke University Medical Center, Durham in the United States, in the group of Dr. R.J. Lefkowitz, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2012. Her academic career continued as Research Assistant Professor at the same Duke University and, since 1992, as professor of Pharmacology at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. In 2007 she returned to Italy definitively and became professor of Pharmacology at the University of Bari. Susanna Cotecchia has always been committed to basic research as an indispensable tool for understanding the mechanisms of disease and drug action. Her research focuses on the study of membrane receptors and site-directed mutagenesis, a particular technique used in molecular biology to study the structure-function relationship of proteins. This line of research aims to address the fundamental questions of molecular pharmacology, providing rapid screening methods and useful information to understand the mechanism of action of medicines. The goal is to build new molecules with selective and targeted pharmacological properties, the so-called drug design, which avoids side effects in the treatment of numerous diseases. She is the author of more than 100 national and international scientific papers, including: (2006) Stanasila L, Abuin L, Diviani D, Cotecchia S. Direct interaction of ezrin with the alpha1b-adrenergic receptor regulates recycling of the internalized receptors. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 281:4354-63. (2005) Hosoda C, Koshimizu TA, Tanoue A, Nasa Y, Oikawa R, Tomabechi T, Fukuda S, Shinoura H, Oshikawa S, Takeo S, Kitamura T, Cotecchia S, Tsujimoto G. Two alpha1-adrenergic receptor subtypes regulating the vasopressor response have differential roles in blood pressure regulation. Molecular Pharmacology, 67:912-22. (2005) Novi F, Stanasila L, Giorgi F, Corsini GU, Cotecchia S, Maggio R. Paired activation of two components within muscarinic M3 receptor dimers is required for recruitment of beta-arrestin-1 to the plasma membrane. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280:19768-76. (2005) Costa T and Cotecchia S. Historical Perspective: The discovery of inverse efficacy and the constitutive activity of GPCRs. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences. (2005) Hosoda C, Tanoue A, Shibano M, Tanaka Y, Hiroyama M, Koshimizu TA, Cotecchia S, Kitamura T, Tsujimoto G, Koike K. Correlation between vasoconstrictor roles and mRNA expression of alpha(1) adrenoceptor subtypes in blood vessels of genetically engineered mice. British Journal of Pharmacology 146:456-66. (2005) Sarang Z, Molnar P, Nemeth T, Gomba S, Kardon T, Melino G, Cotecchia S, Fesus L, Szondy Z. Tissue transglutaminase (TG2) acting as G protein protects hepatocytes against Fas-mediated cell death in mice. Hepatology 42:578-87. (2004) Diviani D, Abuin L, Cotecchia S and Pansier L. Anchoring of both PKA and 14-3-3 inhibits the Rho-GEF activity of the AKAP-Lbc signaling complex, EMBO Journal 23:2811-20. (2004) Cotecchia S, Stanasila L, Diviani D, Bjorklof K, Rossier O and Fanelli F. Structural determinants involved in the activation and regulation of G protein-coupled receptors: lessons from the alpha1-adrenegic receptor subtypes. Biology of the Cell, 96:327-33. (2005) Zhang H, Cotecchia S, Thomas SA, Tanoue A, Tsujimoto G and Faber JE. Gene deletion of dopamine beta-hydroxylase and alpha1-adrenoceptors demonstrates involvement of catecholamines in vascular remodeling. American Physiological Society Journals, Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 287:H2106-H2114. (2004) Townsend SA, Jung AS, Gillian Hoe YS, Lefkowitz RY, Khan SA, Lemmon CA, Harrison RW, Lee K, Barouch LA, Cotecchia S, Shoukas AA, Nyhan D, Hare JM and Berkowitz DE. Critical role for the alpha-1B adrenergic receptor at the sympathetic neuroeffector junction. Hypertension, 44:776-82. Susanna Cotecchia received the award of the European Federation of Biochemical Societies (FEBS) in 1995. In 2001 she obtained the "Receptor Research Prize" of Perk. Maria Cristina De Sanctis Competences: astronomy, astrophysics Keywords: asteroids, comets, dawn, ESA (European Space Agency), exomars, ISA (Italian Space Agency), NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), planetology, rosette, solar system, space missions Region: Lazio Senior researcher of the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) section of Rome After obtaining a degree in Physics at the University La Sapienza of Rome in 1992, he continued his education obtaining in 1997 a Ph.D. in Astronomy. In 1996, thanks to a grant from the CNR, he spent a year at their Institute of Space Astrophysics. Since 1998, she is a researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of the CNR, now called Institute of Astrophysics and Space Planetology of INAF. The research interests of Maria Cristina De Sanctis mainly include three fields of study: the minor bodies of the solar system and planetary surfaces, the thermal evolution of solar system bodies, the instrumentation for space missions. She analyzed data from telescope, space and laboratory observations to investigate the composition of comets and asteroids, of the surface of the Moon and Mercury. She has experience in the study of composition of asteroids by ground and space observations, as well of cometary gases through high-resolution spectral observations. She has studied the thermal evolution of icy bodies of the solar system, developing a complex numerical code that allows to simulate the processes of differentiation and evolution of such objects (comets, KBOs, Centauri, asteroids). She has a laboratory for spectral measurements of metorites and planetary analogues. She has also developed instrumentation for space missions, image spectrometers and multi-spectral cameras, to study of the compositions of planetary surface and minor bodies of the solar system. She has followed the development of entire projects, as a Principal Investigator (PI), dealing with the scientific and technical coordination of the team's activities, and with the ESA or NASA teams. She is the PI of VIR spectrometer onboard of Dawn NASA mission of Ma_MISS on ExoMars ESA mission. She is also involved in several other instruments on Bepi-Colombo, Rosetta, Juice Missions. Author of more than 220 publications in international journals including: De Sanctis et al. Localized aliphatic organic material on the surface of Ceres, Science,355, 719-722, 2017. De Sanctis et al.Bright carbonate deposits as evidence of aqueous alteration on Ceres, Nature,536, 54-57,2016 De Sanctis et al.Ammoniated phyllosilicates with a likely outer Solar System origin on Ceres, Nature,528, 241-244, 2015 De Sanctis, et al. The diurnal cycle of water ice on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Nature,525,500-503, 2015 De Sanctis et al., Spectroscopic Characterization of Mineralogy and Its Diversity Across Vesta. Science, 336(6082), 697, 2012 · 2017- NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal · 2008-NASA Achievement Award -“ Dawn Science Payload” ce Payload" · 2009-NASA Achievement Award - “DAWN post-lunch payload characterization and calibration activities”. · 2013- NASA Achievement Award -" Dawn science data analysis at Vesta” · 2012-NASA Achievement Award “ Exceptional and Succesful execution of the DAWN at Vesta” · 2004-ESA Scientific Award - “Outstanding contribution to Rosetta Mission” · 2016-ESA Scientific Award - “Outstanding scientific contribution to Rosetta Mission” · 2015-ESA Scientific Award - “Outstanding scientific contribution to VEX Mission” Asteroid 17899 Mariacristina is called in her honor Anna Di Ciaccio Competences: elementary particle physics, particles detectors, subnuclear physics Keywords: accelerators, atlas experiment, boson w, boson z, calorimeters, CERN, higgs boson, high energy physics, infn, lhc, proton-proton collisions, standard model She is full professor at the University of Roma Tor Vergata and Director of the INFN group at Roma Tor Vergata. Her research field is the experimental Particle Physics. She leads a group of researchers of the University of Roma Tor Vergata working on the ATLAS experiment at the CERN laboratory (Geneva, Switzerland). She graduated at the University of Roma La Sapienza on the UA1 experiment at CERN. In 1984 she won a position as assistant professor at the University of Roma Tor Vergata and in 1999 she becme aassociate professor. From 1981-1983 she was research associate at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA. In 1984 and 1985 she was visitor at the Physics Department of the Harvard University (USA) and at the Oak-Ridge American Laboratory (USA). From 1987-1988 she was fellow at CERN. In 1994 she won an “Alexander von Humboldt” fellowship for a research program in particle physics at the Albert-Ludwig-University in Freiburg, Germany. She participated in several high energy experiments at CERN to study proton-proton collisions at 63 GeV (experiment R807 at the ISR), proton-antiproton collisions at 540 and 630 GeV (UA1 experiment at the ppbar Collider, discovery of the W and Z bosons, Nobel Prize to Prof. C. Rubbia), pion-nucleon interactions at 26 GeV in the center of mass (WA92 at the SPS proto-synchrotron) and proton-proton collisions at 7, 8, 13 TeV (ATLAS experiment at LHC, discovery of the Higgs Boson, Nobel Prize to Prof. F. Englert and Prof. P. Higgs). She was contributing to the development of a high time resolution detector,RPC, employed for the barrel muon trigger in the ATLAS spectrometer. From 2013-2015 she led the Italian participation to the ATLAS experiment. She is currently involved in the upgrade project of the ATLAS spectrometer for the high luminosity LHC program. She is author of more than 800 pubblication among which : (2017) Atlas Collaboration. Evidence for the𝐻→𝑏𝑏⎯decay with the ATLAS detector, JHEP 1712 024 (2013) Atlas Collaboration. Measurements of Higgs boson production and couplings in diboson final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Physics Letters B, 726:1-3, 88-119. (2012) Atlas Collaboration. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Physics Letters B, 716: 1, 1-29. (1983) Arnison G, Astbury A, Aubert B, et al. Experimental-observation of isolated large transverse energy electrons with associated missing energy at square-root-s=540 GeV. Physics Letters B, 122:1, 103-116. (1983) Arnison G, Astbury A, Aubert B, et al. Experimental-Observation of Lepton Pairs of Invariant Mass Around 95 GeV/c^2 at the CERN SpS Collider. Physics Letters B, 126:5, 398-410. In 1987 she got a prize from the Italian Society of Physics (SIF), in 2013 the European Society of Physics (EPS) was assigned to the ATLAS Collaboration a prize for the discovery of the Higgs Boson. In 2016 she got the prize “Cajeta 2016” assigned from the City of Gaeta (my home town) to women that distinguished in Science. Simonetta Di Pippo Keywords: aerospatial physics, international collaboration, space, UN (United Nations), women and science Director of United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs in Vienna. After graduating in physics with a specialisation in astrophysics and space physics at the University La Sapienza in Rome in 1984, in 1986 she joined the National Space Plan of the National Research Council, which became the Italian Space Agency (ASI) in 1988. Her responsibilities ranged from Earth observation to automation and robotics, science and human spaceflight. In 2002, she was appointed Director of the ASI's Observation of the Universe, in charge of all the scientific programmes of ASI, including its contribution to ESA programmes, and of the exploration programmes, including the management of the Italian astronauts. From 2008 to 2011, Ms. Di Pippo served as Director of Human Spaceflight at the ESA, first woman appointed Director at ESA since its inception in 1975. After having served as the Head of the European Space Policy Observatory at Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) in Brussels, since 23 March 2014, she is the Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in Vienna. In 2009, she co-founded the association Women in Aerospace – Europe, to expand the representation and leadership of women in the aerospace sector. Her leadership as President lasted until 2016, when she was appointed as Honorary President. She has been teaching at several universities, including GWU, NYUAD and LUISS. Simonetta Di Pippo is considered one of the main experts in international cooperation in the aerospace sector globally. As Director of UNOOSA, she elaborates the strategies and supervises all activities of the Office, ensuring they conform to the mandate of the General Assembly and of the Committee for the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). Under her leadership, the Office strives to bring the benefits of space to everyone, everywhere, to leverage the potential of space for sustainable development and to reduce the space divide among nations, helping more countries to access space. She also advises the Secretary General of the United Nations on space-related issues such as the peaceful use of outer space and the use of space science and technology for sustainable development. UNOOSA also helps Member States use satellite technology to prevent and manage natural disasters and emergencies through the UN-SPIDER programme. She is the author of several books and publications, including: (2018) Di Pippo S., Davidian K., Public/Private Human Access to Space, Vol. 2, Earth Orbit and beyond, International Academy of Astronautics, ISBN 978-2-917761-52-6 (2017) Preface to the book “Women spacefarers: sixty different paths to space” edited by U. Cavallaro. ISBN: 978-3319340470 (2017) Preface to the study “Global space governance: an international study” edited by J., Ram and J., Pelton, Jakhu, Ram, Pelton, Joseph. ISBN 978-3-319-54364-2 (2016) Introduction to the book “YES WE_STEM", edited by L. d'Ambrosio Marri, F. Marzano and E. Pietrafesa, e-book version. ISBN: 9788894076936. (2015) Di Pippo S, Perozzi E. European Operational Initiative on NEONear Earth Object (NEO) Hazard Monitoring. Handbook of Cosmic Hazards and Planetary Defense, 615-635. ISBN 978-3-319-03951-0 (2009) Flamini E., Ori GG., Di Pippo S & Osinski G., Exploring Mars and its terrestrial analogues, Preface, Planetary and Space Science (2007) Di Martino, Di Pippo et al. "Dai ghiacci della Terra ai ghiacci dell'Universo", Erga Edizioni. ISBN 978-88-8163-522-1 (2002) Di Pippo S., Astronauti, Mursia, ISBN 978-88-425-3005-3 (2013) Di Pippo S. An outline of the study group "Public/Private Human Access to Space". 8th IAA symposium in the future of space, Turin, Italy. (2012) Di Pippo S. Experience with collaborative space projects. 63rd International Astronautical Congress, Naples, Italy. (2009) Flamini E, Ori GG, Di Pippo S & Osinski G. Exploring Mars and its terrestrial analogues Preface.Planetary and Space Science, 57(5):509-509. (2008) Di Pippo S. Celebrating the accomplishment, preparing the future - New challenges in human spaceflight and exploration. ESA bulletin. Bulletin ASE. European Space Agency, (135):10-17. (2007) Foing BH, Espinasse S, Wargo M, Di Pippo S. Sorrento Lunar Declaration 2007. Advances in Space Research, 42(2):246-247. (2001) Coradini A, Campbell J, De Sanctis MC, [...] Di Pippo S, et al. Italian participation in the Mars exploration program. Advances in Space Research, 28(8):1197-1202. During her career, she received numerous national and international awards. In 2006, she was knighted by the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. In 2008, the International Astronautical Union named asteroid 21887 "dipippo" as a recognition of her contribution to space exploration. In 2010 she won the international prize Sebetia-Ter Silver Award of the President of the Italian Republic Luigi Napolitano for her contributions to the space sector. In 2012 she received the Women in Aerospace Leadership Award recognising her roles managing complex space projects and inspiring women in the aerospace sector. In 2016 she received the prize for International Cooperation of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) for significant contributions to international cooperation in space activities. In 2018, she received the Hubert Curien Award, which recognises outstanding efforts to help society benefit from space. She received an Honoris Causa Degree in Environmental Studies from St. John University, and an Honoris Causa Degree in International Relations from John Cabot University. Roberta Fantoni Competences: atomic spectroscopy, molecular spectroscopy Keywords: laser diagnostics, laser induced processes, laser remote sensing Head, Technology Application for Security and Heath Division (FSN-TECFIS) at ENEA since July 2015. Degree in Chemistry at Roma University “La Sapienza” in 1978 discussing a thesis on electron spectroscopy in the gas phase. After a period of fellowships, permanent position at ENEA in 1982 initially addressed to the participation to laser assisted uranium isotope enrichment project. At the end of the project she spent some periods of specialization abroad (Catholic University of Nijmegen - NL, ETH Ecole Polytechnique Zurich - CH). Due to her professional expertise on laser diagnostics and photochemistry, in 1998 she became the head of the Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory of ENEA at Frascati (FIS-SPET), keeping the charge until 2010. In 2010 she was appointed as director of the large Technical Unit “Applications of radiations” (UTAPRAD) of ENEA at Frascati. Following the last structural changes in ENEA, since 2015 to now, she became head of Technology Application for Security and Heath Division (FSN-TECFIS) of ENEA at Frascati. Scientific activity. From the beginning of her career Dr. R. Fantoni was involved in multidisciplinary research activities and projects implying knowledge relevant to both chemistry and physics (spectroscopy and material processing). Successively, within the field of radiation-matter interactions, she carried out researches on processes with a broader applicative range, from biology and medicine to cultural heritage. Her well consolidated scientific and technological background was time to time utilized and reshaped for specific tasks, such as: laser applications in physical chemistry, starting from researches relevant to the laser isotope enrichment project basically dealing with multi-photon and high resolution IR spectroscopy; laser spectroscopies and diagnostics, including infrared diode laser spectroscopy, laser Raman spectroscopy, emission spectroscopy in visible7ultriaviolet range, multiphoton-ionization spectrometry, Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF), Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Coherent AntiStokes Raman Scattering (CARS), Degenerate Four Wave Mixing (DFWM) e Laser Induced Grating Spectroscopy (LIGS); different multidisciplinary laser application relevant to microelectronics (thin film deposition), to material science (nano-structures synthesis), to the environment (laser decomposition of liquid and gaseous pollutants) and in situ and remote characterization of cultural heritage surfaces; Organization and participation to monitoring campaigns on sea waters and cultural heritage surfaces. Along her career Dr R. Fantoni personally established and kept contacts with scientist in European laboratory of excellence (in the Netherlands, Suisse, Romania, Slovenia and Spain) and in other countries (Russia, Egypt). She is the co-author of about 165 peer reviewed scientific publications, we report only 5 significant recent titles: (2013) R. Fantoni, S. Almaviva, L. Caneve, F.. Colao, A. M. Popov, G. Maddaluno “Development of Calibration-Free Laser-Induced-Breakdown-Spectroscopy based techniques for deposited layers diagnostics on ITER-like tiles” Spectrochim. Acta B87, 153-160. (2013 )L. Caneve, F. Colao, R. Fantoni, L. Fiorani "Scanning lidar fluorosensor for remote diagnostic of surfaces" Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 720, 164–167. (2014) S. Almaviva, S. Botti, L. Cantarini,R. Fantoni, S. Lecci, A. Palucci, A. Puiu and A. Rufoloni "Ultrasensitive RDX detection with commercial SERS substrates” J. Raman Spectrosc, 45, 41–46. (2014) V. Spizzichino, R. Fantoni “Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy in Archeometry: a review of its application and future perspectives” Spectrochim. Acta B 99, 201-209. (2018) V. Lazic, M. Vadrucci, R. Fantoni, M. Chiari, A. Mazzinghi, A. Gorghinian, Applications of laser induced breakdown spectroscopy for cultural heritage: A comparison with XRF and PIXE techniques, Spectrochim. Acta Part B 149, 1–14. Co-winner (together with R. Barbini, F. Colao, A. Palucci, S. Ribezzo) of the Prize “Carnia Alpe Verde” for the best project aimed at protection of green areas in 1992, issued by region Friuli Venezia-Giulia. Winner of the prize “G. Stampacchia” fort he best first work in chemistry in 1980, issued by University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Simonetta Gentile Competences: experimental physics Keywords: atlas project, CERN, higgs boson, neutrinos, nucleons, particle physics Full Professor of Experimental Physics at the La SapienzaUniversity of Rome After obtaining a degree in Physics at the University La Sapienza of Rome in 1974, she received a training grant at the same University from 1975 to 1981. In 1978 she graduated from the School of Specialization in Physics (Nuclear Physics)(corresponding to a nowadays PhD). From 1980 to 1982 she was a two-year research fellow at the Division of Experimental Physics of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). In 1981 she worked as researcher at the La SapienzaUniversity of Rome until 1988 when she became an associate professor at the University of Calabria. In 1992 and 1993 and in1999 and 2000 she returned to CERN as Visiting Scientist. In 1992 she moved as associate professor at University La Sapienza. Since 2011 she is Full Professor of Experimental Physics at La Sapienza in Rome. The research sector, in which Simonetta Gentile is dedicated, concerns the Experimental Physics of Elementary Particles. Her lines of investigation follow the Standard Model (the theory that describes three of the four known fundamental forces: the strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions, and all the elementary particles connected to them) or the Neutrino Physics, the structure functions of the nucleons, the properties of the intermediate bosons Z and W and the search for the Higgs bosons. It is currently part of the ATLAS project (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS), one of six particle detectors built for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the particle accelerator at CERN, in Switzerland. Simonetta Gentile is also involved in research and development for particle detectors for future accelerators. During her career, she participates in experiments aimed at identifying triggers and detectors of mu-mesons (muons, sort of heavy electrons). She collaborated with the Fermi Laboratory of Batavia (Chicago) in the search for particles with charm and with NASA working at AMS, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a detector used in particle physics installed since 19 May 2011 on the International Space Station. It is designed for the research of new types of particles (antimatter, dark matter, strange matter) through the high-precision measurement of the composition of cosmic rays. Its measures will help scientists understand the laws behind the formation of the universe. Publishing activities and publications she is the author of numerous international publications, including: (2018) Gentile S. , ATLAS [ATLAS Collaboration, Authors: 2856], Observation of Higgs boson production in association with a top quark pair at the LHC with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Lett. B 784 (2018) 173. (2018) Gentile S. , ATLAS [ATLAS Collaboration, Authors: 2856], Evidence for the associated production of the Higgs boson and a top quark pair with the ATLAS detector,Phys.Rev. D97 (2018) no.7, 072003. (2017) Gentile S. , ATLAS Search for the dimuon decay of the Higgs boson in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detectorPhys. Rev. Lett. 119 (2017) 051802 (2016) Gentile S.,ATLAS & CMS Collaboration, Measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates and constraints on its couplings from a combined ATLAS and CMS analysis of the LHCppcollision data ats√=7 and 8 TeV, JHEP 08 (2016) 045 (2015) Gentile S.,ATLAS Search for the associated production of the Higgs boson with a top quark pair in multilepton final states with the ATLAS detector, Physics Letters B 749 (2015) 519-541 (2013) Corcella G, Gentile S. Heavy Neutral Gauge Bosons at LHC in an Extended MSSM.Nuclear Physics B, 866:293-366. (2012) Gentile S. Z 'production at LHC in an extended MSSM.Proceedings of Science, 36th International Conference on High Energy Physics, Melbourne, Australia. (2012) Gentile S. Phenomenology of new heavy neutral gauge bosons in an extended MSSM. Nuovo Cimento C, 035:349-360. (2012) Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration, Authors: 2932]. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC"G. Physics Letters B 716, 1. (2010) Gentile S. Systematics in charged Higgs search in ATLAS. Proceedings of Science, Third International Workshop on Prospects for charged Higgs Discovery at colliders-CHARGED2010, Uppsala, Sweden. (2009) Gentile S. ATLAS search for MSSM Higgs bosons decaying into SUSY cascades. ATLAS Collaboration, ATL-PHYS-PUB-2009-079. (2009) Gentile S. The ATLAS discovery potential for MSSM neutral Higgs bosons decaying into muon, tau. supersymmetric particle pairs. Balkan Physics Letters 16:109-113. Proceedings International Conference on Particle Physics in Memoriam Ergin Arik and Her collegues, Istanbul,Turkey. (2008) Gentile S. ATLAS MSSM Higgs search in SUSY cascade. Proceedings of Science, Prospects for Charged Higgs Discovery at Collider, Uppsala, Sweden. (2008) Fidecaro M, Gentile S. Il tassello mancante - la particella di Higgs. Giornale di Fisica, 49(2). (2008) Gentile S. Detect MSSM neutral Higgs bosons at LHC. Proceedings Les Rencontres de physique de La Valle d'Aoste, La Thuile, 497-518. (2007) Gentile S, Bilokon H, Chiarella V, Nicoletti G. The ATLAS discovery potential for MSSM neutral Higgs bosons decaying to a mu+mu- pair in the mass range up to 130 GeV. The European Physical Journal C, 229-245. Sandra Leone Competences: experimental elementary particle physics Keywords: antiproton, atlas experiment, boson w, CERN, collision, elementary particles, fermilab, higgs boson, proton, top quark Senior researcher at National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Pisa (Italy) Sandra Leone obtained a master degree in physics from Pisa University in 1990 and a PhD from the same University in 1994. After a 2 years post-doc position, in 1997 she enters INFN-Pisa as researcher in experimental high energy physics. Since 2009 she is senior researcher in the same institute. She has the full professor qualification (required to cover full professor positions in Italy). Since 2005 she is responsible for the organization of the Pisa European Particle Physics Masterclass for high school students. She was in the local organizing committee of 6 international congresses and was in charge of the organization of INFN local scientific seminars since 2002 until 2008. Sandra Leone’s field of research is experimental particle physics. In 1989 she starts studying proton-antiproton collisions in the CDF experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, in the US. In particular she studied the production mechanism of the W boson. In 1994-1995 she studied the top quark production and was part of the team which observed for the first time the top quark in the CDF experiment. From 1997 to 2001 she works with silicon detectors and studies their application in experiments at hadron colliders. In particular, she is responsible in this period of the construction and test of 161 elementary units of the ISL silicon detector for the CDF experiment. In the following years she commits herself to the study of associated production of WZ intermediate bosons and the search for the Higgs boson. In 2013 she joins the ATLAS experiment at CERN. She takes part to the construction and test of the new laser calibration system for the ATLAS hadron calorimeter. Since 2015 she studies the robustness and longevity of photomultiplier tubes, in the context of the foreseen upgrades of the ATLAS detector. She was invited to present scientific results on behalf of her collaborations in plenary session in 15 international conferences and in several national conferences, physics schools, seminars and conference parallel sessions, like ‘ichep2016’, one of the most important conferences in the field of high energy physics, which was held in Chicago She is referee of international journals and co-author of more than 1000 international papers, among which: (2016) CDF Collaboration. Measurement of the WW and WZ production cross section using final states with a charged lepton and heavy-flavor jets in the full CDF Run II data set. Physical Review D, 94, 032008. (2012) CDF Collaboration. Evidence for a Particle Produced in Association with Weak Bosons and Decaying to a Bottom-Antibottom Quark Pair in Higgs Boson Searches at the Tevatron. Physical Review Letters, 109, 071804. (2007) CDF Collaboration. First Measurement of the Ratio of Central-Electron to Forward-Electron W Partial Cross Sections in proton-antiproton collisions at center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. Physical Review Letters, 98, 251801. (1995) CDF Collaboration. Observation of Top Quark Production in proton-antiproton collisions with the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Physical Review Letters, 74, 2626. (1992) Abe F, [...] Leone S, et al. Lepton Asymmetry in W-boson Decays from proton-antiproton Collisions at center of mass energy of 1.8 TeV. Physical Review Letters, 68, 1458. Sandra Leone held several prominent roles in her field and was part of several committees. In 1995 she received an award for young researchers from the Italian Physics Society (SIF). Since 1998 she is referee of Physical Review Letters and Physical Review D journals. Since 2013 she is member of the editorial staff of “Scienza per tutti”, the official outreach web site of INFN. Since 2008 she acted in several occasions as independent expert evaluator for the European Seventh Framework Program and Horizon2020. From 2006 to 2011 she was part of the INFN Equal Opportunity Committee. Rita Lorenzini Competences: plasma physics Keywords: energy, ITER, thermonuclear fusion Region: Emilia-Romagna Lead researcher at Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA) I got the Master ‘s degree in Physics in 1992 from Università degli Studi di Pisa, defending a thesis in particle physics based on studies performed at CERN, in Geneva. I obtained a research fellowship from the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia (INFM) on a research program in thermonuclear fusion physics and I started my collaboration with Consorzio RFX in Padua. The collaboration was maintained also when, in1993, I obtained a permanent position at ENEA. Between 2000 and 2002 I spent several months at Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik in Munich to work on the tokamak experiment ASDEX Upgrade in the framework of Mobility Program funded by EURATOM. In 2005 I got the PhD in Energetics from Università degli Studi di Padova. From 2006 I am lead researcher, always in ENEA. My activity research is in the area of thermonuclear plasma physics, which aims at producing clean energy reproducing the physics processes that occur in the stars, like the Sun, in earth laboratories. I work mainly on the Reversed Field Pinch experiment RFX-mod, located in Padua and operated by Consorzio RFX, a consortium of CNR, ENEA, INFN, Università di Padova and Acciaierie Venete. I participate in several international collaborations, for example with the research team of the Madison Symmetric Torus experiment (MST) in Madison, Wisconsin (USA) and with the team of Large Helical Device (LHD) located in Toki, Japan. More recently I started a collaboration with the Joint European Torus (JET) tokamak located in Culham, in UK. I investigate the problem of particle and energy transport in thermonuclear plasmas through data analysis and development of numerical codes. I also contribute to the organization and realization of the experiments for the collection of data. In 2008 I partecipated to the first observation of Single Helical Axis states (SHAx), the enhanced confinement states that occur when a toroidal RFP plasma is heated by a high current. I devoted many efforts to characterize the transport barriers observed in SHAx states and to clarify the relationship between the transport and the magnetic turbulence. My recent research aims at exploiting the results of solar physics, in particular of solar flares, to advance the comprehension of SHAx states. The other important item of research regards so called ‘isotope effect’, namely the differences between plasmas of different hydrogen isotopes. I studied the isotope effect in RFX-mod and I participate in the isotope effect studies of JET and LHD. Recently I worked in collaboration with LHD colleagues to the development of a code able to model plasmas with multiple magnetic axes. With the help of such code, named MAxS (Multiple Axis Solver) we will be able to study energy and particle transport in presence of magnetic islands I act as referee for plasma and general physics journals (Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion and Physical Review Letters) I was invited tom give a lecture titled ‘Improvement of the magnetic configuration in the Reversed Field Pinch through successive bifurcations’ to the 50th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society nel Novembre 2008 in Dallas, Texas (USA). I have been member of the Scientific Committee of 41st European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics held in Belfast in 2017 Author and coauthor of 68 papers published in peer-reviewed journal. F. Auriemma, D. Lopez-Bruna, R. Lorenzini, B. Momo, I. Predebon, Y. Suzuki, A. López-Fraguas, Y. Narushima, F. Sattin, D. Terranova ‘A novel approach to studying transport in plasmas with magnetic islands’ Nuclear Fusion 58, 096037 (2018) C.F. Maggi, H.Weisen, J.C. Hillesheim, A. Chankin, E. Delabie, L. Horvath, F. Auriemma, I.S. Carvalho, G. Corrigan, J. Flanagan, L. Garzotti, D. Keeling, D. King, E. Lerche, R. Lorenzini et al ‘Isotope effects on L-H threshold and confinement in tokamak plasmas,’ Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 60,125002(2018) R. Lorenzini, F. Auriemma, A. Fassina, E. Martines, D. Terranova and F. Sattin, ‘Internal Transport Barrier Broadening through Subdominant Mode Stabilization in Reversed Field Pinch Plasmas’, Physical Review Letters 116, 185002 (2016) R. Lorenzini, E. Martines, P. Piovesan, D. Terranova, P. Zanca, M. Zuin et al.’Self-organized helical equilibria as a new paradigm for ohmically heated fusion plasmas’, Nature Physics, 5, 570 (2009) R. Lorenzini, D. Terranova, A. Alfier, P. Innocente, E. Martines, R. Pasqualotto, P. Zanca,'Single-Helical-Axis States in Reversed-Field-Pinch Plasmas', Physical Review Letters 101, 025005 (2008) Giulia Manca Competences: nuclear physics, particle physics Keywords: high energy physics, particle physics, quarkonia Associate professor at the University of Cagliari and at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics. After graduating in Physics at the University of Cagliari in 1999, she completed her training with a PhD in Physics at Oxford University which she obtained in 2003. In the same year she continued her studies with a post-doc in England again, first at Oxford and then at the University of Liverpool. From 2000 to 2006, she worked as a Scientific Associate with the Fermilab laboratory in Chicago, in the United States. In 2007, she returned to Italy, to Cagliari, as a researcher at the INFN (National Institute of Nuclear Physics) and, the following year, at the University. From 2012 to 2013 she collaborated with the CERN laboratory in Geneva. In 2015 she won an ERC Consolidator Grant with the CNRS (Center National de la Recherche Scientifique) and moved to Orsay, Paris, until the end of 2016. In 2016 she was also visiting professor at the University of Cambridge, UK. In 2017 she became associate professor at the University of Cagliari. She is currently involved in the study of heavy ion physics with the LHCb experiment at CERN and leads a research team of six post-docs, two students and two researchers divided between Orsay and Cagliari. In 2002, together with her colleagues from the CDF experiment (Collider Detector at Fermilab) she observed the decay of the W and Z bosons (fundamental particles of the Standard Model) into electrons and measured the production cross section and the ratio for the first time to that energy, publishing the work in her PhD thesis. In 2003 she worked with a group of 14 people dedicated to the research of chargino and neutralino supersymmetric particles in their leptonic decay, coming to coordinate them and publishing the best world limit at that time on their mass and production cross section. In 2007 she became a member of the LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) collaboration – the LHC accelerator experiment of the CERN, that aims to measure the parameters of the CP-violation and decays and rare phenomena related to hadrons in which the beauty quark can (b quark) can be found - at CERN in Geneva. She participated in several studies on the production of associated states of quark-antiquark (quarkonia) by publishing several works on the subject and collaborating with expert theorists of the field. From 2009 to 2013 she became the person responsible for that physics in the experiment. In 2015 she founded a new research group within LHCb opening the way to precision measurements of Quark Gluon Plasma at high speed, her current field of research. She is author of numerous national and international publications, including: 2017) Aaij R, Manca G et al. [LHCb Collaboration]. Study of prompt D0 meson production in pPb collisions at =5 TeV, Journal of High Energy Physics, 1710, 090. (2014) Manca G. Review on quarkonia production at LHC, International Journal of Modern Physics A, 29, 1430014. (2013) Aaij R, Manca G et al. [LHCb Collaboration]. Production of J/ and¡mesons inpp collisions at =8 TeV, Journal of High Energy Physics, 1306, 064. (2013)A.A. Alves Jr., G. Manca et al. [LHCb Muon Collaboration]. Performance of the LHCb muon system, Journal of Instrumentation, 8, P02022. (2012) Aaij R, Manca G et al. [LHCb Collaboration]. Measurement of¡production inpp collisions at =7 TeV, European Physical Journal C, 72, 2025. (2011) Aaij R, Manca G et al. [LHCb Collaboration] Measurement of J/ production inpp collisions at =7 TeV. European Physical Journal C, 71, 1645. (2010) Anelli M, Manca G et al. [LHCb Muon Collaboration]. Performance of the LHCb muon system with cosmic rays, Journal of Instrumentation ,5, P10003. (2007) Aaltonen T, Manca G et al. [CDF Collaboration]. Search for chargino-neutralino production in pp collisions at =1.96 TeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 191806. (2008) Aaltonen T, Manca G et al. [CDF Collaboration]. Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at =1.96 TeV Using the tri-lepton signature of Chargino-Neutralino production, Physical Review Letters, 101, 251801. (2005) D. Acosta, G. Manca et al. [CDF Collaboration]. First measurements of inclusive W and Z cross-sections from Run II of the Tevatron collider, Physical Review Letters, 94, 091803. (2007) Abulencia A, Manca G et al. [CDF Collaboration]. Measurements of inclusive W and Z cross-sections in pp collisions at =1.96 TeV,Journal of Physicc G, 34,2457. She is a reviewer of the journals Journal of High Energy Physics and European Physical Journal. In 2005 she won the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council fellowship for two years. In 2015 she gained a 5 years ERC Consolidator Grant for a total of 1.9 million euros. Since 2016 she is part of the AcademyNet network. She is on the list of Top Italian Scientists since 2012. Giuseppina Micela Competences: astronomy Keywords: ESA (European Space Agency), extrasolar planets, harps-n, ISA (Italian Space Agency), space missions, star crowns, star formation, star-planet interaction, young stars Region: Sicily Director of research at Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo Physics degree at the Palermo University (1983) CNR fellowship (1985), to spend a period at Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - Cambridge (MA). Scholarship from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Physics of the CNR (1986-87). PhD in Physics at the University of Palermo (1991) with a thesis on the background emission in the band 0.16-3.5 keV. From 1991, astronomer at the Astronomical Observatory of Palermo. She spent a period at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Chicago thanks to a CNR / NATO Senior scholarship. Today she is a Director of research and from 2012 to 2017 she was director of the Palermo Astronomical Observatory, a research facility of the National Institute of Astrophysics. Giusi Micela has been member of several scientific teams for the study of the ESA space missions (Eddington, Plato, EChO, ARIEL) and of national and international projects from ground and from space. She has been the national responsible of the project funded by MIUR “A Way to Other Worlds – WOW”. Moreover, she won a few EU programs, that allowed several European scientists to work at the Palermo Observatory. She is a member of the board of the Fundacion Galileo Galilei, of the board of the Gal Hassin, and of the International Advisory Committee of the Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC), in Barcelona. Finally, she is member of the board of the PhD Physics course at the Palermo University. Her scientific activity is focused on the study of the physics of the upper stellar atmosphere and related themes. In particular, she was among the first researchers to carry out researches on the coronae of young stars through observations of open clusters and star formation regions with space missions (Einstein, Rosat, Chandra, XMM/Newton), determining how the high energy radiation in these stars is much more intense than today in the Sun. She has then dealt with the young stars, including star-forming regions and physical processes that govern the formation of stars in various bands of energy, and young stars in the solar neighborhood, highlighting how the region around the Sun was the site of a star formation episode over the last billion years. Today, she works on extra-solar planets, in particular on the search of rocky planets around stars smaller than the Sun and on the study of star-planet interactions. She is co-investigator of the HARPS-N spectrograph at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, today the best instrument for the search of exoplanets in the northern hemisphere. Finally, she is co-principal Investigator and Italian responsable for the ARIEL mission, an ESA mission for the observations of exo-planetary atmospheres. Giuseppina Micela is author of more than 300 papers published on international journals. In addition, she carries out activities of dissemination of astronomy, and in particular has published the book "Birth and death of the stars" for the series "Farsi un’idea" of “Il Mulino”. Selected papers are: 1. [2016]Affer L, Micela G, Damasso M, Perger M, Ribas I et al., HADES RV program with HARPS-N at the TNG. GJ 3998: An early M-dwarf hosting a system of super-Earths, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 593, 117.. 2. [2013] Pepe F, Cameron Collier A, Latham, DW, Molinari E, Udry S, Bonomo A, Buchhave LA, Charbonneau,D, Cosentino R, Dressing CD, Dumusque X, Figueira P, Fiorenzano AFM, Gettel S, Harutyunyan A, Haywood RD, Horne K, Lopez-Morales M, Lovis C, Malavolta L, Mayor M, Micela Get al,An Earth-sized planet with an Earth-like density, Nature, 503, 7476, 377-380. 3. [2008]Penz T, Micela G,Lammer H, Influence of the evolving stellar X-ray luminosity distribution on exoplanetary mass lossAstronomy and Astrophysics, 477, 309-314. 4. [2003] Favata F, Micela, G, Stellar Coronal Astronomy, Space Science Reviews, 108, 577-708. 5. [1993]Micela G,Sciortino S, Favata F, Stellar birthrate in the Galaxy – Constraints from X-ray flux-limited surveys,Astrophysical Journal, 412, 618-624. Federica Migliardo Competences: biophysics, structure of matter Keywords: bioprotection, disaccharides, infectious diseases, membranes, parkinson, proteins, spectroscopic techniques, stamina, vaccines Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Messina and Visiting Professor at the Université Paris-Sud Since the degree in Physics in 1998 when she was 22, the Ph.D. in Physics and the European Doctorate for Users of Large Experimental Systems in Grenoble (France) in 2002, she carried out her research at several international laboratories. In 2003 she was an ATER researcher at the University of Lille (France), where from 2008 to 2010 she was a UNESCO-L'Oréal For Women in Science International Fellow. In 2011 she got the “qualification aux fonctions de professeur des universités” in section 28 and in 2016 in section 64 in France. In 2012 she was a European Molecular Biology Organization International Fellow at the Institut de Biochimie et Biophysique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Université de Paris-Sud XI (France). In 2013 she got the national scientific qualification as a Full Professor in Experimental Physics, becoming in 2015 a Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Messina. Since July 2016 she is Visiting Scientist at the Université Paris Sud (France). Federica Migliardo is a biophysicist carrying out her research in the domain of life sciences in the context of various international collaborations. Her research activity focuses mainly on the study of biological processes such as bioprotection, denaturation and stabilization of biomolecules, and more recently some infectious diseases (tuberculosis and schistosomiasis) and neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson), with the aim of determining their molecular mechanisms and to understand the role of natural bioprotectors. The idea of the research moves from the observation that different “extremophiles” (organisms loving the extreme) show extraordinary survival abilities under harsh conditions thanks to a particular sugar, trehalose, which can be used as a natural and innovative agent to protect and stabilize systems of biomedical and pharmaceutical interest, such as proteins, stem cells, plasma, antibodies and vaccines. Experimental studies, carried out through the synergistic application of complementary techniques, such as neutron and light spectroscopy, have shown that the sugar deforms the structure of water by preventing the formation of ice, thus protecting living beings from freezing, and it is also able to cover biological molecules creating a rigid environment that protects them from adverse environmental conditions. The in-depth knowledge of the unique properties of trehalose has paved the way for new studies on some diseases for which there is no definitive solution yet. Trehalose can be used in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, as it is able to inhibit the aggregation of proteins, such as the alpha-synuclein in Parkinson’s syndrome, which in these diseases show anomalous behaviors, improving motor functions and raising life expectancy . On the other hand, trehalose is linked to particular fatty acids in the outer membrane of the tuberculosis bacterium, a membrane that creates a sort of barrier between the bacterium and the antibiotics, increasing its resistance; the goal of this research is to make this barrier more fragile and therefore more permeable to drugs that will be much more effective. The same philosophy is used in the study of schistosomiasis, parasitosis that represents the second tropical disease, since the parasites protect themselves from the attacks of our immune system thanks to a very special external membrane that passes nutrients but not drugs. She is coauthor of more than 170 scientific articles published in international journals, including: [2017] Migliardo F, Angell CA, Magazù S. Contrasting dynamics of fragile and non-fragile polyalcohols through the glass, and dynamical, transitions: A comparison of neutron scattering and dielectric relaxation data for sorbitol and glycerol, Biochimica Biophysica Acta - General Subjects, 1861, 3540. [2015] Migliardo F, Salmeron C, Bayan N. Mobility and temperature resistance of trehalose mycolates as key-characteristics of the outer membrane of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 33, 447. [2014] Bousset L, Brewee C, Melki R, Migliardo F. Dynamical Properties ofa-Synuclein in Soluble and Fibrillar Forms by Quasi Elastic Neutron Scattering, BBA - Proteins and Proteomics, 1844, 1307. [2014] Migliardo F, Tallima H, El Ridi R. Is There a Sphingomyelin-Based Hydrogen Bond Barrier at the Mammalian Host-Schistosome Parasite Interface?, Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics, 68, 359. [2013] Fenimore PW, Frauenfelder H, Magazù S, McMahon BH, Mezei F, Migliardo F, Young RD, Stroe I. Concepts and Problems in Protein Dynamics, Chemical Physics, 424, 2. [2011] Magazù S, Migliardo F, Parker SF. Vibrational Properties of Bioprotectant Mixtures of Trehalose and Glycerol, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115, 11004. [2007] Lishchuk SV, Lokotosh TV, Magazù S, Malomuzh NP, Migliardo F. Role of the orientation disorder in the formation of fragility of glassy water and glycerol-like liquids, Physical Review E, 76, 061504. [2007] Magazù S, Migliardo F, Ramirez-Cuesta AJ. Concentration Dependence of Vibrational Properties of Bioprotectant/Water Mixtures by Inelastic Neutron Scattering, Journal of Royal Society Interface, 4, 167. [2005] Lerbret A, Bordat P, Affouard F, Descamps M, Migliardo F. How Homogeneous are the Trehalose, Maltose and Sucrose Water Solutions? An Insight from Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109, 11046. [2003] Vertessy BG, Magazù S, Mangione A, Migliardo F, Brandt A. Structure of Escherichia coli dUTPase in Solution: A Small Angle Neutron Scattering Study, Macromolecular Bioscience, 3, 477. Federica Migliardo has received several international and national awards and recognitions, such as the International BioVision for Life Sciences 2011 Prize, the UNESCO-L'Oréal For Women in Science 2008 International and 2005 National Fellowships, the International EUWIIN (European Union Women Inventors) and Innovators Network) Special Recognition Award 2007, the Sapio Award for Italian Research 2006, the Prize for the best PhD thesis in neutron spectroscopy of the National Institute of Physics of Matter 2003 and the Award for the best Italian graduate in Italy of the Italian Physical Society 2001. Rosa Maria Montereali Keywords: laser, microtechnology, nanomaterials, optical spectroscopy, photonics, radiation detectors, structure of matter Senior Researcher, Photonics Micro and Nanostructures Laboratory Head at the ENEA Research Center of Frascati (RM), Italy Senior research physicist (Physics Degree at University of Rome, La Sapienza, 1984). After three years of employment in the R&D Division of the Telespazio S.p.A., a spatial telecommunication company, in Rome, since 1988 she has worked as permanent researcher at the ENEA Research Center of Frascati (RM). Starting in 2010 she is responsible of the Photonics Photonics Micro and Nanostructures Laboratory. In August 2008 she was Visiting Researcher at the Federal Technological University of Paranà, in Brasil. In 2013 she got the National Scientific Qualification as University Full Professor for Experimental Physics of Matter. She has more than 30 years of experience in the field of optical properties of point defects in insulating materials and light-emitting organic and inorganic thin films for photonic devices (laser, LED, OLED, optical waveguides and microcavities) and novel radiation detectors for imaging and dosimetry, applied in scientific, medical and nuclear fields. She was the coordinator of an ESPRIT European project (1996-97) and the scientific leader of several projects and tasks at national and internal level, performed in collaboration with Universities, research institutions and Italian and foreigner industries. The relevance of the results obtained on the study of point defects in thin films and their application in novel miniaturized optical devices and solid-state radiation detectors is attested by numerous communications to congresses, among them invited lectures in prestigious international symposia. She is coinventor of several national and international patents. She published more than 200 scientific articles on international journals with referees, among them: [2017] Piccinini M, Nichelatti E, Ampollini A, Picardi L, Ronsivalle C, Bonfigli F, Libera S, Vincenti MA and Montereali RM. Proton beam dose-mapping via color centers in LiF thin film detectors by fluorescence microscopy, Europhysics Letters, 117:37004-1-5. [2016] Montereali RM, Bonfigli F, Piccinini M, Nichelatti E, Vincenti MA. Photoluminescence of colour centres in lithium fluoride thin films: from solid-state miniaturised light sources to novel radiation imaging detectors, Journal of Luminescence, 170:761-769. [2016] Fastampa R, Missori M, Braidotti MC, Conti C, Vincenti MA, Montereali RM. Temperature behaviour of optical absorption bands in colored LiF crystals, Results in Physics, 6:74-75. [2015] Piccinini M, Ambrosini F, Ampollini A, Picardi L, Ronsivalle C, Bonfigli F, Libera S, Nichelatti E, Vincenti MA and Montereali RM. Photoluminescence of radiation-induced color centers in lithium fluoride thin films for advanced diagnostics of proton beams, Applied Physics Letters, 106: 261108_1_4. [2014] Chiamenti I, Bonfigli F, Gomes ASL, Michelotti F, Montereali RM and Kalinowski HJ. Optical characterization of femtosecond laser induced active channel waveguides in lithium fluoride crystals, Journal of Applied Physics, 115, 2:023108-1-7. [2013] Francini R, Montereali RM, Nichelatti E, Vincenti MA, Canci N, Segreto E, Cavanna F, Di Pompeo F, Carbonara F, Fiorillo G, Perfetto F. Optical characterization at liquid Argon temperature of Tetraphenyl-butadiene films on glass and specular reflector substrates in the VUV-VIS range of wavelengths, Journal of Instrumentation, JINST 8:P09006. [2012] Montereali RM, Bonfigli F, Menchini F and Vincenti MA.Optical spectroscopy and microscopy of radiation-induced light-emitting point defects in lithium fluoride crystals and films, Low Temperature Physics 38, 8:779-785, doi: 10.1063/1.4740241; Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur 38, 8:976-984. [2010] Montereali RM, Almaviva S, Bonfigli F, Cricenti A, Faenov A, Flora F, Gaudio P, Lai A, Martellucci S, Nichelatti E, Pikuz T, Reale L, Richetta M, Vincenti MA. Lithium Fluoride Thin Films Detectors for Soft X-Ray Imaging at High Spatial Resolution, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, A, 623:758-762. [2007] Sekatskii SK, Dietler G, Bonfigli F, Loreti S, Marolo T, Montereali RM. Subwavelength-Size Local Fluorescent Sources based on Color Centers in LiF for Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy, Journal of Luminescence, 122-123:362-364. [2004] Montereali RM, Gambino S, Loreti S, Gagliardi S, Pace A, Baldacchini G, Michelotti F. Morphological, Electrical and Optical Properties of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with a LiF/Al Cathode and an Al-Hydroxyquinoline/Diamine Junction, Synthetic Metals, 143: 171174. She is permanent member on the International Advisory Committee of the DIM (Defects in Insulating Materials) conference series and of the technical and organizing committees of several national and international workshops and symposia. Elisa Palazzi Competences: atmospheric science, climate change in high-altitude regions, climatology Keywords: climate, mountains, water resources Researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the National Research Council of Italy (ISAC-CNR) Elisa Palazzi gets her Laurea degree in Physics in 2003 and a PhD in Physical Modelling for Environmental Protection in 2008, both from the University of Bologna and in collaboration with the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the Italian National Research Council (ISAC-CNR). During that period, she works mainly on the measurement of air pollutants in urban areas using remote sensing techniques and on the development of modelling tools to correctly analyse and interpret these measurements. At ISAC-CNR she carries out a post-doctoral research that includes a contract founded by the European Space Agency (ESA) aimed at studying the atmospheric circulation and its changes by means of satellite measurements of long-lived atmospheric gases. These studies bring her closer to the later research activities, focused on climate and climate change, which Elisa Palazzi has been undertaking since 2011, when she becomes permanent staff researcher at ISAC-CNR, based in Turin. Since then, she has been studying climate change in mountain regions, focusing on elevation-dependent warming and high-altitude changes in precipitation, and analysing their impacts on water resources, which are very relevant for low-land regions too. She currently co-coordinates an international network of mountain studies called GEO-GNOME (Group on Earth Observations-Global Network for Observations and Information in Mountain Environments) and an Initiative of the European Climate Research Alliance (ECRA) on the changes in the hydrological cycle. She is currently author and co-author of 52 peer-reviewed papers (Scopus database). Elisa Palazzi began her research activity at CNR, in Bologna, during the work performed for her Laurea degree and her PhD, working on the development and application of radiative transfer models, based on the Monte Carlo techniques, for the interpretation of remote sensing measurement of atmospheric trace gases performed with passive remote sensing (DOAS technique). Those years mark an approach which will characterize even later the research performed by Elisa Palazzi, that is, an integration between measurements and models. From 2009 to 2011, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), she was principal investigator of a project included in the ESA "Changing Earth System Network" programme, in which she used satellite measurements of long-lived trace gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, CFC) to diagnose the characteristics of atmospheric transport through the subtropical and polar dynamical barriers. Since 2011, she works on the study of the climate system and in particular on climate change and variability in high altitude regions that are considered sentinels of the changing climate. Her research focuses on the so-called elevation-dependent warming mechanism, and on observed and projected changes in precipitation, both influencing the mountain cryosphere. She is author and co-author of several peer-reviewed papers and she co-coordinates an international research network for the retrieval of climate data in high-altitude regions. Editorial activity: - Section Editor of the Section “Remote Sensing of the Water Cycle” in the Journal Remote Sensing – MPDI, since 2019. - Editor of the book: The Fluid Dynamics of Climate, Antonello Provenzale, Elisa Palazzi, klaus Fraedrich Editors, CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences 564, Courses and Lectures, Springer, 2016. 12 Most relevant publications: [2020] Rangwala I, Palazzi E, Miller JR. Projected Climate Change in the Himalayas during the Twenty-First Century.In: Dimri A., Bookhagen B., Stoffel M., Yasunari T. (eds) Himalayan Weather and Climate and their Impact on the Environment. Springer, Cham [2019] Regine H, Golam R, [...], Palazzi E et al. High Mountain Areas. In: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). [2019] Palazzi E, Mortarini L, Terzago S, von Hardenberg J. Elevation-dependent warming in global climate model simulations at high spatial resolution, Clim Dyn 52: 2685. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4287-z. [2018] Pasetto D, Arenas-Castro S, Bustamante J, [...], Palazzi E, et al. , Integration of satellite remote sensing data in ecosystem modelling at local scales: practices and trends, Methods Ecol Evol. 2018; 9: 1810– 1821. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13018 [2017] Terzago S, von Hardenberg J, Palazzi E, Provenzale A. Snow water equivalent in the Alps as seen by gridded data sets, CMIP5 and CORDEX climate models, The Cryosphere, 11, 1625-1645, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1625-2017. [2017] Palazzi E, Filippi L, von Hardenberg J, Insights into elevation-dependent warming in the Tibetan Plateau-Himalayas from CMIP5 model simulations, Clim. Dyn., 48 (11-12), 3991-4008. [2015] Pepin N, Bradley RS, [...], Palazzi E, et al. Elevation- dependent warming in mountain regions of the world. Nature Climate Change, 5 (5), pp. 424-430. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2563. [2015] Turco M, Palazzi E, von Hardenberg J, Provenzale A, Observed climate change hotspots. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 3521–3528. doi: 10.1002/2015GL063891. [2015] Palazzi E, Von Hardenberg J, Terzago S, Provenzale A. Precipitation in the Karakoram- Himalaya: a CMIP5 view, Climate Dynamics, Vol 45, pp. 21-45, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014- 2341-z. [2014] Filippi L, Palazzi E, Von Hardenberg J, Provenzale A. Multidecadal variations in the relationship between the NAO and winter precipitation in the Hindu Kush-Karakoram, Journal of Climate, 27 (20), pp. 7890-7902. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00286.1. [2014] D'Onofrio D, Palazzi E, Von Hardenberg J, Provenzale A, Calmanti S. Stochastic rainfall downscaling of climate models, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 15 (2), pp. 830-843. DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-096.1. [2013] Palazzi E, Von Hardenberg J, Provenzale A. Precipitation in the hindu-kush karakoram himalaya: Observations and future scenarios, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118 (1), pp. 85-100. DOI: 10.1029/2012JD018697 Italian Prize “Premio Gian Giacomo Drago e Fausta Rivera Drago” obtained in 2017 awarded by the “Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere” to a researcher (less that 40 years old) for his/her relevant research on the theme of climate change and its effects on the environment and human health. Paola Santini Keywords: distant galaxies, dust, galaxy formation and evolution, gas, star formation Researcher at Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma (INAF) After graduation in Physics from the University of Rome La Sapienza, she continues her education with a PhD in Astronomy from the same university in 2009 and with a postgraduate specialization training course in Space Science and Technology from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2012. She has been research assistant at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma since 2006, and in 2010 she is visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Germany. In 2012 she does an internship at Thales Alenia Space. She continues her research activity at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma where she is currently research staff. Paola Santini decodes the faint signals emitted by ancient galaxies populating the early Universe as a sort of "stellar archeologist". Her research activity focuses on different aspects of galaxy evolution through cosmic time using multi-wavelength observations (from X-ray to millimetric data) from space and ground telescopes. She is mainly involved in the analysis of the the evolution through cosmic time of several physical properties, such as the star formation rate, the amount of dust and gas in galaxies, stellar mass functions and the stellar mass density. She is an expert in star formation rate tracers and stellar mass computation. She also dealt with comparing observations with theoretical predictions of models of galaxy formation and evolution. She is author and co-author of almost 150 publications of peer-reviewed international journals, listing more than 9000 citations (H-index 58). A selection of publications is listed below: (2017) Santini P. et al. The Star Formation Main Sequence in the Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields. The Astrophysical Journal, 847, 76. (2016) Santini P. et al. Characterizing elusive, faint dusty star-forming galaxies: a lensed, optically undetected ALMA galaxy at z 3.3. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 596, A75. (2015) Santini P. et al. Stellar Masses from the CANDELS Survey: The GOODS-South and UDS Fields. The Astrophysical Journal, 801, 97. (2014) Santini P. et al. The evolution of the dust and gas content in galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 562, A30. (2012) Santini P. et al. Enhanced star formation rates in AGN hosts with respect to inactive galaxies from PEP-Herschel observations.Astronomy & Astrophysics, 540, A109+. (2012) Santini P. et al. The evolving slope of the stellar mass function at 0.6 < z < 4.5 from deep WFC3 data. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 538, A33+. (2010) Santini P. et al. The dust content of high-z submillimeter galaxies revealed by Herschel. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 518, L154+. (2009) Santini P. et al. Star formation and mass assembly in high redshift galaxies. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 504, 751-767. In 2015 she is awarderd the prize Italian Young Researcher from "Gruppo 2003 for scientific research". Sandra Savaglio Keywords: astrophysics, distant galaxies, telescopes, universe Region: Calabria Professor in astrophysics at the University of Calabria (Arcavacata di Rende, Italy) Sandra Savaglio is since 2013 a professor in Astrophysics at the Physics Department of the University of Calabria (Italy), After her PhD in Physics in 1995 at the same university, she is Fellow and Senior Research Scientist at the European Southern Observatory (Garching near Munich), the Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute (both in Baltimore). In 2000, she got a position as Assistant Astronomer with Tenure at the Observatory of Rome. She worked for more than 8 years in Germany, at the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, the most important European cluster in the field of astrophysics. For her research, she uses the most powerful telescopes and optical satellites, infrared and ultraviolet (Very Large Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, Herschel, ALMA). She taught astrophysics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and at the Technical University in Munich. In the past, she was part of several international scientific committees, including the Hubble Space Telescope and European Telescopes Telescope Allocation Committees. She is regularly invited to international conferences. In Italy, she often participates in public events for science. Her research focuses on the young universe: cosmic chemical evolution, distant galaxies, intergalactic and interstellar medium, and galaxies hosting the most energetic events in the universe: the gamma-ray bursts and the super luminous supernovae She signed over 200 publications in international journals conference proceedings, as a author or co-author. In 2018 she published her first book on popular science (the title: “Tutto l’universo per chi ha poco spazio-tempo”, publisher: Mondadori). Her book entitled “Senza Attendere” (Without waiting), written in collaboration with Mario Caligiuri (Rubbettino 2006) is about the brain drain problem in Italy. · International Award “Vittorio De Sica” (Rome, November 2016) · International Award Frescobaldi (Milan, October 2015) · International Award Casato Prime Donne along with the first Italian female Astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti. (Montalcino, 14 September 2014) · Pythagoras Award (Croton, Italy, February 2008) Clara Troncon Keywords: CERN, geneva, higgs boson, nuclear physics, standard model Senior researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Milano section. Graduated in Physics at the University of Trieste in 1977. In 1978 Summer Student at CERN, Geneva (CH) and then PHD student in Trieste. In 1979 I have been awarded an Amelia Earhart Fellowship from the Zonta International Foundation. The Amelia Earhart Fellowship was established in 1938 as a way to support women interested in aerospace-related sciences and engineering and is awarded annually through an international competition to 30 women pursuing Ph.D./doctoral degrees in this area. In 1980 I have been awarded a Research Grant from the Fondazione “Angelo Della Riccia”. The grants are intended to subsidize research periods abroad for Italian young postdoctoral researchers or advanced graduate students in Physics. The recipients are selected annually, through a competition at a National level. The “Angelo Della Riccia” grant contributed funding my first postdoctoral position at CERN. I became staff researcher in INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) in Trieste in 1983 and then moved to Milano. I am scientific associate at CERN since 1978. I have participated to an important discovery and to prominent measurements in the field of Elementary Particle Physics with accelerators, i.e. studies of properties of Heavy Flavours, precision measurements of Standard Model, including the search and then discovery of Higgs boson and search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. My research activity starts at CERN, where in 1979-1986 I studied charm physics within the experiments of European Hybrid Spectrometer (EHS) at the Super Proton Syncrotron (SPS) accelerator. In 1986-2000, I participated to DELPHI experiment at the Large Electron Positron (LEP) accelerator, where I contributed to precision measurements of Z0 and W bosons, to tests of Standard Model and search for Higgs boson, as well as to the construction, operation and upgrade of its silicon vertex detector. In 1997 I joined the project to construct the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, playing an important role in the construction of the pixel detector. After the installation of this detector, (2008-present), I dedicated to the search, discovery and study of Higgs boson and to the search of SUSY particles and BSM physics. Regarding Instrumentation I work (1986-present) in the development of silicon detectors, both microstrip and pixel detectors, as well as in the construction, commissioning and operation of vertex detectors. Member of the INFN Evaluation Panel working group (2012-present) Italian delegate in the CERN Advisory Committee of CERN Users (2013-present) ACCU representative in the CERN Scientific Information Policy (2015-present) Member of GEV02 (Gruppo Esperti della Valutazione per le Scienze Fisiche) (2015-2017) for the VQR 2011-2014 (Valutazione della qualita’ della Ricerca) (ANVUR-MIUR) and coordinator of subGEV02 (Fisica sperimentale, Particelle e Nucleare) Elected member of the INFN CSN1 (Commissione Scientifica Nazionale 1 – Particle physics with accelerators) (2006-2012) Referee of Babar experiment (INFN) (2006-2012) in CSN1 more than 1100 publication. - h-index in Google Scholar: 164 - H-index ISI/Web of Science: 88 - H-index SCOPUS : 86 Most prominent publications: (2013) ATLAS Collaboration, Aad G, Troncon C, et al. Evidence for the spin-0 nature of the Higgs boson using ATLAS data. Physical Review Letters B, 726, 120-144. (2012) ATLAS Collaboration, Aad G, Troncon C, et al. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Physical Review Letters B, 716, 1-29. (2010) ATLAS Collaboration, Aad G, Troncon C, et al. Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead Collisions at √sNN=2.77 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC. Physical Review Letters, 105, 252303. (2008) ATLAS Collaboration, Aad G, Troncon C, et al. The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. JINST 3: S08003. (1998) Accomando E, Troncon C, et al. Physics with e+ e- colliders. Physics Report C, 299, 1. Amsterdam (Olanda). Ersilia Vaudo Competences: astrophysics, cosmology, international relations, strategy Keywords: diversity and inclusion, ESA (European Space Agency), international relations, space programs, strategy, women and science, Women in STEM Chief Diversity Officer, European Space Agency Ersilia Vaudo Scarpetta has a degree in physics from Università La Sapienza in Rome, where she started working at the Department of Cosmology on experiments on the measurement of anisotropy in the cosmic background radiation. She has been working at the European Space Agency since 1991 and she is currently Chief Diversity Officer. During her career at ESA, she held several positions i.a. in international relations, elaboration of high level strategies, preparation of decisions at Member States’ ministerial meetings, network with think tanks. She supported the creation of the European Space Policy Institute in Vienna. She participated to the formulation of the first ESA Exploration programme, worked as coordinator of Science and Human Spaceflight activities and had the responsibility as Executive Secretary of the Science and Technology Advisory Group on Exploration in charge of selecting experiments for exploration missions, including ExoMars. She spent four years at the ESA Washington Office ensuring relations with NASA and US stakeholders, and was Member of the Board of Directors of Women in Aerospace USA. Currently she is member of the International Women’s Forum, of the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society Daring Circle, and of Women in Aerospace – Europe. Ersilia Vaudo has a long experience in space programmes, in particular in science and explorations, European space strategy, relationships with NASA. In addition, she works to encourage the advancement of girls and women in STEM education and careers and to promote the values of diversity and inclusiveness. 2019 – Più donne di scienza per vincere la sfida della competitività - Il Sole 24 Ore 2018 – Simply into science, how to tear down the STEM gender- Worldcrunch.com 2018 – La Scienza delle Donne- Wired 2018 –Why women in space are developing science ‘superpowers’, becoming smarter and shooting higher, Womenthology.co.uk 2017 – Lunar glow: what is driving the new space race to the Moon, Worldcrunch.com 2016 – Space and its Links to Economic Theory and Public Support, in Theorising Space, Washington DC:Rowman & Littlefield 2016 – Il futuro del lavoro ai tempi del determinismo tecnologico, Il Menabo’ di Etica ed Economia 2015 – The role of space in support of the common objectives of the European Nordic countries, 66th International Astronautical Congress, Jerusalem, Israel 2014 – Rosetta, the comet Hunter, Il Menabo’ di Etica ed Economia 2002 –Assessing ESA’s Current Voting Rules and Practice and Potential Weighted Voting Systems in the Perspective of Enlargement, ESA Bulletin 2015 - TEDX Bari, 2015: L’Universo è resiliente? 2015 - TEDX Roncade, 2015: La sfida della conoscenza 2018 - TEDX Matera, 2018: Donne, Scienza e Superpoteri 2019 - TEDX THBrandenburg: La prima volta che.. 1983 - Accademia dei Lincei Fellowship Enrico Persico 1986 - Amelia Earhart Fellowship in recognition of distinctive merit in Astrophysics studies 2016 - Awarded Premio Cajeta in the category Science and Scientific Research 2019 - Nomination for the European Diversity Awards in the category Head of Diversity of the Year 2019 - Included in the list of Unstoppable Women from StartupItalia which acknowledges women’s commitment to technology in Italy 2019 - Lectio Magistralis at Opening 157th Academic Year Politecnico di Milano Lucia Votano Competences: experimental physics of astroparticlesm, experimental physics of particles Keywords: astroparticles, gran sasso workshops, infn, juno, neutrinos, nuclear physics, particle physics, particles, work Research Director, associate to Frascati National Laboratory of INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare). Born in Calabria, Italy, in November 1947, LV graduated with summa cum laude in Physics at University 'La Sapienza' (Roma) in 1971. She became staff research scientist at INFN - Frascati National Laboratory (LNF) in 1975, Senior Researcher in 1988 and Research Director in 2000. As an experimental particle and astroparticle physicist, she has been active at Frascati National Laboratory, CERN-Geneva, DESY-Hamburg, Gran Sasso Laboratory, performing physics studies as well as constructing and running large detector systems. From 1999 through 2004 she was the Director of the LNF Research Division. From 2009 to 2012 she was the Director of the Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) in Italy, first woman to be appointed in this position. LNGS is the largest (17800 m2) underground laboratory in the world for astroparticle physics and the most advanced in terms of length, complexity and completeness of its infrastructures, hosting 20 cutting edge international experiments. More than 950 scientists from 29 different Countries take part in the LNGS experimental activities and constitute its large international scientific community. The research activity of Lucia Votano concerns astroparticle physics, a field at the intersection of astronomy, particle physics and cosmology, addressing questions relating to the micro-cosmos of elementary particles and their fundamental interactions and, at the same time, the macro-cosmos, the birth and evolution of the universe. In particular her main interest turned to neutrinos, the most mysterious, enigmatic and mystifying particle among the ones that make up the Universe. The neutrino’s interaction with matter is truly tiny and one the most intriguing results of the last decades is the evidence, by measuring the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations, that they do have a mass, although very small. In order to properly comprehend the mechanism of the oscillation; various neutrino sources, both natural (the Sun or other stars) and artificial (particle accelerators or nuclear power plants) can be used. LV started working for the Large Volume Detector (LVD) experiment at LNGS, designed to detect neutrinos from gravitational stellar collapses within our entire Galaxy. Afterwards she has joined the OPERA experiment that has provided the first and firm direct evidence of the muon-neutrino oscillation into tau-neutrino. The detector was located in the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory, 730 km away from the neutrino source at Geneva and exposed to the CNGS (Cern neutrinos to Gran Sasso) pure muon-neutrino beam. The study of the intrinsic properties of neutrino is of prime interest in particle physics and has provided by now the only direct and undisputed experimental evidence of the inadequacy of the successful Standard Model of elementary particles and interactions. Presently she is member of JUNO (Jiangmen underground Neutrino Observatory) Collaboration, a giant multi-purpose neutrino experiment under construction in Kaiping, Jiangmen, Guangdong Province (South China), 53 km far from two nuclear power plants, and aiming at the determination of the neutrino mass hierarchy. The 20 kton liquid scintillation detection volume, together with the excellent energy resolution, will allow JUNO to address many physics goals related to the observations of neutrino events of astrophysical and terrestrial origin The research activities have resulted in about 300 papers on international scientific journals and in presentations at international conferences. Among them: (2018) M. Reguzzoni et al., GIGJ: a crustal gravity model of the Guangdong Province for predicting the geoneutrino signal at the JUNO experiment. arXiv:1901.01945 [physics.geo-ph]. (2018) N. Agafonova et al. Final Results of the OPERA Experiment on nt Appearance in the CNGS Neutrino Beam. Phys.Rev.Lett. 120 (2018) no.21, 211801, Erratum: Phys.Rev.Lett. 121 (2018) no.13, 139901. (2018) N. Agafonova et al. Final results of the search for nm  n oscillations with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam. JHEP 1806 (2018) 151. (2018) N. Agafonova et al. Measurement of the cosmic ray muon flux seasonal variation with the OPERA detector. arXiv:1810.10783 [hep-ex]. (2018) F. Riggi et al. Time and orientation long-distance correlations between extensive air showers detected by the MRPC telescopes of the EEE Project Nuovo Cim. C40 (2018) no.6, 196. (2018) M. Grassi et al. Charge reconstruction in large-area photomultipliers JINST 13 (2018) no.02, P02008. (2018) A. Paoloni, A. Mengucci, M. Spinetti, M. Ventura, L. Votano. Streamer studies in Resistive Plate Chambers arXiv:1806.03443 [physics.ins-det]. (2016) Fengpeng An et al. Neutrino Physics with JUNO. J.Phys. G43 (2016) no.3, 030401. (2015) N. Agafonova et al. Discovery of $\tau$ Neutrino Appearance in the CNGS Neutrino Beam with the OPERA Experiment Phys.Rev.Lett. 115 (2015) no.12, 121802. (2015) N. Agafonova et al. Limits on muon-neutrino to tau-neutrino oscillations induced by a sterile neutrino state obtained by OPERA at the CNGS beam Lucia Votano has also published two scientific books for general public: “Il fantasma dell’universo-Che cos’è il neutrino”, Collana La Città della Scienza, Carocci editore 2015 and “La via della seta. La fisica da Enrico Fermi alla Cina” Collana i Dialoghi, Di Renzo editore 2017. In April 2010 has been awarded by the President of the Italian Republic of the official title of ” Commendatore al merito Della Repubblica Italiana” for scientific services. 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__label__cc	0.651144	0.348856	Watch Shadow in the Cloud (2020) Online Director: Roseanne Liang Actors: Benedict Wall, Beulah Koale, Callan Mulvey, Chloë Grace Moretz, Joe Witkowski, Nick Robinson, Taylor John Smith Tags:Added Today Movies 2020 Cop Out (2010) Detectives Jimmy and Paul, despite nine years as partners, can still sometimes seem like polar opposites—especially when Paul’s unpredictable antics get them suspended without pay. Already strapped for cash and… Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter… The Legend of Baron To’a (2020) ‘The Legend of Baron To’a’ tells the story of Fritz, a Tongan entrepreneur who returns to his old neighbourhood and inadvertently causes the theft of his late father’s valued pro… Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn’t plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team… Country: France, Germany, Italy, UK, USA Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995) It has been 73 years since Alex failed and the Humans lost the Cyborg Wars. Since then, the Humans have been enslaved. Scientists have developed a new DNA strain, which… Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller Willow (1988) Fearful of a prophecy stating that a girl child will be born to bring about her downfall, the evil Queen Bavmorda imprisons all pregnant women within the formidable stronghold of… Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance 30 Minutes or Less (2011) Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy, strap a bomb to his chest, and advise him that he has mere hours to rob a bank or else… Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008) SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori’s own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to send… Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction 48 Hrs. (1982) A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer. Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller King of Beggars (1992) The illiterate General of Canton, General So, advocates a lazy, happy lifestyle of sex and money. His spoiled and also illiterate son, Chan (Stephen Chow), is his most faithful disciple…. Lucky is a small time criminal and he’s happy just getting by until he agrees to look after some counterfeit money for a friend who is in a bit of… Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015) Security guard Paul Blart is headed to Las Vegas to attend a Security Guard Expo with his teenage daughter Maya before she departs for college. While at the convention, he… Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family Trailer: Shadow in the Cloud (2020)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1615
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The psudonym QWERTY is used to protect the innocent. website to watch death race 2 the film filme true grit (I thought today would be a better date to publish this instead of Friday -Â The Swain) Everyone is always comparing video games to movies and for some reason people are complaining about his. Someone says Citizen Kane this or The Godfather that and everyone gets all in a huff. Stop that. Looking to other mediums is the only way we’ll get any good games out of these people anytime soon. We need to learn so we can speed up the process. However, I’d like to use my soapbox to correct one minor flaw in everyone’s logic. This was the logic of the time that film first came onto the scene. The first films were just plays put on movie reel. And given video games as we know then are only 30 years old, films at that time were plays. hereafter film divx So really we’re looking in the wrong place. Video games are really plays. People forced to move along predetermined paths with only minor variations from event to event. Regardless of those minor movement, tonal, and timing changes Claudius is poisoned, Nora walks out, and the Wingfields fall apart. Kind of like how no matter what Kratos will kill a god, Master Chief will blow up a HALO, and Bowser will always lose. It’s all inevitable. So lets take our lessons from the right source, the theater. It’s not like our medium is bringing together material from two very different sources and forcing them to work together like comic books. Now that’s just stupid. Written by QWERTY One Response to "QWERTY: Games are not Films…they're Plays" Simon Ferrari says: Been reading awhile, and while I sort of understand the QWERTY thing as full of half-truth and jokes… 30 years into film history we had French Impressionist, Soviet Montage, and German Expressionist cinemas. We also had Dreyer making Vampyr and the Jean d’Arc (probably the peak of silent film). So filmmakers were already at art, and they had already advanced numerous theories on the essence and strengths of the cinema as its own medium. Not to mention that even though Edison’s and Melies’ films were basically stage plays, the Lumiere films were roughly 1/4 “plays” and 3/4 documentaries. I suppose it’s possible that the Swain already knew this, but QWERTY didn’t? Anyhow, while there are certainly performative lessons we can take from theatre, there are already quite a few ludologists who’ve laid out the formal properties of games as unique from other media… in fact, we had a lot of these theories back when games were a lot slower, that is, when they were board games and sports. Homo ludens was 1938. Videogames already had basic theories in place when they were -50 years old. Computational theories came around 1987, when Chris Crawford explained the difference between process and data intensity. 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__label__cc	0.624015	0.375985	Apple iPad mini: to be announced October 17th, sales begin November 2nd With the iPhone 5 out on the shelves, people are eagerly awaiting the launch of the pre-announced iPad mini which was scheduled to take place in October. The well positioned source, Fortune, claims Apple will announce the 7.85-inch iPad mini on October 17th. The press will get invitations to the event one week prior on October 10th. The release date is scheduled on November 2, just in time for the holiday season. The iPad mini will sell like hot cakes, just like its 9.7-inch brethren, and bring some serious competition to the Google Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire versions. The device will sport a 7.85-inch screen with a 1024 x 768 resolution, and run on iOS 6. Also, an A5X CPU and 8GB of base storage are expected. It’s also expected to be extremely thin at 7.3mm and lightweight as well. The compact iPad is also said to feature the new Lightning connector and stereo speakers. The 16GB iPad Mini with Wi-Fi connectivity would launch at $299, the 32GB model at $399, and the 64GB model at $499. The countdown begins as we keep waiting for the iPad mini to hit the shelves... 0 Respones to "Apple iPad mini: to be announced October 17th, sales begin November 2nd"	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1619
__label__wiki	0.883847	0.883847	Online Pressroom Brand and Logo Terms of Use Senator Kamala Harris Makes “Herstory” at Last Night's Democratic National Convention Last night on the nineteenth day of the eighth month, Senator Kamala Harris made “herstory” when she accepted the nomination as the Vice Presidential Candidate for a major political party. Americans, including little Black and Brown girls, watched with amazement, pride and a renewed sense of hope. We congratulate Senator Harris and wish her the best on this historic journey. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® Issues Statement on the Passing of Congressman John Lewis and the Rev. C.T. Vivian Alpha Kappa Alpha joins a grateful nation in mourning the loss of civil rights icons, Congressman John Lewis and the Rev. C.T. Vivian. The world has lost two irreplaceable champions for justice and equality at a time when the pervasive effects of racial injustice and economic inequality could not be more evident. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® Offers Scholarships to Daughters and Granddaughters of George Floyd Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® announced today that the service organization will provide scholarships for the daughter and granddaughters of George Floyd. In a letter to the family, AKA International President Dr. Glenda Glover said she hoped the contribution would assist them on the path to success. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® Demands Police Reforms, Stands in Solidarity with Over 5 Million Members From 13 African-American Women Organizations Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. ® International President Glenda Glover says George Floyd’s cry out to his late mother before taking his last breath was a symbolic plea to all women for help. Dr. Glover called on leaders from twelve historic and celebrated African-American organizations to unite and condemn the senseless and unjustified death of Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many other Black men, women and children by police and vigilantes. THIRTEEN AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERS, REPRESENTING MORE THAN FIVE MILLION WOMEN IN THE U.S. AND GLOBALLY, PLEDGE SOCIAL CHANGE AND REFORM AMID NATIONWIDE UNREST (Chicago, IL) - As leaders of African-American women’s organizations in America, we condemn in the strongest terms the senseless and unjustified killings of Black women, Black men, Black girls, and Black boys by police and vigilantes. We have organized knowing that we are stronger and more effective when we work together to raise our more than five (5) million collective voices and exert our collective power to address the unspeakable, horrific killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Nina Pop and too many others – killings that have sparked a global movement for racial justice. JOINT STATEMENT BY WOMEN LEADERS OF 13 AFRICAN-AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS As leaders of African-American women’s organizations in America, we condemn in the strongest terms the senseless and unjustified killings of Black women, Black men, Black girls, and Black boys by police and vigilantes. We have organized knowing that we are stronger and more effective when we work together to raise our more than five (5) million collective voices and exert our collective power to address the unspeakable, horrific killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Nina Pop and too many others – killings that have sparked a global movement for racial justice. Frontline Sheroes for the Week of May 30, 2020 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® Issues Statement on Death of George Floyd, Calls for Political Action to Invoke Social Change to End Police Brutality Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® joins thousands of others around the world in issuing the strongest condemnation of the senseless, unprovoked killing of George Floyd. The unspeakable actions of police officers who killed another unarmed Black man without justification or excuse underscore the structural and systemic inequities that persist in this country. Frontline Sheroes for the Week of May 8, 2020 Frontline Sheroes for the Week of April 29, 2020 Frontline Sheroes: Soror Nia Andrews Frontline Sheroes: Soror Haydée Brown ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INCORPORATED® MOURNS THE LOSS OF FORMER INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT FAYE BEVERLY BRYANT February 20, 2020 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® is deeply saddened to announce the passing of our 21st International President Faye Beverly Bryant. She served as the sorority’s president from 1982-1986. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Seeks to Raise $1 Million Again on HBCU Impact Day Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® seeks to raise $1 million in 24 hours for a second consecutive year during HBCU Impact Day on September 16, 2019. As part of a four-year $10 million fundraising goal, AKA International President Dr. Glenda Glover is leading the challenge for contributions that can help to secure fiscal sustainability and success across all Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Exceeds Goal by Providing Over 100 Free Mammograms to Uninsured Women AT ESSENCE Festival Breast Cancer Survivors Provide Testimonials to Importance of Early Detection Music, mingling and mammograms filled the weekend during the 25th Essence Festival in New Orleans, LA July 5-7. Essence organizers delivered the music for concert goers and stars to mingle with, while Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® provided a record 107 free mammography screenings to women, including visitors and local residents. The sorority’s initial goal was to provide 70 free 3D mammograms to uninsured women with the traveling Alpha Kappa Alpha Mobile Mammography Unit at the event. ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY TO PROVIDE FREE MAMMOGRAMS TO UNINSURED WOMEN, NEW ORLEANS COMMUNITY AT ESSENCE FESTIVAL Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® will celebrate the Essence Festival 25th anniversary with women’s health as the focus. The international service organization will provide 70 free 3D mammograms to uninsured women, and the New Orleans community with the Alpha Kappa Alpha Mobile Mammography Unit. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority establishes endowment at Tennessee State University and honors International President and school's leader Dr. Glenda Glover Tennessee State University is the latest HBCU recipient of financial support from Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. AKA continued its commitment of creating a $100,000 endowment at each of the nation's four-year historically black universities and colleges with a donation to Dr. Glenda Glover, who is the leader of both organizations. ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY TO HOLD LEADERSHIP SEMINAR IN MUSIC CITY, PRESENCE WILL BRING SERVICE, ECONOMIC BOOST AND LOTS OF PINK AND GREEN Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® will provide a major boost to the Nashville economy when the service organization holds its 2019 Leadership Seminar in Music City June 27 - 30. Approximately 7,600 members are expected to attend the seminar that will offer over 80 workshops on professional development, personal growth and community service. President Glover speaks on the status of HBCUs on PoliticsNation with Rev. Al Sharpton Hear what Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated President Glenda Glover had to say about HBCUs and more on PoliticsNation with the Rev. Al Sharpton. AKA-HBCU Endowment Fund Electronic Press Kit Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated., in partnership with our official philanthropic arm, the Educational Advancement Foundation (EAF), has launched the establishment of the AKA-HBCU Endowment Fund. The fund has been created in an effort to assist in the sustainability of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Over the course of the next four years, the fund has pledged to distribute $10 million in financial support to 96 accredited HBCUs as a part of Alpha Kappa Alpha's Target 1: HBCU For Life: A Call to Action. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority to highlight those helping others, to hold national Caregivers’ Day November 16 Each year millions of Americans take on the responsibility of caring for others. Whether it’s aging parents, a spouse or child fighting a debilitating illness, they do what’s needed to take care of their loved ones. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated will hold its first ever AKA Caregivers’ Community Impact Day on Friday, November 16 to recognize the tremendous work of these individuals. The service organization will kick-off their national observance at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI with a public event beginning at 10am. Alpha Kappa Alpha and Regions Bank, to launch financial empowerment initiative for college students and underserved communities Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated and Regions Bank are partnering to help college students and underserved communities build financial wealth. The groups will officially announce the agreement during a financial education workshop on Wednesday, Oct. 10 on the campus of Tennessee State University. The workshop is sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Alpha Psi Undergraduate Chapter, and will begin at 3 p.m. in the TSU Faculty Dining Lounge in the Floyd-Payne Campus Center. Dr. Glenda Baskin Glover Installed as 30th International President of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® (Houston, TX) With a commitment to excellence and a vow to uphold the grand legacy of its founders, Dr. Glenda Glover became the 30th International President of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®. Dr. Glover took the helm of the nation’s oldest Greek-letter organization established by African-American college women on July 12, 2018, in Houston, TX, following the group’s international conference. 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__label__wiki	0.919305	0.919305	info@advancedcommunication.org +44 (0) 75 3426 0131 The Academy for Advanced Scientific AIDING THE MOST INTELLECTUAL AND BRILLIANT MINDS TO EXCEL Insert the Correct Word(s) Click to Return A Toddler’s Dwindling Voice Was Chalked up to Acid Reflux. Her Problem Was Far More Serious. Vivienne Weil was an unusually quiet baby. “She never cried loudly enough to bother us,” recalled Natalia Weil of her daughter, who was born in 2011. Although Vivienne babbled energetically in her early months, her vocalizing diminished around the time of her first birthday. So did the quality of her voice, which dwindled from normal to raspy to little more than a whisper. Vivienne also was a late talker: She didn’t begin speaking until she was 2. Her suburban Maryland paediatrician initially suspected that a respiratory infection was to blame for the toddler’s hoarseness, and counselled patience. But after the problem persisted, the doctor diagnosed acid reflux and prescribed a drug to treat the voice problems reflux can cause. But Vivienne’s problem turned out to be far more serious — and unusual — than excess stomach acid. The day she learned what was wrong ranks among the worst of Weil’s life. “I had never heard of it,” said Weil, now 33, of her daughter’s diagnosis. “Most people haven’t.” Dwindled to a whisper At first, Natalia, a statistician, and her husband, Jason, a photographer, were reassured by the paediatrician, who blamed a respiratory infection for their daughter’s voice problem. Her explanation sounded logical: Toddlers get an average of seven or eight colds annually. Weil said the couple assumed Vivienne’s voice would return to normal — and didn’t want to overreact. “We were first-time parents and we were worried,” Weil said, “but thought maybe we worried too much and should wait. We decided to give it time. We didn’t know how much children were supposed to talk at the age of 1 or 2. . . . We just did what the doctors told us.” But Vivienne’s paternal grandmother grew increasingly concerned. Because Vivienne was slow to talk, her grandmother wondered whether she might have a developmental delay or a speech problem and suggested an evaluation by a speech pathologist. During a visit in September 2013, the paediatrician prescribed a liquid antacid for the 2½ -year-old. The doctor also approved a referral to an ear, nose and throat specialist. An ENT who saw Vivienne soon afterward diagnosed her with dysphonia — an impaired voice that can result from a problem with the vocal cords. He sent her to a paediatric otolaryngologist for a more complete evaluation. The paediatric specialist listened to her breathe and talk and then scheduled a laryngoscopy. The test involves a visual inspection of the back of the throat. In some cases, doctors use a thin, flexible tube attached to a tiny fibre-optic camera that is threaded up the nose and down the throat to permit inspection of the upper airway. The procedure, Weil recalled, was traumatic for Vivienne and her parents. The little girl, terrified by what was happening, began screaming and had to be held down by several nurses so the doctor could perform the test. Its results were definitive — and explained the reason for Vivienne’s prolonged voicelessness. She was suffering from a rare disease called recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, which is caused by two strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection that can be acquired at or before birth. The disease is incurable; it can be treated by surgery to remove the tumours which temporarily restores the voice. The goal of treatment is to lengthen the interval between surgeries while preventing permanent damage to the delicate vocal cords. A painful answer HPV is ubiquitous; nearly all sexually active adults have been exposed to it. Most people clear the infection from their bodies without ever knowing they had it. But in some cases two strains, HPV 6 and 11, can cause genital warts: benign, sometimes cauliflower-shaped tumours known as papillomas. These warts can occur months or sometimes years after exposure. In some cases, mothers with genital warts can pass the virus during childbirth, resulting in the development of papillomas in the child’s respiratory tract, particularly the larynx. (Two other strains considered “high risk” — HPV 16 and 18 — can cause cervical cancer. HPV can also cause oral, anal and penile cancer.) The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 2 in every 100,000 children have RRP, which can be prevented by a vaccine called Gardasil. Federal health officials recommend administering the vaccine, first licensed in 2006, to children at 11 or 12 before they are sexually active. The paediatric ENT told the Weils it was a good thing they hadn’t waited longer to seek treatment. Vivienne’s tumours had grown so large they were threatening her airway. “I was speechless,” recalled Weil, who at the time was pregnant with her second daughter. “I thought, ‘I gave this to my baby.’ I remember sitting in that little room and thinking, ‘She’ll have to deal with this forever.’ ” Weil said that she had no idea she ever had genital warts or had been exposed to HPV. In the car on the way back to their Maryland home, she said, she wept as she scrolled through her phone, frantically trying to learn about the disease, terrified that her second child might contract it, too. Shortly before Vivienne’s first surgery in November 2013, Weil sought answers from her obstetrician. How, she asked, could HPV have been missed? The doctor replied that Pap smears performed in 2009 and 2011 were normal. Health officials do not recommend that women under 30 — Weil was 25 when Vivienne was born — routinely receive an HPV test because the virus is so common. “It is possible that you had the virus and then your immune system cleared it, so your test was negative in Dec. 2011” — 10 months after Vivienne’s birth, the doctor wrote. Nor is it clear that a Caesarean delivery would have prevented the disease. Experts say that some cases appear to have been contracted in utero. Because of her age, Weil was not included in the initial targeting efforts for the vaccine, which focused on preteen girls. (Federal health officials recently approved the latest version of the vaccine, Gardasil 9, which protects against nine strains of HPV, for adults up to age 45.) Permanently silent? Vivienne’s first surgery, performed under general anaesthesia, involved debridement, a procedure that essentially shaves off the tumours. Weil said she remembers walking into the recovery room with her husband to hear Vivienne “crying loudly. It was so amazing,” she recalled. “For us it was the best sound in the world.” But as is almost always the case, Vivienne’s voice faded to a whisper after a few months as the tumours grew back. For the next few years she underwent simultaneous debridement of both vocal cords every four to six months. In March 2018 after her 11th operation, her voice did not return. No physical explanation could be found, and doctors suggested the cause might stem from vocal cord weakness or psychological factors. For the next six months, Vivienne underwent hypnosis and saw speech therapists to no avail. In desperation Weil posted a video of her daughter on Instagram. She hoped that someone — possibly another parent — might have some advice. Within days, a California woman whose daughter has the disease suggested trying a different treatment. Instead of debridement, she recommended finding a doctor who uses a potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP) laser. Some specialists believe that use of the laser is superior, because it removes more tumour while minimizing damage to the vocal cords. “I did a lot of research,” Weil said. She found Simon Best, an otolaryngologist and researcher at Johns Hopkins who studies the disease and is an expert in laser treatment. Weil said she tried unsuccessfully to make an appointment with Best but was told that he is not a paediatric otolaryngologist and therefore doesn’t treat children. Undeterred, she searched a medical database, unearthed his email address and sent him a message describing her daughter’s case. Best agreed to see Vivienne and Weil’s insurer approved the out-of-network visit. 'Happy, babbly little girl' Best, an associate professor of otolaryngology, estimates that in his 13-year career he has treated about 100 people, mostly adults, who have RRP. (An adult specialist, he treats patients of all ages with the disease.) Some developed the disease as children. In others, it arose in their 30s and 40s, a decade or so after HPV exposure. “It has a horrible propensity to just keep coming back,” Best said. One of his patients had endured 300 operations by the time he was 20. “You can imagine what that does to voice quality.” Best treats only one vocal cord at a time to prevent webbing, which occurs when the vocal cords grow together and can harm the voice. “I was pleasantly surprised that there wasn’t a huge amount of scarring,” said Best of Vivienne, whom he first saw in September 2018. The first laser surgery on the second grader’s right vocal cord occurred in November 2018; her voice returned but remained raspy. A second operation on the left vocal cord in January 2019 has had excellent results. A few days ago Vivienne underwent a successful repeat procedure on her right side. “This is the best she has ever sounded,” said her mother, adding that even the noise of her daughters’ squabbling delights her. In the past few months, she said, Vivienne has blossomed, eagerly making new friends and becoming a “happy, babbly little girl.” “She says that having a voice is even better than she thought it would be,” Weil said. A year ago, she had told her mother that several classmates had excluded her from their game of “cheerleader.” Best recommends that a voice problem that lasts longer than a month should prompt an examination by “someone who can visualize the larynx.” It’s difficult to predict how many surgeries Vivienne might need, he said. It’s unlikely to be just three because recurrence is the rule. “Everyone has a unique clinical course,” Best added. “The earlier RRP is detected, the better,” Best noted, before the disease can do extensive damage. “It’s often overlooked for fairly long periods of time — months or years. And it doesn’t enter the realm of diagnostic consideration in children until there are fairly severe effects.” The otolaryngologist remains a strong proponent of the HPV vaccine, which can prevent the disease. Weil said she plans to immunize her daughters and to get the vaccine herself, which could protect her against other strains of HPV. According to the CDC, only half of American adolescents have been fully immunized. By contrast, Australia, which has promoted free immunization in schools for more than a decade, has dramatically reduced cases of cervical cancer and genital warts. “Even though RRP is a rare disease, just from a psychosocial point of view, you can imagine what effect this disease has on families,” Best said. “The mothers of these children have a big burden to bear.” Source text from and copyrighted to The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-toddlers-dwindling-voice-was-chalked-up-to-acid-reflux-her-problem-was-far-more-serious/2019/03/22/a678d1a2-1814-11e9-9ebf-c5fed1b7a081_story.html?utm_term=.2768672ff977). The text used here is for educational purposes. The contents and the copyright belong to the aforementioned source. The following flow chart summarises Vivienne Weil’s journey to a diagnosis. Complete the flow-chart, using words from the text. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the text in each gap. Vivienne Weil was born in , and babbled energetically during her early . Vivienne's vocalising and quality of voice diminished by her . Vivienne didn't begin to until she turned two. A paediatrician blamed a for Vivienne's voice problem. Vivienne was diagnosed with . Vivienne's grandmother became concerned and suggested an evaluation by a . The paediatrician prescribed a and referred Vivienne to an ENT specialist. The ENT specialist diagnosed Vivienne with and her to a paediatric otolaryngologist. The paediatric otolaryngologist scheduled a . The larygnoscopy confirmed that Vivienne was suffering from a called recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP). RRP is caused by two strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV); and . RRP leads to the formation of tumours, also known as , in the respiratory tract. Vivienne's papillomas had grown so that they were threatening her . Vivienne underwent her first surgery in November 2013, which involved to shave off the tumour. Vivienne's voice had returned, but faded to a within months as the tumours grew back. For the next few years, Vivienne underwent debridement of both vocal cords every 4 to . In , after her 11th surgery, Vivienne's voice did not return. Vivienne underwent and saw , but to no avail. Vivienne underwent potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP) laser surgery in , a treatment that removes the tumours whilst minimising damage to the vocal cords. The operation on Vivienne's left vocal cord had excellent results, returning her . is likely, and so Vivienne will need further surgeries. Affiliated to and in Collaboration with © 2020 The Academy for Advanced Scientific Communication	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1624
__label__wiki	0.951272	0.951272	[Photo courtesy of Heritage Singers Ministries] Max Mace, 82, Adventist Music Legend, Passes to His Rest Heritage Singers’ music brought hope to millions Silver Spring, Maryland, United States \| Mark Kellner, for Adventist Review FF ollowing a battle with cancer, Seventh-day Adventist music legend Max Mace passed to his rest November 4, 2020, one day before his 83rd birthday. His family said Mace was home in Placerville, California, United States, when he died. In 1971, Mace and his wife, Lucy, who survives, formed the Heritage Singers, devoted to Christian music. Both Seventh-day Adventists, the Maces wanted to bring contemporary harmonies to their fellow believers. Over the next five decades, the Heritage Singers would employ an aggregate of 300 singers—generally eight at a time—and hold concerts in more than 80 nations. The number of people who saw them in person likely numbers in the millions, a figure multiplied exponentially by those who heard their recordings on vinyl, CD, or over the airwaves. “He knew his calling was just music ministry, and just loving people,” said John Lomacang, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, evangelist, and singer who sang full-time with the group from 1984 to 1986 and continued part-time for 20 years beginning in 1989. “He had an ear for the Heritage ‘sound,’” Lomacang added. “Although the group’s roster has changed throughout the years, it still has a sound that is unmatched. No other group with eight singers that had that sound. He knew what he wanted; he knew it instantly.” That sound—abundantly available online via YouTube and streaming services—was always upbeat, accessible, and aimed, as Lomacang said, “at the heart.” He was happy to incorporate contemporary Christian tunes and arrangements into the group’s repertoire. Heritage performed songs made famous by artists such as Amy Grant, Michael English, Bill Gaither, and others. The music was presented, however, in a comfortable format that resonated with audiences. Even overseas, where English wasn’t the audience’s first language, crowds sang along as Heritage presented music that praised Jesus. Sought Decisions for Christ at Every Concert Each concert ended with Max making an appeal to audience members for a commitment to Jesus as Savior. Mace, or one of the singers, would pray with each person who came forward. Mace, the youngest of three brothers from Eagle, Idaho, was a singer from his youth, forming a trio with brothers Jerry and Ron; the brothers also played softball. At Idaho’s Gem State Adventist Academy, he sang in quartets, something he continued at Walla Walla College, now Walla Walla University. While in college and playing softball, Mace got a job in the campus bakery, where a young woman named Lucy Hatley would walk by every morning. She was a senior at the college’s academy, or high school, and musically gifted. The couple married a year after her high school graduation and marked 62 years of marriage early in 2020. The Maces worked at United Medical Labs in Portland, Oregon, where they also led a singing group called the Rose City Singers the company sponsored. This experience led the Maces to form a full-time touring group, presenting Christian music. Those early days weren’t always easy. Son Greg Mace—a sound engineer for the group and whose firm provides audio engineering at major concerts for other artists—recalled the story of Heritage’s visit to the Soquel, California, camp meeting in 1971. Singing music to which some were unaccustomed, the congregation fell quiet during the performance. A conference president told Max, “I’ve never seen a group make this place go quiet,” Greg recalled. In 2019, Heritage returned to a far more enthusiastic reception at Soquel, even from some who were at the 1971 meeting. From Buses to Overseas Tours But the requests came in, and soon the Maces and their singers plied America’s highways traveling to concerts. At that point, Max and Lucy sold their house and bought an old, rusted Greyhound Scenicruiser bus sight unseen (two vocalists were deputized to select and buy a specific vehicle) and hit the road. With a paint job and lettering reading “Heritage Singers U.S.A.,” the bus became a rolling billboard for the group, featuring on at least one album cover. Record sales at concerts, and freewill offerings, were often the only means of support for the traveling musicians, and sometimes those offerings were slim. As Lomacang recalled, Mace was undeterred. “There were times when we didn’t cut it financially because of offerings. Max had endurance. He would say, ‘That wasn’t that great, but let’s keep going,’” Lomacang said. Eventually, the music of the Heritage Singers found an audience within Adventism and other Christian churches, expanding overseas. One overseas church member who saw Heritage in the U.S. came away impressed with the music and its results. “The first time I heard the Heritage Singers I was working on my master's degree in music at Andrews University,” said Williams Costa Junior, a Brazilian Adventist pastor, composer, and arranger who today directs communication for the General Conference. “In 1975, they gave a concert at the Pioneer Memorial Church. It was unforgettable. That ministry touched me deeply. I also saw many young people attending that concert and go forward during the altar call. The spiritual impact on the audience was visible.” Costa credited Heritage’s positive reception in Brazil with creating opportunity for local musicians to expand their own services within the church in South America. “I will forever be grateful to Max for his vision, passion, and dedication presenting Jesus and the message of salvation through music in such inspiring way,” he added. The group regularly toured in Europe and had planned 2020 concerts in the Czech Republic and Romania before the global pandemic made such travel impossible. For 35 years, Heritage had an annual post-Thanksgiving concert at the Loma Linda University Church featuring a packed auditorium of enthusiastic hearers. Daughter Val Mace-Mapa noted the group has over 200,000 Facebook followers, and that news of Max’s passing brought more than 1,000,000 comments on the Heritage page. She remembered her father not only as her “best friend,” but also as someone who was “the most forgiving. He always wanted to make sure that if there was a wrong, that it was made right. When he forgave, he never remembered the offense.” More than 140 Singers Onstage Perhaps the highlight of the group’s decades-long existence was a 2016 concert in Ontario, California. More than 140 of the group’s singers through the years—including Magdiel Pérez Schulz, assistant to General Conference president Ted N.C. Wilson—gathered on stage for three hours of singing and praise. The concert’s DVD and CD recordings are among the group’s most popular; the music streams on many popular services including Apple Music and Amazon Music. Singer Jennifer LaMountain, though never a part of the group, came to know Mace and Heritage during her professional career, and remembered Max’s high standards: “Excellence was always a part of anything that he did. Anybody in his sphere could not help but be influenced by that. He brought out the best in everybody who was around him.” According to Tony Anobile, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor and a vice president of the church’s North American Division, Mace’s impact was immeasurable. “We won’t know this side of heaven the lives of people he touched, brought to the Lord or kept in the Lord. Max had a unique style, and people love it,” he said. Mace and Heritage “were great ambassadors for the church in terms of preaching through music.” And Conna Bond, who met her husband Mark while on tour with Heritage, remembered Mace as “one of the gentlest people I’ve ever known. He was very much loved not just by the immediate family, but by the Heritage family and extended family of performers.” Along with Lucy Mace, survivors include a brother, Jerry, daughter Val and husband Art Mapa, son Greg and wife Adriane, and grandchildren Austin Mapa and wife Chloe, and Amber and Bella Mace. A private interment will take place in Placerville, California, with a public memorial service anticipated for a future date at the Loma Linda University Church. Tim Davis, a longtime Heritage singer and arranger, recalled Mace as truly authentic. “He was always extremely genuine, kind, loving, cry at the drop of a hat, he was generous, and forgiving. He was truly a model of Jesus, he truly was,” he said. Davis added, “I can tell you Max Mace was the absolute real deal. He was a hero; he was mine, for sure.” This article was originally posted on the Adventist Review website	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1625
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__label__cc	0.696277	0.303723	November 20, 2015 February 29, 2016 DiraeLeave a comment November 20th is a day set aside to remember those who have been lost to in acts of violence against transgender people. The Transgender Day of Remembrance was started on November 28th, 1998, when Rita Hester was murdered. Her murder, which has yet to be solved, galvanized the community to start a web project titled “Remembering Our Dead,” which then spun out to become the Day of Remembrance that we observe today. The transgender community is effected by anti-LGBT violence disproportionately when compared to the rest of the LGBT community. A report by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) found that 72% of victims of anti-LGBT homicide were trans women, while 67% of anti-LGBT homicide victims were trans women of color. So far this year we have lost 30 members of the trans community to unspeakable acts of violence. Please take a moment to learn their names, if you do not already know them. Hold them in your heart today. Trans people are also more likely to be subjected to police violence than other members of the community at large. According to the survey conducted by NCAVP, transgender people of color are 6 times more likely to experience physical violence at the hands of police when compared to white cisgendered people. The trans community generally are 7 times more likely to experience physical violence when interacting to the police when compared with cisgendered people. Added to that sobering number, the trans community also faces staggering numbers regarding suicide rates. According to the Williams Insitute, 46% of trans men reported having attempted suicide. The numbers for trans women are not much better at 42%. The rate of suicide attempts among the LGB community is half that. And the rate among the overall population outside of the LGBT community is a mere 4.6%. Those numbers are deeply skewed and also deeply frightening. Not only do trans people face violence when it comes to heterosexuals who may be transphobic, the fact of the matter is that trans people are frequently overlooked and underrepresented within the LGB community as well. One of the latest and possibly best examples I can give you of this is the recent Stonewall film debacle. But Stonewall isn’t the only example of this issue. Trans erasure and trans silencing and even transphobia are rampant within the LGB community. The trans community faces a disproportionate level of violence and hardship within the LGBT community, and they get so little support For my part, I am at a loss when it comes to days like today. I cannot imagine what it must be like for people to walk through their lives so maligned by the people around them. Grappling with a trans identity in a society that is so hetero- and cis-normative must be difficult enough, without that added fear. I think the worst thing has to be the sense of betrayal when faced with transphobia and transmisogyny in the LGB community. I get that no community is perfect, but the fact that I’ve had to shut down repugnant phobic remarks within my community has shocked me. The fact that there is so little recognition or acceptance of trans issues is so disheartening. To my trans friends and anyone reading this who I may not know: I see you. I will do my best to be an ally to you in every way that I can. And if you are struggling, know that you are valued. That you are seen and cared for by the people around you. Please reach out if you are suffering. Please stay. To my fellow cis people: Do your best today and every day to be open to what trans people are saying to you. Learn to be called out with dignity. Learn to open yourself to experiences that differ from your own. If you have anything to spare, please consider donating time or money to trans organizations and communities in your area. Cis is not a slur. November 3, 2015 November 7, 2015 Dirae9 Comments Hello, my lovelies, come sit at my feet and let me impart unto you some wisdom. Cis is not a slur. I say this as a cis person. And a gay person. And a woman. It’s not. A slur is defined as the following: See right there where it says that it is likely to insult them or damage their reputation? That’s what a slur is. Now, being insulted is a pretty broad thing. I can be insulted by the way that someone looks at me. But the key to any good insult, when it is a verbal insult, which is when words like cis get used, is in what, exactly, you are being insulted for. When someone spits the word cis at you in a conversation, what they are likely expressing is their ire at your privilege. And, while that might sting, it doesn’t do much more than sting. Cis, after all, is a term meant to define a group of people who conform with the norm regarding gender expression and physical appearance. But cis is not a slur in the same way that cracker is not a slur. Having it flung at you can get you upset. But, at it’s root, it’s just a mean word. It is devoid of any threat to your person or reputation. It is neutered. Now the second part of the definition of slur as a noun is where the real action is. A slur is something that can damage a person’s reputation. In order to demonstrate how this can be done, I’m going to use the gay community as an example. In order to avoid shitty language, I’m going to make up a slur for gay people that doesn’t exist for the purposes of this example. Our new made up slur is “floof.” When someone uses a word like floof as a slur against a gay person, the moment in which that word is used becomes pregnant with all kinds of possibilities and meanings for the person being targeted: They may be beaten up or sexually assaulted. They may be outed to someone who can make their lives difficult, as being gay is not a protected status under hate crime legislation everywhere (yet). They can be evicted from their homes or lose their jobs. In addition to imminent threats that are brought to bear upon the person having this word flung at them, the word carries with it centuries of oppression enacted upon they gay community. Demeaning words such as floof do not exist in a vacuum. They have been used intentionally for a long time and they carry a history of oppression. When you hurl a slur at someone, you are effecting their reputation. When that slur is a word directed at someone’s sexuality, that can do serious damage to them internally, over time, as well as externally and immediately. The fact of the matter is that you cannot make a slur out of a word that expresses a group’s privilege. Slurs are designed to punch down. When they are used by a member of a privileged group against a member of a less privileged group, they do serious damage. When they are directed from one member of an oppressed group to another, they are being owned by that group. Which is why I can call myself a dyke or why white people can’t use the “n” word. And when they are used by a member of an oppressed group against a privileged group, they are virtually devoid of any impact. Something to think about when you hear the word cis being used in a derogatory fashion is where that comes from. It comes, more often than not, from a place of anger and pain. That anger is the anger of a community of people who are constantly overlooked and undervalued by people who pass unharassed through society. Who don’t have to deal with uncomfortable questions being asked by strangers about their genitals in public places. Who can go into bathrooms without being asked if they’re lost. Who don’t face very specific forms of gendered violence in their everyday lives. So while it may suck to have someone fling a mean word at you from time to time, cis isn’t a slur. And honestly? Cis people should consider themselves lucky that it isn’t. Because having to endure the types of hadrship that non-cisgendered people have endured in order to make the words used against them a slur? That doesn’t sound like fun to me. TL;DR Being cisgendered is a privilege. Acting like you are being persecuted by being identified as what you are is ridiculous. Featured image taken from Shutterstock. Schrodinger’s Homophobes I bar tended a fabulous Hallowedding this weekend. I do not know the couple well, but the love that mutual friends have for them endeared me to them immediately. Listening to their vows was so touching. And seeing the massive outpouring of love that their friends and family have for them was deeply moving. Sitting in that room, handing out drinks and celebrating along with a room full of people gathered to celebrate the love of two people, I started to think about what my own wedding would look like. Who would be there. And who wouldn’t. When I came out to my family a few years ago, it was really strange. Mostly my sexuality has been such an open thing to everyone I was not related to for so long. The idea of copping to a thing that so many people already knew was super strange. Now that I’m OUT, I look around at the people I have known for years and wonder if they give a shit. I mostly don’t care. But one thing that I do care about is who I will invite to the day when I commit myself to someone for the rest of my life. I have always wanted to do the whole wedding thing. I wanna have a big ass sleepover and wear a gorgeous dress and have all my friends around me and say nice stuff to my partner and hug and kiss everyone I love and also eat all the cupcakes. These are my goals. They are simple goals, but they are mine. And one thing that I 100% want for my wedding is no drama of any kind. I really don’t have dramatic friends, so I’m not all that worried on that front. And on the whole, my family is not a dramatic one. But the addition of gayness makes people behave in unexpected ways. That said, since I have come out I have been looking at my family in a new light, trying to decide which of them might go all hetero-mad and say something or do something shitty at a gay wedding. The shitty part is that I have virtually nothing to report at this point. Other than the two people who disowned their daughter for being married to a woman, there aren’t any glaring “I’M A HOMOPHOBE” signs on any of my family members’ heads. And that frightens me. It frightens me because I don’t want to exclude people because they are from a generation that seems to have more trouble with LGBTQ people. But I also don’t want a flashbang of homophobia to go off in the middle of my wedding because I don’t want to deal with that shit. I mean, it’s not like I can make my RSVPs look like this: That would just be too much. I’ll just have to keep my ears peeled and hope that anyone with shitty feelings about me marrying another woman decides to do the right thing and just check “Regretfully Decline” on my inevitable RSVP. Honestly, I would worry about their safety if they didn’t make that choice and made any kind of scene. I have very protective friends. Keep that in mind if you read this, undercover familial homophobes. Assholery at my future nuptials will be severely policed. Featured image found here: http://phys.org/news/2014-02-peeking-physicists-quantum-particles.html National Coming Out Day: I’m late as usual October 14, 2015 October 14, 2015 Dirae12 Comments In middle school, I fell in love with my straight best friend. As so many lesbians are wont to do, it seems. Identifying it as love or sexual attraction was something I didn’t do until later, but the way that I hung on her every word, the way that I pined after her for years, how I mourned when she passed from my life, all of that was the beginning of me coming into myself. A process that would take far longer than I expected. Like so many people, coming out for me was more gradual than the stereotypical and somewhat fictive egress from the social closet. I spent years questioning my sexuality. Years in and out of shitty relationships. Settling for less than I deserved. Struggling with the “bi” label and trying to figure out why my relationships with women always felt like fantasies, too easy to possibly be true. While my relationships with men were always a struggle. A struggle that I associated with realness and authenticity in a way that was incredibly damaging. So, you know, thanks for that, romantic comedies. Oddly, coming out to myself was the hardest part. I remember sitting in bed with Frankie, early on in our relationship. I had this sick feeling in my stomach as I turned to her and said: “I’ve been having this really ugly thought.” “What thought is that?” she asked, not giving away at all the fact that she already knew the thing I was going to tell her. “What if I’m just… gay?” The impact of that question was like a physical blow. Frankie let me eat a lot of ice cream to console myself. And she did not let on that she already knew for a whole hour after my initial statement. Because she’s sweet like that. The implications it had for every relationship I had entered into before her were staggering. I felt like I should apologize to every man I had dated from age fifteen to twenty-nine for being totally gay and not really present at all during those relationships. For playing house with them. The coming out process isn’t as simple as acknowledging it to yourself, of course. The coming out process is ongoing and public as well as privately played out. It’s not as if we all get slapped with a rainbow sign when we admit who we are to ourselves. It’s not that simple. I still come out once or twice a week because, as a queer femme person, people never expect me to have a female partner. The ongoing and repetitive outing of myself can be frustrating. But it can also be surprising and comforting, to see how positively people react. How excited they are for us to be together. Support and love can be found in the strangest places. Coming out to my friends has always been as simple as showing up in a place with a girl. Or talking about girlfriends. Coming out to strangers is similarly easy. Coming out to family was harder. Way harder. I think it can be hardest for family because they set ideas and expectations up about you from a very early age. They imagine a life for you, build an image of you in their heads that it can be hard to deviate from. Although, to my brother’s credit, he knew about my dawning queerness from the moment I fell in love with Liz in middle school. And he never once gave me grief about it. I told my mom pretty early on that I was queer. When I experimented with polyamory, she knew about that too. But I don’t think my sexuality became real for her until I moved in with Frankie and brought her around at holidays. And even then, it didn’t really hit until we got the right to marry in Pennsylvania and she and my dad had to grapple with the reality of that legal shift. The initial fallout was hard. We’ve gotten past it, though. And even that has happened in small steps. Little gestures and statements that move us past the hurt and betrayal of that first explosive fight that ended in me cutting off contact with them for several months. So that’s it! That’s my coming out story. Such as it is. It’s strange and involved and a little convoluted. It was hard to write about because the narrative is so much bigger than one of stepping out from the shadows. I’m still working through all the baggage I’m carrying around from having not known myself for so many years. I suspect that process will go on for quite some time. But I’m happier now than I have ever been, all things considered. Reconciling with who I really am has been such a worthwhile process. And it will continue to be. That much I am sure of. Because hidden in the depths that I’m revealing is a sensation of caring for myself that is new and gentle and worth all of the strife and upset that it took to get me to this place. Happy National Coming Out Day, everyone! Radical Issues: An Interlude June 30, 2015 DiraeLeave a comment This morning I read Rebecca Solnit’s “letter to my dismal allies on the US left.” So much in it resonated deeply with me. In it, she said: Maybe it’s part of our country’s puritan heritage, of demonstrating one’s own purity and superiority rather than focusing on fixing problems or being compassionate. Maybe it comes from people who grew up in the mainstream and felt like the kid who pointed out that the emperor had no clothes, that there were naked lies, hypocrisies and corruptions in the system… When you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail, but that’s not a good reason to continue to pound down anything in the vicinity. Consider what needs to be raised up as well. Consider our powers, our victories, our possibilities; ask yourself just what you’re contributing, what kind of story you’re telling, and what kind you want to be telling. So often I feel like we spend so much time as feminists and activists pointing out the nudity of our leaders and the systems that they put in place that we cannot enjoy our victories even for a moment. A prime example for me came in the form of the SCOTUS decision on Friday regarding marriage equality in the US. You have to have known that it happened. The internet has been awash in rainbows ever since. Anyway, about halfway through my day on Friday I noticed a vocal minority starting to talk about how there is a lot more work to do and how we need to turn our eyes to the future. They’re not wrong. But I couldn’t help the frustration that welled up in me. Can’t we just have ONE DAY? I thought. Can’t we just celebrate this culmination of so much blood, sweat and tears and then think about the rest of What Must Be Done tomorrow? One of my biggest issues with being involved in social justice as a feminist is this constant nitpicking at everything that happens. I know that there are larger issues at stake. I know that we are not done fighting. I know that things are getting better in small increments that appear big when they suddenly have a cover story in the New York Times. But sometimes I just want to celebrate without delving into the minutia of complications that suck the joy right out of a victory. Sometimes I just want to say “Hey, isn’t it great that SCOTUS ruled in favor of marriage equality?” and have people respond with “Yes” rather than “Yes, but…” I’m not an idiot. I don’t live with my head in the sand. I recognize the irony of Facebook plastering everyone’s profile pictures with rainbows while still not allowing trans folks to use their actual names on their profiles. I’m aware that the right to get married to my girlfriend does not mean that, in certain states, we can’t still be fired or evicted based on our relationship. I know that. I know all of that and more. But it’s fucking exhausting to be reminded of it even at the height of something wonderful happening. As Solnit said: There is idealism somewhere under this pile of bile, the pernicious idealism that wants the world to be perfect and is disgruntled that it isn’t – and that it never will be. That’s why the perfect is the enemy of the good. Because, really, people, part of how we are going to thrive in this imperfect moment is through élan, esprit de corps, fierce hope and generous hearts. We all want to live in a perfect world. We want to see things change for the better. But I think that being constantly on edge and constantly picking at people about the problems is not necessarily as healthy for ourselves or our causes as we would like it to be. When we are delivered a solid win like the one we had on Friday, I think it’s OK to let go and celebrate the victory for the moment and set the inevitable problems aside to analyze later. Lesbian Impostor Syndrome June 15, 2015 June 19, 2015 Dirae12 Comments When I was 13 I was in love. I did that young lesbian thing where I fell for my straight best friend. The first few weeks of 7th grade I followed her around the field where we had recess like a lost puppy. When she finally caved and decided to be friends with me, I was over the moon. I loved everything about her. Her long blond hair, her taste in books and movies. We watched The Breakfast Club one night in my parents living room after everyone had gone to sleep, sitting close to it with the volume turned down because it was a movie we had heard was dirty. I laid across her bed in her room and listened to her play Pachelbel’s Canon on her flute. Sometime in the midst of high school, we stopped being best friends. She started hanging out with a different crowd. I didn’t identify what I had with her as full-on “pangs of despised love” until my senior year. In the interim, I fell head over heels for a girl the year ahead of me. She looked like Delirium from Sandman. Or Tori Amos. I memorized her poetry and read it back to her in the lunch room on one knee. We visited cemeteries like the goth wandering children that we were. We kissed one day under a gas lantern because she told me that was the ideal way to start a romance. We dated briefly. They figured out that they were trans during our time together. I spoiled the relationship in my confusion in dealing with the totally new concept and how it related to me and to this person that I loved. That is something that I deeply regret. Throughout this entire period, I had boyfriends who were far more serious on paper than my relationships with these women. I was an emotional chameleon. I poured myself into the molds they had for me. The perfect girlfriend. Compromising. Understanding. Patient. My relationships always ended the same way. One big fight during which all of my bitterness at having been The Thing They Wanted but not Who I Was would come flooding to the surface. After the breakup, I would head out on a bender that would usually end with me in a different stupid relationship. It would usually middle out with me in the arms of some beautiful girl, though. I would feel comforted and safe. But also like an impostor. My relationships with women always felt like oases in the desert. Beautiful and cool and uncomplicated. But I worried that they were just escapism. I associated relationships with the strife inherent in making myself seem like something that I wasn’t. After my last relationship with a man, I was so lost that I couldn’t even begin to enter into another one. I stayed single for a while. Then I started dating Frankie. One night, in the middle of summer, not long after we started dating, I had an ugly thought. I’m so happy. This feels so right. Holy shit… have I always been gay? Frankie was super nice about the fact that she’d already figured that out. She gave me ice cream. And I settled in for the process of figuring out how exactly to be myself with this new information. It turns out, it wasn’t that different from what I was doing before. It turns out, the only real difference was that my life was more healthy and functional than it had ever been. I spent the majority of my life up until two years ago feeling like some kind of impostor. Like I was doing something wrong by feeling comfortable and safe with the women in my life. Impostor syndrome is a real thing. Amanda Palmer calls it the Fraud Police. The idea being that someone at some point is going to jump out of the shadows, flash some kind of badge at you, and drag you off to Fraud Jail. You will, thereafter, stand accused of Not Knowing What You’re Doing. And there will be Consequences. Impostor syndrome is dangerous. It’s the sound of your own voice in your head telling you lies. You aren’t really [insert thing that you are]. You’re fooling yourself. You’re fooling everyone. One day everyone is going to see you for what you really are. And then they’ll humiliate you. The tragic thing about impostor syndrome is that it is so often the people who are the most qualified or genuine who feel as though they are somehow pulling the wool over the eyes of those around them. There are so many people out there who are 100% assured that they are The Best when they are really The Worst. I wish those people had crippling self-doubt hammered into them by their own brains. They deserve it. So listen, qualified and brilliant and genuine readers, because I’m going to tell you something. The Fraud Police do not exist. You, my friend, are qualified. You are worthy of the distinctions heaped upon you. You are worthy of your career and your position in life. You are probably even worthy of more than you tell yourself you can achieve. Fuck the fraud police. You’re awesome. And so am I. I’m also suuuuuuuuper gay. Thanks for keeping me from that discovery for 14 years, Fraud Police. You badge-flashing imaginary pains in the ass. Featured image from the lovely people over at Chaos Life. Feelings: Philly Pride and Anniversaries June 12, 2015 June 12, 2015 DiraeLeave a comment This weekend is Pride in Philadelphia. This year Pride is special because Philadelphia is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the picketing of Independence Hall in 1965. Gay rights groups gathered on July 4th of that year to demand legislation securing the rights of LGBTQ Americans. They would gather to protest on the steps of Independence Hall every year on that date for four years. 50 years later, the lives of LGBTQ people in this country have changed dramatically. From being able to legally marry in 37 states across the country to gender reassignment surgery being covered under the ACA and other forms of insurance, the landscape being navigated by LGBTQ people in this country is vastly different compared to the way it was in 1965. This Sunday is also another kind of anniversary. Two years ago, a few months before Sugar Moms closed, Frankie took me there one night and asked me to be hers. It was one of the happiest moments I can remember. Since then, I have learned and grown so much as a person, just from knowing her and loving her. I feel so grateful every day to have her in my life. She is so brilliant and funny and genuine and sweet. I am so proud to be with her. As far as Philly Pride is concerned… I have mixed feelings about it going back a ways. I have avoided going to Pride in the past. I’ve never been the sort of person who really wants to party in the streets, for one. And for another, for years I was pretty sure that I was fooling myself one way or another about who I was and what I wanted. So, not feeling a lot of pride myself, it was hard for me to join the throngs flooding the streets as anything other than a bystander. An ally. And even that never felt right. Coming up on Pride this year, I feel an immense amount of relief at being who I am and how my life has shaped up after my coming out to my family (which was the Final Goddamn Frontier of Gayitude for me). I’m happier with myself. I’m more creative. I’m honestly… proud. I’m proud to be living my life out loud and out in the open. I’m proud of the things I have done and been exposed to that I never would have even tried before a few years ago. I can finally say, after all this time, that I feel genuine pride for who I am as a person and where I am in my life. I am so grateful to the people in my life for being so loving and supportive of me. And to the people who came before me who tore a path through the world so that I could walk my path in relative ease and safety. I am so grateful. I am so proud. Trans Lives Matter: Caitlyn Jenner & Representation in Media June 4, 2015 June 4, 2015 DiraeLeave a comment Ever since the announcement of their womanhood, there has been speculation as to when “Bruce” Jenner would change their pronoun and name to feminine ones. We all knew it was coming, but we had no way of predicting when. Well! It finally happened. On June 1st, Caitlyn Jenner tweeted for the first time. And then Jenner set a world record for the fastest time to 1 million followers in just 4 hours. I’m so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world Caitlyn. Can’t wait for you to get to know her/me. — Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) June 1, 2015 Caitlyn’s announcement was accompanied by photos of her on the cover of Vanity Fair. Fittingly, the announcement coincided with the year anniversary of Laverne Cox’s featured position on the cover of TIME magazine alongside the headline “The Transgender Tipping Point.” More than anything else, I am thrilled to see Caitlyn living her life as her genuine, authentic self. There is nothing more freeing than living your life without shame. I am also delighted to see yet another glamorous woman kicking ass and taking names in her 60s. I cannot get enough of gorgeous older ladies being fabulous. Between Jessica Lange, Caitlyn, and shows like Grace & Frankie, I really hope this is getting to be a trend. In the brief time since revealing herself in her new identity, Caitlyn has caught some serious criticism as a trans person for a couple of reasons. The first has been her position as a fairly prominent and wealthy person undergoing transition. She is in a very privileged spot in that she has access to stylists, personal trainers, and medical treatments that have undoubtedly made her movement into the sphere of womanhood comparatively easier than the journeys taken by many other trans people. On the issue of her privilege I am not prepared to judge Caitlyn. Yet. And I say “yet” because I am waiting to see what she decides to do with her new position as a visible and wealthy trans woman. There is so much work that needs to be done in the trans community. In her open letter to Caitlyn Jenner, Kai Cheng Thom says: I want to know how you feel about all of these things: the ties that bind and the differences between us. And most of all, I want to know what you plan to do about them. You’ve said that you want to hear the stories of other trans women and use your platform to “make things better.” I want so badly for this to mean more than just “raising awareness” through glamour photos and reality television – it’s true that trans people have been experiencing unprecedented visibility in recent years, but visibility alone will not save us. My community organizer’s mind goes wild just imagining all of the social programs I could run with a fraction of the money at your disposal. With that said, if Caitlyn takes her considerable money and influence and applies it to working in communities and making a difference in trans lives, I will applaud her unreservedly. If, however, Caitlyn takes her new, privileged self out into the world of tawdry reality television and thinks that the mere presence of her in the public eye is going to stop the considerable violence and hardship that trans women (and particularly trans women of color) face every day? That will be a different story altogether. And I admit to being unsure as to which way she will go. Aside from being privileged in the means by which she has transitioned, Jenner has also been criticized for her connection to the dreaded Kardashians and their publicity stunt mentality. Let me say two things on that score. First of all, you have to be seriously out of touch with reality if you even thought for a second that Caitlyn’s transition was some kind of publicity stunt. And secondly, I think that her use of the letter “C” in a name that could easily be spelled with a “K” was rather telling, don’t you? It is true that what is surrounding Jenner at this point could not be called anything less than a media circus. But I don’t think that is a bad thing at all. I think that her transition as a person living a prominent and public life was going to generate a lot of buzz to begin with. And I think that having someone so prominently transition is going to make a difference in the lives of trans youth, because representation matters. On that note I want to get a little personal. I lived a large portion of my life confused and uncomfortable with who I was as a person. I thought I was straight… Or maybe bisexual? I had no one in my life upon whose example I could model myself as a gay woman. I cannot begin to express how valuable it would have been for me to see alternative sexualities and genders represented in the media. Caitlyn would have been a huge deal to me. Just seeing that there were other ways to live your life might have meant that I found my way to myself far earlier and spared myself a lot of pain. More than just allowing young people to see that there are other ways to live than as cisgendered heterosexuals, I believe the prominent representation of LGBTQ people can save lives. Suicide rates among LGBTQ youth are notably higher than those of the general population. According to The Trevor Project, “nearly half of young transgender people have seriously thought about taking their lives, and one quarter report having made a suicide attempt.” Having people like Jenner out there in the world for trans youth to look up to means a lot. And I think that, as the years roll on and we as a community gain more and more trans role models, The Trevor Project and groups like them will have better and better news for us. Despite the jury being out on whether Caitlyn will utilize her privileged position as a trans person in a positive way, having her transition in the public eye is, as Rachel Maddow put it, “absolutely history in the finest, living sense.” I think considering Caitlyn’s journey as “living history” is an important distinction. Because this is not the end of the story of trans rights. This isn’t the beginning, either, it is just a very important moment. A chapter that will stand out when we look back at it. But there is still so much work to be done.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1628
__label__wiki	0.880519	0.880519	A Luta Continua Corinna Jentzsch In what is a victory for media freedom, a Mozambican judge rules it is “perfectly acceptable in a democracy" to criticize your leaders. Ilha Mozambique. Image by Stéphane Neckebrock via Flickr (CC). One day after the international day of democracy on September 15, it was truly a day of democracy in Mozambique. A court in the capital city Maputo ruled last week that the academic Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco and the journalist and editor Fernando Mbanze had not committed a crime “against the security of the state” when publishing and distributing an open letter critical of then-president Armando Guebuza. Both were acquitted after the judge gave, what the Mozambican newspaper Verdade called, a “lecture on democracy.” The presiding judge, João Guilherme, defended the economist’s right to voice his opinion and criticize government decisions because all this is “perfectly acceptable in a democracy.” Leia no @Verdade de hoje a lição de Democracia dada ontem pelo Juiz João Guilherme #Moçambique pic.twitter.com/LZDoR1Q0Lk — Jornal a Verdade (@verdademz) September 17, 2015 “Mr. President, you’re out of control,” began the academic’s verbal attack on the President, which was published on Facebook and reprinted in the newsletter MediaFax and other outlets in November 2013. Castel-Branco is one of the most important Mozambican academics and co-founder of the independent Social and Economic Studies Institute (IESE). His letter resonated with young people in the cities and was widely shared on social media. Castel-Branco accused Guebuza of using the then escalating conflict with the opposition party Renamo and his handling of other security problems as a pretext for the suppression of all forms of opposition. He warned that this repression paved the way for fascism supported by big capital, alluding to Guebuza’s involvement in extractive industry. The Guebuza family and in fact many members of the ruling party Frelimo benefit from the recent natural resource boom. The boom has increased conflicts with the opposition, including Renamo, over distributing its spoils. The letter was an attempt to uphold a culture of debate that, in Castel-Branco’s eyes, Guebuza had tried to expunge by insulting those “who have ideas about national problems”—such as rising inequality as a consequence of economic growth—and could contribute to solving them by sharing their knowledge and expertise. The letter did exactly that—generate a debate. Elísio Macamo, professor of African Studies at the University of Basel, did not agree with Castel-Branco’s accusations, but was outraged about the decision to put him to trial and saw it as a political move, as the trial was announced during an election year. In a Facebook post, Macamo criticized the emotional and personal nature of Castel-Branco’s letter, which, as he said, did a disfavor to the academic community by mixing personal animosity with productive exchange between a “critical academia and a responsible government.” He also engaged in a deeper discussion, arguing that “freedom of expression is not absolute” and that such freedom is not in danger in Mozambique in the way that some civil society actors make it seem. But he also defended the “brilliant” economist and denounced Frelimo’s silencing of dissent. But for Frelimo—a party that has done everything to maintain its unity and cohesion since it came to power after the country’s independence in 1975—there is little space for debate. In fact, the trial was a “major test of freedom of speech and the press in Mozambique.” The public prosecutor accused Castel-Branco of libeling the president and Mbanze with abusing the freedom of the press by distributing the letter. Amnesty International warned that a conviction “would set a dangerous precedent.” The accused were “simply exercising their right to freedom of expression by speaking out about the governance of Mozambique,” Amnesty International’s Director for Southern Africa said. If it was a crime, it should have been covered by the amnesty law passed by parliament in August 2014 that tossed out all state security offenses between March 2012 and August 2014 as part of a deal with Renamo. But rather than invoking the amnesty law, Castel Branco and Mbanze sought to use the trial as a defense of freedom of expression and democracy. Last week’s verdict is a triumph of democratic values in Mozambique, but the struggle is not over—a luta continua. Several events have demonstrated that press freedom is in danger in Mozambique. When the prominent lawyer and professor Gilles Cistac died in March this year, civil society actors believed that he had “died because he supported freedom of speech, human rights, and democracy.” Cistac argued that the Constitution allowed the establishment of autonomous provinces, which Renamo’s president Dhlakama had called for. The murder of veteran journalist Paulo Machava in August prompted the chair of Mozambique’s union of journalists to state that “This is once more a way of trying to silence journalists in our country.” Machava reported on crime and had investigated the death of well-known journalist Carlos Cardoso in 2000, who had written about pervasive corruption among the national political elite. There are many reasons why Frelimo has limited press freedom. Chief among them is the fact that Frelimo attempts to control the flow of information on the armed confrontations it has had over the last few years with Renamo—a few days ago, Renamo president Dhlakama was attacked by unidentified gunmen that, according to one account, resembled the state Rapid Intervention Units. Whether one sees the country in danger of sliding down the path of repression or not, the issue has been to accept to listen to difference. As Mozambican writer Mia Couto said in his recent acceptance speech for an honorary doctorate, the country needs to avoid being “selectively deaf. We listen to those who are close to us, those who obey us, those whom we like hearing. We listen to those from our own party, above all those who do not criticize us. Everything else does not exist, everything else is a lie, everything else is slander. Everything else is said by ‘the others’.” Tolerance from all sides is what Mozambique needs to overcome the seemingly everlasting polarization and achieve true reconciliation. Corinna Jentzsch is assistant professor of International Relations at Leiden University in the Netherlands. One day after the international day of democracy on September 15, it was truly a day	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1629
__label__cc	0.717367	0.282633	Anthrogenica > Non-Human Genetics > Fauna > Elusive Arabian sand cat spotted after 10 years' disappearance View Full Version : Elusive Arabian sand cat spotted after 10 years' disappearance https://d1o50x50snmhul.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/10180000/3-800x533.jpg BLINK and you’ll miss it. The Arabian sand cat is a shy and secretive animal only seen in the desert at night. Now, after a 10-year absence, three have been glimpsed on camera in Abu Dhabi. A team led by Shakeel Ahmed, an assistant scientist at The Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD), captured 46 photos of the cats in Baynouna, a protected area. The sightings were usually made late on moonlit nights and at cooler times, suggesting the cats prefer low temperatures for foraging (European Journal of Wildlife Research,doi.org/bnqj (http://doi.org/bnqj)). The sand cat (https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630230-200-the-cat-made-me-do-it-is-your-pet-messing-with-your-mind/) is well adapted to its desert home (https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27748-silver-coat-lets-saharan-ants-withstand-scorching-desert-heat/). It doesn’t need to drink water as it can get all it needs from the small animals that are its prey. Special hairs in its ears and on its paws keep the sand out. We know little about the cat’s biology, and populations may be declining. The team hopes its work will help inform conservation strategies. “Scientists need to be doing more research on how the sand cats live,” says John Newby at the Sahara Conservation Fund. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23130863-600-elusive-arabian-sand-cat-spotted-after-10-years-disappearance/	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1630
__label__wiki	0.787228	0.787228	Moorcroft Artists The Original Moorcroft Artists and Designers including William & Walter Moorcroft Other Moorcroft Studio artists include Philip Gibson, Rachel Bishop, Emma Bossons, Nicola Slaney and Sian Leeper. Today, the Moorcroft artists and Studio designers are young and the Moorcroft workforce has an average age of less than 27. There are degrees and master’s degrees scattered among them, but a degree is not the only true mark of success. Only at the end of a long road, when the Moorcroft designer produce’s work that is guaranteed to enrich any home with its presence, can it be said that their reputation is international and their place in the Moorcroft history books assured. These qualities are essential prerequisites to membership of the prestigious Moorcroft Design Studio, and only a few can rise to the standard set by William Moorcroft. William Moorcroft (1872-1945) — In 1897 Willian Moorcroft joined the James Macintyre & Company, Washington Works, Burslem as director of its art studio. He was born in Burslem, Staffordshire and studied art at Burslem then in London and Paris. He experimented with his own pottery designs around 1896 while working for Macintyre and produced aurelian ware, which was partly decorated with transfers and partly painted by hand. Moorcroft went on to develope lustre glazes and used oriental shapes and decorations. Some of his techniques were closely guarded trade secrets. In 1898 he was given a bronze medal in the National Competion of the Dept of Science and Art, and before long was known internationally . In 1904 William Moorcroft won his first gold medal at the St. Louis International Exhibition. He then developed his famous florian Ware, with heavy slip and a translucent glaze which produced a superb colour brilliance . Much of the output was sold through Liberty & Co in London and Tiffany in New York. He also designed decorative pottery using flowers, feathers, leaves, toadstools and fish as the main motifs In 1910 he went on to win a gold medal in Brussels and in 1913 a Diploma of Honour in Ghent. At home his work was shown alongside other well known potters in an exhibition of ‘Modern English Pottery’. Among his new ranges was Flamminian Ware, this started to show his growing interest in the use of lustre glazes. Already established was Butterfly Ware (1899). Hespian Ware, Poppy (1898) Hazeldene a landscape with trees (1902), Claremont with its toadstool motif (1903) and Tudor Rose (1904). Bara Ware made between 1908 and 1913 was produced mainly for Liberty, the famous London Dept store with whom Moorcroft had a close working relationship. Pomegranate (1910), then Spanish in the same year and Pansy (1911) along with Wisteria (1910) all showed a subtle change of direction in his style and the growing sophistication in colour and decoration. In 1913 Moorcroft set up his own Works in Sandbach Road, Burslem, from where the company continues to trade today. Landscapes like Moonlight Blue (1922) Eventide (1923) and Dawn (1926) further enhanced his reputation. In 1928 he was appointed potter to Her Majesty Queen Mary, a decorative arts connoisseur. During the Art Deco period of the 1920’s designs were changed to reflect the styles of the period and moorcroft won acclaim at the Paris Exhibition of 1925. An anomaly in Moorcroft’s designs is a series of animal and bird models designed by Francis Arthur Edwards circa 1925. The animals were glazed at the Moorcroft factory with experimental colours and marked with a Moorcroft paper label. Walter Moorcroft (1917-2002) was William Moorcroft’s son who joined his fathers’s business in 1935. Walter took over the Moorcroft pottery in 1945, the same year that his father William died after suffering a severe stroke. Walters first production, a lily bowl, was bought by the Duchess of Gloucester at the British Industries Fair in 1937. After the second world war Walter continued in the Moorcroft tradition and his designs were produced to the same high quality of decoration and colouring associated with Moorcroft, including the lily, the hibiscus and the magnolia designs. The post-war years were so successful that in 1961, Walter was able to buy back the Liberty stock, allowing the Moorcroft family to regain total control of the moorcroft pottery. Over his long tenure Walter Morcroft undertook trade missions to Canada, the USA and Japan and continued to promote the company through exhibitions. In 1963 he ended the powder blue production and in 1970 saw the last flambe firing when gas supplies changed to natural gas. Walter introduced the hugely successful coral hibiscus design in 1968 and the Bermuda Lily in 1971. In 1984, due to a major downturn and high interest rates, he sold a controlling interest to the Roper brothers, and an attempt was made to change the nature of Moorcroft pottery to mass production. Fortunately, this was unsuccessful and the brothers sold their shares in 1986 to Hugh Edwards and Richard Dennis. There was a further reshuffle in 1992 when Richard and Sally Dennis left the company. Walter retired in 1987, at the age of 70 and died in 2002. Sally Tuffin (1986-1992) wife of Richard Dennis and only the third designer at moorcroft. Walter Moorcroft retired as design director in 1987, after which Sally Dennis (Sally Tuffin) took over. Sally Tuffin, had achieved international acclaim as the ‘Tuffin’ in the leading fashion partnership of ‘Tuffin and Maule’ that rose to prominence in the swinging Sixties. Sally helped re-create the Moorcroft name and its association with quality and workmanship and Sallys inventive designs proved to be the medicine that cured the ills of the previous few years. However Sally’s stay at Moorcroft was short lived and in 1992 both Sally and Richard left the company to open their own pottery company – The Dennis Chinaworks. Moorcrofts’ Rachel Bishop Rachel Bishop joined Moorcroft in 1993, as only its fourth designer in one hundred years. Rachel’s initial designs sold well and individual success was followed by the Moorcroft centenary in 1997. In that same year the Moorcroft Design Studio was formed, comprising eight designers with Rachel at their head. The Rachel story began when she was alerted to vacancies in Moorcroft for people ‘who could both paint and draw’ by her late grandmother. At Rachel’s interview there was a huge and positive reaction the moment her design portfolio was opened. Here was a designer of huge ability. However, Moorcroft was not looking for a designer but a painter, and Rachel was rejected; but, Moorcroft’s chairman, Hugh Edwards, decided to stay in touch. They corresponded for almost a year and when the old Moorcroft design team left without warning in December 1992, he contacted Rachel again. In a little over three years following the launch of her new Tigris design in 1993, Moorcroft’s sales doubled, and a new design star was born. Rachel believes “she was born to the job” – a statement that has proved to be true. Throughout her life she has been in love with the work, style and ethics of William Moorcroft, and inevitably some of her work shows clear lines of identity back to the great man. Even so, Rachel’s design style is entirely her own. Her love of the New Forest is well documented, but more recently the mountains of the Lake District have begun to exercise a strong pull. The power and majesty of God’s own creations appear to provide the inspiration for her almost continuous stream of quality design. Rachel is at home with dramatic scenery and extreme weather. Moorcroft Artist Philip Gibson Philip Gibson was born at Wolstanton, the site of one of Stoke on Trent’s once great collieries, which overlooks Burslem and the heart of the Staffordshire Potteries. In this close-knit community, his father ran his own business as a gent’s hairdresser for over fifty years, and his mother worked at Royal Doulton as a glost ware selector. Indeed, most of Philip’s family either worked in the local coal mines or the pottery industry. In his early school years, Philip Gibson showed a strong interest in art. He attended Newcastle School of Art, and then moved on to gain a BA Hon., followed in 1978 by a Masters degree in Ceramic Design at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic. After completing his education Phil went to work as a designer for Josiah Wedgwood and William Adams for nearly nine years. During his time at William Adams, Philip worked alongside the legendary Susie Cooper. When William Adams closed in 1987, Philip decided to pursue a career as a freelance designer and artist specialising in ceramics. Until 1997 he worked with leading pottery companies and print manufacturers on many varied and interesting commissions. In 1997 Phil came into contact with Moorcroft’s Hugh Edwards after an introduction from his brother-in-law, Trevor Critchlow, the company’s senior modeler and mould maker. Hugh explained that he was looking to expand the availability of quality Moorcroft designs, and Phil was invited to create a design in the Moorcroft idiom. That design was later to become known as Flame of the Forest, a piece of artwork that richly deserved the accolades piled on it. Indeed, many retailers, including Liberty, have suggested Flame of the Forest is one of the best-structured designs to come from Moorcroft in the last 70 years. Later the same year, Phil began preliminary sketches for his magnificent Trout range, launched in 1999 to great acclaim. In September 1998, as Phil’s involvement with Moorcroft intensified, Hugh invited him to join the Moorcroft Design Studio as a full time member. In addition to his work as a designer, Philip has illustrated many climbing and walking guidebooks. Moorcroft Artist Emma Bossons Emma Bossons was born in Congleton, Cheshire in 1976. Her early years were spent close to her birthplace, on a dairy farm in the picturesque Cheshire countryside. As a child Emma showed a strong interest in art and as a result of her art classes, Emma developed a strong interest in watercolour painting. What she didn’t learn at school, she taught herself in her own time. Emma sold her watercolours as a sideline to her day job and encouraged by her family, she began exhibiting her artwork in exhibitions around the country, including the British Society of Painters Exhibition in Yorkshire. She was subsequently made a Friend of the Society. Emma eventually progressed from watercolours to painting ceramics at Masons Ironstone in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. On a visit to the Moorcroft factory shop. she was bowled over by what she saw when she first stepped into Moorcroft. She had gone there to help her mum choose a gift, and she left with a perfect present and the overwhelming desire to work at the factory one day. As soon as she saw the depth of colour and quality of work, she decided to send in her application.” Emma arrived at Moorcroft in 1996, a time when Hugh Edwards was looking to expand the availability of quality Moorcroft designs. After the success of her first Open Weekend staff design, Emma was invited to create a design in the Moorcroft idiom. That design was later known as Victoriana. and richly deserved the accolades piled on it. Victoriana was the Collectors’ Club piece for 1998. It was a qualified success with members of the Club. Since then, Emma has become a leading member of the Moorcroft Design Studio and is credited with a number of collectors’ pieces, including the beautiful Queen’s Choice range. Moorcrofts’ Nicola Slaney Nicola graduated from Staffordshire University in the summer of 1997, where she specialised in surface pattern design. Nicola started her career with Moorcroft in November 1997. She was soon represented in the 1998 catalogue with her Amazon Twilight vase. The vase was the run-away success of 1998. Hawthorn was her next piece and was adopted by Liberty’s of London as an exclusive limited edition. After showing her portfolio to Hugh Edwards, she says, she did a couple of designs, then looked carefully at Moorcroft pots “and it just clicked.” Although not tied to one palette, she generally favours earthy, natural colours, perfect for that twilight effect. In May 1998, together with designer Emma Bossons, Nicola responded to a call to visit some of the exquisite tropical islands scattered across the South Pacific. Their mission was to encapsulate the Millennium in designs, which drew inspiration from time. From that simple theory, the idea of the Dateline Series was born. On the island of Tahiti, made famous as the first home of Fletcher Christian and the Bounty mutineers, Nicola took the elegant Perfume Tree for her inspiration. Drawn with a delicate colour palette, the Perfume Tree became Tahiti. Moorcroft’s Millennium plate was the most superb year plate to date. With the arrival of a new Millennium, came Nicola’s design ranges entitled, Anna, Fruit Garden and The Ashwood Hellebore together with her magnificent limited edition vase Jerusalem. Said by the many hardened and knowledgeable ceramists to be one of the finest vases to have emerged from Stoke on Trent in decades. The vase was massive by any definition. The shape was created to fit the design, and as a result the proportions are perfect. Line drawing alone took 16 weeks, while colour combinations were only finalised after a further 8 weeks of trials. Since August 1998, Nicola has been a leading designer of Moorcroft Enamels. Nicola is now one of Moorcrofts most prolific designers Moorcroft Artist Sian Leeper Sian was born in Padbury, Buckinghamshire in 1970, the second of four sisters. During her early school days, Sian showed a strong interest in art and design, and after secondary school, she went on to attend Yeovil College, where she studied an Art Foundation course for two years. She then moved on to the University of Brighton and studied for a degree in 3-D Design, specialising in silversmithing and ceramics. She graduated with BA (Hons) in 1988. Sian was torn between pursuing a career in jewelry or ceramic design. As occasionally happens, fate intervened and gave her a gentle nudge in the right direction. She read a Moorcroft advertisement calling for talented artists who could both paint and draw. Sian stayed for more than a year at Moorcroft, learning the intricate art of tubelining and painting. However, the pull of her childhood roots became too strong, and at the end of the year she left and returned home to Somerset. After a cramped interlude with a small Somerset ceramic company, Sian became a freelance designer, and was soon decorating her own ceramics and selling them in local galleries. Her local success saw some of her designs filter into a wider circle of galleries throughout the United Kingdom. Eventually they crossed The Pond to the United States. Over the next three years Sian spent time travelling back and forth to the States, gathering material and inspiration for design ideas. With the new millennium approaching, Sian decided that she had spent enough time ‘going it alone’ and decided to contact Moorcroft, to see if she could take up where she had left off. After a lengthy meeting with Hugh Edwards, she took her seat in the Moorcroft decorating room. Only a few months later, her Moorcroft decorating techniques returned, at which point she was appointed to the coveted Design Studio and became a full-time designer. Sian’s first catalogue design, the limited edition Pride of Lions, appeared in 2000. In the same year, Sian was also represented in Moorcroft Enamels’ catalogue with her wintry Polar Bear Collection and tropical Jungle Collection. Throughout 2001 Sian worked on a number of design themes. The arrival of the limited edition Tamarin came as no surprise, but her Cleopatra range was altogether different. Cleopatra was a departure from Sian’s customary style in that it was a structured design featuring a stylised Trillium flower. The Cleopatra range encompassed no less than nine shapes, and its popularity ensured its continuation into the 2002 catalogue. Champerico, the Guatemalan slipper orchid, and Tembusu,and the Malaysian flowering tree, are illustrations of Sian’s developing passion for exotic flora, whilst South Pacific is the result of an opportunity to use a palette of vibrant, strong marine colours. Ranthambhore is both the name of a Moorcroft limited edition vase and a national park and tiger conservation area in Rajastan in India. The park is littered with the ruins of an 11th century fort, which is depicted on the vase. 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__label__cc	0.658514	0.341486	Donald Trump Approves Deal For TikTok Partnership With Oracle And Walmart Hot New Hip Hop says the president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, just got finished approving a deal for TikTok to partner with Walmart and Oracle. Reportedly, the news of Oracle and Walmart acquiring ByteDance comes right around the same time as Trump considered shutting it down. During a conversation with reporters at the White House on Saturday, Trump claimed he had given the deal his blessing, and if they got it done, it would be great, but if not, that would be ok too. “I approved the deal in concept,” Trump explained. Reportedly, Oracle agreed to become a minority investor in the company with a 12.5% stake, whereas Walmart agreed to take 7.5% of the company. In a statement, TikTok wrote that Oracle would be their technology provider which would handle all of the US data. A Walmart spokesperson released a statement this week in which they claimed they would offer a public offering as well to give United States citizens a chance to own part of the company. Trump has also claimed the organizations will donate $5 million to an education fund. Great to be back in Philadelphia. Thank you Pennsylvania, see you again soon! #MAGA A post shared by President Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) on Sep 15, 2020 at 4:28pm PDT Trump says he and his administration have asked for a large fund for an education program for the American youth. “That’s the contribution I’ve been asking for,” the president explained. As most know, Trump has been threatening to shut down TikTok for months. The United States federal government has questioned the social media application and its connection to the Chinese government. Reportedly, it’s been alleged that it may be a threat to national security. Earlier in the year, Jason Derulo, one of TikTok’s biggest stars, said it would be a shame to see the application shut down. However, Jason questioned whether it would really happen or not. In an interview, Jason said it was impossible to get away from tracking and organizations using personal data. He insinuated that eliminating TikTok wouldn’t get rid of the problem at the end of the day. TikTok has become one of the most popular social media applications over the last few years, especially with the youth. Read More: Donald Trump Approves Deal For TikTok Partnership With Oracle And Walmart « James Caan Reveals Why There Was Never An Elf Sequel With Will Ferrell Tarek El Moussa And Heather Rae Young May Not Marry On TV »	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1633
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__label__wiki	0.882938	0.882938	Karr’s AJ Samuel Named November Amateur Athlete of the Month NEW ORLEANS (December 15, 2020) – Anterious “AJ” Samuel, the star quarterback for Edna Karr High School, has been selected as the Greater New Orleans Amateur Athlete of the Month for November. Monthly award-winners are selected by the Greater New Orleans Sports Awards Committee, sponsored by the Allstate Sugar Bowl. Samuel led the Cougars to a 4-1 month of November, which included the No. 2 seed in the LHSAA Class 4A state playoffs. The sophomore completed 48-of-78 (62%) of his passes for 829 yards and 14 touchdowns. He also ran for three scores during the month. He closed the month with a pair of exceptional games, throwing for five TDs in back-to-back wins – the first on Nov. 21 against Helen Cox in the regular-season finale and then second on Nov. 28 against Ellender in the first round of the state playoffs. Enda Karr, which is hoping for its fifth straight state championship in 2020, will play sixth-seeded Warren Easton on Friday night in the Class 4A state semifinals. Samuel was selected for the honor over four other nominees. Dominican volleyball star Katie Baker was the MVP of the LHSAA Division I Volleyball Championship when she notched 23 assists and 14 digs in a 3-1 win over St. Joseph’s Academy. Earlier in the month, Baker had an impressive 37-assist performance in a 3-0 win over Chalmette to lift Dominican to the quarterfinals. Dominican finished the year with a 31-2 record. Jared Butler, a 6-3, 195-pound preseason All American, started off this season where he left off last year. The junior from Riverside Academy (Reserve, La.) averaged 16.3 points per outing in November (seventh-best in the Big 12). He was second in the conference in steals (2.7 per game) and also distributed four assist per game. Butler shot 48.8% from the field and ranked 13th in the conference in three-point percentage at 43.8%. His best outing was a 20-point, five-assist performance against Washington on November 29th. Xavier University of Louisiana basketball star Rayshawn Mart posted two exceptional November performances. The 6-3 guard from Houma scored 26 points to go with 10 rebounds and a career-best four blocks in a home victory over William Carey on Nov. 2 and then erupted for 31 points and nine rebounds in a Nov. 7 loss to city-rival Loyola. A preseason All-GCAC selection and a preseason first-team NAIA All-HBCU by Black College Sports Network, Mart was named the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Week for his two November games. However, XULA’s season was put on hold until January due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nia Washington was the MVP of the LHSAA Division V Volleyball Championship as she tallied 19 kills, three aces and six digs to lead Country Day to a 3-0 win over McGehee. It was the fifth straight state title for the top-seeded Cajuns. Washington, a junior, had seven kills in the first 10 points of the third set for the Cajuns. She opened the state tournament on Nov. 4 with a dominating performance in a straight-set win over Southern Lab as she collected 22 kills, 18 digs and five aces. Country Day finished the season 23-9. The Greater New Orleans Sports Awards Committee has been selecting an Amateur Athlete of the Month each month since 1957. The athlete must be a native of the greater New Orleans area or must compete for a team in the metropolitan region in order to be eligible.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1635
__label__cc	0.678019	0.321981	INTERLUDE: An Important Life Update, and What I’m Thankful For This Thanksgiving Posted on November 22, 2018 by Andrew Champagne If you’ve followed me for the past several years, chances are you’ve noticed that I’ve been pretty quiet for the past few months, both on my site and on social media. There’s a rational explanation for this, and I’m ecstatic to report that it comes with a happy ending. To tell this story, I need to go back to early-September. I had just worked, by my estimation, roughly 34 hours over Labor Day weekend, which included a lot of racing at Saratoga and Del Mar and a shooting outside the latter establishment. The following Wednesday, I was informed that, due to corporate cutbacks that are all too common in the fields of journalism, publishing, and horse racing, my position at The Daily Racing Form was being transitioned from full-time to part-time. This was not a performance-based decision, but strictly a money move. At this time, it’s important to point out that I have no ill will towards anyone at DRF. I’ve been privileged to work with a lot of people who are among the best in the world at what they do, including my boss (editor in chief Jody Swavy), fellow web producers Neil Bisman and Matt Brennan, writers/handicappers, and people whose names you don’t know, but without whom nothing would get done. I’m proud of the work that I’ve done, which included massive gains in social media metrics and providing some fun audio-visual and written content. Additionally, that I was able to stay on in a part-time role (plus pursue other freelance work) as opposed to being cut entirely allowed me to at least have SOME financial security while I looked for a full-time opportunity. I kept this pretty quiet for a number of reasons. I don’t enjoy being a burden to others if I don’t have to be, and I also didn’t want people feeling sorry for me. For the things I know how to do in social and digital media, I’m in one of the best places imaginable. While this situation was completely out of left field and threw me for a loop, I was confident I was going to be okay in the long run. It’s with that in mind that I can make the following statement: I’ve landed on my feet. I have accepted an offer to join the team at Outpost Capital, a venture capital firm located in San Francisco, as a Content Writer. My duties will actually be pretty similar to the things I’ve done at DRF, TVG, HRTV, The Saratogian, Siena College, and NBC Olympics, just in a different environment. I’ll be handling a lot of social and digital media tasks for one of their companies, MOAC (a tech company specializing in blockchain development), while also taking on some PR responsibilities and assisting in production of their weekly webinars. It’s a great job, and I’m excited to get started. Now that I’ve lined up a full-time gig, I need to spend a LOT of time talking about those who have helped me. This list is filled with many different types of people, but it’s headed by a select group that I’m incredibly grateful for. First and foremost, I would never have been able to get through this without my family. My father, mother, stepfather, sister, and stepsister, among others, were as supportive as a family could be (no small task from 3,000 miles away), and it’s a tremendous relief to be able to tell them that they don’t have to worry anymore (at least not about this!!!). Just as important in all of this has been my girlfriend, Alicia. I moved to Northern California nine months ago to spend more time with her. She’s been a rock in a time that wouldn’t have been easy for anyone, all while teaching a classroom of 26 third and fourth-grade students. We’re celebrating our five-year anniversary this weekend, and it’s great to have something else to celebrate on top of it. She’s amazing, and I love her very much. Without freelance work, the past two-plus months would’ve been incredibly tough (have you SEEN rent prices in the Bay Area?!). Most importantly in this regard, I need to thank Joe Nevills, who introduced me to several contacts that provided work and helped me survive. A little less than two years ago, he listened to me vent my frustration about a situation I wouldn’t wish on anyone when he absolutely did not have to. That’s sparked a friendship I’m incredibly proud of, and one where I hope to someday repay the debts I’m quickly racking up. In that vein, I also need to thank Patrick Mahan and Giles Anderson for allowing me the opportunity to work for them, as well as my bosses at Granite Media (Eric Ortiz, Michael Howerton, and Tony Mamone). With that in mind, I’m going to point out that just because I’m employed outside of the racing industry doesn’t mean I’m going to stop writing and producing racing/sports-centric content. I enjoy what I’m fortunate enough to do, and I’m not just going to disappear (quite the opposite, actually, as a steady income means I’ll be able to play the races more!). I dealt with a lot of recruiters and prospective employers during this process. I applied for almost 600 jobs in a 2 1/2-month stretch (if you don’t believe me, I have a running Excel spreadsheet that helped me keep track of everything), and in doing that, I met a lot of people. Naturally, with that kind of sample size, I’ve got some great stories and some really bad ones (including what will go down as the worst interview of my life with someone who couldn’t quite understand the concept of organic social media). To the recruiters that took time out of their schedules to help me in some way, and to the hiring managers who treated me with respect and honesty (and called/emailed when they SAID they were going to call/email), thank you. Finally, there’s a long list of friends and professional acquaintances I need to mention that provided valuable support, whether they knew it or not. That list, which I hope is complete and reserve the right to edit at any point, goes as follows: Danny Kovoloff, Gino Buccola, Pete Aiello, Jason Beem (yes, the five of us and Joe Nevills talk; somewhere, there’s an emergency meeting being called by a terrified racing executive!), Ted King-Smith (and the entire King-Smith family, which put on one impressive wedding last month!), Jack Powers, Nate March, Nick Karski, Natalie Nevills, Nicole Russo, Barbara Livingston, Craig Milkowski, Craig Gorbunoff, Dan Illman, David Aragona, Mike Dubose, Nick Kling, Nick Hines, Rich Perloff, Mike Joyce, Scott Hazelton, Ed DeRosa, Matt Dinerman, Jeremy Balan, Alicia Wincze Hughes, Tom LaMarra, John Gaburick, and Norm Macdonald (yes, THAT Norm Macdonald). I’m incredibly lucky to be a part of a close-knit group of people, and in that regard, I’m not going anywhere anytime soon. In fact, the guy who sometimes has a VERY hard time shutting up may have just gotten a bit more of a license to be vocal! On a serious note, the last few months have been a pretty trying time. To those who knew, thanks for being there for me. To those who didn’t, thanks for keeping the faith (even though you probably didn’t know you were doing it). I hope to be around a lot more moving forward, and I REALLY hope I can use that time to give out some winners! Analysis, Selections, and Tickets: Gulfstream, Santa Anita (12/30/17), PLUS a Special Message of Thanks Posted on December 29, 2017 by Andrew Champagne Before we dive in to the analysis of Saturday’s cards at Gulfstream and Santa Anita, I want to take a moment in my final post of 2017 to say thank you. I started this website nine months ago, and I started it for several reasons. Obviously, writing and handicapping are two of my biggest passions, and this gave me an outlet for that, but there were other factors at play as well. Admittedly, a large part of starting this website was in response to being told I wasn’t good enough to do certain things, and as anyone who knows me can attest, the best way to motivate me to do something is to tell me I’m incapable of doing it. I didn’t start this site to get a certain amount of page views, so the data I’ve got knocks my socks off. In the nine months that this site has been online, it’s gotten almost 25,000 hits. In the grand scheme of things, it’s not a ton, but for one guy doing this site for no money and no ulterior motive other than providing relevant content for the sport he loves, it’s powerful stuff. To those of you that have come along for the ride, thank you. 2017 was a banner year for me professionally. In addition to the launch of this site, I landed a fantastic job at the Daily Racing Form, and I emerged as the Saratoga meet’s leading handicapper across all media. As I tell people, “128 winners at a single Saratoga meet” is fast becoming my version of Al Bundy’s “four touchdowns in a single game!” On a serious note, whether you visited from the start or came on at some point during the year, I’m incredibly grateful for your support. It’s my hope that 2018 provides even more excitement, and maybe even some more winners to boot. As a reminder, there’s a “contact” feature on this website, and I read every message that comes in. If you have a question, comment, or concern, use that and bring it to my attention. Now, let’s see if we can make some money on the Saturday cards at Gulfstream and Santa Anita. My analysis, selections, and tickets are below. Let’s get to it! GULFSTREAM PARK On the whole, I think this is a pretty formful sequence. However, we may be able to make some money by getting lucky in the second leg, and even if the rest of the ticket chalks out, there may be some avenues to a profit. The opener is a sprint for 3-year-olds, and I’ll use the two likely betting choices. #2 VENCEDOR may be favored on the class drop for Antonio Sano, but I actually prefer stablemate #7 CORONADO AGAIN, who figures to be the race’s controlling speed. He does step up in class, but he’s run against some tough opposition in the past and may get a dream setup if he’s allowed to coast to the front early. I’m buying the second race, which, for my money, is the toughest race on the entire card. Several of the longshots are worth long looks, and the favorites aren’t without their flaws. It’s tough to predict which horse gets the early lead, and with many of the shorter prices being one-run closers, they may be crawling early. I want maximum coverage, and with a little luck, we’ll get a price home to knock out some tickets. I’ll use the two favorites in the third, a bottom-level claimer going the one-turn mile route. #6 GOODTIMEHADBYALL and #8 ENDERS CAT drop out of the same Claiming Crown race, and by the numbers, they appear to have this field over a barrel. I’ll go a similar route in the fourth, using #2 BULLDOZER and #3 MR. BAKER, who’ll both be short prices. That leads to the H. Allen Jerkens, a two-mile race on turf where I have a single. #7 BULLARDS ALLEY wants to run as long as possible, and a repeat of either of his last two efforts would make him tough to beat. He was beaten less than four lengths in the Breeders’ Cup Turf, and anywhere close to that type of performance would mean someone else would need to run a career-best race to win. I usually don’t like singling in marathon races, but this one makes sense. R8: 1,4,11,13,14,15 R9: 2,3,5,7,10 R10: 9 R11: 2,3,10 I found this late Pick Four sequence baffling, especially since three major contenders in the opening leg are also-eligibles that may not run. For now, I’m putting them all on the ticket, and we’ll adjust the value of the ticket downward if there are any scratches. The eighth is a claiming event on the turf for non-winners of three, and it’s not an easy race to decipher. I’ll use three also-eligibles and three other horses, two of which are prices. #1 TAGORE is a son of Giant’s Causeway who somehow has yet to try turf, and #11 SECOND STREET comes back to the appropriate level after a failed try against much better earlier this month. The ninth isn’t much easier. It’s the Tropical Park Oaks, and I’m five-deep. Your guess is as good as mine with regard to which horse will be favored, and my top pick is a reluctant one. #2 TAPERGE loves this turf course and makes her second start following a brief freshening. She seems to be getting better with experience, and we may get a decent price. I’ll take a stab in the third leg, the Via Borghese. My single is #9 BEAULY, a 4-1 shot last seen running a close-up fourth in the Grade 1 Flower Bowl. She’s run up against some classy distaffers this season, and she gets the services of top-notch rider Luis Saez. This sequence requires a single somewhere, and I’m hoping this one’s back class carries her through. I’m three-deep in the final leg, the Tropical Park Derby. I’m throwing out runners exiting Aqueduct’s Gio Ponti Stakes, as that was a strangely-run race that may not hold water here. My top pick is #3 PROFITEER, who gets some class relief, but I’m also using two big prices. #2 TIZ A SLAM has hinted at major potential this season for Hall of Fame conditioner Roger Attfield, and #10 DANCE STRIKE has done very little wrong in three starts and could be ready for a big effort in his stakes debut. R3: 3,4,5,6,9,10 R4: 1,4,5,6 I really like this sequence, and my ticket boasts singles on each end of it. We may get reasonable prices on each given the field sizes in those races, so if this ticket hits, we could be in line for a nice score. My first single is #5 PROUD HEROINE in the opener, a turf sprint coming down the hill. This one has shown plenty of early zip, and “run-off” horses like that tend to settle going this route of ground. Additionally, she’s bred up and down for turf. She’s by Proud Citizen and out of a Medaglia d’Oro mare, which results in a strong 317 turf Tomlinson number. 5-1 is a very fair price, and I think she may be the horse to beat. I’m not getting cute in the second, a maiden event for 2-year-olds going two turns. #1 PEACE and #4 RESTORING HOPE will take the lion’s share of the betting action, and those are the two I’m using. Both just missed in their last outings, and it would be surprising if one of them didn’t get the job done here. The third race, though, is much more wide-open. I’m six-deep, and if you want to cover your bases, hitting the “ALL” button isn’t a bad idea. I’m also using most of the field in the fourth, the Grade 3 Robert J. Frankel. I’m four-deep in that six-horse affair, and if there’s a silver lining, it’s that there’s no clear-cut favorite (at least on paper). I’ll finish with a single in the fifth, a maiden claimer for 2-year-old sprinters. #3 CHARLIE COWDEN has yet to run a bad race around one turn and gets the services of Rafael Bejarano. His matching 61 Beyer Speed Figures in his two one-turn races are far better than anything any other horse in this field has produced, and he should get a bit of a pace to run at. Hopefully, he finishes things off and gets us in line to cash the ticket. R9: 4,9,10,13,14 The cost of this ticket is likely to come down, as two of the five horses I used in the last leg are also-eligibles. With those taken out, it’s a $27 ticket, and given the field sizes, we could be looking at a sequence that pays more than it should. I thought the hardest leg was the opening one. It’s an optional claimer that drew a field of 11, and the morning line favorite is 3-1 despite being 0-for-his-last-7. That’s #10 SHEER FLATTERY, who I’m using but is in no way an unbeatable favorite. Want to hit the “ALL” button if scratches elsewhere make the ticket cheaper? Go ahead. The seventh is the Grade 1 American Oaks, and I’m living and dying with #9 NEW MONEY HONEY, who is 7/2 on the morning line but may go off lower than that. Toss the Grade 1 Alabama on dirt and the two races at Keeneland, and you’re left with a horse that has lost just once (in her career debut). She won the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks at this distance, and while I respect stablemate #8 RYMSKA, the only two times they’ve tangled, New Money Honey has dispatched her with relative ease. I’m singling last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner, and if she doesn’t win, I lose. The eighth is the Grade 3 Midnight Lute, and while I’m using two of the heavyweights, I also had to throw in a longshot. #4 MASOCHISTIC returns for new trainer Bob Baffert, while #5 AMERICANIZE has developed into a strong one-turn horse for Simon Callaghan. Those two will be tough, but there’s a lot of speed signed on, and because of that, I had to use #6 SOLID WAGER, who should be flying late. He won this race last year, and while he’d be outclassed at six furlongs, this race’s extra sixteenth of a mile works to his benefit. Maybe he’s a bit overmatched on numbers, but given the likely race shape, I had to have him on the ticket. We’ll finish things off with a claimer on the grass. The two also-eligibles will be tough if they draw in, but that’s no sure bet. Because of that, I’m spreading a bit, and hopefully, I’ve gone deep enough. Ending a Chapter and Saying “Thanks” Posted on May 1, 2017 by Andrew Champagne As many of you already know, May 7th is my last day as an employee of TVG. I’m leaving the network, but I’m NOT leaving the racing business, as I’ve accepted an offer to join the fantastic team at the Daily Racing Form. For many reasons, this is the right move for me, but it’s not easy to close the door on a 3 1/2-year run with TVG and the station formerly known as HRTV. In addition to my family, my friends, and my girlfriend, there are many people at both stops that did a lot for me. Southern California has a reputation as a place where those who shake your hand are looking to stab you in the back the second you turn around, but I’ve been fortunate enough to deal with a lot of supervisors and co-workers that helped to mold me into the person I am. This column is my way of saying thank you to the following people. Phil Kubel: We need to start here, because without Phil, there’s no way I’m in California. He met a 24-year-old kid from upstate New York in September of 2013, and despite having no obligation to help, offered me a job in HRTV’s digital media department. I gradually took on more responsibilities, and when TVG acquired HRTV a year and a half after my arrival, I was hired, in large part due to the body of work I put together under Phil’s tutelage. I’m grateful for him allowing me to get my foot in the door when he could have easily slammed it shut. Jeff Siegel and Aaron Vercruysse: There are three on-air people I’m specifically going to call out. Although I consider many current and former TVG and HRTV hosts and analysts friends (Gino Buccola, Scott Hazelton, Kurt Hoover, Rich Perloff, Nick Hines, Joaquin Jaime, Christina Blacker, Mike Joyce, Simon Bray, Dave Weaver, and Matt Carothers, to name a bunch), Jeff and Aaron were the first two to give me a shot and let me help them on several key projects. I was a producer and fill-in talent for Santa Anita Uncut, which served as the predecessor for both HRTV/TVG Extra and XBTV’s live broadcasts, and being in that kind of an environment was one heck of an education. They didn’t have to bring me into the loop, or let me contribute as much as I did, but they did. Caton Bredar: It’s story time. HRTV sent me to the 2014 Belmont Stakes to help cover California Chrome’s attempt to capture horse racing’s Triple Crown. While there, I assisted Jeff Siegel on a primitive version of the “Uncut” broadcasts from just outside the Belmont Park paddock. It was a good show (would’ve been better had Commissioner held on in the Belmont at ridiculous odds!!!), but what I remember most came after it was over. I was in the rickety HRTV trailer close to the Long Island Railroad platform after the races were over when Caton walked in. We’d just met for the first time earlier that week, and we didn’t know each other too well, but she got my attention, looked at me, and asked, “Are you trying to steal everyone’s jobs? You were really good!” In my brief career to date, I’ve gotten a lot of feedback, both good and not so good, from some pretty powerful and/or well-known people. I can recite many pieces of hate mail from memory, including one from a Kentucky Derby-winning owner and another from upper management at a VERY prominent racetrack! There is no question that what Caton said to me is still the best compliment I’ve ever received from anyone in the horse racing business, and it’s something I won’t soon forget. Caton, if you’re reading: Thanks. Kip Levin, Phil Dixon, Enrico Rusi, Bhavesh Patel: I needed to lump all four of these current or former TVG executives into one spot. We’ve all had bad experiences with higher-ups at companies at one time or another. However, I need to thank the members of this quartet for being an easy group to work with and/or for. I’ll keep this short, but I want to point stuff out individually that marks how instrumental each person was in what I was able to do. Kip saw my passion for racing immediately, and he backed a lot of what I wanted to do on social media. Phil was always receptive when I had a line on a horse and never once tried to limit my enthusiasm for what I did despite having an office five steps from my desk. Enrico, the head of the TVG marketing department, was my second-line manager for a while, and the way he dealt with me following a key moment several weeks ago stands as a shining example for how to treat people in an honest, respectful way. I ended with Bhavesh because there’s another story I need to tell. When I was hired from HRTV, he and Stephen Kennelly (more on him later) took me to lunch. Bhavesh’s management style was to ask challenging questions, and he asked what I felt the most pressing issue in horse racing was. Unbeknownst to him, I’d been asked that question many times before, so I had an honest answer ready about how the breeding industry commands racing’s best horses to leave the track earlier and earlier while also breeding for speed instead of soundness or stamina. As I recall, I did not take a breath for a solid minute when putting forth my answer, which may or may not have sounded like a sticking point in a politician’s stump speech. My guess is that Bhavesh wasn’t prepared for that kind of reaction. Not only did he not ask me a single question for the rest of lunch, but over the next few months, I became the guy entrusted with growing HRTV/TVG Extra, as well as acquiring eyeballs on TVG’s audio-visual products through YouTube, Twitter, and other forms of social media. I need to thank him for acknowledging that I knew what I was doing, and also for letting me do it. This sounds REALLY simple, but sometimes, it doesn’t take a lot to manage your employees well. Stephen Kennelly and Rebecca Somerville: If all managers were as talented as these two, all workplaces would be a lot more pleasant. Stephen managed me in marketing, Rebecca (also known as Becky Witzman) managed me in live production, and I’m grateful to both for the work I was allowed to do on their watch. The reason you saw blog posts, videos, tickets, and Periscope broadcasts from me on TVG’s platforms for so long is because Stephen allowed it and, for the most part, didn’t tell me to stop. Meanwhile, under Rebecca, I’ve coordinated TVG’s Facebook Live streams and continued to grow our social media audience. For better or for worse, I wanted a career in media production because it just seemed more fun than 99% of the alternatives out there. In this case, my first-line managers did what they could to keep my fire lit, which made me more productive and also allowed me to enjoy what I did. The TVG marketing department: If I seem wordy, or loud, or pompous to you as you consume this (or anything else I’ve written or produced), imagine dealing with me in-person in a bullpen-style setup all day. Not exactly a duty that inspires much enthusiasm, is it? Well, that’s the unfortunate task that was hoisted upon members of the TVG marketing department beginning in 2015, and whether you realize it or not, these people are some of the hardest-working employees in the world of online gambling. If there’s a promotion happening, it’s their doing, from the planning stages all the way to when gamblers get paid out. Stuff changes all the time with little to no advance notice, and if technological failures arise, they deal with them as much or more than any other part of the company (quick aside: If you’ve tweeted mean things at TVG over the past two years, I was the one who saw them; if you got really mean, I accept apologies in the form of donations to your local no-kill animal shelter and gift certificates to sports bars). This cast of characters that includes Danny Kovoloff, Luciana Bach, Freddy Sundara, Tommy Gaebel, and Pedro “Cache Flush” Friere is among the best in the business at what they do, and these people don’t get anywhere near the props they deserve, either for doing their jobs or for dealing with my motor mouth as well as they have. They say it takes a village to raise a child. From my standpoint, it certainly took a lot of people to mold me into the person I’ve become. I could go into the reasons why I’m leaving to take on a new challenge, but what’s more important is to recognize all of the people that helped me succeed in the jobs I’ve held for 3 1/2 years. Without the people I’ve mentioned, you’re probably not on this site right now. To those I mentioned, it’s been a pleasure working with you, and this has been my way of expressing that.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1638
__label__wiki	0.604712	0.604712	Duración: 72:15:06 Orion is a London, UK based beatsmith and founder of the HardJazz7 Music Netlabel. Born (Ope Alayande) in March 1990, he was raised on a wide variety of music including jazz, hip hop, disco, funk and soul. His parents got him into Gospel artists like Kirk Franklin, while Fela Kuti was his earliest introduction to Jazz leaning afrobeat music. In his early teens he’d found himself listening to alot of UK Garage and House music through pirate radio sets. Mini Discs, CD’s and Tapes were his initial formats of choice when listening to music. Some of which would prove useful when he started messing around with production on Ejay and an old PC.Around 2007, learning Grime production had become of great interest to him, leading to production in Hip Hop a couple years later. “I always find there’s usefulness in honing both hardware and software production skills”. He founded the HardJazz7 Music Netlabel in 2012 at a time when Electronic and Experimental focused labels were some of the only options for new indie artists/DJ’s producing/creating/DJ'ing Neo-Soul music, Hip Hop music and Jazz leaning beats. Outside of music, he enjoys Sci Fi/Comic Book genre films and tv shows. Orion - Playlist 183 09/12/2020 Duración: 20min FanaticBeat Présente Léchantillon By Cam O'bi (Orion Guest Mix)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1642
__label__cc	0.60263	0.39737	The story appears on Page A5 GET this page in PDF Home » Business » Finance Mainland’s trade with Taiwan drops Source: Xinhua \| February 6, 2017, Monday \| Print Edition TRADE volume between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan totaled US$179.6 billion in 2016, down 4.5 percent from 2015, according to the Ministry of Commerce. Mainland exports to Taiwan were US$40.4 billion last year, a 10.1 percent year-on-year drop, and imports from Taiwan stood at US$139.2 billion, down 2.8 percent. Taiwan is the mainland’s seventh largest trade partner and sixth biggest source of imports. In 2016, the mainland approved 3,517 Taiwan-invested projects, with the actual use of Taiwan capital worth US$1.96 billion, up 27.7 percent from the previous year. By the end of December, the mainland had approved 98,815 Taiwan-invested projects, with the actual use of Taiwan capital at US$64.7 billion. Last year, the mainland’s trade with Hong Kong fell 11.1 percent year on year to US$305.3 billion. Mainland exports to Hong Kong stood at US$288.4 billion in 2016, down 12.7 percent from the previous year, while the mainland’s imports from the city rose 32.4 percent to US$16.9 billion. Hong Kong is the mainland’s fourth-largest trading partner and third-largest export market, according to the ministry. The mainland approved 12,753 Hong Kong-invested projects in 2016, with the actual use of Hong Kong capital at US$81.5 billion, down 5.7 percent from 2015. By the end of December, the mainland had approved 398,966 Hong Kong-invested projects, with the actual use of Hong Kong capital totalling US$914.8 billion.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1643
__label__cc	0.608704	0.391296	People with Sun in Cancer Portsmouth, Virginia, United States Birthtime accuracy: poor Missy Elliott by Atlantic Records, is licensed under cc-by-sa-4.0, resized from the original. Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott (born July 1, 1971) is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. Her first major success came as a songwriter with childhood friend and producer Timbaland on projects for Aaliyah, Total, SWV, and 702. As a record producer and songwriter, she has worked with Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and Janet Jackson, as well as contemporary artists Keyshia Cole, Ciara, G Dragon and Monica. birthtime credit: Scholfield / Accuracy: poor singer rapper Chart houses split the chart into twelve realms, beginning from the ascendant, which add another dimension of themes corresponding to the signs starting from Aries. Apl.de.ap Taboo (rapper) Symbolism of the Scorpio sign Symbolism of the Aries sign Symbolism of the Leo sign Symbolism of the Taurus sign	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1648
__label__cc	0.749268	0.250732	1. Is the possession of a driver’s licence a right or a privilege? A Right A Privilege 2. You must always carry your driver’s licence when operating a vehicle. You must produce it for inspection to whom? Any Peace Officer. Any other driver with whom you may be involved in a collision. Both A and B. None of the above. 3. As of June 1, 2009 all motorists in New Brunswick under the age of 21 must maintain what Blood Alcohol Level while driving? 4. Can a Class 1 licenced driver operate Class 5 vehicle? 5. Can a Class 2 licenced driver operate a Class 1 vehicle? 6. Which class of drivers licence CANNOT operate a taxi? 7. What is the difference between a Class 6 and a Class 6D? Class 6D is for all motorcycles, and the Class 6 is for motorcycles under 550ccs. Class 6 is for all motorcycles, and the Class 6D is for motorcycles under 550ccs. Class 6 is for taxis and the Class 6D is for ambulances. They are the same thing, but the D states that you can drive after dusk. 8. How long must a (GDL) Class 7 Level 1 driver wait before taking the road test for level 2, if graduated from a licensed driver training school? 9. A Class 9 licence holder can drive a motor driven cycle that must be ____________________. 50ccs or under 100ccs or under 1200ccs or under 10. After your written test, if you have not successfully completed the required driving test after a period of six months, the written exam must be completed again. 11. Who does the province consider to be a newly licenced driver? Any driver who has been licensed for less than a year. Any driver who has been licensed for less than two years. Any driver who has been licensed for less than three years. Any driver who has been licensed for less than four years. 12. Every newly licenced driver is credited with how many points after being issued with a licence. 13. When a newly licensed driver loses all points he/she will be suspended by the Registrar. 14. How many points within a 2 year span does it take to incur automatic suspension for a driver who has been driving for 15 years . None, they can't be suspended 15. Suspensions for a conviction for failing to stop when requested by a peace officer or continuing to avoid a peace officer who is pursuing him/her – suspension can be for a period up to three months, imposed by the court. 16. After a suspension for loss of points for offenses under the Motor Vehicle Act, you must take a Drinking & Driving Re-Education Course and pay a reinstatement fee. 17. A driver involved in a collision in which a person is injured (even slightly) or killed or the total property damage amounts to $1,000.00 or more must be able to prove his/her financial responsibility (Insurance Card) at the time of the collision. 18. The Registrar, at any time, may require any driver to be re-examined if there is a question about the driver’s physical condition or driving ability. 19. How should licence plates must be fastened to the Vehicle? (Car/Truck) *This law was changed in July 2019. Please answer as if it were 2018 to reflect the current handbook. To the front and rear, in such a position and condition as to be clearly legible and the rear plate must be lighted at night. To the rear only, and in such a position and condition as to be clearly legible. It also must be lighted at night. To the front and rear. The dealer I bought the car/truck from is responsible for making sure it meets the code. 20. A passenger vehicle owned by a visitor may be operated for personal, non-business purposes for a period of one year in New Brunswick without being registered in the Province.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1649
__label__wiki	0.879954	0.879954	André Aciman teases Elio and Oliver's relationship in the 'Call Me By Your Name' sequel The new book 'Find Me' will be released on October 29 Words: Steve Brown Author André Aciman has teased the ‘end’ of Elio and Oliver’ story in the ‘Call Me By Your Name’ sequel. The upcoming sequel, ‘Find Me’, is set to be released at the end of this month and fans of the first book – which was brought to the big screen in 2017 starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet – are eagerly anticipating what’s to come in the new book. Author Aciman has teased what to expect from the novel and said the characters tell their stories at 10, 15 and 20-year intervals. For the first time, we hear the voice of Elio’s father, Sami, who becomes involved with a younger woman while his son starts a relationship with an older man named Michel. The novel will cover a ‘long-awaited, inevitable reunion’ between Elio and Oliver, who is ‘in an unhappy marriage, ruminating over his love affair with Elio’. And now, Aciman has teased ‘Find Me’ ‘ends’ the story of Elio and Oliver. Speaking to British Vogue, Aciman said: “They are clearly more mature now and know how fragile life can be. “They have both had other relationships, they know that they have to be careful and that a separation, should it occur again, would be devastating. “’Find Me’ gave me a sense of closure and finality. Of course, life is full of surprises and no road is without bumps or wrong turns. But I think this ends the tale of Elio and Oliver.” Whether or not this means they end up together happily or tragedy comes to play, we will just have to wait and see. It's a Sin: Meet the characters of Russell T Davies' powerful Aids drama Watch Rina Sawayama's exclusive and unseen performance of 'Bad Friend' at the Attitude Awards Meet the real-life couple from Cadbury Creme Egg's gay kiss advert	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1650
__label__wiki	0.795045	0.795045	American Expat Finance Mortgages & property HomeNews— Legislation— Tax— Wealth Management— Mortgages & propertyOpinionPodcastsAboutEssentialsContact updated 10:54 AM CET, Jan 16, 2021 European Court of Justice decision seen as another potential FATCA 'game-changer' By Helen Burggraf A little-noticed European Court of Justice decision last week is being seen by some as the latest indication that in Europe, the tide of judicial opinion, at least, is running against the US tax evasion-prevention law known as FATCA. “This judgment is a game-changer, perhaps even more than Schrems II,” Filippo Noseda, pictured left, a Mishcon de Reya law firm partner who has been an outspoken critic of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, on grounds that it violates EU data privacy regulations, told the American Expat Financial News Journal over the weekend. "Schrems II" is what a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling in July has come to be known as, because it had its origins in a privacy law case involving a 30-something Austrian national named Maximilian Schrems, which ended in a decision that came to be known as Schrems I. With Schrems II, the ECJ struck down the main mechanism used by the EU to protect the personal data of EU citizens when it's transferred to the U.S., the so-called "Data Protection Shield", which, as reported, in addition to its potential implications for FATCA, was seen as having major potential implications as well for social media companies like Facebook. In July, the question raised by Noseda and others was whether the EU's government and data protection officials would recognize the implications of the Schrems II ruling for such tax-information exchange laws as FATCA, given what they say has been the EU's apparent reluctance – for political reasons, some say – to address it. FATCA is a U.S. law that came into force in 2014 and obliges banks and other non-U.S. financial institutions to report to the U.S. on all the accounts they hold above a certain amount on behalf of clients who are either U.S. citizens or Green Card holders, no matter where they live in the world. It was intended to enable the U.S. authorities to crack down on U.S.-resident citizens who were taking advantage of foreign institutions to hide their wealth, but it has created massive problems for Americans resident overseas, many of whom now struggle to find banks willing to have them as clients, among other issues. Luxembourg 'joined cases' at issue Last week's judgment by the ECJ concerned two related cases originating in Luxembourg, known as "Joined Cases C-245/19 Luxembourg State v B and C-246/19 Luxembourg State v B and Others", and had to do with a request from Spain for information in a tax matter, affecting an individual identified as "F.C.", a "natural person resident in Spain". The Spanish request for information had been made to Luxembourg-based "company B and bank A", and concerned "bank accounts and financial assets held or beneficially owned by F.C. and regarding various legal, banking, financial and economic transactions that may have been carried out by F.C. or by third parties acting on her behalf or in her interest". The court's ruling in the matter is complex, but according to a summary of the ruling on the ECJ's website, Luxembourg officials saw a case whereby a holder of the information being requested should be able to file a claim against the information order. Summarizing the decision in a letter a few days later, in a seven-page letter to European Data Protection Board chair Andrea Jelinek, Noseda said the court's decision had declared that "the right to an effective remedy guaranteed by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union requires that persons who hold information that is requested by the national administration, in the context of a cooperation procedure between [EU] Member States, must be able to bring a direct action against such a request." In addition, he went on, it had determined that "member states may nevertheless deny the taxpayer subject to the tax investigation and the third parties concerned by the information in question the right to bring such a direct action, provided that there are other remedies enabling them to obtain an incidental review of that request. "Furthermore, a request for information may relate to categories of information rather than specific information where such categories are defined by criteria establishing their 'foreseeable relevance'." Noseda said he saw the ECJ's decision in the matter as "particularly significant" because, like FATCA, the case involved "information exchange in tax matters", and because "it was handed down on the same day as [a] Privacy International judgment" that he said was also relevant. "The publication of the latest [ECJ] judgments in the Luxembourg cases on 6 October 2020 confirms our view that the UK's International Tax Compliance Regulations 2015 infringe the [EU Charter of Fundamental Rights]," Noseda concluded, in his letter to Dr. Jelinek – which he copied to other EU and UK officials, including the European Parliament's Petitions Committee, and the UK's Information Commissioner's Office – "because they do not provide [the financial institutions] with any access to judicial redress". If the EDPB failed, after this, to intervene with respect to the data protection implications of FATCA, Noseda said, the EDPB would be "abdicating its duties under the GDPR" (European General Data Protection Regulation). He ended his letter by saying, "Almost one year after we filed a GDPR on behalf of a U.S.-born British national known as Jenny [in connection with FATCA data protection concerns], it is now time for the UK's Information Commissioner to do her job." To view Noseda's letter in full, as well as other correspondence in connection with FATCA and other data protection issues, click here. 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__label__wiki	0.942032	0.942032	by AFF STAFF ALERT: Republican Operative ASSASSINATED By DEEP STATE After Leaving BIZARRE ‘Suicide’ Note Another suicide in the realm of Clinton politics is finally making its way into the light. This time, it’s a Republican operative who was said to be looking for the 30,000 missing emails from Hillary Clinton. A longtime Republican operative from Chicago’s North Shore (who was at the center of a confusing Wall Street Journal story involving shadowy Russian hackers and Hillary Clinton’s 30,000 missing emails) committed suicide, according to the Chicago Tribune. Peter W. Smith, who was 81-years-old, a former private equity executive and longtime political operative, killed himself in a Minnesota hotel room days after telling his story to a reporter from WSJ, according to the Chicago Tribune. But there are too many strange circumstances surrounding Smith’s death, and it’s the second one in a matter of months that the mainstream media remains silent about. Smith “killed himself” back in May, but doubts are continuing to surface after Smith was said to have killed himself using a bag with attached helium and left a strange note. Smith’s death, which occurred on May 14, 10 days before the story was published, was one of the most bizarre developments in a hard-to-follow WSJ story that tried (and in our estimation, failed) to implicate former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn in a sinister plot to enlist the help of some Russians to hack the 2016 election…thus ‘proving’ collusion. -Zerohedge A Wall Street analyst who spoke to Peter Smith the day before he reportedly committed suicide told the Daily Caller News Foundation there were no indications the Chicago businessman and anti-Clinton political investigator was about to take his life. “He may have been a fantastic actor but I certainly didn’t leave that phone call saying, ‘oh shit, the guy’s at the end of his rope,’” Charles Ortel, a Wall Street investment banker and market analyst, told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s (TheDCNF) Investigative Group.“This does not seem like a settled story. It made perfect sense to me he might have died of natural causes, but little chance he would have killed himself,” Ortel said. “We had countless discussions,” Ortel recalled of his relationship with Smith. “He was using his unique decades of experience in politics to offer me advice how to expose the Clinton Foundation.” -Daily Caller Ortel also expressed concerns about Smith’s alleged suicide note. The suicide note allegedly and incredibly suspiciously stated: “NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER.” Smith also reportedly wrote that he was taking his own life because of a “RECENT BAD TURN IN HEALTH SINCE JANUARY, 2017” and that his timing was related “TO LIFE INSURANCE OF $5 MILLION EXPIRING.” Ortel said that none of the emails he received from Smith were written in all-caps. “I don’t remember a single one in all cap letters,” he said. “To put that in a suicide note as many times as he did and in language that’s not really professional doesn’t sound like him.” It is also noteworthy that most life insurance policies include suicide provisions preventing payouts if the policy holder takes his own life (depending on the policy), and that didn’t escape Ortel’s observations either. Peter Smith wrote two blog posts dated the day before he was found dead on May 14. 2017. One challenged U.S. intelligence agency findings that Russia interfered with the 2016 election. Another post predicted: “As attention turns to international affairs, as it will shortly, the Russian interference story will die of its own weight.” This “suicide” is being ignored by most of the mainstream media, much like that of others who happen to wrongly cross paths with the Clintons. The bizarre circumstances and methodology of this suicide and construction of the note should be enough to warrant several red flags, but the media is again, for the most part, absolutely silent. By Mac Slavo at SHTFplan.com Read Next! EXPLOSIVE VIDEO: Trump Attorney Lin Wood Says He’s Seen Sidney Powell’s Evidence- “TRUMP WON BIG WITH 410 ELECTORAL VOTES” Then Drops THIS ‘Pedophilia/Satanic Worship’ BOMB] Sick of the censorship and election meddling? Then join us at SPREELY and PARLER! Also join me on Twitter!	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1656
__label__cc	0.629701	0.370299	Energy: EUR 55 million for Bulgaria By Nefeli Tzanetakou/ Published on: 11/04/2019 The European Commission’s Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) is proceeding with the financing of two projects in the energy sector in Bulgaria, having released EUR 55 million after signing a deal with the country’s government. The first project concerns the construction of the 400 kV interconnection line between the Maritsa East substation in Bulgaria and the substation Nea Santa, in the county of Kilkis, Greece, which will receive funding of EUR 27 million. The second project concerns the upgrading and modernization of the gas transmission networks within the Bulgarian territory, which will receive funding of EUR 27 million. In particular, funding will come from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), which is managed by the European Commission’s Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA). The CEF has already supported, with similar funding, the preliminary studies and works, as well as the business plan for the first project of Bulgaria’s electrical interconnection with Greece. This new funding is expected to support the construction of the 123 km long overhead line of electricity in Bulgaria, from Maritsa East substation to Bulgaria’s border with Greece, in order to complete the interconnection of the substation Maritsa East with substation Nea Santa, in the prefecture of Kilkis. It is recalled that the CEF has co-financed in the recent past the modernization of three gas compressor plants, as well as preparatory studies in relation to the project of the restoration and modernization of the gas transmission network in Bulgaria./ibna Croatia: GDP expected to nosedive Cyprus: Petrides holds contacts with Karrenbauer and Guerini in Berlin Romania: Aurescu heads to Berlin to attend Gymnich Cyprus: EC calls for the immediate review of all cases of granted Cypriot citizenship	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1661
__label__wiki	0.568795	0.568795	It can’t get any clearer! By Nezavisen Vesnik/ Published on: 31/07/2018 A party that does not even control the money it misused for more than ten years, and now has to beg for state funding, is obstructing the citizens’ greatest right with a great deal of political arrogance – the right to have their say at a referendum on the name agreement with Greece. What is happening these days at several levels over the determination of the referendum question and the structure that will implement it is an unfortunate reminder that one of the two biggest political parties in the country does not understand what pluralism is, what parliamentary democracy is and why it exists at all in the political scene in Macedonia. After ten years of authoritarian rule where those who thought differently were persecuted, VMRO-DPMNE announces that the referendum is unacceptable because there is no consensus with it on the referendum question. After ten years of pragmatic negotiations over the name dispute, VMRO-DPMNE now claims that if this party was given another chance they would achieve a better deal on the name, which means giving them another decade of our lives to waste in search for an impossible option – to keep the name and for Macedonia to join NATO and the European Union. Now that the referendum question is published, which cannot be any clearer, VMRO-DPMNE claims it is manipulative and multidimensional, and according to them it does not lead to a clear answer. For instance, if someone is for NATO and the EU, but against the agreement with Greece, then there could be someone who is just for the EU, but not for NATO, and similar nebuloses run by a whole team of politicized experts from this party, just to come up with an explanation for the obstruction. Which is, however, consistent with how VMRO-DPMNE led us to EU for ten years, NATO and an agreement with Greece – supposedly the former government wanted these deals very much, yet did nothing to reach them. In fact, it did the opposite – the former government did everything to keep Macedonia blocked. Yesterday’s developments in parliament have shown that the opposition remains consistent with this policy whose only logic is to be against anything proposed by the rival ruling party, even if it is contrary to the interests of the citizens and the country. Moreover, if this theater is not political folly these days, that VMRO-DPMNE is against everything that leads Macedonia forward, or simply put – against joining the EU and NATO, because the agreement with Greece has no meaning without that perspective, and does not have to confirmed. Although at first glance it seems that the policy of VMRO-DPMNE is just to obstruct and oppose the government, after so many years of continuity over these issues, it becomes clear that NATO and the EU only serve to come to power or prevent someone in doing that, and in practice is a strong Eurosceptic, ie anti-NATO and anti-EU party. Otherwise, it would have made a difference when it was time for real politics, and when it was time for political propaganda. What is visible to everyone in Macedonia is that the government is doing everything to push through the referendum on the name agreement with Greece. That it is the only chance for Macedonia to finally join NATO and the only chance to become a member-state of the EU, as this is the last opportunity to start membership negotiations. The last vote on our date in Brussels by the EU foreign ministers showed that the illusion – that our European integration can be delayed, and that the door of these two organizations will remain forever open – is false. On the contrary, it is almost closed, and Macedonia at the moment, thanks only to the name agreement, needs to go through the small space of goodwill that has remained in Brussels, whether for NATO or for the EU. Therefore, to create a drama of whether the question will say agreement, while we have made a deal with Greece, is unnecessarily trying to challenge the referendum, instead of saying that the main problem is the idea of Macedonia joining NATO, starting negotiations with EU and therefore resolving the dispute with Greece. If something has the basis for controversy over the referendum, it is possibly its consultative character, because it opens the possibility for different interpretation and implementation of the outcome, although it is the ruling government’s right (which is why it was actually elected) is to make a decision that is in the state’s interest, even when a good part of the citizens thinks that it is not in their favor. This includes the right, as well as SDSM’s obligation to seek public support for a decision that the opposition thinks it should to be rejected, ie to seek public support for a decision that has no consensus with the opposition. VMRO-DPMNE, if ir really did work in the interest of Macedonia, should be part of the process instead of hindering it, even if it means being opposed in the referendum. That is, instead of acting out in parliament, this party should clearly state its position because Macedonia has already lost two decades in political games that lead us nowhere. Slobodanka Jovanovska Albania: Meta sets 25 April as General Elections date Montenegro: Election losers celebrated their own defeat, SNP claims Serbia: Zakharova’s post on the Vucic, Trump meeting brought unnecessary tension, Dacic says Slovenia: Kurz to visit Slovenia tomorrow EU: Vučić, Hoti reiterate commitment to EU path and EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue before Brussels meeting Serbia: Vučić continues his contacts in Brussels Kosovo: Turkey urges Pristina not to move its embassy to Jerusalem Kosovo-Serbia sign financial co-operation agreement in Washington Romania:Turkish TV channel in talks to broadcast from Bucharest Montenegro: What future can the ruling parties look forward to?	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1662
__label__wiki	0.612215	0.612215	Home > People > Faculty This page lists all BCT Faculty members (regular and adjunct). Associates and Emeritus Faculty are listed on separate pages. Faculty: Peggi Clouston \| L. Carl Fiocchi \| Ho-Sung Kim \| Fernando Romero \| Alexander Schreyer \| Benjamin Weil \| Paul Wolff Adjunct faculty: Ajla Aksamija \| Bill Bean \| John Fabel \| Christopher Novelli \| Ludmilla Pavlova \| Alexander Stepanov Peggi L. Clouston Professor & Graduate Concentration Coordinator, Sustainable Building Systems R: 316 Olver Design Building W: LinkedIn \|\| Publications Ph.D. (Wood Mechanics, University of British Columbia) M.A.Sc. (Wood Mechanics, University of British Columbia) B.A.Sc (Structural Engineering, University of British Columbia) P. Eng. (EGBC and ASCE Associate Member) Prof. Clouston has been working in the field of timber engineering for over 30 years. Author of more than 80 publications, she conducts research on the structural behavior and efficient use of advanced bio-based (wood, grass and straw) composite materials. Current research topics include CLT panels from low-value eastern species, timber-concrete composite floor systems, and laminated veneer bamboo connections. She teaches courses in structural timber design, bio-based composites and material mechanics/tectonics to architects, engineers, and building technologists. Prof. Clouston is a registered professional engineer (EGBC) and serves as Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. In 2016, she led the design, engineering, and construction of a large student design/build project that culminated in the construction of a Massive Timber Dome (30ft x 30ft) on the plaza of the UMass Fine Arts Center. L. Carl Fiocchi Lecturer & Chief Professional MS Advisor W: LinkedIn Website Ph.D. (Building Systems, University of Massachusetts-Amherst) M.Arch. (Architecture, University of Massachusetts-Amherst) B.A. (Biology, University of Pennsylvania) Prof. Fiocchi’s interest and research is concerned with high performance energy efficient buildings with a special emphasis on the building envelope and mechanical systems of both residential and commercial structures. Prof. Fiocchi’s experience in construction, coupled with the imminent threat of climate change, provided the impetus for this focus. Modernist architecture and its subset Brutalism, as it relates to the above, has been the recent and primary focus of his work. Ho-Sung Kim Senior Lecturer & Chief Undergraduate Advisor Ph.D. (Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) M.S. (Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) M.Arch. (Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Prof. Kim teaches courses in construction management, renewable energy systems, and LEED certification. He has experience in architectural design and project management of higher education, healthcare, and commercial buildings. He received a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with an emphasis on technology and the environment. Fernando Romero M.S. (Civil Engineering / Construction Engineering and Project Management, Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG, Brasil) Prof. Romero has been working globally as a Construction Project and Program Director. The knowledge acquired over his career of more than 30 years, opened doors for him to have an international career in the area of project management working in several countries, including Japan, China, South Korea, Austria, Germany, Greece, Cyprus, Suriname, Venezuela, Peru, and Brazil. While his professional career permitted him to manage projects covering the full scope of construction and with a value of more than $18.5 billion, he also possesses wide-ranging academic experience in teaching construction. He was previously an Instructor in the Construction Management Department at SIUE (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville) where he taught several courses such as Construction Management and Senior Assessment, International Construction, Building Construction Materials & Methods, Civil Construction Material and Methods, Project Control, Project Management, and Introduction to Construction Management. Prof. Romero has also served as a coach for student competitions in construction. Prof. Romero is co-author of a book on megaprojects (in Portuguese) and has published extensively about capital projects. Alexander C. Schreyer Senior Lecturer II & BCT Program Director W: LinkedIn – ResearchGate – Twitter – alexschreyer Website – sketchupfordesign Website M.A.Sc. (Wood Science, University of British-Columbia, Canada) Dipl.-Ing. (B.S. Structural Engineering, FH Wiesbaden, Germany) Prof. Schreyer is Program Director and Senior Lecturer in the Building and Construction Technology (BCT) program at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) in Amherst, MA. He teaches courses in BIM (Building Information Modeling) and CAD (Computer-Aided Design), building materials and construction methods, wood properties as well as a capstone graduate structural design class in the M.Arch. architecture program. Combining backgrounds in structural engineering, wood science and digital design, Prof. Schreyer’s interests span the entire range of planning, design, and execution of buildings and structures. He specializes in the design and construction of mainly heavy-timber type (e.g. glulam) structural systems. This is complemented by a strong interest in technology applications and web-based solutions in structural engineering, construction and architecture. In his research, Prof. Schreyer focuses on the behavior of wood-based structural systems with a particular interest in innovative connection systems for wooden structures. Other foci are a development of software-based approaches in digital design and structural optimization as well as interactive web-based tools. Prof. Schreyer is the author of “Architectural Design with SketchUp”, which provides a beginner- to an intermediate-level overview of various techniques to “do more” with the popular 3D modeling application Trimble SketchUp. He is also a co-author on the widely-used reference and textbook “Fundamentals of Residential Construction”, which provides a complete overview of the materials and methods used in single- and multi-family residential construction. Both books are published by John Wiley & Sons. Benjamin S. Weil Extension Assistant Professor, Extension Program in Building Energy Ph.D. (Environmental Studies, University of California–Santa Cruz) M.A. (History, Syracuse University, New York) B.A. (History, University of Massachusetts–Amherst) Prof. Weil teaches courses in energy-efficient buildings. With primary responsibility for the Extension program in building energy, his research program is responsive to the needs of various stakeholders in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, including home builders, architects, weatherization companies, energy utilities, state government agencies, town governments, environmental and community organizations, and homeowners. He is particularly interested in the social and behavioral dimensions of energy efficiency. He is a building analyst certified with the Building Performance Institute and continues to enjoy building diagnostics. Paul Wolff R: Mount Ida Campus, SOD 125G Ph.D. (Education, University of Pennsylvania) M.Arch. (Architecture, Harvard GSD) B.A. (Art and Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design) Prof. Wolff is a lifelong “Maker” and has dedicated his professional career to environmental conservation, sustainable development, and experiential learning. As a specialist in the higher education sector, Prof. Wolff has facilitated the pursuit of high performance building design, sustainability policy development, innovative curriculum design, and long-term climate resiliency planning as part of dynamic collaborations with National Grid, MIT, the Northeast Retail Lumber Association (NRLA), Northeastern University, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), the Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg), and the Harvard Business School (HBS). Prof. Wolff has also collaborated with the US Green Building Council (USGBC) as part of their Classroom to Boardroom Diversity Mentorship Program in which selected students worked for an entire academic year with high-level managers and executives from companies such as Johnson Controls, Suffolk Construction and Sebesta Blomberg. Wolff has also created internships for students interested in high performance building certification programs (LEED, Living Building Challenge, Green Globes and WELL) that provided hands-on training for industry-recognized credentials, and access to real world projects. Former students and mentees of Prof. Wolff have found rewarding career development opportunities with Conti Solar, Northrup Grumman, Eversource, State Street Bank, Enernoc, Bose, Ratheon, Pura Vida Water Technologies, Framingham State University, Freight Farms, and ITER (an international nuclear fusion research and engineering firm). Prof. Wolff earned a Master of Architecture Degree from Harvard University and received a Doctor of Education Degree from the University of Pennsylvania. His Bachelor is in art and sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design. Prof. Wolff’s dissertation explored the similarities and differences of physical and virtual place making, and the extent to which the approach may impact the learning experience for students and/or the shape of learning spaces in the future. He is currently researching the use of alternative forms of scholarship such as comics, podcasts, stop-motion animations, zines and graphic novels to construct knowledge in new ways, and to disseminate academic research to wider audiences. Ajla Aksamija Associate Professor, Architecture+Design Prof. Ajla Aksamija is an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received PhD in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with an emphasis on technology and environment. Her interdisciplinary research approach spans architecture, engineering, material and computer science. Her research expertise includes building science and sustainability, emerging technologies, digital design and representations, information modeling, and knowledge management. Prof. Aksamija directed Perkins+Will Building Technology Laboratory (“Tech Lab”), one of the first practice-driven research laboratories focusing on advanced building technologies, high-performance buildings, computational design, and building facades. Her prior professional experience also includes US Army Corps of Engineers ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory and City of Champaign. She has taught advanced environmental building design at the University of Pennsylvania, and instructed architectural design studios and seminars. She has worked on developing building analysis and modeling applications, implementation of novel materials in architectural design, development of computational models, and has collaborated with researchers from material science, civil and environmental engineering and computational design. Prof. Aksamija has contributed to several books (The Skyscraper and the City: Design, Technology and Innovation and Knowledge Management: Research and Applications), and has published over fifty research articles and invited papers, published by Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing Journal, International Journal of Architectural Computing, Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, Complexity Journal, etc. Her recent book, Sustainable Facades: Design Methods for High-Performance Building Envelopes, was published by John Wiley & Sons. She has presented at various national and international conferences, and is a frequent speaker at industry-based, scientific and academic conferences. She has received several awards, notably Francis J. Plym Doctoral Fellowship in Architecture and Edward L. Ryerson Traveling Fellowship. She is the founder and editor of the Perkins+Will Research Journal. Publications and presentations: http://works.bepress.com/ajla_aksamija/ Bill Bean W: GreenPlanningAndCoaching.com My interest is in business planning and coaching in the “green” space. That involves consulting and teaching to help people capture the vision for their “green” initiatives and build better business plans faster to achieve them. I have taught business workshops and done consulting for years and in 2009 structured a program to fit the university format which was offered in the winter session in a course entitled, “Building a Formalized Business Plan For Your Green Positioning”. My academic background includes a BA and a Masters in Wood technology from UMass, Amherst in the mid 70’s. That led me to a position with International Paper Company in Manhattan in strategic planning for their Wood Products Group. Since that time I have had over 30 years in the field, in sales, sales management and consulting in the US and Canada, developing business plans and building and managing the teams to execute them. A few years ago I did a planning and coaching engagement for a company in Florida with a “green” event center and it seemed that everyone in business who was having fun at that time was somehow associated with “green” and sustainability. That was the catalyst to me pursuing my LEED AP and NAHB CGP designations, combining them with professional certifications in Executive Coaching, Career Coaching and Retirement Career Coaching and launching a small consulting business called Green Planning & Coaching. I would be happy to answer any questions about the course offering and feel free to visit my website to learn more about the business and my background. John Fabel Mr. Fabel is widely recognized both for his pioneering work in sustainable technology innovation and commercialization, and for his work as an educator in entrepreneurship and innovation. Much of his work focuses on how we ultimately develop meaningful markets for sustainable resource production and low-carbon products and manufacturing. As an inventor and designer, he holds or is named on numerous patents ranging from structural engineering to microbial genomics. Mr. Fabel’s work is held in the collection of several museums, including the Smithsonian. He was a featured inventor in the Smithsonian’s “Invention at Play” exhibit that ran for a decade at the National Museum of American History. He was featured in author Daniel Pink’s “A Whole New Mind”, on the new wave of innovators driving change. He is also a featured inventor in the new “Invention” Merit Badge publication of the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Fabel and his work have been widely featured in the media, including the Discovery, NPR, The New York Times, Popular Science, and so on. Mr. Fabel has designed and contributed to the development of many products. Among other awards, he is a 2-time recipient of Backpacker Magazine’s “Editor’s Choice” award for “gear of the year”. His book “Designing the Future to Honor the Past” received a merit award from the American Planning Association. Throughout his career Mr. Fabel has bridged commercial and academic sectors. Within the academic sector, Mr. Fabel has worked extensively to develop and deliver innovative pedagogy for innovation and entrepreneurship education. Mr. Fabel taught for 4 years at Hampshire College, where he was a visiting Lemelson professor; for 3 years at the Isenberg School of Management at UMass/Amherst, where he developed and taught what is now the capstone course in technology commercialization and management; and for three years at the Marlboro College “MBA in Managing for Sustainability” where he was recruited to develop the entrepreneurship component of the program. Mr. Fabel was also part of the first IGERT grant received by the University of Massachusetts, serving as an entrepreneurial mentor to IGERT nano-materials students in Polymer Science. Mr. Fabel has extensive experience in grant making and strategic program development. As a serial clean-tech entrepreneur, Mr. Fabel has founded several clean-tech companies and has been involved in the development and mentoring of many others. These include the ecotrek company, which pioneered the comprehensive use of recycled polymers and “cradle-to-cradle” design in outdoor products (and was an early effort to develop high-value markets for sustainable materials), and Sunethanol (now Qteros) a sustainable biofuels company he co-founded with UMass/Amherst microbiologist Dr. Susan Leschine. Recent work includes founding the bicycle and materials development company Sylvan Cycles, which makes bicycles and other products from novel high-performance bio-composite materials. Sylvan is using bicycles as an R&D platform for scalable high-performance structural materials based on low-carbon footprint manufacturing processes. These include commercial applications such as wind turbine blades and timber structures. Christopher Novelli, AIA, NCARB Architect, Adjunct Professor W: www.n812studio.com Mr. Novelli is an Architect and a Senior Project Manager at Studio One Architects and oversees all aspects of design and construction on numerous project typologies including historical preservation, new construction, multi-family housing, mixed-use urban design, educational facilities and municipal projects. Mr. Novelli passions for the built environment include alternative methods of preserving modernist architecture (preservation through transformation) and also how to reconsider once thriving, small to medium sized former industrial cities. Master of Architecture (Boston Architectural College) Bachelor of Architectural Engineering Technology (Wentworth Institute of Technology) Member: American Institute of Architect,s (AIA) Boston Society of Architects, (BSA) and Western Mass AIA Chapter (WMAIA) Certified: National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) Town of Wilbraham: Visionary Committee – To consider the future potential of the Town and to develop criteria which will be used in the formulation of a Master Plan for the Town. Ludmilla Pavlova, AIA Senior Facilities Planner, Adjunct Professor R: Physical Plant Building, 3rd Floor M. Arch. (Columbia University), B.A. (Princeton University), LEED AP, Member AIA, USGBC Mass Affiliate, SCUP Ms. Pavlova is Senior Facilities Planner in Campus Planning at UMass Amherst and is responsible for master plan programming and planning for research, academic and administrative facilities and developing design guidelines. Ms. Pavlova has managed the planning of major capital projects including Harold Alfond Hall/ ISOM Addition, the Integrated Science Building, the Berkshire Dining Commons Renovation, the Southwest Residential Area Concourse, the Comprehensive Academic and Classroom Facilities Plan and the Library Master Plan. Passionate about campus sustainability, Ms. Pavlova often lectures on the topic and helped author the first UMass Amherst Sustainability Plan. Prior to coming to UMass she worked for design firms in New York City most notably for John M.Y. Lee/ Michael Timchula Associates, managing the design and construction of the Curtis/Balkan Factory in Sofia, Bulgaria, and as a member of the team that designed the Shenzhen City Center Urban Design and City Hall, Shenzhen, China. Ms. Pavlova has a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and European Cultural Studies from Princeton University and a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University. She is Chair of the USGBC MA Chapter Western MA Committee and Secretary of the Western MA AIA. Gis Architect, AFS Dr. Stepanov, PhD is a GIS Architect in A&F Administrative Systems and an Adjunct Faculty with the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is involved in establishing the Enterprise GIS for the Division, which includes maintaining the ArcGIS Server and SDE, as well as developing new workflows for integration and maintaining CAD/GIS/AEC data in the Division. Dr. Stepanov has a MS in Regional Planning and a PhD in Operations Research from UMass. Integration of Operations Research methods and GIS for decision making support are areas of Dr. Stepanov’s interests. He is actively involved in the GIS community, is a regular presenter at the GIS conferences, and is a member of a Leadership Team, ESRI Facilities User Group. Dr. Stepanov has been working with the GIS technology for over a decade. With a rapid rate of technological development, Dr. Stepanov’s mission is to bring industry experience and best practices into the classroom.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1666
__label__wiki	0.844633	0.844633	AFFAs 25th Anniversary Awards The AFFA Archive Sponsor an Award Racheal Ofori (Literature: 25th Anniversary Awards, 2018) Racheal Ofori Finalist in 2018 for Literature: 25th Anniversary Awards London-born Ofori was trained as an actress and has since worked in theatre, television and film. As well as her acting she has cultivated a poetic storytelling art form, inspired by her personal experiences and her interest in the representation of Women in art – particularly black women. Bringing these thoughts together she developed ‘Portrait’; a one woman show which included live performance sliding in and out of character monologue and poetic lyricism. It premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2015 to full houses before touring the UK. The success of the show led to appearances on BBC2 and BBC Radio 4, and in 2016 she performed at the Southbank Centre as part of the Women of the World Festival. Her recent show ‘So Many Reasons’ is a story about the unique influence our mothers have on how we understand the world as women – exploring cultural and generational shifts, religion and sex – a bold show that premiered in London and is due to return next year. Racheal’s desire to develop as a performance artist comes from wanting to talk directly to the audience; challenging prevailing stereotypes and broadening ideas about what it means to be a young black woman today. Having being brought up as a Christian, the subject of women and religion is her next area of exploration with a final desire to create a visual performance of poetic lyricism to challenge and provoke conversation about women and their place in religion, particularly Christianity. http://www.rachealofori.com https://twitter.com/racheal_ofori https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AnTvhiAvzY&feature=youtu.be The Arts Foundation Brighton Junction 1a Isetta Square 35 New England Street BN1 4GQ © Arts Foundation 2021 +(44) 01273 810231	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1672
__label__wiki	0.6646	0.6646	The Real Shock In The Presidential Scandal Arizona Daily Sun, The real shock for me in the current presidential scandal is not the President’s behavior, as bad as that is. The real shock is the public reaction to the scandal. The Arizona Daily Sun recently ran the responses of a random sample of Flagstaff residents. One 27-year-old woman said, “I think it’s much to do with nothing. He gets (oral sex) in the Oval Office—so what? I don’t understand the uproar. Why is everyone making such a big deal out of someone’s sex life? I don’t care who Clinton had sex with.” A retired U.S. District Court judge basically concurred and added that his friends abroad cannot believe that America is willing to destroy its president because of an extramarital affair, especially when the country “is doing so well economically.” A recent National Public Radio report echoed the judge’s sentiments. It said that people in France don’t understand why are Americans so upset over a little adultery. That country used government funds to support former President Mitterand’s mistress and her child by him. Others will go so far as to say that the President was wrong (as he himself has publicly admitted), but since he is doing a good job running the country, he shouldn’t be impeached. Others say things like, “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” “Judge not, lest you be judged.” One political cartoon showed Clinton being judged by congressmen who were themselves guilty of former affairs and other shenanigans. The caption read something like, “At least he will be judged by his peers.” Many portray Kenneth Starr as a puritanical attack dog who is prying into this poor man’s private life. The clear implication is, “Lay off!” These public reactions concern me more than the President’s failure because they reveal that America is morally adrift with no compass. Even the honorable retired judge doesn’t seem to have a clue about the moral (if not legal) issues involved! Setting aside the sexual moral issue for a moment, why are Americans not concerned with a President who lied under oath? Did he not swear to uphold our Constitution? Isn’t telling the truth under oath an essential part of our legal system? And, clearly it’s not the first time Mr. Clinton has lied until he was forced to admit it. Remember Gennifer Flowers? Why isn’t the public concerned about a public leader whose word cannot be trusted? Are we so naïve as to think that the man carefully restricts his lying to “his private life”? Why are Americans not holding our Commander-in-Chief to the same standard that was imposed on Lieutenant Kelly Flynn, who was relieved of her commission and discharged from the military for adultery? Why are we not concerned about a President who uses his power to obstruct justice and to obtain special favors (a well-paying job) for his mistress to keep her quiet? Richard Nixon abused his power and lied and we forced him out. Why are we hesitant to give Clinton the heave-ho? Perhaps the judge’s comment about the economy reveals America’s true god! Where is the outcry from the feminist camp? We’ve heard so much about sexual harassment on the job lately that men hesitate to complement a female employee on her new hairdo for fear of losing their jobs. What would happen if a local 50-year-old male school principal had sex in his office with a 22-year-old female student teacher? Wouldn’t the whole community demand his resignation, and rightly so? Would he be able to argue that the community should not interfere with his “private life”? If the improper behavior took place in his office during working hours, could he rightly claim that it is none of our business? Why isn’t the American public concerned about our President’s poor example for the institution of marriage? Are marriage vows passe? What kind of example does this set for our children? But the most disturbing thing is the way the American public shrugs off biblical standards of morality: “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge” (Hebrews 13:4). If God judged Sodom and Gomorrah, the Canaanites, and the Roman Empire for moral perversion, can America go on much longer? Those who shrug off Mr. Clinton’s behavior as no big deal had better prepare to meet God! Remember, He didn’t give the Ten Suggestions! Related Topics: Cultural Issues, Sexuality, Worldview Steven J. Cole Steve served as the pastor of Flagstaff Christian Fellowship from May, 1992 through his retirement in December, 2018. From 1977-1992 he was the pastor of Lake Gregory Community Church in Crestline, California. He graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M., 1976 in Bible exposition) and Califo... More October 2nd 2013	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1673
__label__cc	0.671857	0.328143	Home » Staff blogs » Lion By sonja_library Lion, A Long Way Home By Saroo Brierley Saroo Brierley was five years old when he got lost. He and his brother took a train away from their village in India, where they lived with their siblings and their mother, and became separated. When the authorities were unable to locate his mother after several months, he was sent to Australia to be adopted by a new family. Saroo did not see his birth family again for 25 years. This is an astonishing story of great misfortune and even greater coincidences. In fact, this account is so full of coincidences that it seems implausible, but it is a true account and so we must wonder if it was fate, or as they say in India, “it is written”. Brierley offers a thoughtful, unhesitating memoir of his early years living in poverty and of the eventual rediscovery of his family after a long and arduous search. (Lest you think I am giving away the ending, I can assure you that this is revealed in the first few pages.) Rather than bury his past, he has chosen to publicize it in order to help other children in India, thousands of whom live on the street with no one to care for them. He describes the conditions for lost and homeless children in India at length, painting a discouraging picture of the untold numbers of little souls who need a home. Brierley discusses the legislation in India that impedes the speedy international adoptions, which would alleviate the situation to a degree. He and his Australian mother currently campaign for a more humane system that would see children placed quickly, thereby sparing them the ordeal of residing with aggressive older teens and adults in temporary state run housing. Although his writing style is plain and unadorned, his story is so inspiring that this memoir was recently made into a movie. Brierley has succeeded in transforming his early misery into a life filled with purpose and devotion. Throughout the book, he expresses admiration for the strong women who rescued him from a terrible fate. I find this a refreshing change from stories in which women are relegated to the margins, overshadowed by male heroes whose actions take center stage. I recommend it heartily. Lion, A Long Way Homeby sonja_library By Brierley, Saroo (eBook - 2016) Add to My Shelves (Book - 2016) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Music CD - 2016) (DVD - 2017) A Long Way Home (Large Print - 2017) Lion (CD) (Audiobook CD - 2016) (Downloadable Audiobook - 2016)	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1674
__label__cc	0.659041	0.340959	Alumni Feature: Tori Dang, MSW By Terry Forrester (Emeritus Associate Professor) - October 18, 2019 Tori Dang graduated from the Department of Social Work and Social Ecology in June 2018 with her Master of Social Work degree. In addition to her academic studies, Tori was instrumental in providing philanthropic work to the local community as President of the Iota Pi chapter of the Phi Alpha Honor Society for the 2017-18 academic year. Born in Vung Tau, Vietnam, Tori understood the importance of helping others from a very early age, especially with regard to the impact of trauma on people's lives. Her father was an auto mechanic and took an active role in raising Tori and her five siblings along with her mother, who was a homemaker. Sadly, her father was forced into a "re-education" camp as a result of his refusal to fight in the Vietnam War. While there, he met a gentleman who arranged for the entire family to flee Vietnam in hopes of starting a new life. One night, the family boarded a small boat and left for the Philippines. In 1978, they came to the United States. Tori's father continued in his career as a mechanic in San Diego while the family resided in a refugee community. Her parents still live in San Diego, along with her sisters. Tori attended high school in San Diego, graduating six months early. She continued her studies and became a dental technician, subsequently working for a number of years with the United States Department of the Navy prior to beginning the MSW program at Loma Linda University. Tori and her family at a refugee camp in Manila, Philippines (circa 1977-78) Tori has a strong passion and commitment to helping others. While a student in the MSW program, she participated in a Students in Mission Service (SIMS) trip to Thailand. As President and a member of the Phi Alpha Honor Society, she was involved in numerous community projects, including: A Walk to Remember with Loma Linda University Children's Health Annual NAMIWalks fundraiser CASE Walk against sexual exploitation Annual School of Behavioral Health food drive Social Work and Social Ecology department's Warm Clothes Drive LLU Behavioral Medicine Center's annual anti-stigma 5K (see "SBH participates in Stand Up to Stigma 5K Walk/Run") Community-Academic Partners in Service (CAPS) Community Homeless Project Lobby Days in Sacramento Social Work and Social Ecology department's Wholeness Hour (see "Department of Social Work and Social Ecology hosts local mayors") Inland Housing Solutions' laundry basket drive for families (see "Iota Pi donates laundry gift baskets to families in transition") In June 2018, Tori was awarded the School of Behavioral Health Dean's Award for Master's Degree Programs in recognition of her many academic and service accomplishments. Her future goals include possibly opening a nonprofit outreach center in California. Tori's ceaseless drive to help others certainly embraces the motto of Loma Linda University, "To Make Man Whole."	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1679
__label__wiki	0.572061	0.572061	Home»Giving The rich and diverse collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and indeed the building that holds them, bring to fruition the thought and effort of generations of loyal alumni, scholars, and friends of the University. The Beinecke’s future will likewise be animated by the generosity of individuals who share our commitment to preserving and providing access to an inspiring record of human experience and cultural achievement. Donations of collections or single items that directly support or complement the Beinecke Library’s collections should be brought to the attention of the appropriate curator. If you are uncertain which curator is most appropriate, contact Lucy Mulroney, Associate Director for Collections, Research and Education. 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__label__wiki	0.945248	0.945248	Cane River National Heritage Area Explore Cane River Brochures & Trail Guide Downloads Explore Creole Heritage Grand Ecore Visitor Center Visitor Services Info Cane River Creole National Historical Park Fort St. Jean Baptiste & Los Adaes SHS Heritage Explorer National Heritage Area Home » Explore Cane River Fort St. Jean Baptiste & Los Adaes State Historic Sites The Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site is a replication fort based upon original blueprints and extensive archival research in Louisiana, Canada, and France. It is located on Cane River Lake (formerly the Red River), a few hundred yards from the original fort site. Construction began in 1979 under the direction of the late Samuel Wilson, Jr. and the Louisiana Office of State Parks. Building materials were obtained locally, and many 18th-century techniques were employed in the replication. Nearly 2,000 treated pine logs form the palisade and approximately 250,000 board feet of treated lumber went into the construction of the buildings. All of the hinges and latches were handmade at a nearby foundry. The original fort was established around 1716, when Sieur Charles Claude Dutisné was sent to Natchitoches with a small company of colonial troops to build and garrison an outpost that would prevent the Spanish forces in the province of Texas from advancing across the border of French Louisiane. This strategic outpost was named Fort St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches. Los Adaes, the symbol of New Spain in Louisiana, was once the capital of Texas and the scene of a unique cooperation among the French, the Spanish and the indigenous Native Americans. An area rich in archaeological finds, it thrives today as one of Louisiana's most intriguing state historic sites. Established in 1719 in response to a French attack on Mission San Miguel, the Presidio Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Los Adaes (Fort of Our Lady of Pilar at the Adaes) was built to counter any further French intrusion into Spanish territory. Los Adaes was designated as the capital of the province of Texas in 1729, becoming the official residence of the governor. It remained the capital until 1772 when it was closed and the inhabitants moved to San Antonio. Los Adaes State Historic Site Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site Robeline, LA Fort St. Jean Baptiste 155 Rue Jefferson Natchitoches, LA Closed: January 1, 2018- February 28, 2018 Open: March 1, 2018-December 31, 2018, Wednesday-Saturday, Noon-4pm Open Wednesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM Guided tours available at 10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm. Cane River National Heritage Area, Inc. Natchitoches, LA 71457	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1682
__label__wiki	0.581578	0.581578	Goodbye to the Dollar It’s been a long time coming, but Donald Trump is speeding the dissolution of a US empire stitched together by an artificially exalted currency. “Trump has turned out, unwittingly, to be the empire’s most aggressive gravedigger.” The inept and corrupt presidency of Donald Trump has unwittingly triggered the fatal blow to the American empire—the abandonment of the dollar as the world’s principal reserve currency. Nations around the globe, especially in Europe, have lost confidence in the United States to act rationally, much less lead, in issues of international finance, trade, diplomacy and war. These nations are quietly dismantling the seven-decade-old alliance with the United States and building alternative systems of bilateral trade. This reconfiguring of the world’s financial system will be fatal to the American empire, as the historian Alfred McCoy and the economist Michael Hudson have long pointed out. It will trigger an economic death spiral, including high inflation, which will necessitate a massive military contraction overseas and plunge the United States into a prolonged depression. Trump, rather than make America great again, has turned out, unwittingly, to be the empire’s most aggressive gravedigger. The Trump administration has capriciously sabotaged the global institutions, including NATO, the European Union, the United Nations, the World Bank and the IMF, which provide cover and lend legitimacy to American imperialism and global economic hegemony. The American empire, as McCoy points out, was always a hybrid of past empires. It developed, he writes, “a distinctive form of global governance that incorporated aspects of antecedent empires, ancient and modern. This unique U.S. imperium was Athenian in its ability to forge coalitions among allies; Roman in its reliance on legions that occupied military bases across most of the known world; and British in its aspiration to merge culture, commerce, and alliances into a comprehensive system that covered the globe.” “The reconfiguring of the world’s financial system will be fatal to the American empire.” When George W. Bush unilaterally invaded Iraq, defying with his doctrine of preemptive war international law and dismissing protests from traditional allies, he began the rupture. But Trump has deepened the fissures. The Trump administration’s withdrawal from the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement, although Iran had abided by the agreement, and demand that European nations also withdraw or endure U.S. sanctions saw European nations defect and establish an alternative monetary exchange system that excludes the United States. Iran no longer accepts the dollar for oil on international markets and has replaced it with the euro, not a small factor in Washington’s deep animus to Teheran. Turkey is also abandoning the dollar. The U.S. demand that Germany and other European states halt the importation of Russian gas likewise saw the Europeans ignore Washington. China and Russia, traditionally antagonistic, are now working in tandem to free themselves from the dollar. Moscow has transferred $100 billion of its reserves into Chinese yuan, Japanese yen and euros. And, as ominously, foreign governments since 2014 are no longer storing their gold reserves in the United States or, as with Germany, removing them from the Federal Reserve. Germany has repatriated its 300 tons of gold ingots. The Netherlands repatriated its 100 tons. The U.S. intervention in Venezuela, the potential trade war with China, the withdrawal from international climate accords, leaving the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the paralysis in Washington and disruptive government shutdown and increased hostilities with Iran bode ill for America. American foreign and financial policy is hostage to the bizarre whims of stunted ideologues such as Mike Pompeo, John Bolton and Elliott Abrams. This ensures more global chaos as well as increased efforts by nations around the globe to free themselves from the economic stranglehold the United States effectively set in place following World War II. It is only a question of when not if the dollar will be sidelined. That it was Trump, along with his fellow ideologues of the extreme right, who destroyed the international structures put in place by global capitalists, rather than socialists these capitalists invested tremendous resources to crush, is grimly ironic. “Foreign governments since 2014 are no longer storing their gold reserves in the United States.” The historian Ronald Robinson argued that British imperial rule died “when colonial rulers had run out of indigenous collaborators.” The result, he noted, was that the “inversion of collaboration into noncooperation largely determined the timing of the decolonization.” This process of alienating traditional U.S. allies and collaborators will have the same effect. As McCoy points out, “all modern empires have relied on dependable surrogates to translate their global power into local control—and for most of them, the moment when those elites began to stir, talk back, and assert their own agendas was also the moment when you knew that imperial collapse was in the cards.” The dollar, because of astronomical government debt now at $21 trillion, a debt that will be augmented by Trump’s tax cuts costing the U.S. Treasury $1.5 trillion over the next decade, is becoming less and less trustworthy. The debt-to-GDP ratio is now more than 100 percent, a flashing red light for economists. Our massive trade deficit depends on selling treasury bonds abroad. Once those bonds decline in value and are no longer considered a stable investment, the dollar will suffer a huge devaluation. There are signs this process is underway. Central-bank reserves hold fewer dollars than they did in 2004. There are fewer SWIFT payments–the exchange for interbank fund transfers–in dollars than in 2015. Half of international trade is invoiced in dollars, although the U.S. share of international trade is only 10 percent. “Ultimately, we will have reserve currencies other than the U.S. dollar,” the Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney announced last month. “The dollar is becoming less and less trustworthy.” Sixty-one percent of foreign currency reserves are in dollars. As these dollar currency reserves are replaced by other currencies, the retreat from the dollar will accelerate. The recklessness of America’s financial policies will only exacerbate the crisis. “If unlimited borrowing, financed by printing money, were a path to prosperity,” Irwin M. Stelzer of the Hudson Institute said recently, “then Venezuela and Zimbabwe would be top of the growth tables.” McCoy explains what a world financial order untethered from the dollar would look like: For the majority of Americans, the 2020s will likely be remembered as a demoralizing decade of rising prices, stagnant wages, and fading international competitiveness. After years of swelling deficits fed by incessant warfare in distant lands, in 2030 the U.S. dollar eventually loses its special status as the world’s dominant reserve currency. Suddenly, there are punitive price increases for American imports ranging from clothing to computers. And the costs for all overseas activity surges as well, making travel for both tourists and troops prohibitive. Unable to pay for swelling deficits by selling now-devalued Treasury notes abroad, Washington is finally forced to slash its bloated military budget. Under pressure at home and abroad, its forces begin to pull back from hundreds of overseas bases to a continental perimeter. Such a desperate move, however, comes too late. Faced with a fading superpower incapable of paying its bills, China, India, Iran, Russia, and other powers provocatively challenge U.S. dominion over the oceans, space, and cyberspace. “The 2020s will likely be remembered as a demoralizing decade of rising prices, stagnant wages, and fading international competitiveness.” The collapse of the dollar will mean, McCoy writes, “soaring prices, ever-rising unemployment, and a continuing decline in real wages throughout the 2020s, domestic divisions widen into violent clashes and divisive debates, often over symbolic, insubstantial issues.” The deep disillusionment and widespread rage will give an opening to Trump, or a Trump-like demagogue, to lash out, perhaps by inciting violence, against scapegoats at home and abroad. But by then the U.S. empire will be so diminished its threats will be, at least to those outside its borders, largely meaningless. It is impossible to predict when this flight from the dollar will take place. By the second half of the 19th century, the U.S. economy had overtaken Britain, but it was not until the middle of the 20th century that the dollar replaced the pound sterling to become the dominant currency in international trade. The pound sterling’s share of currency reserves among international central banks fell from around 60 percent in the early 1950s to less than 5 percent by the 1970s. Its value declined from more than 4 dollars per pound at the end of WWII to near-parity with the dollar. The British economy went into a tailspin. And that economic jolt marked for the British, as it will for us, the end of an empire. Chris Hedges, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. https://www.truthdig.com/author/chris_hedges/ This article was originally published by Truth Dig. U.S. Imperialism in Decline China and Cuba’s Medical Internationalism is a Shining Example of Global Solidarity China sends medical equipment abroad, Cuba sends doctors and cutting-edge drugs, but the US fails to provide its people, doctors and nurses with ba In the Year Ahead, Both Perils and Prospects Exist for the American Left There may be two political parties in the United States, but there is only one ruling class agenda. 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__label__cc	0.608758	0.391242	Leave a comment Posted on June 4, 2017 June 4, 2017 2017, 9/11, America, Americans, Atlanta, Atlanta Georgia, Blogbymichele, Boy Scouts, Boy Scouts of America, Honor, Life Experiences, Memorial Day, Military, Police, Sensitivity, Shepherd Center, Shepherd's Men, Tragedy, Trauma, U.S. Military, Veterans Shepherd’s Men on Memorial Day People entering the welcoming area of the Shepherd Center at the end of the 2017 Shepherd’s Men Run, Atlanta, Georgia, May 29, 2017 On Memorial Day, my son and family, and members of my son’s Boy Scout troop attended and participated in welcoming the Shepherd’s Men to the final destination of their multi-day run at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta. Members of my son’s Boy Scout Troop and Venturing Crew in Snellville served in the Honor Guard, posting colors (flags) for the event. The Shepherd’s men are military veterans – both men and women – who raise awareness and funding to support veterans’ concerns, including those such as suicide, traumatic brain injury, and post traumatic stress disorder. Members of the Shepherd’s Men at the Shepherd Center following their 2017 Run, Atlanta, Georgia, May 29, 2017 This year, the Shepherd Center in Atlanta was the final destination of the Shepherd’s Men Run that began in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the location where one of the airplanes from 9/11 went down. Their multi-day run that ended on Memorial Day was also in remembrance of and to honor civilians who lost their lives in that plane crash. The Shepherd’s Men each wore a 22-pound flak pack, symbolizing the 22 American veterans who commit suicide every day. The welcoming ceremony included speakers who were wives and/or mothers of veterans, including the wife of a veteran who had traumatic brain injury and came to the Shepherd Center for treatment and the mother of one young soldier who tragically committed suicide without showing signs of being depressed or suicidal. Members of Boy Scout Troop and Venturing Crew 548 from Snellville, Georgia as Honor/Color Guard for the 2017 Shepherd’s Men Run, Atlanta, Georgia, May 29, 2017 Other speakers at the event included administrators of the Shepherd Center as well as an Atlanta City Council member. There were also two singers who sang “America the Beautiful” and “The Star-Spangled Banner” to remember those who’ve died in service to our country. Many members of the Atlanta Police Department, including those mostly riding motorcycles, also provided an escort for the Shepherd’s Men as they arrived at the Shepherd Center. The event was poignant, memorable, and sensitive to veterans and their families who are experiencing struggle with physical and mental illnesses, and those who have experienced personal loss and grief. It was nice to be present and be a supporter of this event and cause that is so important for the support of our veterans and their families. 9/11 Americans Atlanta Atlanta Georgia Atlanta Police Blogbymichele Boy Scouts Boy Scouts of America Color Guard Flak Pack Georgia Greater Atlanta Area Honor Guard Memorial Day Mental Health Michele Babcock-Nice Police Remembrance Sensitivity Shanksville Pennsylvania Shepherd Center Shepherd's Men Soldiers US Military Veterans 4 Comments Posted on April 14, 2014 March 12, 2016 Attorneys, Babcock-Nice, Boy Scouts, Boy Scouts of America, Boys, Cub Scouts, Death, Divorce, Education, Extended Family, Family, Family History, Fathers, Florida, Georgia, Grandfathers, Grandmothers, Grandparents, Great Grandparents, Greater Atlanta Area, Heritage, History, Information, Jacksonville Florida, Marriage, Memories, Men, Michele Babcock-Nice, Military, Mothers, Music, Nostalgia, Parents, Pennsylvania, People, Personal Success, Professional Success, Rejection, Relationships, Remembrance, Senior Citizens, Separate, Snellville, South, Successful Men, Suffering, Teaching, Whites, Women The Nice, Hintermister, and Martin Side of the Family (By: Michele Babcock-Nice) Michele Babcock-Nice, John Nice, Jr., and Son, Buford, Georgia, 2004 I married John Nice, Jr. in July 2002, and our son was born the following year in 2003. John is a member of the Nice Family of Jacksonville, Florida. John is a high school physics teacher; most of my career experience (15 years, to date) has also been in teaching. John’s mother, Carol (Martin) Greene Nice Bennett is from the Martin Family of Florida. Carol’s parents were Elizabeth “Bessie” (Robinson) Martin and Elmer Martin of Florida. This article will provide information and photos of some members of those families, as well as the Hintermister’s, who were cousins to the Nice’s due to Betty Jane (Hintermister) Nice marrying Clarence Carter Nice, Jr. The Nice’s, Jacksonville, Florida, Christmas 2004 This photo is of my family with John’s parents, Carol (Martin) Greene Nice Bennett and J. Bob Nice. Carol and Bob have been divorced twice and married three times. Both of them are now married to their third spouse. Carol is currently married to Arnold (“Art”) Bennett and Bob is married to Marilyn Nice. Carol has two brothers, Louis and Charles (“Buddy”) Martin. They are both married and have families. Carol also has two sisters. Her older sister experienced late stage breast cancer and died before I knew her. I don’t know alot about her older sister. Her younger sister is Rachel (Martin) Hunter, who is married to Charles Hunter, and they have two daugthers, Kelli and Brandi. Carol and her family were raised in rural Live Oak, Florida during their childhood. The Nice’s and The Bennett’s-Michele Babcock-Nice and John Nice, Jr. and Son, Carol (Martin) Greene Nice Bennett, Arnold Bennett, Christmas 2004 This is a photo of my family with John’s parents, Carol (Martin) Greene Nice Bennett and Arnold “Art” Bennett. Our son was about 1.5 years old at that time. Carol is Art’s second wife; he had four children with his first wife, two sons and two daugthers. Art is a Vietnam War military veteran. Three Generations of Nice’s (Bob, John, Baby, Marilyn, Janet’s Son), Lawrenceville, Georgia, 2004 Bob and Marilyn Nice came to visit us with Janet’s son in 2004. This picture shows three generations of Nice’s, including Baby Nice. John Nice, Jr. Dancing with Rachel (Martin) Hunter, Jacksonville, Florida, Summer 2002 This photo shows John Nice, Jr. dancing with Rachel (Martin) Hunter, the younger sister of his mom, Carol, in 2002. Matt, Brandi (Hunter) and Baby Boy Brown, Tallahassee, Florida, Christmas 2005 Bob and Marilyn Nice, and Baby Nice, Snellville, Georgia, 2003 This image is of my son as a newborn with his grandparents, Bob and Marilyn Nice when they came to visit and welcome the baby. Marilyn has two daughters, including one who is adopted. This is Marilyn’s second marriage and Bob’s third. Wedding Party of John Nice Jr. and Michele Babcock-Nice, Snellville, Georgia, July 2002 (Photo by Emmett Clower, Snellville, Georgia) In this photo are members of John’s family. They include Janet (Greene) (Nice) Hebson Adams, Natalie (Nice) __ __ Tuttle, Jason Nice, Janet’s son, Carter Nice, and Krissy Nice, an adopted sister of John. Janet is a half-sister of John; she is divorced from her first husband, and is married to her second husband. Natalie has been divorced twice, and is currently married to her third husband. Jason and Carter Nice are John’s half-brothers.* One is married and has a family.* The other has never been married, has a son, and is separated from his son’s mother.* John also has another adopted sister, Jenni (Nice) Robison, who is married and has two daughters. Krissy has been married and divorced, and currently does not have any children. John’s sister, Natalie, pictured in this photo, is his only full biological sibling to him. Natalie’s children are her adopted children through her marriage to her third husband, Ben; her third husband has three children from his first marriage, of which he is divorced from his first wife. Natalie is an attorney. Janet, Mike, and Son, Wedding, Jacksonville, Florida, 2003 This photo reflects Janet (Greene) (Nice) Hebson Adams with Mike Adams and Janet’s son from her first marriage. Both Janet and Mike are divorced from their first spouses; this is their second marriage. Mike also has a daughter from his first marriage. Janet (Greene) Nice Hebson (and later, Adams) with Penny Nice, Jacksonville, Florida, Christmas 2001 Both this photo and the following one are those that I took at the Nice Family Christmas Party in 2001. Jimmy Nice, Jacksonville, Florida, Christmas 2001 The Nice’s-Meghan, Krissy, Carter, Jamie, and Jason, Jacksonville, Florida, 2001 Ben and Natalie (Nice) Tuttle and Family, Georgia, 2004 Christian, Stephanie, and Baby Girl Nice, Christmas 2004 The Nice Boys-Carter, Jimmy, and Bob, Florida, Circa 1948 This photo shows the Nice boys performing at a church service or concert in Florida around 1948. Clarence Carter Nice, Jr. and Betty (Hintermister) Nice and Sons, Circa 1945 This is a photo of the Nice Family around 1945, showing John Nice, Jr.’s father as a toddler (the younger boy) with his brother, Clarence Carter Nice, III, and their parents, Betty (Hintermister) Nice and Clarence Carter Nice, Jr. The boys’ youngest brother, Jimmy, had not yet been born. Betty attended college from 1931-1935, graduating in May 1935 with a B.S. in Commerce, I believe from the University of Florida. She took many business, math, and economics classes, as well as Spanish and psychology. Elizabeth Nice, Mother of Clarence Carter Nice, John Nice Jr.’s Great Great Grandmother (Image on Porcelain), Circa 1900 The Nice’s were well-known in Jacksonville, Florida because Dr. Clarence Carter Nice and his son, Clarence Carter Nice, Jr. were symphony conductors there. Dr. Nice was also known as “Pops.” Clarence Carter Nice, Jr. also owned a music store in Jacksonville, which, following his death, has been continued by his sons, Bob and Jimmy (now deceased). Dr. Clarence Carter Nice, Florida, 1934 Dr. Clarence Carter Nice and Friends, Circa 1930s Dr. Clarence Carter Nice and Mrs. Nice, Florida Starlight Symphonette, Conducted by C. Carter Nice, Jr., Jacksonville, Florida Clarence Carter Nice, Jr. at his Music Store, Jacksonville, Florida, November 21, 1995 (Photo by John Pemberton from the Jacksonville Times-Union) The Nice’s were big in the Jacksonville, Florida music scene from about 1930-1980. Clarence Carter Nice, III has been a prominent and successful symphony conductor in California, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather in being successful symphony conductors. The Nice’s and Hintermister’s, Circa 1950 This photo shows the Hintermister’s (on the left) and the Nice’s (on the right) from about 1950 in Florida. The Nice’s and Hintermister’s are cousins. From left to right in the photo are Sam Hintermister, John Hintermister, Cril Hintermister, Clarence Carter “Carter” Nice, III, Jimmy Nice, and J. Bob Nice. Sadly, Jimmy struggled with and was lost to cancer a number of years ago. All of the others are still living. Sam is married and has adopted children; John is a widower (Candy) and has an adopted son, Josh; and Cril is a bachelor. Carter is married to his second wife, Jennifer, and has one daughter with her, Olivia; they live in California. Carter is divorced from his first wife, and has two children with her, a son and daughter, Christian and Danielle. Jimmy’s wife is Penny, and they have a son and daughter, Jamie and Meghan. Jamie is married.* And, I have described about Bob throughout this article. Divorce in the Nice Family began with Clarence Carter Nice, Jr., when he divorced from Betty. He married his second wife, Jean, and he adopted her children, a son and two daughters. The cycle of divorce was broken with Jimmy Nice, who remained married to his only wife, Penny. The cycle of divorce, however, was continued in both Carter and J. Bob Nice’s families when they became divorced. J. Bob Nice is divorced from his second wife, Karen (McLane/McLain) Kirton Nice. Divorce has further continued with John Nice, Jr. due to his divorce from me in 2009. Most adults in the Nice Family, and half of the adults in the Nice’s extended family, therefore, have been married and divorced at least once. Three generations of single and/or multiple divorces presently exist in the Nice Family. John Hintermister This photo is of John Hintermister, father of Sam, John, and Cril Hintermister. He is a decorated military veteran, and is at rest in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. Marguerite Hintermister This image is of Marguerite Hintermister, wife of John Hintermister. I believe these photos of them were taken at or prior to their attending a military ball. I’m not sure of the year in which the photos were taken. Marguerite was the sister of Betty Jane (Hintermister) Nice, who married Clarence Carter Nice, Jr. Marguerite Hintermister in her Later Years, Florida Marguerite Hintermister on 100th Birthday, Florida (Photo by Jill Gutmann, Jacksonville-area Newspaper, 1989) Cril Hintermister Playing With Baby Nice, Waynesville, North Carolina, 2005 Bob Nice and John Hintermister (the Younger), Jacksonville, Florida, 2002 Mrs. Hintermister lived to be a centenarian. This photo of her was taken on her 100th birthday while she was a resident of the North Florida Special Care Center. She was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania in 1989, and moved to Gainesville, Florida in 1940. So, all of this information and images lead back to my family, including my son, who is descended from the Babcock’s and Nice’s. Janet’s Son and my Son, Snellville, Georgia, Summer 2012 My son has been a Cub Scout for five years, and will transfer to Boy Scouts in May 2014. He has been an honor student in school for many years. I love and am very proud of my “Nice” son! As I locate additional relevant photos from the Martin side of the family, I will include them. *Author’s Note: Please note that I have edited this article to reflect some of the information provided by Meghan Nice in her above comment. I did review the article, and believe that no inaccuracies were made. Information that was not known was merely excluded or written in a vague manner. In a prior version of the article, information about Jamie Nice being married was not included because that information was not known. Additionally, the information about John Nice, Jr.’s half brothers is correct because I did not specify which status (either married or separated) was attributed to which man. I simply stated that one was separated and the other was married without naming them. Therefore, I will maintain that information as is since it is correct. For any further detail, please refer to the first comment above in which I have quoted and edited that of Meghan Nice. Clower, E. (2002). Wedding Photos of Michele Babcock-Nice and John Nice, Jr. Snellville, Georgia. Guttman, J. (1989). Photo of Marguerite Hintermister. Jacksonville, Florida-area newspaper. J.C. Penney Portrait Studios (2004). Babcock-Nice Family Photos. Buford, Georgia and Jacksonville, Florida. Pemberton, J. (1995). Photo of Clarence Carter Nice, Jr. in accompanying newspaper article about him. Jacksonville, Florida: Jacksonville Times-Union. Photos and information of Michele Babcock-Nice from 2002-2013 (2014). Snellville, Georgia. Photos and information of Natalie (Nice) Tuttle from 1900-1960, Jacksonville, Florida. Those included herein currently the property of Michele Babcock-Nice (2014). Snellville, Georgia. Other photographers/photo sources of professionally-taken photos, unknown. Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Virginia Arnold Art Bennett Baby Betty Jane Hintermister Nice Boy Scouts Boys Breast Cancer California Cancer Carol Martin Greene Nice Bennett Carter Nice Centenarian Charles Buddy Martin Children Chrissy Nice Clarence Carter Nice Clarence Carter Nice III Clarence Carter Nice Jr College Cril Hintermister Cub Scouts Cycle of Divorce Divorce Education Elizabeth Bessie Robinson Martin Elizabeth Nice Elmer Martin Florida Gainesville Florida Georgia Hintermister Honor Students J Bob Nice Jacksonville Starlight Symphonette Janet Greene Nice Hebson Adams Jason Nice Jean Nice Jenny Nice John Hintermister John Nice Jr Louis Martin Marguerite Hintermister Marriage Martin Michele Babcock-Nice Military Music Music Store Natalie Nice Tuttle Nice Nice House of Music Pennsylvania Rachel Martin Hunter Robinson Sam Hintermister Symphony Symphony Conductors Teaching University of Florida US Military Vietnam War Washington DC 3 Comments Posted on April 7, 2014 July 27, 2016 Antique Photos, Apps, Babcock, Bernice Babcock, Bernice Briggs, Bernice Gale Briggs Babcock Sprague, Bernice Sprague, Briggs, Buffalo, Buffalo New York, Bulson, Canada, Caucasians, Children, Christmas, Clarence Briggs, Cole, Collins New York, Death, Elderly, England, Europe, Extended Family, Family, Family History, Gale, Georgia, Germany, Goetz, Gowanda, Gowanda New York, Grandfathers, Grandmothers, Grandparents, Great Grandparents, Hamburg New York, Henn, Heritage, History, Immigrants, Information, Ireland, Julia Gale Briggs, Leaders, Marriage, McGee, Memories, Men, Michele Babcock-Nice, Military, Mothers, New York, New York State, North, Parents, People, Reflection, Regional Interest, Role Models, Successful Men, Successful Women, Travel, U.S. Military, Whites, William M Gale, Women My Gale, Henn, Cole, McGee, and Bulson Family Ancestry Photos (By: Michele Babcock-Nice) The families of Gale, Henn, Cole, McGee, and Bulson are a big part of my family ancestry on my dad’s mother’s mom’s side of the family. The Gale’s came to the United States from England. William M. Gale, who is my Great Great Grandfather or Great Great Great Grandfather, was born in England. Emily Esther (Costard) Gale (born on Isle of Jersey in the Channel Island, England on January 29, 1849-died in North Collins, New York on July 11, 1917), is possibly the mother (more likely) or a sister of William H. Gale, though I am unsure if he was William Hamilton Gale or William Henry Gale. There were also other Gale’s in the family, including Walter Allen Gale, Harry Hamilton Gale, Julia Emily Gale, Alice Costard Gale, Lydia Ada Gale, and Carrie Camilla Gale. Either William Hamilton Gale or William Henry Gale married Anna (Henn) Gale, and they had a daughter, Emily B. Gale. Harry Hamilton Gale (September 14, 1878-March 1930), an uncle of my grandmother, served in the military in New York State. All of the Gale’s lived in Hamburg, New York, but for Harry who is later said to have moved to Canada. William (Emily B. Gale’s father) was a successful barber, and owned and operated his own barber shop in Hamburg for decades. They lived on Main Street, and the barber shop was close by their residence. Julia Emily (Gale) Briggs was married to Clarence Briggs, and they had a daughter, Bernice Gale Briggs Babcock Sprague, my grandmother – my father’s mother. My Great Great Grandmother Emily (Costard) Gale’s sisters remained in England, but stayed in touch with her and sent photos and letters to her through the years. Irish ancestry, through marriage, came from one of my great great grandmother’s sisters, Julia McGee; her son was named William McGee. He married and had two daughters, Dorothy and Phyllis. Dorothy married Mr. B. Apps on August 2, 1937. There were also several members of the Henn Family, who had immigrated to the United States from Germany. From what I have uncovered, I believe that Frank Henn married Anna (Goetz) Henn. They had children, including Fred and Louis, and possibly Anna, Frank, William, and Charles. Fred (Frederick) (born October 20, 1843 in Bavaria, Germany) was a soldier in the Union Army and fought in the Civil War in Louisiana and Virginia. He was a private in Company D, 116th NYVI Regiment of Buffalo. He was wounded in Louisiana, and spent 2-3 months in the hospital, there, recovering. He was honorably discharged due to the end of the war. There is a photo and record of his service on file at the Hamburg (New York) Historical Society. I also have a photo and an item of memorabilia reflecting his service in the Army. He was married to Mary A. Henn, who died in 1896. When Emily B. Gale died in 1986 and her estate was sold, my family missed acquiring Fred Henn’s medal from his service in the Civil War because it was grabbed quickly by an antique dealer who had a special interest in such memorabilia, and who had arrived just ahead of my parents for the sale. It would have been a wonderful piece to keep in the family. Additionally, I have a beautiful and colorful marriage certificate of a Friedrich Henn and Mahole (Thompson) Henn, reflecting their wedding date as July 27, 1897 in Germany. This is believed to be a different Fred Henn than the man who fought in the American Civil War. Also remember that Emily B. Gale was the only child of William H. Gale and Anna (Henn) Gale. The Cole’s are part of my family ancestry through Carrie Camilla Gale’s marriage to Frank Cole. Carrie was the eldest daughter of William and Emily (Costard) Gale. Frank and Carrie had a son, Arnold, who married Grace Cochran. They then had three sons and a daughter, including Arnold Cole, Jr., William E. Cole, Eugene Cole, and Norma G. Cole. I have several photos of Arnold Cole as a baby and as a private school student in Buffalo, New York. I have one image William M. Gale, and a few photos of Emily (Costard) Gale. I do not have any photos of Frank Cole, though I do have a couple of photos that include Carrie with her sisters, Julia and Alice. Julia was my Great Grandmother – my Grandmother’s mom. Emily B. Gale, my grandmother’s cousin, lived with her parents, and never married. She inherited the family home following the death of Anna (as William had predeceased her), though was placed in a nursing home in Hamburg, New York, where she died in 1986. Emily B. Gale owned many amazing antiques and treasures, including antique furniture; dolls; photographs in frames; and Civil War memorabilia of Fred Henn. My family was able to purchase a few of those items at her estate sale just after her death. William H., Anna (Henn), and Emily B. Gale, and Frederick and Mary A. Henn, are buried in Prospect Lawn Cemetery in Hamburg, New York. William M. Gale, Father of William H. Gale, Early Half of 1800s This is an image of William M. Gale, the father of William H. Gale. The image is printed on a postcard, and would have to be from the early half of the 1800s. Emily (Costard) Gale with Julia Gale (Age 2), Hamburg, New York, 1890 Here is Emily Gale with Julia Gale, in Hamburg, New York in about 1890. Possibly a Gale, Buffalo, New York This photo is thought to possibly be that of a Gale boy. Alice Gale This is a photo of Alice Gale, who was one of William Gale’s sisters or nieces. Emily (Costard) Gale (1849-1917), Hamburg, New York, Circa 1900-1910 This photo is of Emily Esther (Costard) Gale, in Hamburg, New York in later life, around 1900-1910. Condenseo Mince Meat (Possible Employees), Near Hamburg, New York, Circa 1890 In her later years, Emily (Costard) Gale also worked at Condenseo Mince Meat in or around Hamburg, New York. This is the best photo that I have of the employees of this company, a photo that also includes my Great Grandfather, Clarence Briggs, and one of his brothers, Howard Briggs, who both also worked there at that time. Emily is seated in the middle, front row of the photo, while the Briggs men are standing at the rear. Sisters Julia McGee (Age 75) and Martha Bulson (Age 72), Lee-on-the-Solent, England, 1929 (Cousins to Gale’s and Briggs’) This is a picture of Emily (Costard) Gale’s sisters, Julia McGee and Martha Bulson, from 1929 in England. Martha E. Bulson (Left) and her Sister, Julia McGee, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England, Circa 1923 Here is Martha Bulson an her sister, Julia McGee, in England in 1923. They were sisters of Emily (Costard) Gale. Julia McGee, England, Christmas 1923 Here is Julia McGee at Christmas in England in 1923. The flowerettes were painted on the photo by William McGee, who painted pictures. I believe the William was either her husband or son. Martha E. Bulson with Sons and Grandchildren, Manor House, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England, November 27, 1932 Here is Martha E. Bulson with her sons and grandchildren at her ‘Manor House’ in Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England, on November 27, 1932. Martha E. Bulson (Left) with Sons and Grandchildren, Manor House, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England, November 27, 1932 Again, here is a photo of Martha E. Bulson with her sons and grandchildren at her Manor House in Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England, on November 27, 1932. William McGee, 1933, England This is a photo of William McGee in England in 1933. The McGee’s and Apps’, August 2, 1937, England Here is William McGee (right) with his family. William’s wife is at the far left. The McGee’s daugther, Dorothy married Mr. B. Apps on August 2, 1937. The woman standing next to William is the groom’s mother. The McGee’s daughter, Phyllis, is sitting. Ronald Bulson, Lee-on-the-Solent, England, 1938 (By E.M. Blakey) This photo is of Ronald Bulson in England. Ronald was Martha Bulson’s grandson. Julia Gale (Married Name-Briggs) of Hamburg, New York, 1890 This is a photo of my Great Grandmother, Julia Emily (Gale) Briggs as a girl. The Young Gale Girls, (L to R) Alice, Carrie (Married Name-Cole), & Julia (Married Name-Briggs), Hamburg, New York, 1890 Here are the Gale girls of Hamburg, New York around 1890. Possibly Alice Gale and Daughter, Buffalo, New York This photo is possibly of Alice Gale and a daughter, although I am not sure. It is from 1908. Anna (Henn) Gale with Niece Julia Emily Gale (Left) and Emily B. Gale, Hamburg, New York, 1900 This is a photo of Anna (Henn) Gale with my Great Grandmother, Julia Gale, and Anna’s only child, Emily B. Gale, in Hamburg, New York around 1900. Anna (Henn) Gale (Wife of William H. Gale; Mother of Emily B. Gale), Hamburg, New York, Circa 1910 Anna (Henn) Gale is shown in this photo, in Hamburg, New York around 1910. William H. Gale, Hamburg, New York, Circa 1890-1900 Pictured is William H. Gale, husband of Anna (Henn) Gale, and father of Emily B. Gale, of Hamburg, New York around 1890-1900. He was a barber in Hamburg for decades. Emily B. Gale (in Fur Coat), Hamburg, New York, 1900, Only Child of William H. and Anna (Henn) Gale This is a photo of my grandmother’s cousin, Emily B. Gale, as a young girl, wearing a fur coat in Hamburg, New York around 1900. Emily B. Gale, Hamburg, New York, Circa 1905 This is another photo of Emily B. Gale as a young girl in Hamburg, New York around 1905. Again, pictured is Emily B. Gale of Hamburg, New York around 1910. William H. Gale (Age 91) Outside his Home in Hamburg, NY, 1938 (Born in England) Here, William Gale is pictured as an elderly man. He was 91 years old in 1938 when this photo was taken, just outside the Gale Family home in Hamburg, New York. Harry H. Gale This is a photo of Harry H. Gale, a brother of William H. Gale. Harry Hamilton Gale, Military Veteran, Buffalo, New York, 1890s This is a photo of Harry Hamilton Gale as a Union Army soldier out of Buffalo, New York in the 1880s. Frederick Henn and his Wife, Mary A. Henn, Hamburg, NY, Circa 1890 (Notice Civil War Medal for Union Service) This is a photo of Frederick Henn and his wife, thought to be named Anna, in Hamburg, New York around 1890-1900. Notice that Fred is wearing his medal for service in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Funeral Card of Mrs. Fred Henn, March 19, 1896, Hamburg, New York This is a funeral card for Mrs. Fred Henn, whom I believe would have been the lady in the photo preceding this image. She died on March 19, 1896 in Hamburg, New York at age 58. Thought to be Fred Henn, Hamburg, New York, Circa 1870-1890 This is a photo that is thought to be of Fred Henn, around 1870-1890, in Hamburg, New York. Frederick Henn, Hamburg, New York, American Civil War Veteran in Union Army, Circa 1920 This copy of a photo is of Fred Henn, also identifying his regiment in the Army in which he fought in the Civil War. I obtained copies of these items from the Hamburg Historical Society in Hamburg, New York in 2001. Civil War Veterans (GAR), Hamburg, New York, Circa 1930 L-R Charles Duke, Fred Henn, Joseph Taylor, Eugene Frink, Conrad Glasser This is a photo on display at the Hamburg Historical Museum/Society. I took a photo of the picture when I visited there. My grandmother’s cousin’s uncle is Fred Henn, who served in the Grand Army of the Republic’s Company D of the 116th Regiment during the Civil War. Louis Henn, Hamburg, New York, Circa 1890 This is a photo of Louis Henn, a brother of Fred Henn, in Hamburg, New York around 1890. Louis Henn (at left) and possibly his brothers, 1890-1900? Here again, Louis Henn (front, left), and possibly his brothers, undated. Unknown Ancestor, Possibly from the Henn Family, Troy, New York, Circa 1925-1935 or Earlier This is a photo of a man believed to be a member of the Henn Family. Arnold Cole (Son of Frank and Carrie [Gale] Cole), Buffalo, NY, Circa 1892 This is a photo of Arnold Cole, the son of Frank and Carrie (Gale) Cole, in Buffalo, New York in 1892. Arnold Cole, Hamburg or Buffalo, NY, Circa 1895, Cousin to Julia (Gale) Briggs, Emily Gale, Bernice Briggs Babcock Sprague Here is another picture of Arnold Cole, with his toy horse, probably in Buffalo, New York around 1895. Arnold Cole Here is another picture of Arnold Cole as a boy. Arnold Cole (Age 16) (Son of Carrie [Gale] Cole), Buffalo, NY, 1908 This photo of Arnold Cole was taken in 1908 in Buffalo, New York when he was 16-years-old. It was taken outside of a private school that he attended in Buffalo. Arnold Cole (Age 13), Buffalo, NY, 1905 Here is another photo of Arnold Cole at age 13, outside of another private school that he attended in Buffalo, New York, in 1905. This is another photo that shows Arnold Cole in Buffalo, New York as a young man in 1909. These represent some of the many photos that I have of these of my family ancestors. My grandmother, Bernice, had loads of vintage and antique photos that she kept for many years until she decided to burn most of them in a burn barrel used for burning trash in the back yard of her home. One day, when I was a girl, when I was visiting her and there was “trash” burning in the barrel, I asked what she was burning, and she told me. I remember getting very angry and upset, and stated to her that I wanted the photos, and not to burn any anymore. I could not believe that she would burn such valuable memories related to her family heritage! Therefore, I have many photos of my family ancestors, but would have had many more had my grandmother not put them up in smoke. Additionally, I used to have many more tin types, especially those of the Henn’s, however when my family moved from Collins to Gowanda, New York around 1992, they were unknowingly discarded by my parents. I was heartbroken that such valuable family treasures had been thrown away. This photo reflects the 15 tin types of my Gale, Briggs, and Henn ancestry that were accidentally discarded by my parents during my family’s move from Collins to Gowanda around 1992. Again, as in previous posts of photos of my ancestors, the dates included represent the best possible accurate dates and/or estimates of dates of the images. Family photos and information of Bernice Gale Briggs Babcock Sprague from 1860-1987. Collins, New York. Currently the Property of Michele Babcock-Nice (2014). Snellville, Georgia. Ryther, James F. (Undated). Personal War Sketch of Frederick Henn. Buffalo, New York. From Hamburg (New York) Historical Society, 2001. Alice Gale American Civil War Anna Goetz Henn Anna Henn Anna Henn Gale Antique Photos Antiques Apps Army Arnold Cole Arnold Cole Jr Bernice Gale Briggs Babcock Sprague Briggs Buffalo Buffalo New York Buffalo Regiment Bulson Canada Carrie Gale Carrie Gale Cole Charles Henn Civil War Civil War Service Medal Clarence Briggs Cole Collins New York Company D 116th NYVI Condenseo Mince Meat Emily B Gale Emily Esther Costard Gale England Eugene Cole Frank Cole Frank Henn Fred Henn Frederick Henn Friedrich Henn Gale Germany Grace Cochran Cole Hamburg New York Harry Gale Henn Julia Gale Julia McGee Leaders Lee on the Solent Louis Henn Lydia Gale Mahole Thompson Henn Manor House Martha Bulson McGee Memorabilia Michele Babcock-Nice New York Norman G Cole Photos Robert Bulson Ronald Bulson Tin Types Union Army United States US Military Vintage Photos Walter Gale William E Cole William H Gale William Henn William M Gale William McGee Leave a comment Posted on January 11, 2014 January 11, 2014 Accountability, Activists, Attorneys, Children, Children's Rights, Crime, Crime Prevention, Disrespect, Education, Emotional Distress, Issues, Lack of Insight, Men, Michele Babcock-Nice, Parents, Positive Change, Psychological Issues, Punishment, Rape, Responsibility, School Personnel, School Safety, Schools, Self-Help, Sensitivity, Sex Offenders, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Sexual Trauma, Sexual Violence, Student's Rights, Students, Suffering, Support, Survivors, Teaching, Trauma, U.S. Military, Understanding, Values, Victim Blaming, Victims, Violent Crime, Women, Women's Rights, World Issues “Society Must Hold Offenders Responsible, Not Punish Victims” (By: Michele Babcock-Nice) Mother Nature Crying (Retrieved from http://www.free-hdwallpapers.com/wallpaper/abstract/mother-nature-crying/22445, January 11, 2014) Very often in our society, we are informed of criminal offenders who are held responsible and accountable for their actions. There are those in our society who work hard to see to it that perpetrators of crimes are brought to justice, that they are removed from the greater society for a period of time, and so that, potentially, they do not commit the same or similar types of crimes in the future. There are many people, such as a police officers, attorneys, prosecutors, and judges whose hearts and minds are in the right place when it comes to holding responsible and accountable those who commit crimes, particularly violent crimes, including sex crimes. Conversely, there are also times when people who have committed crimes are not held responsible or accountable for their crimes, nor are they ever required to answer for their criminal actions. In these situations, there may or may not be extenuating circumstances in which evidence has been removed or destroyed by the perpetrators and/or accomplices; corroboration and/or substantiation of facts regarding the crime may not be obtained; confessions of those who committed the crimes were not secured; evidence and/or facts regarding the crime were concealed or never located; and other reasons. Sometimes, in cases involving child sexual abuse, there is the possibility that police, attorneys, prosecutors, and/or parents do not desire to place children on the stand in court to testify against the person(s) who assaulted them. In other situations, it is possible that a particular network of people, such as athletes or fraternity brothers in a college, promote and live a culture of disrespect and/or violence, covering up for each other when sexual assaults are committed. Or, has often occurred in the Roman Catholic Church when religious have committed sex crimes, they may be protected by higher authorities in the Church. Many years ago, a local pediatrician in my area informed me that preschools are commonly places where young children are sexually abused. I have always remembered that, and have often wondered why doctors do not do more to inform about this and/or take measures aimed at protecting children. Too often, physicians are more interested in treating a problem or issue after it arises rather than seeking to inform, educate, protect, and prevent such things from occurring in the first place. In 2007, there were two police reports made regarding a preschool teacher at Sola Fide Lutheran Church Preschool in Lawrenceville, Georgia, describing her repeated sexual abuse of children, aged 2-4, who were in her care. Four children were identified as having been repeatedly emotionally, physically, and sexually abused by the preschool teacher. All four children were interviewed by a special investigator with the county police department. Out of fear, three of the four children denied any sexual abuse by the teacher. Without corroboration, evidence, or a confession by the accused, the case was unable to be substantiated and was closed. Without a formal charge or conviction against the teacher, the case was never made public. One of the children who had been identified as having been abused was the school principal’s two-year-old daughter, who regularly participated in classes with the three and four-year-olds that were taught by the teacher. In these classes, there was an assistant teacher, as well as a volunteer. The lead teacher perpetrated the abuse that was ignored and overlooked by the other two women. Abuse was perpetrated in the bathroom, storage room, and empty classroom in the trailer that was used for classrooms. During the investigation, the principal destroyed evidence related to the abuse so that it was never identified or recovered by police. Following the close of the investigation, the school promoted the lead teacher who had perpetrated the abuse by providing her with her own classroom and extending the hours of her classes. Two years later, the principal got another job, and he and his family left the school. Child Angel Statue Crying (Retrieved from http://www.watchmanscry.com/article-get-your%20house-in-order.html, January 11, 2014) In 1995, a rape was reported to campus police at the University at Buffalo that had occurred in 1992 on the Amherst Campus. The rape was committed by a male student against a female student. Both students had been arranged by mutual friends to have a date. The man took the woman to a local bar, and entered the bar and drank though he was underage, having used an inauthentic driver’s license to enter the establishment. During the date, the man persistently encouraged the woman to drink, though she drank little. Following the date and because the student lounge of the woman’s dormitory was a shambles, the woman invited the man in to her dorm room, where he proceeded to deceive her into trusting him, and raped her. The action was against the woman’s will as the man held her down and caused internal injuries to her while raping her. The attack was extremely traumatic for the victim who told her friends about it, and they did nothing, in effect becoming accessories to the crime. In fact, those “friends” never spoke to the survivor again. No one helped the survivor at her university; she coped the best that she could on her own. When the rape was reported in 1995 to the campus police at the university, one of the police chiefs laughed about it, demoralizing and dehumanizing the survivor. The case went to the county district attorney’s office, but was conveniently found to have exceeded the statute of limitations for the category in which the crime was placed. No support or understanding was offered or provided to the survivor at the university or through the district attorney’s office. Worse, the district attorney who handled the case told the survivor that she had not been raped, thus blaming and revictimizing the victim. The offender got away with his crime, was never required to answer for it, and ended up being protected by the DA’s office and the university police by not being brought to justice for it. Several years following the closure of the case, the perpetrator’s name was deleted from the police report by the campus police, as was the description of the crime that had occurred. Neither the description of the crime, nor the offender’s name were maintained by campus police in the police report, essentially absolving him of the crime and revictimizing the victim. These are two examples of crimes in which the perpetrators got away with their offenses. They were not held accountable, charged, or prosecuted by the very individuals and agencies that are supposed to be protective against crimes, including sex crimes. While these are just two examples of such situations, there are many more that occur in society every day, and from which perpetrators walk away. It is important that society be sensitive, understanding, and insightful about victims and survivors of crimes and trauma, including sex crimes. It seems that most people, because they have not been properly trained in relating with crime victims and trauma survivors, stigmatize and revictimize survivors by blaming, shaming, and punishing them. Those who should be held accountable and responsible are the perpetrators, themselves, however and often, people make incorrect assumptions and judgments regarding appearances and surface information without knowing all of the details and information that is confidential. Girl with Flowers and Dove (Retrieved from http://lovehch.pixnet.net/blog/post/38279168-%22people-cry-not-because-love-ends%2c-but-because-still-continu, January 11, 2014) Jesus was also a person who was inaccurately judged by many. He was a good and merciful person of whom many in power positions were jealous. Jesus was also different in his goodness, different in that he was so good that he tended not to fit in and was, therefore, ostracized and resented by many. Jesus was a person who died as a result of jealousy, hated, and evil of those who were unable to tolerate a good and merciful person, a person who was unique and unsurpassable in his goodness and mercy. Therefore it follows that it is important for people not to inaccurately judge and/or make incorrect assumptions about each other, especially without having all of the details or confidential information. It is also important that people not stigmatize, blame, punish, and revictimize survivors and victims of crimes, simply out of their own fear, and lack of both insight and understanding. As people, we should strive to be understanding, helpful, and supportive to each other, as well as forgiving, even in the worst of circumstances, yet also stand up for ourselves and the truth, whether or not we are blamed, stigmatized, punished, or revictimized. Silence protects and empowers the perpetrators of crimes. We must seek to speak out about crimes so that criminals are not protected, and so that the greater society is informed and educated about them. American Psychological Association (2014). “Understanding child sexual abuse: Education, prevention, and recovery. What are the effects of child sexual abuse?” Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. http://www.apa.org/pubs/info/brochures/sex-abuse.aspx?item=4. Retrieved January 11, 2014. Babcock-Nice, M. (November 23, 2013). “Trauma-focused group therapy proposal for adult female rape survivors.” Atlanta, GA: Argosy University, Atlanta. Baldor, L.C. (January 10, 2014). “‘Culture of disrespect’ fuels academy sex assaults.” MSN.com. http://news.msn.com/us/culture-of-disrespect-fuels-academy-sex-assaults. Retrieved January 10, 2014. 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__label__cc	0.728554	0.271446	Venezuela’s monetary zigzag course by Annika Backe February 23, 2017 – The situation in Venezuela is desperate. Although the country has the world’s biggest oil reserves, it currently fights a galloping inflation. Under Socialist President Nicolás Maduro, the inflation has reached several hundred percent – there are no official figures available – and may even rise to 1,600% in 2017, experts say. The oil prices on the international markets having collapsed, it has become nearly impossible for Venezuela to import much needed goods, foodstuff and medical supplies. A country in a state of emergence Long queues in front of and empty shelves inside the shops are thus a common sight. As a result of the inflation, wads of money are needed to pay even very small bills. To save time, shop owners don’t count the money anymore but rather weigh it as a whole. The currency of Venezuela got its name from Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), one of the leaders of the wars of Spanish-American independence. An international conspiracy? On the black market, the highest denomination banknote, the 100-bolívar bill, is worth only about 2 US cents. The Venezuelans spend hours queuing up at bank counters and ATMs whose cash withdrawal, however, is limited. President Maduro doesn’t consider himself responsible for the current crises but speaks of an international conspiracy. On December 15, 2016 he withdrew the 100-bolívar note from circulation. The citizens of his country were given a 72 hour period to exchange or deposit their relevant notes. Nicolás Maduro becoming President of Venezuela on April 19, 2013. Photo: Cancillería del Ecuador from Ecuador/ Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 Maduro’s change of course Only days later, on December 18, 2016 he changed his course. When supplies of new notes, worth 500 bolívar and produced in the UK and the US, weren’t delivered, the general frustration erupted in many cases of looting and violent outbreaks, with a number of people killed. Calling it an act of sabotage, Maduro closed the borders with Colombia to stop the alleged mafias hoarding the currency abroad. He declared the 100-bolívar bill legal tender again and, by now, extended their time of validity by a few weeks several times already. It is planned to be replaced by three new denominations, the biggest as high as 20,000 bolívar. It appears highly questionable, though, that this measure will effectively counter inflation in this crisis-stricken country. For more information on the Venezuelan banknotes, please click here. CoinsWeekly reported on massive inflation also in Zimbabwe and Argentina. On its website, the European Central Bank answers the question “What is inflation”?	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1694
__label__wiki	0.781359	0.781359	Report: Appalachian State in negotiations to fill coaching vacancy By Matt GilesApr 5, 2014, 12:25 AM EDT Around midday on Friday, ESPN’s Jeff Goodman reported Jim Fox, a longtime assistant to Bob McKillop at Davidson who had recently been promoted to associate head coach, was in negotiations to be the next coach at Appalachian State. Nothing is done yet, as evidenced by any iteration of the coaching carousel, but talks must be serious since a leak like Goodman’s occurred. Fox is an intriguing candidate, partly because he was listed by Pete Thamel (of Sports Illustrated) as a candidate who should land a head coaching job during this offseason. As McKillop’s assistant for years, he understands what it takes to build a program, and ensure lasting success, and that experience could serve him well, provided he lands the job, as the team makes the transition to the Sun Belt Conference. If Fox is indeed the athletic administration’s choice, the fate of Devonte Graham will likely be one of his first coaching decisions. A quick back-story: Graham committed to Appalachian State under Jason Capel, but after Graham decided maybe the program wasn’t for him, the guard wasn’t granted a release and he enrolled at Brewster Academy for a year. Graham hasn’t been allowed to speak with any other Division I programs — he is essentially on an island at Brewster, a highly coveted recruit who doesn’t want to attend the school he initially committed to — and this scenario needs to be resolved for both parties, ASU and Graham. When Capel’s contract wasn’t renewed, it was unclear what that action meant for Graham, and whomever — Fox or another option — becomes coach will have to either release Graham or somehow sell him on the direction he intends to take the program and convince him to be a Mountaineer. Follow @HudsonGiles	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1696
__label__wiki	0.997652	0.997652	Home > Journals and Magazines > Journals > IBPP > Vol. 10 (2001) > Iss. 21 (2001) Trends. In the Kingdom of the United Kingdom: The Psychology of Post-Election Transition IBPP EditorFollow This article was written by Mr. Dai Williams, a chartered occupational psychologist. He can be reached at Eos Life-Work, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom; email: eosuk@btinternet.com; website: http://www.eoslifework.co.uk. In his article, Mr. Williams considers the personal impact of post-election transition periods in the United Kingdom. Editor, IBPP (2001) "Trends. In the Kingdom of the United Kingdom: The Psychology of Post-Election Transition," International Bulletin of Political Psychology: Vol. 10 : Iss. 21 , Article 4. 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__label__cc	0.648377	0.351623	Teresa Rehman: The Heart of the ‘International Magazine with a North-eastern Soul’ 2 Comments on Teresa Rehman: The Heart of the ‘International Magazine with a North-eastern Soul’ Teresa Rehman Teresa Rehman is a journalist with a difference. She is woman who feels and conquers with her pen. She does not hanker for anything more than being the spokesperson for voices in the remote areas of North-eastern India. In that spirit, she started her own magazine: The Thumb Print, and also wrote a couple of books which have found their way to even the Strand Bookstore in New York. Rehman, an award-winning journalist based in North-east India, is known for her resolute grit and matter-of-fact approach to stories. She has worked for years toward bringing the different facets of the region, its diversity and distinct ethos into mainstream media. Rehman’s work in journalism spanned through India Today, Telegraph and Tehelka before she decided to put in all her resources into launching The Thumb Print e-magazine that she edits currently. She has managed to bring in the gender perspective to her stories. Rehman is known for her unassuming persistence on getting the details, and sensitivity. She was featured in the Power List of Femina magazine in 2012 and has written three books. The Mothers of Manipur (Zubaan Books) and Bulletproof (Penguin Random House India) are among them. Borderless in this exclusive, unravels, Rehman’s journey as a journalist. You said in one of your Thumb Print conversations, you are a journalist and not a writer. What do you see as the difference between being a journalist and being a writer? You have written a number of books. Does that not make you a writer? I would always prefer to call myself a journalist and a chronicler who is trying to tell the stories of the men, women and children of one of the most underreported regions of the world, i.e. Northeast India. And the books I had written are journalistic narratives without any frills, of my journey as a reporter into the nook and crannies of the region and the stories behind the stories. I am a reporter who loves her job. How many newspapers/ magazines have you worked for? I started off as a cub reporter for the local dailies. And after completing my studies in journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi, I started off as a trainee journalist at the editorial desk of India Today magazine in the capital city. After that, I relocated to Guwahati and started working as a Correspondent with The Telegraph newspaper and later reported for the entire region for Tehelka magazine. Thereafter, my life took a different turn and I became a media entrepreneur by launching the webzine, The Thumb Print in 2012. I have also written about specialised issues like media analysis for The Hoot, climate change for Alertnet Reuters, the environment for The Third Pole and gender for the Women’s Feature Service. How long have you been a journalist? Does journalism clash with family life more than other professions? I have been a journalist for almost two decades now. I feel, once a woman steps out of the house for work or any other activity, there are changes in her family life — for some these changes are subtle and for some these changes may be earth shattering. And if a woman finds support at home, she can break any kind of glass ceiling at her workplace. A woman is exploited the most at home. And any kind of changes in her professional life begins and ends at home. I have been quite fortunate to have had a congenial atmosphere to be able to pursue my unconventional career as a journalist. I am a first-generation journalist in my family and though I had erratic working hours, I always managed to create a support system at home. However, not all women are fortunate like I am. You have been to many places as a journalist that a common person would not visit. Are they all centred in the North- East? Is there a reason you work from this area. Tell us a bit about your experiences in such areas. A senior journalist had once told me “your location is your disadvantage”. On the contrary, I feel that northeast India is a paradise for journalists. There are so many untold stories waiting to be told. I feel blessed that the region is my home and I chose to work from this difficult space — a region that has witnessed several decades of violent insurgency coupled with a hostile geographical terrain. My experience has been novel, vivid and interesting compared to the rat race in the journalistic circles in the metropolitan cities and the glitz and glamour of television channels. I choose to tread on the untrodden path, in the midst of virgin nature and unwritten stories. I have written about my experiences in reporting conflict in my book Bulletproof (Penguin India). I am glad that internet has opened up immense possibilities and I can work from any place in the world and get my story across to the world. You are an award-winning journalist. Can you tell us the work that led to these awards? Did you do the work with the intent of getting the award or was that incidental? It feels good to be recognised for your work. But I never went hankering for awards. I guess your good work speaks for itself. I had bagged some of the most prestigious awards for journalism in India that include the WASH Media Awards 2009-2010, the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for two consecutive years (2008-09 and 2009-10) for the category ‘Reporting on J & K and the Northeast (Print)’, the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity 2011, Sanskriti Award 2009 for Excellence in Journalism and the Seventh Sarojini Naidu Prize 2007 for Best Reporting on Panchayati Raj by The Hunger Project. In fact, the WASH Media Award which is given for writing on water, sanitation and hygiene and is sponsored by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) was given for a story I had done based on the life of my domestic help and her associates. This goes to show that in order to bag a good story, you need to keep your ears and eyes open. Why did you feel it was important to record your experiences in books? Was writing a book different from writing for a newspaper or magazine? A book definitely has a longer shelf life and its reach is tremendous. I was surprised to see my book on sale at the Strand Bookstore in New York. A book remains and becomes an important document for posterity as it can also be stored in the libraries of the world. A book has a life of its own compared to newspaper clippings and write-ups. It can travel far and wide. Tell us a bit about your work in Thumb Print. What started you on Thumb Print? The Thumb Print was a very angry reaction. When I had to struggle to find space for my stories in the so-called ‘National’ media, I decided to create my own space. This was when I had discovered the might of the internet. The Thumb Print is more like scaffold trying to reach out to the world and bring the world to our doorsteps. We proudly call ourselves an ‘international magazine with a north-eastern soul’. You do these online interviews with writers, currently on “Why women write?” Why would you choose this topic? Did you face a lot of discrimination as a woman in journalism? When I started doing hardcore conflict reporting, I realised that I was stepping into an old boy’s club. I was treading into masculine space and I had to manoeuvre my way all by myself. I got no support from my male colleagues. Women, all over the world, face different layers of discrimination when they step out to do something unconventional. That is why I felt that it was important to address this question of ‘Why and how women write’. Are you planning a new book? What are your future plans? Yes, I am working on another book on an important aspect of contemporary northeast India. And of course, I intend to dabble with different aspects of media which is trying to keep pace with the fast evolving technology. Any message for upcoming writers/ journalists? Yes, journalists should not forget the basic values of good old shoe-leather journalism. A value of a well-told story can never change — though the medium or external packaging might change. In trying to keep pace with technology, we should not forget the values of telling the truth that should be the primary concern of a journalist. This interview was conducted online by Mitali Chakravarty. PLEASE NOTE: ARTICLES CAN ONLY BE REPRODUCED IN OTHER SITES WITH DUE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO BORDERLESS JOURNAL. Tags Mitali Chakravarty, Teresa Rehman ← Sara’s Selections, October 2020 → In Conversation with Santosh Bakaya 2 replies on “Teresa Rehman: The Heart of the ‘International Magazine with a North-eastern Soul’” Teresa Rehman: The Heart of the ‘International Magazine with a North-eastern Soul’ - SAWMsays: […] This story first appeared in Borderless […] Santoshsays: Very interesting and insightful interview.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1701
__label__wiki	0.797699	0.797699	The Thoughtful Animal Ed Tronick and the “Still Face Experiment” In 1975, Edward Tronick and colleagues first presented the “still face experiment” to colleagues at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. By Jason G. Goldman on October 18, 2010 In 1975, Edward Tronick and colleagues first presented the "still face experiment" to colleagues at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. He described a phenomenon in which an infant, after three minutes of "interaction" with a non-responsive expressionless mother, "rapidly sobers and grows wary. He makes repeated attempts to get the interaction into its usual reciprocal pattern. When these attempts fail, the infant withdraws [and] orients his face and body away from his mother with a withdrawn, hopeless facial expression." It remains one of the most replicated findings in developmental psychology. Once the phenomenon had been thoroughly tested and replicated, it became a standard method for testing hypotheses about person perception, communication differences as a result of gender or cultural differences, individual differences in attachment style, and the effects of maternal depression on infants. The still-face experiment has also been used to investigate cross-cultural differences, deaf infants, infants with Down syndrome, cocaine-exposed infants, autistic children, and children of parents with various psychopathologies, especially depression. Why has this experiment, first published in the mid-1970s, become so important? The still face experiment demonstrated that very young infants already have several basic building blocks of social cognition in place. It suggested that they have some sense of the relationship between facial expression and emotion, that they have some primitive social understanding, and that they are able to regulate their own affect and attention to some extent. The infants' attempts to re-engage with their caregivers also suggest that they are able to plan and execute simple goal-directed behaviors. In addition, the still face experiment is among the more reliable and valid measurements of infant cognition and behavior; infants find it more disturbing than other violations of normal social interactions (such as the Ainsworth Strange Situation). The response is very complex, with infants displaying subtle facial cues such as dampened smiles, yawns, and sideways glances at the mother. Further, and perhaps most importantly, the still face experiment was the most revealing experiment conducted in terms of infant social cognition. By 1975, researchers had already devised ways to describe and quantify the reciprocal social exchanges that are characteristic of infants and their caregivers. However, the still face experiment allowed researchers to examine the ways in which infants spontaneously initiate social exchanges and the way they modulate their affect and attention, and provides rich data on the ways in which infants re-organize their behavior after the re-establishment of the reciprocal interaction. Importantly, it is a very easy experiment for researchers and parents to properly execute, which is perhaps why it is so popular. The still face experiment has also proved useful in determining the extent of an infant's social world. That is, the still face effect is not only elicited by the mother (i.e. the primary caregiver), but also by fathers, strangers, and even by televised images of other adults. However, infants do not respond in similar ways to objects, no matter how interesting, interactive, or dynamic they appear to be. This provides more evidence that young infants readily categorize the world into potential social partners and inanimate objects. The still-face experiment has likewise been useful in answering questions about how the still face effect may be related to earlier experiences and how it may predict later social-emotional variables. For example, variations in the still-face effect have been associated with mothers' baseline sensitivity and interactive style, and the infants' later attachment classification at age 1, internalizing (e.g. depression, anxiety) and externalizing (e.g. aggression, impulsivity) behaviors at 18 months, and behavior problems at age 3. For an experiment that is so useful, so robust, so popular, one might think that it has outlived its usefulness, at least as far as research is concerned. But despite the robustness of the effect, nobody has been able to fully explain it. No theoretical paradigm has been able to account for the infants' response. Therefore, it is an area open for more investigation. Adamson, L., & Frick, J. (2003). The Still Face: A History of a Shared Experimental Paradigm Infancy, 4 (4), 451-473 DOI: 10.1207/S15327078IN0404_01 Tronick, E., Adamson, L.B., Als, H., & Brazelton, T.B. (1975, April). Infant emotions in normal and pertubated interactions. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO. Image from Daily Mail Jason G. Goldman Jason G. Goldman is a science journalist based in Los Angeles. He has written about animal behavior, wildlife biology, conservation, and ecology for Scientific American, Los Angeles magazine, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the BBC, Conservation magazine, and elsewhere. He contributes to Scientific American's "60-Second Science" podcast, and is co-editor of Science Blogging: The Essential Guide (Yale University Press). He enjoys sharing his wildlife knowledge on television and on the radio, and often speaks to the public about wildlife and science communication. Gratitude: Uniquely Human or Shared with Animals? Hurricanes: Bad for People, Good for Dolphins Where Did The Thoughtful Animal Go? 5 hours ago — Alla Katsnelson Learn to Speak Primate Editor’s Selections: Babies, Balls, Altruism, and Smoking	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1706
__label__cc	0.551833	0.448167	Little Women won’t win best picture, but here’s why it should 12 months ago Blue and Gray Press Life Little Women was directed by Greta Gerwig, and is the latest adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel. (Empire.com) By BEN FANCHER Every once in a while, if you’re lucky enough, you get to experience a film that is truly special. A movie that grabs you by the heart, holds you in place for two hours and makes you feel every emotion on the spectrum of human emotion; you love every second of it and you miss it when it’s gone. “Little Women” is one of those movies. Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel was released just in time to qualify for this year’s Oscars. It’s up for six awards in total including Best Picture, but I can almost guarantee that it isn’t going to win. Which is a shame, because it really should. Let me tell you why. This is a story that has been adapted for the screen dozens of times, so what makes this particular adaptation so special? The easiest thing to point out is the cast. But I don’t want to talk about the cast, simply because that would be too easy. I don’t want to talk about how Saoirse Ronan gave yet another Oscar-worthy performance as Jo March, earning her fourth Oscar nomination at just 25 years old. I don’t want to talk about how Florence Pugh takes Amy, a character who is portrayed as irritating and nothing else in just about every other adaptation of the novel, and turns her into a powerfully honest, inspiring heroine who everyone can embrace, and who everyone does embrace. I also don’t want to talk about how Emma Watson portrays Meg March with so much joy and sincerity that you can’t keep your heart from melting just a little bit every time she’s on screen. I really don’t want to talk about how Eliza Scanlen plays Beth with so much goodness and love and quiet kindness that you can’t help but hope against your better judgement that maybe this time Beth doesn’t get scarlet fever. I’m not going to mention any of that, because Best Picture shouldn’t just be the movie that has the most perfect cast. We have to actually talk about the story. The book has existed for more than 150 years and has been adapted for the screen and stage, which means a ton of people already know the story. And yet Gerwig wrote the screenplay in such a way that makes the story feel fresh and new. Little women was released on December 25, 2019. (IMDB.com) It’s difficult to adapt a well-known story into something that pleases both long-time fans and first time viewers, and yet Greta Gerwig seems to have decided that it isn’t that difficult at all, actually. Her use of non-linear storytelling, combined with new character decisions (#JusticeForAmy) and a beautiful meta-ending that addresses the speculation about why the novel ends the way it does, turned what could just be a retelling into something of its own. Something with its own personality and story to tell. And it’s a story worth telling. Especially today. It’s a rare thing, a story that focuses on positivity. Nowadays, most movies that break into the Best Picture conversation aren’t exactly what you would call “happy.” And they certainly aren’t positive stories centered around women. Some of them have happy moments, sure, and there are even women on screen in them sometimes, but the movies that feature these things prominently don’t even get nominated. Take a look at some of the nominees this year: Netflix’s “Marriage Story” is a movie about divorce, featuring a man who cheats on his wife. “1917” is an admittedly good movie set during WWI, but is depressing because, you know, war and stuff, and doesn’t have any women in it at all. “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is a Quentin Tarantino movie, which means it features women’s feet more than it features their voices. “Joker” got a Best Picture nomination too somehow, which proves my point that there’s nothing the Academy loves more than a movie that tells them that life is sad, especially when it’s a man who is telling them. “Little Women” is different. It’s a movie that’s about women. Women who work hard. Women who are kind, brave, smart, talented, passionate, beautiful and, most of all, happy. This is a movie that teaches us about growth and loss. It shows you the rewards of hard work. It shows you that you should always help those who have less than you do, even if it means sacrificing what you already have. It teaches you to keep the ones you love close to you. It tells you to go find them too. It is a story of a nation torn apart by hatred and racism, and a family being kept together by kindness, strength and love. This is a story by women, about women, for the world. It’s a story that we should all hear and learn from. “Little Women” is the Best Picture of 2019. Tags: little women movie critique movie. review movies based on books Previous 2020 Super Bowl: Kansas City Chiefs vs San Francisco 49ers Next Humans of UMW: Bilqiis Sheikh-Issa on minorities and mental health Ranked choice voting is the right choice for democracy 2 months ago Blue and Gray Press Viewpoints Gym anxiety has increasingly become an issue for college students 2 months ago Blue and Gray Press Sports	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1707
__label__wiki	0.560946	0.560946	We can no longer sit comfortably with the myths behind poverty According to a recent report, the media has created a number of myths about poverty, which has led the most vulnerable being blamed for the UK’s economic woes. Given sustainability is about the environment, economy and society (the ‘S’ in ESG), Emma Websdale decided to dig deeper into its findings. The report, by the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Methodist church, the Church of Scotland and the United Reformed Church, was published at the beginning of March and is entitled, The lies we tell ourselves: ending comfortable myths about poverty. The paper confronts six myths that the coalition of religious groups says have been made up by the media and politicians to create a detachment from the truth, making others believe that being poor is a result of one’s own actions. Myth 1: ‘They’ are lazy and don’t want to work Describing someone as too “lazy” to work is without evidence when the majority of children living in poverty are from working households. It’s far more likely that those too “lazy” to work are actually those less experienced and educated and have not been given the opportunity to work for such a long period of time, that it has forced them to lack confidence and feel too inadequate to work. Myth 2: ‘They’ are addicted to drink and drugs This is another misconception. The general public cited addiction to drugs and alcohol as the second most common cause of child poverty, yet fewer than 4% of benefit claimants reported any form of addiction. Myth 3: ’They’ are not really poor – they just don’t manage their money properly This is a myth that 60% of the UK population agrees with. Statistics show that the poorest spend their money carefully, limiting themselves to the essentials – despite the constant struggle to manage limited resources. Even the smallest impulse buys often lead to serious consequences for their families, so it’s not worth the risk. Myth 4: ‘They’ are on the fiddle Despite over 80% of the UK population believing that the poorest families falsely claim benefits, only around 2% of all benefits claimed are done so fraudulently. That’s £3 billion of the £150 billion handed out each year in benefits. The government misses out on over £120 billion a year in tax evasion (illegal), tax avoidance (legal) and unpaid tax, and the scale of benefit fraud appears small in comparison. Myth 5: ‘They’ have an easy life Over 50% of the British population believe that those living on benefits have an “easy life”. This would involve not stressing about meeting financial pressures on a daily basis, bringing in a regular income for themselves and their families to enjoy and living leisurely and anxiety free. The lives of claimants are actually one they would not opt for. Many suffer from stress, depression and anxiety, and face unemployment and low self-worth. Myth 6: ‘They’ caused the deficit The amount of tax spent on welfare has remained stable over the past 20 years and yet the general public argues that our economy is in crisis because of the poor claiming benefits. Why is this problem being blamed on the poorest in society when rich families, despite often having the money to support and pay for their children’s university fees, still leave them taking huge loans that may never be fully paid off to the government? What about the big companies that generate millions of pounds of profit and still finds loopholes to make themselves exempt from paying taxes, or the banks that create money out of nowhere? It is clear that at some point we have been reading and believing misconstrued statistics about the poor from the media. What we are led to believe is not true to the evidence that this report reveals. Owen Jones, writer for The Independent, has explored how the media has made the working class become an object of fear and mockery. He uses Little Britain character Vicky Pollard as a key example, highlighting that the media has created an untruthful image of the working class – portraying them as ignorant and underprivileged. He has also looked at how the working class has become stereotyped, particularly so-called ‘chavs’. In his book, Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class, Jones argues that the government allows the use of the term to avoid genuine engagement with social and economic problems. Based on original research, his book lays out a disturbing portrait of inequality, reflecting on the damaging imprint caused by the media and politicians. Another book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, also explores poverty. Targeting the huge gap between the rich and the poor, the book argues about the “pernicious effects that inequality has on societies: eroding trust, increasing anxiety and illness and encouraging excessive consumption”. Using statistics, the book, by Richard G Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, compares how 11 different health and social problems, including mental health, obesity, drug abuse, imprisonment, violence and teenage pregnancies, were significantly worse in more unequal developed counties. Oliver James is another author to have explored the relationship between inequality and mental health, in his book Affluenza. Using Denmark as a case study, James demonstrates how the country’s economy is extremely successful (he references Carlsberg, Lego and Bang & Olufsen as prime examples) despite not having to work the demanding hours of the UK. “I’m a very well paid individual”, says the late Danish journalist Tøger Seidenfaden during an interview with James for the book, “but after I pay tax I am no more than three or four times richer than the lowest 5% of the population. The gap in other countries is five or ten hundred times more than that. “If no-one is going to care how rich you are – in fact, would despise you for flaunting it- why would you work a 60 week for decades on end?” James goes on to explain how only 6% of people live on half the average income or less, making the gap between the rich and the poor tiny. Statistics from a survey found that 3.3% of Danes suffered from major depression compared to double that in mainland Europe. Each of these books has received opposition, particularly the validity of The Spirit Level, due to its origin and significance of its analysis. But what really matters is the overriding moral that has been penetrated into the core of all three. It’s the exposure of the truth that makes these books, alongside the poverty report, so important. 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__label__wiki	0.753709	0.753709	Does mentorship still matter? magazine \| Sep 21, 2018 \| By Kathryn O'Shea-Evans Does nature or nurture determine a designer’s success? What kind of mentorship breeds the headline names we know and love? And with more and more young designers eschewing the apprenticeship model altogether, are there still lessons to be learned working in-house for an established firm? BOH spotlights top talents and rising stars for insights into their success. No matter how illustrious their careers or deep their clients’ pockets, nearly all top designers began at the same place: the bottom rung. But not all entry-level positions are created equal. Take Brian J. McCarthy, who, after graduating from Pratt, kick-started his career at one of the most storied bastions of design history in America. “When I went to work at Parish-Hadley, I knew I believed in their values and aesthetic—and I knew that if it worked, I wasn’t going to want to leave anytime soon,” he recalls. It did work—in large part because Albert Hadley was a dream mentor for the young designer, who stayed at the firm for 10 years. “Albert was just amazing,” says McCarthy. “I could not imagine my life today had I not been taught by somebody who took the time to mentor. And it was natural—it wasn’t like he was making some effort to be professor in the classroom.” The learning experience was hands-on, allowing him to work in Hadley’s shadow. “The big thing is being included. The only way projects become real is if you’re really a part of the process. If you’re only brought in for bits and pieces, you’re never going to get the whole picture.” Many of the designers BOH spoke with agreed that working at a larger firm was a vital experience before they broke out on their own. “You would never become a doctor without going to medical school and doing a residency,” says Nashville designer Stephanie Sabbe. The 2016 House Beautiful Next Wave honoree had a textbook career path: first school, then practicing under other designers, before launching her own, now-flourishing firm. “There are very few [careers] where you would just show up in a field and start doing it—yet for some reason, in design, people do.” Seattle designer Andy Beers, founder and principal of OreStudios, worked for Jessica Helgerson after finishing graduate school—and considers his time there one of the foundational linchpins of his career. “Interior design is a trade, and best practices are really only learned on the job,” he says. “Working for a talented, established designer provides younger designers an opportunity to work with vendors they might not otherwise know about, understand detailing in a richer, more specific way, and see firsthand how to run a successful project from intake to final installation. There is such a learning curve in this industry, and working in another office provides a safe place to learn the ins and outs of the business.” The New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) reports that about 75 percent of its graduates go on to work at established firms, with the remaining quarter launching their own businesses or freelancing. “Although we don’t require internships, all of our students want to do them,” says Ellen Fisher, dean and vice president for academic affairs at NYSID. The school has a longstanding policy of promoting only paid internships to students, based on the philosophy that while students should value the learning experiences they gain, their work should be valued too. And although Fisher encourages students to pursue those opportunities, there are other experiences she values just as highly. “We’re creating fully rounded human beings, especially at the undergraduate level,” she explains. “If our students want to travel, that’s contributing to their growth as a designer. If they have a love of drawing and rendering, that’s a great asset to them in their future. People can’t only think about work-work-work; they have to think about what they love and what’s meaningful to them.” Though Charleston-based designer J.P. Horton went solo early in his career—two years ago, he launched his own firm at the age of 26—he recommends taking a traditional approach to learning the business. “I’m 100 percent an advocate for interning with an established firm once you graduate, because there’s no way to understand the business without living it,” he says. “You need to be able to read a floor plan, draw, know what types of textiles work in what situation, and understand how wholesale works. It’s definitely business; it’s not easy, and it’s not as glamorous as it appears to be. Yes, the end result is glamorous, but it’s quite a process.” Horton gained essential insights from working for other firms before founding his own. “The biggest, most important part of the learning experience was that I was working on every project with a senior designer,” he says. “Learning the ins and outs of how to properly talk to a client, how to present or place orders, how to deal with something when it comes in damaged or late, how to set up meetings—that was all a positive learning experience.” For San Francisco designer Suzanne Tucker, working for an established firm before breaking out on one’s own is absolutely critical, whether that experience comes with or without a degree. “Look back on any of the great designers in interiors, fashion or furniture, and they all had the benefit of tutelage under someone in their early career,” she says. “Getting that hands-on education with a design firm is invaluable.” Tucker herself spent her formative years working for the legendary Michael Taylor, whose breezy California style is still referenced in her work. “I always say that in hindsight, you should feel like you should have paid your employers for the education you gained under their mentorship.” Architects also often begin their careers as apprentices, notes Ken Pursley of Charlotte, North Carolina–based Pursley Dixon Architecture. “The firm you work for shapes your worldview and becomes your professional foundation,” he says. For Pursley, that early guidance came from seven years working under the legendary Southern architect Bobby McAlpine. “His knowledge and insight unveiled a point of view within me that takes the best of our architectural traditions and fuses them with current patterns of living,” says Pursley, who sees himself as part of an ecosystem of architects working throughout the South who are part of the McAlpine family tree. “The root of our design decisions is founded in emotional impact much more than intellectual correctness,” he explains. “We share a common passion of infusing a traditional skin with a modern bone structure. Although our work translates differently, there is a similar visceral viewpoint.” McCarthy cautions aspiring designers not to launch their own firms right away: “If you have no experience with somebody who can teach you the ropes, you cut yourself off at the knees,” he says. “Developing your references, your best, most creative ideas—that comes with time [on the job]. You’re only as good as the hard work you put in to anything you do, and that includes working for somebody—gaining experience, ways of problem solving, and confidence. And having some consistency.” A dream career may also germinate from a side hustle. Charlotte–based Cheryl Luckett worked full-time as a registered dietitian at a Fortune 500 firm for 10 years before she transitioned into a human resources role in order to have time to pursue a career as an interior designer. She started from the ground up, taking night classes at the local community college and launching her own blog. “I wanted to do things the right way, so I hired a blog designer, developed a logo and business name, purchased a domain—and before I knew it, I had a business,” she says. “I blogged two to three times per week, and interest grew and my blog quickly brought in clients.” Yet Luckett continued working full-time, juggling design work with her HR position for five years before quitting her day job—time, she says, that wasn’t wasted. “Those years enabled me to establish a brand presence, connect and develop relationships with successful designers, complete design school and finance the investments needed for my business.” During her second year of blogging, Luckett attended the Design Bloggers Conference, where she connected with the seasoned interior design professionals who would serve as mentors as she established her business. “I’ve consistently invested in education, whether attending conferences and markets or hiring a coach,” she says. Today, as a full-time designer, she has plenty of lessons to share with her design assistant. “There’s no substitute for hands-on training,” says Luckett—including skills gained while working in other industries. “After a 15-year stint in corporate America, there were lots of transferable lessons that I was able to roll over into my business.” Beginners can garner career takeaways from anywhere, agrees Tucker, who found one of her best mentors while working at a department store shortly after college. “I had landed a coveted manager position at I. Magnin Beverly Hills under the watchful eye of a legendary store manager. She told me how I would conduct myself at the executive level with clients like Nancy Reagan (difficult) and Betsy Bloomingdale (lovely); how I would dress (in designer clothes) and wear my hair (in a chignon at the nape of my neck); and how I would be addressed by my sales staff (Miss Tucker),” recalls the designer. “She was a formidable lady, but a marvelous mentor. At a young age, she taught me the value of superlative service—and that the customer is always right!” Unfortunately, not every mentor is on par with the likes of Tucker’s, or offers the hands-on training McCarthy experienced under the tutelage of Hadley—but sometimes emerging designers can learn just as much from the bad jobs as from the good ones. As a young graduate, Sabbe worked at two large firms in the South. When she moved to the East Coast in 2009 in the midst of the recession, she found a job at a small firm, working for a designer who was “a total mess,” she says, describing how he built his business around the practice of hiring recent graduates for short-term projects then firing them en masse after the jobs were complete. “He had all these international projects, yet he was still working with the student version of CAD! His business was not at all like the streamlined corporate structure I had come from, but he was still successful, and I felt very motivated by that,” explains Sabbe. “After working for him for several months, I thought, If he can do this, I could try.” Horton had a similar experience. “Even if you are working as a junior designer for someone and it’s a bad situation, you’re learning what is correct or not correct in the business,” he says. “I wouldn’t have been able to open my own company right after college—a college degree isn’t enough. In a firm, you learn what works and doesn’t work, what not to do, what to do. Obviously, there’s a lot of moving pieces when you’re working on a home, and a lot of things can go wrong.” Beers agrees that all kinds of mentors have value. “I worked for people I admired greatly, like Jessica, and have modeled my own practice on lessons from that office. I have also held jobs where I struggled with the way the business was run, and have used those lessons in what not to do in equal measure.” The most insightful career guru could very well be sitting next to you, in the trenches at work or at a dinner party. “Mentors are the people that are critical and inspirational at the same time, whether or not they’re industry-related,” says designer Richard Mishaan. “My friend Manolo Valdés, an influential painter and sculptor from Spain, came into my offices one day and said, ‘Are you an accountant?’ I said, ‘You know I’m not.’ ‘Well, your office looks like you are. I would never hire you walking in here. You should have a space that, when you walk in, it blows your mind.’ That conversation changed my entire life. Now, the office is the perfect example of the quality craftsmanship we can execute and use in your home.” Perhaps the most important part of being mentored is passing your hard-won wisdom on to the next generation. “It is interesting to shift from the role of mentee to mentor,” says Pursley. “What I immediately came to appreciate is the amount of patience Bobby had for his younger staff as they grew from interns to architects. Now that I find myself in a leadership role, I try to remember that nurturing perspective and carry it forward. I’m not always successful—but I do try!” Tucker coaches her junior designers, teaching them not just how to run a business, but also how to think critically about design decisions. “I encourage my team to think outside the box, take initiative, and come up with new ideas,” she says. “Even if they may not be the right ideas, I’ll have them tell me why they think it’s right. That in and of itself helps a young designer start questioning, and ultimately develop a discerning eye. When I’m working on something, be it making edits or shifting something around, and they don’t ask, I always say, ‘Don’t you want to know why?’ Ask questions and listen. That’s how you learn.” Portraits: Beers, courtesy of OreStudios; Horton, Robin Verrier; Sabbe, Brian Sabbe; McCarthy, Francesco Lagnese; Luckett, Monique Floyd What was the best advice you ever received? “Always trust your instincts, especially when it comes to business decisions. No one has your best interest at heart more than you do.” —J.P. Horton “Know and understand your weaknesses, then surround yourself with the best people possible so you’re able to focus on the things you excel at.” —Andy Beers “Give them what they never knew they wanted.” —Brian J. McCarthy “You cannot let them see you cry. If you need to cry, go to the bathroom.” —Stephanie Sabbe “You don’t need to be perfect to start. Perfect is the enemy of good.” —Cheryl Luckett This article originally appeared in Fall 2018 issue of Business of Home, Issue 9. Subscribe or become a BOH Insider for more. Keep up with BOH Our quarterly magazine features in-depth analysis of the topics that matter most to the interior design community. Subscribe » Order Past Issues Logo and advertiser section Thank you to our Advertisers	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1710
__label__cc	0.508898	0.491102	Malaria is a life-threatening parasitic disease transmitted by mosquitoes. It was once thought that the disease came from fetid marshes, hence the name mal aria (bad air). In 1880, scientists discovered the real cause of malaria: a one-cell parasite called plasmodium. Later they discovered that the parasite is transmitted from person to person through the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito, which requires blood to nurture her eggs. Causes and Risk Factors of Malaria Malaria comes from being bitten by a mosquito carrying the malaria organism. Risk factors include traveling in areas in which such mosquitoes are found or, rarely, being bitten by a mosquito that has previously fed on an "imported" case of malaria (such that the case can occur in an area of the world where malaria is not endemic).Symptoms of Malaria Malarial attacks present over 4 to 6 hours with shaking chills, high fever, and sweating, and are often associated with fatigue, headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, dry cough, muscle or joint pain, and back ache. The attacks may occur every other day or every third day. Cerebral malaria and death can occur, sometimes within 24 hours, if the infection is caused by plasmodium falciparum. Fever or other symptoms can develop in malaria as early as 8 days or as late as 60 days after exposure or stopping prophylaxis. For plasmodium vivax in temperate areas, the delay may be up to one year.Diagnosis of Malaria Methods of diagnosis are: complete medical history of symptoms and travel blood tests, including thick and thin blood films, to identify the plasmodium species responsible for infectionTreatment of Malaria Medical treatment should be sought immediately.The effectiveness of antimalarial drugs differs with different species of the parasite and with different stages of the parasite's life cycle. Your physician will determine the treatment plan most appropriate for your individual condition. Drugs include chloroquine, mefloquine, primaquine, quinine, pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine (Fansidar), and doxycycline. Some plasmodium have developed resistance to certain medications, and therefore, alternative medications will be prescribed for you.Prevention of Malaria No prophylactic regimen gives complete protection. Speak with your physician or local travel clinic to receive up to date information about the best malaria protection for you. Effectiveness of any given medication varies by the region of the world in which you plan to travel. Effectiveness also varies from year to year, so current information is essential. Prevention is based on: evaluating the risk of exposure to infection preventing mosquito bites by using DEET mosquito repellant, bed nets, and clothing that covers most of the body chemoprophylaxis (preventive medications)Questions To Ask Your Doctor About Malaria Are preventive measures necessary for the region of the world I'll be visiting? Is this a high-risk area for malaria? What drugs can be taken as a preventive measure? What is the correct dosage? When should the drug be started and stopped? What other precautions should I take; repellents, clothes, nets? What symptoms should I look for? Swine Flu H1N1 What is Swine flu? Swine influenza, or “swine flu”, is a highly contagious acute respiratory disease of pigs, caused by one of several swine influenza A viruses. Swine influenza viruses are most commonly of the H1N1 subtype, but other subtypes are also circulating in pigs (e.g., H1N2, H3N1, H3N2) The H3N2 swine virus was thought to have been originally introduced into pigs by humans. Sometimes pigs can be infected with more than one virus type at a time, which can allow the genes from these viruses to mix. This can result in an influenza virus containing genes from a number of sources, called a “reassortant” virus. Although swine influenza viruses are normally species specific and only infect pigs, they do sometimes cross the species barrier to cause disease in humans. The 2009 Swine flu outbreak in humans is due to a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 that derives in part from human influenza, avian influenza, and two separate strains of swine influenza. Modes of Transmission: Most infections occur among people with direct pig contact. Sometimes a flu virus can mutate to be more transmissible to humans. People who work with swine, especially people with intense exposures, are at risk of catching swine influenza if the swine carry a strain able to infect humans. Swine flu cannot be spread by pork products, since the virus is not transmitted through food The symptoms of H1N1 (swine) flu in people are similar to the symptoms of regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Some people have reported diarrhea and vomiting associated with H1N1 (swine) flu. In the past, severe illness (pneumonia and respiratory failure) and deaths have been reported with H1N1 (swine) flu infection in people. Like seasonal flu, H1N1 (swine) flu may cause a worsening of underlying chronic medical conditions. Cerebral palsy (CP) is a permanent physical condition that affects movement. Its effect can be as mild as just a weakness in one hand ranging to almost complete lack of movement. There are three main types of cerebral palsy and each involves the way a person moves. Movements can be unpredictable, muscles can be stiff or tight and in some cases people can have shaky movements or tremors. People with cerebral palsy may have seizures and other impairments affecting their speech, vision, hearing and/or intellect. Cerebral palsy, except in its mildest forms, can be seen in the first 12-18 months of life. It presents when children fail to reach movement milestones. Babies most at risk of cerebral palsy are those born prematurely or with low birthweight. In Australia it is estimated that a child is born with cerebral palsy every 18 hours. Worldwide, the incidence is the same - 1 in 400 births. There is no pre-birth test and no known cure. For most, the cause is unknown. There are three main types of cerebral palsy: Spastic cerebral palsy This is the most common type of cerebral palsy. Spasticity means stiffness or tightness of muscles. The muscles are stiff because the message to the muscles is sent incorrectly through the damaged part of the brain. This is the most common type, affecting 70-80% of the people with the condition. When people without cerebral palsy perform a movement, some groups of muscles become tighter and some groups of muscles relax. In people with spastic cerebral palsy, both groups of muscles may become tighter. This makes movement difficult or even impossible. Dyskinetic cerebral palsy This type affects about 10-20% of people with cerebral palsy. There are two forms: - Athetosis is characterised by uncontrolled, slow, ‘stormy’ movements; - Dystonia is characterised by sustained or intermittent muscle contractions causing twisting or repetitive movement. Ataxic cerebral palsy This is the least common type of cerebral palsy and is characterised by shaky movements. It affects a person’s balance and coordination. Many people have signs of more than one of the three types. The most common mixed form includes spasticity and dystonic movements, but other combinations are also possible. WHAT PART OF THE BODY IS AFFECTED BY CP? This is different from one person to another. In cerebral palsy, certain words are used to describe the parts affected: Hemiplegia - the leg and arm on one side of the body are affected. Diplegia - both legs are affected significantly more than the arms. Children with diplegia usually have some clumsiness with their hand movements. Quadriplegia - Both arms and legs are affected. The muscles of the trunk, face and mouth can also be affected. WHAT CAUSES CEREBRAL PALSY? Cerebral palsy results from damage to part of the brain. The term is used when the problem has occurred to the developing brain, usually before birth. For most people with cerebral palsy, the cause is unknown. The risk is greater in babies born preterm and with low birthweight. Whilst the reasons for this remain unclear, cerebral palsy may occur as a result of problems associated with preterm birth or may indicate an injury has occurred during the pregnancy that has caused the baby to be born early. In some cases, damage to the brain may occur: - in the early months of pregnancy, for example, if the mother is exposed to certain infections such as German Measles; - due to the baby not growing at the correct rate during the pregnancy; - at any time if there is a lack of oxygen supplied to the baby. This is of particular concern during birth. Current research suggests that in some cases this may be due to abnormalities already present in the baby which affect the baby during the birth process; - in the period shortly after birth, if an infant develops a severe infection such as meningitis or encephalitis, which, in rare cases, may result in brain damage; - accidentally in the early years of life; for example, with a near drowning or car accident. Ongoing research is vital for the management of cerebral palsy. An Australian CP Register has been set up to record the incidence and will guide future research in prevention, intervention and service provision. WHAT OTHER CONDITIONS MAY PEOPLE WITH CEREBRAL PALSY HAVE? Disorders of hearing - People with cerebral palsy sometimes also have hearing problems. Disorders of eyesight - People with cerebral palsy may have squints or other visual problems. Epilepsy - People with cerebral palsy may also have recurring seizures (fits). Intellectual disability and learning difficulties - Children and adults with cerebral palsy vary widely in their intellectual and learning capabilities. Some will show the same intellectual capabilities as other children, in spite of their physical difficulties. Others will have some degree of intellectual disability, ranging from mild through to very significant. Perceptual difficulties - Perception is making sense of information gained from the senses. This enables people to do things such as move around obstacles, judge size and shape of objects and understand how lines are connected to form letters. People with cerebral palsy can have problems with perception as the brain may have difficulty interpreting the messages it receives from the senses. Speech difficulties - Because the muscles of the mouth may be affected, some people with cerebral palsy may find talking difficult. Some people may be mildly affected whilst others cannot say any words at all. People who cannot speak clearly may use a communication board or electronic communication device. Eating and drinking difficulties - CP may affect the muscles that open and close the mouth and move the lips and the tongue. Some children have difficulty chewing and swallowing certain foods. WHAT IS THE FUTURE FOR PEOPLE WITH CEREBRAL PALSY? Cerebral Palsy is a life-long condition - generally the weakness, stiffness or unwanted movements remain throughout the person’s life. People with cerebral palsy live with it all their lives. It is important for children to receive support from an early age to ensure they have every opportunity to reach their full potential. There is, however, no cure for the condition. Many people with cerebral palsy are healthy and live to old age. Those people with the more severe forms of the condition may have many health problems that result in a shortened life span. They may also experience signs of ageing at a much earlier age. For example a person with cerebral palsy may have problems with osteoporosis (brittle bones) from their early twenties. This disease would normally not be present in a non-disabled person until they were in their fifties, or older. Parents often ask, 'Will my child lead a "normal" life?' This varies from person to person. People with mild cerebral palsy often need no additional support to undertake the activities that most people enjoy. Others may need assistance to eat their meals, go to the toilet, or need special equipment to communicate or move around (wheelchairs and walkers). New technology has made a huge difference. Using special accessing devices, people with cerebral palsy can now use computers like everyone else - to ‘surf’ the net, email friends, apply for jobs and work in regular employment. Computer based technology allows people with disabilities to operate everyday appliances, such as TVs, CD and DVD players and air conditioners. Like the rest of the community, people with cerebral palsy have a wide range of skills, qualifications and experience. Some have abilities at work entry level, whilst many have tertiary qualifications such as TAFE certificates, diplomas and university degrees Diabetes is a condition where the body is unable to automatically regulate blood glucose levels, resulting in too much glucose (a sugar) in the blood. Glucose comes from foods that contain carbohydrate (starches and sugars); for example, breads and cereals, milk and dairy foods, fruits and some vegetables. Glucose travels in the blood stream to the muscles and other organs where it is used as fuel. Excess glucose is detoured to the liver where it is stored for future use. Glucose is the body’s preferred source of energy and our bodies need it to work efficiently, just like a car needs petrol to run. The blood glucose level is regulated with the help of insulin, a hormone (or chemical messenger) made in the pancreas. >Insulin is the key that glucose needs to enter the body’s cells so that it can be used as fuel. Diabetes develops when the pancreas stops producing insulin (Type 1 diabetes or when the body does not respond properly to insulin (Type 2 diabetes). Insulin injections are necessary to treat Type 1 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes can usually be controlled in the first instance by regular exercise and diet. Tablets and eventually insulin injections may be needed as the disease progresses. The normal blood glucose level ranges between 3.5-7.8 mmol/l. Over time, high blood glucose levels may damage blood vessels and nerves. These complications of diabetes can cause damage to eyes, nerves and kidneys and increase the risk of heart attack, stroke, impotence and foot problems. This damage can happen before an individual knows if they have diabetes if diabetes is undetected for a long time. Studies have shown that if blood glucose and cholesterol levels, and blood pressure are kept within normal limits, the risk of damage to the body is reduced. Therefore, it is important to know if you have diabetes. The symptoms of diabetes include: Tiredness or lack of energy Infections (eg. Thrush) Weight loss (in type 1 diabetes) However, the symptoms of diabetes may not appear until blood glucose levels are above approximately 15mmol/l or higher. So, it is common to have diabetes without knowing about it. In Australia, one adult in twelve has diabetes and the prevalence is increasing. Research has shown that for every person with known diabetes, there is another who has it but has not yet been diagnosed. There are 3 main types of Diabetes: Type 1 (previously known as juvenile onset diabetes), Type 2 (previously known as mature onset diabetes) and Gestational Diabetes (occurring during pregnancy) When should I be tested for diabetes? Anyone 45 years old or older should consider getting tested for diabetes. If you are 45 or older and your BMI indicates that you are overweight .it is strongly recommended that you get tested. If you are younger than 45, are overweight, and have one or more of the risk factors, you should consider testing. Ask your doctor for a FPG or an OGTT. Your doctor will tell you if you have normal blood glucose, pre-diabetes, or diabetes. If your blood glucose is higher than normal but lower than the diabetes range (called pre-diabetes), have your blood glucose checked in 1 to 2 years. What steps can delay or prevent type 2 diabetes? A major research study, the Diabetes Prevention Program, confirmed that people who followed a low-fat, low-calorie diet, lost a modest amount of weight, and engaged in regular physical activity (walking briskly for 30 minutes, five times a week, for example) sharply reduced their chances of developing diabetes. These strategies worked well for both men and women and were especially effective for participants aged 60 and older. How is diabetes managed? If you are diagnosed with diabetes, you can manage it with meal planning, physical activity, and, if needed, medications. Diabetes and pre-diabetes are diagnosed by checking blood glucose levels. Many people with pre-diabetes develop type 2 diabetes within 10 years. If you have pre-diabetes, you can delay or prevent type 2 diabetes with a low-fat, low-calorie diet, modest weight loss, and regular physical activity. If you are 45 or older, you should consider getting tested for diabetes. If you are 45 or older and overweight, it is strongly recommended that you get tested. If you are younger than 45, are overweight, and have one or more of the risk factors, you should consider testing. CEREBRAL PALSY: BASIC FACTS MORE DETAILS ABOUT CEREBRAL PALSY Behcet's Disease First Description Hippocrates may have been the first physician to describe this disease, several centuries B.C. In the 1930's, a Turkish dermatologist, Hulusi Behcet, noted the triad of aphthous oral ulcers, genital lesions, and recurrent eye inflammation, and became the first physician to describe the disease in modern times. Another name for Behcet’s Disease is Behcet’s syndrome. Who gets Behcet's Disease (the “typical” patient)? Behcet’s disease is most common along the “Old Silk Route”, which spans the region from Japan and China in the Far East to the Mediterranean Sea, including countries such as Turkey and Iran. Although the disease is rare in the United States, sporadic cases do occur in patients who would not appear to be at risk because of their ethnic backgrounds (e.g., in Caucasians or African–Americans). The disease is not rare in regions along the Old Silk Route, but the disease’s epidemiology is not well understood. In Japan, Behcet’s disease ranks as a leading cause of blindness. Below is a magnetic resonance image (MRI) study of a Behcet's patient demonstrating central nervous system involvement (white matter changes in the pons). Classic symptoms and signs of Behcet's Disease Behcet’s disease is virtually unparalleled among the vasculitides in its ability to involve blood vessels of nearly all sizes and types, ranging from small arteries to large ones, and involving veins as well as arteries. Because of the diversity of blood vessels it affects, manifestations of Behcet’s may occur at many sites throughout the body. However, the disease has a predilection for certain organs and tissues; these are described below. Genitals Behcet’s may cause either anterior uveitis (inflammation in the front of the eye) or posterior uveitis (inflammation in the back of the eye), and sometimes causes both at the same time. Anterior uveitis results in pain, blurry vision, light sensitivity, tearing, or redness of the eye. Posterior uveitis may be more dangerous and vision–threatening because it often causes fewer symptoms while damaging a crucial part of the eye — the retina. Painful sores in the mouth called “aphthous ulcers”(pictured below). These are very similar in appearance to ulcers that frequently occur in the general population, usually as a result of minor trauma. In Behcet’s, however, the lesions are more numerous, more frequent, and often larger and more painful. Aphthous ulcers can be found on the lips, tongue, and inside of the cheek. Aphthous ulcers may occur singly or in clusters, but occur in virtually all patients with Behcet’s. Pustular skin lesions that resemble acne, but can occur nearly anywhere on the body. This rash is sometimes called “folliculitis”. Skin lesions called erythema nodosum: red, tender nodules that usually occur on the legs and ankles but also appear sometimes on the face, neck, or arms. Unlike erythema nodosum associated with other diseases (which heal without scars), the lesions of Behcet’s disease frequently ulcerate. Aneurysms (outpouchings of blood vessel walls, caused by inflammation) of arteries in the lung, rupture of which may lead to massive lung hemorrhage. Arthritis or “arthralgias” (pain in the joints not accompanied by joint swelling). Central nervous system involvement is one of the most dangerous manifestations of Behcet’s. The disease tends to involve the “white matter” portion of the brain and brainstem, and may lead to headaches, confusion, strokes, personality changes, and (rarely) dementia. Behcet’s may also involve the protective layers around the brain (the meninges), leading to meningitis. Because the meningitis of Behcet's disease is not associated with any known infection, it is often referred to as “aseptic” meningitis. Male — painful genital lesions that form on the scrotum, similar to oral lesions, but deeper. Female — painful genital ulcers that develop on the vulva. Ulcerations may occur anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract from the mouth to the anus. The terminal ileum and cecum are common sites. Involvement of the GI tract by Behcet’s may be difficult to distinguish from inflammatory bowel disease (such as Crohn’s disease). What causes Behcet's Disease? Behcet’s is one of the few forms of vasculitis in which there is a known genetic predisposition. The presence of the gene HLA–B51 is a risk factor for this disease. However, it must be emphasized that presence of the gene in and of itself is not enough to cause Behcet’s: many people possess the gene, but relatively few develop Behcet’s. Despite the predisposition to Behcet’s conferred by HLA–B51, familial cases are not the rule, constituting only about 5% of cases. Thus, it is believed that other factors (perhaps more than one) play a role. Possibilities include infections and other environmental exposures. Pictured below is a typical aphthous ulcer in a patient with Behcet's disease. How is Behcet's Disease Diagnosed? There is no specific “Behcet’s test”. Consequently, the diagnosis is based on the occurrence of symptoms and signs that are compatible with the disease, the presence of certain features that are particularly characteristic (e.g., oral or genital ulcerations), elimination of other possible causes of the patient’s presentation, and — whenever possible — proof of vasculitis by biopsy of an involved organ. An international group of physicians has established a set of guidelines to aid in the classification of Behcet’s patients for the purpose of conducting research in the disease. The criteria put forth by the group include recurrent oral ulceration (at least three occasions in a year). In addition, a patient must also meet two of the following four criteria for Behcet’s disease: recurrent genital ulcerations, eye lesions (uveitis or retinal vasculitis), skin lesions (erythema nodosum, lesions, acne), and or positive "pathergy test". The pathergy test is a simple test in which the forearm is pricked with a small, sterile needle. Occurrence of a small red bump or pustule at the site of needle insertion constitutes a positive test. Although a positive pathergy test is helpful in the diagnosis of Behcet’s, only a minority of Behcet’s patients demonstrate the pathergy phenomenon (i.e., have positive tests). Patients from the Mediterranean region are more likely to demonstrate pathergy. In addition, other conditions can occasionally result in positive pathergy tests, so the test is not 100% specific. Pictured below is an example of the pathergy test; 1) taken at the time when the patient was “stuck” with the sterile needle; 2) shows the area immediately after the stick; 3) & 4) show the area one day and two days after the needle stick, respectively. Treatment and Course of Behcet's Disease For disease that is confined to mucocutaneous regions (mouth, genitals, and skin), topical steroids and non–immunosuppressive medications such as colchicine may be effective. Moderate doses of systemic corticosteroids are also frequently required for disease exacerbations, and some patients require chronic, low doses of prednisone to keep the disease under control. In the event of serious end–organ involvement such as eye or central nervous system disease, both high doses of prednisone and some other form of immunosuppressive treatment are usually necessary. Immunosuppressive agents used in the treatment of Behcet’s include azathioprine, cyclosporine, cyclophosphamide, and chlorambucil. With organ- or life-threatening disease, the combination of prednisone and either cyclophosphamide or chlorambucil (both of which are from the same class of drug — “alkylating agents”) is the preferred therapy. What's new in Behcet's Disease? Thalidomide, a drug long banned in the United States because of its teratogenic potential (its ability to cause birth defects in the offspring of women who take the drug when pregnant), has been demonstrated to be effective in the treatment of mucocutaneous Behcet’s disease. Its effectiveness in more severe Behcet’s disease, however, is not known. In addition, thalidomide use is associated with the development of peripheral neuropathy (frequently irreversible) in a high percentage of patients who take the drug for prolonged periods. For more information about Thalidomide, please visit the United States Food and Drug Administration / Center for Drug Evaluation and Research’s Website on Consumer Drug Information Interferon–alpha, a drug used in the treatment of hepatitis C, has also demonstrated some promise in Behcet’s. Batten disease (Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses) is an inherited disorder of the nervous system that usually manifests itself in childhood. Batten disease is named after the British paediatrician who first described it in 1903. It is one of a group of disorders called neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (or NCLs). Although Batten disease is the juvenile form of NCL, most doctors use the same term to describe all forms of NCL. Early symptoms of Batten disease (or NCL) usually appear in childhood when parents or doctors may notice a child begin to develop vision problems or seizures. In some cases the early signs are subtle, taking the form of personality and behaviour changes, slow learning, clumsiness or stumbling. Over time, affected children suffer mental impairment, worsening seizures, and progressive loss of sight and motor skills. Children become totally disabled and eventually die. Batten disease is not contagious nor, at this time, preventable. To date it has always been fatal. What are the forms of NCL? There are four main types of NCL, including a very rare form that affects adults. The symptoms of all types are similar but they become apparent at different ages and progress at different rates. Infantile NCL: (Santavuori-Haltia type) begins between about 6 months and 2 years of age and progresses rapidly. Affected children fail to thrive and have abnormally small heads (microcephaly). Also typical are short, sharp muscle contractions called myoclonic jerks. Patients usually die before age 5, although some have survived a few years longer. Late infantile NCL: (Jansky-Bielschowsky type) begins between ages 2 and 4. The typical early signs are loss of muscle co-ordination (ataxia) and seizures that do not respond to anticonvulsant drugs. This form progresses fairly rapidly and children live to between the ages 6 and 12. Juvenile NCL: (Spielmeyer-Vogt-Sjogren Batten type) begins between the ages of 5 to 10. The most frequent beginning symptom is visual failure, less common are seizures. Motor disturbances occur late in the disease. After a slowly progressive course patients usually live to late teens, early 20’s or more rarely, into their 30’s. Adult NCL: (Kufs or Parry’s type) generally begins before the age of 40, causes milder symptoms that progress slowly, and does not cause blindness. Although age of death is variable among affected individuals, this form does shorten life expectancy. Other Types: Some children who definitely have Batten disease don't fall into any of the patterns described above. About 1 in 10 cases are not typical of any of these groups of children. In some the disease progresses more quickly and in some slower. How many people have these disorders? Batten disease and other forms of NCL are relatively rare, occurring in an estimated 4 of every 100,000 births in the United States. These disorders appear to be more common in Finland, Sweden, other parts of northern Europe, and Newfoundland, Canada. The incidence in Australia is not known precisely. Although NCLs are relatively rare, they can often strike more than one person in families that carry the defective gene. A family can be affected by one type of NCL only. How are NCLs inherited? The cause of Batten disease lies in the chromosomes, which carry the hereditary characteristics and are found in the nuclei of somatic cells. The nucleaus of every cell in the body contains twenty-three pairs of chromosomes. Each gene represents the 'code' for a particular characteristic. In the case of Batten disease, there is an aberration in one of the genes in one pair of chromosomes. RECESSIVE MODE OF INHERITANCE B B B b B b b b Normal Carriers Affected Childhood NCLs are autosomal recessive disorders; that is, they occur when a child inherits two copies of the defective gene, one from each parent. When this occurs, each of their children has a one in four chance of developing NCL or a one in two chance of inheriting just one copy of the defective gene. Individuals who have only one defective gene are known as carriers, meaning they do not develop the disease, but they can pass the gene onto their own children. Although there is no conclusive test yet available to identify carriers of the affected gene, recent breakthroughs in identification of the infantile and juvenile types have brought this one step closer. Adult NCL may be inherited as an autosomal recessive or, less often, as an autosomal dominant disorder. In autosomal dominant inheritance, all people who inherent a single copy of the disease gene develop the disease. As a result, there are no unaffected carriers of the gene. What causes these diseases? The defective gene causes malfunction at a cellular level. This is manifested in a number of different ways which affect the cell chemistry and leads to a variety of clinical observations and symptoms. The exact procedure in the different types of NCLs is still not understood. One theory holds that the disease reflects a disorder of the normal degradation of membranes within neurons, leading to an abnormal disposal and accumulation of insoluble lipid-protein complexes. Another theory claims that the disease may be characterised by a disorder in lipid metabolism in the cells; i.e. lipids or fats, and their associated proteins are not processed correctly. Research suggests that there is an abnormal production of lipid peroxides and an enzyme deficiency, probably among specific enzymes that digest membrane proteins. This combination of problems leads to the accumulation of a yellow fluorescent pigment, ceroid lipofuscin, in the brain cells. At this time, the pigment is considered to be the end result of a combination of metabolic derangements and marks the progressive deterioration in brain function. The ceroid pigment is similar biochemically to materials accumulated more slowly during the normal ageing process. In Batten disease however, the accumulation is quite rapid and destructive. The specific reasons for the loss in brain function are not known. Thus, while there are some promising leads, and some very recent breakthroughs in gene research, we still have little understanding of the specific cause or biochemical mechanism involved in Batten disease. Clinical course of Batten disease Symptoms vary with each child. Early symptoms of Batten disease are confusing and not easily recognised even by medical personnel. The following is an outline of the most typical symptomatology: Visual impairment often progressing to complete blindness; Seizures, which may be frequent and difficult to control; Decline in cognitive function; Personality and behavioural changes; Loss of communication skills; Loss of fine and gross motor skills; Abnormal body movements; A general progressive deterioration. Other symptoms that may develop include:- slowing of head growth with age in the infantile form, poor circulation in lower extremities with legs and feet cold as well as bluish-red in colour, decreased body fat and muscle mass, curvature of the spine, hyperventilation and/or breath-holding spells, difficulty in swallowing and feeding, teeth grinding and constipation. How are these disorders diagnosed? Batten disease is rarely diagnosed immediately because of the variability in symptoms and age of onset. Children are often mistakenly thought to have epilepsy or a form of mental retardation. Adults are sometimes labelled schizophrenics. This can be a difficult and frustrating time for all concerned. Vision loss is often an early sign, and therefore Batten disease may be first suspected during an eye examination. A doctor can detect a loss of cells within the eye that occurs in the three childhood forms of NCL. However, because such cell loss occurs in other eye diseases, the disorder cannot be diagnosed by this sign alone. A doctor who suspects NCL may refer the child to a neurologist, a doctor who specialises in diseases of the brain and nervous system. In order to diagnose NCL, the neurologist needs the patient’s medical history and information from various laboratory tests. Diagnostic tests used for NCLs include: blood or urine tests. These tests can detect abnormalities that may indicate Batten disease. For example, elevated levels of a chemical called dolichol are found in the urine of many NCL patients. skin or tissue sampling. The doctor can examine a small piece of tissue under a electron microscope. The powerful magnification will show typical NCL deposits. These deposits are common in skin cells, especially those from sweat glands and samples may be taken from the skin or a rectal biopsy. electroecephalogram or EEG. An EEG uses special patches placed on the scalp to record electrical currents inside the brain. This helps doctors see telltale patterns in the brain’s electrical activity. electrical studies of the eyes. These tests, which include visual-evoked responses and electroretinograms, can detect various eye problems common in childhood NCLs. brain scans. Imaging can help detect changes in the brain’s appearance. The most commonly used imaging technique is computed tomography, or CT, which uses x-rays and a computer to create a sophisticated picture of the brain’s tissues and structures. A second image technique that is increasingly common is magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI. MRI uses a combination of magnetic fields and radio waves, instead of radiation, to create a picture of the brain. Tests Available An accurate diagnosis of Batten’s disease and the particular type is essential before prenatal or presymptomatic tests can be done. Carrier, prenatal and pre-genetic embryo (IVF) testing is available for the more common forms. Please liaise with your Medical Practitioner and a Geneticist for information. Presymptomatic testing of younger children is possible using a skin or rectal biopsy, when the diagnosis in an older child has been confirmed with similar tests. Is there any treatment? As yet, no specific treatment is known that can halt or reverse the symptoms of Batten disease. However, seizures can be reduced or controlled with anti-convulsant drugs, and other medical problems can be treated appropriately as they arise. At the same time, physical and occupational therapy can help patients retain function as long as possible. Some reports have described a slowing of the disease in children with Batten disease who were treated with vitamin supplements. Attention is being focussed on controlling some of the cell chemistry through dietary trials including fish oils and anti-oxidants. There are other studies also being carried out in the USA, UK, Australia and the Netherlands. However, so far these treatments have not prevented the final outcome of the disease. Support and understanding can help patients and families cope with the profound disability and loss of cognitive function caused by NCLs. Often, support groups enable affected children, adults, and families to share common concerns and experiences. Meanwhile, scientists pursue medical research that could someday (hopefully in the near future), yield an effective treatment. More government and public support are needed to provide the resources to help them. Recent and Current Research Through the work of several scientific teams in different countries, the search for the genetic cause of NCLs is gathering speed. We have moved into the next decade of research since the first breakthrough of isolating the infantile gene. Some scientists are investigating the theory that children with Batten disease have a shortage of a key body enzyme. Investigators are searching for enzymes that might be scarce, defective, or completely missing. Trials of treatments are a reality …. Stem Cell transplants and Gene Therapy. For more information regarding these trials, please visit the BDSRA, USA via our Contacts page. Both these trials are dependent upon public funding and support. Many animal models are available to researchers now, such as dogs (used in Australia), cow (used in Australia), sheep (used in New Zealand), fly, worm, fish and of course, mice. Overall, while many scientists are still trying to discover the whys of Batten Disease, several others are forging ahead developing treatments Lou Gehrig's Disease Definition of Lou Gehrig's Disease Lou Gehrig's Disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive and usually fatal disorder that attacks the nerves and muscles. It is sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease, after the famed New York Yankee slugger whose death in 1941 was caused by this disorder. Description of Lou Gehrig's Disease Amyotrophic comes from the Greek language. "A" means no or negative. "Myo" refers to muscle, and "trophic" means nourishment: "No muscle nourishment." When a muscle has no nourishment, it atrophies, or wastes away. "Lateral" identifies the areas in a person's spinal cord where portions of the nerve cells that nourish the muscles are located. As this area degenerates, it leads to scarring or "sclerosis" in the region. ALS is a motor neuron disease. It affects the nerve cells that control the muscles we move voluntarily. In this disease, nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, known as motor neurons, gradually degenerate, causing the muscles under their control to weaken and waste away. ALS victims eventually become disabled, have difficulty speaking and swallowing, and may succumb to infections, particularly pneumonia. While the disease paralyzes the "voluntary" muscles, patients remain alert and are able to think clearly, so that they can find ways to communicate without speech. The five senses are unaffected, and most patients maintain control over their bowels and bladder. For some patients, using these remaining abilities can be the springboard to cope with the disease. The most common form of ALS is known as "sporadic" ALS. It may affect anyone at anytime. Other terms used to categorize variants of the classical form of ALS include spinal muscular atrophy, progressive bulbar palsy and primary lateral sclerosis. Causes and Risk Factors of Lou Gehrig's Disease "Familial", ALS suggests the disease is inherited, although no heredity pattern exists in the majority of ALS cases. About 5 to 10 percent of all ALS patients appear to have a genetic or inherited component. In those families, 50 percent of the all offspring are expected to have the disease. Most who develop ALS are between the ages of 40 and 70. There have been many cases of the disease attacking teenagers, though generally, ALS occurs in greater percentages as men and women grow older. It was once believed that men developed ALS more frequently than women. That no longer appears to be the case, and today both sexes are affected in nearly equal numbers. Symptoms of Lou Gehrig's Disease Early symptoms vary with each individual, but they usually include tripping, dropping things, abnormal fatigue of the arms and/or legs, slurred speech, muscle cramps and twitches, and involuntary periods of laughing or crying. With the hands and feet affected first, it causes difficulty in walking or using the hands for the activities of daily living, such as dressing, washing and buttoning clothes. Since ALS affects only motor neurons, the senses of sight, touch, hearing, taste and smell, muscles of the eyes and bladder are generally not affected. As the weakening and paralysis continues to spread to the muscles of the trunk of the body, it eventually affects swallowing, chewing and breathing. When the breathing muscles are affected, the patient may require permanent ventilatory support to survive. The mind is not impaired and remains sharp, despite the progressive degenerating condition of the body. Diagnosis of Lou Gehrig's Disease Electromyography (electrical studies of muscle) is often performed to confirm the disease. A biopsy (removal of a small piece of tissue) of muscle tissue may also been performed if the diagnosis is in doubt. Treatment of Lou Gehrig's Disease Although there is no cure for ALS, much can be done to help patients live more productively and independently. Physical therapy and rehabilitation techniques can help patients learn how to work around the weakness and functional disability caused by the disease. Patients may benefit from braces or a walker to improve mobility. Questions To Ask Your Doctor About Lou Gehrig's Disease What tests need to be done to diagnose the condition or the extent of involvement? How fast will this progress? What should be expected? How long until the body begins to show signs of this condition? Will you be prescribing any medication to relieve symptoms? Will rehabilitative measures be started? Is there a support group in the area? Alzheimer’s disease is one type of dementia. It is a progressive and eventually fatal disease of the brain. It impairs higher brain functions such as memory, thinking and personality. The cause of Alzheimer’s disease is unknown and there is no cure. Current research is focusing on prevention, treatment and cure of the disease. Two types of Alzheimer’s The two forms of the disease are familial Alzheimer’s disease, which is caused by a rare genetic mutation, and sporadic Alzheimer’s disease, which can strike anyone. Sporadic Alzheimer’s disease affects one in 25 Australians aged 60 years and over. Alzheimer’s disease causes changes in the brain How the Brain and Nerve Cells Change During Alzheimer's Disease Brain cells or neurones ‘talk’ to each other through connections called synapses. In Alzheimer’s disease, these connections are broken and ultimately disappear in the parts of the brain where thinking occurs. Research has found that people with Alzheimer’s disease have damaged brain cells, called ‘tangles’, and deposits between the cells, called ‘amyloid plaques’. These plaques are mostly made up of a protein called ‘A-beta’ or beta amyloid. A build-up of this otherwise normal protein is thought to cause the damage. Sometimes the beta amyloid protein can convert oxygen into hydrogen peroxide – a form of bleach – which then corrodes or ‘rusts’ brain cells, particularly the parts of the brain concerned with memory and reasoning. Researchers are trying to work out why this build-up of amyloid plaques occurs in some people and not others. They are also trying to find ways to reduce or abolish the toxic effects of this protein. Established risk factors The cause or causes of Alzheimer’s disease are not known. However, some risk factors have been identified. Well-established risk factors for Alzheimer’s include: Age – the risk of developing Alzheimer’s doubles for every five years over age 65. For people aged 70–74 years, there is a 1 in 30 chance, compared to a 1 in 3 chance for people aged 90 to 94 years. Genetic history – early-onset Alzheimer’s is a very rare form of the disease that can occur in people between the ages of 30 and 60. In the 1980s, researchers found that changes in certain genes cause early-onset Alzheimer’s. A person has a 1 in 2 chance of developing early-onset Alzheimer’s if one parent has any of these genetic mutations. Genetic conditions – most people with Down syndrome over the age of 40 will develop Alzheimer’s disease at a relatively early age. The reasons are unknown. Possible risk factors Other risk factors for Alzheimer’s have been suggested but not all have been proven. Some possible risk factors include: Head injury – especially more severe head injuries. Head size – people with a smaller head may be at a higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Vascular risk factors – factors that affect the vascular (blood vessel) system may also increase the risk of Alzheimer’s; these may include things such as smoking, hypertension and diabetes. Diet – a diet high in saturated fats may increase risk. Research into treatments Research into Alzheimer’s is focused on four possible treatments: Increase the efficiency of the damaged nerve cells – the drugs currently used are tacrine hydrochloride (Cognex) and donepezil hydrochloride (Aricept). They bolster the efficiency of the nerve cells most affected by Alzheimer’s disease. However, the effects are short lived and don’t cure the disease. Prevent production of beta amyloid proteins – researchers have searched for molecules which inhibit the ‘parent’ molecule of the beta amyloid protein, to reduce the production of the proteins. Protect nerve cells from the damaging effects of hydrogen peroxide – studies using vitamin E have shown small but significant improvements in function in one group of Alzheimer’s disease sufferers. Researchers are testing a range of antioxidants to see if they help protect nerve cells. Inhibit the build-up of beta amyloid proteins – researchers believe that beta amyloid proteins may become toxic as they build up. If the accumulated proteins could be broken down, they may be less harmful. Research into risk factors and prevention Many areas are being researched as possible risk factors, which may help identify ways to delay or prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Areas of research include: Gender and hormones Brain activity Antioxidants and nutrition. Some research has suggested a connection between high blood cholesterol levels and a higher risk of Alzheimer’s. This caused researchers to ask whether drugs that lower blood cholesterol might also lower the risk of Alzheimer’s. The most common drugs used to lower blood cholesterol are called statins. Some recent studies have shown a lower risk of dementia in people who take statins but other research has been inconclusive. Other research has found that a high level of the amino acid homocysteine is associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s. High levels of homocysteine are known to increase heart disease risk. There may be a link between high blood pressure, other stroke risk factors and Alzheimer’s disease. High blood pressure and other stroke risk factors – age, diabetes, cardiovascular disease – can damage blood vessels in the brain and reduce the brain’s oxygen supply. This damage may disrupt nerve cell circuits that are thought to be important to decision making, memory and verbal skills. Studies show that diabetes is associated with several types of dementia including Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia (a type of dementia associated with strokes). Alzheimer’s and Type 2 diabetes share several characteristics, including deposits of a damaging amyloid protein – in the brain for Alzheimer’s and in the pancreas for Type 2 diabetes. Scientists are learning more about the possible relationships between these two diseases. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are analgesic (pain-killing) drugs used for a variety of conditions. Some studies suggest an association between a reduced risk of Alzheimer’s and the use of certain NSAIDs such as ibuprofen, naproxen and indomethacin. However, clinical trials have so far not demonstrated a benefit from these drugs. NSAID drugs such as ibuprofen should not be taken regularly as a preventative measure against Alzheimer’s. The abuse of NSAIDs carries significant risks including stomach irritation, gastrointestinal bleeding and possible interaction with other medication. It is known that women have a higher risk than men of developing Alzheimer’s disease, even allowing for the longer average lifespan of women. Researchers are examining the effect of various hormones on the brain, including oestrogen. Some studies have suggested that women who take oestrogen-based hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, while one recent study suggested a higher risk where oestrogen levels are low in the brain, not just in the blood. However, another study has shown that the risk of dementia does not reduce with oestrogen-only HRT, and increases slightly with combination oestrogen and progesterone therapy. Keeping the brain active is associated with reduced risk of Alzheimer’s, but it is not yet clear why this is the case. Research is looking into: Mentally stimulating activities and how they might protect the brain. It is thought that these activities might help the brain become more adaptable and flexible in some areas of mental function so that it can compensate for declines in other areas. Reduced involvement in intellectual stimulation, which could reflect very early effects of the disease. Other lifestyle issues. People who regularly engage in mentally stimulating activities might have other lifestyle features that may protect them against Alzheimer’s. Research in animals and humans has shown that both physical and mental function improve with aerobic fitness. For example, some research has found that walking was particularly beneficial. In one study, a walking group became more physically fit than those who were assigned to a stretching and toning group. The walkers also showed greater improvements on tests of planning, scheduling and decision making. Antioxidants and nutrition Research is continuing into the role of nutrition and nutritional supplements in Alzheimer’s disease. Areas of research include: Antioxidants – these may protect brain cells against the damaging effects of hydrogen peroxide as beta amyloid proteins break down. Vitamin E has shown some promise, but very high doses of vitamin E (above 1,000 units per day) can actually increase the risk of having a stroke. The herbal supplement gingko biloba is also being investigated for its antioxidant properties, but there is no evidence that it will cure or prevent Alzheimer’s. Fats in food – a high intake of saturated fats increases the risk of diabetes, hypertension and other vascular conditions, which are thought to be associated with Alzheimer’s. Research is investigating how diet interacts with Alzheimer’s. B-group vitamins – people with low levels of folic acid (folate) or vitamin B12 appear to be at higher risk of Alzheimer’s disease. A deficiency in either vitamin may allow an increase in the levels of an amino acid called homocysteine, which is known to be a risk factor for heart disease. Sage – the herb reputedly boosts memory. It has been shown that sage acts as a cholinesterase inhibitor, the same behaviour shown by three drugs licensed for Alzheimer’s disease. Aluminium – there is no evidence that aluminium in the diet or environment increases the risk of Alzheimer’s, but research is continuing. Vitamins and herbal supplements can have powerful side effects and interact with other medication. Discuss taking any supplements with your doctor first. Steps that may help prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s disease It is not possible to cure dementia. There is no proven way to prevent dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. However, research has shown that some measures may reduce the risk by either delaying or preventing the onset of dementia. Many of these steps have proven health benefits for other conditions, even if they do not ultimately protect against Alzheimer’s disease. Suggestions include: Avoid head injury – always wear a seatbelt and use protective headwear for sports. Monitor and lower cholesterol and homocysteine levels. Monitor and control high blood pressure. Control diabetes and maintain a healthy weight. Limit saturated fats in your diet. Enjoy a diet high in antioxidants from fruits and vegetables. Maintain adequate dietary vitamin E and consider supplements (not more than 400mg a day) on the advice of your doctor. Maintain adequate B12 and folic acid intake and consider supplements on the advice of your doctor. Enjoy a moderate alcohol intake if you drink alcohol. Maintain social and intellectual activities. Don’t smoke. Your doctor Alzheimer’s Australia Tel. 1800 639 331 National Dementia Helpline Tel. 1800 100 500 The Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria Tel. (03) 9388 1633 Your local community health service Aged Care Assessment Services (contact via DHS) Tel. (03) 9606 0000 The cause of Alzheimer’s disease is not known and there is no cure. Research has identified many risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease. Activities that may prevent or delay Alzheimer’s disease will also benefit your overall health. 10 warning signs of Alzheimer's: 1. Memory loss. Forgetting recently learned information is one of the most common early signs of dementia. A person begins to forget more often and is unable to recall the information later. What's normal? Forgetting names or appointments occasionally. 2. Difficulty performing familiar tasks. People with dementia often find it hard to plan or complete everyday tasks. Individuals may lose track of the steps involved in preparing a meal, placing a telephone call or playing a game. What's normal? Occasionally forgetting why you came into a room or what you planned to say. 3. Problems with language. People with Alzheimer’s disease often forget simple words or substitute unusual words, making their speech or writing hard to understand. They may be unable to find the toothbrush, for example, and instead ask for "that thing for my mouth.” What's normal? Sometimes having trouble finding the right word. 4. Disorientation to time and place. People with Alzheimer’s disease can become lost in their own neighborhood, forget where they are and how they got there, and not know how to get back home. What's normal? Forgetting the day of the week or where you were going. 5. Poor or decreased judgment. Those with Alzheimer’s may dress inappropriately, wearing several layers on a warm day or little clothing in the cold. They may show poor judgment, like giving away large sums of money to telemarketers. What's normal? Making a questionable or debatable decision from time to time. 6. Problems with abstract thinking. Someone with Alzheimer’s disease may have unusual difficulty performing complex mental tasks, like forgetting what numbers are for and how they should be used. What's normal? Finding it challenging to balance a checkbook. 7. Misplacing things. A person with Alzheimer’s disease may put things in unusual places: an iron in the freezer or a wristwatch in the sugar bowl. What's normal? Misplacing keys or a wallet temporarily. 8. Changes in mood or behavior. Someone with Alzheimer’s disease may show rapid mood swings – from calm to tears to anger – for no apparent reason. What's normal? Occasionally feeling sad or moody. 9. Changes in personality. The personalities of people with dementia can change dramatically. They may become extremely confused, suspicious, fearful or dependent on a family member. What's normal? People’s personalities do change somewhat with age. 10. Loss of initiative. A person with Alzheimer’s disease may become very passive, sitting in front of the TV for hours, sleeping more than usual or not wanting to do usual activities. What's normal? Sometimes feeling weary of work or social obligations. The difference between Alzheimer's and normal age-related memory changes Someone with Alzheimer's disease symptoms Someone with normal age-related memory changes Forgets entire experiences Forgets part of an experience Rarely remembers later Often remembers later Is gradually unable to follow written/spoken directions Is usually able to follow written/spoken directions Is gradually unable to use notes as reminders Is usually able to use notes as reminders Is gradually unable to care for self Is usually able to care for self No impairment (normal function) Unimpaired individuals experience no memory problems and none are evident to a health care professional during a medical interview. Very mild cognitive decline (may be normal age-related changes or earliest signs of Alzheimer's disease) Individuals may feel as if they have memory lapses, especially in forgetting familiar words or names or the location of keys, eyeglasses or other everyday objects. But these problems are not evident during a medical examination or apparent to friends, family or co-workers. Mild cognitive decline Early-stage Alzheimer's can be diagnosed in some, but not all, individuals with these symptoms Friends, family or co-workers begin to notice deficiencies. Problems with memory or concentration may be measurable in clinical testing or discernible during a detailed medical interview. Common difficulties include: Word- or name-finding problems noticeable to family or close associates Decreased ability to remember names when introduced to new people Performance issues in social or work settings noticeable to family, friends or co-workers Reading a passage and retaining little material Losing or misplacing a valuable object Decline in ability to plan or organize Moderate cognitive decline (Mild or early-stage Alzheimer's disease) At this stage, a careful medical interview detects clear-cut deficiencies in the following areas: Decreased knowledge of recent occasions or current events Impaired ability to perform challenging mental arithmetic-for example, to count backward from 75 by 7s Decreased capacity to perform complex tasks, such as planning dinner for guests, paying bills and managing finances Reduced memory of personal history The affected individual may seem subdued and withdrawn, especially in socially or mentally challenging situations Moderately severe cognitive decline (Moderate or mid-stage Alzheimer's disease) Major gaps in memory and deficits in cognitive function emerge. Some assistance with day-to-day activities becomes essential. At this stage, individuals may: Be unable during a medical interview to recall such important details as their current address, their telephone number or the name of the college or high school from which they graduated Become confused about where they are or about the date, day of the week or season Have trouble with less challenging mental arithmetic; for example, counting backward from 40 by 4s or from 20 by 2s Need help choosing proper clothing for the season or the occasion Usually retain substantial knowledge about themselves and know their own name and the names of their spouse or children Usually require no assistance with eating or using the toilet Severe cognitive decline (Moderately severe or mid-stage Alzheimer's disease) Memory difficulties continue to worsen, significant personality changes may emerge and affected individuals need extensive help with customary daily activities. At this stage, individuals may: Lose most awareness of recent experiences and events as well as of their surroundings Recollect their personal history imperfectly, although they generally recall their own name Occasionally forget the name of their spouse or primary caregiver but generally can distinguish familiar from unfamiliar faces Need help getting dressed properly; without supervision, may make such errors as putting pajamas over daytime clothes or shoes on wrong feet Experience disruption of their normal sleep/waking cycle Need help with handling details of toileting (flushing toilet, wiping and disposing of tissue properly) Have increasing episodes of urinary or fecal incontinence Experience significant personality changes and behavioral symptoms, including suspiciousness and delusions (for example, believing that their caregiver is an impostor); hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that are not really there); or compulsive, repetitive behaviors such as hand-wringing or tissue shredding Tend to wander and become lost Very severe cognitive decline (Severe or late-stage Alzheimer's disease) This is the final stage of the disease when individuals lose the ability to respond to their environment, the ability to speak and, ultimately, the ability to control movement. Frequently individuals lose their capacity for recognizable speech, although words or phrases may occasionally be uttered Individuals need help with eating and toileting and there is general incontinence of urine Individuals lose the ability to walk without assistance, then the ability to sit without support, the ability to smile, and the ability to hold their head up. Reflexes become abnormal and muscles grow rigid. Swallowing is impaired. People have been warned about HIV and AIDS for over twenty years now. AIDS has already killed millions of people, millions more continue to become infected with HIV, and there's no cure – so AIDS will be around for a while yet. AIDS is one of biggest problems facing the world today and nobody is beyond its reach. Everyone should know the basic facts about AIDS. What is AIDS? AIDS is a medical condition. People develop AIDS because HIV has damaged their natural defences against disease. What is HIV? HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) HIV is a virus. Viruses infect the cells that make up the human body and replicate (make new copies of themselves) within those cells. A virus can also damage human cells, which is one of the things that can make a person ill. HIV can be passed from one person to another. Someone can become infected with HIV through contact with the bodily fluids of someone who already has HIV. HIV stands for the 'Human Immunodeficiency Virus'. Someone who is diagnosed as infected with HIV is said to be 'HIV+' or 'HIV positive'. Why is HIV dangerous? The immune system is a group of cells and organs that protect your body by fighting disease. The human immune system usually finds and kills viruses fairly quickly. So if the body's immune system attacks and kills viruses, what's the problem? Different viruses attack different parts of the body - some may attack the skin, others the lungs, and so on. The common cold is caused by a virus. What makes HIV so dangerous is that it attacks the immune system itself - the very thing that would normally get rid of a virus. It particularly attacks a special type of immune system cell known as a CD4 lymphocyte. HIV has a number of tricks that help it to evade the body's defences, including very rapid mutation. This means that once HIV has taken hold, the immune system can never fully get rid of it. There isn't any way to tell just by looking if someone's been infected by HIV. In fact a person infected with HIV may look and feel perfectly well for many years and may not know that they are infected. But as the person's immune system weakens they become increasingly vulnerable to illnesses, many of which they would previously have fought off easily. The only reliable way to tell whether someone has HIV is for them to take a blood test, which can detect infection from a few weeks after the virus first entered the body. When HIV causes AIDS A damaged immune system is not only more vulnerable to HIV, but also to the attacks of other infections. It won't always have the strength to fight off things that wouldn't have bothered it before. As time goes by, a person who has been infected with HIV is likely to become ill more and more often until, usually several years after infection, they become ill with one of a number of particularly severe illnesses. It is at this point in the stages of HIV infection that they are said to have AIDS - when they first become seriously ill, or when the number of immune system cells left in their body drops below a particular point. Different countries have slightly different ways of defining the point at which a person is said to have AIDS rather than HIV. AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is an extremely serious condition, and at this stage the body has very little defence against any sort of infection. How long does HIV take to become AIDS? Without drug treatment, HIV infection usually progresses to AIDS in an average of ten years. This average, though, is based on a person having a reasonable diet. Someone who is malnourished may well progress to AIDS and death more rapidly. Antiretroviral medication can prolong the time between HIV infection and the onset of AIDS. Modern combination therapy is highly effective and, theoretically, someone with HIV can live for a long time before it becomes AIDS. These medicines, however, are not widely available in many poor countries around the world, and millions of people who cannot access medication continue to die. How is HIV passed on? HIV is found in the blood and the sexual fluids of an infected person, and in the breast milk of an infected woman. HIV transmission occurs when a sufficient quantity of these fluids get into someone else's bloodstream. There are various ways a person can become infected with HIV. Ways in which you can be infected with HIV : Unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected person Sexual intercourse without a condom is risky, because the virus, which is present in an infected person's sexual fluids, can pass directly into the body of their partner. This is true for unprotected vaginal and anal sex. Oral sex carries a lower risk, but again HIV transmission can occur here if a condom is not used - for example, if one partner has bleeding gums or an open cut, however small, in their mouth. Contact with an infected person's blood If sufficient blood from an infected person enters someone else's body then it can pass on the virus. From mother to child HIV can be transmitted from an infected woman to her baby during pregnancy, delivery and breastfeeding. There are special drugs that can greatly reduce the chances of this happening, but they are unavailable in much of the developing world. Use of infected blood products Many people in the past have been infected with HIV by the use of blood transfusions and blood products which were contaminated with the virus - in hospitals, for example. In much of the world this is no longer a significant risk, as blood donations are routinely tested. Injecting drugs People who use injected drugs are also vulnerable to HIV infection. In many parts of the world, often because it is illegal to possess them, injecting equipment or works are shared. A tiny amount of blood can transmit HIV, and can be injected directly into the bloodstream with the drugs. It is not possible to become infected with HIV through : sharing crockery and cutlery insect / animal bites touching, hugging or shaking hands eating food prepared by someone with HIV HIV facts and myths People with HIV look just like everybody else Around the world, there are a number of different myths about HIV and AIDS. Here are some of the more common ones : 'You would have to drink a bucket of infected saliva to become infected yourself' . . . Yuck! This is a typical myth. HIV is found in saliva, but in quantities too small to infect someone. If you drink a bucket of saliva from an HIV positive person, you won't become infected. There has been only one recorded case of HIV transmission via kissing, out of all the many millions of kisses. In this case, both partners had extremely badly bleeding gums. 'Sex with a virgin can cure HIV' . . . This myth is common in some parts of Africa, and it is totally untrue. The myth has resulted in many rapes of young girls and children by HIV+ men, who often infect their victims. Rape won't cure anything and is a serious crime all around the world. 'It only happens to gay men / black people / young people, etc' . . . This myth is false. Most people who become infected with HIV didn't think it would happen to them, and were wrong. 'HIV can pass through latex' . . . Some people have been spreading rumours that the virus is so small that it can pass through 'holes' in latex used to make condoms. This is untrue. The fact is that latex blocks HIV, as well as sperm - preventing pregnancy, too. What does 'safe sex' mean? Safe sex refers to sexual activities which do not involve any blood or sexual fluid from one person getting into another person's body. If two people are having safe sex then, even if one person is infected, there is no possibility of the other person becoming infected. Examples of safe sex are cuddling, mutual masturbation, 'dry' (or 'clothed') sex . . . In many parts of the world, particularly the USA, people are taught that the best form of safe sex is no sex - also called 'sexual abstinence'. Abstinence isn't a form of sex at all - it involves avoiding all sexual activity. Usually, young people are taught that they should abstain sexually until they marry, and then remain faithful to their partner. This is a good way for someone to avoid HIV infection, as long as their husband or wife is also completely faithful and doesn't infect them. What is 'safer sex'? Safer sex is used to refer to a range of sexual activities that hold little risk of HIV infection. Safer sex is often taken to mean using a condom for sexual intercourse. Using a condom makes it very hard for the virus to pass between people when they are having sexual intercourse. A condom, when used properly, acts as a physical barrier that prevents infected fluid getting into the other person's body. Is kissing risky? Kissing someone on the cheek, also known as social kissing, does not pose any risk of HIV transmission. Deep or open-mouthed kissing is considered a very low risk activity for transmission of HIV. This is because HIV is present in saliva but only in very minute quantities, insufficient to lead to HIV infection alone. There has only been one documented instance of HIV infection as a result of kissing out of all the millions of cases recorded. This was as a result of infected blood getting into the mouth of the other person during open-mouthed kissing, and in this instance both partners had seriously bleeding gums. Can anything 'create' HIV? No. Unprotected sex, for example, is only risky if one partner is infected with the virus. If your partner is not carrying HIV, then no type of sex or sexual activity between you is going to cause you to become infected - you can't 'create' HIV by having unprotected anal sex, for example. You also can't become infected through masturbation. In fact nothing you do on your own is going to give you HIV - it can only be transmitted from another person who already has the virus. Is there a cure for AIDS? HIV medication can slow the progress of the virus Worryingly, surveys show that many people think that there's a 'cure' for AIDS - which makes them feel safer, and perhaps take risks that they otherwise shouldn't. These people are wrong, though - there is still no cure for AIDS. There is antiretroviral medication which slows the progression from HIV to AIDS, and which can keep some people healthy for many years. In some cases, the antiretroviral medication seems to stop working after a number of years, but in other cases people can recover from AIDS and live with HIV for a very long time. But they have to take powerful medication every day of their lives, sometimes with very unpleasant side effects. There is still no way to cure AIDS, and at the moment the only way to remain safe is not to become infected. There is no cure for AIDS. Although antiretroviral treatment can suppress HIV – the virus that causes AIDS – and can delay illness for many years, it cannot clear the virus completely. There is no confirmed case of a person getting rid of HIV infection. Sadly, this doesn’t stop countless quacks and con artists touting unproven, often dangerous “AIDS cures” to desperate people. It is easy to see why an HIV positive person might want to believe in an AIDS cure. Access to antiretroviral treatment is scarce in much of the world. When someone has a life-threatening illness they may clutch at anything to stay alive. And even when antiretroviral treatment is available, it is far from an easy solution. Drugs must be taken every day for the rest of a person’s life, often causing unpleasant side effects. A one-off cure to eradicate the virus once and for all is much more appealing. Distrust of Western medicine is not uncommon, especially in developing countries. The Internet abounds with rumours of the pharmaceutical industry or the U.S. government suppressing AIDS cures to protect the market for patented drugs. Many people would prefer a remedy that is “natural” or “traditional”. Where’s the harm in fake AIDS cures? Unproven AIDS cures have been around since the syndrome emerged in the early 1980s. In most cases, they have only served to worsen suffering. First of all, fake cures are a swindle. Someone who invests their savings in a worthless potion or an electrical zapper has less money to spend on real medicines and healthy food. Many peddlers of bogus cures insist their clients avoid all other treatments, including antiretroviral medicines. By the time a patient realises the “cure” hasn’t worked, their prospects for successful antiretroviral treatment may well have diminished. Fake cures may also cause direct harm to health. Inventors often refuse to reveal their recipes. Some so-called cures have been found to contain industrial solvents, disinfectants and other poisons. The dangers posed by the virgin cleansing myth – which advocates sex with children as a cure for AIDS – are only too clear. Finally, the promotion of fake AIDS cures undermines HIV prevention. People who believe in a cure are less likely to fear becoming infected with HIV, and hence less likely to take precautions. Why is it so difficult to cure AIDS? Curing AIDS is generally taken to mean clearing the body of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The virus replicates (makes new copies of itself) by inserting its genetic code into human cells, particularly a type known as CD4 cells. Usually the infected cells produce numerous HIV particles and die soon afterwards. Antiretroviral drugs interfere with this replication process, which is why the drugs are so effective at reducing the amount of HIV in a person’s body to extremely low levels. During treatment, the concentration of HIV in the blood often falls so low that it cannot be detected by the standard test, known as a viral load test. Unfortunately, not all infected cells behave the same way. Probably the most important problem is posed by “resting” CD4 cells. Once infected with HIV, these cells, instead of producing new copies of the virus, lie dormant for many years or even decades. Current therapies cannot remove HIV’s genetic material from these cells. Even if someone takes antiretroviral drugs for many years they will still have some HIV hiding in various parts of their body. Studies have found that if treatment is removed then HIV can re-establish itself by leaking out of these “viral reservoirs”. A cure for AIDS must somehow remove every single one of the infected cells. Reputable research on curing AIDS A wide range of strategies – including such drastic measures as bone marrow transplantation – have failed in trials to eradicate HIV infection. Currently many researchers believe the best approach is to combine antiretroviral treatment with drugs that flush HIV from its hiding places. The idea is to force resting CD4 cells to become active, whereupon they will start producing new HIV particles. The activated cells should soon die or be destroyed by the immune system, and the antiretroviral medication should mop up the released HIV. Early attempts to employ this technique used interleukin-2 (also known as IL-2 or by the brand name Proleukin). This chemical messenger tells the body to create more CD4 cells and to activate resting cells. Researchers who gave interleukin-2 together with antiretroviral treatment discovered they could no longer find any infected resting CD4 cells. But interleukin-2 failed to clear all of the HIV; as soon as the patients stopped taking antiretroviral drugs the virus came back again.1 2 There is a problem with creating a massive number of active CD4 cells: despite the antiretroviral drugs, HIV may manage to infect a few of these cells and replicate, thus keeping the infection alive. Scientists are now investigating chemicals that don’t activate all resting CD4 cells, but only the tiny minority that are infected with HIV. One such chemical is valproic acid, a drug already used to treat epilepsy and other conditions. In 2005 a group of researchers led by David Margolis caused a sensation when they reported that valproic acid, combined with antiretroviral treatment, had greatly reduced the number of infected resting CD4 cells in four patients. They concluded that: “This finding, though not definitive, suggests that new approaches will allow the cure of HIV in the future.”3 Sadly, it seems such optimism was premature; more recent studies suggest that valproic acid cannot eradicate HIV.4 In fact it’s quite possible that all related approaches are flawed because the virus has other hiding places besides resting CD4 cells. There is a lot about HIV that remains unknown. Some of the world’s top research institutions are today engaged in studies to learn more about the behaviour of HIV, resting CD4 cells and other hiding places. But the truth is that this field does not receive a lot of funding. Some people think the search for a cure is not worth much investment because the task may well be impossible. Yet there are still those who remain hopeful, including the research charity amfAR, which in 2006 awarded nearly $1.5 million to AIDS cure researchers. Activist Martin Delaney is among those calling for an end to defeatism: “Far too many people with HIV, as well as their doctors, have accepted the notion that a cure is not likely. No one can be certain that a cure will be found. No one can predict the future. But one thing is certain: if we allow pessimism about a cure to dominate our thinking, we surely won’t get one… We must restore our belief in a cure and make it one of the central demands of our activism.”5 How to spot fake AIDS cures and treatments As already stated, there is no proven cure for AIDS. The best advice is to steer clear of anyone claiming otherwise. For those who find themselves tempted, here are a few pointers for spotting quack therapies. Who makes the claims? Try to find some information about the person or people promoting the product. What are their credentials? If someone claims to be a doctor then they should say what type of doctor, and where they got their qualifications. What claims do they make? Look at how the product is presented. Reputable scientists and doctors don’t use sensational terms such as “miracle breakthrough”. Also watch for evidence of poor scientific understanding; for example, no expert would refer to HIV as “the HIV virus” or “the AIDS virus”. It is very rare for a medicine to be 100% effective for all patients. It is highly implausible that a single product could cure a wide range of unrelated diseases such as cancer, asthma, AIDS and diabetes. A real scientist would be extremely wary of making such claims. What’s in the cure? Many inventors won’t reveal what goes into their so-called cures. Ask yourself why this might be. Could it be that their methods wouldn’t stand up to scientific scrutiny? It is important to remember that words like “natural” and “herbal” are no guarantee of safety. After all, hemlock and ricin (derived from castor beans) are both entirely natural and extremely toxic. As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration points out, “Any product – synthetic or natural – potent enough to work like a drug is going to be potent enough to cause side effects.”6 What evidence do they offer? To gain the approval of medical authorities, any new treatment must undergo very extensive testing. Countless products destroy HIV in the laboratory but are ineffective or dangerous when used by people. A proper trial involves a large group of volunteers divided randomly into two sets. One half uses the test product and the other receives a placebo (a harmless pretend medicine that looks like the real thing). During the trial, neither the scientists nor the volunteers should know who is getting which treatment. Afterwards, the results for the two groups are compared to see if the test product performed better than the placebo. Virtually all promoters of “AIDS cures” cannot provide any data from large-scale, randomised human trials. Instead they rely on anecdotes, personal testimonies, laboratory experiments or small-scale trials with no placebo comparison. This type of evidence is always unreliable. Personal testimonies are notoriously untrustworthy. Usually there is no way of knowing whether the people in question ever existed, let alone whether they were helped by the therapy. There have been cases of people being paid to pretend they’ve been cured. And even if a handful of people really did get better after they took the treatment, this doesn’t necessarily mean that it works; the improvements may just have been a coincidence. Many negative reports may have been left out of the promotional material. Proving that HIV has been eradicated isn’t easy. Changes in symptoms or weight gain are not sufficient, and neither is a viral load test. Even if the test can’t detect HIV in the bloodstream (perhaps because the person has been on antiretroviral therapy), this doesn’t mean the virus has been cleared from all parts of the body. Much more thorough investigation is needed. Beware of conspiracy theorists Many sellers of fake medicines fall back on conspiracy theories to explain why their products haven’t undergone proper testing. They say that government agencies and the medical profession seek to suppress alternative treatments to safeguard the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. This kind of allegation is a sure sign of a charlatan. In reality, leading scientists investigate all kinds of therapies that can’t be patented. For example, the U.S. government has funded research into using generic drugs (such as valproic acid) and human hormones (such as interleukin-2) as aids to ridding the body of HIV infection. Do some research Any important medical breakthrough will be reported in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Science or The Lancet. The mainstream media will pick up the story and leading experts will express their opinions. Simply typing the name of a supposed cure into an Internet search engine and reading some of the resulting web pages will quickly establish whether it has widespread support. It is also worth searching an online medical database such as PubMed for scientific studies and reviews. Always talk to a doctor or other health professional before trying any medical treatment. If you need more information or a second opinion, try contacting a reputable health organisation or telephone helpline. Several American states have AIDS Fraud Task Forces dedicated to combating quackery, and local Food and Drug Administration offices can provide details of any action taken against a product or its manufacturer. Similar agencies operate in most other parts of the world. President Jammeh’s AIDS cure President Jammeh of The Gambia, a small country in West Africa, made a dramatic announcement in January 2007: “I can treat asthma and HIV/AIDS and the cure is a day’s treatment. Within three days the person should be tested again and I can tell you that he/she will be negative... The mandate I have is that HIV/AIDS cases can be treated on Thursdays. That is the good news and the bad news is that I cannot treat more than ten patients every Thursday.”7 Three weeks later the president’s office released the results of viral load tests conducted on the first batch of patients. According to the official statement, “the herbal medicine and therapy administered by President Jammeh have yielded results beyond all reasonable doubts, that they are effective and can cure AIDS.”8 On closer inspection, however, the findings were far from convincing. Of the four patients with HIV-1, one had a very high viral load, one high, one moderate, and one undetectable. Of the four patients with HIV-2, one had a low viral load and three had less than the detectable level.9 The fact that half of the patients still had detectable virus in their blood shows that the president’s cure cannot be 100% effective. More importantly, as already noted, an undetectable viral load does not prove that HIV has been eradicated. Some of the patients had previously been taking antiretroviral therapy, which often renders the virus undetectable. Apparently no evaluation was done before the president’s treatment began. The viral load tests were conducted at a university in Dakar, Senegal, using samples of the patients’ blood. It has since emerged that the scientists who ran the tests were not aware of the samples’ origin. The Senegalese experts rebutted the president’s interpretation of their findings: “There is no baseline ... you can’t prove that someone has been cured of AIDS from just one data point. It’s dishonest of the Gambian government to use our results in this way” - Dr. Coumba Toure Kane10 “The interpretation by the Gambian authorities of the results of HIV antibody and viral load testing on blood samples sent to my laboratory is incorrect... Of those samples that were HIV-positive (66.66%), none could be described as cured.” - Professor Souleymane Mboup11 The results of a second set of viral load tests, conducted by the National Institute of Hygiene in Morocco, were released in March 2007. For the first set of patients the numbers were similar to those found in Senegal. Among 31 other patients only six had undetectable viral loads.12 Clinical data for the third and fourth batch were released in October 2007. On this occasion the State House chose to withhold the name of the country in which the samples were tested. Twenty-seven of the seventy patients were found to have undetectable viral loads. Another twenty-seven had viral load counts above half a million, which is considered to be very high. The CD4 counts for twenty-seven of the seventy patients were below 200, which means they had progressed from HIV infection to AIDS. Curious repetitions within the viral load count data cast doubt on their accuracy.13 At least two of the president’s patients are known to have died.14 These unpromising outcomes have not shaken the president’s belief in his treatment, which is endorsed by the Gambian health ministry and is administered at state hospitals. President Jammeh, who has no medical qualifications, refuses to disclose exactly what goes into his cure. All he has revealed is that it involves seven herbs, “three of which are not from Gambia.”15 The treatment involves a green paste and a grey liquid each applied to the patient’s skin, and a yellowish tea-like drink. Even more important, according to President Jammeh, is the power of prayer: “For everything that we do 90% we have to invoke the name of almighty Allah, and then 10% is what the herbs take care of.”16 Leading AIDS experts have expressed serious concern about President Jammeh’s exploits. According to Dr. Pedro Cahn, President of the International AIDS Society: “It is premature and unethical to label this product a cure if it has not been thoroughly tested and proven. Furthermore, to take patients off potent combination antiretroviral therapy, which has saved millions of lives since its introduction in 1996, is shocking and irresponsible.”17 A fifth batch of 150 patients began treatment in February 2008.18 Other herbal cures Herbal mixtures comprise the most popular form of alternative AIDS therapy. Although it is possible that some of these treatments may benefit people with HIV, none is a proven cure. Comforter’s Healing Gift, a South African company, produces an extract of a plant called sonneblom (not sunflower). According to Freddie Isaacs, the inventor of the treatment and a co-director of the company, this product is a cure for AIDS.19 Other spokespersons have said such claims go against company policy, and the product should be described as a nutritional supplement until it has undergone proper testing. According to some reports one of South Africa’s leading attorneys, Christine Qunta, is closely connected with Comforter’s Healing Gift. South Africa’s opposition party has laid a charge against Qunta of authorising the sale of an unlicensed medicine.20 Dr. Sebi (born Alfredo Bowman) says his “electric foods” can cure AIDS, cancer and many other illnesses. Sebi, who has offices in Honduras and the USA, has no medical qualifications and many of his views are totally at odds with basic principles of mainstream science. In Sebi’s opinion, AIDS (like all other diseases) occurs when “the mucous membrane has been compromised”.21 He says his plant extracts cure the illness by removing the mucous. Sebi was arrested in 1987 and again in 1997 for publishing false health claims and practising medicine without a licence.22 23 He has published no verifiable evidence to support his “AIDS cure”. IMOD was developed by scientists from Russia and Iran. When the Iranian government unveiled the drug in February 2007, many media sources, including Iran’s Fars News Agency, described IMOD as an “AIDS cure”.24 The official IMOD website makes no such claim, but does say that human trials of the drug found it increased CD4 counts in HIV positive people.25 No study reports have been published in medical journals. The research team did not respond to emails from the author of this article. Khomeini (or Khomein) was invented by Professor Sheik Allagholi Elahi of Iran, who set up a clinic in Uganda to sell this so-called AIDS cure for more than $1,500 per patient. The Ugandan Ministry of Health appointed a team of experts to monitor some of the few hundred people taking the treatment. After their study showed Elahi’s claims to be false, the government banned the use and distribution of Khomeini in April 2006, and Ehahi was arrested.26 MAB Formula One and MAB Formula Two were developed by Ghanaian doctors and ethno-botanists led by Dr. Jacob Akumoah-Boateng. According to the researchers MAB Formula One kills HIV while MAB Formula Two boosts the immune system. Dr. Akumoah-Boateng says tests in the U.S. demonstrated the disappearance of HIV and HIV antibodies after the treatment was given, though none of the findings have been published in the medical literature.27 Ubhejane, a brown liquid said to be made from 89 herbs, has been taken by many hundreds of HIV positive South Africans. Its creator, Zeblon Gwala, says Ubhejane reduces viral load and increases CD4 counts in HIV positive people. He advises that it should not be taken at the same time as antiretroviral treatment. Ubhejane has often been referred to as a “cure for AIDS” and Gwala’s employees have reportedly promoted it as such, despite having no evidence from rigorous human trials.28 29 Scientists who have tested Ubhejane in the laboratory have stressed that they haven’t demonstrated any benefits to patients.30 South Africa’s opposition party has attempted to have Gwala prosecuted for fraud.31 In 2008, the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa demanded the withdrawal of an advertisement stating that Ubhejane boosted immunity and reduced viral load, having found these claims to be unsubstantiated.32 Many people mistakenly believe that what destroys HIV in the test tube must also work in the human body. This is one reason why a number of disinfectants and other chemicals have been wrongly promoted as cures for AIDS. Armenicum (also known as iodine-lithium-alpha-dextrin or ILalphaD) is a type of iodophor, a chemical that slowly releases iodine when mixed with water. According to Armenian scientists Armenicum, injected into the bloodstream, acts as an antiretroviral drug by blocking the replication of HIV. They claim to have evidence that the substance reduces viral load and increases CD4 counts in HIV positive people. The inventor of Armenicum, Alexander Ilyen, once said he was convinced it would lead to an AIDS cure.33 No studies of HIV positive people treated with Armenicum have been published in peer-reviewed journals. In a report on an animal experiment published in June 2007 the Armenicum research team admits that, “The systemic therapeutic application of iodophores has not yet been accepted”.34 A BBC investigation of Armenicum in 1999 found that the health of two American men got worse after they took the drug.35 Colloidal silver is a suspension of extremely tiny silver particles in water. Many websites say this clear, colourless liquid effectively treats a wide range of bacterial and viral infections, including HIV infection. While it is true that colloidal silver kills germs in laboratory conditions, there is no reliable evidence of any benefit in people. Contrary to the claims of many retailers, colloidal silver is not harmless. Regular use can cause an irreversible bluish-grey discolouration of the skin, known as argyria.36 Consuming very large amounts of colloidal silver may lead to neurologic problems, kidney damage, stomach distress, headaches, fatigue, and skin irritation.37 There has been at least one reported case of a man falling into a coma after ingesting colloidal silver.38 In America it is illegal for retailers to make any health claims for this product.39 Tetrasil (or Imusil) is a substance containing tetrasilver tetroxide. A patent held by Dr. Marvin S. Antelman claims that this simple chemical compound cures AIDS by “electrocuting” HIV.40 Dr. Antelman admits his approach to AIDS is “non-conventional” and he does not trust viral load tests: “Accordingly we have patients who display viral load reduction and those that do not who are nevertheless cured of AIDS”, he has said.41 Tetrasilver tetroxide is more commonly used for disinfecting swimming pools.42 After it was promoted as an AIDS cure in Zambia the government banned Tetrasil because it has no proven benefits for people living with HIV.43 In America it is illegal to promote Tetrasil for the treatment or prevention of any disease.44 Virodene is based on the industrial solvent dimethylformamide (DMF). In the late 1990s this chemical was touted as a possible cure for AIDS. For several years senior members of the South African government, including Thabo Mbeki, vehemently supported research into Virodene as an AIDS treatment, against the advice of medical experts. South Africa’s drug regulators have long prohibited use of Virodene as it has no proven benefits. Laboratory studies have found that DMF does not destroy HIV or inhibit its replication. The only trial of its effectiveness in humans, conducted in Tanzania, found that Virodene did not reduce viral load and had only marginal effects on the immune system.45 DMF is considered a toxic substance; workers are advised to avoid skin contact with the chemical because it may cause serious liver damage.46 47 Imunoxx, which a Namibian company markets as an immune booster, is essentially identical to Virodene. Hydrogen peroxide, diluted in water, is commonly used as a bleach and a disinfectant. Some alternative health practitioners advocate drinking, injecting or bathing in weak solutions of this chemical as a cure for AIDS, flu, cancer and other illnesses. There is no evidence to support these claims. Several people have died as a result of swallowing or injecting hydrogen peroxide.48 49 Ozone is an unstable form of oxygen gas. Ozone therapy has been proposed as a treatment or cure for many illnesses, including HIV infection. One delivery method is autohemotherapy, which involves removing some of a patient’s blood, exposing it to ozone, and then putting it back into the patient. Alternatives include pumping the gas into the rectum, drinking water containing ozone bubbles (ozonized water, which contains hydrogen peroxide), or injecting the gas into the bloodstream. Studies of ozone autohemotherapy in HIV positive people have found it has no significant effect on CD4 counts and other outcomes.50 51 According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, “Ozone is a toxic gas with no known useful medical application in specific, adjunctive, or preventive therapy. In order for ozone to be effective as a germicide, it must be present in a concentration far greater than that which can be safely tolerated by man and animals.”52 It is illegal for retailers in America to make any health claims for ozone generators. Electrical zappers Dr. Hulda Clark (who is not a licensed medical doctor) promotes a range of products said to cure AIDS including an electrical “zapper” which, by generating low voltage electricity, is supposed to kill parasites, bacteria and viruses in the body. No proper studies of the zapper have been conducted. Dr. Clark’s methods of diagnosing HIV are highly unconventional; she believes that HIV comes from intestinal worms in the presence of benzene, and that HIV can be found in snails.53 It is therefore doubtful whether the people she claims to have cured of HIV infection were ever really infected.54 Dr. Clark left America after being taken to court for practising medicine without a licence.55 She now runs a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico, where she has also run into trouble with the authorities.56 The Bob Beck Protocol involves a set of therapies devised by the late Dr. Bob Beck (who was not a medical doctor) that are supposed to cure AIDS, cancer and all other diseases. The four components are electric currents, magnetic pulses, colloidal silver and ozonized water. There is no good evidence that electricity can cure any infection. Claims about the healing powers of Bob Beck’s devices are based entirely on test tube studies and unverifiable anecdotes. Some so-called AIDS cures are meant to stimulate the human immune system. Since HIV makes new copies of itself by infecting active immune cells, there is a real danger that such therapies will hasten the spread of the virus rather than contain it. Dr. Gary R. Davis got his idea for an AIDS cure from a goat that appeared in his dreams. The late Dr. Davis never prescribed his goat serum treatment (known as BB7075) to HIV positive Americans due to legal restrictions. In 1998 one young girl, Precious Thomas, was given the serum by her mother, who stole it from Davis’ office. Some websites say the girl was cured of HIV infection, based on a viral load test conducted soon afterwards.57 In a 2006 interview, however, Precious Thomas makes clear that she is still infected with HIV.58 After being denied approval in America, Dr. Davis and his associates tried to conduct goat serum trials in Ghana. Again he was stopped because “the supporting evidence for asking for registration and use of the serum was totally inadequate”.59 In late 2006, a few months before Dr. Davis’ death, the BBC exposed an attempt by a British company to test the substance on dozens of people in Swaziland, despite the lack of toxicity tests and other necessary preliminary studies.60 The Antidote – a drug derived from a crocodile protein – has been promoted via spam email and websites with the promise that “It kills all known deadly viruses and bacteria in the body”.61 Absolutely no scientific evidence has been offered to support this claim. V-1 Immunitor (or V-AIM or Immureboost) is a pink pill containing antigens taken from the pooled blood of HIV positive people. A clinic in Thailand began distributing V-1 in 2001. Demand soared when the pill’s inventor, Vichai Jirathitikal, said it had eliminated HIV in two patients.62 The Thai Ministry of Public Health responded by conducting a study of those receiving V-1; the findings were not encouraging. According to a government minister, “the pill does not have any effect on the body’s immune system, white blood cell count and amount of the virus in the blood”.63 Other studies of the so-called vaccine – all carried out by employees of its manufacturer – do not provide convincing evidence of benefit. AIDS patients treated with V-1 typically survive for a matter of weeks, as opposed to the years achieved through antiretroviral treatment.64 Although the company has said that people treated with V-1 have “serodeconverted” from HIV-positive to HIV-negative,65 this claim is based on unreliable evidence and is not taken seriously by the scientific community.66 The manufacturing and sales licences for V-1 in Thailand were revoked in April 2003.67 68 Apparently undaunted, Vichai Jirathitikal and a company called Immureboost have continued to promote the product under the new name V-AIM, describing it as a therapeutic vaccine rather than a cure for AIDS.69 Faith-based cures Religious bodies have done much to help the response to AIDS, especially by caring for the sick. Sadly a small minority of religious leaders have abused the trust placed in them by promising to cure AIDS through faith, sometimes in exchange for money or gifts. Most reports come from sub-Saharan Africa, where evangelical Americans are among those implicated.70 One of the most startling examples of recent times concerns an Ethiopian church where thousands of HIV positive people have sought a cure in showers of holy water. At one time, pilgrims were told to trust in faith alone and to refuse medication.71 Church patriarch Abune Paulos has since endorsed the use of antiretroviral treatment: “What we are saying is taking the drugs is neither a sin nor a crime. Both the Holy Water and the medicine are gifts of God. They neither contradict nor resist each other.”72 The virgin cleansing myth The myth that sex with a virgin can cure sexually transmitted diseases has a long history in Europe and elsewhere. Since the emergence of the AIDS epidemic, there has been much concern that this belief might encourage the rape of children, especially in Africa where HIV is widespread. A number of horrific reports in the popular press have fuelled such anxiety. Belief in the virgin cleansing myth has been reported from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. There is no doubt that it has led to abuse of not only children but also the disabled (who are often assumed to be virgins).73 Nevertheless, the scale of the myth’s impact is disputed because it is not the only motivation behind child rape.74 75 In many cases the goal is more likely to be prevention than cure: men are seeking partners who are less likely to have HIV. Thankfully efforts are being made to dispel the virgin cleansing myth around the world. But to effectively clamp down on child rape, such campaigns must be accompanied by changes to the cultural and legal environment that enables abuse to take place. Spontaneous cures: Andrew Stimpson Occasionally there are reports of HIV seeming to vanish for no obvious reason. One especially sensational story broke on 13th November 2005, when two British newspapers reported that a 25-year old Scot, Andrew Stimpson, had become the first person to be cured of HIV infection.76 77 In interviews with the two papers, Stimpson said he first suspected he might have HIV in 2002, after several weeks of feeling tired and feverish. Knowing his partner had been HIV positive for a number of years, Stimpson visited the Victoria Sexual Health Clinic in London for an HIV antibody test in May. The result was negative, but he was encouraged to return for further tests, as HIV antibodies often do not appear in the blood until several weeks or even months after initial infection. In August 2002, Stimpson returned for three more HIV antibody tests. His first, taken on the 15th, was “indeterminate” (i.e. neither definitely positive nor negative), but the following two (taken on 20th and 23rd August) both found him to be HIV antibody positive. However, a viral load test showed the amount of virus in his blood was low, so he was not prescribed antiretroviral therapy. He made a personal choice to start taking multivitamin and mineral tablets and other dietary supplements. For fourteen months Stimpson remained surprisingly healthy, so much so that, in October 2003, his doctor offered him a repeat test for HIV antibodies. Remarkably, the test came back negative. Two more, carried out in December 2003 and March 2004, also gave negative results. Andrew Stimpson tried to launch a legal case against the Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust (CWT) which had tested him, assuming his results had been mixed up with those of another client. The blood samples associated with his original positive diagnosis and his subsequent negative results were retested, and the DNA from the samples compared to his. All the samples were found to belong to Stimpson, and retesting produced the same “positive then negative” antibody results. According to Stimpson: “After the repeat tests my doctor came into the room saying, ‘You’ve cured yourself! This is unbelievable.’”78 Andrew Stimpson’s story became an overnight media sensation. But a statement from the CWT cast doubt on the cure claims: “It is probable that there was never any evidence of Mr Stimpson having the HIV virus but rather that there was transient evidence of an antibody response to the virus present in his bloodstream when he had the initial tests... The antibody testing is exquisitely sensitive and the smallest measure can be recorded which is probably what happened in this case.”79 A spokesperson for the CWT later said they had not categorically stated that Andrew Stimpson’s case was an example of a false positive test result, but that it was one of a number of scenarios that needed to be considered.80 The media quickly accepted the “false positive” explanation, and by the end of the month the story had ceased to be of interest to them. The only news since then dates from June 2006, when the Guardian newspaper reported that Stimpson was still working with doctors, but that because of medical confidentiality, very little more was known about the case. However, Anna Maria Geretti, a clinical virologist at the Royal Free Hospital, was willing to speculate: “These follow-up tests are very complicated. They could take over six months. But personally, I’m sceptical that they will find a cure from this case.”81 The most likely explanation remains the occurrence of a highly unusual false positive antibody test result. This may happen if the test detects a non-HIV antibody (i.e. a similar antibody produced against a different virus) or, theoretically, because there are somehow HIV antibodies present without an actual HIV infection. Occasionally a false positive may be the result of a faulty test, though a second backup test would normally eliminate this possibility. Although receiving three false positive results would be exceedingly unusual, some scientists believe it is more plausible than a spontaneous cure. In any case it’s extremely unlikely that, as some newspapers suggested, the multivitamins and dietary supplements that Andrew Stimpson took would have had any effect on his “seroreversion” (the process of going from HIV antibody positive to HIV antibody negative). Millions of people living with HIV take multivitamins and minerals; while such supplements may help to maintain good general health, there is no evidence that they can eliminate HIV infection. World Impact To understand the devastation of AIDS, you have to understand the high mortality rate of people who develop the disease. If you counted every person in the city of Chicago, which is about 3 million, you would get the idea of how many people died worldwide from AIDS in 2000. Basically, that means that each year AIDS kills the same number of people that populate the third largest city in the United States. More then 36 million people are infected with the HIV virus worldwide, with 25.3 million of those cases in sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, anther 5.3 million new HIV infections occurred in 2000, which represents about 16,000 new cases per day. The regions with the greatest number of people living HIV/AIDS, according to the World Health Organization, include: Sub-Saharan Africa - 25.3 million South and Southeast Asia - 5.8 million Latin America - 1.4 million North America - 920,000 Eastern Europe/Central Asia - 700,000 In the United States, 753,907 cases had been reported to the CDC through June 2000. However, the CDC estimates that as many as 900,000 Americans are living with HIV or AIDS. HIV/AIDS History 1926-46 - HIV possibly spreads from monkeys to humans. No one knows for sure. 1959 - A man dies in Congo in what many researchers say is the first proven AIDS death. 1981 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notices high rate of otherwise rare cancer 1982 - The term AIDS is used for the first time, and CDC defines it. 1983/84 - American and French scientists each claim discovery of the virus that will later be called HIV. 1985 - The FDA approves the first HIV antibody test for blood supplies. 1987 - AZT is the first anti-HIV drug approved by the FDA. 1991 - Basketball star Magic Johnson announces that he is HIV-positive. 1996 - FDA approves first protease inhibitors. 1999 - An estimated 650,000 to 900,000 Americans living with HIV/AIDS. 2001 - AIDS global death toll reaches nearly 22 million.	cc/2021-04/en_head_0005.json.gz/line1711

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