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It is necessary to introduce Kazakh language into world space – Expert
bykazakhstannewsgazette.com April 15, 2017 World Sports
“A transition to the Latin alphabet is an imperative of the times, as our President N. Nazarbayev noted, this is the demand of the 21st century. A political decision to start the transition to the Latin alphabet since 2025 was adopted by the Head of State in 2012. Now the Government of the country first of all it is necessary to approve a single alphabet until the end of this year. Our scientists, including the Institute of Linguistics named after A. Baitursynov, have been preparing their own versions of the new “alphabet”, – he reminded.
In his opinion, the more options, the better for selection.
“I think that after the new alphabet is approved, it is immediately possible to start training teachers for it and to engage in its implementation in experimental order in some primary classes of secondary schools along with the Kazakh language,” says the Director of Fund.
As he noted, a psychological preparation for the transition to the Latin alphabet is very important, so that in 2025 the population of the country won’t have a shock. After a while young people – graduates of the same experimental classes – will have an excellent command of the Latin alphabet. To be psychologically prepared, for the rest of the population, after approval of the new “alphabet”, it is necessary to rewrite the names of streets and outdoor advertising, store signs, restaurants, etc., in the Latin alphabet.
“I also believe that the transition to the Latin alphabet will positively affect the process of studying the Kazakh language. According to the latest data, about 80 percent of the country’s citizens speak the state language, and every second young Kazakh knows English. Now, when the alphabet in these languages will be similar, it won’t be difficult to learn a new schedule for young people”, – the expert explains.
He claims that the younger generation is already using technology to communicate in Latin, which will become even more interesting for learning and will allow to interact with the whole world.
“I think that as a result of the transition to the Latin alphabet, there will be a mental unification with the numerous Kazakhs Diasporas living abroad. Today about 5 million of our compatriots live outside of Kazakhstan. Secondly, now, on behalf of the President, the principle of trilingual instruction of Kazakhstanis is realized and the transition to the Latin alphabet will greatly facilitate the learning of the English language. The Latin script will make the Kazakh language more accessible to studying by foreigners. Another argument in favor of the transition is to introduce the Kazakh language into the world space. This will help us to communicate with the peoples of the world, to contribute to world science and education. But I believe that, in general, the process of transition of the state language to the Latin alphabet should be gradual”, – A. Shaueyev noted.
Currently our Fund trains Russian-speakers Kazakh, and Kazakh-speakers Russian language under online course of the Kazakh language Soyle.kz.
“After the approval of the Latin alphabet we want to start developing the English-Latin version of the training portal Soyle.kz. As to us many compatriots from other countries, foreigners, representatives of foreign embassies send the request to prepare such version of website. The working language of instruction will be English, and the Kazakh version is planned to be made in Latin, familiar to foreigners and Kazakhs living abroad. Then we will train the population both English and the Latin alphabet”, – the expert concluded.
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Protection of Disabled Persons in DPRK
Date: 03/12/2020 | Source: KCNA.co.jp (En) | Read original version at source
Pyongyang, December 3 (KCNA) -- In the DPRK, the disabled persons are leading a happy life with their social rights and interests legally assured.
The social policies for the disabled have been enforced after the liberation of Korea (August 15, 1945) from Japan's colonial rule.
President Kim Il Sung started the work for protection of the disabled in the country by promulgating the "Labour Law for the Factory and Office Workers in North Korea" in June 24 Juche 35 (1946). And in the period of the hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War, he set it as a policy of the DPRK government to treat preferentially the disabled soldiers and take care of them.
Thus, a prosthesis factory was built in 1951 to commence the production of prosthetic appliances for disabled persons, and this work has been conducted at the state expense until now.
Deaf and blind schools have been built in different parts of the country since 1959.
The Korean Federation for the Protection of the Disabled, whose mission is to take care of the disable persons' health, was organized in 1998. Now, the federation has such affiliated organizations as the Deaf Association of Korea, the Blind Association of Korea, the Korea Sports Association of the Disabled and the Korean Art Association of the Disabled.
"DPRK Law on the Protection of the Disabled"?stipulating and ensuring the disabled persons' socio-political rights and freedom and interests was adopted in 2003 and supplemented in 2013.
The DPRK also has a treatment system for disabled persons' rehabilitation.
The disabled persons in the country lead a working life and conduct sports and art activities according to their wishes and hobbies equally with ordinary people.
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5 PlayStation 4 Games to Experience Japan With
Scribbling Geek
Geek, gamer, writer, graphic artist. The Geek's favorite shows and adventures are those that allow him to enjoy the world from his bedroom.
1) "Toukiden: Kiwami"
Toukiden Kiwami is actually the PS4 expanded version of an earlier PS Vita title.
Toukiden Kiwami is practically a showcase of Japan for PlayStation 4 gamers. Divided into zones (ages) corresponding to different periods of Japanese history, most zones incorporate one or more famous Japanese landmarks into their background design. Venturing through the zones is thus akin to a time travel journey across two thousand years of Japanese history.
To give some examples, in the Age of Grace, which is based on the Nara period, advance boss battles take place within a ruin of Todaiji. In the Age of Chaos, which represents the Meiji Restoration, Goryōkaku floats in the background. In the Age of Honor, which symbolizes the Kamakura Shogunate, a collapsed version of Kinkakuji looms ominously among overgrown trees.
In addition, Toukiden: Kiwami also contains an expansive compendium of famous Japanese historical figures, in the form of cards which you collect as power-ups. Each of these cards is accompanied by an Anime illustration and a concise write-up, and in my opinion, memorizing the stories of just a quarter of these will equip you with enough knowledge to speak like a Japanese history expert. Needless to say, this knowledge also affords you a good feel of this ancient Asian nation. Believe me, this sensation is almost similar to physically visiting Japan.
It's not Kyoto's famous Golden Pavilion at its prettiest. But it is there.
2) "Ryu ga Gotoku: Ishin!"
Ishin is a historical spin-off of Sega's popular Yakuza series.
A lot of PlayStation 4 games incorporate Japanese elements into stage designs. Shoji screen, bamboo forests, lovely Zen gardens, the likes of. Few games, however, allow you to wander within a purely Japanese setting in an open-world way. Even fewer are translated into English for the international market.
Ryu ga Gotoku: Ishin! has no English release too. But with handy guides like this, it’s really not difficult at all to get through the game. You might not even want to bother with the main quest, though, with Ishin’s rendition of Kyoto so irresistibly immersive. The sounds, the chatter, all the exotic goods in the stores … Like me, all you want to do might be no more than just stroll, soaking in the ambience at every corner and enjoying the many mini-games. I’m certainly going all fanboy here. But in my opinion, no other PS4 game set in Japan delivers a more enthralling medieval Japanese experience than this fabulous title.
The game is full of exotic medieval Japanese locations like this.
3) "Ryu ga Gotoku 6: Inochi no Uta"
Inochi no Uta is also the epilogue in this long-running Japanese gangland series.
Nope, I’m not cheating here. I know it feels wrong to list two games from the same franchise. However, Ishin and Inochi no Uta are so different in feel and ambience, they really shouldn’t be considered under the same light. To begin with, there’s a time difference of 150 years between the two episodes.
And while Ishin is all about the charms and chaos of 19th century Japan, Inochi no Uta showcases the modern face of the country. It’s more or less a touristy look, with side-stories and Japanese pastimes like baseball, pub chatting and karaoke. But hey, aren’t these integral aspects of the modern Japanese experience? The very things tourists go to Japan to enjoy?
On top of which, this final episode of the Ryu Ga Gotoku series also showcases the idyllic seaside town of Onomichi, temples and cable cars and Seto Sea fishing and all. Journeying from dazzling Kamurocho to Onomichi is akin to a Shinkansen day-trip from Tokyo into the Japanese countryside. You will feel the excitement of a tourist in Japan. At the end of the day, you will be very satisfied with your cyber Japanese journey too.
As a bonus, Inochi no Uta has a convenient selfie function. A function, incidentally, increasingly popular in PlayStation 4 games.
4) "Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed"
Akiba's Trip: Undead and Undresed celebrates otaku culture in a truly wacky way.
Rather than recommend this game for its faithful rendition of otaku wonderland Akihabara, which by the way is fantastic, I’d instead draw your attention to its story. A story about stripping vampire-like creatures in the middle of downtown, so as to kill them with sunlight.
… What? What?
Yet, in the hands of its producers, this outrageous PlayStation 4 game becomes a hilarious adventure, one that’s occasionally infused with moments of philosophical brilliance too. Because of this, the entire game could be considered a shining example of the craft Japan is renowned for i.e. Anime/Manga storytelling.
If you’re looking for a taste of this unique genre via video games, there’s seriously no better PS4 game to go to. In additional, Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed is also pretty frank about the darker aspects of modern Japanese city life. You will get some unnerving insights, that is, if you’re able to look beyond the comical storyline.
Incidentally, don’t worry too much about this game’s unique combat system. (Or get too excited) You do need to strip your enemies in order to win, but everything is done in a cartoonish and humorous way. Combat also ends the moment your foes are down to their undergarments.
Whack the, smack them, then strip them!
5) "Persona 5"
Persona 5. The latest episode in Atlus' beloved spin-off of the Shin Megami Tensei series.
Atlus’ Persona 5 is the newest PlayStation 4 game set in Japan on this list. Possibly, also the one offering the most immersive Japanese experience. In this unique modern-day JRPG, you play the role of a Japanese high school student juggling studies, friends, and part-time work commitments. For good measure, you are also tasked with saving everybody’s souls in bizarre cognitive worlds. Worlds in which you are transformed into a legendary thief.
What’s exemplary about the Persona formula is the realism of the entire experience, in spite of the outrageous story. Despite the many supernatural elements, you completely feel the burden of a typical Japanese student struggling between textbooks, buddies and social life. Don’t let that put you off the game, though. It’s in no way dreary and there is enough variety of tasks to keep you looking forward to every day. Finally, there are the cognitive battles too. If you are perceptive enough, these offer deep insights into the modern Japanese psyche. You will have a lot to think about, after beating the game.
Incidentally, few other games, old or new, rival Persona 5’s coverage of Tokyo. Practically all famous landmarks and districts of the Japanese capital make appearances.
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Jacobs Journal of Food and Nutrition
Caffeine use in the 21st Century: Considerations for Public Health
*Kay Rutherfurd Markwick
Department Of Clinical And Social Nutrition, Massey University Albany, New Zealand
*Corresponding Author:
Kay Rutherfurd Markwick
Email:K.J.Rutherfurd@massey.ac.nz
Caffeine has been consumed for thousands of years, with the primary sources originally being tea leaves and coffee beans. However, over the past 120 years new caffeinated foods and beverages have been developed and marketed worldwide, which has led to an increase in caffeine consumption in both children and adults. Concomitant with the rise in caffeine consumption has been a rise in the number of caffeine-induced incidents leading to emergency room visits or calls to poison centres. The reasons for the increases in caffeine consumption and related health concerns are likely to be multi-factorial and include aspects such as the wide range of caffeine sources available, the variability in caffeine content between and within products, lack of knowledge by the consumer, compounded by the wide variety of reasons for its consumption. In addition, with the advent of caffeinated products such as energy drinks and ready-to-drink beverages which frequently contain high levels of sugar, alcohol or other stimulatory compounds, adjuvant effects are possible. Life in the 21st century is faster and more competitive than it has ever been, and lifestyles are constantly changing to reflect that. Although consumption of increasingly accessible caffeinated beverages may aid in achieving life’s goals, the question remains as to how this increased consumption may impact on health, particularly in the long term. The aim of this review is to explore the above issues in an effort to raise awareness and stimulate discussion as to future public health concerns.
Caffeine Consumption; Metabolism; Pharmacological Aid; Energy Drinks
Based on Chinese legend, historians believe that caffeine was first consumed in the form of tea as far back as 2737BC. Tea continued to be consumed primarily for medicinal purposes (not necessarily those deriving from caffeine) until the Tang dynasty (618-906AD), when its popularity as a beverage grew. Consumption of caffeine from coffee beans is thought to have originated in Ethiopia in the 9th century with the Galla tribe consuming balls comprised of animal fat and ground coffee cherries for energy during battles or long marches. A popular legend, also originating from Ethiopia around the same time, is that of a goat herder, who, after noting that his goats had more energy after eating wild coffee berries, tried the berries himself, and after experiencing the same effect passed the information on to the local monastery, from where word spread. Coffee as a beverage was not invented until around 1000AD, and the world’s first coffee shop was opened in 1475 in Constantinople. Coffee consumption slowly spread around the world over the next several hundred years and burgeoned to such an extent that worldwide coffee consumption is thought to be in the order of 500 billion cups per year.
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Trumped: America in a Time of Corona Episode V
A perspective of life in the United States during an epidemic, based upon conversations with Michael L. Roberts, and in conjunction with The American Chronicle podcast series.
So here I am. Finally, here on the Eastern Seaboard, in the city of my dreams; Boston, Massachusetts. The sun is shining, the sky is blue, but thanks to coronavirus, there’s not a damn thing to do. Except, perhaps, chronicle these rather strange times…
The schisms between the federal government and the individual state continue unabated here in the United States. In 2004, speaking here in Boston at the Democratic National Convention, Senator Barack Obama insisted that there were “no red states, or blue states, there were only the United States.” That was fine rhetoric, but flawed politics and if ever a reminder was required of the error in Obama’s statement, it is provided on a daily basis as the apparent division between red states and blue states grows ever wider during Donald Trump’s presidency. Great swathes of the country, incorporating states on the West coast, those here on the East Coast, as well as in the Great Lakes region, are banding together in defiance of the White House. Their governors, both Democrat and Republican, have decided that they alone will be the final arbiter of when and how any restrictions will be lifted in their states. Donald Trump has prompted this by repeatedly stating that he alone has the power to lift the stay-at-home orders that have been introduced across the land. This is in complete contradiction to the constitutional parameters of the American presidency, and has led to a growing sense of conflict, not only at a political level, but on the ground. This has started to be played out in various states, notably in Michigan, with people coming onto the streets not merely in defiance of the state home in order to get some fresh air, but to engage in protests against the stay-at-home orders as enacted by the state government. It is notable that this has occured in Michigan, where Governor Whitmer is being touted as potential vice-presidential candidate for Joe Biden.
These are not disengaged groups who have just decided to come out, it is very clearly a pro-Trump, anti-Democratic movement. Photographs of those protests show individuals wearing Donald Trump hats, with the Make America Great Again logos. Their signs read ‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death.’ This is a throwback to the revolutionary era, and it’s notable that these signs have started appearing on the streets in American cities, protesting against a lockdown designed to safeguard public health and public safety. The protesters appear at risk being of granted their Liberty, in terms of their ability to go and protest, but also of Death, if the suggestions about how this virus is being spread is anything to go by. They are inviting greater tragedy and in the last 24 hours protesters in Michigan have been confronted by health care workers, trying to prevent them from gathering, not in an attempt to deny them their First Amendment rights, but in an effort to maintain public health and public safety.
None of this is being helped by the media, or by politicians. There are various suggestions going around that the Corona virus originated in a Chinese laboratory, a theory that Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas suggested weeks ago on American television. At the time he was roundly attacked for suggesting this was an attempt by the Chinese government to weaponize the virus, to unleash it on western civilization. That rumor disappeared for several weeks, but has now reemerged, presenting challenges in trying to figure out not only where the virus came from, but also about the incentives of various people for their stance on its origins. The question remains; did this originate in a lab? If so, was it deliberately manufactured? Was it something that escaped unexpectedly? For many weeks the prevailing narrative had been that it emerged from a wet market in China, as a disease carried by a bat that had passed into the human food chain. All we have to go on is what is being presented in the media, but there is a sense that no one has a clue about where this came from. If you can’t trace this to source, then how do you go about trying to find out a cure for this disease?
Partly due to the lack of vision from the White House, China has emerged as the nemesis in this situation. Whatever else there is disagreement about, one apparent point of agreement is that the virus originated in China. If that can be agreed upon, then perhaps a conversation can begin on how the Chinese authorities dealt with this: whether the virus was weaponized, escaped, or merely a terrible accident that passed into the human food chain. China’s emergence as the antagonist is an important development, because in the original phase of the crisis Donald Trump downplayed its significance and potential impact, insisting that all was well with US-China relations. He insisted that he had great faith in President Xi’s ability to deal with the situation. That approach has totally changed, resulting in attack adverts being run by the Trump administration trying to tie Joe Biden to China, just as it previously sought to tar Biden over his ties to Ukraine. The virus is posing a political risk for Donald Trump, as his opinion polls continue to hover in the mid-40s. Any dip below that figure would be catastrophic for most presidents in this point in a presidential campaign. This has caused a recognition that the virus needs to be addressed not only from a health point of view, but also from a political point of view, as the Biden campaign has taken to attacking the Trump administration for its lack of response, and the president attack’s Biden for his apparent ties to the Chinese government.
The frustration that all of this generates within Donald Trump is palpable. It also compounds his inability to get out and engage with his base. One of the unusual features of Donald Trump’s presidency has been his propensity to engage in ongoing fund-raising rallies, designed to raise funds for the president’s reelection campaign. This president announced his decision to run for reelection and to start campaigning on the very first day of his presidency, and throughout his presidency he has visited cities around United States engaging in large political rallies designed to appeal to his core base. These have been tremendously well received by his followers, resulting in long queues outside cavernous arenas as supporters wait for hours to get inside to see their president. His ability to do this, however, has been stymied by the coronavirus. Donald Trump appears to have figured out a way to get around this, with the daily press briefing.
On a nightly basis over the last several weeks, President Trump has taken to the podium in the press briefing room to talk about what the administration has been doing, and to present the White House view of how the coronavirus has been playing out. This is an unusual situation, since the individual theoretically in charge of the coronavirus task force is Mike Pence, not Donald Trump. There is also a shadow group running, which Jared Kushner is involved in. This has become a running source of tension in United States, between the president, the media, and the experts. Donald Trump has been holding forth on a nightly basis for anything up to 90 minutes per session, but his experts are also being interviewed by other networks and newspapers and, on occasion, are saying things which contradict the White House. This has raised eyebrows and raised questions as to how long these experts will be retained. Historically, anybody who has contradicted Donald Trump has eventually lost their job. It is entirely possible that Trump realizes that he simply cannot to fire these experts at this point, since they have more credibility in the subject then he does. There has been a marked shift in tone of these press briefings, as the administration have started to produce propaganda videos, including footage of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo praising the president for his reactions to the virus. Yet these presentations appear to be contradiction of federal law, since they advocate support for one candidate over another. No campaigning or fundraising is permitted in the White House, something that various politicians have come unstuck for in the past. There is, therefore, a fine line being walked by the administration with regarded to what could be seen as its use of propaganda within the White House.
The media ae aware of this and have begun pushing back, raising doubts about the credibility of these videos. Instead of answering their questions in a considered manner, Donald Trump has rounded on the reporters, pushing back strongly. To the credit of the reporters in the room, they are not taking this lying down, and are pushing back against the president. It is remarkable to see the level of discourse to which this nation has fallen, whereby a president is being openly challenged in the White House by journalists. The extent to which the respect for this president has collapsed amongst the media is starting to cause embarrassment for the United States around the world: The vision of their own leader being openly heckled and challenged by members of the press, including Fox News is going to cause Donald Trump great consternation heading into November.
The schism that exists in American political life is, therefore, reflected in the American media. MSNBC is very much on the left, CNN is certainly anti-Donald Trump, and Fox News is cemented on the right of the political spectrum. These news networks, however, have within them distinct individuals, performing distant roles. During the day, they generally deliver the news of the day. As evening falls, however, they become dominated by opinion makers. MSNBC has Rachel Maddow; CNN has Don Lemon. Fox News is no different. It employs serous dedicated journalist such as Chris Wallace, and my former student, Benjamin Hall. It also has people like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, who offer opinion, rather than engaging in investigative, quality journalism. This has long been the case with Fox News, but it is something which has come to the light during Donald Trump’s presidency. The distinctions between news reporting and opinion become all the more important when you have a candidate of your own in the White House and have to address the successes and failures without embarrassing oneself.
The difficulties that this presents have contributed to great changes at Fox News. This has ensured that Fox News is not the same network that existed when Donald Trump became president. It has seen changes in its leadership, with the departure of Roger Ailes, and a recognition that the Murdoch-era is drawing to an end, one way or the other. High-profile journalists and broadcasters, such as Megyn Kelly and Shepard Smith, have departed the network, revealing the shifting relationship between Donald Trump and the network. Trump was always very happy to praise Fox News as long as it was giving him total loyalty and were opposed to the Democratic Party. That was never going to last forever. Last weekend Nancy Pelosi appeared on Chris Wallace’s Sunday morning show and critiqued Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. The president, instead of attacking Pelosi, instead attacked Chris Wallace for giving Nancy Pelosi airtime, suggested that this was a clear sign of demise of Fox News. Instead of fighting the coronavirus, Trump appears to be more intent on fighting not only his political enemies, but also is political allies; the longer that goes on the more dangerous it becomes for President Trump and his hopes for re-election in November.
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Trumped: America in a Time of Corona Episode III
The stay at home order has now lasted two-weeks here in Boston, and there is no end in sight. When Governor Baker announced it, the hope was that Massachusetts would be safe and sound very soon. Very clearly, that is no longer the case. Recommendations from the CDC, as well as from the governor’s office here in Boston, regarding what people should be doing in regard to public health have mounted in recent days. There remains, however, a real disconnect between the directives coming from the federal level, and from a state level by individual governors. President Trump has made statements regarding the use of face masks. His advisors are suggesting that the nation should start wearing face masks, although the president says that he won’t be doing so. Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, took his aircraft and flew around the world to pick up millions of masks from China, to be distributed here in Boston and in New York City. Here in Boston there is a move towards getting people to start wearing face masks. The challenge, however, is getting hold of them. There are several weeks’ delay for these things on Amazon, so it’s all well and good saying people need to start wearing these things, but no one is telling you where to get them, how to secure them, or what particular type you are meant to get. People are walking around wearing scarves, some are wearing what appear to be decorating masks. There is a complete lack of direction being provided at a national or local as to what the ramifications or benefits are of wearing these masks. In the initial days there were suggestions that we shouldn’t be doing so, now there are suggestions that we should be doing so. The government appears to be making things up as it goes along, so we will have to wait and see what transpires with regard to directives and the use of face masks.
The sense of the government making things up is exacerbated by President Trump, who has suggested that he really didn’t like the idea of sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office and wearing one of these things. If this is all about appearances, then that seems to be rather a poor excuse not to do something. Either these masks are going to serve a purpose and will protect the spread of disease, or they won’t, and if there is a challenge for all Americans it is understanding what it is that these masks are meant to do. Are they meant to prevent the spread of the disease if you have it to other people, or are they designed to prevent you from receiving an infection from other people who may have it? At this point there seems to be a lack of appreciation as to the viability of these masks. The only people who may be benefiting are manufacturers of these things, who have seen a spike in demand and who were no doubt able to increase their prices as a result.
The debate surrounding the wearing of masks has highlighted inter-state tensions. There is, at this point, no national lockdown in place. Those that have been instigated have been issued by state governors. The lack of a national response has undermined the process due to states which are refusing to implement a lock down. Citizens can move freely from state to state, and even around the states, causing a disconnect between the severity of the health crisis which is being addressed in many of the states, coming up against the idea that it’s somehow un-American and potentially unconstitutional to restrict the movement of people around the nation. Some organizations are seeking to ensure that their rights are not affected at this time. One of the remarkable situations we find ourselves in is that at a time when most businesses are closed, in some states certain organizations have been deemed ‘essential to the public good.’ This includes liquor stores and gun shops, so it’s entirely possible to go out, get drunk, buy a gun and shoot someone in this time of national emergency. The National Rifle Association is ensuring that America’s rights to do just that are not being enringed at this time. It is a remarkable scenario we find ourselves in that at this time, when we’re seeing millions of people being laid off, becoming unemployed, liquor stores and gun shops are experiencing a boom in sales, as people race out to make sure that they stayed liquored up and armed to the teeth.
All of these decisions, regarding lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, the wearing of masks, and the movement of people, comes whilst the United States is, technically at least, in the midst of a presidential campaign. At any other time that would have dominated to the exclusion of everything else. Instead, the news continues to focus on the national emergency in which the nation finds itself. Bernie Sanders remains in the campaign, still desperately seeking the Democratic Party nomination, refusing to throw the towel in, although members of his team are recognizing that it really is time to do so. Nobody in the party wants a repeat of 2016, when his continued candidacy drove the party further to the left, making it difficult for Hillary Clinton to unify the party at its convention, contributing to her defeat in the general election against Donald Trump. The conventions are going to be very interesting this year because at this point it is impossible to say for certain that they will occur. The Democrats have chosen to delay their own convention, but at this point there is no way of telling if they will be able to go ahead at all, or if they need to be virtual. It seems unlikely that we will see the kind of conventions we’re used to seeing every four years, with the accompanying razzmatazz, as the parties gather to nominate two candidates whose names are already known.
The coronavirus has caused a further breakdown in political dialogue here in the United States. The machinations behind the scenes, and the political maneuvering that is occurring, are central to how this national crisis is being addressed. You are seeing the extent to which this crisis is revealing great schisms between the two parties. We’ve seen the Republicans, eager to try to get this over and done with, to get Americans back to work, and lift these stay-at-home orders as quickly as possible, and provide a bail out to businesses. Meanwhile, the Democrats are more willing to extend the lock down for fear of exacerbating the situation, are looking to get bailout money directly to the American people and are seeking to attach longstanding party aspirations to any related legislation. There is an expectation of more money being made available and more legislation being prepared to increase public expenditure and salvage the situation, in addition to the eye watering amounts being spent in an attempt to reinforce the national economy. There is talk about infrastructure legislation going forward, which should be a key area that Democrats and the White House could agree upon, but this is Washington DC so at this point anybody knows what will happen next.
The political uncertainty is exacerbated by the president, who continues to speak from the White House on the state of the virus, while engaging in a war of words with high-profile governors, particularly those in New York, Michigan, and California. These are all Democrat governors, and Trump seems happy to continue his war of attrition against his political opponents. There has been talk of an attempt to instigate a unified response to the crisis by Trump and Biden and that maybe the two men will speak in regard to this. There is, however, very little in Donald Trump’s history to suggest that he will give any attention to the views of his opponents, much less give them any credence. The track record of Donald Trump’s career to date shows he has a propensity to put his finger in the air and get a sense of where the political winds are blowing and to follow that route, to make gut decisions, rather than make decisions based on the advice of experts and certainly not his political opponents.
One of the great challenges which the Trump administration is brought to Washington DC is that it is made political bipartisanship far more complicated and difficult. Politicians have long had caustic comments for their opponents, but they tend to be forgotten once only behind closed doors. If you have not been involved with politics, run for office, or held office, and seen the political machinations that go on behind the scenes, it’s understandable why politicians might appear to be at one another’s throats all day, every day. However, relationships between politicians of different political parties is often very different than they may appear on camera. Politics is about theater, ensuring that when most politicians go before TV cameras, they draw sharp distinctions between themselves and their political opponents in order to present themselves in as good a light as possible. Once the TV cameras are switched off, however, they have to deal with their opponents, or nothing gets done. Cross-party friendships have emerged in the past which have ensured that legislation has been able to get passed. Individuals like John McCain and Edward Kennedy were able to reach across the aisle and make political deals. It’s notable that neither of those senators are with us anymore.
Donald Trump has taken political rivalry and name calling to a new low, making it much more complicated for politicians to forgive and forget behind closed doors. He is not unique in terms of making bipartisan agreement difficult. President Obama foolishly engaged in megaphone diplomacy, speaking harshly about his political opponents with whom he needed to work to pass his legislative agenda. It was notable that when strides were taken during the Obama administration, it was all often because of the work of the vice president, Joe Biden, who worked behind the scenes to make sure that deals were struck. Politicians can talk, and shout, and scream, and stomp their feet, but if they are not prepared to recognize that politics is the art of compromise, that to get they must also give, then nothing will ever pass. Over the course of the last decade, however, there has been a growing sense by groups on the left and the right of American politics, including the Tea Party movement and radical left, that in compromise is a dirty word. Both extremes have adopted a sense of indignation and of political purity, making life very difficult in DC. To govern you need to gather in the center, since legislation needs to have general agreement. The passage of legislation, depending upon what it involves, requires either a straight majority, or in many cases a supermajority. Trying to get a supermajority in United States Senate is a difficult prospect, and you need to have a common ground approach to politics. What is need ed is what might be thought of as old school politicians who can recognize that while politics involved rough and tumble, there is the reality of politics which takes place behind closed doors in which people can find common ground and common purpose; no side will emerge totally victorious, and that compromise may well be a dirty word in some circles, it is also a lubricant which allows for politics to move forward. Without it, as we’ve seen in recent years, nothing gets done. As long as nothing gets done the American people will continue to look aghast at Washington DC in a time of national crisis, scratch their heads, and wonder what is that these politicians are doing in their name.
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Health | May 19, 2014
10 Of The Weirdest Medical Procedures Out There
Himanshu Sharma
Medicine has changed a lot over the years, but you’d be surprised at the unconventional nature of some of the medical procedures we’re still using today. These are 10 of the most bizarre medical treatments of our times.
10Fighting Skin Cancer With Cryotherapy
Cryogenics is a specific area of scientific research that deals with extremely low temperatures. You’ve almost certainly heard of the recent fad of getting frozen in a cryogenic chamber in the hopes of being revived by superior technology in the future. As it turns out, cryotherapy also has uses in current medicine and is being increasingly used to cure diseases like skin cancer.
The process largely consists of putting liquid nitrogen on a piece of cotton and applying it to the affected area. The only catch is that the part of skin treated with this method cannot be looked at or studied under a microscope because the frigid nitrogen literally burns it, so it’s hard to get an accurate biopsy of the diseased tissue after the treatment. There are also a few side effects—for one thing, you can expect pain and blisters for days due to the burning. There could also potentially be scars, but a little disfiguration is nothing compared to an effective treatment for cancer.
9Rebirthing Therapy
Rebirthing therapy is precisely what it sounds like—a therapy in which you pass through a very tight area in order to recreate your birth. The idea is to make you feel the same way you felt back then, which is supposed to refresh your senses and make you experience the miracle of infancy again. The therapy involves being passed through pillows, which are pressed together by the therapists to replicate the birth canal. Breathing might become difficult in the middle of it, but that’s just part of the process.
If that sounds a bit weird, law enforcement thinks so, too. The procedure has had its share of controversies, and quite a few people have reportedly died from it in the past—maybe because of the breathing thing we mentioned earlier. As it stands now, the therapy is illegal in Colorado and North Carolina.
8Symphysiotomy
Symphysiotomy is a procedure by which the pelvis of a pregnant woman is manually widened to allow for childbirth in lieu of a caesarean section. In places without apt medical equipment, saws are used to cut it wide enough for the child to pass through comfortably. That might sound like something from medieval history, but the procedure was widely used by Irish doctors between the 1940s and 1980s. The women were often not told in advance what the doctors intended to do, and the consequences were often horrendous. The victims weren’t able to walk, and they usually developed infections and back problems—basically, all the things you’d expect from having your body cut up with a saw.
The issue has only come to public light recently, and there are plenty of survivor groups fighting for justice even now. Some medical bodies have issued their apologies to the victims, and more survivors are now coming out with their stories in light of the increased media attention.
7Tooth In Eye Surgery
Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis is a procedure for blind patients with damaged eye tissue. It involves pulling one of your teeth out and implanting it in your damaged eye. And it works—the transplant is based on the idea that once the body senses a tooth instead of, say, a mechanical implant, the body won’t reject it. A part of the jawbone is surgically separated for the process, then they drill a hole through the tooth to hold a prosthetic lens.
Once the transplant is successful and it’s been accepted as a part of the body, the doctors can replace the tooth with an artificial hold. The procedure is not yet widespread, but it has helped a number of people regain their eyesight. The doctors who perform this surgery have had a fair rate of success, and it might be fairly common in the future.
6Malaria Injections
Julius Wagner-Jauregg was the first of the only three people to have ever received a Nobel Prize in the field of psychiatry. Wagner-Juaregg was also one of the few psychiatrists to treat his patients through biological means, such as infecting them with malaria to cure diseases like syphilis. He was one of the doctors in charge of the psychiatric asylums in early 20th-century Austria, where the patients were coming down with a range of illnesses like pneumonia and typhoid.
Inspired by these cases, he started experimenting with deliberately giving people malaria to see its effects on other, unrelated diseases, which largely turned out to be successful. Wagner-Juaregg was working at the same time as Sigmund Freud, who was also from Austria, and even though Freud never won a Nobel, his psychoanalytic approach to psychiatry became much more popular than Juaregg’s biological one in the rest of the world.
5The G-Shot
If you want your G-spot to perform better than it usually does, G-Spot Activation therapy is probably for you. The procedure is meant to make it easier for a guy to locate it by literally increasing its size. After numbing it with anesthesia, they inject the G-spot with chemicals to artificially increase its size for a healthier sex life. The criteria for getting the injection is quite strict, though—you should be a sexually functioning female who knows where her G-spot is, and you shouldn’t have any other problems, like allergies or a loose vagina.
The procedure is very brief, and you can probably get back to having sex within hours of getting the shot. It’s been surprisingly successful—in a study done on women who had gotten the procedure, about 87 percent were found to be satisfied with the results, with better orgasms, increased libido, and a general improvement in their sex lives.
4Laughter Therapy
We all know that laughter is good for the body, but you may not have known that raising your hands in the air and laughing like a maniac is an increasingly popular therapy in countries like India. The therapy is largely a result of the efforts of Dr. Madan Kataria in 1970s Mumbai, who can be credited with bringing laughter into mainstream medicine. Laughter therapy is usually done in groups, and Kataria set up the first “laughter group” 40 years ago. There are currently about 5,000 different groups around the world dedicated to just laughing together.
In places where it is the most popular, it’s not unusual to see a bunch of random people throwing their hands in the air and laughing loudly every evening at the local park. It’s not really a sham procedure, either—research does indicate that laughter helps the body produce more warrior cells to fight off diseases.
3Bee Sting Therapy
Getting stung by a bee isn’t a lot of fun, but apparently it’s good for you. Apitherapy is based around the idea of finding medical uses for bees, and some of that includes letting them sting you. Practitioners don’t even go through the trouble of injecting the bee venom with a needle—an actual, live bee is held near the skin by tweezers and forced to sting the patient. The bees are often raised by the patients themselves, and some treatments involve getting stung about 80 times a day.
Apparently, bee venom is beneficial against arthritic pain and inflammation, and has long been used against these ailments; the earliest examples of the use of bee venom come from the ancient Egyptians, who used it to treat arthritis. The patients often report positive results from the treatment, so it’s fast catching up as a viable therapy for problems related to pain, like multiple sclerosis and tendonitis.
2Desert Sand Therapy
In Siwa, an oasis in the city of Cairo, Egypt, it’s an ancient belief that the hot sand of the desert has some sort of medicinal properties, so travelers and locals routinely allow themselves to be buried in it to rid their body of skin problems and other diseases. First, they dig a hole in the ground in the morning, allowing it to absorb all the good rays of the Sun, and at about 2:00 PM the patient lies down in the Sun-soaked hole. It is believed that the hotter it is, the more effective the treatment will be.
Then they cover the whole body with sand except for the head, which is kept in the shade by blankets set on a couple of sticks. If the ground gets damp with sweat, the wet sand is replaced with dry, hot sand to keep the procedure going.
1Three-Parent Babies
Using three people to make a baby is a relatively new procedure, but it’s being increasingly seen as a legitimate practice. Though mired in controversy, several countries are currently in deliberation over whether or not they will allow three-parent embryos. The main draw is that it would give parents-to-be the ability to prevent genetic diseases from passing on to the offspring.
During the procedure, nuclear DNA from the mother is dumped into a donor’s egg, which has been cleared to leave only healthy mitochondrial DNA. The father’s sperm is added, and the baby is born with genetic material from the mother, father, and the donor. It works because only the mitochondrial DNA from a mother carries genetic diseases, so with that taken out of the picture, the baby is born healthy. Nuclear DNA carries the traits, like eye and hair color, so the baby will still effectively be the offspring of the true parents. The procedure is done through in vitro fertilization, and the embryo otherwise grows up normally.
As we mentioned, the procedure has had its share of problems. It raises questions on whether we should be tinkering with our original design, though it can really help the large number of people who suffer from genetic disorders. Researchers believe that three-way fertilization can revolutionize the medical field, but people opposing it say that if the procedure becomes widely accepted, the next step can only be human cloning—despite the fact that three-way fertilization doesn’t involve genetic modification.
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146 U.S. 370 - Lewis v. United States
146 US 370 Lewis v. United States
36 L.Ed. 1011
No. 1,018.
A. H. Garland and Hebe J. May, for plaintiff in error.
Asst. Atty. Gen. Parker, for the United States.
Mr. Justice SHIRAS delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a writ of error sued out to review a judgment of the circuit court of the United States for the western district of Arkansas, imposing a sentence of death upon Alexander Lewis, plaintiff in error, for the murder of one Benjamin C. Tarver, at the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian country.
It appears by the record that on the trial of the case, and after the accused had pleaded not guilty to the indictment, the court disrected two lists of 37 qualified jurymen to be made out by the clerk, one to be given to the district attorney, and one to the counsel for the defendant; and that the court further directed each side to proceed with its challenges independent of the other, and without knowledge on the part of either as to what challenges had been made by the other.
It further appears by the record that to this method of proceeding in that regard the defendant at the time excepted, but was required to proceed to make his challenges; that he challenged 20 persons from the list of 37 persons from which he made his challenges, but in doing so he challenged 3 jurors who were also challenged by the attorney for the government.
It further appears that the government, by its district attorney, challenged from the list of 37 persons 5 persons, 3 of whom were the same persons challenged by the defendant, and that this fact was made to appear from the lists of jurors used by the government in making its challenges and the defendant in making his challenges.
To the happening of the fact that both parties challenged the same three jurors the defendant at the time objected, but the court overruled the objection, and directed the jury to be called from the said two lists impaneled and sworn, to which the defendant at the time excepted.
The assignments of error ask us to consider the validity of the method of exercising his rights of challenge, imposed upon the defendant by the order of the court, and also the propriety of the instruction given by the court to the jury on the subject of the defense of an alibi, by giving prominence to the cautionary rules by which they should weigh this class of testimony, and particularly in saying to the jury that it was a defense often resorted to, and often attempted to be sustained and made effective by fraud, subornation, and perjury.
A leading principle that pervades the entire law of criminal procedure is that, after indictment found, nothing shall be done in the absence of the prisoner. While this rule has at times, and in the cases of misdemeanors, been somewhat relaxed, yet in felonies it is not in the power of the prisoner, either by himself or his counsel, to waive the right to be personally present during the trial. 'It would be contrary to the dictates of humanity to let him waive the advantage which a view of his sad plight might give him by inclining the hearts of the jurors to listen to his defense with indulgence.' Prine v. Com., 18 Pa. St. 103, per Gilbson, C. J. And it appears to be well settled that, where the personal presence is necessary in point of law, the record must show the fact. Thus in a Virginia case (Hooker v. Com., 13 Grat. 763) the court observed that the record showed that on two occasions during the trial the prisoner appeared by attorney, and that there was nothing to show that he was personally present in court on either day, and added: 'This is probably the result of mere inadvertence in making up the record, yet this court must look only to the record as it is. * * * It is the right of any one, when prosecuted on a capital or criminal charge, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses; and it is within the scope of this right that he be present, not only when the jury are hearing his case, but at any subsequent stage when anything may be done in the prosecution by which he is to be affected.' Thereupon the judgment was reversed. And in the case of Dunn v. Com., 6 Pa. St. 384, it was held that the record in a capital case must show affirmatively the prisoner's presence in court, and that it was not allowable to indulge the presumption that everything was rightly done until the contrary appears. Ball v. U. S., 140 U. S. 118, 11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 761, is to the same effect.
In Hopt v. Utah, 110 U. S., at page 578, 4 Sup. Ct. Rep., at page 204, it is said: 'The argument in behalf of the government is that the trial of the indictment began after and not before the jury was sworn; consequently that the defendant's personal presence was not required at an earlier stage of the proceedings. Some warrant, it is supposed by counsel, is found for this position in decisions construing particular statutes in which the word 'trial' is used. Without stopping to distinguish those cases from the one before us, or to examine the grounds upon which they are placed, it is sufficient to say that the purpose of the foregoing provisions of the Utah Criminal Code is, in prosecutions for felonies, to prevent any steps being taken in the absence of the accused, and after the case is called for trial, which involve his substantial rights. The requirement is, not that he must be personally present at the trial by the jury, but 'at the trial.' The Code, we have seen, prescribes grounds for challenge by either party of jurors proposed; and provision is expressly made for the 'trial' of such challenges, some by the court, others by triers. The prisoner is entitled to an impartial jury composed of persons not disqualified by statute, and his life or liberty may depend upon the aid which, by his personal presence, he may give to counsel and to the court and triers in the selection of jurors. The necessities of the defense may not be met by the presence of his counsel only. For every purpose, therefore, involved in the requirement that the defendant shall be personally present at the trial where the indictment is for a felony, the trial commences at least from the time when the work of impaneling the jury begins.' And, further: 'We are of opinion that it was not within the power of the accused or his counsel to dispense with the statutory requirement as to his personal presence at the trial. The argument to the contrary necessarily proceeds upon the ground that he alone is concerned as to the mode by which he may be deprived of his life or liberty, and that the chief object of the prosecution is to punish him for the crime charged. But this is a mistaken view as well of the relations which the accused holds to the public as of the end of human punishment. 'The natural life,' says Blackstone, 'cannot legally be disposed of or destroyed by any individual, neither by the person himself, nor by any other of his fellow creatures, merely upon their own authority.' 1 Bl. Comm. 133. The public has an interest in his life and liberty. Neither can be lawfully taken except in the mode prescribed by law. That which the law makes essential in proceedings involving the deprivation of life or liberty cannot be dispensed with or affected by the consent of the accused, much less by his mere failure, when on trial and in custody, to object to unauthorized methods.' So, too, in the case of Schwab v. Berggren, 143 U. S. 442, 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 525, this language of the court in Hopt v. Utah is cited and approved.
In the case of Dyson v. State of Mississippi, 26 Miss. 362, 383, it was said: 'It is undoubtedly true that the record must affirmatively show those indispensable facts without which the judgment would be void,—such as the organization of the court; its jurisdiction of the subject-matter and of the parties; that a cause was made up for trial; that it was submitted to a jury sworn to try it, (if it be a case proper for a jury;) that a verdict was rendered, and judgment awarded. Out of abundant tenderness for the right secured to the accused by our constitution to be confronted by the witnesses against him, and to be heard by himself or counsel, our court has gone a step further, and held that it must be shown by the record that the accused was present in court pending the trial. This is upon the ground of the peculiar sacredness of this high constitutional right. It is also true, as has been held by this court, 'that nothing can be presumed for or against a record, except what appears substantially upon its face." Continuing, the court said: 'This rule has reference to those indispensable requisites necessary to the validity of the record as a judicial proceeding.'
As already said, the record shows that at the trial of the case the court directed two lists of 37 qualified jurymen to be made out by the clerk, and one to be given to the district attorney and one to the counsel for the defendant; and the court further directed each side to proceed with its challenges, and without knowledge on the part of either as to what challenges had been made by the other. Although the record states that after the challenges the 12 jurors who remained were sworn, yet it clearly appears from the whole record, and the lists therein referred to, that after the challenges there remained, not only 12, but 15, jurors, and that by the mode adopted, which required the prisoner to challenge by list, he exhausted some of his challenges by challenging jurors at the foot of the list, and who were never reached to be sworn as jurors in the case. And the record does not disclose that at the time the challenges were made the jury had been called into the box, nor that they or the prisoner were present at the time the challenges were made. It does, indeed, appear that the clerk called the entire panel of the petit jury, but it does not appear that, when the jury answered to said call, they were present so that they could be inspected by the prisoner, and it is evident that the process of challenging did not begin until after said call had been made. We do not think that the record affirmatively discloses that the prisoner and the jury were brought face to face at the time the challenges were made, but we think that a fair reading of the record leads to the opposite conclusion, and that the prisoner was not brought face to face with the jury until after the challenges had been made and the selected jurors were brought into the box to be sworn. Thus reading the record, and holding, as we do, that making of challenges was an essential part of the trial, and that it was one of the substantial rights of the prisoner to be brought face to face with the jurors at the time when the challenges were made, we are brought to the conclusion that the record discloses an error for which the judgment of the court must be reversed.
The right of challenge comes from the common law with the trial by jury itself, and has always been held essential to the fairness of trial by jury. As was said by Blackstone, and repeated by Mr. Justice Story: 'In criminal cases, or at least in capital ones, there is, in favorem vitae, allowed to the prisoner an arbitrary and capricious species of challenge to a certain number of jurors, without showing any cause at all, which is called a 'peremptory challenge;' a provision full of that tenderness and humanity to prisoners for which our English laws are justly famous. This is grounded on two reasons: (1) As every one must be sensible what sudden impressions and unaccountable prejudices we are apt to conceive upon the bare looks and gestures of another, and how necessary it is that a prisoner (when put to defend his life) should have a good opinion of his jury, the want of which might totally disconcert him, the law wills not that he should be tried by any one man against whom he has conceived a prejudice, even without being able to assign a reason for such his dislike. (2) Because, upon challenges for cause shown, if the reason assigned prove insufficient to set aside the juror, perhaps the bare questioning his indifference may sometimes provoke a resentment; to prevent all ill consequences from which, the prisoner is still at liberty, if he pleases, permptorily to set him aside.' 4 Bl. Comm. 353; U. S. v. Marchant, 4 Mason, 160, 162, and 12 Wheat. 480, 482. See, also, Co. Litt. 156b; Termes de la Ley, voc. Challenge, 2 Hawk, c. 43, § 4; Reg. v. Frost, 9 Car. & P. 129, 137; Hartzell v. Com., 40 Pa. St. 462, 466; State v. Price, 10 Rich. Law, 351, 355.
There is no statute of the United States which prescribes the method of procedure in impaneling jurors in criminal cases, and it is customary for the United States courts in such cases to conform to the methods prescribed by the statutes of the states. In the present instance the method prescribed by the statutes of Arkansas was not followed, nor does it appear that there exists any general rule on the subject in the circuit court of the western district of Arkansas. While the court in the present instance did not exceed its jurisdiction in directing the impaneling of the jury by a method different from that prescribed by the state statute, and while we do not feel called upon to make suggestions as to the proper practice to be adopted by the circuit courts in impaneling juries in criminal cases, yet obviously all rules of practice must necessarily be adapted to secure the rights of the accused; that is, where there is no statute, the practice must not conflict with or abridge the right as it exists at common law. In the trial of Jeremiah Brandreth, 32 Howell, St. Tr. 755, 771, where a question arose as to the order of challenge of jorors in a capital case, it was said by Mr. Justice Abbott: 'Having attended, I believe, more trials of this kind than any other of the judges, i would state that the uniform practice has been that the juryman was presented to the prisoner or his counsel, that they might have a view of his person. Then the officer of the court looked first to the counsel for the prisoner to know whether they wished to challenge him. He then turned to the counsel for the crown, to know whether they challenged him, and, if neither of them made any objection, the oath was administered.' In Townley's Case, 18 Howell, St. Tr. 347, 348, the prisoner's counsel moved that before any juryman should be brought to the book the whole panel might be called over once in the prisoner's hearing, that he might take notice who did or who did not appear, which they said would be a considerable help to him in taking his challenges. This was done by order of the court.
In the case of Lamb v. State, 36 Wis. 424, where it did not appear affirmatively by the record that the panel of jurors in respect to which the prisoner had the right of peremptory challenge was present in the view of the prisoner, but where the members of the jury were called into the box one at a time, and either challenged or sworn, and to which method the prisoner excepted, this was held reversible error, and the court said: 'We cannot but agree with the learned counsel for the plaintiff in error that this mode of impaneling the jury largely impaired the right of peremptory challenge, essential in contemplation of law to the impartiality of the trial; for it is, as Blackstone says, an arbitrary and capricious right, and it must be exercised with full freedom, or it fails of its full purpose. The mode adopted gave no opportunity for comparison and choice between jurors, and little opportunity for observance of each juror, apparently essential to the exercise of a right so visionary and fanciful.'
In the case of Hopt v. Utah, already cited, it was held that the trial by triers, appointed by the court, of challenges of proposed jurors in felony cases, must be had in the presence as well of the court as of the accused, and that such presence of the accused cannot be dispensed with. In this case the triers took the juror from the court room into a different room, and tried the grounds of challenge out of the presence as well of the court as of the defendant and his counsel, and it was held by this court that it was error which vitiated the verdict and judgment to permit the trial of challenges to take place without the presence of the accused; and this, although the accused failed to object to the retirement of the triers from the court room, or to the trial of the several challenges in his absence. The record in this case discloses that the prisoner objected and took due exception to the orders of the court directing the method of taking challenges. It is true that no specific exception was taken by the prisoner, based on the stated fact that he was called upon to challenge jurors not before him, but we think that the general exception taken to the action of the court in prescribing the method of procedure was sufficient.
Another assignment averred error in the court in the selection of the jury, in that the defendant was required to make his challenges without first knowing what challenges the government's attorney had made, and thus challenged three jurors who were also challenged by the government, whereby he was deprived of three of his challenges, contrary to law. This assignment of error is based on a specific exception taken at the time by the prisoner, and in this respect it differs from the case of Alexander v. U. S., 138 U. S. 353, 11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 350, where the same error was assigned, and was not considered by this court because it had not been properly excepted to at the trial. As we have already said, we do not deem it our duty to prescribe in this opinion rules to regulate the discretion of the circuit courts in the impaneling of jurors in criminal cases. Perhaps the preferable course would be for the circuit courts to adopt the methods prescribed by the statutes of the states, because such methods are familiar to the bar and the people of the states. If, however, the circuit courts choose to deal with such matters by rules of their own, we think it essential that such rules should be adapted to secure all the rights of the accused. It does not appear in the present case that the prisoner made any demand to challenge any of the jury beyond the twenty allowed by the Revised Statutes. In fact, it does not clearly appear which side made the first challenges, or that the defendant had not exhausted his challenges before the government challenged the three jurors in question. If it were a fact that the defendant had made his twenty challenges before the government had challenged these three men, it is difficult to see how his rights were prejudiced by the action of the district attorney; but we should hesitate to affirm this judgment upon a record giving us so little information as to the history of the trial in these respects.
The only other error assigned which calls for notice is the one objecting to the language used by the court when cautioning the jury in respect to the testimony bearing on the defense of an alibi. Whether the language of the learned judge went beyond the verge of propriety we are not called upon to consider, as no due exception was taken at the trial, and no opportunity was, therefore, given the court to modify the charge.
The objection to the language used, urged on the motion for a new trial, cannot be regarded as equivalent to an exception at the trial. Because, however, of the error into which the court full, in directing secret challenges to be made, and not in the presence of the prisoner and the jorors, the judgment of the court below must be reversed, and the case remanded for a new trial.
Mr. Justice BREWER, dissenting.
I dissent from the opinion and judgment of the court in this case. Where the question is as to the inferences to be drawn from a record, it is well to have its very language before us. The entire record bearing upon the matters in controversy consists of a single journal entry and a portion of the bill of exceptions. The journal entry is as follows:
'Tuesday Morning, October 20th, 1891.
'(Caption omit'ed.)
'On this day come the United States of America, by Wm. H. H. Clayton, Esq., attorney for the western district of Arkansas, and come the said defendant in custody of the marshal and by his attorneys, Mess. Barnes & Reed, and it appearing from the returns of the marshal that the said defendant has been served with a duly-certified copy of the indictment in this cause, and a full and complete list of the witnesses in this cause, and that he has also been served with a full and complete list of the petit jury, as selected and drawn by the jury commissioners for the present term of this court, more than two entire days heretofore, and having heretofore had hearing of said indictment, and pleaded not guilty thereto, it is, on motion of the plaintiff by its attorney, ordered that a jury come to try the issue joined, whereupon the clerk called the entire panel of the petit jury, and, after challenge by both plaintiff and defendant, the following were selected for the trial of this cause:
'Geo. A. Bryant, John W. Clayborn, Henry P. Dooly, James O. Eubanks, John A. Fisher, Henry P. Floyd, Geo. W. Hobbs, Hugh F. Mullen Jno. D. McCleary, Obadiah C. Richmond, Joseph Stafford, Henry B. Wheeler,—twelve good and lawful men of the district aforesaid, duly selected, impaneled, and sworn to try the issue joined, and a true verdict render according to the law and the evidence; and, after hearing a portion of the evidence, and there not being time to further progress in the trial of this cause, they were put in charge of a sworn bailiff of this court.'
The recital in the bill of exceptions is in these words:
'Be it remembered that on the trial of the above-entitled cause the court directed two lists of 37 qualified jurymen to be made out by the clerk, and one given to the district attorney and one to the counsel for the defendant; and the court further directed each side to proceed with its challenges independent of the other, and without knowledge on the part of either as to what challenges had been made by the other.
'To which method of proceeding in that regard defendant at the time excepted, but was required to proceed to make his challenges, and he challenged 20 persons from the list of 37 persons, from which he made his challenges, but in doing so he challenged 3 jurors who were also challenged by the attorney for the government, to wit, James H. Hamilton, Britton Upchurch, and James P. Mack. The government, by its district attorney, challenged from the list of 37 jurors 5 persons. In making its challenges the same three persons as those challenged by the defendant, to wit, James H. Hamilton, Britton Upchurch, and James P. Mack, were challenged by the government, as appears from the lists of jurors used by the government in making its challenges and the defendant in making his challenges.
'The 12 persons who were left of the panel of 37, after both sides had made their respective challenges, were the ones selected to try, and who did try, the case.
'To the happening of the fact that both parties challenged the same three jurors, the defendant at the time objected, but the court overruled the objection, and directed the jury to be called from the said two lists, impaneled and sworn, to which the defendant at the time excepted.' In addition, in the bill of exceptions are found the two lists of jurors, given the one to the government and the other to the defendant. Upon this record the case turns. We look to the journal entry for a recital of the facts necessary to constitute a legal trial. That recital may be in general terms, but still should affirmatively show everything essential to a valid criminal trial. This journal entry clearly affirms the presence of the defendant. The language is: 'Come the said defendant in custody of the marshal,' etc. Such presence, having been once stated, will be presumed to have continued through the entire day, unless the contrary is shown. It never has been even suggested that the journal should contain at the statement of each separate proceeding of the day a fresh recital of the personal presence of the defendant. In Jeffries v. Com., 12 Allen, 145, 154, it was said: 'Nor is it necessary that the record should in direct terms state that the party was personally present at the time of the rendition of the verdict and during all the previous proceedings of the trial. However necessary it may be that such should have been the fact, it is not necessary to recite it in the record. The record shows that he was present at the arraignment, and present to receive his sentence.' 'When the record shows that the defendant was in court at the opening of the session the presumption is that he continued in court during the entire day, and this presumption has been extended to the whole trial.' Whart. Crim. Pl. & Pr. § 551; State v. Lewis, 69 Mo. 92; Kie v. U. S., 27 Fed. Rep. 351; Cluverius v. Com., 81 Va. 787; Folden v. State, 13 Neb. 328, 14 N. W. Rep. 412; Irvin v. State, 19 Fla. 872; People v. Sing Lum, 61 Cal. 538; People v. Jung Qung Sing, 70 Cal. 469, 11 Pac. Rep. 755; Territory v. Yarberry, 2 N. M. 391. No claim, therefore, can be successfully presented that anything transpiring on that day took place in the absence of the defendant.
The same journal entry further recites that 'the clerk called the entire panel of the petit jury, and, after challenge by both plaintiff and defendant,' the jury was selected. Where the general term is used, as here, 'challenge,' it means all challenges. It is used in its comprehensive sense. It is unnecessary to subdivide, and say, after 'challenge to the array,' 'challenges for cause,' and 'peremptory challenges;' the single general word is sufficient. But this journal entry does not stop with this. After naming the jurors, and describing them as good and lawful men, it adds, 'duly selected, impaneled, and sworn.' Such will be found the uniform formula of journal entries. In Kie v. U. S., 27 Fed. Rep. 351, 357,—a case taken on error to the circuit court,—Judge Deady observes: 'The record simply states in the usual way, when the case was called for trial, a jury came, a and was duly impaneled and sworn.' Potsdamer v. State, 17 Fla. 895; Rash v. State, 61 Ala. 89. In Wharton's Criminal Pleading and Practice (§ 779a) the author says: 'Thus, when the record shows impaneling and swearing, it will be presumed, in error, that the swearing was in conformity with the law, and the impaneling was regular.' It is hardly necessary to refer to the familiar fact that in criminal, as in civil, cases the presumption is in favor of the regularity of the proceedings in the trial court, and that error must affirmatively appear. Pow. App. Proc. p. 326, § 50; Whart. Crim. Pl. & Pr. § 779a, and cases cited in note. I take it, therefore, that it is not open to doubt that, if nothing was before us except the journal entry, there would be no error apparent in the proceedings in regard to the jury.
How does the matter stand from the bill of exceptions? A bill of exceptions is prepared by the party, and, being prepared by him, he may state, and ought to state, only those facts which present the very question he desires to raise. If the objection is to a ruling on the admission of testimony, he should state only that testimony and enough of the case to show its relevancy. It would be absurd to require him to set out all the testimony, or to state in terms that there was no objection to the balance. As was said in Lincoln v. Claflin, 7 Wall. 132, 136; 'A bill of exceptions should only present the rulings of the court upon some matter of law,—as upon the admission or exclusion of evidence,—and should contain only so much of the testimony, or such a statement of the proofs made or offered, as may be necessary to explain the bearing of the rulings upon the issues invoved.' If he objects to a specific portion of a charge, he should state only that portion. Putting in the whole charge is clearly against rule 4 of this court, (3 Sup. Ct. Rep. v.,) and has been explicitly condemned. United States v. Rindskopf, 105 U. S. 418. Indeed, the single function of a bill of exceptions is to bring upon the record so much of the proceedings as will disclose the precise question which the party desires to have ruled upon, and when prepared by counsel and presented to the court, if it states the facts truly, the judge ought to sign it; and it is unnecessary for it to set forth affirmatively that there was no other error in the proceedings, or to state all the facts of the case, in order to disclose that there was no other error. Bearing in mind this, which is confessedly the scope and purpose of a bill of exceptions, I notice that in this bill not a word is said about the absence of the jurors from the box, the personal presence or absence of the defendant, or whether the defendant was brought face to face with the jurors. If he had any fault to find in respect to these matters, the facts in respect thereto should have been explicitly stated. That he made no claim of wrong therein is evident from the fact that he does not mention them. Examining the language of the bill of exceptions carefully, it states that two lists were given,—one to plaintiff and one to defendant; and the court directed them to proceed with their challenges, each separately of the other, and without knowledge of what challenges were being made by the other. The follows the exception, 'to which method of proceeding in that regard defendant at the time excepted.' I respectfully submit that language could not be used which makes clearer the fact that the objection ran alone to the fact that each party was required to make its challenges independently of the other, and without knowledge of what the other was doing. It is not simply said, 'to which method of proceeding,' but, as if to limit carefully to the particular matter, it says, 'to which method of proceeding in that regard;' and at the close of the recitals it is further stated, 'to the happening of the fact that both parties challenged the same three jurors the defendant at the time objected.' This is all which in any way tends to show that there was anything wrong in the matter of challenges, or that anything took place in the absence of the defendant.
Again, if the defendant has taken no exceptions to these proceedings, it is settled that this court would not inquire as to whether there was error in them. In Alexander v. U. S., 138 U. S. 353, 11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 350, a case coming from the same district, the precise state of facts in respect to the impaneling of the jury appeared, but without any exceptions. The response made by the court to the assignment of error was in these words: 'The decisive answer to this assignment is that the attention of the court does not seem to have been called to it until after the conviction, when the defendant made it a ground of his motion for a new trial. It is the duty of counsel seasonably to call the attention of the court to any error in impaneling the jury, in admitting testimony, or in any other proceeding during the trial, by which his rights are prejudiced, and, in case of an adverse ruling, to note an exception.' Of course, then, if the matters are not vital to the trial, and may be waived by failure to object, as thus decided, clearly the defendant can take advantage of nothing to which he does not except. Hence, supposing that after the foregoing recital in the bill of exceptions there had appeared further recitals showing various irregularities in respect to the challenges, sufficient of themselves, if excepted to, to compel reversal, but with no following exception, clearly, under the rule laid down in Alexander v. U. S., we should have been compelled to ignore them. Surely, then, when the exception runs to a specific matter, it cannot be broadened so as to extend to a matter which is confessedly not stated, but is only inferred as probable from what is stated. In short, when the journal entry, which is of itself a part of the record, and which is the court's statement of what took place, recites the personal presence of the defendant, and the full exercise of the right of challenge, in language which is the ordinary formula of journal entries, and which has been uniformly regarded as sufficient to infer from the bill of exceptions prepared by the defendant, whose purpose is only to present the facts bearing upon the particular error alleged by him, and which only specifies in terms a single act to which exception is taken, to wit, the fact that plaintiff and defendant were compelled to challenge peremptorily, without knowledge of the other's challenges, that any challenges took place in the absence of the defendant, to hold that an exception which is precise to a particular matter can be broadened so as to include other matters not specified, and thereupon to set aside a judgment of guilty, solemnly rendered, seems to me to overturn established rules governing appellate proceedings, to destroy confidence in courts, and to work great wrong to the public.
Further than this, in the brief of counsel for the defendant there is no claim that the jury were not present in the box, face to face with the defendant, when he was called upon to make his challenges. The only points they make in respect to the matter are that the mode of designating the jury was not recognized by the statutes of the state of Arkansas, nor in conformity with any rule prescribed by congress; and that, by reason of the fact that three jurors were challenged by both the government and defendant, the latter was really deprived of three peremptory challenges.
Now, if it should prove to be the case—as, it seems to me, is not only possible, but probable—that the defendant was in fact present in the court room during all the challenges; that the entire panel of jurors was called into the box before him; that in their presence he was allowed and received all the challenges for cause he desired to make; and that only after a full inspection of the jury, and a questioning of each one so far as was desired, were the lists placed in the hands of the respective counsel for peremptory challenges,—will not the ordinary citizen believe that substantial justice would have been doen if this court had omitted to read into the record something which is not expressly stated therein, which defendant's counsel did not claim to have happened, and which did not in fact happen?
So far as respects the matter of contemporaneous challenging, at common law, and generally where no order is prescribed by statute, the defendant is required to make all his challenges before the government is called upon for any. In that aspect of the law, contemporaneous challenging works to the injury of the government, rather than to that of the defendant. Further, in the only case in which the precise question has been presented, (State v. Hays, 23 Mo. 287,) cited approvingly provingly in Turpin v. State, 55 Md. 462, the decision was in favor of the validity of such manner of challenge. In view of the discretion which, in the absence of statute, is confessedly vested in the trial court as to the manner of challenges, there was no error in this sufficient to justify a new trial.
I am authorized to say that Mr. Justice BROWN also dissents.
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Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest
We rated this book:
It’s rare to read a musician’s autobiography and not feel like the author is trying to reinforce (or manufacture) some grand illusion of himself, his role in the band, and his role in musical history. When it comes to heavy metal bands, this is doubly true.
So Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest was a breath of fresh air. Downing is an engaging, believable narrator, happy to take the reader through the highs and lows of his career. Whether he’s exploring the idiocy of the “backwards messages in music” panic or sharing road stories where egos clashed like cymbals, it feels like Downing is calling things right down the middle, not selling you a story.
Whether you’re on the road with the band during the best times or in the trenches with them during the worst, the book is loaded to the brim with fascinating details on the band’s history, the interactions of the band members, and the general state of the industry at the time.
And yet, it’s an incredibly personal tale as well, as Downing recounts failed relationships, strained friendships, and personal creative frustrations. You really get the full experience with this one.
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UT’s Banned Books vigil to take place Oct. 1
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird has garnered a great deal of recognition: a 1961 Pulitzer Prize and the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and status in 2011 as the American Library Association’s 10th most banned book.
The last week of September marks the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week. The University of Toledo will join the celebration Thursday, Oct. 1, on the fifth floor of Carlson Library for the 18th annual Banned Books Week Vigil.
The free, public event will begin at 9 a.m. with programs running every half hour until 5 p.m. Speakers will celebrate the right to read, think and speak freely with the campus and Toledo community.
“Our festival is a mirror of how greatly this campus believes in intellectual freedom,” said Dr. Paulette D. Kilmer, UT professor of communication, founder and coordinator of the event, which the UT Banned Books Week Coalition spends months planning.
“This campus’ belief is evident in many ways — our library, our IT and computer support, the free access for Wi-Fi, The Independent Collegian, UT:10, the radio station — these all show that intellectual inquiry is very important here,” she said.
Light snacks and refreshments will be available all day, with free banned books and prizes distributed every half hour.
“We are proud to host this campus-wide celebration of the right to read and think freely,” Kilmer said. “Our event gives UT people an opportunity to support freedom of expression. We set aside all sorts of holidays — for groundhogs, Halloween, St. Patrick’s Day — and they’re all good, but we could really afford to add a holiday for reading, too.”
Topics and speakers for the event will be:
• 9 a.m. — “Welcome,” Barbara Floyd, director of UT’s Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections and interim director of UT Libraries, and Dr. Jeffrey Wilkinson, professor and chair of the UT Communication Department;
• 9:30 a.m. — “Reflections” by UT Interim Provost John Barrett;
• 10 a.m. — “Silencing Through Stereotypes: Native Americans in Children’s Literature” by Dr. Sharon Barnes, associate professor and interim chair of the UT Women’s and Gender Studies;
• 10:30 a.m. — “Toledo Free Press Memories” by Sarah Ottney, Toledo freelance journalist;
• 11 a.m. — “The Helicopter Problem” by Dr. David Tucker, UT professor of communication;
• 11:30 a.m. — “Women Who Know Better” by Warren Woodbury, Toledo author;
• Noon — The Dr. Linda Smith Lecture: “Do Criminals Have First Amendment Rights? Civic Death and the U.S. Constitution” by Dr. Renee Heberle, UT professor of political science;
• 1 p.m. — “Innocence Seduced: A Brief History of Comic Book Censorship” by Dr. Matt Yockey, UT associate professor of theatre and film;
• 1:30 p.m. — “The Shifting Lines of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age” by Wilkinson;
• 2 p.m. — “College Confidential: Censorship of College newspapers” by The Independent Collegian Editor-in-Chief Amanda Pitrof and Forum Editor Morgan Rinckey;
• 2:30 p.m. — “Trigger Warning Here! A Reflection on ‘Trigger Warnings’ in Higher Education” by Dr. Glen Sheldon, UT honors professor of humanities;
• 3 p.m. — “Jeopardy!” hosted by The Independent Collegian staff;
• 3:30 p.m. — “Naughty Girls or Nasty Minds? The Evolution of Pin-Up Models” by Torrie Jadlocki, local photojournalist;
• 4 p.m. — “You Can’t Teach That!” by Cindy Ramirez, English teacher at Bedford Senior High School; and
• 4:30 p.m. — “Banned Books, Birds and Expressing Beliefs Through Art,” by Lee Fearnside, associate professor of art at Tiffin University.
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Spooky, Spirited Homecoming to Touch Down at UToledo
October 1st, 2019 by Christine Billau
Come to campus — if you dare… Rocky’s Haunted Homecoming will unleash unbridled UToledo enthusiasm as students, employees and alumni psych up for Halloween and the big game.
“We have a lot of fun events planned throughout the week,” said Ashlen Torio, director of the Homecoming Committee and senior majoring in operation and supply chain management. “We brought back Eat the Streets and our movie night. Both events are even bigger this year. Eat the Streets is being moved to Centennial Mall during the day to give more students an opportunity to come. And our movie night is now a double feature.”
Scaring up fun is the plan before the Toledo Rockets face the Western Michigan Broncos 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5 in the Glass Bowl.
“Students can expect a good time and a lot of school spirit,” Torio said. “This is a time when everyone on campus is showing their UToledo pride.”
This year’s Homecoming activities, which include:
Tuesday, Oct. 1
Eat the Streets, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Centennial Mall. There’ll be food trucks and music.
Wednesday, Oct. 2
Lip Sync Battle, 7 to 9 p.m., Thompson Student Union Ingman Room. Watch the top 10 Homecoming king and queen candidates take the stage.
Thursday, Oct. 3
Fright Night, 5 to 11 p.m., Thompson Student Union Rooms 2582 and 2584. It’s a “spooktacular” movie double feature: Watch “The Haunted Mansion” and “The Nun.” Paint pumpkins and have fun with other Halloween activities.
Homecoming Gala, 6 p.m., Thompson Student Union Auditorium. The Alumni Association will present this year’s Gold T, Blue T and Edward H. Schmidt Young Alum Award, and college and affiliate award winners will be honored. Tickets are $30 per person, $10 for children. For more information or to make a reservation, contact the UToledo Office of Alumni Engagement at 419.530.ALUM (2586) or go to the association’s website.
Saturday, Oct. 5
The Edward C. and Helen G. Schmakel Homecoming Parade, 10:30 a.m. Sponsored by Blue Key National Honor Society and supported by the Office of Student Involvement and Leadership and the Office of Alumni Engagement, the parade will begin at West Bancroft Street and Campus Road and go east to Cheltenham Road to Christie Street to Middlesex Drive and back to West Bancroft.
Alumni Pregame, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., William and Carol Koester Alumni Pavilion. Stop by for free hot dogs, chips and non-alcoholic beverages. There will be a cash bar for those 21 and older with proper ID, and live music from Mile Marker 1.
Toledo Rockets vs. Western Michigan Broncos, 3:30 p.m. Glass Bowl. Root for the Rockets and see the crowning of the Homecoming king and queen. Tickets are half-off for UToledo employees; UToledo students are admitted free with ID. Go to the Toledo Football Central website, stop by the UToledo Athletic Ticket Office in the Sullivan Athletic Complex at Savage Arena, or call 419.530.GOLD (4653).
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Phil Freelon (Rebroadcast)
July 9, 2019 By Matt Slepin
This is Matt Slepin and welcome to Leading Voices in Real Estate. I just read the sad news that architect Phil Freelon, a guest on the show back in June 2017, just passed away. This is a rerelease of that interview.
In the interview, we spoke about his life, his work, his family and his battle with ALS, which he approached as another mountain to climb. Phil is best known for designing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He was also the mastermind behind Atlanta’s National Center for Civil and Human Rights and San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora.
This was a particularly moving conversation. Phil did not shy away from talking about his disease and how he was using the limited time that he knew he had left to plan for his legacy, both within the architecture industry for aspiring Black architects and also with his family. Phil was a soulful man, which I think comes across in the interview.
With his passing, we are re-releasing the original interview, which I hope you will enjoy.
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Hated & Proud
By markdyal / May 26, 2018 / 3 Comments
At long last my first book, Hated and Proud, has been published by Arktos Media. It is available in eBook, softcover, and hardcover from Arktos, Amazon, and wherever dissident books are sold. Hated and Proud began its life as the dissertation requirement of a Ph.D. in Anthropology. As such it still remains a deeply theoretical book, albeit one that, in my eyes, reads with a furious affirmation of the life of the Roman Ultra, and a defiant negation of the bourgeois consumerist life that we inherit as Western men and women.
Once upon a time, Jack Donovan suggested that the book would be more effective as a memoir accounting for my own “becoming-Ultra;” and indeed, I made several attempts to re-create it in a more conversational style. However, in the end, I still wanted Hated and Proud to be an example of dissident scholarship, and, more mundanely, I just really enjoyed the book in the form in which it was eventually published: as an exposition of theory drawn from an aggressive, often violent milieu of radical, organized, intensely prideful, and political soccer fans.
Rest assured, though, that between each line of every page, there lies an unspoken struggle between a man who once loved credentials, authority, comfort, leisure, quality fabrics, expensive meals, fine wine, and all of the trappings of a life well lived; and a man who would violently tear away his obedience to the meanings and behaviors necessary to reduce a life to such a slavish and mediocre reality.
Perhaps mention could have been made in the book of a small apartment without air-conditioning, 104-degree summer days, and a feverish exploration of Nietzsche’s demolition of the modern world’s necessary human type. But in the moment – in the act of recreating one’s life from the still-smoldering ashes of one’s own plebeianism – there was little need for reflection; for reflection was one of the instinctual activities that I was actively overcoming. My entire life had been spent “reflecting,” and now it felt like bovine contentment. I needed explosive action in a perilous sea, afraid not for my well-being but instead, of ever again seeing the world through “normal” eyes. I needed aggression so as to think. I needed hatred and hostility so as to transvaluate all that I had once loved and embraced.
I did reflect, though; especially on how useless Nietzsche had once seemed – hell, not even “once” or “seemed” – as if it was merely a question of happenstance: Nietzsche had been useless in the Academy. Hmm, no. He had been useless TO the Academy. I used him here and there as a theorist among theorists. I had become disenchanted with the idea that language merely represents reality when I was in Graduate School and Nietzsche had helped me to begin exploring the limits of representation. Those extracurricular explorations eventually led me to Deleuze, but I just couldn’t figure out how to move language beyond its bourgeois limits – at least, not until I got to Rome. But when I arrived in Rome, Nietzsche and Deleuze were distant memories. I was there to find out the why and how of violent, politically motivated soccer fans. Nothing in my proposal research had led me to “Nietzsche.” I was ready to study voting behaviors and to ask questions about race, class, and gender.
That plan lasted all of two months, as the Ultras themselves couldn’t be bothered a single bit to engage my earnest American – “Hey! I’m from New York City and I’m getting a Ph.D. in Anthropology and please sign here and answer the following questions” – research project. Then one day, an older “retired” Ultra threw me a life preserver (Ha! Yeah, he threw me a life destroyer!): “If you want to understand the Ultras,” he said, “you need to read Nietzsche.” Nietzsche. I still don’t understand how he knew, and I could’ve asked him a thousand times over the next year. But I did come to find out why he read Nietzsche and what he had gotten from it; and that was enough for me, for it was exactly what I was getting from it. But would it have been the same for everyone? I don’t think either of us cared to know, and it wasn’t until I left Rome that I realized just how vital that place and that milieu had been to my reading and understanding of Nietzsche.
If any surveillance database worthy of the name exists, it surely started a file on my name and Monteverde address in early-2007, as I went home from that fateful lunch at Da Francesco and did one of my favorite things in this or any life: I bought some books! Being literate allows us to look back in time, through the eyes of a debt-recording accounts manager, to learn when and what I received and devoured:
10 February Thus Spoke Zarathustra
24 February The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols
16 March Writings from the Late Notebooks, Daybreak
21 March The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil
15 June Untimely Meditations, The Gay Science
11 July On the Genealogy of Morality
Looking now at the “chronology,” I see the arrogance of the all-so-many: instead of approaching hat-in-hand, an ignorant but eager neophyte at the door of a master, I haughtily assumed myself worthy of starting at the highest peak in the Nietzsche canon. I’m sure I stumbled through Zarathustra for those two weeks, realized the deep water into which my project was certain to sink, and decided to start anew with something more legible to a man of prose. Indeed, the Anti-Christ “collection” (Cambridge University Press) and then the Late Notebooks (Cambridge’s loose collection of notes spanning 1885 to 1888) set me ablaze. The rest is less “history” than the becoming-useless-to-modernity of a human male.
(For readers interested in reading Nietzsche, I humbly but staunchly recommend beginning with the Genealogy; proceeding to The Gay Science [especially Book Five], the Anti-Christ, and Twilight; then the Untimely Meditations and the Late Notebooks. Only at that point I would suggest reading Zarathustra.)
Thus, my wife and I were joined by a travelling companion – Nietzsche became my eyes, and I never went anywhere without him. That being said, the use made of Nietzsche in Hated and Proud is rough around the edges; it is shorn of the subtlety required by the Academy and its static, quiet thinkers – but it is in the subtlety that Nietzsche’s power and regenerating potential is often lost. Instead, I found and used what I’ve always called, “Nietzsche for street fighters.” This is a Nietzsche very much focused on the first level of transvaluation: what our enemies think. The second level came later, especially as I returned to America and Deleuze: how our enemies think. It was having moved to that “second level” that made editing Hated and Proud so difficult. Gutting it for the sake of insights gained far from Rome – far from that field of battle – would not only have created a much more confusing narrative, but also, and more importantly, would have erased the very thing that Jack Donovan had suggested would strengthen the book: the person who wrote it.
None of this is necessary to find Hated and Proud useful, however. Instead one just needs a willingness to make a problem of his or her own weakness, comfort, and desire for safety.
Welcome to Hated and Proud.
Hated and Proud,
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Finally its available, I really look forward to reading it!
Thanks Ernst. Feel free to let me know how it is. Having only “read” it on a computer screen, I’m finding the book something to get used to. My voice seems less clear on the page. It could be that it takes a minute to crack my style, which, admittedly, has been strengthened since most of the book was written.
I will get back to you, and I am going to write a review of the book for the Swedish website I am working with Maskulint.se that is dedicated to masculinity and personal development. I am sure the book will be great and I also hope to see more of your writing, I especially liked your articles on counter-currents.
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Howard Dwoskin has been elected to serve as the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Marshall Dennehey, where he is also a member of the firm's three-person Executive Committee, the governing body of our law firm that serves to advance and implement our strategic goals.
Howard also serves as director of the Casualty Department, where he is responsible for managing the administration process of the firm's largest legal department, which includes human relations, workflow, attorney productivity, client relations and marketing. With his ability to identify and maximize the talents of others, Howard assists in recruiting top talent and building the Casualty Department's legal team at multiple levels. His skills as an organizational leader, with more than 30 years experience, enable him to successfully navigate and manage more than 225 attorneys. In addition to his management role, Howard also chairs the General Liability Practice Group where he plays a more substantive role in the handling of case files. As an experienced litigator, he has defended hundreds of premises and retail liability claims, as well as complex, high-exposure matters on behalf of insurance companies and self-insureds.
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After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor of arts in Economics, Howard worked for General Electric for two years before enrolling in Villanova University School of Law where he graduated with a juris doctor in 1986.
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Ferdinand v. Save-A-Lot/SuperValu, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30683 (E.D. Pa. April. 14, 2008). Plaintiff sued Save-A-Lot alleging wrongful detainment for shoplifting. Although the facts bore out that the plaintiff had properly paid for her purchases, the court, nevertheless, granted summary judgment for the defense pursuant to the Pennsylvania Retail Theft Act.
Doylestown Electric Supply Company v. Maryland Cas. Ins. Co., 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS, 20599 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 31, 1996). Plaintiff sustained water damage in home due to heavy rains filling drainage system. Court found for defendant stating that, because the damage was caused by both water that backed up from a sewage drain and surface water, the surface water exclusion in the policy allowed insurer to properly deny coverage.
Plaintiff claimed to have tripped and fallen over a bare end cap in a major retail department store. Jury found for the defendant on the basis that the plaintiff failed to prove that the store was negligent.
Plaintiff alleged personal injuries arising out of a dog attack in a public park. Court granted compulsory nonsuit for the defendant under prevailing Pennsylvania statutes and case law.
Intersectional collision between plaintiff's vehicle and defendant's tractor trailer. Jury trial in favor of defendant with no appeal.
Plaintiff fell down residential staircase and suffered brain damage injury. There was a controversy as to plaintiff's mental capacity at time of fall. Due to complexity of case, it was referred to ADR where defense verdict was awarded.
Raimo v. Waddy, 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20499 (E.D.Pa. Oct. 8, 2004).
Booth v. Black & Decker, Inc., 166 F. Supp. 2d 215 (E.D. Pa. 2001)
Christian v. United States, 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17381 (E.D. Pa. Nov. 8, 1999)
Fanning v. Black & Decker, Inc., 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3407 (E.D. Pa. March 18, 1999)
Duffy v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co., 1993 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16197 (E.D. Pa. Nov. 10, 1993)
Kimmel v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co., 1992 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 329 (E.D. Pa. Jan 14, 1992)
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Home ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC Rapper YFN Lucci wanted for ‘murder’ after shooting
Rapper YFN Lucci wanted for ‘murder’ after shooting
YFN Lucci via Zay Love (Youtube)
Rapper YFN Lucci is wanted for murder in a December shooting that left one dead and another wounded, authorities said.
Police in Atlanta in the US state of Georgia also announced a 5,000 US dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of the 29-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rayshawn Bennett, news outlets reported.
Bennett is facing charges including murder, aggravated assault and participating in a criminal street gang related to a shootout in southwest Atlanta on December 10.
Police said they found James Adams, 28, with a gunshot wound to the head.
He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Later that day, 32-year-old Kevin Wright arrived at a fire station with a gunshot wound to his abdomen.
He survived.
Authorities determined both shootings were related.
Police said 23-year-old Ra’von Boyd and a 17-year-old juvenile also were charged in the shootings and arrested in Miami.
The details of Bennett’s alleged involvement were not immediately released.
Lucci is best known for his 2016 song Key To The Streets featuring Gwinnett County-based rap group Migos.
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Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Best Weekend Activities For Seniors In Los AngelesSeniors want to get out and have fun. If you're a senior and live in Los Angeles, there are plenty of places to find it.
Best Old Hollywood Landmarks In LAIn a city that is constantly updating itself, it can become difficult to find reminders of classic Hollywood history. Visit these venues to get a taste of old Hollywood.
Newly-Renovated TCL Chinese Theatre To Open With 'Wizard Of Oz' RunAfter a long summer of being closed for renovations, the TCL Chinese Theatre – previously known as Grauman’s -- will reopen this month.
Neil Armstrong's Death Hits Close To Home In Los AngelesHe may have been famous for walking on the moon, but the death of astronaut Neil Armstrong Saturday hit close to home in Southern California.
Director Christopher Nolan Honored At Grauman's Christopher Nolan, the man behind the successful Batman trilogy, was honored at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Saturday.
Hot Dog! Jack Russell Terrier From 'The Artist' Becomes First Canine Honored At Grauman's"Uggie," the Jack Russell terrier who captivated audiences in the 2011 best-picture Oscar winner "The Artist," became the first dog to sink his feet into wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre Monday.
Turner Classic Film Festival Kicks Off In HollywoodA musical, a horror film and what critics once considered a huge flop highlight this year's Turner Classic Film Festival in Hollywood.
Jackson's Children To Impress His Glove, Footprints At Grauman's ThursdayMichael Jackson’s children will cement his legacy in entertainment history Thursday morning. Jackson’s children will sink his shoes, as well as one of his famous sequined gloves, into cement outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
SpongeBob SquarePants Beaten Up By 2 Women On Hollywood BoulevardNickelodeon star SpongeBob SquarePants absorbed quite a few blows from a couple of women Wednesday outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Unruly Crowd Vandalizes Police Cars At Hollywood Movie PremierePolice were unable to control an unruly crowd of roughly 2,000 people in Hollywood Wednesday night, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Karen Rayner said.
Jennifer Aniston Honored At Grauman's Chinese TheatreJennifer Aniston's hand and footprints will soon adorn the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
Helen Mirren Makes Her Mark Permanent Outside Grauman's Chinese TheatreHelen Mirren is still making an impression in Hollywood.
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Hiroshima at 75: A Painful Legacy Tempered by Hope and a Treaty via The Diplomat
That morning, August 6, 1945, the United States detonated an atomic bomb for only the second time. Three weeks earlier the Trinity test, conducted in New Mexico, marked the first successful detonation of a nuclear device. The second detonation was no test.
A 15 kiloton uranium bomb, codenamed “Little Boy,” was dropped over Hiroshima. Prior to the attack, residents of the city had grown increasingly unsettled, wondering why Hiroshima, one of the largest cities in Japan, had been ominously spared by merciless bombings that razed scores of other Japanese cities.
Setsuko and her parents were not among the tens of thousands of civilians killed by the bomb dropped that day, but Setsuko’s older sister Ayako and 4-year-old son Eiji, who had returned to Hiroshima for a doctor’s appointment, were.
Seventy-five years later, speaking from her home in Toronto, Setsuko’s voice shivers with anguish as she describes how two Japanese soldiers doused her sister and nephew’s bodies in gasoline and used bamboo poles to turn them in an open cremation while their family stood frozen, watching numb with shock.
Setsuko, who campaigned tirelessly in partnership with ICAN, celebrated knowing that after the nuclear weapons ban treaty has been ratified by 50 nations, it will enter into force and the development, testing, production, acquisition, possession, stockpiling, or threatened use of nuclear weapons will become illegal under international law.
Currently, 40 nations have ratified the ban treaty, which is vigorously opposed by the nine nuclear armed states, as well as 30 nuclear endorsing states including Japan and Canada, where Setsuko is a citizen and has resided since marrying Canadian historian Jim Thurlow in 1955.
This year, Setsuko wrote 197 letters to leaders and heads of state of all nations of the world, including a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau imploring him to acknowledge Canada’s frequently overlooked role in supporting the Manhattan Project while also calling on Canada to ratify the ban treaty.
Setsuko has written to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe repeatedly but says, “Every time I go to Tokyo, he’s always too busy. Of course he is avoiding me.” The 88-year-old peace activist wonders aloud why the prime minister is afraid to meet her. “I don’t have anything scary but the truth.”
When Setsuko hears diplomats and policy experts discuss nuclear strategy and deterrence theory, she wishes they would instead think of Eiji, her 4-year-old nephew killed by the bomb who, she says, represents all the innocent children that could be killed if any of the world’s more than 13,000 nuclear weapons were used.
The abolition of nuclear weapons, Setsuko argues, “is much too important just to leave it to the politicians. We are talking about life and death issues.”
Under Abe, Japan has had a muted response to U.S. withdrawals from international arms treaties as well as a recent report that the Trump administration was considering the possible resumption of explosive nuclear weapons testing.
Japan’s “chummy” relationship with the United States, Setsuko says, is indicative of an alliance she calls “total subservience to U.S. policy.” She insists Abe and Japan’s powerful Liberal Democratic Party’s opposition to the ban treaty is out of step with public opinion.
Tagged with Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Setsuko Thurlow, Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
« ［インタビュー］「原発汚染水、ひとまず地上のタンク保管が最も現実的で安全」via Hankyoreh Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later via The Guardian »
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Cliff Lee tosses four innings in rehab start at Single-A
By Aaron GleemanJul 10, 2014, 10:15 AM EDT
Cliff Lee’s first minor-league rehab start was cut short by bad weather, but the Phillies left-hander took the mound at Single-A for the second time last night and tossed four innings as planned.
Lee allowed three runs against the Rays’ affiliate, striking out four and walking one while throwing 44 of his 59 pitches for strikes.
Jim Salisbury of CSNPhilly.com reports that Lee will likely make a third rehab start Monday, also at Single-A, at which point the Phillies may decide he’s ready to come off the disabled list after missing the past two months with a strained elbow.
That probably won’t leave enough time for Lee to convince contending teams he’s a healthy asset prior to the July 31 trade deadline, but considering the size of the 35-year-old’s contract he could also be moved during the August waiver trading period. Lee is making $25 million this season and is owed another $25 million in 2015 and $27.5 million or a $12.5 million buyout in 2016.
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Nick Diaz no-shows UFC 158 open workouts, UFC's Dana White on edge
By MMA Junkie Staff March 13, 2013 7:25 pm Follow @MMAjunkie
By MMA Junkie Staff | March 13, 2013 7:25 pm Follow @MMAjunkie
MONTREAL – UFC welterweight Nick Diaz today no-showed open workouts in support of UFC 158, the event he headlines this weekend.
Diaz’s trainer and manager, Cesar Gracie, today tweeted that he’d like to reschedule the fighter’s media appearance at the gathering, and then erased the message.
Reached later by MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com), Gracie declined comment on the no-show but said Diaz will be in attendance at his next media commitment: Thursday’s pre-UFC 158 press conference.
That will certainly come as good news to one person: Dana White. The UFC president hinted there could be serious consequences if Diaz misses the press conference, and if he takes the title from 170-pound champion Georges St-Pierre, a “come-to-Jesus” conversation is imminent, he said.
“I’m excited for the press conference, and I’m definitely excited for the weigh-ins because you never know what you’re going to get,” White today told the Jim Rome Show. “Well, let me tell you what, if he does not show up tomorrow for the press conference, it is not going to be good. I don’t know what I’ll say or what I’m going to do, but I’ll tell you what – it will not be good.”
White had just learned of Diaz’s no-show, which quickly ricocheted around social media, when he spoke to Rome.
Diaz was thought to be missing in action this past week during a media conference call in support of the pay-per-view event, which takes place Saturday at Montreal’s Bell Center. White said his staff was on the lookout for the fighter when he suddenly chimed in with a “hello?,” and the call then got underway.
Several times on the call Diaz (26-8 MMA, 7-5 UFC) launched into tirades directed at St-Pierre (23-2 MMA, 17-2 UFC), who struggled to get a word in edgewise. Several of the other UFC 158 fighters who also phoned in were never heard from.
Diaz returns to the cage after a one-year drug suspension for a second marijuana infraction, which came after a losing effort against Carlos Condit at UFC 143.
For more on UFC 158, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Molly McGinn
Postcards from the Swamp: The Story Series
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Kim and Reggie Harris: The civil rights songs we’ll sing 100 years from now
A few nights ago about 1,000 people—all Quakers—stood in a basketball arena in Providence, Rhode Island and sang together. Out loud.
“Quakers are not known for singing,” says musician, historian, songwriter, and performer Reggie Harris, who led the performance with his wife Kim. “They’re known for silence.
“We sang for 2 hours.”
Woody Guthrie would have loved it.
This weekend as the country celebrates Guthrie’s 100-year-old legacy and catalog of songs about the plight of the common man—Reggie and Kim Harris bring to Aberdeen the music and stories they’ve collected over the past 30-years performing and touring together; songs that “sing out for justice.”
“We become who we are through our songs and our stories, as much as through our kin, our communities and our countries. So sing out! And let our songs ring of justice and guide our feet into the ways of peace.” – Kim Harris
Mentored by the group-singing philosophies of Harry Belafonte and Pete Seeger, Kim and Reggie Harris are keepers and collectors of the music and stories that sparked social change—from hidden instructions in songs about the Underground Railroad to the rally cry of African American Civil Rights movement in the mid-50s to mid-60s.
And with a new record set to release in September — the first in 4 years — Reggie and Kim are ready to release songs written from a new, deeply personal place.
Talking from a songwriting camp in Suwanee, Georgia, Reggie talks about the new record, life after a liver transplant, and the civil rights song they’ll sing 100 years from now.
About the new record
It’s been a long time since we made a record that had so many of our original songs. The last CD (Simplicity) had several original songs as well as themes about the Civil Rights movement, such as “Let My People Go,” and “Get on Board.”
This (new CD) is primarily an original CD. It’s our first recording in 4 years, and it’s a celebration of my coming back from my liver transplant. It took 13 years for this disease to destroy my liver. I’ve been on a wait list for 10 years. I finally got sick enough to qualify for a transplant 6 months before a liver came available.
So (this new music) is a celebration of life. My writing comes from a much deeper place after having come through such a traumatic crisis. And Kim and I are having new musical conversations with each other.
The civil rights songs we’ll sing 100 years from now
There’s a song on the new record called “Traffic” about human trafficking. Twenty seven million people around the world are still involved in slavery and trafficking. It also ties into the immigration issue.
And there’s a continuation of Civil Rights songs as it pertains to African Americans and Hispanic Americans. There’s a movement toward a more inclusive society overall. We’re also seeing a groundswell of change around homophobia and same sex marriage.
We’re teaching at Suwanee (Georgia) right now, to a group of young people from Montgomery College and we talk to them about sexism, ageism, and homophobia. Their take is: “What is it with you old people?”
We watched this group of multi-racial, multi-ethnic groups, hanging with each other. They’re comfortable being together in the differences that many of us older folks struggle with.
We’re teaching them about the Civil Rights movement and singing those songs, and they’re soaking up that information and immediately looking at what it means for us today.
They’ve been reflecting on how music can influence social change, and they’ve said that they’ll be writing and singing more. One girl told me she used to only sing in the shower, but after this: No more. They see how powerful (music) is.
Permission to sing out loud
We’re hard wired for songs and stories. Sometimes we just need to remember that singing together is fun. We’re so often alone in our own isolation. Through music, we can remind ourselves about the difficult issues we want avoid.
It’s what we’ve been doing all along, but we intensified our energy around this 15 years ago. We were noticing in our (songwriting and music) teaching, that people were more interested in singing their own songs, or singing solo.
Mostly, people learned to sing in schools or churches, but with arts and music programs being cut so drastically, we don’t have the same kind of resources that we used to have.
(Summer) camps became specialized for horseback riding, math, computer and mathematics. We’re not really singing there the way that we used to. So we decided to bring it back, and with a little prodding, people are willing to do it.
And coming out of communities that were all about singing and community singing; having mentors like Seeger and Belafonte—people who really understood the power of song as it relates to movements (and social change)—we decided to focus ourselves.
People are willing to do it, they just need permission. Songs have to be taught.
by Molly McGinn
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Lessons Learned in England: Part 1, Le Gavroche
By the summer of 2006, I had become increasingly concerned that I was not gaining enough experience in my craft. The year prior, I had travelled to France to spend a week in the kitchen of the Meurice in Paris. That stage would redefine what fine dining could be in my eyes; an impeccably clean, gigantic kitchen, staffed by a small army, serving at most 40 diners a service. There were 3 cooks working the amuse station alone! I had worked through the stations of my current kitchen, NoMI, and I longed for both a more challenging culinary experience as well as a life adventure. Speaking no French at the time, and having had a tough time trying to find my way around attaining a visa in France (France's unemployment was around 10% at this time), I set my sights on England as what promised the most potential for learning abroad.
Roux Family: Alain, Michel Sr., Albert, and Michel Jr.
I decided to stage at two restaurants over the course of two months in England. Through a visiting chef at NoMI (and since he has become a good friend), Mark Hellyar, I was able to attain a stage at The Fat Duck in Bray. And through my former chef at the Four Seasons Chicago, Robert Sulatycky ( a mentor who was very influential in my development), I secured a month stage at Le Gavroche in London. By design, I picked two very different restaurants. One, representing the contemporary cooking world's most modern; the other, a revered bastion of the old guard. I signed up for a 0% interest credit card (they were easy to come by then) to finance the trip, threw my stuff into a storage space, had a teary goodbye with my girlfriend, and got on a plane.
Rooftop view of Southwark from the apartment
While I learned a lot of cooking specifics at Le Gavroche, it was the kitchen's day to day determination and drive that proved to be the best lesson learned. Life was not easy in the kitchen of Le Gavroche. Work began at 8am with a bang, as the cooks hit 5th gear right out of the gate to set up for lunch service beginning at noon. The kitchen is not air conditioned, and being located in a basement of an old brick townhouse, it got hot. I distinctly remember sweat pouring down my forehead as I double shucked peas at 9am for lunch. Following an aggressive lunch service, the kitchen was fully scrubbed top to bottom, and the cooks would go out for their afternoon break for about an hour before returning to prep for the dinner service. After another tough and intense service for dinner, the kitchen would be broken down again before the cooks left for the evening, at about midnight. I'd rush home on the tube back to Southwark, take a shower, and try to get 5 hours of sleep before doing it all over again. I quickly gained a serious respect for the cooks that had been doing this routine for years.
Bunk beds for 2 girls, aged 6 and 8, which was my room for my time in London. Comfy.
Chef Michel Roux Jr himself made a lasting impression on me as well. Many mornings I would walk bleary eyed into the kitchen at 8am to find Chef Michel at the butcher's block, already halfway through several racks of lamb. He's a chef's chef: a super focused, hard hitting, take no prisoners cook. He has these big blue eyes that seemed to penetrate to your very soul when he glared at you. He would butcher fish, cook tarts in the pastry kitchen, run the pass, kick you off the line and work your station if you were falling behind. He loved cooking, not being in an office. That has stayed with me ever since. While he could be an intimidating presence, he is a well spoken, intelligent man with a knack for penetrating insight and care for his cooks. It is a personality trait that I try to emulate.
My time at Le Gavroche would also further ingrain in me a love for the classics. I felt, if only for a brief moment, a part of something grand; to stand at the same stove as the many progeny that Le Gavroche has produced over the years: Pierre Koffmann, Marco Pierre White, Gordon Ramsay, and Marcus Wareing to name a few. On a day off, I stumbled upon a copy of Michel Roux Sr.'s autobiography Life is A Menu in a used bookstore for 4pound. And a signed copy too. The book became a companion on my train rides to and from work, a sort of appendium to my daily experience at Le Gavroche. If I was unsure before I went to England about what direction I wanted to take in regard to my cooking, I was no longer so when I returned. Between modern and classic, I would choose classic. This would inform me on my next move, to Las Vegas and to Robuchon.
So Many Hats!
Top woman chef Elena Arzak brings a touch of three-star Basque magic to London
Jan 8, 2013 11:47:30 PM
What does it mean to be a chef? The word's meaning in contemporary terms is in itself a bit murky in meaning. Webster defines the word chef as "a skilled cook who manages a kitchen (as of a restaurant)", derived from the French chef de cuisine or "chief of the kitchen". From here, one can look at what the contemporary use of the French word Chef de Cuisine means, namely the individual who actually runs the day to day operations of a kitchen, while whomever else that has been deemed Executive Chef does something else. Today, one sees chefs testifying before congress regarding regulation on food, proselytizing one country or another's culinary heritage on television, foraging for never heard of before herbs in semi forested areas of the suburbs of cities, growing their own vegetables in picture perfect culinary gardens, and (ahem) writing food blogs. At first, there was chef= lead cook of a brigade. Now, there is chef = cook, restauranteur, businessman,celebrity, lobbyist, forager, farmer, writer, self promoter.
The life of a cook was attractive to me first as a lifestyle, before the cooking itself became the reason that I work as a cook. Wary of mainstream society and culture in my early teens, I became increasingly interested in spending my time away from school and conventional social activities. I entered the restaurant industry at 15, and became enamoured with the anti-social, swash buckling pirate-like delinquency of the people that inhabited the kitchen. Late nights, punk rock, cigarettes and bad behavior were the primary motivating factors in my early professional decisions. Over time, I developed a deep appreciation for the craft of my profession, and a real love for cooking that currently fuels my reason to work as I do. I am not alone in this type of origin story, and I often meet other chefs with similar beginnings.
It is with this in mind that I propose the thought that there is a disparity between what the personality type of a chef typically is: that of an introverted, diligent craftsman who actually prefers toiling endless hours under brutal florescent lights in a windowless room; as opposed to what the current zeitgeist dictates the chef's role to be: the ebullient, always smiling, PR driven, afternoon talk show host ready, jabbering pundit of today. A more disconcerting question to ask is what talent is going unnoticed due to that person's lack of street smarts in the bare knuckle brawl for attention that is today's modern food media? Another concern would be that the more branches a tree grows, the less concentrated the energy of the trunk becomes; chefs might have more tentacles than ever before, yet what does that do to the very heart of the profession, the cooking? With all of the foraging for cattails and edible ants, presentations in Madrid on the lab's findings on the pappyness of foie gras, and the attending of the many award ceremonies the industry now bestowes on itself, when does on find the time to be bothered with it?
I am genuinely grateful that the American public now has ever increasing exposure to what some would term "better living" in food and drink, and I understand that I in turn fare a better chance at being able to continue to make a living cooking as a result of this heightened awareness. Yet, to use the word chef to describe many of our current food personalities of now is at best a touch misleading. The satisfaction of my work, is simply that, the work. It is born out of a desperate need to please, to make people happy, and it is most fulfilled by being by a cutting board or a stove. And if I happen to educate others, change public policy, attract media attention, garner accolades, hock canned soup, or become a better writer by (ahem) writing a psuedo informative blog, great. But I'm still just in it for the food.
*A Happy New Years to all, especially those with the class and good taste to have eaten at L2o in 2012.*
Jan 4, 2013 12:17:36 PM | L2O
The Librarians Are Hiding Something
Langoustine Party
Our kitchen at L2o has seen much change as we adapt to the change in season around us. I always welcome the approaching of the cold weather, as it allows for more hearty methods and techniques in our cooking, and deeper, richer flavors as a result. I find that most associate fish and shellfish with a lighter, more summery style of cooking, yet seafood can achieve a robust, deeply savory character that can contend with any meat dish. A cotriade, a caramelized turbot filet, a bisque with Calvados. The kitchen turns more to coldwater flatfish at this time of year such as Brill, Turbot, and Sole, which have spent the past several weeks fattening themselves before the cold water fully sets in.
Turbot, and it's close cousin, Barbue
This November saw our restaurant awarded a second Michelin star. As a young cook, I poured through the thin, bible paper like pages of the Michelin Guide, memorizing chef and restaurant names. The guide became a form of encyclopedic reference that allowed me a starting point for culinary learning. I would then research and learn about chefs such as Bernard Pacaud, Jacques Pic, Joel Robuchon, Charles Barrier, Olivier Roellinger; restaurants such as Taillevent, Lucas Carton, Les Crayeres, Le Crocodile. I bought cookbooks, I asked questions at work to chefs and sous chefs about their experiences in Michelin restaurants. In 2004, I completed a brief stage at Le Meurice, then a 2 star restaurant, which forever changed my understanding of how accomplished fine dining could actually become. In 2011, my wife and I travelled through France, using the Michelin guide nearly exclusively to find lodging and restaurants in a dozens and dozens of tiny, out of the way towns. I appreciate that the guide is published yearly, giving all under it's sight a perennial opportunity to publicly show improvement. In short, I am humbled that our team is included in such company in a guide that has been so influential to my development.
Michelin Guide, Eastern France Insert, 1997 Edition
While I am grateful for accolades, it is not the fuel upon which our kitchen sustains itself. Like perfume, it cannot be internalized. I am deeply passionate about cooking, and it is the cooking itself on a day to day basis that provides meaning and purpose to our work. We measure our success with a constantly critical eye on every plate, during every service, everyday. And we fully understand that by the very nature of the medium, that a good service today in no way means a good service tomorrow. It is a mentality of healthy paranoia that is born out of respect for the product itself and the tradition of the craft. But the true barometer of our success is simply the happiness of our guests, and it is with them firstly in mind that we strive to improve. If anything, I am happy to increase our visibility to more people, in the hopes that that will translate to more people to cook for.
On the tank side of the kitchen, our newest arrival is the Torteau, or european brown crab. They are built like tanks with very hard, thick shells and very powerful claws. They are an ocean crab, as opposed to the blue crab, which needs brackish waters to survive and are found throughout the British Isles and Channel. They are referred to as the pie crab in England, as the divits along the side of the head resemble the docking on the sides of a pie crust. Their diet is smaller crustaceans, such as mussels and oysters, which they use their claws to smash through the shells of their prey. They arrived unbanded, which made for some nerve racking moments while acclimating them to our tank system. Watch your fingers. The meat that the crab provides, has a flaky characteristic to it like a stone crab, but with a decidedly more savory, deep flavor to it. We look forward to cooking with them soon.
And finally, we have some new entries to the menu as well.
Plaid Ravioli of Pinenut and Caramelized Onion, Matsutake, Lime
Crab Chip, Old Bay
Ode to Georges Perrier, Bass, Escargot, Pearl Onion, Chartreuse
Nov 28, 2012 5:16:09 PM | L2O
Give Me The Push
Geoduck Clam, Clam Jelly, Manila Clam, Lime Zest
Life continues to develop here at L2o. August saw the introduction of geoduck clams to the Pacific side of our tank system. They are otherworldly in appearance, a striking example of how diverse and complex life in the ocean can be. The geoduck is prized for its siphon's distinct texture, which is cleaned then sliced thinly and served raw. The geoduck clam lives underneath the ocean floor, burrowed into the sand and silt with their siphon peeking just through the top surface to filter feed on the ocean water. Because of shifting sands and shoals on the ocean floor, the clam's siphon has the extraordinary ability to stretch and contract to meet just the top of the soil, so as not be exposed to leave itself suceptible to predators. The siphon when contracted does not measure more than 6-8 inches, but can stretch out to extend past 2 feet. The siphon's complex muscle structure, which allows it to expand and contract so easily, is what gives the flesh of the siphon it's distinct texture when cut. The connective tissue, when cut with a knife, contracts suddenly (think about cutting a stretched rubber band), tensing the muscle tissue around it, which creates a wonderfully unique crunchy texture. However, this texture can only be acheived if the clam has been recently killed. As the muscle deadens, the tissue begins to relax (a good thing if you are talking about slaughtered land animals) and the muscle tissue will not tense up from the knife's cut. Again, the tank gives us the ability to keep the animal alive and healthy until just before service, allowing us to serve the geoduck at its best.
Further, we've begun introducing langoustines to the tank. The acclimation is tricky for these sensitive little crustaceans. We hope to develop the process with them so as to have them featured regularly on our menu.
In late August, after months of planning and plotting, we began a new menu format. We are now offering a 7 course prix fixe menu, as well as a 15 course tasting menu. Over the past year, we have had friends of the house and family that we have designed special tasting menus to give a more complete view of what we have to offer and what our kitchen can do. I wanted to be able to share this with all of our guests, not just a handful of them. Also, I wanted to offer more of what the ocean has to offer. Geoduck clams, blue lobsters, langoustines, and giant octopus are all fantastic creatures, but fleeting and sensitive by nature. It would not be possible to do so unless I knew that I would have a consistent outlet to serve them at their very best. Creating our tank program was the first step towards our ability to present these wonders, and the new menu is the next step.
My home copy, with some upcoming changes penciled in.
We are currently at week 4, and the kitchen is beginning to hit stride, adjusting and adapting to the new challenge. It's exciting to have a new medium, which is already changing the way that we cook. With smaller courses and more of them, it changes how we look at the course progression, the flavors presented, the methods involved in the cooking, and the means of presentation of our food. In a year that has seen the loss of several of Chicago's fine dining restaurants, and a move towards more casual fare citywide, I feel lucky that we are going deeper into our craft here at L2o. Get excited, more soon.
Raw Selection on our tasting menu
Oct 4, 2012 2:05:00 AM | L2O
Bad Afternoon Sun
Crab Fishing 101
I don't quite have the patience for most fishing, but crab fishing suits my restless personality rather well. Fishing for the mighty Blue Crab is rather action packed, a quick paced sport utilizing the most basic of means and technology.
Like oysters, Blue Crabs need brackish (a mix of fresh and salt) water as a habitat. While the Chesapeake Bay might be the most iconic place for the Blue Crab's environment, they are found up and down the eastern seaboard anywhere that a source of fresh water meets the sea. The crabs also need a temperate climate, which limits their range from southern New England down to northern Florida. I was fortunate enough to spend a few days with my family on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, an island embankment chain that shelters the Currituck Sound from the Atlantic Ocean. Sheltered and shallow, it is an ideal place for the crabbing.
The gear and setup for crabbing is quite simple. First, you need a dock or pier to cast from. The crabs like to be in relatively shallow waters, however the chop of the shore as well as the increased exposure to sunlight (and hence to predators) makes a safer distance off shore more desirable.
Next, you will need a bit of bait, some butcher's twine and a weight to allow the bait to sink. A cheap metal net is the only other gear needed. Chicken necks are the traditional bait, which I allowed to putrify for a few days to make them more attractive to the crabs. The necks are simply skewered onto a piece of wire with a weight attached, followed by a few knots to secure the bait to some string. From here, you secure the other end of the line to a spot on the dock, then toss the chicken into the water.
In just a few moments, you begin to notice the line slowly start to stray from it's original course in the water. The crabs grab on to the chicken and begin to pull it away, so as to hide it from other hungry crabs. Once you have one on the bait, you slowly pull the line back in a touch at a time. The crabs are greedy, stubborn animals and will continue to hold on and pull back at the chicken as you slowly drag them towards you. Even when the bait begins to rise from the the floor of the Sound towards the top of the water, they will continue to grab hold. At about 2 feet from the surface however, the crab gets wise to what's going on and will let go.
Here's where the net comes in. Just before the crab sees the surface and lets go, you quickly swoop the net underneath the crab and snatch it out of the water before it escapes. If you are patient with the reeling of the line, and swift on the netting, you will find yourself with an angry but delicious Blue Crab in the net.
While we bring in hundreds of live Blue Crabs every week into the restaurant, It is a far more satisfying experience to be pulling them directly out of the water. When they are just out of the water, and while their gills are still filled with water, they are incredibly alert and agile. We captured about 25 or so over the course of an hour, keeping them in a pot on the dock. When we were done, we decided to put them back into the water. We were happier knowing that they will become bigger (and tastier) crabs to eat some other day. It was wonderful to spend some time with my family doing something that we are all nostalgically connected to. A great day.
Jul 24, 2012 1:15:23 PM | L2O
Our first life arrived to the tank this week, starting with the abalone. The abalone, which are farm raised in Cayucos, California by the good people at The Abalone Farm, arrive to us in a sealed plastic bag out of a Priority Overnight FedEx box. At the bottom of the bag lies a piece of foam which is soaked in seawater, helping the abalone survive the shipping. The abalone emerge from the bag fatigued from the travel, tensed up to protect themselves from the out of water environment and dehydrated (losing up to 25% of their body weight in water loss). We begin to introduce the abalone to the tank by first giving them a quick bath in some of our tank seawater, followed by a tempering atop our kitchen counter. From here, we place the abalone in a plastic tray and float them above their future home in the tank.
This allows the abalone to begin to acclimate to the temperature of the water of the tank slowly, as the shock of temperature change to the animal could be fatal. After a half hour of this, we slowly begin to sink the make shift boats, a touch of water at a time. Eventually, we release the abalone off of the container and guide it to a spot on the bottom of the tank. It is important that they do not land upside down, as this obstructs their breathing and can also be fatal. After another half hour or so, the abalone really begin to take to the water and start to function as they would at the bottom of the sea.
There is quite a difference seeing the abalone in the water, as opposed to out of the water. They extend a hundred or so tiny black tentacles from around the skirt of the muscle, a part of the animal that I was unaware of in my experience working with them out of water. Several have taken to walking up the sides of the tank, though not all seem to be this adventurous. It is hard to see them make any large movements when you are looking directly at them, yet every time I look at the tank they seem to be in completely different places than before. Its quite fascinating. It's also quite incredible just how strong they are, as we found out trying to pull them off of the tank's bottom during service.
Two days later, Nick "Cake" Janutol (my second in command) headed up to O'Hare to pickup our next batch of new residents, the Blue Lobsters from Scotland. They arrived a bit warm, so we tempered them in a small bath of seawater to help them gradually cool down. We then placed them in plastic containers and floated them atop of the tank water to acclimate them to the water temperature. After a short while, they began to rejuvenate and thrash around. From here, we placed them individually into the tank.
The blue lobsters are solitary animals, and are not particularly fond of one another. They immediately began throwing punches at one another, jockeying for position in the tank. Indeed, the bands around their claws are not for our protection from them, but to protect them from one another. Without the bands, the lobsters would rip each other apart. Such violence and movement is good news however, because it means that they are fit, in good shape, and in a stable environment in the tank.
I'm happy and relieved that both tank systems have been successful and that the animals are happy and healthy in their new environment. We will wait another week to be sure that the tank environment is fully whole and stable, and then we will be bringing the abalone and lobsters in quantities enough to meet the demands of the restaurant. Very exciting times, and I can't wait to begin serving these pristine animals to our guests.
Jul 9, 2012 12:00:38 AM | L2O
We'll Never Be Kings And Queens, Because You Never Move Your Back Row
After 6 months of plotting and planning, our fish tank has now been installed in it's new home at L2o. The cabinet arrived on Friday from Avenue Metal, who have done a really swell job realizing Todd Haley's design. It's frame easily blends in with our kitchen's aesthetic, minimal and slightly industrial. The mesh door panels allow a glimpse into the tank systems without being totally exposed, adding a nice effect as well as giving tons of air circulation to the chillers and pumps. The skeleton's lightness in look and actual weight belie how sturdy it really is; it has the capacity to hold 5 tons. Another important point on the design for us was simple accessibility. We wanted to make sure that we could easily access and clean the cabinet itself, as well as the surrounding walls and floor.
On Tuesday, the fine folks at Old Town Aquarium arrived with their pieces of the project, the clear acryllic tank being the first piece to be placed. The tank is really not one but two 100 gallon (or 1670 pounds of water*) tank systems, seperated by an air gap so that the two tanks do not fight one another on temperature control.
* In an earlier post, I had casually thrown out the weight of the water to be "a ton". As seen above, the weight of the water in the system is under a ton by about 330#. I'm a chef, not a mathematician; and what are you, my biographer?
Todd Haley cleaning off the black acryllic that the systems sit on in the cabinet
From here, Ian and Kevin of Old Town Aquarium began to assemble the two independent filtration and chilling systems for the tank.
The filtration system has 3 primary components:
First, after the water cascades down from the top of the tank (oxygenating the water in the process), it enters a drip tray which disperses the downward flowing water evenly across a polymer box. At the bottom of this box, suspended on another tray, lie several plastic black balls which have a culture of Nitrosomas bacteria growing on them. This culture of beneficial bacteria on the "Bio Balls" feed on organic solid waste in the water, changing the waste into dissolved organic componds.
Initial entry point for the water into the 1st chamber
From here, the water passes under the balls and into a second chamber. In the second chamber lies the protein skimmer, which has an independent submerged pump pushing water through a lava lamp like plactic chamber. Here at the top, the aforementioned dissolved organic compounds are pushed over the top of the structure into a containment tray which can be removed simply for removal of the dissolved compounds. As the water exits this chamber, the water then moves into a long black tube which houses an ultraviolet light, which destroys microscopic parasites and pathogens in the water. It also makes the water very clear as an effect.
Once the water has passed through the filtration systems, it then moves through the chiller, regulated to the desired temperature set on the panels. The whole system has no chemical cleaners or synthetics, very important to us in regard to animals that will become food for people.
The water then returns to the tank via an underwater nozzle. We are currently not cooling the water to the temperature that we will want for the animals, as we are keeping it warm intentionally to encourage biological growth in the water. The idea being that we want the water as close to real oceanic water as possible, to simulate a natural and positive environment for the animals.
Ian and Kevin of Old Town Aquarium begin filling the tank
On the subject, the next step after the mechanics were in place was to fill the tank with salt water. The water is filtered tap water which is then mixed with a natural Red Sea Salt. As the name implies, this is sea salt dried from the Red Sea in a very similar process to the harvesting of Fleur de Sel. The salt water is corraled into pens, and then is evaporated using simply sunlight. In addition to the calcium chloride, the salt from this ocean also contains various metals and minerals vital to replicating sea water in a synthetic environment such as ours.
I'm thrilled with the result. It's quite beautiful, even without any life in it yet. The light reflecting off the moving water adds a moving shadow onto the ceiling above it, and you can hear the cascading water throughout the kitchen, making me feel more connected with my work, namely seafood. It will be two weeks before we will introduce life to the tank, as the water is too sterile at the moment. It is a very exciting time in the kitchen, and we are all looking forward to plucking shellfish to order and serving it in the best condition possible.
Jun 24, 2012 3:02:48 AM | L2O
If the Deer Somehow Get Past the Fences and Guards, and the Industrial Park
I live in a near vacuum. Not in a dark, consuming solipsistic view of my existence, but that my world is quite small, if not simple. And while I, too, have my set of black rectangles with glass screens that I lug around (one for constant phone interaction and electronic messaging, one which captures high resolution images of incredible clarity, one that delivers the musical works of perhaps 1,000 people's careers at the tap of its screen) which incessantly stream information towards me, it is rather easy for a kitchen that you have emotionally attached yourself to to become the only true reality on a day to day basis. I bring this up not to lament the time I spend at work, nor to make a chest thumping statement about how singlemindedly dedicated I am to my profession, but rather to open up the thought of what influences one's cooking in an age where information is so readily and freely available.
As a young cook, the availability of information on fine dining restaurants was far more sparse and slow than our current day. I very distinctly remember first opening a copy of the French Laundry Cookbook at a Border's bookstore located in the northern suburbs of Baltimore. I had absolutely no idea that cooking could be so elevated, so elaborate without losing it's basic sense of humanity. It was a decided turning point in how I viewed cooking and what I wanted to do with my life and my career.
This book was a culmination of work that began in 1994 when the French Laundry opened, the book being published 5 years later in 1999. The food presented in this book was immeasurably influential and soon many "variations" of Thomas Keller's food would be aped throughout the late 1990s to early 2000s. Here was a chef, in a remote location (at least in relationship to distance to a city, however, Yountville isn't exactly Iowa) who had crafted a very personal and unique cuisine in relative seclusion. Certainly he had his influences (namely the French country Auberge as a model, Nouvelle Cuisine era chefs, and classic French cooking principles to draw from), yet he created a style of food within the classic framework that was very much his own.
Today, I only need to type in the name of a restaurant into an internet search engine and I can not only find that day's menu, but photos and up to date critique or praise of that day's menu. Bloggers, Flickr, Twitter, etc. all give us nearly instant coverage of just about everything and anything you would want to know about a particular restaurant no matter where that restaurant happens to be located on this earth. And while I believe that society as a whole has profited greatly from the quicker dispersion of information, I am concerned that it also dilutes that information just as quickly. In terms of fine dining in the modern day, it is hard not to notice just how similar everyone's food has become as a result, more homogenous and interchangable to one another in terms of astetics of plating, ingredients, and methods. Off center plating, edible soils, obligatory micro greens on every plate, the incessant use of purees or liquid gels, the thought that it somehow represents nature to randomly throw components on to the plate, but I digress... It all begins to look the same. Furthermore, the recent leaps in technology regarding communication coincide with a boom in technology of the physical cooking of food, now rendering the actual cooking, and hence, the taste of food more similar than ever before worldwide.
I'm certainly not the first to notice the globalization of our cultures, and hence our food culture. I am also a bit suprised at myself at how conservative my own point of view has become regarding contemporary cooking. It would also be hypocritical of me to speak of the topic as if I have avoided the use of all of these modern trends. I will say though that because I have a natural tendency to inherently dislike anything that is "a la mode" or has momentarily gained mainstream popularity, that our cooking at L2o has a different feel to it, as we are less influenced by the outside. This is not to say that we are daringly, shockingly original but rather that we cook by drawing from our past experiences, and then find something in it that is our own. I think of cooking as a continuation of a craft, like a carpenter or watchmaker. It is with our experiences as cooks at diffferent restaurants at different periods of time, that we can then apply that foundation in small steps forward in our own direction of cooking, yet we are firmly grounded in what has come before us. It is with these ideologies in mind, that I personally find better results for myself and my own cooking as an effect of our relative isolation.
Jun 12, 2012 6:07:53 PM | L2O
Back at the Laundromat
I've always been a touch apprehensive about the modernizing or re-imagining of a classic dish. In the late summer of last year, Nick and I began testing out a bouillabaisse dish for the restaurant. I have cooked many variations of this dish in my career, but I hadn't served the classic, two service, communal meal that makes a true bouillabaisse marseillaise* before. I began to dig back through my cookbooks to relook at the history of other chef's versions of the dish. Louis Outhier at L'Oasis outside of Cannes had his version, Jacques Maximin at Hotel Negresco in Nice had his, Roger Verge of Moulin à Mougins just above the Côte d'Azur had his. As a contemporary example, Gérald Passedat of Le Petit Nice in Marseille serves a modern, minimalist version of his own to much fanfare. Were there any more marks to be made?
Louis Outhier not using a tasting spoon
As Nick and I chatted about different approaches we could take or clever methods we could use, it became more and more apparent that we were more interested in presenting a classic version of the dish rather than twist the classic into something it's not. In a way, bending a dish that has been countlessly reworked and contorted back to a more traditional rendition seemed a better route.
Jacques Maximin in front of the Hotel Negresco
We started by finding the right fish for the dish. The Rascasse, or Scorpionfish, is quintessential to creating the correct flavor in the broth which is the heart of the whole dish. It is a gorgeous fish, dramatically colored to match it's surroundings, so no two have the exact same coloring. They are also an interesting fish to cut. Each filet, or side, yields 3 separate loins, as opposed to the typical toploin and belly loin found with most other round fish families. The texture of the meat itself is dense, chewy in a pleasant way, and perfectly white. The particular texture is owed to the muscle structure of the flesh (almost entirely quick muscle), which has a tighter and more variated separation between the muscle and connective tissue dividing it compared to other round fish who hunt in more open waters. This type of muscle structure is put to great use during the fish's life for very rapid, sudden movements as it snatches a crustacean or small fish from it's hiding place amidst the rocks. We save the heads, fins and bones of the fish, cut them down to uniform pieces, rinse them, then make a base fumet from them. This fumet also contains fennel, tomato, garlic, as well as claws from the Blue Crab. Together, this creates the classic broth (except typically the european brown crab is used; what can I say? root for the home team), traditionally served separate from the fish cooked in the liquid, accompanied by croutons and rouille.
Roger Verge and Paul Bocuse (in chef whites) sit beside a fountain in Nice with a friend (not in chef whites)
And Rouille, the saffron garlic emulsion (note I do not use the word mayonnaise or aioli here) that accompanies the dish, has about as many different recipes for it as there are cooks making the condiment. Some use breadcrumbs as a binder, some use riced potatoes, others use hard boiled eggs which are finely chopped. I prefer a more rustic, simple approach. We begin by crushing the peeled garlic cloves from whole in a heavy mortar and pestle, with the egg yolk, saffron and salt to start, then slowly add olive oil to the mortar very gradually until we achieve the desired consistency. By using the mortar and pestle, and by working the mixture very gradually we end up with a texture that is almost sticky in feel, and denser in mouthfeel compared to a rouille or aioli made in a bowl with a whisk. It is because we have not emulsified the oil nearly as completely into the egg yolk, as we would with using a whisk, that we derive that distinct texture.
I wanted the diner to see these fish as well, whole. One of the hallmarks of sitting down to a meal of bouillabaisse is the wonderful platter of whole cooked fish; all of the different faces, shapes and colors of these fantastic creatures before you. Whole animals on a plate tend to trigger something primal in us, some basic instinct from ancient times, and I didn't want to lose that sensation. So, we devised to send a silver platter covered in ice of the whole fish we would be serving that evening in the dish just before your bouillabaisse. I like the additional benefit of whole fish being paraded through a modern dining room such as ours, harking back to the fish houses of yester year.
I'm happy with the dish, and I'm still serving it. Not because I think it's especially clever or innovative, but because it makes me smile to plate this dish. Because it allows me to feel at least momentarily connected to a place that I cannot call my home, yet through the craft that I have chosen as my profession, I can be a part of an idea and a sensation that is indeed timeless.
* Author's Note: There is indeed a distinction between a bouillabaisse and a Bouillabaisse Marseillaise. At it's most basic, a bouillabaisse is a stew made by the fishermen on a day gone by, using the leftovers of the days catch, by boiling the fish in sea water with fennel, onion and garlic. The bouillabaisse that owes it's name to the port city of Marseille, the Bouillabaisse Marseillaise, is a more refined version, using a perfumed and fortified fumet, which the fish is then cooked in. It is served in two courses, with the fish served whole first, followed by the fortified broth accompanied by croutons and rouille. Similar approaches are found up and down the Cote d'azur such as a Bourride where the whole fish, cooked in a fumet similar in characteristics to the bouillabaisse broth, is then ground into the broth using a ricer yielding a thicker consistency, without internal garnish, and served with croutons, cheese and rouille.
May 17, 2012 4:08:38 AM | L2O
Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
Beginning in October of last year, the team and I have been quietly working on a fish tank for the restaurant. There is a tremendous difference in the quality of seafood, particularly in shellfish, related to the amount of time that an animal spends out of water. The animal kicks into survival mode after being removed from its natural environment, and the stress, adrenaline and extra burning of energy quickly takes it's toll on the animals muscle structure. I wanted just out of the water quality, despite the fact that our restaurant is about 800 miles from the nearest ocean. Once we had the initial idea, we set about looking at what was on the marketplace for such a piece of equipment. From standard stock, we were underwhelmed with the readily available options. I wanted to house what animals I could ( and with as much variety as possible) in the best possible environment for the animals. Meaning that I wanted control not only over the temperature of the water, but the salinity, the oxygenation and the cohabitation of space of the water.
We began a conversation with Jim Walters of Old Town Aquarium, who services our aquarium in the dining room, conveying what we wanted to accomplish with a tank in the kitchen. Jim was intrigued by the idea, and was enthusiastic about the project from the start. We knew we had a good partner in the endeavor. Working on his knowledge of aquatic life and aquariums, it was determined that we were really talking about not one tank but two, as per the needs of the animals. For instance, I was interested in keeping abalone in the tank as well as some beautiful blue lobsters that we had come into contact with out of Scotland, yet these species cannot share the same space. Unfortunately, the lobsters' breathing as well as their waste would create a toxic environment for the abalone, nevermind that the temperature and salinity of the Pacific waters in a bay off California are rather different from the chilly waters off the coastline of the Irish Sea or English Channel. Both animals would not be at their best around one another. So a plan was devised to build a tank, which would be separated in the middle by a partition of acrylic and airspace, and controlled by two different sets of pumps and coolers, so we would be able to have the diversity we desired yet be housed as one central unit.
Next came aesthetics. I wanted to have a piece that was dramatic, yet would seem natural to our kitchen environment. Stainless steel, clean lines. I didn't want a domestic looking aquarium in a professional kitchen. Taking a look at standard housing and stands for tanks did not turn up anything that we thought would be aesthetically pleasing and/or be able to tolerate the constant day to day motions and cleaning of our kitchen. From here, Jim referred us to a designer, one Todd Haley, who had done work for Jim before, albeit not for a project such as this. When Todd saw what we were trying to accomplish, he seemed to have an innate understanding of what our vision for the space was and came back with a fantastic design. Todd laid out a plan for the housing of the tank, and before long we were off to the metal shop to begin fabrication. We hope to have the cabinet done in the next few weeks and in the restaurant, followed by the tank being built by Jim and company at Old Town atop the cabinet soon after.
I must admit that this is quite unknown territory for me, as I am not sure what this will do to our cooking at L2o. I am excited at the ability to be able to pull several different types of crustaceans, to order, alive from the best possible environment we can provide the animal and cook them (or serve them raw) immediately. I am both anxious and excited at the possibilities. I have no doubt, however, that this will be a big change for the better in our ability to present the best possible ingredients the ocean has to offer at the pinnacle of their freshness and quality.
Blueprints for the cabinet
Stainless Steel Principal Frames Cut at Avenue Metal
Completed Exoskeleton at Avenue Metal
We're talking 150 gallons of salt water, 1200lbs of water.
Apr 20, 2012 2:59:01 AM | L2O
Matthew Kirkley
Chef of L2o Restaurant
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in Insane Fatherhood Discoveries, Notes from a Polite New Yorker
Doktor Kaboom Drops Science on the Queens Theatre
Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park is not one of the park’s better-known attractions. The iconic Unisphere gets much more attention, and the Queens Zoo probably sees a lot more foot traffic, but the Queens Theatre is a lesser-known gem in the large park.
This past weekend it was the sight of a recent performance by Doktor Kaboom, a comedic science performer who has a family-friendly show that targets impressionable young children and works to give them a love of science.
The good Doktor, with his spiky blond hair and thick faux-German accent, looks and sounds like the love child of Guy Fieri and Angela Merkel (who has a PhD in Physics), but he’s actually a native of North Carolina who lives in Seattle and found a way to combine his love of comedy and science.
The whole family went and we were lucky enough to have extra tickets for a friend and his daughter. The Queens Theatre mainstage theater seats 472 and the rows are on a gradient generous enough to provide decent viewing from all angles.
After a brief introduction, Doktor Kaboom took the stage and we were on our way. The entire show is geared towards children, working to spark an interest in science and there’s no better way to do that than to show them that science allows you to make a mess. Using a catapult to try to help a young volunteer from the audience catch a piece of banana in his mouth, the bit had the stage littered with banana pretty quickly and it was good fun. I vowed to never feed my children bananas the same way again, but I’m not sure I am going to be able to build a catapult fast enough to realize this dream.
One of the best parts of the show was when the good Doktor implored the kids there to have confidence and faith in themselves. He said that at a previous show a 10-year-old kid said that he was a failure, even though he was a bright young man who could speak three languages. That base level of self respect is sadly missing from a lot in our society.
Unfortunately, some basic theater manners are also lacking. The Doktor had to remind the audience to refrain from using mobile phones, which is Theater Manners 101. Lack of civility as well as a dropping aptitude in the sciences are general signs of societal rot and sad to see, but at least there’s one guy out there fighting the good fight. That guy wears old-fashioned goggles, a bright orange lab coat, and shoes with flames painted on them.
But that didn’t slow down the show. There is a lot of safety instruction in the Doktor Kaboom show, even though the worst you may be exposed to is high-velocity banana and some soapy residue. He manages to use some optical illusions to trick your mind in ways that even jaded adults will find fascinating, and he takes time to explain what is happening in terms that children can understand. There are also plenty of under-the-radar jokes for adults as well.
There were no loud explosions as the Doktor Kaboom name might imply, but fear not. The show is well worth the time and has a big impact.
Tags: children, confidence, Doktor Kaboom, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, NYC, Queens Theatre, science, truth, veterans
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Film Review: Halloween
Posted on October 18, 2018 October 30, 2019 by Ben
David Gordon Green’s Halloween is a hugely entertaining, surprisingly funny, scary slasher, and a welcome return to form for both Michael Myers (Nick Castle and James Jude) and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). Even though it doesn’t quite match the quality of the original despite an interesting premise, its iconic leads haven’t been this great in decades.
Halloween takes place forty years after John Carpenter’s classic, ignores all the other films in the series, and follows Laurie as she prepares for the inevitable round two against her nightmarish stalker. Laurie was traumatized by her first encounter with Michael, and has spent most of her life waiting for him to escape from the sanitarium he’s been incarcerated in since that fateful night. Her house is a fortress and her aim with a revolver is great, but her obsession with protecting herself and her loved ones from the Boogeyman has put a strain on her relationship with her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak). However, Laurie turns out to have been right, as her past does indeed come back to haunt her. Michael returns to Haddonfield for another night of carnage, which forces the Strodes to fight for their survival.
Halloween gets some great mileage with this new, damaged take on Laurie. A single, awful night defined the rest of her life, and this is made painfully clear when seeing her interact with her family. Laurie may have survived, but she didn’t really spend the last four decades living, and Curtis’ performance makes it easy to believe. But when all Hell breaks loose Laurie goes full-on “Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2” badass, making the cat and mouse moments between her and Michael extremely intense. Michael may be the serial killer, but Laurie seems almost as deadly this time around.
Unlike Laurie, 2018’s Michael hasn’t really changed since the original film and that’s a good thing. He may be older, but he’s still the same unfeeling, relentless, mysterious killing machine he was before the numerous sequels and reboots tried humanize him, explained his motives, gave him a supernatural origin, and pit him against Busta Rhymes in one-on-one combat (that’s not a joke, it actually happened). Green and his co-writer Danny McBride took Michael back to basics, and it worked brilliantly. He’s big, strong, creative with his kills, and scary as Hell.
In addition to the expected scares, there are a few unexpected moments of humor in Halloween too. Green and McBride (who are known for movies and shows like Pineapple Express, Your Highness, and Eastbound and Down), inject their brand of humor in between the horror, and it works quite well.
What doesn’t work well are a few unnecessary, cliché scenes surrounding Allyson’s social life, and a particularly awful character twist that had me shaking my head for far too long. Halloween had been a strong, scary, and smart slasher until the aforementioned twist, so I was extremely disappointed to see something so stupid happen in the middle of it all. It wasn’t terrible enough that it ruined the entire movie for me, but it definitely stayed on my mind until the final act. Luckily, Halloween’s last few scenes are phenomenal, featuring some of truly awesome callbacks and one of the most simple-yet-badass lines in horror movie history, and it comes from a fairly surprising source.
Overall, Halloween is a worthy follow-up to its legendary 1978 predecessor. It’s not the masterpiece the original was, but it’ll definitely please fans of the classic, or those looking for a great slasher flick.
Tags: Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Halloween, Jamie Lee CurtisCategories: Film Review
If we learn from our mistakes, how am I not a genius yet?
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T-Pain Quotes
T-Pain quotes: the rapper who made auto-tune cool then not-so-cool’s coolest quotes.
“We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.”
“Once people tell me I can’t do stuff, I’m going to go and make it happen.”
“Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and reinvent themselves.”
“I guess you gotta take the good and the bad. It taught me how to move around a lot of stuff and how to deal with people a lot better. I think just having a label made me grow up. That was just a big part of maturing for me, it was a big part of my life.”
“A lot of people grow out of things and get into new things and if you’re a musician your music has to do that too. You can’t just concentrate on the music and you can’t just concentrate on your personal life, they both have to evolve at the same time. Also, being that I don’t write down anything on paper, it all comes from my heart, so if my heart grows and if my brain grows, so does my music. It’s just a natural evolution and that’s why I picked the title; it’s really just what has been going on in my life.”
“I used to sit in front of McDonald’s and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.”
“Oh man, at some point in our lives, I don’t think we get to pick anymore, you know what I’m saying? You know, if I wanted to be a fireman I think I would have been a terrible fireman and would have been a musician instead. I don’t think we get to pick, man. I think music chose me.”
“[On how he got the name T-Pain] Well, because I was broke. That’s one of those things you go through – being hungry and not being able to do anything about it. It was tough. It was a sucky situation. Instead of calling myself ‘T-Sucks,’ it was ‘T-Pain.’ You know, it was just a heavy situation. It just wasn’t fun. I’ll tell you that. But you know, normal struggle sh*t. I mean, where I came from made me who I am today, so I didn’t want to change the meaning just because I’m doing better. What if I go back to doing like sh*t? It still molded me as an adult now, so I keep the name.”
“Everyone thinks rich people can’t do sh*t for themselves, too. They automatically think we get waited on hand and foot with everything. They don’t think we tie our own shoes. Sometimes that’s what some artists portray and that’s not a real thing. That’s annoying. I hate when people tie my shoes. I’m not a child. I ran into money and all of a sudden I forgot how to tie my shoes? But I get it. It’s just what some people portray. The most famous people portray that, so the general public is going to think that’s how all of us do it.”
“There’s people that still got something to prove. People want to kinda make it seem like they’re on top of everything, but they’re not. You a big fish in a little pond.”
“It’s about being talked about a bunch and actually getting benefits from your work. The people that get too famous too fast, they’ll never get benefits from their work unless they start doing other things. You know what I’m saying? People like that get talked about every day because they seem interesting right now. People can see when you f*ck up, and it’s interesting and it’s entertaining because we like to see people f*ck up. You can get talked about a bunch, but where’s your advertisement at?”
“I write my music.”
“I don’t know if a song is going to be a hit or it’s going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.”
“As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don’t care if it’s a ringtone or the album or whatever.”
“Keep in mind, you can use auto-tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.”
“They can sonically sound like me, but nobody’s ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There’s only one of those.”
“Songwriting is determined by me, man… just me. I write from real life…”
“When I go in and write I just go from experience. While a lot of my stuff is talk about stripper girls and drinkin’, I mean, it’s what I do, you know what I’m sayin’? If I need something to talk about, I make it about my life, I don’t go in there and try to make up clever ways to make up songs.”
“The rapping was just something that I started doing ’cause I thought it was cool. I just went ahead and did that ’cause everybody was doing it. But it was cool though. It’s just the R&B sh*t was easier. Way easier.”
“I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.”
“You will never be at the top until you get to the f*cking top. And you got to fill up multiple stadiums by yourself. Nobody knows what the top is, so the level that they’re at seems like the top because this is the best they’ve done so far.”
“The reasoning behind ‘T-Pain’s School of Business’ is just to help. Here are people that have been through the ringer already, and here’s the steps that you can f*cking skip to go right through it. If I don’t tell people how I made it, how are they going to make it if they don’t at least get ahead of the game?”
“I’ve got to be sensible sometimes.”
“I’m still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.”
“A lot of people don’t know this about me but I am a deeply spiritual person. Dude, I go to church just as much as I go to the strip club. That’s saying something.”
“The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don’t know man. It’s amazing.”
“I don’t do the whole, ‘Put my name on it, make me famous’ thing.”
“I just keep my cars to myself.”
“I’ll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I’ll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.”
“We’re celebrities, we do what we can. We don’t have to live up to the expectations. We try to make people happy, that’s the most difficult part – make everybody happy. At the same time we don’t have to. Ain’t nobody going out of their way to make us happy. We do what we can when we can do it.”
“Yeah man, it has to be there man. I don’t want to turn my career into a job. I want it to be fun. There’s nothing better than having fun and loving what you do instead of having to get up and say, ‘Ugh, I don’t wanna go to work today.'”
“People don’t think it be like it be, but it do.”
Cory Johnson: CEO of a business he has yet to launch. As seen on your mom’s phone. Scaled to 7-figures in seven seconds selling a course on selling courses. Kidding. Watch this.
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Melbourne School of Population and Global Health - Research Publications
Sugary food and beverage consumption and epithelial ovarian cancer risk: a population-based case-control study.
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King, MG; Olson, SH; Paddock, L; Chandran, U; Demissie, K; Lu, S-E; Parekh, N; Rodriguez-Rodriguez, L; Bandera, EV
BMC Cancer
Baglietto, Laura
King, M. G., Olson, S. H., Paddock, L., Chandran, U., Demissie, K., Lu, S. -E., Parekh, N., Rodriguez-Rodriguez, L. & Bandera, E. V. (2013). Sugary food and beverage consumption and epithelial ovarian cancer risk: a population-based case-control study.. BMC Cancer, 13 (1), pp.94-. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-13-94.
Open Access at PMC
BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecologic cancer in the US. The consumption of refined sugars has increased dramatically over the past few decades, accounting for almost 15% of total energy intake. Yet, there is limited evidence on how sugar consumption affects ovarian cancer risk. METHODS: We evaluated ovarian cancer risk in relation to sugary foods and beverages, and total and added sugar intakes in a population-based case-control study. Cases were women with newly diagnosed epithelial ovarian cancer, older than 21 years, able to speak English or Spanish, and residents of six counties in New Jersey. Controls met same criteria as cases, but were ineligible if they had both ovaries removed. A total of 205 cases and 390 controls completed a phone interview, food frequency questionnaire, and self-recorded waist and hip measurements. Based on dietary data, we computed the number of servings of dessert foods, non-dessert foods, sugary drinks and total sugary foods and drinks for each participant. Total and added sugar intakes (grams/day) were also calculated. Multiple logistic regression models were used to estimate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for food and drink groups and total and added sugar intakes, while adjusting for major risk factors. RESULTS: We did not find evidence of an association between consumption of sugary foods and beverages and risk, although there was a suggestion of increased risk associated with sugary drink intake (servings per 1,000 kcal; OR=1.63, 95% CI: 0.94-2.83). CONCLUSIONS: Overall, we found little indication that sugar intake played a major role on ovarian cancer development.
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Compression Stockings May Not Be Needed After Surgeries, Study Finds
A new study offers reassurance that many surgery patients can safely be freed from one discomfort of recovery -- wearing compression stockings to prevent blood clots.
The garments, which help keep blood from pooling in the lower legs, have long been used post-surgery. One reason has been to thwart blood clots, which can form in the leg veins when a patient is laid up in recovery.
But rates of such blood clots have fallen dramatically over the years, according to researcher Dr. Alun Davies.
That's due to various improvements in care, he said -- like getting patients out of bed and moving soon after surgery, and discharging them from the hospital earlier.
That raises the question of whether old-fashioned compression stockings still hold any benefit. Davies and his colleagues at Imperial College London, and other British hospitals, set up a trial to find out.
The researchers randomly assigned nearly 1,900 patients undergoing elective surgery to one of two groups: One received standard anti-clotting medication after surgery; the other took the same medication and used compression stockings during their hospital stay.
In the end, the two groups showed no difference in the risk of blood clots -- an indication the stockings were unnecessary.
The findings were published online May 13 in the medical journal BMJ.
The results came as no surprise to Dr. Michael Ast, an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery, in New York City.
Doctors have already moved away from using compression stockings specifically to prevent clots, he explained.
"The number-one thing in preventing blood clots is getting patients up and moving around," Ast said.
But, he added, compression stockings still have a use: Patients who are prone to swelling in the legs -- which can be painful and hinder their mobility -- may still need to wear them. In those cases, Ast said, he generally recommends patients wear the garments for about a month after they go home.
The new study involved 1,888 patients who were mainly undergoing gastrointestinal or gynecological surgery. All were at moderate or high risk of blood clots -- based on factors like age, obesity and certain health conditions, such as heart disease.
All of the patients were given heparin, an anti-clotting drug. Half wore compression stockings while they recovered in the hospital, while the other half did not.
Overall, 1.7% of patients on medication alone developed a blood clot within 90 days. That figure was 1.4% among patients who used compression stockings -- a difference that was not statistically significant, the researchers said.
In most cases, those blood clots were in the leg veins and not causing any pain or other symptoms; they were caught by ultrasound scans.
And that's part of the good news, Ast said: With modern care, blood clots after surgery have actually become uncommon; when they do occur, they often cause no problem.
The main concern with clots in the legs is that they can break free and travel to the lungs, causing a potentially life-threatening condition called pulmonary embolism. In this study, three patients, all age 65 or older, had a confirmed pulmonary embolism.
According to Ast, the risk of blood clots after surgery was once a much bigger concern: In the 1970s and 1980s, rates were as high as 25% after hip or knee replacements, for example.
But a lot has changed over the years. The recognition that early movement is critical -- along with better pain management to make that possible -- has been key. In fact, Ast said, when it comes to clot-preventing medication, baby aspirin can be used instead of heparin -- an injection drug that carries a higher risk of bleeding complications.
And once patients are home, that's not the time to become a couch potato.
"There's nothing more important than moving around, even if it's causing some pain," Ast said. "We recommend getting up and moving once an hour."
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has more on blood clot prevention.
SOURCES: Alun Davies, M.D., professor, vascular surgery, Imperial College London, U.K.; Michael Ast, M.D., orthopedic surgeon, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City; May 13, 2020 BMJ, online
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The Ms. Q&A: Inside Lynn Melnick’s “Landscape with Sex and Violence”
2/3/2020 by Elline Lipkin
Years ago, when I was completing graduate work in feminist literature and gender studies, the organization VIDA: Women in Literary Arts blazed onto the literary scene. I was thrilled to see the emergence of “the count,” in which VIDA published color-coded pie charts revealing what a small helping of pages women were getting in contemporary journals—and I became aware of Lynn Melnick’s foundational work with VIDA just as I realized I had missed knowing her in New York City, where we were both grad students in the same MFA program, albeit at different times.
Melnick’s first book of poems is If I Should Say I Have Hope, and she is the co-author, with Brett Fletcher Lauer, of Please Excuse This Poem, an anthology geared towards younger readers. I have followed her work with interest, and was excited to interview her for Ms.
Landscape with Sex and Violence is such an inherently feminist book as you present what it means to viscerally move through the world within a woman’s body—the vulnerability and the danger. I love the specificity of your language, such as in: “let the riffraff envenom my body.”
Your book came out just as #MeToo was breaking. Can you say more about your vision for this work, and the work you want it to do in the world?
Yes, it did! It oddly came out the very day that the #metoo hashtag blew up on social media, which was about 10 days after the Harvey Weinstein story broke in the New York Times. I’ve been writing these subjects for years, it’s what I write about, in part because I want people to have to acknowledge, confront, accept the many horrific realities of rape culture. I spent decades not being acknowledged or believed, even in more progressive circles, and certainly elsewhere. It’s good progress that these issues are being talked about more openly now, but we still have a long road ahead. I hear a lot about how intense my book is and I’m like, yeah! It’s intense living in rape culture! But I also hear from scores of people about what my book has meant, how it has made people feel companioned, and that fills my heart.
This book covers so many intense subjects—violence against women, sex work and patriarchy, to say the least. Can you say more about how the themes of the book intertwine and the vulnerability and courage it takes to voice these subjects? Just hearing these themes spoken clearly seems radical to me, and it surprises me that this is so. Do you see it as a work about girlhood or young womanhood? The work of speaking out?
What’s interesting is that it’s the poems about abortion that have seemed to most offend audiences, or else when I’ve read those poems that’s when people walk out. But I think that may be because it’s the subject we’re most comfortable talking about and having an opinion on. We don’t talk enough about violence against women and girls. And sex workers are among our most marginalized populations, although the discussion over decriminalization has been more vocal and mainstream lately.
To answer your specific questions—yes! I see this as a work about what it is to exist as a girl and then a woman in this country, because so many of the daily microaggressions, not to mention obviously the many actual aggressions and harms, go unnoticed.
And yes! This book is absolutely about speaking out. Every poem in the book addresses rape culture in a hard and unblinking way. That was intentional. And it did take courage and it was, and continues to be, very vulnerable and unfortunately sometimes overwhelming. But worth it, for sure.
You grew up in Los Angeles. In what way do you see this as a California-based book, if at all?
I did. And I’m missing it at the moment, especially for its preferable weather! (I type this on the east coast the day after Christmas.) I view Landscape with Sex and Violence as a very California book, and specifically a Los Angeles book, because that is where I grew up and this is a book sprung from my autobiography. And it’s often very specifically about the landscape of California, which is both burned into my memory and, I’m sure, changed by time and trauma. I wanted to explore all of that in the book.
I think a lot about poetry that can be classified as “gurlesque” and the differences between flippant “girl power” activism and bona fide empowerment. Can you speak to the positioning of the girl or young woman in this book? Is she representative of myriad forces that press down on girls. The phrase “She’s going to do something amazing” contrasted with harsh realities felt very prescient to me.
Oh, I can’t fucking stand the whole “girl power” thing. It’s such absolute vapid, pandering bullshit. I have two daughters. They were fed phony girl power from when they were very young via toys and books and TV. But the messages they get everywhere else tell them otherwise. And once they get to middle school and begin to exist in the world as objects to others, they learn really quick, if they haven’t already, that there’s not a lot of power in being a girl in this country. What we need to do—and what I tried and still try to do with my children—is prepare girls to steel themselves against the realities of rape culture and patriarchy, to teach them how to fight back against micro-aggressions, to realize it’s not them that is the problem.
Like, let’s not pollyanna this girl power shit. Let’s give them real power. So, to get to your questions (ha, sorry, the phrase “girl power” gets me all worked up!), I was trying to position girls and women in this book the way they actually are in the world.
How did you decide on the form of the book? I loved the use of refrain “Landscape with…” and how the second part of this sentence kept evolving the book’s meaning. I didn’t read this device as ekphrastic but rather one that reveals the fractures and facets of possibility—a panorama of landscapes that represent so many sides of the speaker’s experience. The use of couplets also gave such openness to the book—room for silences and absence that was reflected in content that was both written and unwritten but present. Stylistically, can you say more about what you were trying to do?
Thank you! I thought a lot about form and style with this book. I wanted the poems to have only couplets or single line stanzas because the poems are so dense and they needed space. And I also wanted all the poems to be in the same style so they seem of a piece, and so they feel relentless. I wanted many of them to be landscapes because I can’t separate trauma from the landscapes on which it was enacted, and, no, it was not meant as ekphrastic, but maybe a way of saying, you know all those pretty landscapes?
Uncountable horrors have gone on and are still going on there. Which is also a reason I wanted to write about landscapes: I didn’t get a chance to notice them growing up because I was too busy trying to survive.
How long did you spend writing this book and is there more about your vision to still tell? What’s next?
I spent about four years writing the book and yes, there is definitely more to tell about rape culture. I think it’s my life’s work to tell these truths, as painful as it often is for me to do so. My next book of poems will explore rape culture as it intersects with my Jewishness. And I’m writing a book of prose now called I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive, scheduled to be published in 2022, which also delves into these topics via both memoir and an exploration of the life and music of Dolly Parton, basically exploring how Dolly’s music engages trauma—delving into sex, violence, class, nostalgia, religion, aging, addiction and motherhood.
I do want to say that I remain hopeful that things have improved and will continue to improve in this country in regards to rape culture, though there is certainly several lifetimes of work left to do.
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About Elline Lipkin
Elline Lipkin is a poet, academic, and nonfiction writer. Her first book of poems, The Errant Thread, was chosen by Eavan Boland for the Kore Press First Book Award. Her second book, Girls’ Studies, explores contemporary girlhood in the United States. Currently a Research Scholar with the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA, Elline also teaches poetry for Writing Workshops Los Angeles. As a nonfiction writer, she has written about everything from being a feminist bride to female mentorship and influence within the literary world, as well as Barbie’s new body and “fauxpowerment.” She recently served as a poetry mentor for AWP’s Writer to Writer program and in April 2016 was elected the new Poet Laureate of Altadena and will hold community writing events throughout the next year.
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Members include Eddie Brigati, vocals; Felix Cavaliere, vocals, keyboards; Gene Cornish, guitar; Dino Danelli, drums.
The Rascals' songbook continues to be a staple of oldies and classic rock station play lists, and for good reason. The quartet released impeccably performed pop masterpieces that featured soulful singing, and songwriting that captured the essence of the most optimistic elements of 1960s youth culture. Such songs as "Groovin'" and "People Got to Be Free" escaped the prison of 1960s' cultural artifacts by benefit of the crisp musical arrangements and lack of pretension in the vocal performances, and have become true timeless pop classics that have been labeled as prime examples of "blue-eyed soul."
The group formed in New York in 1965. Drummer Dino Danelli was a teenage prodigy, having performed with Lionel Hampton and Little Willie John. Keyboardist Felix Cavaliere was a student of classical piano, and the only white member of the Stereos. While he was a student at Syracuse University, Cavaliere formed a doo-wop group known as the Escorts. Cavaliere moved to New York City, where he met Danelli. The duo traveled to Las Vegas to play in a casino house band, and then returned to New York, where Cavaliere accepted a job with "Peppermint Twist" singer Joey Dee's band the Starliters. Other members of the Starliters included singer Eddie Brigati and guitarist Gene Cornish. Cavaliere, Danelli, Cornish, and Brigati formed the Young Rascals shortly thereafter, releasing the 1965 single "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore," which was sung by Brigati. Cavaliere took over lead vocals on the group's follow-up single, "Good Lovin'," which was a remake of a song originally recorded by the Olympics. The song became one of the biggest hits of 1966. The early recordings of the Rascals were produced by future Eric Clapton and Allman Brothers' producer Tom Dowd. With Dowd, the group created a raucous, driving sound that emphasized Cavaliere's Hammond organ playing and rhythm-and-blues-influenced vocals. The group never hired a full-time bass player, relying instead on session and pickup players for studio and live performances.
Despite the band's American popularity, they were unable to crack the European market until the release of the 1967 single "Groovin.'" The song featured another classic Cavaliere vocal, but with a more jazz-influenced musical backing assisted by Atlantic Records producer Arif Mardin. By now known as the Rascals, the group registered other hits in 1967 with "How Can I Be Sure" and "Beautiful Morning." In Rock: The Rough Guide, critic Richie Unterberger assessed the group's string of hits: "All had a light, beautifully serene grace, perhaps reflecting Cavaliere's increasing infatuation with Eastern mysticism in general, and guru Swami Satchinanda in particular. This was soul music of a new sort, equal parts white and black, driven as much by soul-searching concerns as by romantic ones."
The year 1967 was to be the band's creative peak. The following year they released another stellar single, "People Got to Be Free," but alienated some audiences with a 1969 double album that featured the song Freedom Suite. Written by Cavaliere and Brigati, "People Got to Be Free" was reportedly inspired by the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. The group did their best to emulate the social politics of King and Kennedy by insisting that they share all their billed performances with a black group. The move resulted in the band playing few if any dates in the South.
"People Got to Be Free" was the group's last hit single, as they began to focus on integrating jazz improvisers such as Alice Coltrane and Ron Carter on their subsequent recordings. Critics generally dismissed these efforts as pretentious. See, released in 1970, led critic Lenny Kaye to ponder whether the group wasn't better off recording singles rather than full-length albums. "Given the space of an entire album, the group seems to founder about, coming up with material that is in some cases good, but more often simply innocuous," wrote Kaye in Rolling Stone. The group employed such Eastern instruments as sitars and tablas to accompany the songs, which Kaye disparaged as "quasi-mystical ... reflecting itself in lyrics full of Significance and Cosmic Wonder." When the band stuck to their tried-and-true formula for rhythm-and-blues inflected pop, however, Kaye found them at the top of their game: "Both 'See' and 'Carry Me Back' rock like mad, spurred by the frenetically tight drumming of Dino Danelli and carried by those soaring voices that once sat solidly behind Joey Dee and the Starlighters." Kaye praised the songs as "full of fire and topped with a pair of great lyrics," and as "easily the equal of anything the Rascals have yet done, which is to say that they're very good indeed."
For the group's other 1970 release, Search and Nearness, they recruited the help of jazz artists Hubert Laws, Joe Farrell, and Ron Carter. The group left Atlantic Records and signed with Columbia. Before their label debut, however, Brigati left the group in 1970, and Cornish quit the following year. Cavaliere and Danelli recruited Buzzy Feiten from the Butterfield Blues Band, session player Robert Popwell, and singer Ann Sutton. The latter lineup left no music of lasting value, however, and Cavaliere and Brigati folded the Rascals' tent in 1972.
In 1988 Cornish, Cavaliere, and Danelli reunited for a tour that ended in acrimony, and in 1989 Cornish and Danelli sued Cavaliere to prohibit him from touring using the Rascals' name. The judge ruled that Cornish and Danelli could tour as the New Rascals, and that Cavaliere could promote his concert appearances as a former member of the Young Rascals. Through the years the various members of the band have surfaced in different projects. In the 1970s Cornish and Danelli were in the groups Bulldog and Fotomaker; the latter with Wally Bryson of the Raspberries. Brigati toured and recorded with his brother David, and the brothers were featured in the 1991 New York Rock and Soul Revue with Steely Dan member Donald Fagen. Cavaliere toured for a season with Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band. The Rascals were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
by Bruce Walker
The Rascals's Career
Released first hit single, "Good Lovin'," as the Young Rascals, 1966; dropped "Young" from name; released "I've Been Lonely Too Long," "Groovin'," "How Can I Be Sure," and "Beautiful Morning," 1967; released "People Got to Be Free," 1968; released double concept album Freedom Suite, 1969; Brigati departed band, 1970; group officially disbanded, 1972; inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 1997.
Famous Works
Selected discography
The Young Rascals Atlantic, 1966.
Collections Atlantic, 1967.
Groovin' Atlantic, 1968.
Once Upon a Dream Atlantic, 1968.
Time Peace Atlantic, 1968.
Freedom Suite Atlantic, 1969.
See Atlantic, 1970.
Search and Nearness Atlantic, 1971.
Peaceful World Columbia, 1972.
The Island of Real Columbia, 1972.
The Rascals Anthology (1965-1972) Rhino, 1992.
Rock: The Rough Guide, Rough Guides, 1999.
Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Fireside, 2001.
Rolling Stone, March 19, 1970; June 10, 1970.
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Warren Makes Debate Case: Democratic Woman Can Beat Trump
Sanders Denies Warren's Accusations
January 15, 2020 - 10:14 am
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By ALEXANDRA JAFFE, STEVE PEOPLES and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Elizabeth Warren made a forceful case for a female president and stood behind her accusation suggesting sexism by progressive rival Bernie Sanders in a Democratic debate that raised gender as a key issue in the sprint to Iowa’s presidential caucuses.
Sanders vehemently denied Warren's accusation, which threatened to split the Democratic Party’s left flank -- as well as the senators' longtime liberal alliance -- at a critical moment less than three weeks before voting begins.
“Look at the men on this stage. Collectively they have lost 10 elections,” Warren exclaimed on Tuesday night. "The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they’ve been in are the women.”
An incredulous Sanders responded: “Does anybody in their right mind think a woman can’t be elected president?” he asked. “Of course a woman can win."
There was a final moment of tension between Sanders and Warren after the debate ended. Having shaken the hands of her other competitors, Warren was shown in video declining to shake Sanders' extended hand.
With the Democratic field tightly bunched among four leading candidates, the debate offered an opportunity for separation. But none of the six candidates on stage had the kind of moment likely to reshape the race in the final weeks before voting starts. Instead, the debate was generally marked by a focus on weighty issues of foreign policy, climate change and how to provide health care for all Americans. Even when disputes emerged, most candidates quickly pivoted to note their larger differences with President Donald Trump.
For his part, Trump spent Tuesday night campaigning in Wisconsin, a state that is critical to his reelection effort. He tried to encourage the feud between Sanders and Warren from afar.
“She said that Bernie stated strongly that a woman can’t win," Trump said. “I don’t believe that Bernie said that, I really don’t. It’s not the kind of thing Bernie would say."
Despite such prodding, the debate stage drama was far from the explosion some Democrats feared. Candidates moved with ease through a variety of topics, disagreeing with each other but generally avoiding personal attacks.
Sanders did step up his attacks on former Vice President Joe Biden over his past support of the Iraq War and broad free-trade agreements. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who was mired in the middle of the pack, seized on Warren's shifting positions on health care. Billionaire Tom Steyer acknowledged making money from investments in the fossil fuel industry, but highlighted his decade-long fight to combat climate change, an issue that came up repeatedly throughout the night.
Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, sometimes struggled for attention in a debate that often featured points of conflict between his rivals. Perhaps his strongest moment came when he described how, as a military veteran who is vocal about his faith, he could stand up to Trump in a general election.
“I'm ready to take on Donald Trump because when he gets to the tough talk and the chest thumping, he'll have to stand next to an American war veteran and explain how he pretended bone spurs made him ineligible to serve," Buttigieg said. “And if a guy like Donald Trump keeps trying to use religion to somehow recruit Christianity into the GOP, I will be standing there not afraid to talk about a different way to answer the call of faith and insist that God does not belong to a political party."
Questions surrounding war and foreign policy dominated early on. Sanders drew a sharp contrast with Biden by noting his own opposition to a 2002 measure authorizing military action against Iraq.
Sanders called the Iraq invasion “the worst foreign policy blunder in the modern history of this country."
“I did everything I could to prevent that war,” Sanders said. “Joe saw it differently."
Biden acknowledged that his 2002 vote to authorize military action was “a mistake,” but highlighted his role in the Obama administration helping to draw down the U.S. military presence in the region.
Several candidates condemned Trump's recent move to kill Iran's top general and his decision to keep U.S. troops in the region.
“We have to get combat troops out,” declared Warren, who also called for reducing the military budget.
Others, including Buttigieg, Biden and Klobuchar, said they favored maintaining a small military presence in the Middle East.
“I bring a different perspective," said Buttigeg. "We can continue to remain engaged without having an endless commitment to ground troops.”
The debate featured just six candidates, the fewest of any such forum this cycle after escalating party rules prevented other candidates from participating. For the first time, not a single candidate of color appeared on stage. Every candidate was white, and four were men.
That was a stark contrast from the earlier days of the 2020 contest, which featured the most diverse field of candidates in history. The party is trying to navigate broader debates over how to reflect and embrace the crucial role women and minority voters will play in 2020. To defeat Trump this fall, Democrats need to ensure black, Latino and suburban voters are excited to vote for them against the Republican president.
The debate marked one of the final moments the senators in the race will participate in a campaign-related event before returning to Washington to sit as jurors in Trump's impeachment trial. Those proceedings are likely to begin by the end of the week, making it difficult for senators running for president to spend time with voters Iowa in the contest’s final days.
“Some things are more important than politics,” Warren said. “I will be there because it is my responsibility.”
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Prepaid Debit Cards Users in U.S. Will Get New Federal Protections
Prepaid debit cards are a financial lifeline for many people, but a risky one. They lack many of the basic consumer protections that credit cards and bank debit cards are required to offer. That will change next year, with a raft of new federal rules intended to clamp down on a product that has been growing rapidly despite concerns about high fees, poor disclosures and weak protections for customers when something goes wrong.
Beginning in October 2017, packages containing prepaid debit cards — which are typically sold in convenience stores and other establishments — will be required to carry a standardized disclosure of the card’s monthly fee. They will also have to detail charges for cash withdrawals, customer service calls, reloading the card and other activities.
Such fees, which average around $11 a month and can swallow most of the card’s initial value, have been termed predatory by consumer watchdogs. The new rules, announced early Wednesday by theConsumer Financial Protection Bureau, are meant to shed light on a product that is often the subject of complaints.
“The rules bring prepaid cards out of the shadows, with protections that in many ways are stronger than those for traditional bank accounts,” said Lauren Saunders, the associate director of the National Consumer Law Center, which lobbied for the new rules. For instance, she said, the rules require clear fee disclosures and limits on overdraft fees — protections she would like to see extended to bank accounts.
Source: The New York Times (link opens in a new window)
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2 Million People in India Gather to Plant 20 Million Trees Along the River Ganges – All While Social-Distancing
July 29, 2020 July 23, 2020 nickparpartcom
In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, there is space enough for trees to grow—and space enough for 2 million residents to plant truckloads of trees while social distancing.
Although the virus has spread fast throughout the country, its threat was not enough to dissuade the government of the most-populous Indian state from conducting a mass tree-planting campaign along the banks of the river Ganges as part of its pledge to shade a third of the nation under tree cover by 2030.
The nation’s target acreage of 235 million acres would represent an area the size of Texas and New Mexico combined.
The planting was carried out last week by volunteers, nonprofit employees, government workers, and even lawmakers, all of whom maintained distance from each other and wore face masks to stop the possible spread of coronavirus.
“We are committed to increase the forest cover of Uttar Pradesh to over 15% of the total land area in next five years,” said the state’s chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, pictured above during the campaign’s inauguration ceremony.
“In today’s campaign, over 20 million trees will be planted at the banks of the Ganges river, which will help in keeping this mighty river clean.”
Many nations have targeted 2030 as the deadline for various sustainability-related goals, to coincide with the UN’s 18 Sustainable Development Goals designed to encourage nations to solve the world’s largest problems, such as poverty, hunger, pollution, access to clean water, education access, and more.
Mass tree plantings have been launched as an easy and inexpensive method of drawing carbon from the atmosphere, with hundreds of millions of trees being planted in countries around the world, including China, Pakistan, India, Madagascar, and the nations of the Sahel, especially Ethiopia and Senegal.
The survival of every tree during such mass-planting operations is not guaranteed, of course, but compared to changing energy and transportation infrastructure, tree-planting is easy, inexpensive, and helpful in regenerating previously degraded land back to healthy, functioning ecosystems.
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The Bank of Industry (BoI) said the non-oil sector was primarily responsible for the annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of 1.93 per cent last year compared to 0.82 per cent achieved the previous year.
The bank said the non-oil sector improved by two per cent, while the oil sector growth reduced to 1.14 per cent when compared to 2017 growth rates of 0.47 per cent and 4.69 per cent respectively.
The Board Chairman, Aliyu Abdulrahman Dikko who spoke during the bank’s 59th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Abuja, said the annual contribution of the manufacturing sector to real GDP last year improved slightly from 9.18 per cent in 2017 to 9.2 per cent as the industry players still grapple with key issues.
These issues include high interest rate on finance, inadequate infrastructure and persisting insecurity concerns.
He added that the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) kicked off its Third National Action Plan geared towards minimising difficulties faced by Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) when accessing credit, paying taxes or moving goods across the country.
“Additionally, the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in collaboration with PEBEC, approved a special window of 90 days, which was extended to 180 days, to register businesses at a discounted fee of N5,000 as part of its business incentives strategy.
“The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) continued to maintain its Monetary Policy Rate at 14 per cent in a bid to moderate inflationary pressures and to stabilise the microeconomic environment. The benchmark rate was last changed in July 2016, when it was hiked by 200 basis points.
“The apex bank also maintained its strategy to enhance foreign exchange liquidity towards safeguarding the stability of the naira. In May 2018, it also reviewed its foreign exchange policy by ensuring same day over the counter, OTC access to foreign exchange by travelers,” the chairman said.
He said last year, the group’s total asset grew by 49 per cent to N1.07trillion from N713.3billion in 2017, adding that improvement was achieved in the group’s total equity which increased by 12.5 per cent year-on-year to N258.3billion from N241billion in the prior year.
Profit before tax of the group for the year was N36.7billion. 39 per cent higher than N26.4billion which was achieved in the previous years. BoI also improved on its developmental impact by achieving 130 per cent growth on a year on year basis with respect to disbursement of new loans to N259.6billion last year while N112.5billion was disbursed the year before, stressing that N339.9 billion was disbursed specifically to MSMEs, while the rest was deployed to support large enterprises.
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Share this Story: Tennis birthdays - Dec. 15, 2009
Tennis birthdays - Dec. 15, 2009
Alexandra Stevenson (USA), 29
Tennis birthdays - Dec. 15, 2009 Back to video
There’s some dispute over whether the American was born on Dec. 15, or Dec. 21. The ITF says the 15th; the WTA Tour says the 21st. Either way, there she is, on the cusp of 30.
It seems like only yesterday that Stevenson was being revealed as the secret love child of NBA superstar Julius Erving, the result of a liaison between Dr. J and Stevenson’s mother, a former sportswriter.
At that time, she was a surprise semi-finalist at Wimbledon, and all seemed possible. Injuries, the crazy mother, and a whole lot of complaining about how everyone is against them followed.
Stevenson is still trying to come back. She went through a period of shoulder problems where she wasn’t finishing her matches. Now, she’s just getting beaten.
Mom Samantha is still a going concern. She caused a scene back in Montreal in 2008 at the Rogers Cup, and she was at it again this fall at a $50,000 Challenger event in Toronto.
She’s ranked No. 219 right now – almost exactly where she was a year ago, when she ended 2008 at No. 216. She went 25-28 for 2009 which means she played 28 tournaments, even though she didn’t finish all of them. That’s huge. Her total earnings were about $28,000 U.S. There’s just no way that’s enough for even a few months at that pace; you wonder how she’s getting the financing. Maybe Dad has stepped in, now that the two have had a rapprochement – at least long enough for an ESPN the Magazine article to be written.
And you wonder how long she’ll keep doing it, although who is anyone to say when someone should give up their dream.
Christophe Rochus (BEL), 31
The taller of the two Rochus brothers from Belgium (and the elder of the two), Rochus is listed at 5-7 and 150 pounds. Brother Olivier, 28, is listed at 5-foot-6 and 143 pounds. But Olivier has been the better of the two; currently at No. 57, he reached No. 24 back in 2005. Either way, a major effort for two seriously undersized players.
Rochus reached a career high of No. 38 in May, 2008, and currently stands at No. 86.
He also was the bad guy at the French Open this year, sending two veteran Frenchman packing in the first two rounds: Fabrice Santoro and Arnaud Clément. For Santoro, it was his Roland Garros finale after a 20-year career.
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Veteran - Vintage - Classic - Modern
Understanding the Automobile
Motor car History
Motor Car
Mazda Capella 626 4th Gen (1987-1992)
Mazda Capella 626 Fourth Generation
Also called
Hiroshima, Japan Hofu, Japan Flat Rock, Michigan, United States (AAI) Bogotá, Colombia Willowvale, Zimbabwe (WMMI)
4-door sedan 5-door hatchback 5-door station wagon (GV Platform) 2-door coupé
FF layout Four-wheel drive
Mazda GD platform
1.6 L F6 I4 (Export) 1.6 L B6 I4 1.8 L F8 I4 1.8 L F8 DOHC I4 2.0 L FE I4 2.0 L FE3 DOHC I4 2.2 L F2 I4 2.2 L F2T turbo I4 (North America) 2.0 L RF diesel I4 2.0 L RFT Comprex diesel I4
4/5-speed manual 4-speed automatic
2,575 mm (101.4 in) 2,515 mm (99.0 in) (coupé)
4,515–4,610 mm (177.8–181.5 in)
66.5 in (1,690 mm)
Hatchback: 54.1 in (1,370 mm) Sedan: 55.5 in (1,410 mm)
Mazda MX-6 Mazda Persona Ford Probe Ford Telstar
Hiroshi Yamamoto (1985)
The fourth-generation Capella was released in May 1987 It used the updated GD platform and some versions remained in production in Japan until 1996. Engines were new, though they still emphasized torque rather than outright power. Most of the world received 1.6, 1.8, 2.0, and 2.2 (non-turbo) engines. The GT model had a 2.0-liter FE-DOHC engine that produced 148 (non-cat) or 140 PS (cat). Some models were available with a new 2.0 diesel RFT engine, notable for its use of a pressure wave supercharger (Comprex), that previously could be found in the Mazda Bongo commercial. Diesel models were also exported to Europe, usually with the naturally aspirated engine. By 1990, the 1.6 had been discontinued in most markets, although JDM models intended for commercial use still used the little B6 engine.
The 626/Capella was available globally as a sedan, station wagon (estate), five-door hatchback, and as a coupé - although the coupé was renamed MX-6 for the North American and Australian markets. In Japan, the five-door was sold as the "Capella CG" (for City Gear) and the coupé as the "Capella C2" (Composite Coupé). There was also a four-door hardtop sedan with unique bodywork, sold only in Japan, called the Mazda Persona.
The station wagon version, intended as a true load carrier, was introduced the spring of 1988 on a slightly modified platform (called the GV). The station wagon also had a seven-seat option in some markets. Five-speed manuals and four-speed automatics were offered, with a few export markets also receiving a four-speed manual.Four-wheel drive was introduced in July 1987 for some versions, although it was never made available in the coupé nor in the North American market. Another new option was 4-wheel-steering, introduced in February 1988, with Mazda's system being electronic and more complex than the 4WS system introduced by Honda on their 1988 Prelude. This system was only available in the five-door and the coupé. While not particularly successful in the marketplace, Japanese consumers could choose this option for longer than could export customers. All of the body styles also had optional ABS. The final facelift made a driver's side airbag an option for the buyer.
The 626 line was face-lifted for 1990. The Station Wagon (Estate) was still available up until November 1997 (1996 in export markets). As part of a Japanese trend at the time, it was also developed into an "RV", a sporting model with off-road pretensions. The Capella Van version, for commercial use only, actually continued in production until 1999. When the new CG Capella was introduced in August 1994, the "Capella Cargo" received a facelift with a bigger grille and headlights and its name was changed to "Capella Wagon".
Consumer response was strong, and Car and Driver magazine named the 626 and MX-6 in their Ten Best list for 1988. UK trim levels were LX (1.8-litre), GLX (1.8/2.0) and GT (2.0/2.2). There was also an estate model with either the 2.0i 8v or 16v engine, or the 2.2 12v. Most European markets received similar lineups, albeit with diesel options in many countries.
The MX-6 was built in Michigan alongside its platform-mate, the Ford Probe at AutoAlliance International, while North American market 626s were still imported from Japan. 626 hatchbacks disappeared after 1991 from the US Mazda model range. The base model now used Mazda's 110-horsepower 2.2 L 3-valve SOHC F2 producing just 10 hp (7.5 kW) shy of the old Turbo, and the new Turbo was up to 145 hp (108 kW).
The 1988 introduction of four-wheel steering to the 626 Turbo liftback, along with Honda's Prelude 4WS, marked the first 4WS systems for the American market. It was later also made available to the MX-6. In 1990 the 626 gained motorized seat belts.
Mazda New Zealand again assembled a range of four-door sedan and five-door hatchback models, supplemented by the newly available wagon, and imported the coupe and a top five-door version, both with electronically controlled rear-wheel steering. Ford New Zealand's Telstar line was similar, including the wagon and imported rear wheel steer models, but without the coupe. The wagon's arrival enabled Ford to drop the UK-sourced Sierra wagon from local assembly, simplifying model sourcing.
The NZ-specification cars, though imported CKD, shared much of their specifications with European models including the modified tail lamp assemblies with the mandatory-for-Europe fog light lenses though the bulbs and wiring were not included. This and later generations would also be imported used from Japan in later years, greatly widening the choice of models and specifications available in this market.
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The Man Who Was Dying to Be an Actor
December 7, 2020 Dan Lewis Uncategorized 0
If you can’t remember most of your dreams, you’re probably not alone. Most people remember one or two dreams a week at most, according to Discover Magazine, and some can’t remember dreams almost ever. And as a result, it’s hard to make our literal dreams come true.
For Chuck Lamb, that wasn’t a problem, though. His issue? The dream he wanted to turn into reality was a bit strange. One morning, Lamb woke up from a dream in which a detective was standing over his dead body. It was a calling — something he wanted to turn into reality. Well, not real reality, because that would involve Lamb actually dying, and that’d be stupid. Instead, Lamb saw the dream as a sign that he should look into a new side-career and hobby:
Playing dead on TV.
And it was a dream fulfilled. That’s him, not actually dead, below.
Like many, Lamb, when growing up, hoped to be the next great actor. But in late 2005, at age 47, that hadn’t happened yet. As the New York Times reported, Lamb went down a different path: “he finds himself with six children, working as a computer programmer for Nationwide Insurance. Mr. Lamb has deep creases under his eyes, skin as pale as copy paper, precious little hair and no acting experience. Any notions he once held of becoming the next Sean Connery died long ago.”
And yet, his dream, like him, didn’t really die. He registered himself a website, DeadBodyGuy.com (which, unfortunately, is now a morass of tables and frustrating ads) and worked with his wife to create photos of him, dead, in various positions. (An spill down the stairs can be seen above.) Lamb’s hope was that the website would spread virally throughout the Internet, ultimately catching the eye of a movie producer or two. Here’s another picture of Lamb, dead, to help demonstrate that he isn’t just a staircase-death expert; he was really good at being mostly dead.
Lamb’s website worked. As the CBC reported, “six weeks [after he launched his website], his story landed on the front page of The New York Times. He then started landing interviews on CNN, Good Morning America and The Today Show about what he was doing.” That last appearance caught the eyes of a TV producer, who invited Lamb to play a corpse in an episode of “What I Like About You.” While uncredited, Lamb appeared on-screen for the first time dead. (Note that the interviews with CNN, GMA, and TODAY featured him alive, which wasn’t his goal.) But with his limp foot in the door, more opportunities came his way.
As of 2019, Lamb now has fourteen film credits to his name, all of which are for laying there still, barely (and officially, not) breathing, eyes slightly ajar. And yes, in some of them (most notably, perhaps, the 2010 Danny Aiello comedy “Stiffs“), his name appears in the credits, just as he always wanted.
Bonus fact: Uncredited performances aren’t all that uncommon, but sometimes, that changes in future releases. As WhatCulture notes, “for the original Star Wars, James Earl Jones asked not to be credited. Part of Jones’s decision was because he considered David Prowse’s performance inside the Vader costume to be the more defining of the two performances.” Jones again declined to be credited for Empire Strikes Back, but he’s in the credits in Return of the Jedi — and in re-released versions of the other two films.
From the Archives: Dead Man Walking: Officially, he was dead, but the fact that he was alive suggested otherwise.
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How climate change is impacting the world’s water
The Last Time There Was This Much CO2, Trees Grew at the South Pole, Dahr Jamail, Truthout , 29 April 19, “……… Water
As usual, there continue to be ample examples of the impacts of climate disruption in the watery realms of the planet.
In oceans, most of the sea turtles now being born are female; a crisis in sea turtle sex that is borne from climate disruption. This is due to the dramatically warmer sand temperatures where the eggs are buried. At a current ratio of 116/1 female/male, clearly this trend cannot continue indefinitely if sea turtles are to survive.
An alarming study showed recently that the number of new corals on the Great Barrier Reef has crashed by 89 percent after the mass bleaching events of 2016 and 2017. With coral bleaching events happening nearly annually now across many of the world’s reefs, such as the Great Barrier, we must remember that it takes an average of a decade for them to recover from a bleaching event. This is why some scientists in Australia believe the Great Barrier Reef to be in its “terminal stage.”
The UN recently sounded the alarm that urgent action is needed if Arab states are to avoid a water emergency. Water scarcity and desertification are afflicting the Middle East and North Africa more than any other region on Earth, hence the need for countries there to improve water management. However, the per capita share of fresh water availability there is already just 10 percent of the global average, with agriculture consuming 85 percent of it.
Another recent study has linked shrinking Arctic sea ice to less rain in Central America, adding to the water woes in that region as well.
In Alaska, warming continues apace. The Nenana Ice Classic, a competition where people guess when a tripod atop the frozen Nenana River breaks through the ice each spring, has resulted in a record this year of the earliest river ice breakup. It broke the previous record by nearly one full week.
Meanwhile, the pace of warming and the ensuing change across the Bering Sea is startling scientists there. Phenomena like floods during the winter and record low sea ice are generating great concern among scientists as well as Indigenous populations living there. “The projections were saying we would’ve hit situations similar to what we saw last year, but not for another 40 or 50 years,” Seth Danielson, a physical oceanographer at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, told The Associated Press of the diminishing sea ice.
In fact, people in the northernmost community of the Canadian Yukon, the village of Old Crow, are declaring a climate disruption State of Emergency. The chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in the Yukon, Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm, has stated that his community’s traditional way of life is at stake, including thawing permafrost and rivers and lakes that no longer freeze deeply enough to walk across in the winter, making hunting and fishing difficult and dangerous. He said that declaring the climate emergency is his community’s responsibility to the rest of the planet.
Other signs of the dramatic warming across the Arctic abound. On Denali, North America’s highest mountain (20,310 feet), more than 66 tons of frozen feces left by climbers on the mountain are expected to begin thawing out of the glaciers there as early as this coming summer.
Another study found that tall ice cliffs around Greenland and the Antarctic are beginning to “slump,” behaving like soil and rock in sediment do before they break apart from the land and slide down a slope. Scientists believe the slumping ice cliffs may well be an ominous sign that could lead to more acceleration in global sea level rise, as far more ice is now poised to melt into the seas than previously believed.
In New Zealand, following the third hottest summer on record there, glaciers have been described by scientists as “sad and dirty,” with many of them having disappeared forever. Snow on a glacier protects the ice underneath it from melting, so this is another way scientists measure how rapidly a glacier can melt — if the snow is gone and the blue ice underneath it is directly exposed to the sun, it’s highly prone to melting. “Last year, the vast majority of glaciers had snowlines that were off the top of the mountain, and this year, we had some where we could see snowlines on, but they were very high,” NIWA Environmental Science Institute climate scientist Drew Lorrey told the New Zealand Herald. “On the first day of our survey, we observed 28 of them, and only about six of them had what I would call a snowline.”
Lastly in this section, another study warned that if emissions continue to increase at their current rate, ice will have all but vanished from European Alpine valleys by 2100. The study showed that half of the ice in the Alps’ 4,000 glaciers will be gone by 2050 with only the warming that is already baked into the system from past emissions. The study warned that even if we ceased all emissions at this moment, two-thirds of the ice will still have melted by 2100……… https://truthout.org/articles/the-last-time-there-was-this-much-co2-trees-grew-at-the-south-pole/
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Remarks by President Obama and President Uribe of Colombia in Joint Press Availability
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT OBAMA
AND PRESIDENT URIBE OF COLOMBIA
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I am very pleased to have President Uribe here today with his delegation from Colombia. The relationship between the United States and Colombia has been extremely strong. We've had great cooperation on a whole range of issues, and President Uribe's administration I think has, under very difficult circumstances, performed admirably on a whole range of fronts -- on security, on reducing the influence of the drug cartels, in improving the economic situation for his people, and stabilizing the country. He has performed with diligence and courage. And so we are grateful for his friendship and I'm glad that he was able to come and visit us here today.
In our discussions, we talked about a range of issues. We discussed, most prominently, the interests of both countries in moving forward on a free trade agreement. This is something that has been discussed for quite some time. I have instructed Ambassador Kirk, our United States Trade Representative, to begin working closely with President Uribe's team on how we can proceed on a free trade agreement. There are obvious difficulties involved in the process and there remains work to do, but I'm confident that ultimately we can strike a deal that is good for the people of Colombia and good for the people of the United States.
I commended President Uribe on the progress that has been made in human rights in Colombia and dealing with the killings of labor leaders there, and obviously we've seen a downward trajectory in the deaths of labor unions and we've seen improvements when it comes to prosecution of those who are carrying out these blatant human rights offenses. President Uribe acknowledges that there remains more work to be done, and we look forward to cooperating with him to continue to improve both the rights of organized labor in Colombia and to protect both labor and civil rights leaders there.
Along those same lines, we obviously think that the steps that have already been made on issues like extrajudicial killings and illegal surveillance, that it is important that Colombia pursue a path of rule of law and transparency, and I know that that is something that President Uribe is committed to doing.
We spoke about the regional challenges. The drug trafficking that has been such a cancer in the life of Colombia affects the region as a whole. When I last met with President Calderón of Mexico, he indicated the extraordinary challenges that that country is facing. Mexico and Colombia are not alone in this. Throughout the region in Central and South America, we are seeing this problem. It's important that the United States steps up and cooperates effectively in battling the adverse effects of drug trafficking.
And that includes, by the way, the United States reducing demand for drugs. We have responsibilities. We have responsibilities to reduce the trafficking of guns into the south that help strengthen these cartels and the flows of money and money laundering that at times involves not just the south -- Southern Hemisphere but also the Northern Hemisphere. And so looking for additional ways that we can cooperate on those issues is very important.
Finally, we spoke about the fact that our relationship is much broader than simply our common enemy in the drug traffickers. We want a proactive, positive agenda for human development throughout the region and inside Colombia. And so exploring ways that we can advance clean energy cooperation, how we can advance efforts to improve child nutrition, reduce infant mortality, expand health care to ordinary people -- that is part of what I think President Uribe's comprehensive vision is: that you don't just use military tools to defeat the enemies of progress, but you use a comprehensive approach that includes improvements in rule of law and improvements in people's day-to-day well-being and their opportunities for economic advancement as very powerful weapons to restore order and to ensure that people feel confident in the future.
And so we want to be a partner with Colombia on these issues. I'm grateful, again, for President Uribe's friendship, and I'm confident that we are going to be working diligently in the future to advance the interests of both countries. So, thank you very much.
PRESIDENT URIBE: Thank you.
Q President Obama, can we take a picture with you?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hold on one second. You know, I just realized there may be Spanish press here and that was a long statement, but if you don't mind I'm going to go ahead and have that translated just so your people can get it. I'm sorry, I should have slowed down; I forgot.
Q President Obama, did you talk something about reelection?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hold on one second.
(Spanish translation.)
PRESIDENT URIBE: President Obama, I want to express our gratitude again to you, to your Cabinet, and to the United States. Colombia in this alliance with the United States has received a great help for us to confront the challenges our people have suffered for long, long time.
I have said to President Obama that Colombia, since the middle of the '40s, in the last century, has not lived one single day in complete peace. The help of your government is very important for the hope of the new generations of Colombians. Thank you, President Obama.
We have had opportunity to speak about many problems, as President Obama has said. I said to President Obama, I made to him some comments about confidence in Colombia; about security, the advances, the problems we still face; about investment, its relationship with the free trade agreement as a signal to give confidence in Colombia; and about social cohesion, the advances in education, in micro-lending, in health -- the problems we still face, problems in poverty, in income distribution.
And in the case of human rights, Colombia is rule of law in the utmost expression of public opinion participation. We -- I am the first with a duty to support of our armed forces, but for that reason of their honor, every soldier, every policeman in Colombia understands that we need credibility for this policing of democratic security, and credibility depends on effectiveness and on transparency. And transparency is a question of human rights.
Therefore, we are open, we are very receptive, to receive any advice, any suggestion on how we are going to fulfill our goal of ceasing civil violations of human rights in Colombia.
About surveillance, I have said to President Obama that during our administration we have restructured 427 state agencies and we are in the process to restructure the state agency for surveillance. We hope to issues these decrees in the coming three weeks, and we hope that we can solve the endemic problems of these institutions, of this institution for good.
I have said to President Obama about the importance of the help of the United States for us and the region as a whole to advance social cohesion; help directly from the United States or through the multilateral banks. For instance, in education and in child nutrition, we have advanced a lot, but we lack infrastructure; coverage has surpassed infrastructure. In child nutrition, we have advanced a lot, but we lack coverage in education for those under six, not to mention other of our problems. But we have a recognition to advance in security, human rights, state restructure, to advance in economics, to advance in social cohesion, and for all these things it is very important to have the permanent support of President Obama, of the government of the United States, of the Congress of the United States.
My gratitude again, President Obama. And we are waiting for you in Colombia.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you.
Q President Obama, did you talk about the reelection?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hold on, hold on. We're going to do -- we only have time for two questions. I'm going to call on a U.S. reporter, and then President Uribe, you can make a decision on which one of the Colombian reporters you want to call on.
So, Doug Palmer of Reuters.
Q Right here. Thank you very much. You talked about the FTA, and you also talked about some of the obstacles to getting the FTA through Congress. I wonder, do you have a sense of how close Colombia is to where it needs to be in order for you to send the agreement to Congress? Is that something that can be accomplished this year?
And then I also wondered if you would comment on the coup in Honduras and what additional steps the U.S. might be considering there.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, let me first of all speak about the coup in Honduras, because this was a topic of conversation between myself and President Uribe.
All of us have great concerns about what's taken place there. President Zelaya was democratically elected. He had not yet completed his term. We believe that the coup was not legal and that President Zelaya remains the President of Honduras, the democratically elected President there. In that we have joined all the countries in the region, including Colombia and the Organization of American States.
I think it's -- it would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition rather than democratic elections. The region has made enormous progress over the last 20 years in establishing democratic traditions in Central America and Latin America. We don't want to go back to a dark past. The United States has not always stood as it should with some of these fledgling democracies, but over the last several years, I think both Republicans and Democrats in the United States have recognized that we always want to stand with democracy, even if the results don't always mean that the leaders of those countries are favorable towards the United States. And that is a tradition that we want to continue.
So we are very clear about the fact that President Zelaya is the democratically elected President, and we will work with the regional organizations like OAS and with other international institutions to see if we can resolve this in a peaceful way.
With respect to the free trade agreement, obviously a lot of work has already been done on the free trade agreement, and we are hopeful that we can -- we can move forward to completion. I don't have a strict timetable, because I'm going to have to consult with Congress obviously on this issue. We've got a lot on our plates, if you haven't noticed. And I think that the burden is not simply on Colombia; I think Colombia has done a lot of excellent work. It is a matter of getting both countries to a place where their legislatures feel confident that it will be ultimately to the economic benefit of these countries.
I have noted a special concern that is bipartisan and shared both by this administration and Congress, that the human rights issues in Colombia get resolved. President Uribe has assured me that he is interested in resolving those issues. And, as I said, great progress has been made. I trust that we can make more progress. And I think that will help shape the overall environment in which this issue is being debated in Congress.
Okay? You want to call on --
PRESIDENT URIBE: Entonces, Natalia Orozco.
Q President Obama, President Chavez, it's not a secret, wanted to be reelected; President Zelada [sic] wanted to be reelected; and President Uribe hasn't decided yet. Are you worried about what relation of those leader, and can have effects in the Western Hemisphere? Do you have a message for them?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, first of all, I think it's very important that, in all these countries, it's not for the United States to make these decisions. It's for the people of these countries to make these decisions. And one of the clear policies that we want to put forward is that we stand on the side of democracy, sovereignty, and self-determination.
We know that our experience in the United States is that two terms works for us and that after eight years, usually the American people want a change. I related to President Uribe the fact that our most revered President, or at least one of our two most revered Presidents, George Washington, part of what made him so great was not just being a founder of our country, but also the fact that at a time when he could have stayed President for life, he made a decision that after service, he was able to step aside and return to civilian life. And that set a precedent then for the future.
But as I said, each country, I think, has to make these decisions on their own, and I think what's ultimately most important is that the people feel a sense of legitimacy and ownership, and that this is not something imposed on them from the top, that it's not -- does not involve manipulations of the electorate or rigging of the electoral process or repression of opposition voices, but that whatever is determined is done in an open, transparent way so that people feel confident that whoever is in power represents their voices and their interests.
PRESIDENT URIBE: Let me make some comments about this question. I brought to the table some topics that I call topics of internal debate in Colombia at this moment. And one of the topics I brought to talk about it with President Obama is this topic. And I want to summarize.
I said to President Obama, first, I am concerned, because I am a member of one generation of the four or five generations that have not lived one single day in peace in Colombia or prosperity. Therefore, I consider that Colombia needs to extend in that time security, democratic values, investment in social responsibility and social cohesion -- with adjustments.
I don't believe in stagnation, and I don't believe in gross changes. I believe in one goal, in one mission, with dynamism, with daily adjustments. And I have said in the second point of this comment that I consider that this is happening, it is necessary to extend these policies. It is not convenient to perpetuate the precedent.
And I have said to President Obama what I want to say to you. Colombia is a country of solid democratic institutions. When we speak about institutions, we cannot speak in abstract about institutions. We have to speak about institutions in concrete terms. We have 1,102 mayors directly elected by the people; 32 governors. The regions in Colombia invest 51 percent of the public expenses. My government has built governments with all the regional governors and mayors regardless their political regions, and they have many, many political regions.
The justice, administration is independent in Colombia. Colombia has solid free press. Colombia has bodies, independent bodies, for control. Colombia is a country with very solid institutions.
I beg you, journalists, to separate the convenience or inconvenience of perpetuating the precedent with the qualification of our institutions. Anyway, our democratic institutions are totally solid.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Right, and the other thing I should say is that if I were to serve two terms, I'm fairly confident that I would not have the 70 percent approval rating that President Uribe has. (Laughter.)
All right, thank you very much, everybody.
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By Anna Dickie | Auckland, 22 May 2018
Auckland Art Fair, The Cloud, Queens Wharf. Photo: Jessica Chloe Gernat.
The time is ripe to galvanise New Zealand's public to more fully support its visual arts. With New Zealand-born artists like Simon Denny, Michael Stevenson and Francis Upritchard continuing to gain international acclaim, and a Turner Prize nominee in Luke Willis Thompson, the international art world is beginning to take notice of this small nation's creative clout, but in terms of domestic support, more needs to be done. Art fairs can instigate increased interest in the arts generally, and hopes are running high that Auckland Art Fair (24–27 May 2018), presented in The Cloud on Queens Wharf, will do just that.
This Ocula Lowdown offers a selection of the best contemporary art exhibitions to see in Auckland over the period of the Auckland Art Fair (24-27 May 2018), and beyond.
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, cnr. Kitchener and Wellesley Street, Central Auckland
In the wake of funding troubles for the city's major art institution (its budget has been cut progressively from NZD 12 million in 2012 to its present NZD 6.9 million), Auckland Art Gallery and its supporters are currently holding their breath to see if the museum will receive the additional NZD 2 million in funding per year that the city's mayor has proposed for the next decade. Certainly, the current exhibitions at the gallery present strong arguments for this increased financial support.
Julian Rosefeldt: Manifesto
24 February–15 July 2018
Julian Rosefeldt, Manifesto (2015). © Julian Rosefeldt and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017.
German-born artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt has described his filmic art installation Manifesto as ultimately aiming to question the role of the artist in society. Starring Cate Blanchett, this stunning immersive 13-screen film installation pays homage to the tradition of artist manifestos. Each screen, playing simultaneously features a film segment of no more than eleven minutes in which Blanchett performs as a different contemporary character while reciting excerpts of manifestos from various political and artistic movements. In one segment, Blanchett portrays a funeral speaker reciting the Dada manifesto; in another, she plays a mother who recites Claes Oldenburg's I Am For An Art (1961) at the family table.
The film's darkened exhibition space is jarring and dislocating upon arrival, which serves to heighten the cinematic drama that Rosefeldt maximises in this monumental work. Seven screens are placed against and around the walls, and the remaining six films are shown on double-sided screens that splice the space. It is impossible to initially focus on one film or view the work in its entirety, and there is a sense of fragmented chaos as sounds bleed between films. While Blanchett's characters and their monologues seem to compete for attention at first, as the senses settle down it does become possible to focus on each film, and from the installation's layering of voices and opinions arises a sense of collaboration across time; with each manifesto challenging accepted notions and allowing new possibilities to take shape.
Other People Think: Auckland's Contemporary International Collection
10 March–10 June 2018
Exhibition view: Other People Think: Auckland's Contemporary International Collection (10 March–10 June 2018). Courtesy Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Spread out over three rooms, the gallery's current exhibition features work from its permanent collection and prompts visitors to 'consider alternative perspectives and the potential of contemporary art to foster understanding and empathy in a complex and shifting world.' It takes its title from a light work by Chilean-born artist, architect and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar, who delivered the keynote lecture on the occasion of the gallery's major group exhibition last year, Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America (7 May–18 September 2016). In his lecture, Jaar spoke about the power of the image to change minds and ideas, and his work in the current exhibition—a light-box he completed in 2012, which simply comprises the words 'OTHER PEOPLE THINK' in white neon against black—resides appropriately at the entrance to the exhibition.
By using the title Other People Think, both the gallery and Jarr are also referring to a 1927 essay of the same name by American composer and theorist John Cage. The essay was a striking critique of the United States' relations with Latin America, in which a 15-year-old Cage wrote: 'it is our task to consider Latin American thought and respect it'. Presented in a city with a rapidly changing demographic, the exhibition is intended to reflect on New Zealand's relationship with the Asia Pacific region and South America, and features work by a broad range of international artists, including Japanese-born photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, Thailand-born Mit Jai Inn, Brazilian-born María Nepomuceno, indigenous Australian artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye, and many more.
Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan: From Pillars to Posts: Project Another Country
30 April–16 September 2018
Exhibition view: Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, From Pillars to Posts: Project Another Country, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland (30 April–16 September 2018). Courtesy Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Continuing the argument that art matters is From Pillars to Posts: Project Another Country, the most recent interactive artwork by husband-and-wife artistic duo Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, commissioned for the gallery's Todd Foundation Creative Learning Centre. The space was previously occupied by Yayoi Kusama's The obliteration room (2002–present), and her proliferating dots have been replaced by a growing collection of small fragile-looking houses created from recycled cardboard boxes. The Aquilizans have invited the Auckland community to collaborate in their project by providing materials for gallery visitors to produce these small cardboard houses, which will be amassed around pillars over the course of the project. The installation is part of the artists' ongoing series of site specific projects that explore ideas surrounding community, family, migration, and most poignantly the question of what defines a home. While the work is related to the artists' own experience of migrating from Manila to Brisbane in 2006, it was initially inspired by the itinerant existence of the marginalised Badjao people, who traditionally occupied the waters and shores of the Sulu Archipelago in southwestern Philippines and the northern shores of Borneo, but who have become increasingly displaced by conflict.
Wi Taepa: Retrospective
28 April–2 September 2018
Wi Taepa, Waka (2004). From Raranga Cross Hatching. Red raku clay. 31 x 53 cm. Courtesy Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Collection Sir Roderick and Gillian, Lady Deane.
A city's public art institutions are also crucial for drawing attention to, celebrating and supporting creative home-grown excellence. The gallery's Wi Taepa: Retrospective is dedicated to celebrating the life and work of Māori clay artist Wi Taepa by looking back at over 30 years of his practice. After his military career, which included two years serving in the Vietnam War, Taepa worked initially as a prison officer and then a social worker, teaching wood and bone carving and leather and copper work, using art to facilitate connections and aide rehabilitation. In 1985 he began working with clay, incorporating traditional Māori motifs into his practice, rejecting the wheel and building works by hand, firing them in sawdust. The works are organic; their flaws are a reminder of the hand that creates them.
Taepa references his interest in clay back to the 1960s, when he saw an exhibition of ceramics by the English artist Jo Munro at the Willeston Gallery in Wellington. In 1987, Taepa, alongside four other artists—Baye Riddell, Paerau Corneal, Colleen Waata Urlich and Manos Nathan—formed Ngā Kaihanga Uku, a collective of Māori clay-workers. The group, which came to be known as 'The Tight Five' or 'Ngā Tokorima' adopted three shared principles: first, they would approach working with clay from a Māori perspective; second, they would share their collective knowledge and resources; and third they would engage with indigenous cultures with ceramic traditions. In 2013, an exhibition of works by these five founding members, Uku Rere, was held at Pātaka Art + Museum in Wellington, where the first iteration of the artist's major survey presented at Auckland Art Gallery was shown in 2016.
Kitchener Street, Central Auckland
Gow Langsford Gallery
16 May–9 June 2018
Colin McCahon, Painting (1956). Mixed media on board. 76 x 55 cm. Courtesy Gow Langsford. Photo: Tobias Kraus.
Across the road from Auckland Art Gallery is one of New Zealand's most influential dealer galleries, Gow Langsford Gallery, which has staged some 500 exhibitions since it was founded in 1987. The gallery's founders, John Gow and Gary Langsford, were recently named members of the New Zealand Order of Merit for their significant contributions to the growth of contemporary art.
Following up its exceptional solo presentation at Art Basel in Hong Kong of influential New Zealand artist Colin McCahon (1919–1987), the gallery is exhibiting seven of his paintings at its Kitchener Street gallery space. Spanning two decades of the artist's life, the show intends to 'document the scope of the artist's evolving concerns', which the gallery's press release expresses as 'the relationship between Māori and the New Zealand landscape, as well as the influence of early settlers and their beliefs on this revered land.'
One work, Painting (1956) belongs to a small group of compositions that reflect McCahon's exploration of the formal concerns of abstraction, as well as a desire to capture the essence of his surrounding landscape. Rendered in a palette of mostly greys, blacks and off-white, with a hint of blue and section of red, it is one of the earlier works presented in the show, and aside from the artist's recognisable signature in the top right corner, it may surprise those unfamiliar with the full evolution of McCahon's work. While clearly abstract, its composition of shapes that float within clearly delineated spaces emanating from the painting's centre triggers associations with the kauri trees that surrounded the artist's home in Titirangi.
Exhibition view: Tony Cragg, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland (7 May–7 July 2018). Courtesy Gow Langsford Gallery.
On view at the gallery's other space on Lorne Street is an exhibition dedicated to leading British sculptor Tony Cragg, providing a wonderful opportunity to see the British artist's characteristic organic sculptural forms in a range of materials: from the corten steel Elliptical Column (2016) and the bronze Listeners (2015), to Tempest (2017), which is rendered in stone. Cragg, who is currently a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, represented Britain at the 43rd Venice Biennale in 1988 and in the same year was awarded the Turner Prize by Tate Britain.
Karangahape Road, Central Auckland
Starkwhite
29 May–16 June 2018
Gordon Walters, Construction with Pale Blue (1989). Acrylic on canvas. 60.5 x 40.5 cm. Courtesy the Walters Estate.
Not yet on view, but worth noting in anticipation of its opening, Starkwhite will present an exhibition focused on New Zealand-born modernist legend Gordon Walters. The show is a follow-up to the gallery's presentation of the artist's work at Auckland Art Fair, and a prelude to the major retrospective dedicated to Walter's which opens at Auckland Art Gallery in early July. Organised in partnership with the late artist's estate, the show will focus on Walter's later works, which explore new shapes made by repeated and layered blocks of colour.
Known for his minimal and abstract paintings that incorporate indigenous motifs, two distinctive experiences shaped this Wellington-born painter's output: in 1946, the artist visited painter and photographer Theo Schoon who was then photographing Māori rock art; and in 1950, he moved to Europe where he was inspired by avant-garde painters on the continent such as Piet Mondrian, Auguste Herbin and Victor Vasarely. On his return to New Zealand, Walters subsequently fused these two influences, bringing Māori traditional culture and notions of European abstraction together in hard-edged geometrical works. Using simplified forms, over his five-decade career, Walters gradually evolved his use of the koru—the spiral curving symbol that resembles the curving bulb form of a new fern frond and often appears in traditional Māori carving and tattooing—into the forms that ultimately have come to characterise his signature work. The spiral form began appearing consistently in Walter's work from the late 1950s, and in later works such as the acrylic painting Untitled (1969–1973), which will be showing in Starkwhite's booth at Auckland Art Fair, his organic curves morphed into pure straight lines.
Preceding the exhibition of Walter's works and closing on 26 May, Starkwhite is showing a group exhibition dedicated to many of the stalwarts of its gallery programme, including Martin Basher, Gavin Hipkins, Seung Yul Oh, Fiona Pardington, John Reynolds and others.
Diena Georgetti & Imogen Taylor: Stolen Leopard
Michael Lett
27 April–26 May 2018
Exhibition view: Diena Georgetti, Imogen Taylor, Stolen Leopard, Michael Lett, Auckland (27 April–26 May 2018). Courtesy Michael Lett. Photo: Alex North.
Perhaps as an antidote to the masculine modernist aspirations of McCahon and Walters, Michael Lett's current exhibition, Stolen Leopard, brings together the works of two female artists: Diena Georgetti and Imogen Taylor. Georgetti has been exhibiting since the late 1980s, and Imogen Taylor, her younger contemporary, is a 2010 graduate of Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. Both artists present a new body of paintings in this show, demonstrating a shared reverence, but equally a subtle subversion of the medium and its history.
Georgetti is an Australian-born artist whose career emerged within the context of the artists and curators involved with the influential Melbourne artist-run initiative Store 5, which was established in 1989 by artists Gary Wilson and Kerrie Poliness and operated until 1993. While her acrylic paintings appear to offer up another rendition of abstraction, they in fact hover in the space between abstraction and representation. The artist is unfettered by style, movement or discipline in what she paints. She is a hoarder of sorts, collecting and categorising an archive of imagery gleaned from the web, books and magazines on architecture, art, fashion and design. Her paintings reflect a careful collaging, juxtaposition and layering of this image repository. A work might include references to abstract masters, to a fashion label's motif, or to Japanese prints. Recalling a visit to the artist's studio, City Gallery Wellington curator Robert Leonard noted Georgetti's desire that no reference should ever be too recognisable. She is not paying homage, nor intending her work to represent a form of appropriation; her sources float just off the tip of the tongue.
Like Georgetti, Imogen Taylor dabbles in broad sampling and remixing. In an article for cultural website Noted, Taylor described her paintings as a '"pretty/ugly" mix of Cubism and Regionalism that somehow blends geometric forms with bodily functions'. Taylor appears to be referring to a New Zealand style of regionalism that is characterised by a preoccupation with place and local identity—something she might have reflected on when she lived in the house adjacent to Colin McCahon's home in Titirangi, as part of the prestigious McCahon House Artists' Residency in 2017. The stack of green organic forms and interconnected geometrical shapes infiltrated by a slopping curve in Satan Creeps (2018), appear to be a nod to McCahon and the New Zealand landscape while the painting's title offers a suggestive sneer.
Putiki Street, Grey Lynn
Simon Morris: I watch the falling light
Exhibition view: Simon Morris, I watch the falling light, Two Rooms, Auckland (27 April–26 May 2018). Courtesy Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett.
In addition to showing Jan van der Ploeg's vibrant biomorphic abstractions in its upstairs space, Two Rooms is exhibiting, until 26 May, I watch the falling light, a solo exhibition of Simon Morris' latest 'single action paintings'.
In 2016, Simon Morris was elected the eighth recipient of the prestigious annual Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Award, which is awarded annually to an outstanding mid-career or senior New Zealand visual artist. As recipient of the Award, Morris was granted a residency at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, and his latest body of work follows on from the time he spent there.
With a palette of burnt oranges, cool yellows and dusty ochres, the exhibition showcases four monochromatic rectangular acrylic paintings on plywood, which are hung vertically on each wall of the gallery space. It also includes four horizontal grid patterns each painted in acrylic wash directly on one of the walls of the gallery.
Often using self-imposed restraints, Morris' practice references conceptual abstraction. The vertical pieces were created by Morris pouring a volume of acrylic paint directly over a flat plywood panel, which he then swung upright in a single motion to drip dry vertically. A close inspection of Falling Light (pale naples) (2018) shows how the transparent and glossy acrylic glazes of yellows he has applied have settled into woodgrains.
Phillip Lai, Peter Robinson: Spinning
Hopkinson Mossman
19 May–23 Jun 2018
Exhibition view: Phillip Lai, Peter Robinson, Spinning, Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland (19 May–23 June 2018). Courtesy Hopkinson Mossman.
Having just closed an exceptional show by the young artist Oscar Enberg and still reeling from the Turner Prize nomination of gallery artist Luke Willis Thompson, Hopkinson Mossman is now showing Spinning, a two-person exhibition of work by Malaysian-born Phillip Lai and New Zealand-born Peter Robinson, both no strangers to art world accolades. Not yet installed at the time of writing this report, the show promises to be an interesting presentation of two well respected artists sharing some of the same artistic concerns.
Phillip Lai recently received a prestigious nomination; he along with Michael Dean, Mona Hatoum, Magali Reus and Cerith Wyn Evans have just been short listed for the Hepworth Sculpture Award, the winner of which will be announced in November 2018. A lecturer at Goldsmiths University of London since 2006, Lai's diverse practice is mostly characterised by his appropriation of readymade everyday objects into spatial assemblages. His exhibitions in the past have explored ideas surrounding the value of objects, the experience of communities and the medium of space. An exhibition at Edouard Malingue Gallery in Hong Kong, In the Half Life (26 March–12 May 2018), included sculptures featuring buckets stacked and placed upon, and in some instances within, custom-made shelves. Lai appears to demand a re-thinking of the ordinariness of the object, querying its making, and prompting a consideration of how and why we perceive the object as we do.
Peter Robinson, who in 2016 was recognised with a Laureate award by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, started his career as a painter, but now, like Lai, increasingly works with both found and made objects to create sculpture. His early career saw him play a large part in bi-cultural debate, exploring issues around race and identity with works such as Painting (1993), part of the Auckland Art Gallery's collection. The work presents in tar, wax, earth and oil numerous simplified renditions of waka (canoe), each accompanied by numerals that relate to the percentage by which Robinson's genealogy is considered Māori.
Continually evolving in his practice, Robinson's current body of work, most recently on show at Centre of Contemporary Art in Christchurch (CoCA), recalls associations with both post minimalism and also Arte Povera. Entitled Fieldwork, the exhibition at CoCA, which runs until 29 May 2018, includes delicate arrangements of pins, staples, nails, magnets and welding rods—objects commonly found in the artist's studio. A call to action in the institution's press release, invites the viewer to 'move mindfully amongst the work, to discover unexpected perspectives and new paths through and around ... the works carefully placed on floor, walls and ceiling'.
Wynyard Quarter, Downtown Auckland
Acts of Passage
Te Tuhi, Silo 6
18 May–27 May 2018
Antonio Paucar, Suspendido en un Queñua (2014). Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm.
Contemporary art space Te Tuhi's offsite performance exhibition, Acts of Passage, at Silo Park explores manifestations of performance art from Africa, Aotearoa, Brazil, the Pacific, and Peru, offering what the organisers describe as 'a particularly southern cartography through the practices of artists Albert Ashton, FAFSWAG, Ayrson Heráclito, Kitso Lynn Lelliott, Antonio Paucar, and Rosanna Raymond. The exhibition combines immersive video installations—including Ayrson Heráclito's two-channel video O Sacudimento da Casa de Torre and O Sacudimento da Maison des Esclaves em Gorée (2015), which seeks to decolonise two monuments linked to the Atlantic slave trade using gestures from the Afro-Brazilian exorcism ritual of shaking—with a live performance schedule.
Opened with Albert Ashton performing Te Hikoi, a spiritual walk through the Silos in the Wynyard Quarter to cleanse the site and acknowledge ancestors, the performances in the exhibition explore the theme of ritual as an act of intimate catharsis in a variety of ways. Antonio Paucar's Memories from inside takes ritual practices from the Andes as a point of departure from which to create a situation where sense and poetics are heightened in an experience that commences once the audience has been blindfolded. Subordinate Tissue, a new performance presented by the Auckland-based FAFSWAG, which draws on the collective's celebration of queer Pacific Islander culture by dismantling the hierarchies imposed by the classifications of 'feminine' and 'masculine'. Meanwhile, founder of the SaVAge K'lub and member of the arts collective Pacific Sisters, Rosanna Raymond is staging Ia TuKu around her installation in the exhibition, Fa'amu'umu'umamatane aka Tropic Thunder. Both refer to the United States military presence in the Pacific, with the installation including specially customised military jackets for what the artist has described as 'Ae Kai acti.VA.tion'. Of Samoan descent, the artist focuses on shedding colonial adornments in order 'to reclaim', to borrow the artist's statement, 'her own mana and sovereignty'. —[O]
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Anti-masker “Karens” hurl abuse at IKEA staff members
Two women have berated and hurled abuse at staff in a Sydney Ikea store following the NSW government’s decision to enforce wearing masks while in public spaces.
One anti-masker captured a part of the encounter on camera, with both women telling staff to “shut up” when being asked to wear face masks while shopping.
Both women adamantly refused to don masks and quickly the video clip was posted to Reddit by user@7thwardcharizard1 on Tuesday.
The footage is captioned, “And it begins … the idiots are out in full force! I don’t know why I thought we in Sydney were better than this”.
The two anti-masker women both insist on camera that they are exempt from wearing face masks while speaking to two staff members.
One woman tells the workers: “Shut. Up. It’s the fourth time today”.
The second woman says, “Yes it is … you know people have medical conditions, they have trauma, rape, abuse.
“They have a multitude of reasons as to why they are exempt. It is part of the law. It is unnecessary, it is unnecessary to act this way.”
The female Ikea worker turns her back to the women and her male colleague steps forward to say: “you don’t need to film her”.
However, the anti-masker objects, saying: "I’m allowed to film her. It’s my right to film her.
yes it begins.. the idiots are out in full force ! I don’t know why I thought we in Sydney were better then this. from r/sydney
“You need to understand. In your website … your website says we are exempt.”
The other woman chimes in as well, saying “If I’m not wearing a mask, there is a reason. The website says …”
The male worker then interrupts to say: “That’s fine” not long before the woman snaps, “Shush, don’t cut me off.
“The website says if you cannot wear a mask, you don’t have to.
“‘Clearly I’m not wearing it for a reason.”
The other woman also chimed in to say, “Clearly you need to be informed of your own website. So you need to stop telling people to wear masks if they choose not.
“End of. Shush.”
The male staff member interjects to say: “It’s just what we’ve been told.”
One of the women accused the workers of “harassment,” and urged them to “back off”.
The video has attracted more than 300 comments on Reddit.
“I think if someone had a legitimate exemption and quietly told the manager there would be no issue,” one person wrote.
“These entitled f***ers were looking for a fight.”
“The people working at the shops are just doing their jobs and following the new rules. These ladies are just acting entitled,” one person wrote.
“I feel so bad for the workers that have to deal with this s**t now,” another added.
“Putting others at risk and rattling on about abuse victims whilst they verbally abuse innocent people just doing their job. Disgusting,” another went on to write.
Masks are mandated indoors across Great Sydney, Wollongong, the Central Coast and the Blue Mountains in shops, businesses and on buses, trains, and in taxis and ride share vehicles.
Non-mask wearers risk on-the-spot $200 fines, however only police have the ability to issue them.
Children under 12 and people with certain medical conditions are exempt.
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Fenton, Kevin Andrew
(1966– ), physician, epidemiologist, and public health official in the United States and the United Kingdom,
David Alan Rego
https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.73923
was born in Glasgow, Scotland, at St. Mary’s Hospital for Women, the same institution where his Jamaican-born mother was pursuing studies as a nurse-midwife. Upon completion of her studies in 1967, Carmen Fenton returned to Jamaica with her young son Kevin, reuniting with her husband, Sydney, a high school chemistry teacher and later principal at Kingston’s Excelsior High School. Kevin’s siblings are Peter, a physician; Kim, a mathematics lecturer; and Keisha, a business-woman.
Kevin Fenton attended high school at Wolmer’s Boys School in Kingston, Jamaica. After graduating from Wolmer’s, he enrolled at the University of the West Indies (UWI) as a computer science major, only to transfer to the Faculty of Medicine in 1985. He was elected class president in 1985 and 1986, and in 1987 he was elected vice president of the UWI Medical Student’s Association. Following graduation with honors from medical school in 1990 ...
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Home Stroke International Study Suggests Combination Therapy May Prevent Stroke
International Study Suggests Combination Therapy May Prevent Stroke
By Maren Nader
NIH-funded trial finds lower rate of secondary stroke but small risk of bleeding
Results from an international clinical trial of more than 4880 participants, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that combining clopidogrel and aspirin following a small stroke or experiencing minor stroke symptoms decreases risk of a new stroke, heart attack or other ischemic event within 90 days. The combination therapy was also associated with an increase in major bleeding, although many of those episodes were non-fatal and did not occur in the brain. The results were presented at the 4th European Stroke Organization Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. The study was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health.
“These findings are likely to have a global effect on clinical practice, as these drugs are easily available in many hospitals and clinics,” said Walter Koroshetz, M.D., director of NINDS. “As the benefit of the combination was concentrated in the first two weeks while risk of bleeding was constant over 90 days, it may be especially valuable in acute management of a minor ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA).”
The Platelet-Oriented Inhibition in New TIA and minor ischemic stroke (POINT) clinical trial follows an earlier study, which showed benefits of this drug combination in a Chinese population. POINT was conducted to see whether the benefits could be expanded to a more diverse group of patients.
The study, led by S. Claiborne Johnston, M.D., Ph.D., dean and professor of neurology at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, included patients who had experienced either a minor stroke or a transient ischemic attack (TIA), in which blood supply to a part of the brain is briefly stopped and can be a risk factor for a larger stroke. Study participants were given clopidogrel and aspirin or aspirin alone to see whether the combination therapy could prevent a larger stroke within three months.
Dr. Johnston’s team found that the combination of clopidogrel and aspirin prevented more ischemic events, such as stroke and heart attack, compared to aspirin alone. The results showed that 5 percent of patients in the combination therapy group and 6.5 percent of patients taking only aspirin experienced such an event within 90 days. However, the combination therapy was associated with a greater risk of major bleeding, or hemorrhage, than aspirin alone. In the aspirin-only group, 0.4 percent of patients suffered a major hemorrhage but 0.9 percent of patients taking clopidogrel and aspirin had severe bleeding.
The findings suggest that for 1000 patients, clopidogrel plus aspirin would prevent 15 ischemic attacks but may cause five instances of major hemorrhage. The majority of these hemorrhages occurred outside of the brain and were not fatal.
“We saw a real benefit with the combination therapy, but that treatment does come with a risk,” said Dr. Johnston. “Overall, the risk of severe bleeding was very small, but it was not zero.”
The study was stopped early because the combination therapy was found to be more effective than aspirin alone in preventing severe strokes but also due to the risk of severe hemorrhage.
Clopidogrel and aspirin prevent platelets from sticking together and forming clots in blood vessels, although they work in different ways. Aspirin blocks molecules that activate the clotting process while clopidogrel prevents a specific chemical from attaching to a receptor.
“Each year, strokes cause millions of disabilities around the world and preventing many of those would lead to not only tremendous health savings, but improved quality of life for many individuals and their families,” said Dr. Johnston.
POINT was supported by the NINDS’ Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials (NETT) Network, a system of research institutions dedicated to emergency issues such as stroke.
More research is needed to investigate ways to lower the risk of bleeding and examine the impact of treatment timing on outcomes. In addition, future studies may help identify similar drugs that are associated with fewer adverse events.
This work was supported by the NINDS (NS062835, NS056975, NS059041).
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Johnston SC et al. Clopidogrel and aspirin in acute ischemic stroke and high-risk TIAs. New England Journal of Medicine. May 16, 2018.
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New Dark Matter Experiments Prepare To Hunt The Unknown
by MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
This month, three new experiments take significant steps in the hunt for dark matter, the elusive substance that appears to make up more than a quarter of the universe, but interacts very rarely with the matter that makes up our world. The experiments — the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment, the LZ Dark Matter Experiment, and the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search at the underground science laboratory known as SNOLAB — learned in July that each would receive much-needed funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Each of these “second-generation” experiments will be at least 10 times as sensitive as today’s dark-matter detectors, increasing the likelihood that they will see the small, rare interactions between dark matter and the regular matter we all interact with every day.
Three astrophysicists — Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano of the MIT Kavli Institute and the MIT Department of Physics; Harry Nelson of the University of California at Santa Barbara; and Gray Rybka of the University of Washington — recently discussed preparations for the newly funded dark-matter experiments, and the likelihood that one of them will strike gold. As the experimental plans start to coalesce and detector equipment starts to arrive for ADMX Gen2, LZ, and SuperCDMS SNOLAB, the scientists presented their views on whether these projects will at long last discover dark matter. The interview, conducted by the Kavli Foundation, can be found on the Kavli website.
In support of the recent funding opportunities, Figueroa-Feliciano, Nelson, and Rybka will also answer questions about the next generation of dark matter experiments in a live Google Hangout on Nov. 20 from 12:00-12:30 p.m. Members of the public may submit questions ahead of and during the webcast by emailing info@kavlifoundation.org or by using the hashtag #KavliLive on Twitter or Google Plus.
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‘Kingdom of the Blind’ by Louise Penny is a Careful Balance Between Mystery and Canadian Small-Town Winter Charm
December 27, 2018 / Pamela Kramer
Jump right in to “Kingdom of the Blind” by Louise Penny even though it’s the eleventh in this series about Armand Gamache, a detective in Québec who has risen through the ranks although is he currently suspended. In this story, he is appointed as a liquidator, or executor, of the will of a woman he does not know. In fact, the two others appointed as liquidators, one of whom he does know, also do not know the deceased who chose them.
The will is extremely strange. A woman who worked as a cleaning lady states that she is leaving five million dollars to each of her three children and specifically directs them to sell the buildings in Vienna and Switzerland. Shortly after Gamache, Myrna, who owns the bookstore in Three Pines where Gamache lives, and a young man named Benedict, meet the notary at an old abandoned farmhouse to learn the terms of the will, one of the deceased’s sons, Anthony, is found dead.
There is mystery about the will and why this woman, who insisted on being known as the Baroness, left a will that seemed crazy. But there are many more mysteries in this carefully crafted, cunningly gripping story.
Although in some ways a new reader will feel like an intruder who doesn’t know what happened before the events in this story, Penny gives enough information so that it all still makes sense. The reader becomes connected to the characters and the plot and wants to find out how it all ends.
Gamache had led an investigation, and in the course of that investigation allowed drugs to be brought into Québec, most of which he was able to recover. However, there is still one huge shipment that is not accounted for, and Gamache will be responsible, at least in his own mind, for the deaths that occur once that terribly powerful drug hits the streets. It’s a lethal drug, and over the course of this story, the reader will accompany Gamache as he visits the underbelly of Québec to talk to drug dealers and prostitutes.
The quest for the retrieval of the drugs, the investigation into the death of Anthony, and the crazy will, which turns out to be not-so-crazy, and the relationships in the small, cozy town of Three Pines all serve to make this a lovely read. Especially during the winter months, the description of Québec will make even the chilliest Chicago (or New York or even Minneapolis) day feel not-so-bad. But the descriptions of the lovely small town outside Québec will certainly make readers want to journey there in summer to experience the charm and atmosphere in person.
The characters are powerful because they are not infallible. In fact, they make mistakes, they falter, they sacrifice, and they use others when needed. And for Gamache, at least, he bears the heavy weight of guilt for doing what he must while knowing that others will suffer. He is a good man caught in an impossible situation.
If you are new to Louise Penny books, by all means start with this one. The beautiful, almost poetic writing will entrance you, the action will keep you turning the pages, and the characters will steal your heart. But beware, you might just feel compelled to go back to the beginning and read them all.
Please note: This review is based on the final, hardcover book provided by the publisher, Minotaur Books, for review purposes.
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A Common Law of Zoning
61 Arizona Law Review 771 (2019)
University of Florida Levin College of Law Research Paper No. 19-36
52 Pages Posted: 25 Nov 2019 Last revised: 17 Dec 2019
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Michael Allan Wolf
This Article for the first time identifies a common law of zoning, describes the typology of this essential and overlooked element of American land use law, and establishes the historical and structural context for its pervasive set of rules and principles. Over the past 100 years, American judges, filling in the gaps and resolving the ambiguities of a surprisingly uniform set of state enabling statutes, have produced this body of common law. The story will take the reader to Iowa cornfields that surround an iconic baseball diamond; to a federal agency that gave an important impetus to the nationwide adoption of this Progressive Era tool at the state and local levels; to early railroad litigation in Massachusetts yielding a workable definition of the common law that was popularized by a legendary set of law school teaching materials; to the provisions of, and cases interpreting, other model legislation; and to the pages of dozens of state court reports from every region of the country. Critics have long raised their voices about the evils of height, area, and use controls; and commentators have directed their attention predominantly to the constitutional and environmental aspects of land use law. In the meantime, state courts, left to their own devices, have continued to frame, adapt, and reshape the common law of zoning.
Keywords: zoning, land use, legal history, common law, planning
JEL Classification: K11, R52, N92,
Wolf, Michael Allan, A Common Law of Zoning (November 12, 2019). 61 Arizona Law Review 771 (2019), University of Florida Levin College of Law Research Paper No. 19-36, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3486032
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University of Florida Levin College of Law ( email )
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The New Museum Is World-Class, but Many Find It a Tough Place to Work
“I have been forced to take this action as a result of the hostile work environment and culture of abusive behavior that pervades the museum, the lack of resources and authority provided to meet established goals,” Mr. Walker, who moved from Miami to become the director of development, wrote in 2016. “The situation I have described to you is intolerable.”
Many former employees say they would have been happy to build careers there, had the conditions been different.
“Management seems to feel that turnover is good, that they give people a start in the art world,” said Lily Bartle, an editor at the museum, who helped organize the union and was laid off in April after less than two years there. “But the reality is, people are trapped in low-paying positions and are forced to come and go quickly. You would be emailing somebody and realize they had left weeks ago. I think I got about 13 new phone lists in just my last six months of working there.”
The museum said that it does not have high turnover — and that its attrition rate is normal for a museum of its size: “Of 68 full-time staff, 25 have been with the New Museum for over eight years and another 10 for over five years.”
Ms. Phillips remains widely respected by many artists and art professionals.
“I’ve known Lisa for more than three decades and think she is one of the most outstanding director curators of her generation,” said Adam Weinberg, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, where Ms. Phillips spent 23 years. “She always puts the artists and the art first. I know former and current staff who only have good things to say.”
Some of the staff, such as Karen Wong, the deputy director, and Regan L. Grusy, the vice president of strategic partnerships, have come forward in recent days to express their support for Ms. Phillips. In an interview Jennifer Heslin, a former retail director at the New Museum, also described a very positive experience. Margot Norton, a curator of nine years there, said in an email that she has had “incredible opportunities” that “have been possible due to the mentorship and support of Lisa Phillips and Massimiliano Gioni,” the artistic director.
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Cells at Work Code Black Episode 2 Release Date, Preview and Where to Watch?
Cells at Work Code Black
The Begining of the End
The virus that has infiltrated the building has managed to take down all the soldiers protecting the body. AA-2153 has also been defeated, and White cell U-1196 appears. She started to fight with the monster virus that is destroying the soldiers. The room is full of cells that have been brutally killed. White said is using her demon slayer sword to kill all the monsters that are inside the building.
While taking them down one by one, AA-2153 is protecting the oxygen, and she tells him to deliver it quickly. They manage to slay all the monsters and bacteria inside. A few days later, the cells have been gathered by the high authorities. Telling them that they have graduated from Erythroblast status and onwards they will be working with Red Blood Cells. AA-2153 was busy taking note of something, and the meeting continues.
Cells at Work Code Black Episode 2 Release Date and Recap
Cells at Work Code Black Episode 2 will be released on Friday, 17 January 2021, at 12:00 AM JST. You can get more updates about this anime on the official website at saibou-black.com. You can also enjoy watching this anime on AnimeLab and Funimation. Take a look at the updates below.
Previously on Cells at Work Code Black Episode 1
The leader of Red Blood Cells shows them the human bodies they will be working on starting today. He gave them their tasks and showed them how they are going to operate. He also told them that White Blood Cells would help them eliminate the foreign substance that enters the body. Killer T Cells eliminate cells infected by viruses, and the Microphanges will be cleaning up the body. The Platelets will work as engineers to repair damaged blood vessels.
AA-2153 is excited to know about his colleagues that he is going to work with them. The leader said Chief Stomach Cell would speak to them. He showed them a video call from a big screen, and the Chief started to talk with everyone. Leaders asking him what he is doing, and he reveals that he is working with the digestive system. He then asks him to share some words with newly Red Blood Cells that have joined them.
Chief said that when they come to make deliveries at the stomach, they must tell him their names. He also said he is glad to work with familiar faces, and he can’t wait to meet them. The leader said they might be working in different systems, but they are all friend s working in the same body. By interacting, they can improve the work environment. Brain Cell said that now they can separate into groups and start their on-the-job training.
The Red Blood Cells groped and started doing their training. AC-1677 thinks that the job will be easy for them, and AA-2153 keeps on noting everything down. AC tells AA that he must not get overworked over anything since their only job is to deliver oxygen. They met with the guys who will be helping them with training. While they wanted to ask some questions, the purple-haired guy tells them to grab oxygen and follow him.
He started to train them hard, telling them to carry two boxes per person. Since they are new to the job, they were struggling to balance the boxes. AC asks what they will do with heavy boxes, and that guy replies that they are transporting oxygen now. AA is surprised that they are working instead of training. The pink-haired guy said that they don’t have time to train them.
They will have e to learn on the job, and the body is short on workforce and time. When they question him, he reveals that if they are Red Blood Cell, they must deliver the oxygen until they get tired and collapse. They started working had running at full speed, doing all the world they have been told to. AA and AC started complaining about the hard labor since they didn’t sing for that. The purple-haired guy tells them to stop being idiots and do their job.
Delivering O2:
AA is sent to deliver O2 to the stomach, and he met with Platelet, who told him to get out of the way they are in a hurry. He finds his way to the stomach and met with Chief. Chief grabs AA by his collar, telling him that he is too slow. He asks him how long it takes to deliver one canister of oxygen, and AA apologizes, saying he has just started today. Chief replies that it doesn’t matter if you’re a rookie or a veteran once you’re in the field.
AA introduces himself to Chief. Chief yells at him that there is no time for that, and AA said that Chief said they must tell him their names in the video call. Chief replies that the video is from a long time ago, and it is a lot of difference since they don’t have to waste time. They have to do everything fast to save the bodies, and things don’t look like before.
Chief wanted to explain the past incident that is making them work fast. He then said it is better than AA knows that he will deliver it faster next time when they ask for oxygen. Later the Red Blood Cells battle with the intruders on the first day of the work and defeated them.
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Double Shot At Love Season 2 Episode 12: Release Date And Spoilers
Jibran Wani
Double Shot is a reality television show which features DJ Pauly D and Vinny Guadagnino from Jersey Shore. In this show, there are a total of 20 contestants who are competing for the attention & affection of both Pauly and Vinny. Double Shot at Love’s first season aired on 11 April 2019 and it had a total of 14 episodes. The second season of the show premiered on June 2020 which had a total of 6 contestants from season 1 and also 3 additional male roommates. They will be living together with Pauly and Vinny in a Las Vegas suite and working at Drai’s Beachclub & Nightclub.
The cast of the second season consists of Nikki Hall, Maria Elizondo, Derynn Paige, Marissa Lucchese, Brittani “B-Lashes” Schwartz, Suzi Baidya, Brandon Stakemann, Antonio Locke and Nicky Curd. The most recent episode of the second season is episode 11 in which Pauly talks with the group about his early days when he was a DJ. When he used to perform there were only a few audiences but he didn’t let him get down. Instead, he worked hard kept on working on his craft and stayed ready.
He had prepared himself to show the world what he is made off back on Jersey Shore and when that happened, things started to change for him. Now, he is very successful, he is performing at prominent places in Las Vegas and also at LIV during peak hours. These are just the type of things a DJ would wish for and the success he found is something that every reality TV star would dream of. The next episode will the second finally and it will be very interesting to see how the season ends.
The last episode of season second is right around the corner. The title of the 12 episodes of Double Shot At Love is “Not That Kind of Love”. As for the release date, it will be releasing on 27 August 2020. For more news, visit our website to get the latest news from Double Shot At Love and many other TV Shows.
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Ann Arbor Open @ Mack offers unique experience for grades K-8
April 12, 2010 AAPS News Editor Features, News
By Casey Hans
AAPSNews Service
The hallways are full of life at Ann Arbor Open @ Mack.
Students are researching, collaborating and learning. Some are on laptops; others are huddled together, conversing. Some are meeting with teachers for one-on-one time. Principal Naomi Zikmund-Fisher said parents visiting for the first time have sometimes asked her “are those students in trouble?”
Teacher Ko Shih works with a group of students in her class at Ann Arbor Open @ Mack.
Not at all, says the longtime principal, who is now in her eighth-year overseeing the K-8 program west of downtown.
It’s part of the school’s informal setting that encourages an open environment and teaches students to work cooperatively in a group setting. School literature calls the environment “one of busy trust” where teachers serve as facilitators in the classroom.
“We are one of a very few, a handful of open schools around the country that is public,” Zikmund-Fisher explained.
Lessons are taught in a multi-grade setting, where first- and second-graders are teamed together, all the way up through seventh- and eighth-graders. Everyone helps to develop curriculum and students, staff and parents are part of a practicing democracy, with one person, one vote. Students learn to work well on their own and interact with teachers as needed.
“More and more, we’re giving them assignments for the day and the time to work on it, “Zikmund-Fisher added. “Boy, do these kids learn to manage their time.”
On this day, Media Specialist Kit Flynn is in the school’s hub – a centralized, open media center that features a giant whale created by students. Flynn has been with Ann Arbor Open @ Mack, and with its predecessor, Bach Open School, for 21 years. “It’s a place that breeds community,” she says, where most of the staff members share their lunch hour together and collaboration happens daily.
“It’s a program that attracts people who want to teach in a certain style and students who want to learn in a more unstructured environment,” she said. “What I see in our building is a kind of excitement about being in school. We’re interested in meeting kids where they are … and meeting kids where their high interests are.”
The ‘open school’ movement
The program was developed over a number of years by a group of parents and teachers interested in the “open school” concept. In the early days, families camped out to ensure students got a spot; today, enrollment is handled through a random selection process and there is a waiting list of about 208 students and 483 students enrolled.
Siblings of students entering kindergarten or first grade are given first priority for openings; families remain on the waiting list in the order in which they applied.
Zikmund-Fisher said about half of the students go through all eight or nine years; others leave after elementary school for a comprehensive middle school and some come in for a smaller middle school experience.
In the coming year, Ann Arbor Open will expand for the first time, adding 20 seats, Zikmund-Fisher said. It has not yet been determined in what grades those will be. Also under discussion is the idea of having a second open-philosophy school, perhaps on the east side, in the future, she added.
Flynn said the school has maintained its culture and approach, even as curriculum and requirements have tightened. “I think the basic philosophies are still solid,” she said.
Rick Hall and Ko Shih team-teach classes of fifth- and sixth-graders. Hall has been with Ann Arbor’s open school movement since it started. Shih attended The Open School at Bach and student taught at Ann Arbor Open @ Mack with Hall before landing here permanently.
Their two classrooms flow together constantly, with one or the other teacher offering a lesson, and then both handling one-on-one consults with students who have questions.
“It’s pretty much all I’ve every known,” Shih said of her teaching experience, “but I feel there’s less of an emphasis (here) on all the things you have to know, but a value of how to be a good person … a good student and a good community member.”
Hall has been a classroom teacher for 36 years in Ann Arbor. He said his leaning toward the open school concept stemmed from his own experience.
“As a student, I was kind of in the middle – I was one of those kids who sat in the room afraid to raise his hand,” he said. In the open school movement, he saw an opportunity to change that for future generations. “It made a whole lot of sense to me to have a relationship with students. They can and should be involved in their learning.”
He said although Ann Arbor Open @ Mack does not compete with the broad, rich curriculum offered at more traditional, larger middle school settings, “what we can offer is the depth. Students can get into things a little more. We have to take that as our strength.”
The program leaves an impact
The program moved to its present location, the former Mack School, in 1998, but the open school concept harks back to the early 1970s in Ann Arbor when there were six informal classrooms that followed that philosophy. That eventually expanded to 36 informals, a Middle Years Alternative program and a home for the open school elementary grades at Bach. The district eventually combined the MYA and Bach programs at Mack.
Karen Moorhead’s daughter and son attended Ann Arbor Open @ Mack in the early years. Theirs was one of the families that camped out to get a spot in 1995 when the program was based at Bach. Her daughter Erica Kasemodel is now a sophomore in college and son, Robert Kasemodel, attends Pioneer.
“We knew we wanted our kids to go to the open school,” said Moorhead, a local real estate agent. “We were so impressed with the program, it was worth it to camp out.”
Although both of her children left for traditional secondary school, she said the school left its impact. “Because the kids learned to do adaptive research on topics they like, they became better researchers,” she added. “I see that with both of my kids.”
Another parent, Billie Ochberg, has two sons who attended the open school program. Jake Cinti is now a high school junior, dual enrolled at Pioneer and Community, and Dylan Cinti is a freshman at the University of Michigan. Dylan went through elementary school in the open program and Jake went through the eighth grade.
She said the open program taught her boys to advocate for themselves. “They really learn how to take the initiative,” she said. “They learn over the years to access all kinds of resources, not just in the school but in the community. They are a little less inhibited right from the get-go.”
Current students say they like the environment as well. Stavi, a sixth-grader, learns a lot in the less restrictive environment. “Things are more casual,” she said. “ We call our teachers by their first names. It’s really a great school.”
Classmate Anna-Kate came to Ann Arbor Open this year. “They really want you to have your opinion,” she said. “In this classroom, if you don’t get something done, they help you. You learn to be organized.”
Sixth-grader Marin agrees. “Before I had everything all over the place – they really taught me to be organized,” she said. “I was sort of on the edge for this school, but now I tell friends ‘it’s awesome and I really like it.’”
Ann Arbor Open draws students from throughout the Ann Arbor district. Bus transportation is provided, though some families do not prefer the lengthier bus ride from other parts of the district and stay closer to home at their neighborhood school, Zikmund-Fisher said.
And, she added, that raises a fallacy about the program: that transportation is excessively expensive due to busing students across the district. Not true, she says. “We route through middle schools so the only additional cost is getting them from the middle schools to here.” She estimates that cost at about $23,000 to $27,000 per year.
Parents expected to contribute
Parents enrolling their children at Ann Arbor Open must attend an orientation to determine if the open school concept is right for them. New this year: Parents can attend once the selection process is made and before their child enrolls; in prior years, parents attended orientation before knowing if their child would get in.
Not only are parents invited to be part of the school, it is expected and most parents welcome the opportunity. Moorhead calls the parent involvement “fantastic.”
“I think the parent model is one of the best aspects of it,” she said. “It sets the tone for good relations and you have a very committed community that wants to see the school succeed.”
Julie Roth co-chairs of the school’s Coordinating Council, the school’s version of a PTO. She has a 7-year-old daughter who attends Ann Arbor Open @ Mack and a pre-schooler who is preparing for kindergarten. They chose the school after visiting there, as well as their neighborhood elementary school and several private schools in the area.
“When I walked into the building I thought “OK, this is where we want to be.’ I liked the physical space of it,” she said. Visiting a middle school information night, she was most impressed by hearing students speak. “They talked about how they’ve known each other since kindergarten,” she said. “Their school is that constant. That’s not for everybody, but it was for me.”
Roth said she also liked that the program there was slightly less structured and more student led. She also liked the K-8 environment. “Ann Arbor Open seemed very right for our family,” she added.
Her daughter, Eva, enjoys school as well. “She loves school … and that’s more important than anything,” Roth said. “She loves it; she feels empowered.”
Zikmund-Fisher said graduates of the program stay connected, even though they split up for high school. “It’s the time (together), it’s the program,” she said. “They do form really close friendships.” She said having many of the students for a full nine years also gives the staff a chance to really know the students and follow their progress over many years.
Casey Hans edits this newsletter for The Ann Arbor Public Schools. E-mail her or call 734-994-2090.
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Timeline of ‘open school’ movement in Ann Arbor
• 1971: Ann Arbor begins with six informal classrooms, which were precursors to an open school program.
• 1972: Community High School was formed, following the open school philosophy.
• 1975: Thirty-six informal classrooms in 13 different schools accommodate 95 percent of students whose parents requested informal classrooms.
• 1976: A Middle Years Alternative program is established and housed at Forsythe.
• 1982: First- through sixth-grade open school program replaces the informal classrooms; 252 students and 10 teachers are divided into two groups at Wines and Pattengill elementary schools.
• 1986: Bach Open School is established at a central location for kindergarten through sixth-graders.
• 1989: The sixth grade joins the Middle Years Alternative School. Bach Open School is modified to kindergarten through fifth grade.
• 1998: Bach Open School moves to the Mack School Building and is renamed Ann Arbor Open @ Mack. The school is modified to include sixth graders in anticipation of becoming a kindergarten through eighth-grade school.
• 1999: Seventh grade is added.
• 2000: Eighth grade is added.
• 2010: Ann Arbor Open @ Mack continues to operate nine grades with 483 students. There is a waiting list for families wanting to place their children there. It is currently the only K-8 program in The Ann Arbor Public Schools.
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A honey of a lesson: Students visit Raynor hives, enjoy a sweet harvest
September 7, 2010 AAPS News Editor Features, Staff in the Spotlight, Videos & slide shows
WITH VIDEO: Retired Ann Arbor teacher Jane Levy still keeps her hand in it, educating students about honey bees both during the school year and at summer camp. Sweet. […]
King Day activities: Contests, special events in Ann Arbor schools
January 17, 2011 AAPS News Editor Latest news, News, Videos & slide shows
WITH VIDEO: Clague Middle School event involves 60 students in a multi-media production, Bryant Early Elementary School sings about peace and Dicken Elementary students learn about jazz music and history with an assembly by Vincent York & Jazzistry. Many other schools around the district host MLK Day activities. […]
Partnership with U-M brings language to 3rd-graders
November 30, 2009 AAPS News Editor Features, News
Third-graders in all 21 Ann Arbor elementary schools are saying “hola!” this fall to learning Spanish thanks to a partnership with the University of Michigan. […]
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Montréal, December 9, 2020
Hydro-Québec launches EVLO, a subsidiary specializing in energy storage systems
Hydro-Québec has launched EVLO Energy Storage Inc. (EVLO), a subsidiary that designs, sells, and operates safe, efficient and sustainable energy storage systems.
These storage systems are intended mainly for power producers, transmission providers and distributors, as well as the commercial and industrial markets for medium- and large-scale storage. Their modular design means that they can be scaled to meet a wide variety of needs. EVLO systems also include power control and energy management software.
“Energy storage will play a crucial role in the energy transition,” declared Hydro-Québec President and CEO Sophie Brochu. “We firmly believe that the know-how Québec has acquired with regard to batteries will help develop solar and wind power. Our products will also have useful applications in existing power grids, such as in managing consumption peaks.”
Putting Québec’s know-how to work
EVLO technology is the result of more than 40 years of R&D on battery materials by Hydro-Québec, which has more than 800 patents in this field. EVLO storage systems have been tested in actual operating conditions on Hydro-Québec’s grid, not only for peak shaving at Hemmingford substation in the Montérégie region, but also in the Quaqtaq off-grid system in northern Québec, where they were subjected to extreme weather. The technology is also being used in the Lac- Mégantic microgrid and in Hydro-Québec’s solar farm in La Prairie.
Safe, environmentally friendly products
EVLO’s lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries are much safer than conventional lithium-ion batteries, since their molecular structure provides intrinsic protection against thermal runaway. They also have a smaller environmental footprint, not just because they are made from naturally abundant, nontoxic materials, but also because they can be recycled using a process that allows 99% of the active materials to be recovered and reused. Moreover, EVLO systems do not contain any cobalt or rare earth elements.
Systems designed for the changing needs of today’s power grids
Thanks to Hydro-Québec’s know-how in the operation, control and simulation of electric power systems, EVLO can develop products and services geared to the specific needs of power producers and distributors. This represents a significant competitive advantage.
EVLO’s first major storage project on the global market
EVLO is pleased to announce that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Innergex énergie renouvelable inc. to participate in the Tonnerre project, in France. This project involves the installation of a 9-megawatthour (MWh) storage system in the transmission system operated by France’s national transmission provider, RTE, under a long-term agreement between RTE and Innergex, to help meet France’s capacity requirements. The system is slated for commissioning in 2021.
“Tonnerre is Innergex’s first stand-alone battery project, and we’re happy to be partnering with Hydro-Québec to showcase Québec expertise internationally,” said Michel Letellier, Innergex’s President and CEO. “Storage plays a key role in the global development of renewable energy options and is a growth driver for Innergex.”
To find out more: http://evloenergy.com/
About Hydro-Québec
Hydro-Québec generates, transmits and distributes electricity. It is Canada’s largest electricity producer and ranks among the world’s largest hydropower producers. Its sole shareholder is the Québec government. The company uses mainly renewable generating options, in particular large hydro. Its research facilities, collectively called Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec (IREQ), conduct R&D in energy-related fields, including energy efficiency and storage.
To find out more: http://www.hydroquebec.com
About Innergex énergie renouvelable inc.
Innergex is an independent renewable power producer that develops, acquires, owns and operates hydroelectric facilities, wind farms, solar farms, and energy storage facilities. We believe that generating power from renewable sources will lead the way to a better world. As a global corporation, we conduct operations in Canada, the United States, France, and Chile. We manage a large portfolio of high-quality assets that includes interests in 75 operating facilities and 10 projects under development.
To find out more: http://www.innergex.com/
Hydro-Québec:
Jonathan Côté
cote.jonathan2@hydroquebec.com
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Op-ed: Senate obstruction makes for healthy democracy
The benefits of gridlock
July 5, 2016 —
The following is an op-ed written by Royce Koop, associate professor and head of the department of political studies. It was originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press on June 29.
Euthanasia is a difficult, morally fraught issue. It deserved a more serious examination than was afforded by a majority government simply ramming a bill through Parliament.
As it turns out, Canadians did see thorough scrutiny of the Liberal government’s euthanasia plan, Bill C-14, courtesy of the Senate. Rather than simply signing off on the bill, senators took seriously their duty to examine and amend legislation. While the bill received royal assent relatively unscathed, it was subjected to additional public attention as the senators proposed amendments and returned the bill to the House of Commons.
Most importantly, the Senate asserted itself against the government and indicated Canadians should expect more of the same in the future. Senators were incensed when it was suggested they should simply accept the will of the House of Commons. (Sen. Ghislain Maltais responded defiantly: “We are free and independent!”)
Some welcomed the prospect of a more rambunctious, rebellious Senate; others were less impressed. The work on the government’s euthanasia bill earned rebukes from critics claiming the Senate was engaging in undemocratic obstruction. The end result of a more activist Senate, they argued, would be gridlock as the two houses of Parliament butted heads. Governing would, accordingly, grind to a halt. Furthermore, so the argument goes, unelected senators have no business messing with the will of elected governments.
Polls show Canadians hold the Senate in low esteem, so such arguments are often accepted without much scrutiny.
There is something to these arguments: members of Parliament are elected, whereas senators are not. The House of Commons, therefore, enjoys democratic legitimacy the Senate lacks. As a result, the Senate will not often defeat bills approved by the House of Commons. (This is a good reason to elect senators, by the way, but that’s a topic for another column.)
But it shouldn’t be taken too far. The Constitution gives the Senate almost equal powers to the House of Commons. Senators enjoy the constitutional authority to propose, review, amend, delay or block government legislation. Senators excel at reviewing and offering amendments to government legislation — their “sober second thought” role — but have been hesitant to face off more boldly with the government.
The fact senators do not often exercise their powers to the full extent is a curious example of self-discipline that has not served Canada well. This is because Canadian governments, which typically command a majority of MPs in the House of Commons, are simply not subject to sufficient constraints on their powers. Federalism may frustrate some goals of the prime minister, and, as we have seen recently, the Supreme Court may strike down a few laws here and there but these are weak constraints on a powerful government.
In contrast, a confident, assertive Senate that occasionally causes gridlock would be a welcome check on the power of the federal government.
This is particularly true in Canada, where prime ministers that command majority government have for some time been able to whip MPs into voting for the vast majority of bills the government introduces. Academic studies often note the severity of party discipline in Canada, which means the PM almost always gets his way.
It gets worse. Centralization of power in the prime minister and cabinet is one thing. But, in recent years, observers have noted power has shifted above the cabinet to the unelected officials in the Prime Minister’s Office, who may monitor and overrule cabinet ministers.
Do we really need additional constraints on the power of the prime minister in Canada? Here’s a test: how many times in recent history can you recall when a prime minister really, really wanted something, but couldn’t have it? I can count the number of such instances on one hand.
Perhaps it’s time for Canadians to consider the virtues of gridlock and the checks it necessarily imposes on governments. To paraphrase commentator George Will: gridlock is not a problem, it’s an achievement. It means governments are likely to achieve good things slowly and bad things not at all. The former is a small price to pay for the latter.
The Senate is in an ideal position to provide constructive obstruction to Canadian governments that have become far too powerful. I hope we see more of it in the future.
Royce Koop
Arts, political studies
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Aussies stashing cash during pandemic
Australians weren’t just stockpiling toilet paper during the COVID-19 crisis – they have also been hoarding crisp new banknotes.
While consumer spending has fallen after the panic-buying splurge in March, and many retailers are refusing cash payments for hygiene reasons, banknotes have been stashed away in homes and wallets more than ever.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has been meeting spikes in demand for banknotes from commercial banks and their customers, despite reporting last week that use of cash had reduced during the pandemic.
The demand for notes for the year to last Thursday rose by more than nine per cent, going against the trend of the past couple of years.
Up to six per cent of that increase – worth about $5 billion – has happened since the mid-March share market convulsions.
The RBA revealed in its April financial stability report that cash withdrawals from banks increased in the second half of March.
“This included a small number of customers making very large withdrawals – more than $100,000, and in some cases into the millions of dollars,” it said, adding that the elevated demand had since abated.
But a banking system insider says there’s been another spike in demand in the past two weeks, not quite as big as in March, coming from banks and their customers.
“We are seeing banks are getting extra cash in anticipation of COVID restrictions easing, and retailers, pubs and clubs wanting their floats back, while people aren’t making as many deposits,” he told AAP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“Also when people are more uncertain about things they tend to hold more liquidity around them. No one’s suggesting there’s any concern with the banks – people just do that.”
The use of cash has fallen steadily to 27 per cent of all payments late last year from 69 per cent in 2007, according to RBA statistics.
But the pandemic may not bring Australia closer to being a cashless society.
The Royal Australian Mint says coin production for general circulation has decreased slightly during the pandemic compared to the same period last year.
“We believe that Australians using contactless payments may increase post COVID-19 but this will not lead to a permanent shift to a cashless society, at least not in the near future,” the mint said in a statement.
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In Bold Display, Taliban Order Stoning Deaths
By ROD NORDLAND
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban on Sunday ordered their first public executions by stoning since their fall from power nine years ago, killing a young couple who had eloped, according to Afghan officials and a witness.
The punishment was carried out by hundreds of the victims’ neighbors in a village in northern Kunduz Province, according to Nadir Khan, 40, a local farmer and Taliban sympathizer, who was interviewed by telephone. Even family members were involved, both in the stoning and in tricking the couple into returning after they had fled.
Mr. Khan said that as a Taliban mullah prepared to read the judgment of a religious court, the lovers, a 25-year-old man named Khayyam and a 19-year-old woman named Siddiqa, defiantly confessed in public to their relationship. “They said, ‘We love each other no matter what happens,’” Mr. Khan said.
The executions were the latest in a series of cases where the Taliban have imposed their harsh version of Shariah law for social crimes, reminiscent of their behavior during their decade of ruling the country. In recent years, Taliban officials have sought to play down their bloody punishments of the past, as they concentrated on building up popular support.
“We see it as a sign of a new confidence on the part of the Taliban in the application of their rules, like they did in the ’90s,” said Nader Nadery, a senior commissioner on the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. “We do see it as a trend. They’re showing more strength in recent months, not just in attacks, but including their own way of implementing laws, arbitrary and extrajudicial killings.”
The stoning deaths, along with similarly brazen attacks in northern Afghanistan, were also a sign of growing Taliban strength in parts of the country where, until recently, they had been weak or absent. In their home regions in southern Afghanistan, Mr. Nadery said, the Taliban have already been cracking down.
“We’ve seen a big increase in intimidation of women and more strict rules on women,” he said.
Perhaps most worrisome were signs of support for the action from mainstream religious authorities in Afghanistan. The head of the Ulema Council in Kunduz Province, Mawlawi Abdul Yaqub, interviewed by telephone, said Monday that stoning to death was the appropriate punishment for an illegal sexual relationship, although he declined to give his view on this particular case. An Ulema Council is a body of Islamic clerics with religious authority in a region.
And less than a week earlier, the national Ulema Council brought together 350 religious scholars in a meeting with government religious officials, who issued a joint statement on Aug. 10 calling for more punishment under Shariah law, apparently referring to stoning, amputations and lashings.
Failure to carry out such “Islamic provisions,” the council statement said, was hindering the peace process and encouraging crime.
The controversy could have implications for efforts by Afghan officials to reconcile with Taliban leaders and draw them into power-sharing talks.
Afghan officials, supported by Western countries, have insisted that Taliban leaders would have to accept the Afghan Constitution, which guarantees women’s rights, and not expect a return to Shariah law.
The stoning deaths were confirmed by Afghan officials in the area on Monday. Mahbubullah Sayedi, a spokesman for the Kunduz governor’s office, condemned the executions, and said there was ample provision in Afghan law for prosecuting someone if they were accused of adultery or other social crimes.
“We have courts here, and we can solve such cases through our judicial organizations,” he said. “This act is against human rights and against our national Constitution.”
The couple eloped when the man was unable to persuade family members to allow him to marry the young woman. She was engaged to marry a relative of her lover, but was unwilling to do so, according to Mr. Khan.
Mohammed Ayub, the governor of nearby Imam Sahib district, also confirmed the stoning deaths, which took place in the local bazaar in Mullah Quli village, in Archi district, a remote corner of Kunduz Province close to Tajikistan.
The couple eloped to Kunar Province, in eastern Afghanistan, staying with distant relatives, but family members persuaded them to return to their village, promising to allow them to marry. (Afghan men are legally allowed to marry up to four wives). Once back in Kunduz, however, they were seized by the Taliban, who convened local mullahs from surrounding villages for a religious court.
After the Taliban proclaimed the sentence, Siddiqa, dressed in the head-to-toe Afghan burqa, and Khayyam, who had a wife and two young children, were encircled by the male-only crowd in the bazaar. Taliban activists began stoning them first, then villagers joined in until they killed first Siddiqa and then Khayyam, Mr. Khan said. No women were allowed to attend, he said.
Mr. Khan estimated that about 200 villagers participated in the executions, including Khayyam’s father and brother, and Siddiqa’s brother, as well as other relatives, with a larger crowd of onlookers who did not take part.
“People were very happy seeing this,” Mr. Khan maintained, saying the crowd was festive and cheered during the stoning. The couple, he said, “did a bad thing.”
A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabiullah Mujahid, praised the action. “We have heard about this report,” he said, interviewed by cellphone. “But let me tell you that according to Shariah law, if someone commits a crime like that, we have our courts and we deal with such crimes based on Islamic law.”
Mr. Nadery, from the human rights commission, pointed to a string of recent such cases of summary justice by the Taliban. In northwestern Badghis Province on Aug. 8, a 41-year-old widow, who was made pregnant by a man she said promised to marry her, was convicted of fornication by a Taliban court. She was given 200 lashes with a whip and then shot to death, according to Col. Abdul Jabar, a provincial police official, who said the killing was ordered by the local Taliban commander, Mullah Yousef, in Qadis district.
President Hamid Karzai’s spokesman, Waheed Omer, said: ““President Karzai was deeply saddened and grieved when he heard that news. Nine years ago and we still see the Taliban doing events like that in Badghis.”
Time magazine focused widespread indignation on Afghanistan recently by putting on its cover a picture of an 18-year-old woman from Oruzgan Province whose nose and ears were cut off by her Taliban husband after she had fled her child marriage to him.
Amnesty International condemned the latest stonings, calling them the first such executions since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. “The Taliban and other insurgent groups are growing increasingly brutal in their abuses against Afghans,” said Sam Zarifi, an Amnesty International official.
I will have this brave, brave couple in my thoughts. I know the man had a family, which complicates their motives for eloping, but let's please not derail with that. It's so, so, so not the point. This is fucking sickening news.
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Dowd, Caitriona
Drury, Adam
Recent years have seen a dramatic escalation in the levels and intensity of violence associated with the northern Nigerian Islamist group, commonly referred to as ‘Boko Haram’. The deliberate and brutal targeting of civilians has been an increasingly pronounced feature of this conflict, contributing to acute civilian vulnerability. Often ascribed to the specific ideological and ethno-religious configuration of Boko Haram, we argue that this violence is similar to that of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), tactically and in the evolution of both groups over time. In addition, violence inflicted on civilians by both groups has necessitated complex strategies of civilian navigation of insecurity risks, including the establishment of informal local security providers. Drawing on both quantitative conflict event data, and qualitative sources, we present a comparative analysis of Boko Haram and the LRA to demonstrate the importance of common strategies of group mobilisation, evolution in rhetoric and tactics, and armed state and non-state responses to insurgency, in driving violence against civilians in particular. The findings reflect the importance of shared local and historical conditions in producing violence; and placing civilian protection, and the multifaceted ways in which it is undermined, including by state responses, at the centre of peacebuilding theory and practice.
https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/12948
Caitriona Dowd and Adam Drury (2017): Marginalisation, insurgency and civilian insecurity: Boko Haram and the Lord’s Resistance Army, Peacebuilding, DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2016.1277011
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Armed Conflicts and Religious Factors: The Need for Synthesized Conceptual Frameworks and New Empirical Analyses - The Case of the MENA Region*
Laura Feliu, Rafael Grasa
East Asian Studies and Research Centre (CERAO)
Department of Public Law and Legal History Studies
Before the 1990s, very little research had been done on the religious dimension in the dynamics of internal and international violent conflicts. Two factors may explain this: first, the lack of interest of a good part of international theory in peace research and conflict resolution in particular; and, second, the negative impact of the division between the major disciplines of social sciences and area studies. This article takes this insufficiency as its starting point and assumes that the factors of greatest value in explaining violent conflict are diverse (political, economic or social processes), and to speak of a single factor (religion) in isolation makes little sense if it is not contextualized within a metatheory. Thus, the article presents several elements that are derived from the theory of conflict resolution and area studies on the Middle East and North Africa region, and which should be taken into consideration when examining the extent to which religion contributes to violent conflicts and their evolution.
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Feliu, L., & Grasa, R. (2013). Armed Conflicts and Religious Factors: The Need for Synthesized Conceptual Frameworks and New Empirical Analyses - The Case of the MENA Region*. Civil Wars, 15(4), 431-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2013.853411
Feliu, Laura ; Grasa, Rafael. / Armed Conflicts and Religious Factors : The Need for Synthesized Conceptual Frameworks and New Empirical Analyses - The Case of the MENA Region*. In: Civil Wars. 2013 ; Vol. 15, No. 4. pp. 431-453.
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Home Article The 11-2 Commission
The 11-2 Commission
by Kenneth Baer
Democrats are ready to put 2004 behind them -- and who could blame them? After raising more money than ever before and building a turnout operation for the ages, Democrats this week will join the world in watching George W. Bush take the oath of office once again.
While this image will be a bitter reminder of this past fall, Democrats are resolutely looking toward the future. There is new leadership in the Senate; a heated race for a new party chair is well underway; and any number of thinkers and wonks are shopping their prescriptions for the party's resurgence. As the party's elder statesman, Senator Ted Kennedy, told CNN last week, when asked about the 2004 election: “You can learn from history, but we are looking towards the future.”
After every battle, the military insists on an “after-action report” to determine what happened and to learn from it. If a major corporation had a $1 billion product launch that failed miserably, it would not just walk away; it would conduct a rigorous analysis of what went wrong so as not to repeat those same mistakes.
Well, Senator John Kerry was the Democratic Party's New Coke. So, before the Democratic Party leadership embarks on rebuilding, the party owes it to its millions of supporters, volunteers, and donors to undertake an exhaustive, unbiased examination of what went wrong with the Democratic effort this past fall. With the risk of sounding crass, the Democratic Party needs an “11-2 Commission” -- a panel comprising disinterested, rigorous, and smart individuals with the power to examine fully the entire Democratic effort; the acumen to praise what went right; and the bravery to place blame as to what went wrong.
Of course, individual organizations on the Democratic side have taken time to examine their efforts. Countless lunches and dinners have been convened these past few weeks, rehashing the wreckage of the campaign. And there have been press accounts -- some devastating -- about the deficiencies of both the Kerry campaign and some of the 527 efforts.
But what has not been undertaken is an examination of the entire Democratic campaign -- from the top of the Kerry-Edwards '04 apparatus to its operation in individual states, from the DNC's effort to the independent campaigns waged by Americans Coming Together (ACT) and other 527 organizations. While these groups and the Kerry campaign could not coordinate their activities, let's not kid ourselves: They had the same goal and were part of the same effort. To understand the Democratic campaign, one must examine all its facets at every level.
Because of the legal barriers that exist between the groups, the 11-2 Commission would have to be established as an independent entity, with its own funding. I am sure that George Soros or any number of the wealthy contributors to the effort to defeat Bush would not flinch at kicking in a million or two to discover how they squandered tens of millions of dollars.
To give the 11-2 Commission power, Kerry -- along with the candidates for DNC chair -- should pledge to make all staff and records available to the Commission and should urge allies to do the same. To give the 11-2 Commission truthful answers, sources should be given anonymity. And so as not to not give the Republicans a leg up in 2008, its findings should be issued in a confidential report.
To staff the 11-2 Commission, I propose a mix of recently retired politicians; political strategists who did not have a dog in this year's fight; academics with an interest in politics, not just political science, to bring a historical perspective and intellectual rigor to the effort; and management consultants who can look coldly at campaign management and operations.
What is not needed on the 11-2 Commission are ideologues or public opinion experts, because the 11-2 Commission is envisioned specifically not to be a forum to debate whether Kerry had the right message, policies, or values. The deep and almost equal partisan divide in the nation and the Democratic Party's inability to articulate its core beliefs -- or a creative response to a post-September 11 world -- in order to reach across that divide are serious problems and demand attention.
But if you step back from the hysterical snap analyses of the 2004 election, you will find that this was an extremely close, very predictable, and, from history's perspective, totally unremarkable election. As Alan Abramowitz of Emory University noted in a recently released article, over the past century, Jimmy Carter was the only unsuccessful incumbent presidential candidate from a party that had held the White House only for one term. Statistically speaking, 2004 was basically a replay of the 2000 election, with the power of incumbency as the small boost that pushed Bush to a second term. Or, as Harvard's Barry Burden put it: “[T]he overwhelming pattern is one of stasis.”
In such a world, politics matter. The quality of a campaign's organization, planning, execution of those plans, management, allocation of financial and other resources, and chosen techniques can make a critical difference in a 50-50 nation.
To be sure, good tactics are necessary but not sufficient: A well-organized campaign with a candidate that is wrong on the issues and without a vision of the country still will lose. But while many Democrats focus on fighting over the ideological direction of the party, there also must be another effort that recognizes that, while ideas matter, politics make them powerful.
Kenneth S. Baer, former senior speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore, runs Baer Communications, a Democratic consulting firm.
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Home Features Progress's Pilgrim
Progress's Pilgrim
by Michael Kazin
Once upon a time, Henry Wallace was a liberal hero. At the dawn of the New Deal, the brilliant agronomist transformed the stodgy Agriculture Department (which his father, a Republican, headed a decade before) into the savior of the farm economy and a well-funded crusader for the scientific raising of crops and animals. In the late 1930s, he also vigorously espoused "collective security" against fascism abroad and more relief spending at home. Elected Franklin Roosevelt's vice president in 1940, Wallace toured the world at war, proclaiming that an "age of the common man" was at hand, if only the alliance with the Soviet Union could endure after the Axis powers were defeated.
In the spring of 1944, the tennis-playing visionary from Iowa seemed poised to succeed the ailing FDR and, perhaps, to lead the nation into a future of full employment, racial equality, and stable peace based on free markets and goodwill.
Of course, the story has an unhappy ending. Leery of Wallace's leftist sympathies and unorthodox spirituality, conservative Democrats conspired to replace him with Harry Truman on the 1944 ticket. After FDR's death the following year, Wallace, by then the secretary of commerce, refused to stop protesting against the growing rift with the Soviet Union. In 1946 President Truman angrily demanded his resignation. A year later, Wallace launched his own run for the White House under the aegis of a new third party committed to ending the Cold War and enacting a far-reaching program similar to that of labor and socialist parties in Europe. But his 1948 Progressive Party candidacy was plagued by red-baiting and disorganization, and Wallace gained only 2 percent of the vote. Disgusted with politics, he spent his final years seeking to realize a more practical ambition: to develop "the perfect chicken, which would lay the perfect egg." No other liberal icon in American history had so rapid and complete a fall.
It's a moral tale, no matter how you interpret it. You can praise Wallace as a brilliant and honorable "dreamer" bested by foes playing a dirty game he was unable and often unwilling to contest. Or you can condemn him as an arrogant naïf, too proud to fight for his vice presidency and blind to the hideous nature of the Stalinist regime. In our domestic Cold War, Wallace's fate, whether judged as tragedy or just desserts, has always been easy prey for those with barricaded minds.
John Culver and John Hyde lean toward the sunnier perspective. As boosters of Iowa studies (Culver represented the state in the House and Senate; Hyde was a longtime correspondent for The Des Moines Register), they clearly want to establish Wallace's stature as both agricultural pioneer and liberal prophet. In rich detail, they describe how he took over the editorship of the family's excellent magazine for farmers, developed and promoted hybrid corn, wrote the first statistical study of farm prices, and persuasively made the case for crop subsidies as the best way to cure the rural crisis during the Great Depression. They are equally fluent, if less original, in retelling the story of Wallace's political career as that of a man convinced that an abundance of food and democracy would solve nearly all the troubles of the world.
Culver and Hyde don't ignore their subject's myopia about the Soviet Union; they duly quote Wallace calling a Siberian prison camp he visited in 1944 a "combination TVA and Hudson's Bay Company." But they imply that such statements were flaws of the heart, the mistakes of a man who yearned to build a worldwide popular front and regarded any stalwart foe of fascism as his ally. After all, even many of Wallace's anticommunist opponents agreed that, as Hubert Humphrey eulogized, he was "a good man ... devoted and dedicated to peace."
Unfortunately, the authors are bet-ter at describing the good man's thoughts and deeds than at explaining them. Well-crafted, usually sympathetic Wallace stories--personal, scientific, political--tumble through the text in the leave-nothing-out mode that seems de rigueur among contemporary biographers. But the facts don't really speak for themselves, and Culver and Hyde fail to resolve big questions that shaped their subject's fate: Why were Wallace and his Republican father and grandfather all dedicated foes of corporate wealth? How did a zeal for scientific farming mesh with a missionary's quest for egalitarian community? Why did Wallace's rise to prominence enrage so many loyal Democrats, even before he had begun to speak kindly about the Soviet Union? Did bitterness as much as political principle lead him to take on Harry Truman in 1948, a choice he acknowledged would boost the presidential fortunes of the GOP? At the raucous 1940 Democratic Convention that eventually nominated Wallace for vice president, his wife Ilo asked, painfully, "Why are they booing my Henry?" Readers may share her bewilderment.
Thankfully, his biographers supply more than enough evidence to establish that Wallace was that rarity in modern American politics--a genuine true believer. For him, every interest became a cause. At the age of 15, he set out to debunk a traveling "corn professor" named Perry G. Holden, who had persuaded throngs of midwestern farmers to raise perfectly shaped ears. "What's looks to a hog?" asked young Henry. The teenaged scientist then devoted half a year to growing seed taken from Holden's most lovely samples and comparing the ears with their uglier counterparts. The hogs were right; there was no relationship between the shape of an ear and its yield. Wallace had begun the experiment on a friendly dare from the "professor." But after completing it, write Culver and Hyde, "he would become the most outspoken opponent of corn shows in the Midwest, relentlessly mocking the pseudo-science on which they were based." As an apostle of ignorance, the affable "professor" had to be ruined, not merely exposed.
Much the same spirit animated Wallace's attitude toward his political opponents--whether they wanted to put brakes on the New Deal or to take an aggressive stance toward Stalin. At one point, Wallace labeled the latter "neo-fascists," even though many early Cold Warriors were Democrats like Humphrey whose domestic priorities were similar to his. It's hardly surprising that such Manichaean rigor upset the city bosses and other veteran pols who prevented Wallace from succeeding the beloved FDR.
Every true believer draws from a sacred source. Wallace, a complex man, had several. From his paternal grandfather, a onetime Presbyterian minister who started the family magazine, he imbibed a fondness for Bible lessons that stressed service and brotherhood. As Wallace became politically prominent, he updated this social gospel into a justification for a more sweeping New Deal than Roosevelt ever imagined. "We must invent, build and put to work new social machinery," wrote Wallace in 1934. "The machinery will carry out the Sermon on the Mount as well as the present social machinery carries out and intensifies the law of the jungle."
At the same time, the energetic utopian had embarked on a long and frustrating search for a more personal kind of enlightenment. Wallace corresponded with astrologers, dabbled in psychic healing methods, took part in a symbolic "fire sacrifice" with elders of the Onondaga tribe, and helped finance the career of a peripatetic, Russian-born "seer" and artist named Nicholas Roerich, who claimed to hold the key to global harmony. Many Americans of Wallace's generation grazed from the smorgasbord of non-Christian spiritualism--from theosophy to Zen to Indian mysticism to Native-American reverence for the natural world. This walk on the religious wild side didn't become a mass phenomenon in the United States until the 1960s. Yet, the experience may have been more profound in the days before gurus began marketing themselves like rock stars.
Wallace usually kept his spiritual longings to himself. But in the mid-1930s, he used his administration post to promote Roerich's idea of raising a "banner of peace" over cultural landmarks during wartime (and even nominated him for a Nobel Prize). And the holy man was allowed to take a long and costly junket to Central Asia at public expense, under the guise of collecting plants that would withstand drought. None of this did Wallace much political damage, and he soon broke with the unpredictable "guide" from St. Petersburg. Years later, however, enemies pounced on letters he'd sent to Roerich in the early 1930s, addressed "Dear Guru." One spoke mysteriously of a "New Century going forth to meet the seven stars under the reign of the three stars." The partial release of this correspondence during the 1948 campaign undoubtedly made secular liberals less inclined to vote for a man who had entertained such arcane visions.
It was unfair to smear Wallace for an escapade of the soul. But he made himself vulnerable by casting politics as a clash between good and evil, the enlightened and the blind. "Henry would cut off his right hand for the sake of an idea--and yours too, for that matter," commented a friend when the Iowan arrived in Washington at the start of the New Deal. Wallace often expressed his political self-righteousness in religious terms. He could be gloriously hopeful, as in a 1944 speech when he predicted, "The day about which the prophets and seers of many nations have dreamed for 3,000 years is rapidly approaching." Or he could seek refuge, as during the 1948 debacle, in biblical verses about moral men standing alone against a wicked society.
What remained consistent was a contempt for politics in the grubby, unspiritual, but obligatory definition of the beast. Wallace was not above compromising on legislation or fighting to protect his bureaucratic turf. But he made no effort to get along with opponents and was unwilling to defend his right to the second-highest office in the land until it was too late. In 1944, when a Chicago politician gave him sound suggestions on how to win the vice presidential nomination, Wallace turned him down flat. "Practical politics of this kind simply did not appeal to me," he later told an interviewer.
While it's easy to admire this stance from a historical distance, it was and remains destructive to the task of understanding social problems and to resolving them. Henry Wallace was indeed a prophet of sorts: His practical science helped feed millions at a reduced cost, he courageously insisted in 1948 on speaking only before integrated audiences, and he warned against the meteoric growth of what would later be dubbed the military-industrial complex. Yet in the end, the man from Iowa had a more sophisticated understanding of corn and chickens than of the humanist art of political persuasion. Only figures who master that skill can, to paraphrase John Lennon, make a liberal hero something to be.
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Home Confirmation
Confirmation Ceremony will be held on
Confirmation in the faith
Confirmation celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit. In the Acts of the Apostles chapter 2, verses 1 to 13, we read of the Apostles receiving the Holy Spirit. They had been hiding after Jesus’ death, afraid and uncertain. The coming of the Holy Spirit with his gifts inspired them and enabled them to take the step of preaching the good news.
We are made members of God’s family at Baptism. At Confirmation, our Baptism is completed or “sealed” by the Holy Spirit and we are called to be Christian witnesses, just like the apostles. The whole of our Christian living and the life of the Church, too, are sustained by the same Spirit.
Who Can Receive?
Any baptised Catholic wishing to advance on the path of developing their faith. For young people, this is usually part of the 5th/6th class primary school programme.
For adults who were not confirmed as children, it means taking part in the Rite of the Christian Initiation of Adults (R.C.I.A.)
A sponsor stands behind the candidate for Confirmation at the Confirmation ceremony and places their hand on the shoulder of the candidate as a sign that they will support them in living out their baptismal promises. However, the role of the sponsor is not just for one day. The sponsor undertakes to assist the confirmed person in growing in the fullness of their faith and in their membership of the Catholic Church.
A person qualifies as a sponsor by being a reasonably mature adult, who is at least 16 years old, and has already received the Sacraments of Initiation, (Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist) themselves. The Confirmation sponsor may be one of the people who was a sponsor at Baptism (subject to the notes here).
Choosing a sponsor
(Ref. Code of Canon Law §874) To be admitted to undertake the office of sponsor, a person must:
be appointed by the candidate, or by the parents or whoever stands in their place, or failing these, by the parish priest or the minister; to be appointed the person must be suitable for this role and have the intention of fulfilling it;
be not less than sixteen years of age, unless a different age has been stipulated by the diocesan Bishop, or unless the parish priest or the minister considers that there is a just reason for an exception to be made;
be a Catholic who has been confirmed and has received the blessed Eucharist, and who lives a life of faith which befits the role to be undertaken;
not labor under a canonical penalty, whether imposed or declared;
not be either the father or the mother of the candidate.
The tradition of taking a new name at Confirmation emphasises the new identity of a Christian being called to witness to their faith. People are encouraged to take the name of a saint or a person from the Bible who inspires them in some way.
The oil used is called the Oil of Chrism. It is olive oil mixed with balsam that is blessed by the bishop and priests of the diocese in the Cathedral at the ‘Chrism Mass’ on Holy Thursday. The Sacrament is conferred with the anointing with this ‘Oil of Chrism’ on the forehead as the Bishop says ‘Be sealed with the gifts of the Holy Spirit’.
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Looming Rental Evictions in U.S. Could Deepen Economic Fallout From Coronavirus Pandemic
Written by Tendayi Kapfidze Tendayi Kapfidze
Vice President, Chief Economist
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Tendayi Kapfidze is Vice President, Chief Economist at LendingTree. He leads the company’s analysis of the U.S. economy with a focus on housing and mortgage market trends. Tendayi utilizes data analysis to be a resource for both...
Published on: August 5th, 2020
In the United States, roughly 110 million Americans live in 43 million rental units, or more than a third of all households. In a typical year, approximately two million renters are at risk of eviction.
But 2020 isn’t a typical year. Far from it.
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, an unprecedented number of Americans have seen drastic cuts to their income. It’s no surprise that the most common cause of eviction is loss of income. The coronavirus pandemic has led to staggering job losses in the first half of the year, and the economy is treading water in a major recession that could take months or even years to recover from. In just under five months, more than 54 million workers have filed for unemployment benefits which, until now, have been supplemented by a $600 weekly benefit from the federal government.
The relief payments were part of emergency government measures to support the economy. However, the measures were meant to be temporary until COVID-19 cases were under control and the economy started recovering. Neither has happened.
With unemployment benefits and eviction moratoriums expiring, a significant number of renters — as many as 23 million, according to The Aspen Institute — could face eviction proceedings.
Renters are poised to shoulder brunt of economic crisis
Renters have been more likely to lose their jobs during the coronavirus crisis. Even in the best economic environment, the unemployment rate for renters is consistently above that of homeowners. Renters have lower median incomes than the national average median income — $40,500 compared with $63,179 in 2018, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
As a result, many renters don’t have enough cash reserves to weather a job loss. The supplemental unemployment funds have been helping millions of Americans afford their rent payments. In 2018, the median monthly rent in the U.S. was $1,058, according to Census figures. So the $2,400 monthly emergency benefit may have covered that and provided some cash for other living expenses.
Right now, Congress is locked in heated debates about what an extension of these unemployment benefits might look like, and there is a strong possibility the payments will be reduced. Any payments less than $250 per week from the government wouldn’t cover most Americans’ rent payments, and state payouts vary significantly.
The end of the federal supplemental unemployment benefits coincides with the end of eviction moratoriums for properties with federally backed mortgages, including loans owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and mortgages backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). A patchwork of local eviction moratoriums are close to ending in many cities and states, too, and some have already expired. In addition to people losing their homes, evictions may accelerate new COVID-19 infections, because housing is a public health measure.
An eviction crisis of this magnitude may lead to a financial crisis. Landlords use tenant rent payments to cover their mortgages and operating expenses.
If there’s an increase in landlords defaulting on their mortgages, rental property values would plummet. This would extend to owner-occupied housing. Why? These housing markets have become increasingly intertwined since the financial crisis of 2007-08, with an increase in single-family rental properties. In short, protecting renters protects the whole economy.
Tips for renters struggling to make their payments
The federal eviction moratorium under the CARES Act expired as of July 25, and tenants owe the amount of the rent payments missed.
What can tenants do to protect themselves if they are facing difficulties meeting their rent payments? Shabana Baksh, associate real estate attorney of the New York City law firm K&L Gates, shared the following tips with LendingTree:
Although the federal eviction moratorium has expired, state and local eviction moratoriums may remain in effect to protect residential tenants. Tenants can learn about current state and local policies here: K&L Gates 50-State Guide to COVID-19 Property Policies and Regulations and Princeton University Eviction Lab COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard.
Under the CARES Act, federal law requires landlords to provide tenants with 30 days’ notice to leave the property before the landlord may file an eviction complaint in court for nonpayment of rent.
If a tenant receives an eviction notice, they are required to follow the local process for eviction proceedings and show up to eviction court hearings. Tenants should check state and local court rules as some courts are permitting virtual phone or video proceedings rather than in-person court appearances.
Tenants should alert the landlord of their inability to pay rent. Landlords may be willing to negotiate during this time in order to keep a tenant who can pay less instead of trying to secure a new tenant. The tenant should be honest about their situation, explain the impact by a loss of housing, ask about a payment arrangement and keep copies of any documents of said negotiations with the landlord.
Tenants may seek financial assistance from emergency rental relief programs. State and local rental assistance programs were established to help tenants cover their missed payments (e.g. Vermont, City of Austin, Texas etc.). The National Low Income Housing Coalition is tracking a 50-state list of emergency rental assistance programs (See also: The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau). Additionally, there are a number of local and national organizations seeking to preserve affordable housing and prevent evictions for residential tenants (e.g. Justshelter.org).
Tenants who may not be familiar with their rights have the right to seek legal help and hire an attorney. LawHelp.org provides a list of available pro bono legal aid attorneys to assist with landlord-tenant matters (e.g. to help determine whether a landlord was in violation of the CARES Act).
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Sweden Cover-up: Bans Memorial for Slain Worker, Daily Mail Article blocked, we don’t want to upset Muslim kids
Migrant centre banned from holding memorial to Swedish social worker ‘stabbed to death by Somali boy, 15’ in case it upsets refugee children
Staff at asylum centre banned from holding memorial for murdered woman
Social workers in Örnsköldsvik also told not to fly flag at half mast
Council said decision to ban was to secure the well being of the children
Alexandra Mezher, 22, was stabbed to death in Molndal last Monday
By Sara Malm for MailOnline
Published: 05:03 EST, 2 February 2016 | Updated: 00:22 EST, 3 February 2016
Social worker Carl Lindahl was banned from holding a memorial for Alexandra Mezher in Örnsköldsvik
Staff at a housing centre for child migrants in Sweden have been banned from holding a memorial service in honour of a fellow social worker who was murdered last week.
Alexandra Mezher, 22, was stabbed to death when she tried to break up a fight between two teenage boys at a home for unaccompanied minors in Molndal, Gothenburg.
When staff at a similar accommodation in Örnsköldsvik, north-east Sweden, wanted to hold a memorial for Miss Mezher, the council said no.
Miss Mezher’s murder sent shockwaves across Sweden, and has highlighted a number of issues that has followed in the wake of the large number of asylum seekers to arrive in Sweden in the past 12 months.
Staff and social workers at a home for unaccompanied minors in Örnsköldsvik, a town on the north-east coast, were deeply affected by the killing of a colleague in the workplace.
‘What happened in Molndal could have happened here. That’s how bad it is,’ Carl Lindahl told SVT Vasternorrland.
Mr Lindahl, who has worked in homes for unaccompanied minors for three-and-a-half-years added that housing facilities for child migrants all over the country are ‘unreasonably overcrowded’.
Mr Lindahl wanted to do a memorial service for ‘colleague’ Miss Mezher, but said that a superior immediately got in touch and forbade them from using council premises.
They were also told not to fly the Swedish flag at half-mast, SVT reports.
A representative for Örnsköldvik council later spoke to SVT Vasternorrland and said the decision to ban the ‘manifestation’ had been done to secure the well being of the children.
Administrative manager Katarina Jensstad said the council had ruled that it was better to hold the memorial service in premises that was not a home for unaccompanied minors.
A service for Miss Mezher was later held at a nearby church in Örnsköldvik, but staff at the housing facility who were scheduled to work, were told they could not attend during working hours.
Killed: Alexandra Mezher, 22, was fatally stabbed in the back and thigh at the asylum centre for young, unaccompanied migrants in Molndal, Sweden, on Monday morning
Hero: Miss Mezher died saving the life of another resident whom allegedly knife-wielding attacker was trying to kill, police sources said
Miss Mezher was stabbed in the thigh and back just before the end of her night shift, on Monday morning last week. She was taken to hospital and died from her injuries.
The alleged attacker, a boy claiming to be a 15-year-old from Somalia, is being held in a secure psychiatric hospital in Gothenburg and has been remanded in custody until February 11.
Swedish prosecutors say HVB Living Nordic may be charged with corporate manslaughter and violating work environment law over the murder of Miss Mezher in her workplace.
The housing facility where she worked is home to ten migrants and refugees aged 14-17 who have all applied for asylum in Sweden without a parent or guardian.
Sweden’s Work Environment Administration is investigating whether HVB Living Nordic broke work environment laws for allowing Miss Mezher to work on her own with ten teenage boys.
HVB Living Nordic is a private company paid by the local authority to provide housing and care for unaccompanied minors, which has been operating since late 2013.
In 2014, Molndal received £22.6million to provide housing for unaccompanied minors – the most state funding per capita than any town or city in Sweden.
A representative for Örnsköldvik council said the decision to ban the memorial from being held at the housing centre had been done to secure the well being of the children staying there
A service for Miss Mezher was later held at a nearby church in Örnsköldvik, but staff at the housing facility who were scheduled to work, were told they could not attend during working hours
That same year, HVB Living Nordic reported a profit margin of 21.9 per cent.
HVB’s chief executive is Patrick Sjögren, 46, former CEO of 5050Poker, a gambling website which filed for bankruptcy in 2012 after it emerged that the company had used players’ money to cover losses.
Mr Sjögren’s company faces questions over how Miss Mezher to work alone overnight with almost a dozen vulnerable teenage boys.
Staff at the centre warned a year ago that due to lack of staff, ‘something serious will happen here’.
The warning came from a therapist in December 2014 – despite the fact that the facility had been open less than four months at the time
Sweden has been struggling with the continent’s biggest migration crisis since World War II.
A country of 9.8 million, Sweden took in more than 160,000 asylum seekers in 2015, the highest number of refugees and migrant arrivals per capita in the EU.
Out of the 160,000 who applied for asylum, 35,369 were unaccompanied minors.
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DETROIT–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Credibly, a leading, national small business fintech lender, today announced its designation as an Approved Lender for the SBA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). As an SBA Approved Lender for the PPP program, Credibly will leverage its online application and servicing capabilities to help small businesses (SMBs) receive streamlined access to federally-backed COVID-19 stimulus funding.
As part of the CARES Act, the Paycheck Protection Program was established by Congress and is being implemented by the U.S. Treasury Department and the SBA to help stimulate the economy by incentivizing SMBs to keep their workforce on payroll, while providing low-interest working capital support with deferred payments and loan forgiveness on eligible expenses.
“We’re incredibly excited about the opportunity to help facilitate SBA loans to small businesses throughout the United States,” said Ryan Rosett, Founder and Co-CEO. “Most small businesses only have about 8 weeks of cash reserves on-hand and the COVID-19 pandemic has been disrupting business ecosystems for months. The ability to offer SMBs access to the capital support they need at this time is critical.”
Credibly’s secure online portal helps business owners ensure that their application is complete and accurate by verifying eligibility and helping to calculate payroll expenses. With the second round of PPP stimulus funds being released in just a few days, Credibly is doing everything it can to ensure its small business customers receive funding they deserve.
Credibly was one of a handful of fintech companies that was selected as a non-bank lender. Among the other fintech lenders awarded this approval by the SBA are Intuit (INTU), Square (SQ), and PayPal (PYPL).
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Credibly is a Data Science-driven fintech lending platform which improves the speed, cost, experience, and choice of capital to SMBs. The company provides balance sheet, syndication, and off-balance sheet funding options, while offering its partners access to its robust data science capabilities. Founded in 2010, Credibly has sustained rapid growth and provided over $1B in financing to SMBs, while maintaining a strong emphasis on risk management and a culture of compliance. From 2014 to 2016, the company made consecutive appearances on the Inc. 500 list of Fastest Growing Private U.S. companies, as well as Crain’s Fast 50 in the State of New York in 2015 and 2016. In 2017 Credibly became the first company in its space to acquire the servicing rights to a competitor’s portfolio ($250MM). Credibly was selected for its proven approach to managing risk. In late 2018, the company completed its first asset-backed securitization and followed with an investment grade senior debt offering in 2019. Credibly’s headquarters are in Southfield, Michigan, with offices in New York, Arizona, Ukraine, and India. For more information, please visit www.credibly.com.
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REPUBLIC OF KOREA WALL OF HONOR
Gwon Wook
Capital Division
Staff Sergeant Gwon Wook was born in 224 Buheung-ri, Namjeong-myeon, Yeongdeok-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Jan. 30, 1949. He was assigned to Armored Regiment, Tiger Division and was dispatched to Vietnam; stationed in the area of Binh Dinh Province.
Staff Sergeant Gwon Wook was killed in action May. 3, 1972 in the area of Phu Phong, Tay Son. He was awarded the Military Merit Medal. He was buried at 03-1-4032 graveyard in Seoul National Cemetery.
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Park Heungbok
Sergeant 1st Class
Sergeant 1st Class Park Heungbok was born in 3-3 Seokgyo-dong, Sangdang-gu, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do, Sep. 17, 1952. He was assigned to Armored Regiment, Tiger Division and was dispatched to Vietnam; stationed in the area of Binh Dinh Province.
Sergeant 1st Class Park Heungbok was killed in action May. 4, 1972 in the area of Phu Phong, Tay Son. He was awarded the Order of Military Merit Hwarang. He was buried at 03-1-4059 graveyard in Seoul National Cemetery.
Yu Taegeun
Sergeant Yu Taegeun was born in 18 Gwangmyeong-ri, Songak-eup, Dangjin-si, Chungcheongnam-do, Jul. 15, 1949. He was assigned to Armored Regiment, Tiger Division and was dispatched to Vietnam; stationed in the area of Binh Dinh Province.
Sergeant Yu Taegeun was killed May. 7, 1972 in the area of Phu Phong, Tay Son while carrying out a military operation. He was buried at 03-1-4044 graveyard in Seoul National Cemetery.
Park Jeongsu
Captain Park Jeongsu was born in 3218tong 2ban Beomil-dong, Dong-gu, City of Pusan, Feb. 15, 1939. He was assigned to Armored Regiment, Tiger Division and was dispatched to Vietnam; stationed in the area of Binh Dinh Province.
Captain Park Jeongsu was killed in action Jun. 28, 1972 in the area of Phu Phong, Tay Son. He was awarded the Military Merit Medal. He was buried at 03-5-295 graveyard in Seoul National Cemetery.
Nam Taekjun
Captain Nam Taekjun was born in 32-1 Dangsan-dong 4ga, Yeongdeungpo-gu, City of Seoul, Jan. 15, 1947. He was assigned to Armored Regiment, Tiger Division and was dispatched to Vietnam; stationed in the area of Binh Dinh Province.
Captain Nam Taekjun was killed in action Aug. 3, 1972 in the area of Phu Phong, Tay Son. He was awarded the Military Merit Medal. He was buried at 03-5-301 graveyard in Seoul National Cemetery.
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The Republic of Korea was one of six nations that contributed troops during the Vietnam War. The Republic of Korea lost more than 5,000 military personnel. The Republic of Korea Wall of Honor is a partnership between the Republic of Korea and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF).
VISIT VVMF'S WEBSITE: www.vvmf.org VISIT MINISTRY OF PATRIOTS & VETERANS AFFAIRS: english.mpva.go.kr
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Royal City Athletes Take Medals at BC Summer Games
Posted on July 29, 2016 by rootsmith
From August 21-24, the 2016 BC Summer Games were held in Abbotsford. Royal City athletes Shea Janke, JV Patry-Smith, Max Jones, Jeremy Belcher, Ryan Jensen and Gavin Fan all qualified for the games in the very competitive Zone 4 region.
Hot off his outstanding pole vault performance at the BC Athletics Championship Jamboree, Max’s opening height was after all other competitors were already out of the competition. He won gold with a jump of 3.20m.
JV, feeling the high of just having been named to Team BC, took gold in javelin with a season’s best throw of 39.44m. She also took home a bronze in shot put with a performance of 11.67m. JV also competed in the hammer throw.
Sprinter, and new comer, Gavin, raced his way to a bronze medal in the 300m with a time of 38.12s. He also competed in 200m and 4×400 relay team with fellow Royal City athlete, Shea. The relay team finished just out of the medals in 4th spot. Shea also competed in the 2000m and 1500m steeplechase.
Jeremy jumped to a new PB with a performance of 11.08m in the triple jump and also competed in the 200m hurdles. It was hurdles all the way for Ryan, putting in a solid performance in both the 100m and 200m hurdles.
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Female staff at oil giant Shell earn a FIFTH less than their male colleagues
Royal Dutch Shell’s gender pay gap report showed a difference of 22.2 per cent
The oil giant said the gap was largely down to the lack of women in senior roles
Two-thirds of the group’s employees are male and just 33 per cent are female
By Sophie Inge For Mailonline: 30 November 2017
Female staff at Royal Dutch Shell earn more than a fifth less than their male colleagues, the oil giant has revealed.
The FTSE 100 group’s gender pay gap report showed a difference of 22.2 per cent on average for male and female employees in the UK.
But it said it was ‘confident we have equal pay’ and stressed the gap was largely down to the lack of women in senior management roles and higher-paid technical and trading jobs. read more
U.S. oil majors fall behind on climate, European lead
By Chris Tomlinson: November 30, 2017
Major European oil companies are making major efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to fight climate change. American majors are dragging their behinds.
Royal Dutch Shell pledged Tuesday to slash carbon emission by 50 percent and boost investment in clean, renewable energy. CEO Ben van Beurden promised to spend at least $2 billion on on wind power, biofuels and electric cars, about the same amount it will spend on shale oil.
“It is making sure that the products within society have an overall lower carbon footprint,” Beurden told investors, according to the Guardian newspaper. “That is the long-term way of making sure our business remains a relevant business in the face of the energy transition.” read more
Only collaboration will solve the global warming puzzle
BEN VAN BEURDEN: 30 NOVEMBER 2017
The world has a puzzle to solve, a jigsaw with a spectacular number of pieces to place. If it can succeed it will win a priceless prize: it will achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement, to limit global warming to under 2C. It is the puzzle of the energy transition.
Piecing together a solution is going to be tricky and we at Shell have been trying to make progress as a company. We have a way forward now and I am going to share it with you. But first, the jigsaw. read more
Women’s average pay at Shell in UK a fifth less than men’s
Ron Bousso: NOVEMBER 30, 2017
LONDON (Reuters) – Female employees of Royal Dutch Shell in Britain earned on average 22 percent less than male colleagues, the oil and gas firm said on Thursday, a difference that is more than double the national average.
The Anglo-Dutch company, which employs more than 5,000 people in Britain, of which two thirds are men, said the gap was due to fewer women holding senior leadership positions and fewer women working in technical roles such as operating offshore rigs, or trading roles that attract higher pay. read more
Shell reveals 22% gender pay gap
The company said the gap was largely down to the lack of women in senior management roles and higher-paid technical and trading jobs.
The FTSE 100 group’s gender pay gap report showed a difference of 22.2% on average for male and female employees in the UK.
But it said it was “confident we have equal pay” and stressed the gap was largely down to the lack of women in senior management roles and higher-paid technical and trading jobs.
Two-thirds of the group’s employees are male and just 33% are female, it said. read more
Shell Midstream buying pipelines, terminals for $825m
Houston’s Shell Midstream Partners is going on a buying spree, acquiring $825 million worth of pipelines and terminals from its Royal Dutch Shell parent.
Written by Jordan Blum for the Houston Chronicle – 29/11/2017 12:53 pm
The deals designed to beef up the three-year-old Shell Midstream business give the Houston pipelines firm more ownership in Gulf Coast and Gulf of Mexico pipelines, as well as a slew of terminals from the Houston area to Washington state.
The drop-down acquisitions from the parent Shell and other Shell subsidiaries give Shell Midstream majority ownership of the Mars and Odyssey oil pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico. Shell Midstream already owned 49 percent stakes in the pipelines and the deal ups those stakes to at least 71 percent. read more
Royal Dutch Shell’s Deepwater Strength
Dividend Stream: Nov. 30, 2017
Royal Dutch Shell held its annual analyst day earlier this week.
Management expects to generate at least $25 billion in excess cash flow by 2019.
Despite rising share prices, Shell can still be picked up here.
This idea was discussed in more depth with members of my private investing community, Streaming Income.
The recovery in oil and gas is in full swing. While benchmark crude oil prices have gone up across the board, Brent is now $63 per barrel, the catalyst for this recovery comes more in the fact that oil producers have done such a good job in bringing costs down.
Nowhere is that more starkly noticeable than in offshore, deepwater drilling, where dayrates for state-of-the-art rigs have gone from as high as $700,000 three years ago to just $250,000 or so. As onshore rig counts creep higher, cost inflation is once again becoming a fact of life in select onshore shale plays. With deepwater drilling, however, there are still many rigs ‘stacked’ in harbors across the world just waiting to come out and get activated, thereby keeping development and operational costs down. read more
Shell damps down Prelude LNG expectations
by Angela Macdonald-Smith: Nov 29, 2017
Royal Dutch Shell has sewn doubt in the market about an early 2018 start-up of the oil major’s innovative Prelude floating LNG project off the coast of north-west Australia, with chief executive Ben van Beurden signalling that the project will only start contributing noticeably to cash flow in 2019.
While the ramp-up of the $US54 billion (71 billion) Gorgon LNG project in Western Australia was named by Mr van Beurden as among projects named to help grow cash flows next year, Prelude was included in the later batch. read more
Amnesty wants probe into Shell’s alleged role in 1990s Nigeria violence
Esther Kiobel, the widow of one of the nine Ogoni activists
Reporting by Libby George; Editing by Edmund Blair: NOVEMBER 28, 2017
LONDON/LAGOS (Reuters) – Amnesty International has called for a criminal investigation into the alleged role of Royal Dutch Shell in human rights abuses in Nigeria’s oil-rich Ogoniland in the 1990s, accusations the Anglo-Dutch oil company has denied. The rights group urged the British, Dutch and Nigerian governments carry out probes in a report that it said included evidence showing Shell’s involvement in suppression of protesters by the military government in the 1990s. Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) said the allegations were “false and without merit”.
Shell, the largest oil producer in Nigeria, has faced several court cases relating to the turbulent period that culminated with the execution of rights campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others in 1995.
Saro-Wiwa led a campaign to against environmental damage caused by the oil production in the lands of the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta, a major crude producing region. read more
Shell Canada donates $1 million worth of technology to organizations in need across Canada
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Nov. 28, 2017, 10:30 AM
Canadian Electronic Recycling Association celebrates major milestone and equips 12 agencies in need, including Tsuu T’ina Nation
CALGARY, Nov. 28, 2017 /CNW/ – Shell Canada today announced a $1 million donation of computer equipment to the Canadian Electronic Recycling Association (ERA), who will distribute it to organizations in need across Canada. This is the ERA’s single largest donation to date and marks a milestone for the organization.
To kick off this donation, Shell and the ERA will distribute more than 300 recent model computers, laptops and monitors to 12 organizations across Canada on November 28 as part of “Giving Tuesday” (#GivingTuesday www.givingtuesday.org). The remainder of the donation will be given out to schools and other organizations over the coming months. Organizations are encouraged to contact the ERA (www.era.ca) to find out how they can access this donated equipment. read more
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GoActive - Inspire, Empower, Connect
Yashar is the project officer at ‘GoActive’, a health and fitness initiative run by the Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA) for girls and women. Yashar is driven to promote physical and social well-being programs, provide social and emotional learning to youth and ultimately provide an opportunity to all women to lead healthier lives, primarily through participation in sporting and health programs.
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Thank you. Hello. First of all, as I was gonna call in sick today, what the early complaints I had was excessive sweating, stuttering and forgetfulness. Some might call that stage fright. But before I begin, I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we gather and pay my respects to the elders past, present and emerging.
Imagine always having a window, but no mirror.
In a world so diverse, in a country with many religions, in a state with many cultures, and in a community with many celebrated differences.
When I look out the window, I don't see myself represented.
I was born in Australia. I speak very broken Arabic and I've never been to Lebanon. Yet in Australia, I'm the Lebanese. And in Lebanon. I'm the Australian well, I'm the rich Australian because anyone who lives in Australia is automatically rich in the eyes of your relatives back in Lebanon.
So who am I? And why is representation so important? Representation is seeing yourself. Your experiences and your people's experiences in places and positions that matter most in this world.
It's critical to civic meaningful engagement. Representation inspires possibility. A path to follow ignites the fire in the belly of those watching through the window and can see themselves represented. It's her Haneen Zreika. The first Muslim woman to play AFLW at a national level. It's Najat Khoury. Who represented Australia in powerlifting and became Australia's strongest woman. It's a Assmaah Helal who led the fight against the hijab ban in FIFA and was successful. It's Amnak Hassan who established the first AFL team in Western Sydney and created opportunities for people like myself to play AFL. Australia's greatest game.
I maybe a little bit biased.
It's why GoActive was born.
GoActive in a sport and health initiative designed to cater for culturally and linguistically diverse girls and women across western Sydney. We provide opportunities for women to participate in sport, health and education programs that increase social cohesion, capacity building and health promotion.
With a 10 year track record, we continue to deliver champs, fitness classes, sports tournament, social and emotional learning programs and a summit bringing local and international women together. Our goal is to have Serena Williams attend our 2021 She summit. If you feel inspired today, then let's work together to grow future leaders and discover talented women in our community.
So, yeah, I've got a massive goal to bring Serena Williams. I mean, I don't know if that's going to happen, but that's what that's what's in my sights. One of the projects I'm working on is that All Girls Can campaign. The campaign is a digital storytelling series that showcases local girls and women participating in social, emotional and professional sports and recreation. I believe we need to increase the visibility of these women doing what they love and their achievements big or small should be celebrated and used to encourage other women to do the same. But it's not enough to just tell their stories online. And it's why we have the She summit happening next week for over 300 female students across schools where we have to in Tina Booth talk about her experience and represent women of color.
We have Samantha Bloom talk about her experience of being able bodied and now living with a disability. We last year's summit. We had Raha Moharrak, who was the first Saudi woman to climb Mount Everest and the six summits. Just imagine that a Saudi woman who before two years ago couldn't even drive. We had Western Sydney University evaluate the She summit. And one of the consistent statistics that came up regarding the success of the summit was the fact that these girls loved seeing and hearing Raha Moharrak, OK, talk about her experience, her struggle and how she overcame them to follow her dreams. They all saw themselves in her, and that's what made a difference. Representation is important to help remove the unconscious bias that fuels our everyday prejudice. Just over a month ago, I was at the Paralympics Gala 2020 Tokyo campaign raising raising money for the 2020 Tokyo campaign. And I was sitting at a table and two seats to the right of me was an older white woman who got introduced by a mutual friend, said, This is Yash. She plays AFL for the Auburn Giants and leads go active. After the lady had a few drinks. She wants to ask me some questions.
So where are you from? I was like, Oh, I'm from Punchbowl, which is near Bankstown. Such guys, are you? I know where that is. I live in Pasto. I tell you, two suburbs away. I'm like, yeah, cool. No worries. And I went back to eating my entre, which was bread and butter at that time. You say I'm not really a social person and I'm working on it, but I'm not really great at smalltalk.
So I was hoping it would end there. But it didn't.
So then she asks.
Well, then she says, So I'm not racist, but. I'm not racist, but. And I was like, Oh, man, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not ready for this. I quickly turn to the left when my friend was sitting because she's much more equipped on dealing with questions on I'm not racist, but. She's in a full blown conversation with a woman next to her having the time of her life. I was on my own. So I'm not racist. But. Do Muslim women actually play sport in that covering?
I was like, yeah, we do. I kick the football with my scarf on. I catch the football with my scarf on. I tackle girls with my scarf on. And yes, I do get high in that. But I guarantee you everyone else on the AFL field is just as hot. I mean, I didn't really say that, but that's what I wanted to say. I went on to how long winded conversation about how we've been playing sport since I could walk and that putting on the hijab didn't hinder my ability to play sport. You say if there was enough Muslim women represented in sport, I wouldn't be answering questions like this. It would be normal to see a Muslim woman in hijab playing sport. It wouldn't be an issue or a topic. To finish off that conversation, she says to me, it was so lovely to meet a Muslim and face to face and see that they're not all bad like you see on TV, I mean, at that point after hearing I'm not racist, but on my own, I wasn't surprised.
There needs to be more women like me in spaces like that and in spaces like this. But it's not just up to us Muslim women to be out there trying to undo these misconceptions. We must understand that representation is all our responsibility. We must filter through the messages that are so often reinforced by the media. Representation is vital. Being able to see these women and identify with these women provokes a sense of belief and belonging. I just forgot my line. One moment.
If we want more diverse women playing sport, we need to see more diverse women playing sport. If we want healthier communities, we need more representation. We need true understanding.
We need facilities that cater for all communities. Representation is a collective responsibility. Imagine always having a window, but no mirror.
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A difficult childhood has extended the life of the mongoose
February 14, 2017 RR Society
Zoologists and Britain and Uganda found that the mongoose, which has faced severe conditions in the first year of life had higher life expectancy than the animals that had “happy” childhood.
The article was published in the journal Ecology and Evolution.
The conditions in which animals spend the first time after birth can have a lasting effect on their lives. In numerous studies it has been shown that a good childhood has a positive effect on the lifespan and breeding success in many species.
Recently, however, there is increasing evidence that this relationship is not straightforward: for example, starlings and great Tits born in a “bad” year, lived longer and bred more successfully than birds raised in good conditions. Scientists assume that this may be due to increased maternal contribution or more stringent action selection in difficult periods.
The authors of the article studied the influence of the quality of the first year of life on subsequent fitness of a striped mongoose (Mungos mungo) is a small carnivorous African mammals. The researchers analyzed the results of 14 years of observations of animals in Uganda. As a measure of the quality of conditions used precipitation: previously it was shown that the higher the rainfall, the more food (mostly invertebrates) becomes available mangustan.
It turned out that the male mongooses, who grew up in a dry year, lived longer than those who grew up during the wet year, but had fewer descendants. And the males who grew up under highly variable conditions (i.e. in the year with large variations in humidity), not only lived longer than the others, but also successfully bred.
According to scientists, in the first case the correlation with the “choice” strategies for survival and reproduction: animals that had a rough childhood, to direct his forces first on survival and then on reproduction. In the second case, according to the authors, the correlation is explained by the fact that the strong variability of conditions in the first year of life makes animals more adaptable to difficulties, which ultimately increases both the lifespan and breeding success.
Interestingly, in females, these effects were not observed. The authors suggest that this may be due to the fact that the survival rate of females is more dependent on conditions which have their pregnancy and feeding children: it is possible that this effect simply overrides the impact of the first year of life.
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Localized Osteosarcoma
Localized osteosarcoma affects only the bone in which it developed and the tissues next to the bone, such as muscle and tendon. There is no detectable spread of the cancer to other areas of the body. In young adults, most localized osteosarcomas occur around the knee.
The following is a general overview of treatment for localized osteosarcoma. Treatment may consist of surgery, chemotherapy, or both. Multi-modality treatment, which is treatment using two or more techniques, is increasingly recognized as an important approach for increasing a patient’s chance of cure or prolonging survival. In some cases, participation in a clinical trial utilizing new, innovative therapies may provide the most promising treatment. Circumstances unique to each patient’s situation may influence how these general treatment principles are applied and whether the patient decides to receive treatment. The potential benefits of multi-modality care, participation in a clinical trial, or standard treatment must be carefully balanced with the potential risks. The information on this website is intended to help educate patients about their treatment options and to facilitate a mutual or shared decision-making process with their treating cancer physician.
Treatment of Localized Osteosarcoma
Effective treatment of localized osteosarcoma requires both local and systemic therapy. Local therapy consists of surgery and is directed at removing the primary osteosarcoma. Systemic therapy is treatment directed at eliminating cancer cells throughout the body, and usually consists of chemotherapy.
The delivery of systemic therapy in addition to local treatment is necessary to maximize a patient’s chance of cure. Most patients diagnosed with localized osteosarcoma actually have micrometastases that are undetectable by current procedures. Micrometastases are cancer cells that have spread beyond the area of the original cancer. The presence of micrometastases may cause osteosarcoma recurrence following local treatment with surgery alone. Thus, systemic therapy is often needed to treat undetectable micrometastases. Typically, patients undergo chemotherapy followed by surgery and then additional chemotherapy after the surgery.
The multi-modality approach to treatment for osteosarcoma requires that patients be treated by a multi-disciplinary team consisting of the primary care physician, an orthopedic surgeon experienced in bone tumors, a pathologist, radiation oncologists, pediatric oncologists, rehabilitation specialists, pediatric nurse specialists, social workers, and others. An experienced team is best found in specialty cancer centers that treat many patients with osteosarcoma. Engaging a multidisciplinary team at one of these centers helps ensure that the patient receives treatment, supportive care, and rehabilitation that will achieve optimal survival and quality of life. The primary cooperative group evaluating osteosarcoma treatment in the US is the Children’s Cancer Study Group.
The ultimate goal of surgery for localized osteosarcoma is to remove the cancer without amputation. The specific type of surgery a patient undergoes depends on the location and extent of the cancer. For surgery to be successful, the cancer and a large margin of healthy tissue surrounding the cancer must be removed. Patients undergo a preoperative examination to determine whether it is possible to achieve wide surgical margins of healthy tissue, thereby avoiding amputation. If the preoperative examination determines that it is not possible to remove an adequate margin of normal tissue, an amputation should be considered. This is particularly true when there is a poor response to systemic treatment, such as chemotherapy, before surgery.
Even with the advent of chemotherapy as systemic treatment, surgery is still an important component of treatment for osteosarcoma. Research shows that chemotherapy without surgery results in worse outcomes. Researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center evaluated 31 pediatric patients who initially underwent treatment with intent-to-cure utilizing chemotherapy alone.1 After 3 months of treatment, the second phase of the study began in which patients received more chemotherapy instead of surgery. The researchers reported that only 3 of 31 patients were cured with the administration of chemotherapy alone. Overall, 48% of patients survived, 23% were cancer free. These rates are not comparable to the typical cure rates of treatment with chemotherapy and surgery together, indicating that treatment of osteosarcoma with chemotherapy alone is insufficient.
The main improvement in the treatment of localized osteosarcoma over the past 30 years has been the advent of chemotherapy. Historically, systemic therapy was administered as an adjuvant, or after surgery. Clinical trials performed during the 1980’s have shown that treatment of localized osteosarcoma with adjuvant chemotherapy improves a patient’s chance of survival and decreases the risk of cancer recurrence compared to surgery alone.2,3 More recently, chemotherapy has been administered before surgery in order to shrink the cancer prior to surgical removal.
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: The administration of chemotherapy before surgery is referred to as neoadjuvant therapy. This approach has the potential advantage of delivering widespread systemic treatment quickly and reducing the size of the primary cancer in order to increase the number of patients eligible for limb-sparing surgical treatment. The more a cancer is reduced by neoadjuvant chemotherapy, the more likely a patient will live longer and be disease free.
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy, Surgery, and Adjuvant Chemotherapy: Since the 1980’s, the treatment of osteosarcoma has been further improved with the addition of neoadjuvant chemotherapy to conventional surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy. This strategy has resulted in curing 50-65% of patients compared to approximately 20% when surgery is used alone. If treatment includes chemotherapy before surgery, more than 80% of extremity osteosarcomas can be treated by a limb-sparing operation and do not require amputation.
Certain chemotherapy agents are more effective in treating osteosarcoma than others. The results of most clinical trials evaluating chemotherapy suggest that combinations of chemotherapy agents are more effective than single agents. The most commonly used chemotherapy agents include Platinol®, doxorubicin, and methotrexate. Other agents that may be used include cyclophosphamide, Ifex®, etoposide, and Paraplatin®.
For example, two studies have shown good survival with the neoadjuvant/adjuvant regimen including doxorubicin, Platinol®, methotrexate, and Ifex®. Italian and Scandinavian researchers reported that, after an average of five years, 73% of patients remained disease free.4 Six patients who experienced a recurrence underwent further treatment. Overall survival was 87%. In a second Italian study that evaluated 300 patients with localized osteosarcoma of the extremity, 59% of patients were disease free at eight years.5
A more recent study from Italy and Scandinavia reported good results for a high-dose ifosfamide, high-dose methotrexate, cisplatin, and doxorubicin regimen supported by G-CSF (a drug to boost white blood cell levels).6 One hundred and eighty-two patients with localized osteosarcoma of the extremity were treated with two cycles of therapy before surgery and three cycles after surgery. Treatment-related mortality was 1.6%. The five-year survival without relapse was 64% and the overall survival was 77%.
Italian researchers have reported the outcomes of 1126 patients with non-metastatic osteosarcoma of the lower extremities.7 They reported a five-year event-free survival (survival without cancer recurrence) of 55% and five-year overall survival of 66%. Positive surgical margins (evidence of cancer at the edge of the tissue that was surgically removed) and poor response to chemotherapy were associated with an increased risk of local recurrence (recurrence near the site of the original cancer). These results suggest that patients with positive surgical margins may benefit from an amputation or other aggressive therapy.
Dose-Intensity: The total amount of drug delivered over a specific period of time is referred to as the dose-intensity of a particular treatment regimen. Chemotherapy can be given all at once or over an extended period of time. However, the effect of the treatment is reduced if the optimal dose intensity is decreased by delays or interruptions in treatment.
One study conducted by Italian researchers demonstrated that delays or reduction of doses negatively impact the therapeutic effect of neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy. In this study, 144 patients with osteosarcoma of the extremity were treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy between 1986 and 1989.8 Patients who received 90% or more of the scheduled dose-intensity had a survival of 76.5%. Survival dropped to 57.3% for patients who received less than 90% of the scheduled dose-intensity.
Radiation therapy has a limited role in the treatment of localized osteosarcoma. The standards and options for use of radiation therapy in the management of patients with osteosarcoma have been reviewed.9 Studies have suggested that radiation therapy may provide a benefit when adequate surgery cannot be achieved.10,11 However, routine use of preventive radiation therapy after chemotherapy is not endorsed.
Effect of Age
Most osteosarcomas occur in teenagers or young adults. However, the disease does occur in older individuals and their outcomes could be different than younger patients. However, a recent study from Italy looked at the outcomes of 34 patients with osteosarcoma of the extremities who were between the ages of 41 and 60 years.12 In this group of patients 30 had limb salvage, three underwent amputation and one patient died from preoperative treatment. The five-year event-free survival was 56% and the overall survival was 70%. These authors concluded that neoadjuvant chemotherapy improves prognosis and reduces amputations at rates similar to that observed in younger individuals with osteosarcoma.
A larger European study involving 238 patients with high-grade localized osteosarcoma reported a 46% survival at five years.13
Treatment of Secondary Osteosarcoma
Osteosarcoma occurs as a secondary cancer in some patients who have been treated for other cancers. Secondary osteosarcoma occurs most frequently following radiation therapy. Patients with secondary osteosarcoma have the same prognosis as patients with primary osteosarcoma if they are treated aggressively with surgery and multiple chemotherapy drugs. Two studies have demonstrated that approximately 50% of patients with secondary osteosarcoma will live 7-8 years or more.
In the first study, the Cooperative German-Austrian-Swiss Osteosarcoma Study Group evaluated outcomes of 30 patients with secondary. All but six patients had received prior radiation therapy and 14 patients had received prior chemotherapy. Seventeen of the secondary osteosarcomas occurred in a previously irradiated area. All but three patients had localized osteosarcoma at diagnosis. Results showed that 50% of the patients lived seven years or more and 30% were free of cancer progression.14
A more recent study from Canada found that radiation-induced bone sarcoma had similar outcomes to primary osteosarcoma if treated aggressively.15
The second study included 23 patients with secondary osteosarcomas related to prior radiation treatment for childhood or adolescent cancers. Following treatment with surgery and intensive preoperative and postoperative chemotherapy, 50% of patients survived eight years or more and 41% were free of cancer progression. The average time between radiotherapy for the initial cancer and the diagnosis of secondary osteosarcoma was eight years.16
Factors that Impact Prognosis
The most important factors in long-term outcomes of patients with localized osteosarcoma are the degree of anti-cancer response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and whether or not the cancer could be completely removed with surgery. Patients whose primary cancer is reduced by more than 95% following initial chemotherapy have a better prognosis than those with less cancer reduction.
Outcomes vary for osteosarcoma depending on where it originates in the body. Patients with osteosarcoma of the head and face and other flat bones experience good survival with complete removal of the involved bone plus chemotherapy.17 In general, patients with osteosarcoma in their extremities, arms or legs, have a better outcome than patients with osteosarcoma of the central part of the skeleton, such as the pelvis. This is probably due to a later diagnosis for cancers in the pelvic region. However, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University found that neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment of patients with osteosarcoma of the head and neck resulted in survival comparable to those reported with osteosarcoma of the extremity. Of the 27 patients involved in this study, 66% survived two years or more and 55% survived five years or more.18
Researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have reported that the absolute tumor size at diagnosis was significantly predictive of overall and event-free survival following treatment.19
Researchers from Italy have also found that an elevated level of serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is an independent risk factor for patients at high risk of relapse.20 The importance of this observation is that patients with a high LDH may need more aggressive treatment than patients without an elevated LDH.
Researchers have also determined that the specific cell type of the osteosarcoma affects outcome after treatment.21 In a study of over 1000 patients with osteosarcoma of the extremity, the frequency of specific cell types was as follows:
Osteoblastic=70%
Chrondroblastic=13%
Fibroblastic=9%
Telangiectatic=6%
Responses to neoadjuvant therapy were significantly better for fibroblastic, telangiectatic and worse for chrondroblastic tumors. Five-year survival, by cell type, was as follows:
Fibroblastic=83%
Telangiectatic=75%
The importance of these observations is to plan therapy that is more aggressive or different for those with a predicted poor outcome with standard therapy.
The development of more effective cancer treatments requires that new and innovative therapies be evaluated with cancer patients. Clinical trials are studies that evaluate the effectiveness of new drugs or treatment strategies. Future progress in the treatment of localized osteosarcoma will result from the continued evaluation of new treatments in clinical trials. Participation in a clinical trial may offer patients access to better treatments and advance the existing knowledge about treatment of this cancer. Patients who are interested in participating in a clinical trial should discuss the risks and benefits of clinical trials with their physician. Areas of active exploration to improve the treatment of localized osteosarcoma include the following:
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy without Adjuvant Chemotherapy: Neoadjuvant therapy has become more important because it reduces the size of the cancer and makes surgery more effective. Due to these positive results with neoadjuvant therapy, researchers have recently questioned the need for adjuvant therapy.
The addition of adjuvant chemotherapy for patients who have received neoadjuvant therapy and definitive surgery does not appear to increase survival and may contribute to the development of secondary cancers. This conclusion is based on the results of a small study that compared the outcomes of 19 patients with localized osteosarcoma treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgery with 35 patients who received both adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemotherapy. There was no difference in survival between the groups. In addition, 4 patients in the adjuvant therapy group died of secondary cancers, compared to none in the no-adjuvant therapy group. This is a small study and needs to be duplicated in larger clinical trials.22
Radiation Protectors: Radiation protectors are drugs that selectively protect normal tissues from radiation treatment, while exposing cancer cells. Over the past 50 years, many radiation protectors have been tested in the laboratory for prevention of radiation damage to normal cells and tissues. Radiation protectors are considered supportive care. Supportive care refers to treatments designed to prevent and control the side effects of cancer and its treatment. Side effects not only cause patients discomfort, but may also prevent the delivery of therapy at its planned dose and schedule, resulting in sub-optimal effects. In order to achieve optimal outcomes from treatment and improve quality of life, it is imperative that side effects are appropriately managed.
Ethyol® is the only radiation protector that has been approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration. Clinical trials have demonstrated that Ethyol® can reduce both acute and late radiation-induced side effects. The development of Ethyol® has resulted in the successful administration of enough radiation therapy to eliminate cancers, while maintaining patient quality of life.
Italian researchers have reported that Ethyol® is protective for children with osteosarcoma. In this study, 29 children with osteosarcoma were treated with platinum-based adjuvant and neoadjuvant combination chemotherapy with Ethyol® or chemotherapy alone. Low blood counts were less frequent in patients receiving Ethyol®. Though no difference in survival was reported, researchers suggested that a larger trial may provide this evidence. Ethyol® has also been shown to protect women with ovarian cancer from the side effects of Platinol®-based chemotherapy.23
Gene Therapy: Currently, there are no gene therapies approved for the treatment of osteosarcoma. Gene therapy consists of transferring new genetic material into a cell for therapeutic benefit. This can be accomplished by replacing or inactivating a dysfunctional gene to make the cell function normally. Gene therapy has been directed towards the control of rapid growth in cancer cells, control of cancer death, or efforts to make the immune system kill cancer cells. A few gene therapy studies are being carried out in patients with osteosarcoma. There are a number of preclinical studies and one phase I study planned which suggest that gene therapies will be tested in patients with osteosarcoma in the near future.24,25,26,27
Hyperthermia: Applying heat to the blood supply of an extremity affected by osteosarcoma has been evaluated to increase the effectiveness of cancer chemotherapy drugs. In this procedure, the blood supply to the affected limb is isolated and heated before returning it to the body. This treatment is usually accompanied by intra-arterial infusion of chemotherapy. The theory underlying this treatment is sound and encouraging results have been reported. However, the technique is difficult to perform and there have been no clinical trials directly comparing the effectiveness of hyperthermia and chemotherapy to conventional chemotherapy treatment. Heat can also be applied directly to cancer with the use of microwaves but the advantages of this approach are not clear.28
Japanese researchers have shown that hyperthermia may help to control cancer locally, resulting in a more conservative surgical procedure. These researchers treated 20 patients with osteosarcoma of the lower limb with preoperative hyperthermia applied by isolating and heating the blood in conjunction with Platinol®-based chemotherapy.29 More than half of the patients experienced a significant reduction in their cancer following the preoperative treatment with hyperthermia.
Intra-arterial Chemotherapy: The administration of chemotherapy into a selected artery that delivers blood directly to the cancer has been evaluated as a treatment option for patients with different types of cancer, particularly abdominal cancers. This technique is now being refined and evaluated as a possible new treatment option for patients with osteosarcoma. This strategy increases the anti-cancer effects of chemotherapy in several ways:
The chemotherapy agent does not become diluted by mixing with the entire blood supply prior to reaching the cancer.
The chemotherapy agent is not broken down in the body through biochemical processes prior to reaching the cancer.
Larger amounts of the chemotherapy agent can reach the cancer with fewer associated systemic side effects.
Although the theory behind intra-arterial chemotherapy is sound, Italian researchers have demonstrated that it did not appear to offer any significant advantage over standard chemotherapy to patients with osteosarcoma. These researchers compared intra-arterial to standard intravenous infusions of a combination chemotherapy including Platinol® in 221 patients with osteosarcoma of the extremity.30 Both a 3-drug and a 4-drug regimen were evaluated. In the 3-drug regimen, there was a better response rate to intra-arterial chemotherapy compared to standard intravenous infusion, but no difference was noted in the 4-drug regimen.
Another study from Italy demonstrated that, although a better response was observed in patients receiving intra-arterial Platinol®, the benefits of this approach did not appear to outweigh the disadvantages of cost and patient discomfort, especially since additional treatment is available for patients who do not respond well to intravenous Platinol®. This study included 95 patients with localized osteosarcoma. In patients receiving intra-arterial Platinol®, 64% showed good responses compared to 43% receiving intravenous Platinol®.31
Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT): IORT consists of a single dose of radiation therapy that is delivered directly to the area of cancer during surgery. IORT is performed in specially-equipped operating rooms. Because of the advantage of being able to see the area being treated, the radiation doctor can protect sensitive structures, such as nerves and blood vessels, by moving them away from the radiation beam.
Results from one study evaluating IORT indicate that cancer may recur less often in the area of the surgery. In this study, very high-dose IORT was used in combination with chemotherapy with the aim of saving an affected limb. However, the cancer may still recur in surrounding tissue that is not radiated.
In osteosarcoma, IORT is often used in an attempt to save an affected limb. IORT, combined with preventive stabilization of the bone with metal rods and chemotherapy, appears to improve quality of life in patients with osteosarcomas in the extremities. In one study, 39 patients with osteosarcoma of the extremity were treated with very high doses of IORT.32 Following treatment, local recurrences occurred in 19 of these patients and 23 had distant metastasis.
Vaccines: Vaccines are a potentially non-toxic way to eliminate small remaining areas of cancer, but at the present time there are no vaccines approved for treating any cancer. However, the UK Children’s Cancer Study Group has evaluated a vaccine, known as Onyvax-105 (105AD7), and has found that the vaccine elicits an immune response in patients with osteosarcoma.33 This vaccine will need to be tested in randomized trials to determine if it is effective or not.
High-Dose Chemotherapy with Autologous Stem Cell Support: High-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell support, also referred to as autologous stem cell transplantation, is used to treat a variety of cancers and has also been explored as a method of increasing dose-intensity in patients with osteosarcoma.
High-dose chemotherapy therapy generally kills more cancer cells than standard-dose therapy, but also kills more healthy cells, including hematopoietic stem cells (immature blood cells). A hematopoietic stem cell transplant replaces the stem cells that are destroyed during high-dose chemotherapy. An autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant makes use of a patient’s own stem cells. The stem cells are collected prior to therapy and stored, then administered to the patient after high-dose therapy.
A recent study from Turkey demonstrated the feasibility of using this approach prior to surgery in 22 patients with localized osteosarcoma.34 They administered two cycles of therapy consisting of ifosfamide, cisplatin and doxorubicin each supported by autologous stem cells. The three-year disease-free survival was 70% and the overall survival was 83%. One advantage to this approach is that the treatment period is shorter.
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4 Bacci G, Ferrari S, Longhi, et al. High dose ifosfamide in combination with high dose methotrexate, adriamycin and Platinol in the neoadjuvant treatment of extremity osteosarcoma: preliminary results of an Italian Sarcoma Group/Scandinavian Sarcoma Group pilot study. Hemother. 2002;14:198-206.
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10 Ozaki T, Flege S, Kevric M, et al. Osteosarcoma of the Pelvis: Experience of the Cooperative Osteosarcoma Study Group. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2003; 21: 334-341.
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2.60 / 3.00 Jim Walker
Director of Sustainability, Financial, and Administrative Services
University Operations
Do all enrolled students, regardless of type or status, have an avenue to participate in one or more governance bodies (through direct participation or the election of representatives)?:
A brief description of the mechanisms through which students have an avenue to participate in one or more governance bodies:
The university has many and diverse opportunities for undergraduates and graduate students to participate in campus governance. Most of these are administratively organized with the Dean of Students. Student Government and the Senate of College Councils are the two main legislative bodies sponsored by Student Affairs.
http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sg/
Is there at least one student representative on the institution’s governing body who was elected by peers or appointed by a representative student body or organization?:
A brief description of student representation on the governing body, including how the representatives are selected:
The UT System Board of Regents includes a non-voting student representative appointed by the Governor based on applications.
https://www.utsystem.edu/students/about-student-regent
Do students have a formal role in decision-making in regard to the following?:
Establishing organizational mission, vision, and/or goals No
Establishing new policies, programs, or initiatives Yes
Strategic and long-term planning Yes
Existing or prospective physical resources Yes
Budgeting, staffing and financial planning No
Communications processes and transparency practices No
Prioritization of programs and projects No
A brief description of the formal student role in regard to each area indicated, including examples from the previous three years:
Student Government is key in planning, management of physical resources, and establishing new initiatives such as Safe Walk (late night escorts). However, other campus groups can raise issues and see results, such as OxFam persuading the university to join the Fair Trade Alliance and the Campus Environmental Center providing the original draft, to the President, of the Campus Sustainability Policy adopted in 2008. The UT administration is open to student collaboration on all levels when presented with respect for institutional procedure.
Do all staff, regardless of type or status, have an avenue to participate in one or more governance bodies (through direct participation or the election of representatives)?:
A brief description of the mechanisms through which all staff have an avenue to participate in one or more governance bodies:
The University Staff Council provides this opportunity.
https://www.utexas.edu/staff/council/. Staff Council is a representative body but all staff may attend monthly open meetings and correspond with the officers.
Is there at least one non-supervisory staff representative on the institution’s governing body who was elected by peers or appointed by a representative staff body or organization?:
A brief description of non-supervisory staff representation on the governing body, including how the representatives are selected:
Do non-supervisory staff have a formal role in decision-making in regard to the following? :
Communications processes and transparency practices Yes
A brief description of the formal staff role in regard to each area indicated, including examples from the previous three years:
https://www.utexas.edu/staff/council/
Via Staff Council, staff have been involved in multiple levels of university function including consultation on Shared Services planning, transportation issues, the establishment of a staff Ombuds, and improving university communications. This is done through interaction at monthly meetings, Executive Staff monthly meetings with the President, and the work of various committees.
Do all faculty, regardless of type or status, have an avenue to participate in one or more governance bodies (through direct participation or the election of representatives)?:
A brief description of the mechanisms through which all faculty (including adjunct faculty) have an avenue to participate in one or more governance bodies:
http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/ Faculty are sent to Faculty Council as representatives of an academic department. Issues are raised by any member of the body and should they reach consensus, a policy proposal is drafted and presented to the President and Provost, who approve or deny the proposals and implement the policy.
Is there at least one teaching or research faculty representative on the institution’s governing body who was elected by peers or appointed by a representative faculty body or organization?:
A brief description of faculty representation on the governing body, including how the representatives are selected:
Do faculty have a formal role in decision-making in regard to the following?:
Establishing organizational mission, vision, and/or goals Yes
A brief description of the formal faculty role in regard to each area indicated, including examples from the previous three years:
Faculty have been involved in the Campus Master Plan process, which covers strategic and long-term planning (and faculty are involved in 5-year departmental plans as well) and the physical resources of the university. Faculty serve on presidential steering committees that set vision and goals for the institution, as well as launch new initiatives.
The website URL where information about the institution’s governance structure is available:
http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/
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Nutritional Control of Reproductive Status in Honeybees via DNA Methylation
R. Kucharski*,
J. Maleszka*,
S. Foret,
R. Maleszka†
Molecular Genetics and Evolution, ARC Centre for the Molecular Genetics of Development, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia.
↵† To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: maleszka{at}rsbs.anu.edu.au
Science 28 Mar 2008:
Vol. 319, Issue 5871, pp. 1827-1830
R. Kucharski
J. Maleszka
S. Foret
R. Maleszka
For correspondence: maleszka@rsbs.anu.edu.au
Fertile queens and sterile workers are alternative forms of the adult female honeybee that develop from genetically identical larvae following differential feeding with royal jelly. We show that silencing the expression of DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3, a key driver of epigenetic global reprogramming, in newly hatched larvae led to a royal jelly–like effect on the larval developmental trajectory; the majority of Dnmt3 small interfering RNA–treated individuals emerged as queens with fully developed ovaries. Our results suggest that DNA methylation in Apis is used for storing epigenetic information, that the use of that information can be differentially altered by nutritional input, and that the flexibility of epigenetic modifications underpins, profound shifts in developmental fates, with massive implications for reproductive and behavioral status.
Many organisms respond to environmental conditions by displaying phenotypic plasticity, that is, producing different phenotypes from the same DNA genome (1, 2). In social insects, the production of contrasting adult morphologies as well as different reproductive and behavioral systems is critical to their social organization and division of labor (3–6). These differences are likely to arise at the most basic level from differential somatic imprinting during development on the same genome. Honeybees (Apis mellifera) differentially feed genetically identical female larvae to create mainly workers and, when required, a few queens (7–11). Young nurse bees in the hive produce and feed a largely bio-chemically uncharacterized substance named royal jelly to larvae destined to become queens, whereas the other larvae are fed with less-sophisticated food (8–11). Despite their identical clonal nature at the DNA level, workers and queens differ markedly in morphological and physiological features and have contrasting reproductive capabilities, strikingly diverse life spans, and very different behavioral repertoires. It is not understood, however, how differential nutrition is linked to gene expression and how alterations in diet alter pathways that modify the developmental trajectory of an organism.
Studies in mammals suggest that environmental stimuli such as diet can alter the epigenetic state of the genome and affect gene expression by modifying DNA methylation and histone acetylation patterns (12, 13). In addition, strong epidemiological data reveal that cardiovascular and diabetes mortality in children can be influenced by the nutritional status of their parents and grandparents (14). In experimental mammalian contexts such as the agouti mouse, a number of contrasting phenotypes, such as yellow and obese or brown and slim, can be controlled by varying the mother's diet before, during, and after pregnancy (15). Agouti gene expression can be silenced by DNA methylation, and its quantities are variable in genetically identical individuals because of epigenetic modifications established during early development (16). Differential maternal behavior in the rat also alters the methylation status of the promoter of the glucocorticoid receptor of her pups (17).
Epigenetic regulation thus facilitates the integration of intrinsic signals and environmental signals by using highly conserved enzymatic machinery that includes DNA cytosine-5-methyltransferases (Dnmts), histone deacetylases (HDAs), and methyl-binding proteins (MBPs) (18). Although Dnmts appear to be widely conserved in evolution, evidence for a fully functional DNA methylation system in insects has not been forthcoming. Recently, we reported that the honeybee has a full complement of all three functional Dnmts with in vivo properties similar to those of the CpG methylation system in vertebrates (19). Apis has two orthologs of Dnmt1, one ortho log of Dnmt2, and one of Dnmt3 (19, 20). However, dipterans, such as Drosophila and mosquitoes, lack some members of this family and possess only a Dnmt2 ortho log. The Apis genome also encodes conserved MBPs including components of the nucleosome remodeling and HDA complex. Because all three Dnmt enzymes are shared by humans and honeybees but not by other commonly used model invertebrates, such findings establish the honeybee as a model to not only study the function of DNA methylation in invertebrates, but also for examining any fundamental overlaps that may help in understanding the nutritional basis of epigenetic reprogramming in humans. Although the global methylation landscape of the Apis genome remains ill defined, several methylated genes have already been identified, revealing that CpG methylation occurs preferentially within the coding exons but not at the 5′ and 3′ regions of the transcription units (19).
Accordingly, we examined how this highly conserved molecular machinery in Apis could be used to elucidate the contrasting anatomical, physiological, and behavioral characteristics of honeybee castes that are brought about by differences in their early life environment.
We used RNA interference (RNAi) technology to silence the expression of Dnmt3 in newly hatched L1 larvae and in embryos because this de novo methylase has been implicated in establishing DNA methylation patterns during development (18, 20). Injections of Dnmt3 small interfering RNA (siRNA) into newly hatched larvae were well tolerated and led to a transient but significant decrease in the amount of Dnmt3 message, whereas this treatment was lethal for embryos (21). Both quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and in situ hybridization show that the amount of Dnmt3 mRNA is lower in siRNA-treated larvae than in control individuals (Fig. 1), with the strongest silencing occurring 48 to 50 hours post-injection, a time that coincides with the L2-to-L3 larval transition, a critical “decision-making” period in larval development (7–11). In contrast, injections of a “nonlarval” gene, uth (22), had no detectable effects on the amount of Dnmt3 mRNA.
(A) Injections of Dnmt3 siRNA induce a significant down-regulation of larval Dnmt3 mRNA levels at stage L3. Dnmt3 expression was measured in pooled larvae with use of quantitative PCR as described previously and shown relative to a reference gene encoding calmodulin as detailed previously [see (21) for details]. (B) In situ hybridization showing the expression of Dnmt3 during L1 to L3 developmental stages. Red arrows indicate the position of the CA. Only the larval heads are shown. The in situ hybridizations were conducted on larvae from a different silencing experiment than the experiment for quantitative PCR.
This interference with Dnmt3 expression triggers profound developmental changes leading to contrasting adult outcomes (Fig. 2; see fig. S1 for data from individual experiments). In the Dnmt3 siRNA-treated larvae, the majority of emerging adults (72%) were queens with fully developed ovaries, and the remaining 28% were typical workers with rudimentary ovaries (Fig. 2). In contrast, in the larval group injected with a control gene siRNA (uth), 77% of adults emerged as workers, whereas the remaining 23% exhibited queenlike morphological features. However, these queenlike individuals had grossly underdeveloped ovaries with no more than 50 to 80 ovarioles per ovary compared with at least 120 to 190 ovarioles in those queens emerging in the Dnmt3 siRNA experiment (Fig. 2). The ovaries of siRNA-induced queens are practically indistinguishable from the ovaries of a virgin queen reared in the hive on pure royal jelly. Workers have only rudimentary ovaries with two to six ovarioles.
Effect of Dnmt3 silencing on caste development in honeybees. Newly emerged larvae were injected either with a nonlarval control gene, uth, siRNA or with Dnmt3 siRNA and allowed to develop until adulthood in a climate-controlled incubator. In both groups, the larvae developed normally, but the emerging adults displayed contrasting phenotypes. (A) The number of adults in each phenotypic category (workers, queens, and queenlikes). (B) The number of ovarioles per single ovary in each phenotypic class. Range error bars encompass the lowest and highest values. (C) Examples of ovaries dissected from each category and, for comparison, from a virgin queen reared in the hive on royal jelly. Queenlikes have queen morphological features but fewer ovarioles per ovary than queens [see (B)]. Workers have only rudimentary ovaries with two to six ovarioles. The figure is a compilation of four independent experiments. See (21), table S2, and fig. S1 for more details and results from individual experiments.
Do these phenotypic effects correlate with methylation changes in larval DNA? Because global methylation in the honeybee genome is low, we examined the methylation status of cytosines in a single gene, dynactin p62, that we had previously shown to be differentially methylated during development [figure S3 in (19)]. Dietary changes lead to differential expression of this gene in Drosophila, further underscoring its role in growth and feeding-related processes (23, 24).
As with all genes so far examined for CpG methylation in Apis, dynactin p62 is methylated exclusively within the coding exonic sequences. Within the exonic landscape, we chose exons 5, 6, and 7 for bisulfite conversion because they contain a total of 10 CpG dinucleotides (Fig. 3), a high concentration compared with other genes we have examined. With this 0.5-kb bisulfite-converted and PCR-amplified fragment, we first mapped differences in dynactin p62 methylation by using DNAs isolated from hive-reared whole larvae (late L3) destined to become either queens or workers. As shown in Fig. 3A, there is a detectable decrease in the overall amount of methylation of dynactin p62 in the queen larvae (48%) versus the worker larvae (58%), suggesting that the methylation state of certain genes may correlate with the larva's developmental trajectory. However, because there are virtually no cell divisions during larval growth and larval tissues are both highly polypoid and heterogeneous with regard to their ploidy level (see examples in fig. S2), varying DNA dosages at any locus introduces technical limitations on methylation measurements in whole larvae. Therefore, to better evaluate the effectiveness of Dnmt3 RNAi silencing, we used only DNAs extracted from larval heads (late L3). Although the larval head contains several cell types (25), the tissues most relevant to developmental processes are brain neurosecretory cells and corpora allata (CA), the gland producing juvenile hormone implicated in the control of development and caste determination (7). The CA undergo several phases of endomitosis that lead to a high degree of its polyploidization in both queens and workers, but the rate of growth of the CA in queens is significantly accelerated, and at the completion of larval development (L5) the queen CA are twice the size of the worker CA (26). The high amount of Dnmt3 expression in CA shown in Fig. 1B may well be indicative of a link between the gland's function and its methylation status. Furthermore, the highly polyploid nature of the CA at stages L3 to L5 (fig. S2) must correlate with massive DNA replication that provides an opportunity for either adding or removing the methyl tags to target loci.
Methylation status of cytosines in CpG dinucleotides of dynactin p62. The percentage of methylation for individual CpGs is shown in boxes, and the overall methylation in the right-hand graphs. DNA was isolated by using larvae collected (A and B) from the hive [for (A), pooled whole late-L3 larvae, n = 7; for (B), heads only, n = 20 for workers and n = 14 for queen larvae] and (C) from pooled heads of late-L3 in vitro reared larvae (n = 7). The number of clones sequenced for each category is shown above the bars in the right-hand graphs. Methylation quantities along this gene were analyzed with a general linear model of the binomial family (31) by using treatment (diet or RNAi) and position as factors to model the state of each CpG. The differences between queen larvae (QL) and worker larvae (WL) as well as the effect of RNAi are statistically significant.
The results shown in Fig. 3 are consistent with this expectation. As illustrated in Fig. 3B, the 10% decrease in dynactin p62 methylation in the heads of queen larvae is basically the same as the decrease found in the whole bodies, but the overall amount of CpG methylation in clones sequenced from both worker and queen larval heads is significantly higher than those analyzed from the whole bodies. The heads of worker larvae show 73% methylation across the dynactin fragment compared with only 58% in clones extracted from the workers' whole bodies, and for the queen larvae the head clones show 63% methylation versus 48% in the whole bodies (Fig. 3, A and B, right). This finding suggests that during larval development a high amount of CpG methylation and/or demethylation is associated with selected tissues, most likely with those that undergo massive DNA replication, such as cells of the CA and neurosecretory cells.
The analysis of the Dnmt3 RNAi silencing experiments in laboratory-reared larvae reveals a profile that is remarkably similar to that seen in the hive-reared individuals (Fig. 3C). The heads of worker larvae in the control group (worker-destined) show 79% methylation across the dynactin p62 fragment, whereas the clones extracted from the Dnmt3 siRNA-injected larvae (queen-destined) show 63% methylation (Fig. 3C).
Interestingly, individual CpG sites reveal greater differences between the castes than those illustrated by the average methylation amounts across the entire dynactin fragment. For CpG sites 2 and 4, the decrease in cytosine methylation between the control and siRNA-treated clones is more than 30%, and for CpG site 10 the difference is 25% (Fig. 3C). These CpGs also show more than the average differential methylation in the heads of hive-reared larvae (Fig. 3B). This finding suggests that certain CpG sites might be preferentially methylated, but further studies are required to determine whether CpG methylation in Apis is used for transcriptional silencing of individual genes or is part of a global mechanism controlling transcriptional domains across the whole genome.
To identify members of networks regulated by methylation during larval growth and to gain some understanding of the epigenetic hierarchy that leads to alternative developmental paths we used the honeybee genomic oligonucleotide microarray to compare global gene expression between the control and Dnmt3-silenced larvae (table S1, ArrayExpress accession number E-MEXP-1394). This revealed a battery of differentially expressed genes associated with lipid transport, hormonal regulation, posttranslational modification, protein turnover, ribosomal biogenesis, energy transfer, and other physiometabolic processes, as well as a number of novel, possibly Apis-specific genes with unknown functions (table S1). One differentially expressed gene predicted to encode an ortholog of the adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) Belphegor has been shown in Drosophila to be regulated by TOR, a serine/threonine kinase that is central to a signaling cascade controlling growth (27). TOR is believed to be at the core of an ancient gene network that senses nutrient levels, and its involvement in honeybee queen development has already been considered (7, 28). We also expected that the set of genes responsive to Dnmt3 silencing might contain genes implicated in chromatin remodeling and integrity. It is known that regulation of eukaryotic gene expression requires two classes of chromatin-remodeling enzymes: those that modify histones through acetylation, phosphorylation, or methylation and those that alter chromatin structure through hydrolysis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) (29). From the list shown in table S1, we identified at least two genes belonging to this category, a subunit of the INO80 nucleosome remodeling complex and an ATPase of the type involved in structural maintenance of chromosomes. The transcriptional responses to Dnmt3 silencing are in good agreement with our previous study in which we used a smaller, expressed sequence tag (EST)–based array to compare gene expression between queen and worker larvae extracted from the colony environment (7). Thus, both Dnmt3 silencing and feeding with royal jelly induce reprogramming of the larval transcriptome that is characterized by transcriptional shift toward higher expression of physiometabolic genes, including genes coding for metabolic enzymes and the general growth of the organism.
This study shows that in A. mellifera DNA methylation is a key component of an epigenetic network controlling a most important aspect of eusociality, the reproductive division of labor (30). Further work is required to unravel the causal relation between diet-induced methylation changes and altered gene expression, but our data hold substantial promise for functional methylome analyses in Metazoa using an easily manipulatable insect system. Where appropriate, the relevance of the honeybee findings to mammals can be evaluated to determine the level of data transferability, especially in the context of nutritional processes, longevity, and even drug treatment. Methylation data on a genomic scale combined with genomewide expressional profiling in both social and solitary insects possessing functional CpG methylation systems will be needed to dissect the intricacies of this elaborate regulatory system.
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Although she only moved 90 miles from where she grew up to attend North Carolina State University in Raleigh, Ashley Christensen still felt the pull of home. She found the comfort she sought in food. “Both my parents are incredible cooks, neither professionally, but they made food a big part of my life,” she says. “When I moved away, without thinking about it, I reconnected with the things that made me feel at home.”
Her culinary journey began at school where, with friends chipping in, she’d throw dinner parties. “I would explore things that I wanted to learn about and got very comfortable cooking,” she says. It also gave her the confidence to start working in restaurants at 19, where she worked for future James Beard Award-winner Andrea Reusing. She built her skills, studied local foodways, and climbed up to executive chef.
The ambitious chef had a fork-in-the-road moment. At a time when Southern fare wasn’t as acclaimed as it is today, she sensed something special happening in Raleigh’s food scene. “I looked up one day after thinking about, ‘Oh, I’ll move to New York, or I’ll move to San Francisco one day and keep going down this path,’ and I realized that my work was in this community,” Christensen says.
So, a decade ago, instead of heading to one of the country’s culinary capitals, she opened Poole’s in Raleigh—a modern diner where she refined comfort food classics without losing the comfort. Within five years, she’d opened three more restaurants: Beasley’s Chicken+Honey, where she serves Southern fried chicken; Chuck’s, her burger joint; and the cocktail spot Fox Liquor Bar. In 2014, she took home the coveted Best Chef: Southeast at the James Beard Awards. And in 2015 she added Death & Taxes, the woodfired restaurant in a building that had previously housed a funeral home and banks.
We sat down with the acclaimed chef at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen to talk about the decision to stay in Raleigh, developing her cooking style, the misconceptions about Southern food, and what has happened the last decade to elevate the cuisine.
Photo: courtesy Johnny Autry
How much did you feel much a pull to head to New York or San Francisco?
I think in the same way that young cooks do and young chefs do. There’s so much going on in those cities and when I would go and eat in those places, I felt so alive and excited and driven, but then I really felt that at home too. I started to understand the importance of building a relationship with your guests. As you build, you get support from folks in the community, that’s not an easy thing just to leave behind, and that became a very important part of the equation to me. What it means to not be someone who just cooks and then reads reviews about it, but to really become comfortable developing a dialogue with your guests. It has made me stronger as a cook and a leader.
Deciding to stay in the South, you’ve worked to elevate the region’s cooking. What are misconceptions about Southern food that you’ve fought against?
That everything’s fried. For years and years you heard people talk about overcooked vegetables that had sugar in them. I never grew up on that stuff. That wasn’t really a South that I understood or was part of my life.
The conversation of food over the past decade and a half has people so much more connected with what something is supposed to be. When you take it out of the Earth, what does this thing taste like and how can I celebrate that? The conversation, whether it be food television or food journalism has gotten people so much more excited about that and to know more about food and with that curiosity comes more connection with what truly defines it. That idea of the overcooked vegetables, everything being deep fried and dark in color whereas the South to me is full of such incredible agriculture and freshness, all the beautiful things that grow together. I’ll come home from Aspen to our first butter beans, our first sweet corn and tomatoes really jamming, and it’s those things will inform so much of what we’re cooking right now.
What changed the perception of Southern food?
There was a period in time, as we talked about earlier, like this idea that everyone has to move to New York or San Francisco. I think there was a moment in time after the crash in the market where people started to go home. All these folks who were working in these bustling cities then were like, “I kinda want to go home and do my thing. I want to make my food in the place that I grew up and that is where my family is or where I’m from.” You saw a lot of those folks go home, a lot of those people were in the South. That had a real effect on elevating how we approached ingredients. That’s a piece of it.
I lived in New York right after the financial crash, and there was a flood of Southern restaurants there as well.
Yeah, there’s a comfort there. It’s was pretty wild to see how many fried chicken and biscuit places are in Brooklyn.
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What else do you think contributed?
I also think a group like the Southern Foodways Alliance, which has been a big part of how I found my voice and really established a dialogue with chefs all over the South and beyond. That’s a group that really celebrates the people who contribute to cooking and food and Southern culture who aren’t talked about every day. They put a lot of energy into that. With that, there’s a lot of discovery about why things are what they are and what’s at the base of these traditions. That to me is a really prevalent piece.
A lot of people I talk to also point to Sean Brock.
Sean Brock is a friend of mine and I love to hear him talk about Charleston cuisine and how a big part of what he was missing when he first was experiencing it was because people weren’t cooking with the same things that they used to cook with. So now you’ve got great folks like Glen Roberts and Anson Mills who are elevating and bringing back all these great ingredients, like Sea Island red peas and Carolina gold rice and all kinds of other fun stuff. He’s been working on that for years and years and years and now you’re seeing that everywhere. So when we’re cooking with the ingredients that these dishes were based on and intended for, we see that food come back to what it was supposed to be. It’s a little bit like the game of telephone, where these recipes are passed on, maybe not properly documented. They’re not the right ingredients, and they’ve become something else that isn’t as wonderful as what they were based on.
When I spoke with Edouardo Jordan of JuneBaby, he didn’t open his Southern restaurant first, maybe even shied away from it a bit. But eventually he realized he wanted to tell the story of Southern food. Is that something you relate to?
For him and many of us here, it’s so hard to be confident in what makes you who you are. You’re so busy and somewhat intimidated by the things we don’t know, so there’s this thirst for all things that aren’t who we are and wanting to learn about them. With maturity and with taking the time to really establish our own voices, we get back to this and say, “This is my story. If I’m going to make contributions in American cooking, it has to be based on who I am. Everything that I’ve experienced can be a part of that, but this is my foundation.”
I think as cooks, we spend a lot of our early years running away from that and wanting to be a part of something that we see that looks amazing and it has the challenges of needing to find a connection with it, but ultimately, that’s what’s so great about what’s happening in food right now is that people are owning their stories and celebrating them and digging in deep. It’s neat to go back and learn, explore why we care about the things that we care about. And food is just such a beautiful format to get to tell good stories through.
How did you use that journey to develop your style?
Because of the way my parents cooked, it’s always been very ingredient driven, but sort of based on classic ideas. They would read a lot about food and then grow all this great stuff My mother was always a big fan of the idea that Southern food is about what grows in the South and what is stimulated from that. As I went further and further into my work, the thing that I was most drawn to was how food can be comforting. That doesn’t mean it has to be heavy or rich or saucy, but the idea of what food means to people and what makes recipes traditional or classic. So my relationship with food has really been about exploring those ideas and taking things that people perceive as really every day and looking at each piece to figure out how I can make that thing with greater understanding and still really pleasantly surprising.
In 2015 opened Death & Taxes, which is built around wood-fired cooking. In the time since it’s opened, I’ve seen a lot of restaurants with a similar style also. Do you sense people wanting to get back to a more elemental style of cooking?
I definitely feel that. We’re always thinking about technology in kitchens and all the different things that new pieces of equipment can do, but this was like a return to the most rustic style of cooking, which is making coals and figuring out how close things need to be to them to cook.
If you look at molecular gastronomy, that’s one of the easiest places to see a really intense style of cooking and there are about 10 people in the world who do it really well, in a way that experience can be just absolutely mind blowing. But because the techniques were so accessible, a bunch of people started getting involved with it who didn’t have the same connection with it that a lot of the folks who excel in that field do. I feel like you have to have this elemental background in cooking before you can go, “Okay, how do I want to bend the rules and make use of this technology?”
The pendulum has swung away from molecular gastronomy toward a more naturalistic approach.
It’s such an interesting next stage after seeing so much molecular stuff, this is the most rustic way of cooking. What’s really beautiful about it and why people are so drawn to it is there’s just this connection. When you’re working with coals and you’re over the wood fire, you have to have a deep understanding. You’re not just turning something on and off. You’ve got to be in charge of everything about what’s happening with it for hours and hours and hours. I think it leads us to a more elevated sense of attention and level of attention that we pay to the food and connection as well, but it’s also I think it asks more of the cook to think about the ingredient and what it’s going to do and how it’s going to react with the relationship with the coals. We get a deeper connection and exploration of what makes ingredients what they are.
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Sahiyo participated in key virtual events with global organizations in October
On November 18, 2020 By SahiyoIn Activists, advocacy, Events, FGC, film, health, human rights, Intersectionality, medicalization, Mental Health, Research, Sahiyo staff, sexual health, Trauma, United Kingdom, United Nations, United StatesLeave a comment
October was an incredibly busy month for Sahiyo, and we were honored to take part in many events to highlight the issue of female genital cutting (FGC) to various audiences in a multitude of virtual events including a medicalization webinar with #EndFGM Media Campaigns, Fast Tracking SDG 5 by Ending Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, Digital Storytelling & Advocacy Webinar with StoryCenter, A Girl From Mogadishu + Panel on FGM/C, Council of the Great City Schools Fall Conference, North America and Europe Caucus for CSW International Day of The Girl Child, and Taboo Conversations with RAHMA.
#EndFGM Media Campaigns: Medicalization Webinar
On October 13th, the Global Media Campaign to End FGM and UNFPA hosted a webinar exploring effective media campaign strategies and approaches to work toward countering a growing trend of medicalization within practicing communities. Speakers included Dr. Amr Hassan, Diana Kendi, Ayotomiwa Ayodele, Hoda Ali, Dr. Mariam Dahir, and Sahiyo U.S. Executive Director Mariya Taher. To watch a replay of this webinar, visit https://fb.watch/1yN240JQra/.
Fast Tracking SDG 5 by Ending Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
In honor of the International Day of the Girl, the U.S. End FGM/C Network hosted an event on October 13 titled, “Fast Tracking SDG 5 by Eliminating FGM/C,” as a means to raise awareness and foster important dialogue around ending the harmful practice of FGM/C. The webinar focused on recent developments around the adoption of federal and state-level legislation to end FGM/C in the U.S. and where future policy efforts should focus; common barriers to developing and implementing effective FGM/C abandonment programs (i.e., lack of funding, data, awareness, etc.) and how the community can overcome them; and solutions for prioritizing FGM/C abandonment on the global stage. To watch a recap, view here.
The U.S. End FGM/C Network is a collaborative group of survivors, civil society organizations, foundations, activists, policymakers, researchers, healthcare providers, and others committed to promoting the abandonment of FGM/C in the U.S. and around the world.
Digital Storytelling & Advocacy Webinar
Since 1993, StoryCenter has collaborated with individuals, grassroots groups, and organizations to centralize first-person stories in social justice efforts. The current political reality demands ever-more creative approaches to advocacy. On Oct 14th, in this one-hour free webinar, StoryCenter defined their approach to advocacy with an eye toward clarifying what kinds of stories are effective at community, institutional, and policy levels. They then highlighted research on the role that sharing and listening to personal stories can play in advocacy, and presented a case study of how they have worked with Sahiyo on the Voices to End FGM/C project to position digital storytelling as a key advocacy strategy.
A Girl From Mogadishu + Panel on FGM/C
On the 14th of October, Cinema for Peace organized a screening of A Girl from Mogadishu together with the University of Southern California. The event included a panel discussion on FGM/C, taking Ifrah’s case as seen in the film, and its current state in the U.S. where 11 states still don’t have laws against it.
Democracy, Populism, Coronavirus & Enduring Patriarchal Traditions
The first webinar in a series for the Patriarchal Inscriptions: Female bodies contested, invaded defended and owned, this October 15th webinar focused on the persistence of the practice of ‘female circumcision’ and how their encoded cultural undergirding raise critical issues of systemic injustice in the body politics cross-culturally. Speakers included Leyla Hussein OBE, Sahiyo U.S. Executive Director Mariya Taher, Ghada Khan, Julia Antonova, Habiba Al-Hinai and Chiara Cosentino. The event explored the following topics:
What weaknesses have come to obstruct efforts to end female genital mutilation?
How have governments’ mis/management of the pandemic exacerbated existing fault-lines of gender precarity?
How has progress in challenging and abolishing FGM practices been vitiated by widely applied government policies and measures that embrace lockdowns of large parts of public government services, curfews, household quarantine and mandatory individual isolation?
How has opposition among members of minority communities in Western societies – when it comes to governments’ FGM policies, deeply felt subtexts of prejudice and popular scapegoating – been appropriated and instrumentalized to serve populist exclusionary aims that demonize entire marginalized cultures?
What does the failure of enforcement of anti-FGM legislation uncover about political will, identity politics, the hierarchy of suffering and about inter-/national feminist ambivalences?
Council of the Great City Schools Fall Conference
Council of the Great City Schools held its 64th Annual Fall Conference virtually in October. Under the banner “Championing Urban Education,” the conference gave big-city school superintendents, board members, senior administrators and college deans of education a forum to discuss issues and share information and best practices to improve teaching and learning. On Oct 16th, Sahiyo participated in a panel event, Unmasking Danger: Identifying High-risk Situations for Urban Students, in which the issues of trafficking and female genital cutting were brought to light and the need to take into consideration that students may be at risk or affected by them. A resource guide created by Council of the Great City Schools on FGM prevention for U.S. schools was also discussed. The guide helps schools to put policies in place to support and identify at risk students.
North America and Europe Caucus for CSW International Day of The Girl Child
On October 23rd, speakers from around North America and Europe joined in on a virtual meeting to draw attention to the issues of child marriage and female genital cutting. The event was organized by the core group of the Europe and North America CSW/NGO Caucus, including Ulla Madsen, Mary Collins, Zarin Hainsworth, Daniela Chivu, Patricia Masniuk, Luci Chikowero and Nina Smart. Invited FGC Speakers included Isatu Barry, Dr. Ann-Marie Wilson, Mariya Taher, Chiara Cosentino, Angela Peabody. Child Marriage Speakers included Dr. Faith Mwangi-Powell, Honorable Jackie Weatherspoon, Dr. Rochelle Burgesse, Kate Ryan, Dr. Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, and Beverly Bucur.
Taboo ConversationsOn October 28th, RAHMA organized a Facebook Live Discussion in partnership with Sahiyo & Global Women Peace Foundation to discuss female genital cutting in the U.S. and the importance prevention work needing to be done, as well as ways to support and empower women and girls affected by FGC. View the recording here.
Population Council hosts webinar to discuss ending female genital cutting
On August 25, 2020 August 20, 2020 By SahiyoIn advocacy, FGC, health, human rights, medicalization, men, Mothers, Research, WebinarLeave a comment
By Hunter Kessous
The Population Council hosted a fascinating webinar, Using Research to Understand and Accelerate The Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). It was the second of two webinars from a series titled, Evidence to End FGM/C: Research to Help Girls and Women Thrive. The most recent webinar reported some of the findings of a research consortium that began in 2015 and culminated this year. The research spanned eight countries and concluded with how initiatives to end FGM/C may be optimized.
Speakers included Bettina Shell-Duncan, University of Washington (moderator); Nada Wahba, Population Council, Egypt; Dennis Matanda, Population Council, Kenya; P. Stanley Yoder, medical anthropologist; and Nafissatou J. Diop, UNFPA.
Dr. Matanda spoke on the use of data to inform programming. His research spanned Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal, and sought to map hotspots for FGM/C. The data pinpointed the areas of each country in which FGM/C is most prevalent. Dr. Matanda’s findings also reveal how factors relating to a girl’s mother influence the likelihood that she will be cut. The results varied by region, but some of these factors included the mother’s ethnic group, her beliefs surrounding FGM/C, and if she herself was cut. The most important takeaway from Dr. Matanda’s research is that considering only national data masks local variations. He recommends linking regional data to subnational policies and efforts to prevent FGM/C from occuring to future generations of girls.
Medical anthropologist Dr. Yoder responded to Dr. Matanda’s research, remarking that Kenya was the only country of the three where the level of education of the mother was found to have an effect on the risk of a girl being cut. He proposes modernization, the shift from traditional and rural to secular and urban, as an explanation for Dr. Matanda’s findings. I believe that Dr. Yoder’s theory illuminates a need for ongoing research on this subject that correlates the changes in Kenya’s social, economic, and political growth to changes in the continuation of FGM/C.
Following Dr. Yoder’s analysis, Wahba presented her research on the intersection of FGM/C and gender in Egypt. Hers was a qualitative study with multiple intriguing findings. One discovery that I found especially important was that conflicted mothers have been turning to doctors to decide on their behalf whether or not their daughter should be cut. This could be a result of the increasing medicalization of FGM/C in Egypt. Another interesting finding was that if either one of the parents, whether it be the mother or the father, does not want their daughter to be cut, then she will not undergo FGM/C. While many programs working to end FGM/C target the mother as the decision maker, Wahba’s research clearly shows that mothers are not the only influential group. For this reason, more anti-FGM/C programs should shift their efforts to also educate fathers and doctors, particularly in regions with high rates of medicalization.
Diop followed Wahba’s presentation to provide analysis of the research. Diop feels strongly that FGM/C is rooted in gender inequalities, yet not nearly enough programs acknowledge this fact. She claims many programs that address cutting are gender blind, focusing too much on the consequences of FGM/C in their approach rather than the root causes for why FGM/C continues in the first place. Diop’s comments were a strong call to action for all advocates to take a gender transformative approach in order to achieve abandonment of FGM/C.
More information about this research project can be found here.
The webinar can be viewed here.
Farzana Esmail hosts fireside chat on FGC with co-founder of Sahiyo
On June 26, 2020 June 26, 2020 By SahiyoIn FGC, health, human rights, India, medicalization, Mothers, Research, sexual health, storytelling, United Kingdom, United StatesLeave a comment
Mariya Taher, U.S. Executive Director and co-founder of Sahiyo, and Farzana Esmail, survivor, mother and advocate, sat down together to have a virtual fireside chat on female genital cutting: part interview, part sincere exchange of stories, and part education. Upon introducing Mariya’s background, Farzana asks her to call on her expertise to explain female genital cutting (FGC) to the audience, using World Health Organization classifications and statistics regarding global practice. Throughout the chat, Mariya provides essential background on FGC, making this a great video to watch for people of varying knowledge levels on FGC.
Farzana described her experience of discovering through Sahiyo’s Voices to End FGM/C that FGC is practiced not only in the Bohra community, but in Africa as well. Mariya explained that this misconception exists only because Africa is where the bulk of the research on FGC was occurring until recently. FGC has been recorded as being practiced in at least 92 countries. Sahiyo conducted research on the Bohra community and discovered 80% of women from their sample had been cut.
Another finding of that same study was that 81% of women did not want FGC to continue for the next generation. Farzana asked the important question of why FGC continues to be practiced if so many women feel this way. Mariya used the concept of pluralistic ignorance to explain: the tradition lives on because nobody in the community talks about FGC and therefore, nobody knows that other women are also suffering and do not want to cut their daughters. Sahiyo’s social change platform was born to amplify the stories and voices of survivors. Mariya references a study finding that in order to achieve social change, 25% of a community is needed to reach a certain tipping point, which is slowly happening within the Bohra community.
Mariya also discussed the shift from the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – an important global health policy. The MDGs were a UN framework created in 2000 that enlisted all countries who signed on to put an end to various issues globally and to measure their achievement towards these goals. The MDG goal to abandon FGC only applied to 29 or 30 relevant countries, which were mostly within Africa and the Middle East. The issue here is that FGC is a global issue. It is prevalent in South Asia and is practiced in at least 92 countries. The SDGs, which followed the MDGs, finally recognized that FGC is a global practice. The fifth SDG specifically calls on countries to decrease FGC globally and measure the prevalence rates within their communities.
In a similar vein to the importance of recognizing FGC as a global practice, Mariya shares the importance of involving men in the movement to end FGC. Sahiyo amplifies not only the voices of survivors, but also of fathers, brothers, and husbands of survivors. The goal is to show that FGC negatively impacts entire communities, not only the women who undergo FGC. This is an important action toward abandoning FGC. Revealing FGC to be more than just a women’s issue or a cultural issue means every single person has the right and responsibility to get involved in the movement to end FGC.
Many are talking about the very important issue of an increase in gender-based violence as a result of the pandemic and the lockdown. Mariya has not noticed an increase in FGC within Asian communities or within the U.S., but instead notes the distress that the lockdown causes many FGC survivors. The isolation makes it harder to seek help, and the sense of a loss of control can trigger a trauma response for survivors. It’s important to draw attention to this issue in order to provide survivors with the services they need. Read the full transcript here, and view this eye opening discussion here.
Let’s Talk FGC: A fireside chat with Mariya Taher and Farzana Esmail
On June 25, 2020 June 26, 2020 By SahiyoIn Activists, advocacy, FGC, health, human rights, India, Law, medicalization, Research, storytelling, Trauma, United Kingdom, United StatesLeave a comment
Mariya Taher, U.S. Executive Director and co-founder of Sahiyo, and Farzana Esmail, FGC survivor, mother and advocate, sat down together for a virtual fireside chat on female genital cutting (FGC): part interview, part sincere exchange of stories, and part education. Farzana and Mariya intertwine pieces of their personal experience with the facts and information they provide on female genital cutting. This webinar explores FGC as a global practice, the many ways in which it is performed, how it impacts survivors, and related legislation. Mariya and Farzana share the progress toward abandoning FGC that has been made to date, the impact of COVID-19 on this progress, and Sahiyo’s theory for social change.
Farzana: Mariya, thank you so much for doing this. Before I go on to introduce your illustrious background, if I could take just a few minutes to set the context of our conversation. This is a subject that is extremely personal because I have lived through this. I have long fostered the idea of bringing my story and sharing it in the hope that it triggers conversations, and, in time, banishes the fear and discomfort that surrounds it. We are discussing female genital cutting.
Mariya, you have been named one of the six experts on female genital cutting by News Deeply. You have worked for over a decade in the anti-gender violence field, from research to policy, program development, and direct service. You have attained your masters in social work from San Francisco State University and went on to pursue a qualitative study titled, “Understanding Female Genital Cutting in the United States.” You have been diligently working on the issue of domestic violence within a number of organizations. In 2015, you founded Sahiyo, an internationally recognized, award-winning organization, to empower Asian communities to end female genital cutting. You sit on the inaugural Steering Committee to end female genital cutting with the U.S. End FGM/C Network. In Massachusetts, you work with The Women’s Bar Association to pass state legislation that would ban FGC and create education and outreach programs for survivors. The Manhattan Young Democrats named you 2017 Engendering Progress Honoree and ABC News did a special feature on you. You have been a prolific writer in fiction and nonfiction essays and short stories that have appeared on NPR, The Huffington Post, the Fair Observer, and a number of credible publications.
Mariya, the first time that I spoke about FGC with a group of friends I experienced a sense of relief. It was almost cathartic, but I also sensed disbelief, despair, and huge discomfort. There are those who have perhaps never heard of this practice, then there are those who have heard but choose not to speak about it, and then there are those, like us, who have lived through this. So if we can begin today by you just defining for us what in fact is female genital cutting?
Mariya: Sure, well, thank you, Farzana, so much for inviting me to speak and for that wonderful introduction. And, this is an incredibly important topic for me as well, as you have spoken a bit about my background. It is also one because I grew up in it, and I underwent it myself when I was seven years old. I wanted to just give that context first before I explain what female genital cutting is because I think it is important to recognize that many girls who have undergone it actually don’t know what they have undergone or even realize that what they have undergone is female genital cutting, or another term that it’s referred to as is female genital mutilation, but for the purposes of our conversation I will tend to refer to it as female genital cutting or FGC.
So, according to the World Health Organization, female genital cutting involves all procedures involving cutting or removal of part [or all] of the external female genitalia for nonmedical reasons. There are various forms of it. The World Health Organization has actually categorized it into 4 types, but each of these types are very broad in itself. So, type 1 is something that usually involves cutting or excision of the clitoral hood or part of the clitoris, but it is very broad and could also include removal of all of the clitoral hood and also part of the clitoris. Type 2, which is considered more severe, involves partial or total removal of the clitoris and labia minora, with or without excision of the labia majora – so it’s the inner and outer lips of the female genitalia. Type 3 is narrowing of the vaginal orifice by creation of a covering seal, so it is generally the most severe form. It is also known as infibulation, and it can involve removing all of the labia minora and labia majora as well. Then there is type four which is considered the “other” category, and this is really something that involves anything that doesn’t fit in types 1 through 3 which can be pricking, piercing, cauterizing. Those are the 4 broad categories defined by the World Health Organization. Just to give you a little more information of the statistics that we have on female genital cutting, about 90% of women and girls who undergo it undergo types 1 and 2. So, type 3 which is the most severe form only really accounts for about 10% globally, and I think that is really important to recognize, too.
Farzana: Sure, Mariya, you know when I started to follow Sahiyo, I also got acquainted with a lot of survivor stories, and some of these stories resonated, and I could identify completely. For most of us, the impression that I gathered was that it happens between the ages of 7 and 9. It’s almost something that is led on by either your grandmother, or an aunt, or your mother. The backdrop is a dilapidated dimly lit building where an elderly aunt answers the door and performs the practice. Immediately after that, there is a celebration. While the survivor has gone through an incredible amount of pain, confusion, and almost a sense of betrayal. However, as I went on to read and follow Sahiyo over the years I learned that this practice isn’t skewed to a community or culture, but in fact is being practiced around the world, in many geographies, by indigenous communities. How right is that assessment?
Mariya: That’s correct. What’s interesting is that when people have heard of female genital mutilation/cutting, they have often heard of it in relation to it happening within the African context or amongst African diaspora communities. It’s a myth actually that it only happens within African communities or contexts. I think what you’re bringing up is the opposite because of where you grew up knowing this is something that happens within South Asian communities and the Dawoodi Bohra community, which is the community we both grew up in, but it wasn’t publicly acknowledged that it happened within this community.
I think that the stories you are describing are very typical of the stories that we hear from survivors who have experienced it within the Bohra community, but there are elements that also ring true for survivors from various different communities. One of the reasons Sahiyo engages in storytelling, and a lot of work is around collecting stories and making this subject that was for so long known as taboo come out into the public, so that we are recognizing that it is okay to talk about that. It’s important to talk about that, to share your stories, and to recognize that there [are] a multitude of stories out there. So, we have heard the stories of girls who are taken by their mothers or aunts under false pretenses, and the dilapidated building you spoke about is an element of a story we hear girls who have gone to Mumbai and had it done often talk about. But, we have also had stories of girls who have been taken to health care professionals and had it [done]. We have other stories of girls who are older and have had it [done]. In the Bohra community it’s typically done around 7 to 9, but globally it’s done in many different communities. There is evidence now that it’s being performed in over 92 countries globally, and it can be done anywhere from birth to adolescence. Even adult women undergo it. So it’s very much a global issue. It is found in every continent of the world, except for Antarctica. It’s something that just in the last few years that we are really recognizing how global it is.
Farzana: It’s interesting you say that, Mariya, because in one of the surveys I was reading on one of your webinars there was mention that there was research done with 400 women where about 80% of them said that they had undergone FGC and 81% of them, in fact, said that they would not want it to continue, and they wouldn’t do this practice on their own daughters. Then why is it that we still see the prevalence of this practice?
Mariya: That’s a good question. Sahiyo, one of the first things we did when we came together, was we realized that we needed to do a larger scale study to understand how prevalent it was in the Dawoodi-Bohra community. Previous to that there were a couple of small-scale studies, but we wanted to do something to get a larger number. We did this small study where we had women who grew up in the Bohra community globally take part, and we had over 400 women take part in it. About the statistics you referred to, we analyzed, I think, about 384 women’s data after we collected it all. We found that, out of that number, 80% of the women had undergone FGC, which confirmed for us that it was prevalent. That’s something that we anecdotally knew but didn’t have evidence. We also found that 81% said they did not want it to continue onto the next generation. That was surprising to us, and, at the same time though, what it made us realize is that female genital cutting, or khatna as it is called in the Dawoodi Bohra community, is a social norm – meaning it has been justified in all these ways, and that one way in which it is continuing is that, because it has been justified, there’s a sense of belief that even if you don’t want it to continue, you think others in your community are continuing it, so it is being continued. There’s a term in psychology called pluralistic ignorance, and that is basically what we found happening, and part of it was because nobody was talking about this. And if nobody is talking about this then, of course, nobody knows that people are suffering the physical, sexual, emotional consequences of undergoing this. People don’t know that other people don’t want it to continue. So, the first step in terms of combating that pluralistic ignorance is storytelling. It’s coming out in the open. It’s speaking about that, and that’s really the basis of our work and why we do storytelling was because of that research, because we found that there was this huge population that didn’t want it to continue, so we were like how do we break the silence. So that’s really our theory of change; that’s what we recognize and need to work towards.
Farzana: That’s very, very interesting, again, Mariya, because I personally believe that these kinds of practices go back institutionally in terms of legitimizing fear. There is a shame around it, as well, that makes it difficult for people to have conversations on this. In fact, we are discouraged– systematically discouraged– to have any kind of discourse. What I also found interesting is the reference you made in terms of it being more than just a physical violation, because primarily this practice, that does come across as a violation of physical well being, but, in fact, is almost like an onion peel where there are so many layers that you can keep peeling and those are so deeply entrenched with fear, with purity culture, patriarchy, gender roles, promiscuity, shame. It’s, therefore, so important to be able to see this with a much wider prism, more holistically. This is not just a physical violation, but an emotional violation. It’s a mental violation. In your experience of working with survivors, what do you believe is one of the biggest challenges to overcome?
Mariya: That’s such an important question, but a very hard question. I think it’s important to also recognize that the repercussions of FGC vary from survivor to survivor. Of the stories that I have heard, personally, through our blog and in support groups, I think what I always come away with is the emotional impact that it has regardless of a person’s background, the severity they have undergone, how they underwent it – that emotional impact is something that lasts a lifetime. It comes across in many different ways: we have stories from women who don’t remember being cut, which is actually very common, because with trauma, the way your brain protects you, it switches it off. We have had stories of women who do not remember they were cut, and, sometimes, until somebody else told them they were cut, didn’t even realize it. But in determining that information it’s almost like going through PTSD again, too, and for some women it is almost like piecing together pieces of a puzzle. They are recognizing or wondering if certain impacts on their sexual lives are a part of it. It is something that, unfortunately, there’s not enough research around the sexual impact, particularly amongst Type I, we don’t really know. But, again, sexuality is very much connected to your emotional state and to your mind. So that’s one thing across communities and individuals that I come away with is that emotional impact. But, again, this is something that affects people physically, sexually, in many different ways. It’s important to recognize every survivor is going through their own journey in terms of what they are dealing with.
Farzana: You know, in my case, if I could just use my reference, just for a few minutes here. Perhaps this analogy will sound a bit absurd, but I will go with this analogy. It’s like childbirth: you forget the physical pain, because the emotional sense is so heightened with joy. Similarly here, the physical pain is forgotten. I don’t remember the pain, but the sense of deceit at the hands of my mother has been huge. But again, I completely recognize that my mother came from a generation that was less educated, less informed, less encouraged, perhaps not encouraged at all to speak their mind. But again, it is the same woman who today hasn’t enforced on me or has expressed those views for me to practice it on my daughter. So I do believe there is a huge hope of change, and because Sahiyo is so dedicated to ending FGC. In your opinion, how far are we from the day that this is something that we won’t see happen? I know you don’t have a crystal ball but…[laughs]
Mariya: Social change takes time, it takes a lot of work. There is a lot of work to still be done, but…
Farzana: How far perhaps– sorry to interrupt– if perhaps you could tell us how far have you come from the time that you started?
Mariya: I want to recognize also that there have been women and researchers even within the Bohra community that have been bringing this to the world’s attention prior to Sahiyo, as well. I want to also just acknowledge the women from past generations and men from other communities that have been working on this topic in various cultures and communities, too. Just to recognize that is something that’s been ongoing and there has been a lot of amazing important work being done for decades. Having said that, I do think that we have seen a lot of progress in the last five years, as well, in terms of acknowledging that this happens within many Asian countries and communities. And that is something we are seeing from the largest levels from looking at systematically, even looking at the UN in terms of measuring FGM/C. There is something called the Sustainable Development Goals which have come out from the UN. The Sustainable Development Goals are a framework which every country who signs onto the SDGs they are responsible for making progress towards those goals. Then there’s SDG number 5 which is specific to FGC and decreasing FGC globally. I am bringing that up because prior to the Sustainable Development Goals, there was a platform called the Millennium Development Goals that was a similar framework towards measuring achievement towards various social ills globally. Within the MDGs they did have a target to decrease FGC globally, but it was only amongst what they considered relevant countries, so countries that had prevalence rates, which was mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. So at that time, it was only amongst, I think 29 or 30 countries. The SDGs, this new framework, actually accounts for the fact that it is global. It is no longer just counting the estimates within those 29-30 countries, it’s actually globally. It’s a huge, huge deal because it’s recognition that this is a global issue. That is progress within itself. I just want to mention that in terms of the highest levels.
In terms of the lower level, the communities and individuals, we are hearing more stories. More survivors are sharing their stories. More people are coming out to publicly say we shouldn’t do this. That’s huge, and I do think that we are getting to that tipping point that we need. There’s research that shows once you get 25% of a community to reach a certain tipping point, that’s when you see change within social norms. I feel like we are getting to that tipping point. I want to recognize that I don’t think that– I want to be hopeful that it ends in my lifetime. But, I also want to recognize that change is happening, and I think we need to celebrate that change and those small wins along the way.
Farzana: Sure, of course. Legislatively, what does it look like? Are more and more countries warming up to the idea of putting a ban to this practice? Is that something that is a huge hurdle to cross?
Mariya: That is. I think legislation is important because it is a framework in which countries can, and it is a tool you can use for prevention. We are seeing more and more countries passing legislation. Within the U.S., it’s a very long story, but our federal statute was actually challenged, and so our Congress is working on a stronger piece of legislation. Individual states have been working on state laws. So, that has been amazing to see the past few years. Within Africa, most countries have it banned. It’s challenging within Asia. That is because Asia has only recently come on the map in terms of FGC being performed, and it is a very different circumstance where it is actually protected in various countries. We are seeing people challenging those social norms and that legislation. In India, we are seeing groups working towards passing a state law and are really urging the Supreme Court in India to have a ban on FGC. In that context it’s being challenged as, ‘Are we protecting girls from harm versus a religious minority right?’ You’re seeing different challenges, but you’re seeing overall that the conversation at a global level is increasing. Again, that is a first step in the right direction.
Farzana: Apart from [countries in] Africa, are there any other countries that have gone ahead and banned the practice?
Mariya: Yeah, there are many countries that have laws against it. I don’t know off the top of my head the number. But, for instance, in Europe there are many countries that have legislation against FGC, recognizing that it happens in various countries there. Australia does as well. There was a court case that really brought it to light a few years ago. There’s attempts to strengthen the legislation within Australia, too. It is something that you are seeing in many different countries.
Farzana: In one of the stories that led me to further read was khatna [as FGC is called in the Bohra community] packages, travel packages. It was almost as if you could do a khatna tour. So if it was a practice that was forbidden in the country of residence, you could actually take a trip down to India for four to five days, have this practice done, and then come back again. So that was extremely disturbing to know that they were actually selling it is a package for tourists.
Mariya: I had not heard of the khatna packages, but it is very common to hear. There’s a term I don’t really like using, but it’s vacation cutting: the idea that girls are taken to various countries and countries of origin to have their FGC done. It sounds like this is the khatna package that you have heard of.
Farzana: Yes, yes, that’s right.
Mariya: I wasn’t aware of that term, but it can be more complicated than that, too. In my circumstance, it wasn’t that my parents took me to India to have it done, specifically. It was that we went to India to visit relatives and it was the summer that I was 7 that it happened. But it is a growing concern that, as countries are creating laws and policies, that might be a repercussion or unintended consequence that they might be taken to other countries. There also are laws. For instance, in the U.S., there is a vacation cutting provision, where if a girl is taken out with the intention to have that done in another country, a person can still be prosecuted. So that’s one thing to be aware of. As we are talking about legislation in general, I think law is an important framework, but I dont think law alone will end this practice. I do think it is really important to recognize that we need community education. We need to work in a very multi-sectoral approach. We are really looking at changing against social norms, and you really need to have community dialogue and education. It is much more important than legislation, but legislation does help to reinforce that something is not acceptable within a community. But, it is really that changing of a mindset that is what we are trying to do.
Farzana: I completely agree. I think it becomes even more incumbent upon us to be able to come out and share these stories. Change can only come out if there are conversations happening around it. We have got to somehow muster up enough courage to share our stories and hopefully that should bring change. Mariya, you also touched upon something that I have questioned several times, and that is the role of men. How important is the role of men in this practice of FGC?
Mariya: Involving men is very important, and something Sahiyo really tries to do, as well. We really look at FGC as a community issue, and we are really trying to show that FGC affects obviously the survivor, the women who undergo FGC, but it also affects the entire community. Particularly, we have stories from men who talk about hearing how it impacted their mothers. We have stories from men who have talked about how it impacted their wife and their own marital relationship. We have stories from brothers who have talked about learning that it happened to their sister and wondering if that is part of what divided them in terms of their relationship. It is something that we need to recognize as a community. We have to come together to work to make sure nobody is harmed – future daughters, future sisters, future mothers are protected from this form of gender-based violence, which can impact their lives in many different ways throughout their lives. It’s something that we work very hard to make sure that men’s voices are heard, that they are allies, and that they also are sharing their stories. Particularly, for a very long time within the Bohra community (and this isn’t true for every community, but is in an element that you find often). But for a long time within the Bohra community, men were not aware of this issue or it was something that was considered a women’s issue. That is changing. I think it is changing because of social media, because of technology, because people are just talking about it more, and, so now, in the younger generation, everybody knows about this issue now, it seems like. That’s a huge cultural shift, too, where you see, just a decade ago, men not being very aware of this to now recognizing that men are aware and can be allies and help protect future generations.
Farzana: And that’s reassuring. Again, here if I can use an anecdote of my personal story where my father was an extremely protective father. He was extremely careful about the way that we were brought up. But, this was one of those issues where he was almost sidelined by my aunt, by the women in the family, because this was something that men did not get into. Like I said, systematically this is devised to be so patriarchal in nature, and that’s why it’s thriving. It’s also sprinkled with fear. It’s almost, you can’t be questioning the establishment and, therefore, you can’t be questioning the practice. That, I think, is intrinsically one of the reasons men don’t know enough about it, don’t know about it at all, and those who know about it perhaps couldn’t say very much. But, it is reassuring to know that’s changing because that is important. They are also stakeholders in this process of change.
Mariya: I agree.
Farzana: Mariya, we possibly cannot reflect on the times we are living in, which is the pandemic. It is really, really disheartening when one reads that across the world we are seeing a huge surge in domestic violence during this period of lockdown. There are some estimates that the UN has put out saying they are expecting about 31 million new cases to emerge if the lockdown continues another six months. That’s a hugely staggering number. How does FGC fit within the spectrum of the pandemic?
Mariya: That’s a great question. I was actually listening to a webinar the other day and right now it seems like there might be a difference in terms of the impact of COVID within African communities and amongst Asian communities. I think last week even there was a headline that came out with some initial findings from an organization in Somalia. FGC had increased significantly there because people were at home, so they were taking advantage of the fact that girls were not at school, so they would have the time to heal. Cutters were going door to door. Their economic well-being depended on this business, so they were looking to see if they could cut girls. So you are hearing that happen. Anecdotally within Asia, you’re not hearing that as much. The speakers on the webinar, one of them was my fellow co-founder Aarefa (I should mention I co-founded Sahiyo with four other women) – so, Aarefa was on that webinar and me and her have had some conversations on this issue about what we have been hearing. Anecdotally, we are not hearing an increase of FGC amongst the Bohra community at this time. I think there might be several reasons. One part might be that it tends to be more medicalized now, and so as hospitals and health care professionals are overwhelmed with COVID, that’s sort of becoming secondary. But also the fact that within the Bohra community it doesn’t have to happen at seven. Seven is sort of the minimum age, so people could potentially be waiting a few months, or however long, to have it done. A couple of the other guest speakers from countries within Asia were saying that they feel it might be being postponed, too. I think within Asia, too, we do see it happen as a more medicalized version, and we do see Type 1 and Type 2 much more often than we see Type 3. Again, there is no official high level data on this, but anecdotally it might be actually halted right now due to the pandemic. So it’s interesting to see the difference in how it is emerging amongst different continents. I think we will really see the impacts after the pandemic is over and once we are really able to collect more data on this. What I do want to say though, is even if the prevalence rate might be different, the fact that there’s survivors seeking out support – that is something that is having a huge impact right now. Sahiyo has had a few support groups and some of the things that we are hearing is the sheltering in place, the pandemic type atmosphere that we are having is actually triggering some trauma responses by being in lockdown, and feeling like having a lack of control. And the fact that it’s harder to seek out support right now in terms of mental health professionals or being able to chat with others. That is an impact that we are seeing, in terms of being able to receive services if you need it, as a survivor.
Farzana: Yes, this pandemic has been unprecedented for many reasons and this is something perhaps that if we can reach out with more and more stories hopefully we will be able to give comfort. Mariya, we can go on, but I am also cognizant that we have a time limit. Thank you so much for doing this. Kudos to your team, to you, for having done such wonderful work. May you continue to make a difference, change lives, and hopefully come to that point in our lifetimes where we could probably see the end to this practice. If I can just end the conversation on a quote by Martin Luther King, Jr: “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people, but the silence over that by the good people.”
Mariya: That’s a wonderful quote to end with. Thank you so much for inviting me.
Farzana: Thank you, I really appreciate this. Thank you so much.
The Disturbing Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Mutilation
On March 5, 2019 February 27, 2019 By SahiyoIn Activists, advocacy, health, human rights, medicalization, Mental Health, Research, Trauma2 Comments
by Lorraine Koonce-Farahmand
In the Zero Tolerance campaign to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), what has been noted is the arc of progress. Increasingly, women and men from practising groups have declared support for ending FGM; and in several countries, the prevalence of FGM has decreased significantly. A BMJ Global Health study reported that the rates of FGM have fallen dramatically amongst girls in Africa in the last two decades. Using data from 29 countries going back to 1990, the BMJ study found that the biggest fall in cutting was in East Africa where the prevalence rate dropped from 71% of girls under 14 in 1995, to 8% in 2016. Some countries with lower rates – including Kenya and Tanzania, where 3-10% of girls endure FGM – helped drive down the overall figure. Nevertheless, UNICEF’s groundbreaking report shows that whilst much progress has been made in abandoning FGM, millions of girls are still at risk.
Flourishing against this backdrop is the compromise of medicalisation of FGM that competes against progress in the Zero Tolerance Campaign. A disturbing number of parents are seeking out healthcare providers to perform FGM. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), medicalisation is when a healthcare provider performs FGM in a clinic or elsewhere. Such procedures are usually paid for under the assumption that medicalisation is not FGM, and is done to mitigate health risks associated with the practice. Consequently, in recent years, the medicalisation of FGM has taken place globally, particularly in Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mali, Nigeria, Northern Sudan, and Yemen. In many of these countries, one-third or more of women had their daughters cut by medical staff with access to sterile tools, anesthetics, and antibiotics. The non-governmental organization, 28 Too Many has investigated the involvement of health professionals and has highlighted what must be done to reverse this trend. 28 Too Many reported that the medicalisation of FGM in Egypt is an enormous challenge. Currently, 78.4% of incidences of FGM in Egypt are carried out by health professionals. Egypt had the highest rate of health workers performing FGM at 75%, with Sudan at 50% and Kenya at 40%. A 2016 study by The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and the Africa Coordinating Centre for the Abandonment of FGM/C (ACCAF) also found that FGM is increasingly being performed by medical practitioners.
Parents and relatives seek safer procedures, rather than outright abandon FGM. The medicalisation trend has conveniently forgotten that FGM violates women’s and children’s human rights to health, to be free from violence, to have the right to physical integrity and non-discrimination, and to be free from cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment. The “just a nick” is essentially gender-based violence (GBV). What is being “nicked” is still part of a woman’s labia majora, labia minora or clitoris. The medicalisation of FGM perpetuates that women are inferior human beings. This is not in harmony with international human rights standards.
There is also clearly an economic incentive for promoting medicalisation. Medical personal perform it for financial gain under the premise that if the crux of the issue is the health side effects and pain, by using sterilised instruments and medication the problem has dissipated. The misguided assertion that medicalisation is a viable option is ignoring the fact that all types of FGM have been recognised as violating human rights. These rights that have been codified in several international and regional treaties mirror worldwide acceptance and political consensus at various UN world conferences and summits. Committees such as The Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, (CEDAW), the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and The Human Rights Committee have been active in condemning FGM. Medicalisation goes against the principles enshrined in these treaties and conventions.
The disturbing medicalization trend continues to argue that this less severe form of FGM can protect girls and women from harm. This was echoed in The Economist article of June 18th, 2016, ‘Female Genital Mutilation: an Agonising Choice’. In the article, it was asserted that because three decades of campaigning for a total ban on FGM have failed, a new approach is warranted. The article advocated “nicking” of girl’s genitals by trained health professionals as a lesser evil. This reasoning was echoed in the Journal of Medical Ethics by two U.S.-based doctors, Dr. Kavita Shah Arora, Director of Quality, Obstetrics, and Gynaecology at the MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, and Dr. Allan Jacobs, Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Stony Brook University. They wrote that “we must adopt a more nuanced position that acknowledges a wide spectrum of procedures that alter female genitalia.” They assert that they do not believe minor alterations of the female genitalia reach the threshold of a human rights violation. They also asserted that the nicking of the vulva and removing the clitoral hood should not be considered child abuse. They posit that by undergoing these acceptable procedures in the U.S. during infancy, girls can avoid the risk of being sent abroad for more extensive procedures.
These doctors and writers from influential respected journals are often held in high esteem by decision-makers, policy-makers, and experts. However, the advocation of medicalisation grotesquely undermines the hard and courageous work undertaken to end FGM worldwide. The medicalisation trend has ostensibly failed to recognise that the proposal of removing the clitoral hood and “just nicking” the vulva contradicts the WHO’s statement that there is absolutely no reason, medical, moral or aesthetic, to cut any part of these exterior organs.
There are compelling reasons why the medicalisation of FGM is fundamentally wrong.
The medicalisation is and would be carried out on young girls between infancy and the age of 15. Medicalisation is an attack against the sexual and psychological integrity of young girls. Many are not in a position to say no, unable to give informed consent or to effectively resist the practice.
Medicalisation reflects a deep-rooted inequality between the sexes and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women. In some communities in order to be married a female is not considered an adult and “marriageable” without undergoing FGM, which may be performed to define her gender and/or ethnic identity. In many African communities, marriage is a women’s predominate source of economic survival. The medicalisation trend reinforces and supports this lack of choice women must make in order to be accepted in their society.
Accepting certain types of FGM would lead to confusion for communities and health professionals. It will adversely affect the work done on raising awareness of FGM and prevention and protection of girls.
The risk of a well-founded fear of persecution would be seriously undermined for asylum seekers. Asylum seekers with potential claims for international protection, either for themselves or for daughters, could plausibly be denied refugee status if confusion is created on whether or not the type of FGM they would be potentially subjected to constitutes a well-founded fear of persecution.
The medicalisation of FGM is not an appropriate response to the health risks associated with FGM. All FGM causes a variety of negative outcomes for the health and psychological well-being of women and girls. Medicalisation fails to eliminate long-term gynaecological and obstetric complications, as well as the lifelong emotional, psychological and sexual problems. It does not prevent the feelings of anxiety, betrayal, depression, low self-esteem, panic, phobia nor other psychological issues. As FGM has no proven medical benefits, as professionals who have sworn to the Hippocrates oath to do no harm, ultimately, it is unethical to contribute to the continuation of a procedure that is quite harmful and disabling for women. Medicalisation of FGM gives it an aura of normalcy, legitimacy, and acceptability. The mutilation of females is outrageous when considering that the alterations proposed are both traumatic and life-changing.
An additional concern of the medicalisation trend is the bleak message that removing a female body part for non-medical reasons is acceptable as it is just a “nick.” Who will be there to determine the measure of the “nick”? What part shall be nicked? The clitoral prepuces? The labia minora? Near the special receptacles of nerve endings that are clustered in the clitoris? The skin of the inner surface of the labia? Is the medicalisation trend assuming that this undefined “nicking” by a chosen trained professional now is safe and correct?
The implication that it is just a nick obscures and trivializes the underlying degradation that this nick imposes on a woman and the senseless attack on women’s’ genitals for no other reason than that they are female. It reinforces the sense of inferiority on this already marginalised gender.
FGM is not open for debate without violating international law and medical ethics. As long as it is accepted in any form, FGM will thrive. Partial FGM is simply not acceptable. A nick is simply unacceptable. The key phrase is zero tolerance.
More about Lorraine:
Lorraine is is a British solicitor and a New York lawyer. She is currently an international law professor in the Anglo-American Law degree programme at the Universitié De Cergy where she lectures on gender law and human rights, and at the Universitié De Paris-Dauphine where she lectures on the Legal Aspects of Gender Violence. She is often an invited speaker on GBV and FGM. Recently, she was invited as a speaker to lead the medicalisation workshop at the End FGM European Network conference that was held in Paris.
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Bothwell Bridge, Covenanters, Indulged Presbyterians, Irongrey Kirk, John Welch, John Welsh, Persecution, Scotland
Covenanter Stories – No 16, John Welsh
JOHN WELCH
The name of Welsh or Welch is engraved throughout the period of the Reformation in Scotland. Three generations of Welshes proclaimed the Gospel as Presbyterian ministers. John Welsh of Ayr (1570 – 1623) was the son in law of John Knox. His son, Josias Welch was the minister of the Presbyterian congregation at Templepatrick, Co. Antrim, and Josiah’s son, another John Welch, was the Covenanter minister of Irongrey Kirk. He was banished from his pulpit in 1662, having refused to take the oath. The younger John Welch took his leave of his congregation by a riverside, but when he departed on horseback, the members of his flock followed him along the bank of the river, with great tears and sadness. ( Moore, Edwin N., Our Covenant Heritage, CFP, Pg. 53-54)
This latter John Welch was a frequent preacher at conventicles, where he preached and presided at the Lord’s Supper with John Blackader, among others. He was one of the leaders of the ‘moderate’ party among the Covenanters. At Bothwell Bridge, Welch was the cause of dissent among the Covenanter battalions, for he believed in having some measure of tolerance for the Indulged Presbyterians, although he would never have taken the step which they had taken, in accepting the government’s proffered indulgence. Welch would have allowed in the forces of the Covenanter army, soldiers who had once belonged to Indulged Kirks, a position opposed with vigour by Hamilton, Hackston and others. During the time at Hamilton prior to the battle, Welch’s party would have preferred raising a petition of grievances for presentation to the king, while Hamilton was in favour of preparing for battle. Welch eventually deserted the field, in despair at the attitudes of the commanders.
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Posted by SamClaflinFans on May 4th, 2016
Red Magazine – June 2016
Photographed by Hamish Brown
Sam was recently interviewed by Kate Wills from Red Magazine. In this great interview, Sam discusses his upcoming role as Will Traynor in Me Before You (in cinemas June 3rd), as well as his thoughts on fame and fatherhood! Read our transcript of the interview & see the scans below 🙂 **Please credit us if you use our transcript or scans – thank you***
MEET THE MAN YOU’RE ABOUT TO FALL FOR
His Hunger Games face is teen-familiar, but this year, Sam Claflin matures on screen in the long-awaited film version of bestseller Me Before You. It’s been the making of him, he tells Kate Wills.
When Sam Claflin arrives at the hotel in south-west London for our interview & shoot, it’s a bit of a Clark Kent moment. I was expecting the perma-tanned, super-buff, trident-toting Finnick Odair from The Hunger Games (yes, I am a 31-year-old teenage girl). So when a pale, scruffy-haired, bookish-looking man shuffles in, wearing round tortoiseshell glasses and sporting a battered Mulberry satchel, I almost don’t recognise him. He orders a coffee and looks – like most new fathers – utterly exhausted. Claflin and his wife, Luther star Laura Haddock, had their first child, a son, six weeks before we meet, and today is the first time he’s left the baby bubble.He’s already beaming about fatherhood – “I’m already missing him” – and despite being “at that point of tiredness where your eyes hurt”, is unfailingly polite and charming. He chats with the photographer about Norwich FC and the last series of Catastrophe, makes a fuss of a passing Pekingese puppy and endears everyone on set with tales of nappy-changing woes (the words “uncontrollable hose pipe” feature). The Superman-style disguise could come in handy. This year, Claflin is set to make the transition from teen star to household name. He’s already got blockbusters under his belt: he landed a part in the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean film almost straight out of drama school, then there was The Hunger Games (it grossed $2.3 billion, you might have heard of it), and Snow White And The Huntsman (last month he popped up in the sequel). He’s mastered the romcom, opposite Lily Collins in Love, Rosie, and won critical acclaim for The Riot Club. But his new role, as a suicidal paraplegic in the adaptation of Jojo Moyes’ bestseller Me Before You is a departure from anything he’s done before.
“A part like Will Traynor is a dream,” he says, his actor’s RP occasionally veering into the flat ‘a’s of the Norfolk broads, “It was the most eye-opening experience and I feel like going through the experience has changed me. I know it sounds very clichéd & naive but I am now very aware when pavements aren’t level and curbs are too high or ramps aren’t available.”
Just as Eddie Redmayne faced critisism for what detractors called “crippling up” to play Stephen Hawking, the question of whether able-bodied actors should play disabled parts has been levied at Claflin, too. “Someone on Twitter said how angry they were that I was cast instead of a disabled actor and I hear that point, I do,” he says, sounding genuinely concerned. “Of course there are parts of the novel, and our film, where Will is able-bodied and that would’ve been more difficult for someone who wasn’t able-bodied to portray. But there needs to be more opportunities for people of other colours, races or physical abilities. It’s not that white, able-bodied men are stealing everyone’s parts, it’s that the scriptwriters need to write other stories. I would if I could, but I can’t!”
Claflin lost three and a half stone of his Hunger Games bulk to play Will. For four months he followed a 500-calorie-a-day diet and worked out three times a day. “I drove myself into the ground,” he says. But the transformation was more than just physical. “There was a point just before filming where I was in a similar place to Will emotionally and mentally. By no means am I saying I know what being a paraplegic is like, but I was depressed and low on energy and in great pain for completely opposite reasons. I wasn’t in the mood to do anything, which is how Will is at the beginning of the movie.”
If you’ve read the book, you’ll know that in Me Before You Will petitions his parents to take him to Dignitas, the Swiss assisted-suicide clinic. “I wasn’t aware of assisted suicide clinics before I was cast,” admits Claflin, “I wanted to do a bit of research and delved quite deeply and darkly into that world. The Terry Pratchett documentary about it was mind-blowing.” Although he refuses to be drawn on his own views about this controversial subject – “My honest opinion, honestly, is…everyone has a different opinion” – he hints that he believes in the right to die with dignity. “Humans have freedom of thought and freedom of speech…so why are we taking that away from people?”
Claflin spent four months rehearsing with Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke, who plays Will’s carer and love interest, Louisa. He also developed a rapport with the book’s author Jojo Moyes. “Sam is a sweetheart,” she tells me over email. “He is also the nicest-smelling man I’ve ever met. So much so that I and a couple of the female crew members would sneak up to him on set and inhale him.”
Although he’ll happily upload videos of him and Laura rap-syncing to Iggy Azalea and snaps of his cockapoo Rosie, don’t expect shots of Sam Junior any time soon. “We’re purposely shying away from posting any pictures of the baby,” he says, unwilling to even divulge his son’s name. “I don’t want to force my child into a world that he may or may not wish to go into. he might want to be a banker and change his surname for all I know.” It’s fairly uncommon these days for anyone to be married with children in their twenties, let alone movie stars, but Claflin was keen to settle down. “The day I met Laura I knew I wanted to marry her, so it didn’t feel like we were rushing it,” he says. After meeting his future wife in an audition for My Week With Marilyn, Sam called his agent and told him he’d met the girl he wanted to marry. The next day they had a chance encounter on the tube (you couldn’t make it up!), and months later, Haddock got in touch with Claflin on Facebook (“she definitely pursued me”). They married in 2013, and from the dreamy look in his eyes when he talks about her, to the “Hi, sweetie” when she calls during our shoot, they’re clearly very much in love. For Claflin, having children was “written in the stars”. “As a kid, I loved playing with dolls, did work experience in a playschool and my mum was a child-minder, so I’ve grown up around kids”. Yet nothing could prepare him for having his own. “Someone described it to my wife as ‘the best shock in the world’ – I think that’s fitting.” He says fatherhood has given him a “new-found admiration” for his parents and “anyone who’s been through it – it’s really hard!”
When we meet, Laura has been pictured on the red carpet for the first time since giving birth, and a certain website has commented on her “svelte post-baby body”. Does he feel protective of her? “I do, and I think she’s probably more paranoid about it than she needs to be. No-one should be expected to snap back into shape but I don’t think she has anything to worry about. Laura looks amazing. She is amazing.”
Claflin also knows what it is like to have his body scrutinised. “Me and Laura were on holiday and we were papped on the beach and we thought ‘Who gives a crap about us?’ But I started reading the comments underneath the photos and they were really negative like ‘You say he’s buff? Look at him, he’s fat.’ Unfortunately, in the industry we work in, it’s expected, but I don’t go walking down the street telling people they’re fat and ugly. People should be kinder. I am a normal person – I have feelings! I constantly worry about how I look because I think the standard amongst other actors is so high. Take Zac Efron for example. He’s about my age, we were both nominated for best shirtless scene and I’d vote for him! He keeps that up all the time. That’s one hell of a life choice. I couldn’t do it. I despise the gym. I’ll do it for work if I need to, but if I don’t need to then I’d rather have a pint or a burger with my mates.”
Claflin turns 30 next month, so just about remembers life pre-internet (“You’d call a mate on your landline and his mum would say ‘He’s out somewhere’ so you’d take your bike and find him”) and laments the role that social media can play in making or breaking an actor. “Being famous now is how many followers you have on Instagram and I think that’s quite sad,” he says. “So many people I know work so hard and save up a lifetime of money to go to drama school or university, and then when they get round to auditioning for a part, it goes to the daughter or son of so-and-so. I think that’s my working class roots – when you see someone from privilege walk into a job which you know someone else strived for, it’s infuriating.”
One of four boys, Claflin grew up in Norwich with his dad, a finance officer, and his mum, a classroom assistant at his school, the local comp. Sam was captain of the football team, until injury forced him to try acting. “I was a loud mouth,” he says. “I was 5ft 2in and had a shaved head, earring and gold necklace. I wore a lot of Kappa.” He credits his family for keeping him grounded. His mum sorts all his fan mail and makes him reply to every letter. “I remember the first time I saw the amount, I said, ‘Can’t you sign my signature?’ and she said, ‘Don’t be so ungrateful! People have spent days…look at the artwork on this one!'”
Soon he’ll start shooting My Cousin Rachel with Rachel Weisz, an adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier story by Notting Hill director Roger Michell. With Claflin’s floppy hair, dimples and self deprecating wit, it’s not a stretch to see him become the next Hugh Grant. But he says he’d much prefer a career like Christian Bale’s. “He physically transforms from part to part,” he says. “No-one really knows what ‘Christian Bale looks like and I like hiding behind a role and getting lost in a character. I love the process of losing weight or gaining weight or growing a craggy beard.” In fact, he cultivated an impressive pencil moustache (“that was all me!”) for his role in 1940’s set comedy Their Finest Hour And A Half, out later this year, co-starring Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy.
As our time comes to an end, Claflin casually lets slip that he’s doing a half marathon later that day. “Well, my friend was doing one,” he explains, reluctantly. “So I said I’d train with him, and now I’m doing it, too.” Dad bod or no dad bod, he is definitely still a more-than-a-bit Superman.
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Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World (Hardcover)
By Todd Miller
The United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad—and essentially expanding its borders in the process
The twenty-first century has witnessed the rapid hardening of international borders. Security, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who travel where they please and those whose movements are restricted. But that is only part of the story. As journalist Todd Miller reveals in Empire of Borders, the nature of US borders has changed. These boundaries have effectively expanded thousands of miles outside of US territory to encircle not simply American land but Washington’s interests. Resources, training, and agents from the United States infiltrate the Caribbean and Central America; they reach across the Canadian border; and they go even farther afield, enforcing the division between Global South and North.
The highly publicized focus on a wall between the United States and Mexico misses the bigger picture of strengthening border enforcement around the world.
Empire of Borders is a tremendous work of narrative investigative journalism that traces the rise of this border regime. It delves into the practices of “extreme vetting,” which raise the possibility of “ideological” tests and cyber-policing for migrants and visitors, a level of scrutiny that threatens fundamental freedoms and allows, once again, for America’s security concerns to infringe upon the sovereign rights of other nations.
In Syria, Guatemala, Kenya, Palestine, Mexico, the Philippines, and elsewhere, Miller finds that borders aren’t making the world safe—they are the frontline in a global war against the poor.
Todd Miller is the author of Border Patrol Nation and Storming the Wall, winner of the 2018 Izzy Award for investigative journalism. His writing has been published by the New York Times, TomDispatch, Mother Jones, the Nation, Al Jazeera English, and Salon.
“An indispensable guide to our bunkered, barb-wired world. For more than a decade, well before Donald Trump landed in the White House, Miller’s reporting has revealed the conceits of globalization, documenting the slow, steady garrisoning of US politics behind ever more brutal border policies. Now, with Empire of Borders, he looks outward, to a world overrun with so many border walls it looks more like a maze than a shared planet. If there’s a way out, Miller will find it.”
—Greg Grandin, author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
“Joining meticulous documentation and vivid on-the-ground research in multiple border hot spots around the planet, Todd Miller pulls the veil off the layers of borders and their policing that shape our world, revealing a stunning and terrifying reality. The artificiality of borders, and the commitment of the world’s wealthy and powerful to preserve their wealth and power through them, have never been so clearly laid out.”
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Publication Date: August 6th, 2019
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2020 release from singer/songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter. The Dirt and the Stars is the follow-up to her 2018 album Sometimes Just the Sky. Five-time Grammy-winner Mary Chapin Carpenter's 15th studio album, The Dirt And The Stars, finds the singer-songwriter pondering life's intimate, personal moments and exploring it's most universally challenging questions at an unprecedented time. Written at her rural Virginia farmhouse before stay-at-home orders became the "new normal," the songs celebrate invaluable experiences and irreplaceable wisdom, while also advocating exploration of the best in all of us. As one of just 15 women voted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, with over 15 million albums sold, 5 Grammy awards (from 15 nominations) and the recipient of two CMA and ACM awards, Carpenter's now-classic hits include "I Feel Lucky," "He Thinks He'll Keep Her" and "The Hard Way." Produced by Ethan Johns (Ray LaMontagne, Paul McCartney, Kings of Leon) and recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Bath, in southwestern England, The Dirt And The Stars marks Carpenter's first collection of all-new material since 2016's The Things That We Are Made Of.
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Remastered re-release of the third full-length studio album by the legendary British Heavy/Speed Metal band.
This is one of the very first Heavy Metal albums and, on its own, isn't the most well-known of the Judas Priest releases. While it was well-received by critics at the time, it did not have the exact same response as "Sad Wings Of Destiny" did before it. Even though it has its flaws, "Sin After Sin" made a major contribution to the development of Heavy Metal and remains an important stepping-stone in the evolution of the genre.
"Sin After Sin" was the band's first album with Columbia Records after their contract with Gull Records was terminated; as a consequence of which they lost all rights to their first two albums "Rocka Rolla" and "Sad Wings Of Destiny", as well as any other demo recordings made during that timeframe. This was the band's last album to feature their original "gothic cursive font" logo, though it was used on later Gull Records reissues of their earlier material.
The album features session drummer Simon Phillips, as the band had recently parted ways with drummer Alan Moore. The album includes a cover of Joan Baez's "Diamonds & Rust", a decision that was encouraged by producer Roger Glover.
It is the first of eleven consecutive Judas Priest albums to be certified Gold by the RIAA.
For fans that grew up with "Painkiller", "Screaming For Vengeance" or even "British Steel", "Sin After Sin" is tough album to appreciate. Even if the songs don’t all stand the test of time, their significance to the development of Heavy Metal cannot be overstated. In 1977, there wasn’t a band out there that questioned the definition of Heavy Metal music like Judas Priest, and the daring and experimental tracks on "Sin After Sin" are the proof!
Re-edition includes two bonus tracks!
Columbia/Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd., 1977/1987/2001 (502127 2). Made in Austria.
1. Sinner 6:45
2. Diamonds And Rust 3:27
3. Starbreaker 4:49
4. Last Rose Of Summer 5:37
5. Let Us Prey / Call For The Priest 6:13
6. Raw Deal 6:00
7. Here Come The Tears 4:36
8. Dissident Aggressor 3:08
9. Race With The Devil 3:07
10. Jawbreaker 4:02
JUDAS PRIEST “Distressed Metal” /TS/
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The eighth video release by the legendary British Heavy Metal band. Halford is back with the Priest. The main reason is money... if you read the latest interview of Tim Owens, Judas Priest was not selling much albums these years. Even though Tim did a great job replacing Rob as good as he could, th..
JUDAS PRIEST “Live In London” /Slipcase Dual DVD/
The seventh video release by the legendary British Heavy Metal band. This DVD was recorded live on 19th December, 2001 at The Brixton Academy, London – an exclusive live performance by the Heavy Metal legends – rare concert footage of this show featuring an extended set of many Pries cl..
JUDAS PRIEST “Live” + “Angel Of Retribution” / HALFORD “Live At Rock In Rio 2001” /DVD + Dual DVD; Live/
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JUDAS PRIEST “Rising In The East” /DVD; Live/
The ninth video release of the legendary British Heavy Metal band. A live DVD of Judas Priest performing a concert in Tokyo's Nippon Budokan filmed in May 2005. The definitive Judas Priest lineup played two sold-out nights at the venue to promote the early-2005 release of the critically acclaim..
JUDAS PRIEST "Logo" /Patch/
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Second re-release of the seventh full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy/Speed Metal band. Recorded on the island of Ibiza with multiple distractions, glorious sunshine, and extremely low cost alcohol, this album was regarded with mixed feelings because it was different from what people..
JUDAS PRIEST “Sin After Sin” /LP/
Second re-release of the third full-length studio album by the legendary British Heavy/Speed Metal band. This is one of the very first Heavy Metal albums and, on its own, isn't the most well-known of the Judas Priest releases. While it was well-received by critics at the time, it did not have t..
JUDAS PRIEST "Painkiller" /LP/
The second re-release of twelfth full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy/Speed Metal band. This album was Judas Priest's attempt to move into a heavier, more "Thrash Metal-like" sound, which was a departure from the less-well received sound of “Turbo” and &ldqu..
JUDAS PRIEST “Killing Machine” /LP/
The fifth full-length studio album, also known as “Hell Bent For Leather”, by the legendary British Heavy/Speed Metal band. With its release, the album pushed Judas Priest towards a more commercial style; however, it still contained the dark lyrical themes of their previous albums. At a..
Re-release the seventh full-length studio album by legedary British Heavy/Speed Metal band. Recorded on the island of Ibiza with multiple distractions, glorious sunshine, and extremely low cost alcohol, this album was regarded with mixed feelings because it was different from what people expected. ..
JUDAS PRIEST “Redeemer Of Souls” /2LP/
The 17th full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy/Speed Metal band. Band's first album without founding guitarist K. K. Downing, who quit the band in 2011 and was replaced by new guitarist Richie Faulkner. "Welcome to my world of steel" sneers Rob Halford on the punchy, su..
JUDAS PRIEST “Screaming For Vengeance” /LP/
Remastered re-release of the eighth full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy Metal band. Judas Priest rebounded from the shaky "Point Of Entry" with "Screaming For Vengeance", arguably the strongest album of their early-'80s commercial period. Having moved a bit t..
JUDAS PRIEST “Stained Class” /LP/
Re-release of the fourth full-length studio album by the legendary British Heavy/Speed Metal band. "Stained Class" is the only Judas Priest album to feature songwriting by all five members of the band. The alum showcased a more streamlined songwriting style while not compromising on the b..
JUDAS PRIEST “Turbo 30” /LP/
30th Anniversary Edition first remastered re-release of the tenth full-length album by legendary British Heavy/Speed Metal band. British Metal legends Judas Priest for a second time reissued "Turbo" album, originally released in 1986. Always believing that Metal should have no boundaries,..
JUDAS PRIEST "Nostradamus" /2CD/
The 16th full-length studio album by the legendary British Epic Heavy Metal band. “Nostradamus” is a band's first concept album, telling the story of the 16th century prophet, Michel de Nostredame (also known as Nostradamus). It was originally intended to be released in late 2006 be..
JUDAS PRIEST “Prisoners Of Pain” /CD/
Compilation ablum by legendary British Heavy/Speed Metal band. Special Sony Music compilation with best of encompassing Judas Priest's early LPs for Columbia. Includes: - Tracks 1, 3 and 10 taken from 1980's "British Steel"; - Track 2 taken from 1982's "Screaming for V..
JUDAS PRIEST "British Steel" /CD/
Remastered re-release of the sixth full-length album by the legendary British Heavy Metal band. Packed with strong melodic hooks, "British Steel" is a deliberate commercial move, forsaking the complexity of the band's early work in favor of a robust, AC/DC-flavored groove. It's a ..
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Remastered re-release of the 9th full-length studio album by British Heavy/Speed Metal legend. Up until this point in the '80s, Judas Priest was sort of inconsistent with the first two albums in the decade for Priest, being nothing of goodness, they really made up for the first two albums of th..
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Cut! An introduction to silent film, at the Pathology Museum, 21 November 2012
October 18, 2012 PH 8 Comments
Image courtesy The Pathology Museum
The Pathology Museum at St Bartholomew’s Hospital is a fascinating place – and one of London’s best-kept secrets. Access to the collections is currently by appointment only, but if you want to peruse the specimen jars of an evening, while enjoying a glass of wine and learning a little something, you should look out for their lecture and seminar events. Topics covered so far range from the history of tattoos to Marilyn Monroe – and this November, silent cinema.
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
I will be speaking at the Museum on 21 November, about the history of silent cinema generally, and also, inspired by the surroundings, some of the more bizarre bodies on silent film. There will be drinks, freshly made popcorn, film clips and an opportunity to ask questions after the talk.
Do come along, admission costs just £6 a person and we’re hoping that this will be the first of many silent cinema events at the museum.
Cut! takes place at the Pathology Museum, Robin Brook Centre, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE on 21 November 2012. Doors will open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. To book a ticket and find out more, follow this link. The museum’s Time Out listing is here.
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Win tickets to see His People (1925) at the UK Jewish film festival
October 17, 2012 PH Leave a comment
His People (1925)
The UK Jewish film festival features screenings across the country from 1-18 November, but we’re especially lucky in London as we will be able to see Edward Sloman’s 1925 silent classic His People, with a new improvised score. The film is set in Manhattan and film historian Tom Gunning praised it, saying that: “few silent films give so thorough a picture of Jewish home life in the American ghetto”.
This is an exciting chance to see the work of a director whose work Kevin Bownlow described as: “remarkable … with a very American smoothness of narrative”. Unfortunately, very many of Sloman’s pictures are now lost, but His People was his biggest commercial success, taking millions at the box office on its original release. It also stars Rudolph Schildkraut, one of the director’s favourite actors: “Whatever you planned with Schildkraut always came off – sometimes even better than you’d dreamed it. Rudolph Schildkraut was one of the great actors of his era,” he told Brownlow in The Parade’s Gone By.
The festival website has this to say about the film:
A rare opportunity to see one of the most evocative films of the 1920s with a new, live score. The sights and smells of New York’s bustling immigrant Jewish Lower East Side have seldom been captured better than in this sparkling tale of a generational clash of cultures. The two sons of a Jewish migrant family opt for different paths in life and love, but as the story progresses, assumptions about good and bad are soon firmly challenged.
A classic morality tale with a bold, contemporary cinematic feel, accompanied by an improvised live soundtrack from Sophie Solomon, (violinist and artistic director of the Jewish Music Institute), Quentin Collins (trumpet), Ian Watson (accordion) and Grant Windsor (piano).
To win a pair of tickets to see His People at the Barbican, just send the answer to this question to silentlondontickets@gmail.com by noon on Friday 9 November. The winner will be chosen at random from the correct entries.
His People director Edward Sloman was born in Britain – but in which city?
His People screens at 7.30pm on 13 November 2012 at the Barbican Cinema. To book tickets, please click here.
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Silent films at the West London Trades Union Club, 2012 season
August 8, 2012 PH 4 Comments
Hindle Wakes (1927)
The West London Trades Union Club in Acton, London W3 is a welcoming place for those who enjoy a well-kept ale and a natter, and a haven for left-leaning cinephiles too. The venue’s Saturday afternoon film club is friendly, and pleasingly broad-minded: recent seasons have taken a look at the work of film-makers ranging from Joseph Losey to Paul Robeson as well as giving club members the chance to show their own favourite titles, week by week.
Last year I spent four hugely enjoyable, chatty Saturday afternoons in west London showing silent films chosen in collaboration with members of the club. The discussions afterwards were well-informed, not to say boisterous, and one topic we often returned to was: what are you going to show next year?
So, the silent film club is back, with some much-longed for comedy, another British film, some Weimar glamour and French impressionism. Here’s what’s coming up this autumn in Acton:
Comedy double-bill: The General (1926) and The Circus (1928)
Two classic films from the two titans of silent comedy: Buster Keaton’s ingenious civil-war chase film The General and Chaplin’s poignant, hilarious The Circus. These two films offer an opportunity to marvel at the best of silent comedy, but also to compare and contrast the different styles of these two great film-makers. Buster Keaton’s deadpan mechanical inventiveness versus Chaplin’s sentimental appeal and graceful physicality – you decide.
8 September 2012, 4pm
This adaptation of the much-loved northern melodrama was filmed by Maurice Elvey, a giant of British silent cinema, now sadly all but forgotten. Elvey was a trade unionist himself, and Hindle Wakes is the story of a clandestine romance between a factory worker and an industrialist’s son. It’s gorgeously filmed, with some fantastic “Wakes Week” sequences shot in Blackpool – and the heroine, played by Estelle Brody, is a refreshingly modern woman. Not to be missed.
20 October 2012, 4pm
Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box (1929)
Pandora’s Box (1929)
Another modern woman, and one of the most famous films of the silent era. Louise Brooks is truly iconic as the liberated, amoral Lulu breaking hearts in swinging Weimar Germany. Erotic, witty and ultimately tragic, Pandora’s Box is a classic that rewards repeated viewing and while coolly received at the time, has subsequently made an international star or its reckless leading lady – it now stands as the definitive portrait of a decadent society.
10 November 2012, 4pm
L’Argent (1928)
When Marcel Herbier announced his intention to adapt Zola’s L’Argent but to place it in the contemporary setting of the 1920s Paris stockmarket, many were horrified that he would take an acclaimed historical novel about ruthlessly greedy, over-reaching bankers out of its context. But Herbier’s passion, “to film at any cost, even (what a paradox) at great cost, a fierce denunciation of money”, proved as pertinent in pre-crash Europe as it does now, in the fallout of the global financial crisis. L’Argent is not just social commentary, it’s an ambitiously innovative film, a masterpiece of poetic impressionism.
15 December 2012, 4pm
Charlie Chaplin in The Circus (1928)
You don’t have to be a member of the club, or even of a trade union, to turn up and receive a warm welcome – and you will find the venue at 33 Acton High Street, London W3 6ND. It’s about five minutes walk from Acton Central train station, and on plenty of bus routes.
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Professor of Practice, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick,
John Colley is Professor of Practice at Warwick Business School and Associate Dean.
John’s most recent previous role was Director of MBA Programmes at Nottingham University Business School where he achieved MBA and PhD degrees. John also holds degrees at Newcastle University and Lancaster University and is a Chartered and Certified Accountant.
Before entering academia John was Group Managing Director at a FTSE 100 business and Executive Managing Director at a French CAC 40 business. Previously he undertook the role of MD of British Gypsum Ltd after having undertaken various leadership roles in Finance including Finance Director at British Gypsum. He has chaired a UK listed plc as well as non-executive director roles of UK and European private equity businesses. Currently he chairs two VCT funded businesses and also advises at board level various private businesses.
He was a council member of the Foundation for Management Education, a member of the Economic Affairs Committee for the CBI, and is a member of the Bank of England Regional Panel. He has written thought leadership articles for the national press and is quoted for his views on mergers and acquisitions. John teaches strategy and leadership to MBA and executive education participants.
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Kinetic "Odyssey" or Bloody Libyan Farce?
March 31, 2011 sheikyermami
Kinetic Military Action conducted by university professors:
Sorry, the ‘O’-speak is always one step ahead of us:
Today “It is use of military force in concert with our allies, can’t call Libya a “war”
Hussein Obama said the rebels were “saying the right things” so far. “Most of them are professionals, lawyers, doctors, people who appear to be credible,” Â No kidding…. (The Australian)
Anwar al-Awlaki is pleased:
al-Qaeda’s most influential English-language preacher  said revolts sweeping the Arab world would help rather than harm its cause by giving Islamists freed from tyranny greater scope to speak out.  (source)
Zero cops flak from a far left Kucinich:
“This is a clear and arrogant violation of our Constitution. This is war. Even a war launched for humanitarian reasons is still a war. And — only Congress can declare war”
Andrew Bolt:
The UN’s Libyan intervention – allegedly to protect civilians – seems to be drifting aimlessly and uselessly:
At least 40 civilians have been killed in air strikes by Western forces on Tripoli, the top Vatican official in the Libyan capital told a Catholic news agency on Thursday, quoting witnesses.
Libyan, Arab Jihadists Fighting Alongside al-Qaeda In Pakistan On Their Way Home To Join Rebel Forces… (ZIP)
Meanwhile, the rebels the Americans, British and French jets and missiles are helping are turning out to be a worry – and in no shape top quickly finish this civil war now raging:
The revolution lacks an organised military structure in spite of several attempts to stamp its authority on the volunteer army. Discipline is bad. Few of the fighters have proper military experience and they would need training in the use of weapons such as artillery….
The revolution’s de facto finance minister, Ali Tarhouni, claims that there are 1,000 trained fighters among the rebels but there is little evidence of it on the battlefield where the anti-Gaddafi forces appear capable of advancing only when the way is cleared by foreign air strikes….
The lack of control over Libya’s rebel army also raises questions about how it might behave as an occupying force were it to take over a town such as Sirte which has not risen up in support of the revolution and where the Libyan leader is believed to retain some support.
“Boots on the ground” already happening, against statements to the contrary:
Does Hussein Obama still doesn’t have a clear idea of just what people he’s really helping in this war?
The Obama administration has sent teams of CIA operatives into Libya in a rush to gather intelligence on the identities and capabilities of rebel forces opposed to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, according to U.S. officials.
The information has become more crucial as the administration and its coalition partners move closer to providing direct military aid or guidance to the disorganized and beleaguered rebel army…
Several lawmakers briefed by Clinton, Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said they were told that the United States is still trying to put together a full picture of the Libyan rebellion but believes that it does not contain large numbers of radical Islamic militants.
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INTERVIEW: Goldman Prize winner 2015 – Fighting industrial pollution in Kenya is a dangerous business
Sophie Morlin-Yron / May 10, 2015
Lead poisoning from industrial pollution has imposed a terrible toll on Kenyans, and single mother Phyllis Omido is no exception – lead from a nearby metal refinery badly damaged her own son’s health. But it was when she decided to fight back against the polluters that a whole new realm of threats and dangers opened up.
Phyllis Omido. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize
Single mother Phyllis Omido from Mombasa, Kenya, lives at an undisclosed address with her nine year old son. CCTV cameras monitor the place at night and she has a panic button on a bracelet which can trace her whereabouts were she suddenly to disappear. The nightmare started in 2009 when Omido realised her baby boy had been poisoned by her own breast milk because she had been exposed to high levels of lead through her job managing community relations at a lead smelter in Owino Uhuru, one of Mombasa’s shanty towns. The smelting plant, owned by Metal Refineries EPZ Ltd, emitted toxic fumes laden with lead and exposed workers and the local community to dangerous chemicals. Untreated waste water from the plant spilled into streams which residents use to wash, cook and clean. Lead levels in the soil increased nearly tenfold within the first twelve months of the factory opening.
Omido has now won the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa – the world’s largest prize for grassroots environmental activists – for the courageous campaigning work which brought the whole community together in the fight against the company and the Kenyan government. After extensive investigations, peaceful protests and letter-writing campaigns the plant closed down in January 2014. The 36-year old says winning the prize was “a shock and an amazing feeling” and that it will help gain credibility for an upcoming court case. “It’s very exciting times. Just the fact that someone recognises what we are doing and that we are not on the wrong side of the law.”
Phyllis talking with children from the community who are suffering from lead poisoing. In the background is the wall to the factory which is located right next to the family’s home. The children play next to the factory wall where the soil is contaminated. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize
Insufficient protection
Omido had an office position, but many other workers at the plant faced direct exposure to chemicals. They were provided one pair of thin cotton gloves per month which disintegrated after only a few days. Meanwhile, managers entering the factory did so in full protective gear. While working at the plant, Omido initiated an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedure. The factory was by this time fully operational, meaning that the Kenyan government had overlooked the legal requirements for an EIA to be conducted before the plant opened. The EIA report recommended closing the factory and relocating away from residential areas. This was rejected, however. Omido was asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement and was moved to another position within the company.
Anger lead to action
Her son, King David, now nine years old, was at the time hospitalised for a month due to lead poisoning received from Omido’s breast milk after being exposed to lead on a daily basis. Omido got some compensation, but only to cover hospital costs of $2000. She says it was the anger of seeing her son suffer that motivated her to start the campaign. At first, her employers tried to silence her, but when she saw the rest of the community, many living on less than a pound per day, having to cope with children in hospital and the subsequent bills, she felt that the situation was too bad to ignore: “Something had to be done. I believe anyone in my shoes would have done the same thing.” She went to the plant and started telling people about the poisoning, but she didn’t get people on her side straight away. Shortly after that, an employee who worked close to the furnace passed out.
Phyllis next to contaminated water within the slum area which the community use for washing. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize
He was removed from the site and died later at his home, an incident that triggered the mobilisation of the workforce. “They started joining me, and some of them quit their jobs and started seeking help”, says Omido. Still, a further two employees died before the plant closed down. Omido left her job at the factory and began cleaning houses and working with the community to assess the impact of the pollution. She raised money to carry out blood tests on local residents and found that 14 out of 15 tested had high lead levels. She then convinced the local health centre to test for lead pollution. Tests showed dangerously high levels of lead for children. Further investigations also revealed that animals such as chickens kept in people’s back yards died after drinking the water, children living nearby developed fevers and stomach problems and pregnant women had miscarriages and stillbirths.
Many still awaiting compensation
Omido alleges that the Kenyan government was complicit in exposing workers and locals to lead pollution, and is now taking them to court with the help of two pro-bono litigators from Advocates Sans Frontieres, in Brussels. “Let them justify the decisions that they made. Why did they decide to license a smelter right in the middle of a community?” She adds that those affected are still awaiting compensation and hopes the court case might help facilitate this. For example, she says, there are mothers whose wombs had to be removed because they had carried children who had died because of lead poisoning and so they cannot get pregnant again. “You can never compensate a lost womb, but they need to take responsibility”, she adds. She is currently awaiting test results conducted by the Ministry of Health and Centre for Disease Control in the US to use in court. She says they are trying to quantify the contribution of the smelter to the lead levels, so they can prove that it was responsible for poisoning the community. Omido says her main objective with the lawsuit is to create a precedent for future cases. “Because the amount of complaints we are getting from Kenyans all around the country are very similar to what these people went through. And they need a precedent in court that they can use in the future to get justice.”
Great personal risks
Whilst campaigning, Omido escaped a possible kidnapping and has been arrested and imprisoned for her work. “They sent armed people after me, to wait for me at my house in the evening. That is the night that I fled and went to where I live now.
Phyllis with son King at the park. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize
She says that up until last month she received text messages from unknown international numbers threatening her and her son and telling her: “Stop talking about the Owino Uhuru case.” She speaks about these threats very calmly and shows little sign of fear, as if she has grown used to it, but she tells me it wasn’t always like this. “At first it was really bad. Like in 2012. I could not sleep in my bed. I would hold my son and I would put a mattress under the bed so that if someone peeked through the window they wouldn’t have been able to see us. I was terrified.” “Sometimes I get afraid, but I think now it’s not as bad as it was in the beginning. The way the case has progressed now, I know they have very few options. They can kill me, but they will not silence the case”, she adds. While her family advised her to look out for her son’s safety and give up the case, Omido says she received invaluable support from the organisations Frontline Defenders and Human Rights Watch. They helped her see the importance of the case internationally, to feel that she was not alone and that she had possibilities for seeking support. “That helped a lot, just working with these people and them taking action on behalf of the community, so that there’s not just me taking action.”
Setting up her own Business and Human Rights organisation
Prior to starting at the smelter, Omido studied business management at the University of Nairobi and she has ten years experience working in industry in Kenya. Today, she works full-time at her own organisation CJGEA – the Center for Justice, Governance and Environmental Action which she founded in 2009 and which promotes environmental justice in Kenya’s coastal regions. “We get so many complaints, you would not believe it”, she says. She says the people who come with new cases often travel from very poor communities which have collected money so that one person can find her and report the case. She says that, for example, there have been reports of mercury poisoning in mines and in one place 200 cows were poisoned by leaks into their water. When her organisation got involved, the company agreed to pay compensation to the community straight away. “But there are also other industries who just don’t care,” she adds. She also runs mentorship programmes for school children through the organisation to raise awareness and educate the communities of environmental protection and human rights. “It’s going great!” she says, and her face lights up. It is clear that this is an issue close to her heart. “It’s better than I thought,” she laughs, “they are very motivated kids. I want to see if we can raise enough money to make them have a competition this year where we award the best poem about the environment.”
Potential brain damage
Thankfully, her son has recovered well. However, she is awaiting tests for long term brain damage due to the lead poisoning which, she says, she is reluctant to do. “I don’t want him growing up thinking there is something wrong with him.” She is a confident, determined and to-the-point woman, but when she speaks about her boy her voice softens and her eyes light up. She tells me proudly that he wants to be an animal rights activist when he grows up. “He says he doesn’t like the way people treat animals. And he wants to be a vegetarian, he has a mind of his own.” Unfortunately, not all community members were as lucky as her son, she adds. Some of them could not afford care or more extensive tests. Around 3,000 people still live near the factory, although there are concerns that the environment may still be contaminated and toxic.
Creating an environmental impact database
Omido is now devoting all her time to fighting similar cases around the country. A large part of the $175,000 prize money will be put into her non-profit organisation, she says. “At least now we don’t have to worry. The rent is coming up, salaries are coming up, so at least it has sorted that for us for a while.” Her future plans include continuing to expand. “I would like to make a ‘one stop shop’ for the environment. I want us to have a database of all possible industries coming up in Kenya. Who owns them? What is their impact? Have them all accessible from our office. “We want to have full research and access to all EIAs, because right now, when we get complaints, there is a push and pull with governments to access the information.” Omido is clearly a courageous woman who against all the odds has fought hard to protect her family and community. She has a vision for a brighter future for Kenya’s working communities as well. To others who may think of taking action, she says: “Don’t be afraid. Do what is right. This thing happened because too many people were quiet. We really have to stand up and do what is right, especially for the environment. It concerns all of us. “It doesn’t matter how much money you earn in life – if you don’t leave a clean, healthy, sustainable environment for your children, you have done nothing.”
Phyllis Omido is one of six winners of the prestigious international Goldman Environmental Prize which honours and recognises individuals struggling to win environmental victories against the odds and inspires ordinary people to take extraordinary actions to protect the world’s natural resources. Winners are selected from each of the six inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. Visit the website for more information on the other winners.
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Lead can be so insidious – it lingers in the environment for longer than living memory and targets the weakest among us.
Thank you for this story.
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WATCH: Brevard’s Xander Boggs Bridging Music and Medicine at the University of Florida
By Alisson Burke Clarke // April 21, 2019
Boggs believes music will make him a better doctor
WATCH: Other universities told Xander Boggs he’d have to choose between music and medical school. The University of Florida encouraged him to do both. (University of Florida video)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article from the University of Florida News was written by an Edgewood Jr./Sr. High alumn, Alisson Burke Clarke, about a fellow alum, Xander Boggs.
Music for Pre-Health Program Let Students Pursue Both Passions
Other universities told Xander Boggs he’d have to choose between music and medical school. The University of Florida encouraged him to do both.
Through UF’s one-of-a-kind Music for Pre-Health Professions degree, Boggs will earn a bachelor of music while taking all of the math and science courses he needs to apply to med school.
“Music is my driving force. I really wanted to keep it in my life,” says Boggs, a first-year student who plays cello, piano, guitar and bass and wants to be an emergency-room doctor.
“That’s the main reason I chose UF.”
UF is the only institution accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music to offer a bachelor of music combined with another field.
Pre-health isn’t the only option: Music students can graduate with a Master of Science in Management or Entrepreneurship or pursue a second bachelor’s degree — engineering is a popular choice.
“I know for me I wouldn’t be happy just focusing on STEM,” Boggs said.
“Music gives me a break from the stress of STEM classes. When I’m feeling stressed out, I can practice cello or write a song.”
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Other universities told Xander Boggs he’d have to choose between music and medical school. The University of Florida encouraged him to do both. Through UF’s one-of-a-kind Music for Pre-Health Professions degree, Boggs will earn a bachelor of music while taking all of the math and science courses he needs to apply to med school. (University of Florida image)
Boggs believes music will make him a better doctor.
“Music is all about the communication of emotion. It’s all about recognizing other people’s feelings and what they’re trying to say without words. With medicine, you have to have that same compassion. Music brings out understanding within me to help to understand the world better, which will help me relate to my patients and treat them better.”
School of Music Advisor and Director of Music Admissions Mutlu Çitim-Kepic says music can also help a medical-school applicant stand out from the crowd.
“There are a large number of dropouts after the first year of medical school, but that is less true for music majors,” she says.
“They’re self-disciplined self-starters. Playing in ensembles prepares them to work well in groups. They have the skills not just to get in, but to finish.”
When Boggs arrived at UF, he was no stranger to hard work.
A National Merit Scholar who attended Edgewood Jr./Sr. High School in Merritt Island, Fla., which the Washington Post named one of the country’s most challenging high schools, he balanced AP classes with lacrosse, student government and orchestra.
Still, his first semester at UF was an adjustment.
“Organization was a very big challenge for me. I didn’t use a calendar in high school. When I got here, I thought, ‘Wow! Things are going to have to change.’”
Calendar acquired, the UF Honors student and Lombardi Scholar is managing 19 credit hours this semester.
“People will tell you it’s impossible, but it’s definitely doable,” he says. “You just have to put the time in.”
A National Merit Scholar who attended Edgewood Jr./Sr. High School in Merritt Island, Fla., which the Washington Post named one of the country’s most challenging high schools, Xander Boggs balanced AP classes with lacrosse, student government and orchestra. (University of Florida image)
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9-Year-Old Boy Explains His Autism to Classmates in Viral Video
Uncovering the Truth About Autism and Anxiety
Extension of Autism Care Demonstration for TRICARE Eligible Beneficiaries Announced
Published by aramtch at January 24, 2018
Why We Love This Video About Autism
A fourth grader named George Yionoulis took to YouTube to explain his autism to his classmates—and his efforts soon became a viral video. The project began as a presentation assignment from his teacher. Instead of standing in front of the class and talking about himself, George decided to create a music video.
In the brave and hilarious video, George tells his story without holding anything back, tackling a wide variety of autism-related topics including meltdowns, sensory overload, hand-flapping, and other issues and behaviors associated with autism. In the end, he reminds his classmates that, ultimately, he’s a “kid just like them” so they shouldn’t feel afraid to interrupt him, ask him to play, or ask him questions about autism.
Hearing stories from children with autism, in their own language, is an invaluable resource for all of the behavioral work we do at the Springbrook Autism Program.
It’s easy to get caught up in the medical and behavioral aspects of autism and forget the human element. While evidence-based treatments and therapies will always be the cornerstone of any effective autism program, the vast majority of these therapies rely on patient histories, ongoing surveys and interviews, and other clinical data.
For instance, in this video, George describes his impulse to flap his hands or pump his legs as a reaction to feeling too much excitement all at once. Knowing this behavioral trigger, if George and his parents were concerned about this behavior and wanted to minimize it, we could use storyboards to introduce exciting topics gradually, visual schedules to remind George of upcoming events, and positive reinforcement when he redirects his excitement. However, since the behavior doesn’t seem to be causing any harm, we would likely advise his parents not to worry about it—to see the behavior as their son’s way of communicating excitement and gratitude.
What About Nonverbal or Minimally Verbal Children With Autism?
There’s no doubt that George demonstrates well-developed social skills and verbal ability, including the capacity for playing with language and using humor to make his points. For the nonverbal or minimally verbal child with autism; however, there are still methods we can use to communicate with the child and use context clues to understand the child’s needs.
In many cases, the concerning behaviors themselves are an attempt to communicate on the part of the nonverbal child. For example, as was shown in this video, hand-flapping could be a response to over-excitement or it could be a sign of panic or frustration. Often, self-injurious behaviors indicate that the child has some pain or discomfort in the area that is being harmed—issues such as headaches, stomach issues, dizziness, and jaw pain can all lead to self-harming or maladaptive behaviors. Once we isolate the cause, using visual aids, storyboards, gestures, and augmentative communication devices, we can usually minimize the behavior.
Ultimately, the key principle to remember is that any attempt to communicate on the part of the child is good and beneficial—whether that attempt is a funny, heartwarming viral video or what seems, on the surface, to be a destructive or even embarrassing behavior. Both are clues to the child with autism and help us do our work more effectively.
Do you want to better understand your child and be able to interpret his or her behaviors? We can help. Call us at (864) 834-8013 for a confidential consultation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/im-a-kid-just-like-you-9-year-old-boy-explains-autism-in-viral-video/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=101&v=YIK2yXfrCfw
Four ways dogs help children with autism
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Religious Discrimination, Not A Thing of the Past
Written by Mr. Max Schechter. Max is a rising sophomore at Cornell University and is interning at Interfaith Alliance summer 2011. He is also a participant in the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism’s Machon Kaplan program.
On Tuesday I attended an exciting press conference and briefing organized to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 8802, also called the Fair Employment Act. This Executive Order ended hiring discrimination based on, “race, creed, color, or national origin” by government defense contractors and was an historic advancement for civil rights and religious liberty. However, this is far from mere history. Issues of employment discrimination and indeed executive orders are important today. Although presidents since FDR have renewed and expanded the prohibitions on hiring discrimination, including President Lyndon Johnson who protected citizens from hiring discrimination in all government contracts, President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13279 which allows religious organizations the ability to discriminate in hiring even if they receive government funding—and unfortunately that executive order stands today.
The fight to end taxpayer-funded discrimination is central to our work to protect religious freedom and to that effect, Rev. Welton Gaddy, president of Interfaith Alliance and host of State of Belief, wrote an op-ed in which he urged the President to
“honor this historic anniversary by restoring the civil rights protections that began 70 years ago this week…this action will not infringe upon the right of religious groups to discriminate in whom they hire; and federal money will, not a moment too soon, stop being used to sponsor discrimination.”
Also, more than 50 groups (including Interfaith Alliance) wrote a letter to President Obama which was sent to the White House the morning of the press conference, calling his attention to this important issue.
Speakers at the press conference included Representatives Bobby Scott (D-VA), Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), leaders in the religious community like Rabbi David Saperstein and Rev. Dr. Paul Brown, as well as civil rights advocates and scholars. Every speaker emphasized how groundbreaking this executive order was by offering the protection of the federal government to the victims of employment discrimination. The panel praised the successful efforts of A. Phillip Randolph and other civil rights leaders who persuaded FDR to sign that executive order 70 years ago.
The idea of taxpayers supporting jobs that they might themselves be denied because of their race, religion, or national origin was a concern at the briefing. It is a shame that legal hiring discrimination has persisted under the Obama administration. The panel’s statements encouraged President Obama to take action to prevent this discrimination, as he promised he would while campaigning in Zanesville, Ohio.
As a witness to the press conference and briefing, I was inspired by the coalition of different faiths and sincere efforts of members of congress. Although I came away realizing the obstacles non-discriminatory hiring has, I was also reminded of what A. Phillip Randolph had to organize and that working towards equality and liberty is always worthwhile.
For more on the faith-based initiative under President Obama, check out these State of Belief episodes: Rabbi David Saperstein, head of the Religion Action Center of Reform Judaism assesses year one of the Obama faith-based initiative. Sandhya Bathija, communications associate for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, discusses two recent cases of hiring discrimination by religious charities. (Please note, these are extended versions of the interviews originally broadcast nationwide.)
Donny June 26, 2011
Will Gaddy and his progressive co-horts cheer wildly if Conservative Evangelicals demand entry into gay groups receiving goverment funds, and then start immediately to preach repentance from homosexual acts?
Gaddy will be first in line to charge those Christians with a crime.
All this anti-Faith Based Initiative movement is, is yet one more attempt at driving the Christian from the public arena. Why the perverse need to insert anti-Christians into Christian organizations? The goverment knows full well that the monies going to Christian faith-based outreach programs do not harm anyone and, indeed are amazingly helpful.
Gaddy, and the other anti-faith based initiative camp members, are intolerance incorporated. And it is a liberal-progressive incorporation.
It is all to clear, that Liberal and Progressive haved evoloved into synonyms for Sodom and Gomorrah.
Looking at the intolerant now, and you can see them trying to hide behind a message of tolerance while implementing pure intolerance. And, of course, always on Evangelical bible-believing Christians first and foremost.
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Should Unbelievers be Nice or Not?
writerdd Send an email August 19, 2007
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Michael Shermer has an interesting article in the September issue of Scientific American.
The article is called, “Rational Atheism: An open letter to Messrs. Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens” and basically is a call for unbelievers to limit our “irrational exuberance” and not to make fun of those who believe in woo. In short, Shermer is advocating the following five rules (each is explained in the article):
1. Anti-something movements by themselves will fail.
2. Positive assertions are necessary.
3. Rational is as rational does.
4. The golden rule is symmetrical.
5. Promote freedom of belief and disbelief.
(Hat tip to Hemant at The Friendly Atheist for the link and article summary.)
Shermer’s main point seems to be that people are and should be free to hold whatever beliefs they want. While I can’t disagree specifially with anything Shermer is saying here, and I want to feel the same way he does about this issue, I’m not completely sold.
A ex-fundamentalist friend of mine recently wrote this on her blog:
If you doubt [the fundies’] intentions, just look at where they’re putting their energies. Bitterly disappointed by the limits of government power, they are now focusing intently on accruing military power instead. Dave wrote about the OSU’s officially-sanctioned efforts to proselytize to our soldiers in Iraq. Other groups are targeting these soldiers after they come home, seeking to fill the hole left by the paucity of VA counseling and transition services. Mikey Weinstein has made the case that they’ve deeply infiltrated both the faculties and the cadet corps of our military academies. They’ve also made specific appeals to the military leadership: Jerry Boykin is far from the only general who puts his duty to God ahead of his duty to country, and being “born-again” is increasingly viewed as a requirement for promotion in certain areas of the service. And, through Ron Luce’s “Battle Cry” rallies, millions of teenagers are being schooled in the logic and aesthetics of spiritual (and real-life) warfare, priming the pipeline with another generation of Christian soldiers. Across the fundamentalist world, there’s a new militance. They’re mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it any more.
When I read things like this (and there are many sources for similar information online and in print, including Chris Hedges’s American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America), I think that Dawkins, Harris, etc., are not being strong enough in their rhetoric. After all, that’s all it is: talk. Atheists are not carrying weapons, bombing abortion clinics, beating up gays, or performing any other violent acts in the name of their (un)belief.
Is being nice and tolerating unfounded beliefs really the way to fight back against religious militants? I don’t think it will work, frankly.
writerdd
Donna Druchunas is a freelance technical writer and editor and a knitwear designer. When she's not working, she blogs, studies Lithuanian, reads science and sci-fi books, mouths off on atheist forums, and checks her email every three minutes. (She does that when she's working, too.) Although she loves to chat, she can't keep an IM program open or she'd never get anything else done.
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When I first read Shermer's article, I had much the same reaction you did (especially when I saw the m-word show up in the first sentence). But then I realized that Shermer isn't really coming down against Dawkins, et. al. He's more opposed to those who use Dawkins as a springboard for lashing out against the religious.
Shermer's point is that people should be free to believe, but (and this isn't necessarily explicit in the article) not free from criticism. There's a difference between telling the religious they're wrong, and taking away their rights because they're wrong.
mighty favog says:
Why not convinced? The people we should be fighting against are only those that are trying to suppress our freedoms, not the general populace. People of faith should be equally offended by the actions of these people, and probably are, but there is that unspoken rule that to criticize faith is to be unfaithful.
It comes down to figuring out what your goal actually is. Is it a war that you expect to win? Or is the goal to create a more balanced, stable society? Which is more plausible? "Being nice and tolerating" is not the way to deal with domineering fanatics. Think of it as you would the criminal justice system. It's not black-and-white. There are many areas of concern which require different levels of attention.
Someone needs to pull an Edward R. Murrow on these guys. Of course, when Murrow brought down McCarthy there were only three TV networks, and TV editorializing didn't exist…today it would take an organized effort from many prominent media figures. I sincerely think that this is the only way the problem will be brought under control.
writerdd says:
I agree with both of you. My reaction came, I think, from the fact that most people who criticize these authors are usually saying, in one form or another, "shut up and don't rock the boat."
Not convinced because I have not seen historical evidence that nonviolent activism every precipits change without more militant action. I don't condone violence or militant action at all and I refuse to act that way myself. But I'm just not sure that peaceful protest/activism really works.
exarch says:
Too often, atheists use the Ghandi approach. But that doesn't really help to fight the problem, it just helps to underscore your dislike of it.
Of course, as soon as one atheist decides (s)he's had enough and can't take it any more, uses a few harsh words and doesn't hold back on the biting truth, everybody's offended or urging to tone it down.
So we try to stay friendly with everyone and allow them their insanities, but at the same time we have to bend over and take their nonsense. I'd say everyone is entitled to believe what they want, and speak their mind about it. And be ridiculed for it if someone should feel so inclined.
Okay, between logging onto the blog and posting this response, it seems at least three other people have posted pretty much the exact same thing I did.
So I think everyone who responded read/understood Shermer's article pretty much the way I think it's intended.
Man, some beliefs are just ridiculous. When beliefs are ridiculous, failure to make fun of them just gives them more respectability.
Shame is a very useful weapon, when wielded correctly.
sethmanapio says:
The thing about Shermer is… he hasn't been very sucessful in fighting woo. He hasn't moved the frontiers of ignorance and superstition back very far. He has been quietly preaching to the converted for quite some time, at little effect.
Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens and Harris, to whom he addressed his open letter, can safely ignore his PR advice. We all can. We must have exuberance to be attractive, polemic to be memorable, hard judgements to avoid the milquetoast skepticism of the last decades.
Skepticism should be FOR something, yes. Itself. A skeptic should, unlike Dr. Shermer, be skeptical above all things, beyond political allegiances, wishful thinking, and our belief that we know best.
thad says:
If it was only words vs words, then certainly, then calm words prevail. Unfortunately, it is more than that.
In many ways it comes down to the "right to not be offended", by which there is no right (although if a majority of people are offended, it is deemed as wrong). People then take that offense as an excuse to do something. "I am offended, thus I will make sure X never happens again." (Supposed "minorities" seize upon this, "We few Christians are offended, and so we are simply trying for a more offense free world" – but this is in no way exclusive to Christianity.)
Gary Rosetree says:
Shermer is right in every way. Those above who object should re-read the article. I think you've misunderstood it. To be atheist is inherently a negative position. We have to be for something as well. I'm taking a copy of this article to the next meeting of my new local skeptics society. It will make a good guideline for the goals that we need to set as a group. Should we spread information where misinformation exists or should we ridicule the ignorant? The latter is the stance that is in fact preaching to the converted. Promoting understanding of science and reason while protecting the type of rights in the US Constitution is the only way forward. Ask yourself how you came to the world view that you have now. Was it by shame used as a weapon against you? I doubt it.
Gary, I agree with what you're saying and with Shermer's points, but I don't think that has anything to do with the way Dawkins etc. are communicating in their published books. The article was addressed as an open letter to these authors, not addressed to individual unbelievers as suggestions for actions in their daily conversations. The books by the authors Shermer is addressing are in large part meant to be preaching to the converted (and that's not a bad thing), to encourage people with the knowledge that they're not alone, and that they should come out publicly about their unbelief, and in creating awareness. I think these books have been hugely successful in attaining these goals.
How we act and treat people in our daily lives is a different matter. I treat individual people I know politely and will have discussions with them about religion, or whatever superstitions they have, without calling them idiots or making them feel stupid because they disagree with me. There's no point to be rude or condescending.
Still, if the liberal unbelievers are not speaking out against the religious extremists, I guess it falls to us unbelievers to do so. And I don't think we should be timid about it.
The hard part is, what does one do when one has relatives or friends or other acquaintances who are extremists? How do you talk to them? I don't think there's an easy answer. I know I haven't found a good solution in talking to my family and old fundy friends.
Well, I hope one day my thoughts on this topic coalesce. As you can see, I still have mixed feelings about the whole thing.
writerdd,
I have to disagree that it was not meant as an open letter to all like minded individuals. If it were to the named writers only, he could have easily emailed them rather than publishing it in SA. I see it as a gentle warning to keep on track and on message rather than a condemnation of the writers.
Otherwise I agree with you on how to treat people and about "the hard part." It's a delicate line to tread and will take our continued best effort to simply maintain the ground we have. You can't just destroy someones world view; there has to be something to replace it. Remember that you can't see the tiny cracks that may be working into a facade of supersition, made by a rational point here and there. That doesn't happen when we either keep it to ourselves or appear to be ridiculing a person.
John Phillips says:
Yep, being quiet and respectful to the deluded has worked really, really well for the cause of rationality, hasn't it.
I agree with Dr. Shermer,
In fact, on one point in particular, he's dead on (for me).
It truly is easy, and fun, for me to get into the mindset of making fun of people who "believe" one thing or another. In fact, I've often openly said that it's one of the great perks of being a skeptic!
I LOVE reading the list of applicants for the Randi challenge. "Kooks" are funny to me.
I have about 14 websites book marked of people that are so "out there" that I laugh openly at their foolishness and read their "reports" out loud to the laughter of all. (Richard C. Hoagland is one of them…)
This is, perhaps, something I should change.
Dr. Shermer's point is well taken. I should be promoting a positive idea instead of ridiculing others. (But damn it's fun!) Negativity will never win, in the end. We do want to win don't we?
I'll work on it…one of these days…
dcarm says:
I think there is a place for ridicule and a place for positive pressure.
If you're trying to convince someone that they're thinking about something incorrectly, then you need to lead them to the right way to think about it. when you strip people's beliefs away, and don't give them something to replace it, they will more than likely reject it, and quite possibly you as well.
So… I see Shermer's point in relation to you and I, in relation to Authors of Books, however, I would question who those books are aimed at? is it aimed at the ridiculed? I hardly think so, but I think they're aimed at the fence-sitters, and a bit of ridicule when combined with facts, evidence, and reasoning, when dealing with fence-sitters is useful and helpful. The other audience are the currently-skeptical, who are ridiculing them anyway.
I think that by and large, we need to be careful how and when we attack/ridicule woo especially in relation to religion. But at the same time, I think that it's important to stand your ground. I knew one woman who, when the JWs or the Mormons, or whoever, knowck on her door, she invites them in, and says, "I am more than happy to listen to what you have to say, but you have to be happy to listen to my views and beliefs as well, and I can accept that you can make comment on my beliefs, provided you can accept that I can make comments on yours."
I think that she's got it on the head, and the fact that she was trying to convert them to a more traditional version of Christianity is beside the point. If we as skeptics/atheists were to use this approach, I wonder if we wouldn't have more interesting productive discussions, even with the true believers.
I know, it's easier to talk about than actually implement.
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Pielke Sr. and SkS Disagreements and Open Questions
Posted on 1 October 2011 by dana1981
Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. has responded to our last set of questions and answers, and we would like to thank him for a civil discourse to this point. Unfortunately, in the meantime Dr. Pielke has taken offense to some challenging, but relatively benign comments (although we think he got in a few licks himself), and decided that his interaction with SkS was over.
To sum up the discussion, there are some points on which we agree, others on which we disagree, and a few others which require further clarification. We will summarize the disagreements and open questions in the text below, based on our understanding of Dr. Pielke's comments. Readers are invited to read Dr. Pielke's comments to verify that we are accurately representing them in this summary.
CO2 Contribution to Global Warming
In response to our question regarding what fraction of the observed global warming is due to CO2 and other anthropogenic effects, Dr. Pielke responded:
"~26% of the positive radiative forcing was from CO2"
This is not a complete answer, but the question is a complex one. However, we believe Dr. Pielke has underestimated the CO2 contribution. Figure 1 shows the radiative forcing estimates in the 2007 IPCC report.
Figure 1: Global average radiative forcing in 2005 (best estimates and 5 to 95% uncertainty ranges) with respect to 1750. Source (IPCC AR4).
The radiative forcing from CO2 is well-known, and estimated at 1.66 Watts per square meter (W/m2). The remainder of the positive radiative forcings add up to 1.63 W/m2. Therefore, CO2 accounts for approximately 50% of the positive radiative forcing - twice Dr. Pielke's estimate. Dr. Pielke references research which has suggested that, for example, methane plays a larger role than the IPCC estimate. However, the radiative forcing from methane (which is well-known) is based on its atmospheric concentration, which is also well-known. Dr. Pielke also clarified his opinion that soot (black carbon) might account for a larger positive radiative forcing than CO2. However, aerosols have both warming and cooling effects, with the cooling effects likely being larger in magnitude (Ramanathan and Carmichael 2008).
Answering the SkS Question
Our view of this question is that if we use the current CO2 forcing and a transient climate response of approximately 2°C for doubled atmospheric CO2 (IPCC AR4 best estimate), the atmospheric CO2 increase over the past century has caused approximately 0.9°C warming of the average global surface temperature (best estimate). This best estimate is more than 100% of the observed surface warming (0.8°C), meaning that all other non-CO2 anthropogenic plus natural effects have most likely had a small net cooling effect over this period.
NRC Report
Dr. Pielke cites the 2005 National Research Council (NRC) report on radiative forcing of climate change in arguing that climate models underestimate the effects of land-use change on climate. The report does note (emphasis added):
"Regional variations in radiative forcing may have important regional and global climatic implications that are not resolved by the concept of global mean radiative forcing."
However, the NRC report does not share Dr. Pielke's minimization of the role of CO2, or the continued importance of the top the atmosphere (TOA) energy imbalance:
"The strengths of the traditional radiative forcing concept warrant its continued use in scientific investigations, climate change assessments, and policy applications"
"The largest positive forcing (warming)...is from the increase of well-mixed greenhouse gases (CO2, nitrous oxide [N2O], methane [CH4], and chlorofluorocarbons [CFCs])"
OHC as The Global Warming Diagnostic
Dr. Pielke appears to believe that ocean heat content (OHC) by itself is a sufficient "diagnostic to monitor global warming." We do agree that most of the global energy imbalance goes into the oceans - we even created a high resolution graphic illustrating this point:
However, as the graphic illustrates, nearly 7% of the energy goes into the rest of the climate system. Moreover, the degree of accuracy of OHC measurements is still quite uncertain: the ARGO network is relatively new, and doesn't measure the deep oceans, and short-term noise in the data remains a concern (i.e. see Domingues et al. 2008).
Furthermore, we humans are surface-dwelling creatures, so impacts to the climate on the surface is highly significant to us. And most fast feedbacks are dominated by surface/atmospheric temperatures; so to rely on OHC as the sole diagnostic would disguise the progression of processes that will affect our experience of climate.
Ultimately we stand behind our answer that we must consider all lines of evidence, and all aspects of the climate. SkS does not believe there should be a single preferred global warming diagnostic. However, it's also important to note that a lot of energy has gone into the oceans (more on this below).
Ocean Heat Content anomaly from 0 to 700 metres calculated by various teams (Lyman 2010).
Colleagues' Contributions
Dr. Pielke has yet to acknowledge the frequent climate myth and misinformation propagation of several of his colleagues (most notably Roy Spencer and John Christy). We do agree that these individuals have done some good scientific research and made valuable contributions, such as the development of the satellite temperature record. Dr. Pielke says of Roy Spencer:
"Despite the vigor with which you criticize Roy Spencer, he actually has been instrumental in elevating our awareness that natural variations in cloud cover, as a result of temporal variations in atmospheric circulation features, as causing long term variations in the TOA radiative imbalance."
We question the accuracy of this statement. Much of Spencer's research related to cloud cover has been fundamentally flawed, due, for example, to his over-reliance on an overly simplistic climate model (i.e. see here and here and here). And while they have made some valuable contributions, they have also done significant damage by misinforming the public and policymakers on climate issues.
Acting on the Prudent path
Although we were able to find common ground with Dr. Pielke on the 'prudent path' of reducing human CO2 emissions, we remain concerned that he continues to vigorously defend his colleagues who make statements that undermine this goal, for example Roy Spencer:
"Just as the deepening horse manure crisis was alleviated by the introduction of the automobile over a century ago, I suspect that our current worries over global warming will evaporate in the coming decades"
While we are happy that SkS and Dr. Pielke find common cause when it comes to how humans should deal with mitigating climate change, we are concerned and confused that Dr. Pielke continues to defend his colleagues who are very clearly opposed to taking this critical action, who think that man-made warming is a non-issue, and who communicate that belief to the public and policymakers in an effort to delay action.
Climate Model Accuracy
Dr. Pielke does not believe that climate model projections have been accurate, particularly at the regional level, and that linking policy to climate model results does more harm than good.
As the saying goes, all models are wrong, but some are useful. Climate models are by no means perfect and several weaknesses are recognized by the modelers themselves. For example, models tend to slightly overestimate the lower troposphere temperature trend, underestimate the Arctic sea ice decline, and decadal and sub-regional projections aren't yet satisfactory. However, despite their imperfections, climate models are valuable tools which have been used in many attribution studies, and have given the broadscale picture of what has happened over the past half century reasonably well. There are examples of models making accurate projections on important metrics, for example in drought (Sheffield and Wood 2007), precipitation extremes (Min et al. 2011), and floods (Pall et al. 2011). It is the over-emphasizing of their (real or purported) weaknesses that does more harm than good.
Finally, we must bear in mind the possibility that models may paint too rosy of a picture, based on data from the geologic record:
"In the meantime, we need to be cautious. If anything, the models are underestimating change, compared with the geological record. According to the evidence from the past, the Earth's climate is sensitive to small changes, whereas the climate models seem to require a much bigger disturbance to produce abrupt change. Simulations of the coming century with the current generation of complex models may be giving us a false sense of security." (Valdes 2011)
Regarding ocean acidification, Dr. Pielke commented: "Regardless of whether we reduce the alkalinity of the oceans..." We would like to note that this is not a debatable question: human CO2 emissions are making the oceans more acidic. For details, see the OA not OK series or booklet, or various posts on the subject, including by renowned ocean expert Ove Hoegh-Guldberg.
From Pielke
Dr. Pielke was dissatisfied with our answers to his questions regarding preferred climate change diagnostics, and whether global warming is a subset of or dominates climate change. We accept the NRC definition of "climate change" provided by Dr. Pielke. Our answer remains that we do not have preferred diagnostics of climate change; we must take all lines of evidence and data into consideration, and there are many (i.e. sea-level rise, ice melt, species endangerment and migration, crop yields, heat wave frequency and intensity, etc.). Based on the NRC definition, the increase in global temperature is a subset of climate change.
From SkS
SkS was dissatisfied with Dr. Pielke's answer to our question about reconciling his colleagues' arguments for low climate sensitivity and the paleoclimate record.
"I do not find the glacial and interglacial periods as useful comparisons with the current climate since when we study them with models, they have large differences in imposed terrain (e.g. massive continetal glaciers over the northern hemisphere which will alter jet stream features, for example).
In any case, I find the discussion of the so-called “climate sensitivity” by all sides of this issue as an almost meaningless activity."
We acknowledge Dr. Pielke's position on this issue, but disagree, and would appreciate an answer to this question. Ultimately, while there are certainly differences between glacial and interglacial periods, the global energy imbalance must be able to explain the change in surface temperature. There are also some good paleoclimate analogues to the current climate, like during the Pliocene and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM).
If the equilibrium climate sensitivity is ~1°C for double CO2, as Spencer and Christy and Lindzen argue, a radiative forcing of nearly 20 W/m2 is required to explain glacial-interglacial transitions. This is three times larger than the net forcing identified in the paleoclimate record during these periods. That's a big discrepancy; can it be reconciled? Based on the evidence, we don't believe so.
Further Questions
Although Dr. Pielke appears to have terminated his interactions with SkS, we would like to give him the opportunity to clarify or retract some questionable statements he has recently made on his blog.
Troposphere Warming
Of Santer et al. (2011), Dr. Pielke said:
"they did not recognize that the global average temperature trend in the lower troposphere has been nearly flat as shown, for example, in the figure below from the RSS MSU data...There has been NO long-term trend since the large El Niño in 1998. That’s 13 years."
However, Santer et al. concluded that a minimum of 17 years is necessary to identify human effects in the temperature of the lower troposphere (TLT), so why look at the 13-year trend? Moreover, as Pielke notes, there was a very strong El Niño in 1998, and TLT data is very sensitive to changes in ENSO. We wonder, will Dr. Pielke will acknowledge that 1998 was a poorly-chosen start date for this analysis?
Ocean Warming
In another blog post, Dr. Pielke said that the upper 700 meters of ocean have accumulated no heat since 2003. However, we examined the data from several studies on the subject (provided by NOAA), and found that between 2003 and 2009, the upper 700 meters accumulated between 1.1 x 1021 Joules (Levitus - though this reference may be slightly out of date), and 5.6 x 1022 Joules (Palmer), with Willis et al. falling in between at 5.1 x 1021 Joules.
And of course there's nothing special about the upper 700 meters; von Shuckmann and Le Traon (2011) estimate an increase of 5.9 x 1022 Joules between 2005 and 2010 for 10 to 1,500 meters, and heat is accumulating in the deep oceans as well (i.e. see here and here and here).
While the trends listed above are not statistically significant due to the short timeframe, they are nevertheless most likely positive, and we certainly can't be confident that they are zero, particularly given the order of magnitude discrepancy between the various estimates. Given this data we wonder, will Dr. Pielke agree that his previous assessment of zero Joules accumulated during this period was incorrect, and that the timeframe (since 2003) and depth (700 meters) is insufficient for a suitable assessment of the climatological trend?
angliss at 03:47 AM on 1 October, 2011
One quick comment (still digesting this) - SkS and Pielke Sr may be talking past each other on the CO2 thing. I suspect he's thinking of CO2 vs. water vapor, while you're not.
Chris G at 04:19 AM on 1 October, 2011
Angliss #1, IDK, but it is possible, I can't speak for any contributors to the exchange. In any case, water does not spontaneously decide to become vapor, or delay precipitating once thresholds are reached, and there is already plenty of it exposed to air; therefore, it is not a primary driver. It can only respond to and enhance warming or cooling around it. So, if Pielke is comparing water vapor with CO2, he is comparing a feedback with a forcing, and the discussion has been around primary forcings. CO2 can also be a feedback because a temperature change can alter the carbon cycle, but in this case we know we have added lots of gigatons to the biosphere; so, we know we have created a causative agent, and we can only hope that our cause does not trigger a strong feedback of itself. Dana, thanks for completing the flip-side of what you came to an agreement on. It's kind of anti-climactic for me, but not completing it would have been a gaping hole in the series. It strikes me that many in the denier camp cling to the proposition that AGW is only based on models because the models are complicated and never 100% right; so, they are easy to argue against. Whereas, the paleoclimate record is simple to understand, and it is hard to argue against the idea that, this is what the earth has done in the past, we can expect it to do something similar now.
Forgot to finish that line of thought: The what-about-the-paleoclimate response to low sensitivity estimates has almost become a meme on the AGW side, but then, I've been seeing it for years, and I have yet to see a comprehensive response. IIRCR, Lindzen made an attempt, but it fell short of being globally applicable.
dana1981 at 05:11 AM on 1 October, 2011
Water vapor is a feedback while we're discussing forcings, so that's not the issue. I think it's mostly that Dr. Pielke thinks the black carbon forcing is underestimated, and possibly methane as well. I discussed this in 'CO2 contribution' section.
keithpickering at 09:17 AM on 1 October, 2011
It looks to me like Pielke Sr. has simply taken the 26%-for-CO2 number from the paper of Kiehl & Trenberth 1997, which concluded that CO2 is responsible for 26% of the greenhouse effect. That's a long way from 26% of the warming, however.
Riduna at 09:52 AM on 1 October, 2011
I have a problem with the assertion that …. “Based on the NRC definition, the increase in global temperature is a subset of climate change.” In my view, all aspects of climate change have one thing in common – change in temperature. How then can it be seen as anything other than the driving force rather than a sub-set of climate change?
Agnostic, I'll have a go at answering your question. It really isn't all about change in temperature. Rather, it is about change in energy. Changes in energy can cause phase state changes, like between water and vapor, and water and ice. Difference balance points between where energy is absorbed and where it is transferred somewhere else can affect wind patterns, and also currents. Temperature makes a nice proxy for energy levels, but climate change is more than just temperature because different energy levels change more than just temperature.
KR at 10:38 AM on 1 October, 2011
Agnostic Chris G has a point. I'll add that even without temperature changes, increasing CO2 has an effect on ocean acidification and C3/C4 plant responses - climate change as well. That said, global temperatures are a really important indicator, and I feel Dr. Pielke is inappropriately dismissing it.
Keith, Nice pickup on the distinction between contribution to radiative forcing and contribution to warming. I followed Dr. Peilke's comments to where he mentions that figure, and then to the slide that he referenced, and I'm struggling a bit with understanding his claim that, "The CO2 contribution to the radiative warming decreases to 26.5%" Granted, there are other changes that are forcings, for instance an increase in black aerosols, and if CO2 were to stay the same and they were to increase, then, percentage-wise, there could be a decrease in the relative forcing of CO2. But, CO2 has increased by ~40%, and even given the logarithmic nature of its effect, I have a hard time believing that the effect of the other constituents has increased so much as to cause a relative decrease in the effect of CO2. If that were the case, then I suspect there would be a lot more missing heat to account for. Because, if we can calculate the expected increase in warming from just CO2 at around 0.9 K, there would have to be more forced warming from other sources in order for there to be a percentage decrease in CO2's contribution. In any case, you are right, the question was, how much of the warming, and what he answered was how much of the radiative forcing, and they are not the same.
KR, thanks for adding those. I was tunneled in on energy and forgot about the chemical changes.
Dana, May I ask how transient is "transient climate response"? Because, I don't know how you ever avoid obfuscation issues with lag. Why the temp might be under the best estimate could be because, a) the best estimate is a little off, b) there are some small cooling effects being introduced as well, or c) there is a bit more lag in the system than was estimated. I'm not entirely clear on this, but it might be premature to say that (b) is the answer. Hmm, I'm wondering if the answer doesn't hinge on the outcome of the debate whether there is missing heat, possibly in the ocean depths where it is difficult to measure, or there is no missing heat, possibly because of an increase in aerosols from China and India (mostly).
dana1981 at 14:31 PM on 1 October, 2011
Chris G - TCR represents what we expect in terms of the immediate climate response to a radiative forcing. It seems like your a and c are basically saying the TCR value may be off, which is certainly true, and why I specified "best estimate". However, if the best estimate is correct, then b is correct.
davidh at 15:15 PM on 1 October, 2011
I expect this might be a minor point, but the NRC link doesn't appear to have a definition for climate change. The definition quote on Dr Pielke's blog appears to be the defintion for "climate system". Have wires got crossed somewhere, or am I missing something?
Alexandre at 17:52 PM on 1 October, 2011
"The" preferred climate change indicator for 'skeptics' is whatever one that has more uncertainty as they tend to have more room for denial. Tricky stitching together of different sensors is also something to look for: - tropospheric hotspot (even 'skeptics' who don't have a clue what it is love it) - short-term noisy temp data - short-term noisy OHC - cloud feedback
Pete Dunkelberg at 00:11 AM on 2 October, 2011
You say '"...Dr. Pielke responded: "~26% of the positive radiative forcing was from CO2"' This may be an overestimate, not an underestimate. Schmidt et al. 2010. Attribution of the present-day total greenhouse effect finds just 20% of it due to CO2. See also NASA, Real Climate. Dr Schmidt says at RC
One amusing aspect of the process was that one of the referees initially suggested that our paper wasn’t necessary because it was common knowledge that the attribution to CO2 was between 9 and 26% (sound familiar?). As it turns out, they were reading a page from UCAR which was quoting (without attribution!) from my original blog post.
The chart you show at the top of the post is talking about something else. Evidently the chart folds the water vapor feedback into CO2. It looks like a chart of climate forcings, not radiative forcings, so that you and Dr Pielke Sr. are talking about different things.
I think I may have gotten caught up in this a bit myself, but I think the distinction between a forcing and a total effect is being blurred. There was a pre-industrial (and pre-agricultural) balance of total radiative energy effects. A change in any of the contributing factors is a forcing. So, saying that the total attribution of CO2 is x is not the same as saying that the forcing is x; the forcing will be some other number determined by how much it has changed and how much that change affects the balance. If CO2 had not changed, its percentage of any positive forcing would be 0%. Let us pretend that you could double CO2 and hold everything else constant. The forcing would be on the order of ln(2) * x, where x was whatever its total contribution was before. But from a percentage standpoint, 100% of the positive forcing would be from CO2. If you account for an increase in water vapor, then the attribution of the positive forcing would be something less than 100%, and so on. Water vapor is a feedback, not an initial forcing, but, it does change the radiative energy balance, and sticking by the definition at the NRC link above, that makes it a forcing. Dr. Pielke is saying that CO2 is only about 1/4 of the positive forcing, which means that the other positive forcings are three times larger in effect than the ~40% change in CO2. At this point, I don't know; maybe that number is not that far off if water vapor contributes a large portion of the remaining 74%. However, that would mean that Dr. Pielke is making a fairly serious omission by not mentioning that it is our CO2 that is driving the increase in water vapor.
The chart in the post may be based on out of date and inadequate data on black carbon. Compare for instance Jacobson_2010_Fossil_and_Biofuel_Soot_Climate_Effects.pdf (5.5 MB pdf). Mark Z. Jacobson is a man who knows his soot. Whether he is equally sharp on climate forcing I don't know. Other reports that I don't have a link for just now indicate that black carbon in the atmosphere, over the Arctic in particular, may have been significantly underestimated.
Pete @15 - you're talking about percentage of the greenhouse effect, not percentage of positive radiative forcing. Water vapor is the largest contributor to the greenhouse effect, but not a forcing. Pete @17 - I noted in the post that the black carbon forcing may be underestimated. So may the aerosol negative forcing.
Dana,I know water vapor is not a climate forcing. So does Gavin Schmidt. That said, is not the disagreement between you and Dr Pielke Sr. based on talking about different things?
Albatross at 03:29 AM on 2 October, 2011
Pete @19, Dr. Pielke was asked a very specific question "what fraction of the observed global warming is due to CO2 and other anthropogenic effects". In that context his answer makes no sense at all. Perhaps he misunderstood the question, but us arguing in circles is not going to shed much light on this. Dr. Pielke really now has two things to answer/explain 1) The original question and 2) explain how he arrived at 26% for radiative forcing for CO2. His numbers do not gel with the body of science on this issue. I hope that people do not get too focussed on this radiative forcing issue (at least not until we have more information from his side), because some of the other issues where Dr. Pielke is at odds with the body of knowledge are equally as critical.
What we all understand is that the increase in water vapor in response to the temperature increase caused by CO2 is a climate feedback. Trust Gavin: radiative forcing is a separate and important concept. Abstract of Schimdt et al. linked above:
The relative contributions of atmospheric long-wave absorbers to the present-day global greenhouse effect are among the most misquoted statistics in public discussions of climate change. Much of the interest in these values is however due to an implicit assumption that these contributions are directly relevant for the question of climate sensitivity. Motivated by the need for a clear reference for this issue, we review the existing literature and use the Goddard Institute for Space Studies ModelE radiation module to provide an overview of the role of each absorber at the present-day and under doubled CO2. With a straightforward scheme for allocating overlaps, we find that water vapor is the dominant contributor (~50% of the effect), followed by clouds (~25%) and then CO2 with ~20%. All other absorbers play only minor roles. In a doubled CO2 scenario, this allocation is essentially unchanged, even though the magnitude of the total greenhouse effect is significantly larger than the initial radiative forcing, underscoring the importance of feedbacks from water vapor and clouds to climate sensitivity.
How might RP Sr have arrived at 26% radiative forcing for CO2? see # 15. It has gone into "common knowledge". Thus the linked paper by Schmidt et al. is needed.
So, if someone disagrees with the definition with the definition of "forcing" as I am using it, I'd be happier if you would just say so. We are all capable of rational disagreements here. I don't think it matters a great deal though, just different words applied to the same physical processes. In any event, I was thinking about the math some more. If you use the definition, "Climate forcing An energy imbalance imposed on the climate system either externally or by human activities." you would therefore include an increase in water vapor as contributing to the radiative imbalance. Then, if you use a 1.2 K estimate of no-feedback warming that could be attributed to a doubling of CO2, and you combine that with Dr. Pielke's estimate that the positive radiative forcing of CO2 is only 26% of the total forcing, then you end up with something like a warming sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 in the 4.5 K ballpark (1.2/0.26 ~= 4.5), minus negative forcings. Obviously a back-of-the-napkin estimate, and I have slightly abused the 26% number because it was provided in the context of forcing so far rather than forcing for 2x, but that is pretty close to a mainstream estimate. It may be that Dr. Pielke, Sr. has not arrived at estimates that differ by much from the mainstream, but the way he frames his statements makes it seem that way.
I am coming around to the conclusion that the disagreement is mostly related to Dr. Pielke's not acknowledging the positive forcing feedbacks, dominated by water vapor, but I suspect methane should be included (thawing permafrost and clathrates), that are a direct result of the initial driving force of the increase in CO2. Looking around for statements made by him on the subject of water vapor, his seems to be an argument of uncertainty.
Old Mole at 08:31 AM on 2 October, 2011
My problem with Dr.Pielke's analysis is that it undercuts the "moral hazard" arguments discussed on other threads. If CO2 is only responsible for about a quarter of climate change, and land use is the determining factor for regional effects, the industrialized world has far less responsibility for catastrophes in tropical regions, since by his logic, they will be their own fault. Tropical rain forests are the lungs of the planet, and essential for everyone on it ... but they have no economic value unless logged or cleared for agricultural use. This is probably the most extreme market failure in the history of capitalism.
Chris G at 13:34 PM on 2 October, 2011
Old Mole, That is the rub, you can claim that the increase in CO2 is only a quarter of the forcing, and you might be technically correct (or at least in the right ballpark for driving forcing), but your estimate would suffer an error of omission by not acknowledging the feedback forcings that come with any increase in energy content (temperature). It is almost like an accounting game where you show that CO2 has less effect by comparing it to the total effect which includes water vapor, but you don't give CO2 credit for causing the increase in water vapor. I suspect Pielke is avoiding the feedbacks that CO2 is responsible for because he cites work that he published in 2008 that did not find an increase over North America and makes no mention, nor sites the work that Trenberth did earlier, in 2005, which did. Both authors acknowledge that the data is (was?) problematic, but if you post a quote that says, "‘there are no sufficient data sets on hand with a long enough period of record from any source to make a conclusive scientific statement about global water vapor trends’." (attributed to Vonder Haar), why turn around and cite anything at all, unless you really want to believe that there is little water vapor feedback. Meanwhile, there is no reason to believe that warmer air and water does not lead to more water vapor in the air. Kind of speculating here on Pielke's rationale; anyone have more solid information?
pauls at 22:02 PM on 2 October, 2011
Chris G - The basis of the statement was uncovered in the comments of the 'Pielke Sr. Agrees' post. His calculation is unrelated to feedbacks. RealClimate put up an article about it at the time: 'Recently, Roger Pielke Sr. came up with a (rather improbably precise) value of 26.5% for the CO2 contribution. This was predicated on the enhanced methane forcing mentioned above (though he didn’t remove the ozone effect, which was inconsistent), an unjustified downgrading of the CO2 forcing (from 1.4 to 1.1 W/m2), the addition of an estimated albedo change from remote sensing (but there is no way to assess whether that was either already included (due to aerosol effects), or is a feedback rather than a forcing). A more appropriate re-calculation would give numbers more like those discussed above (i.e. around 30 to 40%).'
Kevin C at 23:55 PM on 2 October, 2011
Chris G@11: (Sorry, I'm a bit late to this discussion, hope this point is still of interest) The 0.9C figure is indeed an oversimplification because the 'transient response' is not linear over the 70 year period used to obtain the 2C/x2 figure, although it's almost an aside to Dana's argument, so I'm not very worried. Not sure how accurate it is - I suspect not far off. But I can produce a better estimate using my energy balance model trained against either 20thC climate or to reproduce GISS-modelE enesemble results. I'll try and do that this week, but it may take a few days (exams to set).
PaulS, Kevin C, Thanks, good information. Yeah, I looked at some model runs, from climateprediction.net, and decided the definition of transient did not need to be precise. He isn't playing with the numbers quite as I was guessing, but I still think he is playing numbers games. For instance, he does not talk about feedbacks at all, and I would think that if you are talking about how much CO2 forcing has affected a warming change, you would have to include the feedbacks induced by its initial forcing. Obviously, this is easier said than done, but he is still answering the wrong question. He talks a lot about black carbon, and acknowledges that the increase in black carbon is from the burning of fossil fuels. So, how would you reduce black carbon? Reduce the consumption of fossil fuels would be one way. Reducing the consumption of fossil fuels would also be the answer to how would you most effectively reduce the rate of CO2 increase. So, there isn't much to be gained by arguing how much is carbon black versus how much is CO2. When he says: "2. Attempts to significantly influence regional and local-scale climate based on controlling CO2 emissions alone is an inadequate policy for this purpose." IDK, but if any policy that reduced CO2 also reduced black carbon, and you are downplaying CO2 increases because of BC increases, why would that policy be inadequate? It remains interesting from an academic standpoint, but makes no difference to policy. He also talks a lot about methane; what would be causing a change in methane balance? You can't eliminate an increase in global temperature as causing an increase in methane. So, he could well be mixing initial with feedback forcings, but he treats an increase in methane as an initial forcing. I have heard several plausible physical mechanisms by which it could be a feedback to a warming, I have not heard of any mechanisms other than warming which would cause it to increase. Well, then, there are cows, but do cows really produce more methane than an equivalent biomass of other animals? It now strikes me that the question sounds simple, but might be tricky to answer. Do you include best-guesses on induced feedbacks or not? In particular, if you are disinclined to use global average temperature as a metric, and you have a history of downplaying potential feedbacks, your answer is likely to be at odds with the predominant view.
RealClimate has a post up on Oceanic Heat Content and they discuss Dr. Pielke Snr's comments on same. They do not agree with Dr. Pielke's reasoning. "I understand Dr. Pielke Sr. has for some time now claimed the Argo system has yet to detect an increase in upper ocean heat content or an ocean heat transport to the deep. Do you concur with his claim and, if not, can you explain how and where this transport to the deep is accomplished? Thank you for your time. [Response: Argo measures temperatures, not heat flux. You can calculate a net heat flux into the top 700m of the ocean given the changes in temperature in this region, but Argo cannot measure the heat flux through that region. The latest data from Willis and others indicates that ocean heat content (top 700m) is increasing, although a lower rate than in the last decade, and the (less comprehensive) studies related to below-700m oceans indicate an increase as well. Most heat transport into the deep ocean will occur in the down-welling branches of the overturning circulation, centered in the North Atlantic and the Southern Oceans. Diffusive fluxes in the rest of the ocean will be much smaller. - gavin]" And "He [Pielke] asks: 1) “If heat is being sequested in the deeper ocean, it must transfer through the upper ocean. In the real world, this has not been seen that I am aware of. In the models, this heat clearly must be transferred (upwards and downwards) through this layer. The Argo network is spatially dense enough that this should have been seen.” Do you agree with this? [Response: Obviously heat going below 700m must have passed through the upper ocean. However, the notion that Argo could see this is odd. Argo measures temperature, not flux. The net flux into a layer is calculated by looking at the change in temperature. It cannot tell you how much came in at the top and left at the bottom, only how much remained. - gavin] Interesting how Dr. Pielke's ideas continue to remain at odds to the science, despite him being presented with overwhelming evidence to the contrary. PS: "gavin" above is Dr. Gavin Schmidt, a much respected NASA scientist.
Sounds like Pielke has some responses in the works. I certainly agree with Gavin's comments with respect to using OHC as the global warming diagnostic. OHC data just isn't extensive enough, aside from the fact that we need to consider all the evidence.
Here's my calculation of temperature due to CO2 forcing. The data is MLO from 1959, from here from 1832-1958. Forcing calculated as 3.7*log(co2/284)/log(2). Temperature response function calculated from (a) GISS model E forcings vs 20thC temps, (b) GISS model E forcings vs CMIP3 GISS model E ensemble average temperature. The temperature change estimate of 0.9C from CO2 alone in the article looks a touch on the high side. Why the difference? I get a slightly lower transient sensitivity than 2C/x2 for both the empirical and modelE cases. I think that's consistent with Hansen & Sato 2011 - I think the modelE response is slower some models, giving a lower ratio of transient to long term response. However, I haven't checked to see if they report a figure for transient response.
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Kevin C at 02:46 AM on 6 October, 2011
The image is now broken for me, I'm afraid. I've moved it to an image host with which I've got more experience: I've had a quick look into the TCR (transient response) question. The TCR for modelE is 1.5-1.6, which accounts for the difference in results. My empirical value is very similar, but then I use the GISS forcings. This report says "The full range for TCR in the CMIP3 archive is 1.3 to 2.6°C, with a median of 1.6°C and 25 to 75% quartiles of 1.5 to 2.0°C (Randall et al. 2007). Systematic exploration of model input parameters in one Hadley Centre model gives a range of 1.5 to 2.6°C (Collins, M., et al. 2006).". Which is somewhat ambivalent. Dana's method of scaling the TCR happens to give almost exactly the right answer for any given climate sensitivity. Why? Because as it happens the CO2 forcing has increased pretty linearly over the past 40 years (not shown), and the gradient when projected back crosses the zero line about 70 years ago. So we've effectively lived through a TCR experiment scaled down by a factor of 2, and the resultant temperature rise due to CO2 alone is thus also half of TCR. The only question is what is the correct value for TCR: 1.6 or 2.0°C? GISS modelE and most of the CMIP3 models are around the lower end. However more recently Tung at U.Wash has argued for significantly higher values from solar cycle data.
Kevin @33, Have you seen this new paper by Padilla et al. (2011)? "For uncertainty assumptions best supported by global surface temperature data up to the present time, we find a most-likely present-day estimate of the transient climate sensitivity to be 1.6 K with 90% confidence the response will fall between 1.3–2.6 K, and we estimate that this interval may be 45% smaller by the year 2030. We calculate that emissions levels equivalent to forcing of less than 475 ppmv CO2 concentration are needed to ensure that the transient temperature response will not exceed 2 K with 95% confidence. This is an assessment for the short-to-medium term and not a recommendation for long-term stabilization forcing; the equilibrium temperature response to this level of CO2 may be much greater. The flat temperature trend of the last decade has a detectable but small influence on TCS."
Thanks, that's very exciting. Obviously they're way ahead of me. I've only just worked through the mathematics for formally determining the uncertainties on the parameters, but not implemented it yet. I'm not familiar with Kalman filters, but I'm guessing they are more sophisticated than my ad-hoc spline basis functions. It's reassuring though that I'm not doing something stupid, and that we get very similar answers. I'll need to get a copy of the full paper, but reading between the lines of the abstract I think they may have left me one wrinkle to work on. :) (Fixed link to abstract)
Hi Kevin, No worries, sorry about the dud link. Tks for fixing it.
pielkesr at 07:40 AM on 8 October, 2011
SkS - Here are answers to several of your questions: 1. Regarding "the global energy imbalance must be able to explain the change in surface temperature. There are also some good paleoclimate analogues to the current climate, like during the Pliocene and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM).' I disagree. These events occurred with vastly different land distribution, ocean current etc. 2. Regarding "However, Santer et al. concluded that a minimum of 17 years is necessary to identify human effects in the temperature of the lower troposphere (TLT), so why look at the 13-year trend? Moreover, as Pielke notes, there was a very strong El Niño in 1998, and TLT data is very sensitive to changes in ENSO. We wonder, will Dr. Pielke will acknowledge that 1998 was a poorly-chosen start date for this analysis?" I did not start in 1998 because it was the warmest in the record. I started after that when the MSU LT became ~flat. We can wait 4 more years to see if the LT starts to warm. Then lets revisit. :-) It certainly has to warm up quickly if Santer's signal will be seen. 3. Regarding "will Dr. Pielke agree that his previous assessment of zero Joules accumulated during this period was incorrect, and that the timeframe (since 2003) and depth (700 meters) is insufficient for a suitable assessment of the climatological trend? I agree it is positive from http://oceans.pmel.noaa.gov/ but relatively small. In my Waterloo talk, I used a value of 1/4 of the rate in the early decade. I would, however, like to also convert this to the heating rate in Watts per meter squared and assess how close it is to Jim Hansen's estimate from GISS of o.6 Watts per meter squared [see http://pielkeclimatesci.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/1116592hansen.pdf]. This is a short time period (~7 years). Nonetheless, I hope you will support me in recommending the adoption of this metric as a primary assessment tool to monitor global warming.
Dr. Pielke - thank you for answering our questions. Our responses follow, here is the first point: 1) We will have to disagree on this subject. Dr. Hansen has looked at the most recent glacial cycles when the land configuration and oceans currents were very similar to those of today, and was able to estimate an equilibrium climate sensitivity of approximately 3°C for doubled CO2. We have yet to see an explanation for the large discrepancy from those arguing for low climate sensitivity (primarily Spencer, Christy, and Lindzen), and believe it represents a glaring flaw in their hypotheses. Ironically, while Christy and Lindzen have touted their low climate sensitivity estimates as being data- rather than model-based, they are ignoring the paleoclimate data which contradicts their conclusions, and dismissing a whole scientific discipline and volume of data that has been essential in understanding our climate system.
pielkesr at 07:14 AM on 10 October, 2011
dana1981- In response to #38, the geography at the time, due to vast areas of continental glaciation with substantial altitude, and of larger areas of sea ice, resulted in the polar jet (apparently) being depressed equatorward. This would make for a quite different climate regime that we currently have. I also question that robustness of calculating the land part of a global average surface temperature anomaly when the elevations in these large continental ice sheet regions was so different than today.
Peter Hogarth at 19:23 PM on 10 October, 2011
pielkesr at 07:14 AM on 10 October, 2011. Agreed, climate was different during glacial periods, the question being how different was it in interglacial periods. Though there are obviously uncertainties, these do not mean we can not make increasingly robust estimates of climate sensitivity. The past continental configurations are relatively well defined, but clearly we can only infer Ocean circulation from the proxy temperature records and modelling. Models are becoming more consistent with the limited data we have, and the data itself is becoming more consistent as methodologies improve and uncertainties are reduced. Looking at recent re-evaluations of paleo proxy CO2 levels and the accumulating data sets of regional paleo temperatures, there seems to be reasonable consensus emerging amongst the paleo-climate community, driven by weight of evidence. For example see van de Wal 2011, and also Park and Royer 2011. The latter gives an estimated 95% probability that CO2 driven climate sensitivity is > 3.4 degrees C, and that glaciation, if anything, can increases climate sensitivity, with a longer tail on the upper end of probability distribution. On the other hand Hargeaves 2011 suggests constraining the upper end of overall sensitivity to less than 4 degrees C from ongoing modelling work using an ensemble of SST reconstructions, and this (and other work) hints at meridional overturning in the Atlantic being similar to today.
Eric (skeptic) at 21:49 PM on 10 October, 2011
Since it has hysteresis, the data from glacial to interglacial transition is not just uncertain, but inapplicable. See http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~calov/pre_prints/calov_and_ganopolski_2005.pdf for a description. Within a stable state such as the present interglacial, the climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 bears no relationship to the glacial stable state or the state transition.
CBDunkerson at 23:16 PM on 10 October, 2011
Dr. Pielke, isn't there a logical inconsistency in suggesting that 7 years is sufficient time to determine a long term trend for upper ocean heat content? How can that be true when different 7 year periods show radically different trends? If 2003-2009 is sufficient to establish a trend of only slight warming why wasn't 1997-2003 (or various other earlier periods) sufficient to establish a more pronounced warming trend? Unless you are suggesting that some major climate forcing has recently changed to a new state which will remain stable for a prolonged period the position seems inherently insupportable. There have been significant trend variations for longer than seven years in the heat content estimates before now. Logically that would seem to indicate that a longer period is needed to screen out data fluctuations and determine the long term trend. Would you be arguing that upper ocean heat content had established a clear long term trend and should serve as the primary (sole?) 'measuring stick' for climate change if we were back in 2003 with only the data available up to that point? Obviously that would have pointed to completely different conclusions than focusing on the past several years does... so either the underlying trends have suddenly changed for some reason or the position is not internally consistent.
Eric (skeptic) @41, Calov and Ganopolski 2005 argues that NH summer insolation alone is not sufficient by itself to explain the transition between glaciated an non-glaciated states. Fairly obviously, nobody disagrees with that. The difference in albedo between glaciated and non-glaciated state makes an important difference. Importantly, nothing Calov and Ganopolski show suggests that anything other than this change in albedo is the cause for the hysteresis. That being the case, the hysteresis they find is not bar to determining the climate sensitivity of CO2 so long as changes in albedo are treated as a forcing, not a feedback. That is what Hansen has done, so no issue arises.
Eric (skeptic) at 00:23 AM on 11 October, 2011
Tom, no argument that there is a lot of feedback from several sources needed to create a hysteresis, one of which is CO2. The other large feedback besides albedo, as suggested by Dr. Pielke, is weather. The problem comes when trying to ascertain the warming contribution of albedo feedback, CO2 feedback and weather feedback. Ice albedo being responsible for the hysteresis does not simplify the calcuation. There are, in short, two ways to do it. Extremely crude energy balances that ignore the changes in weather and produce results between 1 and 6C (Knutti 08) or models which must not only have parameterized weather but parameterized paleo weather. Neither method produces anything more than a guesstimate.
CBDunkerson - I am proposing that now that we have good ocean heat data coverage, we move towards replacing the global annual average surface temperature trend as the primary metric to diagnose global warming. Certainly 7 years is not sufficient but will be as the years pass. Since the models predict (project) how this ocean heat should change, we can track their skill and set up requirements for them to be considered skillful with this metric.
Dr. Pielke, the large ice sheets during the last glacial maximum formed as a consequence of the low global temperature. Attributing the temperature decrease to the presence of ice sheets and their geographical impact is circular logic. You are effectively arguing that the ice sheets formed due to the presence of the ice sheets. A climate sensitivity of ~3°C for doubled CO2 is a robust feature of the Phanerozoic Eon, across a very large range of continental distributions. Are you suggesting that changes in geographical distribution have mimicked the effect of a high climate sensitivity across all those distinct geographical distributions and time?
The glacial to interglacial temperature change is around 10C for a 50% increase in CO2, so the primary cause of the change s the ice albedo feedbacks as Tom pointed out above. So indeed it is true that "ice sheets formed due to the presence of ice sheets" and likewise melt due to the melting of ice sheets. Of course geography matters but mostly to the minimum and maximum states. One of the largest changes apart from ice albedo is weather. Here is one example: http://cci.siteturbine.com/uploaded_files/climatechange.umaine.edu/files/dentonTerminationsSci10-1.pdf: "Southward movement of the STF was a contributing factor for the large amplitude and rapid rise of temperatures during HS1 and the YDS within the region between 35°S and 45°S" which then caused glacier retreat. There is no way to tease out a 3C per doubling CO2 from a 10C per 50% rise in CO2 without a model and parameterized (i.e. not modeled) weather.
A reminder from Hansen and Sato 2011:
Albatross at 09:43 AM on 11 October, 2011
Dana @48, You beat me to it. And here is another reminder from another scientist, this time from Dr. Marci Robinson (US Geological Survey): "Yes, uniformitarianism is often defined to mean that the present is the key to the past. But we might be wise to remember another accurate description: The past is a key to understanding the future". Oddly, many "skeptical" scientists continue to ignore or dismiss the paleo record (the past) and seem to have no interest in learning anything from it, unless perhaps it appears to support a low climate sensitivity.
skywatcher at 09:47 AM on 11 October, 2011
Eric and Dr Pielke, you're arguing there is a large increase in climate sensitivity as you go from interglacial to glacial conditions. The only suggested mechanism is that the large continental ice sheets, with their ~100m worth of sea level locked up inside them, divert atmospheric pressure systems and oceanic currents due to the change in terrestrial and marine topography. Why and how this change causes a threefold increase in sensitivity (and not a decrease) has not been specified, and is presently speculation. The trouble is, how do you get there from an interglacial world in which there is low climate sensitivity? The interglacial world has not got the large mid-latitude ice sheets, or the lowered sea level to alter ocean currents, and the orbital forcing is too small to initiate glaciation if your climate sensitivity value is low. You need the high climate sensitivity to turn a low insolation around 65N into ice sheets via increased snowcover and drawdown of CO2. Without the high climate sensitivity, the forcing is insufficient and the ice sheets do not form in the first place, and the oceans remain full of water. Do you see the circularity?
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Do You Need Money to Start a Business?
Money & Starting a Business
By Jordan Meyers
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Many people wonder whether it is possible to start a business with no money. In most cases, a person does have to spend at least some cash to get a business started, even if the only money he spends is on a business license. Many entrepreneurs also find that success comes easier when they have money to invest in their businesses. Without it, securing the supplies and equipment they need and tackling unexpected expenses can be difficult, if not impossible.
Money plays a significant role in starting a business. In most cases, entrepreneurs find it necessary to make at least a small monetary investment in starting their businesses. Although there are ways to start a business with little money, a business person is usually required to at least obtain a business license, for which a fee is charged. Even if a person finds a way to start a business without spending any money, it is likely that he will eventually have to invest in it to help it grow and thrive.
Basically there are two types of money when it comes to starting a business: the owner's and other people's. Many people think only in terms of out-of-pocket cash when accumulating money to start a business. The fact is, however, that credit cards can provide the money a person needs to cover his startup expenses. An individual may also seek business loans, request money from investors and apply for grants to fund his startup with other people's money. For new entrepreneurs who only want to work with their own cash, however, saving a startup investment may be the answer.
In many cases, a new business owner will have to make a significant investment to get his business started. However, this monetary investment may not be a one-shot deal. Often, business owners also need additional money on hand to help them maintain their new businesses while they work toward attracting customers and earning a profit. In some cases, it takes months or years to get enough paying customers to allow a business to run on just the income it generates instead of needing additional investments from its owner.
Many people who are just starting out in business are under the misconception that they will only need money to buy startup supplies and advertise their businesses. However, many other expenses go along with starting a business. For example, a person may have to pay for business licenses and special permits to operate his business. Likewise, if a person plans to hire employees or even seek the help of independent contractors, he will also need money to pay them.
Credit can be just as important as money when it comes to starting a business. If a person has good credit, he may qualify for a loan to cover his business startup expenses. He may even secure a new credit card just to cover unexpected expenses during the startup period. If his credit is poor, however, covering a larger-than-expected order or handling higher-than-projected startup costs may prove more difficult.
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Israeli Regulator Designates Utility Tokens Issued by Companies as Securities
January 6, 2021 SmartWealth
The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) recently ruled that utility tokens issued by companies are securities and, therefore, cannot be classified as assets. The ISA’s decision comes after Israeli tech startup Kirobo sought to convince the regulator that its planned token issuance did not amount to a security offering.
Token Value Growth
However, in response to Kirobo’s claims, the ISA published a position paper explaining why the planned token offering should “be subject to Israeli securities regulations.” In brushing aside Kirobo’s averments, the ISA insists that the “tokens should be regarded as securities, whether due to the risk of holding them or the expectations of the buyers to receive a short or long-term return.”
The regulator also highlights an important aspect of Kirobo’s proposal, which appears to undercut the utility token claims. In the position paper, the ISA reveals that “Kirobo’s plans to keep hold of 0.8% of the tokens indicate that it is planning for the value of the tokens to increase.” The regulator adds:
There is a probability that there will be investors who will purchase the token for financial purposes and out of the expectation that the value will rise, which characterizes investments in securities.
Regulators Moving to Regulate Cryptos
Meanwhile, the rest of the report, which does not reveal how the tech startup reacted to the ruling, implies that the ISA’s stance is similar to the one taken by the U.S. against Ripple’s token. Towards the end of 2020, regulators in the United States said the issuance of the XRP token violated the U.S. Securities Act. The SEC has now launched a $1.3 billion lawsuit against Ripple and its executives for these alleged violations.
In the meantime, the report explains that the two countries’ decisions have come at a time when “financial regulators are still assessing how they should regulate cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and its rivals.” The report ends by suggesting that “future court battles could determine whether cryptocurrencies make the leap from a niche to a mainstream asset.”
What exactly should be designated a utility or security token? You can tell us your views in the comments section.
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Tag: Tiananmen massacre
June 4th for a Hong Kong Eurasian: Our shared memory
18 June 2019 Editor
Written by Evan Fowler. The Tiananmen massacre was a watershed that profoundly changed all our lives. After that day, the shadow of July 1st, 1997, the day Britain would hand Hong Kong over to the People’s Republic of China, hung over my family like a heavy, terrifying dark cloud of worry tinged with fear.
The Chinese democracy movement and the Taiwan independence movement are not friends, so far
Written by Linda Gail Arrigo. There has been little love lost between the Chinese democracy movement and the Taiwan independence movement. This is, I surmise, unfortunate, because Taiwan is increasingly in danger of takeover by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Yes, there has been some contact over the decades, but not always friendly.
A Huge Difference from the June 4th Movement: The Relationship between Students and Workers in Today’s Leftist Movement in China and Its Limitation of Thought Resources
Written by Kuo Jia. Indeed, the left in Taiwan borrows heavily on this knowledge in its analysis of subjects and effects in movements. However, I do not mean that Western Marxism and new social movement theory that developed in Taiwan from the 1990s is always better or more progressive. I am just suggesting that these may inspire or supplement mainland China’s orthodox Marxism for young leftists and their movements.
Tiananmen June 4, 1989: Taiwan’s Reaction
Written by John F. Copper. But the facts also say that Lee did not adopt a policy of making China a pariah or isolating and punishing China for the events of June 1989. In fact, Taiwan’s relations with China did not get worse; they got better.
The Unredeemed Promise of Tiananmen
6 June 2019 Editor
Written by Joseph A. Bosco. The 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre reminds us of what remains unchanged in China’s authoritarian government despite decades of Western engagement. The “China dream” espoused by President Xi Jinping is not the same as what the Chinese people dream for their country.
Two student movements, one learning from the other
Written by Mark Wenyi Lai. The differences between China’s June Fourth Incident in 1989 and Taiwan’s Wild Lily Student movement in 1990 indicate the cross-Strait increasing divergence of political paths over the past thirty years. The former ended with Type 59 tanks on Tiananmen Square and a more tightened and illiberal CCP governance.
Taiwan: A Refuge Without a Refugee Law
Written by Margaret K. Lewis. The thirtieth anniversary of the massacre in Beijing highlights Taiwan’s importance as a site of protest and its precarious situation as a refugee host.
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Then & Now: Retirement in sight for accountant Mark Lundy
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by Paul Gatling ([email protected]) December 21, 2020 12:46 pm 641 views
Editor’s Note: The following story appeared in the Dec. 7 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 class.
The Northwest Arkansas Business Journal recognized Rogers accountant Mark Lundy as a Forty Under 40 class member in 1998. During a recent interview, when a reporter jogged his memory about that honor being 22 years ago, Lundy laughed.
“Oh, man,” he said. “I was barely under 40 then.”
Lundy, a gregarious sort who will turn 60 in March, has been a practicing accountant for 25 years in Northwest Arkansas. He’s changed jobs a couple of times in the past two decades. Since 2009, he’s been a partner with BKD LLP, a national firm based in Springfield, Mo., and the largest CPA firm in Arkansas.
Lundy said the decision to join the company is the smartest and most impactful move of his career.
“It’s like a ‘Goldilocks’ firm,” he said. “There are small and large accounting firms in this region. Here, [at BKD] we’re a big firm with a small-firm feel. It’s just right.”
A Rogers native, whose family tree dates back to the mid-1800s in Benton and Carroll counties, Lundy started work after high school at Northwest Arkansas Sheet Metal. He liked the job and had a handshake agreement with the owner, George Blue, that he’d buy the business one day when Blue was ready to retire.
Lundy and his wife, Karen, later moved to Nashville, Tenn., where he earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Lipscomb University and later went to work for Deloitte.
When Blue told Lundy it was time to sell, he and his wife moved back to Rogers. The ownership transition did not go as planned, however, and Lundy called Dick Barclay. In 1995, Lundy started his professional career in Northwest Arkansas with the Rogers accounting firm Barclay, Yarbrough & Evans.
Two years later, the firm merged with another accounting firm to form Beall Barclay & Co. The firm today is known as Landmark PLC.
In 1999, Lundy and a former Beall colleague, Bart Allard, formed their own business in Rogers called Lundy Allard & Co.
“We shared overhead and made it nice and easy to separate our practices,” Lundy said. “That’s how we managed the business for 10 years, and it worked well. We grew [the business], had about 25 [employees]. It was better than either of us had expected.”
In January 2009, BKD announced the acquisition of Lundy’s considerable audit practice, comprised of Lundy, three CPAs and 10 staff members, to establish an office in Northwest Arkansas. The deal allowed BKD — which had Arkansas offices in Fort Smith, Little Rock and Pine Bluff — to meet the expanding service needs of Northwest Arkansas.
Today, the Rogers office has 17 employees offering tax, accounting and audit services, focusing on the construction and real estate niche. Lundy specializes in partnership tax law.
Lundy said partners in other offices are very accessible and readily lend their expertise on any topic that arises. For BKD and other accounting firms, no issue has been more dominant in 2020 than the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a loan program originated from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. It was designed to provide a direct incentive for small businesses to keep their workers on the payroll.
Lundy called the program — specifically, the moving target of loan forgiveness — possibly the most demanding business issue he’s dealt with as an accountant.
“Many accountants are a focal point for everybody’s frustration with the government,” he said. “It’s been stressful.”
With retirement rapidly approaching, Lundy can see the time when the stresses will fade. He will reach BKD’s mandatory retirement age, 62, in a little over two years. He and his wife will tend to a portfolio of rental properties, and he’s been asked about some consulting work. But Lundy’s big focus is on the job board at CoolWorks.com. Lundy frequently visits the site, which contracts with employers in national parks, ski resorts, dude ranches and other travel destinations to promote job opportunities. It allows people to travel for little or no cost. And in some instances, they get paid.
“I’m going to Alaska,” Lundy said. “I retire [from BKD] May 31, 2023, and as quick as I can get out and on a plane, I’m going to have a job at one of those lodges up there. I may be cleaning fish or making beds.
“Or a resort transportation driver. Chatting with people from all over the place. That sounds like loads of fun.
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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 468 › Montgomery v. Jefferson
Montgomery v. Jefferson, 468 U.S. 1313 (1984)
Montgomery v. Jefferson
No. A-166
Decided September 10, 1984
468 U.S. 1313
An application to stay enforcement of orders of the Federal District Court, which -- after holding unconstitutional as applied a requirement under the New York election law that the cover sheet of a candidate's designating petition state the number of signatures in the petition -- directed that the New York City Board of Elections accept respondents' designating petitions and place their names on the ballot for the imminent Democratic primary election in Kings County, is denied under the circumstances of the case.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
JUSTICE MARSHALL, Circuit Justice.
Applicants request that I stay enforcement of two orders of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York concerning tomorrow's Democratic primary election in Kings County, N.Y. In those orders, the District Court directed the Board of Elections in the City of New York to accept the designating petitions of respondents Jefferson and Clark and to place their names on the Democratic primary ballot.
The underlying litigation arose out of challenges to the designating petitions of Jefferson and Clark filed with the Board of Elections. On August 28, 1984, the New York Court of Appeals held that the petitions were invalid under state law because their cover sheets overstated the number of signatures in the petitions. Jefferson and Clark then challenged the constitutionality of the New York election law's requirement that a designating petition's cover sheet state the number of signatures in the petition. On September 6, the District Court held the requirement unconstitutional as applied. Thus, it ordered that Jefferson's and Clark's names be placed on the ballot. On September 7, it denied applicants' motion for a stay.
Page 468 U. S. 1314
Applicants then moved for a stay and for expedited appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Today, the Second Circuit denied the motion for a stay but granted the motion for expedited appeal. It scheduled oral argument for the week of September 24.
This application was filed at approximately 3:30 p. m. today. Given the little time left for evaluating, before tomorrow's primary, the questions raised by the application, I am not persuaded to interfere with the actions of the Second Circuit.
The application for a stay is accordingly denied.
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InfoSum raises $15.1M for its privacy-first, federated approach to big data analytics
Ingrid Lunden @ingridlunden / 5 months
Data protection and data privacy have gone from niche concerns to mainstream issues in the last several years, thanks to new regulations and a cascade of costly breaches that have laid bare the problems that arise when information and data security are treated haphazardly.
Yet that swing has also thrown up a whole series of issues for organisations and business functions that depend on sharing and exchanging data in order to work. Today, a startup that has built a new way of exchanging data while still keeping privacy in mind — starting first by applying the concept to the “marketing industrial complex” — is announcing a round of funding as it continues to pick up momentum.
InfoSum, a London startup that has built a way for organizations to share their data with each other without passing it on to each other — by way of a federated, decentralized architecture that uses mathematical representations to organise, “read” and query the data — is today announcing that it has raised $15.1 million.
Data may be the new oil, but according to founder and CEO Nick Halstead, that just means “it’s sticky and gets all over the place.” That is to say, InfoSum is looking for a new way to use data that is less messy, and less prone to leakage, and ultimately devaluation.
The Series A is being co-led by Upfront Ventures and IA Ventures. A number of strategics using InfoSum — Ascential, Akamai, Experian, British broadcaster ITV and AT&T’s Xandr — are also participating in the round. The startup has raised $23 million to date.
Nicholas Halstead, the founder and CEO who previously had founded and led another big data company, DataSift (the startup that gained early fame as a middleman for Twitter’s firehose of data, until Twitter called time on that relationship to push its own business strategy), said in an interview that the plan is to use the funding to continue fueling its growth, with a specific focus on the U.S. market.
To that end, Brian Lesser — the founder and former CEO of Xandr (AT&T’s adtech business that is now a part of AT&T’s WarnerMedia), and previous to that the North American CEO of GroupM — is joining the company as executive chairman. Lesser had originally led Xandr’s investment into InfoSum and had previously been on the board of the startup.
InfoSum got its start several years ago as CognitiveLogic, founded at a time when Halstead was first starting to get his head around the problems that were becoming increasingly urgent in how data was being used by companies, and how newer information architecture models using data warehousing and cloud computing could help solve that.
“I saw the opportunity for data collaboration in a more private way, helping enable companies to work together when it came to customer data,” he said. This eventually led to the company releasing its first product two years ago.
In the interim, and since then, that trend, he noted, has only gained momentum, spurred by the rise of companies like Snowflake that have disrupted the world of data warehousing, cookies have started to increasingly go out of style (and some believe will disappear altogether over time) and the concept of federated architecture has become much more ubiquitous, applied to identity management and other areas.
All of this means that InfoSum’s solution today may be aimed at martech, but it is something that affects a number of industries. Indeed, the decision to focus on marketing technology, he said, was partly because that is the industry that Halstead worked most closely with at DataSift, although the plan is to expand to other verticals as well.
“We’ve done a lot of work to change the marketing industrial complex,” said Lesser, “but its bigger use cases are in areas like finance and healthcare.”
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Wonder Woman 1984’s Release Has Been Delayed by Over 2 Months
13 September 2020 aioappz Tech News
Wonder Woman 1984’s release has been delayed yet again, with the sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman now set to debut on Christmas day, December 25. The movie was originally scheduled to release in December last year, but was postponed a month to accommodate Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Then, it was pushed to June for a summer release in the US. Unfortunately, things took a turn for the worse with the pandemic causing theatres to shut down and the movie was postponed once again.
According to a report by Variety, Wonder Woman 1984 has been postponed to December 25, Christmas day. Citing Toby Emmerich, Warmer Bros. Motion Picture Group chairman, the report states that the studio is very proud of the film and looks forward to bringing it to audiences for the holidays.
Patty Jenkins, the director of the film, is quoted to say, “Because I know how important it is to bring this movie to you on a big screen when all of us can share the experience together, I’m hopeful you won’t mind waiting just a little bit longer. With the new date on Christmas Day, we can’t wait to spend the holidays with you!”
The delay in release this time, was caused by the studio wanting a bigger audience in theatres, which it hopes will happen by Christmans day. Seeing as Christopher Nolan’s Tenet had a lukewarm opening over Labour Day weekend, the studio wants to wait with WW84.
The original release date for Wonder Woman 1984 was December 2019, but it was [advanced by a month as Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was set for a December release. Then, the studio decided to have a summer release for the Gal Gadot starrer and pushed the release date to June 5. With the coronavirus pandemic disrupting everything, the release was once again postponed, to August 14.
With the situation only mildly improving, Wonder Woman 1984 was then postponed to October 2. Now, finally, Warner Bros. has decided on a December 25 release date.
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20+ Famous Personalities And Their Amazing Business Cards
Business cards are always essential for a good networking, as through them you can expand your contacts, especially in the professional field. Have a look at 20+ most amazing business cards of famous personalities.
A business card is a part of the essential steps that any entrepreneur should take as soon as they start a business. The entrepreneur’s business card is seen in many ways; it acts as a support that you can trust that person, after all, is written there on the card what it does and the name of the company where he works. Awesome Business Cards will never fail to create a good first impression.
If intelligent people can create excellent company, then it’s for sure that they can also build their business cards. Therefore, have a look at these twenty amazing business card of famous personalities which you will surely admire.
1. Bill Gates: Microsoft
Bill Gates: Microsoft
William Henry “Bill” Gates was born on October 28, 1955, is an American business tycoon, entrepreneur, philanthropist, investor, and programmer. He is very successful amongst all the tech giant owners, and the reason is he co-founded Microsoft, which is the world’s largest PC Software company.
2. Steve Jobs: Apple
Steve Jobs: Apple
Steven Paul was the original name of Steve Jobs. He was born on February 24, 1955, and died on October 5, 2011, due to Pancreatic cancer and respiratory arrest. He was an American information technology entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc. Another company he acquired was Pixar and Next.
3. Larry Page: Google
Larry Page: Google
Who doesn’t know about Google? The search giant Google is the giant internet network among all the other internet services in the world. Larry Page co-founded Google. He was born on March 26, 1973. Google currently have Sundar Pichai as CEO
4. Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, is an American programmer, Internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Mark Zuckerberg along with four other fellows launched Facebook from Harvard’s dormitory room. But it was limited to the university itself, later it was expanded rapidly. Mark Zuckerberg also acquired WhatsApp and many other start-ups.
5. Evan Williams: Twitter
Evan Williams: Twitter
Evan Clark Williams was born on March 31, 1972, is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who has established several Internet companies. Williams was earlier Chairman and CEO of Twitter. Twitter is a popular social networking site that permits users to exchange and read 140-characters messages which are called tweets.
6. Jerry Yang: Yahoo
Jerry Yang: Yahoo
Yahoo would stand just behind Google regarding search engine. Yahoo is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is globally recognized for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang who was born on November 6, 1968. He is a Taiwanese American Internet entrepreneur and programmer.
7. Chuck Jones: Warner Bros
Chuck Jones: Warner Bros
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. often pointed as Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. or just only WB is an American entertainment company. As one of the major film studios, it is a division of Time Warner. Warner Bros acquired rights to the Harry Potter novels and released feature film adaptations of the first in 2001 which was an immense hit.
8. Walter Elias Disney: Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney: Walt Disney
Walt Disney was founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, and established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before expanding into live-action film production, television, and theme parks
9. Michael Dell: Dell
Michael Dell: Dell
Dell Inc. is an American privately owned multinational computer technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. The company Dell is named after its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest technological corporations in the world, employing more than 103,300 people worldwide
10. Steve Wozniak: Co-founder Apple
Steve Wozniak: Co-founder Apple
Steve Wozniak was born on August 11, 1950, nicknamed “Woz,” is an American inventor, electronics engineer, programmer, and technology entrepreneur who co-founded Apple Inc. He is known as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
11. Mitchell Baker: Mozilla
Mitchell Baker: Mozilla
Winifred Mitchell Baker is the Executive Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation and of Mozilla Corporation, a subordinate of the Mozilla Foundation that regulates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client
12. Meg Whitman: Hewlett Packard
Meg Whitman: Hewlett Packard
Meg Whitman born on August 4, 1956, is an American business executive. Whitman is presently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, as well as the Chairwoman of HP Inc.
13. Tim Berners-Lee: WWW
Tim Berners-Lee: WWW
Many people will thank this man today for inventing the world wide web. Timothy John Berners-Lee was born 8 June 1955 also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
14. John Donahoe: Ebay
John Donahoe: Ebay
John Joseph Donahoe was born on April 30, 1960, is an American businessman who served as president and CEO of eBay from March 31, 2008, to July 2015. He is currently a member of the President’s Export Council and serves on the Boards of Directors of both eBay Inc. and Intel Corp. He also serves as chairman of PayPal.
15. Richard Stallman: GNU
Richard Stallman: GNU
Richard Matthew Stallman often known by his initials, RMS, is an American software freedom activist and programmer. Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation, developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote the GNU General Public License.
#16 Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt is an American software engineer, a businessperson and the Executive Chairman of Alphabet, Inc. He was born on April 27, 1955. Eric Schmidt served as the CEO Of Google from the year 2001 to 2011
#17 Donald Trump
Well, who doesn’t know Donald Trump? Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American businessman, television personality, politician, and the 45th President of the United States.
#18 Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was an officer in U.S Navy and served in the Korean War before becoming an Astronaut.
#19 Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. Well, we have to write countless words to describe what Albert Einstein did! ‘Genius’ is the only word that strikes our mind while describing him. The business card may not seem like the business card of a 20th-century genius, but perhaps the brilliance lies in its simplicity.
#20 Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
#21 Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was an Americal statesman and lawyer who serves as the 16th President of the United States. He led the United States through its Civil war. Lincoln led the United States to ultimately defeat the Confederacy, and following his famous Emancipation Proclamation, he enacted measures to abolish slavery.
#22 Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She was an American politician and served as the Junior U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. Hillary Clinton’s net worth stood at $45 million as of October 2017, according to Forbes.
#23 Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist who serves as the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is considered one of the most successful investors in the world[2][3] and has a net worth of $87.5 billion as of February 17, 2019,
So these are the Business cards of 20 famous personalities. Did any of these serve as an inspiration? If yes, let us know in the comment section below.
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Parrot supports Human Rights Watch by providing Drones and Software
Parrot, the leading European drone group, announced today its support for Human Rights Watch’s mission of investigating human rights abuses around the world. To assist the organization’s work, Parrot is providing its powerful ANAFI drones, along with advanced software and technical support.
Most recently, as part of a Human Rights Watch investigation into ISIS atrocities in northern Syria, Parrot provided support in capturing aerial imagery and 3D data of the al-Hota gorge near Raqqa, a suspected mass grave site used by ISIS.
As part of the investigation, Parrot provided ANAFI drones and on-call support for piloting and technical assistance. The dangerous terrain and steep cliffs of al-Hota made it necessary for Human Rights Watch investigators to use drones to capture imagery at the bottom of the gorge. Data captured by the drones was also used to create a 3D topographical model of the al-Hota gorge with the software Pix4D Mapper. These 3D maps may be used to further investigate below the surface of the water.
“Human Rights Watch is doing incredibly important work around the world,” said Henri Seydoux, chairman and CEO of Parrot. “We are honored to push the boundaries of how our technologies can be applied to help them in their missions.”
This is the second mission Parrot has supported with advanced drone technology and software. Drones have proven to be a vital tool for professionals across many fields to safely access areas otherwise impenetrable by humans and to quickly and efficiently collect valuable data.
The Human Rights Watch investigation, which began in 2017, resulted in an extensive report published today. Titled “Into the Abyss: The al-Hota Mass Grave in Northern Syria,” the report investigates whether the al-Hota gorge was used as a mass grave during ISIS control over the area.
As a result of the investigation, Human Rights Watch calls upon local authorities to treat al-Hota and other suspected ISIS mass graves in Syria as crime scenes, identify the victims at the bottom of the gorge, notify the families of those who were killed, and hold accountable those who committed atrocities.
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