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Sastre flies in yellow, Schumacher fastest again
Spaniard Carlos Sastre held up under the pressure that the 53 kilometre time trial would win or lose...
197.5km | Brest - Plumelec
164.5km | Auray - Saint Brieuc
208km | Saint-Malo - Nantes
29.5km | Cholet - Cholet (ITT)
232km | Cholet - Châteauroux
195.5km | Aigurande - Super Besse
159km | Brioude - Aurillac
172.5km | Figeac - Toulouse
224km | Toulouse - Bagnères de Bigorre
156km | Pau - Hautacam
167.5km | Lannemezan - Foix
168.5km | Lavelanet - Narbonne
182km | Narbonne - Nîmes
194.5km | Nîmes - Digne les Bains
183km | Embrun - Prato Nevoso
157km | Cuneo - Jausiers
210.5km | Embrun - L'Alpe d'Huez
196.5km | Bourg d'Oisans - Saint Étienne
165.5km | Roanne - Montluçon
53km | Cérilly - Saint Amand Montrond (ITT)
143km | Étampes - Paris/Champs Élysées
Stage 20: Cérilly - Saint Amand Montrond (ITT)
Carlos Sastre (CSC-Saxo Bank) rode the time trial of his life (Image credit: AFP)
Sastre rolls down the start ramp (Image credit: AFP)
Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) (Image credit: AFP)
Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner) (Image credit: AFP)
Bernhard Kohl (Gerolsteiner) (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Roman Kreuziger couldn't overhaul Andy Schleck (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Sylvain Chavanel (Cofidis) (Image credit: AFP)
British TT champion David Millar (Garmin-Chipotle) (Image credit: AFP)
Luxembourg time trial champion Kim Kirchen (Columbia) (Image credit: AFP)
Denis Menchov (Rabobank) moved up to fourth (Image credit: AFP)
Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Chipotle) (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Fabian Cancellara (CSS-Saxo Bank) was out to show why he's the world time trial champion. (Image credit: AFP Photo)
British TT champion David Millar (Garmin-Chipotle) posted a strong time but couldn't pull off the win he was hoping for. (Image credit: AFP Photo)
Sylvain Chavanel (Cofidis) in the colours of French time trial champion. (Image credit: AFP Photo)
Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner) took his second time trial victory of this Tour. (Image credit: AFP Photo)
Luxembourg time trial champion Kim Kirchen (Columbia) sprints for the line. (Image credit: AFP Photo)
Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) gave everything today but it was not enough to win. (Image credit: AFP Photo)
Denis Menchov (Rabobank) moved up to fourth but couldn't break onto the podium. (Image credit: AFP Photo)
Carlos Sastre (CSC-Saxo Bank) rolls away from the start. (Image credit: AFP Photo)
The Spaniard rode a fantastic time trial on a course that many predicted would not suit him. (Image credit: AFP Photo)
Carlos Sastre (CSC-Saxo Bank) rode the time trial of his life to secure victory at the 2008 Tour de France. (Image credit: AFP Photo)
Stage winner Stefan Schumacher congratulates Carlos Sastre during the podium ceremony. (Image credit: AFP Photo)
Carlos Sastre can now relax and enjoy the final stage to Paris tomorrow. (Image credit: AFP Photo)
Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) powers along during the TT. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Fränk Schleck (CSC-Saxo Bank) showed his relative weakness in the time trial by finishing 54th. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Chipotle) rode a great TT but could only move up one place overall. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Denis Menchov (Rabobank) ended the stage in sixth and moved up to fourth in the GC. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner) blitzes round the TT course. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Denis Menchov (Rabobank) rolls into the finish. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Schumacher definitely had the race face on today. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Barloworld's Chris Froome is on track to finish his first Tour de France. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Sprinter Robert Hunter (Barloworld) was saving his legs for tomorrow. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Fabian Cancellera (CSC-Saxo Bank) went all out to win the stage but came up short. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Roman Kreuziger (Liquigas) couldn't overhaul Andy Schleck for the best young rider jersey. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Bernhard Kohl (Gerolsteiner) surprised with a ninth place finish and moved into third overall. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Carlos Sastre (CSC-Saxo Bank) sweeps through a corner. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Carlos Sastre (CSC-Saxo Bank) looked smooth and focused. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Carlos Sastre (CSC-Saxo Bank) knows he has the Tour wrapped up. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Sastre crossed the line totally spent, but kept hold of yellow. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Sastre gave a brief wave as he crossed the line. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
A disappointed Cadel Evans ponders the outcome of today's time trial. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Evans gets a hug from his wife Chiara. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Spaniard credits "my mind, my team, my form"
Spaniard Carlos Sastre held up under the pressure that the 53 kilometre time trial would win or lose the Tour de France, and held off the challenge of Cadel Evans to hold his yellow jersey by 1'05". The CSC-Saxo Bank rider put in one of the best time trial performances of his career, even catching team-mate Fränk Schleck, who started three minutes ahead, within the final five kilometres.
Evans, on the other hand, never gained the kind of time he would need to make up the 1'34" deficit to Sastre. While he inched ahead at each time check, it was clear that he wasn't having a great day and would not be winning the Tour. In fact, Evans struggled at the first time check to hold the pace of Bernhard Kohl (Gerolsteiner), and was four seconds behind the Austrian, but was able to pull out the single second he needed to move up into second overall by the finish.
Kohl, in the polka dot jersey of best climber, rode a solid time trial to hold onto the final podium placing heading into the parade into Paris. The Gerolsteiner rider finished in ninth, and kept a 40 second lead over Rabobank's Denis Menchov in the general classification.
Sastre had the upper hand coming into the time trial with the yellow jersey already in his grasp, and he arrived there with the help of the Tour's strongest team. Of course, the 'race of truth' separates a man from his team and is a true test of will - of mind over pain - and Sastre may have taken lessons from his team-mate Jens Voigt in telling his legs to just shut up and do what he says.
"When I started today I wanted to do a good time trial but if I was able to defend my yellow jersey today it was because of three factors: my mind, my team, my form," the Spaniard explained.
"I suffered a lot in this time trial because it was essential that I rode a bloc [flat out]," said Sastre. "I went a little bit slower in the final five kilometers." But over that mainly downhill distance, Sastre knew his jersey was secure. "Ultimately, I am grateful because I knew that I was going to keep the yellow jersey. It was very difficult to retain it but still I managed to do it. Now I'm happy because I have a guarantee that it will all end well tomorrow."
With team manager Bjarne Riis removing pressure from his rider by declaring that no matter what happened, the team's Tour was a success, Sastre was able to sleep well and start the day relaxed. "I was calm. I slept for hours," Sastre said. "It was the chance of my life. My wife and kids are here. Now I want to spend some time with my family, as I missed them. It is a dream come true and I want to share it with them."
After nearly three weeks of racing, Sastre was able to benefit from having a strong team which allowed him to use less energy throughout the race. "Winning the Tour de France is a dream come true. Above all, it's a special day for the whole CSC-Saxo Bank team. It was impossible to do this without them. It is extremely motivating to know that all the riders were ready to be at my service."
"I've prepared better than ever for this race. I arrived at the Tour in the best shape of my career and what has happened is really a dream for every professional," said Sastre."I felt better and better as the race went on," the Spaniard said of his Tour. "Also, I recover well. The team really sacrificed itself. The Schleck brothers sacrificed their own chances."
Riis agreed that Sastre was fresher than the other GC challengers in the final week. "It is well known that Carlos goes better in the third week. He may not do as much as others the rest of the year. But I saw him going well here. He showed that he was the strongest in the mountains," said Riis. Many of the CSC riders on with the team are at the end of their contracts, including Sastre. "I hope he will stay with the team. I will do everything to keep him," said Riis.
Evans 'not devastated'
Evans said he was not devastated after missing out on a Tour victory for the second consecutive year, but he was disappointed. "I felt I rode a good time trial. I started well and got a time check from my car after six kilometres and I was similar to Cancellara. For me that is a good start... I tried my best but didn't quite deliver in the end.
"I need some time to have a little look and analysis of the time checks. But, you know, first I've got to be happy that I finished the race. I'm still a bit sore and aching in places. After that crash I was lucky to be able to finish the stage."
The Australian expressed his disappointment that his team, once more, was not there at his side when he needed them. "I would have liked some more support in the high mountains. At least one team member to ride with me and help at the tough end of a climbing stage," he said. "I would also have expected a bit more help from some other key riders when the pressure was on in the big climbs."
He was able to take some positives away from this year's race as he looked forward to the Olympic Games next month. "When I look back, I have to be happy with my Tour. To get the yellow jersey and defend it against the best, well I have to be pleased with that."
Evan's team manager Marc Sergeant looked to the future for another chance for his team to take a Tour victory. "The team thought it would be a tight battle. I think he didn't have the legs today. It was win or lose today," Sergeant said.
The Silence-Lotto team has received criticism for not being strong enough to support its Tour contender. Evans was isolated against the attacks of Team CSC-Saxo Bank, despite the hiring of Yaroslav Popovych to be his mountain domestique, but Sergeant hoped to change that if Evans returns with the team next season. "We will try to strengthen the team for next year. Popovych was supposed to be there, but he didn't go as well as we had hoped."
Successful Tour for Gerolsteiner
The surprise performances of the day came from German Stefan Schumacher and Christian Vande Velde. Schumacher took home his second stage win against the clock of this year's Tour after the stage four test in Cholet. The Gerolsteiner rider beat world time trial champion Fabian Cancellara by 21 seconds. Vande Velde was the best of the GC contenders, coming fourth behind Team Columbia's Kim Kirchen.
Schumacher amazed even himself by taking his second stage win, and said that he began to feel better as the Tour went along, and was surprised at how good he felt after three weeks of racing. "In the final, after such a long time trial, you find yourself being cross-eyed from the effort. I didn't know anything about my time when I hit the finish line so I had to ask, 'Which place?' And I heard first and as I'd already beaten the time of [Fabian] Cancellara I knew I had a good chance to win," said Schumacher.
"I am happy with myself. I had a good rhythm today and when we saw the circuit I knew it would be perfect for me - it was nearly the same type of circuit as Cholet.
"I never even thought I was going to win. It wasn't even in my mind. I only tried to find my rhythm and give it 100 percent," he added, revealing that he did most of the race without any feedback from his team. "After 25 kilometres my radio was no longer working – I don't know what happened, perhaps I hit the wrong button but I didn't hear anything – but I had the time at the second check and I still wasn't sure if it was enough to win the stage."
Like most of the riders, Schumacher was focused on the gradual climb which ended with five kilometres to go as the critical point on the course. "I was sure that the last climb on the course would decide the winner. I was feeling heavy after 45 kilometres, and to arrive at the last climb which is more than one kilometre long like that was hard but I had the power to go over the top," he said. "In the last 10 kilometres I had a good ride and that was very important for me.
The two stage wins and Bernhard Kohl's polka dot jersey made for an unexpectedly successful Tour de France, and even Schumacher was incredulous at how it turned out for the team. "I don't think anybody outside of the team thought that we could do a Tour like this so it's unreal. I've been talking a lot with Bernhard [Kohl] and we're always saying, 'Hey, this isn't just any bike race. It's the Tour!' And I cannot believe what we've done. He said that he'd be happy with fifth and now he's third and the King of the Mountains... so it's been an incredible adventure."
Team manager Hans-Michael Holczer was equally amazed. "I did not think it was possible. I thought, 'ok, this is the price he has to pay for his really aggressive riding in the last three stages,' but in the end, in the last 12 kilometres he found an unbelievable rhythm."
Schleck in white again
In the race for the best young rider, Andy Schleck provided another good result for Team CSC-Saxo Bank by holding off a strong challenge from Liquigas' Roman Kreuziger. Schleck lost 36 seconds to the Czech rider, but had enough time thanks to his ride on L'Alpe d'Huez to take home the white jersey.
The Luxembourger, who last year took second in the Giro d'Italia and the best young rider classification, has been tipped as a future winner of the Tour. But after having a terrible day on stage ten, he fell out of contention and into the service of his team. But Schleck doesn't regret sacrificing his chances to work for brother Fränk and Sastre. "I was here to learn. I didn't think I would be going that well in the Alps," he said.
The emotions which have built up during the Tour came to a head at the end of the time trial, and Schleck admitted he was so happy at the finish that he "almost cried for Carlos".
As for his future prospects, the younger Schleck has vowed to return to try to win the Tour. "I am honoured that a great champion like Laurent Jalabert thinks I can win the Tour. I may have the means to do it, but it requires a lot of work."
"I simply bonked at Hautacam. I am only 23 years old, I don't have the experience. But maybe everything happens for a reason..."
Schleck will get to test out the view from the podium when he steps up with the rest of CSC-Saxo Bank to receive the prize for best team. "It is pretty big. I am going to be standing on the Champs Élysées, on the podium, it is pretty big," said Schleck. "It is fantastic that Sastre will also take the yellow jersey."
How it unfolded
There was some worry about the overnight rains, but the weather cleared in the morning and the sun came out for the favourites, and the roads were dry. The first rider to set off was Bernhard Eisel (Columbia). Eisel scored an important 'victory' over Wim Vansevenant (Silence-Lotto) in the Lanterne rouge competition by losing 15 minutes yesterday.
Eisel set off at 11:18. He ended 9'21 down on the winner, while the experienced Wim Vansevenant (Silence-Lotto) started after Eisel and had all the time checks. He finished the day almost 11 minutes down and dropped back to last, set to clinch the title of last placed rider for the third time.
Danny Pate started what would be a strong day for the Garmin-Chipotle team, setting a 1h06'44. Ryder Hesjedal would edge him out of 13th place on the day, putting the team second on the stage.
Exactly one hour after Pate, Fabian Cancellara (CSC-Saxo Bank) took the start. He quickly showed off his ambitions, being the first one to average more than 50km/h at the first check (km 18). Cancellara rode home with the best time, 1h04'12. His average had dropped below 50km/h by the end thanks to a gradual rise in the final 20 kilometres, but he was over two minutes faster than previous best time Sebastian Lang (Gerolsteiner).
David Millar (Garmin Chipotle - H30) was a good minute adrift of the world champion at 1h05'27, but his time would stand up for fifth on the day.
Stage 19 winner and French time trial champion Sylvain Chavanel (Cofidis) rode a strong first leg, but faded to 19th overall in the difficult second half of the course. George Hincapie (Columbia) put in a solid effort despite being bandaged up from a crash in the previous days, and slotted into the top ten with a 1h06'19.
Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner) set off at 15:19 to try for his second stage win of the Tour. Despite using up quite a bit of energy on breakaway attempts in the Alps and on Friday's stage, he equalled Cancellara's time on the first check. The German faded back to 12 seconds behind the Swiss rider on the second check, but then clawed his way back into the race. At kilometre 47.5, Schumacher was again ahead of Cancellara by 14 seconds, and then came home with a new best time of 1h03'50 – 21 seconds faster than Cancellara.
The battle for the white jersey of best young rider provided some entertainment as the fans awaited the arrival of the yellow jersey contenders. Roman Kreuziger was seeking to put 1'58" into Andy Schleck, and while the Luxembourger started out well, Kreuziger really put the hammer down. At check two, he was 1'03 faster and looked to trouble Schleck. In the end, however, Schleck recovered and saved the day with a 1h07'52, only 39 seconds behind Kreuziger.
Denis Menchov (Rabobank) kicked off battle of the GC contenders, and put in a storming first time check. The Russian was third fastest over the 18 kilometre mark, just 22 seconds slower than Cancellara and Schumacher. Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) was threatened at that check by Bernhard Kohl (Gerolsteiner), who was four seconds faster. Meanwhile, Fränk Schleck (CSC-Saxo Bank) could only manage a 22'57, and his podium dream slipped away rapidly.
All eyes were on yellow jersey of Carlos Sastre (CSC-Saxo Bank), who put in a courageous ride. He had lost only eight seconds to Evans after 18 kilometres, and with a 1'34 lead over the Australian on the general classification, his hopes of winning the Tour began to rise.
Menchov wasn't able to keep up his momentum over the middle section, and faded to sixth at the second check with a 43'46. Kim Kirchen (Columbia) made up lost ground and posted a 43'35. Christian Vande Velde (Garmin Chipotle - H30) was only one second slower at this point.
The race for the podium was still tight at the second check. While Kohl hung tough, coming by in 44'11, Evans had only made up three seconds, which left him only two seconds ahead of the Austrian in GC. It became clear that Sastre was on a brilliant ride, and the Spaniard came in just 23 seconds slower than Evans after 36 kilometres. Fränk Schleck was out of the picture (46'27).
With the third check just 5.5 kilometres from the finish, the winner of the day and the Tour would be revealed well before the line. Denis Menchov was the sixth and last rider to break the one-hour barrier (59'50). Kirchen posted a 59'08, Vande Velde a 59'18 - none of them coming within a minute of Schumacher.
Evans was the next, across the line and would see his dreams of yellow vanishing as he ceded three seconds to his Spanish rival. On the bright side, he had managed to pull 15 seconds ahead of Kohl, so at least a spot on the podium was still in sight.
Sastre took the tight turns in the final kilometres carefully, and was able to take a moment to celebrate his achievement with a sign of the cross and a modest pump of the fist at the line, just 29 seconds slower than Evans.
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Worthing – Description
WORTHING is a fishing and market town, watering-place, railway station on the South Coast line, and polling place for the Western division of the county, in the parish of Broadwater, rape of Bramber, Brightford hundred, East Preston union, diocese and archdeaconry of Chichester, and rural deanery of Storrington, 61¼ miles from London, 12 west from Brighton, and 21 from Chichester. From, an inconsiderable fishing village it has risen to a town of importance. Towards the close of the last century the visit of the Princess Amelia appears to have given it an importance which most other towns are long in acquiring. The subsequent visits of the Princess Charlotte and Queen Caroline, on different occasions, contributed to its popularly, and in 1849 her late Majesty the Queen Dowager and suite paid a visit here for a fortnight. Worthing is on the coast of Sussex, sheltered on the land side, by an amphitheatre of chalk downs, and has on the sea side a long range of smooth sands, extending 4 miles to the east and 9 to the west, The town is well laid out, and has some good streets.
A handsome iron pier has been erected at the bottom of South-street: it is 960 feet long, 15 feet wide, cost £4,182, and was opened 12th April, 1862: there were 258½ tons of iron used in its construction; Robert Rawlinson, Esq., C.E., was the engineer; William Hugh Dennett, Esq., is the solicitor and secretary to the Worthing Pier Company Limited. The Steyne consists of 3 acres in front of Warwick House.
Petty sessions are held here. The Corn Exchange is close to the railway station, and a market is held there every alternate Wednesday. The fishing is chiefly for mackerel and herrings for the supply of the London market.
Christ Church, erected in 1843, contains nearly 1,000 sittings, one-half of which are free: it has a splendid organ, by Bryceson, of London. The annual value of the living is £300, in the gift of the Rector of Broadwater, and held by the Rev. F. Cruse, B.A., of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.
The chapel of ease, erected in 1812, is a perpetual curacy value £150 per annum, in the gift of the Rector of Broadwater, and held by the Rev. William. Read, M.A., of St. John’s College, Cambridge.
There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Christian Brethren.
Six almshouses for six aged poor men and their wives, members of the Church of England, were erected and endowed, to perpetuate the pious memory of Harry Humphreys, Esq., by his sorrowing parents. in 1858, and two others are now being added. There are also St. Elizabeth’s almshouses, for four single women.
The baths are very good: besides the machines on the beach, there is a bathing establishment for warm, cold, and medicated vapour baths, known as the Royal Baths, situated on the Marine-parade.
Two large buildings, Montague Hall and the Christian Institute, both in Montague street, are used for lectures, concerts, &c. Public meetings are presided over by a high constable, who is appointed yearly at a court leet of the Duke of Norfolk.
There are libraries, well supplied with the morning and evening papers and general periodicals. Assembly-rooms are attached to the Steyne Hotel.
The government of the town is carried on by the local board of health, under whose superintendence an improved system of drainage has been carried out, and a constant service of pure water laid on to every house: its sanitary provisions are now unexcelled; the effects of this are apparent in the rate of mortality, as published by the Registrar-General, being less than most towns: since the sanitary improvements have been in operation there have been a great increase in the number of visitors: many now adopt it as their winter residence, on account of the mildness and equability of its climate: the variation of temperature is less than at most places in England, except two.
Worthing College, for the education of young gentlemen, stands at the eastern end of the town: it is conducted by the Rev. F. A. Piggott, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge.
On Lancing Down Roman remains have been found; and at Cissbury is an earthwork of 60 acres, which appears to have been used by the Britons and Romans.
Several estates, called respectively Farncombe, College, Selden, and Alexandra, are now being built upon, and the town is increasing rapidly in every direction.
There is an Infirmary.
National schools have been erected in Chapel-street, at a cost of nearly £4,000.
The first Infant school in England was founded here in 1817, and an elegant building for the purpose has bean erected in memory of the Rev. W. Davison, the founder, and former incumbent of the chapel of ease.
The following parishes are in the Worthing county court district:- Broadwater, Heene, West Tarring, Durrington, Sompting, Lancing, Buttolphs, Combs, Findon, Goring, Kingston, West Ferring, Wiston, East Preston, Clapham, Patching, Washington, Ashington, and Warminghurst.
The population, with Broadwater, in 1861 was 6,466.
Heene is a small parish, formerly extra parochial, adjoining Worthing, on the west, and is more generally called West Worthing: it has neither church nor chapel and is included in the East Preston poor law union, the inhabitants supporting their own poor: it is in the Western division of the county, rape of Bramber, and Worthing county court district. The ecclesiastical commissioners hold the great tithes’ rent-charge, and pay a stipend to the vicar of the adjoining parish of West Tarring, at which church the inhabitants have the right to attend. The property of this parish, with the exception of a few small holdings, has been purchased by the West Worthing Investment Company Limited, who have erected several mansions and first-class houses, a large and well appointed hotel, baths, assembly rooms, water works, &c., and are greatly improving the beach and neighbourhood. The area is 546 acres; population, 194.
Letters through Worthing.
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Her male supervisor had made crude sexual comments to her. Initially it was sexual inuendo that made her feel very uncomfortable, but she felt she could live with. If she spoke up, she’d be seen as a crank. But then it got worse. Much worse. He started openly making lewd comments to her about her figure and what he would like to do to her sexually. About her body and her clothes. He even said things in front of others who just laughed. This was “banter” apparently, a bit of “fun”. But to LD it certainly wasn’t. It made her sick to her stomach.
She did the right thing and complained to management via the HR Dignity at Work procedure and then all of a sudden, she became surplus to requirements. But worse than that, having conducted a cursory ‘lip-service’ investigation, she was threatened by HR that she could be subjected to disciplinary action for making a false complaint, even sacked for it. The Company hadn’t even properly looked into her concerns. They were circling the wagons and she needed to go. LD eventually resigned in frustration and disgust.
Her dad contacted us. LD was devastated and had completely lost her confidence. We took on her case and lodged a claim for her with the WRC. Her former employer vigorously fought their corner. The WRC awarded LD €45,000 but most of all, she felt vindicated, empowered, restored. She had had the courage to stand up to her former employer and to take back the power.
“I am so glad I stood up for myself. Not about the money, sure that was nice but it wasn’t about that. Big companies like that need to respect women, not condone harassment and bury it when it comes to light. If they don’t then who will?.”
LD, Waterford
More and more women like LD are coming forward. The regular, run-of-the-mill, taken-for granted, daily sexist moments that women encounter need to be called out. Doing so will not only have a big impact on others but also helps restore your self-confidence. Awards like LD’s do make a difference. Not only to her former employer but to other employers, to her work colleagues and friends, to the decision-makers out there, but most of all to the most vulnerable of all our youngest sisters, daughters and friends.
The actions you take now and the choices you make, will not only have a big impact on your own life, but could also affect how other women are treated in the future. The future is in your hands. You can choose to walk away and simply suffer your situation in silence or you can be proactive, stand up for yourself and take control of it.
Every single woman we speak to has a story. Not from five years ago, or ten but from last week, or yesterday, or ‘just before I came here today’. These events are normal. They don’t seem exceptional enough to object to because they aren’t out of the ordinary and are tolerated in the workplace and by society, almost encouraged. As a result, this kind of thing is just part of being a woman and most women are just used to it. That needs to change and the only way of changing it is by standing up against it.
To do that you need help, someone who can give you a platform and take control. You need information and advice from experienced and trusted experts which will allow you to understand your rights and give you the support you need to help you to proceed.
Our dedicated team of professionals has huge experience working on behalf of women in these types of situation. We have the legal knowledge required to give you the best advice and are experienced at resolving these types of claims quickly and effectively – often without you having to face a drawn-out battle in the WRC. We understand the emotional pressure and stress you are going through and we can help ease the trauma of it all. Our aim is to work for you to achieve the best possible outcome so that you can move on with your life.
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Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, suspected Mumbai attack leader, jailed in Pakistan – Yahoo News
Pakistani security personnel escort Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi (C), alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, leaves the court after a hearing in Islamabad on January 1, 2015.
A Pakistan court has sentenced Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, a senior leader of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, to five years in prison for terror financing.
Lakhvi has been accused by India and the US of orchestrating the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, in which at least 160 people were killed.
He was sentenced on Friday to three concurrent five-year sentences.
The court found Lakhvi guilty of collecting and dispersing money for terrorist attacks by Lashkar-e-Taiba.
He was arrested on Saturday in Pakistan’s Punjab province where he was running a medical dispensary, which the state’s counter-terrorism team said he used to collect funds.
The US welcomed Lakhvi’s arrest last weekend, calling it “an important step in holding him responsible for his role in supporting terrorism and its financing”.
“We will follow his prosecution and sentencing closely and urge that he be held accountable for his involvement in the Mumbai attacks,” the US state department said on Twitter.
Lakhvi was previously tried in Pakistan but was released on bail in 2015, sparking protests in India
Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba – “Soldiers of the Pure” – rose to prominence two decades ago after carrying out armed attacks in Indian-administered Kashmir and India.
India alleges that the group was involved in an armed raid on India’s parliament in December 2001, which brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
Ten gunmen from the group attacked Mumbai in 2008, carrying out assaults on two luxury hotels, a train station, a hospital, a Jewish cultural centre and some other targets in Mumbai.
Lakhvi was quickly named by India as one of the major suspects in the attacks. Indian officials said Lakhvi had spoken to the attackers during their journey and may have been in touch during the attacks. They said he was identified by the sole surviving gunman, who said Lakhvi helped to “indoctrinate all the attackers”.
He was arrested in Pakistan, reportedly at a training camp for Lashkar-e-Taiba, on 7 December 2008 and jailed in 2009.
Six years later he hit the headlines again when an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan trying him for the Mumbai killings ordered his release on bail, and in April 2015 he walked free from prison.
During his more than five years in prison, Lakhvi reportedly had special treatment including uninterrupted access to guests, mobile phone use and internet access, keeping him in effective contact with the rank and file of Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Last year, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hafiz Saeed, was also sentenced to jail in Pakistan.
Indian officials have accused Pakistan of secretly supporting the militants, and have suggested the verdicts are linked to pressure on Pakistan from the international terrorist financing watchdog, the FATF.
Pakistan is hoping to be removed from the organisation’s “grey list” at a meeting in February.
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How To Be More Persuasive
November 25, 2020 by Dr. NerdLove 72 Comments
Doctor’s Note: This article was first published on October 31, 2016
Ever gotten into an argument with someone who’s clearly wrong, but you can’t change their mind? Wish you could just Jedi mind-trick your racist uncle into not voting for a bigot? Or have you just been jealous of people who seem to be natural influencers, who are just so persuasive that everyone seems to agree with them?
“Let’s be real: how much better would your life be if you just listened to me?”
More persuasive people understand something that most folks don’t get: that bringing someone around to your point of view isn’t about logic, it’s about emotion. Being more persuasive isn’t about having the best, most logical argument, it’s about how you get people to listen in the first place. By learning how to connect with people, you can become a master influencer.
How To Build Emotional Strength
October 14, 2020 by Dr. NerdLove Leave a Comment
Right now everything feels like chaos. We’re living through the worst pandemic the world has seen in more than 100 years. We are less than three weeks out from an election that feels like our choice is whether to pull America back from the brink of fascism or not. Our lives have been thrown into pandemonium like we’ve never known, even as people seem to insist that we’re fools for being concerned about a virulent disease. Violent extremists are attacking innocent protestors and activists and the people in charge are hosting giant gatherings all but guaranteed to spread the virus.
And yet life stubbornly insists on continuing like normal.
This is legitimately how it feels some days…
It’s enough to make you feel like you’re going mad. Like you want to give up and just scream.
But even under the best of circumstances — when the world doesn’t feel like it’s teetering on the verge of collapse — there are times when life feels like it’s too much. There are days when you feel like you’re hanging on by your fingernails and you just want to let go. There are days when you simply don’t feel like you have the strength to keep going. Whether it’s chasing your long-term goals and dreams, finding the desire to keep moving forward, or even summoning up the courage to make the hard decisions, you will face moments that will push you to your very limits.
Those are the times when you need to have the resources to keep going. You need to build your emotional strength. You need to have the will and the strength to not just persevere but to thrive.
Here’s how.
Learning The (Love) Lessons of End of Evangelion
June 28, 2019 by Dr. NerdLove Leave a Comment
One of the issues that can make discussing dating and self-improvement difficult is just how abstract some of the ideas we talk about can be. It’s one thing to talk about concepts like the difference between internal or external validation or what being charming looks like in practice. That’s why it can be handy to have an example to turn to, an easily accessible reference that can make some of these concepts a little simpler to understand when we see them played out in front of us.
And now that now that Neon Genesis Evangelion is out on Netflix, we’re going to take one of the most cerebral and philosophical and in some cases mindfuckingly weird anime series out there and wring some self-improvement advice out of it and answer some of life’s biggest questions.
Yes, like that.
Wait, what do you mean “again?”
And just a head’s up: we’re going to be talking extensively about both the broadcast series – including the series finale – and the movie End of Evangelion, so consider this your massive spoiler warning.
PART 1: GET IN THE FUCKING THERAPIST’S OFFICE, SHINJI
One of the things that draws people into Evangelion is the character of Shinji Ikari. He’s very much the audience’s avatar, their entry point into their participation this world — something that’s fairly standard for most television series, and especially a mecha-action series like Evangelion; in fact, over the course of the first third of the story, the series is an almost prototypical example of the genre. At first it seems like it’s going to be the same story we’ve seen a thousand times before, just standing out by being more visually striking than other, similar entries, with designs, themes and visuals that other shows and movies would blatantly rip off years later.
Looking directly at you, Pacific Rim: Uprising.
Also it may be more than 20 years old, but the theme song still slaps.
But it’s the character of Shinji that’s the real draw. Unlike a lot of protagonists in shows like these, he’s… well, he’s kind of a whiny little jerk. He’s pretty much in a constant state of anxiety and self-doubt, always feeling like he’s been tossed head first into a life that’s continually raging out of his control. He’s overwhelmed by his responsibilities, alternately confused and scared of the new status quo he’s found himself in and he finds himself almost desperate for the approval of the adults around him… especially his cold and distant father.
And you thought YOU had daddy issues…
Emotionally, he’s a wreck; he has no self-confidence to speak of, he vacillates between being attracted to, confounded by and frustrated with the women in his life. He constantly feels like they’re teasing and taunting him for no reason and those moments of what seem like sincerity and genuine connection are then met with more mockery.
Half of the time, he wants to run away from his responsibilities and the insanity around him and isolate himself in his own little world, but feels like he has no choice but to come back and deal with it, despite having no goddamn clue what to do.
And despite however hard he works at the one thing that seems to bring his life meaning — the one thing he hopes will gain him the approval of others — it never seems to be enough. Which only increases his constant fear of abandonment.
So hands up if any of that feels familiar to you.
It’s not really surprising that so many people find that Shinji really resonates with them; his inner emotional turmoil mirrors what so much of the audience feels. In fact, part of the genesis1 of Evangelion was creator Hideki Anno’s dealing with his almost crippling depression; the story of Evangelion — and Shinji in particular — is the story of Anno coming to terms with his lifelong struggle with depression, alienation and the feeling that he lacks self-worth. And he put a LOT of himself in the character of Shinji.
In a way, Shinji is the ultimate wish-fulfillment character; because the audience identifies so strongly with Shinji, we want to see him succeed and get everything he wanted because it feels like the audience succeeds along with him.
Just as importantly though, because so many people identify so strongly with him, Shinji represents an opportunity to talk about how to achieve the goals that he and the audience share — the desire to find the happiness, validation, acceptance and love, that Shinji is longing for.
But in a very real way, Shinji — and by extension, the audience who identifies with him — is the author of his and their own misery.
So without getting too deep into the lore, one of the ideas that is presented is the concept of the AT Field. In the show, this is represented by an impenetrable barrier that the Angels manifest that shields them from harm.
As the show progresses, we discover that all living, sentient beings have AT fields… and the AT Fields are the manifestation of our fear of being hurt, which is keeping us isolated from others. This is reflected in one of the recurring themes of the series: Shinji’s isolation and loneliness and the way his unwillingness to connect with others conflicts with his desire to be accepted.
He wants people to validate his existence but by the same token, he can’t bring himself to accept it, and his progression as a character is the continual confrontation with the reality that he can’t rely on his relationships to other people to define him or give him meaning. Part of the pathos of his character is how often the things he craves most are denied or pulled away from him.
But as cruel as it may seem, those moments of loss and denial are indicative of lessons that Shinji — and by extension, the audience — needs to learn. In fact, we regularly see Shinji literally confronting himself in an attempt to come to terms with what needs to change for him to actually be happy and self-actualized.
The problem… is that Shinji represents two very distinct paths that the people who identify with him tend to travel down down.
Between the broadcast series and the film End of Evangelion, we get two different versions of the end — the end of both the narrative and the world. In both versions, NERV has failed, having been betrayed from within from the very start; the apocalypse is upon us and the Instrumentality Project has begun, causing all life on earth to dissolve as everyone functionally reunites into one universal being… essentially Buddhist concept of the dissolution of the self and ascension to Nirvana.
It starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes and aeroplanes…
But the two versions of the apocalypse go in very different directions.
Now I’m not going to get into the meta-aspects of why the series ended the way it did or why End of Evangelion was made and whether it’s Anno’s giant middle finger to fandom; that’s not really relevant to our discussion here.
Instead, I want to talk about how, in a very real way, the difference between the ending of the broadcast series and the movie represent the two paths that Shinji — and again, the audience — face. One version serving as a guide… and one as a warning.
PART TWO: CRUEL INCEL’S THESIS
The movie End of Evangelion looks at the darker path for Shinji… one that actually seems more than a little prophetic, all things considered.
One of the constants of fiction is that we’re often willing to overlook the darker or problematic aspects of characters, especially characters we identify with strongly. This is in part because we’re given insight into their thoughts, their feelings and motivations, which tends to cause us to be more understanding, if not sympathetic; we feel like we at least appreciate their reasoning, if not their actions. That, in turn, makes us more inclined to look at their behavior with a certain amount of compassion or even empathy.
Or you might chuck it across the room instead of pondering whether morality means anything when you think you’re stuck in a dream…
But it’s often also because, well… we recognize those sides in ourselves, and we don’t like to acknowledge them.
And in End of Evangelion, both the narrative and the creator are unwilling to overlook or gloss over the less admirable sides of Shinji’s personality — and because the audience identifies with him so strongly, they have to take the journey with him. And it isn’t pleasant. Just as Shinji does, we aren’t just forced to acknowledge our darker, shadow side, we get our faces rubbed in it.
One of the things that the End of Evangelion drives home is just how one-sided Shinji’s desire for connection really is. He desperately craves that relationship, but he isn’t willing to meet people half-way, not in any way that matters. He ultimately wants them to break through his AT field — as it were — and form that connection for him.
Part of the problem is that Shinji is so absorbed in his own world that he rarely stops to consider or even understand the lives of the people around him.
Now this is understandable; part of the reason for his personality being what it is, is that he’s absorbed with his own trauma. And he’s gone through some serious shit, from having seen his mother die in front of him, to being deliberately abandoned and isolated by his father, being dragooned into being a literal child soldier in a cosmic, existential war and dumped into multiple situations — sexual and otherwise — that he’s just not equipped to handle.
Oh and he’s piloting a robot that’s powered by the soul of his dead mother.
But understandable isn’t the same as acceptable, and the fact that he’s dealing with trauma doesn’t excuse his behaviors — behaviors that, in many cases he knows to be wrong.
Like when he masturbates over Asuka’s comatose body.
(Which, incidentally, isn’t the first time he tried to do something to Asuka in her sleep.)
Neither, for that matter, does his suffering from trauma make him unique or special. In fact, pretty much every main character is dealing with major amounts of trauma; Asuka’s mother killed herself in front of her, Misato was at ground zero for Second Impact and had to watch her father die in her arms, Rei is isolated and functionally abused by Gendo and NERV.
“No it’s cool, we’ll make the dying girl get in the creepy robot and fight a goddamn ANGEL instead.”
The fact that Shinji is dealing with some real shit doesn’t give him a pass, especially when the other characters — who are equally as traumatized — are proving to be more functional and self-actualized than he is.
But the root issue here isn’t Shinji’s fear of connection or self-absorption, it’s his unwillingness to confront it honestly or work to find a solution.
What he wants more than anything else is validation, but he’s never willing to give it to himself; he’s always looking for it from other people. He pilots the EVA-01 specifically because he feels like it will make him valuable to others and that means that they’ll take care of him and never leave him.
He’s the definition of somebody who lives for external validation; he relies on others to give his life worth and meaning. And the problem is that he can’t have it, certainly not for long. Everyone else has to lead their own lives and are dealing with their own drama. Frankly, most folks are clinging on to their own sanity for dear life as it is; they don’t have the capacity to keep other people from drowning. And even the most well-meaning of people can’t be relied on to give his life meaning or live his life for him because lives change, priorities change and people leave… or die.
This living for the regard of others make Shinji an ultimately passive character, and once all of those sources of validation are taken from him, he literally has to be dragged and sexually bribed into doing his job.
This version of Shinji is uncomfortable to watch because, honestly, it’s seeing a version of him where the comforting excuses get scoured away and we’re forced to see him at the ultimate end of his path, where his sense of entitlement and resentment has blinded him both to how others feel, but ALSO why he’s so miserable and lonely.
He treats people like literal objects; he may feel awful about it AFTERWARDS but not enough to stop in the moment. He gets angry that other people won’t just GIVE him what he wants — love and validation. But the issue isn’t that what he wants is unreasonable or that he’s unworthy of it, it’s that he’s demanding it without consideration for others… which reaches its ultimate expression in his sexual assault on Asuka’s comatose body.
Nope, not getting past this any time soon.
And then the world ends and Shinji has to confront his own existence and choices and have his soul laid bare. Shinji has no choice but to answer for his life and the decisions he’s made as the women in his life call him to account. He — and by extension, the audience — is forced to confront all the ways that he and we sexualize and objectify those characters, reducing them to little more than tits and ass even as he begs them for love and understanding or castigates them for not giving him what he wants
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Shinji complains that they betrayed him, only to be told that there was nothing to betray; the only thing they “betrayed” was a one-sided belief he had about them as people and what their responsibilities were to him. He complains that it’s unfair for them to expect him to understand him when none of them will talk to him, only to have the fact that he never TRIED to understand thrown back into his face.
He demands to know why they couldn’t be nice to him and is unable to accept that they HAD been. Instead he launches into a rant that about how they tease and taunt him and mislead him, not realizing that the reason why they seemed to be so confusing and misleading is that they were dealing with their OWN trauma and he never stopped to consider that… because it made HIS life difficult. Even as he switches gears and begs Asuka for her approval, saying that she’s the only one for him, she refuses to leave him this final comforting lie and rips even THAT illusion to shreds; he doesn’t want her, he just wants someone to fill the hole in his life. She just happens to be the closest warm body, the one who he’s the least intimidated by. Meanwhile he’s refused to grow, take responsibility or do the work that’s needed to be someone who can love and BE loved.
It’s at this point that Shinji’s loneliness, selfishness, and need for external validation curdles from understandable teen angst to pure anger and HATE. His misery and fear of being hurt gets turned outward in frustration and rage at the people he feels are denying him what he needs and he lashes out with terrifying violence and — even after being given what he theoretically wanted — he ends up more alone than ever.
It’s a very incel-y response, more than a decade before Elliot Rodger’s murder spree.
Now some will argue that this is unnecessarily harsh, even cruel. But in this path, Shinji repeatedly REJECTS the kinder approach. He refuses to try to understand or to see beyond himself and clings to his belief that he did nothing wrong and was denied the things that he was owed. He projects his AT field even harder, even as he’s being implored to let it down. He’s unwilling to listen to the kinder, softer arguments and, as a result, he gets those excuses scoured away in the harshest terms possible and is left to suffer in his own impotence and misery.
PART 3 – The Hedgehog’s Dilemma
The other path open to Shinji involves not just him coming to terms with his desire to connect with others, but also how to achieve it.
Just as he has his confrontation with himself in the world of the Dirac Sea in episode 16, The Instrumentality Project sees him spend the last two episodes of the broadcast series in a state of unification — seeing not just into the hearts and souls of his friends and loved ones but also confronting his loneliness and fear of abandonment.
However, in this branch, things take a much more hopeful tone.
Just as before, Shinji is confronted with his need for external validation; he only pilots the EVA-01, for example, because feels that it’s the only way he can be of use. He sees this as the only way he can get people to acknowledge him and care for him. Shinji feels like he has to be needed by others in order to have worth.
In reality, however, he’s trying to avoid being hurt. He feels that if people need him, then they will have to accept him; otherwise he risks rejection. And because he doesn’t feel that he has value, he doesn’t believe that other people might accept him for himself.
But what he still doesn’t realize is that other people can’t give him value. The only person who can ultimately give him what he needs is himself. Everything that can be given to him can ultimately be taken away — through time, through change or through death.
However in this version, he’s far more willing to listen, to consider that maybe, just maybe, he’s wrong. That the world he sees where he’s useless is just that: a world of his own creation. And because the world is always changing and evolving, he too can change.
In this branch, because he’s willing to listen, he starts to learn. He learns that perfect freedom comes not just without limits but without anything that lets us orient ourselves and becomes meaningless. But in a world with greater structure, a world where we see and interact with others and learn the boundaries of our sense of self, we learn not just who we are but who we can become.
This culminates in his entering a new and entirely different world — a world where he never became an EVA pilot. And while his life is different in that world — he’s more confident, more secure — he’s still himself. The more self-assured student and the anxious EVA pilot are the same person; he has the potential for both inside himself. He could easily be either of those people… or many many others.
So while his feelings of inadequacy and his fear of rejection are real, they’re ultimately the creations of his own mind, to accept or reject and to shape as he chooses.
Unlike the Shinji in End of Evangelion, THIS Shinji makes a break-through: he may hate himself… but he can learn to love himself. And in doing so, he realizes that he can give himself the validation that he needs, that he can learn to understand himself and accept himself. Not only can he improve and grow and become the person he wishes he could be, but also that he has the right to exist, to take up space in this world. More than that… he wants to live, to grow and change.
And with that revelation: the world around him changes in accordance to his expectations and he finds himself surrounded by all the people who love him — including his parents — who congratulate him for finally making his breakthrough.
For the first time, he realizes he’s not useless, that he doesn’t need other people to justify his existence and — most importantly — that he’s truly NOT alone; the world has simply been waiting for him to realize that and let it in.
Which is what WE need to learn: that the things we assume are our limitations and inadequacies are only real because we choose to believe that they’re real. But by that same token, we can rebuild, we can advance and that we’re not alone… and that we can learn to love ourselves, and, in the process, learn to connect with others honestly, instead of isolating ourselves in our misery, hoping that other people will do the work for us, before it’s too late.
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Episode #80: How To Make Friends As an Adult
Men on the whole, and white, heterosexual men in particular, tend to have fewer friends than women and the friendships they do have tend to be shallower and less fulfilling. It’s really not uncommon for guys to look up and realize just how few friends they have outside of family members and romantic relationships. And by then… it feels like it’s too late. After all, it’s easy to make friends when you’re in college. But how do you go about making friends when you’re a grown man?
Show Highlights:
How men train themselves out of having close friends
Why male friendships tend to be shallower than female friendships
Why it’s harder to make friends after college
The Friendship Formula: what it takes to make close friends
How to turn acquaintances into lifelong friendships
Men And the Epidemic of Loneliness
Five Secrets To Make People Like You
Building a Closer Friendship Between Men
Finding Strength Through Vulnerability
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Ask Dr. NerdLove: What Do I Do About Someone Else’s Crush On Me?
May 21, 2018 by Dr. NerdLove Leave a Comment
Hi, Dr. NerdLove;
Thanks for the wonderful column.
I… have a problem with disappearing and I think I need the Chair Leg of Truth. I keep having to deal with other people’s very, very inconvenient crushes on me.
Example #1: I gave up my the forums of my beloved hobby when Married Sad Boner Dude “fell in love” with me. He refused to stop talking about how in love with me he was, or work on his relationship with his wife, so I faded. Not before he threatened to kill himself and implied that I, his True Love could save him by encouraging him to make an intercontinental move to court me.
Example #2: I moved away from my hometown when College Experiment with Heterosexuality Sad Boner Dude was “uncomfortable” with the fact that I insisted upon living near him (which is to say: living with my mother, two hours away). I’m not attending reunions and I donate anonymously to my college, because OMG what if the poor dear gets triggered by seeing my name the way he was when he saw me from the train that one day? (To be fair, we did have a serious case of the zombie relationship, and I don’t blame him for being relieved to see my toxic-to-him ass retreating.) I gave up all my college friends that had any association with him, too. That hurts to this day.
Example #3: I started working remotely when Sad Boner Co-Worker got a crush on me and started acting in a frightening and quasi-stalkery manner. Good luck advancing in my career without being allowed to come into the office more than once a month!
Example #4: I faded from a local con and skipped the workshop I’d paid for last year when Sad Boner Dance Dude decided that I was The One and refused to let me talk to my friends and tried to follow me to my hotel at 3 a.m. I am going back to that con this year. Maybe. I dunno.
Example #5: I just f-locked the archives and all entries for the foreseeable future on my blog, which was middling popular, because another Married Sad Boner dude kept defiantly trampling my boundaries, getting angry when I refused to chat with him while I was busy at work or at dinner with my daughter, trying to sexually dominate me and requesting to see my ass on video chat.
Doctor Nerdlove, I don’t know what to do.
I am RIGHT UPFRONT about being lesbian, about not being even remotely interested in romantic relationships and kind of disgusted by sex with anyone but myself. By PUA standards, I’m a Midwest two when I make the effort, and I never, ever make the effort. I guess I’m kind and friendly and a little funny, and I try to appreciate how awesome every individual is in their own right, but I mention that I’m not available or interested in romance in any way, shape or form. I’ve even tried not bringing it up. That makes it worse. Not saying “not interested” at the beginning and end of every sentence to a Sad Boner Dude feels like he’s going to pounce and say, “Aha! You didn’t say ‘Simon Says,’ NOW YOU HAVE TO MARRY ME. Or at least let me call you my fiancée until I lose interest and wander off.”
The worst thing is, these are good men. They’d be horrified if they read this letter. They’d write me eight-page SAD PANTSFEELS LETTERS about how it wasn’t like that! If you publish this letter, readers of yours will be curling up like they’ve been nutkicked because they’ve done something that remotely resembles this and they feel personally attacked.
But for me, it is like that. Suicide threats. Being followed at night. Getting cornered at the office by a nightmarish 6’3″ ex-cop who keeps telling everyone about how women make shit about abuse up, who then turns up in your parking lot at one in the morning blaring Barry White because he “finds you attractive.” Getting badgered because I’m hanging out with my family instead of worshiping the boner, even though a boner, for me, is a Lovecraftian Elder God with whom I want no truck. Eight-page SAD PANTSFEELS letters.
How do I prevent guys getting crushes on me and mistaking them for an excuse to ignore clearly stated boundaries? Look, I’m sure women do this too, but it’s not a problem I’ve run into with women. And for that matter, what do I do with these Sad Boner Men? When guys do get crushes on me, is there a more constructive response than “three strikes, and I run screaming, because it’s super-mean to exist and not want to be someone’s prize, even though I’ve skipped to the end of that particular book and, spoiler, horrific ruins for everyone and no-one has any fun getting there and the car chases suck”? It feels like I’m cruel to keep visibly existing, but it’s almost always in my own space. Also, I feel like this is one of the reasons you don’t see women in male-dominated fields: there’s this thing where guys fixate on women and the women leave. I really hate the thought of contributing to that. I want to grow a spine, but dang. It’s mean to them and sometimes feels dangerous to me to hang around. I want my blog back. I want my forums back. My mom wants me to visit her.
Is there something I’m missing here? I already carry a taser. Or am I being unreasonable? You’d tell me if I was being unreasonable, right?
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'''Marie-Ségolène Royal''' (born 22 September 1953 in Dakar, [[Senegal]]) was the [[Socialist]] candidate for the 2007 French presidential election. In May 6, 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidential election. The socialist Ségolène Royal conceded defeat, by a 53-47% margin.
'''Marie-Ségolène Royal''' (born 22 September 1953 in Dakar, [[Senegal]]) was the [[democratic socialism|Socialist]] candidate for the [[2007 French presidential elections|2007 French presidential election]]. On May 6, 2007 [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] won the French presidential election. The socialist Ségolène Royal conceded defeat, by a 53-47% margin. She is currently running for the [[French Socialist Party]] Primary Elections.
Royal is good-looking, ever-smiling, impeccably dressed and typically French. Her father Jacques Royal, is a Catholic, conservative French army colonel. Royal attended the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration. She has also a Degree in Economics, Graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. At the Ecole Nationale she met François Hollande, the leader of the Socialist Party and father of her four children. Both collaborated with the staff of Socialist President François Mitterrand.
Her father Jacques Royal, is a Catholic, [[conservative]] [[France|French]] army colonel. Royal attended the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration. She has also a Degree in Economics, Graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. At the Ecole Nationale she met François Hollande, the leader of the Socialist Party and father of her four children. Both collaborated with the staff of Socialist President François Mitterrand.
She is a National Assembly member and the President of the Poitou-Charentes region. On March 27, 2000, She was appointed as Minister at the Ministry of Employment and Solidarity, with delegated responsibility for Childhood and the Family.
== Writings ==
*Le printemps des grands-parents, Editions Robert Laffont
*''Le printemps des grands-parents'', Editions Robert Laffont, 1987
*Le ras-le-bol des bébés zappeurs, Editions Robert Laffont
*''Le ras-le-bol des bébés zappeurs'', Editions Robert Laffont, 1989
*Pays, paysans, paysage, Editions Robert Laffont
*''Pays, paysans, paysage'', Editions Robert Laffont, 1993
*La vérité d'une femme, Stock. (A Lady's Truth)
*''La vérité d'une femme'', Stock. (A Woman's Truth), 1996
*''Désirs d'avenir'', 2006
*''Maintenant'', 2007
*''Ma plus belle histoire, c'est vous'', 2007
*''Si la gauche veut des idées'', 2008
*''Femme debout'', 2009
*''Lettre à tous les résignés et aux indignés qui veulent des solutions'', 2011
==Policies==
She is known for her admiration for some "[[Third Way]]" policies (and has been compared to [[Tony Blair]] in this respect), for her insistence on the importance of the "welfare state" and for her support of participatory democracy and devolution.
[[Hillary Rodham Clinton]]
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Marie-Ségolène Royal (born 22 September 1953 in Dakar, Senegal) was the Socialist candidate for the 2007 French presidential election. On May 6, 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidential election. The socialist Ségolène Royal conceded defeat, by a 53-47% margin. She is currently running for the French Socialist Party Primary Elections.
Her father Jacques Royal, is a Catholic, conservative French army colonel. Royal attended the prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration. She has also a Degree in Economics, Graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. At the Ecole Nationale she met François Hollande, the leader of the Socialist Party and father of her four children. Both collaborated with the staff of Socialist President François Mitterrand.
Le printemps des grands-parents, Editions Robert Laffont, 1987
Le ras-le-bol des bébés zappeurs, Editions Robert Laffont, 1989
Pays, paysans, paysage, Editions Robert Laffont, 1993
La vérité d'une femme, Stock. (A Woman's Truth), 1996
Désirs d'avenir, 2006
Maintenant, 2007
Ma plus belle histoire, c'est vous, 2007
Si la gauche veut des idées, 2008
Femme debout, 2009
Lettre à tous les résignés et aux indignés qui veulent des solutions, 2011
Segolene Royal has promised to implement leftist economic policies that will "frighten the capitalists." She also calls for European opposition to "the American hyperpower." [1]
She is known for her admiration for some "Third Way" policies (and has been compared to Tony Blair in this respect), for her insistence on the importance of the "welfare state" and for her support of participatory democracy and devolution.
↑ http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20070424-102752-8335r.htm
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Home » CFPB Revises Confusing ECOA Valuations Rule Factsheet
CFPB Revises Confusing ECOA Valuations Rule Factsheet
By Richard J. Andreano, Jr. on May 20, 2020
Posted in CFPB General, Mortgages
As previously reported, at the end of April 2020, the CFPB issued two factsheets regarding the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and Regulation B provisions that require creditors to provide the applicant with a copy of any written appraisal or other valuation developed in connection with an application for a first lien mortgage loan to be secured by a dwelling (ECOA Valuations Rule). One factsheet addressed the transactions that are covered by the rule, and the other factsheet addressed the rule’s delivery and timing requirements.
We noted that the first factsheet was likely to create confusion regarding the ECOA Valuations Rule’s coverage. Without announcement, the CFPB issued a revised version of the factsheet. The revised factsheet does not reflect that there is a prior version of the factsheet.
For the ECOA Valuations Rule to apply, there must be an application for credit to be secured by a dwelling. For purposes of the ECOA Valuations Rule, a “dwelling” is defined as “a residential structure that contains one to four units whether or not that structure is attached to real property. The term includes, but is not limited to, an individual condominium or cooperative unit, and a mobile or other manufactured home.”
The original factsheet and revised factsheet both provide that two factors determine whether a structure is a dwelling under the ECOA Valuations Rule: “The structure: (1) must be residential and (2) contain one-to-four units. When both factors are present, a dwelling exists.” Unfortunately, the first factsheet then provided the following examples of what are and are not dwellings:
Examples of structures that are dwellings:
A 10-unit residential structure with three units securing a loan.
A parcel of land with multiple residential structures totaling 20 units but with two-units in the same structure securing the loan.
A 30-unit condominium with two condos securing a loan.
Examples of structures that are not dwellings include:
Multiple dwellings, such as an inventory of individual housing structures, pledged as collateral.
A building with more than four residential units securing a loan. For example, a 10-unit residential structure with eight units securing the loan.
Land without any type of structure on it.
Motor vehicles as defined in 12 USC § 5519(f)(1), including recreational vehicle trailers, motor homes, campers, and recreational boats.
A three-unit commercial property.
Despite first indicating that the structure must contain one-to-four units to be a dwelling, the original factsheet then provided examples based on the number of units that secure the loan and not the number of units in the structure.
The revised factsheet sets forth the following examples of what are dwellings for purposes of the ECOA Valuations Rule:
A 4-unit condominium with two condos securing a loan.
The CFPB deleted the 10-unit residential structure example, and changed the 30-unit residential structure example to a 4-unit structure example.
With the examples of structures that are not dwellings, the CFPB revised the first example to read:
Multiple structures, such as an inventory of individual housing structures, pledged as collateral.
In the first example, the CFPB replaced the word “dwellings” with the word “structures”.
What the CFPB still has not done in the revised factsheet is expressly address whether it interprets the ECOA Valuations Rule to apply when a loan is secured by a first lien on no more than four units in a residential structure that contains more than four units. As a result, the revised factsheet continues to create possible confusion as to the ECOA Valuation Rule’s coverage. If the CFPB interprets the rule to apply where a residential structure contains more than four units, it should amend the rule to provide clarity on that point and apply this interpretation only from the date that the amended rule is effective.
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Morning offering catholic prayers
What is the Catholic prayer for today?
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Hail Mary, full of grace.
What prayers should a Catholic say daily?
What prayers should a Catholic say daily ? Basically, a person should in the morning, make a morning offering and a meditation. In the Evening, before going to bed, they should make an Examen of Conscious and their nightly prayers .
What are the 5 types of Catholic prayers?
Expressions of prayer Vocal prayer. Mental prayer. Adoration/Blessing. Contrition/Repentance. Thanksgiving /Gratitude. Supplication/ Petition /Intercession. Spiritual bouquet. Citations.
What is the most powerful prayer in the Catholic Church?
It is short, so it can be easily memorized and quickly spoken, and is the backbone of the devotion of the Rosary, which is easily the world’s most powerful devotion. With countless miracles and conversions to its credit, the Hail Mary is a powerful composition. Hail Mary full of Grace, the Lord is with thee.
How do you pray a healing prayer?
Loving God, I pray that you will comfort me in my suffering, lend skill to the hands of my healers, and bless the means used for my cure. Give me such confidence in the power of your grace, that even when I am afraid, I may put my whole trust in you; through our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Why do I cry when praying?
When you come into the presence of a Holy God, it’s natural for tears to flow. Often I’ll cry because I sense God’s tenderness toward me. When a friend and I use to pray together, she would always bring tissues because she said, “I always cry when you pray .” Flowing tears indicate you have a tender heart towards God.
What does it mean to say 3 Hail Marys?
Three Hail Marys is a traditional Roman Catholic devotional practice of reciting three Hail Marys as a petition for purity and other virtues. Believers recommend that it be prayed after waking in the morning, and before going to bed, following the examination of conscience at night.
How do you end a Catholic prayer?
Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. The Glory Be: Glory be to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was, is now, and ever shall be, world without end .
What is Catholic mental prayer?
Mental prayer is a form of prayer recommended in the Catholic Church whereby one loves God through dialogue, meditating on God’s words, and contemplation of Christ’s face. The practice of mental prayer is necessary for reaching the goal of Christian perfection, said Mother Teresa.
How long does it take to pray the rosary?
Do Catholics pray to Jesus?
A number of prayers to Jesus Christ exist within the Roman Catholic tradition. but they are usually not associated with a specific Catholic devotion with a feast day. They are therefore grouped separately from the prayers that accompany Roman Catholic devotions to Christ such as Holy Face of Jesus or Divine Mercy.
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How do you pray properly?
I hope they will encourage you to make 2020 a year of prayer . Know to whom you are speaking. Thank him. Ask for God’s will. Say what you need. Ask for forgiveness. Pray with a friend. Pray the Word. Memorize Scripture.
What are the 7 prayers?
Prayer topics include:Confession,Salvation, Release, Submission, Praise, Promise, and Blessing.
What is the most powerful prayer in the Bible?
Ephesians 3:14-21 For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
What is the oldest Catholic prayer?
“Beneath Thy Protection” (Greek: Ὑπὸ τὴν σὴν εὐσπλαγχνίαν; Latin: Sub tuum praesidium) is a Christian hymn. It is the oldest preserved extant hymn to the Blessed Virgin Mary as Theotokos.
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Abu Dhabi Police to send traffic videos to phones
Abu Dhabi Police has announced the introduction of a first-of-its-kind activity in the Middle East: broadcasting videos that tackle various traffic issues that will be circulated via mobile phones.
This activity aims to enhance the communication with people from different walks of life, including locals and expatriates, and to enhance public participation in traffic awareness deployment.
The announcement was made yesterday to mark the inauguration of the 30th GCC Traffic Week 2014, which is taking place under the slogan “Our Goal is your Safety”. The safety week initiative is being held under the patronage of Lt. General HH Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, and was inaugurated on Sunday by Lt. General Saif Abdullah Al Sha’far, Undersecretary at the Ministry of Interior.
The first day of the Traffic Week saw Abu Dhabi Police announcing a number of new community-based traffic initiatives devised under the umbrella of Abu Dhabi Police’s traffic programme to reduce traffic accidents, titled “Together”.
The initiatives aim to foster community participation of both locals and expatriates, with the help of creation, innovation, and activation of traffic campaigns over the course of the year. The initiatives comprise 12 traffic safety concepts; one for each month.
These include
· The road belongs to everyone
· Let us be like them
· A baby is in your vehicle
· You are the backbone of this country
· They have the right
· Give them the priority
· Respect my traffic culture
· On the studying bench
· Your goal is construction not destruction
· A bus on the road
· The traffic creativity council
As part of the last initiative, various social activities for people from all walks of life will be organised, and people will be invited to discuss traffic-related topics that lead to the community’s cohesion regarding their attitude towards traffic issues.
The inauguration ceremony was organised by Abu Dhabi Police’s Traffic and Patrols Directorate, and was attended by Major General Staff Dr. Obeid Al Hiri Salim Al Kutbi, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Abu Dhabi Police; Major General Mohammed bin Al Awadhi Al Menhali, Director General of Police Operations at Abu Dhabi Police; Major General Abdul Aziz Maktoum Al Shareefi, Director General of Protective Security and Federal Investigation at the Ministry of Interior; Brigadier Ghaith Hassan Al Zaabi, Director General, Traffic Coordination Department, Ministry of Interior; Brigadier Eng. Hussein Ahmed Al Harithi, Director of Traffic and Patrols Directorate at Abu Dhabi Police; and a number of Director Generals and Heads of Departments; in addition to a number of officers from the Ministry of Interior and Abu Dhabi Police.
The ceremony witnessed the launch of many new community-based traffic initiatives by the Abu Dhabi Police Traffic and Patrols Directorate. The new initiatives adopt an exceptional approach in widening public participation in traffic safety-related issues.
Preventing the losses
Brigadier Ghaith Hassan Al Zaabi, Director General, Traffic Coordination Department, Ministry of Interior, delivered a welcoming speech to the attendees. He said that the GCC Traffic Week is an annual event that aims to spread healthy traffic culture, devoted to safe traffic behaviours in the GCC countries, and unifying the efforts that strive to establish a social culture that covers all aspects of traffic safety and serves our vision of achieving the goals that people in the GCC aspire to.
Brigadier Al Zaabi stressed that the GCC Traffic Week is no longer an annual meeting; it is now consists a set of public interactive practices that cover the entire course of the year. This transformation is unique among public safety campaigns.
“Following the directions of our higher leadership, and based on their message that sees the human being as the pillar and base of desired improvement and the real investment in society’s development, the Ministry of Interior has launched many strategic initiatives and plans,” Brigadier Al Zaabi added. “Following a scientific, systematic, and practical method, the Ministry of Interior has based its initiatives on specific standards and focused on continually updating, developing, and revising these methods. These procedures aim to measure the achievement levels of the designated goals in order to create a safe and excellent traffic environment.”
He also said that the slogan of this year’s GCC Traffic Week, “Our Goal is your Safety”, reflects the commitment of all concerned authorities to face traffic accidents. They are also committed to fostering awareness efforts to stop the human, economic, and social losses that the community is experiencing.
“The Ministry of Interior considers the GCC Traffic Week as the main pillar for devoting our strategic vision that works on enhancing the traffic situation, and developing an integral system for traffic safety management,” Brigadier Al Zaabi noted. “Our vision also works on improving the traffic behavior of the road users; including drivers and pedestrians, and having them abide by traffic laws and systems, in addition to following safety procedures. We are working on increasing traffic awareness and education to achieve traffic safety for all.”
Brigadier Al Zaabi stressed the importance of utilizing all possible means to invest in all the events and activities of the GCC Traffic Week, which is being held under the slogan “Our Goal is your Safety”, in order to handle negative aspects that lead to traffic accidents. Everyone must bear the responsibility of stopping bad traffic behaviors, in order to protect the lives of people in the society, including locals and expatriates.
“Although we are aware that the current results are an achievement by all standards, we are also aware that the Ministry of Interior’s vision, which falls within the framework of the national agenda, and aims to limit the amount of deaths to 3 per 100,000 inhabitants by 2021, is among the most ambitious traffic plans in the world. To achieve this vision, all of the efforts in our beloved nation must be cohesive,” Brigadier Al Zaabi added.
Additionally, Brigadier Al Zaabi explained that “based on the achieved results, we assert that we are on the right track towards achieving our vision and reducing the average number of deaths.” He also pointed out that the UAE is on its way to being one of the leading countries in providing public safety in general, specifically traffic safety.
Social partnership
For his part, Brigadier Eng. Hussein Ahmed Al Harithi, Director of Traffic and Patrols Directorate at Abu Dhabi Police, explained that GCC Traffic Week is one of the annual events celebrated by Abu Dhabi Police’s Traffic and Patrols Directorate in the GCC work group, in the context of renewing the invitation to the different sectors of society to modify their traffic behaviours and enforce the efforts to preserve lives and properties and reduce the effects of traffic accidents, both materially and morally.
Al Harithi stated that traffic safety is one of the most important issues worldwide and pointed out that the 30th GCC Traffic Week in Abu Dhabi will include the first International Road Traffic Accident Conference, which kicks off on Monday. For the duration of two days, participants will discuss international and local research, and studies and experiences presented by experts in the field of traffic safety and emergency medicine from the UAE and abroad. The conferences will take place alongside a traffic exhibition showcasing the latest inventions in the fields of smart traffic systems, automated control systems and accident and emergency medicine.
He pointed out the positive results of implementing the traffic awareness strategy by communicating through all methods, and by implementing Abu Dhabi Police’s "together" initiative on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. This included many activities and traffic initiatives that helped reduce the severity of accidents, the number of deaths, run-overs, and accidents caused by speeding, negligence and lack of attention. This highlights the efforts made by the directorate’s employees in its different departments, as well as their partners, to realize the directorate’s vision to reach the highest standards of traffic safety.
Al Harithi emphasised that the new social initiatives made by Abu Dhabi Police’s Traffic and Patrols Directorate aims to strengthen social partnership and make it the most important factor in traffic awareness issues, explaining that the directorate had further developed its elaborate traffic safety plan in Abu Dhabi by adding a sixth pillar that depends on social partnership, which reflects the belief in the role that can be played by the private sector, public organizations, and civil organizations as strategic partners, and their positive influence in the field of traffic safety.
He expressed his appreciation to the ambassadors of traffic safety for the part they play in enforcing traffic safety, pointing to the participation of different sectors in playing their social roles and adopting traffic awareness programs and campaigns, a method used in all advanced societies. These sectors play an active and positive role through strategic partnerships, providing patronage for traffic safety programs.
In conclusion, Lt. General Al Sha’far and Brigadier Eng. Hussein Al Harithi honoured a number of traffic safety ambassadors that represent the elite of society, which consisted of both locals and residents. 100 ambassadors were chosen out of 2000 applicants to carry out this national duty, aiming to raise responsibility and social cohesion to achieve a perfect traffic safety system.
They also honoured exemplary male and female police officers, and the winners of the four social categories aiming to decrease traffic accidents as part of the “Together” initiative, which the directorate had launched to increase social traffic safety participation, and to honour the exemplary male and female drivers, and exemplary handicapped male and female drivers.
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Embedded video for International Women's Day: Kathryn Grandfield and Amanda Clifford
International Women's Day: Kathryn Grandfield and Amanda CliffordMarch 4, 2019
This year, McMaster Engineering is celebrating International Women's Day by honouring nine women who are supporting each other through mentoring relationships.
Kathryn Grandfield, an assistant professor in Materials Science and Engineering and Amanda Clifford, a PhD student, let us sit in on their conversation about women supporting women in STEM, International Women's Day and what sparked their passion for engineering.
Here's part of their conversation:
Kathryn: How has having a female mentor helped you throughout your academic career?
Amanda: Having a female mentor has helped me because it's given me the confidence to go for certain goals and accomplishments that I wouldn't go for otherwise without seeing someone as a role model for myself. What inspired you to mentor female students?
Kathryn: I'm inspired to mentor female students because I didn't have a female mentor when I was going through university. It's a great opportunity for me to give back to young women in engineering and for them to see somebody that they can look up to and come to for any sort of advice that they need. What does International Women's Day mean to you and why is it important to celebrate?
Amanda: International Women's Day is a time to reflect on how far we've come and see where we need to go in the future so that we can change gender equality, truly. What's the most rewarding thing about being a woman in a male-dominated field?
Kathryn: Being one of the few women in engineering at the professor level is a great opportunity for me to act as a role model for younger women in engineering and for them to have someone to look up to and aspire to. What sparked your passion for engineering?
Amanda: Ever since I was a little girl, I was obsessed with playing with lego. My dad was an engineer and I was very talented in math and science from a young age, so he pushed me to be an engineer when he saw my natural capabilities.
Kathryn: For me, I always wanted to be an astronaut. When I realized you couldn't go to school to be an astronaut, I looked at what careers astronauts had and it was the first time that I learned about what engineering was and I saw that it could be something that I could go into where I would have an impact on the world.
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The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue (Paperback)
By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translated by), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translated by)
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My favorite book! Full of religious and philosophical ideas as well as crazy scenes, unforgettable characters, and drunken high drama, The Brothers Karamazov matches depth with entertainment like no other.
— From Colin
Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.
This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal
inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.
Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist and writer of fiction whose works, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, have had a profound and lasting effect on intellectual thought and world literature.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky were awarded the PEN/ Book-of-the-Month Translation Prize for The Brothers Karamazov and have also translated Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Demons, and The Idiot.
“[Dostoevsky is] at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great . . . The Brothers Karamazov stands as the culmination of his art--his last, longest, richest and most capacious book. [This] scrupulous rendition can only be welcomed. It returns to us a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again.” —Donald Fanger, Washington Post Book World
“It may well be that Dostoevsky's [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only now--and through the medium of this translation--beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader.” —John Bayley, The New York Review of Books
“Heartily recommended to any reader who wishes to come as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as it is possible.” —Joseph Frank, Princeton University
“Far and away the best translation of Dostoevsky into English that I have seen . . . faithful . . . extremely readable . . . gripping.” —Sidney Monas, University of Texas
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Eggheads and long tails
Investment banks are a high-wire act. How good are the safety nets?
Special reportMay 19th 2007 edition
BANKERS can be surprisingly colourful when describing the risks that keep them, their shareholders and their supervisors awake at night. One Spaniard likens the financial system to a “spider's web” over which central banks have less control than they did in the past; another talks about a “constellation” of risks and approaching asteroids. A French banker refers to a “soufflé” of off-balance-sheet exposures, whipped up by leverage. A British counterpart, speaking over breakfast, compares the process of transferring risk around the financial system to spreading butter on toast. With luck, he says, the butter will not be rancid.
Mr Isaacs at Lehman Brothers in London notes that over the past century of world wars and cold wars the financial system has proved more resilient than might have been expected. Like many bankers, he thinks that the biggest danger to the financial system at present is avian flu. But he agrees that there are new difficulties in managing a system where risk is transferred from banks to investors. Other bankers point out that although investment banks may have fewer loans on their balance sheets, they now carry more complex exposures, such as collateralised lending to hedge funds.
Risk, though spread far more widely, has not disappeared. In a crisis such exposures may surface in ways that are hard to predict, especially because so many banks are exposed to the same counterparties. “The risk is disseminated, but trying to re-aggregate it becomes an almost impossible task,” says one senior investment banker.
Banks are not helpless in the face of such uncertainty. One of the landmark changes of the past 20 years has been the development of risk-management systems that estimate potential market, credit, liquidity and operational losses and seek to impose appropriate limits. Investment banks, because of the complexity of their exposures, have been at the forefront of efforts to measure and manage risks, encouraged further by the approach of Basel 2. They have employed mathematicians and spent billions of dollars on computer systems. Barclays Capital has turned whole walls into whiteboards to accommodate the hugely complex formulas involved. But the results of all this effort are not quite as brilliant as might have been hoped.
The bond-market turmoil leading to the liquidation of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) in the summer of 1998 not only exposed the risk-management negligence of that institution, staffed by Nobel laureates and storied traders; many investment banks were caught out too. The lesson, learned at an exorbitant cost, was that models are only as good as what is fed into them. So risk management is as much about human judgment as about mathematical genius.
And there is always the million-to-one chance, far along one tail of the bell curve, that something will go disastrously wrong. There is a parallel here with climate change, where many previous sceptics are now in favour of taking preventive action—not so much because they think the world could not cope with the most widely expected rise in temperature, but because they fear that things might just possibly turn out very much worse.
Thinking the unthinkable
An assessment of the investment banks' risk-management systems must start from the premise that as they have grown, and diversified their sources of revenue, they should be less exposed to losses capable of wiping out the firm. That, after all, is the point of diversification.
Also, trading floors now pay much more attention to risk management than they used to, and although there are inevitable tensions between risk-takers and risk-controllers, almost everyone appears to take the issue seriously.
But because risk management has become so complex, understanding the systems in place even in one bank could take days. Those who have tried, such as Moody's Investors Service, are impressed with the progress made by Wall Street banks, though they think that levels of disclosure are higher among some of the big European banks. They have also found a fascinating mixture of risk-management methodologies which provide a rare glimpse into the internal culture of these secretive organisations.
In a report last year Moody's looked at Goldman Sachs, the most profitable investment bank and, in many respects, the envy of its peers. Describing its risk philosophy, Moody's said Goldman saw risk not only as the counterpart to revenues or profit, but as “the source of profit”. According to Moody's, “most firms might ask themselves if they are taking too much risk; Goldman Sachs's most senior management—more aggressively than others—constantly asks the question, 'are we taking too little?' and 'are we taking the right kind of risks?'”
In its annual report Goldman says that all risk-control functions ultimately report to the management committee (though, in common with other Wall Street firms, not to the board of directors). The checks and balances then cascade down to the level of each trading-desk head, the front-line where decisions to buy and sell are made almost instantly. The main tool for assessing the short-term losses traders are exposed to is value at risk (VAR). Goldman, for example, would expect to lose more than its VAR in the course of a single day about once a month. Last year its daily VAR averaged $101m, against $70m in 2005. But VAR is clumsy, relies on historical data and works best when markets are stable. It does not capture the effects of highly stressed markets, nor what would happen if assets could not be quickly hedged or liquidated.
What bankers use for those things are stress tests. According to Moody's, the overall assumption behind Goldman's scenario planning is that the firm is unable to hedge or sell positions and must hold them from peak to trough. One of its fixed-income tests is a replay of the 1998 LTCM and bond-market meltdown. In its equity division it uses a “supercrash test” that assumes an instantaneous fall in the price of equities of 50%. The Armageddon experiment combines the worst that has happened in both fixed-income and equity markets over the past 30 years. Besides market risks, Goldman also assesses credit risks, based on whether a counterparty might default on a loan or fail to honour a derivative contract, and liquidity risk. But the firm does not disclose much detail on any of its simulations, nor do most other banks. France's Société Générale is an honourable exception.
Moody's is impressed by many of Goldman's techniques. Although the risks have increased, the ability to generate earnings has gone up even more. But the rating agency also has concerns, both about Goldman and about its Wall Street peers. It worries about the opacity, the exposure to illiquid investments and the failure to spell out worst-case scenarios. Goldman has large, illiquid off-balance-sheet exposures, too, known as Variable Interest Entities. These include pools of debt securities such as mortgages. Last year these assets surged to $72.5 billion from $54.1 billion, and Goldman's maximum exposure to loss from them doubled to $20 billion.
Mr Viniar, the firm's chief financial officer, acknowledges that the models cannot be perfect: “We know with 100% certainty that we can't know everything.” But the main backstop, what he calls “the lifeblood of Goldman Sachs”, is liquidity. He thinks that liquidity problems are the main source of risk in investment banking. They brought down Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1990 and Barings five years later. Goldman keeps $50 billion-60 billion of government securities ready to be deployed if a liquidity crisis strikes. The amount increases in proportion to the firm's assets and capital. And Goldman finances all its long-term illiquid assets with long-term debt and equity.
Simmering pots
The universal banks conduct their risk management along similar lines to Wall Street. But there are differences in methodology, and in each firm's risk appetite. Credit Suisse and UBS, two Swiss banks, are among the most forthcoming with their risk-management assessments.
Wilson Ervin, Credit Suisse's chief risk officer, appropriately works in a building that is a living testament to risk. Credit Suisse's New York headquarters, at 11 Madison Avenue, was intended to be the world's tallest building when Metropolitan Life started work on it in the 1920s. But the 1929 stockmarket crash put an end to that ambition and construction stopped at 28 floors. That is how the tower has remained to this day, stubby but stunning.
Mr Ervin is ready to clamp down on exposures that might dent the bank's balance sheet or earnings, but most of his job involves “watching the pots simmering”. He says it is important to concentrate on good information and clear rules, not to micromanage the decisions of traders and credit officers. However, he notes that risk appetites are changing across the industry, especially in the use of investment banks' own capital to support private-equity transactions. “Things we used to say were verboten are now considered an acceptable risk-return trade-off as liquidity and hedging markets have developed.”
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Credit Suisse's rival, UBS, can hardly forget the risk-management failure of its predecessor, Union Bank of Switzerland. It made disastrous investments in the late 1990s, including in LTCM, and was taken over, in tatters, by Swiss Bank Corp. Now, as at Credit Suisse, risk is managed at the top of the bank. Responsibility is delegated by the board of directors to Walter Stuerzinger, group chief risk officer.
Mr Stuerzinger describes UBS's approach to risk in stark terms: zero tolerance for fiefs; beware of tail risks, risk concentrations, illiquid risks and legacies; avoid risks that cannot be properly assessed or limited; and never be hostage to a single transaction or client. UBS sets its overall risk capacity on the basis that it wants to be able to pay dividends out of current earnings, not retained ones. But thanks to earnings growth and the divestment of its private-equity portfolio, its ability to take risks has grown much faster than its actual risk exposure. Indeed, it is sometimes criticised for not taking large enough punts. Earlier this year Ken Moelis, an investment banker prominent on Wall Street, left the firm, reportedly because he felt it was too conservative in using its own capital in private-equity deals.
A question of culture
In the end, for all the fancy technologies, it is culture that counts. This boils down to the people a firm employs, the responsibilities it gives them and the way it rewards them for putting the company's interests above their own. One well-established technique is to give them shares in the company, which can make up a large part of their pay. Some Wall Street firms maintain a partnership culture even after they have gone public. Goldman, for example, has a “partnership pool” into which a large share of its profits go.
Given the rapid staff turnover at investment banks, keeping the firms' “culture carriers” on board is a perennial problem. The best way is to pay them generously. But success is also a powerful incentive, so employees need to be allowed to take risks and not be stifled with controls. That may mean giving ambitious twenty-somethings their heads. Mr Blankfein at Goldman acknowledges that some of the young traders at the firm have no memory of a business cycle. Clearly he does, but he says he respects their views and has not been disappointed so far.
Above those traders are wiser heads who should be prepared to extend a restraining hand. Between them, the 21 members of Goldman's management committee have 300 years of experience within the firm. Yet even that massed experience cannot guarantee that they will always be able to keep trouble at bay.
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An agreement through which it is analyzed to allocate $ 700 million to private banks, to grant loans to micro, small and medium-sized companies, government authorities signed this Monday, December 7, with the International Development Corporation of the United States (DFC) .
The credits that are generated will be aimed mainly at women entrepreneurs, with the aim of promoting and boosting employment.
The executive president of the United States International Development Corporation, Adam Boehler, participated in the signing of the document that took place at Quito’s Mariscal Sucre airport; the Minister of Foreign Relations, Luis Gallegos; the Minister of Economy and Finance, Mauricio Pozo; the United States Ambassador to Ecuador, Michael Fitzpatrick; and the Ecuadorian ambassador in that country, Ivonne Baki.
Minister Pozo stressed that this agreement is one more sign of the strengthening of Ecuador’s economic relations with the international community and, especially, with the main commercial partner that is the United States.
“We are working to guarantee MSMEs access to resources that allow them to grow and generate employment. The support of the DFC will be fundamental for this objective, especially for Ecuadorian women because it has a high gender component ”, indicated the Secretary of State.
The act is the prelude to what will be the realization of a comprehensive trade agreement between the two countries, for which, this Tuesday, December 8, the First Phase Agreement will be signed, with the presence of Robert Lighthizer, the highest authority of the USTR, Trade Office of that country.
The executive president of the DFC, Adam Boehler, mentioned that the organization allocates $ 60,000 million to be located in emerging countries. “We see our relationship with Ecuador rejuvenated in recent years thanks to the decision of President Lenín Moreno to guide the country towards the private, free and transparent market.” (I)
https://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/actualidad/44/gobierno-suscribe-un-acuerdo-financiero-para-mipymes-ecuatorianas
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Educators Support Black Lives Matter, But Still Want Police in Schools, Survey Shows
By Holly Kurtz — June 25, 2020 9 min read
The social justice movement sweeping the country is forcing the K-12 education system to take a hard look at how it treats students of color, why it has taken so long to recognize the need for change, and what approaches would work best to build a better system for all students.
To get a clearer picture of where educators stand on these issues and how they think schools should address them, the EdWeek Research Center conducted a survey June 17-18 of 1,150 teachers, principals, and district leaders. It found that most educators support the Black Lives Matter movement; they oppose measures to remove armed police officers from schools; they overwhelmingly believe school police officers in their own districts treat students of color fairly despite nationwide statistics to the contrary; and most attribute racial discipline disparities in schools to discrimination.
Here is a look at five key findings from that survey:
1. Educators Are More Likely Than the General Population to Voice Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement
As racial justice protests have swept the nation in response to the death of a Black man at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer, support for the Black Lives Matter movement has reached unprecedented levels. Levels of support increased almost as much in the two weeks after George Floyd’s death as it had in the past two years, according to the survey research firm Civiqs. A Pew Research Center poll conducted online June 4-10 found that 67 percent of Americans say they somewhat or strongly support Black Lives Matter.
Support is even stronger among the nation’s teachers, principals, and district leaders, the EdWeek Research Center found: 81 percent of educators report that they support the movement.
Roughly 80 percent of the nation’s educators are white. However, compared with the white population as whole, educators are still more likely to say they support Black Lives Matter (83 percent versus 61 percent, according to the EdWeek Research Center and Pew).
Eighty-five percent of non-white educators reported supporting the movement. (Because educators are overwhelming white, we are not able to provide statistically viable results for specific races or ethnicities because too few educators from those groups responded to this survey.)
Among educators, support for the movement is stronger among females, Northeasterners, residents in suburban and urban areas and towns, and those who work in districts with higher percentages of Black students. Support is weaker among males, Westerners, residents of rural areas, and those who work in districts with lower percentages of Black students.
2. Some Black Lives Matter Activists Say Armed Police Should Be Removed From Schools. Educators Disagree.
The Black Lives Matter movement started in 2013 in response to the death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager who was shot and killed by a white man in the gated Florida community where Martin was visiting relatives, was acquitted of murder. It later became associated with protests related to other Black people, such as George Floyd, who died while in police custody. In the wake of these protests, some activists have demanded that the movement call for the abolishment of police in schools. School board members in districts including Minneapolis, Denver, and Portland, Ore., have responded, severing or considering severing ties with local police departments. The American Federation of Teachers, the nation’s second largest teachers’ union, issued a resolution this month supporting Black Lives Matter and replacing local law enforcement with “[s]chool security personnel…trained as peace officers and integrated within the school community, with a focus on nonviolent resolution of conflicts with a minimal use of force.”
Despite their high levels of support for Black Lives Matter and the reexamination of the role of law enforcement by school boards and union leaders, most of the rank-and-file educators who responded to the EdWeek Research Center survey oppose the removal of armed police officers from schools. Just 23 percent say that armed police officers should be eliminated from our nation’s schools—although support for severing ties with law enforcement ranges from 36 percent in the Northeast to 13 percent in the southern United States.
Fifty-eight percent of schools in the United States had a sworn law enforcement officer on campus at least once a week in 2017-18, the most recent year for which federal data is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. And 54 percent of survey respondents believe that armed police officers belong in the schools in districts where they work.
The perception that armed officers belong in local schools is significantly more common among high school teachers and principals (67 percent) than among those who work in elementary schools (51 percent). It’s also more prevalent among teachers, principals, and district leaders in large districts with 10,000 or more students (69 percent) than in smaller districts with less than 2,500 students (41 percent).
Support for the presence of armed officers in local schools is significantly higher in the South, where 71 percent of teachers, principals, and district leaders say it’s necessary, compared with other regions in the country, which hover around 50 percent.
3. Most Educators Support Police Because They Want Protection Against Outsiders, Shootings. But Nearly 1 in 3 Want Protection Against Students.
Research is mixed when it comes to whether or not police officers actually make schools safer. Yet nearly 3 out of 4 teachers, principals, and district leaders say that they need armed school police officers in case someone comes into the building with the intent of doing harm to students and staff.
A much smaller percentage say schools need officers to protect teachers from students rather than outsiders. Thirty percent of survey respondents say that they need armed police officers in their schools because too many students are out of control. This view is much more common among teachers (39 percent) than among principals (20 percent) or district leaders (22 percent).
A forthcoming study to be published in the peer-refereed journal Social Problems found that school police officers in a mostly white and affluent district tended to see their role as protecting schools from outsiders while their counterparts in a district with higher percentages of Black and Hispanic students were more likely to perceive that the threats came from the students themselves. The two districts were located in communities with similar juvenile arrest rates, suggesting that the officers were not responding to actual disparities in youth crime.
School shootings are an additional and common justification for placing police in schools. A little more than half of survey respondents (58 percent) believe the country would have more deaths from school shootings if armed police officers were eliminated from schools.
4. Despite Evidence to the Contrary, Educators Believe That School Police Officers Treat Students of Color Fairly
National statistics show that Black students are disproportionately impacted by the presence of police in schools. For example, an EdWeek Research Center analysis of federal data found that, in 2013-14, Black students made up 16 percent of the student population, but represented 33 percent of the students arrested at school. Statistics like these are sometimes cited by Black Lives Matter activists as reasons why armed police officers do not belong in schools, especially since Black students are more likely to attend schools with police officers than are white students.
Yet the vast majority of survey respondents who work in districts where armed police officers are stationed at schools strongly believe that those officers treat students of color fairly. Asked to what extent, if any, the armed police officers in their district’s schools treated students of color fairly, 22 percent of teachers, principals and district leaders said they did not know. (Respondents were only asked the question if they indicated that their district’s schools did have armed officers.) Of those who did have an opinion, 91 percent selected “a lot,” meaning they strongly believed officers treated students of color fairly.
One reason why Black Lives Matter activists are concerned about school arrest rates is that even an apprehension for a relatively minor infraction can ensnare students in the criminal justice system, leading to longer-term involvement as adults.
Yet fewer than 1 in 4 teachers, principals, and district leaders (23 percent) believe that armed police officers contribute to the “school-to-prison” pipeline by disproportionately arresting/ticketing students of color. The percentage of educators who share this belief ranges from 17 percent in the South to 33 percent in the Northeast. Urban educators are more than twice as likely as their rural counterparts to hold this view (40 percent versus 15 percent). This view is also significantly more common among educators in districts where three quarters or more of the students are non-white (33 percent) than among those in districts where less than a quarter of the students are non-white (19 percent).
5. Educators Are Most Likely to Attribute Black/White Student Discipline Disparities to Discrimination.
In addition to facing higher rates of arrest at school, Black students are also much more likely than whites to experience so-called exclusionary discipline measures such as suspension or expulsion that lead to missing out on instructional time.
On the EdWeek Research Center survey, teachers, principals, and district leaders were asked the extent to which nine different factors explained why this is the case.
The respondents were most likely to say that Blacks faced higher discipline rates than whites because whites encounter less discrimination. Eighty-seven percent said discrimination contributed to the disparity. This belief was more common among educators in lower-poverty districts where less than a quarter of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals than in the highest-poverty districts where three quarters or more of students are from low-income families (97 percent versus 87 percent).
That response was also more common in the Northeast, Midwest, and West, where more than 90 percent believe discrimination plays a role, than in the South, where 83 percent share that view. White educators were more likely than non-whites to blame discrimination (91 percent versus 83 percent). And, while 95 percent of urban educators say discrimination leads to discipline disparities, 85 percent of their rural counterparts agreed.
The second most commonly accepted explanation was that whites live in lower-crime neighborhoods. Eighty-two percent said this helped explain the disparity.
Educators are less likely to blame neighborhood crime if they work in higher-poverty districts, and/or live in the Southern United States.
A majority of educators (78 percent) also said that disparities in white and Black families’ incomes led to white/Black discipline disparities. And 3 out of 4 say Blacks get disciplined more than whites because whites attend higher-quality schools. This view was slightly less common in the South than elsewhere in the United States.
Seven percent of educators said that white/Black discipline disparities are at least slightly attributable to genetic factors that lead white students to commit fewer infractions than Black students. Nineteen percent say Blacks are disciplined more than whites because white parenting is more effective, a perspective that is more common among males than females and among urban than suburban educators. And nearly 1 in 3 educators (31 percent) say discipline disparities are at least slightly explained by white parents valuing education more than Black parents and/or white students being more motivated than their Black counterparts.
Holly Kurtz
Director, EdWeek Research Center
Holly Kurtz is the director of the EdWeek Research Center.
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Stan Lee wasn’t as rich as you might think – But he did get $1 Million a year from Marvel Comics FOR LIFE
Stan “The Man” Lee, one of the creators of the Marvel Universe and mascot for the brand going back more than half a century, is one of those public figures who probably seems wealthier than he actually is to many members of the general populace. “After all,” conventional wisdom might go, “he created Thor, and Iron Man, and the X-Men, and Spider-Man for goodness’ sake, so he must be getting a generous slice of the profits from the big and small-screen adventures of those myriad characters he dreamed up.” But even though Stan isn’t likely ever to go broke for the rest of his days, he’s been known to point out that he’s not as rich as some people tend to assume.
In a Playboy interview a few years back, Lee answered a question about his imaginary Tony Stark lifestyle like this:
“My daughter was looking at the internet the other day and read that Stan Lee has an estimated $250 million. I mean, that’s ridiculous! I don’t have $200 million. I don’t have $150 million. I don’t have $100 million or anywhere near that.”
Stan Lee’s actual net worth is a perfectly respectable $50 million, which incidentally happens to be a lot more than what most of Lee’s contemporaries in the comic book field have to their names. Marvel pays him a lifetime annual salary of a million dollars, and he’s never been shy about contributing his name and/or creative input to a variety of usually superhero-related projects. His most recent work was published in 2016 – Stan Lee’s ‘God Woke’ – and earned a 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards’ Outstanding Books of the Year Independent Voice Award.
Meanwhile, Lee’s most recent financial endeavor wasn’t quite so successful. Early last year he sold his Hollywood Hills house at a loss of $170,000 – but don’t worry, he’s doing OK.
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Jung Rides to an Early Lead at Land…
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Jung Rides to an Early Lead at Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event
Michael Jung of Germany has won the top prize at the Land Rover Kentucky Three Day-Event the last three years aboard Fischerrocana FST, so it comes as no surprise that after the first day of competition he is sitting in the top spot on a score of 27.1 penalty points. Chasing him are two Americans; Boyd Martin in second riding Tsetserleg (31.2) and Tamra Smith in third aboard Wembley (32.1).
Jung, 35, from Horb, Germany, may be the closest thing the sport has to a sure thing, but he doesn’t let that pressure get to him. “I think I always have pressure from myself,” Jung said. “When I go to the competition and I show, I want to give the people and myself the best results. So, that’s the pressure I have.”
After three previous wins, no one is surprised to see Michael Jung and Fischerrocana FST of Germany on top after the first day of competition at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event. (c) Michelle Dunn Photo
Fischerrocana FST, a 13-year-old German-bred bay mare showed off her customary relaxation and focus in her test. “With Rocana, I know her. I know how I have to prepare her, and from every competition I get a bit more experience, so it makes it a bit easier,” said Jung. “I had two good competitions before this and she arrived here last Friday very well and she had a good feeling. Also, when I arrived I had a good feeling from her, which made the preparation much more relaxed.”
Michael Jung’s dressage test:
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Tsetserleg is a gleaming, black 11-year-old Trakehner gelding who is contesting his first four-star, but he has history in his blood being a son of the Olympic and Kentucky competitor Windfall. “Thomas” put in a clean test punctuated with his flashy gaits.
“I was very pleased,” Martin, 38, of Cochranville, Penn., said, “It’s his first four-star, and our first through the new (dressage) test. When you finish you always wish one part here or there was a little better, but Thomas did as well as he could do for where we are at the moment. I’m very pleased with him.”
Tsetserleg and Boyd Martin are the top placed Americans after the first day of competition, sitting in second place. (c) Michelle Dunn Photo
Martin’s most famous mounts have been Thoroughbreds, so a Trakehner like Thomas is a new experience for him. “He’s the first I’ve had into the top of the sport. Ten years ago when I first came to America I saw Windfall, and I’ll never forget watching his dressage. Who would have thought 10 years later I’d be riding a Windfall baby? Thomas’ personality is wonderful, like a big pony, very cuddly in the barn. At home he doesn’t try that much, and you wouldn’t think he could do a four-star, but then you get to a big competition and he grows into an 18-hand horse. The atmosphere perks him up.”
Boyd Martin’s Dressage Test:
Interview with Boyd Martin & Erik Duvander (U.S. Eventing Performance Director):
https://www.facebook.com/USAEventing1/videos/1812968728761023/
Kevin Baumgardner, an upper-level rider and a former president of the U.S. Eventing Association, bought Wembley in England originally as a competition mount for himself. Baumgardner trains with Smith, and last fall he handed over the reins to her.
“It’s been great,” Smith, 43, of Murrieta, Calif. said. “I’ll never forget when we tried him we took him cross-country schooling and he said, ‘You get on him first’ and I said, ‘No, because if I ride him I’ll just tell you to buy him.’ They are huge supporters of me, and that’s what its all about, really. They’ve become family to me, so to be here is really great.”
Tamra Smith and Wembley sit third after the first day of competition at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event. (c) Michelle Dunn Photo
The big, gray Dutch Warmblood, 15, is a powerful mover and a flashy presence, but Smith seemed a little surprised to find herself in the top standings. “I wasn’t really sure what to expect, because he can go in and be quite tense in the ring, but he was quite relaxed, and very workmanlike,” she said. “I couldn’t have asked him to go better. I think I did a little too much warm up, so he got a little tired, but I was thrilled. He was very good.”
All three riders expressed some trepidation about Derek di Grazia’s cross-country course, which they will tackle on Saturday.
“I think this time the course has changed a lot compared to the last few years,” Jung said. “But it seems nicer to gallop, it’s a really nice track, the ground is perfect and the weather is great. I’m looking forward to the cross-country. There are many places with different jumps or alternate jumps, so you can change your options or your idea if feel your horse is tired. I really like it at the moment, but I have to walk a few more times.”
“I think it’s really tough,” admitted Martin. “The first half is forward and gallopy and looks nice, but the second half gets much more difficult, and we know horses tire a bit in that second half. It’ll be hard to make up time on course. (Di Grazia) usually gives us a nice long gallop somewhere in the second half, but not this year. It’s as tough as I’ve ever seen.”
“It’s pretty technical,” agreed Smith. “The Head of the Lake will be quite influential, and the brush combination towards the end might catch out some tired horses.”
The sun shone on the 6,026 spectators who turned out to watch the first day of dressage. Day two of dressage kicks off today at 9:30 a.m.
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Posted on July 26, 2008 April 8, 2018 © 2021 by Linda Moulton Howe
Part 1: Why No Military Response to Radar Unknown Headed to Bush Crawford Ranch on January 8, 2008?
“When radar returns on one unknown object (no transponder beeps) did show up in the data from 6:51 PM to 8:00 PM, on our graph it was traveling a straight line headed for Crawford, Texas.”
- Glen Schulze, Electrical Engineer and Radar Specialist
A triangle of three small towns (green) southwest of Fort Worth includes Stephenville, a city in and the county seat of Erath County, Texas, population 14,921 in 2000 census. Dublin, about eight miles southwest, has a population of 3,754. Straight east of Dublin about ten miles is Selden with a full time population of about seven. The Brownwood Military Operations Area (MOA) is further southwest in map's lower left red circle. The red circle in lower right corner of map is Crawford, Texas, ranch home of U. S. President George W. Bush. The Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base at Carswell Field is five miles west of downtown Fort Worth, large red circle in upper map right. The four yellow circles at Gorman, Proctor Lake, Alexander and Chalk Mountain are UFO eyewitness locations on January 8, 2008, in addition to several other eyewitnesses in the green circles of Stephenville, Dublin and Selden, Texas.
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth or NAS JRB Fort Worth, also known as Carswell Field, is now home to the U. S. Navy Reserve, U. S. Marine Corps Reserve, U. S. Air Force Reserve, and U. S. Air National Guard. The Carswell military complex is a military airfield located five miles (8 km) west of the central business district of Fort Worth, in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. This military airfield is operated by the United States Navy. The Air Force Reserve Command's Tenth Air Force headquarters and 301st Fighter Wing continue to be based at the installation, as well as the 136th Airlift Wing of the Texas Air National Guard. A number of Marine Corps aviation and ground units are also co-located at NAS JRB Fort Worth. Currently based Air Force aircraft are the F-16 Fighting Falcon and C-130 Hercules. Currently based Marine Corps aircraft are the F/A-18 Hornet and KC-130 Hercules.
July 26, 2008 Littleton, Colorado - Back in early January to mid-February 2008, a series of unidentified aerial lights and strange craft were reported by dozens of eyewitnesses in the Stephenville, Dublin, and Selden region southwest of Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. One especially active date was January 8, 2008, beginning a few minutes after 6 PM Central with three eyewitnesses sitting on a hill in Selden southeast east of Stephenville and straight east of Dublin.
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EC announced two new Director-Generals for DG GROW and AGRI
On 25 March 2020, the European Commission (EC) announced two staff changes. The Deputy Director-General for DG Research and Innovation (DG RTD), Mr Wolfgang Burtscher will become the new Director-General for DG Agriculture and Rural (DG AGRI). Mr Burtscher has served the DG R&I since 2009, being responsible for a wide range of research and innovation policy issues including in the fields of agriculture, food and health. In addition, Ms Kerstin Jorna was appointed as Director-General for DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW). Ms Jorna has a long experience in the EC. Prior to her new role, she has been Deputy Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs. Both appointments will take effect as of 1 April 2020.
EC DG R&I published its Report on “Industry 5.0: Towards a sustainable, human-centric and resilient European industry”
EC announced the signature of EIC and EIT MoU
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Down to Earth No. 76-77 May 2008
Multinational corporations lining up to profit from West Papua's resources
Another year, another set of record profits from West Papua's mineral resources.
The Westminster conference centre just alongside the UK's Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey seem a long way away from the frontier town of Timika or, for that matter, the prawn fisherfolk of Bintuni Bay in West Papua. However, each year this is the scene of the Annual General Meeting of Rio Tinto PLC, a 40% joint venture stakeholder in the expanded Grasberg mine in the highlands of West Papua. It is here that the board of directors of Rio Tinto announced record profits from its mining operations around the world. Benefiting from record commodities prices, due mainly to the rapid economic expansions of countries like China and India, this company and others like it are revelling in economic conditions unparalleled in recent years. In 2007 the company earned US$7.4 billion profit - another record year.
Similarly, record energy prices have meant that oil multinational BP, despite growing concerns over the safety of its operations, continues to make huge profits. In 2007, the company recorded profits of US$17.29 billion. The Tangguh liquid natural gas (LNG) plant, in Bintuni Bay, West Papua, is due to become operational by the end of this year, and will soon be contributing to these gains.
What lies behind such record profits? As has been documented previously in DTE newsletters, there are many questions about human rights and social and environmental impacts to be asked.
Increased militarisation around BP's Tangguh operation
At the recent meeting of the Tangguh Independent Advisory Panel (TIAP) on 22nd April 2008 in London, some of these concerns were raised. At one point, a picture was brought in by a meeting participant of a Papuan man who had been beaten by the Indonesian security services. The political environment within which BP is operating continues to threaten the picture of calm, peaceful economic and social progress painted by the company. The TIAP panel spoke of an increase of 100 soldiers from Indonesia's armed forces (TNI) to Bintuni and 30 TNI soldiers to Babo, two local towns on the shores of Bintuni bay. Added to this, is the news that the towns and villages around the Tangguh project are experiencing a growth in numbers of people being drawn to the anticipated economic benefits from BP's presence in the area. These developments are of concern as they point to a similar pattern to the militarisation and population influx that happened around the Freeport/ Rio Tinto Grasberg mine in Timika. BP is making strenuous attempts to distance itself from such comparisons, given that Freeport / Rio Tinto has been condemned so vigorously for its relationships to the military and police in the area around its mine (see DTE 57).
Such observations by TIAP cast doubt over the effectiveness of BP's 'concentric rings of security', provided by its 'Integrated Community Based Security' (ICBS) system, which was intended to prevent such a process of militarisation.
BP, Tangguh and climate change
Another significant concern that has been raised with BP is the question of Tangguh's environmental impact. With the Tangguh operation due to begin production of LNG by the end of this year, extensive shipping traffic will increase the risk of pollution to the local area and consequently further threaten the fishing capacity of local communities.
Another area of concern is carbon emissions. BP has stated its intention to minimise its CO2 output across the board in its worldwide operations. Undermining these green claims is the fact that its 'world-class model for development' operation at Tangguh still has no plans to implement a system of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). The TIAP panel has called for a feasibility study from the Indonesian government. However, BP Indonesia staff have told DTE that lack of progress on this is due mainly to cost and have indicated that it should be the Indonesian government, not BP, that bears this cost. Indeed, since the arrival of Tony Hayward as BP's new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the company appears to be taking backward steps in terms of its attitude towards the environment. A clear example of this is BP's controversial purchase of 50% of the highly-polluting Sunrise tar sands field in Canada. Given BP's vast profit margin, it seems scandalous that BP should continue to resist implementing every possible technique to significantly reduce the already large estimated emissions of CO2 from Tangguh's imminent operations. (See also DTE 73).
BP and sustainable development - a realistic proposition? BP's approach to its Tangguh operation is showing signs of moving further away from the 'good intentions' the company uses to sell this project to the public, both in the UK and in Indonesia. The subject of the fisherfolk of Tanah Merah village was raised as a result of a recent article in the local publication Suara Perempuan Papua ('Papua Women's Voice'). Tanah Merah was the village on the southern side of Bintuni Bay which was moved to make way for the company's main site. The article was critical of the new situation that these villagers find themselves in and also of the measures taken by BP to provide alternative livelihoods for them and their new situation. DTE has since heard that many of the new houses in Tanah Merah Baru are now empty and was told by TIAP and BP Indonesia staff members that much of the equipment provided by BP has now been sold (for example the outboard motors given to the fishermen). This situation illustrates well how, despite apparent good intentions, BP's efforts to contribute to local villagers development and well-being is not producing the desired results. Perhaps this is an indication that the gap between the realities of this big multi-national corporation and local Papuan villagers is too big to be bridged in this way, and that Tangguh's presence remains an imposition on the local landscape and society. In the end, the net result of BP's efforts may be an influx of money (from sales of outboard motors and suchlike) rather than real long-term, sustainable and manageable development for Papua.
Tangguh and the future of independent monitoring of the project
Senator Mitchell, Chair of TIAP, strenuously defended BP's record when challenged about these problems, maintaining that in no way did this reflect the situation on the ground at Tangguh. Whatever the reality, it is of concern that some members of TIAP look increasingly like ex-officio members of the BP board of directors, rather than a truly independent body with real critical oversight to the project. The last recommendation in the most recent TIAP report on 'Public Information' illustrates this blurring of boundaries between BP and TIAP, making various recommendations on how BP can "publicize the benefits delivered as well as correct possible misconceptions about the Project".
DTE has recently been a co-signatory of a letter to BP's management arguing that external scrutiny of Tangguh is essential throughout the duration of the project. However, it remains to be seen as to whether BP is committed to facilitating a truly independent oversight to its operations in West Papua.
Environmental destruction in West Papua
By contrast, Freeport-Rio Tinto can have no possible claims to the stated high aspirations of BP's project. By providing the extra investment for the Grasberg mine expansion, Rio Tinto bought into a company and a mine that has an abysmal record of environmental and social damage. This investment has ensured that Freeport's legacy of expansion and destruction will continue for at least another 30 years. This record was denounced at Rio Tinto shareholders meetings this April in both London and Brisbane. Rather than looking at improvement, the management, as in the case of BP, seems to have taken steps backward.
When questioned about the effects of riverine tailings disposal at the Grasberg mine, the Rio Tinto board maintained this was the best possible solution, in contrast to previous admissions that this disposal method was 'not ideal'.* Many organisations including World Vision, Oxfam and trade unions have called for these practices to be banned. Indeed, even BHP Billiton, another mining company not normally associated with good practices, claims to be moving towards policies that do not use riverine or sub-marine disposal systems (see also Mining news in brief).
Given the record level of profits that Rio Tinto is reporting, how is it possible for Rio Tinto to allow such destructive practices to continue? Is it really the case that Freeport-Rio Tinto can imagine that because there are lax environmental controls or few civil society organisations with loud enough voices in West Papua that no-one will notice? With the Norwegian Government's Pension fund divesting from Freeport due to this 'severe environmental damage', perhaps the pressure for change will finally grow too strong for the company to ignore.
The human impact of the Grasberg mine
However, it is not just in relation to the environment that Freeport-Rio Tinto's record at the Grasberg mine is so destructive. As mentioned earlier, the companies' record of collusion with the Indonesian security forces is already well documented. Recent violent incidents in the vicinity of the mine further illustrate the social upheaval that this mine provokes in the area. Survival International reported that on December 5th, 2007, two women were shot dead and another was injured as they protested near the mine. More recently, 19 illegal miners were killed when a landslide hit them as they were panning for gold on the tailings from the Grasberg mine. Although a Freeport-Rio Tinto spokesman distanced the company from responsibility for the incident, saying that these miners were operating outside the companies' concession area, it appears that tragic incidents such as these are becoming more and more commonplace in connection with this mine's operations.
The future of exploitation of West Papua's resources
Although the history of these two mega-projects are different, representing two different eras in the exploitation of West Papua's resources, their futures appear to be increasingly interlinked. Both projects are set to make vast profits for their shareholders in the UK, US and Australia and are in the process of expanding further. At the same time, these companies are operating in an environment that, at best, is ill-suited to their all-consuming technologies and, at worst, is being undertaken at the expense and against the will of local Papuan communities. However, with increased awareness of the effect on the climate and of the inequalities and injustices of such projects, the wider global community is waking up to impact of the activities of companies such as BP and Freeport-Rio Tinto in West Papua.
RT's Sulawesi nickel deal
Rio Tinto has agreed with the Indonesian government on tax clauses for a proposed $2 billion nickel project on Sulawesi. It will be the first major mining investment in Indonesia in several years. The plans are to initially produce about 46,000 tonnes of nickel per year from an open-cut operation, with the potential to increase to about 100,000 tons a year. Rio Tinto says the 'huge deposit' is enough to support from 40-100 years of production.
(Source: AP 29/Apr/08; http://www.riotinto.com/ourapproach/217_features_7741.asp. See also DTE 70.)
*For a detailed assessment of the Grasberg mines' tailings disposal system see the 2006 report on the Freeport-Rio Tinto mine by WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia at http://www.eng.walhi.or.id/kampanye/tambang/frpt-report-may-06/).
(Sources: TIAP 6th Report on the Tangguh LNG Project, available at http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9004751&contentId=7008791; 'Hidup dalam Sangkar Emas' Suara Perempuan Papua, Edition 19, Year 4(2008), Walhi report on Freeport-Rio Tinto, at http://www.eng.walhi.or.id/kampanye/tambang/frpt-report-may-06/; Mineral Policy Institute, Australia, report on 2008 Rio Tinto AGM in Brisbane, Australia; 'Suharto and the rape of West Papua', TAPOL Bulletin No.188/189, March 2008; Survival, News Archive, 'Police arrest, torture and kill Papuan tribal people' 14 December 2007; ANC News Online 7 May 2008, 'Papua landslide death toll rises to 19')
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Tommy Dreamer Shares His Thoughts On Watching The Dudley Boyz Be Inducted Into The WWE Hall Of Fame, And Talks L.U. Versus IMPACT
Tommy Dreamer speaks on a plethora of topics.
"The Innovator of Violence" Tommy Dreamer was front in center at the 2018 WWE Hall Of Fame ceremony in New Orleans to watch his good friends, the former ten-time WWE Tag Team Champions The Dudley Boyz accept their place amongst the greats in the history of WWE. While speaking with 'The Wrestling Estate' to promote his 'House Of Hardcore 43' show which took place last week, Tommy Dreamer discussed the feeling of watching the guys who he considers to be his brothers be inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame.
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“It was awesome. Bubba and D-Von are two of my closest friends. To see the first original ECW act to go in there was an honor. I was happy they went on first because as soon as their speech ended, I had to hop in a Lyft and produce the IMPACT show." He revealed. "You also talk about the insanity of the pro wrestling business-Bully Ray is under contract to Ring Of Honor, yet he was on WWE television on Friday and then wrestled for ROH on Saturday. WWE has done that as well if you remember when they pulled the Hardyz from my show and then it ended up working out.”
Tommy Dreamer was in New Orleans presenting his 'House Of Hardcore' event and as he stated he was also a producer for the IMPACT vs. Lucha Underground show that took place on the night of the WWE Hall Of Fame ceremony. Dreamer went on to discuss how he came into being a producer for the event.
"They didn’t know at that time how exactly to stream on Twitch, and since I was doing it anyway, they asked if I could have my people come in and do it. It worked out really, really well. Then they also aired a lot of content on their IMPACT show and they’ve been nice to give House of Hardcore credit, which is why I’ve been helping out there." He shared. "I’ve been friends with Scott D’Amore and Don Callis for a long time. They have a really hard task and they’ve kind of evoked my policy of no politics, no BS, just wrestling. When your friends ask for help, that’s what I always do.”
Tommy Dreamer founded 'House Of Hardcore' in 2012 and has been presenting monthly shows since then. 'House Of Hardcore' shows are streamed live on Twitch TV which is also the name of the top championship in the promotion; the House Of Hardcore 'Twitch Television Championship' that is currently being held by Willie Mack. Dreamer praised Willie Mack and spoke on the qualities that led him to the decision of making the "The Mack" his guy.
“Willie is amazing and has so many great qualities," he continued, "I don’t judge a book by its cover. If you look at Willie Mack, he doesn’t have the greatest body, but he’s trying. Willie Mack does have the athletic ability of Rob Van Dam meets Rey Mysterio and he has the charisma of Dusty Rhodes and Junkyard Dog when he’s performing. He just goes out there and kills. I couldn’t believe when he and Brian Cage were wrestling that he busted out the "Van Terminator". He just does so many things that I couldn’t possibly think a guy with a belly like him [can do], because he likes to drink his beer, that he could go out and do the stuff he does. I couldn’t be happier with him being the champion and representing my company because he truly is an unfound talent that now the world is getting to see just how good he is.”
Tommy Dreamer further dove into 'House Of Hardcore' 43 which aired on Twitch last week. To watch the event head over to the official 'House Of Hardcore' Twitch channel.
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Camacho: Madrid favourites in Clasico
By andrew - 14 March 2014, 9:49
Former Spain and Real Madrid Coach Jose Antonio Camacho believes Los Blancos are favourites for the game against Barcelona this month.
The Clasico takes place on March 23 and Camacho has told Marca that the current Madrid squad is the club’s best ever.
“Real have had a very good campaign and a fantastic four months. They’re in scoring form, never mind who's in charge,” Camacho said when asked for his thoughts on current boss Carlo Ancelotti.
“And that project is always a good one that people find attractive. Real definitely have the best squad they have ever had.
“And Ancelotti is also bringing a sense of calm. Perhaps the team was struggling for some reason and has now found the key.
“I see Real as the super-favourite [for the Clasico] right now,” Camacho continued.
“If they have the advantage they have now, the Clasico will not be decisive for Real, but it will be for Barca.
“If they lose or don't win, coming back from two matches at this stage of the championship looks impossible.
“Real are very strong, but against Barcelona, it's anyone's game because their players are very good. If they make a stand, it's very difficult to stop them.”
Camacho however denied the departure of Jose Mourinho at the end of last season is what has led Madrid to their current position.
And he suggested that the Portuguese has been the victim of revisionist history since leaving Santiago Bernabeu.
“For me, he's one of the best in the world, because of his personality and the fact that, wherever he is, you can see the management,” Camacho said of the Chelsea manager.
“At the time everyone spoke well of him and now it seems like he didn't do much of a job. I think he was a very honest and hardworking man.
“I'm not led by whether he did a good or bad job, or whether they are better or worse now, I think he was honest and hardworking.
“The guy was also there during a very good time for Barcelona and still took titles from them. Those things don't just happen like that. You have to know how to make them happen.”
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'Wasted year' - Chelsea fans react to Eden Hazard's latest injury setback at Real Madrid
The Belgian has endured an injury hit season after completing a big money move from Chelsea in the summer, with the player facing another spell on the sidelines.
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Eden Hazard of Real Madrid gestures during the Liga match between Levante UD and Real Madrid CF at Ciutat de Valencia (Image: Eric Alonso/Getty Images)
Former Chelsea man Eden Hazard has suffered another injury setback during his debut season at Real Madrid.
The Belgian international had just made his return from a foot injury and was named in the starting 11 for the past two La Liga games, providing an assist in the 2-2 draw with Celta Viga on his first league game back.
Hazard was again named in the starting lineup for the league match against Levante, but picked up an injury during the game and was substituted in the 67th minute. Real Madrid went onto lose the game 1-0.
The club have since confirmed that the midfielder has suffered a hairline fracture in his ankle, which means he is likely to be sidelined for around two months.
Hazard joined Real Madrid in the summer for a deal reported to be around £88 million which could rise to up to £130 million with add-ons, but injuries have caused a stuttering start to his career at the Bernabeu.
The 29-year-old scored 21 goals and provided 17 assists in all competitions in his final season at Stamford Bridge before completing the long protracted move to Spain.
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Following the news of his latest injury, Blues' fans have taken to social media to give their reaction.
Hazard has made just 10 league appearances for Real Madrid this season, and scored his only goal of the campaign in the 4-2 win over Granada back in October.
The midfielder made a total of 352 appearances for Chelsea during a seven year period, scoring 110 goals and providing 92 assists.
During his time at Stamford Bridge, Hazard won two Premier League titles, one FA Cup, one League Cup and two Europa Leagues.
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This Week’s Top 5 TV Picks
By Lara Zarum
There are scores of TV shows out there, with dozens of new episodes each week, not to mention everything you can find on Hulu Plus, Netflix streaming, and HBO Go. How’s a viewer to keep up? To help you sort through all that television has to offer, Flavorwire is compiling the five best bets for the coming week. This week, Amazon releases the first of several new half-hour comedies, IFC premieres a new season of the spoof series Documentary Now!, and South Park celebrates its 20th (!) season. What exactly have you been doing for the past 20 years?
Today: One Mississippi
If you’re a fan of Tig Notaro, you’re familiar with the story that led to the creation of One Mississippi, her new Amazon original series. Four years ago, Notaro lost her mother, contracted a serious stomach infection, broke up with her girlfriend — and was then diagnosed with cancer. One Mississippi is inspired by this period in the comic’s life, and begins with her arrival in the small Mississippi town where she grew up as her mother is being taken off life support. She sticks around to be with her brother (Noah Harpster) and attempts to connect with her less-than-warm stepfather (John Rothman). Despite the heavy subject matter, the half-hour “traumedy” has a surprisingly light touch; you’ll breeze through the six half-hour episodes, available now on Amazon Prime, in no time.
Today: Quarry
This new Cinemax drama, based on the book series by Max Allan Collins, follows Vietnam vetMac Conway (Logan Marshall-Green) as he returns home to Memphis circa 1972 and attempts to adjust to life in the real world. But Mac was involved in a incident in Vietnam that’s rendered him a pariah in his hometown, and with limited opportunities for work, he soon finds work as a hit man. Quarry feels a little familiar to me — of course Mac’s wife (Jodi Balfour) takes her clothes off the minute we meet her — but if you’re in the mood for a meaty period crime drama, give it a try tonight at 10 p.m.
Saturday: Jeff Ross Roasts Cops
Yup, this one’s pretty self-explanatory: Roastmaster Jeff Ross takes on a bunch of cops in his latest Comedy Central special, an hour-long blend of documentary filmmaking and standup comedy (and, apparently, investigative journalism? We’ll see about that). Join Ross as he rides along with cops in Boston, interviews the top brass, speaks to protesters, and holds a roast right inside a Boston Police Department precinct. Shots fired, indeed. Tune in on Saturday at 11 p.m.
Wednesday: Documentary Now! Season 2
In the first season of this documentary parody series, stars Fred Armisen and Bill Hader — along with co-directors Rhys Thomas and Alex Buono — spoofed such disparate docs as Grey Gardens, Nanook of the North, and The Thin Blue Line. This week’s Season 2 premiere fittingly takes on a campaign classic, 1993’s The War Room, about Bill Clinton’s 1992 run for the White House, with an episode called The Bunker. The new season will also skewer 2011’s Jiro Dreams of Sushi (Juan Likes Rice and Chicken), the 1968 Maysles Brothers doc Salesman (Globesmen), among others. The new season premieres Wednesday at 10 p.m. in IFC.
Wednesday: South Park Season 20
Twenty seasons! Holy moly! I can’t think of another comedy that’s still as fresh and funny as South Park is, two decades after those beloved little animated turds first graced our television screens. Trey Parker and Matt Stone don’t really have to work anymore, do they? And yet they continue to churn out some of the smartest, most cutting social satire out there, week after week, year after year. So far, 2016 has provided more than enough material for South Park to use against us; I can’t wait to see how Parker and Stone incorporate the mess of this election into the new season, which premieres on Wednesday at 10 p.m. on Comedy Central.
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Novelist Simon Raven was known as a bit of a bounder.
When his wife wired him WIFE AND BABY STARVING SEND MONEY SOONEST, he cabled back SORRY NO MONEY SUGGEST EAT BABY.
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James Joyce took extraordinary pains in composing Ulysses. By his estimate the book cost him 20,000 hours of labor over eight years, and he told a friend that the resulting research “filled a small valise.” On Nov. 2, 1921, just weeks before the novel went to press, he wrote to his aunt, Josephine Murray:
Is it possible for an ordinary person to climb over the area railings of no 7 Eccles street, either from the path or the steps, lower himself from the lowest part of the railings till his feet are within 2 feet or 3 of the ground and drop unhurt. I saw it done myself but by a man of rather athletic build. I require this information in detail in order to determine the wording of a paragraph.
Sure enough, this passage appears in “Ithaca,” the book’s 17th episode, when Leopold Bloom realizes he has forgotten his key:
A stratagem. Resting his feet on the dwarf wall, he climbed over the area railings, compressed his hat on his head, grasped two points at the lower union of rails and stiles, lowered his body gradually by its length of five feet nine inches and a half to within two feet ten inches of the area pavement, and allowed his body to move freely in space by separating himself from the railings and crouching in preparation for the impact of the fall.
But time was always pressing. On Oct. 12 he begged Josephine for her recollections of some Dublin acquaintances: “Get an ordinary sheet of foolscap and a pencil,” he wrote, “and scribble any God damn drivel you may remember about these people.”
January 30, 2014 January 29, 2014 | Literature
Seasons, Greetings
Oliver Herford opened his Christmas cards in July.
“When other people’s friends have gone away for the summer and neglect them,” he said, “it certainly is gratifying and exciting to be cheerily greeted by everyone you know.”
Diamond Verses
Masaoka Shiki, the fourth of Japan’s great haiku masters, is a member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. Described as “baseball mad,” Shiki first encountered the game in preparatory school in 1884, only 12 years after American teacher Horace Wilson first introduced it to his students at Tokyo University in 1872. Shiki wrote nine baseball haiku, the first in 1890, making him the first Japanese writer to use the game as a literary subject:
this grassy field makes me
want to play catch
like young cats
still ignorant of love
we play with a ball
the trick
to ball catching
the willow in a breeze
Throughout his career Shiki wrote essays, fiction, and poetry about the game, and he made translations of baseball terms that are still in use today. Eventually he taught the game to Kawahigashi Hekigotō and Takahama Kyoshi, who themselves became famous haiku poets under his tutelage, and today a baseball field near Bunka Kaikan in Ueno bears his name. He wrote:
under a faraway sky
the people of America
began baseball
I can watch it
January 16, 2014 January 15, 2014 | Entertainment · Literature
During our life at Tavistock House [1851-60], I had a long and serious illness, with an almost equally long convalescence. During the latter, my father suggested that I should be carried every day into his study to remain with him, and, although I was fearful of disturbing him, he assured me that he desired to have me with him. On one of these mornings, I was lying on the sofa endeavouring to keep perfectly quiet, while my father wrote busily and rapidly at his desk, when he suddenly jumped from his chair and rushed to a mirror which hung near, and in which I could see the reflection of some extraordinary facial contortions which he was making. He returned rapidly to his desk, wrote furiously for a few moments, and then went again to the mirror. The facial pantomime was resumed, and then turning toward, but evidently not seeing, me, he began talking rapidly in a low voice. Ceasing this soon, however, he returned once more to his desk, where he remained silently writing until luncheon time. It was a most curious experience for me, and one of which, I did not until later years, fully appreciate the purport. Then I knew that with his natural intensity he had thrown himself completely into the character that he was creating, and that for the time being he had not only lost sight of his surroundings, but had actually become in action, as in imagination, the creature of his pen.
— Mary Dickens, Charles Dickens by His Eldest Daughter, 1885
Sherlock Holmes is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
“Holmes did not exist, but he should have existed,” society chief David Giachardi said in bestowing the award in 2002. “That is how important he is to our culture. We contend that the Sherlock Holmes myth is now so deeply rooted in the national and international psyche through books, films, radio and television that he has almost transcended fictional boundaries.”
January 11, 2014 January 11, 2014 | Literature · Science & Math
Mark Twain received this letter from a Danish customs officer in 1879:
Please to excuse that I fall with the door in the house, without first to begin with the usual long ribble-row. I want to become the autograph of the over alle the world well known Mark Twain, whose narratives so apt have procured me a laughter.
If you will answer this letter, I will be very glad. Answer me what you will; but two words. If you will not answer me other so write only, that you do not like to write autographs.
Carl Jensen
It’s not known whether he responded, but on the envelope Twain wrote, “Please preserve this remarkable letter.” See Lost in Translation.
January 10, 2014 January 9, 2014 | Language · Literature
A bizarre episode from Anthony Trollope’s autobiography, 1872:
I came home across America from San Francisco to New York, visiting Utah and Brigham Young on the way. I did not achieve great intimacy with the great polygamist of the Salt Lake City. I called upon him, sending to him my card, apologising for doing so without an introduction, and excusing myself by saying that I did not like to pass through the territory without seeing a man of whom I had heard so much. He received me in his doorway, not asking me to enter, and inquired whether I were not a miner. When I told him that I was not a miner, he asked me whether I earned my bread. I told him I did. ‘I guess you’re a miner,’ said he. I again assured him that I was not. ‘Then how do you earn your bread?’ I told him I did so by writing books. ‘I’m sure you’re a miner,’ said he. Then he turned upon his heel, went back into the house, and closed the door.
“I was properly punished,” Trollope conceded, “as I was vain enough to conceive that he would have heard my name.”
January 6, 2014 January 5, 2014 | Literature
Parting Orders
Marshal Ney directed his own execution. The military commander, whom Napoleon had called “the bravest of the brave,” was convicted of treason and executed by firing squad in December 1815. He refused a blindfold and requested the right to give the order to fire, which was granted:
“Soldiers, when I give the command to fire, fire straight at my heart. Wait for the order. It will be my last to you. I protest against my condemnation. I have fought a hundred battles for France, and not one against her … Soldiers, fire!”
Related: In 1849 Fyodor Dostoyevsky was arrested for his membership in a secret society of St. Petersburg intellectuals. He and his friends were standing before a firing squad when word came that the tsar had commuted their sentence. He spent the next four years at hard labor in Siberia.
January 5, 2014 January 5, 2014 | Death · History · Literature
A Blind Pirate
Several years after publishing Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson was abashed to discover that he had drawn much of the story from Washington Irving’s 1824 book Tales of a Traveller, which he had read many years earlier and forgotten.
“I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther,” he wrote later. “The book flew up and struck me: Billy Bones, his chest, the company in the parlour, the whole inner spirit, and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters — all were there, all were the property of Washington Irving. But I had no guess of it then as I sat writing by the fireside, in what seemed the spring-tides of a somewhat pedestrian inspiration; nor yet day by day, after lunch, as I read aloud my morning’s work to the family.”
This is an instance of cryptomnesia, the mistaking of a forgotten memory for an original idea. Stevenson charged himself with plagiarism, but he had honestly believed he was writing a new story: “It seemed to me original as sin; it seemed to belong to me like my right eye.” In reading Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, Carl Jung was surprised to discover “almost word for word” an incident reported in a ship’s log in 1686. Jung recognized the passage from a book published around 1835, about 50 years before Nietzsche was writing. He contacted the philosopher’s sister, who confirmed that the two of them had read the book when Nietzsche was 11 years old.
“I think, from the context, it is inconceivable that Nietzsche had any idea that he was plagiarizing this story,” Jung wrote. “I believe that fifty years later it had unexpectedly slipped into focus in his conscious mind.”
December 29, 2013 December 28, 2013 | Literature
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Why you're going to LOVE Gamescom 2013
By David Houghton 15 August 2013
It's not just about E3 any more
If you’re not currently located in the glorious realm of castles, dragons, lederhosen and relaxed drinking attitudes that is Europe -- or even if you are -- there’s a good chance that you’re not aware what a huge fat slab of Big Deal Gamescom is. Much younger and far less well-known than the glamourously tanned, sparkle-toothed E3, next week’s GC (based in Cologne, Germany) is nevertheless serious gaming business indeed. Now becoming comparable to E3 in scale, spectacle and industry importance, it’s categorically worth every bit of attention you can give it this year.
Need specifics? Right. First up, everyone is there. Everyone. Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, EA, Activision, Bethesda, Blizzard, Konami, Ubisoft, CD Projekt, Deep Silver, Warner Bros., Oculus… That’s just a list of names pulled out after a quick scan of the already-creaking logistical nightmare that is my current GC appointment schedule. And it’s but a tiny surface scratch of the full array of exhibitors attending the show this year. And what’s more, everyone is bringing new, exciting, bona fide AAA stuff.
We’re going to get new demos of the next year’s biggest current and next-gen games. There’s going to be a crapton of information and hands-on time not available at E3. Given the timing of Gamescom, the show sometimes used to be guilty of providing little more than a “Previously, at E3…” recap, regurgitating old demos for an audience of journos who perhaps couldn’t make it over to L.A. But no more.
Over recent years, publishers have wised up. They’ve realised that the internet means that all coverage is international coverage, and thus they’ve started recognising the true potential of a second summer show. Having Gamescom a couple of months after E3 allows them to deliver a two-hit combo of hype, dropping initial announcements in L.A. and then following up with a haymaker of additional content and revelations in Cologne. With the end of this year being next-gen ground zero, Gamescom 2013 is going to be more important than ever in that respect.
Seriously, that appointment schedule I was talking about a couple of paragraphs above? Terrifying. The Excel doc it currently sits within looks like a giant, throbbing Tetris stack of excitement and horror, a monolithic virtual monument to an upcoming full week of running, sweating, note-taking, game-playing, and tearfully lapsing into mini-comas each and every night. It’s going to be great. And horrible. But mainly great.
Think of any upcoming current or next-gen game you’re excited about, and the chances are that it’ll be there. And I already know I’ll be seeing one or two that you don’t even know about yet, but obviously I’m not going to tell you what they are right now. Not only that, but Microsoft, Sony and EA are hitting Gamescom hard with round two of their next-gen press conferences.
Microsoft have got a hell of a lot of face-saving to do after the original Xbox One fallout and subsequent festival of U-turns, so it’s going to be a damnably important show to watch. Probably more so than the E3 conference, what with Sony winding up a second wave of retaliation, in a continent always traditionally very loyal to the PlayStation brand. We already know that MS will be revealing new exclusives, and don’t be at all surprised if Sony does too. And naturally it’ll be streaming here on Radar, live as it all goes down.
And it’s not just about all the AAA stuff. Gamescom is much more eclectic than that. Being in the more PC-ccentric Europe, GC attracts all manner of weird and wonderful, lesser known stuff from the kinds of developers who just don’t show up at E3. I already have a couple of very interesting meetings booked in with a couple of very interesting stalwart Euro-devs (again, I’m saying nothing until afterwards), and God knows who and what else I’ll find when I’m over there.
All this, and I’m going to be fuelled for an entire week on bratwurst and staunch German beer, so there’s a good chance that my copy is going to get really damn abstract towards the end of the show. Even for me. You don’t want to miss out on that. Join us for Gamescom next week, from Tuesday the 21st of August onwards. It’s going to be great.
You know that kid at parties who talks too much? Drink in hand, way too enthusiastic, ponderously well-educated in topics no one in their right mind should know about? Loud? Well, that kid’s occasionally us. GR Editorials is a semi-regular feature where we share our informed insights on the news at hand. Sharp, funny, and finger-on-the-pulse, it’s the information you need to know even when you don’t know you need it.
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Long-time GR+ writer Dave has been gaming with immense dedication ever since he failed dismally at some '80s arcade racer on a childhood day at the seaside (due to being too small to reach the controls without help). These days he's an enigmatic blend of beard-stroking narrative discussion and hard-hitting Psycho Crushers.
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I would like to address two major arguments made by those in opposition of legalisation, and those are; 1) psychosis/schizophrenia development, and 2) addiction.
Regarding the first point, it is generally accepted by the scientific community that there is a lack of evidence which points to a ‘cannabis psychosis’, meaning psychosis, induced solely by the use of cannabis. It is instead argued that genetic, social and environmental factors are the prerequisites through which it is more likely that a person may develop psychosis after its excessive use, but these numbers are practically miniscule.
Further to this, the non-psychoactive cannabinoid CBD, is known to have neuroprotective and anxiolytic properties which could ease some symptoms of psychosis, and there have also been many trials conducted over the calming effect this cannabinoid has on neural pathways in the brain, making it a prime treatment for people suffering from autoimmune disorders, such as epilepsy, Parkinson’s, M.S. and many others.
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Furthermore, there is a clear ill-informed conflation of medically evaluated psychosis, and short term anxiety and/or sensory perception inhibition, which is sometimes erroneously described as a ‘cannabis psychosis’. Cannabis receptors in the brain are responsible for the regulation of a wide array of feelings. When these receptors are activated by the consumption of THC and other cannabinoids, they may either produce a positive or negative response, depending on many factors, but it is usually a positive one.
On the second point, there is a clear conflation of habit and chemical dependency.
Behaviour, regardless of its manifestation, is habitual. This can range from the use of hard drugs, to collecting stamps. It is true that individuals do sometimes develop a chemical dependency to substances, but it is very unlikely to happen with cannabis. Correlation does not necessarily equal causation. It is more to do with human behaviour, and the fact that people should try to be more responsible, instead of blaming the substance itself as a scapegoat.
In the same way as the majority of the population enjoy alcohol and don’t become alcoholics (even though the evidence linking it to extensive brain damage is irrefutable, and it has a higher dependency/addiction rate than cannabis), cannabis can be regarded in the same light, but with one major distinction; it actually possesses medicinal properties, rather than destroying your physiology.
I would like to add that I find it extremely hypocritical that many of the anti-cannabis campaigners are not lobbying against harmful legal drugs like alcohol, tobacco and sugar, which are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths per year, and also cause a multitude of diseases. In fact, many of them use these legal drugs without batting an eyelid, and either can’t, or don’t want to see the inconsistency in their perspective. Furthermore, none of them would recommend prison or a criminal record as a rehabilitative measure for tobacco or alcohol addiction – so why do they think it’ll solve other addictions
We have to understand that our beliefs and morals have (or should have) no bearing on other people’s reality, and vice-versa. We find that, to this day, many people tend to dismiss scientific evidence, in favour on their own sensationalist and misguided views, which is why the younger generations sometimes find it so hard to relate to a system which is reliant on personal opinions, rather than facts.
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Rapper T.I Tests His Daughter’s Virginity
By Phoebe Damsky • American Contributor • News November 15, 2019 at 12:00pm
The comments the 39 nine-year-old rapper T.I. made, whose full name is Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., have been reported on by The Washington Post, The New York Times, Buzzfeed and various other media platforms, making the internet explode. He has received backlash from medical experts and celebrities, and negative tweets have targeted him for his comments. The podcast has been deleted and the hosts have issued an apology.
Both The New York Times and The Washington Post have reported that Harris claims his daughter Deyjah gave him consent to see her private medical records. However, the whole concept of virginity testing is “medically unnecessary and harmful test violates several human rights and ethical standards including the fundamental principle in medicine to ‘do no harm,’” according to the World Health Organization.
“Right after her birthday, we celebrate, then usually like the day after the party, she’s enjoying the gifts, I put a sticky note on the door: ‘Tomorrow. 9:30,’” said Harris on the podcast, which was reported by The Washington Post about his daughter’s yearly trips to the gynecologist. The Washington Post called upon Jenn Jackson, an assistant professor of political science at Syracuse University to comment on Harris’ actions.
“Harris is an adult — she can pretty much do what she wants — so why is he still invested in what she does with her body?” Jackson said. She finds it troublesome that the behavior of Harris promotes the idea a young girl's body is a possession of society.
The Washington Post’s reports include that Harris has been made aware, by his daughter’s doctor, that a hymen, a thin piece of tissue present in some women, might be broken by other activities like riding a bike. Harris was told a virginity test cannot in fact confirm virginity, but the rapper’s responded that “she don’t ride no horses, she don’t ride no bikes, she don’t play no sports, man — just check the hymen, please, and give me back my results expeditiously.” His words on Ladies Like Us show the value he places on the test.
Harris’ misogynistic view that his daughter should be a virgin at the age of 18 promotes a culture which slut shames girls who are sexuality active. All women, including Deyjah, deserve access to safe and confidential resources they can reach out to without being shamed. Planned parenthood tweeted on November 6th, 2019 that “virginity is a made-up social construct, and it has absolutely nothing to do with your hymen.”
According to Buzzfeed, Deyjah has unfollowed her father on Instagram, liked tweets from celebrities such as Iggy Azalea and Chrissy Teigen, and shared her fan’s tweets, all of which criticize the rapper’s actions. Deyjah has stayed silent on media platforms, making no comments about her relationship with her father.
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Phoebe Damsky is a Sophomore at American University from New York City. She is double majoring in Political Science and Journalism. As a former ballet dancer, Phoebe is a lover of the arts and loves being a contributor for Her Campus.
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Devastation Road by Jason Hewitt
14 July 2016 By Editor
A deeply compelling and poignant story that, like the novels of Pat Barker or Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong, dramatises the tragic lessons of war, the significance of belonging and of memory – without which we become lost, even to ourselves.
Spring, 1945: A man wakes in a field in a country he does not know. Injured and confused, he pulls himself to his feet and starts to walk, and so sets out on an extraordinary journey in search of his home, his past and himself.
His name is Owen. A war he has only a vague memory of joining is in its dying days, and as he tries to get back to England he becomes caught up in the flood of refugees pouring through Europe. Among them is a teenage boy, Janek, and together they form an unlikely alliance as they cross battle-worn Germany. When they meet a troubled young woman, tempers flare and scars are revealed as Owen gathers up the shattered pieces of his life. No one is as he remembers, not even himself – how can he truly return home when he hardly recalls what home is?
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Survivor of Alaska crab boat disaster: 'Sleeping to swimming' in minutes
The Scandies Rose in Campbell River, BC. (Richard Gulbransen/MarineTraffic.com)
JUNEAU, Alaska - A survivor of an Alaska crab boat sinking that left five fellow fishermen missing said the crew went from “sleeping to swimming" in minutes as rough seas and ice battered their vessel on New Year's Eve.
“On the 31st, we just started listing really hard on the starboard side," Dean Gribble Jr. said in a YouTube video that he posted Thursday to answer questions about the disaster. “From sleeping to swimming was about 10 minutes. It happened really fast. Everybody was trying to get out. Everybody was doing everything they could, and it was just really a (expletive) situation.”
Gribble, who's appeared on the Discovery Channel documentary series “Deadliest Catch," said the seven-member crew faced 20-foot seas, 40 mph winds and icy conditions.
“I've fished for 20 years, I know that you do not make it,” he said. “Everybody can die in those situations, and I knew that's what we were going into. We were in the raft for about five hours."
He said his emergency locator beacon wasn't working and complained about other safety equipment.
Gribble and John Lawler were the only survivors and suffered hypothermia, the Coast Guard said. They told rescuers that they were the only ones to make it into a life raft and had been able to get into survival suits, the Anchorage Daily News reported. The suits offer some flotation and hypothermia protection.
"I just wish the other guys would have made it," Gribble said in the video, shaking his head and looking down. “I kind of feel bad now that I'm here and they're not.”
Some of the fishermen made calls to loved ones in the lead-up to the sinking that also revealed the rough conditions, including ice that did not seem to rattle the captain.
Gary Cobban Jr. is among five fishermen who are feared dead after the 130-foot Scandies Rose sank late Tuesday in an area with warnings about strong winds and heavy freezing spray, officials said. The Coast Guard has not released details on a cause.
Cobban's ex-girlfriend, Jeri Lynn Smith, told the Anchorage Daily News that he called her in North Carolina about two hours before the boat sank to wish her a happy new year.
“When I talked to him, he told me the boat was icing and it had a list to it, but he didn’t sound alarmed. He didn’t sound scared,” Smith said. “The boat ices. The boat ices every winter. It’s just something they deal with. I didn’t worry about it.”
Also missing are the captain's son David Lee Cobban, Arthur Ganacias, Brock Rainey and Seth Rousseau-Gano, the Coast Guard said. The agency used helicopters, planes and a boat to search for the men over 1,400 square miles before calling off the effort Wednesday evening.
Ashley Boggs of Peru, Indiana, said Rainey, her fiance who's from Kellogg, Idaho, also called her shortly before the ship sank and said conditions were bad.
“I’m just praying and hoping they find him on land or something,” Boggs told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Crabbing boats endure perilous conditions in Alaska waters that have been immortalized in “Deadliest Catch." Workers face dangers like huge waves, harsh weather, long hours and massive crab pots that could crush them.
Commercial fishing is one of the country's most dangerous occupations, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. It said there were 179 deaths in Alaska fisheries between 2000 and 2014, the most recent numbers available.
From 2010 to 2014, there were 66 vessel disasters in Alaska waters, including sinkings and fires, that killed 15 people, the agency said. The leading causes of fatal disasters were instability and being hit by large waves. Many of the incidents involved small boats.
In 2017, six people died after the vessel Destination capsized and sank in the Bering Sea. An investigative report found stability, weight issues and excess ice accumulation from freezing spray were contributing factors.
Samantha Case, an epidemiologist in the agency's commercial fishing research program, said efforts have been taken to make crab fishing safer in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. They include Coast Guard stability checks for vessels; changes in fishery management that reduced some risks like competitiveness; and increased marine safety training.
The last known position of the Scandies Rose was 170 miles southwest of Kodiak Island, and it sank about 10 p.m. Tuesday, the Coast Guard said. The boat had sent a mayday call.
Rescue crews battled winds of more than 40 mph, 15-to 20-foot seas and visibility that was limited to a mile, Petty Officer 2nd Class Melissa McKenzie said.
She said the air temperature was about 10 degrees. The estimated water temperature was 43 degrees, the National Weather Service said.
Bill Rose of Seattle, who used to work on fishing boats in Alaska, said the conditions can be brutal, even “terrifying for someone who had never done it. But if it's all you can do to make a living, and you're out there and you're used to it, you really don't think much of it.”
He said on the right boat, a fisherman could make $150,000 a year.
David Otness, a retired crab fisherman in Cordova, Alaska, who spent more than 50 years in the industry, agreed it's dangerous work that's “known for its loss." He said it appeals to people with a sense of adventure.
“The love of it is stronger than the fear of it. It's something that gets into you. It's all-consuming," Otness said.
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Dominican police investigating attack on US woman at resort
PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Police in the Dominican Republic are investigating an attack on a U.S. tourist in Punta Cana that the woman recently made public on social media, detailing a vicious hours-long assault by a man she said was wearing the uniform of an all-inclusive resort.
Police spokesman Col. Frank Durán said that immediately after authorities heard of the January attack investigators went to the hospital where 51-year old Tammy Lawrence-Daley of Delaware was being treated, took her testimony and collected evidence from where she said the assault took place.
"There is a lot of conjecture about the case, a lot of information that doesn't match some of the statements," Durán said Friday. "We have to wait for the investigation to end."
The resort where Lawrence-Daley was staying, the Majestic Elegance Punta Cana, said in a statement it was cooperating with authorities and would not comment further out of respect for the "dignity and integrity" of Lawrence-Daley.
Lawrence-Daley posted this week on Facebook about the attack in the thriving Dominican tourist area of Punta Cana, showing grisly pictures of the damage done to her face. She said she had been vacationing with her husband and a couple of friends.
During the assault in a maintenance area of the beachfront resort, her mouth was ripped apart, requiring numerous stitches, she said. One tooth was knocked out and others were pushed out of position, she said. Her nose was broken in several places and she sustained an orbital fracture. There were teeth marks on her hip.
In a phone interview with The Associated Press, the mother of two teenage boys said she decided to go public with her story now to help other women and perhaps warn Caribbean tourists about what to expect from resort management in the wake of a similar attack on their properties.
Lawrence-Daley, an insurance company employee in Wilmington, said she arrived at the Majestic Elegance resort in January. On her second night there, she said she walked alone through a rotunda on the property at about 10:30 p.m. intending to take some pictures of the moon over the water and perhaps grab a snack. She was attacked from behind, her assailant starting to choke her before dragging her into a nearby maintenance room.
"The only opportunity I got to turn was when he was strangling me. And that's when I saw the uniform. And when I tried to look up I couldn't just because I was passing out at that point," she said in the phone interview.
She said any conscious moments that followed she was unable to make out the assailant's face because she had already been so savagely beaten that her eyes were swollen shut. But she's positive that her attacker was wearing a uniform with the resort's name embroidered on it. "He was definitely wearing a uniform of the resort," she said.
Even after a hospital stay in the Dominican Republic, Lawrence-Daley said she's still not positive if she was sexually assaulted.
"We had to force them to do a rape kit and that didn't happen until 48 hours later. And even at that point it was an external swab, that was it," she said.
Just as she was starting her long path toward a physical recovery, she said she was told that Dominican authorities would not investigate her assault unless she testified in a local court. She said she managed to testify at a court before flying back home.
But after a three-month investigation and a failed attempt to negotiate an out-of-court settlement, the resort's insurance company eventually sent a letter saying Majestic Elegance bore no responsibility since she couldn't identify her assailant as an employee. She now has until late July to find a Dominican lawyer to take up the case.
During her ordeal, her husband and friends went to the resort's front desk three times before security would agree to make even the most cursory search for her, she said, suggesting that she was drunk and sleeping it off somewhere.
She was eventually discovered in the basement of the maintenance room when she came to.
Relatively speaking, violent crime rarely affects vacationers in the Caribbean, where high violent crime rates typically impact locals and fragile economies are hugely dependent on tourism. But every year, a smattering of high-profile attacks on tourists sends ripples through the regional hospitality industry.
Regardless of what happens, she hopes her story can lead to some kind of positive change.
"If they install cameras that's at least one step closer to really helping people," she said.
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Man pleads guilty to 3 federal charges in connection with threats mailed to Jewish Community Center
Chadwick Grubbs
WHITEFISH BAY -- A man federally indicted for threatening the Jewish Community Center in Whitefish Bay has pleaded guilty to three federal charges.
The plea agreement was filed on Nov. 9. Chadwick Grubbs pleaded guilty to these federal charges:
The first charge carries a maximum prison term of 10 years, a maximum fine of $250,000 and a maximum three years of supervised release.
The other two charges carry maximum prison terms of five years each, maximum fines of $250,000 each and a maximum of three years of supervised release each.
Additionally, he faces mandatory special assessments totaling $300, $100 per charge.
Sentencing was scheduled for Feb. 12.
The seven-count indictment includes these dates linked to the charges: May 7, May 15 and May 16.
Online court records show Grubbs, 33, pleaded guilty in late February to misdemeanor battery in a case filed out of Winnebago County. On April 16, he was sentenced to serve 60 days in jail.
In May, while Grubbs was an inmate at the Winnebago County Jail, Winnebago County sheriff's officials alerted JCC officials to threatening letters meant for their organization. They were returned to the sheriff's office because the suspect did not write down the correct address. Law enforcement found no evidence the letters written by Grubbs warranted a change of operations for the center -- unlike in 2017 when a string of threats unrelated to this incident required a police response.
In a separate state case filed in May out of Winnebago County, Grubbs was charged with felony battery or threat to a judge, prosecutor or law enforcement officer, repeater. He has a sentencing hearing coming up on Dec. 11 in that case.
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30 maritime students get scholarships
September 5, 2013 By gbsaadmin
Pretoria – The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) has bid farewell to 30 students who have been awarded scholarships to the tune of R14 million to study Masters and PhD programmes in Maritime at the World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö, Sweden.
The candidates, who come from all nine provinces, will depart on September 5 and will start their studies on Monday, September 9.
The students’ sponsorship has been facilitated by SAMSA, in partnership with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), as a key partner and sponsor in the development of maritime skills.
The initiative is part of SAMSA’s goal to entrench South Africa as one of the world’s top 35 maritime nations.
SAMSA Chief Executive Officer, Commander Tsietsi Mokhele, applauded the successful candidates and pointed out that there was a high representation of women among those selected.
“These post-graduate qualifications in dedicated domains of maritime affairs can give South African graduates the professional high level knowledge required for the maritime sector to flourish, making South Africa a leading maritime nation,” he said.
South Africa does not have a dedicated institute for Maritime studies.
In December last year, following a meeting between SAMSA and the WMU, Mokhele said the parties agreed to explore avenues to make enrolment accessible for more South Africans.
The WMU had expressed interest in collaborating with SAMSA to ensure high level human capacity development in South Africa.
One of the students, Advocate Gary Beale from the Cape Bar in Cape Town, told SAnews that he was ecstatic at the opportunity to further his studies in the field of Maritime.
“This is an opportunity to advance my career,” he said.
Beale will be studying towards a Masters Degree in Maritime Law and Policy. The 11-month course will include a three-week field study in London.
The 30 students will be the first group in South Africa to get qualifications in Maritime studies from the World Maritime University.
Beale said studying at the WMU will be an opportunity to exchange ideas with peers from around the world on the development of maritime law policy.
“This will be a great benefit for South Africa,” he said.
Sibusiso Rantsoabe from Durban, a scholarship recipient, told SAnews, that he will be studying Maritime Environment and Ocean Management.
According to Rantsoabe, the course will take about 14 months to complete.
“I’m excited that I have been selected,” he said. He poses qualification in Environmental Health.
The 30 students were selected from 200 candidates who applied for scholarships.
Executive Head for the Centre of Maritime Excellence, Sindiswa Nhlumayo, said South Africa did not have enough people in the Maritime sector, adding that the country had “no specialists in the sector”. – SAnews.gov.za
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DP+ Wins Multiple Healthcare Marketing Report Advertising Awards for McLaren Health Care and Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute Campaigns
June 04, 2018 12:33 ET | Source: DP+
Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA, June 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich–Michigan’s fastest-growing independent advertising and marketing service agency, DP+ (formerly Duffey Petrosky), received the highest recognition in multiple categories during the recent 35th Annual Healthcare Advertising Awards, including three gold, five silver, two bronze and three merit awards.
The awards, which are sponsored by Healthcare Marketing Report, included a national panel of experts that reviewed over 4,000 entries who then selected award winners based on creativity, quality, message effectiveness, consumer appeal, graphic design and overall impact.
DP+ created new campaigns for both McLaren Health Care and the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (KCI). “Your Best Chance” for the Karmanos Cancer Institute won a bronze, three gold, two silver and one merit award for this advertising campaign which included broadcast (TV and radio), print, outdoor and digital advertising. The Karmanos Cancer Institute, part of McLaren Health Care, offers services at every one of the 14 McLaren hospitals throughout Michigan.
In addition to the new Karmanos campaign, DP+ also developed a new integrated brand campaign for McLaren Health Care which won a merit award for the broadcast (TV) launch of its new statewide advertising campaign with the theme “Doing What’s Best.”
“We are one of Michigan’s fastest-growing health systems,” said Kevin Tompkins, McLaren Health Care senior vice president of marketing and planning. “‘Your Best Chance’ is a bold statement and campaign that captures the key reason that patients come to Karmanos. This new campaign, with its powerful imagery and our team of experts pursuing their singular focus on cancer, is tremendously important for us to showcase. It memorably defines the Institute’s leadership in scientific research, the development of new treatments and providing advanced cancer care.”
“Following this success, we introduced McLaren’s singular powerful brand vision, ‘Doing What’s Best’, uniting all our hospitals and health care centers,” Tompkins continued. “The awards are just one of many indicators we have that the net effect is hardworking creative based on a strategically sound, integrated approach to our advertising and marketing communications.”
“We are so proud of our work on behalf of our health care clients,” said Mark Petrosky, chief executive officer of DP+, formerly Duffey Petrosky. “The awards represent industry recognition of the creativity and effectiveness of the health care communications we create for our clients. Our work helps differentiate our clients from their competitors. Really, there is nothing better than creating effective messages that improve the health, and ultimately the lives, of people in our communities.”
About DP+
DP+, The Agency of Change, is an award-winning, Michigan-based, full-service marketing communications agency. We are one of the fastest-growing independent agencies in the Midwest. We’ve assembled a consultative, collaborative, hands-on leadership team with national and international experience. Our sole purpose is ideating smarter solutions that drive more productive customer engagements, while delivering greater efficiency and effectiveness for deeper client value. The agency has consecutively listed on Inc. Magazine's 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America from 2009-2016. The agency has also been named one of the Detroit Free Press’ Top Workplaces for 2009-2016. For more information, visit www.dpplus.com.
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a fully integrated health network committed to quality evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 14 hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, an employed primary care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 620,000 lives, home health and hospice providers, retail medical equipment showrooms, pharmacy services and a wholly-owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, one of only 49 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive centers in the U.S. McLaren has 26,000 employees and more than 85,200 network providers. Its operations are housed in more than 350 facilities serving the entire Lower Peninsula of the state of Michigan along with a portion of the Upper Peninsula. For more information, visit mclaren.org
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BEMG's Operating Subsidiary, Get Credit Healthy, Announces the Addition of Mitch Kider, Chairman and Managing Partner of Weiner Brodsky Kider PC, to Its Advisory Board
May 21, 2019 08:00 ET | Source: Beta Music Group, Inc.
SUNRISE, Fla., May 21, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Beta Music Group Inc. (OTC PINK: BEMG), through its operating subsidiary Get Credit Healthy, Inc. (www.getcredithealthy.com), an industry leading fintech company with an award-winning technology platform which simultaneously maximizes business opportunities for national lending partners while providing consumers with needed resources to improve their financial well-being, announces that Mitch Kider, has accepted an advisory board position. Kider is the chairman and managing partner of national law firm, Weiner Brodsky Kider PC, which specializes in the representation of financial institutions, residential homebuilders, and real estate settlement service providers.
In his 38 years as a practicing attorney, Kider has represented banks, mortgage lenders, fintech companies, homebuilders, credit card issuers, and other financial service companies in a broad range of regulatory, compliance, and litigation matters. He is considered one of the most prominent attorneys practicing today in the area of consumer financial protection law.
Kider represents clients in investigative and enforcement actions before the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and various state and local regulatory authorities and Attorneys General.
Kider is a frequent speaker on regulatory and litigation matters before trade associations and other industry groups. He is also a Faculty Fellow of the Mortgage Bankers Association and has written extensively on residential mortgage finance, including six books and law review and real estate journal articles on the subject.
Elizabeth Karwowski, CEO of BEMG subsidiary, Get Credit Healthy, stated: "We are honored to have Mitch join our advisory board. His wealth of expertise, thought leadership and industry insights comes at a time when we are experiencing significant growth in client acquisition and new revenues at Get Credit Healthy.”
About BEMG
BEMG, through its operating subsidiary Get Credit Healthy (www.getcredithealthy.com), utilizes its proprietary processes, platform, and software to integrate with lenders to make it easier to recapture leads. Developed for and by those with extensive experience in the mortgage industry, Get Credit Healthy's platform has already facilitated over $200 million in new loan opportunities.
Get Credit Healthy has showed sustained growth over the past three years and shows no signs of slowing down. Get Credit Healthy is working to increase its network of partners and is looking forward to a very promising future. Please visit the company website at www.betamusicgroup.net; twitter at www.twitter.com/bemg12 and financial information can be found at www.otcmarkets.com/stock/BEMG/profile.
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SaskTel Selects eleven-x to Provide Network Services and Solutions to Enable Wider Adoption of Smart Technologies
LoRaWAN® Based Platform Facilitates Wireless, Cost-Efficient Real-Time Monitoring Solutions for Cities, Campuses and Organizations
August 05, 2020 12:00 ET | Source: eleven-x
WATERLOO, Ontario, Aug. 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As cities and organizations look to improve their programs and services while maintaining budgets and improving operations, wireless technologies offer secure remote asset and infrastructure management. SaskTel, the leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) provider in Saskatchewan is partnering with eleven-x, a leading provider of wireless IoT solutions, to deploy a long range wide area network (LPWAN) provide sensor management services as well as complete solution integration. The LoRaWAN® based platform is purpose-built to handle a wide range of low power smart city, campus, building and industrial applications and deliver the real-time data requirements of modern “smart” technologies that are transforming businesses and industries world-wide.
With coverage blanketing Regina and Saskatoon, the SaskTel LoRaWAN network creates new, cost effective opportunities for businesses of all sizes to enhance and evolve their operations through the deployment of machine-to-machine (M2M) applications and “Internet of Things” (IoT) enabled devices by the leveraging the low data, battery efficient and inexpensive hardware benefits of LoRaWAN technology.
“Today’s announcement further illustrates SaskTel’s strong commitment to being a leader in their industry and an innovator in Saskatchewan,” said Don Morgan, Minister Responsible for SaskTel. “This new network serves as another tool that will help businesses and industries in our province’s two largest urban centres meet the challenges and access the opportunities that the modern economy presents.”
To ensure a successful new network deployment and to provide ongoing technical and service support, SaskTel has partnered with eleven-x. With an established reputation as a global IoT innovator, eleven-x works with cities across the country to provide wireless, real-time solutions that can easily be managed remotely. eleven-x will provide its expertise in several areas including providing their own solutions that leverage their XIU platform, deployment of third-party sensors, secure cloud-based network services, and remote sensor infrastructure management.
Additionally, eleven-x’s network services and solutions will enable SaskTel to offer cost-effective use cases ranging from water management and sustainability programs, smart parking and smart agriculture to building management including air quality monitoring (to help with re-opening post-COVID and ongoing occupancy) and energy monitoring.
“We are excited to be partnering with SaskTel to enhance their capabilities in providing a wide range of easy-to-use, cost-efficient IoT solutions to their customers. The timing couldn’t be better as wireless, remote monitoring is moving to the forefront for helping cities and has proven its value, even in challenging environments and times,” said Dan Mathers, President and CEO of eleven-x. “We’ve had tremendous success across Canada deploying a variety of use cases that have provided real ROI in terms of reducing costs while improving programs and services for cities of all sizes.”
“At SaskTel, we’re driven to be the best at connecting our customers,” said Doug Burnett, SaskTel President and CEO. “With the launch of this innovative new type of network, combined with the incredible expertise that eleven-x brings to the table, our business customers in Regina and Saskatoon now have access to a powerful platform that they can utilize to better integrate state-of-the-art smart technologies into their day-to-day operations to better meet the needs and wants of their customers today and in the future.”
SaskTel’s launch of LoRaWAN is part of their commitment to invest $324 million of capital in Saskatchewan in 2020/21 and over $1.4 billion over the next five years. These investments will ensure that Saskatchewan businesses have access to the advanced information and communications technologies needed to compete and succeed on a local, national, and global scale.
For more information about LoRaWAN please contact a SaskTel Business Sales Representative at 1-800-727-5835 (1-800-SASKTEL).
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SaskTel is the leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) provider in Saskatchewan, with over $1.2 billion in annual revenue and approximately 1.35 million customer connections including 618,000 wireless accesses, 308,000 wireline network accesses, 276,000 internet accesses and 111,000 maxTV™ subscribers. SaskTel and its wholly-owned subsidiaries offer a wide range of ICT products and services including competitive voice, data and Internet services, wireless data services, maxTV services, data centre services, cloud-based services, security monitoring services, advertising services, and international software and consulting services. SaskTel and its wholly-owned subsidiaries have a workforce of approximately 3,600 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs). Visit SaskTel at www.sasktel.com.
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eleven-x simplifies IoT and facilitates faster, evidence-driven decisions through wireless connectivity and real-time data collection for Intelligent Cities, Campuses, Buildings and Industry. We offer complete device to cloud LoRaWAN® solutions, comprised of accurate and reliable sensor networks delivering secure data to our customers through easy to use dashboards and industry standard APIs. Organizations rely on eleven-x’s wireless connectivity expertise to deliver turnkey solutions that improve operations, simplify processes and deliver value in today’s connected world.
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Drive to Advance Equity Guides Anna Branch in Her New Role at Rutgers
Rutgers’ first senior vice president for equity is uniquely prepared to address inequities and change perceptions across the university
By Lisa Intrabartola
Enobong (Anna) Branch can pinpoint the moment she decided to switch lanes from studying medicine to education.
She was a third-year biology major at Howard University with plans of becoming a doctor when she learned her old high school – a Christian school her father founded in the Bronx – was struggling.
“That school was a vehicle to show that children like us could succeed, despite the poor reputation of some public schools in the Bronx, where more kids went to jail than to college,” said Branch, whose father emigrated from Nigeria and mother was born in the Bronx but whose family hails from Antigua. “I realized I knew tons of Black people I could call on who were going to be fabulous doctors and lawyers. But I didn’t know as many who were going to be educators and would ensure kids like mine succeed.”
Nearly two decades later, that same sense of duty – to ensure others can access an equitable education similar to the one she received – drives Branch as Rutgers’ first senior vice president for equity.
President Jonathan Holloway promoted the sociology scholar and author, who also manages the division of diversity, inclusion and community engagement at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, to her new role in August. Branch’s first order of business: lead the University Equity Audit Holloway commissioned to identify areas for improvement and the next steps to make Rutgers a national leader in diversity, equity and inclusion. The results, published in the report “In Pursuit of Excellence,” rated the university’s efforts between fair and good when it comes to incorporating best practices.
There is work to do, said Branch. While Rutgers’ attracts diverse students, that diversity is not represented in every lab, lecture hall and classroom. Boosting efforts to recruit, retain and promote diverse faculty and staff would help change that, she said, by ensuring different experiences and perspectives are represented and equally valued across the institution.
“Having diversity in and of itself is important. But for students, being a diverse university isn’t enough if they experience injury or tokenization,” she said. “It’s not a judgment. It’s more of an acknowledgement. Let’s all recognize this is the start of the race. How do we want to run it?”
Branch brings a unique perspective to her role. Her scholarly focus on historical and contemporary racial inequality informs her day job as senior vice president, which she calls “applied sociology.”
Further, unlike many Black and brown children in predominately white schools, she said she did not experience stereotyping, bias or tokenism as a student. Growing up going to a high-achieving private school that was almost exclusively Black and brown, then attending Howard University for her undergraduate study, excellence was expected. She was aware of and explicitly taught about racism in education, but it didn’t characterize her academic experiences.
That changed when she taught as a graduate student at the University at Albany and later as a sociology professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was associate chancellor for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer.
“It wasn’t until I became a faculty member when I thought, ‘Oh, this is different,’” said Branch. “My students started bringing up situations and experiences to me.”
As a mother, she strives to raise her daughters, ages 11 and 7, with a strong sense of self and worthiness to counteract the messages they receive from the world around them. Instead of bringing her girls along with her to a Black Lives Matter march on the New Brunswick campus this summer, they drew a brightly colored picture in her driveway. For now, she and her husband, a chief product officer for an AI startup, are keeping conversations with them about this historic social justice movement light.
“As a parent of Black girls, I decided they have the rest of their lives to be angry about how little their lives can be worth,” said Branch. “I want to give them a rare moment of value and worth and centeredness. In my world, you are valued, you are seen and you are heard.”
The totality of Branch’s lived experiences – as a student who escaped bias, as a faculty member whose students did not and as a mother to children who will one day feel the weight of this global movement’s origins – all shape her strategies for addressing inequities and changing perceptions at Rutgers.
“There are frustrations at Rutgers. People see individual acts of commitment and think, ‘The president is committed, but I don’t know if Rutgers is committed. That coworker is focused, but is the institution?’” she said. “What would it take for people to believe Rutgers is committed to these ideals and that those instances where it is not working are the exception, not the rule? That is a very high charge, but that is the aspiration.”
Rolling up her sleeves looks different during a pandemic. Right now, that means focusing on digital engagement, launching the new universitywide diversity website and social media accounts on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter to highlight the institutional commitment to diversity and showcase how that manifests across all campuses. She is planning group discussions with students, faculty and staff to inform the diversity strategic planning process, which the equity audit called for. But as much as social distancing presents obstacles, this moment of social reckoning provides clarity as she pushes the needle forward on advancing equity and minimizing bias at the university, whether implicit or unintentional.
“This moment is hard but really useful because I don’t have to convince people we should be talking about this. I’m not saying something foreign,” Branch said. “If you are alive and paying attention, you know we are in a fragmented and deeply divisive moment.”
Inspiring institution-wide change across three very distinct locations can be an all-consuming and incredibly personal job. To stay balanced, Branch said she leans on her faith and focuses on “finding joy” every single day. That comes easiest when she is just being Mom.
“My kids are very centering. My oldest is more perceptive. She’ll say, ‘Mom, how was your day?’ Whereas my younger one doesn’t care how important you are or who you spoke to, she just wants me to know ‘I’m hungry!’” laughed Branch. “It is grounding. The work can be daunting, but when I walk in the door and my little one says, ‘Yeah, whatever, I need a shoe box for a school project,’ it keeps work in perspective. She is always my invitation to let go and play.”
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Bandit planned shootout with police at Turton’s Creek
January 18, 2017 Published by Tegan Dawson
Assault with intent to commit offense
On the 8th of May 1942, a trapper, Edward Charles Davis, saw a woman walking down Nerrena School Road, who was heading for a drink of water after helping her husband work a nearby farm.
Edward caught her from behind, she screamed, he muffled her screams by pressing his hand so hard over her mouth her lip was cut by her tooth. And dragged her to a nearby bush, forcing her forward onto her stomach. She continued struggling against him and screaming.
The sound of her husband’s footsteps gave her hope and he fled. She was very bruised from the attack as well as bleeding from the lip. Today, from the introduction in 1958 this charge would most likely be a threat to commit sexual assault. The charge of assault would also probably still stand today. There is no maximum penalty identified in the law.
The man-hunt
Davis vanished and led the police on a 5-week man-hunt. The best leads were over break-ins where weapons, tinned food, and ammunition were stolen.
First Constable George Bolton (Loch previously of Dandenong) and William Nicholas Yeomans (usually Stationed at Meeniyan) were camped at Dollar. They’d received word about a break-in at Tarwin East it appeared to match Davis’ way. It helped them close in that 6.5 kilometres from that property was a Turton’s Creek and an abandoned property they believed was Davis’ hideout.
Break-in was redefined to a burglary in 1958
Breaking into a property and stealing or assaulting anyone whilst there was redefined to a burglary in 1958 in Victoria, which now carries a maximum term of 10 years imprisonment police descended silently on the hut. Bolton and Yeomans took the front door and back door. Entered together, knowing this man threatened to kill police. It was pure luck Davis was had just lit the fire reading it for making a meal. He was unable to reach his loaded weapon, or any of the other weapons before the police peacefully apprehended him. He was taken to Foster which was under the jurisdiction of the Leongatha Court which denied him bail on the 17th of June 1942 after a 5-week manhunt. Davis maintained he had grabbed the woman however he didn’t intend further harm to her.
He was charged with assault with intent to commit an offence, housebreaking and stealing charges. He was finally sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison. However, in 1946 he was being pursued a series of break-ins in the Mount Dandenong region.
Policeman honour with bravery:
The offence threat to kill’ was created in 1958*, which is why he was not charged with this, even though the police entered the property knowing he intended to kill them.
Which resulted in Bolton and Yeomans being awarded medals of valour in August 1942.
*A threat to kill is a level 5 penalty carrying a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years.
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GREEK GODS IN ROMAN FORM
As the Roman Empire expanded its boundaries out from the Seven Hills of Rome, it was quite willing to view the gods of other people as their own gods by different names.
As the majority of Greek mythological tales predated the rise of the Roman Empire, a process of interpretation graeca occurred, where Roman theology took most of the gods from the Greek pantheon and transferred their mythologies onto their own gods.
The Greek Olympians in the Roman Pantheon
When it comes to the main twelve, or fourteen, gods of the Greek pantheon, the names of their Roman equivalents are almost as famous; and of course Apollo is known by the same name in each pantheon.
The Conundrum of Hades
Alongside the Gods of Mount Olympus, Hades is the most famous deity of the Greek pantheon. It is most commonly stated that Pluto was the Roman equivalent of Hades, but an argument can be made against this association.
Hades, as the God of the Underworld, has two equivalents in the Roman pantheon, for both Orcus and Dis Pater were Roman gods of the Underworld.
Pluton was a name given to Hades by those not wishing to say the name Hades out-loud, and referred to Hades’ role as Giver of Wealth for precious metals came from his domain; there was though also a son of Demeter called Plutus, who was regarded as God of Wealth. Thus the Roman Pluto could be regarded as the equivalent of Pluton or Plutus.
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HomeInsightsAaron Moss Named to Daily Journal’s Top IP Lawyers in California List for 2014
Aaron Moss Named to Daily Journal’s Top IP Lawyers in California List for 2014
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Renowned IP litigator for entertainment industry honored on prestigious list for fifth time in his career and fourth year in a row
Aaron Moss, a partner in the Intellectual Property (IP) Group at Greenberg Glusker, today was recognized by the California legal newspaper Daily Journal as one of the “Top 75 IP Litigators in California” for 2014.
This is the fourth consecutive year and the fifth time in his career that Moss has been named to the prestigious list of leading IP lawyers in the state.
“Aaron is highly valued by clients for his IP expertise and is especially well-respected for his work on complex copyright matters,” said Bob Baradaran, managing partner of Greenberg Glusker. “He is a key member of our IP team and is well-deserving of this recognition by the Daily Journal.”
With 55 years of experience, Greenberg Glusker has long been a leader in the field of IP. The Firm’s attorneys have extensive experience in a wide range of intellectual property disciplines and have advised both emerging companies and industry leaders in numerous IP-driven industries, including entertainment, video games, software, fashion, beauty, toys, medical devices, furniture, and food and beverage.
Moss litigates high-profile copyright infringement actions for both plaintiffs and defendants, including studios, independent distributors, production companies, video game publishers, apparel manufacturers, technology firms and individuals. In addition to copyright matters, Moss has handled matters involving trademark and trade dress infringement, and domain name disputes. He has also litigated major profit participation cases, prosecuted and defended idea submission claims, and has represented award-winning actors and performers in right of publicity actions involving the unauthorized use of their names, voices and likenesses, as well as defamation, invasion of privacy and other media-related disputes.
Moss earned his law degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He was awarded his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from UCLA. He has served as a board member of the Los Angeles Copyright Society and as a member of the executive committee for the Entertainment Law and Intellectual Property Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
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Gadlys Ironworks - on the Rhondda Cynon Taf Libraries Heritage Trail site "The Gadlys Ironworks were opened in 1827 by a partnership of George Rowland Morgan, Edward Morgan Williams and Matthew Wayne.............................."
"In 1827, Mathew Wayne, who had been the furnace manager at Cyfarthfa set up an iron works at Gadlys, this was a small works with one furnace but in less than a year he was sending down the canal to Cardiff 450 tons of iron. " [Based on Chapels in the Valley by D Ben Rees, 1975]
Gadlys Colliery - on the Rhondda Cynon Taf Libraries Heritage Trailsite "The origin of this pit lies in Gadlys Ironworks and the need for coal and ironstone to keep the works in production. The pit also known as Victoria Pit ............................."
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Dementia Specific Advance Directive: Podcast with Barak Gaster
In this weeks GeriPal podcast, we interview Dr. Barak Gaster, Professor of Medicine and General Internist at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Gaster felt like there was hole in the advance directives landscape around future planning for people with dementia. People with dementia experience a fairly common set of complications and decisions around feeding, loss of independence, and loss of ability to make complex decisions. His dementia specific advance directive has specific sections for care preferences for persons who progress through stages of dementia, including descriptions of mild, moderate, or severe dementia.
So many key points he makes in this podcast, you'll have to read below or listen to the audio to learn more!
Two interesting notes I'd like to draw your attention to:
1. The directive is free to use, does not require a notary signature, and works synergistically with the POLST, Prepare, and Video decision aids. He makes a major point about the need to "de-legalize" advance directives. Right on.
2. He describes how he published on the idea in JAMA, and was disappointed with the uptake. It wasn't until Paula Span wrote about it in the New York Times for the New Old Age that downloads and uptake of the advance directive exploded. Attention academics: it's not enough to publish your work, you have to get the message out to the people!
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JAMA Viewpoint by Dr. Gaster
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Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. This is Eric Widera.
Alex: This is Alex Smith.
Lynn: And this is Lynn Flint.
Eric: And, Alex, who is our guest today?
Alex: Today we have Barak Gaster, who is a Professor of Medicine and General Internal Medicine at the University of Washington Seattle who has created this unique advanced directive for dementia.
Eric: Wait, wait, wait. Before we get into that, Alex, you're skipping the song. So, Barak, we always ask our guest to give Alex a song to sing to start us off. What's the song for today?
Barak Gaster: How about Young Pilgrims by The Shins?
Eric: Great, great.
Alex: All right, we're just gonna do a little bit of the song here and more at the end. [Singing]
Barak Gaster: Yeah, that was great.
Alex: Shins are great. Shins are great.
Eric: So why that song?
Barak Gaster: It's just always been one of my favorite songs. When my daughter was about 10, for some reason she got really, really into that song and we just listen to it a lot in the house and it's just always been a big favorite.
Eric: Okay, Alex. What were you saying, something about dementia directives?
Alex: Something about advanced directives for dementia.
Lynn: How did this discussion come about, is that the question? How did this meeting come about?
Alex: Yeah, tell us more.
Lynn: We're gonna ask Barak how he came up with the idea for this project, but I know I got an email from Barak a couple of months ago saying, "I stumbled across your talk on YouTube," which shocked me. I gave a talk about palliative care for people with dementia to a community group down at UC Irvine and I had recently read about Barak's ideas to create these new advanced directives for people, should they develop dementia. So we were gonna meet and talk about that and I thought we should do it on the GeriPal Podcast.
Alex: Terrific. So, Barak, tell us how you developed the idea. What drove your interest in developing an advanced directive for dementia?
Barak Gaster: I've been doing primary care for about 20 years now and have always tried to make advanced care planning one of the big parts of what I do and for sure one of the most difficult situations that you get into doing advanced care planning is advanced care planning for dementia because it's just such a long time horizon where people have gradually decreasing quality of life and have lost the ability to make medical decisions for themselves. They were just time and time again just really uncomfortable, hard, really heart breaking situations where families are just struggling to try to guess what their loved one would have wanted in terms of goals of care once they develop moderate or severe dementia. So just play out let's try to imagine your loved one from 10 years ago looking down on themselves now and what do you think that they would say that they would want for themselves and just started to realize, gee, what if we had actually a directive that somebody had filled out 15 years ago so that instead of guessing what they would want, we actually had something written down that could help guide us.
Lynn: It sounds like there was something really specific about dementia that struck you, that there was a gap in terms of advanced care planning. Could you talk a little more about that?
Barak Gaster: Yeah. In some ways, you say, gee, do we need a directive for COPD and a directive for end stage renal disease and why does dementia really jump out as really a prime diagnosis disease where advanced directive could really help and it really is this incredibly long time horizon that people live with often really decreasing quality of life, decreasing ability to interact and be independent and do all of the really basic activity, self-care things that people think of as really part of who they are and their identity. They lose that for many, many years in a way that is really unique. That there are not many other common conditions in which that comes up. The current standard advanced directives that are out there focus so much these rare conditions like persistent vegetative state or permanent coma or imminently terminal condition that just don't apply to dementia at all.
Alex: So it strikes me that dementia, unlike COPD, heart failure, cancer, is a condition where you lose the ability to make those in the moment decisions as time goes on and your severity of illness worsens. When severity of dementia worsens, you lose the ability to make those decisions. So advanced care planning is an essential part of the condition in a way that you could just keep going back to people with other severe illnesses and asking them for their preferences in the moment.
Barak Gaster: Yeah, absolutely.
Alex: Go ahead, Lynn. Okay, I was gonna ask so talking about dementia in particular, let's talk about the landscape and what you saw in terms of a need for a dementia-specific advanced directive, because I think there may be a few others out there. There's a guy named Stan Terman who has a pocket card game.
Lynn: Playing cards, yeah.
Alex: Playing cards and other directives that are focused on dementia. When you were starting this out did you look out there and survey the landscape and say I still think there is a need for something specific here?
Barak Gaster: Yeah. To me, my main goal from the very beginning was trying to come up with something that was brief and concise and easy enough to have a low barrier to get more people to do it. There's definitely a subset of people who care so much and think so deeply about this that they're willing to fill out the much more complex, probably more iron clad versions that are out there, but I really wanted to come up with something that a large majority of people would be able to fill out easily and quickly just because there are so many people who have really strong ideas about the medical care that they would want if they develop dementia. Especially if they've had personal experience taking care of people with dementia and just overcoming that initial energy activation to get people to fill something out and express those wishes and communicate them to their loved ones was my main goal. Keep it short and easy.
Eric: So what did you actually do? What's in this directive?
Barak Gaster: I also really started out with the concept that you can't really have a directive that says, "If I have dementia, I want this. And if I don't have dementia, I want that." Just because dementia is such a slowly progressive disease that goes through phases where people have really different independence and quality of life such that it would make sense that people's goals of care, their wishes for what they would want for medical care would gradually shift as their dementia got worse. So the directive is structured to have a brief description of what mild dementia is like, and a brief description about what moderate dementia is like, and a brief description about what severe dementia is like. And then under each of those brief descriptions, it gives the same four options for what the goals of care you'd want at that stage of dementia would be.
Lynn: I have a question. I do a lot of clinical work in nursing homes and I think one of the ... when you look back at the discussion over the years about advanced directives, particularly for people with dementia ... is this concept of personhood and the idea that somebody may have certain preferences at a time when they don't have dementia or don't have a severe cognitive impairment. They may have an idea about what their quality of life would be like with advanced dementia and then they get to that point and family and caregivers may have a totally different concept of what that person's quality of life actually is when they've gotten there. Does that make sense?
Barak Gaster: Yeah, absolutely. This is something that I've talked to people about a lot and struggled a lot with. There was definitely a development process to come up with this document that involved input from lots of really smart people who are really experienced in the fields of geriatrics and palliative care and primary care and neurology and psychiatry to try to find the right balance of how you describe these stages of dementia and it's true that trying to anticipate the myriad scenarios that people could be in, in terms of their state of mind in a future state when they have dementia is really impossible.
So that's why this is really designed to be an informative communication tool to help people have structured conversations with their loved ones and then document, to some degree, what they think their wishes would be. These documents are never going to be binding documents that would in any way overrule what a family is guessing their loved one would have wanted. I think the key point is just the opportunity to have a document like this to help to inform those future decisions is invaluable and it's important to frame them as not set in stone.
It's important to frame them as this is an opportunity for you to have this conversation with your family now and that in the future if somebody seems like they are absolutely loving life with moderate dementia, and you're filling out a POLST form, you're not bound to use this directive. But I've just been in so many situations where the family is just so fraught with anxiety and just pain, trying to make these decisions.
Eric: Rebecca Sudore talks about it that there's this concept of leeway, giving family members leeway in making these decisions, so even if somebody says that they want one thing, making sure that family members understand, for many patients, that patients want their family members to have leeway in deciding what they would want, given that we can't predict exactly what the future has in store. And, this is true for every advanced directive, people adapt to new situations as we generally rate our quality of life as lower for our future self if we had a disability than our future self would give our quality of life with that disability.
Barak Gaster: Sure, absolutely.
Eric: I thought it's really interesting. You broke it down into these three different stages. Stage one, stage two, and stage three. Stage three is severe dementia. And then they're basically the same check boxes. To life as long as I could, to receive treatments to prolong my life, but if my heart stops beating, DNR, do not place me on a breathing machine, to receive care in the place where I am living, I would not want to go to the hospital even if I were ill. And the fourth one is to receive comfort care only.
I thought it's interesting that the only one that had the reason why, so under to receive care in the place where I am living. I would not want to go to the hospital even if I were very ill. You put a reason why in there and that reason why isn't located anywhere else and you had a great New York Times piece too about this directive and the one, going back to Rebecca Sudore again, the one thing she mentioned in that New York Times piece is at the bedside, the why is really important. That for family members, not only knowing what the preferences is for their loved one, but why did they say that, is really important. Why is the why only for that one?
Barak Gaster: I don't have the document right in front of me right now, but off the top of my head, I thought that the second option about the DNR-
Eric: You're right, I missed that. The second one has a reason why, too.
Barak Gaster: Right. That was definitely something that came up in the development process of this document, that it needs to have the reason why built into it as much as possible. We don't have reason why for the first one, which is I want everything reasonably medically done to keep me alive longer or that I want comfort care, in that hopefully the reason why for those two are either so complex that it would be hard to boil down or so obvious that we don't need to, but felt it was really important to try to build that reason why into those intermediate goals of care because it is so much about trying to express people's values more than just the check box of interventions.
Alex: Terrific. I want to ask about your choice again of these four categories and I'm thinking now of Angelo Volandes, who has ACP decisions, this videos together with advanced care planning documents. You've probably heard of these, Barak?
Barak Gaster: Yeah. Yeah, they're great.
Alex: His four categories off the top of my head ... I don't have it in front of me either ... include, I think three of them are the same, but there's another one. Instead of the living in the same place where I'm living, he has focus on function and maintaining function as long as possible is my recollection. I'm wondering how you thought about choosing the focus on being in one place versus other possible choices.
Barak Gaster: A lot of it was really working with people who worked a lot with dementia and thinking about the dementia-specific aspects of care in which, in those situations, it is the incredible trauma and delirium and harm that come from visits to emergency rooms. So I wanted to really build that in as a decision point intervention. And also thinking through that issue of antibiotics because that is very often one of the most difficult decisions, as people are approaching having comfort only as their goal of care, the question of what role does antibiotics play in that setting. So really wanted to build in the idea of, well, what if you could give me antibiotics in the place that I'm living. Maybe that would still be something that I would want.
Lynn: I think certainly that choice really rings true for nursing home care especially and it highlights, I think, one of the limitations in our healthcare system, which is that to receive hospice services, dementia has to be so incredibly advanced that there's a lot of people who end up in that in between zone where families choose that they wouldn't want to have their loved one transferred or that they wouldn't have wanted to be transferred, but maybe can you try to do some things that are minimal to moderate burden to try and get them over this hump or keep things as they are. So I think that that does really ring true for the typical trajectory.
Alex: And just to be clear for our listeners who may not have this in front of them, the third choice here says, "To only receive care in the place where I am living, I would not want to go to the hospital even if I were very ill and I would not want to be resuscitated. If a treatment such as antibiotics might keep me alive longer and could be given in the place where I was living, then I would want such care, but if I continued to get worse, I would not want to go to the emergency room or a hospital. Instead, I want to be allowed to die peacefully." That's a really nice phrasing. It encapsulates what you were talking about, Barak, and it came from the lived experience of people and families with dementia.
Barak Gaster: Yeah, and I'll say we worked on that wording really, really hard. I had input from a lot of people and it went through many, many iterations and feel good about the way that it ended up landing.
Eric: All right, so, question. This feels like it's very disease oriented. We're talking dementia and that feels traditional in medicine, like people have a primary disease that they're dealing with, when in truth, even people with dementia, they're dealing with multiple other diseases at the same time. They could have moderate dementia, but they also could have advanced heart failure, COPD. I work at the VA and they probably have COPD, diabetes, heart failure, everything. Is this the right model? Because people have multiple comorbidities and sometimes dementia is the primary terminal illness, but sometimes it's part of what they have.
Barak Gaster: Yeah, yeah. That's a really good, important point and I think that the way that my thinking has evolved and the reason that I do think that a dementia-specific advanced directive is an important step to take is that even people who have many comorbidities, I think a really important way for primary care, geriatric care to move is to be thinking more and more of dementia as an organizing principle for setting somebody's goals of care. And that somebody may have CHF and they may have renal disease and they may have COPD in addition to dementia, but to such a large extent, it is the dementia that is setting a course for what their quality of life is in terms of how interactive they are with their loved ones. Do they recognize their loved ones? Are they able to clean themselves up after they go to the bathroom? Those are really key important values that many people have in terms of how they would value their life. So that, to me, even though they may have other comorbidities in terms of setting a goal of care for their medical treatment that I think it is a useful and important way for us to be moving towards having dementia being the organizing principle in setting those priorities and goals.
Lynn: It sounds like you're using this in your practice and it's out there for people to use and I wonder what the experience has been like so far?
Barak Gaster: Yeah, it's been a totally amazing experience. I thought that when it got published in JAMA that it would get a lot of attention and the interesting experience is just not that many people actually read JAMA, whereas when it got picked up by the New York Times, suddenly it really just exploded. And so within the first week or two after the article was written about in the New York Times, really we were suddenly getting thousands of downloads of the directive per week. That's tapered off some, it's now down to about a hundred downloads of the directive per week, but altogether there've been more than 55,000 people have downloaded the directive and I've just been flooded with emails from people. My email address is on the website where you can download the directive. Just been flooded with emails from people.
Lynn: I was gonna say, I was in Berkeley giving a talk to the Department of Psychiatry, which was a very mixed discipline group and I was talking about palliative care for dementia and somebody raised their hand and said, "Oh, has anybody here heard about the new advanced directive for dementia?" And a bunch of people in the room said, "Oh, yeah!" And this whole group of community providers as well. So it's out there, it's definitely out there.
Barak Gaster: It's really an example of grassroots moving the needle, I think. I think that to some degree, us as primary care doctors or geriatricians, palliative care doctors, we get this and we think it's a good idea and we think about how could we implement it into our practice, but getting it out to the public really touches a nerve. This is a disease that is on people's minds in such an increasing way and they have really clear ideas about what they would want. The beautiful work that [inaudible 00:24:02] has done in Boston really highlights just if you show people either a video or a written narrative about moderately severe dementia, more than 70% of people say that they would want comfort-oriented care only. And that's just not what's happening in practice and it really is touching that nerve that people have out there that I think is really interesting and good for us as healthcare providers to be aware of.
Eric: And I love this because it really does change the thinking to start talking about this very early on when you still have that choice. Now, let's say I want to use this. Is there a website I can download this at?
Barak Gaster: Absolutely. If you go to www.dementia-directive.org the form is there to download and click a button, it's free. And I really encourage people to share that URL with people just so that I can keep somewhat of a track of how many people are using it. It's also perfectly fine to download it and make copies and hand those out, too, but the more that people are using that URL to share the info about it the better just because that way I can have somewhat of a sense of how much it's out there.
Eric: Great. And if I wanted to do this in my healthcare system, can I just make copies or do I have to pre-authorize it with you?
Barak Gaster: No, not at all. My goal from the very beginning is to have as low a barrier to getting this out there and having people use it. I copyrighted it only because I wanted to make sure that somebody didn't put a whole mini mental status exam on me and and start charging people for it. My goal is really for this to be free and to be used as much as possible. I have no problems at all with people making copies and handing out to their patients. This is a really important, positive impact that we really could be having on these difficult conversations that we will be having in the next 10 or 15 years.
Alex: Could you talk a little bit about legal acceptance of this document as an advanced directive document across states and how this fits in with the landscape of advanced care planning in terms of prepare for your care, POLST forms, an existing advanced directive somebody might have, would this be a replacement, et cetera?
Barak Gaster: Another really big goal for me as I embarked on this was to really make this as much a usable, accessible living document as possible. Really with the whole concept of de-legalizing advanced directives as a core principle goal, such that it's good to talk about this as not a legally binding advanced directive, as does exist in each one of the 50 states. Each state has its own legislatively sanctioned advanced directive and this is designed to be a supplement to that. In and of itself, as a stand alone, is not legally binding. It's really more in line with the conversation project approach, which is to give people a structured way to have a conversation and to document some of the outcomes of that conversation with their loved ones.
We struggled hard about should we have a place on here to have it witnessed or notarized and really from that de-legalizing the living will concept, there isn't a place, but I would certainly encourage people to do that if they wanted a little bit more assurance that it would stand up to being contested. But really just as a conversation tool is really where it's at, and that thinking of it as a supplement to each individual's state advanced directive is probably the best way to think of it from a legal point of view.
Eric: Yeah, I love that, too. Charlie Sabatino, just a great thinker around advanced directives, a lawyer. He also describes how historically this is considered a legal transactional approach and what we really need to move forward towards is this should actually be more of a communication approach when we're thinking about advanced care planning, even when we're thinking about advanced directives is that the old model of a transactional approach, a legal approach, just doesn't work.
Barak Gaster: Yeah, the whole idea that you need to go to a lawyer to fill a form like this out and that it then gets locked away in your security deposit box with your actual will and nobody really knows what it says, nobody is really even sure whether they have one or not. Your physician certainly doesn't know whether you have one or not. Is absolutely just the wrong way that we should be thinking about advanced directives. An advanced directive like a dementia-specific advanced directive is really just a way to trigger people thinking about what they would want, talking to their loved ones about what they would want, and then writing it down and giving copies to their loved one and giving copies to their doctor who can then put it in their medical record so that 10 years down the road if they are in this difficult dementia situation, that there is something to look back on to help guide what we do.
Lynn: I wonder if you could tell us a little bit about how you're implementing this in your practice. Who are you selecting to have this discussion with, how are you opening the discussion, how are you finding time within your busy practice to incorporate this piece?
Barak Gaster: That's such a great question because it was a really interesting process as I thought about developing a document like this. My initial thought was that wouldn't the most important time to bring a document like this out be at that very earliest moment when you're first diagnosing somebody with dementia and you're sure that you're gonna need a document like this in the future. So my first attempts were bringing it up with people, with my patients who had very early stage memory loss and time and time again they would nod and say, "Thank you, yes, I'll take this home and I'll think about it," but I never would get it back from them.
And I think it's a really complex process of both the fear and the shock of trying to grapple with this new diagnosis and just the cognitive process of imagining a future state of yourself and then imagining different abstract scenarios that that future state of yourself could face is a pretty high executive function process that I think is really, really difficult for people, even at the very mild dementia stage.
So then, instead of offering it to people with very early onset of cognitive impairment, started offering it to people without any signs of cognitive impairment who were turning age 65 or 70 who were in my office as part of an Medicare annual wellness exam and all of the sudden it was just like night and day where people said, "Oh, my god. Thank you so much. This is exactly what's been on my mind. I'm so grateful to have it," and instead of a 0% response rate, I was suddenly getting an 80% response rate. Really changed to thinking of this as not something that is best suited for somebody with mild dementia, but for somebody who is turning age 65 or 70, who is nearing the at-risk age where they could develop cognitive impairment and that's really the situation where it's really taken off as a really important part of my practice and part of it as building the time in as part of the Medicare annual wellness visit, which now has Medicare sanctioned extra billing for advanced care planning.
Lynn: Right, right.
Barak Gaster: But if you spend more than 15 minutes talking about advanced care planning at a Medicare annual wellness visit, the RBUs double if you bill for the advanced care planning piece of that with no cost-sharing for the patient. So that has really become a really practical and effective model for how I'm using it in my practice.
Lynn: So it actually is feasible to add this to standard advanced care planning, from a billing standpoint.
Barak Gaster: It's really, really easy. The documentation is really simple and it's really what I hope could become the future.
Lynn: Great, thanks.
Eric: Well, I really wanna thank you for joining us on this podcast. We're gonna have links to your JAMA article, to your website, to the NPR and New York Times articles about dementia directives. And, again, truly appreciate the time you took with us today.
Lynn: Thank you. Thanks for joining us.
Alex: Thank you so much.
Eric: How about before we end, Alex, do you wanna give us a little bit more of that song?
Alex: [Singing]
Eric: Great. Thanks again and thanks to all our listeners for joining us for this week's GeriPal Podcast.
Lindsey Yourman said…
Can't wait to try using this with patients and families. So interesting that this type of AD has captured peoples' interest in the community more than the standard non-disease specific AD!
anshul chawla said…
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Mark Zuckerberg vs Silicon Valley: The Possible War To Come
Could the Facebook CEO lose his powerful importance in Silicon Valley because he supported Peter Thiel and allowed Donald Trump´s alleged racist posts? Photo : Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Mark Zuckerberg will probably have to face a major clash with Silicon Valley until the U.S. Presidential elections, because of the tech center's political stance against Donald Trump and the decisions that the Facebook leader made in the last few days. Inciting controversy, Zuckerberg supported Peter Thiel´s position in the company and allowed the Republican Nominee to write anything on his post, regardless if it could be considered as hate speech.
The Thiel Situation
When the Paypal co-founder announced his support for Trump and the donation of $1.25 million to his campaign, the entire world were incredibly surprised, giving the fact that he´s the only tech center member who have openly endorsed the conservative candidate. Of course, Silicon Valley response was fast and aggressive against Thiel, to the point where some members ended up insulting him through social media.
Also, Project Include, an organization that aims to increase diversity in Silicon Valley, cut its relations with the start-up accelerator Y Combinator - a company in which Thiel is one of the most important members - because of Thiel´s links with Trump. Project Include's co-founder Paul Graham, who openly supports Hillary Clinton and has compared the Republican nominee with Hitler, initiated the separation.
Although it would be extremely more difficult to take this kind of actions with a much more powerful company such as Facebook, the tech center set a precedent in which it was clearly showed that they will be against any company where one of its main members has a different political stance.
However, everyone expected Zuckerberg´s response to be in concordance with his political views, that he also would stand against Trump, and removes Thiel from Facebook´s board. Far from taking this decision, the CEO wrote a short missive to the company employees in which he expressed his support for the long-term board member, saying that "We can't create a culture that says it cares about diversity and then excludes almost half the country because they back a political candidate," as reported by Fortune.
Deciding To Allow Trump´s Racist Statements
The next situation for Zuckerberg was even more controversial, since he not only faced Silicon Valley's disapproval, but also his employees, some of which threatened to quit the company. This case was his decision to allow the publication of Trump´s Facebook post, even if they could be easily considered as hate speech.
His reasons were that censoring a presidential candidate could be too drastic, and that some of the statements could be important to public interest, even if they violate Facebook´s standards. This was something that many people criticized, since it could be considered as a greenlight for the Republican nominee to tell whatever he wants, and it looks like an incredible policy change to the social media platform.
In fact, an important media as The Guardian claimed that "Mark Zuckerberg is officially the editor-in-chief of the world's largest news organization, though he may not know it yet. Two news items on Friday suggest that Facebook is instituting editorial standards analogous to those of a newspaper - and that Zuckerberg has the final say in matters of editorial judgment."
Mark Zuckerberg´s Possible Strategy
Analyzing his both decisions in the last days, it is clear that Silicon Valley showed its extremism on the Peter Thiel case, considering that anyone can support the political candidate they want, and make any kind of donation as in amounts as large as they want. Although Zuckerberg´s decision and justification were perfectly right, it represents a little bit of danger, giving the tech center strong position against Thiel.
On the other hand, letting Donald Trump write what he wants could be extremely dangerous for Facebook CEO, considering that this has been an unpopular decision, and every time the Republican Nominee write a statement that could be easily considered as a hate speech, Zuckerberg will be in the spotlight, and Silicon Valley will not look at him with soft eyes.
However, what no one seems to notice is that this decision could actually be an intelligent strategy to harm Trump´s image, by letting everyone knows every time he commits a serious flaw, because even when is right to censor the Republican Nominee when he says something racist, it wouldn't b so harmful for him if that statement isn't published.
Also, this decision would allow Facebook to have more viewers and users than ever, considering that the few weeks before the elections will be extremely intense. Of course, the risk of a struggle with the tech center could happen, and is difficult to conclude which candidate would benefit Zuckerberg´s interest more.
If Hillary Clinton wins, it would undeniable that there will be no trouble for Facebook, but it would be an unpredictable scenario if Trump becomes the new president, giving the fact that Zuckerberg´s doesn't support him, Peter Thiel is an important member of the company, and Silicon Valley is totally against the Republican and his supporters.
A major clash with the tech center, the media and his employees, could be the price to pay for one of the most powerful member of the tech industry to achieve his objectives. From now on, every statement that Donald Trump made on Facebook, will be more controversial than ever.
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Biology Major Selected for Kopchick Summer Fellowship
Morgan Glasser, a junior biology major and chemistry minor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from Marion Center, is spending her summer doing research at an internationally known cancer center in Houston.
Glasser’s research is funded through the Kopchick Summer Fellowship program, established by IUP graduate John Kopchick, to enable students to do research at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Kopchick, who earned a 1972 bachelor’s degree and 1975 master’s degree in biology at IUP, is a professor of molecular biology and the Goll-Ohio Eminent Scholar at Ohio University. A 1980 graduate of MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School, Kopchick made a $10.5-million gift to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. The endowment funds up to 15 student fellowships at the center as well as competitive research awards to students and their faculty mentors.
As part of the Kopchick Fellows initiative, one IUP student each summer is selected to do research at MD Anderson. Glasser will spend 10 weeks this summer there as part of the Women and Minority Faculty Inclusion summer program.
Glasser has been paired with a research mentor, Michael Galko, PhD, who studies treatment of pain in cancer patients. His work is focused on using the Drosophila fly (fruit fly) to understand the genetic makeup that causes pain receptors to fire.
Glasser is thrilled to be exposed to the complexities of genetics in Galko’s lab.
“When scientists work with drosophila they’ve opened the door to really understand genetics at another level,” said Glasser. “I am really hoping this summer I’ll come back with a whole different idea of what genetics looks like.”
Glasser started working in IUP biology faculty member Robert Major’s lab as a sophomore, focusing on developmental biology and regeneration. Glasser works with the freshwater planarian (a simple flatworm). It can regenerate lost or damaged tissue from amputated fragments. Glasser is hoping her research will uncover a new understanding of tissue regeneration, stem cell behavior and tissue patterning.
“Morgan’s brightness as a representative of our program comes from a unique combination of academic, clinical, and personality skills,” said Major. “I continue to be very impressed with Morgan’s ability to interpret results in the lab and to ask interesting questions that guide our research directions. She is more than deserving of this opportunity, and I have no doubt that she will excel and become an important part of the research being done at MD Anderson.”
Glasser is the second student from IUP to be selected for the Kopchick Fellows program. In 2018, Denali Davis, a May 2019 biology major graduate of IUP, was chosen as the first IUP Kopchick Fellow.
“Denali’s work was impressive,” Michelle Barton, dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Houston, said. “She was personable, worked well with the students at the graduate level, and was a great ambassador for IUP. I have every confidence that Morgan also will do very well here.”
IUP is also represented at MD Anderson by Elizabeth Travis, a 1965 bachelor of science graduate in biology and an IUP 2011 Distinguished Alumni. Travis oversees the Women and Minority Faculty inclusion summer program with Barton. The two are actively involved with students in the program, attending events and seminars with them.
Glasser is the daughter of Wendy and Fred Glasser and is a 2016 graduate of Marion Center Junior/Senior High School. She received the Academic Achievement Award in Chemistry as a freshman and second place in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania University Biologists poster presentation. She is a member of the biology honors program, Alpha Chi Sigma professional chemistry fraternity, and the American Chemical Society. In her free time, Glasser mentors incoming freshman chemistry majors and cell and molecular biology students.
In her six semesters studying biology at IUP, Glasser has maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average. As a freshman, she applied and was accepted to the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine through IUP’s acceptance agreement with LECOM. Students who maintain a 3.2 grade point average in science courses and successful completion of the Medical College Admission Test are allowed provisional acceptance to LECOM’s medical school program.
In April 2018, Kopchick and his wife, Char, a 1973 graduate of IUP, announced a $23-million gift to IUP, the largest philanthropic gift in the history of the university. These funds will be used for science and mathematics initiatives. In December 2018, the IUP Council of Trustees approved the naming of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the future facility for the sciences in the Kopchick’s honor. Construction for John J. and Char Kopchick Hall, the new science building, is slated to begin in spring 2020 and completed in 2022.
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Jodi Ewart is a sophomore on the University of New Mexico women's golf team. Jodi's freshman season (2006-07) was one of the best in school history. She set a school record for scoring average; won the Mountain West Conference championship tournament and had six other Top 10 finishes; was named conference Freshman of the Year; MWC co-Player of the Year; and was named to All-America teams by the National Golf Coaches Association of America and by Golfweek magazine.
A psychology major, Jodi is from England and has won plenty of big amateur tournaments in the UK. Among those titles are wins at the Girls Home Internationals (twice); the Ladies Home Internationals and the England Northern Ladies Championship; and her biggest win to date, the 2007 English Women's Strokeplay Championship.
While Jodi continues her career at New Mexico as one of the top collegiate golfers in America, expect to see more of her in international competition, too. She should be a lock for the Great Britain & Ireland team in the Curtis Cup at St. Andrews in 2008.
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Wittenberg's gamble to play Nationwide pays off
Casey Wittenberg was eligible to play in the Travelers Championship last week but instead chose to play in the Nationwide Tour event. He made it pay off with a victory which all but assures him of his PGA Tour card for next year.
Casey Wittenberg won the Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open on Sunday by two shots to win on the Nationwide Tour for the second time this season.
BY Associated Press — June 24, 2012
Casey Wittenberg won the Wichita Open on Sunday for his second Nationwide Tour victory of the season.
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Panama Event to Kickstart 2008 Season
By Pga Tour Media
The 2008 Nationwide Tour schedule was released today and features 30 events in 22 states and five countries outside the United States.
The Nationwide Tour will compete for a record $18.95 million in prize money. For the first time in the Tours 19-year history, players will compete for $1 million tournament purses in two events that were recently announced, the Nationwide Tour Players Cup in West Virginia and the Nationwide Tour Championship at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, TX outside Dallas. The average purse grows to a record $631,000, an increase of 12%. Every tournament purse will be a minimum of $500,000 for the first time.
Sixteen tournaments will air on Golf Channel, the exclusive television home of the Nationwide Tour.
Four of the Tours original events ' the Knoxville (TN) Open, Price Cutter Charity Championship (Springfield, MO), the Preferred Health Systems Wichita (KS) Open and the Albertsons Boise (ID) Open ' will return for the 19th consecutive year.
New tournaments will be played in Mexico and Canada ' the Mexico Open presented by Corona in January and Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic in June, respectively. These events will complement the Tours January return to Panama for the fifth year in a row and to Australia and New Zealand in February for the seventh straight year.
The 19th season will once again kick off at the Panama Movistar Championship Jan. 21-27 and conclude Nov. 3-9 at the pressure-packed Nationwide Tour Championship at TPC Craig Ranch where The 25 PGA TOUR cards for 2009 will be awarded.
The Tours Chicago-based event, formerly the LaSalle Bank Open, has been renamed the Bank of America Open.
The significant increase in prize money means there will be 18 purses of $600,000 or more vs. 14 in 2007. The third largest purse is a unique one ' the $800,099 offered by the new Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic in tribute to its host who wore No. 99 throughout his storied NHL career.
The Nationwide Tour is coming off a great year in 2007, but this 2008 schedule is our strongest ever in terms of prize money, sponsorship and venues, said Nationwide Tour President Bill Calfee. A year from now we are confident we will be talking about having made even greater strides in the competition, in our reach and the impact we have on the PGA TOUR. With the solid foundation we have in place and the strong partnership that exists with our umbrella sponsor, Nationwide, we believe the Nationwide Tour has significant momentum.
In 2008 Nationwide Insurance, based in Columbus, OH, begins the first year of a new five-year agreement that extends through 2012. The deal makes Nationwide the longest-running umbrella sponsor in Nationwide Tour history.
Were excited for another year of outstanding golf on the Nationwide Tour, said Jim Lyski, Chief Marketing Officer for Nationwide. As we begin our second five-year commitment as umbrella sponsor, were pleased to see purses and fan interest growing. With the recent success of Nationwide Tour graduates on the PGA TOUR, its not surprising to see golf fans taking greater interest in our Tour.
The focus of the Nationwide Tour membership will once again be to secure one of the 25 PGA TOUR cards for 2009 that will be awarded at the end of the 2008 season based on the final money list. Nationwide Tour alums have now won 217 PGA TOUR titles, including 21 this year. Richard Johnson of Wales finished the 2007 season as the Tours leading money winner, while Nick Flanagan of Australia earned a three-win promotion to the PGA TOUR in August and was named Player of the Year in a vote of his peers.
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1/25/07 -- Scott Dunlap posted a 2-under 68 Friday to take a three-stroke lead after two rounds of the season-opening Panama Championship.
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Quotes of the Week: Tiger's media tour
Tiger Woods unveiled his TGR brand, doubled down on his belief he'll pass Jack and said some ... curious things in this edition of Quotes of the Week.
Charlie Rose: Do you believe you’ll get 18 majors? / Tiger Woods: To be honest with you, no. / Rose: You don’t? / Woods: No. / Rose: You’ve accepted that? / Woods: I’ve accepted I’m going to get more.
“You know, if you look back, the only regret I have in life is not spending another year at Stanford, and I wish I would’ve had one more year.” - when asked by Rose about the burden of being Tiger Woods
"I made a bunch of mistakes. But in the end, Elin is my ex-wife. She’s one of my best friends. We’ve had two beautiful kids." - when asked by Rose about his 2009 scandal and subsequent divorce
“I said, ‘Everybody makes mistakes, and the reason why mommy’s living in her house and daddy’s living in his house is because daddy made some mistakes, and it’s OK.’” - when asked by Rose how he's explained his scandal and divorce to his children
"I applied my same intensity and my craft, my focus, to Call of Duty. Don't laugh! I would spend eight hours a day, I took a 30-minute lunch break," Woods said. "I thought I was getting good and then I went online. When 7-year-olds from around the world are beating you ... humbling." - explaining his life post-surgery to Stephen Colbert
“My game is coming, it’s getting there. I’m not quite there where I feel like I can shoot 63s and (6)4s in tournaments,” Woods said. “I’m shooting low rounds at home, but I just don’t feel it’s quite ready to shoot those types of scores under tournament conditions.” - on his withdrawal from the Safeway Open and the current state of his game
"I'll be there. I'm playing." - reiterating his intention to play the Hero World Challenge
"I'm also taking the next step in what I like to call Chapter 2: my evolution as a competitor off the course." - on the launch of his new TGR brand
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“I had the same putt one hour earlier – same distance, same line. I played two inches of break, and the ball hardly broke,” Parnevik said. “When Tiger's ball left the putter, I saw he'd played a foot of break, which was way too much. But as Tiger stared at the ball, it moved – a lot – and fell in. That was some serious Uri Geller, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Force-like s***. I don't care what any scientist says, I'm convinced that Tiger's mind, not the slope of the green, caused that ball to move.” - describing Woods' birdie putt on the 72nd hole of 2008 U.S. Open in a recent interview
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Self-Storage Owner, Arkansas State Senator Dies After Battle With Cancer
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Greg Standridge, an Arkansas state senator and self-storage owner, died Nov. 16 after a battle with cancer. Standridge was a Russellville, Ark., native who owned Access Mini Storage and co-owned Coffman Standridge Inc. insurance agency in his hometown. He was 50.
The Republican had served in the senate since 2015, when he filled the seat vacated by Michael Lamoureux, who resigned to become Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s chief of staff and transition director, according to the source. Standridge won the seat in a special election.
“I am saddened by the passing of Sen. Greg Standridge—a friend and dedicated public servant,” Hutchinson said in a released statement. “I recently visited with Greg in his home, and even with his illness, he was a source of encouragement and strength. Greg served his community with distinction, and he loved his family most of all. Greg’s passing is a great loss for our state, and he will be missed.”
On the morning of Standridge’s death, a subcommittee of the state highway commission observed a moment of silence in his honor. Several civic and state leaders also issued public statements of support including Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin and Sec. of State Mark Martin.
“Our hearts are broken to hear of the passing of Greg Standridge. This is a great loss to both the city of Russellville and our state,” said U.S. Rep. Steve Womack.
In addition to his business interests and serving in the state legislature, Standridge was a volunteer firefighter and a member of the Pope County, Ark., Emergency Medical Services Squad. He was a member of the Russellville Lions Club and the Russellville & London Masonic Lodge. He attended Arkansas Tech University.
Standridge is survived by his wife, Karen, and four children.
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Baywatch: Here's why Priyanka Chopra's Hollywood debut got postponed
Apparently, Paramount Pictures pushed the release of Baywatch back from May 19 to avoid competition.
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The release of upcoming action-comedy movie Baywatch has been postponed by a week. Paramount Pictures announced that the film will now be releasing on May 26 instead. Baywatch is the Hollywood debut of Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra.
Priyanka Chopra has made it big by her role of Alex Parrish in ABC drama thriller show Quantico. Chopra was signed on for the role of antagonist Victoria Leeds in Baywatch in February this year.
Apparently, Paramount Pictures pushed the date back by a week to avoid competition from Prometheus’ sequel Alien: Covenant, releasing on May 19. Perhaps they’ve underestimated the potential of Johnny Depp’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, which is also releasing on May 26. The date also marks the beginning of the Memorial Day weekend.
Priyanka Chopra on the sets of Baywatch
Baywatch was also likely to compete against Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal starrer Life on Memorial Day, however, Life was moved to an early release on March 24.
Baywatch, the film, is based on a popular 90’s TV show of the same name starring David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson.
Baywatch is a remake of the popular 90’s television show of the same name featuring, David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson, Yasmine Bleeth, Parker Stevenson, and Carmen Electra. The film is directed by Seth Gordon and stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario, Kelly Rohrbach, Ilfenesh Hadera, Jon Bass, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Joining in from the cast of the 90’s show, David Hasselhoff, and Pamela Anderson will also appear in the film.
Chopra had unveiled a Thanksgiving themed poster for the film recently. The poster read, “We will give you something to be thankful for.” Over time, there has been many such posters but the one based on the Fourth of July was quite popular. The Halloween-themed poster featured Chopra in full as a devilish vamp.
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Obama’s Likeness Used to Sell Rain Coats
January 25, 2010 in IP, Personality Rights0by Editor
Obama's Likeness Used to Sell Rain Coats
Stuart Freen is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama found himself in a strange place: Plastered across a 30-foot billboard in Times Square, hawking rain coats. The Weatherproof advertisement depicted a bold-looking Obama walking along the Great Wall of China with his hands dug into the pockets of a black jacket with the tag line “Weatherproof: A Leader In Style”. Although the photo was properly licensed from the Associated Press, Weatherproof did not clear the ad with the White House. The billboard was eventually taken down a few days later (at the White House’s request), but the whole situation raises some interesting issues around personality rights, particularly for extremely public figures like the President.
“This ad is clearly misleading because the company suggests the approval or endorsement of the president or the White House that it does not have,” said one White House aide to the New York Times. Yet this is not the first brand that has tried to associate itself with Obama. Vancouver-based yoga clothing company Lululemon recently ran an “Ombama” magazine ad featuring a cartoon Obama sitting in the lotus position. Similarly, the Vatican has gone to great lengths to try to control the use of the Pope’s likeness in advertisements and merchandise. And, of course, there was the infamous Shepard Fairey “hope” poster.
Celebrities in Ontario are generally protected by the appropriation of personality tort. Cases like Krouse v. Chrysler Canada Ltd. et al. (1973), 1. O.R. (2d) 225, 40 D.L.R. (3d) 15, 13 C.P.R. (2d) 28 and Athans v. Canadian Adventure Camps Ltd. et al (1977), 17 O.R. (2d) 425, 80 D.L.R. (3d) 583 (Ontario High Court) established that celebrities have a proprietary right in the marketing for gain of their personality, image and name. Comparable rights of publicity exist in most other common law jurisdictions as well.
However, the line gets blurry when the advertisements don’t actually suggest that the celebrity is endorsing the product. In Krouse, for example, a car company used a photo of the plaintiff (a football player) in its promotional materials, but only in the form of a generic football action shot. The plaintiff’s face was not shown and he was identifiable only by his jersey number. In Athans the defendants used a drawing of the plaintiff (a famous water skier) in their summer camp pamphlets but made no indication regarding the plaintiff’s actual endorsement or involvement in the camp. In both of cases it was unclear whether there was an express intent to misappropriate the celebrity’s likeness for profit.
Things get even hazier with uber-public figures like Obama and the Pope, who to some extent live and work constantly in the public eye. It could be argued that these figures are so ubiquitous that they really have no expectation of being able to control and commercialize their images. In the Weatherproof ad there was no indication that the President was actually endorsing the jackets, nor does the ad even use his name. Furthermore, there is probably very little expectation on the public’s part that the President or the Pope would ever endorse a clothing brand. Most Americans would probably not assume that their president was acting as a Weatherproof spokesman despite his appearance in their ad. These factors make it difficult to see where exactly the misrepresentation or the damages were in this case.
Rights of personality remain a tricky issue, even more-so for the super-famous and political figures. In this case it appears the White House managed to use their political muscle to get the ads taken down, but Weatherproof certainly got more than their share of publicity out of the whole stunt. Meanwhile, here in Canada the only ads our Prime Minister has been in lately are Liberal attack ads. Stephen Harper: A follower in style?
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4-H International Camp United Program and the 2025 4-H Strategic Vision
Building on existing relationships with international youth development colleagues, we created the 4-H International Camp United Program (4-HICUP) as a leadership opportunity for international and U.S. teens. In 2019, teenagers from Azerbaijan, Italy, Russia, and the United States came together to build personal cross-cultural relationships, further develop leadership skills, and increase understanding of their role as global citizens. The program was inspired by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture 2025 Strategic Vision for 4-H suggesting that "youth and adults learn, grow, and work together as catalysts for positive change." With the success of 4-HICUP, we want to include more states/countries and expand our outreach, and we encourage others to implement similar programming.
Keywords: global education, teen leadership, international, camp, cross-cultural
Alayne Torretta
4-H Agent
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Warren County
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Monmouth County
Sharon Kinsey
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Camden County
Building on existing relationships with international youth development colleagues, we, as part of the 4-H International Camp United Program (4-HICUP) planning team, created a 4-day program designed to build greater cultural understanding among diverse populations of teens from around the globe. This camp provides international and U.S. teens opportunities to build personal cross-cultural relationships, develop their leadership skills, work with adults, and increase understanding of their role as global citizens. It is consistent with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) 2025 Strategic Vision for 4-H suggesting that "youth and adults learn, grow, and work together as catalysts for positive change through 4-H Youth Development" (NIFA, 2017, p. 2).
On the basis of the premise that international education programs have long been shown to positively affect teens (Arnold, 2004; Boyd et al., 2001; Torretta, 2007), we organized 4-HICUP to impact individual youth participants and align with broader state and national programmatic goals.
Individual Participant Goals
Our goals for impacting individual youths were as follows:
help youth participants understand their role in being global citizens;
develop leadership skills in teens from different countries; and
build personal relationships among a global network of teens.
Program-Level Goals
The program aligns with the following broad programmatic goals:
build a sustainable and innovative global network that will empower youth and
create sustainable positive youth development outreach in countries where there may not be a 4-H presence.
Following in-country selection processes, 36 teens, aged 16–19, and their 10 chaperones traveled from Azerbaijan, Italy, and Russia to join U.S. teens for this unique 14-day program. All participants spoke English. There was a registration fee to participate in the program, and participants paid their own airfare, traveling with their home country group to the United States. The program was sequenced to consist of four main components: 4 days of cultural and historic visits in Washington, DC; weekend homestays with New Jersey host families; 6 days of programming at the state 4-H Camp; and a 2-day visit to New York City.
International participants flew into Washington, DC, and stayed at the National 4-H Center to begin their adventure in the United States. This component was scheduled to occur at the beginning of the program to facilitate intentional relationship building as participants took part in sightseeing and adjusted to the time change. In addition to sightseeing, the group toured the Holocaust Museum as a precursor to the One Clip at a Time program that would occur later in the program.
Next, international participants traveled to New Jersey by bus where they spent an afternoon "down the shore" before meeting their host families. Twelve host families welcomed the youths and chaperones into their homes. Two to five participants were housed together to make them feel more comfortable during their homestays. Hosts and guests began the weekend as strangers but became friends after their few days together. International guests got to sample daily life in the United States just as New Jersey families were exposed to a new cultural experience. Host families were surveyed 1 month after the program: 100% reported having had positive experiences.
4-H Camp Programming
The core of HICUP was the week at the 4-H Camp, where teens participated in a variety of workshops to challenge their perceptions of preconceived cultural stereotypes, explore global issues, develop a working foundation of leadership, and build personal relationships. On the first day of camp, the 4-H flag was raised, and each group hung their country's flag on the porch of the dining hall while singing their national anthem. Throughout the week, international youths shared stories, music, and dance representing their cultures and cooked traditional meals for everyone. Each evening one country was responsible for preparing dinner and sharing programming from their homeland, increasing appreciation for and understanding of the different cultures represented by participants.
The program content was inspired by NIFA's 2025 mission for 4-H, so the primary content areas of 4-H—civic engagement and leadership, healthy living, and science—were the focus. We conducted 26 hr of programming in nine topic areas. One Clip at a Time (https://oneclipatatime.org/) sessions each morning helped foster understanding and appreciation of diverse interests, cultures, and backgrounds. Building on the group's visit to the Holocaust Museum, these sessions introduced youths to the concepts of prejudice and tolerance. The goal was to empower youths to make positive changes that will have an impact on others.
Other camp sessions included Plastic Pollution and Solutions, 4-H 101, Mindfulness and Messages, Team Building, and Personality IQ as well as various adventure-based experiential activities based on Karl Rohnke's work in adventure education (Rohnke, 1984, 1989; Rohnke & Butler, 1995). The last evening, teens were organized in rows and were instructed to compliment one another, reflecting on their time together in the program. Teens shared their impressions, feelings, and memories of encounters during the program, thus strengthening the bonds among them. The impact of this one activity resounded with teens and manifested in tears and hugs. One Italian teen shared that he had been friends with another teen since they were toddlers and had never seen him cry until then. Twelve months after the camp experience, participants indicated that this activity was the most meaningful.
Postprogram evaluations revealed that 79% of the participants agreed or strongly agreed that after learning about the different countries during the evening programs, they were able to appreciate cultures different from their own. Furthermore, participants, using a 5-point scale with 5 being the highest level of agreement, shared that because of their involvement in the program they
felt they could make a difference in their communities (M = 4.70),
felt they understood the qualities needed to be a good leader (M = 4.53), and
understood leadership (M = 4.31).
In addition, anecdotal evidence suggests that via social media participants have remained connected.
We look to the future to include more states/countries and expand our outreach according to NIFA's strategic vision statement, and we encourage others to implement similar programming. In the meantime, because the COVID-19 pandemic is restricting travel, we continue to sustain international relationships through virtual short-term exploratory programs.
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Alayne Torretta. Email: torretta@njaes.rutgers.edu
Arnold, M. (2004). Personal and life skill development through participation in the 4-H Japanese exchange program. Journal of Extension, 42(6), Article 6RIB5. https://www.joe.org/joe/2004december/rb5.php
Boyd, B., Giebler, C., Hince, M., Liu, Y., Mehta, N., Rash, R., Rowald, J., Saldana, C., & Yanta, Y. (2001). Does study abroad make a difference? An impact assessment of the international 4-H youth exchange program. Journal of Extension, 39(5), Article 5RIB8. https://www.joe.org/joe/2001october/rb8.php
National Institute of Food and Agriculture. (2017). Strategic plan 4-H Youth Development: A 2025 vision. https://nifa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/resources/National%204-H%20Strategic%20Plan%202017.pdf
Rohnke, K. (1984). Silver bullets. Kendell/Hunt Publishing Co.
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Rohnke, K., & Butler, S. (1995). Quick silver. Kendell/Hunt Publishing Co.
Torretta, A. (2007). 4-H Teen Russian/American International Leadership (T.R.A.I.L.): The use of youth/adult partnerships in global education and leadership development. Journal of Extension, 45(3), Article 3IAW2. https://www.joe.org/joe/2007june/iw2.php
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With a year to go before Brexit, swashbuckling, buccaneering Britain has a patent problem
In just over a year the United Kingdom will be leaving the European Union. According to those who fought for such an outcome during the 2016 referendum campaign, and have been responsible for implementing the result ever since as senior government ministers, once that happens a bright new dawn is set to break.
The UK, we are told, will throw away the chains imposed by the bureaucrats in Brussels and once again bestride the globe, doing trade deals with a multitude of grateful nations and, apparently, selling products we have not been able to sell before into markets that have been unable to buy them. Ask Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and he will tell you that what he terms “Buccaneering Britain” stands to rule the world’s commerce waves once more.
Well, maybe. Others, though, see it differently. They would argue that, in fact, there has been little to stop the UK selling to the world for the last 40 years. If we have failed to do so, they’d say, those to blame are not wicked Europeans intent on holding us back, but senior decision-makers in business and government at home. It is the policies they have followed, the strategies they have pursued, that mean we do not actually produce enough stuff that people in other countries want to buy.
If you do incline to this view, patent data seems to back you up. Take, for example, the European Patent Office’s recently released annual report for 2017. This showed that UK-based entities accounted for just 3% of applications the office received last year. That put the UK, a G8 country, in seventeenth position in terms of patent applications per million of population. And it’s not just in Europe. Look elsewhere and you see a similar story.
In China in 2016 – the last year for which there is publicly-available data – British-based entities received 1,566 patent grants. That’s less than those from Japan, the US, Germany, South Korea, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands in absolute terms, and also below Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Singapore, Canada, Austria and Denmark on a patents-per-million of population basis.
Likewise, in the US in 2015, UK entities were granted 6,417 patents; less than those from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany, France, the People’s Republic of China and Canada in absolute terms, and on a population basis below Switzerland, the Netherlands, Israel, Finland, Austria, Denmark and Sweden, too.
Of course, we all know that patents do not equate to innovation. They are, however, an indicator of inventive activity; or, at a minimum, of a willingness to protect the outcome of such activity. And what the data is telling us is that when it comes to innovation that can be protected by patents, the UK is not doing as much of it as a lot of other countries; or that, if it is, it is not spending the money to get cover. Last week, it emerged that the UK invests below the EU average on R&D, so I will leave you to decide which of those scenarios is likeliest.
But whatever the reason, the UK's lack of patents makes it less likely that it will have a wide array of high-value products to sell the world, while being more dependent than many others on high value imports. Not surprisingly, this is pretty much what the trading statistics tell us is happening at the moment. It is, I submit, no-one's fault but our own.
For the last few years, millions of people in the UK have been led to believe that the only thing that lies between their country and a golden tomorrow is "freedom" from the European Union. The UK’s patenting record, though, indicates that it is a bit more complicated than that.
As Brexit unfolds, we are going to find out the truth about the UK and why it lags so many of its competitor countries in terms of export prowess, R&D investment, productivity and growth. When we do, Boris Johnson and his friends may find that buccaneers is not the B word most people use about them.
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What has the BIOS ever done for us?
Duplicating effort
Put the kernel in flash
Other ways of doing a free BIOS
Many eyes, no documentation
Making use of all of this
Open BIOSes for Linux
Modern systems need not be held back by a legacy boot process
Peter Seebach
BEEP!
While it may seem that PC hardware beeps when it is powered on as a matter of course, in fact, there's a bit of code that makes that beep happen. That piece of code is the boot firmware. On most PCs, it's called the BIOS. (The word is an acronym for basic input/output system.) The BIOS provides the underlying hardware support that early x86 operating systems used to access disks, monitors, and just about everything else.
One of the first things the BIOS does is perform various power-up tests: identifying (and possibly testing) available memory, determining clock speeds, and so on. If the tests succeed, the machine beeps once. This process is referred to as a power-on self test, or POST. Computer geeks being what they are, the term is often used as a verb: "That machine won't even POST, so we should swap the memory."
Common diagnostics include beep codes (which vary from vendor to vendor) or diagnostic codes that can be written out to a specific raw address. Some plug-in cards allow easy access to these codes; the standard solution is that diagnostic codes are written to port 80. Some manufacturers sell plug-in cards that display, in hex, whatever byte was last written to port 80. If you do any serious debugging, you will want one of these, or possibly an even more general gizmo, like the PC Weasel, which will record the last few (256) POST codes written for your reading pleasure. (See the Related topics section below for more on the PC Weasel.) Of course, the exact meanings of these codes vary from one BIOS to another, and only some vendors document them. Luckily, the open source vendors are very good about documenting them.
An operating system such as MS-DOS can load additional device drivers, such as CD-ROM drivers, but needs all of the hardware drivers already loaded at startup. The standard interface provided to these drivers is handled by the BIOS, and because of this, the BIOS needs to probe for devices, identify them, and possibly initialize them for use.
Likewise, the BIOS is responsible for initializing memory. Not all operating systems require that memory be initialized, but early DOS systems often did, and even today most BIOSes probably do this for compatibility's sake. This process alone can take a long time, and many modern systems allow it to be completely or partially disabled. At the same time, the BIOS will also try to identify how much memory is available. Other boot-time activities might include initializing and enabling the processor's cache, configuring dual CPUs, building a table of information about processors, building a list of PCI devices attached to the system, and even running boot ROMs provided by those devices, which may load additional drivers.
This is a lot to do. It's so much to do, in fact, that some of the systems I own can take a full minute, or longer, to complete their POST and subsequent driver initializations. The BIOS can perform a variety of hardware scans looking for bootable devices, and on some systems the BIOS can even try to perform a network boot over Ethernet. One system I own spends about five seconds initializing network boot parameters even if network booting is disabled. Annoying!
Last but not least, the BIOS does a fair amount of initialization work. Some, but not all, of this stays useful no matter what you're going to boot. Allocating interrupt requests (IRQs) to devices may actually be a useful service, because it allows the OS to just grab a list of devices and start running, without having to program them. Many devices have configuration registers to which the BIOS can write reasonable or correct values, based on settings located in the system's writeable memory. (Generally, this memory is called CMOS, although it's not strictly required that it actually be implemented using that technology.)
What happens after the BIOS is done with all of this? It finds a chunk of code somewhere (typically on a disk) and runs it, generally loading an operating system. If the operating system is DOS, or something similar to it, all of this setup work means that you can pretty much have your command prompt instantly.
But with Linux, or BSD, or Windows®, the operating system has its own drivers. So, the operating system then skims the list of attached PCI devices, and starts loading those drivers. The work the BIOS did is mostly ignored; the operating system, once it loads a SCSI driver, will do its own scan of the SCSI bus. The BIOS is doing nothing but providing information, and much of the information it provides won't even be used. All the BIOS really had to do was load that first chunk of code (called the bootstrap loader, or bootloader) and let the machine run.
So, on a fairly heavily loaded machine, you get to wait for every device to probe twice. Often, the boot ROM for a SCSI controller takes a fairly long time to scan for devices. Worse, while the boot ROM is running, nothing else is. In contrast, a modern operating system may well load a SCSI driver, initiate a bus reset, then continue loading other drivers and doing other work before going back to check for devices. In short, the operating system's scan is faster than the BIOS scan.
The exact speed difference depends on the operating system. However, we know that Linux boot-time scans can be very, very fast. And that means that the BIOS isn't just taking up half the time from power-on to the last kernel driver loaded; it's probably taking up a lot more. This becomes even more pronounced when less essential kernel modules (such as sound drivers) can be loaded fairly late in the boot process, possibly coming online after more crucial things (such as Web servers) are loaded.
What we want is a way to get the kernel loaded without waiting for the BIOS to do a lot of the setup that the kernel is about to do -- and do faster, better, and probably more reliably.
There's an obvious concern that arises if we eliminate all of the device drivers from the BIOS: if the BIOS isn't loading all of these device drivers, how can it read the kernel? A simple solution is to use all the space freed up by eliminating device drivers to hold a minimal kernel. All this kernel needs to have loaded into it is the device driver for the disk on which the other, loadable, modules are being kept. Then they can be loaded dynamically, after the kernel gets started.
The size of modern BIOS flash chips makes this alternative surprisingly viable. Many systems have one or two megabytes of flash memory available for the BIOS. Sometimes, the actual BIOS is really that large. Other times, it's just that the chip was cheap in bulk. A fairly stripped-down and compressed kernel can easily fit into that kind of space, and Linux boot loaders have a lot of experience in building tiny decompressors to extract compressed kernels.
This solution is probably no good for people doing active kernel development, but for a system where you want the fastest possible boot, it may be a good choice. The LinuxBIOS project (see Related topics) is working on this solution, and it is probably best targeted to servers and embedded users.
One major source of boot firmware that isn't designed for MS-DOS is Open Firmware. Primarily used by Sun and Apple, this open standard for boot firmware is designed with less of a focus on DOS-style systems and more interest in systems such as the original Mac OS, Mac OS X, or Solaris, which expect to do their own driver work. Open Firmware's big advantage is that it's "write once, run anywhere": a device with a boot ROM for Open Firmware will run just fine on any Open Firmware system with a bus that it can plug into. The catch is that very few devices built for x86 PCs have Open Firmware boot ROMs. Still, if you can find a device that does have such a boot ROM, it might be a good choice; this, of course, requires that you can specify your hardware platform and standardize on particular components.
Open Firmware is probably the most hacker-friendly BIOS-style widget out there. It doesn't have the emphasis on speed-booting that a project like LinuxBIOS has, but it's generally a lot faster than a traditional PC BIOS, and it is particularly friendly to users wanting ways to configure their machines.
The world would be a better place if x86 vendors started using Open Firmware by default.
Even a BIOS that simply attempts to reproduce the basic functionality of a more traditional BIOS can often make things faster and more open. For instance, the time that the BIOS delays for device probes could be adjusted, if you know that a given system has no devices that take 5 to 10 seconds for a probe.
One important thing a free BIOS can do is have a bit more flexibility in building boot loaders. For instance, the OpenBIOS project has been used in conjunction with LinuxBIOS, using the LinuxBIOS low-level code, and an OpenBIOS Forth kernel as its payload, to bootstrap a system into Open Firmware. A lot of the hardest work in x86 systems is building the tiny little block of code that loads the real boot loader; a more flexible BIOS could do that work and make the problem go away.
Note that although LinuxBIOS is aimed primarily at Linux, it's being used to boot other things; for instance, in late 2002, the LinuxBIOS people successfully booted Windows 2000 from it. More general efforts at expanding compatibility and support are ongoing, but the idea of getting away from dependency on proprietary software to boot the system stays an important one.
There are some fairly specialized, but not really free, BIOS programs out there. For instance, Soekris Engineering boxes run a BIOS called comBIOS, which is much simpler and smaller than a conventional BIOS, and also boots a lot faster.
When people wrestle with computer problems, one of the most common pieces of advice they receive is that they should update the BIOS. Why? The BIOS, in theory, isn't really in use once the system is loaded. But, in fact, the initialization work done by the BIOS can be crucial. For instance, on one embedded x86 system I used, the CardBus controller was unusable because it needed to have an IRQ programmed into it; a BIOS update fixed this. In theory, perhaps, the operating system could have developed special code to recognize this exact model of CardBus controller and program an IRQ into it, but the board vendor was in a better position to write code specific to this particular board, programming the controller correctly.
The conventional wisdom is that open source systems have a better chance of fixing bugs. However, in the case of a BIOS, it's not quite so clear-cut. After all, the original hardware vendor may have additional information that developers of a general-purpose BIOS wouldn't have. A general-purpose, free software BIOS has to be built to run on dozens of boards; a vendor, on the other hand, can make assumptions without worrying about what the code will do on different hardware.
Nonetheless, an open source approach has many advantages. For instance, the BIOS on an old Alpha system I use has support for Symbios Logic '875 SCSI controller chips. However, it has a hard-coded list of PCI vendor/product ID pairings that it knows are supported and will only work with cards on the list; a functional card not on the list is simply ignored. Because the BIOS is closed source, and indeed somewhat obfuscated, I couldn't just patch the table; I had to buy a US$220 SCSI card from a specific vendor instead of using a physically identical off-the-shelf card for US$75.
The tipping point will probably come when a motherboard vendor decides to use an open source BIOS instead of going with one of the major commercial offerings. I don't know whether, or when, that will actually happen, but it would be very nice to see a BIOS with better support and documentation.
For most users, this is all still a little impractical. The danger of a misflashed BIOS chip is pretty serious: your computer won't work at all until the chip is reflashed, and since the computer can't boot to flash the chip, you'd need special hardware to do that. Some systems have two flash chips and let you use one to boot and then program the other, but not all systems do this. So, for most people, experimenting with alternative BIOS designs is probably a little risky. Still, if you find that you've got a spare, old computer you're willing to risk breaking, and it's supported by one of the free BIOS projects, it might be fun to give it a try. Hobbyists may find it appealing.
People working on server farms, or embedded systems, are a lot more likely to benefit from this technology today. If time to reset is important to you, you have a big incentive to put in the time and effort to get something like this working on the hardware you're using. Furthermore, no embedded development project is any fun if you haven't done at least one crazy and unsupported thing.
In the long run, this technology will give vendors more choices. Vendors of embedded systems have more options for boot firmware, and the proliferation of options may help get us away from a small set of proprietary BIOS designs, and into a more open and competitive market.
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"Migrating from x86 to PowerPC, Part 2: Anatomy of the Linux boot process" (developerWorks, February 2005) adds to the discussion of BIOS issues from a Linux perspective.
Wim's BIOS page offers an FAQ and other BIOS-related resources.
The LinuxBIOS project is directly focused on supporting Linux.
PC Weasel is useful whether you're running a new BIOS or an old one. It gives you serial console access to a machine that thinks it has a VGA card and a keyboard, and it provides access to POST codes.
Technologic Systems has another variant on the home-grown BIOS program, used on their very cool embedded x86 systems.
Soekris Engineering distributes a home-grown BIOS program, and also makes pretty toys with blinkenlights.
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Jeff Richmond was born on January 07, 1961 in Garrettsville, Ohio, United States, United States, is Composer, Director. Jeff Richmond an American composer, director, actor, and producer, best known for directing a few episodes of a sitcom, ‘30 Rock’. Apart from working as a director for some episodes of the sitcom that was conceptualized by and featured Tina Fey, his wife, he also composed the musical score for those chapters. Jeff Richmond has been at his creative best while collaborating with his wife on numerous small and big screen projects including ‘Saturday Night Live’, ‘Sisters’, and ‘Baby Mama’. His latest project includes the TV series, ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’, co-created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, where he is working as a music director and co-producer. Though his wife corners a major chunk of the recognition for collaborative projects, Richmond is a significant backend contributor. Co-composing musicals at Kent State University in Ohio, paved the way for a scintillating professional career as he landed his debut major break in ‘Second City’, the world’s first improvisational theater enterprise, based in Chicago. He also contributed hugely to Child’s Play Touring Theater following which he bagged a music composing project for ‘Saturday Night Live’ where he worked alongside Tina Fey whom he had befriended in ‘Second City’. Five years after he married Tina, he started working on the sitcom, ’30 Rock’ where he wore the hats of a composer, director, and producer as well as an extra.
Jeff Richmond is a member of Musicians
Who is it? Composer, Director
Birth Day January 07, 1961
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Birth Sign Aquarius
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Spouse(s) Tina Fey (m. 2001)
💰 Net worth: $3 Million
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Richmond grew up in Portage County, Ohio, and graduated from James A. Garfield High School in Garrettsville, Ohio, class of 1979, where he won the John Philip Sousa award and where his mother still lives. He also played a key part in the creation of the Garrettsville Community Players, directing, choreographing, and lending his creative and artistic vision to many of its shows in its beginning. He attended Kent State University in Ohio in the late 1980s, where he co-authored a number of musicals, and wrote a musical score to william Shakespeare's Othello.
Richmond is married to Tina Fey, the creator and star of 30 Rock. They met for the very first time while working at The Second City and dated for seven years before marrying in a Greek Orthodox ceremony on June 3, 2001. They have two daughters, Alice Zenobia (born on September 10, 2005) and Penelope Athena (born August 10, 2011). His Father, Wayne Richmond, died in June 2014.
Richmond worked at The Second City and Child's Play Touring Theatre before he began composing music for the series Saturday Night Live. Richmond left SNL in 2006 to produce and compose music for the situation comedy 30 Rock. Richmond has also appeared as an extra on various occasions on 30 Rock, as the character Alfonso Disperioso; and, beginning in 2010, he directed five episodes: "Argus", "Plan B", "The Ballad of Kenneth Parcell", "Today You Are a Man", and "A Goon's Deed in a Weary World".
In 2008, Richmond composed the score to the film Baby Mama, which starred his wife, Tina Fey, opposite Amy Poehler.
Richmond is a recipient of the Child's Play Touring Theatre 2012 Victor Award.
Richmond wrote music for the Broadway stage adaptation of Mean Girls, which had it's out of town Broadway tryout in Washington, DC. The musical began previews on Broadway March 12th, 2018 and opened officially on Broadway on April 8, 2018.
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Scott Lin was born in Taichung, Taiwan, Taiwan. Scott Lin cofounded lens supplier Largan Precision with Tony Chen in 1987. Largan sold approximately 6.6 billion optical components in 2016. The company, which makes 90% of all iPhone rear lenses, got roughly 40% of its revenues from Apple last year. Largan is now run by his sons, Adam and En-Chou.
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Birth Place Taichung, Taiwan, Taiwan
Position: Offensive coordinator
Born: (1963-09-17) September 17, 1963 (age 54) Sunnyside, Washington
High school: Sunnyside (WA)
College: Idaho
Regular season: 11–25 (.306)
💰 Net worth: $2.16 Billion (2021)
2015 $1.5 Billion
2018 $2.25 Billion
Linehan is the youngest of seven children of william and Margaret Linehan; he has three brothers and three sisters. His Father, Bill (1921–98), was born in Plummer, Idaho, and was the high school principal in Sunnyside, after serving in World War II with the U.S. Army in the Pacific. Both parents and a sister attended the University of Idaho, as did brothers, Ron and Rick, who also played football at Idaho. Ron (1950–2005) was a three-time All-Big Sky linebacker (1969–71) and was selected in the 1972 NFL Draft; he was a high school coach in the Portland area until his death at age 55. Rick had ten career interceptions as a Vandal defensive back (1976–78).
Linehan was a quarterback for the Vandals under head coaches Erickson (1982–85) and Keith Gilbertson. He redshirted in 1982 and was the back-up to senior All-American Ken Hobart in 1983. Linehan became the starter in 1984 as a redshirt sophomore, but broke his clavicle early in the second game and missed most of that game and two additional starts. The Vandals struggled to a 2–5 record, then won four straight to finish 6–5 and third in the Big Sky. The season concluded with a 37–0 victory in the rivalry game with Boise State in Bronco Stadium.
Linehan began his coaching career as a volunteer coach at Sunset High School in Portland in 1987. At this time, he also was helping a friend with his Business, selling class rings for Jostens.
Linehan's college coaching career began in 1989 as the wide receivers coach at his alma mater under first-year head coach John L. Smith. After two seasons in Moscow, Linehan coached a year at UNLV, two at Idaho again as coordinator, five at Washington in Seattle under Jim Lambright, and three at Louisville under Smith.
Linehan took his first NFL job as the offensive coordinator/ wide receivers coach with the Minnesota Vikings in 2002. After three seasons in Minneapolis, Linehan served in a similar capacity with the Miami Dolphins in 2005 under Nick Saban, then was hired as head coach by the St. Louis Rams on January 19, 2006.
The bottom fell out in 2008. After an 0–3 start in which the Rams were outscored 116–29, a significant departure from the days of "The Greatest Show on Turf", Linehan benched Bulger in favor of Trent Green for their game against the Buffalo Bills. The move did not work; the Rams lost 35–14 after allowing 25 unanswered points in the second half. Linehan was fired hours later, tallying an 11–25 record in his 36 games as head coach.
Linehan was announced as the offensive coordinator of the Detroit Lions on January 23, 2009, by new head coach Jim Schwartz. On December 30, 2013, Linehan was relieved of his duties as the Detroit Lions offensive coordinator following the firing of Lions head coach Jim Schwartz.
Linehan inherited a team in transition. Most of the Rams' stars from earlier in the decade had gone elsewhere, and those who were still there had noticeably lost a step. Nonetheless, Linehan's tenure started out on a promising note, as the Rams went 4–2 in their first six games. However, a four-game losing streak in October and November effectively ended any chance of making the playoffs. Despite this slump, the NFC West was so weak that year that while they finished 8–8, missing the division title by a single game. However, the Rams regressed to 3–13 in his second season. Years of questionable draft and free-agent acquisitions caught up with the team, and the season degenerated into a fiasco due to a rash of injuries to the offensive line. The season was also marked by disputes with star players such as Steven Jackson, Torry Holt, and, most notoriously, quarterback Marc Bulger. Holt and Jackson openly feuded with Linehan on the sidelines during games. The easygoing Linehan didn't discipline them, leading to criticism that he wasn't willing to assert his authority.
On January 27, 2014, the Dallas Cowboys hired Linehan to call plays for the offense, and was later given the title of passing game coordinator. Incumbent offensive coordinator and play caller Bill Callahan remained on staff, but relinquinshed play calling duties and was given the new title of running game coordinator. Linehan serves as the de facto offensive coordinator by leading offensive meetings and calling plays during games. He was formally promoted to offensive coordinator upon Callahan's departure at the end of the season. Linehan had previously worked with Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett when they served as assistants on the staff of Nick Saban's Miami Dolphins in 2005.
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Eugene gym stays open despite two-week freeze
The owner says he plans to stay open for as long as he can.
Updated: Nov 30, 2020 6:23 PM
Posted By: Emma Withrow
EUGENE, Ore. – A gym owner in Eugene has decided to stay open despite Gov. Kate Brown’s two-week freeze.
Jon Joseph owns ReNA Fitness, which has gained some notoriety on social media lately due to some anti-mask signs Joseph posted to his studio’s front doors. The signs claim some scientific data indicates masks are ineffective.
“If I don’t want to wear a mask it's up to me, if you want to wear a mask you can wear a mask it's up to you, if your mask works then you don’t have to worry about me wearing a mask if it doesn’t work then why are you wearing a mask,” said Joseph.
Local and national health officials continue to urge the public to wear masks in public as one of the most important ways of helping prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Joseph said he plans to stay open for as long as he can, especially when the liquor store next-door to his studio is allowed to be open during the freeze.
"If they're going to shut it down, shut everything down. It's not fair to keep liquor stores, pot stores open and closed down gyms and exercise places where if I don't want to wear a mask, it's up to me," Joseph said.
Joseph says Governor Brown has no right to shut his studio down, so rather than closing down during every freeze or mandate, he hired a constitutional attorney to fight what he calls the good fight.
"I want to keep going forward, I want to fight because I think I have the right, because I think other businesses have the right to fight, we have a right to be open, we have a right to provide for our families, we have a right to keep our business going."
Joseph still has many clients that come into ReNA Fitness to participate in his class, with the class size being no more than 7 people usually. One of his long time clients, Mandy Fisher, doesn't agree with the shutdown of all gyms and fitness studios.
"Listen we followed the rules, and now we're at our breaking point, where the money that we need to make to at least keep our doors open, keep our overhead, keep the rent going, those are all really important factors," Fisher said, "it's just a different situation, we're not a gym, we don't have any equipment, we don't stay in there for hours at a time, we're in there for a half-hour max and then we're all out of there."
Last week the Associated Press reported that Courthouse Club Fitness in Salem has been fined $90,000 for defying Brown’s freeze order. The fine is from the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration and comes after citations at each of the four facilities operated by the company.
Before the statewide freeze went into effect on Nov. 18, gym owner John Miller said in a statement that a second shutdown would push his business to the breaking point, the AP reported.
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Late Prof. Labdhi Bhandari of IIM Ahmedabad is regarded by people familiar with his work as a luminary of the Indian management world. Yet, little remains written about him that will serve as a legacy of his contributions. By speaking to his students, colleagues and peers, and by studying the papers he left behind, we are attempting to reconstruct his life and contributions.
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LRB and the Emergency...
In April 1976, LRB returned to India after completing a very successful PhD from Columbia University. As planned, he was returning to IIM, Ahmedabad where he would join future luminaries like CK Prahalad, C. Rangarajan and others on the faculty. LRB had last been in India just over a year ago, between September 1974 and March 1975 doing surveys in the villages near Jodhpur, Rajasthan for his thesis. However, in the short period between March, 1975 and July, 1976 much had changed in India. On June 25, 1975 Indira Gandhi's government had declared an Emergency, beginning a 20-month period during which civil liberties would remain suspended. The India that LRB and his wife Santosh returned to was no longer a free country. We have no hint of what LRB made of this event and of moving back to the India of 1976. Was he largely insulated and indifferent? Had he heard, from some of his colleagues from the corporate world, appreciative comments about the fact that the "trains ran on time." Dr. B. S. Bhandari, LRB's elder brother, who was also abroad at the time, says: "Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi's government was a setback from political (democracy) point of view. Otherwise, in fact, the conditions improved considerably. Things moved fast and everything seemed to work reasonably efficiently and well. So this was not a problem as such." Or, was LRB, like his colleague and friend Prof. CK Prahalad, apprehensive about what was happening? LRB hardly had a choice about returning to India. He had signed a bond with IIMA in exchange for the institute sponsoring his studies and he was, in any case, committed to coming back to India. Regardless of how he may have felt, however, the Emergency was soon to directly impact LRB's life in very concrete terms.
Memo showing communication between LRB &
Prof. Samuel Paul on July 22, 1976
The story begins with some good news. Some time in late July, 1976, LRB received information that his PhD dissertation had been selected by the American Marketing Association (the selection committee included Phil Kotler and other well known marketing academics) in a national competition for the John Howard/AMA award (the award would be named only much later). The AMA had it's annual conference scheduled for August 9, 1976 in Memphis, USA and the AMA wanted LRB to be there to present his work and receive the award.
As LRB hastened to make plans, however, he would have realized that this was easier said than done in the India of 1976. An IIMA professor was an employee of the government (IIMA is an autonomous institution of the Government of India) and the rules then stated that an employee could not travel outside India without explicit permission of the Ministry of Education of the Government of India. He spoke to then IIMA director, Prof. Samuel Paul and wrote him a quick note on the 22nd of July saying that he was starting the process of obtaining clearance. He learnt, however, that till the question of funding was sorted out, he couldn't apply for permission. The first problem, therefore, was obtaining funding for the trip. LRB and Prof. Paul swung into action and a flurry of activity ensued that day. As LRB's doctoral work was on the use of a marketing approach to family planning communications, they sent a cable, on the same day, to Dr. Ned Roberto who ran the International Council on the Management of Population Programmes (ICOMP), which funded family planning research across the world. ICOMP declined saying it couldn't support travel, but offered to ask the Ford Foundation in New York which funded ICOMP (The Ford Foundation had also funded LRB's PhD through its funding to IIMA). After a week long wait, they heard back from Robert Wickham that the Ford Foundation had agreed to fund the trip (see the correspondence below).
Prof. Paul's request to Ford Foundation
Cable from ICOM
Cable from Ford Foundation
It was already the 29th of July, and with the conference scheduled for the 9th of August, time was short. Prof. Paul immediately sent in a request for permission to the Ministry of Education while LRB made preparations, anticipating a positive response. A note he sent to the Director on the 1st August records his urgency.
In the end, though, the Ministry, then headed by Prof. Nurul Hasan, refused to grant permission. In hindsight, its possible to see how political calculations probably came into play with Indira Gandhi facing the heat in the west after for the Emergency. However, at the time, the response was both unexpected and disappointing and the incident stayed in both Prof. Paul's and IIMA's institutional memory. In his memoirs, Prof. Paul has narrated the incident..
excerpted from 'A Life and It's Lessons: Memoirs' by Samuel Paul
[Editor's note: The award, as described above, was actually from American Marketing Association and the presentation would have been at the AMA annual conference at Memphis. The Ford Foundation, NY had agreed to pay for the trip, and not Columbia.]
Praful Anubhai, who spent many years on the Board of Governors of IIM Ahmedabad mentions this incident in his book, written 35 years later, when discussing the relationship between the faculty and the institute.
excerpted from 'The IIM-A Story' by Praful Anubhai
LRB, understandably, was very disappointed at this outcome. His elder brother, Dr. B.S. Bhandari remembers that he was furious and considered resigning from IIMA at the time, but was persuaded by the institute to not take such an extreme step. However, the incident rankled and may have led to other repercussions. This incident and the general atmosphere of suspicion generated by the suspension of civil liberties during the emergency may have contributed to IIM-A losing another outstanding faculty member in 1977 when Prof. CK Prahalad decided to leave the country to continue his academic career in the United States. After Prof. Prahalad's death, his son Murali told the New York Times, “As a patriotic person, my father believed that (the Emergency) is not what India represented. They made a very tough choice to return to the United States.” LRB, who was one of the very few people who Prof. Prahlad had confided in about his decision, has been quoted by his friend, Madan Mohanka, to have said at the time: "If you don't let people grow, they will go."
In the larger scheme of things, however, this was a minor incident - it only resulted in LRB not being able to attend a conference and receive an award. But, the Emergency may have had a much deeper impact on his career. When he returned to India, LRB was likely very enthusiastic about continuing his widely appreciated research on the social marketing of family planning programmes. A few months ago, in a meeting with Profs. David and Fran Korten at Harvard, he had discussed his hopes of getting the attention of top-level policy makers in India and persuading them to make their programmes more marketing strategy-oriented and situate family planning communication within the value system of the people being targeted, an approach that he had pioneered during his PhD.
The notion of a marketing strategy, however, implies treating the citizen as a customer and advocates taking into account their wants, desires and value systems when communicating with them. During the Emergency, the population policy took a wholly different and nefarious turn. In April 1976, the same month that LRB arrived in India, the government approved a new population policy calling for new measures to 'encourage' family planning. It spoke of incentives, targets and the possibility of compulsory 'sterilisation'. Sanjay Gandhi, the prime minister's son, who had become an extra-constitutional authority during this period, was especially enthusiastic and made a big push to raise the number of sterilizations, if necessary by coercion. With civil liberties suspended, in just the 6 months between July and December 1976, the government recorded 6.25 million sterilizations (vasectomies and tubectomies), up from 2.7 million in previous 12 months. The widespread resentment towards the forced sterilizations is widely believed to have been a key factor in the wholesale rejection of Indira Gandhi and the Congress party in north India in the elections of the 1977.
In effect, the excesses of the Emergency destroyed India's family planning programmes. As Esther Duflo and Abhijeet Banerjee have argued in their recent book, Poor Economics, "Tainted by the Emergency, family planning policies in India retreated into the shadows and in the shadows they have remained - some states, such as Rajasthan, do continue to promote sterilization on a voluntary basis, but no one except the health bureaucracy seems to have any interest in it. In the meantime, however, generalized suspicions of the motivations of the state seems to be one of the most durable legacies of the Emergency; for example one still hears of people in slums and villages refusing polio drops because they believe it is a way of secretly sterilize children."
This legacy of suspicion may explain an abiding mystery - why did LRB not continue his award-winning family-planning work after his return to India? A reasonable hypothesis is that the environment for family-planning work in India became increasingly hostile after 1977. No government could afford to push family planning after the atrocities of the Emergency. LRB's expertise in the area remained unused as he turned to different subjects.
*This note was prepared by Apoorva Bhandari on the basis of the LRB papers, published books, and the testimony of witnesses.
Posted by Apoorva Bhandari at 08:52
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RookerFeldman Doctrine Explained
Under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, federal district courts lack jurisdiction over "federal complaints ... that essentially invite federal courts of first instance to review and reverse unfavorable state-court judgments." See: (1) D.C. Court of Appeals v. Feldman, 460 U.S. 462, 103 S.Ct. 1303, 75 L.Ed.2d 206 (1983); (2) Rooker v. Fid. Trust Co., 263 U.S. 413, 44 S.Ct. 149, 68 L.Ed. 362 (1923). The jurisdictional statute providing for Supreme Court review of state court judgments states that "final judgments or decrees rendered by the highest court of a State in which a decision could be had, may be reviewed by the Supreme Court by writ of certiorari" when certain federal questions are presented. 28 U.S.C. 1257;<#fn5> see also id. 1258 (same for Puerto Rico Supreme Court). Rooker held that Congress, by the terms of that statute, granted the United States Supreme Court, and only the United States Supreme Court, jurisdiction over appeals from state courts: If the constitutional questions stated in the federal complaint actually arose in the state case, it was the province and duty of the state courts to decide them; and their decision, whether right or wrong, was an exercise of jurisdiction.... Under the legislation of Congress, no court of the United States other than this Court could entertain a proceeding to reverse or modify the judgment for errors of that character. To do so would be an exercise of appellate jurisdiction. The jurisdiction possessed by the District Courts is strictly original. (263 U.S. at 415-16, 44 S.Ct. 149.) In other words, Rooker is based on a negative inference: because Congress only provided for review of state court judgments by the Supreme Court, Congress therefore intended to preclude lower federal courts from exercising such review. Feldman repeated this reasoning: "A United States District Court has no authority to review final judgments of a state court in judicial proceedings. Review of such judgments may be had only in this Court." (460 U.S. at 482, 103 S.Ct. 1303.)
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BLOG Worthington: Will the 2020 Summer Olympics happen?
BLOG: Will the 2020 Summer Olympics happen?
By Rick Worthington
It is less than 150 days until Tokyo 2020’s opening ceremony and as the landmark approaches there is mounting speculation on how and whether the Olympics will be affected by the growing coronavirus threat.
Athletes say it would be “heartbreaking” for them and for Japan if the Games were affected, or even postponed due to coronavirus. Last year, Tokyo Olympic organizers said they were spending 1.35 trillion Japanese yen ($12.6 billion) to stage the Olympics, though respected Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei has estimated overall spending at 3 trillion yen ($28 billion).
Japan’s minister for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Seiko Hashimoto, said that the “Games could be postponed until later this year.”
What does than mean exactly? Well, the contract to hold the Tokyo Games only specifies the event has to be held during 2020. That implies the Olympics could be held later in the year and would not have to start on July 24 as planned.
However, the International Olympic Committee’s executive board in Switzerland is not sharing the same message. IOC spokesman Mark Adams said at a briefing, “We are going to have the games on the 24th of July.”
Your guess is as good as mine, but if you were planning on flying to Japan to watch the games…stay tuned.
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13/12/2019 – News / Machinery / Germany / VDMA / Export
VDMA: German machinery manufacturers see no growth impetus from foreign trade
The country’s industry body, VDMA, says that while exports in the first nine months of 2019 remain positive at 0.6 per cent, exports are down 1.1 per cent in Q3 2019, with France a bright spot for German machinery exports.
A synchronised slowdown in the global economy, alongside increasing protectionism and trade conflicts, are leaving their marks on German machinery exports. According to the country’s Federal Statistical Office, machine deliveries in the first nine months of this year increased by 0.6 per cent (in nominal terms) compared to the same period of the previous year, to total €134.6 billion.
In the first quarter of 2019, exports grew 3.9 per cent compared to Q12018. In the second and third quarters of 2019, however, mechanical engineering companies recorded an export decline of 0.8 and 1.1 per cent respectively. “A trend reversal is not in sight for the time being. For months now, mechanical engineering companies have been recording declines in orders both at home and abroad,” said VDMA Chief Economist Dr Ralph Wiechers. “In this respect, it will be difficult to maintain the nominal increase in exports for 2019 as a whole.”
Growth momentum slows in exports to USA
Between January and September, exports to the United States – the number one destination for German machinery exporters – rose by 6.2 per cent to €15.02bn. The USA thus accounted for 11.2 per cent of total German machinery exports over that period. In Q3 2019, machine exports to the USA increased by 3.2 per cent. However, compared with the first half of 2019 (plus 7.8 per cent), the pace slowed noticeably.
Elsewhere, there was a change of sign for machine exports to China: from January to September, machine deliveries shrank by 0.7 per cent to €14.1bn. In the second quarter, exports were still up slightly by 0.1 per cent. China – the second most important single market for German machinery exporters – accounts for 10.5 per cent of the European country’s total machinery exports. “German machinery exports to the People's Republic are not immune to the weaker sales trend in mechanical engineering in China,” noted Dr Wiechers.
France: Europe's new growth engine
Meanwhile, France has become ‘Europe's new growth engine’, according to the VDMA. Currently number three in the export ranking, France gave important impetus to German machinery exports within the context of European customer countries. Exports grew by 6.9 per cent to €9.38bn in the first nine months of 2019. “The robust investment in France – in particular by French companies – at the beginning of this year, is directly reflected in German machinery exports to France,” said Dr Wiechers.
“The economy in France is growing faster than the Euro Zone, and much stronger than Germany. President Macron's tax and labour reform is bearing fruit,” he added.
Exports to UK and Italy shrink amid uncertainty
However, the opposite can be seen in the United Kingdom. The political tug-of-war over the modalities of the Brexit had a significant negative impact on export business with the UK from the second quarter of 2019 onwards. From January to September, German mechanical engineering exporters recorded an export decline of 4.8 per cent to €5.66bn. This contrasts starkly with Q1 figures, with the industry recording a growth of 8.8 per cent in exports to the UK.
Politics also left its mark on machinery exports to Italy. Exports shrank in the first nine months of the year by 5.4 per cent to €6.03bn.
Total exports to the EU countries increased by 1.1 per cent to €64.6bn in the first nine months.
Positive developments in Russia and Japan
Business with Turkey remained difficult, with exports declining by 7.7 per cent (to €2.36bn). Likewise, business with Russia shrank in the first nine months by 3.6 per cent (to €4.03bn), although machinery exports actually grew by 7.0 per cent in Q3 2019.
Elsewhere, exports to Japan continued to develop positively, growing by an impressive 10.5 per cent to total €2.19bn over the first nine months of the year.
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Research Opens Doors to UV Disinfection Using LED Technology
Research from North Carolina State University will allow the development of energy-efficient LED devices that use ultraviolet (UV) light to kill bacteria and viruses. The technology has a wide array of applications ranging from drinking-water treatment to sterilizing surgical tools.
UV treatment utilizing LEDs would be more cost-effective, energy efficient and longer lasting, says Dr. Ramón Collazo, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at NC State and lead author of a paper describing the research. Our work would also allow for the development of robust and portable water-treatment technologies for use in developing countries.
LEDs utilize aluminum nitride (AlN) as a semiconductor, because the material can handle a lot of power and create light in a wide spectrum of colors, particularly in the UV range. However, technologies that use AlN LEDs to create UV light have been severely limited because the substrates that served as the foundation for these semiconductors absorbed wavelengths of UV light that are crucial to applications in sterilization and water treatment technologies.
A team of researchers from North Carolina and Japan has developed a solution to the problem. Using computer simulation, they determined that trace carbon atoms in the crystalline structure of the AlN substrate were responsible for absorbing most of the relevant UV light. By eliminating the carbon in the substrate, the team was able to significantly improve the amount of UV light that can pass through the substrate at the desired wavelengths.
Once we identified the problem, it was relatively easy and inexpensive to address, says Dr. Zlatko Sitar, the Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at NC State and co-author of the paper.
Commercial technologies incorporating this research are currently being developed by HexaTech Inc., a spin-off company from NC State.
This is a problem thats been around for more than 30 years, and we were able to solve it by integrating advanced computation, materials synthesis and characterization, says Dr. Doug Irving, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at NC State and co-author of the paper. I think well see more work in this vein as the Materials Genome Initiative moves forward, and that this approach will accelerate the development of new materials and related technologies.
The paper, On the origin of the 265 nm absorption band in AlN bulk crystals, is published online in Applied Physics Letters. Co-authors include Benjamin Gaddy, Zachary Bryan, Ronny Kirste and Marc Hoffman from NC State, as well as researchers from HexaTech Inc., Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, and the Tokuyama Corporation. The research was supported with funding from the U.S. Department of Defense.
Reference: Callazo R, et al. On the origin of the 265 nm absorption band in AlN bulk crystals. May 2012, Applied Physics Letters.
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UBC Scientists Coordinate Mapping of Killer Fungus Genome
Scientists are a step closer to developing drug targets to treat fungal meningitis -- the infection linked to at least three deaths on Vancouver Island -- thanks to the sequencing of two Cryptococcus genomes by an international team that included researchers at the University of British Columbia and the BC Cancer Agency's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Vancouver.
This fundamental information will help develop better diagnostic tools, as well as antifungal drugs and potential vaccines, says professor Jim Kronstad of the Michael Smith Laboratories at UBC. The genome mapping expertise found here in Vancouver has allowed us to take a big step forward in understanding these infections.
Kronstad, a microbiologist, initiated the mapping portion of the study in collaboration with scientists at the BC Cancer Agency's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, and coordinated efforts with the international team, including scientists from The Institute of Genomic Research, Stanford University and Duke University in the United States. The team published its findings in Science.
In a three-year investigation, researchers sequenced two genomes for the Cryptococcus group of fungal pathogens. The team is currently completing and analyzing a third genome, Cryptococcus neoformans gatti, the species that caused the deadly outbreak of infections which were first detected on Vancouver Island in 1999. They will make comparisons between the genomes through a partnership with the UBC Bioinformatics Centre and publish the sequence of the additional genome this year.
Cryptococcus is a yeast-like fungal organism that can cause life-threatening infections, the most common being fungal meningitis that affects about 10 percent of AIDS patients in North America and 30 percent of patients in Africa. Meningitis is an inflammation of the lining around the brain and spinal cord.
Fungal meningitis generally attacks those with weakened immune systems. Individuals can become infected by inhaling Cryptococcus spores found in soil contaminated with decaying pigeon droppings. Symptoms of meningitis include severe headache, stiff neck, fever and vomiting. The disease can be fatal if not treated with anti-fungal drugs.
Support for this research was provided the Natural Sciences and Energy Research Council (NSERC) and by the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. The current Cryptococcus genome sequencing project underway in Vancouver is funded by Genome Canada and Genome BC.
BC Cancer Agency's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre is a department of the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA), the cancer care and control organization for British Columbia. Part of the Provincial Health Services Authority, BCCA is committed to reducing the incidence of cancer, reducing the mortality from cancer, and improving the quality of life of those living with cancer.
The late Michael Smith was a UBC microbiology professor who received the Nobel Prize in 1993 for his work in programming segments of DNA.
Source: University of British Columbia
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Lynne Baab • Wednesday November 9 2016
“Hospitality is making others feel at home. Some folks make you feel at home. Others make you wish you were.” – Arnold H. Glasow (1905-1998)
Arnold Glasow was a businessman and a humorist. The quotation I’ve highlighted here is both insightful and humorous—in a sad way. How tragic that all of us have people in our lives who we would just as soon spent very little time with.
One challenge raised by this quotation is how we can learn to show love to people who make us wish we were somewhere else. My answer has to do with love and limits. God’s call to us in Christ is to try to love everyone we come into contact with. But, at the same time, Jesus says that his yoke is easy and his burden is light (Matthew 11:28-30). In those verses from Matthew, he says that we are to learn from him. Jesus did not spend all of his time with people who frustrated him. He spent time alone with his beloved Father. In the same way, we don’t have to be martyrs and spend endless hours with people who we find difficult to love. We can put limits on the time we spend with certain people.
The second challenge this passage highlights is learning how to help people feel at home in our presence. This includes people we like and people we don’t like. My husband Dave and I had a long conversation about what we view “home” to feel like, and we boiled our discussion down to two characteristics. Home, at its best, is a place where we feel safe from harm and able to be our true selves, to “let our hair down” and relax.
Here’s a conversation where I did not feel safe and did not feel free to be myself.
Me (at three in the afternoon): I hope you don’t mind. I usually have a snack at three.
The other person (significantly thinner than I am, who has never battled with weight, and who knows that I have): Oh, no, I never snack in the afternoon.
With that response, I felt unsafe, as if I cannot say what I need or want. And felt judged as a person who has found that snacking in the afternoon is a way to help me control my weight. I did not feel free to be myself with my unique needs.
What are some responses the other person might have made to create an atmosphere of safety and freedom to be myself?
Permission giving: “Feel free to have your snack now.”
Curious in a way that indicates interest in my life: “What kinds of snacks do you like?”
Forthright but supportive in a general way: “I never snack in the afternoon, but isn’t it interesting how different people’s bodies work so differently?”
Supportive of my specific journey: “How great that you’ve learned a strategy that works well for you. I know you’ve worked so hard to deal with weight.”
I’ve laid out four kinds of responses that I believe convey safety and acceptance of the other person:
1. permission giving
2. curious in a way that indicates interest
3. forthright but supportive in a general way
4. supportive of the other person’s specific journey
I invite you to think of a conversation you’ve had with someone where you have wanted to help that person feel at home but haven’t known how to do that. Use each of the four patterns I’ve suggested to imagine responses you could make.
“As God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. Bear with one another. . . . Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony” (Colossians 3: 12-14).
(Next week: Breton fisherman’s prayer. Illustration: Captain Cook’s cottage in Melbourne by Dave Baab. If you’d like to receive an email when I post on this blog, sign up under “subscribe” in the right hand column.)
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In the courts of Lincolnshire
Here's our round up of court cases
Adam MossDigital Editor
A gavel used in court
The following cases have been heard at magistrates courts in Lincolnshire:
Gedas Mazura, 40, of 9 Ellen Crescent, Spalding, pleaded guilty to driving without insurance. He was given an absolute discharge. His licence was endorsed with six points.
Catalin-Florin Mincu, 23, of 119A Roman Bank, Skegness, was convicted for driving without insurance. He was fined £660, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £66 and costs of £85. He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for six months.
Costin-Alin Rafaila, 30, of 133 Windsor Bank, Boston, was convicted for driving without insurance. He was fined £660, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £66 and costs of £85. He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for six months.
Artur Semakov, 33, of Flat 17 Pilgrim Mansions, Spain Lane, Boston, was convicted for driving without insurance. He was fined £660, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £66 and costs of £85. He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for six months.
Stephanie Anne Bushby, 37, of 31 Trusthorpe Road, Sutton-on-Sea, Mablethorpe, pleaded guilty to theft of cosmetics to the value of £12 belonging to The Factory Store, three Christmas wreaths to a value unknown, three ornamental reindeer to the value of £30, three ornamental reindeer to the value of £30, flowers to a value unknown belonging to Lidl, meat to the value of £30 belonging to Co-op Supermarket, toy trucks and microwavable teddies to the value of £45 belonging to The Factory Stop and two boxes of crackers and a Christmas scene to the value of £20 belonging to Lidl. She was committed to prison for 14 weeks suspended for 12 months and ordered to pay compensation of £135.
Kyle Gary Campbell, 29, ℅ 26 Ladywood Road, Spalding, was found guilty for assault by beating and failing to surrender to custody. He was given a community order to carry out unpaid work for 225 hours within the next 12 months, given a restraining order for two years, ordered to pay compensation of £400, a surcharge to fund victim services of £85 and costs of £620.
Christa Sorren Ridley, 38, of Room 12 The Foyer, Sleaford, pleaded guilty to possession of 0.44g of 5F-MDMB-PINACA a controlled Class B drug. He was fined £60, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £30 and costs of £85.
Vacys Ciparis, 42, of 8 Dock Terrace, Boston, case proven for failing to give information relating to the identification of the driver of a vehicle. He was fined £660, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £66 and costs of £85. He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for six months.
Gheorghe Iancu, 44, of 3 Bedford Place, Nelson Way, Boston, was proven for three counts of failing to give information relating to the identification of the driver of a vehicle. He was fined £1,980, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £198 and costs of £255. His licence was endorsed with six points. He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for eight months.
Stanislav Iliev, 36, of 18 Revesby Avenue, Boston, case proven for failing to give information relating to the identification of the driver of a vehicle. He was fined £660, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £66 and costs of £85. He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for six months.
Debra Killips, 44, of 21 Corden Close, Skegness, case proven for driving without insurance and outside the authorisation class of a licence. She was fined £660 and ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £66. She was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for six months.
Mark Stone, 43, of 39 Little London, Long Sutton, Spalding, case proven for driving without insurance, outside the authorisation class of a licence and without an MoT certificate. He was fined £660 and ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £66. He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for six months.
Calin Vasile, 52, of 6 Freiston Road, Boston, pleaded guilty to driving in excess of 60mph on the A17, two counts of driving in excess of 30mph on the A52 and six counts of driving in excess of 40mph on the A52. He was fined £1,496, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £270 and costs of £595. His licence was endorsed and he was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for 24 months.
Mark Westerdale, 57, of 6A Victoria Street, Billingborough, Sleaford, case proven for failing to give information relating to the identification of the driver of a vehicle. He was fined £660, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £66 and costs of £85. He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for six months.
Aaron Norman Willis, 32, of Anna House, Newark Road, Holdingham, Sleaford, case proven for driving without insurance and without an MoT certificate. He was fined £660 and ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £66. He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for six months.
Andrejus Arsitovas, 47, of 31 Double Street, Spalding, pleaded guilty to driving with 81 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. He was fined £325, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £32 and costs of £85. He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for 20 months.
Stephen Fryer, 67, of 8 The Towers, Park Avenue, Skegness, pleaded guilty to stalking. He was committed to prison for four weeks suspended for 12 months, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £115 and costs of £85.
Lyndsay Howis, 39, of 15 Talbot Road, Skegness, pleaded guilty to driving with 104 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. She was fined £458, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £45 and costs of £85. She was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for 26 months.
Jorge Pinto, 39, of 31A Daisy Dale, Boston, pleaded guilty to failing to provide a specimen of blood for a laboratory test. He was fined £300, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £30 and costs of £85. He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for 40 months.
Paul Vines, 41, of Jacksons Farm Caravan Site, Washway Road, Holbeach, Spalding, pleaded guilty to driving with 82 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. He was fined £300, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £30 and costs of £85. He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for 20 months.
Amanda Jane Bestwick, 48, of 19 Lady Matildas Drive, Skegness, pleaded guilty to failing to notify the Department for Work and Pensions of a change of circumstances. She was given a community order to carry out unpaid work for 100 hours within the next 12 months, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £85 and costs of £85.
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Jake Aaron Cable, 27, of New Avondale, Roman Bank, Saracens Head East, Spalding, pleaded guilty to destroying a window belonging to The Crown Hotel. He was ordered to pay compensation of £150 and costs of £85.
Aivaras Ignatenka, 27, of Flat 7, 7 Windmill View Court, Boston, pleaded guilty to failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis and assaulting an emergency worker. He agreed to have alcohol abstinence monitoring equipment fitted. He was given a community order to carry out unpaid work for 150 hours within the next 12 months, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £85, compensation of £80 and costs of £85. He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for 12 months.
Thomas Luke Would, 26, of 30 Horncastle Road, Boston, pleaded guilty to damaging six panes of glass to a value unknown belonging to the Hospital Bridge Methodist Church and possession of a quantity of cannabis a controlled Class B drug. He was given a conditional discharge for 12 months and ordered to pay compensation of £150. The drugs were forfeited and destroyed.
John Leonard Gage, 76, of 15 Cheshire Grove, Skegness, pleaded guilty to failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis. He was fined £120, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £30 and costs of £85. He was disqualified from holding or obtaining a licence for 12 months.
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Reproductive depression
How long do symptoms of the menopause last?
If you were under the impression the menopause was all over in one day, or even a few months, we have some news for you.
Research from the US has shown the average time frequent menopausal symptoms last is 7.4 years.
For some women, these symptoms can go on for more than ten years. This can have far-reaching effects on wellbeing, both physically and emotionally.
Consultant gynaecologist Mr Neale Watson of The London PMS and Menopause Clinic says: ‘It is key to understand and acknowledge the real physiological changes brought about by decreasing hormone levels that take place during and after the menopause. The production of the hormones oestrogen and progesterone stops.’
He adds: ‘The hormone oestrogen is extremely important within the female body and it affects many aspects of health. As a consequence, when it diminishes there are profound impacts on health.’
What are the symptoms of menopause
Hot flushes and night sweats - 80% of women will experience hot flushes and on average last for about 5 years but in some women can last for much longer
Depression and mood changes
Sleep disturbance due to anxiety and hot flushes
Brain fog, lack of ability to concentrate and forgetfulness
Vaginal dryness caused by thinning of the vaginal tissue
Frequent urination and urinary tract infections
Aching joints
Loss of bone density leading to osteoporosis
More unusual symptoms of menopause include
Change of body odour
Tingling in the legs
Restless legs at night
Dry mouth and dental problems
Hair loss or thinning hair
Sounds scary? The good news is, there are treatments available to ease and control these symptoms and protect your future health.
Relief from menopausal symptoms
HRT is extremely effective at relieving hot flushes and night sweats and easing issues such as vaginal dryness. According to Mr Watson it is also good for concentration and mood. He says: ‘Oestrogen affects the release of the neuro-transmitters dopamine and serotonin – both of which play a key part in regulating mood. As a consequence, declining levels of oestrogen often results in low or fluctuating moods. In our clinic, we have seen countless cases of women’s depression that has been successfully alleviated by the correct dosage of hormone replacement.’
Can HRT protect your health in the future?
Mr Watson also says there is good evidence that HRT can protect heart health. ‘We know that women have an increased risk of heart attacks after the menopause, however, we also know that HRT can offer protection against coronary artery disease,’ he says. ‘Some studies have indicated that it can reduce the chance of having a heart attack by up to 50%.’
‘US research indicates that women taking HRT for less than six years after the menopause had slower artery wall thickening than those taking a placebo,’ he adds.
The small risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) can be lowered further by using a patch or a gel over a tablet-form of HRT.
In addition, oestrogen helps to protect bone strength lessening the risks of osteoporosis and fractures. This is a serious condition which is associated with bone fractures and is associated with higher mortality. We know that around 25 percent of people die within the first six to 12 months after a hip fracture.
Mr Watson comments: ‘Osteoporosis is best avoided in the first place if at all possible and HRT can help with this.’
If you don't fancy suffering menopausal symptoms for years on end, it's worth doing your research and finding a consultant gynaecologist who has experience and expertise in HRT and menopause.
If you would like to talk to Mr Watson or another member of our team of specialists, please make an appointment by clicking here. Call us on 020 7486 0497 or email harley@studd.co.uk.
To find our more about menopause and HRT, Professor John Studd, the internationally acknowledged expert in the field of gynaecological endocrinology and founder of The London PMS & Menopause Clinic has made a series of podcasts. You can listen here.
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Indie Author Books
Unto This Last A Novel
by Rebecca Lipkin
LoveReading View on Unto This Last A Novel
Unto This Last is a historical fiction centred around John Ruskin the Victorian era art critic amongst many other things. Before reading this book I had perhaps heard of Ruskin but didn’t know too much about him. Despite this lack of previous knowledge I found Unto This Last a detailed and interesting depiction of Ruskin’s connection to Rose La Touche.
I found that this book was very well written, it seemed to me to be written in the style of a period novel while also managing to maintain a degree of self awareness that I thought allowed for a more critical eye on a range of topics such as mental health and Victorian attitudes in reference to women.
I think the relationship between Ruskin and La Touche is quite delicately handled, with Ruskin coming across as almost naïve to me early in the story. I also particularly liked the additional literary nods throughout the book. The title itself is taken from one of Ruskin’s works and the chapter heading “State of Denmark” as a nod to Shakespeare's Hamlet are great examples that I noticed. I think that this book has been very well-researched and written with real insight. I think that anyone who enjoys period novels would enjoy this book without needing to know a great deal about the main character beforehand. The book covers an extended period and also fills in details about Ruskin’s early years and first marriage. I also think this is perhaps a great starting point for any interested reader to do more research on John Ruskin’s life.
I would say that Unto This Last is a substantial and yet fascinating read that provides a considered look at the life and work of John Ruskin.
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Unto This Last A Novel Synopsis
London, 1858.
Passionate, contradictory, and fiercely loyal to his friends, John Ruskin is an eccentric genius, famed across Britain for his writings on art and philosophy. Haunted by a scandalous past and determined never to love again, the 39-year-old Ruskin becomes infatuated with his enigmatic young student, Rose La Touche, an obsession with profound consequences that will change the course of his life and work.
Written in a style recalling Victorian literature and spanning a period of twenty years, the story poses questions about the nature of love, the boundaries of parenthood, and compatibility in marriage. Unto This Last is a portrait of Ruskin's tormented psyche and reveals a complex and misunderstood soul, longing for a life just out of reach.
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing Ltd
Publication date: 27th August 2020
Author: Rebecca Lipkin
Genres: Historical Fiction, Indie Author Books, Indie Books We Love,
Categories: Historical fiction,
About Rebecca Lipkin
Rebecca Lipkin was home-schooled from the age of twelve due to Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder that left her bed-bound for many years. Rebecca cultivated a passion for Victorian art and literature from the confines of her room and it was during this time that she first discovered John Ruskin. Recovering enough strength to walk again after five years in bed, she joined the Ruskin Society as its youngest member, aged seventeen, where she furthered her knowledge about Ruskin. Through her own research, she learnt about Ruskin's fascinating relationship with Rose La Touche, a story that, ten years later, ...
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Our 2020 Highlights
Back to Each Breath Blog
Each Breath Blog
by Editorial Staff | December 15, 2020
At the beginning of 2020, we never could have predicted how much our world would change in the course of one year. The COVID-19 pandemic created a number of challenges that we, as an organization, rose to address. Our first challenge was to provide factual, science-based information on the coronavirus to the millions of people who visit our website. Additionally, thanks to the generous support of our donors, we found new ways to reinvent our in-person initiatives so that they could still thrive in the post-COVID world. Here is a look back at some of the innovative ideas we are most proud of.
Combatting COVID-19
As the nation’s trusted champion of lung health, the Lung Association took quick action to address the virus. In early April, we announced a $25 million investment to defeat COVID-19 and prevent future respiratory virus outbreaks through the COVID-19 Action Initiative. We have since seen significant strides in research funding, education, advocacy and coalition efforts to address the challenges around the virus, including funding 12 COVID-19 research grants totaling $2.4 million.
Beginning in June, the Lung Association established the virtual COVID-19 Town Hall Series. This monthly webinar event brings together top health experts to raise awareness about the effects of COVID-19 and discuss the health impact of the pandemic on all Americans. In addition, the Lung Association launched its first ever podcast, donned “Lungcast,” which has featured Dr. Anthony Fauci among other COVID-19 experts.
While the COVID-19 virus does not discriminate against whom it infects, the pandemic has exposed a deep gap in resources and healthcare access within Black and Latino communities. Our Buy 2, Give 2 initiative seeks to aid these communities by offering to donate 2 masks to a underserved community for every 2 masks that are purchased.
The Lung Association has convened a COVID-19 Advisory Panel, hosted a vaccine roundtable with top-tier medical experts and community leaders and distributed more than 30,000 masks to those in need through local partnerships.
In September, the American Lung Association hosted a one-of-a-kind livestream event.
Hosted by Queen Latifah, our #Act4Impact telethon sought to raise awareness about disparities in healthcare, specifically in the time of COVID-19. With the help of some celebrity friends, we were able to raise $6.9MM for the COVID-19 Action Initiative.
Going Virtual
With COVID-19 making live events unsafe, we were tasked with reimagining safe ways to engage our communities. Our first signature event to face the challenge of maintaining social distancing measures was our Fight For Air Climb. As COVID-19 spread across the country, many considered cancelations until our imaginative volunteers and staff rallied to keep the momentum going by hosting Virtual Climbs in March and April. We also recognized that in this time of uncertainty, many people had new and creative ways to raise funds, so we sought to encourage this creativity by establishing a DIY fundraiser program.
The enthusiasm for virtual connection spread to our LUNG FORCE Expos, which were held virtually for the first time ever. Designed to educate patients and health professionals about the latest trends, resources and research surrounding lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases. Even though the event was moved online we had record attendance and are planning more events in 2021.
In March, we celebrated five years of LUNG FORCE Advocacy Day through an innovative virtual event that united LUNG FORCE Heroes from across the nation to remotely meet with members of Congress and ask them to support $44.7 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and to ensure that current healthcare protections, including those for patients with pre-existing conditions, will continue. “We were allowed to do a remote conversation with three representatives,” LUNG FORCE hero Milli W said. “Their offices all listened! We asked them to support $44.7B in funding for the National Institutes of Health, I also asked that they continue their support for our current healthcare protections, including those for people with pre-existing conditions.”
This further inspired us to move many other events online, including our Virtual Better Breathers Network which have been hosted by our Chief Medical Officer Dr. Albert Rizzo online since mid-March, and continue to share up-to-the-minute information about lung disease and COVID-19.
Signature Reports and Initiatives
For 18 years, our annual “State of Tobacco Control” report has tracked and graded efforts to reduce tobacco use by state and federal governments. Among other things, this year we were disheartened to see that youth vaping remains an epidemic, with 2019 showing an alarming rise to 27.5% of high schoolers reporting e-cigarette use and middle school use rising to 10.5%. In response to these findings, the American Lung Association’s comprehensive plan to end youth vaping encompasses education, advocacy and research, and has four components. The first was a public awareness campaign with the Ad Council called “Get Your Head Out of the Cloud.” The goal was to equip parents with the facts about e-cigarettes and support conversations before kids start to vape. In addition, the Vape-Free Schools Initiative helps school administrators and educators address the surge of youth vaping through guidance in implementing a comprehensive tobacco use policy, an alternative to suspension program for students.
In July, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Clean Air Act by launched the Stand Up For Clean Air initiative, encouraging everyone to sign the pledge at Lung.org/air. “Stand Up For Clean Air empowers everyone to make small changes in their lives that will add up to a big collective difference.” said American Lung Association Director of Advocacy, Ashley Lyerly. “Even if you’ve never considered your part in addressing climate change and air pollution, now is everyone’s chance to make a difference. It’s not too late, and every action counts.”
The American Lung Association's 21st annual “State of the Air” report, released in April, supported these claims. The annual air quality “report card” once again found that nearly half of all Americans were exposed to unhealthy air in 2016-2018. Pollution places the health of residents at risk, including those who are more vulnerable to the effects of air pollution such as older adults, children and those with a lung disease.
The transportation sector is a leading contributor to both climate change and air pollution. With nearly half of Americans living with unhealthy air, and climate change making it harder to protect public health today. This is why we released the first "The Road to Clean Air" report. The report highlights the potential for major public health and climate change benefits through a robust nationwide transition to electric vehicles.
We released our 3rd annual “State of Lung Cancer” report in November. It examines the toll of lung cancer throughout the nation and outlines steps every state can take to better protect its residents from lung cancer. For the first time, this year’s report explores the lung cancer burden among racial and ethnic groups at the national and state levels. “The report continued to grow on its solid foundation of describing lung cancer disparities by adding data for racial and ethnic groups this year which revealed drastic differences between people of color and white Americans in lung cancer outcomes and treatment,” our National Director of Epidemiology and Statistics, Zach Jump, said.
None of this progress would be possible without the support of our generous donors. Thank you so much for helping us make it through this trying year, it is your continued commitment that gives us hope that we one day will achieve a world free of lung disease.
Blog last updated: December 15, 2020
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75th Anniversary Tour - Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury FRANKWELL QUAYSHREWSBURYSHROPSHIRESY3 8FT
28sep2:30 pm3:30 pm75th Anniversary Tour - Theatre Severn, ShrewsburyNow celebrating his 75th birthday, join one of the UK’s best-loved authors as he shares his gift for magical storytelling and reveals the secrets nearly 50 years of writing has taught him.
05 May 2019 - 09 November 2019 Michael Morpurgo began writing stories in the early ‘70s, inspired by the children he taught in his primary school
05 May 2019 – 09 November 2019
Michael Morpurgo began writing stories in the early ‘70s, inspired by the children he taught in his primary school class in Kent. He has written over 130 books, including The Butterfly Lion, Kensuke’s Kingdom, Private Peaceful and War Horse, which was adapted for a hugely successful stage production by the National Theatre and then, in 2011, for a film directed by Steven Spielberg.
But what about the real-life story of Michael Morpurgo? How did a boy supremely uninterested in books, who dreamed of becoming an army officer, become a bestselling author and Children’s Laureate? What stories in Michael’s own life motivated him to write more than a hundred books for children?
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Violence or Vaccines: Which Path for US in Africa?
REUTERS 08/06/14
By Michael Shank
Africa is the new frontier for the U.S. Defense Department. The Pentagon has applied counterterrorism tactics throughout the Middle East and, to a lesser extent, Central and South Asia. Now it is monitoring the African continent for counterterrorism initiatives. It staged more than 546 military exercises on the continent last year, a 217 percent increase since 2008, and is now involved in nearly 50 African countries.
U.S. military and police aid to all Africa this year totaled nearly $1.8 billion, with additional arms sales surpassing $800 million. In terms of ensuring Africa’s safety and security, however, the return on this investment is questionable.
What if, for example, that money was instead spent eradicating pervasive viruses that are undermining Africa’s future? Yellow fever vaccination doses cost less than $1.00 and Hepatitis B vaccination doses cost 25 cents or less. These viruses, and their deadly bedfellows like Ebola, are the real threats terrorizing African communities — and more deserving of U.S. defense dollars.
The Pentagon’s serious ramp-up in funds and focus is an apparent response to the rise of groups like Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al-Shabaab in Somalia and the various insurgencies throughout Mali, Libya and Uganda. Yet the heavy U.S. military footprint is doing little to address the pressing socioeconomic needs of impoverished people in the Horn of Africa or politically and economically marginalized communities in West Africa.
The violence in these countries — from Nigeria in the west to Somalia in the east — is getting worse, despite increasing U.S. drone strikes, airstrikes, military advisers, joint special operations and other counterterrorism tactics. Relying on hard power in Africa does not address the root causes behind the many extremist groups.
Consider Somalia. U.S. military and police aid to this war-torn country totals more than $72 million this year, which includes weapons acquisitions, military training and tactical support on the ground. Yet in Mogadishu, where I visited last year, Al-Shabaab reportedly recruits unemployed youth with little more than $20 and a cell phone.
In a country where one in five Somali children dies before age 5, we can and must do better — especially given the entirely preventable famine that killed 250,000 Somalis in 2010-2012. If we care about curtailing recruitment by extremists on the Horn of Africa, we need to offer better alternatives with sustainable livelihoods.
Cameroon is another example. When I was a U.S. congressional staffer in 2011, we helped the Cameroon government launch an anti-malaria campaign. We delivered insecticide-treated mosquito nets that cost roughly $10 per bed. In 2014, U.S. military and police aid to Cameroon came to nearly $1.5 million, along with at least $7 million in arms sales. Combined, the total $8.5 million could have bought 850,000 bed nets. If it’s about saving lives in Cameroon, the answer is more likely found in bed nets than bombs.
Going forward, the African continent will need to work with the international community to counter security threats facing each country, whether food-, water- or resource-related, or problems with nonstate actors. The question is how.
More big-business engagement by multinationals like Coca-Cola (which pledged to invest $5 billion in Africa over six years) and Marriott Hotels, as President Barack Obama promised Tuesday in Washington at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, won’t directly or immediately help the impoverished and unemployed on the streets of Mogadishu or the marginalized in northern Nigeria.
Africa-centric agendas, however, require longer game plans, with development strategies that are locally owned, locally administered and sustainably funded. The quick fix of a drone strike will likely only increase the continent’s instability. The same applies to the quick fix of top-down corporate funding or aid relief. The real terror on the continent remains the elusiveness of a sustainable, grass-roots development agenda that is genuinely inclusive.
That should be Washington’s focus. It’s time to stop looking at Africa through the barrel of a gun.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/06/shank-usaid-idUSL2N0QC2EU20140806
Michael Shank is associate director for legislative affairs at the Friends Committee on National Legislation and adjunct professor at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.
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Lawsuit says tech giants use child labor in cobalt mining
The element is key in making lithium-ion batteries. "This is the first time that tech companies have been on the hook for this," says Roger Cheng of CNET.
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Earlier this week, six U.S. tech companies were named in a lawsuit that accuses them of endangering the lives of child laborers in the mining of cobalt for their products. Child labor is frequently used in mining for cobalt, and several children have been maimed or killed in pursuit of this element.
Cobalt is used in lithium-ion batteries, the ones that power every laptop, smartphone, pair of wireless headphones and tablet out there. It’s rare; most of it comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the rest mostly from China. The lawsuit, the first of its kind, names Apple, Google parent company Alphabet, Microsoft, Dell and Tesla.
In “Quality Assurance,” the Friday segment where we take a deeper look at a big tech story, I spoke with Roger Cheng, an executive editor and head of CNET News, which reported on the story. He told me a lawsuit like this raises awareness. The following is an edited transcript of our conversation.
Roger Cheng: This is the first time that tech companies have been on the hook for this. There have been a number of reports about the human rights violations, child labor conducted by these cobalt copper mines, most of which are in the Congo. This really brings back to the forefront the issue of whether or not there are human rights violations going on.
Molly Wood: For those who don’t know, tell us how crucial is cobalt to the tech products these companies make, and how hard is it to find?
Cheng: That’s really the critical problem that industry faces is the fact that cobalt is one of the most important ingredients in making a lithium-ion battery. Cobalt is a substance that actually helps stabilize and make batteries safer — keeping them from overheating — they’re absolutely important. Part of the problem is that there really is only a handful of suppliers, and the Democratic Republic of Congo supplies roughly 60% of the world’s supply of cobalt. In terms of refined cobalt, the vast majority of that is supplied by China. This is an issue for companies like Apple, this is an issue for companies like Tesla, which obviously invest a lot in big batteries for their cars.
Wood: What do you think it would take for tech companies to change this practice in some way or invest more heavily in different kinds of battery technology?
Cheng: I think that’s what’s happening now. You see companies like Panasonic invest in research into batteries that don’t use cobalt. Elon Musk has teased that the next generation of cars would use batteries that reduce the percentage of cobalt in the batteries. It’s a tricky balance, because if they want to reduce the amount of cobalt, they have to use more nickel. It doesn’t recharge as well, it’s more prone to overheating. That’s the big dilemma. Cobalt is such a valuable part of the battery that reducing the reliance on it is really difficult. Battery technology moves extremely slowly, and finding a way to create a battery or power source that isn’t reliant on cobalt at all could be years away. Panasonic has talked about it, but it’s unclear whether or not that company, or any other company, is close to a breakthrough to a point where you can make batteries that are widely adopted. It just takes a really long time.
Wood: Would it take consumer pressure to move the needle at all, either on that research or any other change?
Cheng: Consumer pressure would help, for sure. I think if there is more public outcry, if there’s more of an outcry from the government, if there’s more criticism, that might spark things, but research like this takes a while. Beyond just the research, batteries right now, they rely on the fact that they’re relatively standard. We all live on lithium ion — our standard AAA and AA batteries, they’ve been around for a really long time — and they work because they’re universally accepted. To create a new battery technology and get that into the whole ecosystem of products, that’s really difficult. That takes a long time, just from a market perspective. It’s not like consumer pressure or any pressure really can speed that process up.
Wood: Let’s circle back a little bit more explicitly about how the supply chain works and why this is somewhat invisible. Apple has even said, “We’ve tried to make sure that we’re not working with suppliers who are using child labor, but it’s hard to keep track.” How does that happen?
Cheng: Part of it is because the cobalt is, again, it’s mined, it’s raw material, it gets refined, it gets shipped off to another company that then basically uses it as part of a component, and then it gets sent off to another. Basically, they’re multiple steps to the chain before it even gets to the lithium-ion battery part. I think that’s the issue, tracking it down and actually reverse engineering how it all came to be. It’s in a region that isn’t very transparent, so tracking this all down and making sure that the suppliers you use all meet your standards is a difficult thing. Like I said, to Apple’s credit, they’ve definitely tried, and they’ve been among the most transparent, but they’re alone in that. If you notice, some of these other companies haven’t really responded. They’ve denied any knowledge of it, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s not happening.
The Democratic Republic of Congo supplies about 60% of the world’s supply of cobalt. (Samir Tounsi/AFP via Getty Images)
Related links: More insight from Molly Wood
Please read this piece in Digital Trends about the human cost of cobalt mining. It also talks about a company based in the Netherlands that has created the Fairphone, a device made only with fair trade materials that are responsibly sourced, suggesting that it can be done if the will and the financial investment is there.
May I suggest, U.S. tech companies, the blockchain. A cobalt producer called Glencore PLC, one of the largest in the world, said it will join the Responsible Sourcing Blockchain Network that uses the blockchain to trace the history of all the cobalt it sources and refines to ensure that it comes from ethical sources that are also environmentally responsible. Ford, Volkswagen and Volvo are also members.
The blockchain network is still in production. It’s built on IBM technology and hopes to sign up more big consumer electronics companies, along with mining, aerospace and more automakers. So far, it doesn’t sound like any of the tech companies mentioned in the lawsuit are on board. IBM is also apparently working on new battery technology that would not include cobalt but would instead be made with materials extracted from seawater. There is a solution out there that doesn’t involve letting kids die in mines. We should demand that our gadget makers find it.
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Email Anne E. Padgett
Practice Areas Complex Litigation; Construction Defects Defense; Personal Injury Defense; Products Liability Defense; Transportation Law
Admitted: 1998, Nevada; 1996, Arkansas; 1994 Oregon
Law School: Lewis & Clark Law School, J.D.
Member: Nevada State Bar; United States District Court District of Nevada
Biography: Anne Padgett attended California State University in Sacramento, California, and in 1988 graduated with honors, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with concentrations in Management and Human Resources Management.
Following her undergraduate work, Ms. Padgett attended Lewis & Clark Law School, where she was a member of the Moot Court Honor Board and Moot Court Appellate Advocacy Regional Team. She received her Juris Doctorate from Lewis & Clark Law School in 1994.
Ms. Padgett was admitted to the State Bar of Oregon in 1994, the State Bar of Arkansas in 1996, and has been a member of the State Bar of Nevada since 1998. She is admitted to the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.
In addition to being a founding member of the Board of Directors for Las Vegas Defense Lawyers, over the course of her career Ms. Padgett has been a member of the American Bar Association, the Clark County Bar Association, the Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys, and the Defense Research Institute. In 2014, she was voted one of the Desert Companion’s Top Lawyers in Litigation.
Ms. Padgett primarily represents defendants in complex civil litigation, products liability, personal injury, construction defect, and transportation law.
Bar Admissions: 1998, Nevada; 1996, Arkansas; 1994, Oregon; United States District Court District of Nevada.
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Hazardous Chemical Bunding Manufacturers
Chemicals are used in many industries as raw material, as solvents, and for various other purposes. Some of these chemicals are quite hazardous and need to be stored carefully in containers that will avoid them from spilling or in any way getting into the environment and causing problems. The containers are usually made from fabricated steel and have very strict standards for their manufacture and maintenance.
Even so there are instances when chemicals can spill out from their containers when they are no more able to function as they should. Such spilling can also occur from poor handling, damage to pipes, or could be the result of deliberate sabotage or in war situations. The spilling of these chemicals can cause a lot of damage to the surroundings and the people in the region. It is, therefore, important that steps be taken to contain any spillage by taking the right measures.
Hazardous chemical bunding facts call for constructing walls or bunds around any storage that contains these chemicals. These dikes, as they are also known, will act to contain the spillage to definite boundaries. This containment makes it easier to plan and execute cleaning and recovery options after the spillage has occurred. The liquids in these storage devices are often caustic, can cause respiratory problems and any bunds built have to take these factors into consideration. Bunds are common around large transformers that contain significant amounts of costly oil. Though this oil may not be considered hazardous, the objective of the bunds is to retrieve any spilled oil that can come from a damaged transformer.
The volume of the liquid that has been stored is taken into consideration when designing the layout of bund walls. It is common to provide an area and height that will be able to cater for more than a hundred percent of the stored chemical. Bund volumes of 110 percent are a norm that is used in most cases. This requirement also takes care of any wave or other physical factors that may otherwise cause the stored liquid to over top the bunds.
In cases where such bunds are constructed around a farm tank, the volume has to be 25 percent of the total volume of liquid held in all the tanks or 110 percent of the largest tank capacity. The larger of these two is used to decide the required volume of the bund. A conventional method of creating bunds is to build concrete or masonry walls to form the dikes.
The height of the walls will depend on the area allotted to the bunds, as this can often be restricted, especially in areas where real estate costs are high, or other structures exist in proximity and limit the space available. It is quite common to reinforce the outside of these walls with earth. It gives the bunds or walls additional strength and will also act to absorb any chemical that may inadvertently spill over the bund.
Strong acids are considered as hazardous chemicals, and their corrosive action may even work against concrete. In such cases, it is common to use liners and other treatment to the walls, which will be able to resist the detrimental effects of the hazardous chemical. Smaller tanks can use steel or plastic for the necessary walls. In all cases, the effect that the chemical has on the containment material must be studied, and decisions were taken accordingly.
Hazardous chemical bunding facts have to take into consideration the effects of the chemicals being stored, on the environment that they are kept in. For reasons of safety, the storage of such chemicals is always mandated to be away from populated areas, and there are laws and regulations in most countries that govern their location. Where they are situated near cities or towns, there will be certain distances to be maintained from the nearest structure.
Bunding is a legal requisite in most countries and has to be implemented around all tanks that contain liquids that can be hazardous to the environment. Such bunding is often also required around places where these chemicals may be transported for use in other facilities. In such cases, temporary bunds of material that can resist these chemicals are put around any discharging facility to prevent any spillage from becoming dangerous.
Another factor that is critical while designing and constructing bunds is to cater to the rain that may fall in the area that is enclosed by the bund. Arrangements have to be made to remove this water through automatic pumps or drains. Where drains are used, they must have controls that allow the drains to be closed so that any spill of chemicals is not allowed to leave the containment area. It is also important to take proper precautions while building the floor for such bund containment. It has to be impervious so that the hazardous chemical does not seep into the ground. Especial care has to be taken at joints that will be part of floors that cover large areas.
As part of hazardous chemical bunding facts, it is necessary to know that you also need to provide any bund containment with facilities that allow for the removal of the spilled liquid after the event has occurred and the chemicals suitably contained. These chemicals are often costly and need to be retrieved so that they can be recovered and reused. Proper fire protection measures are also a must around containment areas, along with respiratory apparatus for personnel.
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Mercedes-Benz reports March sales of 27,004 units
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Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) today reported March sales of 27,004 Mercedes- Benz models. Mercedes-Benz Vans reported March sales of 3,533 units and smart reported 90 units, bringing MBUSA to a grand total of 30,627 vehicles for the month. On a year-to-date basis, MBUSA recorded sales of 71,171, adding 7,476 units for Vans and 231 vehicles for smart, bringing the year-to-date sales volume to 78,878.
"While demand for our SUV lineup and new A-Class remains strong, we're still in the ramp-up phase of our launch," said Dietmar Exler, president and CEO of MBUSA. "We expect to further fuel momentum with the upcoming launches of our highly anticipated new models in the months ahead."
Mercedes-Benz volume leaders in March included the GLC, C-Class and E-Class model lines. The GLC took the lead at 6,282, followed by C-Class sales of 5,514. The E-Class rounded out the top three with 3,712 units sold.
March sales of Mercedes-AMG high-performance models totaled 3,435 units (+27.4%) with 9,684 vehicles sold year-to-date (+27.1%).
Separately, Mercedes-Benz Certified Pre-Owned (MBCPO) models recorded sales of 10,560 vehicles in March, an increase of 0.1% when compared to the same month last year (10,554). On a year-to-date basis, MBCPO sold 30,365 vehicles, an increase of 2.1% from the previous year (29,741).
About Mercedes-Benz USA
Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA), headquartered in Atlanta, is responsible for the distribution, marketing and customer service for all Mercedes-Benz products in the United States. MBUSA offers drivers the most diverse lineup in the luxury segment with 15 model lines ranging from the sporty A-Class sedan to the flagship S-Class and the Mercedes-AMG GT R.
MBUSA is also responsible for Mercedes-Benz Vans and smart products in the U.S. More information on MBUSA and its products can be found at www.mbusa.com, www.mbvans.com and www.smartusa.com.
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Bed Bath & Beyond Relocates its McKinney Store
UNION, N.J. (Oct. 16, 2014) – Bed Bath & Beyond announces the relocation opening of its McKinney location featuring 28,000 square feet of quality domestic merchandise and home furnishings. The store is now located at 2975 Craig Dr. and is open Monday to Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
“At Bed Bath & Beyond we are committed to providing exceptional customer service, a broad and deep assortment and great value to our customers. We look forward to continuing these traditions in our new McKinney store,” stated Steven Temares, Chief Executive Officer of Bed Bath & Beyond.
Bed Bath & Beyond store’s shopping environment offers customers a fun and exciting shopping experience. Its extensive line of merchandise includes bed linens, bath accessories, window treatments, framed art, kitchen linens, as well as cookware, dinnerware, glassware, lifestyle accessories, closet and storage items, juvenile and baby items. The depth and breadth of merchandise generally exceeds what is available in department stores or other specialty retail stores. The Company places great emphasis on customer service and satisfaction, with special attention to making the shopping experience as pleasant and convenient as possible. Each department is like a store within a store and is staffed with knowledgeable sales associates.
Bed Bath & Beyond offers a nationwide Wedding & Gift Registry available in all stores and online at bedbathandbeyond.com. Couples can also create and modify their registry online, plan their wedding with the Wedding Toolkit, and their guests can purchase gifts.
Bed Bath & Beyond has a web site, which can be found at bedbathandbeyond.com. It carries a broad assortment of merchandise and features 24-hour customer service.
Bed Bath & Beyond was founded in 1971 by Leonard Feinstein and Warren Eisenberg, the Company’s Co-Chairmen. Bed Bath & Beyond’s early stores sold primarily bed linens and bath accessories. In 1985, Bed Bath & Beyond introduced its superstore format with the opening of its first store carrying a full line of domestic and home furnishing merchandise. All Bed Bath & Beyond stores opened since 1985 use the superstore format and generally range from 23,000 to 50,000 square feet; several stores exceed 80,000 square feet.
About Bed Bath & Beyond
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) is a retailer which operates under the names Bed Bath & Beyond, Christmas Tree Shops, Christmas Tree Shops andThat! or andThat!, Harmon or Harmon Face Values, buybuy BABY and World Market, Cost Plus World Market or Cost Plus. The Company is also a partner in a joint venture which operates retail stores in Mexico under the name Bed Bath & Beyond. The Company sells a wide assortment of domestics merchandise and home furnishings. Domestics merchandise includes categories such as bed linens and related items, bath items and kitchen textiles. Home furnishings include categories such as kitchen and tabletop items, fine tabletop, basic housewares, general home furnishings, consumables and certain juvenile products. The Company also operates Linen Holdings, a provider of a variety of textile products, amenities and other goods to institutional customers in the hospitality, cruise line, food service, healthcare and other industries. As of August 30, 2014, the Company had a total of 1,506 stores, including 1,017 Bed Bath & Beyond stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Canada, 269 stores under the names of World Market, Cost Plus World Market or Cost Plus, 92 buybuy BABY stores, 78 stores under the names of Christmas Tree Shops, Christmas Trees Shops andThat! or andThat!, and 50 stores under the names of Harmon or Harmon Face Values. Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. are traded on NASDAQ under the symbol “BBBY” and are included in the Standard and Poor’s 500 and Global 1200 Indices and the NASDAQ-100 Index. The Company is counted among the Fortune 500 and the Forbes 2000.
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The University of Texas MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital has five main facilities designed just for young people and their families. These areas are used for medical treatment, education, recreation and rest.
Pediatric Inpatient Unit
This 35-bed unit is for patients who need to be admitted to the hospital for care. It includes a protected environment for patients undergoing stem cell transplants and cellular therapy. The unit also offers pediatric intensive care services.
All rooms in our inpatient unit are private and designed to accommodate parents and support patients’ healing. The unit also has a welcome desk that supports the safety of patients, families and visitors, along with a classroom, consult rooms and laundry facilities.
The Robin Bush Child and Adolescent Center
This clinic is used for new patient visits. It also is where patients can go for blood tests, port access, follow-up visits, consultations and urgent sick care. It has 14 exam rooms, a playroom and a large waiting area. It is named for the young daughter President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush lost to leukemia in 1953.
Pediatric Ambulatory Treatment Center
The Pediatric Ambulatory Treatment Center offers chemotherapy and other treatments and infusions. It has 11 private rooms and one semi-private room that is equipped with four chair bays. It is named in honor of Ambassador Brenda LaGrange Johnson and J. Howard Johnson.
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This facility is located inside the Children’s Cancer Hospital. It offers a lounge, waiting area, dining area, fully stocked kitchen and two private bedrooms with a shared bath. Reservations can be set up through the Hospital Welcome Desk. The manager also can give visitors access to a bedroom for a rest during daytime hours. This Ronald McDonald House location is designed only for short stays. A larger stand-alone facility in the Texas Medical Center is available for long-term visits.
Kim's Place
The recently renovated Kim's Place is a lounge just for teens and young adults. It is named in honor of Kim Perrot, a guard for the four-time WNBA champion Houston Comets who died of lung cancer in 1999 at age 32.
The updated lounge offers a pool table, jukebox, mini-kitchen, computers with Internet access and video games. A separate area can be used for vocational counseling, group counseling and secondary and high school classes. The room also has in a large screen that features events and news and a large-screen television with theater-style seats for watching movies or playing video games. Kim's Place hosts an adolescent and young adult gathering every Friday at 1 p.m. in the theater room. Gatherings usually focus on a central activity, such as arts and crafts, scrapbooking or music therapy.
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Mon Valley Alliance recommended for Local Share Account award
Funds to be used to demolish old Charleroi Football Stadium
and prepare the site for development of a park and public space
Charleroi, PA, December 15, 2016 – The Mon Valley Alliance (MVA) announced today that the Local Share Account Review Board has recommended an award of $252,000 to support the Charleroi Renaissance Phase 1 project, which would demolish the former Charleroi Football Stadium and prepare the site for a riverfront park.
The project is the result of broad community support and is the signature initiative of five municipalities that joined together to develop a Multi-Municipal Comprehensive Plan, a project also made possible by a previous LSA grant.
As part of this planning, Charleroi, Fallowfield Township, North Charleroi, Speers and Twilight Borough chose to support this singular initiative for this year’s LSA Application. It is their belief that taking underutilized and public safety hazards and transforming them into the attraction of a riverfront park will benefit the residents of all five municipalities and create a draw for visitors to the area.
“Today’s announcement is a big win for the municipalities and reward for the cooperation and vision that they have shown as part of the planning process,” said Christopher Whitlatch, CEO of MVA. “We are honored that they have entrusted the project to MVA as the conduit and we will continue to work in partnership with the school district and the municipalities to realize this vision.”
The idea behind the Charleroi Renaissance Phase 1 project is to open up the riverfront as a public amenity and reconnect it to the downtown shopping district to support business growth.
The property has been underutilized for many years and sits adjacent to the Charleroi Boat Launch. “By opening up the riverfront to more recreational opportunities, we can bring more residents and visitors to the area, increasing the use of the launch as well,” said Whitlatch.
In addition to the riverfront access, the project’s plan is to create an attraction area for multi-use events, a recreation area for children and adults as well as seasonal/commercial area to encourage year-round attractions as well as the environment to incubate small businesses in the area.
The Local Share Account award will provide for demolition of the former Stadium and preparation of the site. Charleroi Borough is working with a grant provided by the Washington County Redevelopment Authority to demolish the former Atlas Building, which has become a public safety hazard, adjacent to the site. “With the combination of the two properties, we can create a new gateway to the ‘Magic City’,” said Whitlatch.
“This project will be a shining example of how we can accomplish more together as well as the value of the Local Share Account program. We are truly thankful to the committee for their consideration and hope that our legislators look to Washington County as the model for the Local Share Account program’s impact, which has allowed all of our communities to take part in the prosperity and growth of the county.”
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BLAIR’S DVD WATCH: Five Music DVDs for Last Minute Holiday Shoppers!
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Paul Simon: Live From Philadelphia (Eagle Vision)
Billed as “Greatest Hits Live,” this is actually slightly less than hour of a 1980 concert shot at Philadelphia’s historic Tower Theater, and a little more than half of it is what would have qualified as his greatest hits then—but it’s all good stuff. For that tour, Simon was plugging his then-current movie and album, One Trick Pony, and playing with a small, top-notch band of session pros: Steve Gadd on drums, Eric Gale on guitar, Tony Levin on bass, Richard Tee on piano, Peter Levin on synth, and (on some tracks) a four-piece horn section. The groovalicious “Late in the Evening” would become the classic from that film/album, but it’s also fun to hear a couple of the lesser-known tracks, such as the lovely ballad “Jonah” and the funky “Ace in the Hole.” The “hits” include spirited workouts on “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,” “Still Crazy After All These Years,” “American Tune,” “The Boxer” and the set-closing “The Sound of Silence,” beautifully performed solo by Simon. The quiet gem of the collection, though, may be “Something So Right” (from There Goes Rhymin’ Simon). There are no bonus features or program notes, but the audio and video production is outstanding, and the still-youthful Simon’s winning personality and depth as a songwriter shine throughout.
Producers: Phil Ramone and Michael Tannen. Music produced by Ramone. Audio: Brain Ruggles.
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We made it.
With one game remaining, an unconventional, unprecedented college football season is coming to an end. It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t smooth. But for the most part, all involved did the right things and got us through some very challenging times brought on by a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.
With an uneven start in which a handful of teams kicked off Sept. 3 while others waited until more than two months later, about 140 games were canceled or postponed, 90 never rescheduled. But that meant about 550 were played … an extraordinary number considering the hurdles.
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When either Alabama or Ohio State hoists the national championship trophy Monday night at Hard Rock Stadium, it will conclude what hopefully was a season we never experience again.
The season was unique, for sure, and will be remembered for many reasons. Here are some of those stories:
‘Play Like a Girl’
When Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller lined up to make history as the first woman to play in a Power Five conference football game, and then two weeks later, the first woman to record a point in a Power Five game, the back of her helmet read: ‘PLAY LIKE A GIRL.’
The moment and message were powerful.
This was something good that came out of a year in which lives were lost and so many opportunities were denied because of the coronavirus. Fuller was summoned from the women’s soccer team by the Vanderbilt coaching staff, not as a gimmick, but out of necessity after every kicker on the team was quarantined because one tested positive for COVID-19. Fuller executed a perfect pooch kick in her first game, before kicking two extra points against Tennessee.
‘Play Like a Girl’ is a nonprofit whose mission is to “ensure that every girl reaches her full potential by providing girls ages 9-13 an opportunity — and in many cases, their only chance — to participate in sport and physical activity.”
Sarah Fuller is the 2020 face of that mission.
The gifts that keep on giving
For every Sarah Fuller, who became in inspiration, we had Clemson’s Dabo Swinney and Florida’s Dan Mullen, who could not have been more tone deaf.
At times, it was as if Dabo and Dan were attempting to one-up the other, right down to their final postgame news conferences.
Mullen turned his into one excuse after another following Oklahoma’s 55-20 beat down of Florida in the Cotton Bowl. The Gators, like many teams, were without several stars who opted out of the bowl game. After being embarrassed, Mullen dismissed the game, saying a lot of the guys who played were on the scout team most of the year and that he viewed it as an audition for young players. He reminded all the Gators could have opted out of the game and the last game of the 2020 season, at least in his mind, was the SEC championship game.
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This followed a season in which he urged the Florida administration to “pack the Swamp,” was fined $25,000 by the SEC for instigating a postgame fight and lamented the NCAA’s decision to designate Nov. 3 as an off day from athletic activities, so those who had not voted could do so without worrying about sports.
Mullen’s behavior ranged from reckless to narrow-minded to bizarre. But not to be outdone, I present to you … Dabo Swinney.
The Clemson coach started early, jetting his family from South Carolina to Florida for a vacation during a lockdown, saying in the spring he had “zero doubt” the stands at Clemson would be “packed” (sound familiar?) in the fall, being photographed wearing a “Football Matters” shirt during the “Black Lives Matter” movement, coming out against players sporting messages on their helmets supporting social justice reform by using the excuse that he’s a “traditionalist.”
Like Mullen, Swinney could not go quietly. After losing to Ohio State in the playoffs, a team he had No. 11 in his poll, Swinney insisted his vote played no part in motivating the Buckeyes. This from a man who has used perceived lack of respect — in the polls and when it comes to the ACC's reputation vs. the SEC — as motivation for years.
Playoff push by changing the rules
The ACC and Big Ten were determined to make sure nothing stood in their way to a clearer path to the playoffs, so they both decided to change rules in the middle of the season.
The ACC canceled two games to enhance the chance of getting two teams into the playoff. With about 10 days remaining in the season, commissioner John Swofford told Clemson and Notre Dame to sit out the final week before the championship game, wiping out two games for non-COVID reasons to eliminate either team risking another loss.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey voiced his objection, knowing that one more loss for either meant Texas A&M would have been in the playoff. Within the ACC, Miami coach Manny Diaz was a bit confused. “It’s a little strange just to kind of have games taken away,” he said.
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The Big Ten then backtracked on its own policy that a team must play six games to be eligible for its conference championship game. This was to give Ohio State, which was 5-0 after having three games canceled due to COVID-related issues, a chance to win the conference title to make it easier for the College Football Playoff committee to include the Buckeyes in the playoff.
In the end, both conferences got what they wanted, although Clemson and Notre Dame both being dismantled in the semifinals was karma for the ACC.
The Game of Year was an easy choice: Coastal Carolina 22, BYU 17. Not because it came down to Coastal tackling a BYU receiver 1 yard shy of the goal line on the game’s final play, but because the game was even played.
When the week started, Coastal was expecting to host Liberty. But COVID issues at Liberty forced that game to be canceled. A phone call was made to Provo, Utah, and a game was scheduled between two schools about 2,200 miles apart less than 72 hours before kickoff.
But that was not the challenge. The challenge was getting the BYU equipment truck across the country ahead of the team. For that to happen, the truck had to depart before the contract was signed.
So, Hal Morrell and Fili Tuafa hit the road. It wasn’t until they were somewhere around Omaha, Neb., they found out the game was on and they did not have to return to Provo, and their destination was Conway, S.C.
The two men became folk heroes and a symbol of how quickly things could change in this bizarre season.
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Coaches cashing in on firings as others sacrifice
In the end, nothing changed when it came to the business side of college football.
Several coaches were fired at a time when schools are suffering massive losses financially because of the pandemic.
Among those, South Carolina’s Will Muschamp, Auburn’s Gus Malzahn, Texas’ Tom Herman and Arizona’s Kevin Sumlin will cash checks that add up to $60 million to go away. This does not include millions more going to assistants still under contract.
Those buyouts come at a time when virtually every school in the country is looking to offset financial losses through layoffs, furloughs and pay cuts.
Staff at South Carolina was forced to take up to 20 days of furlough. Texas AD Chris Del Conte announced Sept. 1 he was cutting back the department’s workforce by 17.9 percent along with implementing furloughs and pay cuts. Nearly every employee at Arizona was forced to take a pay cut, some up to 17 percent, and furloughs.
And even if obnoxious boosters with way too much power are paying the bill for some of these buyouts, the optics are terrible. As their communities suffer, and their own employees are making sacrifices, these administrators have shown they live in an alternate world and with blinders.
Monday's game
Alabama vs. Ohio State, Hard Rock Stadium, 8 p.m., ESPN
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LUCAS Mauragis determined at age 13 that he wanted to be a professional footballer - nothing was going to stand in his way. A year later, the ambitious midfielder moved from Merimbula on the South Coast to Canberra to further his game. He lived in a small apartment with his sister, who was in year 12, for a year before coping on his own for three years. He'd ride a bicycle to training in between going to school and domestic duties. Last week, Mauragis signed an 18-month scholarship with the Jets. On Friday night, the now 18-year-old made his A-League debut off the bench in the scoreless draw with Central Coast in Gosford. "I knew I was going to be travelling with the squad but I didn't know I was on the bench until just before the game," the left-sided specialist said. Mauragis' dad, Darnus, made the nine-hour journey from the South Coast on spec and was in the stands for the special moment. "I wasn't sure if I was going to play but he didn't want to miss me make my professional debut," Mauragis said. "He tries to make every game. It had always been a goal to get a run before the end of the season. I'm super keen to continue to develop and learn from the coaches and the older boys." Jets youth team coach Daniel McBreen offered Mauragis a trial in November after he had watched a highlights video of the winger on Youtube. READ MORE: JETS STICK TO FLIGHT PATH IN RACE TO FINALS READ MORE: JETS FINALS HOPES DENTED AS MARINERS HOLD ON Mauragis, who has started a psychology degree at Newcastle University, was one of the Jets' stand outs in the National Youth League season. "Before the COVID shut down I was in and out of training," he said. "When they resumed after the break, I got a call from the club to train full-time because there was a bubble. "I went back home to Merimbula for that period and trained quite hard on my own. Everything was in the air but I always try to find a positive. I thought it could be an opportunity for me to make the first team." Mauragis played in the front third in the youth team, but was deployed as a left wingback for the final 14 minutes against the Mariners. He provided thrust up the left touchline and delivered a couple of searching crosses into the box. "I'm usually a left winger but I played left wingback when I was at Canberra Croatia," Mauragis said "I'm pretty familiar with it and can play anywhere on the left side." Mauragis was still 17 when he joined Canberra Croatia and has no doubts the experience he gained playing and training with men helped him step up to working with the Jets' A-League squad. "I was already familiar with the adult style of football - the physicality and tempo," he said. "A lot of people thought I would struggle to get game time at Canberra Croatia. I ended up starting every game and had quite a few assists." Maraugis, who is living in student accommodation in Newcastle, is eternally grateful to his parents for allowing him to pursue his dream at an early age. "Before moving, I used to travel three hours each-way to Canberra twice a week," he said. "The far south coast competition was pretty small and wasn't very competitive. I had to show my parents I wanted a future in the sport. They gave me the opportunity to have a crack." Mauragis did his final four years of school in Canberra, a Lyneham High and Dixon College. "I grew up pretty fast," he said. "There were a lot of things I had to do on my own. It was a very small apartment. It was in an area close to a lot of the training facilities and school. I was able to ride my bike around and get where I needed to be. Sometimes I'd grab a lift to away games." Meanwhile, Melbourne City will call the Hunter Valley home away from home for the remainder of their A-League campaign. City are staying at the Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley and are training at Maitland Sports Ground. They will commute to Sydney for games, starting with the clash against the Sky Blues at ANZ Stadium on Saturday. While you're with us, did you know the Newcastle Herald offers breaking news alerts, daily email newsletters and more? Keep up to date with all the local news - sign up here IN OTHER NEWS
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A-League: Jets rookie driven for success from early age
James Gardiner
ON THE BALL: Lucas Mauragis made his A-League debut for the Jets in the scoreless stalemate against the Central Coast. Picture: Sproule Sports Focus
LUCAS Mauragis determined at age 13 that he wanted to be a professional footballer - nothing was going to stand in his way.
A year later, the ambitious midfielder moved from Merimbula on the South Coast to Canberra to further his game.
He lived in a small apartment with his sister, who was in year 12, for a year before coping on his own for three years. He'd ride a bicycle to training in between going to school and domestic duties.
Last week, Mauragis signed an 18-month scholarship with the Jets.
On Friday night, the now 18-year-old made his A-League debut off the bench in the scoreless draw with Central Coast in Gosford.
"I knew I was going to be travelling with the squad but I didn't know I was on the bench until just before the game," the left-sided specialist said.
Mauragis' dad, Darnus, made the nine-hour journey from the South Coast on spec and was in the stands for the special moment.
"I wasn't sure if I was going to play but he didn't want to miss me make my professional debut," Mauragis said. "He tries to make every game. It had always been a goal to get a run before the end of the season. I'm super keen to continue to develop and learn from the coaches and the older boys."
Jets youth team coach Daniel McBreen offered Mauragis a trial in November after he had watched a highlights video of the winger on Youtube.
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Mauragis, who has started a psychology degree at Newcastle University, was one of the Jets' stand outs in the National Youth League season.
"Before the COVID shut down I was in and out of training," he said. "When they resumed after the break, I got a call from the club to train full-time because there was a bubble.
"I went back home to Merimbula for that period and trained quite hard on my own. Everything was in the air but I always try to find a positive. I thought it could be an opportunity for me to make the first team."
Mauragis played in the front third in the youth team, but was deployed as a left wingback for the final 14 minutes against the Mariners. He provided thrust up the left touchline and delivered a couple of searching crosses into the box.
"I'm usually a left winger but I played left wingback when I was at Canberra Croatia," Mauragis said "I'm pretty familiar with it and can play anywhere on the left side."
Mauragis was still 17 when he joined Canberra Croatia and has no doubts the experience he gained playing and training with men helped him step up to working with the Jets' A-League squad.
"I was already familiar with the adult style of football - the physicality and tempo," he said. "A lot of people thought I would struggle to get game time at Canberra Croatia. I ended up starting every game and had quite a few assists."
Maraugis, who is living in student accommodation in Newcastle, is eternally grateful to his parents for allowing him to pursue his dream at an early age.
"Before moving, I used to travel three hours each-way to Canberra twice a week," he said. "The far south coast competition was pretty small and wasn't very competitive. I had to show my parents I wanted a future in the sport. They gave me the opportunity to have a crack."
Mauragis did his final four years of school in Canberra, a Lyneham High and Dixon College.
"I grew up pretty fast," he said. "There were a lot of things I had to do on my own. It was a very small apartment. It was in an area close to a lot of the training facilities and school. I was able to ride my bike around and get where I needed to be. Sometimes I'd grab a lift to away games."
Meanwhile, Melbourne City will call the Hunter Valley home away from home for the remainder of their A-League campaign.
City are staying at the Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley and are training at Maitland Sports Ground.
They will commute to Sydney for games, starting with the clash against the Sky Blues at ANZ Stadium on Saturday.
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Do NAD Boosters Help You to Live Longer?
By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D.Reviewed by Dr. Mary Cooke, Ph.D.
What are NAD boosters?
What are the effects of NAD boosters?
How effective and safe are NAD boosters for humans?
With the recent advancement in aging and longevity research, newly emerging scientific evidence claims that NAD boosters can promote the lifespan of mice. However, it is still uncertain if the similar effects can be extrapolated to humans as well.
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) is one of the indispensable cofactors in the body that plays a crucial role in redox regulation and also acts as a signaling molecule in various metabolic and other biological pathways. The terms NAD+ and NADH refer to oxidized and reduced forms of NAD, which are prerequisite for over 500 enzymatic reactions in several biological processes.
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) coenzyme molecule. Important coenzyme in many redox reactions. Image Credit: StudioMolekuul / SHutterstock
NAD boosters are small molecules that are required to increase cellular NAD+ levels. These molecules are particularly promising because of the anti-aging or lifespan-promoting effects. With age, a depletion in NAD+ level occurs, which is considered as a hallmark of aging. A depleted NAD+ level is also associated with many age-related disorders, such as metabolic disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. Some animal studies have indicated that an increase in cellular NAD+ level can significantly slow the aging process, as well as delay the onset and progression of many age-related disorders.
In general, NAD+ level can be increased by supplementing NAD+ precursors, increasing NAD+ synthesis, or inhibiting NAD+ degradation.
A wide-range of studies in mice have suggested that NAD boosters are effective in improving cognitive and sensory functions as well as survival in mammals. These compounds are also important regulators of many metabolic pathways, including gluconeogenesis, lipogenesis, and insulin metabolism. Regarding disease-preventing effects, NAD boosters are known to protect cardiovascular and kidney disorders by increasing endothelial cell proliferation and reducing inflammation, respectively. They are also effective in improving fertility in both male and female mice.
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Despite having a large pool of evidence on longevity-promoting and disease-preventing effects of NAD boosters in animals, it is still a key question whether the same effects can be expected for humans as well. Todate, there is no direct scientific evidence claiming that NAD boosters are effective in promoting longevity in humans.
In humans, it has been found that one of the NAD boosters, niacin, can effectively reduce the cholesterol level in the blood; however, it is not clear from the literature whether the observed effect is due to an induction in NAD+ level.
Foods containing vitamin B3 (PP, niacin) and other natural minerals, Image Credit: Morisfoto / Shutterstock
Public interest in the alleged lifespan-promoting effect of NAD boosters in humans has been encouraged by statements like those made by Professor David Sinclair from the Harvard Medical School Genetics, who promoted the potential of NAD boosters and in 2004 co-founded a company to test their potential benefits.
With this claim, a potential NAD booster, nicotinamide riboside, has been commercialized as a nutritional supplement; however, the clinical benefits of the supplement in humans remain unproven. Based on the data presented by the manufacturing company, the supplement is effective in increasing the level of NAD+. However, no data has been presented to show whether it provides any anti-aging benefit.
According to the FDA, aging is a natural physiological process and not a disease. Thus, any compound/medicine designed to increase lifespan cannot undergo clinical trials for checking the safety and efficacy levels in humans. In most cases, medicines that show promising outcomes in animal studies fail to show health benefits in humans. This is primarily because of the difference in basic metabolism patterns. Another important reason is the influence of various environmental factors on human physiological systems, which is absolutely different from that observed in animals kept in controlled experimental condition.
Although NAD boosters are claimed to be safe for humans, it has been found that repeated intake of it can increase the total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol levels in the blood. Moreover, studies have indicated that increased expression of NAMPT (a major NAD+-producing enzyme) is associated with an increased risk of developing potentially fatal brain tumors (glioblastoma). NAMPT promotes rapid tumor growth by increasing the release of inflammatory and oncogenic molecules.
In conclusion, the anti-aging efficacy of NAD boosters in humans is not proven and more solid research is needed to establish a link with other important cellular processes, and determine their safety.
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Dellinger RW. 2017. Repeat dose NRPT (nicotinamide riboside and pterostilbene) increases NAD+ levels in humans safely and sustainably: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. NPJ Aging and Mechanisms of Disease.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5701244/
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In the Land of Terror: Afghanistan plagued by suicide bombings
Afghanistan witnessed major suicide bombing attacks on Tuesday. The attacks took place in the southern, western and eastern parts of the country and have killed 74.
Suicide bombing in Afghanistan
A wave of suicide bombings plagued the war torn country of Afghanistan on Tuesday. The bombs detonated in the southern, western and eastern part of the country.
Reports state that the attacks were launched by the Taliban. The current death toll has crossed 74 while many other have been critically wounded.
Meanwhile, the Afghan authorities claim that they have killed 35 Taliban fighters in a drone attack near the Pakistan border.
Speaking about the attacks, Afghanistan’s Deputy Interior Minister, Murad Ali Murad has stated that it is the “biggest terrorist attack of this year”.
He added that the attacks have claimed close to 70 lives in the provinces of Ghazni and Paktia.
The attack in the Paktia province occurred when the Taliban targeted a police compound in the provincial capital of Gardez.
The terrorists used two suicide car bombs to conduct the attack. Casualties from the attack included 48 policemen and over 110 civilians.
Paktia’s provincial police chief was among those killed in the attack.
A spokesperson of Afghanistan’s Health Ministry stated that the Gardez hospital had recorded over 130 wounded people in the attack.
A statement issued by Arif Noori, the spokesman for the provincial governer in Ghazni stated that the Taliban attack lasted for a total of nine hours.
In the western province of Farah, the Taliban targeted a government compound located in the Shibkho district. The attack killed three policemen.
The Taliban has claimed all responsibility for the attacks. In a statement made by their spokesperson, they stated that two vehicles had been used, a truck and stolen police vehicle.
Although Afghan officials claim that the situation is under control, statistics tell a different story.
According to U.S. SIGAR (Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction), the government currently controls only 57% of the country.
The data also stated that between January and November 2016, 6,785 of Afghanistan’s security personnel were killed. It further stated that about 11,777 of the personnel had been injured.
This dip in Afghanistan’s troops has coincided with the rise in Taliban related conflict.
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Textiles from the Index of American Design
A variety of textile textures were produced in America during the eighteenth and nineteeth centuries. Included are representative examples of the handiwork of American women of colonial and later times, articles made by professional weavers, as well as fabrics produced by textile mills in America's early years of industrialization.
Jenny Almgren (artist), American, 1881 - 1962, Caroline A. Lusk (object maker), Brooklyn Museum (object owner), Patchwork Quilt, c. 1938, watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper, Index of American Design, 1943.8.2577
In colonial times, the home was the center of textile production, which began with the sowing of seed for flax and the raising of sheep for wool. Long hours were spent in preparing the fibers, spinning them into yarn, dyeing or bleaching the yarn, and then weaving the fabrics needed to clothe family members and to provide the basic material for bedding and other household articles. Home-woven fabrics, like this piece of linen, were called homespun, and were generally plain in weave. Although early fabrics were often of only one color -- being woven from either bleached linen or wool, or from yarns dyed with colors derived from common garden plants and trees -- some American women enlivened their products by using combinations of colored yarns to produce handsome designs. Simple geometric patterns could be created on home looms; thus, striped or checked designs, as seen here, are a common feature of homespun fabric.
George Constantine (artist), American, active c. 1935, Anonymous Craftsman (object maker), Faith and Edward D. Andrews (object owner), Shaker Man's Handkerchief, c. 1936, watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper, Index of American Design, 1943.8.538
Although American women continued to weave articles for their families, by the late colonial period, much weaving was done by itinerant professional weavers. Woven coverlets, or bed coverings, were, perhaps, the most handsome products of both the housewives and the journeymen weavers. From the late seventeenth century until about 1850, overshot coverlets like this example were popular. The overshot weave was relatively simple, though more complex than the plain homespun weave. There was one warp yarn, usually a two-ply linen or cotton, a binder weft yarn in the same material as the warp, but often single ply, and a pattern weft, which was of colored woolen yarn. The term "overshot" means that the supplementary weft patterning thread is "shot," or floated, over the plain warp threads, creating areas of solid color that stand out above a plain supporting weave. The overshot weft threads, seen here as a combination of blue and red yarns, create variations in texture as well as pattern and produce the lively geometric surfaces that are characteristic of overshot coverlets. The patterns for these coverlets were largely traditional and were based on written drafts, or pattern guides, brought to America by European, English, and Scandinavian settlers. These drafts resemble musical notations, and, appropriately, the coverlets woven from them are, like this example, strikingly rhythmic in design.
Ruth M. Barnes (artist), American, active c. 1935, Mary Williams (object maker), Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art (object owner), Coverlet, c. 1937, watercolor and gouache on paper, Index of American Design, 1943.8.607
Here is a variation of the overshot weave. This coverlet is in the "summer-winter" weave, said to have been brought to America by the Pennsylvania German settlers, who used it frequently. Though more tightly woven than some overshot coverlets, the "summer-winter" weave pattern also depends upon weft threads floated over and under the structural weave. By alternating floating elements, a reversible fabric is formed. Notice that the corner of this coverlet has been folded back to reveal the light or "summer" side, which corresponds in pattern to the contrasting dark, or "winter" surface. As in other overshot coverlets, blue and red, combined with white or neutral yarns, dominate the design. Blue was frequently used in weaving, as in the indigo plant, from which the dye was made, was grown domestically and thus was readily available. In addition, imported indigo was sold inexpensively in shops and by itinerant peddlers. Second in popularity were reds, obtained from such common sources as sumac, madder roots, cherries, pokeberries, and the bloodroot plant.
Magnus S. Fossum (artist), American, 1888 - 1980, Anna Hodel Hammond (object maker), Edwin J. Hess (object owner), Woven Coverlet, c. 1937, watercolor and graphite on paperboard, Index of American Design, 1943.8.621
Another type of woven coverlet is the double weave, or double cloth coverlet, a detail of which appears here. Most coverlets of this type were made between 1725 and 1825. Double weave coverlets were woven with two sets of warp and weft threads, resulting in two separate pieces of cloth interwoven at certain points. The double thickness made these coverlets heavy and particularly well suited to cold climates, where extremely warm bedding was a necessity. Unlike other woven coverlets, which had cotton or linen warp threads, wool was often used for both warp and weft in the double weave structure. The designs of double weave coverlets were generally geometrical and frequently featured a pine tree border. Notice that the border here is composed of a triple pine tree configuration. In these coverlets, the pine tree motif is often combined with a snowball design, as is evident here.
Fred Hassebrock (artist), American, active c. 1935, Anonymous Craftsman (object maker), Martha L. Campbell (object owner), Handwoven Coverlet, c. 1940, watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper, Index of American Design, 1943.8.626
The most colorful and complex of the woven coverlets were those made on looms equipped with a Jacquard attachment. This device, invented in France by Joseph Jacquard in 1801, contained a series of pattern cards, punched through with holes through which the threads were guided. Mounted on an existing loom in place of the conventional heddles, this mechanism allowed each thread in the warp to be separately controlled, thus making possible an almost unlimited range of patterns and variations in design. The Jacquard attachment was introduced in America in the 1820s, resulting in the production of innumerable elaborately patterned coverlets. Here is a detail of a Jacquard coverlet made in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. While patriotic symbols, such as the American eagle, were frequently featured in Jacquard designs, this coverlet retains traditional Pennsylvania German motifs in its stylized tulips, roosters, and stars. Woven inscriptions often appear at the corners of Jacquard coverlets. Here the weaver has followed the common practice of including his own name and that of the owner, the date, and the name of the county.
Charlotte Angus (artist), American, 1911 - 1989, S.B. Musselman (object maker), Levi Yoder (object owner), Woven Coverlet, c. 1940, watercolor and graphite on paper, Index of American Design, 1943.8.2640
Although many articles were woven at home throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, professional weavers and itinerant journeymen relieved American women of many of these chores. Housewives could think beyond providing the sternest necessities to adding touches of grace and luxury to their homes. For this, they turned to needlework. Needlework was a practical necessity from colonial times onward, for clothes and other articles had to be made, marked, and mended. Yet, for American women, needlework was also a luxury that permitted them to embellish their homes and to express their love of beauty. Moreover, needlework provided an opportunity to preserve the decorative traditions brought from their native lands as well as a means for displaying their sewing skills. Proficiency in needlework was commonly demonstrated in samplers made by young girls when, in the course of their education at home and at school, they had mastered the art of embroidery. The earliest samplers were actually collections of different stitches and served as needlework guides. By the mid-eighteenth century, samplers had become showpieces. They generally included a central scene, several types of alphabets, quotations from the Bible or pious verses, the maker's name, the date, and her age. Here a young seamstress had used silk embroidery on linen to depict a house, possibly her own, and outbuilding. A variety of stitches are demonstrated in the pictorial forms, and still others compose the rows of flowers and plants that separate the alphabets, numbers, and biographical information. Samplers like this were proudly displayed by the girl's parents and, after she married, in her own home.
Sarah F. Williams (artist), American, active c. 1935, Harriet P. Sublett (object maker), Mrs. Alderson Fry (object owner), Sampler, c. 1938, watercolor and graphite on paper, Index of American Design, 1943.8.27
Women lavished much attention on show towels, embroidered panels hung over the ordinary towels used by the family or otherwise displayed as decorations on doors. Show towels were most frequently made by Pennsylvania German settlers, who brought to America their European traditions. The practice of concealing homely everyday towels behind a decoratively embroidered panel gave evidence of a well-kept home and of the housewife's deftness with the flax wheel and the needle. In this example, a restrained design is composed of schematic urns and flowers worked in cross-stitch. Though the design is extremely refined, a lively decorative effect is created by the bright reds and greens used in the embroidery; the colors stand out boldly against the light natural linen background.
Frances Lichten (artist), American, active c. 1935/1942, Pa. German Embroidered Towel, Index of American Design, 1943.8.2888
Embroidery worked with loosely twisted yarn, called crewel, is known as crewelwork. Also known as "worsted" yarn, crewel was widely available in England by the seventeenth century, when favorable agricultural conditions produced robust sheep capable of growing the longer strands of wool required for this yarn. American crewelwork was inherited from Jacobean England. While the embroidery is generally less dense than that of English prototypes, English patterns were perpetuated in American designs. Coastal New England was the center of crewelwork activity on this side of the Atlantic. The needlewomen of New England purchased their yarn, as well as the fabric on which they embroidered, from England and generally followed English needlework styles. Crewelwork motifs were derived from painted and printed cottons imported into England from India during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Typical crewelwork designs showed flowering trees rising from delineated hills, as in this eighteenth-century example made in Massachusetts. Exotic birds in scroll-like branches were also popular, as were floral sprays scattered irregularly upon the ground fabric, which was usually of linen plain-weave. This crewel-embroidered valance retains the luxuriant character of Indian designs in the forms of the exotic trees and in the rich combination of brilliant colors. Crewelwork decorated counterpanes (bedspreads), hangings for four-poster beds, valances for windows, chair coverings, or curtains for the home.
Suzanne Chapman (artist), American, 1904 - 1990, Anonymous Craftsman (object maker), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (object owner), Valance, 1935/1942, watercolor and graphite on paper, Index of American Design, 1943.8.2519
In the early nineteenth century, American women often used their leisure time to embroider rugs. One of the most famous embroidered rugs is the Caswell Carpet, a portion of which is seen here. It was made in Vermont between 1832 and 1835 by Zeruah Higley Guernsey, who later married a Mr. Caswell; the rug is known by the latter name. The wool used in the rug was grown, spun, and dyed at home. Nearly eighty separate blocks were embroidered in a double chain stitch, or "Kensington stitch," on a coarse homespun foundation. Each block has its own complete design. While floral motifs predominate, diversity is achieved by modifying the floral forms and by varying their arrangement within each square. In some blocks, flowers or leaves stand alone; in others, they are combined with baskets, vases, birds, or butterflies. The overall design is further enriched through the inclusion of non-floral motifs such as kittens and puppies and, in one square, a bridal couple, believed to refer to the approaching marriage of the maker. On one end of the carpet is a long panel embroidered with a sawtooth border and a central design showing a basket filled with flowers and fruit. During the summer, when the fireplace was not in use, this panel covered the hearth; in winter it was folded under the body of the rug, in order to leave the hearth uncovered. The presence of the hearth panel indicates that the rug was not made solely for decoration, but that year-round utility was also a consideration in its design.
Dorothy Lacey (artist), American, active c. 1935, Zeruah Higley Guernsey (object maker), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (object owner), Caswell Carpet, c. 1936, watercolor and graphite on paper, Index of American Design, 1943.8.2545
American women displayed a brilliant sense of design not only in embroidery, but also in hooked rugs, which were produced by housewives everywhere. Hooked rugs testify also to the homemakers' thrift, for the women made them from worn-out clothing that was cut into long strips. These strips were pulled with a metal hook through a coarse foundation such as linen or burlap. Frequently, discarded feed bags were used as backing. Each strip was looped on the surface of the rug and pulled flat on the reverse side; the process was repeated again and again to create a nubby surface of innumerable loops. At times the loops were clipped to achieve textural variation. Designs were usually bold and simple; geometric forms were used frequently, although flowers, animals, houses, and ships were also popular. Motifs were often combined; here a strong geometric border frames a floral bouquet. Generally a lively effect is achieved through strong color contrasts, as in this rug, where tones of gold set off the vivid reds and greens of the flowers.
Alice Cosgrove (artist), American, active c. 1935, Judith Webster Shannon (object maker), Ella Shannon Bowles (object owner), Hooked Rug, 1941, watercolor and graphite on paper, Index of American Design, 1943.8.2543
Reflecting the English and European fashions during the eighteenth century, printed cottons of all types were in great demand in America. Most printed textiles of the time were imported from England, since laws prohibited the manufacture and printing of fabrics in the colonies. By the middle of the eighteenth century, however, the colonists were defying the English bans, and cottons and linens were being printed openly by shops in New England and in the mid-Atlantic colonies. Early printed textiles, like this example, received their patterns through a technique of printing with wood blocks. A design was cut in high relief on a block of wood. Colored dyes were applied to the relief design, which was then stamped on the fabric, thus transferring the pattern. Along with historical scenes based upon American figures and events, floral patterns were popular. In this late eighteenth-century American printed cotton, the lavish pattern of brightly colored flowers recalls the elaborate designs of Indian fabrics and of their European counterparts.
Sylvia De Zon (artist), American, active c. 1935, Anonymous Craftsman (object maker), Brooklyn Museum (object owner), Chintz, c. 1939, watercolor and graphite on paper, Index of American Design, 1943.8.2654
In America, commercial production of printed textiles was a profitable business by 1800. While the growth of the textile industry in America was encouraged by the availability of cheap cotton and by protective tariffs, mechanization was the key to an expanding textile industry. Mechanical spinning was introduced in Rhode Island in 1789, and the power loom came into use in 1814. With these machines American mills accelerated and vastly increased the production of textiles. The tedious wood-block technique gave way to the more expeditious process of roller printing, that is, using metal cylinders with engraved surface designs as the means by which patterns were transferred to fabric. By the middle of the nineteenth century, textile mills were flourishing throughout New England and the mid-Atlantic states. Fall River, Massachusetts, became an important textile manufacturing and printing center, and among the factories in that location, Andrew Robeson and Company was pre-eminent. Here is a cotton print produced by the Robeson Company between 1834 and 1848 and bearing the company's label. The fabric is woven in stripes of white and soft yellow. The striped design is overlaid with a floral pattern printed in black and red and reminiscent of the floral forms seen in Indian fabrics. The delicacy of the printed pattern is in keeping with the refinement of the colors and justifies the many awards the company received for the "fineness" of their products.
Joseph Lubrano (artist), American, active c. 1935, Andrew Robeson and Company (object maker), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (object owner), Printed Textile, c. 1941, watercolor on paperboard, Index of American Design, 1943.8.950
American families needed warm bedding for the cold winters, so, in addition to woven coverlets, they made quilts. A quilt consists of two layers of material with wadding between; the layers are held together by stitches, often in a variety of patterns. The triple thickness of quilts provided bedcovers of the necessary warmth. Their elaborate designs made quilts a focal point in the decoration of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American homes. Patchwork, or pieced, quilts are distinctively American and provide another example of the thrift of American housewives. Although commercially produced printed cottons were available from the late nineteenth century onward, these fabrics were regarded as precious; every scrap was used, and pieces of fabric from worn-out clothing were carefully saved. From her scrap bag, the housewife took bits of fabric and cut them into geometric shapes. The geometric units were then pieced, or sewn, together in a pleasing design. The resulting panel was used for the quilt top. This quilt top consists of small hexagons painstakingly pieced together to form an overall mosaiclike design. In this type of pieced quilt, made about 1810, heavy paper was used under the patches in order to create well-defined shapes. The edges of the fabric were folded under the paper hexagons and basted in place. The hexagons were then pieced together to form the quilt top; careful attention was given to the placement of the colors in order to achieve an orderly and lively design.
Sylvia De Zon (artist), American, active c. 1935, Anonymous Craftsman (object maker), Mr. Roger Benjamin (object owner), Patchwork Quilt, c. 1939, watercolor and graphite on paper, Index of American Design, 1943.8.2587
Patchwork quilts put together in random fashion are called "crazy quilts." The crazy quilt is the oldest form of American patchwork and evolved from the necessity for using every scrap of material. By the late eighteenth century, pieced quilts in geometric patterns had replaced crazy quilts; quilts displaying irregular patterns became popular again after the middle of the nineteenth century, when they were used as ornamental throws on couches in fashionable parlors. The crazy quilts of the late nineteenth century, unlike earlier quilts, generally included scraps of silk, satin, or velvet in addition to the customary cotton patches. The luxurious quality of the fabrics was emphasized by the manner in which the oddly shaped patches were pieced together. Unlike their earlier counterparts, the seams were sewn in elaborate embroidery stitches. This crazy quilt combines a variety of ornate and colorful fabrics joined by embroidery in contrasting hues. Additional ornamentation is provided by designs embroidered on the individual patches. Supplementary needlework of this kind became fashionable shortly before 1850 and soon became a common method of heightening the ornamental quality of quilts.
Charlotte Winter (artist), American, active c. 1935, Rose Wolcott Hoffman (object maker), Charles Weidman (object owner), Crazy Quilt, c. 1938, watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper, Index of American Design, 1943.8.2754
Along with pieced quilts, appliqué quilts were popular. In appliqué quilts, each element of the design was cut out, the edges turned under, and the pieces stitched to a plain backing, usually white muslin. This method provided for a wide range of decorative patterns. In addition to geometric designs, elaborate floral motifs were prevalent. Here is a meticulously crafted appliqué quilt with decoration based on a rose design, a common motif from colonial times through the nineteenth century. Brilliant reds, green, and yellows contrast vividly with the white background, producing a decorative effect of great gaiety. The design is well composed, with four floral groups disposed evenly in the square center, or field, of the quilt. A paneled effect is achieved by the quilting pattern -- a combination of shells and plumes -- that separates the floral groups and defines four subsidiary squares in the field. The entire field is surrounded by a continuous border of roses, repeating the form of those in the center. The fluid curves of the border echo the scrolling forms of the central flowers and of the background quilting as well. Here, appliqué decoration and quilting are perfectly balanced to create a design of outstanding decorative interest.
Marion Curtiss (artist), American, active c. 1935, Anonymous Craftsman (object maker), Mrs. John S. Bush (object owner), Quilt, c. 1938, watercolor and graphite on paperboard, Index of American Design, 1943.8.441
In this detail of a mid-nineteenth century appliqué quilt, the elaborate quilted patterns attain a decorative importance equal to that of the brightly colored appliqué work. The quilting is a complex combination of motifs featuring scrolling flowers, feathers, and the American eagle. The quilting has been given great prominence in the overall design of the piece not only through density of pattern, but also through the addition of extra padding to produce a sculptural appearance. The sculptural effect was achieved by a special method of stuffing. The designs were first outlined with quilting stitches; then, by means of a long needle, cotton wadding was pushed through the coarse backing of the quilt. As a result the quilted design stands out in high relief against the background. In the early nineteenth century, women made elegant all-white quilts or coverlets decorated entirely with such "stuffed-work" designs. In this example, the raised stuffed-work design enhances the colorful appliqué decoration and adds greatly to the ornamental quality of the quilt.
Byron Dingman (artist), American, active c. 1935, Zerelda Ingram Shearer (object maker), Mrs. Sarah William Lanhan (object owner), Quilt, c. 1941, watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper, Index of American Design, 1943.8.2596
Beverly Chichester (artist), American, active c. 1935, Mrs. Melville Demarest (object maker), Edison Institute of Technology (object owner), Doll Bed Applique Patchwork Quilt, c. 1937, watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and graphite on paperboard, Index of American Design, 1943.8.389
Pieced and appliqué quilts of the nineteenth century were often made from separate blocks sewn together and quilted by women at a gathering called a quilting bee. This was usually a festive occasion for the entire community. The technique of making quilt tops in individual squares led to the development of a special kind of quilt, known variously as signature, autograph, album, friendship, or presentation quilts, made for a special friend or event. These quilts, popular during the 1840s and 1850s, were made from blocks donated by friends, who would gather at an "album party" to piece together and quilt the individual squares. As in this doll's bed quilt, probably made by a group of young people, each contributor appliquéed a design on her own square. The appliqué designs were often embellished by the contributor's signature in ink or embroidery, hence the term "signature quilt." Album quilts are characterized by their varied designs; here floral motifs are combined with animals, birds, and even a horse and rider. Unity depends upon compatibility of scale and harmony of color as well as upon orderly arrangement. In this example, the most complex designs have been placed in a row across the middle of the quilt; the simpler designs are at top and bottom. The calico neatly frames the blocks and creates a lively contrast of pattern against solid colors. Album quilts such as this one are records of cooperative efforts to honor a recipient or to commemorate an occasion; in their workmanship, patterns, and cultural significance, they are among the most interesting of American quilts.
More Index of American Design Features
Folk Arts of the Spanish Southwest
Pennsylvania German Folk Art
Shaker Crafts
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North Central College alumna Kathy Guthrie gives TEDx talk on “Finding Personal Greatness” North Central College alumna Kathy Guthrie gives TEDx talk on “Finding Personal Greatness”
North Central College alumna Kathy Guthrie gives TEDx talk on “Finding Personal Greatness”
North Central College alumna Kathy L. Guy ’98 Guthrie delivered a TEDx talk encouraging individuals to overcome fear and complacency to find their personal greatness.
Guthrie was one of 12 presenters Feb. 13 at the inaugural TEDxNorthCentralCollege event. Topics were inspired by the theme “Changing the World for Good.” The message of her talk titled, “Finding Personal Greatness,” was that people can change the world if they start with making a difference one person at a time.
“When I think about what a daunting task it would be to change the entire world and leave my mark I stop in my tracks,” she said. “However, when I shift my framework from a world that’s seven billion-plus people to the world of one person’s reality, it makes it a little bit more manageable.”
Guthrie is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Florida State University. She cofounded the journal “New Directions in Student Leadership,” which has published her work and the research of others. In her TEDx talk she said people tend to fall short in finding their personal greatness because they get caught up in routines and going through the motions.
“Complacency sneaks up on us. All of a sudden it’s there,” she said. “How many of us have driven to work or walked to class and thought, ‘How did I get here?’”
Guthrie earned a Ph.D. in higher education organization and leadership from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds a master’s degree in Educational Administration and Foundations—College Student Personnel Administration from Illinois State University. She holds a bachelor of arts from North Central College, where she majored in business administration with minors in organizational leadership and speech communication.
When people start to consider what aspects of life they may be missing, they can overcome their complacency and fear and work toward achieving personal greatness, Guthrie said.
“If we’re in a place where our personal greatness shines it’s like a ripple effect—then you’re starting to make a difference,” she said. “If we can get past that fear, past going through the motions, we can find our personal greatness. Greatness is inside each and every one of us. The world needs us to find our greatness and our best selves, because we have a lot of world to change. Whether it’s one person, or seven-plus billion, the world needs us.”
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers topics ranging from science to business to global issues. Independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.
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Pirates beware: Music industry cracks down
May 3, 2006, 9:21 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
The music industry, which has famously sued Internet users for downloading songs illegally, is turning its sights on pirates in 12 cities who copy CDs and DVDs for sale at street corners, flea markets, family run shops and even mainstream record stores.
Executives identified the cities as Atlanta; Austin, Texas; Chicago; Dallas; Houston; Los Angeles; Miami; New York; Philadelphia; Providence, R.I.; San Diego and San Francisco. These were selected based on market surveys, earlier raids and industry reviews of sales data suggesting lost sales during the past five years.
“We tried to narrow down the areas where we’re going to focus, where we find the most piracy,” said Brad Buckles, executive vice president for anti-piracy at the Washington-based Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group for the largest labels.
The trade group estimates the industry lost $1 billion in CD sales last year, including more than $300 million in losses blamed on underground sales of illegally copied discs. Police seized more than 5 million illegal CDs and arrested 3,300 people last year, it said.
Urban and Latin music is overwhelmingly popular among pirates who copy discs, representing about 95 percent of all counterfeit CDs and DVDs seized in raids, according to Buckles, who is a former head of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Almost 40 percent of discs seized last year were Latin CDs — with artists such as Jessie Morales and Los Originales de San Juan — even though the genre accounts for only 6 percent of the overall music market. Those illegal CDs are especially popular in Texas, California and Florida, the RIAA said.
Illegal Latin CDs also are commonly produced using high-quality commercial press equipment, rather than the inexpensive computer drives frequently used to illegally copy urban-music CDs, the trade group said. That can make it difficult for consumers — and even retailers — to identify counterfeit CDs, which are sometimes sold at full price.
“Unless you really know the product, you would not be able to tell,” Buckles said.
Other counterfeit CDs sometimes sell for as little as $3 each with poor-quality labels or include compilations that aren’t available commercially. “You’ve got people who are out to get music cheap,” Buckles said.
Part of the industry’s new campaign will describe the consequences of buying inexpensive, illegal CDs rather than paying full price for legal copies. The trade group said lost sales affect the industry’s ability to invest in new artists, and counterfeit discs often suffer from inferior quality.
“People can rationalize not paying for something, but the fact of the matter is they’re stealing,” Buckles said. “This (music) doesn’t get created for free. The consumers are really getting cheated.”
Angela Agrusa, a Los Angeles copyright lawyer who does not work for the labels, likened the industry’s latest campaign to efforts by designers and large clothing companies to discourage counterfeit sales in U.S. cities. Agrusa said those efforts have been successful, although thieves often move their operations elsewhere.
“The message is, ’If you move, we’ll find you,”’ Agrusa said.
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Why A's could lose outfield prospect Reed in Rule 5 Draft
/ by Dalton Johnson
The A's acquired speedy outfielder Buddy Reed on Dec. 12, 2019 as the player to be named later in Oakland's trade that sent Jurickson Profar to the San Diego Padres. But they might lose him before he ever plays a game with the big league team.
MLB.com's Jonathan Mayo listed Reed as one of 10 players who could be taken in Thursday's upcoming Rule 5 Draft, and for good reason. Reed, 25, is a great athlete full of raw tools. He's an extremely fast outfielder who can play all three outfield positions. But his bat hasn't been consistent in the minor leagues, and the A's didn't add him to the 40-man roster.
Teams pay $100,000 to select a player in the major league part of the draft. If that player doesn't stay on the MLB roster for the full season, he must be offered back to his former team for $50,000.
After hitting .333 with five doubles and five stolen bases in the Arizona Fall League back in 2018, Reed hit 14 home runs and stole 23 bases in Double-A in 2019. The problem is, he only hit .228 and had a low .698 OPS. Reed, who is a switch-hitter, struck out 126 times in 121 games.
"The bat hasn’t been as consistent, but he has 20-20 potential if it can all click," Mayo wrote.
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Reed got into 11 games with the A's big league club during spring training this year, but he went hitless in 14 at-bats. He walked three times, struck out six times and also stole three bases.
Reed is 6-foot-4 and weighs 218 pounds. He's currently listed as the A's No. 24 prospect by MLB Pipeline. He has all the tools, but at some point the bat has to catch up. His skill set and potential alone could easily be intriguing enough for another team to scoop him up, though.
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Wiggins responds to viral Warriors photo of him looking buff
The Warriors on Wednesday afternoon posted a picture to their official Twitter account that got people talking about Andrew Wiggins' physique.
Plain and simple, the 25-year-old looked buffer.
back in business pic.twitter.com/6zHsv88vp6
— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) December 3, 2020
Wiggins was asked about the photo during a Thursday afternoon conference call with reporters.
"I put on a couple pounds of muscle," he said. "Just a couple pounds. Just a few. I definitely feel stronger. I feel fast. I feel good.
"Coming into the season, I feel the best I've ever felt."
The Warriors acquired Wiggins from the Minnesota Timberwolves just before last season's NBA trade deadline.
The No. 1 overall pick from the 2014 NBA Draft averaged 19.4 points, 4.6 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.4 blocks over 12 games with Golden State, while shooting 45.7 percent overall and 34 percent from deep.
He has been a small forward throughout his career, but probably will play some "four" this season.
Does Andrew Wiggins expect to play some power forward this season? "I'm with it. Whatever Steve (Kerr) wants me to do. It don't really matter to me."
— Drew Shiller (@DrewShiller) December 3, 2020
Did he bulk up during the offseason to prepare himself for that?
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"Getting stronger is what I wanted to do," he said. "I feel like I've been pretty good guarding bigger players in my career. I don't see it as something I can't do."
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How KD feels facing Warriors in first regular-season Nets game
It was not a surprise whatsoever when the NBA decided to have the Warriors face Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets in the season opener Dec. 22.
KD played for Golden State for three seasons from 2016 to 2019, and was named NBA Finals MVP in 2017 and 2018 when the Dubs won the title.
Rather than re-sign with the Warriors and call Chase Center home, the 10-time NBA All-Star chose to join the Nets in free agency in the summer of 2019.
"There's no narrative at all. It's just a regular basketball game," Durant said Thursday on his "the etcs w/ KD" podcast. "I don't care too much about that drama that comes with that former team (and) all that stuff.
"I've been through that with OKC, so I'm not trying to do that with Golden State. I love everybody there. It's just another game."
But when you consider the fact that the 2013-14 NBA MVP will be playing in his first real game since tearing his Achilles tendon in Game 5 of the 2019 NBA Finals vs. the Toronto Raptors, it definitely is not just another game.
"Yeah that part -- I'm excited about playing," KD said. "To play some familiar faces is definitely going to be cool that first go-around.
"Being away from the game for so long, I'm looking forward to it."
RELATED: Wiseman's trainer explains best part of Warriors rookie's game
Durant is scheduled to return to the Bay Area in mid-February, as the Warriors will host the Nets on Valentine's Day Eve.
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Climate summit postponed, but action should ramp up, say advocates
by Barbara Fraser
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Protesters march outside the venue of the U.N. climate change conference, or COP24, Dec. 8, 2018, in Katowice, Poland. (CNS/Reuters/Kacper Pempel)
Before the novel coronavirus pandemic erupted early this year, a key United Nations climate summit — marking the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions — was scheduled to begin this week in Glasgow, Scotland. Although various interim meetings have been held virtually, the summit itself was postponed until November 2021.
That has created a sort of "gap year" for the 197 countries that have signed onto the Paris Agreement. The United States officially withdrew from the pact as of Nov. 4, though President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to rejoin once he is inaugurated in January.
Experts say countries should use this year to step up their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to hold the global temperature increase to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. And although the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the global economy into disarray, it also creates an opportunity for countries to set a course for a greener future as they plan their economic recovery.
The pandemic "puts down a bit of a gauntlet to us," Cliona Sharkey, advocacy director for the Global Catholic Climate Movement, told EarthBeat. "Are we going to change our ways, or are we not? The idea that we can fix climate change by tweaking or improving what we currently have is not realistic."
Citing Pope Francis, who has linked the COVID-19 crisis and the climate crisis, Sharkey added, "If we are to meet the interconnected crises we're facing, we need a regenerative economy, a regenerative recovery."
The year leading up to the rescheduled climate summit — known as the 26th conference of parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP26 — gives countries a chance to take more and stronger steps toward that goal.
"This is up to us, with this additional period of time before the COP 26," Sharkey said. "That is the key question: Will we emerge worse or will we emerge better from this crisis? Will we align the COVID response packages with increased ambitious action on climate change?"
During this "gap year," countries must not only take steps to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, she added, but also focus on helping lower-income countries adapt to the impacts of climate change and guarantee the financial assistance to make that possible.
Impacts increasingly visible
The urgency of the climate crisis is becoming more and more apparent. Recent weather extremes — including drought in some parts of Africa and flooding in others, Typhoon Goni that lashed the Philippines and deadly Hurricane Eta and other severe storms in Central America and the southern U.S. — have underscored the urgency of more ambitious targets.
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People stand alongside floodwaters in La Lima, Honduras, Nov. 5, in the remains of Hurricane Eta. (CNS/Reuters/Jorge Cabrera)
"We're feeling the effects [of global warming], and things seemed to be on a much faster pace than what scientists were predicting," said Lori Pearson, senior technical and policy adviser for food security and climate change at Catholic Relief Services.
Countries should spend this year increasing what climate negotiators call their "ambition" — the amount by which they commit to reducing emissions —"to really get to the 1.5 degree [limit] and get there more quickly," Pearson said.
"We need mechanisms in place to help the developing world to move forward on their ambitions," she added. "And then the action, to make that happen."
Last year's climate summit, which was meant to launch more ambitious commitments, fell short of expectations, making this year's meeting — now postponed — even more important.
In a statement Nov. 9, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that with the commitments made so far — known as nationally determined contributions, or NDCs — the global temperature, which has already risen by an average of 1 C since the Industrial Revolution, could increase by another two degrees by the end of the century. Roughly one-tenth of the planet has already surpassed 2 C of warming, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
According to a 2018 report from the world's top climate scientists, holding the increase to no more than 1.5 C by the end of this century would require achieving net-zero emissions — meaning that all new emissions generated by human activities are removed from the atmosphere — by the middle of this century.
"That means, actually, in the next 10 years, all emissions must have at least halved," Lydia Machaka, climate justice and energy officer for CIDSE, an international group of Catholic social justice organizations, told EarthBeat.
The European Union, Japan and South Korea are among the countries that have pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. China has said it would do the same before 2060. But to ensure that they attain that goal, they must set more stringent targets for this decade.
"It's much easier for decision makers to talk about 2050 than it is 2030, because 2030 means the political term they're in and the political term that's to come," Sharkey said. "And that's the deadline for delivering significant reductions. We need to see significant action on all fronts by 2030."
Taking advantage of COVID-19 recovery
Machaka sees possibilities for progress as countries plan their recovery from the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"COVID actually represents a new chance, because things have slowed down," she said. "There are opportunities, when we restart, to restart in a greener way."
David Waskow, director of the international climate initiative at the Washington-based non-profit World Resources Institute, sees possibilities on various fronts, including renewable energy, which is "galloping ahead in many places," and electrification of vehicles.
The European Union has already outlined a carbon-reducing European Green Deal, which focuses on creating a clean, circular economy, reducing pollution and restoring biodiversity, as well as providing financial and technical assistance to other countries.
In the U.S., the Trump administration's increased emphasis on fossil fuels and withdrawal from the Paris Agreement put the U.S., historically the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, out of step with other wealthy countries.
Biden, however, has already signaled that he will make the climate crisis a priority, returning the country to the Paris Agreement once he is inaugurated and implementing a recovery plan that calls for a job-creating clean-energy economy resulting in net-zero emissions by 2050.
The task will be more difficult for lower- and middle-income countries, Waskow said. They will need more assistance, including debt relief, if they are to green their economies as they recover.
Before the pandemic, the economic growth of many middle-income countries meant their emissions were rising at a faster pace than those of wealthier nations. Nevertheless, those countries still represent a small percentage of emissions, compared to giants like the U.S., China and India.
And industrialized countries have an obligation — an "ecological debt," as Francis has called it — to help those countries meet the Paris Agreement goals, Sharkey said.
"Equity is fundamental," she said. "We're all in the same storm, but we're not in the same boat, and all boats were not made equal."
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Protesters demonstrate during a rally in London Nov. 29, 2015, ahead of the U.N. climate change conference, known as the COP21 summit, in Paris. (CNS/Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett)
Funding falls short
Under the Paris Agreement, wealthier countries pledged to aid lower-income nations with contributions to the Green Climate Fund. The total was to reach $100 billion a year by this year, but has fallen far short, especially after Trump reneged on $2 billion of the $3 billion U.S. pledge.
Many of the pledges were not additional contributions but funds that wealthier nations would have provided anyway as development aid, Sharkey said. Others were loans, rather than grants, which increased lower-income nations' debt burdens.
Of the $54.5 billion in public climate funding from wealthier nations for lower-income countries between 2013 and 2017, about $40 billion was in loans, and less than $13 billion was in outright grants, according to an October 2020 report by the Green Climate Fund.
Financing is critical to help lower-income countries gain access to technology, such as solar or wind energy, that has high start up costs, but which will result in savings over the long term, Waskow said. It is also crucial for helping lower-income countries deal with the impacts they are already experiencing.
"All over the world, people [are] experiencing still climate disaster, " Machaka said. "Very often we have seen countries talking about cutting the emissions gap, but forgetting about adaptation."
Although that takes different forms in different places, depending on the impacts, two critical areas around the globe are food and water, especially as rising temperatures and droughts threaten crop production and water supplies, Waskow said.
Adaptation requires not only assistance to farmers, to help them adjust to changing conditions, but also information systems for forecasting and tracking the effects of those impacts as they ripple from rural areas to cities, he said.
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Protesters carry a globe-shaped balloon in front of Rome's Colosseum during a Nov. 29, 2015, rally, the day before the start of the U.N. climate change conference in Paris. (CNS/Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi)
Individuals, communities, nations must act
Although the U.N. climate summits focus mainly on actions by countries and financers, individuals and communities play a key role in addressing the climate crisis, Sharkey said.
For individuals, "coming from a Catholic perspective and a faith perspective, that includes reconnecting with creation, reconnecting with the Creator, and with gratitude, an understanding of our place in creation," she said.
Households, communities and parishes can also take action in areas like reducing emissions, increasing energy efficiency, cutting waste and conserving water, she said. In the U.S., dioceses and parishes are conducting energy audits, switching to solar power and working to reduce waste.
"But as an advocate, something that I always say when people ask me this question is [that] the most important thing you can do is raise your voice," to insist that politicians at the local, regional and national levels "act in line with the best science," Sharkey said. "What a great thing it will be if, with this gap year, we see a huge upswing and have people calling from the local to the national levels for more action."
Related: Five years ago, Pope Francis asked us to care for Earth. Have we listened?
Ultimately, says Machaka, the CIDSE climate justice officer, stopping the perilous increase in global temperatures and helping countries withstand the effects, from flooding and drought to sea-level rise, is a task for all.
"Climate change is something that should not be politicized," she said. "It's about preserving life on this planet. And this is what should be driving our action, not politics."
In his new encyclical, Fratteli Tutti, Francis "is calling not to focus on what divides us, but to really focus on the common good, which is having a healthy planet and enjoying all the gifts, having access to all human rights," Machaka added. "We will continue the struggle, our common struggle, for a just and equitable climate future. And we will continue taking action to ensure that those who suffer from climate impact get their voices heard."
[Barbara Fraser is editor of EarthBeat. Contact her at bfraser@ncronline.org.]
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The Royal Correspondence Received by Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller
"Woodcote", a large house in Leek Wootton. This is now the county police headquarters. 1900s
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The letter written by Princess Mary to Waller, c.1830s.
Warwickshire County Record Office, reference CR341/152
The letter written by Queen Victoria to Princess Mary, 4th September 1838.
Warwickshire County Record Office reference CR341/48
Queen Victoria’s signature and royal cypher, 4th September 1838.
Warwickshire County Record Office, reference CR341/48
Warwickshire County Record Office holds many fine collections relating to Warwickshire’s landed families; they are treasure troves which never fail to fascinate and surprise the reader. The Waller Family of Woodcote collection, in particular, holds many historical gems which really capture one’s attention.
Waller (née Jonathan Wathen Phipps), who was born into a wealthy family, had a highly successful career in medicine. He specialised in the treatment of eye diseases which led him to become a renowned operator on cataracts. Notably, he was also appointed as Oculist to King George III. Waller went on to serve George IV and William IV, and become a close friend to several members of the royal family.
The correspondence1, therefore, provides a glimpse into the lives of the royal family and those who served them. Indeed, it not only offers insight into medical practice at the time, but also high society news, and some of the royals’ extravagant purchases.
Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller and Princess Mary
The first document (CR341/152) is a letter written by Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester (1776-1857) to Waller. While we know that it was written on the 16th September, we cannot be sure of the exact year of the letter. However, the black edges show that the Princess was still in mourning for the death of George IV, who died on the 26th June 1830. Waller was in attendance and was the only person to hear the King’s last words. The doctor’s detailed account of the event has also been preserved within the collection.
In the Princess’s letter she does not discuss her brother but rather the health of her sister, Princess Sophia (1777-1848). The latter was plagued with frequent bouts of ill health and became blind in her later years. As such, Sophia’s poor eyesight becomes the key focus of this letter. Mary requests that Waller keep her informed about Sophia and her upcoming operation. She mentions Sophia’s own admission that her sight was becoming “much darker” and hopes for success as a reward after her submission to trials. Princess Mary wants Sophia to keep writing, and she asks Waller if Sophia can still read the letters that she sends to her. Crucially, Mary states that she would like to know if someone else is reading the letters, because she writes very openly.
We can also see many examples of Princess Sophia’s writing in the collection because she wrote extensively to Waller on a range of topics. It is bittersweet, however, as her handwriting becomes very difficult to decipher.
Queen Victoria and Princess Mary
The second document (CR341/48) is a letter written by Queen Victoria (1819-1901) to her Aunt, Princess Mary. Interestingly this letter, along with another, can be found in Waller’s collection of received correspondence. Their placement and ownership raise several key questions. How and why did Waller come to possess these documents? Was it accidental? Or did they have a more significant purpose?
While we cannot be completely sure of the answers to these questions, we can speculate nonetheless. In the letter on display, the Queen offers her sincere regret at not being able to visit her Aunt due to ill health. Perhaps Waller was sent the letter so that he could be informed of her medical situation. The letter is dated 4th September 1838, only two months after the Coronation, so it would have been vital to keep the new Queen well. Alternatively, it may have been used in a social manner. Perhaps Waller also was intending to visit the Princesses, Mary and Sophia, and the letter was sent in order to let the doctor know not to attend.
Do you have any different theories? Do get in touch!
The two letters, and many others in the collection, enable us to catch a glimpse of Waller’s close relationships with the royal family. The most delightful thing about them, I find, is warmth and affection that leaps from the pages. It is evident particularly when Queen Victoria asks Princess Mary to give her “kindest love to Aunt Sophia,” who she was “particularly sorry not to see.” Comments like this, along with other letters too, enable us to see another side to 19th century British royalty.
1 Warwickshire County Record Office, references CR341/152 and CR341/48
This article was Document of the Month for the Warwickshire County Record Office in August 2017. Further articles can be found on their website.
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FRANK BRANCH NASH
Remembered with honour Thiepval Memorial: Pier and Face 9C.
He enlisted in London November 1914, and was formerly Private 391133 9th London Regiment. He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 9 May 1915, and was reported missing 1 July 1916, presumed killed in action. Unfortunately, Frank’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
There are articles about Frank in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 29 July 1916 and 28 April 1917; and a Grammar School Missing list in the issue dated 22 December 1917.
Son of Henry Edward and Alice Mary (nee BRANCH) NASH.
His parents married 1885 in the St George in the East, London, district. Henry died 1 August 1939 in Watford aged 77, and was buried 4 August in North Watford Cemetery; Alice died 2 October 1939 in Watford aged 77, and was buried 5 October, also in North Watford Cemetery.
Frank was born 14 August 1895 in Stepney, London, and attended Victoria Junior School, Watford; then Beechen Grove Board School, Watford, from 11 January 1904 to 20 January 1905 [sic]; then Alexandra School, Watford, from 10 January 1905 [sic] to 31 July 1907; finally Watford Grammar School from 16 September 1907 to December 1910. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 5 he lived in Bushey, Herts, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, aged 15 he lived in Watford, with his parents and five siblings.
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No. 15 Ohio St women snap Iowa’s 42-game home winning streak
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Madison Greene had 20 points and a career-high six steals, Jacy Sheldon and Braxtin Miller each added 18 points and No. 15 Ohio State beat Iowa 84-82 in overtime on Wednesday to snap the Hawkeyes’ 42-game home winning streak.
Iowa had not lost in Carver-Hawkeye Arena since a 92-74 defeat against Nebraska on Jan. 28, 2018. It was the second-longest active streak at home behind Baylor’s 61.
Ohio State trailed by as many as 14 points in the second half, but took its first lead since the first quarter on a 3-pointer by Gabby Hutcherson with 1:29 left in regulation. It was the final field goal of the fourth quarter as Kate Martin forced overtime at the line with 54.4 seconds left.
McKenna Warnock pulled Iowa within 83-82 on a layup with 37.8 seconds. After Greene made 1 of 2 free throws for a two-point lead, the Hawkeye’s star freshman Caitlin Clark was off on a contested 3-pointer at the buzzer.
Aaliyah Patty had 12 points and nine rebounds for Ohio State (7-0, 3-0 Big Ten). The Buckeyes were 10 of 20 from the free-throw line.
Clark had 27 points, 10 rebounds and five assists for Iowa (8-3, 4-3). She entered averaging 25.6 points per game despite scoring just eight points against No. 22 Northwestern on Saturday. Warnock added 14 points, 12 rebounds and five assists and Gabbie Marshall scored 10 points.
Clark scored 13 points in the first quarter, including a step-back 3-pointer at the buzzer to cap a 13-3 run for a 26-17 lead. Martin beat the halftime buzzer with a putback for a 44-32 lead.
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How Peet's Improved its Mobile Strategy
By Haresh Kumar
Peet's Coffee & Tea is a specialty coffee and tea company in the United States. The company was founded in 1966 in Berkeley, Calif., and today it offers superior quality coffees and teas in multiple forms by sourcing the best-quality coffee beans and tea leaves in the world.
Peet’s has experienced tremendous growth and a lot of change as it expands beyond the West Coast to Washington, D.C., Boston, and Chicago. Peet’s viewed growing its store footprint as a big endeavor and a great opportunity to tell its story.
As Peet's focused on brand extension, it wanted to connect all of the channels under its brand: retail (250 stores), grocery (13,000 stores) and e-commerce (peets.com). As Peet’s entered new markets where the premium brand wasn’t well known, the company viewed mobile as a great tool to meet new "Peetniks," what the company affectionately calls its customers. The “Find Peet’s” store locator is an important entry point for consumers, and the company wanted a seamless way for shoppers to use this online tool when they opened an email on their phones.
Peet’s was not only excited about optimizing its e-commerce flow for mobile, but it also wanted to make it easy for Peetniks to manage their account information and subscriptions on mobile devices.
“It quickly became clear how important mobile is for us when we looked at our data: 40 percent of our customers were visiting peets.com on mobile devices," says Paul Johnson, Peet's director of product management. "We had nothing at that time on mobile and needed to create our brand experience.”
What’s unique about Peet’s online model, which extends to mobile, is its focus on freshness and quality of beans. The company prides itself on 24-hour roast-to-order, so if a customer places an order at 11:59 p.m. for Major Dickason’s Blend, it will ship four hours later. It was important to extend that guarantee to mobile users and provide a streamlined experience, because over 50 percent of Peet’s e-commerce business is subscriber-based. Furthermore, Peet's loyal Peetnik subscribers wanted a rich mobile experience to manage their subscriptions, including changing shipping frequency, changing an order to a different bean, and holding a subscription while on vacation.
Peet’s looked at several mobile options, including a combination of responsive and adaptive design, native app, and responsive. The company considered building in-house with mobilized templates, as well as working with an external vendor. The goal was to find a solution that would scale and be flexible as the company continued expanding.
As Peet’s completed its due diligence, the company decided it wanted a partner that would complement its growing mobile team and increase its bandwidth, while providing additional insights and expertise on mobile user experience. Peet's chose Moovweb because of its mobile industry experts, who could break down the platform space and demonstrate the importance of having more than just a standalone technical offering. Understanding the context when communicating with mobile customers is key. Moovweb's platform enables Peet’s to target loyal subscribers and offer geo-specific promos to give Peetniks the customized mobile experience they expect. Moovweb works closely with its customers to understand their goals and help drive overall mobile business success.
Peet’s mobile team has found it very easy to work with Moovweb's platform. The process is streamlined and flexible, allowing Peet’s to make changes to its mobile and tablet sites quickly so they can test offers. Peet’s can work in tandem with Moovweb or independently, depending on the size of the change. Once the changes are in place, Moovweb helps Peet’s to track analytics and present results that are used to make decisions on the next iterations.
“Speed to launch is the biggest selling point of using the Moovweb platform," says Johnson. "We can make changes to our mobile experience quickly, efficiently and cost effectively without burning development and QA cycles. That’s critical when we want to attract new Peetniks with a coffee subscription offer to drive sales during a major holiday period.”
Moovweb helped Peet’s focus on its mobile experience and make it as simple and easy to use as possible. The Moovweb team made recommendations for optimizing the user experience (UX), including improvements to checkout and subscription experiences by implementing proven UX practices. Peet’s mobile team has taken advantage of Moovweb's industry knowledge and make decisions that accelerate its goals of extending and increasing its mobile business.
“Our choice to go with Moovweb paid for itself in one quarter," Johnson notes. "We’ve had exceptional mobile business growth with visits up 34 percent, conversion rate up 93 percent, and revenue up 142 percent. With over 40 percent of our Peetniks on phones and tablets, we rely on the scalable, flexible Moovweb platform to help us deliver a rich mobile experience, so we can focus on expanding to new markets and building our digital business.”
Haresh Kumar is vice president of marketing for Moovweb, a cloud-based mobile platform that delivers experiences optimized for any device.
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Gingrich Warns GOP of ‘Population in Turmoil’ This Fall
By Joel Gehrke
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned current and former lawmakers of a “population in turmoil” this election cycle, aggravated that Republicans have failed to offer a positive alternative to President Obama’s agenda.
“There’s a poll out today that when asked, ‘do you think most members of Congress deserve reelection,’ it is 87-5,” Gingrich said Wednesday evening. “Now that frightens me. That tells me nobody here should assume we understand what’s going to happen on election day because you have a population in turmoil. They don’t like anybody and they have good sound reasons for it, in my judgment.”
Gingrich made the remarks at a reunion of members of the class of Republicans who took office in 1994. Senator Roger Wicker (R., Miss.), who moderated the event, assured attendees that they could speak freely because there were no reporters in the room; the media advisory said the event was on the record.
The former speaker praised the 1994 class for running on a positive agenda during their campaigns.
“This is a huge mistake this year, by the way,” Gingrich said. “The fact that we do not have positive themes and positive issues is going to cost us seats this fall because moderates and independents aren’t going to turn out. It’s an enormous mistake.”
One attendee followed up by asking Gingrich what agenda Republicans should adopt.
“I don’t actually care what it is, for the next seven weeks, as long as it exists,” Gingrich replied. “Boehner is giving a speech tomorrow which is going to be very, very good . . . It outlines five major areas of reform. If they can figure out a way to get folks to say that’s good — they’re all solid, they’re all intelligent. You just have to sound like you’re more than anti-Obama and you’re more than some pathetically narrow, negative politician whose primary role in life is to raise money for your consultant to buy attack ads. It is pathetic what we’re doing around the country and it’s turning people off.”
Although Gingrich praised the proposals that House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) will unveil, he was clearly frustrated with decisions that have been already been made.
“The Keystone pipeline — the fact that we couldn’t get the House and Senate to get together and say jointly, we will pass the Keystone pipeline in the first three months, I think is a total lack of leadership and profoundly wrong.”
Notwithstanding his uncertainty about the fall elections, Gingrich said he still thinks the odds are very much in favor of Republicans.
“I think the Democrats have one big advantage this fall, which is money,” he told National Review Online after the reunion. “The country has no positive issues to rally around, and in that sense I think Republicans have not had as positive a view. Now, that may change starting with Boehner’s speech tomorrow, which I think is a very serious and a very good speech; but, they’re playing catchup.”
“I think that the odds are pretty high that the Republicans — if I had to guess, we’ll be between 53 and 55 senators and we’ll be +12 or more in the House and we’ll pick up some governors and a number of state legislators, so, it’ll end up being a pretty good year.”
He allowed that the outcome is “still in some ways undecided” because of the Democratic money advantage.
“If you watch what’s happening to Braley in Iowa, it’s a similar kind of thing,” Gingrich said, referring to Representative Bruce Braley, the Democratic nominee to replace retiring Senator Tom Harkin (D., Iowa).
“For awhile, he was competitive, there’s a six-point gap today; we’ll see where he is next week. As long as they can keep pouring enough cash in, they’ll keep it close,” he continued, before quoting an unnamed Republican’s analysis.
“This is a fight between environment and cash,” Gingrich said. “If cash can win, the Democrats will do okay. If environment wins, they’ll do poorly.”
Joel Gehrke — @Joelmentum
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Bringing Back the Lightning Rod: The ‘Public Option’ Returns
Critical Condition
By Jeffrey H. Anderson
About Jeffrey H. Anderson
After leaving the “public option” on the back burner for a couple of months, during which time the public outcry against Obamacare has somewhat softened, the Democrats are now ready to invite more of what they got in August. The Senate Finance Committee bill was extremely politically vulnerable, particularly for having been brazen enough to propose paying for itself largely by pilfering from Medicare. But its opponents failed to gain sufficient traction against it.
But the “public option” is another story. Once again, the Trojan horse is being offered as a “gift” to the American people — only this time with the wrinkle that each state will allegedly get to decide for itself whether or not to open its gates.
Four months ago, former Health and Human Services secretary Mike Leavitt and I co-wrote “The President’s Trojan Horse.” Now, over at NationalJournal.com, Leavitt responds to the Trojan horse’s upcoming encore appearance:
The public plan is pitched as if it would simply encourage competition and provide another choice for consumers. But a government-run plan is not just another plan, offering just another choice. It is designed to undercut private insurance.
A government-run plan is dangerous for three reasons: One, it would be cheaper for employers to stop offering private insurance and [instead] funnel their employees into the government-run plan….Two, the government-run plan would use the coercive force of government to dictate the prices that could be charged by others — by doctors, nurses, and hospitals — in a way that private entities cannot. Three, the government-run plan would be subsidized by American taxpayers, while private plans are not.
Let no one be deceived into thinking that Congress would not subsidize the government-run plan. Once in place, Congress would favor it with all kinds of innovative provisions….HR 3200, for example, would offer low-income subsidies — but only for those who choose the government-run plan.
Financial subsidies for a public plan…would be financed…by taxpayers in all fifty states. States would not be allowed to opt out of having their residents pay these federal taxes. They would only be allowed to opt out of receiving their share of the federal subsidies….What state legislator would vote to do that?
The state “opt-in” is a transparently false choice.
As Leavitt highlights, there is only one gate, not 50, though which the Trojan horse must pass. If it does so, a two-tiered health-care system would emerge, to the detriment of the middle class: The very rich would continue to get the care they want, by paying for it out of their own pockets. The rest of us would get in line and wait for rationed care.
Jeffrey H. Anderson — Jeffrey Anderson, author of An Alternative to Obamacare and The Main Street Tax Plan, co-founded the 2017 Project and is a Hudson Institute senior fellow.
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