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'What he’s doing is wrong,' Trump said of Snowden's NSA leak. | AP Photos
Trump: Snowden's 'a bad guy'
By HADAS GOLD
Edward Snowden, the man who says he leaked national security documents is a “bad guy,” Donald Trump said Monday.
“I didn’t like him, to me he looks like a grandstander,” Trump said on Fox News.
Trump added that there are “no winners” in the recent revelations of the National Security Agency monitoring program.
“I don’t like people like (Snowden) because there could be a national security concern, and there probably is,” he said. “At the same time, what he’s doing is wrong and I think also what the government is doing is wrong.”
“They’re going way too far, at the same time you never like a guy like this.”
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Trump said it’s hard to trust the government right now and questioned how the monitoring program will affect U.S. relations with other countries.
“Well it’s very hard to trust (the government) right now. If you really look at it, what’s going on with other nations, how are they going to trust us anymore?” Trump said.
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Family Adventure in the Cascades
The Cascade Mountain Range extends from British Columbia all the way to California with miles of hiking, snow-shoeing, skiing and cross-country skiing trails. The Washington Cascades are just a few hours from Seattle and offer countless opportunities for outdoor adventures with some of the best camping, backpacking and mountain climbing available.
The North Cascades are home to Mount Baker, the North Cascades National Park, the Ross Lake National Recreation Area and the Chelan Lake National Recreation Area. Sometimes referred to as the “American Alps,” this area is over 400 million years old with more glaciers than any other park in the continental United States.
The North Cascade Region was designated first as a Forest Reserve in 1897 and then became a National Park in 1968. The North Cascades National Park Act also designated the other two areas of the North Cascades National Park Service Complex as National Recreation Areas — Ross Lake National Recreation Area and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area. The parks covers almost 700,000 acres and has more than 75 species of mammals and 200 different types of birds. There are more than 300 glaciers, waterfalls and old-growth forests to explore. The more than 400 miles of hiking trails mean there are paths for all kinds of hikers.
Central Cascades
The Central Cascades are only two hours by car from Seattle and offer endless outdoor recreational activities such as backpacking, climbing, skiing and hiking. Both Snoqualmie Pass and Steven’s Pass offer extensive skiing opportunities in the winter and great hiking in the summer. Lake Chelan is ideal for summer adventures with plenty of water play available.
The Central Cascades provide ample hiking opportunities with one of the most popular being, The Enchantments. There are also lots of less strenuous trails to alpine lakes, waterfalls and through lush forests.
South Cascades
The South Cascades offer three snow-capped majestic volcanoes – Mount Adams, Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens which rise dramatically with many outdoor recreational opportunities.
Mount Rainier National Park is a popular attraction with gorgeous views, lots of hiking trails, climbing opportunities and amazing wildflowers. Younger kids will enjoy the Nisqually Vista Trail with spectacular views of Mount Rainier. The trail features Pacific silver fir, subalpine fir, and mountain hemlock, along with gorgeous views of Mount Rainier.
Mount St. Helens has a long history and remains a favorite for climbers. The mountain erupted in May 1980 and was designated as the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument shortly after. The visitor center has fascinating studies of volcanic activity for all ages.
Mount Adams to to the southwest, rises to 12,276 feet and is a popular climbing location. The area is ideal for hiking, picnicking and camping.
Cascade Loop Scenic Drive
Washington’s Cascade Loop is approximately 440 miles long and offers spectacular views. Start in Everett, just 30 miles north of Seattle and head toward the Cascade Mountains in Northwest Washington. Stop at Mount Baker to enjoy mountain beauty and glacier fed lakes before heading toward Winthrop. Loop around the Columbia River Valley through Lake Chelan and down to Wenatchee and Leavenworth before finding though Steven’s Pass and Snoqualmie. This is an amazing and beautiful drive which showcases all the Cascades have to offer.
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Call him the Jack of all trades.
Agent extraordinaire, Dominic Ong could possibly do anything given his intelligence and persona. The Applied Statistics graduate from USM has many aspirations; from being a doctor to a musician.
“I initially wanted to be a doctor but as fate has had it, I ended up doing mathematics,” he said. Dominic also added that he had music in his veins as he attended 50 hours of piano training.
“But I couldn’t even play for three minutes,” he equipped, opting out from a music career.
He later expanded his credentials as a teacher at a few international institutions like St Christopher’s International School and The International School of Penang (Uplands).
He taught Mathematics, English and was a Sports Master. He even took up part time job teaching in Dalat at night.
Hence, the jump from education to the world of real estate can be said as a rather big and bold leap.
“I started out investing in properties by buying a few of them. I bought to a certain extend that I couldn’t get any more loans. Plus, by being an agent, you can get all of the good leads. There was no harm in trying it out,” he explained regarding his shift.
He also admitted that the industry is an ever-green market with great depth of sustainability. He believes that properties will forever be in demand, regardless in what economic situation it is in.
“I find it to be a recession proof industry. People would seek for new properties to buy during the good times as well as people would have to sell during the bad times to raise funds or cut loses. There will always be a need for such services,” said Dominic who is currently with KL City International Realty.
But his journey as a real estate agent has the unavoidable stumbles and falls. Dominic started out alone, without any guidance.
“I learned it the hard way. I kept on hitting walls every day, I often got bullied and cheated. But coming from a sports background, I learn to push my limits, endure the pain and hold on to it,” he explained.
PropertyGuru saved my business
Technology plays a dominant part in every business ventures and start-up companies. Dominic credits technology as a live saviour especially in the form of PropertyGuru Malaysia.
“PropertyGuru (PG) saved my business. There was one point in time that my business dropped tremendously, even though I knew a lot about my product. I can tell you about everything regarding to the areas and properties, which included the psf., growth and profitability. But I wasn’t selling any.
“Then I met up with a rep from PG, she recommended me to go for luxury spots. I paid expensively but I had no regret. It was a win-win partnership.” he said upon reaching the realisation of utilising the power of internet marketing.
“It’s a portal that can expose me to many people out there. PG had enabled me to reach more property sellers and seekers. I never thought that internet marketing was powerful. It has a profound impact on my business, despite only using it for a few years,” he remarked.
Eerie house hunting in Penang
There is no shortage of ‘sightings’ in the land that is filled with heritage sites and properties.
“Of course, there were couple of sightings. I once showed a double storey link house along Gurney Drive. I brought the potential buyers in to view the house. A few days later, they called me up. They caught a photo of the upper level of the house with a shadow of a boy in it,” reminisced Dominic, whom admitted of having goose bumps while viewing the house.
He also recalled showing a bungalow located along Batu Ferringhi that had strong spooky vibes.
“It was my worst experience. I had to show the bungalow to my client. It smelt very nice, but the smell was not like any ordinary perfume. The owner didn’t spray anything before the viewing. I would normally check the toilets for any leaks but this time around, I didn’t dare to enter any of the bathrooms.
“My client felt it too. He asked me ‘what do you feel about this place’ instead of ‘what do you think’. I couldn’t lie, and I told him that I would find something better for him. The owners eventually sold the bungalow to an amo (foreigner),” he added.
His advice to younger and new agents out there?
“I learned from experience. There’s no such thing as free lunch. Don’t expect people throwing free durians at you. Luck comes with hard work. My best advice would be get a mentor to guide you. There are a lot of nice people out there who are willing to guide you with an open heart.”
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https://www.propertyguru.com.my/property-news/2017/10/163690/the-jack-of-all-trades-dominic-ong
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Exploring Workflow, Archive & Storage in M&E – Influencing Every Aspect of Production and Post
An interview with James McKenna from Facilis
Jeremiah Karpowicz
One thing that comes up over and over as we explore workflow, archive and storage is how misunderstandings around these topics can impact the way people work as well as their bottom line. Figuring out what info is needed to discover the best solutions is critical, but it can be a difficult process. As the old saying goes, you don’t know what you don’t know.
To find out what we didn’t know, we talked with James McKenna from Facilis, an industry-leading provider of high performance shared storage systems and dynamic workflow solutions for the film, broadcast and AV markets. Previously, James was Director of Engineering at PostWorks NY and has also worked as an editor on various television productions, broadcast promos and documentaries.
He has experience on both sides of the industry, so we used this opportunity to ask him about what sort of struggles he most often sees professionals run into, some specific advice for anyone working as a freelancer or in a facility and plenty more.
ProVideo Coalition: You’ve worked on every side of a production during your career…how have you seen expectations and responsibilities change for the people involved?
James McKenna: Since I started there’s been an IT convergence, and accessibility of technology has influenced every aspect of production and post. There was a time when ACs and DPs were revered for their knowledge of the camera and the shot, but now anyone can buy a DSLR and shoot amazing images.
In Post, the difference is even more profound. An assistant editor’s role was managing the editor’s time, incorporating shot notes, digitizing and syncing selects in real time. Now an AE’s responsibility may include all footage from multiple cameras, logging and ingesting huge amounts of footage, creating multi-camera clips and managing the incredible scope and timelines of modern reality television. Because of this, there are often a lot more AEs, or the editors have taken on much of the work themselves.
Along those same lines, how have you seen post-production facilities change?
Facilities have changed most notably from signal to data, and the infrastructure from copper coax to glass and twisted pair. Rooms are smaller for single workstations, or larger with multiple workstations. We have some customers who have up to 100 clients on desktop systems in a large loft or redesigned warehouse space.
TV engineer in studio from Shutterstock
Are the difficulties that professionals encounter when it comes to workflow and archive more about a misunderstanding, or a lack of information?
I’d say it’s more about misunderstanding the job requirements or a simple lack of experience. I think the information is out there if you know where to find it. Many people are victims of overly-optimistic schedules, and underestimated difficulties with mixed formats, transcoding and deliverables.
It seems that creatives need to get more involved in the technical aspects of a production than ever before, whether it’s because they actually need to be part of a process or help determine how everything is supposed to work. Is that because the logistics are getting easier for them to understand, or just the reality of the production process?
I see this happening both ways. Creative people in this business have always been somewhat technical, if they have been trained on non-linear or CG from the start. We’re noticing fewer traditional online or film editors complaining that they don’t have time to learn a new operating system.
I think creatives as a whole are more technical because more of the job is happening on the workstation, as opposed to in the machine room on a VTR. Loading and outputting that used to involve a tape op and one of seven different formats of machine, now may just involve import and render.
What role do you see automation playing in this process?
Certainly offloading more of the tedious tasks like ingest, transcode and delivery is useful for the creative artist. Since delivery formats are known from the start of the post process, it’s a good idea to automate the transcode and QC with one of the many toolsets out there. Removing human error from the task when human creativity is not a factor is always a good thing.
What are some issues that you see professionals running into over and over?
Designing scale-out editorial through low speed Ethernet on non-professional workstations with applications that can use and process multiple file formats and codecs, and then wondering why playback of these mixed formats drops frames.
The myriad of codecs and variations of processor power required to service each of them can play havoc on editorial. Since there is no longer an idea of a “house format” in today’s productions, the workstations and infrastructure have to be able to service anything that comes along.
TV director at editor in studio photo from Shutterstock
How often do you encounter a workflow or process that could be improved exponentially if only for a few relatively minor adjustments?
The adjustments that we deal with are of the infrastructure sort. We’re able to solve workflow dysfunction with faster and more available network storage.
The problems that we solve are numerous – offline/online workflow delays, media transfer and push/pull to the desktop to start working, inability to share projects and collaboration roadblocks in general.
Is a difference in performance something professionals have difficulty grasping on a practical level? I often hear people say they could never go back to doing things the way they used to do them, but that can be a tough reality to demonstrate when it’s merely a concept.
We sell on reference a large percentage of the time. If you have ever worked for a facility with a good shared storage system, or know someone who has, it’s easy to grasp what you’re missing.
Even the work you do will change. You can bid up to larger and more complex jobs, with rates that will justify the infrastructure purchase. Long form work that requires a lot of capacity, and multiple rooms working in collaboration. Once you’re there, it’s impossible to imagine working the old way.
Let’s talk specifics…if I’m a freelancer and want to make sure I’m handing my storage and archive in the most effective manner, what sort of topics should I be researching/looking into?
Technology is only as good as the problem it solves. If an inexpensive NAS box from an online retailer will solve your problems, I say buy it. Looking into SSDs, cloud services and 40Gb Ethernet is fine, but don’t forget that it’s all about the daily grind. Find a simple solution, point A to point B, no hurdles to jump and no workarounds. Work like you want, not like the solution wants you to work.
When researching archive, remember it’s all about the restore. If you can restore the data quickly and easily in a crunch, it will be worth the cost.
On the other side of that, if I’m working at a post-production facility and we’re having issues with bottlenecks, what’s the best way to approach my producer about potential changes to our workflow?
Pain points normally equate to dollar signs. Time taken to move data, transcode media or conform a job means longer hours, less productivity, pushed sessions and unhappy clients, all of which will cost you. If it happens enough, it’s easy to justify a new solution cost.
What sorts of resources are available to anyone who has specific questions they want to have answered?
Call Facilis. We take our role as consultants very seriously. We’re always interested in knowing your specific workflow, formats, project types and deliverables first, before we talk about specifying a system.
There is no “one-size-fits all”, which is why there is so much competition in this space. I’ve been doing this for a long time, so I can pick out a half-dozen facility profiles for which no other solution will fit as well as Facilis. If you happen to be one of those, you’ll be happy you called us.
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Qatar Chamber has been chosen as a member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) World Chambers Federation (WCF) General Council, Qatar Chamber board member and ICC Qatar secretary general, Dr Khalid bin Klefeekh al-Hajri, will represent the chamber at the council, which includes 32 members.
The chamber said, “Joining the WCF assures the confidence of the international business community in the vital role played by Qatar Chamber in the field of international trade, especially since the WCF seeks to boost ties between member chambers to help them become more productive.”
“This achievement is the culmination of the efforts led by Qatar Chamber chairman Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim al-Thani with the aim at activating the role of the Qatar Chamber at the international level.”
Qatar Chamber succeeded in playing an important role in promoting trade between other countries through the World Trade Agenda initiative launched in co-operation with the ICC in 2012.
The WTO helps governments identify the main priority areas for inclusive trade. It aims to stimulate the global economy by helping advance the multilateral trade negotiations.
Qatar Chamber also played a key role in the endorsement of the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) signed during the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation held in Bali in 2014.
The TFA played a significant role in supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) between countries with the aim of achieving security and stability globally, as SMEs represent 90% of world countries’ economies, the chamber said.
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November 21, 2017 / Updated on January 29, 2019, 10:02 PM
Montréal International and Québec International join forces to boost foreign direct investments in life sciences and health technologies
Montréal International and Québec International have joined forces to promote Québec’s advantages and its Life Sciences and Health Technologies (LSHT) industry to foreign investors around the world. With Dominique Anglade, Deputy Premier of Québec and Minister of Economy, Science and Innovation, and Gaétan Barrette, Minister of Health and Social Services, in attendance, a new video highlighting the appeal of the sector was launched before 150 partners and key players from the LSHT ecosystem.
Produced by TCB Médias (Martyrs, Funkytown, Des jeunes gens modernes), the video was made by Montréal International and Québec International, in partnership with Fonds de solidarité FTQ, the Biotech City, Merck Canada, Medtronic Canada, Montréal InVivo, Tourisme Montréal, BIOQuébec and the Ministry of Economy, Science and Innovation.
“The Life Sciences and Health Technologies industry is a bedrock of Québec’s future economy. In the past five years, foreign companies have already invested over $1 billion. We need to bank on this very promising sector that revolves around innovation, collaboration and a multidisciplinary approach. We also need to show the world how unique, ambitious and visionary is our LSHT sector,” said Hubert Bolduc, President and CEO of Montréal International.
The video, featuring several ambassadors and champions from the LSHT ecosystem, provides a picture of this innovative and interconnected industry, which has had to reinvent itself with new business models. “This new promotional tool is a platform for explaining what motivated these health companies to choose Québec for expansion in North America, and to promote the critical mass of leading-edge companies that make up the wealth of our ecosystem,” stated Christelle Fasano, Director, Business Development – Life Sciences and Health Technologies, at Montréal International.
“First, I am very grateful to the industry players who have opened their doors and generously agreed to contribute to the success of this initiative. Yes, success is certain for our industry. Our ecosystem is robust since it is founded on leading research, an outstanding business environment and the talent and ambition of all players. All these factors push our industry to be among the top in the world,” added Carl Viel, President and CEO of Québec International.
Andy Sheldon, Head of New Ventures at Medicago, and Chairman of the Board of Québec International, stated the importance of supporting this sector and to believe in its potential: “Access to the best talent, research funding, support with marketing and innovation, and our capacity to attract capital and international players are key to Québec gaining an even more prominent standing and for our industry to continue developing.”
On May 5, Minister Anglade had unveiled the new Québec Life Sciences Strategy with $205 million in funding over the next five years, in order to attract $4 billion in private investments by 2022.
“Québec is a fertile ecosystem for business collaboration and solid research in the Life Sciences. Mobilizing all the key players in this industry is key to ensuring Québec will always be a prime location for investments. Accordingly, we have set up the Québec Life Sciences Strategy, which will raise Québec up among the top five LSHT hubs in North America by 2027. This promotional video will help achieve this goal by highlighting Québec’s assets to the whole world,” said Dominique Anglade, Deputy Premier of Québec, Minister of Economy, Science and Innovation, and Minister responsible for the Digital Strategy.
“Innovation is a driver of change through which we can optimize and improve everyone’s quality of life, especially when it applies to the health and social services network. I welcome this initiative by Montréal International and Québec International, whereby these two agencies join forces to enhance Québec’s profile. This will certainly result in significant benefits, especially for patients,” said Gaétan Barrette, Minister of Health and Social Services.
To read the 2017–2027 Québec Life Sciences Strategy.
The Life Sciences and Health Technologies sector comprises over 650 companies and 56,000 jobs in Québec, including nearly 31,000 industrial jobs.
Each year, 10,000 students graduate from health related programs.
More than $10 billion have recently been invested in leading-edge infrastructures, including research centres and new hospitals, such as McGill’s MUHC, CHU de Québec, Université de Montréal’s CHUM, and the CHU Sainte-Justine pediatric hospital.
About Montréal International (www.montrealinternational.com)
Established in 1996, Montréal International is a non-profit organization funded by the private sector, the governments of Canada and Québec, the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal and the City of Montréal. Its mission is to attract foreign investment, international organizations and skilled talent to Greater Montréal by providing assistance services tailored to their needs.
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Ideal Entertainment & SM Entertainments Inc (North America) sign up with IndiaÆs newest singing sensation AVI for the launch of his first single in India
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Marketing and Promotions | SM Entertainment | AR. Rahman | Bollywood | music composer | Akon | Avitesh Shrivastava |
MUMBAI: Avitesh Shrivastava aka Avi, an immensely talented performer and the elder son of the popular Bollywood music composer, the late Aadesh Shrivastava has been noticed by a production house.. Recently, international entertainment houses Ideal Entertainment and SM Entertainment signed up with Avi for managing his professional collaborations and marketing in the Caribbean, South America, North America, Asia and Europe. They will also oversee the launch of Avi’s first single, Main Hua Tera, in India on 19th November, 2018, post which they will introduce the talented young musician to audiences in the USA.
SM Entertainments (SME) is a Canadian company pioneering a revolution in the entertainment domain by producing innovative content and offering specialized services in the emerging segment of social networked entertainment. SME wants to incorporate various layers of cultures and languages that can resonate with everyone locally wherever they are.
Launched at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Ideal Entertainment, on the other hand, partners with iconic brands in film and music from all over the world. Incepted at one of the most culturally diverse cities, Toronto, Ideal Entertainment continues to produce innovative content and live entertainment with impeccable production quality and vision. These production companies collectively serve as a global marketplace for amazing content distributed across regions such as Europe, Asia, North America, South America and the Caribbean.
The seeds of this association were sown three years ago, when SM Entertainments Director Sase Persaud, met with Avi and his father in Las Vegas. Commenting on the same, Persaud said, “I remember an immensely gifted and confident young boy with a versatile and unique singing ability. Today, his natural skills have been honed substantially with continuous practice, a rich musical legacy from his family and a single-minded focus on improving his craft. We see a great future ahead for Avi in the global entertainment domain, and we want to be the people supporting Avi on his journey towards worldwide fame and greatness!”
Ideal Entertainment is currently co-producing 99 Songs, a feature-length romantic musical with A.R. Rahman’s YM Movies, set to be released in Hindi and Tamil. Furthermore, it is also co-producing A.R. Rahman’s directorial debut Le Musk, a never-before-experienced virtual-reality powered cinematic experience. Filmed in Rome and shot in English, this musically immersive film is being produced by Ideal Entertainment, Thenandal Studio Limited, Zilvermeer Productions and Intel. For Avi, associating with such big production houses so early in his career ensures great scope of grabbing huge opportunities and associating with some of the finest musicians in the world right now.
Commenting on having Avi on-board, Ideal Entertainment spokesperson Michael Frederticks said, “Avi has already acquired heaps of praise from legends in the entertainment business such as Akon, and has performed with famed musicians such as Sean Kingston, T-Pain, French Montana among many others. His perfect hold on his craft combined with a deep desire to learn and a humble yet confident attitude is the ideal combination to have for a musical icon of the millennial generation. We believe Avi’s first single will be a grand success and will propel his career to the heights of greatness he is destined to achieve. Our goal is to make him a performer of international repute, and get him to the Grammys!”
SM Entertainments will manage Avi’s marketing and fan engagement events in the Caribbean, South America, North America, Asia and Europe, where he will also be planning live shows. Post the launch of the single, Avi is also slated to do a tour of the USA. Through Avi’s talent and the combined vision of Ideal and SM Entertainment to bring the best of world music to global audiences, Avi’s initiation in the entertainment world is set to be a memorable one.
MUMBAI: Musician website platform Bandzoogle has launched an integration with print-on-demand drop shipping service Printful to make it easier for musicians to create and sell custom merchandise directly to their fans on their websites, commission-free.
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Raiders "Color Rush" Jerseys Celebrate 1970 Team
Quarterback Derek Carr
This week's Thursday Night Football game features two original American Football League rivals, with the Raiders hosting the Kansas City Chiefs in the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. As Thursday Night Football features the National Football League's "Color Rush" initiative, the Raiders will participate by wearing throwback uniforms that celebrate the club's 1970 team.
The throwbacks are one of only two notable variations of the iconic Raiders uniform since Al Davis revitalized the brand as the team's new Head Coach and General Manager in 1963. After changing the team colors from black and gold to the now legendary Silver and Black, Davis refined the pirate and shield logo that has appeared on the team's helmet, unchanged, since 1964.
While the black home uniform has remained consistent, in 1970, the team wore a one-year style consisting of a white jersey with silver numbers edged in black to accompany the classic silver helmet and silver pants that are still worn today. In addition to the silver numerals, the jerseys' nameplates were sewn in a serif font that the team only briefly used. The unique 1970 look mirrored the first light colored numeral away jerseys donned by Davis' Raiders in 1963, when the team achieved the then-greatest turn around in league history, improving from 1-13 to 10-4 in one season.
Although only worn briefly, and eventually changed to accommodate visibility for television broadcasts, the jerseys commemorate a significant time in the team's history. 2016 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Ken Stabler was a rookie on the 1970 team. George Blanda sparked comebacks in five consecutive weeks, as part of a campaign that won him the Bert Bell Award and recognition as the Associated Press Athlete of the Year on his way to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Raiders won the AFC West and beat the Dolphins 21-14 in an AFC Divisional Playoff game, where Pro Bowl quarterback Daryle Lamonica threw touchdown passes to Hall of Famer Fred Biletnikoff and Rod Sherman. Hall of Fame cornerback Willie Brown also returned an interception 50 yards for a touchdown. The team wore the silver numeraled jerseys in the very first AFC Championship Game, a 27-17 loss to the eventual Super Bowl V champion Baltimore Colts, at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.
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CARMA Cell Therapies™ to Share Results of In-vitro Characterization of MCY-M11 at SITC 2020 Annual Meeting
MaxCyte, Inc.
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Nov. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- MaxCyte, Inc., a global cell-based therapies and life sciences company, announces that its subsidiary CARMA Cell Therapies will share results of a detailed phenotypic and functional characterization of MCY-M11, its lead anti-mesothelin CAR-PBMC cell therapy candidate, at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer's (SITC) 35th anniversary meeting. The Virtual Scientific Program begins today and runs through to November 14, 2020.
The ePoster (Abstract# 108) entitled, "MCY-M11, a CAR-PBMC cell product transiently expressing a mesothelin targeted mRNA CAR, exhibits desirable functional and immune phenotype attributed to sustained antitumor immunity in vitro," will be presented during SITC's Poster Symposium with a live Q&A on Thursday, November 12 from 4:50–5:20 p.m. EST and on Saturday, November 14 from 1:00–1:30 p.m. EST.
MCY-M11 is a wholly-owned, non-viral, mRNA-based cell therapy candidate manufactured using unstimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). MCY-M11 is under Phase I clinical evaluation for the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer and malignant peritoneal mesothelioma.
"We are encouraged by these in vitro findings, which demonstrate MCY-M11's potential to enable a long-term antitumor response. This work brings us one step closer to understanding the mechanism of action of MCY-M11 and provides strong non-clinical rationale for its use as a cancer cell therapy," said Dhana Chinnasamy, VP of Non-Clinical and Translational Studies at CARMA.
For more information about the SITC Virtual Scientific Program and to access the abstract, please visit: https://www.sitcancer.org.
About MCY-M11
MCY-M11 is a non-viral, mRNA-based anti-mesothelin CAR-PBMC cell therapy manufactured using un-manipulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). It is being evaluated in the clinic as treatment for high mesothelin expressing solid tumors. It is under ongoing development in a first-in human multi-center, non-randomized, open label, dose-escalation Phase I clinical trial evaluating the safety and preliminary efficacy of intraperitoneal infusions of MCY-M11 in individuals with platinum-resistant, high-grade, serous adenocarcinoma of the ovary, primary peritoneum or fallopian tube, or individuals with advanced peritoneal mesothelioma, with recurrence after prior chemotherapy.
Interim results presented at the ASCO 2020 meeting show that intraperitoneal infusion of MCY-M11 is feasible, safe, and well tolerated. There have been no dose-limiting toxicities and no treatment related discontinuations or deaths and most reported treatment related adverse events have been Grades 1-2 per NCI CTCAE in three completed dose levels as a single agent in the existing cohort.
Enrollment in the fourth dose level of the existing cohort is in progress and will run alongside with enrollment in the new parallel cohort that includes a preconditioning regimen. Multiple cycles of treatment will be allowed in both the fourth dose level of the existing cohort and at all dose levels in the new parallel preconditioning cohort.
More information about the study can be found at ClinicalTrials.gov (Identifier: NCT03608618).
About CARMA Cell Therapies
Through its wholly owned subsidiary, CARMA Cell Therapies, MaxCyte is facilitating advancement of novel mRNA-based cell therapies for cancer and other diseases with serious unmet needs. MaxCyte has developed CARMA™, a novel and proprietary platform for the development of non-viral, human messenger RNA (mRNA)-based, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) or T-cell receptor (TCR) redirected immune cell therapies. CARMA [derived from CAR mRNA] utilizes MaxCyte's Flow Electroporation® technology for highly efficient, non-viral, delivery of one or more mRNA(s) into un-manipulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) or isolated immune cells such as T- or NK-cells. CARMA offers the potential for a safer cell therapy, as a result of transient expression of receptor(s) and a non-viral delivery approach. Together, CARMA and MaxCyte's ExPERT® family of instruments also offer the potential for a significantly streamlined, scalable, and cost-effective GMP manufacturing process without the complexity of virus-based products. At the start of 2020, MaxCyte established CARMA Cell Therapies as a wholly owned subsidiary to facilitate independent investment and new partnerships to advance the CARMA platform. MaxCyte has retained Locust Walk, a global life science strategic advisory and transaction firm. For more information, visit /carma-cell-therapies/.
About MaxCyte
MaxCyte is a clinical-stage global cell-based therapies and life sciences company. As the inventors of the premier cell-engineering enabling technology, the Company helps bring the promise of next-generation cell and gene-editing therapies to life. The Company's technology is currently being deployed by leading drug developers worldwide, including all of the top ten global biopharmaceutical companies. MaxCyte licences have been granted for more than 120 cell therapy programs, with more than 90 licensed for clinical use, and the Company has now entered into eleven clinical/commercial license partnerships with leading cell therapy and gene editing developers. MaxCyte was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, US. For more information, visit www.maxcyte.com.
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6 November 2018 Reed Smith Client Alerts
FDA Overhauls Premarket Cybersecurity Guidance for Device Makers
Home Perspectives FDA Overhauls Premarket Cybersecurity Guidance for Device Makers
On October 18, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) released a draft update to its guidance on the “Content of Premarket Submissions for Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices.” In providing updated guidance, the FDA continues its extensive efforts1 to refine its approach to ensuring that marketed medical devices are protected against cybersecurity threats by identifying devices with cybersecurity risk and defining the issues manufacturers should address in the device design, labeling and other documentation that the FDA recommends for pre-market submissions.
Specifically, the FDA’s update expands the draft guidance by recommending the following:
Tiered Classification of Cybersecurity Risk: A tiered approach to classifying medical devices by potential cybersecurity risk, which requires that all cybersecurity controls be implemented for connected devices capable of causing harm to multiple patients, but permits risk-based control exceptions for lower risk devices;
Trustworthiness: A framework for designing “trustworthy” devices that incorporates specific design features and cybersecurity controls;
Cybersecurity Bill of Materials: An expanded “cybersecurity bill of materials” that goes with a device listing device hardware or software components to assist users in the identification of potential future vulnerabilities; and
Device Cybersecurity Labeling: Device labeling recommendations to assist end-users in maintaining the device’s safety and effectiveness with regards to cybersecurity.
Given the above recommendations, manufacturers of Internet-connected devices or other devices that present a cybersecurity risk (such as those that contain software, including firmware, or other programmable logic) should expect additional and more thorough FDA scrutiny regarding their device’s cybersecurity protections. Manufacturers should be aware that it is often burdensome and costly to incorporate cybersecurity into device design retroactively. Accordingly, manufacturers that are concerned their device may present a cybersecurity risk should consider conducting device risk assessments early and adopting cybersecurity risks throughout the product design lifecycle in order to meet the FDA’s recommendations for premarket submissions as discussed in the draft guidance.
Authors: Kevin M. Madagan Mildred Segura Gerard M. Stegmaier Maryanne C. Woo Wendell J. Bartnick David G. Krone
Two Tiered Approach to Device Cybersecurity Risk Classification
The draft guidance adopts a risk-based approach to device cybersecurity that is in line with other widely-accepted industry standards for cybersecurity, such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework. Specifically, the draft guidance introduces a framework for categorizing medical devices into two tiers for cybersecurity purposes each with different regulatory requirements.2
Tier 1 applies to “Higher Cybersecurity Risk” and is reserved for critically connected devices which, if tampered with, could directly result in harm to multiple patients. Examples of Tier 1 devices include, but are not limited to, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), pacemakers, left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), brain stimulators and neurostimulators, dialysis devices, infusion and insulin pumps, and the supporting connected systems that interact with these devices such as home monitors and those with command and control functionality such as programmers.
The FDA defines Tier 2 “Standard Cybersecurity Risk” broadly to encompass medical devices that do not meet Tier 1 criteria.
Breach of PHI by itself is not considered patient harm under draft guidance. One interesting carve-out from the FDA’s consideration of patient harm is that, according to the guidance, the loss of confidential protected health information (PHI) is not considered “patient harm.” However, protecting such information may be required by federal and state law, such as the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Categorizing devices into tiers may be difficult. While the examples provided by the FDA are illustrative in the sense of establishing what clearly qualifies as a Tier 1 device, a number of devices will be difficult to categorize. Without further clarification, medical device manufacturers may find the standard: “could directly result in patient harm to multiple patients” difficult to apply to their devices. This is important as different tiers will have different regulatory requirements.
Impact of two tiers. Under the draft guidance, the two tiers would have different design and documentation requirements. According to the draft guidance, certain security controls are recommended for Tier 1 devices and premarket submissions should include documentation on how the device design and risk assessment incorporate those controls. In contrast, Tier 2 devices do not necessarily need the security controls, but the FDA recommends that submissions should provide an explanation of a risk-based assessment of the potential vulnerabilities and their exploitability to justify why unimplemented controls are not appropriate for the device.
Trustworthy Devices
The draft guidance also adopts the concept of "trustworthy" devices.3 A trustworthy device is defined as a device that (1) is reasonably secure from cybersecurity intrusion and misuse; (2) provides a reasonable level of availability, reliability, and correct operation; (3) is reasonably suited to performing its intended functions; and (4) adheres to generally accepted security procedures.
Updated guidance consistent with NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Much of the guidance is devoted to how manufactures should seek to construct a trustworthy device. Manufacturers are well-advised to incorporate cybersecurity into product design early in the device lifecycle, at the presubmission phase, to avoid costly re-work to add such security controls later. The guidance appears to be consistent with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework standards: (1) Identify; (2) Protect; (3) Detect; (4) Respond; and (5) Recover.
Updated guidance tries to balance flexibility and specificity. The draft guidance remains ambiguous at times, even with the additional detail given by the FDA. For instance, the draft guidance instructs device manufacturers to “Maintain Confidentiality of Data” without explaining how this should be done. The guidance, like many cyber security frameworks, best practices, and legal requirements, is principles-based, because security controls frequently change and must permit organizations flexibility to implement various measures to mitigate the risk. Principles do not provide organizations with the comfort of knowing they are complying with such guidance (or legal requirements) with certainty.
Cybersecurity Bill of Materials
Under the draft guidance, manufacturers are expected to draft a cybersecurity bill of materials (CBOM) to be shared with customers to help them identify potential threats. The CBOM consists of a list of commercial and/or off-the-shelf software and hardware components incorporated into a device, so that if it turns out that such software or hardware is vulnerable, the device user can take self-help steps. In practice, however, commentators have predicted that this measure may take time to implement before it can meaningfully help customers.
Expanded Cybersecurity Labeling Recommendations
The draft guidance provides new recommendations for complying with the FDA's labeling regulations. It emphasizes communicating relevant security information to end users to help ensure a device remains safe and effective and that devices’ cyber security protections are maintained throughout the devices’ life cycle.
The FDA uses a legal foundation to support this aspect of the guidance, which suggests that the guidance may not be entirely optional. For example, 21 CFR 801.5 requires that device labeling include adequate directions for use, including statements of all conditions, purposes, or uses for which the device is intended (e.g., hazards, warnings, precautions, contraindications).4 The FDA states that “informing end-users of relevant security information may be an effective way to comply with labeling requirements.” The FDA recommends 14 specific recommendations of cyber security topics that should be included in labeling. Examples include a description of the device features that protect critical functionality even when the device’s cybersecurity “has been compromised,” backup and restore features, and the CBOM described earlier.
Expanded Cybersecurity Documentation
The draft guidance recommends that manufacturers include, as part of their premarket submission, documentation of the design features and risk management efforts and labeling to demonstrate a risk-based approach appropriate for the device. The draft guidance states that design documentation should track the requirements applicable to the tier of the device as wells as systems diagrams (detailing network architecture, communication pathways, authentication mechanisms etc.) to explain how the device interacts with other systems. Risk management documentation should contain an evaluation of risks and mitigation strategies that can help assure a secure device, according to the draft guidance.
The FDA’s 2018 pre-market guidance offers additional clarity given recent industry advancements and practices. The FDA “recognizes that medical device security is a shared responsibility among stakeholders, including health care facilities, patients, health care providers, and manufacturers of medical devices.” The draft guidance tries to balance the recurring challenge of drafting cyber security recommendations that are specific enough to be helpful, but yet flexible enough to apply to an industry filled with rapidly evolving devices and greater and more complicated cybersecurity risks.
The FDA will hold a meeting on January 29–30, 2019 to discuss the draft guidance. Comments on the guidance are due by March 18, 2019.
The FDA’s updated draft guidance comes on the heels of the release of the FDA-supported "Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook" for health delivery organizations (HDOs), the announcement of two new Information Sharing Analysis Organizations (ISAOs), and FDA's recent news release discussing the agency's enhanced cybersecurity partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). These activities also follow the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Inspector General’s September 2018 report "FDA Should Further Integrate Its Review of Cybersecurity Into the Premarket Review Process for Medical Devices," which we recently reported on. See our previous client alert.
FDA clarifies that the proposed tiers will not necessarily track existing statutory device classifications (Classes I, II, and III) set forth in/by 21 CFR 860.
This definition is adapted from the definition of a “Trustworthy System” in NIST SP 800-32 Introduction to Public Key Technology and the Federal PKI Infrastructure. See pg. 52, available at nist.gov.
Additionally, section 502(f) of the Federal Food, 562 Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) requires that labeling include adequate directions for use. Under section 502(a)(1) of the FD&C Act, a medical device is deemed misbranded if its labeling is false or misleading. Under section 201(n), labeling may be misleading if it fails to reveal facts material with respect to consequences which may result from use of the article under the conditions of use prescribed in the labeling or under such conditions of use as are customary or usual. See also 21 CFR 1.21. FDA device regulations contain further requirements related to labeling
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Q&A interview with professional NFL photographer Theo Smith
(Photo courtesy of Theo Smith)
In early September, I got the chance to do a one-on-one interview over the phone with professional NFL photographer, Theo Smith, also known as “theOvision .. Lenz Griffey” on Twitter and Instagram. Smith is a Miami native and has worked with some of the biggest names in the NFL – working with the likes of Antonio Brown, Odell Beckham Jr. and Von Miller. This interview was conducted on Sept. 3.
Q: How did you get into photography?
Smith: I always was kind of into it a little, my dad was into it a little bit. It’s always been around. I got pictures from like when I was in elementary like of cardinals and blue jays, just little stuff like that. I was always kind of taking pictures, but I never even thought about taking it serious. Just being fair, growing up photographers they always kind of seemed weird a little bit, so I always wanted to be in front of the camera more so than behind. But as I got older I realized you can make anything look cool.
Q: How did you get into shooting NFL games and for players?
Smith: My first guy was 84, AB (Antonio Brown), so I just wrote to him one day on Twitter because he had posted some pictures and I really didn’t like them, so I just wrote to him “If you want some pictures someday, hey just hit me up.” He wrote back “Hey meet me at this park this time.” And I went and I killed it. I was currently working at the time, so I couldn’t really commit to it like I wanted to. I went back the next day, killed it again. And he asked, “Do you want to do this full-time with me?” And that’s an opportunity that I couldn’t pass. If you want a job you can find a job, but an opportunity like that, I don’t think that comes around often. So, I shot my shot, man. And also, I knew the job that I was working at it wasn’t for me, I wasn’t happy there. I was working for the city of Miramar doing stormwater, it was a good-paying job and cool and whatever, but I wasn’t happy, man. I love sports so much and I just wanted to be around sports, so I just shot my shot and kept going.
Q: What was it like a few years ago shooting Steelers games and practices and getting to know some of the players on the team?
Smith: It was cool, man. That was the biggest thing that happened to me at the time. So, it was cool having that access and being around the guys and getting to know the guys. Not doing too much, just still out of the way, but you know AB’s a superstar so it was all good being there. Capturing content and creating it for the fans, that’s really what it’s about. Just making these guys seem more human, not everyone is going to be a superstar. That’s why I like what I do because you can bring the human side to things, a player playing with his kid or things like that. Just giving a window to their personal life, I think that’s cool.
Q: What’s it like working with some of the other premier names in the NFL like Von Miller and Odell Beckham Jr.?
Smith: Working with those guys is like a dream come true, man. They are the best at what they do, and you get to see these guys training and actually putting the work on the field. I’m working with Von now, that’s my guy. He put so much work in this offseason. We were doing like 2-3 workouts a day, he was going crazy with it. I was just so proud to watch him, you know, just commit to that thing. We read a lot, we were reading all the time. We read the Kobe (Bryant) book. Just basically committing to something, just one time to actually see what happens if we give everything our all and just see what happens. He’s gifted, he has a gift. Tall, fast, strong -- all that. That is just out of the womb and with super hard work just see what happens. It was just dope to document seeing him go crazy. And shooting with “O” (Odell Beckham Jr.), man O just a superstar on and off the field, he’s just a rockstar. He’s just different because shooting with O even the smallest thing can turn it into a 10K post like. He’s just a rockstar. Jarvis (Landry), that’s one of my good friends. I love shooting with Jarvis. I always get on him for not being more open but he’s a tough guy. The way he plays on the field is kind of how he is a little bit off the field. He’s a tough guy, kind of keeps to himself. I like to try to bring it out of Jarvis sometimes. I got some younger guys, Marquise Brown with the Ravens when he was at Oklahoma. We were around each other a lot. It was so dope to see him transform his body and transfer what he stood for and things like that. Seeing him go first round and being able to change his life and the people around his life. That’s what I love man. That makes me happy.
(Photo of Von Miller training by Theo Smith)
(Photo of Odell Beckham Jr. by Theo Smith)
Q: Do you have a certain photography style and what’s the difference between shooting football and basketball games?
Smith: How I do it with photography, it’s really not a controlled place. You literally can go somewhere with shitty lighting, you just never know walking into a place. What I do, I just try to be like what would I want to see? How can I make this cool? Would I like this picture? Not because of who I am or what I did. Would I generally like this picture? Just pushing the bar and hopefully, it comes out dope. The second part, shooting basketball is just so fast. Basketball is very fast. You are shooting, shooting and then you have to shoot at the rim to see if it goes in. With football, I played both, but I played football so that kind of helps me shoot. I kind of can predict where things are going to be a little bit. I’m out there watching them and looking at tendencies and situations, the ball might be coming this way, things like that. That kind of helps me on top of shoots. But also with my photography, I try to bring the human side of it. I try to get the emotion of guys and with their helmet off, to show “This is me also, just not a guy behind a helmet running around with cleats on.” A facial expression after a big play or a high five, just that kind of aspect. I try to be personal as possible and try to be close as possible so it’s like a portrait almost, just to make it artsy a little bit. I guess that’s my style if you want to say that. I try to make it as personal as possible.
Q: Do you have a favorite shot or particular moment in your career?
Smith: My favorite moment was when AB came back from an injury to play in the playoff game against the Jaguars and he was taking the top off with a calf injury. The funny thing about that I actually missed a lot of shots because I was so hyped up about the plays he was making. That’s the thing that I also have to separate a little because I will literally be so hyped sometimes about my guys just doing their thing sometimes I might just miss it because I will be like “Yes, let’s fucking go!” When AB took (A.J.) Bouye up top I just lost it, I was like this guy is going crazy. That was probably my favorite moment. That Green Bay game when he made that crazy toe-tap on the sidelines, I actually have that picture. I actually have a picture of him when he got dragged off in the Patriots game when fans were chanting MVP. Those are moments in time no matter how whatever happens for them or however everything goes, those moments can’t be erased. Those will always be great memories for me and also for him of course. Even having the opportunity to be right there, that was huge for me.
Q: AB is serving an eight-game suspension right now, but do you think he’ll eventually land with another team and which team would be a good fit for him?
Smith: I think so, I hope so. Anybody can use AB from top to bottom. If you could put AB on any team in the playoffs last year, he would probably be the difference between winning and losing. From the Titans to the Patriots to the Saints, you put him on any team that he probably had any kind of interest for them, they probably win. All those teams lost pretty close games and you just think about adding him to the roster or the plays that he would have made, just the first downs that he would have got to keep the clock going, just little things like that because he changes the dynamic of the game. Even the Ravens, any team you plug him in on, there’s a difference. It opens up things for running backs, opens up things for other receivers, tight ends, everything is open because you have to respect what he does. I would pick the Seahawks, but literally any team you add him on he would make a difference. Even if he didn’t go out there and go crazy, just the effect of him being out there and taking coverage away. He has to sit eight games, but that’s a good thing because you know what you’re getting and after that date, he could play. We’ll see where he lands, there are injuries and people get hurt and things like that, so we shall see.
Q: What do you think about the Steelers in 2020?
Smith: The Steelers no matter what those are my guys from (Mike) Tomlin on down. From Joe Haden to Vince Williams to Bud (Dupree), Mike (Hilton) and Cam (Heyward). I still love those guys, I am always rooting for them. I hope they do, of course. They are a solid team. Ben is back, James (Washington) is out there and I see the young receiver out there (Chase) Claypool he is looking good, JuJu (Smith-Schuster) of course and (James) Conner is back there. And (Diontae) Johnson is fast and is pretty good too. They have a loaded team.
Q: How will it work this year for shooting at games with COVID-19?
Smith: It’s going to be tricky for this year. That goes for everyone. If you’re not a team photographer this year or not with the NFL somehow someway, it’s going to be a little tough, especially with the COVID. I should be OK, hopefully, because that’s what I do, but it’s definitely going to be difficult.
Q: What’s your advice for people looking to get into sports photography?
Smith: Getting into sports photography, you have to love it. I love it, I watch sports all day, you follow my Twitter, you see that I talk about sports all day. Being able to capture those moments that’s the best job in the world for me because I love it so much. Once you have a passion for something like that, it’s easy. You got to put the work in, but if you love it, it will come. It’s not even about money all the time, but you do have to get your money. Sometimes I go and shoot at my high school (Miami Central) just because. You can’t cheat it, you really got to put the work in as far as shooting and get your style and get people's numbers, and eventually, they can’t deny you. I’m different. My thing was just different. The social climate was different. What me and AB were doing that was almost unheard of. Nobody was doing that. Everybody can’t do it how I did it. Just being able to capture everything, you saw how the (Michael) Jordan documentary was? Having that full access, like that’s not going to happen for everyone, it’s just not. Not everyone has a superstar like that. So, the pieces just fell perfect for me, but you can’t cheat the work, you have to put the work in. You can’t even get lucky if you don’t put the work in, that’s first. Anytime anyone asks me for advice, I just say keep shooting. I’m talking shooting until you get to the place where they are calling you because they need you.
Q: What was it like going from the job that you were at too working with AB?
Smith: What’s so funny about it is I was still working. I am still calling out every day, I’m sick or whatever as I am still shooting. Funny enough, we go to the ESPYs and my job sees me on TV, so they call me and told me “Congratulations, but we’re going to have to let you go.” They even knew when I was working there it wasn’t for me. The people that work there are older guys and they got their pensions and stuff, they’re set. They’re already set, their minds are made up, but for me, I got a lot of life to live and I want to see and do things.
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Stephen m. Lukach jr.
Lukach sentenced to 27 months
By Peter Bortner Staff Writer
Oct 20, 2020 Updated Oct 20, 2020
Former Schuylkill County Clerk of Courts Stephen M. Lukach Jr., 70, of Lake Hauto, was sentenced to 27 months behind bars today in U.S. District Court in Scranton by U.S. District Judge Robert D. Mariani.
A federal grand jury in Scranton indicted Lukach in July 2018 on 20 charges concerning the alleged missing money. According to prosecutors, in 2013-14, the county controller’s office, then under Republican Christy Joy, started an in-depth examination of Lukach’s records and discovered misappropriation of money, triggering an FBI investigation. They alleged Lukach stole money from various accounts under his control and used the money for personal expenses for himself and at least one family member. Those expenses included meals, car payments and other personal spending in addition to payments on the family member’s credit card bill, according to prosecutors.
During the audit, Lukach tried to interfere by stealing mail that was sent to banks, forging records and sending the fake bank records to the controller’s office to try to conceal his thefts, prosecutors said.
“He would take the money back to his office,” Schuylkill County Clerk of Courts Maria Casey said, discussing the case in March. “He would ostensibly take it to the bank. There were no internal controls. Nothing was done to remedy it.”
Voters first elected Lukach, a democrat, in 1987 and re-elected him six times, making him the senior county row officer. He retired on April 17, 2014, one day after the FBI and state police searched his office for what they said was evidence of thousands of dollars missing from automation and bail accounts.
After a three-hour search, FBI agents and state police officers removed several carts full of boxes, documents and other items from Lukach’s office.
Democrat Thomas J. Campion Jr., was appointed to complete Lukach's term, and Casey, a republican was elected in 2016, defeating Democrat Larry Padora.
Former District Attorney Christine A. Holman, a Republican, transferred the prosecution of Lukach to federal officials in 2014.
This year, On March 22 Lukach agreed to plead guilty to two charges resulting from money that prosecutors alleged went missing from his office. Under the terms of the agreement, Lukach, entered a guilty plea to one count each of mail fraud and falsification of records.
Prosecutors agreed to the dismissal of the other 18 charges against Lukach after he is sentenced. At the time of sentencing, Lukach also must pay two $100 special assessments, one for each charge to which he pleaded guilty.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael A. Consiglio is prosecuting the case.
Assistant Federal Public Defender Leo Latella, of Scranton, Lukach’s lawyer, could not be reached on Saturday for comment on the case.
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444.860. Performance standards to be met in underground mining operations — rules and regulations. — 1. The commission shall promulgate rules and regulations directed toward the surface effects of underground coal mining operations, embodying the following requirements; provided, however, that in adopting any rules and regulations the commission shall consider the distinct difference between surface coal mining and underground coal mining.
2. Each permit issued relating to underground coal mining shall require the operator to:
(1) Adopt measures consistent with known technology in order to prevent subsidence causing material damage to the extent technologically and economically feasible, maximize mine stability, and maintain the value and reasonably foreseeable use of such surface lands, except in those instances where the mining technology used requires planned subsidence in a predictable and controlled manner; provided, that nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit the standard method of room and pillar mining;
(2) Seal all portals, entryways, drifts, shafts, or other openings between the surface and underground mine working when no longer needed for the conduct of the mining operations;
(3) Fill or seal exploratory holes no longer necessary for mining, maximizing to the extent technologically and economically feasible return of mine and processing waste, tailings, and any other waste incident to the mining operation, to the mine workings or excavations;
(4) With respect to surface disposal of mine wastes, tailings, coal processing wastes, and other wastes in areas other than the mine workings or excavations, stabilize all waste piles created by the permittee from current operations through construction in compacted layers including the use of incombustible and impervious materials if necessary and assure that the leachate will not degrade below water quality standards established pursuant to applicable federal and state law surface or ground waters and that the final contour of the waste accumulation will be compatible with natural surroundings and that the site is stabilized and revegetated according to the provisions of this section;
(5) Design, locate, construct, operate, maintain, enlarge, modify, and remove, or abandon all existing and new coal mine waste piles consisting of mine wastes, tailings, coal processing wastes, or other liquid and solid wastes, and used either temporarily or permanently as dams or embankments in accordance with standards and criteria promulgated pursuant to subdivision (13) of subsection 2 of section 444.855;
(6) Establish on regraded areas and all other lands affected, a diverse and permanent vegetative cover capable of self-regeneration and plant succession and at least equal in extent of cover to the natural vegetation of the area;
(7) Protect offsite areas from damages which may result from such mining operations;
(8) Eliminate fire hazards and otherwise eliminate conditions which constitute a hazard to health and safety of the public;
(9) Minimize the disturbances of the prevailing hydrologic balance at the minesite and in associated offsite areas and to the quantity of water in surface ground water systems both during and after coal mining operations and during reclamation by:
(a) Avoiding acid or other toxic mine drainage by such measures as, but not limited to:
a. Preventing or removing water from contact with toxic producing deposits;
b. Treating drainage to reduce toxic content which adversely affects downstream water upon being released to watercourses;
c. Casing, sealing, or otherwise managing boreholes, shafts, and wells to keep acid or other toxic drainage from entering ground and surface waters; and
(b) Conducting surface coal mining operations so as to prevent, to the extent possible using the best technology currently available, additional contributions of suspended solids to streamflow or runoff outside the permit area (but in no event shall such contributions be in excess of requirements set by applicable state or federal law), and avoiding channel deepening or enlargement in operations requiring the discharge of water from mines;
(10) With respect to other surface impacts not specified in this subsection including the construction of new roads or the improvement or use of existing roads to gain access to the site of such activities and for haulage, repair areas, storage areas, processing areas, shipping areas, and other areas upon which are sited structures, facilities, or other property or materials on the surface, resulting from or incident to such activities, operate in accordance with the standards established under section 444.855 for such effects which result from surface coal mining operations; provided, that the commission shall make such modifications in the requirements imposed by this subdivision as are necessary to accommodate the distinct difference between surface and underground coal mining;
(11) To the extent possible using the best technology currently available, minimize disturbances and adverse impacts of the operation on fish, wildlife, and related environmental values, and achieve enhancement of such resources where practicable;
(12) Locate openings for all new drift mines working acid-producing or iron-producing coal seams in such a manner as to prevent a gravity discharge of water from the mine.
3. In order to protect the stability of the land, the commission shall suspend underground coal mining under urbanized areas, cities, towns, and communities and adjacent to industrial or commercial buildings, major impoundments, or permanent streams if it finds imminent danger to inhabitants of the urbanized areas, cities, towns, and communities.
4. The provisions of this law are applicable to surface operations and surface impacts incident to an underground coal mine with such modifications to the permit application requirements, permit approval or denial procedures, bond requirements and other appropriate requirements as are necessary to accommodate the distinct difference between surface and underground coal mining. The commission shall promulgate rules and regulations setting forth such modifications.
(L. 1979 H.B. 459)
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A spy from the Chinese regime revealed how he used LinkedIn to obtain sensitive information from the US
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A doctoral student from the National University of Singapore who went to Beijing to make an academic presentation on politics became a key spy for the Chinese intelligence services, gathering sensitive information about the United States military and government. Singaporean Yeo Jun Wei, also called Dickson Yeo, pleaded guilty on Friday, July 24, to setting up a fictitious consultancy as a front to collect sensitive information from the United States. In his statement, he admitted having worked between 2-15 and 2019 for Chinese intelligence, detecting and evaluting Americans with access to “valuable non-public information” through social networks, especially LinkedIn.
As revealed by the Asian TV channel, through this network aimed at business use, business and employment, he obtained information from a civilian who worked with the Air Force on the F-35B aircraft program, contacted a US official who worked at the Pentagon on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, and obtained a report from a State Department person about a member of the United States Cabinet.
Yeo’s work with Chinese intelligence operatives began in 2015, when he travelled to Beijing to make a presentation on the political situation in Southeast Asia, according to court documents. At the time, I was doing a PhD in Public Policy from the National University of Singapore.
After his presentation, he was approached by individuals claiming to be China-based think tanks. They offered him money in exchange for political reports. Yeo found that at least four of these individuals were intelligence agents from the People’s Republic of China. In fact, one of them, later, asked him to sign a contract with the Chinese army. Yeo refused to sign the contract but did not hesitate to work with them, even knowing that they were from the Chinese intelligence service, he admitted in the process.
The agents commissioned him to provide information on international political, economic, and diplomatic relations, They said they wanted “non-public information,” data they referred to as “scuttlebutt,” rumors, gossip.
“Initially, the tasks were focused on Southeast Asia, but over time, the goal became the United States”, reads the court documents that CNA agreed to. Although these operatives (from the Chinese intelligence service) used pseudonyms in their interactions with Yeo, they did not hide their affiliation with the government. One of the operatives told him that he and his boss worked for the main intelligence unit of the regime, adds the file.
During one of Yeo’s trips to China, he met this spy and two others in a hotel room. During the meeting, Yeo was instructed to search for non-public information about the US Department of Commerce, artificial intelligence, and the China-US trade war. He met with operatives at various locations in China. With one of the contacts it was seen around “19 to 20 times” and with another, about 25 times. Every time Yeo traveled to China for meetings, he was taken out of the customs line and taken to a separate office to expedite his entry into the country.
Yeo used social media to find and recruit American citizens who could provide him with information. In 2018, a Chinese intelligence agent ordered him to create a bogus consulting company and post job listings for the company on LinkedIn.
He used the same name from a prominent US consulting firm that conducts public and government relations. He received 400 resumes, 90% of them from the US military and government personal, with security clearance. Yeo sent the resumes to Chinese intelligence service agents if he thought they would find interesting.
Once he set up the facade, the social network made his job easier, Every time he contacted someone who was valuable to him, in terms of sensitive information, the website suggested other possible contacts. “According to Yeo, the website’s algorithm was relentless,”. Yeo would log into the professional networking website almost every day to review the new batch of potential contacts suggested by the site’s algorithm.
After identifying their potential targets, he worked to gain their trust, recruit them, and provide information or write reports. To make it, he received Chinese training on how to trick potential targets. Thus, he asked them if they were satisfied with the work if they had financial problems if they had children to support. A short time later, he had already established a relationship with three people who ended up providing sensitive information for the United States.
In 2015, a civilian who worked with the US Air Force on the F-35-B military aircraft program, and who had a high-level security clearance, confided to Yeo that he was in financial trouble. With false promises, he recruited him to write a report on the geopolitical implications of the Japanese buying American F-35s. The data ended up in Chinese hands.
Between 2018 and 2019, Yeo saw another clear target on the LinkedIn site. This person was employed by the US State Department at the time, and he told Yeo that he was dissatisfied at work and that he was in financial trouble. He was concerned about his future. Under Yeo’s direction, the man wrote a report on a member of the USA cabinet at the time. The man, who feared to lose his retirement if authorities found out, received $ 2,000 for the data.
Another person was also recruited through the app, a US army officer who was assigned to the Pentagon. Yeo met with the officer multiple times, building a “good relationship.” The officer confided that he was traumatized by his military travels in Afghanistan. The agent asked him to write reports for clients in Korea and other Asian countries but did not say he would turn it over to a foreign government. The work explained how the withdrawal of the USA military from Afghanistan would affect China, and he was paid $ 2000. The money was transferred to the bank account of the officer’s wife.
China was enthusiastic about the information and demanded that its agent do more, and Yeo planned to do so, but in November 2019 he was finally arrested in the US.
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The Public Cloud Brings Stormy Weather
September 22, 2020 Information Management
By Raju Vegesna
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It's ironic, but most SaaS companies don’t invest in their own technology. Instead they rely on AWS or Google or Microsoft for their infrastructure, scaling and storage needs. You can’t blame them, really. Turning over infrastructure to the public cloud has its benefits, faster development cycles and speed-to-market being two. Part of the cloud’s well-earned mythology is that it enables more innovation and keeps companies competitive in a world always threatening to leave them behind. As far as most SaaS companies are concerned, the cloud is a beautiful place.
Something Is Amiss in the Cloud
On closer inspection though, something’s amiss in the cloud. Capital One made news for falling victim to a massive data breach that left millions of customers exposed when the company moved onto AWS. These breaches have become common in a world where businesses and consumers alike have learned to live with a degree of vulnerability concerning data. In Capital One’s case, it was a former AWS-employee-turned-hacker who exploited some lax security protocols. An aberration — so Capital One and AWS would like people to believe. The more worrying trend is the fact that sensitive customer data like social security numbers were sitting on unencrypted public servers.
By recent estimates, cloud security mishaps like Capital One’s often stem from misconfigurations of the service. Over 90% of breaches involve a misconfigured setting somewhere that exposes a vulnerability. Such mistakes are quite common. If it’s that easy to undo a public cloud’s security protocols, if cloud providers can’t or won’t apply more rigor to the implementation, cloud customers have to ask if it’s worth the cost.
Companies like Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's Azure and Google Cloud fetch incredibly high annual contracts, often in the hundreds of millions of dollars, from SaaS companies using their service. In lean times, these costs can be crippling. In good times, the costs go up as the business grows, and not in a particularly sustainable way.
Take Snapchat, which in 2017 committed to paying Google $400 million per year for five years to use its cloud infrastructure services. To put that figure in context, the company generated $404 million in total revenue in 2016. When the deal with Google’s up, it will have to renegotiate and hope it doesn’t wind up paying even more.
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Knowing When the Public Cloud's Bad Outweighs the Good
For venture capital (VC)-backed companies yet to turn a profit, going all-in on the public cloud poses significant risk. When a company cedes decision-making privileges to its financial backers, suddenly, investing in their own technology stack over simply renting on the cloud becomes a matter of “priorities.” If owning and running your own data center isn’t tied to your investors’ immediate ROI, good luck building it at all.
That’s partly what tilts the scales so heavily in the public cloud companies’ favor. Their customers, particularly startups in tech-adjacent fields trying to scale quickly, are all but disincentivized from investing in their own infrastructure. And the longer a business stays in the cloud, the harder it is to leave. What initially seemed like a lean, cost-efficient venture turns into an albatross. As the business matures and its needs get more sophisticated, it must make up more ground to support those needs. It turns to shortcuts and patchwork to service its software applications. Meanwhile, its technical debt mounts right alongside its financial debt, all but guaranteeing that migrating to a private or even hybrid solution will be painful and costly.
Of course, leaving the cloud is possible. Dropbox, initially the poster child for the public cloud revolution, picked its spot and started migrating from AWS’s cloud services to its own custom infrastructure back in 2015. Within a couple years, it saved $75 million in operating costs.
In an honest reckoning, most companies will realize that sooner or later the public cloud’s bad outweighs the good for their business. This makes that initial upfront investment in infrastructure and interest in slow growth seem a lot sweeter.
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As chief evangelist at Zoho, Raju Vegesna plays a leading role in presenting Zoho's message to the business market worldwide. He has been with Zoho nearly 20 years, and in that time he's seen the company grow from being a few-app SaaS vendor to a global technology company, providing more and 45 applications as part of a deep tech stack, built entirely in-house.
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Our next Rialto Recommends is another caper flick that we really like - Spike Lee's 2006 film INSIDE MAN starring Christopher Plummer, Jodi Foster, Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Willem Dafoe. A tough detective (Denzel Washington) matches wits with a cunning bank robber (Clive Owen), as a tense hostage crisis is unfolding. Into the volatile situation comes a woman named Madaline (Jodie Foster), a mysterious power broker who has a hidden agenda and threatens to push a tense situation past the breaking point. Spike Lee's energetic and clever bank-heist thriller is a smart genre film that is not only rewarding on its own terms, but manages to subvert its pulpy trappings with wit and skill. Newsweek said "As unexpected as some of its plot twists is the fact that this unapologetic genre movie was directed by Spike Lee, who has never sold himself as Mr. Entertainment. But here it is, a Spike Lee joint that's downright fun." The LA Times said "INSIDE MAN is a deft and satisfying entertainment, an elegant, expertly acted puzzler that is just off-base and out-of-the-ordinary enough to keep us consistently involved." INSIDE MAN is streaming on Showtime, DirectTV and Roku Channel or available to rent for a modest fee from Apple, Amazon, GooglePlay, YouTube, Vudu and others. Check out this Spike Lee joint - it's his most straight-up mainstream Hollywood film and it is a heck of an entertaining ride.
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I am a Director and VFX wizard from the U.K., who now lives in California. I have filmed with tribes in the Amazon, been to the North Pole, smuggled money and film into Argentina during the Falklands war, set up MTV Europe, directed ‘A’ list movie stars, and made everything from TV shows to video games and commercials.
As the son of a photographer, I was first exposed to, and inspired by the world of film when as a young boy I saw the title sequence to the James Bond film ‘Goldfinger’ being shot in my Dad’s studio.
I graduated from St Martin’s School of Art in London. (Yes I was at the first Sex Pistols gig!). Beyond my work in video production, I am a photographer and artist.
For information on my new cloud based company for VFX fixes, retouching and enhancement, please visit VFXLA.
Los Angeles, CA, 92701, USA
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Robinson Read School of Dance operates on a professional and friendly basis, serving Morecambe, Heysham and Lancaster and the surrounding area. All pupils are taught to a high standard by teachers with a vast experience, technical and performance wise.
All faculty have a broad base within the world of dance. Many pupils have gone on into the profession including vastly respectful full time vocational schools including The Royal Ballet School, Laine Theatre Arts, Millenium Dance 2000, Northern Contemporary School of Dance and The Northern Ballet School. Currently ex-pupils are working in the profession including Cruise ships, Panto and the dance and fitness industry.
We are proud to have produced two winners, and a finalist, of the Miss Dance of Great Britain competition. We are also proud of our record at the annual Lancaster Stage Dance Festival!
The School offers a strong base of Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Modern and Acrobatics. We also offer festival and production work with cutting edge choreography. Coaching and technical private lessons are available. Advice and preparation is available for pupils wishing to continue their training at vocational and degree level.
The ethos of the school is that of hard work, commitment but most of all ENJOYMENT. We aim to give all our pupils life skills which would carry through for the rest of their lives. A confidence which can be used in all areas of life and an introduction to an art in all it's forms. Unlike other schools and industries we do not carry a mission statement as we firmly believe that all pupils are individual and are treated as such. We do, however, have a belief that ALL can be achieved with perseverance and commitment.
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CATE LE BON UK
Quirky and artsy indie rock from Wales’ tender oddball
What’s the sound of solitude? Cate Le Bon has an idea.
She’s a Welsh artist who first played around like-minded skewed musicians such as Gruff Rhys (from Super Furry Animals), Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and even John Cale. With playmates like that it’s no wonder Le Bon’s music is adventurous, quirky and playful.
In 2013, Cate Le Bon bought a one-way ticket from rainy Wales to sunny California and has since found new collaborators in the likes of Kevin Morby, White Fence, Eleanor Friedberger and Bradford Cox (Deerhunter).
That doesn’t sound lonesome at all, does it? Cate Le Bon’s self-imposed solitude started when she moved into a cottage far away to carve wooden furniture by day and to write music by night.
The musical result is her fifth album, Reward (2019), which is exactly was the title says. The album has reaped stellar reviews and it was shortlisted for the much sought-after Mercury Prize.
Cate Le Bon’s indie music is still unpredictable and off-the-wall. Reward fuses Le Bon’s enigmatic avant-garde impulses with her penchant for folky grandeur. The music is like a lush, wild garden full of funny plants and colourful flowers that grow in all directions at once. Piano chords are joined by pealing electric guitars, softly glowing electronics and saxophones – and the overall sound is warm and sunlit.
When Cate Le Bon and her band returns to Roskilde Festival (she first played here in 2016), you can expect a fun, freaky and fervent performance from one of Wales’ tender oddballs.
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Anti-Trump Forces Haven’t Given Up on the Russia Collusion Narrative
RUSH: I have here a story from Paul Sperry, who is a recognized, great investigative reporter. He’s not part of the Drive-By Media culture, thankfully for us. He has written for a number of different publications, including the New York Post and a number of different websites. This piece appears at RealClearInvestigations.com. The headline here: “Trump-Russia 2.0: Dossier-Tied Firm Pitching Journalists Daily on ‘Collusion.’”
Now, I’m not gonna be able to share the whole thing with you because it prints out to 11 pages, and I just had the break here at the top of the hour to dig into this and absorb and mark up enough of it here to be able to share some of it in a way that makes sense. It’s very complex, and we’ll link to it so you can read it at RushLimbaugh.com. But I think this story, actually, among other things is going to inform us where all of the same talking points in the Drive-By Media come from.
For example, remember our famous montage — the montage that started all the montages — our montage on hundreds of media people using the word “gravitas” to describe George W. Bush’s choice of Dick Cheney as his vice-presidential running mate? Since that montage, news organizations and websites and other programs have been doing montages on everything. But that was the montage that started it all — and I’m exaggerating hundreds.
We had at least 50 different journalists in that montage, and they’re all using it. Every damn one of them talks about how the choice shows “gravitas” or that it was “for gravitas,” because Bush didn’t have any. Bush didn’t have any seriousness. He didn’t have any weight about him, and so his choice of Cheney showed gravitas. It was uncanny how many journalists — who you would think are competitors and would want to be different — were instead identically uniform. Well, this piece may actually uncover how this happens.
Let me begin at the beginning. Again, the headline: “Trump-Russia 2.0: Dossier-Tied Firm Pitching Journalists Daily on ‘Collusion’ — Key Democratic operatives and private investigators who tried to derail Donald Trump’s campaign by claiming he was a tool of the Kremlin have rebooted their operation since his election with a multimillion-dollar stealth campaign to persuade major media outlets and lawmakers that the president should be impeached.
“The effort has successfully placed a series of questionable stories alleging secret back channels and meetings between Trump associates and Russian spies, while [at the same time] influencing related investigations and reports from Congress. The operation’s nerve center is a Washington-based nonprofit called The Democracy Integrity Project, or TDIP. Among other activities, it pumps out daily ‘research’ briefings to prominent Washington journalists, as well as congressional staffers, to keep the Russia ‘collusion’ narrative alive.”
Let me stop here and summarize and explain. The original Trump-Russia collusion theory or story came from a totally made-up piece of crap called the Steele dossier. It then became known as “the Trump dossier,” then just simply “the dossier.” And it was all of these unverifiable, uncorroborated articles of supposed intelligence linking Trump to Russia. And of course, the big one was the golden showers story in which Trump found — when he was in Moscow at a hotel — that Obama had slept on that same bed in that same room and so Trump promptly hired some prostitutes to come over and urinate on the bed.
That was called the golden showered story, and it was the prominent story in the dossier. It was the story that Comey explained to Trump when explaining the dossier to him. Remember, Trump had said’that he didn’t need a daily intelligence brief, that he was smart, and he could remember things. He didn’t need to talk to these people every day. Well, that didn’t go over well, ’cause the intel people want daily access to the president, whoever it is, to be able to influence him — and Trump was basically telling them to go pound sand.
So Comey and his buddies had to find a way to get in dossier in the public, and the way to do that was to make it news. The way to make it news was to present it to Trump. So Comey takes the dossier in coordination with James Clapper, who is the Director of National Intelligence. He goes to the White House, and he shows Trump that one aspect of the dossier, and then says to Trump, “This is the kind of stuff that’s out there every day that you need to know about, Mr. President. You need to know the kind of things our foreign adversaries are saying about you.”
Trump said, “Well, this is crazy. Why should I have to be told about this stuff? This is absolute insanity.” Comey didn’t care about that. He called Clapper on the way out of the White House and said, “Mission accomplished.” Clapper then called CNN and says, “Trump has now seen the dossier!” So CNN begins an “investigation” of the dossier, BuzzFeed since publishes it, and then CNN ended up getting a Pulitzer Prize for their story on how Trump became aware of the dossier. It was a total put-up job. That dossier was Hillary Clinton opposition research.
It was circulating throughout Washington all during the summer of 2016, but it never made it in the media ’cause everybody knew it was lies. Everybody knew it was unverified, uncorroborated. But they desperately wanted it in the public domain! Comey and Clapper figured out how to do that. This all happens after Trump is elected and after he is in office. So the dossier was designed to set up plunging Trump approval numbers so they could eventually impeach him. But that didn’t happen.
The Mueller investigation was then called ’cause the Democrats were unsatisfied with a bunch of things. So Rosenstein names Mueller, and Mueller begins an investigation of Trump-Russia collusion, and we now know — we now know with incontrovertible evidence — that this dossier was the only thing they had that in any way (including chock-full of lies) gave them an excuse to say that Trump might have been colluding with Russia.
Everybody involved in it, including Mueller, at some point learned that it was totally bogus, and they still used it to get FISA warrants. I’m convinced that number of liberal Democrats and journalists actually did believe this at first, and they desperately searched for evidence prove it. There wasn’t any because it was all lies. So that effort kind of fizzled. It gave us the Mueller investigation, but there hasn’t been any evidence of Trump-Russia collusion whatsoever.
So the people behind that original effort have now started Version 2.0, and the name of this group doing this is the Democracy Integrity Project or TDIP, and they have been, for the past year and a half, “pump[ing] out daily ‘research’ briefings to prominent Washington journalists,” like Jim Acosta, “as well as congressional staffers, to keep the Russia ‘collusion’ narrative alive.” In other words, they are producing lies. They are producing total BS to keep the “‘collusion’ narrative alive,” even though the dossier has bombed out and even though the Mueller investigating hasn’t found any collusion.
Now, this organization, TDIP (the Democracy Integrity Project), is led by somebody called Daniel Jones. “He is a former FBI investigator, a Clinton administration volunteer, and a top staffer to California senator Dianne Feinstein.” Daniel Jones. You may have heard his name related to other scandals such as the Christine Blasey Ford scandal. This guy, as an operative for Dianne Feinstein, has been all over. His fingerprints have been all over these multiple efforts to impugn and destroy Donald Trump.
Now, this group, TDIP, The Democracy Integrity Project — it’s a nonprofit — “employs the key opposition-research figures behind the [Steele] dossier: Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and” who worked with Steele to write the dossier. They’ve also hired Steele, even though he’s been totally discredited. “Its financial backers include the actor/director Rob Reiner and billionaire activist George Soros. The project’s work has been largely shrouded in mystery.
“But a months-long examination by” Paul Sperry at RealClearInvestigations.com “found that the organization is running an elaborate media-influence operation that includes driving and shaping daily coverage of the Russia collusion theory, as well as pushing stories about Trump in the national media that attempt to tie the president or his associates to the Kremlin,” even to this day. “The group also feeds information to FBI and congressional investigators, and then tells reporters that authorities are investigating those leads.”
So these dummkopf, sponge reporters take it for gospel what these people say they’ve got and then they run with it, and this ends up being source material for “the investigation into Trump-Russia collusion. ” One nonprofit has force-fed all of the Drive-By Media a complete crock of excrement on Trump-Russia collusion, and that’s how it continues to be reported even though there isn’t any. But feeding information to the FBI and feeding information to congressional investigators as a “tactic[,] adds credibility” to the pitches made by this organization.
And because of this credibility, when they say that there’s collusion between Trump and the Kremlin or Trump associates, well, they are said to have “credibility,” and this is why the media totally relies on it, because of who it is that works at this nonprofit. Sperry says that all of this “mirrors the strategy federal authorities themselves deployed to secure FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign: citing published news reports of investigative details their informants had leaked to the media…”
In other words, do you know…? In the quest to get a FISA warrant, do you know what the FBI did? The FBI, McCabe, Strzok Smirk would leak portions of the dossier to the media. They would leak elements of their investigation to the media. The media would then report on what the FBI had leaked. The FBI would then take those news stories and attach them to their FISA warrant application and say, “See, Judge? This is so true, the media’s even reporting it! It isn’t just us here in the FBI.” Well, the only reason the media had it is because the FBI leaked it for this express purpose.
So the FISA judge (if they’re not in on it) is sitting there saying, “Wow, Trump-Russia collusion! You’ve got this dossier and now you got the media reporting it? There must be something to it. Here’s your warrant. We sign off on it.” They’re doing the exact same thing here. They are leaking garbage. They are leaking made-up things about ongoing Trump contact with the Kremlin. The media then reports this stuff, and that feeds on itself as a continual loop.
“Five days a week, TDIP emails a newsletter to influential Democrats and prominent Beltway journalists under the heading ‘TDIP Research’ — which summarizes the latest ‘collusion’ news, and offers ‘points of interest’ to inspire fresh stories regarding President Trump’s alleged ties to Moscow.” So we have Version 2.0. Paul Sperry has uncovered all this, and this organization TDIP may well be the source for all of this uniform reporting in the media on whatever. Gravitas, Russian collusion with Trump.
The key takeaway here is that despite the utter falsity of the original Steele dossier, despite the fact that there is no evidence whatsoever of Trump-Russia collusion, a former staffer for Dianne Feinstein and Bill Clinton is now running an organization that’s feeding journalists with a new set of lies and distortions that are perpetuating the Trump-Russia collusion myth. This is said to be one of the reasons why people like Pencil Neck Adam Schiff are saying, “Well, maybe Mueller didn’t do as good a job as we can do.”
Members of Congress and the media are being told that there are things Mueller hasn’t found. This is how they are covering the fact that Mueller hasn’t found anything because there isn’t anything. This group is informing journalists that they know of things that Mueller may have missed. “We don’t know yet. We haven’t seen his report.” That’s how they’re keeping this whole thing alive. This is a hoax from day one. It continues as a hoax, and now it’s — according to Paul Sperry — into “Version 2.0.”
RUSH: I had a chance to do a little bit more digging during the break into this 11 page story that we will link at RushLimbaugh.com. Here’s another pull quote from the story.
“Longtime observers of the Washington political scene are curious how Jones,” the Feinstein staffer, “has for years been able to escape serious scrutiny while running a political influence operation that works closely with national media, federal law enforcement and congressional investigators. With access to a multimillion-dollar war chest, they say he could continue to push the anti-Trump Russia collusion narrative long past the Mueller report or even the 2020 presidential election.”
And something else from the story, another pull quote. “By filing under that tax-exempt status, the organization,” TDIP, “does not have to publicly disclose its donors. Its latest IRS filing shows reported income of more than $9 million and assets of more than $1.6 million. In addition to Soros, who has donated at least $1 million, liberal Hollywood activist Reiner also backs the project, according to the former Simpson colleague with direct knowledge of discussions with Reiner. In 2017, Reiner started the Committee to Investigate Russia with James Clapper.”
A Hollywood actor colluding with James Clapper and several other former Obama officials. “Reiner’s office declined a request to discuss the extent of his financial contributions to the project.” His assistant said, “Sorry, Rob is not available.”
“A New York-based nonprofit linked to the family of billionaire Democratic activist Tom Steyer has donated $2.1 million,” to this organization. “Social media titans including the founders of Facebook, Twitter and Google are indirectly funding the project through donations funneled through a Silicon Valley foundation.”
So this is a major, major operation that has been going on under the radar that no journalist who is being fed information from has dared release. Journalists are using all of the crap that this organization feeds, and they never once cite them. It’s sources close to the story, it is anonymous former intelligence officials, it’s whatever. It’s the same way they’ve been doing it since this all began.
And it is an insurance policy in case Mueller doesn’t find anything. The express purpose here is to keep stories in the media that Russian collusion occurred and that the investigation to find it is ongoing and worthwhile. So when Jerry Nadler or when Pencil Neck Schiff or any of these people impanel a committee to go after this, the media’s right there with support, saying, “Yeah, it’s absolutely worthwhile because we continue to hear from our sources about Trump-Russia collusion.”
Now, you would think at some point these people would say, you know, it hasn’t worked yet. Well, that’s arguable. It has accomplished something. It hasn’t gotten rid of Trump, which is their objective, but it has done damage.
RealClearInvestigations: Trump-Russia 2.0: Dossier-Tied Firm Pitching Journalists Daily on 'Collusion' - Paul Sperry
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Sandhills Woman's Exchange
15 Azalea Road
Pinehurst, NC 28370
Across from the Village Chapel
Lunch: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
CABIN CAFE
KATRINA’S QUICHES
WOMAN’S EXCHANGE FEDERATION
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The Sandhills Woman’s Exchange was started in 1922. The cabin we proudly occupy was built in 1810 and was located at Ray’s Grist Mill about 2 miles from its current location. Shortly after the Civil War, it was bought from the Ray family by Archibald McKenzie and for years was used by his family as a kitchen. In 1895, when James W. Tufts started Pinehurst, he was quite charmed by the cabin that he offered and built a new kitchen for the McKenzie family. They then had the old cabin moved, log by log, to its current location. The cabin was initially a museum, then the home of “Uncle” Jerry Mitchell, and its final residential owners; Tom Cotton and his brother, both free slaves, until Tom Cotton died in 1923. This wonderful old cabin has been the proud home of the Sandhills Woman’s Exchange since 1923. We are a member of the Federation of Woman’s Exchanges, the longest running women’s volunteer organization in the country.
Sandhills Womans Exchange
Pinehurst, North Carolina 28370
Tuesday - Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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SFPD charged with disorder
Sep. 22, 2008 12:00 a.m.
A top-to-bottom overhaul of the Police Department is required to make the agency more efficient in halting murders and cracking down on low-level offenses such as car thefts and pickpockets, according to a draft report obtained by The Examiner.
As The City struggles to reduce the number of killings and low-level offenses plaguing neighborhoods, the report says the Police Department should undergo a “substantial organization change” that would put more officers in the field, improve district stations’ response to neighborhood crime and help the investigations bureau solve more homicides.
The draft report was conducted by Washington, D.C.-based Police Executive Research Forum, a group of national law-enforcement experts, hired last year to examine and improve operations as criticism of the department mounted amid the rising tide of violence.
The City’s homicide count reached a decade high of 96 killings in 2005, and two years later in 2007, the Police Department recorded 98 killings. This year, with 81 homicides recorded to date and, most recently, an eruption of violence in the Mission district, police critics are reinvigorated and demanding change.
Criticism has included failing to adequately counter violent crime, an inability to nab killers and lackluster community-policing. The report contains recommendations on how the department can improve in these areas and others.
The City’s 10 police district stations should undergo significant changes, the report says, including the addition of a community-policing unit headed by a lieutenant.
“The districts have lacked, at times, the concentrated and coordinated resources to effectively address” crime and the unit should focus “on repeat calls for service and strategies to reduce crime through community engagement,” the report says. “The unit should include a crime analyst, problem solving teams, school resource officers, housing and parks patrol officers and the district’s foot beat officers.”
Sworn officers are wasting time on tasks that the department could hire civilians to perform, such as computer searches and case file preparations, according to the report. It recommends hiring an additional 250 civilians, freeing officers to “spend more time on the street tracking down leads.”
Although voters supported the civilianization of police positions, and Mayor Gavin Newsom and Chief Heather Fong promised to move forward with the plan, fewer than 60 civil positions have been added to the Police Department in four years.
The report recommends restructuring the investigations bureau, which handles homicide cases, to improve case-solving rates. The bureau needs more narrowly focused divisions and subdivisions.
The department also needs a more aggressive approach to property crimes, such as auto theft. Last year, 6,337 cars were stolen in San Francisco, an average of 17 per day. The report recommends an auto unit using proactive tactics, such as the analysis of car-theft locations to identify trends, the study of repeat offenders and the use of a bait vehicle.
A final report is expected to come out in early December.
jsabatini@sfexaminer.com
Should top cop be contract position?
San Francisco’s top cop should be a contracted position, rather than an appointed position, if the department is to undergo a major overhaul, a city-hired consultant suggests.
“It is difficult for a police department to undergo long-term significant change when questions concerning a chief’s tenure are raised constantly,” the consultant report says.
City Hall insiders and political watchers have long offered guesses of when, not if, Mayor Gavin Newsom will remove police Chief Heather Fong as top cop. The first female police chief has been criticized for her lack of public persona and plummeting police morale amid an increasing homicide rate. Fong was appointed as acting chief in January 2004, and chief on April 14, 2004. Currently, the mayor has the power to hire or fire the chief.
The report recommends The City examine having a police chief contracted for five years.
“A large-city police department undergoing major reform and change needs stable, consistent leadership,” the report says. “A five-year contract with renewal possibility offers the needed stability, but also ensures that the chief is responsive to the needs of the city’s residents.”
— Joshua Sabatini
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Shearman & Sterling Advises Bunge Finance Europe on €600 Million Senior Notes Offering
Shearman & Sterling represented Bunge Finance Europe B.V. (“BFE”) and Bunge Limited in connection with the issuance and sale of approximately €600 million aggregate principal amount of BFE’s 1.850% senior notes due 2023. Bunge Limited will fully, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantee all payments on the notes.
Citigroup Global Markets Limited, BNP Paribas, J.P. Morgan Securities plc and ING Bank N.V. acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A., Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, HSBC Bank plc, Lloyds Bank plc, SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Limited, and Société Générale acted as senior co-managers, and ANZ Securities, Inc., Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., Barclays Bank PLC, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, ICBC Standard Bank Plc, Natixis, Standard Chartered Bank, and UniCredit Bank AG acted as co-managers.
BFE and Bunge Limited intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, including, but not limited to, the repayment of outstanding indebtedness, which may include indebtedness under Bunge Limited’s revolving credit facilities.
Bunge Limited is a leading global agribusiness and food company with integrated operations that stretch from the farm field to consumer foods. A 100%-owned finance subsidiary of Bunge Limited, Bunge Finance Europe B.V. was formed for the sole purpose of issuing debt obligations, other than commercial paper, primarily in the US markets, and investing the proceeds of the issuances in a master trust structure that Bunge Limited created to centralize its financing operations.
The Shearman & Sterling team included partner Stephen Giove (New York-Capital Markets); associates Flavio Averbug (New York-Capital Markets), Jon B. Shields (New York-Capital Markets); and visiting trainee Brook Geremew (New York-Capital Markets). Other Shearman & Sterling attorneys involved in the transaction were partner Douglas McFadyen (New York-Tax) and associate Adam Sternberg (New York-Tax).
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The Declaration of Interdependence, December 2017
Copyright 2017 Paul Richards
The time for the celebration of independence, as reflected in our founding document, may have passed. We have entered an era in which forces larger than governments impinge on and threaten our freedom. This subset of the population has harnessed our historical heritage, offering us a kind of sham independence via a proliferation of technological gadgetry that, for the most part, nobody actually needs. By breaking into our political and social system and taking it over through the power of money and other forms of influence, they have declared, and largely effected, their independence, both from the general population and from our system of societal restraints. In the process they have created and fostered a potentially fatal, blind dependence on our part; dependence on the good will of this same dubious few. Our most enlightened response might well be to declare and affirm our interdependence, rather than our independence, asserting that interdependence must become our preeminent model for human interaction, with all the political, commercial, and cultural upheavals and adaptations that this change in values demands.
What follows is an experimental attempt to imagine and draft a modern day Declaration of Interdependence, with some inexpert but reverent attention to the tone and style of the original founding document.
THE DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE
When, in the course of human events, the wishes, wants, and needs of an advantaged few become forcefully elevated above those of the great mass of humanity, thus increasing natural inequities in the distribution of resource, opportunity and privilege, it is natural and right for people thus imperiled to invent new forms of connection with and amongst themselves, and with people of other nations, and with those to whom the common liberty and wellbeing have been entrusted. Accordingly we, who are so moved, declare our intent to abstain from the pursuit of exaggerated, isolating ideals of independence, and to form instead a new and consciously interdependent union, open to all who share this value.
To that end, we hold these truths to be self-evident: that the laws of probability and unearned advantage play at least as great a role in any man or woman’s success or quality of life as do individual attributes and aspects of character; that all people are equally endowed with fundamental wants and needs; and that the satisfaction of these, or the lack thereof, gives rise to the greatest imaginable extremes of both joy and suffering. The absolute equality of the experience of human joy and suffering dictates that no person’s wishes, wants, and needs can be held to be more inherently real or important than those of any other. We hold that this is unalterably so, regardless of gender, social, financial, racial, national, or religious distinctions.
Given this, we affirm that all persons are endowed not only with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but also with the right to voice—to be heard equally in the process of collective decision. Conjoined with these rights is the inalienable responsibility, on the part of all, to work interdependently with others to ensure safe, universal access to the opportunities arising from our collective productivity.
This responsibility is, self-evidently, the equal companion of our right to liberty, and is a continuing acknowledgment that we live and thrive not merely as a result of our own efforts and attributes, but as a direct outgrowth of the sufferance, tolerance, restraint, and support of our fellow creatures.
As we declare this commitment to enlightened mutual interest, societal momentum veers regressively onto old paths of radical independence and dependence. Our nation, and others, are enduring increases in inequality of wealth and income, decreases in support for civil rights, ongoing signals of indifference to, or tolerance for, violence or other harm toward women and minorities, the systematic undermining of access to health care and education, the destruction of the separation of church and state, and the unwinding of efforts to remove the influence of money from politics, and greed from commerce. Also in ascent: The abandonment of scientific and evidence-based approaches to the establishment of fact, of which denial of climate change is an egregious and representative example.
When a long train of such abuses and usurpations evinces a design to reduce a population under a new form of despotism, it is that population’s right and duty to invent and install more interdependent mechanisms of government and commerce, and to provide new guards for their future security.
For the support of this declaration, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor, in the hope that our cherished, progressive experiment in liberty on Earth shall endure.
According to family documents written in the 1800’s, a direct ancestor of mine, along with his brother, donated their estates to the Revolutionary War effort and joined the Continental Army as officers under George Washington.
They would surely have signed the original Declaration of Independence, had it been asked of them, and indeed they took on an equivalent risk for the cause of freedom.
Our circumstances in the present era are thought by many to include threats to life and liberty that equal or surpass the grave threats faced by the founders of the United States. The above document is, of course, only my personal guess as to what a realistic, present-day declaration, in a tone approximating that of the founders, might look like. It is intended as no more than an expression of a thought experiment, and at most a starting point in a potential conversation that might lead to a gentle coalescence of the like-minded, and to better and more refined ideas.
Patty and I contemplate circulating this draft to members of our community on the Internet, and are curious about the social resonance of this sentiment. If you would like to be a signatory to the final draft of this Declaration of Interdependence, please feel free to add your digital signature and pass it along, by going here.
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Home Celebrity News and Photos Celebrity Videos - Clips and Interviews ‘Marvel’s Inhumans’ Season 1 Cast Interviews
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‘Marvel’s Inhumans’ Season 1 Cast Interviews
Anson Mount, Scott Buck, Sonya Balmores, Eme Ikwuakor, Iwan Rheon, Serinda Swan, Ellen Woglom, Roel Reine, Ken Leung, and Mike Moh from ‘Marvel’s Inhumans’ at Comic Con (ABC/Rick Rowell)
Cast members from ABC’s Marvel’s Inhumans admitted to being in awe of being a part of the 2017 San Diego Comic Con, with many of the actors from the series making their Comic Con debut this past summer. The Marvel’s Inhumans panel showed off clips and took questions from fans, and the cast also sat down for roundtable interviews to further delve into what’s in store when viewers tune in.
Marvel’s Inhumans premieres on September 29, 2017.
Who do you play and what’s it like being part of this Marvel series?
Sonya Balmores: “I play Auran. I think my role in the city of Attilan is the head of the Royal Guard. I work closely with the king and queen. And, yeah, this experience is amazing. It’s my first Comic Con and obviously I’m a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe now so I’m thrilled.”
Mike Moh: “I play Triton in the series; I’m the green guy with the fish-like features. I’m a close confidante to the royal family and I’m kind of like the recon guy for Black Bolt. Anything that we need to be done stealth and cunning, I’m the guy that they go to. I’m fiercely loyal to my family and my king, and I’m freaking out right now! I’m fanboying this whole weekend.”
How long does the makeup take?
Mike Moh: “It takes about three to five hours every time so I had the earliest call times. One time a van picked me up at 1:18 in the morning and I had to film all day. But, we have a great team. Lots of weird, random conversations to fill those hours.”
Sonya Balmores: “And lots of good music.”
Do you have scenes with Lockjaw?
Sonya Balmores: […]“When we’re doing scenes with him, we just have to use our imagination. There’s nothing there. Lockjaw is this big Styrofoam statue. You’re just acting to a statue. So, it’s been super rewarding to know it’s coming together.”
How would you describe your character?
Ellen Woglom: “My character, Louise, she is the eyes and ears of the audience. People come to learn about this world of Inhumans and everything that’s going on and what’s going on in their world through my character, which I think grounds the show. It grounds the show having a human character like that. She works for an aerospace company. She’s incredibly bright. She’s incredibly driven. She’s a little socially inept. She’s someone who speaks before she thinks. I wouldn’t say she’s the most self-aware person but she’s a lot of fun. I think she’s an endearing character. She’s a lot of fun to play. She brings a lightness to the whole show, I hope.”
Louise was created for the series so how did you figure out how to approach her?
Ellen Woglom: “Well, it gives me a lot more freedom in some regard because I’m allowed to create her because she’s an original character. I’m not having to play someone who’s already been written before, that people have already seen, and that fans are attached to. I have a lot to play with and can find different layers and colors of her, and bring aspects of myself to this character that’s obviously not me and very different from me in a lot of ways. It gave me a lot more freedom to carve out and create a character that I would enjoy, someone that I’d like watching on TV. The writers were wonderful in writing the material that made my job really easy to play with and have fun with.”
This show has a very diverse cast. How does it feel to see so many different ethnicities represented?
Eme Ikwuakor: “In regards to that, we have to look at just 10 years ago. The amount of commercials that you would see that had an interracial (cast) just wasn’t happening. There’s issues that we have in regards to racism and sexism in this country but if you actually think about it, this is actually the best that we’ve actually been in the history of this country in regards to diversity and rights. We’re consistently working in that direction so especially being on TV and having families and representing families – families are made up in so many different ways. The thing I love about the show is that at no point do we ever mention race.”
Ken Leung: “We don’t comment on it.”
Eme Ikwuakor: “We don’t comment once. Not once do we do it. It’s not even a thing.”
Ken Leung: “I love that. I love that we’re a family and we’re so diverse and yet we’re family. I think that’s saying something.”
Within the Marvel world, what sets Marvel’s Inhumans apart?
Scott Buck: “I think with this show you can strip away the superpowers and basically watch this as a family drama. It’s a family that when we first come to them are in the midst of a crisis that is not only threatening to tear the family apart, but their entire civilization. They all do have superpowers but that’s not necessarily a big help to them in this sort of situation. It’s more so that they have to deal with these kind of situations the same way that we do. In fact, some of their superpowers are a hindrance because they’re used to relying on them to solve their problems. They’re just not working for them the way they would like to work for them in this situation. You can’t solve an emotional problem with a sonic voice.”
More Inhumans Cast Interviews:
– Anson Mount and Serinda Swan Interview
– Iwan Rheon and Isabelle Cornish Interview
Watch the full interviews with Marvel’s Inhumans Ellen Woglom, Scott Buck, Ken Leung, Eme Ikwuakor, Mike Moh, and Sonya Balmores
(Interview by Fred Topel. Article by Rebecca Murray.)
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The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum’s 24th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Program Focuses on Latinos and Civil Rights
The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum presents Baldemar Velásquez, founder and director of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO, as the featured speaker for the museum’s 24th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Program being held Thursday, Jan. 15, at 7 p.m. Velásquez will speak on the topic, “Latinos and Civil Rights: Changing the Face of America” at Baird Auditorium in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. This year’s program is co-sponsored by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
The event will include a performance by Chicano guitarist and singer Rudy Arredondo. Admission is free, but seating is limited. To obtain more information or make reservations, e-mail acmrsvp@si.edu or call (202) 633-4875.
“Each year we select a speaker or presentation that embodies the philosophy of Dr. King,” said Camille Giraud Akeju, museum director. “Dr. King was empathetic to the plight of migrant workers. A grass-roots organizer like King, Baldemar Velásquez has effectively worked through the system, sometimes one person at a time, and emerged a powerful advocate against injustice.”
“The Smithsonian Latino Center is proud to be partnering with the Anacostia Community Museum on this important event which highlights the shared struggles and support between our communities,” said Eduardo Diáz, director of the center. “Baldemar Velásquez embodies the center’s mission to highlight the contributions of Latinos and their positive impact in the United States, particularly its labor history.”
Velásquez is a highly respected national and international leader in the farm-labor movement and in the movement for Latino and immigrant rights. In 1967, he founded FLOC, AFL-CIO, a union of migrant farmworkers in the eastern United States, to provide these laborers a voice regarding their work conditions. Incensed by the injustices suffered by his family and other farmworkers, Velásquez began organizing migrant and seasonal farmworkers in northwest Ohio. He ultimately focused FLOC’s efforts on changing the structure of the agricultural industry through three-way negotiations among farmworkers, growers and agricultural corporations.
Based in Toledo, Ohio, FLOC rose to national prominence in 1978 when it led more than 2,000 workers in one of the largest agricultural strikes in Midwestern history, demanding unprecedented trade-union recognition in multiparty collective bargaining agreements. Since most FLOC members are immigrant workers, the organization has assumed a prominent grass-roots leadership role in building a broad network in the larger society to advocate for policies ensuring the human, civil and working rights of immigrants. Recognizing that the policies of multinational agricultural corporations affect workers worldwide, Velásquez has also expanded FLOC’s influence to unions beyond the United States into Mexico and other countries where similar crops are grown.
Velásquez’s work has been recognized by labor, government and progressive organizations. His numerous honors include a MacArthur Fellowship, an Aguila Azteca Award by the government of Mexico and honorary doctorates from Bowling Green State University and the University of Toledo.
Arredondo returns to the Smithsonian after performing with La Danza Company at the 2002 Days of the Dead program. He is also a farm organizer and agricultural policy analyst.
Community partners for this year’s program are Fiesta DC, the Health Foundation for the Americas, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, the National Alliance for Hispanic Health and the National Council of La Raza.
The Smithsonian Latino Center is a division of the Smithsonian Institution that ensures Latino contributions to art, science and the humanities are highlighted, understood and advanced through the development and support of public programs, scholarly research, museum collections and educational opportunities at the Smithsonian Institution and its affiliated organizations across the United States and internationally. More information about the center and its programs is available at www.latino.si.edu.
The Anacostia Community Museum was opened in southeast Washington in 1967 as the nation’s first federally funded neighborhood museum. Renamed in 2006, it has expanded its focus beyond African American culture to documenting, interpreting and collecting objects related to the impact of historical and contemporary social issues on communities. For more information, the public may call (202) 633-4820, (202) 633-1000 or (202) 633-5285 (TTY). Web site: anacostia.si.edu.
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He Was a Midwestern Boy on His Own
Mystery at the Paris Ballet
By Bob Greene
Bob Greene is an exercise physiologist and certified personal trainer specializing in fitness, metabolism, and weight loss. He holds a master's degree from the University of Arizona and is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Council on Exercise. For the past seventeen years he has worked with clients and consulted on the design and management of fitness, spa, and sports medicine programs. Bob has been a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show. He is also a contributing writer and editor for O the Oprah magazine, and writes articles on health and fitness for Oprah.com. Greene is the bestselling author of The Best Life Diet Cookbook, The Best Life Diet, Revised and Updated, The Best Life Diet, The Best Life Diet Daily Journal, The Total Body Makeover, Get With the Program!, The Get With the Program! Daily Journal, The Get With the Program! Guide to Good Eating, and Make the Connection.
Publisher: Scribner (May 24, 2014)
Humor > General
Book Cover Image (jpg): He Was a Midwestern Boy on His Own
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Spire Welcomes Amy Jenkins, Executive Assistant
Blog, News Article
Spire is excited to welcome the newest member of the team, Ms. Amy Jenkins. Ms. Jenkins will serve as the Executive Assistant to Managing Principal, Anthony Gonzales, and brings with her significant business management, coordination, and operational technology experience. In her role at Spire, Ms. Jenkins will be providing high-level executive, administrative, and organizational support to the Spire leadership team. She will conduct necessary client research, prepare in-depth reports and presentations, handle confidential information requests, and manage multiple Executives’ schedules to ensure the seamless coordination of meetings, events, and international as well as domestic travel arrangements. She is a skillful communicator and will use her expertise to coordinate the efforts of all company leaders, resulting in enhanced organizational efficacy.
Prior to joining the Spire team, Ms. Jenkins honed her executive capabilities in the business and marketing field as the Sales and Marketing Lead for a multi-market production company, as well as in her position with a large, national healthcare provider as a C-level Executive Assistant. Ms. Jenkins possesses strong business acumen which, when combined with her technical and people management skills, enables her to efficiently coordinate multiple tasks simultaneously in fast-paced environments.
In addition to obtaining a Master of Business Administration degree with an emphasis on Management and a Master of Arts degree in Arts Management from Southern Methodist University, Ms. Jenkins also has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education from Texas Tech University.
Please join us in welcoming Amy Jenkins to the Spire family!
To contact Ms. Jenkins, please email .
When she is not at Spire, Ms. Jenkins can be found singing with Red Shift, a national professional choir of which she was a co-founder. She is pictured on the left with the rest of the original quartet that started the group. In the photo to the right, you can find Ms. Jenkins spending time with her close-knit family.
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SISTAR’s “I Like That” MV Surpasses 10 Million Views
SISTAR’s latest comeback track has proved to be a much-watch!
The four-member group recently staged a comeback with their new track “I Like That” off their fourth mini album “Insane Love,” which earned them a first place trophy on “Show Champion” this week.
The music video is currently officially uploaded on two channels on YouTube, both Starship Entertainment’s official channel and 1theK, as well as on Naver TVCast. Over 6.5 million people have watched the music video on Starship Entertainment’s channel, over 3 million have viewed it on 1theK, and over 768,000 on Naver TVCast. Combined, that’s well over 10 million views!
If you haven’t had a chance to watch “I Like That” yet, check it out below!
Support the artist by buying Insane Love from YesAsia
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Home » Music » Music Monday: Last Days of Harry Carey
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Music Monday: Last Days of Harry Carey
About the Song
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Harry Carey (1878 – 1947) was an American actor, one of silent film’s earliest superstars. He is best remembered as one of the first stars of the western film genre. One of his most popular roles was as the outlaw, Cheyenne Harry. Carey also starred in director John Ford’s first feature film Straight Shooting (1918). He has inspired practically every cowboy star to the present day and his legacy lives on. I thought I’d take Harry Carey and his films as a springboard to write a cowboy story in a modern experimental song setting, with a touch of blood bath blues and graveyard humor.
The song is a violent story about the death of a cowboy, both physically and intellectually, Harry Carey’s last stand, as it were, in my fictional rendering. The insinuation of suicide is present as Harry Carey is punned with ‘Hara-Kiri’, the Japanese Samurai method of ritual suicide. Carey, in the song, exclaims “nail me in (to the coffin) and take me home” as if he was inviting death to take him.
There are references to the ‘peacemaker’, which is the name of a famous gun that is said to have ‘won the west’ and ‘oracle bone’. These were pieces of shell or bone on which people would submit questions to deities regarding the future. These questions were carved onto the bone or shell in oracle bone script using a sharp tool. The oracle bones bear the earliest known significant corpus of ancient Chinese writing. I’m subtly saying there that I’m steeling or evoking the life of the Harry Carey character to give me the strength to sing this song, to be the character for the four minutes, ten seconds as I say “I stole my life from an oracle bone”.
Here’s a video compilation of clips from some Harry Carey movies.
About the Composition
My style employs two essential elements:
1) When I sing, I’m really more of an actor as I’m not singing in the place of a character, I AM that character. As in this case, on the cusp of self-destruction, Harry Carey, himself.
2) I use non-traditional time signatures to create a uniqueness or novel element to my music. It’s another mechanism to disorientate or derail the listened, along with the violent nature of the song. This song is in 5/4 and 15/8 time signatures. The arrangement, for me, had to be raw and real with a touch of the gothic western and the infernal burlesque. This will go with nine other songs to make up my debut album entitled “Fredrick & The Golden Dawn”, due out early 2014.
‘Last Days of Harry Carey’ – Lyrics
He said, take my gun.
You’re my favorite son,
and you ride that horse
like you stole it.
We all got it coming;
pearls for the swine,
yea we all got our time,
can’t worry a dying man’s mind.
Dishing out the devil’s wages
with a peacemaker and a pocket comb.
Ah, no more of this.
Nail me in and take me home
Take my gun.
Face in the forest,
I never stood a chance.
I’m just some rum-soaked gunman,
who never took a stand.
Dishing out the devil’s wages,
I stole my life from an oracle bone.
No more of this.
Nail me in and bring me home.
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Rheem partners with HGTV's 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'
Times Record Staff
Feb 12, 2020 at 12:01 AM Feb 12, 2020 at 1:09 PM
Rheem, which has a manufacturing facility in Fort Smith, will partner with HGTV’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” as the air and water heating product provider for the upcoming 2020 season.
The series will premiere 8 p.m. Sunday and spotlight local heroes who give back to their communities despite personal challenges. HGTV produced the series (formerly on ABC) and will air 10 episodes, each with a custom home renovation for a deserving family.
Each renovation incorporates design, technology and customization to create an environment that offers positive and life-changing impact for the homeowner and their families. Designers, builders, plumbers and volunteers worked around-the-clock to complete construction of each home within four days.
ABC’s “Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson hosts the series. Home design experts and celebrity guests, including former “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” host Ty Pennington, will appear throughout the season.
“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is a beloved show that helps families rebuild and thrive,” said John Fitzgerald, executive vice president of Operations for Rheem. “We want to honor these families and provide innovative HVAC and water heater products to fit their individual needs, keep costs down and minimize their carbon footprint.”
The 2020 season will spotlight smart home advancements, sustainability and responsive design.
Rheem’s line of connected HVAC and water heaters are among the most efficient on the market and provide advanced protection, savings and convenience. With a single app on their phone or through their new EcoNet Smart Thermostat, each family will be able to control settings, view product alerts and maintenance reminders, and monitor energy and water usage to manage consumption.
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Ron DeSantis announces $422 million increase in teacher bonuses under new program
Thursday’s announcement included long-awaited details about what Gov. Ron DeSantis plans for teacher pay.
TAMPA -- Gov. Ron DeSantis continued Thursday to push for improvements in Florida’s education system, outlining a plan to ease the teacher shortage and eliminate a controversial component of the state’s teacher bonus program.
Speaking at Armwood High -- his second Hillsborough school visit in two weeks -- the new Republican governor pitched a $422 million expansion of the Best & Brightest bonus program and an additional $10 million a year for teacher recruitment.
Best & Brightest awards would no longer be tied to the college entrance exams, such as the SAT and the ACT, that teachers took long before they began their careers.
“Quite frankly, that test is a moment in time,” DeSantis said.
DeSantis also proposed a “bad actor list” to stop failed charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately operated, from re-opening elsewhere in the state.
Much of this would need legislative approval, as would a budget that increases unrestricted funding by $50 per student, up from a 47-cent increase the previous year. While it is too soon to predict the course of this year’s session, House Speaker Jose Oliva responded to news of DeSantis’ budget last week with a statement that the state has a “responsibility to respect Florida’s taxpayers by spending each dollar wisely.”
Nevertheless, educators are seeing in DeSantis a leader who wants to resolve at least some of the problems that have long frustrated them.
At Tampa Bay Technical High School last week, DeSantis announced an executive order to evaluate career education programs and bring them in line with industry needs.
On Thursday, he said the expanded Best & Brightest program could provide individual bonuses of more than $9,000 to nearly 45,000 qualifying teachers. The current program provides several tiers that go as high as $6,000, according to the state.
“You put $9,000 on the table for a teacher? That’s very significant," said Hillsborough school superintendent Jeff Eakins, who is under pressure from his School Board to do something about the district’s triple-digit teaching vacancy numbers,
Eliminating the SAT requirement is expected to dramatically increase the percentage of award recipients who are African American, from 1 percent to 9.8 percent.
Hillsborough School Board chairwoman Tamara Shamburger said she was “super excited” by that prospect, along with the expectation that the recruitment plan would attract more teachers to high-poverty schools. The plan, as described by DeSantis, would provide loan and tuition forgiveness for 1,700 new teachers if they agree to teach in Florida for five years.
“So far I’m very, very pleased with what this governor is doing with education,” Shamburger said. “I think that he’s basically hitting a home run and I hope that our legislators will agree.”
Originally, state law required Best & Brightest recipients to hold classroom jobs and a have a “highly effective” rating on the state evaluation system. About 7,000 Florida teachers qualified.
But last year, in a temporary measure, the Legislature expanded the program’s reach by adding lesser awards for many teachers with “effective” ratings.
At last count, Best & Brightest awards went to 163,563 teachers and cost the state $215 million.
DeSantis proposed Thursday that the bonuses go to “highly effective” teachers who work on campuses where the scores tied to school grades improved by 1 percent over the previous year.
Hillsborough teachers union staffer Vincent Jones, who arrived near the end of Thursday’s event, said the “highly effective” distinction, which DeSantis included in his statement, is problematic. The ratings are based on student test scores, which are hard to improve in some of the system’s most challenging jobs.
“From the union perspective, that is going to harm some folks who are working and giving their best every single day,” Jones said, although he added that “I’m never against rewarding those people who go above and beyond the highly effective level, for sure.”
Jones said schools would be better off if the funding flowed directly to the districts.
“The bottom baseline issue, that we have all of this money for all of these random programs, we would rather have it so that we can raise up the profession of public education employees at every level so that they feel respected and appreciated for what they do,” he said. “One man’s opinion, this is the most important job on the face of the earth besides parent.”
Mike Gandolfo, president of the Pinellas Classroom Teachers Association, went a step farther.
“I’m happy that he recognizes that there is a teacher shortage,” Gandolfo said of DeSantis. “I’m happy that he recognizes that education can use more funding. However, this is what I feared, that they were going to continue this crazy bonus program because they’re just designed to bypass the union and collective bargaining process. It’s a bonus. It doesn’t raise anybody’s pay. Our goal is to get these folks when they retire to have a halfway decent pension that they can survive on.”
Union leaders also do not like Best & Brightest because it excludes many school-based professionals who work with children, but are not classroom teachers.
“This might work in a factory environment, but we’re dealing with kids," Gandolfo said. "Taking out that one asinine element (the SAT score) doesn’t make the rest of the thing work. You want to help education? Fund education.”
In Tallahassee, leaders of the Florida Education Association are taking a more measured approach as they wait to see the full effect of DeSantis’ approach to education, and how it is received by the Legislature.
“We’re very encouraged by what the governor has put out,” said Sharon Nesvig, the organization’s communications director. “He addressed all the issues we had with the Best & Brightest program -- the discrimination, the disenfranchising of minority teachers and teachers who came into the profession from other avenues where they did not have to take the SAT. We are pleased with that portion of it.”
Nesvig said she also likes the teacher recruitment plan and the “bad actors list” for charter providers.
As for Best & Brightest, she said, “there’s a lot of things that need to be worked out. And hopefully this is opening the door for more conversations.”
Times staff writer Jeffrey Solochek contributed to this report.
Up next:Florida education news: Term limits, AP tests, charter schools and more
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AVSC Hires New Nordic Program Director
(Aspen, CO - September 16, 2016) Aspen Valley Ski & Snowboard Club is excited to announce that August Teague will be joining their program as Nordic Program Director. August’s qualifications were unmatched for the program’s needs; he has an impressive 14-year coaching history, helping athletes of all levels achieve their goals while developing a passion for Nordic skiing. August led the Nordic programs at both Whitman College and University of Nevada, Reno, before becoming the Director of Skiing at the University of Nevada, Reno. He then spent 4 years with the Australian Ski Team, leading them through two World Championships and one Olympic cycle. Most recently, August has run his own junior club in Truckee, CA.
August is no stranger to Aspen or AVSC: his passion for Nordic skiing was cultivated at the club. From AVSC, he went on to ski for Colorado Rocky Mountain School and eventually the University of Denver. He’s thrilled to return to the Roaring Fork Valley and share his expertise with a club that was so integral to his own growth as an athlete, and later, a coach. AVSC’s Executive Director, Mark Godomsky, is excited to welcome August to the team, sharing his confidence that 'August will be an outstanding leader and foster a supportive, competitive, and fun environment for our Nordic athletes.'
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Fibromyalgia Linked to Gut Bacteria for First Time
News Jun 25, 2019 | Original story from McGill University Health Center
Scientists have found a correlation between a disease involving chronic pain and alterations in the gut microbiome.
Fibromyalgia affects 2-4 percent of the population and has no known cure. Symptoms include fatigue, impaired sleep and cognitive difficulties, but the disease is most clearly characterized by widespread chronic pain. In a paper published today in the journal Pain, a Montreal-based research team has shown, for the first time, that there are alterations in the bacteria in the gastrointestinal tracts of people with fibromyalgia. Approximately 20 different species of bacteria were found in either greater or are lesser quantities in the microbiomes of participants suffering from the disease than in the healthy control group.
Greater presence or absence of certain species of bacteria
“We used a range of techniques, including Artificial Intelligence, to confirm that the changes we saw in the microbiomes of fibromyalgia patients were not caused by factors such as diet, medication, physical activity, age, and so on, which are known to affect the microbiome,” says Dr. Amir Minerbi, from the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), and first author on the paper. The team also included researchers from McGill University and Université de Montréal as well as others from the Research Institute of the MUHC.
Dr. Minerbi adds, “We found that fibromyalgia and the symptoms of fibromyalgia – pain, fatigue and cognitive difficulties - contribute more than any of the other factors to the variations we see in the microbiomes of those with the disease. We also saw that the severity of a patient’s symptoms was directly correlated with an increased presence or a more pronounced absence of certain bacteria – something which has never been reported before.”
Are bacteria simply the markers of the disease?
At this point, it’s not clear whether the changes in gut bacteria seen in patients with fibromyalgia are simply markers of the disease or whether they play a role in causing it. Because the disease involves a cluster of symptoms, and not simply pain, the next step in the research will be to investigate whether there are similar changes in the gut microbiome in other conditions involving chronic pain, such as lower back pain, headaches and neuropathic pain.
The researchers are also interested in exploring whether bacteria play a causal role in the development of pain and fibromyalgia. And whether their presence could, eventually, help in finding a cure, as well as speed up the process of diagnosis.
Confirming a diagnosis and next steps towards finding a cure
Fibromyalgia is a disease that has proved difficult to diagnose. Patients can wait as long as 4 to 5 years to get a final diagnosis. But this may be about to change.
“We sorted through large amounts of data, identifying 19 species that were either increased or decreased in individuals with fibromyalgia,” says Emmanuel Gonzalez, from the Canadian Center for Computational Genomics and the Department of Human Genetics at McGill University. “By using machine learning, our computer was able to make a diagnosis of fibromyalgia, based only on the composition of the microbiome, with an accuracy of 87 per cent. As we build on this first discovery with more research, we hope to improve upon this accuracy, potentially creating a step-change in diagnosis.”
“People with fibromyalgia suffer not only from the symptoms of their disease but also from the difficulty of family, friends and medical teams to comprehend their symptoms,” says Yoram Shir, the senior author on the paper who is the Director of the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit at the MUHC and an Associate Investigator from the BRaiN Program of the RI-MUHC. “As pain physicians, we are frustrated by our inability to help, and this frustration is a good fuel for research. This is the first evidence, at least in humans, that the microbiome could have an effect on diffuse pain, and we really need new ways to look at chronic pain.”
How the research was done
The research was based on a cohort of 156 individuals in the Montreal area, 77 of whom suffer from fibromyalgia. Participants in the study were interviewed and gave stool, blood, saliva and urine samples, which were then compared with those of healthy control subjects, some of whom lived in the same house as the fibromyalgia patients or were their parents, offspring or siblings.
The researchers’ next steps will be to see whether they get similar results in another cohort, perhaps in a different part of the world, and to do studies in animals to discover whether changes in bacteria play a role in the development of the disease.
Reference: Minerbi, A., Gonzalez, E., Brereton, N. J. B., Anjarkouchian, A., Dewar, K., Fitzcharles, M.-A., … Shir, Y. (2019). Altered microbiome composition in individuals with fibromyalgia. PAIN, Articles in Press. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001640
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Federal Court grants adjournment at TekSavvy’s request in alleged Customer Copyright Infringement hearing with Voltage Pictures LLC
December 17th, 2012. Chatham, Ontario.
At the request of TekSavvy Solutions Inc., the Federal Court of Canada has granted an adjournment in a motion filed by Voltage Pictures LLC asking the Court to order TekSavvy to provide the names and contact information of customers associated with certain IP addresses that are alleged to have engaged in copyright infringement. The next hearing is scheduled to take place January 14th, in the Federal Court in Toronto. TekSavvy requested the adjournment to ensure that all affected customers have notice of the motion and an adequate opportunity to respond.
TekSavvy has a responsibility to protect its customer information and is committed to protecting customer privacy. While Voltage Pictures argued that notice did not need to be given, and also argued against the adjournment, TekSavvy took the extra steps necessary to ensure its customers knew about the request for information, and ensure they have opportunity to take action.
“We did not feel that giving out private customer information without prior notice was right, so we took action. We also did not feel that adequate notice was given to our customers to allow them to react, which is why we requested an adjournment” Says Marc Gaudrault, CEO of TekSavvy. “This is a new issue for Canadians and it is important that we get it right.”
CIPPIC had also submitted a letter to the Court requesting an adjournment to allow it anopportunity to intervene in the motionh. em. For CIPPIC’s letter to the court please visit:
http://cippic.ca/sites/default/files/LT_Fed_Ct_re_Delay_Voltage_Motion_14Dec2012.pdf
Voltage has not yet obtained a court order, however, it has served a motion on TekSavvy seeking the customer information that Voltage wishes to obtain. For more information on the Voltage filings with the court please visit: https://www.teksavvy.com/policies/copyright-information/third-party-request-voltage/
About TekSavvy Solutions Inc.
TekSavvy Solutions Inc (TSI), is one of the leading independent providers of telecommunications services in Canada. Founded in 1998, TSI provides residential, business and wholesale Internet and phone services in Canada. Today, TSI’s services are used by tens of thousands of Canadians. Based in Chatham, Ontario, TSI operates offices in Chatham and Ottawa. TSI is a privately held company that is in the forefront of protecting Canadian consumers’ rights online. For more information, visit www.teksavvy.com. We’re Different. In a Good Way.
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Music Without Borders Jan. 17
Music without Borders Artistic Director Tamara Poddubnaya and two of her conservatory students will appear on the Gould Academy campus for an Encore Recital this Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015. The piano concert is free and open to the public and begins at 7:30 p.m. in Trustees Auditorium of McLaughlin Science Center.
Ilya Ishchenko, a veteran of two Festival seasons and now studying with Prof. Poddubnaya at the Long Island Conservatory, will be joined by 25-year-old Vladimir Tyagunov in presenting a program of works by Chopin, Schubert, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov and Gershwin. Earlier on Saturday, Tamara Poddubnaya will be working with pianist Gorsev Tepe, a Gould freshman whom she first met several years ago at a competition in Europe.
Already a prize-winner in competitions in Europe and the United States, Ilya Ishchenko began his piano career at the age of 8 and participated in two Bethel festivals while a still student at the Buzuluk (Russia) Music College. Following graduation, he returned to the United States to continue his piano studies with Tamara Poddubnaya. Vladimir Tyagunov is a graduate of both undergraduate and master’s degree programs at the Chelyabinsk State Academy of Culture and Arts and has performed in solo and chamber recitals in several European countries and in the United States, where he now studies for his Artist Diploma with Prof. Poddubnaya.
Soon to hold its ninth summer season at Gould, the four-week Music without Borders piano festival brings together some of the most promising young artists from Europe and the United States for intensive study with Prof. Poddubnaya, taking advantage of the school’s exceptional practice and performance facilities and the warm welcome of Bethel-area residents.
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Hard work and priorities paid off for Mountain Valley top students
By Eileen M. Adams photo
RUMFORD — Adelle Oswald has always valued hard work and believed in taking challenging courses at Mountain Valley High School. Her efforts paid off.
She is the valedictorian for the Class of 2015.
“It’s a huge goal and a huge honor,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to go to college and have a career.
She is the daughter of Annette Nash and Carl Oswald.
The salutatorian, Kristin Arsenault, has also had a goal of high academic achievement.
“I’ve always valued my grades and focused on good work,” she said. “The classes forced me to have good grades.”
She is the daughter of Carrie and John Arsenault.
The 18-year-old seniors have been involved in numerous activities during high school. They are members of the National Honor Society, Student Council and chorus.
Arsenault is a member of the improv group, Room for Improvment, and performs in theatrical productions.
Oswald has played several sports, is a member of the captain’s club, and helps out in Youth Ministry for Holy Savior Catholic Church. She plans to attend the University of Maine in the fall to study veterinary science.
Arsenault hopes to become involved in publishing by being a part of developing novels. She will attend Barnard College to study English in the fall.
She said she sometimes thinks that many young people panic when they think of the future.
“They should have something in mind so they don’t wander aimlessly. You can always change your major,” she said.
Oswald said high school was preparation for the future.
“You have the whole world,” she said.
She also said she has her priorities.
“Mom always said to do my homework before I play,” she said.
The 78 members of the Class of 2015 will graduate June 4.
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Ian Owen believes Swansea City Ladies’ Champions League experience will only strengthen their development as a side moving forward.
It has been a few weeks since the Swans put in a battling performance to be proud of against Cypriot champions Apollon Ladies as they exited Europe’s elite club competition.
General manager Owen accepts the Swans were always likely to be up against it due to the stature of their opposition; a fully professional side who had reached the knock-out stages of the tournament on a number of previous occasions.
However, he believes that the experience of playing against a team as strong as Apollon showed that there is more to come from his side.
“(The experience) will help us immensely. The result is disappointing and every Welsh team would like to get out of that qualifying stage and get into the knockout stages, but it wasn’t to be,” said Owen.
“But collectively we were absolutely awesome so, as an experience and as a way of bringing the team together, it just showed that there are more gears to our game.
“We were up against a professional team who were just better than us, but the performance from our girls was just immense.”
And, despite the result, Owen also revealed that proving their ability to compete against a fully professional side had provided a real boost of confidence to a Swansea side whose players combine their football with holding down full-time jobs.
“That sense of confidence came from them knowing how well they did,” added Owen.
“We can’t legislate for teams that are professional and have players that have played all around the world.
“We can’t do anything about that, but what we could do was give our all, which is what the girls did.
“You could see the mood amongst the players was very buoyant because they all knew that they did really well.
“It gives us a lot to take forward.”
Ruthless display delights Swansea City Ladies' boss Colin Staples
Colin Staples was delighted by Swansea City’s ruthless display in their 7-1 victory over Briton Ferry Llansawel, revealing a need to be relentless was one of the key lessons taken from their recent Champions League experience.
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John Legend just became a V-EGOT winner.
Maelyn Jarmon was named the Season 16 champ of "The Voice" during Tuesday's finale, handing Legend a win in his first season as a coach.
"This journey with John has been incredible, it’s been a dream," Jarmon said. "This has gone above and beyond my expectations. … I owe it to everyone who voted and streamed my songs."
The feeling is mutual. "Maelyn makes me feel at peace. … Everything’s right when I get to listen to her voice," Legend said. "I’m just so grateful I got to work with you this time."
Last night on 'The Voice': The Top 4 lay it all on the line during finale performances
Jarmon, 26, who is deaf in one ear, earned a four-chair turn during the Blind Auditions after wowing all the judges. She was the first member to join Team Legend and ultimately handed him the trophy that will join the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards on his mantel.
The Texas native beat overwhelming odds: She was the sole singer standing in the way of Blake Shelton, who had a 75% chance at the title with three of his singers in the finale.
When the votes were tallied, Gyth Rigdon finished in second place; Dexter Roberts came in third; Andrew Sevener in fourth.
The two-hour season finale felt like a concert, with more than a dozen guest performances and post-competition duets with the Top 4 and their musical heroes.
Sevener opened the festivities, singing "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" with Travis Tritt, just days after the country star's tour bus was involved in fatal crash in South Carolina that left two people dead and another injured.
Jarmon and Sarah McLachlan offered a stunning duet of "Angel." Roberts and Toby Keith brought the heat with "That's Country Bro," while Rigdon and Hootie & The Blowfish tackled "Hold My Hand." The finalists may have been singing with their idols, but they held their own with the professionals and looked right at home onstage.
Related: Country star Travis Tritt's tour bus involved in fatal crash in South Carolina
Some fan-favorite contestants who were eliminated throughout the season got another chance in "The Voice" limelight.
Mari Jones and Kim Cherry lit up the audience with a soulful rendition of Lizzo’s "Good as Hell," before LB Crew, Shawn Sounds, Jej Vinson, Kalvin Jarvis and Domenic Haynes tore into Bobby Brown’s "My Prerogative," channeling a boy band in their colorful suits and in sync (no pun intended) choreography.
Betsy Ade, Celia Babini, Lisa Ramey and Presley Tennant gave the boys a run for their money with their own rocker girl group. They performed a fiery rendition of Stevie Nicks’ "Edge of Seventeen."
The Jonas Brothers performed their new single "Cool." Khalid, who served as an adviser for Legend during the Cross Battle round, returned with his smooth "Talk." Taylor Swift brought her massive butterfly wings during a performance of "Me!" with Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie, while the K-pop group BTS broke the internet (literally) with their single "Boy With Luv."
"BTS stole all their dance moves from me," Shelton quipped.
Other guest performances included OneRepublic ("Rescue Me"), Hootie & The Blowfish ("Let Her Cry") and Halsey, who debuted her new single "Nightmare."
Although Rigdon, Roberts and Sevener didn't walk away with the title, they did get a pricey consolation. Each will be able to drive home in his own new Toyota RAV4.
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The founder of the Boys Club was the late Flora Gilman Gulick, who worked in the money order department at the post office. She became interested in the under-privileged boys of our city who were not being looked after. She began with a free night school for boys at the Social Settlement house, formerly the Bauermeister Building at First & Cherry Streets. She held her first class for five boys by candlelight in January 1908. By May 1908, she had 50 students and by spring of 1909 enrollment had grown to the hundreds. Expenses for the school were raised through a subscription campaign, which was supported by several of Terre Haute’s most prominent citizens, including members of the Ball, Deming, Hulman, and Fairbanks families in addition to several others.
In 1909, they moved into new quarters at 611 ½ Ohio Street in the Mayhew Building located next to the Star Building. In 1911, the Club was incorporated, and became a member of the National and International Boys’ Clubs of America. The newly elected President, L.J. Cox decided to move into larger quarters at the McGregor Mansion, 414 North 6th Street. By 1913, many boys had enrolled as members but their yearly budget of $3,800 was impossible to meet. The club was forced to move to smaller quarters at the former Empire Theatre and burlesque house at 30 ½ South Third Street. This was under the direction of Lex Nichols who was the new superintendent. In 1922, the newly organized Lions Club and its woman’s auxiliary became sponsors of the club. With this assistance, the club moved to 220 North 3rd Street, formerly the Ball Funeral home where the club remained until 2012.
Lex stepped down in 1928, and Theodore Moore was appointed as superintendent until 1937 when Mrs. Gulick stepped back in to run the club. Mrs. Gulick became very ill and Theodore Moore came back in 1939 to serve as Executive Director. The club, at this time, became owners of one of the most modern summer camps in the state, 152 acres in Parke County at RR#1, Marshall, Indiana.
In 1940, Chapman Root financed a gymnasium to be added to the property. In 1950, a new wing was added to the building at a cost of $154,000.
In 1971, Ted Moore retired and Max Jones was appointed Executive Director. Under Max’s guidance, membership grew and the largest most respected Biddy Basketball program in the state of Indiana was started. Upon Max Jones passing in 1984, Ron Wey was named Executive Director from 1985-1987.
In 1985, thanks to the generosity of the Chapman Root and Hulman families, the club underwent an extensive renovation at a cost of $370,000. In the spring of 1986, the club was forced to sell the Camp Gulick property due to the decrease in attendance and the increased regulation from the State Board of Health.
In 1987, Steve Heck became the Executive Director. In 1989, a new gymnasium, the main entrance moved, and an additional second entrance from the basement were added at a cost of $776,000. At this time, membership had grown to well over 1,000 members. In 1998, Steve Heck stepped down and Jimmy Smith became the Executive Director until 2014.
In 1998, “Boys Club Park,” formerly known as Valle Field, was acquired by the club for $22,272.30 and in 1999 underwent a $235,780 renovation adding lights, fencing, dugouts, sprinklers system, shale, bleacher upgrades and a new entrance and sign.
In September 2000, the Club officially became the Terre Haute Boys & Girls Club. The club purchased the Drake Produce building, located directly west of the 3rd Street facility to solve the parking problem in 2000.
In 2005, football fields were added to the Boys & Girls Club Park to allow Vigo Youth Football to have a place to call home. This was at a cost of $358,000.
In 2012, the Club moved from 220 North 3rd Street to 924 North 13th Street, the former Chauncey Rose School building. The sale of the 3rd Street building was finalized in 2016. Jeff Kochvar became the CPO from late August 2015-April 2018. Nate Green became the CEO from August 2018-August 2019.
On October 1, 2019, the Club officially welcomed CEO Trent Miles. Trent is a Terre Haute native, a graduate of South Vigo High School, Indiana State University and a former football coach at both the professional and collegiate level.
Terre Haute, IN 47807
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Pick A Path Stories
Break Your Chains (The Freedom Finders #1)
Author(s): Emily Conolan
To find freedom, you must leave behind everything you've ever known. It is 1825. You and Ma have survived on the streets of London ever since the soldiers took Da away and you fled Ireland. Now, with Ma gone too, you find yourself facing life-and-death choices at every turn. Can you carry a secret treasure across the ocean and finally be reunited with Da? You'll be asked to betray your friends, survive storms at sea and attacks by bushrangers, and trust thieves. At every turn, the choice is yours. How far will you go for freedom?
Emily Conolan is a writer and teacher, who is also known for her humanitarian work. For her role in establishing a volunteer support network for asylum seekers in Tasmania, she has been awarded Tasmanian of the Year, Hobart Citizen of the Year, and the Tasmanian Human Rights Award. The stories of courage and resilience she has heard in the course of her work with refugees, combined with tales from her own family history, inspired her to write the Freedom Finders series. Emily has never had smallpox or helped a horse give birth, but in the early 1800s, her family was bush-ranged and did help smuggle an Irish political prisoner out of Van Diemen's Land.
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Sperm, eggs, donors, parents – but don’t forget about the children
Denise Balkissoon
Published July 18, 2019 Updated July 18, 2019
The Norman Barwin story is creepy, to say the least. The former Ottawa fertility doctor recently had his licence revoked by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, after decades of deceiving and outright lying to his patients about the paternity of their offspring.
Heterosexual couples who meant to conceive together found out that strangers’ sperm had been used to create their babies. Cancer patients who stored sperm at his clinic in case of chemotherapy-induced infertility learned that their sperm might have been used without their permission.
And, in at least 16 cases, Mr. Barwin secretly used his own genetic material to impregnate his patients and create human beings. Eleven of them are part of a class-action suit against him. At his disciplinary hearing in late June, 29-year-old Rebecca Dixon spoke about the impact of learning that she was genetically related to him, not to the man she knows as her father.
“It made me feel as though my existence was something to be ashamed of,” she said. Mr. Barwin, now 80, didn’t show up to hear her.
Although Mr. Barwin’s case is extreme, it’s only one example of how desperately Canada’s assisted-reproduction industry needs to be regulated, and those regulations enforced. Complaints against him surfaced in 1994, but it wasn’t until 2013 that the College first suspended his licence for two months, for so-called sperm sample mix-ups.
The half-siblings suing him were able to prove their parentage, and to find each other, thanks to widespread, affordable DNA testing. They’re not the only donor-conceived offspring, as some call themselves, being mobilized by such tests. Half-siblings around the world have discovered at least one thing in common beyond some genes: an unhappiness that their right to know where they came from was an afterthought in their own conception.
Last year, a number of offspring formed the Donor Conceived Alliance of Canada (DCAC) in response to public Health Canada consultations about updates to the 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction Act.
Founding member Kevin Martin testified in front of the committee, but said the original list of stakeholders for the hearings didn’t include donor-conceived offspring at all. And when the government passed three new regulations to the act late last month, all of them concerned parents, surrogates and egg or sperm donors, not the children.
Those changes were necessary, as many of the current rules, especially around payment, are confusing or unenforced. But Mr. Martin is unhappy that so far, the government seems impervious to DCAC’s desire for easy access to information about genetic heritage. The group wants Canada to list the details of donor conception on birth certificates and to end its policy of destroying donation records a decade after conception.
Over all, it wants to ban donor anonymity altogether. That became law in the Australian state of Victoria in 2017, after a cancer patient argued that she wanted to inform relatives of their genetic risk – and that she had the right to meet her biological father before she died.
DCAC also wants a limit on the number of conceptions allowed from a single donor, which isn’t the case here or in the United States. One Canadian donor has learned that he may have fathered as many as 100 children after years of donating at multiple clinics. In total, he said that the $75 he received each time to cover his expenses added up to as much as $25,000.
And American photographer Eli Baden-Lasar just published a series of portraits of his 32 half-siblings. While he always knew how he and his sister were conceived, the sheer number of relations he’s found made him feel “mass-produced.”
“I had this suspicious feeling that scientists were conducting an experiment, had taken a lunch break and then forgotten to check back,” he wrote about his origins.
Mr. Baden-Lasar has lesbian mothers, and LGBTQ people’s uncertain access to reproductive assistance is one of many reasons that the ethics of genetic heritage can be a touchy subject. France only legalized in vitro fertilization for single women and lesbians last month.
But although there’s more equitable access here, things aren’t well enough to leave alone. Lesbian families were among those deceived by Mr. Barwin, who was actually awarded the Order of Canada for his work with same-sex couples. That’s also been revoked.
Last year, the online community We Are Donor Conceived surveyed members in 15 countries, and found that 59 per cent worried that the parents who raised them would be hurt by their search for information. Even so, 96 per cent felt that the choice to know the identity of their donor was a right.
In the end, assisted reproduction exists entirely to create new people. It seems important to respect that many of those people want things to be done differently.
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Editor’s note: An earlier version of this column stated that We Are Donor Conceived was based in Britain. In fact, it is an online community run out of the United States, with members around the world.
Life after death: The ethics of ‘planned orphanhood’
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When treating and researching infertility, let’s not forget the men
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Legalizing marijuana, once a pipe dream on Capitol Hill, takes an important step forward
By Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Professor of Health Policy & Management, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy & Senior Fellow, Leonard D Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, University of Southern California
A cannabis decriminalization bill approved by the House is a sign from Congress that sentiment around the drug is evolving, but it misses a chance to regulate marijuana for the good of all Americans.
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July 15, 2019 /in Uncategorized /by Chris Piper
Chris Piper has a long history of involvement with Bangladesh, and, more recently, also with that of the Rohingya refugee situation. This includes:
His first job in the international development sector as a Field Director in the north of the country for a British NGO. He still speaks some Bangla (Bengali)
In mid 2018, working for the UN in Cox’s Bazar in support of the Rohingya refugee situation there
In 2009, contracted by the UN to work in Dhaka in support of the Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP)
In the early 1990’s, organisation and management, on behalf of the Australian NGO for which he was working at the time, of a chartered plane carrying emergency supplies to Dhaka. This was in support of severe flooding affecting the country at the time
Facilitating two accredited Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM) workshops in Dhaka, one, somewhat bizarrely, coinciding with the 2007 Cyclone Sidr
Ongoing inclusion of the Rohingya crisis as a Complex Emergency example for both the TorqAid PDRM workshop and online program he teaches, as well as for the emergency management unit he handles for an Australian university.
Regular update of the ‘Understanding Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis’ Summary Sheet, and summary of the ‘What Matters’ humanitarian bulletin, both of which he edits. These are used as part of his training courses.
Facilitation of sessions on ‘Understanding the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis’, for senior school students at two separate Geelong-based schools, during 2018 and 2019
Preparing an article on the Rohingya for the March 2019 edition of the Geography Teachers Association of Victoria’s (GTAV) quarterly publication’ Interaction’.
The link to his background as a Bangladesh/Rohingya Humanitarian Expert is given below. He can also be contacted for a separate copy of his CV.
The link to the latest version of ‘Understanding the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis’, is given below.
The latest version of the summary of the ‘What Matters?’ humanitarian bulletins is also included below.
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Posted on October 30, 2013 December 4, 2013 by Garry Reynolds
R&D grants and repayable loans update
Steven Joyce
New technology incubators to speed company start-ups
New repayable Government grants of up to $450,000 per company will be invested into start-up technology companies to help get them underway, Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce announced today.
The repayable grants will be distributed by a new type of private-sector led technology incubator, which will add its own funding to provide at least 25 per cent of the start-up company’s costs on a one for three basis.
Up to four incubators are planned and the total government cost of the scheme is budgeted to be $31.3m over four years. Funding for the programme was set aside in Budget 2013.
“The new incubators are being modelled very closely on the successful Israeli model of company incubation”, Mr Joyce says. “New Zealand has some strong emerging technology companies and a growing high-tech track record. However we need more technology-based start-ups at the front end of the pipeline. These new Technology-based incubators will speed up that process.”
Funds for the repayable grants and the incubators will be distributed by Callaghan Innovation, the Government’s new High-tech HQ for kiwi businesses, and the first of the new incubators is anticipated to be up and running by July next year.
The grants will be used to fund any of the costs associated with further developing or commercialising intellectual property in the start-up companies.
“The new grants will address a critical gap that early-stage technology businesses face, where they need money to meet start-up costs but they are not yet at a stage where investors will commit capital,” Mr Joyce says.
The repayment of the grants will be applied as a royalty of three per cent on the incubated firm’s gross revenues. International experience has been a repayment rate of around 60 per cent.
As part of the primary grant, the programme will include pre-incubation grants of up to $35,000 for technology-focused incubators to establish whether a start-up idea is commercially viable. The number of pre-incubation grants allocated will depend on the quality of proposals received from prospective start-ups, but will be limited in number so as to not exceed the expected number of full repayable grants per year.
“These pre-incubation grants will increase the pipeline of prospective start-ups for the repayable grants as well as encouraging entrepreneurs towards these technology-focused incubators,” Mr Joyce says.
“Countries like Israel are seeing real success from these sorts of technology incubation programmes. Now we’re joining them in putting a big emphasis on helping these highly innovative start-ups to get off the ground.”
More information on the Repayable Grants Programme can be found at:http://www.msi.govt.nz/get-funded/building-a-community-of-high-tech-entrepreneurs/
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3M Circles Back to Science for New Sustainability Building Product
Words by Laurel Sheppard
3M’s stated mission is to use science to help solve global challenges and to improve everyday life. To that end, the company insists it is continually stepping up these efforts, especially when it comes to sustainability.
For example, to help address the climate crisis, 3M introduced its award-winning, smog-reducing granule technology in June 2018—which is now available to asphalt roofing manufacturers.
3M’s smog-reducing granules use a specialized photocatalytic coating, which is activated by ultraviolet sunlight. The smog contacting the roof then turns into water-soluble ions that wash away over time. Testing at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) validated that the granules reduced smog and improved air quality.
The product’s launch, which was decades in the making, dates back to when the granules’ potential for smog reduction caught the attention of a sustainability-minded customer, Malarkey Roofing, back in 2017. The roofing company, which works with Habitat for Humanity, was the first national roofing manufacturer to include these granules in all of their asphalt roofing shingles.
“This is an invention over a 20-year span,” says Lara Ughetta, application engineer specialist in 3M’s Industrial Mineral Products Division. “It finally came to fruition in 2018, but it's the culmination of a lot work by a lot of people.”
3M continues to work with LBNL and the California Air Quality Board to understand the science of its smog-reducing technology and how it might have an impact on air quality for an entire community. And the company says it is actively looking to start a demonstration project in California.
The three C’s drive sustainability innovation at 3M
The new roofing material is part of a broader strategy to drive sustainable product innovation at 3M.
The company’s strategic sustainability framework applies science to three key areas—one of them being climate, through innovations like the smog-fighting roof, along with circular economy and community. For the latter, 3M advocates for science and encourages STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education. The company also has a program that sends employees around the world to do skills-based volunteer work with civic and community organizations pursuing sustainability goals.
In December 2018, 3M announced the first major goal of its framework: Beginning in 2019, all new products entering the commercialization process will “formally articulate a Sustainability Value Commitment (SVC) that demonstrates how the product drives impact for the greater good,” explains Dr. Gayle Schueller, VP and chief sustainability officer for 3M. “We will track SVCs in new products and will report annually on progress and how the products are changing the world.”
Though it’s known for legacy products like sticky notes and adhesive tape, 3M launches approximately 1,000 new products every year. And products released over the past five years comprise a significant fraction of its revenue. Given the pace at which new products move through its portfolio, the company believes the impact of this commitment will be immense.
Recycled fibers to the rescue
As part of its circular efforts, 3M is incorporating recycled content into several other new products beyond the aforementioned roofing material. For example, the company introduced the Scotch-Brite Heavy Duty Scrub sponge in June 2019. The green scrubbing fibers are made from 100 percent recycled content, including an average of 35 percent post-consumer recycled content. The recycled fibers are being incorporated into four other Scotch-Brite products.
Switching to recycled fibers wasn’t easy. Changing one component affected how the whole product held together and performed. That’s why engineers were excited when, after a significant amount of lab work, they were able to reformulate the green scrubbing fibers from 100 percent recycled plastic so they still matched the performance of traditional scrubbing fibers.
“It took years of formulation work to find a total construction that worked,” says Kaylee Schmall, a product developer in the company’s Home Care Division Lab.
This fall, 3M is also introducing the first Thinsulate Insulation made with 100 percent recycled plastic bottles. Thinsulate is part of 3M's efforts to help outerwear manufacturers reach their sustainability goals.
The new insulation is designed as a replacement for down and retains its extreme warmth even under damp conditions, based on extensive testing. Thinsulate is certified to the OEKO-TEX Standard 100 Class I, signifying that it meets the human-ecological requirements for products intended for babies and young children. It’s also Bluesign-approved, which means Thinsulate is produced with minimum impact on people and the environment.
Investing in research and training
Building sustainability into every product isn’t easy and requires a major commitment in both time and money. 3M says it invests about 6 percent of its earnings in research and development each year, much of it for new product development. That level of commitment allows the company to fund its efforts to execute the new sustainability requirement across the company.
Training is another key component. The company says circular design is being embedded in every new product, and 3M has trained 1,000 designers and engineers in this concept. Staff are embracing the circularity mindset and are excited to upgrade their skill sets in this area, Schueller says. Other training efforts include orientation programs and mentoring. “Employees are a major focus of our engagement efforts, because they are how we make our ambitious sustainability goals happen,” she explains.
Toward a zero waste operation
3M doesn’t just design sustainable products. The company plans to have every plant reach zero-waste-to-landfill and has already exceeded its 2025 zero-waste goal at 30 percent of its global facilities. According to 3M’s 2019 sustainability report, manufacturing waste was also reduced by 11.7 percent, exceeding the targeted 10 percent reduction.
To achieve the next level of zero waste, Schueller says 3M will use a two-pronged approach:
Reduce overall waste, through a systematic value stream waste analysis and designing out waste across its portfolio.
Shift more manufacturing sites away from landfilled waste by cutting overall waste through design and finding creative ways to use byproducts in 3M’s and others’ manufacturing processes.
Other sustainability efforts include:
In Brazil, 3M is celebrating five years of a program that recycles its Scotch-Brite branded sponges; a total of 1.4 million sponges have been recycled.
3M plants manufacturing Thinsulate insulation recycle 100 percent of their polyolefin waste material, selling it to companies that use it for everything from oil booms to furniture.
Globally, the Health Care Business Service Group helps extend the life of about 150,000 devices each year, which keeps electronic waste out of the landfill.
Circling back to the future
As part of 3M’s strategic focus on science for circular, the company recently joined the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Circular Economy 100 (CE100). 3M’s continuing efforts to design solutions that do more with less material will help motivate its competitors and, in the end, advance the circular economy far beyond its own four walls.
Image credit: Russell Holden/Pixabay
Laurel Sheppard
Laurel has extensive experience writing about energy efficiency, clean energy, sustainability and green building. She was formerly Senior Energy Content Specialist for a digital marketing firm serving the utilities industry where she generated story ideas and wrote content for several e-newsletters. Laurel is also a member of the Ohio chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council and participates on several committees for the Central Ohio region.
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London – The Cotswolds – Edinburgh
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The True Antiquity vacation package is ideal for guests who seek to experience the remarkable history of London while exploring The Cotswolds and Edinburgh. Explore some of the most important and significant landmarks of London, visit the most treasured UK destination of the Cotswolds and admire Edinburgh’s most significant landmarks. If you have a love for history and culture then our True Antiquity vacation package is the perfect choice!
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Welcome to London! With the help of your True Trips guide, uncover the best that this amazing city has to offer in an exclusive and stress free manner. Start your city discovery by visiting famous landmarks such as the elaborate Palace of Westminster, a Neo-Gothic building dating back to 1097 and home to the Parliament of the UK. Next visit Buckingham Palace, the home of the British royals and the beautiful St. James’ Park – London’s oldest royal park that was established in 1603. Don’t miss taking a ride on the London Eye, Europe’s largest Ferris wheel and enjoy the stunning view from the top. Explore Westminster Abbey, which is the resting place of significant British figures and the venue for royal ceremonies and weddings. Other important monuments that you’ll visit during your stay include the Big Ben, the fascinating Tower Bridge, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and the Tower of London. London also offers an abundance of world-class museums and galleries such as the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Gallery, and the famous Natural History Museum. Your stay in London wouldn’t be complete without catching a show in the West End – London’s famous theatre district. One thing is for sure – your True Trips experience of this world capital will be extraordinary!
Welcome to the Cotswolds, perhaps the most treasured and visited destination in the UK. Once checked-in at your authentic boutique hotel, meet your True Trips guide and begin exploring this stunning region! Visit Cirencester, a genuinely traditional Cotswold market town that has a rich heritage as the second most important Roman town in Britain. Enjoy a tour of the quirky and quaint Cotswolds villages that will captivate you with their beauty; Bibury, Bourton-on-the-Water, and Burford with their honey colored cottages, beautifully preserved churches and mesmerizing landscapes are a sight for sore eyes! Together with your guide, explore places and historical buildings including the Sudeley Castle and Gardens – the resting place of Queen Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, the Prior Park Palladian house, and the Chastleton House – a Jacobean country house of exquisite beauty. Your experience would not be complete without enjoying afternoon tea complete with pastries in a traditional tearoom – a truly authentic Cotswolds experience!
Welcome to Edinburgh – the charming capital of Scotland! Having settled-in at your authentic boutique hotel, head out to discover this delightful city. Together with your True Trips guide, uncover the most spectacular sights that the city has to offer. Admire Edinburgh’s most significant landmark – the Edinburgh Castle – a majestic fortress dating back to the 12th century. Then head out to uncover the Old Town with its Royal Mile and its maze of alleys and old pathways. After exploring the city center, take a quiet and relaxing stroll through West Princes Street Gardens where you’ll come across a spire monument dedicated to Sir Walter Scott. Climb up the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Calton Hill and admire the breathtaking sunset and some of Edinburgh’s most notable buildings. Your trip to Edinburgh wouldn’t be complete without a visit to the Holyrood Palace which serves as the Queen’s residence in Scotland, and hosts various objects of the royal collection. Finally, be sure to enjoy the wide variety of shopping, nightlife, and restaurants offering excellent entertainment and delicious food!
Welcome back to London! Before leaving the UK you’ll have the chance to experience London life for a second time. Enjoy a leisurely walk down to St. Katharine Docks, a popular complex that was once a part of the Port of London. Explore London’s lively Chinatown and get a taste for London’s diverse international flavors. You may also like to take a short drive just outside the city to visit the famous Windsor Castle – this is actually an impressive epilogue of your trip to the UK. This medieval castle is one of the most iconic sights in England and serves as the weekend home for the royal family. Before departing, don’t miss the chance to enjoy an elegant dinner at one of London’s award winning restaurants!
We look forward to welcoming you back soon!
The featured destinations, activities and tours in the above itinerary are only a small selection of the alternatives offered.
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Minnetonka Audio adds Experienced Broadcast Audio Pro Alessandro Travaglini to R&D Team
By D. Pagan Communications, INC. 01 December 2015
MINNETONKA, MN, DECEMBER 1, 2015 –Minnetonka Audio has expanded its research and development team with the hiring of broadcast audio veteran Alessandro Travaglini as Product Manager, Research and Development Group. Travaglini brings 20 years of broadcasting and audio technology experience to the company that will further the efforts for both the Minnetonka and Linear Acoustic lines of software processing solutions.
“We are thrilled to welcome Alessandro to our team,” says Markus Hintz, Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development for Minnetonka Audio. “With Alessandro’s breath of knowledge and experience in the industry, he will be instrumental in managing the company’s research and development of audio processing algorithms, as well as assisting product management and sales strategy. Bringing Alessandro on board further exhibits our commitment to producing the highest quality audio processing software in the industry.”
Travaglini’s responsibilities will be spearheading the development of technologies that represent the future of loudness control, including managing the new Linear Acoustic APTO processing solution, assisting with broadcast TV and Radio sales strategy in Europe and representing Telos Alliance brands within standards organizations such as EBU and AES. “I am excited to join Minnetonka Audio and welcome the opportunity to work with the entire team,” says Travaglini. “Minnetonka Audio offers leading-edge software solutions and I look forward to contributing to the continued success of the company.”
Travaglini has a comprehensive broadcasting and professional audio technology background that underscores his successful track record managing complex technical operations. He comes to Minnetonka from Fox International Channels, where he held a variety of positions for eleven years including Sound Supervisor, Senior Sound Designer, and Music Composer. At Fox he was in charge of developing state-of-the-art sound design and 5.1 surround mixing, composing, producing, and mixing original music scores for all Fox channels. Travaglini also spent eight years as a Broadcast Audio Consultant at Sky Italia, where he led a project to implement new workflows, equipment, processing, and operations aimed at normalizing the loudness levels of all programming on the platform. He began his career with the Orbit Communication Company, where he was post production sound engineer and live audio sound engineer.
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Barns Courtney announces new album ‘404’
“A stomping, swaggering rock & roll balancing act teetering between light and total darkness” – Rolling Stone
Fresh from his European headline tour, global rising star, Barns Courtney today announces his second studio album ‘404’ which is set for release on September 6th via Virgin EMI. To mark the news, Barns has unveiled a brand new single and video called ‘You & I’. In addition to this, a huge UK and Europe tour has been announced for October to celebrate the release.
The album will feature 10 new tracks and will explore his transition into adulthood with conflicted feelings of loss, frustration and optimism. Fans can expect to hear his deep vocals bringing adding an energy to a mixture of intense rock grooves and softer melodic sounds. Recorded in the middle of the night, the vocals were recorded in only one take and are largely improvised. It is perhaps Barns’ most raw and intimate work yet as he invites listeners into some of his deepest thoughts.
Speaking about the album, Barns says: “The album circulates around the themes of existential authenticity, and how we lose ourselves as we age. A 404 error is when a computer can’t find what it’s looking for. It connects with the server but the page isn’t there anymore. As a child of the digital age, the comparison felt apt. And although in some ways, our former lives still exist inside of us, they’re ultimately hollow shells of what they once were, living breathing experiences. We can follow the links to our past, but there’s nothing there. It’s a painful realization and one that fascinated me whilst writing the record in my friends’ old bedroom in the backwaters of Yaxley where we first started almost 10 years ago.”
Barns’ forthcoming album follows the successful 2017 debut album The Attractions Of Youth, which saw him become a viral hit with singles ‘Glitter & Gold’ and ‘Fire’ reaching popularity on both sides of the Atlantic. He performed on popular US late-night talk shows such as Conan O’Brien and The Late Late Show with James Corden as well as receiving support from Rolling Stone magazine.
To date, Barns has landed over 300,000 global album sales, more than 470 million global streams and 45 million YouTube views. More recently, his last single ‘99’ peaked at #5 on the US Airplay charts and received support from BBC Radio 1 DJ, Annie Mac who described it as “a cross between Kings Of Leon and MGMT”.
On the live circuit, his electric and unmissable shows earned him a completely sold out UK and European tour in 2018 which included iconic London venues such as Heaven, Dingwalls and Scala. Having previously opened for industry heavyweights such as The Who, Blur, The Libertines, Ed Sheeran, The Kooks, The Wombats and Elle King, and with a European tour already under his belt this year, fans will get to see his incredible performance in the UK and Europe this autumn. The string of shows will kick off in Manchester on 8th October and wrap in London at Electric Ballroom on 23rd October before heading off to Europe.
08.10.19 – MANCHESTER, UK – CLUB ACADEMY
09.10.19 – LEEDS, UK – THE WARDROBE
10.10.19 – BRISTOL, UK – THE TRINITY CENTRE
12.10.19 – BRIGHTON, UK – CONCORDE 2
13.10.19 – PORTSMOUTH, UK – WEDGEWOOD ROOMS
14.10.19 – BOURNEMOUTH, UK – THE OLD FIRE STATION
16.10.19 – BIRMINGHAM, UK – O2 THE INSTITUTE 2
17.10.19 – NEWCASTLE, UK – RIVERSIDE
18.10.19 – GLASGOW, UK – THE GARAGE
20.10.19 – NOTTINGHAM, UK – RESCUE ROOMS
21.10.19 – CAMBRIDGE, UK – JUNCTION 1
22.10.19 – OXFORD, UK – O2 ACADEMY 2
Biffy Clyro to play Scarborough Open Air theatre
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Higham named Championship Player of the Year
Leigh Centurions Captain Micky Higham was tonight (Monday September 12) crowned Kingstone Press Championship Player of the Year for 2016.
Higham, who pipped Featherstone Rovers Misi Taulapapa and Batley Bulldogs Dominic Brambani to the coveted award, has led the Centurions in their successful League Leader’s campaign and their charge through the Qualifiers Super 8s to gain promotion to the First Utility Super League in 2017.
The 35-year-old received his award at the Kingstone Press Championship and League 1 Awards at The Queen’s Hotel, Leeds, where many of the other stars of the 2016 season were honoured.
Batley Bulldogs coach John Kear was voted the Kingstone Press Coach of the Year award after his side secured a 2016 Qualifiers position. Voted for by his fellow coaches, Kear beat off stiff competition from Neil Jukes of Leigh and London’s Andrew Henderson, a fitting end to his five years as Head Coach at the club.
London Broncos hooker James Cunningham was named Kingstone Press Championship Young Player of the Year ahead of Josh Guzdek of Dewsbury Rams and 2015 Young Player of the Year and Featherstone prop Jordan Baldwinson.
Kingstone Press League 1 Player of the Year and Coach of the Year awards were scooped by Toulouse Olympique’s Johnathon Ford and Sylvain Houles respectively, a reward for the club’s achievement in finishing top of the table and remaining unbeaten throughout the season and the League 1 Super 8s.
Danny Yates of Rochdale Hornets was named Kingstone Press League 1 Young Player of the Year, fending off strong competition from Toulouse’s Clement Boyer and Vincent Rennie of Newcastle Thunder.
The Kingstone Press Championship and League 1 Clubs of the Year awards were awarded to Leigh Centurions and Toulouse Olympique XIII, respectively.
The Project of the Year award recognises clubs who have shown an outstanding commitment to meeting the objectives of raising the visibility and profile of the competition and increasing attendance at one or more games through a special project. London Broncos and Doncaster RLFC were the winners of the Project of the Year award for the Championship and League 1.
London Broncos were chosen to receive the award for their continued work with Hathaway Primary school, including a ‘Be at school on time with the Broncos’ campaign, mentoring sessions with students and delivering the school’s 2016 sports day.
Doncaster RLFC were selected for the League 1 Project of the Year award for their junior take over day during their game against Oxford. Children were selected to shadow members of club and match day staff to experience game day from a different perspective.
Bradford Bulls was named Foundation of the Year in recognition of the continued commitment to developing Rugby League in the Bradford area in 2016, following their mantra ‘Creating opportunities and nurturing potential’.
Dave Naylor was named as 2016 Community Champion sponsored by Supporters Direct. This season Dave has voluntarily taken over the running of Oldham RLFC’s official website and social media accounts and produced video highlights and audio content for supporters to enjoy.
The player of the year, coach of the year and young player of the year award winners are selected by a poll of every coach in the Kingstone Press Championship and League 1. The Club of the Year and Project of the Year awards are determined by the RFL Board, whilst the Foundation of the Year is selected by Rugby League Cares.
The 2016 Kingstone Press Championship and League 1 award winners in full are as follows:
Championship Player of the Year: Micky Higham (Leigh Centurions)
Championship Young Player of the Year: James Cunningham (London Broncos)
Championship Coach of the Year: John Kear (Batley Bulldogs)
League 1 Player of the Year: Johnathon Ford (Toulouse Olympique XIII)
League 1 Young Player of the Year: Danny Yates (Rochdale Hornets)
League 1 Coach of the Year: Sylvain Houles (Toulouse Olympique XIII)
Championship Club of the Year: Leigh Centurions
League 1 Club of the Year: Toulouse Olympique XIII
Championship Project of the Year: London Broncos
League 1 Project of the Year: Doncaster RLFC
Foundation of the Year: Bradford Bulls
Supporters Direct Community Champion: Dave Naylor
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The Trail Historical Society’s Sarah Benson shows off replicas of the ‘61 Smoke Eaters Team Canada jersey that will be on sale Saturday at the “Spirit of ‘61” event at the Royal Theatre. The city is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Smokies’ win at the 1961 world hockey championships and one lucky raffle winner will receive a one-of-a-kind wool replica of the iconic Smoke Eater jersey valued at over $1
City salutes Smokies
Event marks 50 years since team took world title.
Just as Teck is the icon of Trail industry, the ‘61 Trail Smoke Eaters is the team of the century in the city’s athletic world.
In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the team’s seminal win at the world hockey championships, local groups are going to great lengths to commemorate the day and encourage residents to get into the “Spirit of ‘61.”
A dozen members of the original Smokies team will gather at the Royal Theatre Saturday afternoon with residents and dignitaries in a special ceremony and screening of “For the Love of the Game: A Century of Hockey in Trail, B.C.”
“I think specifically with this team, it did a lot to put Trail on the map, especially in a hockey sense . . . and brought us some prominence that we wouldn’t have achieved without this team,” said Sarah Benson of the Trail Historical Society.
The historical society and City of Trail promotion committee is organizing the Teck-sponsored event and will include a special feature to follow the screening.
The society acquired rare footage from a Swiss newsreel that shows 7 1/2 minutes of the Smokies’ 7-4 game against the U.S. and the 5-1 final against Russia.
“We’ve been searching forever for the whole game in its entirety on film, we do have it on audio, but we can’t find the footage,” said Benson, although she is happy with the additional minutes.
Trail Mayor Dieter Bogs will also officially proclaim March 12 as ‘61 Smoke Eaters Day, a rare nod to an exceptional feat.
“What they really brought to the community with their championship is the passion that we can do it; as a small town and city, that Trail’s culture of achievement says we can be the best in the world,” said Bogs.
The honour is one of many received by the “61 Smokies over the years, including its induction into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame in 1976.
“It’s very nice of the city to do that, it doesn’t happen to everybody, but it’s nice for the team to be recognized in that manner,” said Cal Hockley, captain of the ’61 Smokies.
The Trail club is the last amateur Canadian team to win the world championship, and while Hockley says the hype is getting a bit old, it cannot diminish the accomplishment.
“It was significant, and the name became synonymous with hockey in Trail and everywhere I went after that. As soon as I mentioned I was from Trail, they’d ask if I was familiar with the Smoke Eaters.”
The ‘61 alumni will meet at the Royal Theatre at 1 p.m. Saturday for a meet-and-greet followed by an introduction, the city’s proclamation, speeches, a raffle for the traditional orange and black ‘39 Smokies jersey, followed by the screening.
While Hockley is proud of the team’s international title, he takes even greater satisfaction in the role they played in the formation of “old-timers” hockey for players over 35 in Canada.
“Guys played senior men’s hockey but after that, that was the end of it,” said Hockley.
As the men got older, they formed an old-timers team and organized games against their counterparts in Sweden, he said.
“When we started out, we couldn’t find any old-timers (teams) in Canada to play so when we suggested we were going to Europe, the C.H.A (Canadian Hockey Association) was astounded.”
The formation of those early Smoke Eater old-timer teams in the ‘70s, led to the thousands of recreation hockey teams and old-timer leagues across Canada today, and is just one more legacy of the ‘61 Smoke Eaters.
Tickets are $4 and are limited but can be picked up in advance at Trail City Hall, the Trail Times or KBS.
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Etobicoke doctor charged with defrauding OHIP
By Jacques GallantStaff Reporter
Alex BallingallNews
Wed., Aug. 24, 2016timer2 min. read
An Ontario doctor who was recently ordered to pay the CBC more than $1.6 million in legal costs after losing a libel lawsuit against the public broadcaster has now been charged with defrauding the Ontario Health Insurance Plan.
The OPP has issued an arrest warrant for Dr. Ranjit Kumar Chandra, 78, of Etobicoke. He’s charged with fraud over $5,000 and is believed to be out of the country.
The Health Fraud Investigation Unit at the OPP is continuing to investigate as they are unable to provide an exact amount in the fraud loss to OHIP at the time.
Police confirmed he is the same Ranjit Chandra involved in the CBC lawsuit.
According to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO), Chandra is an active doctor with no prior discipline history who practised at four clinics in the Greater Toronto Area.
A college spokeswoman confirmed that he is now the subject of an ongoing investigation.
William Boktor is the director of the Chinguacousy and Sandalwood Medical Centre in Brampton, where he said Chandra practiced as an allergist once a week for the past four years. About a month ago, he said he was contacted by the CPSO and told that Chandra was suspected of billing fraud.
“Of course, I sent him an official email and told him he will not be able to practise with us,” Boktor said, describing how investigators from the College and the OPP have visited his clinic to ask about Chandra.
Boktor added that he believes Chandra is in India, as he frequently travelled there to visit family.
A man that answered the phone at Chandra’s Etobicoke condo on Wednesday also said that the doctor is in India.
Chandra, a former professor at Memorial University in Newfoundland and Labrador, was the subject of a 2006 CBC documentary called The Secret Life of Dr. Chandra, which reported that he published fraudulent research in medical journals.
He then sued the CBC and a number of individuals who worked on the show, but his claim was dismissed by an Ontario civil jury.
The jury concluded that the broadcast was defamatory “given the natural and ordinary meaning of the words it contained,” wrote Superior Court Justice Graeme Mew in his ruling.
However, “the jury accepted the defence of justification, finding that the words used in the broadcast were true” and dismissed the claim, Mew wrote.
He ordered Chandra in November 2015 to pay the CBC and the employees he was suing $1.6 million, “payable forthwith.”
A CBC spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday that the broadcaster has yet to receive “any payment” from Chandra.
With files from Evelyn Kwong
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Clarence Leo Kane, Jr.
Clarence Leo Kane, Jr., departed this life on Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at Ochsner Medical Center at the age of 77. He was born on August 7, 1943 in Lake Charles, LA, to the late Clarence Leo Kane, Sr. and Lucille Kane. Clarence was a graduate of Lake Charles Boston High School, Fisk University and was a veteran of the United States Air Force. He retired from the State of Louisiana Department of Labor in 2008. During his retirement, Clarence dedicated his time substituting at local high schools and educating the youth. He was an active member of the Rho Phi Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. and the Basileus of the Rho Chi Chapter in Lake Charles, LA. Clarence was also a parishioner of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. Clarence married his wife Barbara on December 30, 1989. His pride and joy in life was watching sports, reading mystery novels and sharing times with the brothers of his fraternity. He is survived by his wife of 31 years, Barbara Edwards Kane; daughters, Valerie Kane-Cox, Felicia Kane Nichols and Catherine Lewis; son, John Edwards; grandchildren, Alicia Kirkland, Tianna Cox, Michael Cox, Antonio Nichols, Jr., Demetrick Nichols, Anthony Nichols, Andria Nichols, Maiya Snowton, Laylah Straughn, JaVon Lykes, Paris Blanchard and John Edwards, Jr.; brother, Grant Kane; daughter-inlaw, Conchetta Edwards; sons-in-law, Alphonso Cox and Antonio Nichols Sr.; sisters-in-law, Shirley Kane, Helen Edwards and Joyce Edwards; brothers-in-law, Arthur Edwards, Alvin Edwards and Phillip Edwards. Also survived by a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends. Family and friends attended a drive thru viewing on Tuesday, December 29, 2020, and a Mass of Christian burial honoring the life of Mr. Clarence Leo Kane, Jr., at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 2621 Colonial Blvd., Violet, LA 70092 on Wednesday, December 30, 2020. Please sign online guestbook at www.charbonnetfuneralhome.com.
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Vicki Lynn Cantrell Gutierrez
Vicki Lynn Cantrell Gutierrez, a lifelong resident of St. Bernard Parish, passed away on Sunday, December 27, 2020 at the age of 63. She was married to the love of her life, Leon Gutierrez, for 43 years. Through their love for one another, they produced two sons Ralph Gutierrez (Lindsay) and Rees Gutierrez. Vicki was the firstborn child to Walter Cantrell Sr. (Rose), a lifelong resident of St. Bernard Parish, and the late Diane Bullock Hartwell (Mark). She had multiple siblings from her parents first and subsequent unions, including in order of age her loving brothers, Walter Cantrell Jr., Kevin Cantrell (April), and the late Ronnie Kramer Jr., her sisters Belinda Ruiz (Troy), Connie Spencer (Stacy), and finally her youngest brother, Brandon Swate. As proud as Vicki and Leon were of their own children, they were head over heels in love and so thankful for their grandchildren Wyatt Gutierrez and Willow Gutierrez (ch. of Ralph and Lindsay) and Hollyn Gutierrez (ch. of Rees and Michelle Waites). Vicki was also blessed with the honor of being the godmother of Jason and Kinsley Matthews. She is survived by many uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends, too many to be mentioned by name, but all of whom know who they are and how much she loved them. Vicki was born on December 23, 1957 in New Orleans, LA. She spent most of her childhood living in Violet, LA, and raised her family in Meraux, LA. She will be forever remembered as a loving wife, doting mother and proud grandmother who loved spending time with her family. She had a keen wit and an infectious laugh and truly was one of the most loving, caring and kind-hearted people in all of God’s creation. She is already and will forever be deeply missed by all whose lives she touched. Relatives and friends are invited to attend a visitation to be held at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, 2621 Colonial Blvd., Violet, on Saturday, January 2, 2021 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. noon. A Funeral Mass will begin at 12 p.m. noon. Interment: Private. Due to COVID-19, face masks and social distancing are required. To view and sign the Family Guestbook, please visit www.stbernardmemorial.com
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Whitney Joseph Elfert, III
Whitney Joseph Elfert, III, went to be with the Lord on December 21, 2020 at the age of 76. He was a native of New Orleans, LA, former resident of St. Bernard Parish; and a resident of Hammond, LA. Whitney was a 1962 graduate of Cor Jesu. He loved cutting grass and fishing. Whitney was a quick-witted comedian. He and his wife Gloria fostered 100 children. Whitney will be greatly missed by all. Whitney is survived by his beloved wife, Gloria Galyean Elfert; daughters, Hannah Elfert Wilkins and Naomi Lynn Elfert; sons, John, Michael, Dennis, Travis, Timothy, Andrew Elfert, James and Michael Houston; sister, Arlene Elfert Anzalone; grandchildren, Kayla, Kelsey, Kevin, Daniel, Rachel, Katie Elfert, Tyler, Reyna, Joseph Houston, and Xavier Wilkins. Preceded in death by his parents, Whitney and Mildred Elfert. Family and friends attended the visitation and funeral services at Brandon G. Thompson Funeral Home, 12012 Highway 190 W, Hammond, on Tuesday, December 29, 2020. Interment: Emmaus Baptist Church Cemetery, Tickfaw, LA. In lieu of flowers, a memorial donation can be made to a Parkinson’s charity of your choice.
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Francis Forrest Cady, Jr.
Francis Forrest Cady, Jr., was called home on Thursday, December 24, 2020 at the age of 70. Francis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 27, 1950. He resided in Ponchatoula, LA, for the past 14 years and previously resided in Chalmette, LA, and Birmingham, AL. Francis graduated from the University of New Orleans and worked as a Credit Manager for Reilly Foods for over 20 years. In retirement Francis enjoyed riding his motorcycle and was an active member of the Southern Cruisers and the Southern Louisiana Chapter of the U.S. Spyder Ryders. He also enjoyed watching science fiction films and seeing his grandchildren. Francis had a strong Catholic faith and was a member of the St Albert Catholic Church where he was a devout parishioner and attended Mass regularly. Francis is survived by his wife Deborah Boudreaux Cady; son Sean Cady (Heather); daughter Lesley Cady Prochaska (Christopher); stepson Fred Boudreaux; stepdaughter Jill (Ryan) and his grandchildren Shane Cady, Emeline Prochaska, and Ferris Prochaska. He was proceeded in death by his loving and devoted wife of 45 years, Renee Fahr Cady, his parents, Francis Forrest Cady Sr. and Elmira Cady, his sister Elizabeth Bazile, and his nephew Johnny Bazile. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Funeral Service in the chapel of Harry McKneely & Son Funeral Home, 2000 N. Morrison Blvd., Hammond, LA 70401, on Saturday, January 2, 2021 at 1 p.m. The service will also be hosted virtually via Facebook Live at . Visitation will begin at 12 p.m. and continue until 1 p.m. Interment: Rosaryville Mausoleum, Ponchatoula, LA. Face masks are mandatory to attend any visitation or service and we ask that you maintain a respectful distance with the family. Thank you for your cooperation. To view and sign the family guest book, please visit www.harrymckneely.com.
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Helen Berrigan Tauzier
Helen Berrigan Tauzier, born on June 16, 1931, passed away on Sunday, December 13, 2020 at the age of 89. Beloved wife of the late Frederick A. Tauzier, Jr. of 43 years. She is survived by her son Gary F. Tauzier and daughter Patricia T. Vedros (Earl Jr.). Loving grandmother of Jared, Amanda, Wendy, Katie, Christopher and Kellie. Preceded in death by her parents, Walter Edward Berrigan and Josephine Valenti Berrigan, and her son, Walter D. Tauzier (Eileen). A native of New Orleans, LA, graduated from John McDonough High School. She worked at South Central Bell. Upon her marriage, she moved to Chalmette, LA, where she raised her three children. She then moved to Meraux, LA, where she resided until Hurricane Katrina. She then relocated to Covington, LA. She enjoyed going to casinos, baking brownies for her grandchildren, playing poker keno, and playing cards with friends. She relocated to the West Bank of Jefferson Parish, where she lived until her death. Relatives and friends of the family attended a visitation and funeral mass on Monday, December 21, 2020, at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church, 2320 Paris Rd., Chalmette, LA. She was laid to rest in St. Bernard Memorial Gardens. To sign and view the family guestbook, please visit www. stbernardmemorial.com.
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AUSTRALIA'S FINEST
Who was Clive James, why was he famous and was he married?
georgina littlejohn
Updated: 27th November 2019, 8:53 pm
VETERAN broadcaster Clive James had died aged 80.
But why was he famous, and who was he married to? Here’s our lowdown…
Clive James is an Australian author and broadcaster
Who is Clive James?
Clive was born Vivian Leopold James in Kogarah, a suburb of Sydney, Australia on October 7 1939.
He changed his name as a child after Vivien Leigh starred as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind and “the name became irrevocably a girl’s name no matter how you spelled it”.
He settled for the name Clive after Tyrone Power’s character in the 1942 film This Above All.
James is an only child and was raised by his mother after his father, having survived being a Japanese prisoner of war, died during the Second World War when the plane he was returning to Australia in crashed in Manila Bay.
He was educated at Sydney Technical College and then at the University of Sydney where he studied English and Psychology. He edited the student newspaper and after he graduated, worked as an assistant editor for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Clive in 1976 on the Granada pop music show So It Goes
When did he come to the UK?
Clive moved to England in 1962 and during his first few years worked as a library assistant, market researcher and sheet metal worker, and made friends with fellow Australian Barry Humphries.
He then landed a place at Cambridge University to read English Literature, where his contemporaries included Germaine Greer and Eric Idle.
He became president of Cambridge Footlights and even appeared on BBC’s University Challenge.
When did he get into journalism?
In 1972, he became the television critic for The Observer and stayed for 10 years.
He went on to write for various newspapers and magazines in the UK, Australia and the United States and until mid-2014 wrote the weekly television critique page for the Review section of the Saturday edition of the Daily Telegraph.
He had his own show, Clive James on Television in 1982
Has he had anything else published?
From the Seventies through to the Noughties, he had a series of essays published as well as Flying Visits, a collection of travel writing for the Observer.
He has also published several books of poetry and collaborated on six albums with radio producer Pete Atkin.
In 1980, he wrote his first autobiography called Unreliable Memoirs, which recounted his early days in Australia.
This was followed by Falling Towards London, which recalled his years in London, May Week Was In June about his time at Cambridge and The Blaze of Obscurity, which was about his career as a TV presenter. He also wrote four novels.
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Clive is a huge Formula One fan and here he is with Stirling Moss
How did Clive launch his television career?
He started as a commentator on various shows including the Granada pop music show So It Goes between 1976 and 1977.
Then, in 1982, he hosted Clive James on Television, on which he showcased weird and funny TV shows from around the world.
He then joined the BBC in 1988 and fronted Saturday Night Clive which ran for two years and returned as Saturday Night Clive on Sunday and then Sunday Night Clive.
In 1995 he set up his own production company to produce The Clive James Show for ITV.
In the mid-Eighties he featured in a travel programme called Clive James In… for LWT and when he joined the BBC he had a similar show, this time called Clive James’ Postcard from…
A huge motor racing fan, he presented the 1982, 1984 and 1986 official Formula One season review and in 1997 presented The Clive James Formula 1 Show for ITV to coincide with their coverage.
Seen here in Dallas for his LWT travel programme called Clive James In…
How did Clive start on the radio?
In 2007, he started to present A Point of View for BBC Radio 4 on which he discussed various topics with a humorous take.
Three of the shows were shortlisted for the 2008 Orwell Prize for political writing of outstanding quality.
Does he have any honours or awards?
Clive was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1992 which was upgraded to officer level in 2013.
Clive in Cambridge where he studied English Literature
He was appointed a CBE in 2012 for services to literature and the media and has honorary doctorates from both the University of Sydney and University of East Anglia.
He is an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010.
He was also awarded a special Bafta in 2015 to honour his 50-year career.
Is Clive married?
In 1968 he married Prudence Shaw and they had two daughters, Claerwen and Lucinda.
In 2012, Shaw threw Clive out of the family home after his affair with former model Leanne Edelsten was exposed.
Clive being interviewed by Jay Leno in 1990
When was he diagnosed with cancer?
In 2011, after heavy speculation he had suffered kidney failure, he confirmed that he was suffering from B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
In 2012 he said the disease had beaten him and his time was nearly up having also been diagnosed with emphysema and kidney failure in 2010.
In October 2015, he said he felt “embarrassed” that he was still alive thanks to experimental drug treatment and on 21 January 2017, he wrote a piece for the Guardian in which he spoke about being booked in for an operation and if it was a success, readers would “see my name in this space next week”.
He died aged 80 in November 2019.
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https://www.thetelegraph.com/features/article/All-male-choir-takes-everyone-back-to-prom-night-12634145.php
All male choir takes everyone back to prom night; Swansong for Gateway Men’s Chorus artistic director
Published 12:30 pm CDT, Thursday, July 2, 2015
By Donald C. Miller
For The Telegraph
ST. LOUIS — The word “prom” evokes so many emotions — feelings ranging from dread and terror to unbridled glee and sexual energy, with a whole lot in between.
The Gateway Men’s Chorus offered its own unique version of this American rite of passage at Washington University’s Edison Theatre. The chorus showcased popular songs from the 1950s to present exuding a ceaseless amount of energy and enthusiasm. Audience members were invited to participate on the dance floor in front of the stage — people of all ages and sexual orientations.
It was a playful event on a June weekend celebrating the pivotal role that music plays in this teenage ritual known as “prom night.” As with most concerts featuring a wide array of performance styles and vocal talent, there were some numbers that stood out more than others: a near flawless rendition of the song “Popular” from the iconic musical “Wicked,” an emotional and engaging version of the ’90s’ Boyz II Men ballad, “I’ll Make Love to You,” and a rousing take on Foreigner’s “I’ve Been Waiting for a Girl Like You.”
Although the tone of the evening was one of fun and optimism, it also was bittersweet as it marked the swan song of the Gateway Men’s Chorus Artistic Director Al Fischer. Fischer joined the organization in 2007 as the Interim Artistic Director before transitioning into the official role in 2008. He also has been the choir director at the College Avenue Presbyterian Church in Alton.
He recalled the challenges of joining the group initially, noting that “stepping into the shoes” of his predecessor was especially daunting. He feels that the Gateway Men’s Chorus is so much stronger now than it’s ever been due primarily to internal improvements such as a dedicated Executive Director (Tori Gale) who is able to focus on the business end of the organization.
A theme that Fischer returned to several times during our telephone interview was that of “brotherhood.” He stressed the bond that this group of men has with one another and how he strove to make that part of a welcoming culture for all. He recalled countless instances where Gateway Men’s Chorus members found a safe and comforting home within the group and were allowed to simply be themselves and accept and love who they are as individuals.
When asked about changes within the Gateway Men’s Chorus and within St. Louis itself over the past 10 years, he noted the progress of marriage equality (timely given the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the issue at a national level), but also pointed out that the LGBTQ community is still compartmentalized to some degree. Cliques do exist and tend to not branch out as much as they could and be open to other experiences and people.
Fischer is moving to Yakima, Washington, to be with his husband who has already relocated there for a new job. When asked about concerns he might have living in a conservative area of a liberal state, he pointed out that he’s quite comfortable.
“I’ve introduced a lot of people to Charlie as my husband,” he said. “It doesn’t seem to be an issue.”
Fischer is anxious to start the next phase of his life as full-time music teacher in a Yakima public school district.
He’s also open to the possibility of starting a men’s chorus group in the Yakima area if the need exists. The potential of once again interacting with a group of individuals who serve the same mission — that of “affirming and promoting gay culture and acceptance through musical performance and education” — appeals to him significantly.
The Metro-East area benefited from Fischer’s talent and warmth during his tenure here and will continue to enjoy the joy and camaraderie of the Gateway Men’s Chorus as it wraps up its 27th season of entertaining audiences in the St. Louis metropolitan region.
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US Company Launches Early Infant HIV Diagnosis
Tatenda Gumbo
FILE - HIV tests show negative and positive results.
Zimbabwe is among 15 countries in Africa that will soon be able to test infants for HIV in just 60-minutes.
The test, called Alere q HIV ½ Detect assay, which has proved effective in Maputo, Mozambique, where it was tested in five clinics, was developed by Alere, a leading provider of point-of-care rapid diagnostic and health information solutions, in the world.
In a study published by Alere, the five clinics in Maputo effectively used Alere q to detect the presence of HIV in infants as young as one month old, in order to allow the immediate start of anti-retroviral therapy.
UNAIDS studies show that 90 percent of HIV-infected children currently live in Sub-Saharan Africa and an estimated 90% of infections in children are acquired through mother-to-child transmission, also known as MTCT.
The study conducted under the support of the National Institute of Health together with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and the University of Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, trained nurses in local clinics to administer the test.
SIMPLIFYING HIV TESTING
Alere president for commercial operations in Africa, Tom Lindsay, said the company decided to develop the technology, so as to simplify HIV testing in infants, by making the nucleic acid test available at clinic level.
“The standard diagnostic technologies essentially are not reliable because you are not sure if you are picking up maternal anti-bodies or picking anti-bodies in the child; so molecular technologies which actually identify the viral nucleic acid are needed,” said Lindsay.
According to the Alere study, of the 827 samples tested on both the Alere q and laboratory platform, 825 results were consistent, among the infants, the majority of whom were aged between one and two months.
Lindsay, who said the process of testing the infants was simple and yielded results within an hour, added that immediate testing, reduced the follow up time, and eliminated instances where results back to the patient or mother of the child, were lost in clinical systems.
During the study the nurses would collect blood from the infants using a heel prick or a heel stick, said Lindsay.
He noted that they do a small heel prick on the child, collect blood, then apply it to a diagnostic cartridge called Alere Detect, where it is then inserted into the Alere q analyzer to be processed giving a result within 60 minutes.
Zimbabwe, like many other countries, has worked to curb MTCT and in 2013, launched a program - Families and Communities for the Elimination of Pediatric HIV in Zimbabwe (FACE).
The effort by the ministry of health and a consortium of non-governmental health organizations and a grant of $60 million from the US government, is designed to reduce the rate of MTCT from 14% to less than five percent by 2015.
Lindsay said in cases where mother to child transmission persisted, Alere q technologies could improve the outcome of infant patients.
“By using this point-to-care technologies we can deploy these at the actual clinical site, our clinicians are seeing both mothers and infants and can then use those technologies to diagnose the infants while they are there with their mothers,” added Lindsay.
WHO APPROVAL
The Alere q is currently awaiting World Health Organization approval, but Lindsay said the company is hoping to expand from infant testing to other forms of detection for not only HIV, but other illnesses found throughout Africa.
“We will also use the molecular platform in future for the diagnosis of other infections such as Hepatitis. We are very excited for the technology it is a molecular platform and it has many applications,” said Lindsay
Alere q is set to start operating in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Malawi, Zambia and 11 other African countries in the next six months.
Report By Tatenda Gumbo
Zimbabwe National AIDS Council Donates $1 Million to BEAM
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America Partners HIFA to Fight HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's AIDS-Related Illness Deaths Figures Plunge
Zimbabwe Marks World TB Day With Calls to End Stigma
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Looking Back at the Music of the Last 65 Years
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Melissa Manchester Contributes Nine Songs to Dirty Girl Soundtrack, Including One Written With Mary Steenburgen
Singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester has contributed nine songs to the new movie Dirty Girl from the Weinstein Company.
Written and directed by Abe Sylvia, Dirty Girl follows Danielle (Juno Temple) and her parenting class partner Clarke (Jeremy Dozier), on their journey to freedom. Together the mismatched misfits head to California, and discover each other and themselves through a funny and serendipitous friendship. The film features eight classic Melissa Manchester hits as well as the original song, Rainbird, written for the film by Manchester and Mary Steenburgen. Steenburgen costars as Clarke's mother; Manchester appears on screen as a pianist. The soundtrack available on Lakeshore Records.
Writer/director Abe Sylvia described Melissa Manchester and Mary Steenburgen's musical importance to the project: "Manchester's nine songs showcased throughout the film make her the 'musical muse' of Dirty Girl. Melissa's music is Clarke's guiding light, his rock. It is what allows him to face each day anew…the depth and breadth of her body of work has made it possible to score Clarke's biggest emotional moments. Mary Steenburgen is an artist who grasps the ephemeral. It should come as no surprise that an actress who oozes such beautiful poetry in her close-ups should turn out to be such an amazing lyricist. The song she wrote with Melissa Manchester for Dirty Girl, Rainbird, underscores a key turning point in the film. It is a melancholy lullaby that turns into an anthem of hope, no easy task for a songwriter, to bridge the gap between these two opposing musical moods. It is Mary's understanding and compassion for the roots of a character that makes her such a great lyricist."
Melissa Manchester became the first artist to receive two original song Oscar nominations in the same year for different films, Through the Eyes of Love (from Ice Castles) and I'll Never Say Goodbye (from The Promise). She won the Grammy for Best Female Vocalist for You Should Hear How She Talks About You. Last year, she wrote I Know Who I Am performed by Leona Lewis for Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls. Her dozens of albums and soundtracks releases will include a Sony Legacy Greatest Hits album in January. Melissa Manchester received the Governor's Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences for her contributions to music.
Mary Steenburgen is best known as an Academy Award winning actor. She was most recently seen in The Help, Step Brothers and The Proposal and is currently guest starring on 30 Rock and HBO's Bored to Death. In addition to her reputation as an actor, she has quietly been gaining acclaim as a songwriter for the last five years. She is currently signed to Universal Music Publishing Group and her song Fall Again, co-written with Matraca Berg, appears on Berg's latest critically-acclaimed release The Dreaming Fields. Recently, Mary Steenburgen collaborated with esteemed music producer George Drakoulias for an upcoming FX series set in Nashville.
The soundtrack to Dirty Girl, which was released on October 11, has the following track list:
Shadows of the Night – Pat Benatar
You Should Hear How She Talks About You – Melissa Manchester
Delta Dawn – Tanya Tucker
Midnight Blue – Melissa Manchester
I Want Candy – Bow Wow Wow
Only You – Rita Coolidge
Your Love (Acoustic) – The Outfield
Still Myself – Melissa Manchester
Strut – Sheena Easton
Rainbird – Melissa Manchester
Lovergirl – Teena Marie
The Life – Wendy & Lisa
Don’t Cry Out Loud – Melissa Manchester
Whenever I Call You Friend – Fyfe Dangerfield & Inara George
Melissa Manchester
Labels: Melissa Manchester
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Morning Mix
The death of Cecil the lion and the big business of big game trophy hunting
Lindsey Bever
General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news
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July 29, 2015 at 11:06 a.m. UTC
Walter Palmer has been called a sharp shot with a bow and arrow — good enough to pin a playing card from 100 yards away. He has been at it for years. His many kills — those by bow and arrow — are listed in a worldwide big game hunting record book: buffalo, deer, moose, mountain lion, polar bear.
“I don’t have a golf game,” Palmer told the New York Times back in 2009.
Indeed. It’s his hunting game that seems to have gotten him into trouble.
Palmer has been accused in an illegal hunt-and-kill that occurred earlier this month in a national park in Zimbabwe. Authorities there said he shot and killed the nation’s beloved black mane beauty named Cecil the lion, skinned it and took its head for a prize. Palmer’s professional guide and the land owner are set to appear in court Wednesday on poaching charges.
[American dentist says he regrets killing Cecil the lion, but believed hunt was legal]
But many people are pointing the finger at Palmer, a 55-year-old dentist from Minnesota with an affinity for big game trophy hunting.
The Internet has been in an uproar with people calling him a “monster” and a “criminal” and referring to his hobby as “barbaric and immoral.” The Yelp page for his dentist practice has been accumulating hostile comments almost faster than others can read them. His Web site has become inaccessible and thousand have signed their names to an online petition condemning his kill.
At Palmer’s home in Eden Prairie, where he lives with his wife and two children, and at his dental office people have created memorials, leaving stuffed lions to represent the one that died by his hands. His office was closed Tuesday, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. By that night, phone numbers listed for him gave a busy signal and e-mails went unanswered.
“I had no idea that the lion I took was a known, local favorite,” he said Tuesday in a statement to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “I relied on the expertise of my local professional guides to ensure a legal hunt.”
[A vengeful Internet trashed the Yelp page of the Minnesota dentist who shot Cecil the lion]
The incident has reignited emotions about the ever-controversial practice of big game hunting, a sport that draws thousands of deep-pocketed Americans to the African savanna each year in search of beautiful beasts they can boast about back home. It has called into question a practice that leaves animals — both wild and captive — dead and maimed. Many who despise it say it’s about morality. Even some who champion it say Cecil’s death was wrong.
“I find it so pathetic that ‘man’ has the need to hunt exotic creatures,” one Facebook user wrote on a page for Palmer’s dental practice. “What is so appalling is the lack of respect for our natural world and its delicate eco-web. … To say I am shocked and disgusted is an understatement.”
But Palmer is just one player in a big business known as trophy hunting — a sport as old as man. It has been said that President Theodore Roosevelt was a natural, trapping or killing more than 11,000 animals during a 1909 African safari. Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and James “Wildman” Morehead were also known for their interest in bagging trophy animals.
The pride of those who kill these creatures is evident on their faces when they pose with their kills. Social media is overrun with their photos, such as those posted on the Safari Club’s Online Record Book on Facebook.
It was one night in early July when Palmer hunted Cecil the lion. He was taken to Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe where he and his team spotted the lion. The creature was lured outside the park with a dead animal and Palmer allegedly wounded him with a bow and arrow, according to the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force. For 40 hours, they hunted him down. Then Palmer allegedly shot him with a rifle. He paid $50,000 for the kill.
The lion was skinned and beheaded outside the park, authorities said.
But Palmer said in his statement that he hired professional guides who had gotten the proper permits. He said he thought everything was “legal and properly handled and conducted.” The professional hunter, Theo Bronchorst, and the land owner, Honest Trymore Ndlovu, are now facing poaching charges. Authorities said the lion lived on a reserve and was protected.
Zimbabwean authorities told the Associated Press that Palmer is looking at poaching charges, though Palmer said he had not been contacted by police.
“Again, I deeply regret that my pursuit of an activity I love and practice responsibly and legally resulted in the taking of this lion,” Palmer said.
South Africa’s big game hunting industry earns more than $744 million each year, according to Voice of America. Annually, it is responsible for creating 70,000 jobs and for attracting 9,000 trophy hunters, most of whom come from the United States. In some cases, such safaris are actually “canned” hunts in which people pay as much as $20,000 to hunt animals that have been bred for hunting and enclosed in a large space.
When it’s done legally, the money is supposed to fuel conservation work.
Hunters argue the sport is also intended to deter illegal hunting, protecting animals like Cecil. Even in the wild, they claim, hunting can help weed out the weak so the population can thrive and ensure the proverbial survival of the fittest.
Regulated hunting has been backed by agencies such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and conservation groups such as the World Wildlife Fund.
“For every captive-bred lion hunted, you’re saving animals in the wild,” Pieter Potgieter with the South African Predator Association told National Geographic.
But many animal rights advocates argue that the sport actually encourages illegal activity. They say the animal heads go home with hunters as trophies and the animal skin and bones seep into the black market.
Obviously, there’s the moral argument as well.
“You have to decide what conservation is,” Chris Mercer with the Campaign Against Canned Hunting told National Geographic. “You can’t just look at numbers of animals. I would define real conservation as the preservation of natural functioning ecosystems. On ranches where farmers buy animals, put them on their land, bring the hunters on to shoot them, and then go back and buy more — that has nothing to do with conservation.”
[Cecil the celebrity lion felled by hunters in Zimbabwe]
The death of Cecil the lion at the hands of Palmer and all the circumstances surrounding it have brought the ongoing debate to the forefront as animal rights activists have been concerned for years about Africa’s wild lions, whose population has reportedly plummeted over the past century from an estimated 200,000 to about 30,000, according to National Geographic.
And, for some, Palmer has become the face of the poaching industry.
Indeed, this isn’t Palmer’s first problematic kill. In 2008, he pleaded guilty to making false statements to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about killing a black bear in Wisconsin. He shot the animal outside the area that he had a permit to hunt in and then lied to authorities about where he had killed it, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He was sentenced to one year of probation and fined close to $3,000.
[The travesty of Cecil the lion]
But some in the business say this time it’s not Palmer’s fault.
Jeff Martinell, who owns a safari booking business called Luxury Hunts, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune it’s the guides’ responsibility to know and obey the local laws and regulations.
“If he bought a lion hunt and they take him on a lion hunt, he [doesn’t] know where you’re going,” he said. “The finger should be pointed at the professional hunter, not the hunter himself.”
More about the death of Cecil the lion:
Opinion: The travesty of Cecil the lion
A vengeful Internet trashed the Yelp page of Walter Palmer
American dentist says he regrets killing beloved lion, but believed hunt was legal
Celebrity hunters felled by hunters in Zimbabwe
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Frights, The - Everything Seems Like Yesterday LP
The Frights fourth studio album, Everything Seems Like Yesterday is available now for streaming and download. Produced by bassist Richard Dotson, written and performed by vocalist and guitarist Mikey Carnevale with some sonic assistance from Dotson, it is
The Frights fourth studio album, Everything Seems Like Yesterday is available now for streaming and download. Produced by bassist Richard Dotson, written and performed by vocalist and guitarist Mikey Carnevale with some sonic assistance from Dotson, it is the band’s most emotionally direct body of work to date.
Everything Seems Like Yesterday first took shape through a handful of songs vocalist/guitarist Mikey Carnevale wrote on acoustic guitar back in fall 2018. Carnevale originally intended to release the material as a solo album, but had a change of heart upon sharing his new songs at a series of shows in San Diego and L.A. After receiving a unanimously positive response from his bandmates, he began to see the songs as more of a natural evolution of The Frights. Carnevale enlisted bassist, Richard Dotson, as producer and the two set off to record at Carnevale’s grandmother’s cabin in Idyllwild, CA. The pair recorded the record in sequence over the course of one week. The record features a wide array of ambient sounds and the use of real-life objects around the cabin as instruments; glasses with water in them, leaves, pots and pans, a ringing phone, etc.
Everything Seems Like Yesterday documents a particularly challenging year of Carnevale’s life. It starts with "24" – The Frights latest studio album, Hypochondriac, was released on August 24, 2018 (Carnevale’s 24th birthday) - and ends with "25". “A lot of these songs are about friends who are gone now, either in the sense that they passed away or that we don’t speak anymore,” Carnevale points out. “Our songs have always involved some kind of looking back over the past, but this one feels like the first time where I’m dealing with those situations and growing from them.”
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Science City Launches New Branding to Reflect Celebrated Evolution as well as Bold Vision for the Future
VML Applies Fresh Insights to New Design, 18 Years after Creating Original Science City Logo
Kansas City (Oct. 5, 2017) Union Station and VML officials today unveiled new branding for Kansas City’s internationally-awarded Science City. Reimagined for the first time in 18 years, this marks a transformational moment and precedes a major announcement scheduled for October 10th regarding the next evolutionary step for the celebrated science-learning destination.
"This is a very exciting time for Science City, and this is our launch pad if you will,” George Guastello, Union Station president and CEO, said. “This new branding reflects our collective enthusiasm and focus on continuing our record-setting growth on the shoulders of what has been tremendous multi-year community validation. The bold new logo represents where Science City is today as well as our vision for the future. It celebrates Science City’s place in Kansas City in a very literal and authentic way. And we can’t thank the talented team at VML enough for their insights and execution of this powerful brand presentation."
Science City's rebranding embraces not only its vitality in Downtown, but the substantial and fast-growing focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) learning across the education spectrum for which Science City is regularly acknowledged a regional and national leader.
“VML, with our world headquarters right here in Kansas City, has a keen interest in elevating our core community powerhouse brands,” Jon Cook, VML global CEO, said. “In the case of Science City, we’ve been in the mix since before they opened their doors in 1999. Their first logo was our creation, so it seemed a perfect fit to come alongside and apply the latest Science City insights and successes to this re-imagination. This new logo evokes creativity, discovery, imagination, and exploration. Science City has earned a place of prominence that is fresh, vibrant, approachable and fun. It’s all about inspiring lifelong learners — and we wanted the new branding to reflect that.”
The best logos find ways to convey a lot with very little. In the case of Science City’s new branding, Union Station officials wanted to emphasize three essential elements:
The iconic architecture of Science City’s roof, designed to mimic the historic train sheds and passenger platforms originally extending east and west from Union Station and signaling the beginning of a journey of exploration and discovery.
Its strong position in the center of Kansas City’s skyline, establishing it as a unique and recognizable destination in the city, shouting vibrancy, creativity and commitment to growth.
Simple, bold, timeless design to convey the fun of Science City’s informal learning format that’s now internationally recognized and celebrated as leading-edge and vitally important in Kansas City’s STEM-based community and economy.
“Think about visiting a business or home decorated 18 years ago,” Michael Tritt, Union Station Chief Marketing Officer, said. “Science City is about the here and now . . . it’s modern, compelling and creating a very exciting future. It is indeed the right time to present the Science City brand in a new way.”
“Our research proved out how Science City has become the regional leader in informal STEM education programs,” Jerry Baber, Union Station executive vice president and COO, said. “Parents, children and educators alike light up upon entering the reimagined spaces and newly constructed elements, including the massive and most recent Simple Machines at Play outdoor area. Science City is not the same today as when it originally opened in 1999. Our focus has been honed and the community’s investments have been remarkable. The results we’ve generated remain the envy of attractions across our region.”
Union Station officials intend to roll out the new branding over the next several months, which coincides with a planned Oct. 10th announcement that will qualify as “transformational” yet again for Science City.
“We talk about Isaac Newton’s laws of motion and how they apply to our offerings here at Union Station,” Guastello, said. “We are a body in motion that intends to stay in motion, growing, evolving and constantly creating new community value. We will not become a body at rest. What we do at Science City — soon to proudly be wearing its new brand across its modern campus — is too important to the future of Kansas City’s children, families and educators.”
Science City, Kansas City’s Science Center -- Internationally awarded for “Visitor Experience” by ASTC and named one of the country’s TOP 25 science centers, Science City annually educates and entertains hundreds of thousands of science-thirsty children of all ages. Kansas City’s Science Center is THE place for inquisitive young minds to create, explore, and experiment with the BIG world of science through hands-on learning and non-stop fun. Featuring over 200 interactive exhibits and host to countless STEM-based events -- including the annual Greater Kansas City Science & Engineering Fair -- Science City leads the region in recognition from educators, parents, caregivers AND children alike.
Union Station Kansas City -- a 501(c)3 non-profit organization -- is a 103-year-old historical landmark and celebrated civic asset renovated and reopened to the public in 1999. The organization -- dedicated to science education, celebration of community and preservation of history -- is home to Kansas City’s internationally-awarded Science City; the new Arvin Gottlieb Planetarium; the Regnier Extreme Screen Theatre; the popular Model Railroad Experience; H&R Block City Stage featuring live theater, and a selection of unique shops and restaurants. Union Station is also home to prominent area civic organizations and businesses, and regularly hosts world-class traveling exhibitions. Awarded “Top Banquet Facilities in KC” by KC Business Journal, the facility regularly hosts community events and private celebrations of all sizes. Visit www.unionstation.org for details. Also, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
About VML
VML is a lead marketing agency that transforms brands through a connected consumer experience. VML’s clients include Bridgestone, Colgate-Palmolive, Electrolux/Frigidaire, Ford, the Kellogg Company, Kimberly-Clark, New Balance, PepsiCo, Sprint and Wendy’s.
Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, VML joined the world’s largest communications services group, WPP, in 2001. VML has more than 3,000 employees with principal offices in 33 locations across six continents.
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The year of 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Chinese New Culture Movement (also known as the May Fourth Movement). Generally seen as one of the most significant turning points in China’s cultural history, the Movement also saw the rise to fame of some of the country’s most distinguished literary artists and thinkers, among whom was Lu Xun.
On 1 May, 2019, ACIAC had one of Australia’s best renowned Chinese literature experts, Professor Jon Eugene von Kowallis from the University of New South Wales to deliver a public talk on “Takeuchi’s Lu Xun/China’s Takeuchi”. Professor Kowallis is Professor and Chair of Chinese Studies in the School of Humanities and Languages at UNSW and President of the Oriental Society of Australia. In this lecture, he began with an introduction to the life and works of Lu Xun and his Japanese translator Takeuchi Yoshimi, but he then moved on to discuss the trajectories of Lu Xun’s transnational reception in Japan. He spoke about Takeuchi Yoshimi’s book Rojin and its evaluations of Lu Xun’s achievements and intellectual stance as an oppositional writer. He also looked into some of the problems that stand out in Takeuchi Yoshimi’s political positioning against his passionate appraisal of Lu Xun. He finally offered his comments on the changing attitudes among contemporary Chinese colleagues towards Takeuchi Yoshimi’s arguments and work. After his lecture, Professor Kowallis took questions about Lu Xun in the Japanese school syllabus and current Chinese and Western attitudes towards the critical stance that Lu Xun so often took towards his world.
The talk was moderated by Professor Labao Wang and attended by an enthusiastic audience including ACIAC Advisory Board member Helen Sham-Ho, Emeritus Professor and former Director of Asian Studies Institute at Western Sydney University Professor Edmund Fung, ACIAC key researcher and head of the Bilingualism Lab A/Professor Ruying Qi, ACIAC research Dr David Cubby, translation expert Dr Yan Qian of Macquarie University, Chinese Australian poets Ms Tang Yingxia, Dr Sheng Tong and WSU students.
Professpr Kowallis is a multilingual. He studied Chinese language and literature at Columbia University in the City of New York (BA), National Taiwan University, the University of Hawaii (MA), Peking University and the University of California, Berkeley (PhD). He became an internationally famous authority on Lu Xun in the 1990s after the publication of his monograph titled The Lyrical Lu Xun: a Study of his Classical-style Verse. Another book by him, The Subtle Revolution: Poets of the ‘Old Schools’ in late Qing and early Republican China (2006) influenced the direction of an entire field on rethinking the role of traditional genres in Chinese literature.
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News, Views & Insights/ Guide To Electric Car Charging – EV Charging For Beginners
Guide To Electric Car Charging – EV Charging For Beginners
One of the biggest changes, in making the switch from petrol or diesel fuel to an electric car, is getting used to charging your vehicle. It is an essential aspect of electric vehicle (EV) ownership and it is important to understand the key issues. Our handy guide to electric car charging aims to make EV charging simple, even for beginners.
Charger types
The first thing to consider is the different types of EV charging. There are three main types of charge point. These are: rapid, fast and slow. As you can guess from the names, these different types vary in charging speeds. This is down to the power output of each type of charging point.
Rapid chargers are the quickest way to charge your car. These can be split even further into two categories: ultra-rapid and rapid. Ultra-rapid charging points are DC only and can charge at 100 kW, with the potential to charge up to 350 kW. However, the majority of the UK’s rapid charging infrastructure consists of rapid charging points. These charge at 50 kW DC, with 43 kW AC rapid charging also often available.
Rapid charge points are typically located at motorway service stations in the UK. They are occasionally offered for free to certain drivers, but more often these are the most expensive type of public charge point. Drivers can charge their vehicle to 80% within 20 to 40 minutes, which offers great convenience but comes at a premium price.
To give some indication of charge point prices, Pod Point rapid chargers are available at Lidl for 23p/kWh and at Tesco for 24p/kWh. This works out at about £6 or £7 for 30 minutes of charging, which would give a typical electric car around 100 miles of range.
Fast chargers provide power from 7 kW to 22 kW, which means that a typical EV can be fully charged in between 3 to 4 hours. The most common public charge point available in the UK is a 7 kW untethered Type 2 inlet, which is a fast charger.
Slow chargers provide power up to 3 kW. These are best used for overnight charging as it takes between 6 to 12 hours to charge a typical EV with a slow charger. Electric cars are connected to slow chargers using a cable with a 3-pin or Type 2 socket.
All electric cars have set inlets, and these require specialist connectors to plug them in. Cables are provided with the car which allow for charging on slow and fast chargers across the UK. Rapid charging uses connectors which are tethered to the charger. This has the added advantage that drivers do not need to carry any cables around with them to cover this charging type.
Most new electric vehicles will use the Type 2 standard for charging and will have a Type 2 CCS inlet fitted to enable rapid charging. The Type 1 inlet is usually only found on older electric vehicles. Rapid charging is split across the CHAdeMO and CCS standards at the moment. CCS is now becoming more popular, but in the UK the two biggest selling plug-in vehicles use CHAdeMO inlets.
Electric cars allow charging at different rates. If you have a car that can only charge at 7 kW, then even if you plug it into a 22 kW charge point, it will still only draw a maximum of 7 kW. It is important to note that many plug-in hybrid cars are not able to use rapid charging points.
Public charge points
There are a large number of public electric vehicle charging networks available across the UK. Some of these networks offer national coverage, whereas others are specific to certain regions. Some of the major UK-wide network providers include BP Chargemaster Polar, Pod Point, Ecotricity, Tesla, Instavolt, and Charge Your Car.
Regional networks are often operated by, or have links to, these national providers. This means that it is possible to use regional charge points using a national account in most areas. However, the level of access will depend on the individual network and the specific charge point. Well defined areas, such as London, Scotland, and the Midlands, all have regional charging networks in place.
All public charging points are required to offer ad-hoc access. Many electric vehicle charging points across the UK are free to use. However, most of the fast and rapid chargers charge some level of fee. Charging tariffs are usually based on a cost per energy consumed basis (pence per kWh), although some networks may operate a price per charging time (pence per hour) or a set fee for a charging session instead.
Payment methods for charging points vary across networks. Most networks offer access through the use of an app or RFID card. Contactless bank card access is also becoming more common. This has the added advantage that there is no need for prior registration or account set up. The UK government has announced that all newly installed rapid and higher-powered charge points should offer the capability to for drivers to pay by debit or credit car by the end of Spring 2020. This will make charging even more convenient for EV drivers.
If you are the proud owner of a Tesla electric car, you are able to access the Tesla Supercharger Network. This is completely free for older vehicles and there are also a set number of free hours available for new vehicles (post January 2017).
Charging your electric car at home
For many people, their main charging point will be at their home. Charging your electric car at home is convenient and can be a cost effective way to recharge your vehicle. There are government grants available to support with the cost of installing a home charging point for your electric car. The usual cost is around £1000 but a grant from the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) can help to reduce this by up to £500.
The majority of home charging point are either rated at 3 kW or 7 kW. If you get a higher-powered wall mounted unit, this could halve the time it takes to fully charge your electric vehicle. However, the cost of installation is likely to be much higher.
A large number of companies offer a fixed price for a fully installed charge point, meaning no surprises in the final bill. You may also find that many plug-in car manufacturers have deals with charge point suppliers, allowing them to offer lower prices. In some cases, there may even be the opportunity to get a free home charge point as part of your new electric car purchase.
One important point to consider is that you are likely to need an off-street parking space for home based charging. This avoids the potential difficulties that could be caused by trailing cables across public footpaths and other public areas. However, on-street residential charging units are slowly becoming more common in some areas.
Charging your electric car at your workplace
As well as having the convenience to charge your car at home and in public spaces, it may also be helpful to have the facility to charge your electric vehicle at your workplace. An increasing number of businesses are getting electric vehicle charging units installed for the use of their employees and visitors. If employees’ vehicles will be stationary for the majority of the day while they are at work, it makes perfect sense to utilise this opportunity to conveniently keep the car fully charged.
An added benefit may also be that the provision of electric vehicle charging points makes the business more attractive to customers. They may choose to visit the site of a company that has this facility over one that does not and once there, customers may stay for longer whilst their car charges, giving them more opportunity to engage with the business.
Workplace charge points are relatively similar to home based charging points. However, power ratings tend to be higher with more 7 kW and 22 kW units being available. Many workplace charging points also offer a double socket, so that they can charge two cars at the same time. Having higher powered units available means that company fleets of electric cars can top up their charge in the middle of the day, so that they can increase the effective number of business miles driver per day. This reduces the reliance on the public rapid network which can work out to be more expensive.
Business owners, who are providing a charging point for electric vehicles in the workplace, can decide whether they will provide this free of charge or will have a fee in place for the use of the facilities. Many companies have opted to offer the charging point at little to no cost in order to encourage the use of electric vehicles and the charging point by their employees and customers. There are also company benefits, such as grants and enhanced capital allowances, available for charging points that are installed at workplaces.
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SawStop: Come for the Safety, Stay for the Saw
by Michael Dresdner • Oct 10, 2006
By now, if you haven’t seen it, you have certainly heard about it: a saw that cuts wood but won’t bite people. Thousands of attendees at woodworking conventions have watched as operators fed a hotdog, standing in for a human finger, to the spinning blade of a table saw, only to have the blade stop abruptly and drop down below the table, leaving the wiener with only the tiniest of nicks. This seemingly hermetic safety device wows woodworkers who see it, yet, unlike ubiquitous seat belts on cars, it has not been widely embraced by manufacturers.
Hailed as a finger saver when it was first revealed, it has weathered a storm of controversy as to how it should, or should not, be delivered into the hands of the public. Some felt it should be on every saw, and others saw it as having the potential to lull woodworkers into more dangerous habits. When the inventors proposed the idea that their device should be mandated by law, it raised a storm of reaction, much of it on the dangers of letting government regulations intrude too far into the woodshop.
Rather than continue the fight on that level, the inventors took a step out on their own and created the SawStop table saw, replete with not only their patented safety device, but a whole lot more. In fact, the saw is so well designed and packed with features that it could easily sell on its own merits without the safety feature. Granted, it is more expensive than some of its competitors, but there are a lot of reasons for that. First, a bit of history is in order.
Steve Gass, the founder and inventor of SawStop, boasts both a Ph.D in physics and a law degree, and is a lifelong hobby woodworker. One day, about six years ago, he was in his shop wondering whether he could devise a way to make a blade stop when touched. Like many woodworkers, he had had close calls but no disasters, but he knew of others who had serious injuries. He began looking at the problem from a physics point of view, looking at speed, force, what it would take to stop a blade and how quickly it could be done. Within a month he had invented a working prototype and joined forces with two colleagues at work, a physicist and a mechanical engineer. Together, they refined the design. At the time, Steve was a practicing patent attorney, which was probably quite handy, since many patents surround the device.
“Simply put, SawStop technology senses when a finger or any body part comes in contact with the blade,” explained Paul Carter, vice president of business development. “That triggers the brake cartridge, which immediately does three things. It stops the blade by jamming a brake pawl against it, drops the blade down below the surface of the table, and shuts off the motor. All this happens in five milliseconds. That’s faster than an airbag deploys in your car, faster than you blink and, most importantly, quick enough to prevent major injury. It goes so fast that, watching a live demonstration, you may see nothing but the end result: a stopped blade.”
In 2000, the SawStop group took their invention to the International Woodworking Fair show in Atlanta and started doing their now famous hotdog demonstrations. The response was staggering. They decided to license the technology, and set out to find companies interested in incorporating it into their saws. They spoke to the bulk of manufacturers, but were unable to come to an agreement with any of them.
“That took a number of years,” recounted Paul, “and, around the end of 2002, they decided to bite the bullet and make saws themselves. But for them, making a saw with their safety device was not good enough. By the end of 2004, they had what they wanted, and started to produce the SawStop table saw.
“Rather than simply stick an amazing safety feature on a typical saw, they decided to aim higher, creating a saw with a stack of features that makes it worth the extra money on its own merits. To name just a few, it boasts a European style riving knife, long known to reduce kickback without impeding dado or stopped cuts, a low profile guard that allows narrow cuts without removing the guard, and a power switch with an oversize stop paddle that you can hit with your knee while both hands are engaged. Both the knife and the blade guard are easily and quickly interchangeable without the need for any tools. Down below, there’s an improved shroud for better dust evacuation, heavy castings on a very stable trunnion and a slick, gas-assisted riser for raising the blade easily.
“The saw itself is made in Taiwan, but the cartridge electronics are made here in the U.S. Distribution is selective; we want dealers who can explain the real advantages of this saw and not just take orders. Still, there are over 100 locations throughout the U.S.”
“We feel strongly that everyone should buy this saw: schools, hobby woodworkers, professionals and maintenance shops,” Paul insisted. “In short, anyone who risks losing a finger, and everyone who has an employee that might. For employers, it is not only an ethical issue, but also a flat-out economic one. It is far cheaper to invest in SawStop than to pay the costs of even one accident.
“Many people say that table saw dangers are the nature of the beast, but that time is over,” claims Paul. “The cabinet saw does not have to be your biggest worry. You don’t have to live that way anymore.”
For the future, you can expect to see a contractor’s saw version by the end of the year, and perhaps a benchtop saw and a larger cabinet saw later. The company currently numbers about 20 employees, and over 3,500 saws have already been sold. There are some 80 verified saves already recorded. Even accounting for those who were too embarrassed to admit it, that’s a lot of fingers that are still on hand thanks to this technology.
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Updated: 12:46 PM EST Dec 8, 2020
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press
It's disgusting how apart oven armor goes missing and they do everything to find it. But when it comes to a life like Vanessa's, they do nothing. Ah, life is more valuable than the object. What happens once and there's no going back because I know everything that I do today when I returned my sister. But it will save lives. I am. Vanessa Guion has become a rallying cry across the country for survivors speaking out against the toxic rock in the military around harassment and sexual assault. About 20% of the military is female, but they represent 63% of the assaults, and the victims are among the youngest and the lowest ranking women who are at risk. The voices of those survivors have never been louder or more clear. This is the military's me too moment, and we are going to take full advantage to amplify it and to cause the kinds of changes that we believe should take place. First, it is going to make it a crime punishable in the Uniform code of military justice to sexually harass. It's going to create a confidential reporting system for sexual harassment. It's going to require that an investigation be done independently of the chain of command by trained and experienced professionals,
Video above: Vanessa Guillen's death inspires bid to expand military codeThe Army on Tuesday said it had fired or suspended 14 officers and enlisted soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, and ordered policy changes to address chronic leadership failures at the base that contributed to a widespread pattern of violence including murder, sexual assaults and harassment.Two general officers were among those being removed from their jobs, as top Army leaders announced the findings of an independent panel's investigation into problems at the Texas base.The actions, taken by Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, come in the aftermath of a year that saw 25 soldiers assigned to Fort Hood die due to suicide, homicide or accidents, including the bludgeoning death of Spc. Vanessa Guillen. Guillen was missing for about two months before her remains were found.The firings and suspensions include Army Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt, who was left in charge of the base earlier this year when Guillen was killed, as well as Maj. Gen. Jeffery Broadwater, commander of the 1st Cavalry Divisions. The administrative actions are expected to trigger investigations that could lead to a wide range of punishments. Those punishments could go from a simple letter of reprimand to a military discharge.The base commander, Army Lt. Gen. Pat White, will not face any administrative action. He was deployed to Iraq as the commander there for much of the year.McCarthy also ordered a new Army policy that changes how commanders deal with missing soldiers, requiring them to list service members as absent-unknown for up to 48 hours and to do everything they can to locate the service members to determine if their absence is voluntary or not before declaring anyone AWOL, or absent without leave.Army leaders had already delayed Efflandt’s planned transfer to Fort Bliss, where he was slated to take over leadership of the 1st Armored Division. Command of a division is a key step in an Army officer’s career.Efflandt’s move to the division was paused while the team of independent investigators conducted its probe into whether leadership failures contributed to the killings of several people, including Guillen, and who should be held accountable.According to investigators, Guillen, 20, was bludgeoned to death at Fort Hood by Spc. Aaron Robinson, who killed himself on July 1 as police were trying to take him into custody. Her family has said Robinson sexually harassed her, though the Army has said there is no evidence supporting that claim.Also in July, the body of Pvt. Mejhor Morta was found near a reservoir by the base. And in June, officials discovered the remains of another missing soldier, Gregory Morales, about 10 miles from that lake.
Video above: Vanessa Guillen's death inspires bid to expand military code
The Army on Tuesday said it had fired or suspended 14 officers and enlisted soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, and ordered policy changes to address chronic leadership failures at the base that contributed to a widespread pattern of violence including murder, sexual assaults and harassment.
Two general officers were among those being removed from their jobs, as top Army leaders announced the findings of an independent panel's investigation into problems at the Texas base.
The actions, taken by Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, come in the aftermath of a year that saw 25 soldiers assigned to Fort Hood die due to suicide, homicide or accidents, including the bludgeoning death of Spc. Vanessa Guillen. Guillen was missing for about two months before her remains were found.
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The firings and suspensions include Army Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt, who was left in charge of the base earlier this year when Guillen was killed, as well as Maj. Gen. Jeffery Broadwater, commander of the 1st Cavalry Divisions. The administrative actions are expected to trigger investigations that could lead to a wide range of punishments. Those punishments could go from a simple letter of reprimand to a military discharge.
The base commander, Army Lt. Gen. Pat White, will not face any administrative action. He was deployed to Iraq as the commander there for much of the year.
McCarthy also ordered a new Army policy that changes how commanders deal with missing soldiers, requiring them to list service members as absent-unknown for up to 48 hours and to do everything they can to locate the service members to determine if their absence is voluntary or not before declaring anyone AWOL, or absent without leave.
Army leaders had already delayed Efflandt’s planned transfer to Fort Bliss, where he was slated to take over leadership of the 1st Armored Division. Command of a division is a key step in an Army officer’s career.
Efflandt’s move to the division was paused while the team of independent investigators conducted its probe into whether leadership failures contributed to the killings of several people, including Guillen, and who should be held accountable.
According to investigators, Guillen, 20, was bludgeoned to death at Fort Hood by Spc. Aaron Robinson, who killed himself on July 1 as police were trying to take him into custody. Her family has said Robinson sexually harassed her, though the Army has said there is no evidence supporting that claim.
Police believe they've found the body of a soldier missing from Fort Hood
Also in July, the body of Pvt. Mejhor Morta was found near a reservoir by the base. And in June, officials discovered the remains of another missing soldier, Gregory Morales, about 10 miles from that lake.
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Ecological economics
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For the academic journal, see Ecological Economics (journal).
Not to be confused with Environmental economics.
Humanity's economic system viewed as a
subsystem of the global environment
Ecological market failure
Ecological model of competition
Embodied energy
Energy accounting
Entropy pessimism
Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare
Steady-state economy
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Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
Kenneth E. Boulding
Robert Ayres
Herman Daly
Joan Martinez Alier
Richard B. Norgaard
Robert Costanza
Clive Spash
International Society for Ecological Economics
Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt
The Entropy Law and the Economic Process
The Limits to Growth
Prosperity Without Growth
Ecological Economics (journal)
Externality
Planetary boundaries
Post-growth
Thermoeconomics
History of economics
Schools of economics
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Experimental economics
Computational economics
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Ecological economics, bioeconomics, ecolonomy, or eco-economics, is both a transdisciplinary and an interdisciplinary field of academic research addressing the interdependence and coevolution of human economies and natural ecosystems, both intertemporally and spatially.[1] By treating the economy as a subsystem of Earth's larger ecosystem, and by emphasizing the preservation of natural capital, the field of ecological economics is differentiated from environmental economics, which is the mainstream economic analysis of the environment.[2] One survey of German economists found that ecological and environmental economics are different schools of economic thought, with ecological economists emphasizing strong sustainability and rejecting the proposition that physical (human-made) capital can substitute for natural capital (see the section on weak versus strong sustainability below).[3]
Ecological economics was founded in the 1980s as a modern discipline on the works of and interactions between various European and American academics (see the section on History and development below). The related field of green economics is in general a more politically applied form of the subject.[4][5]
According to ecological economist Malte Michael Faber [de], ecological economics is defined by its focus on nature, justice, and time. Issues of intergenerational equity, irreversibility of environmental change, uncertainty of long-term outcomes, and sustainable development guide ecological economic analysis and valuation.[6] Ecological economists have questioned fundamental mainstream economic approaches such as cost-benefit analysis, and the separability of economic values from scientific research, contending that economics is unavoidably normative, i.e. prescriptive, rather than positive or descriptive.[7] Positional analysis, which attempts to incorporate time and justice issues, is proposed as an alternative.[8][9] Ecological economics shares several of its perspectives with feminist economics, including the focus on sustainability, nature, justice and care values.[10]
1 History and development
1.1 Schools of thought
1.1.1 Non-Traditional Approaches to Ecological Economics
1.2 Differences from mainstream economics
2 Nature and ecology
3.1 Green economics
4.2 Allocation of resources
4.3 Weak versus strong sustainability
4.4 Energy economics
4.5 Energy accounting and balance
4.6 Ecosystem services and their valuation
4.7 Not 'externalities', but cost shifting
4.8 Ecological-economic modeling
4.9 Monetary theory and policy
5 Criticism
History and development[edit]
The antecedents of ecological economics can be traced back to the Romantics of the 19th century as well as some Enlightenment political economists of that era. Concerns over population were expressed by Thomas Malthus, while John Stuart Mill predicted the desirability of the stationary state of an economy. Mill thereby anticipated later insights of modern ecological economists, but without having had their experience of the social and ecological costs of the Post–World War II economic expansion. In 1880, Marxian economist Sergei Podolinsky attempted to theorize a labor theory of value based on embodied energy; his work was read and critiqued by Marx and Engels.[11] Otto Neurath developed an ecological approach based on a natural economy whilst employed by the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919. He argued that a market system failed to take into account the needs of future generations, and that a socialist economy required calculation in kind, the tracking of all the different materials, rather than synthesising them into money as a general equivalent. In this he was criticised by neo-liberal economists such as Ludwig von Mises and Freidrich Hayek in what became known as the socialist calculation debate.[12]
The debate on energy in economic systems can also be traced back to Nobel prize-winning radiochemist Frederick Soddy (1877–1956). In his book Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt (1926), Soddy criticized the prevailing belief of the economy as a perpetual motion machine, capable of generating infinite wealth—a criticism expanded upon by later ecological economists such as Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and Herman Daly.[13]
European predecessors of ecological economics include K. William Kapp (1950)[14] Karl Polanyi (1944),[15] and Romanian economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1971). Georgescu-Roegen, who would later mentor Herman Daly at Vanderbilt University, provided ecological economics with a modern conceptual framework based on the material and energy flows of economic production and consumption. His magnum opus, The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (1971), is credited by Daly as a fundamental text of the field, alongside Soddy's Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt.[16] Some key concepts of what is now ecological economics are evident in the writings of Kenneth Boulding and E.F. Schumacher, whose book Small Is Beautiful – A Study of Economics as if People Mattered (1973) was published just a few years before the first edition of Herman Daly's comprehensive and persuasive Steady-State Economics (1977).[17][18]
The first organized meetings of ecological economists occurred in the 1980s. These began in 1982, at the instigation of Lois Banner,[19] with a meeting held in Sweden (including Robert Costanza, Herman Daly, Charles Hall, Bruce Hannon, H.T. Odum, and David Pimentel).[20] Most were ecosystem ecologists or mainstream environmental economists, with the exception of Daly. In 1987, Daly and Costanza edited an issue of Ecological Modeling to test the waters. A book entitled Ecological Economics, by Joan Martinez Alier, was published later that year.[20] He renewed interest in the approach developed by Otto Neurath during the interwar period.[21] 1989 saw the foundation of the International Society for Ecological Economics and publication of its journal, Ecological Economics, by Elsevier. Robert Costanza was the first president of the society and first editor of the journal, which is currently edited by Richard Howarth. Other figures include ecologists C.S. Holling and H.T. Odum, biologist Gretchen Daily, and physicist Robert Ayres. In the Marxian tradition, sociologist John Bellamy Foster and CUNY geography professor David Harvey explicitly center ecological concerns in political economy.
Articles by Inge Ropke (2004, 2005)[22] and Clive Spash (1999)[23] cover the development and modern history of ecological economics and explain its differentiation from resource and environmental economics, as well as some of the controversy between American and European schools of thought. An article by Robert Costanza, David Stern, Lining He, and Chunbo Ma[24] responded to a call by Mick Common to determine the foundational literature of ecological economics by using citation analysis to examine which books and articles have had the most influence on the development of the field. However, citations analysis has itself proven controversial and similar work has been criticized by Clive Spash for attempting to pre-determine what is regarded as influential in ecological economics through study design and data manipulation.[25] In addition, the journal Ecological Economics has itself been criticized for swamping the field with mainstream economics.[26][27]
Schools of thought[edit]
Various competing schools of thought exist in the field. Some are close to resource and environmental economics while others are far more heterodox in outlook. An example of the latter is the European Society for Ecological Economics. An example of the former is the Swedish Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics. Clive Spash has argued for the classification of the ecological economics movement, and more generally work by different economic schools on the environment, into three main categories. These are the mainstream new resource economists, the new environmental pragmatists,[28] and the more radical social ecological economists.[29] International survey work comparing the relevance of the categories for mainstream and heterodox economists shows some clear divisions between environmental and ecological economists.[30] A growing field of radical social-ecological theory is degrowth economics. Degrowth addresses both biophysical limits and global inequality while rejecting neoliberal economics. Degrowth prioritizes grassroots initiatives in progressive socio-ecological goals, adhering to ecological limits by shrinking the human ecological footprint (See Differences from Mainstream Economics Below). It involves an equitable downscale in both production and consumption of resources in order to adhere to biophysical limits. Degrowth draws from Marxian economics, citing the growth of efficient systems as the alienation of nature and man.[31] Economic movements like degrowth reject the idea of growth itself. Some degrowth theorists call for an “exit of the economy”.[32] Critics of the degrowth movement include new resource economists, who point to the gaining momentum of sustainable development. These economists highlight the positive aspects of a green economy, which include equitable access to renewable energy and a commitment to eradicate global inequality through sustainable development (See Green Economics).[32] Examples of heterodox ecological economic experiments include the Catalan Integral Cooperative and the Solidarity Economy Networks in Italy. Both of these grassroots movements use communitarian based economies and consciously reduce their ecological footprint by limiting material growth and adapting to regenerative agriculture.[33]
Non-Traditional Approaches to Ecological Economics[edit]
Cultural and heterodox applications of economic interaction around the world have begun to be included as ecological economic practices. E.F. Schumacher introduced examples of non-western economic ideas to mainstream thought in his book, Small is Beautiful, where he addresses neoliberal economics through the lens of natural harmony in Buddhist economics.[17] This emphasis on natural harmony is witnessed in diverse cultures across the globe. Buen Vivir is a traditional socio-economic movement in South America that rejects the western development model of economics. Meaning Good Life, Buen Vivir emphasizes harmony with nature, diverse pluralculturism, coexistence, and inseparability of nature and material. Value is not attributed to material accumulation, and it instead takes a more spiritual and communitarian approach to economic activity. Ecological Swaraj originated out of India, and is an evolving world view of human interactions within the ecosystem. This train of thought respects physical bio-limits and non-human species, pursuing equity and social justice through direct democracy and grassroots leadership. Social well-being is paired with spiritual, physical, and material well-being. These movements are unique to their region, but the values can be seen across the globe in indigenous traditions, such as the Ubuntu Philosophy in South Africa.[34]
Differences from mainstream economics[edit]
Ecological economics differs from mainstream economics, in that it heavily reflects on the ecological footprint of human interactions in the economy. This footprint is measured by the impact of human activities on natural resources and the wastes generated in the process. Ecological economists aim to minimize the ecological footprint, taking into account the scarcity of global and regional resources and their accessibility to an economy.[35] Some ecological economists prioritise adding natural capital to the typical capital asset analysis of land, labor, and financial capital. These ecological economists then use tools from mathematical economics as in mainstream economics, but may apply them more closely to the natural world. Whereas mainstream economists tend to be technological optimists, ecological economists are inclined to be technological sceptics. They reason that the natural world has a limited carrying capacity and that its resources may run out. Since destruction of important environmental resources could be practically irreversible and catastrophic, ecological economists are inclined to justify cautionary measures based on the precautionary principle.[36] As ecological economists try to minimize these disasters, calculating the fallout of environmental destruction becomes a humanitarian issue as well. Already, the Global South has seen trends of mass emigration due to environmental changes. Climate refugees from the Global South are adversely affected by changes in the environment, and some scholars point to global wealth inequality within the current neoliberal economic system as a source for this issue.[37]
The most cogent example of how the different theories treat similar assets is tropical rainforest ecosystems, most obviously the Yasuni region of Ecuador. While this area has substantial deposits of bitumen it is also one of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth and some estimates establish it has over 200 undiscovered medical substances in its genomes - most of which would be destroyed by logging the forest or mining the bitumen. Effectively, the instructional capital of the genomes is undervalued by analyses that view the rainforest primarily as a source of wood, oil/tar and perhaps food. Increasingly the carbon credit for leaving the extremely carbon-intensive ("dirty") bitumen in the ground is also valued - the government of Ecuador set a price of US$350M for an oil lease with the intent of selling it to someone committed to never exercising it at all and instead preserving the rainforest.
While this natural capital and ecosystems services approach has proven popular amongst many it has also been contested as failing to address the underlying problems with mainstream economics, growth, market capitalism and monetary valuation of the environment.[38][39][40] Critiques concern the need to create a more meaningful relationship with Nature and the non-human world than evident in the instrumentalism of shallow ecology and the environmental economists commodification of everything external to the market system.[41][42][43]
Nature and ecology[edit]
Main articles: Nature, Ecology, and Planetary boundaries
Natural resources flow through the economy and end up as waste and pollution
A simple circular flow of income diagram is replaced in ecological economics by a more complex flow diagram reflecting the input of solar energy, which sustains natural inputs and environmental services which are then used as units of production. Once consumed, natural inputs pass out of the economy as pollution and waste. The potential of an environment to provide services and materials is referred to as an "environment's source function", and this function is depleted as resources are consumed or pollution contaminates the resources. The "sink function" describes an environment's ability to absorb and render harmless waste and pollution: when waste output exceeds the limit of the sink function, long-term damage occurs.[44]:8 Some persistent pollutants, such as some organic pollutants and nuclear waste are absorbed very slowly or not at all; ecological economists emphasize minimizing "cumulative pollutants".[44]:28 Pollutants affect human health and the health of the ecosystem.
The economic value of natural capital and ecosystem services is accepted by mainstream environmental economics, but is emphasized as especially important in ecological economics. Ecological economists may begin by estimating how to maintain a stable environment before assessing the cost in dollar terms.[44]:9 Ecological economist Robert Costanza led an attempted valuation of the global ecosystem in 1997. Initially published in Nature, the article concluded on $33 trillion with a range from $16 trillion to $54 trillion (in 1997, total global GDP was $27 trillion).[45] Half of the value went to nutrient cycling. The open oceans, continental shelves, and estuaries had the highest total value, and the highest per-hectare values went to estuaries, swamps/floodplains, and seagrass/algae beds. The work was criticized by articles in Ecological Economics Volume 25, Issue 1, but the critics acknowledged the positive potential for economic valuation of the global ecosystem.[44]:129
The Earth's carrying capacity is a central issue in ecological economics. Early economists such as Thomas Malthus pointed out the finite carrying capacity of the earth, which was also central to the MIT study Limits to Growth. Diminishing returns suggest that productivity increases will slow if major technological progress is not made. Food production may become a problem, as erosion, an impending water crisis, and soil salinity (from irrigation) reduce the productivity of agriculture. Ecological economists argue that industrial agriculture, which exacerbates these problems, is not sustainable agriculture, and are generally inclined favorably to organic farming, which also reduces the output of carbon.[44]:26
Global wild fisheries are believed to have peaked and begun a decline, with valuable habitat such as estuaries in critical condition.[44]:28 The aquaculture or farming of piscivorous fish, like salmon, does not help solve the problem because they need to be fed products from other fish. Studies have shown that salmon farming has major negative impacts on wild salmon, as well as the forage fish that need to be caught to feed them.[46][47]
Since animals are higher on the trophic level, they are less efficient sources of food energy. Reduced consumption of meat would reduce the demand for food, but as nations develop, they tend to adopt high-meat diets similar to that of the United States. Genetically modified food (GMF) a conventional solution to the problem, presents numerous problems – Bt corn produces its own Bacillus thuringiensis toxin/protein, but the pest resistance is believed to be only a matter of time.[44]:31
Global warming is now widely acknowledged as a major issue, with all national scientific academies expressing agreement on the importance of the issue. As the population growth intensifies and energy demand increases, the world faces an energy crisis. Some economists and scientists forecast a global ecological crisis if energy use is not contained – the Stern report is an example. The disagreement has sparked a vigorous debate on issue of discounting and intergenerational equity.
GLOBAL GEOCHEMICAL CYCLES CRITICAL FOR LIFE
Oxygen cycle
Ethics[edit]
See also: Environmental ethics
Topics by country
Marketing and policy trends
Mainstream economics has attempted to become a value-free 'hard science', but ecological economists argue that value-free economics is generally not realistic. Ecological economics is more willing to entertain alternative conceptions of utility, efficiency, and cost-benefits such as positional analysis or multi-criteria analysis. Ecological economics is typically viewed as economics for sustainable development,[48] and may have goals similar to green politics.
Green economics[edit]
In international, regional, and national policy circles, the concept of the green economy grew in popularity as a response to the financial predicament at first then became a vehicle for growth and development.[49]
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) defines a ‘green economy’ as one that focuses on the human aspects and natural influences and an economic order that can generate high-salary jobs. In 2011, its definition was further developed as the word ‘green’ is made to refer to an economy that is not only resourceful and well-organized but also impartial, guaranteeing an objective shift to an economy that is low-carbon, resource-efficient, and socially-inclusive.
The ideas and studies regarding the green economy denote a fundamental shift for more effective, resourceful, environment-friendly and resource‐saving technologies that could lessen emissions and alleviate the adverse consequences of climate change, at the same time confront issues about resource exhaustion and grave environmental dilapidation.[50]
As an indispensable requirement and vital precondition to realizing sustainable development, the Green Economy adherents robustly promote good governance. To boost local investments and foreign ventures, it is crucial to have a constant and foreseeable macroeconomic atmosphere. Likewise, such an environment will also need to be transparent and accountable. In the absence of a substantial and solid governance structure, the prospect of shifting towards a sustainable development route would be insignificant. In achieving a green economy, competent institutions and governance systems are vital in guaranteeing the efficient execution of strategies, guidelines, campaigns, and programmes.
Shifting to a Green Economy demands a fresh mindset and an innovative outlook of doing business. It likewise necessitates new capacities, skills set from labor and professionals who can competently function across sectors, and able to work as effective components within multi-disciplinary teams. To achieve this goal, vocational training packages must be developed with focus on greening the sectors. Simultaneously, the educational system needs to be assessed as well in order to fit in the environmental and social considerations of various disciplines.[51]
Topics[edit]
Among the topics addressed by ecological economics are methodology, allocation of resources, weak versus strong sustainability, energy economics, energy accounting and balance, environmental services, cost shifting, modeling, and monetary policy.
Methodology[edit]
The classical Carnot heat engine
Quantum thermodynamics
Equilibrium / Non-equilibrium
Zeroth
Equation of state
Ideal gas
Real gas
State of matter
Control volume
Isobaric
Isochoric
Isothermal
Adiabatic
Isentropic
Isenthalpic
Quasistatic
Polytropic
Endoreversibility
Heat engines
Thermal efficiency
Note: Conjugate variables in italics
Property diagrams
Intensive and extensive properties
Process functions
Functions of state
Temperature / Entropy (introduction)
Pressure / Volume
Chemical potential / Particle number
Vapor quality
Reduced properties
Property databases
Specific heat capacity c = {\displaystyle c=}
T {\displaystyle T} ∂ S {\displaystyle \partial S}
N {\displaystyle N} ∂ T {\displaystyle \partial T}
Compressibility β = − {\displaystyle \beta =-}
1 {\displaystyle 1} ∂ V {\displaystyle \partial V}
V {\displaystyle V} ∂ p {\displaystyle \partial p}
Thermal expansion α = {\displaystyle \alpha =}
V {\displaystyle V} ∂ T {\displaystyle \partial T}
Carnot's theorem
Clausius theorem
Fundamental relation
Ideal gas law
Maxwell relations
Onsager reciprocal relations
Bridgman's equations
Table of thermodynamic equations
Potentials
Free entropy
U ( S , V ) {\displaystyle U(S,V)}
H ( S , p ) = U + p V {\displaystyle H(S,p)=U+pV}
Helmholtz free energy
A ( T , V ) = U − T S {\displaystyle A(T,V)=U-TS}
Gibbs free energy
G ( T , p ) = H − T S {\displaystyle G(T,p)=H-TS}
Gas laws
"Perpetual motion" machines
Entropy and time
Entropy and life
Brownian ratchet
Maxwell's demon
Heat death paradox
Loschmidt's paradox
Synergetics
Caloric theory
Theory of heat
Vis viva ("living force")
Mechanical equivalent of heat
"An Experimental Enquiry
Concerning ... Heat"
"On the Equilibrium of
Heterogeneous Substances"
"Reflections on the
Motive Power of Fire"
Maxwell's thermodynamic surface
Entropy as energy dispersal
Boltzmann
Clapeyron
Clausius
Carathéodory
Duhem
von Helmholtz
von Mayer
Onsager
van der Waals
Waterston
A primary objective of ecological economics (EE) is to ground economic thinking and practice in physical reality, especially in the laws of physics (particularly the laws of thermodynamics) and in knowledge of biological systems. It accepts as a goal the improvement of human well-being through development, and seeks to ensure achievement of this through planning for the sustainable development of ecosystems and societies. Of course the terms development and sustainable development are far from lacking controversy. Richard B. Norgaard argues traditional economics has hi-jacked the development terminology in his book Development Betrayed.[52]
Well-being in ecological economics is also differentiated from welfare as found in mainstream economics and the 'new welfare economics' from the 1930s which informs resource and environmental economics. This entails a limited preference utilitarian conception of value i.e., Nature is valuable to our economies, that is because people will pay for its services such as clean air, clean water, encounters with wilderness, etc.
Ecological economics is distinguishable from neoclassical economics primarily by its assertion that the economy is embedded within an environmental system. Ecology deals with the energy and matter transactions of life and the Earth, and the human economy is by definition contained within this system. Ecological economists argue that neoclassical economics has ignored the environment, at best considering it to be a subset of the human economy.
The neoclassical view ignores much of what the natural sciences have taught us about the contributions of nature to the creation of wealth e.g., the planetary endowment of scarce matter and energy, along with the complex and biologically diverse ecosystems that provide goods and ecosystem services directly to human communities: micro- and macro-climate regulation, water recycling, water purification, storm water regulation, waste absorption, food and medicine production, pollination, protection from solar and cosmic radiation, the view of a starry night sky, etc.
There has then been a move to regard such things as natural capital and ecosystems functions as goods and services.[53][54] However, this is far from uncontroversial within ecology or ecological economics due to the potential for narrowing down values to those found in mainstream economics and the danger of merely regarding Nature as a commodity. This has been referred to as ecologists 'selling out on Nature'.[55] There is then a concern that ecological economics has failed to learn from the extensive literature in environmental ethics about how to structure a plural value system.
Allocation of resources[edit]
The marginal costs of a growing economy may gradually exceed the marginal benefits, however measured.
Resource and neoclassical economics focus primarily on the efficient allocation of resources and less on the two other problems of importance to ecological economics: distribution (equity), and the scale of the economy relative to the ecosystems upon which it relies.[56] Ecological economics makes a clear distinction between growth (quantitative increase in economic output) and development (qualitative improvement of the quality of life), while arguing that neoclassical economics confuses the two. Ecological economists point out that beyond modest levels, increased per-capita consumption (the typical economic measure of "standard of living") may not always lead to improvement in human well-being, but may have harmful effects on the environment and broader societal well-being. This situation is sometimes referred to as uneconomic growth (see diagram above).
Weak versus strong sustainability[edit]
Main article: Weak and strong sustainability
See also: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen § Criticising neoclassical economics (weak versus strong sustainability)
The three nested systems of sustainability - the economy wholly contained by society, wholly contained by the biophysical environment. Clickable.
Ecological economics challenges the conventional approach towards natural resources, claiming that it undervalues natural capital by considering it as interchangeable with human-made capital—labor and technology.
The impending depletion of natural resources and increase of climate-changing greenhouse gasses should motivate us to examine how political, economic and social policies can benefit from alternative energy. Shifting dependence on fossil fuels with specific interest within just one of the above-mentioned factors easily benefits at least one other. For instance, photo voltaic (or solar) panels have a 15% efficiency when absorbing the sun's energy, but its construction demand has increased 120% within both commercial and residential properties. Additionally, this construction has led to a roughly 30% increase in work demands (Chen).
The potential for the substitution of man-made capital for natural capital is an important debate in ecological economics and the economics of sustainability. There is a continuum of views among economists between the strongly neoclassical positions of Robert Solow and Martin Weitzman, at one extreme and the 'entropy pessimists', notably Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and Herman Daly, at the other.[57]
Neoclassical economists tend to maintain that man-made capital can, in principle, replace all types of natural capital. This is known as the weak sustainability view, essentially that every technology can be improved upon or replaced by innovation, and that there is a substitute for any and all scarce materials.
At the other extreme, the strong sustainability view argues that the stock of natural resources and ecological functions are irreplaceable. From the premises of strong sustainability, it follows that economic policy has a fiduciary responsibility to the greater ecological world, and that sustainable development must therefore take a different approach to valuing natural resources and ecological functions.
Recently, Stanislav Shmelev developed a new methodology for the assessment of progress at the macro scale based on multi-criteria methods, which allows consideration of different perspectives, including strong and weak sustainability or conservationists vs industrialists and aims to search for a 'middle way' by providing a strong neo-Keynesian economic push without putting excessive pressure on the natural resources, including water or producing emissions, both directly and indirectly.[58]
Energy economics[edit]
Exergy analysis can be performed to find connections between economic value and the physical world. Here the costs of heating (vertical axis) are compared with the exergy content of different energy carriers (horizontal axis). Red dots and trend line indicate energy prices for consumers, blue dots and trend line indicate total price for consumers including capital expenditure for the heating system. Energy carriers included are district heating (D), ground-source heat pump (G), exhaust air heat pump (A), bioenergy meaning firewood (B), heating oil (O) and direct electric heating (E).[59]
Main article: Energy economics
A key concept of energy economics is net energy gain, which recognizes that all energy sources require an initial energy investment in order to produce energy. To be useful the energy return on energy invested (EROEI) has to be greater than one. The net energy gain from the production of coal, oil and gas has declined over time as the easiest to produce sources have been most heavily depleted.[60]
Ecological economics generally rejects the view of energy economics that growth in the energy supply is related directly to well being, focusing instead on biodiversity and creativity - or natural capital and individual capital, in the terminology sometimes adopted to describe these economically. In practice, ecological economics focuses primarily on the key issues of uneconomic growth and quality of life. Ecological economists are inclined to acknowledge that much of what is important in human well-being is not analyzable from a strictly economic standpoint and suggests an interdisciplinary approach combining social and natural sciences as a means to address this.
Thermoeconomics is based on the proposition that the role of energy in biological evolution should be defined and understood through the second law of thermodynamics, but also in terms of such economic criteria as productivity, efficiency, and especially the costs and benefits (or profitability) of the various mechanisms for capturing and utilizing available energy to build biomass and do work.[61][62] As a result, thermoeconomics is often discussed in the field of ecological economics, which itself is related to the fields of sustainability and sustainable development.
Exergy analysis is performed in the field of industrial ecology to use energy more efficiently.[63] The term exergy, was coined by Zoran Rant in 1956, but the concept was developed by J. Willard Gibbs. In recent decades, utilization of exergy has spread outside of physics and engineering to the fields of industrial ecology, ecological economics, systems ecology, and energetics.
Energy accounting and balance[edit]
See also: Net energy gain
An energy balance can be used to track energy through a system, and is a very useful tool for determining resource use and environmental impacts, using the First and Second laws of thermodynamics, to determine how much energy is needed at each point in a system, and in what form that energy is a cost in various environmental issues.[citation needed] The energy accounting system keeps track of energy in, energy out, and non-useful energy versus work done, and transformations within the system.[64]
Scientists have written and speculated on different aspects of energy accounting.[65]
Ecosystem services and their valuation[edit]
See also: Ecosystem valuation and Price of life
Ecological economists agree that ecosystems produce enormous flows of goods and services to human beings, playing a key role in producing well-being. At the same time, there is intense debate about how and when to place values on these benefits.[66][67]
A study was carried out by Costanza and colleagues[68] to determine the 'value' of the services provided by the environment. This was determined by averaging values obtained from a range of studies conducted in very specific context and then transferring these without regard to that context. Dollar figures were averaged to a per hectare number for different types of ecosystem e.g. wetlands, oceans. A total was then produced which came out at 33 trillion US dollars (1997 values), more than twice the total GDP of the world at the time of the study. This study was criticized by pre-ecological and even some environmental economists - for being inconsistent with assumptions of financial capital valuation - and ecological economists - for being inconsistent with an ecological economics focus on biological and physical indicators.[69]
The whole idea of treating ecosystems as goods and services to be valued in monetary terms remains controversial. A common objection[70][71][72] is that life is precious or priceless, but this demonstrably degrades to it being worthless within cost-benefit analysis and other standard economic methods. Reducing human bodies to financial values is a necessary part of mainstream economics and not always in the direct terms of insurance or wages. Economics, in principle, assumes that conflict is reduced by agreeing on voluntary contractual relations and prices instead of simply fighting or coercing or tricking others into providing goods or services. In doing so, a provider agrees to surrender time and take bodily risks and other (reputation, financial) risks. Ecosystems are no different from other bodies economically except insofar as they are far less replaceable than typical labour or commodities.
Despite these issues, many ecologists and conservation biologists are pursuing ecosystem valuation. Biodiversity measures in particular appear to be the most promising way to reconcile financial and ecological values, and there are many active efforts in this regard. The growing field of biodiversity finance[73] began to emerge in 2008 in response to many specific proposals such as the Ecuadoran Yasuni proposal[74][75] or similar ones in the Congo. US news outlets treated the stories as a "threat"[76] to "drill a park"[77] reflecting a previously dominant view that NGOs and governments had the primary responsibility to protect ecosystems. However Peter Barnes and other commentators have recently argued that a guardianship/trustee/commons model is far more effective and takes the decisions out of the political realm.
Commodification of other ecological relations as in carbon credit and direct payments to farmers to preserve ecosystem services are likewise examples that enable private parties to play more direct roles protecting biodiversity, but is also controversial in ecological economics.[78] The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization achieved near-universal agreement in 2008[79] that such payments directly valuing ecosystem preservation and encouraging permaculture were the only practical way out of a food crisis. The holdouts were all English-speaking countries that export GMOs and promote "free trade" agreements that facilitate their own control of the world transport network: The US, UK, Canada and Australia.[80]
Not 'externalities', but cost shifting[edit]
Ecological economics is founded upon the view that the neoclassical economics (NCE) assumption that environmental and community costs and benefits are mutually canceling "externalities" is not warranted. Joan Martinez Alier,[81] for instance shows that the bulk of consumers are automatically excluded from having an impact upon the prices of commodities, as these consumers are future generations who have not been born yet. The assumptions behind future discounting, which assume that future goods will be cheaper than present goods, has been criticized by David Pearce[82] and by the recent Stern Report (although the Stern report itself does employ discounting and has been criticized for this and other reasons by ecological economists such as Clive Spash).[83]
Concerning these externalities, some like the eco-businessman Paul Hawken argue an orthodox economic line that the only reason why goods produced unsustainably are usually cheaper than goods produced sustainably is due to a hidden subsidy, paid by the non-monetized human environment, community or future generations.[84] These arguments are developed further by Hawken, Amory and Hunter Lovins to promote their vision of an environmental capitalist utopia in Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution.[85]
In contrast, ecological economists, like Joan Martinez-Alier, appeal to a different line of reasoning.[86] Rather than assuming some (new) form of capitalism is the best way forward, an older ecological economic critique questions the very idea of internalizing externalities as providing some corrective to the current system. The work by Karl William Kapp explains why the concept of "externality" is a misnomer.[87] In fact the modern business enterprise operates on the basis of shifting costs onto others as normal practice to make profits.[88] Charles Eisenstein has argued that this method of privatising profits while socialising the costs through externalities, passing the costs to the community, to the natural environment or to future generations is inherently destructive.[89] As social ecological economist Clive Spash has noted, externality theory fallaciously assumes environmental and social problems are minor aberrations in an otherwise perfectly functioning efficient economic system.[90] Internalizing the odd externality does nothing to address the structural systemic problem and fails to recognize the all pervasive nature of these supposed 'externalities'.
Ecological-economic modeling[edit]
Mathematical modeling is a powerful tool that is used in ecological economic analysis. Various approaches and techniques include:[91][92] evolutionary, input-output, neo-Austrian modeling, entropy and thermodynamic models,[93] multi-criteria, and agent-based modeling, the environmental Kuznets curve, and Stock-Flow consistent model frameworks. System dynamics and GIS are techniques applied, among other, to spatial dynamic landscape simulation modeling.[94][95] The Matrix accounting methods of Christian Felber provide a more sophisticated method for identifying "the common good"[96]
Monetary theory and policy[edit]
Ecological economics draws upon its work on resource allocation and strong sustainability to address monetary policy. Drawing upon a transdisciplinary literature, ecological economics roots its policy work in monetary theory and its goals of sustainable scale, just distribution, and efficient allocation.[97] Ecological economics' work on monetary theory and policy can be traced to Frederick Soddy's work on money. The field considers questions such as the growth imperative of interest-bearing debt, the nature of money, and alternative policy proposals such as alternative currencies and public banking.
Criticism[edit]
Assigning monetary value to natural resources such as biodiversity, and the emergent ecosystem services is often viewed as a key process in influencing economic practices, policy, and decision-making.[98][99] While this idea is becoming more and more accepted among ecologists and conservationist, some argue that it is inherently false.
McCauley argues that ecological economics and the resulting ecosystem service based conservation can be harmful.[100] He describes four main problems with this approach:
Firstly, it seems to be assumed that all ecosystem services are financially beneficial. This is undermined by a basic characteristic of ecosystems: they do not act specifically in favour of any single species. While certain services might be very useful to us, such as coastal protection from hurricanes by mangroves for example, others might cause financial or personal harm, such as wolves hunting cattle.[101] The complexity of Eco-systems makes it challenging to weigh up the value of a given species. Wolves play a critical role in regulating prey populations; the absence of such an apex predator in the Scottish Highlands has caused the over population of deer, preventing afforestation, which increases the risk of flooding and damage to property.
Secondly, allocating monetary value to nature would make its conservation reliant on markets that fluctuate. This can lead to devaluation of services that were previously considered financially beneficial. Such is the case of the bees in a forest near former coffee plantations in Finca Santa Fe, Costa Rica. The pollination services were valued to over US$60,000 a year, but soon after the study, coffee prices dropped and the fields were replanted with pineapple.[102] Pineapple does not require bees to be pollinated, so the value of their service dropped to zero.
Thirdly, conservation programmes for the sake of financial benefit underestimate human ingenuity to invent and replace ecosystem services by artificial means. McCauley argues that such proposals are deemed to have a short lifespan as the history of technology is about how Humanity developed artificial alternatives to nature's services and with time passing the cost of such services tend to decrease. This would also lead to the devaluation of ecosystem services.
Lastly, it should not be assumed that conserving ecosystems is always financially beneficial as opposed to alteration. In the case of the introduction of the Nile perch to Lake Victoria, the ecological consequence was decimation of native fauna. However, this same event is praised by the local communities as they gain significant financial benefits from trading the fish.
McCauley argues that, for these reasons, trying to convince decision-makers to conserve nature for monetary reasons is not the path to be followed, and instead appealing to morality is the ultimate way to campaign for the protection of nature.
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10 Powerful Songs About Depression That Get It Right
"Wonderful" by Everclear via Capitol Records
Remember, you're not alone. Use these songs as a source of support.
Sophie Matthews
10 Important Songs About Depression
Depression is a serious disease that is often overlooked, misunderstood, and stigmatized. But you know what we say? F*&K THAT!
Whether you have depression or know someone who does, there are many resources such as podcasts, documentaries, and music to help support or understand the common disease.
What's important to remember when battling depression is that you're not alone. Just look at the 10 most important songs about depression that we put together. Many mainstream singers, rockstars, and bands have battled the disease and put their pain and struggles into their work.
For fans and listeners it shines a light on something extremely important: musicians have turned depression into artistic expression in the hopes that it can do some good. So if you're depressed or having a bad day, these songs accurately represent depression and what it feels like. You can cry through them, scream at the top of your lungs, or blast the music in your car, but either way, use them anyway you want and they will be extremely cathartic.
1. "Wonderful" by Everclear
Everclear might've only had a few hits, but they helped mental illness enter a mainstream musical presence. With other emotional songs like "Father of Mine" and "Santa Monica," their music might help those battling with personal problems find an outlet or support through their music.
Important lyrics: "I close my eyes when I get too sad I think thoughts that I know are bad, close my eyes and I count to ten, hope it's over when I open them."
2. "Breaking Down" by Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine depicts what the actual physical feeling of a breakdown, emotional or not. This song resonates with many people because depression can be hard to describe and Florence seems to do it on a grand scale.
Important lyrics: "Creeping in the streetlight holding my hand in the pale gloom, can you see it coming now? Ah-ah, ah-ah I think I'm breaking down again."
3. "Paint It Black" by the Rolling Stones
Relatively upbeat, The Rolling Stones turned to a darker feel with "Paint it Black." If you're feeling bad about being depressed just remember this song and that sometimes it's okay to feel blue, or rather, black as it's a part of feeling sad. Just make sure to play "Start Me Up" to help get you out of the dark place.
Important lyrics: "Look inside myself and see my heart is black, I see my red door I must have it painted black maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts, it's not easy facin' up, when your whole world is black."
4. "Unwell" by Matchbox Twenty
You might've been an angsty teen when you heard this one but it's still a great song about feeling different. It proves that you can experience anxiety or depression but that doesn't mean you're crazy, a term with a sticky connotation.
Important lyrics: "But I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell I know right now you can't tell but stay awhile and maybe then you'll see a different side of me."
5. "Save Myself" by Ed Sheeran
This song might make you feel sad if you weren't before but the message is clear: Life can get you down, but you have to save yourself over anything. Ed Sheeran reminds his listeners that your mental health should be your number one priority. And if you're in a relationship or environment that doesn't let that happen, time for a change.
Important lyrics: "So before I save someone else, I've got to save myself, and before I blame someone else, I've got to save myself and before I love someone else, I've got to love myself."
6. "Move Along" by The All-American Rejects
Another angsty band from the 2000s! But this time they are addressing depression head on. The All-American Rejects want you to move along if you're feeling low. If you're feeling depressed, turn this on to be reminded that you can get through depression, and you don't have to do it alone.
Important lyrics: "And even when your hope is gone, move along, move along just to make it through, when everything is wrong, we move along."
7. "24 Floors" by The Maine
The Maine uses their musical talents to depict what might go through someone's head when they are at their lowest point. Luckily, the protagonist is reminded by a support system, that there's a better day tomorrow.
Important lyrics: "Eyes closed, I see your face, breathe deep and hesitate, I hear the words you'd say if you were here with me you'd say, 'you don't wanna die tonight.'"
8. "What's Wrong" by PVRIS
When we're depressed, the people around us can help or harm us even more. PVRIS proves that those around us can further our recovery, or hinder it greatly.
Important lyrics: "I know it's so wrong but I'm so far gone, don't need you to tell me I'm so cynical quit being so over-skeptical don't need a metaphor for you to know I'm miserable."
9. "Adam's Song" by Blink 182
This is quite possibly one of the saddest songs ever written and for good reason. Blink 182 paints a very blunt depiction of suicide and how it inflicts pain to everyone involved.
Important lyrics: "Days when I still felt alive, we couldn't wait to get outside." (editor's note: the entire song depicts suicide and none of the lyrics are especially positive)
10. "Therapy" by All Time Low
All Time Low sings about therapy and the pain that can come with discussing your problems. Therapy has been stigmatized but unnecessarily so, as it does wonders for many people.
Important lyrics: "Therapy, you were never a friend to me you can take back your misery."
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Published 11:59 am Thursday, April 9, 2020
Additional York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office deputies have tested positive for COVID-19, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office.
There are now a total of four deputies and one civilian employee, who all work at the courthouse, who have tested positive, the press release stated.
The first positive test of a deputy was reported April 5. That deputy left work on March 25 and has not returned since that date.
The newest deputy to test positive has been quarantined at home since April 3. The other deputies were also quarantined at home since becoming ill.
The courthouse was thoroughly cleaned on April 5 in accordance with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control, the press release stated. The sick employees will not return to work without clearance from a medical professional, the release stated.
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the deputies and their families and to all of those who have been impacted by this virus,” the release stated.
227 cases reported in Peninsula Health District
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Mesophase
In chemistry and chemical physics, a mesophase is a state of matter intermediate between liquid and solid. Gelatin is a common example of a partially ordered structure in a mesophase. Further, biological structures such as the lipid bilayers of cell membranes are examples of mesophases.
Georges Friedel (1922) called attention to the "mesomorphic states of matter"[1] in his scientific assessment of observations of the so-called liquid crystals. Conventionally a crystal is solid, and crystallization converts liquid to solid. The oxymoron of the liquid crystal is resolved through the notion of mesophases. The observations noted an optic axis persisting in materials that had been melted and had begun to flow. The term liquid crystal persists as a colloquialism, but use of the term was criticized in 1993: In The Physics of Liquid Crystals[2] the mesophases are introduced from the beginning:
...certain organic materials do not show a single transition from solid to liquid, but rather a cascade of transitions involving new phases. The mechanical properties and the symmetry properties of these phases are intermediate between those of a liquid and those of a crystal. For this reason they have often been called liquid crystals. A more proper name is ‘mesomorphic phases’ (mesomorphic: intermediate form)[2]:page one
Further, "The classification of mesophases (first clearly set out by G. Friedel in 1922) is essentially based on symmetry."[2]:10
Molecules that demonstrate mesophases are called mesogens.
In technology, molecules in which the optic axis is subject to manipulation during a mesophase have become commercial products as they can be used to manufacture display devices, known as liquid-crystal displays (LCDs). The susceptibility of the optical axis, called a director, to an electric or magnetic field produces the potential for an optical switch that obscures light or lets it pass. Methods used include the Freedericksz transition and the twisted nematic field effect. From early liquid crystal displays the buying public has embraced the low-power optical switch facility of mesophases with director.
Consider a solid consisting of a single molecular species and subjected to melting. Ultimately it is rendered to an isotropic state classically referred to as liquid. Mesophases occur before then when an intermediate state of order is still maintained as in the nematic, smectic, and columnar phases of liquid crystals. Mesophases thus exhibit anisotropy. LCD devices work as an optical switch which is turned off and on by an electric field applied to the mesogen with director. The response of the director to the field is expressed with viscosity parameters, as in the Ericksen-Leslie theory in continuum mechanics developed by Jerald Ericksen and Frank Matthews Leslie.
Mesophase phenomena are important in many scientific fields. The publishing arms of professional societies have academic journals as needed. For instance, the American Chemical Society has both Macromolecules and Langmuir, while Royal Society of Chemistry has Soft Matter, and American Physical Society has Physical Review E, and Elsevier has Advances in Colloid and Interface Science.
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Georges Friedel (1922) "Les Étates Mésomorphes de la Matière", Annales de Physique (Paris) 18: 273–474
P.G. de Gennes & J. Prost (1993) The Physics of Liquid Crystals, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-852024-7
Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (1992) Liquid Crystals, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-41747-3 .
David Dunmur & Tim Sluckin (2011) Soap, Science, and Flat-screen TVs: a history of liquid crystals, Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-954940-5 .
J. Prost & C.E. Williams (1999) "Liquid Crystals: Between Order and Disorder", pp 289–315 in Soft Matter Physics, Mohamed Daoud & Claudine E. Williams, editors, translated by Stephen N. Lyle from La Just Argile (1995), Springer Verlag ISBN 3-540-64852-6 .
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to 10 years in prison as well as fined $4.2 million for unspecified espionage charges. An Appeals Court upheld the sentence in August 2017.
“This injustice has caused tremendous and unspeakable stress and suffering on Nizar and his family,” Poblete told CHRI. “There are humanitarian and other grounds for Nizar’s release and all the parties in interest — in the U.S. and the Middle East — need to work expeditiously once and for all to right this injustice.”
Zakka previously went on a 33-day hunger strike that ended on July 28, 2017, to protest his sentence and mistreatment by Iran’s judicial authorities, according to Pobelete.
Tehran’s hospitality does not encourage the Lebanese people to accept invitations by the Iranian government . Who wants to land in jail after being invited by the Iranian authorities?
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GENERAL ASSURES COCHRAN OF AIR FORCE COMMITMENT TO “FLYING JENNIES”
Cochran Asks Whether USAF Has Resources to Fully Man 815th Airlift Squadron
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) today received assurances from the Air Force that it is committed to getting the 815th Airlift Squadron–until recently slated for deactivation–back to fully manned status.
Cochran, chairman of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, sought information on the Keesler Air Force Base unit during a hearing Wednesday to review the budget requests for the Guard and Reserve components of the Department of Defense. Lt. Gen. James Jackson, Chief of the U.S. Air Force Reserve, was among the witnesses testifying before the subcommittee.
“We were very pleased with the decision to bring the 815th Airlift Squadron back to mission-ready status in Mississippi. At the same time, I want to make sure that the Air Force and Air Force Reserve have the resources required to reinstate the manpower and support required to bring the squadron back to its full strength,” Cochran said. “I am pleased that the Air Force intends to make that happen as soon as possible.”
Cochran asked Jackson whether Air Force resources were sufficient to restore the 815th or whether Congress should act to provide additional funding or authorization. Jackson indicated that “the ability to restore parts of that organization will require some manpower that we have already put into the calculus for this PB 16 [President’s Budget] submission.” Jackson also said the proposed Air Force Reserve operations and maintenance budget includes the required flying hours needed to begin reinstating the 815th to full strength.
“We are very proud of the 403rd Wing down in Mississippi at Keesler and the 815th is part of that outstanding wing… . I will go back and make sure that math is correct and get you and answer, sir,” Jackson told Cochran.
After being informed on April 13 that the 815th Airlift Squadron would remain at Keesler, Cochran turned his attention to restoring the squadron’s manpower, which had been depleted over the past few years as the Air Force acted to deactivate it and reassign its 10 C-130J “Flying Jennies” aircraft to a different state (http://1.usa.gov/1H3m7eK).
The Defense Appropriation Subcommittee is considering a FY2016 funding requests for the National Guard and Reserve, which is contained within the budgets of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. The request totals more than $46.7 billion for FY2016, an increase of $1.7 billion over FY2015. This includes $5.1 billion for the Air Force Reserve, as well as $10.9 billion for the Air National Guard, a $600 million increase.
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Volume 10 (1) 2018 – Editorial (first published on 14 October 2018)
Giorgos Tsiris1,2 & Varvara Pasiali3
1Queen Margaret University, UK; 2St Columba’s Hospice, UK; 3Queens University of Charlotte, USA
gtsiris@qmu.ac.uk; pasialiv@queens.edu
Welcome to this new issue of Approaches. Although published with some delay, we hope that this issue will stimulate dialogue and offer new perspectives to practice, theory and research. Some articles were included in Approaches’ First View section one or two years ago but their content remains relevant to contemporary developments in the music therapy field.
In her article, Saville focuses on outcome measurement with specific reference to the ‘East Kent Outcomes System’ (EKOS). The application of EKOS, as a means of identifying and tracking outcomes of participation in music therapy, is illustrated through a case example with an adult with intellectual disability. Saville’s work adds to the expanding interest in outcome measurement in music therapy (Spiro, Tsiris & Cripps 2018a, 2018b). Similarly, Pasiali, Schoolmeesters and Engen present a detailed analysis of measures of resilience. They outline various ways music therapists may look into assessing resilience and use the results as a way to inform their clinical practice.
Silverman and Baker turn the spotlight on the notion of flow. They explore its meanings and its potential as a possible mechanism of change that can explain research outcomes in music therapy. On the other hand, Neudofer presents a metatheoretical perspective of music therapy through the lens of Baier’s anthropological theory of spirituality. Through patient narratives emerging from an action research study, she explores how patients with cancer identify their unique stories and find a sense of identity and meaning.
Based on an ethnographic study in two homes for the elderly, the final article offers an experiential description of tango during the interwar period in Greece. Koufou explores people’s experiences of tango from a socio-cultural point of view, weaves oral history snippets together, and presents the potential impact of tango on the current sense of identity and wellbeing of the participants.
In addition to these five articles, in this issue you will find an interview with Barbara Wheeler, a prominent figure and author of multiple music therapy textbooks. Interviewed by Daphne Rickson, Wheeler reflects on music therapy research, using the publication of the third edition of Music Therapy Research as a springboard. Some of the historical perspectives offered in Wheeler’s interview resonate with those in Suzanne Hanser’s report. Through the account of the establishment and development of music therapy at Berklee College of Music in the USA over the past 20 years, Hanser outlines some broader issues pertaining to the contemporary training of music therapists (see also: Coombes & Etmektsoglou 2017). This journal issue also includes seven book reviews, nine conference reports, as well as a tribute to Mary Priestley, who died on 11th June 2017.
Since the last journal issue in 2017, the team of Approaches has been busy improving the journal’s infrastructure and streamlining its reviewing and publication procedures. This work that happens behind the scenes is essential for the sustainability of the journal as we are gradually entering the second decade of its life. Among other developments, a five-year service period has been introduced for all Advisory Editorial Board members. As such, some longstanding members stepped down and some new members joined the team. With this opportunity we would like to warmly thank Catherine Carr, Theo Dimitriadis, Ioanna Etmektsoglou, Panagiotis Kabilis, Panagiotis Kanellopoulos and Evangelia Papanikolaou for their service over the past years. At the same time, we have welcomed Bolette Daniels Beck, Kjetil Hjørnevik and Mike Silverman. The voluntary work of all team members has played, and continues to play, a decisive role in ensuring the quality of the publications appearing in Approaches. With the ultimate goal of advancing music therapy knowledge and practice, our editorial team has collaborated with over 400 contributing authors and 100 reviewers to date. A full list of their names has been made available online: http://approaches.gr/editorial-board
In closing, we warmly thank the sponsors of Approaches and we are pleased to announce two new sponsors: ‘echo’ Music Psychotherapy Center, and Music Therapy New Zealand. The support of all sponsors provides the essential means to continue our work and maintain Approaches as an open-access journal.
Coombes, E., & Etmektsoglou, I. (2017). Glimpses into the challenges and opportunities of a new training programme: The MA Music Therapy programme at the University of South Wales. Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy, 9(1), 120-127.
Spiro, N., Tsiris, G., & Cripps, C. (2018a). A systematic review of outcome measures in music therapy. Music Therapy Perspectives, 36(1), 67-78.
Spiro, N., Tsiris, G., & Cripps, C. (2018b). “Sounds good, but… what is it?” An introduction to outcome measurement from a music therapy perspective. Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy, First View (Advance online publication), 1-19.
Tsiris, G., & Pasiali, V. (2018). Behind the scenes. Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy, 10(1), 5-6.
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Fifth Third Strengthens Payments and Commerce Solutions Team
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CINCINNATI, October 18, 2017 – Fifth Third Bancorp (Nasdaq: FITB) announced today it is strengthening its Payments and Commerce Solutions team with the hiring of Jed Scala and Siva Gowrishankar.
The Payments and Commerce Solutions division encompasses consumer cards, commercial cards, treasury management, emerging payments and commerce solutions.
“The Payments and Commerce Solutions division plays a critical role in helping Fifth Third address evolving needs of our customers and clients as they seek out innovative and valuable financial solutions,” said Tim Spence, executive vice president and chief strategy officer for Fifth Third. “We believe the addition of Jed and Siva will help us elevate our services, foster innovation and position us to be competitive in the payments industry.”
Jed Scala joins Fifth Third as executive vice president and head of Payments and Commerce Solutions, reporting to Tim Spence. He brings more than two decades of financial-services experience including leading and overseeing growth in payment, loyalty and lending businesses across consumer and small-business segments at American Express, serving most recently as senior vice president and general manager of US Consumer Lending. Scala received a bachelor’s degree from Williams College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Siva Gowrishankar will serve as senior vice president and head of credit strategy and optimization; He brings nearly 20 years of experience with financial services, most recently as chief credit and analytics officer at GreenSky and prior to this in credit and analytics roles at Barclaycard and Capital One. He received an MBA from the University of Virginia. He’ll report to Scala.
To deepen the division’s capabilities and comprehensive services, Bridgit Chayt, senior vice president and director of wholesale payments, will now lead the Wholesale Payments and Treasury Management teams. Chayt joined Fifth Third in 2016 and will report to Scala. The wholesale payments and treasury management team offers solutions and resources tailored to clients’ individual needs, serving industries and business segments such as health care, retail, gaming and entertainment. She has over three decades of experience with financial services, including at Comerica Bank, where she led strategy and revenue growth for deposit-rich and transaction-rich businesses.
About Fifth Third
Fifth Third Bancorp is a diversified financial services company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. As of June 30, 2017, the Company had $141 billion in assets and operated 1,157 full-service Banking Centers and 2,461 ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina. In total, Fifth Third provides its customers with access to more than 45,000 fee-free ATMs across the United States. Fifth Third operates four main businesses: Commercial Banking, Branch Banking, Consumer Lending, and Wealth & Asset Management. Fifth Third is among the largest money managers in the Midwest and, as of June 30, 2017, had $330 billion in assets under care, of which it managed $34 billion for individuals, corporations and not-for-profit organizations through its Trust and Registered Investment Advisory businesses. Investor information and press releases can be viewed at www.53.com. Fifth Third’s common stock is traded on the Nasdaq® Global Select Market under the symbol “FITB.” Fifth Third Bank was established in 1858. Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender Equal Housing Lender
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Actress caught in sex scandal'... 'National Award winning actress caught with clients'. Screamed the entertainment headlines the past week. A young actress, seen in a few Tollywood films, who had won a National Award as a child artiste almost a decade ago, was caught soliciting clients in a sting operation. She was named and shamed. A statement released on behalf of the young girl read that she had been forced to sell herself because of financial difficulties and lack of opportunities.
The reaction was extreme. While one side condemned her the other lashed out at the insensitivity of the media for naming her while keeping mum on the powerful men (mostly businessmen) who, it was claimed, were her clients. A few days later, came another report of yet another Tollywood actress who was caught in a similar racket.
Aside from the debate it (rightfully) generated about the media's sensationalist and irresponsible behaviour, the scandal also brought to fore the industry's uncomfortable silence on the exploitation of young girls. As was reported in some quarters the biggies of Bollywood – Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukerji (who made tall statements on women empowerment during Mardaani promotions), Aamir Khan and a few others who were approached, refused to comment on the issue. Only TV superstar Saakshi Tanwar, who had worked with the actress years ago spoke out in her defence and exposed the hypocrisy.
Close on the heels of these two incidents came news about Bipasha Basu's statement against a filmmaker she recently had a fracas with. It was alleged that the director behaved badly with Bipasha and the matter had been hushed up. But a visibly angry Bipasha refuted the stories and clarified that nothing of the sort happened and that nobody could mess around with her. Now, if a well-known actress like Bips could be at the receiving end of such nasty stories, imagine the plight of aspiring actors with no connections!
Both Bollywood and Tollywood have always looked the other way when it comes to the blatant exploitation of women in the industry. The soft targets – be it filmmakers or actors – are sometimes named but the bigger ones get away scot-free. It is well-known that such 'favours' are exchanged even at the highest level though they play a different game out there. In fact, the compromises even some top actresses have to make to survive in the industry make one wonder if the fame and the resultant stardom is worth it. As noted columnist Shobhaa De said in her write-up recently, "It's an open secret in Bollywood as insiders snigger about the 'rate cards' doing the rounds. Some of the featured names would make most people roll over and die of shock!
Three years ago, a small-time model Rina Golan created a sensation when she came out with a book Dear Mr Bollywood: How I Fell In Love With India, Bollywood And Shah Rukh Khan" which exposed the Bollywood infamous casting couch. The book accused celebrity filmmakers such as Subhash Ghai and Anees Bazmi, along with singer Anoop Jalota of propositioned her which were all denied by the personalities involved. Nothing came of the book except a few headlines but it once again underlined the seedy side behind the glamour.
Indecent proposals are the order of the day and for those in the fraternity they do not even evoke any surprise. It doesn't matter whether you are struggling or established, the high and mighty expect services from anyone they fancy. Take the case of this foreign bred actress who is known for her sexy image and a couple of item numbers. She was approached for a hot number by this ageing filmmaker who had delivered a mammoth hit years ago. During negotiations he hinted that she would be required to do much more than just dance in his film. The actress allegedly refused the song which went to another starlet. Another actress, once a big name and belonging to a reputed family supposedly has a patron who funds her production company – currently she is known to keep company of politicians. As industry watchers point out, there is very little difference in such behaviour and an organised commercial racket of which the afore-mentioned award-winning actress was a part of. But ask any one – a top filmmaker or an actor – and their standard response would be, "Yes it happens but not
to me!"
At other times, it's not even about roles or work but pure helplessness. A very shocking story is about this top actress who faced visa problems a few years ago. She is of foreign origin and didn't have proper papers to work in Bollywood. She allegedly had to compromise with some government officials to hush up the matter.
In between the mess are the sketchy agents. In the last few years with professional celebrity management agencies and PR companies entering the fray, things have got a lot better. However, not everyone can afford their services. For a young actor or actress, with only stars in their eyes and no connections, they have to fall back on agents who push them to sleazy moneybags. Of course, it would be naïve to expect that the girls and boys don't know what they are getting into but the lure of money, the desperation to maintain a lifestyle and the lack of any other opportunities often drives them to extreme measures.
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1: The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.
2: Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
3: Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place was called Hormah.
4: They journeyed from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
5: The people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread.
6: Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
7: The people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you; pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us. Moses prayed for the people.
8: Yahweh said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.
9: Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.
10: The children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Oboth.
11: They journeyed from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.
12: From there they journeyed, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
13: From there they journeyed, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
14: Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, Vaheb in Suphah, The valleys of the Arnon,
15: The slope of the valleys That inclines toward the dwelling of Ar, Leans on the border of Moab.
16: From there [they journeyed] to Beer: that is the well whereof Yahweh said to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
17: Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, well; sing you to it:
18: The well, which the princes dug, Which the nobles of the people dug, With the scepter, [and] with their poles. From the wilderness [they journeyed] to Mattanah;
19: and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;
20: and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.
21: Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
22: Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border.
23: Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.
24: Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
25: Israel took all these cities: and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the towns of it.
26: For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.
27: Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, Come you to Heshbon; Let the city of Sihon be built and established:
28: For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon: It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
29: Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh: He has given his sons as fugitives, His daughters into captivity, To Sihon king of the Amorites.
30: We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even to Dibon, We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which [reaches] to Medeba.
31: Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
32: Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns of it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
33: They turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
34: Yahweh said to Moses, Don't fear him: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.
35: So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land.
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Table Lamp (detail), from the Susan Lawrence Dana House, Springfield, Illinois, 1902–4. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867–1959), Made by Linden Glass Co., Chicago, Illinois. Leaded glass, bronze, brass, and zinc; 52 x 30.5 x 22.5 cm. (base); 73.7 cm. (shade). LACMA, gift of Max Palevsky © Frank Lloyd Wright / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo © 2004 Museum Associates / LACMA
The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World
Sun, 10/16/2005 to Sun, 01/08/2006
This groundbreaking exhibition, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), was the first to demonstrate the significance of the widespread international Arts and Crafts movement of Europe and the United States. The exhibition included more than 300 influential objects created in all media between 1880 and 1920. From ceramic and metalwork to textiles and works on paper, this exhibition demonstrated the evolution of the object and the way that the object affected one's life during this period of time, advancing the dawn of the modern age. All of the objects in the exhibition were explored through the three recurring themes of the time: art and industry; design and national identity; and arts and life.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and was made possible by Max Palevsky. This project was supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. The Cleveland showing was made possible through the support of Chase. Promotional support was provided by The Plain Dealer and 89.7 WKSU. The Cleveland Museum of Art received operating support from the Ohio Arts Council.
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Eiger BioPharmaceuticals Announces FDA Approval of Zokinvy™ (lonafarnib): The First Treatment for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome and Processing-Deficient Progeroid Laminopathies
By: Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. via PR Newswire
PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:EIGR), focused on the development and commercialization of targeted therapies for serious rare and ultra-rare diseases, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ZokinvyTM (lonafarnib) for the treatment of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS or Progeria) and processing-deficient Progeroid Laminopathies (PL).
Progeria and Progeroid Laminopathies are separate and distinct ultra-rare, genetic, premature aging diseases that accelerate mortality in young patients. Disease manifestations include growth failure, loss of body fat and hair, aged-looking skin, stiffness of joints, hip dislocation, generalized atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease and stroke. Untreated children with Progeria die of heart disease at an average age of 14.5 years. There are 20 children and young adults with Progeria and PL identified and followed in the U.S.
Zokinvy is a disease-modifying agent that has demonstrated a statistically significant survival benefit in children and young adults with Progeria. In patients with Progeria, Zokinvy reduced the incidence of mortality by 60% (p=0.0064) and increased average survival time by 2.5 years. The most commonly reported adverse reactions were gastrointestinal (vomiting, diarrhea, nausea), and most were mild or moderate (Grade 1 or 2) in severity. Many Progeria patients have received continuous Zokinvy therapy for more than 10 years.
The increase in survival observed with Zokinvy was derived from two open-label clinical trials (N=62) conducted at Boston Children's Hospital. The survival analysis compared Zokinvy-treated versus Zokinvy-naïve subjects with Progeria born in or after 1991, by age, gender, and geographic location. Zokinvy-naïve patients originated from a separate natural history study (n=81) conducted by The Progeria Research Foundation.
With this approval, the FDA issued a Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher (PRV) to Eiger. The Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher program is designed to encourage development of new drugs and biologics for the prevention or treatment of rare pediatric diseases. Eiger plans to sell the PRV and under the terms of the Collaboration and Supply Agreement with the Progeria Research Foundation (PRF) will share the proceeds equally with PRF.
"The FDA approval of Zokinvy is the result of a pioneering partnership between Eiger BioPharmaceuticals and PRF to bring the first approved therapy to children, young adults and families living with this devastating disease," said David Cory, President and CEO of Eiger. "We are very proud that the first drug approval at Eiger confers a survival benefit to patients with one of the most ultra-rare, and ultimately fatal, pediatric diseases. We are extremely grateful to all the children, young adults and their families who have made this possible through participation in the Zokinvy clinical trials."
"The approval of this breakthrough therapy is a critical milestone for the Progeria community and also for Eiger," said Thomas Dietz, PhD, Chairman of the Board at Eiger. "The Eiger Board congratulates and commends the management team for their incredible dedication leading the company through its first NDA filing and approval, a major accomplishment for Eiger."
PRF Medical Director, Leslie Gordon, MD, PhD, added, "Shortly after our son, Sam, was diagnosed with Progeria, my family and I founded The Progeria Research Foundation to find the cause, treatments, and cure for all children with this fatal disease. This first approved medication is a truly incredible milestone for the Progeria community as we forge ahead toward finding the cure. We are thrilled to have Eiger as a partner in bringing Zokinvy to the approval finish line, and for their commitment to ensuring patient access to Zokinvy moving forward."
In support of the patient and healthcare provider community, Eiger is launching our dedicated service center, Eiger OneCare™. This specialized team will offer personalized support, financial assistance, and access to Zokinvy, all designed for Progeria and processing-deficient Progeroid Laminopathy patients. Eiger OneCare™ will be available Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM Eastern Time at 1-833-MYEIGER (1-833-693-4437).
Investor Call
Eiger will host a conference call November 23 at 8:30 AM ET / 5:30 AM PT to discuss the Zokinvy approval. The live and replayed webcast of the call will be available through the company's website at www.eigerbio.com. To participate in the live call by phone, dial (844) 743-2495 (U.S.) or (661) 378-9529 (international) and enter the passcode 5685423. The replay of the call will be available for one year.
For full prescribing information, visit www.zokinvy.com.
About Zokinvy (lonafarnib)
Zokinvy blocks the accumulation of defective, farnesylated proteins which form tight associations with the nuclear envelope, leading to cellular instability and the process of premature aging in children and young adults with Progeria and processing-deficient Progeroid Laminopathies.
Eiger licensed exclusive worldwide rights to lonafarnib from Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada. Merck will not receive any milestone payments for the development of lonafarnib for the treatment of Progeria, and has waived royalty obligations from Eiger for a specified quantity of lonafarnib.
About Progeria and Progeroid Laminopathies
Progeria, also known as Hutchinson–Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS), and Progeroid Laminopathies are separate and distinct ultra-rare, fatal, genetic premature aging diseases that accelerate mortality in young patients.
Progeria is caused by a point mutation in the LMNA gene, yielding the farnesylated aberrant protein, progerin. Progeroid Laminopathies are genetic conditions of accelerated aging caused by a constellation of mutations in the LMNA and/or Zmpste24 genes yielding farnesylated proteins that are distinct from progerin. While non–progerin producing, these genetic mutations result in disease manifestations with phenotypes that have overlap with, but are distinct from, Progeria.
Without Zokinvy therapy, children with Progeria die of the same heart disease that affects millions of normally aging adults (arteriosclerosis), but at an average age of 14.5 years. Disease manifestations include severe failure to thrive, scleroderma–like skin, global lipodystrophy, alopecia, joint contractures, skeletal dysplasia, global accelerated atherosclerosis with cardiovascular decline, and debilitating strokes. It is estimated that there are 400 children worldwide with Progeria and 200 children with Progeroid Laminopathies. Of these patients, approximately 180 children and young adults have been identified, including 20 in the U.S. and 23 in Europe.
ZOKINVY is indicated in adult and pediatric patients 12 months of age and older with a body surface area (BSA) of 0.39 m2 and above:
To reduce the risk of mortality in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS)
For the treatment of processing-deficient Progeroid Laminopathies with either:
Heterozygous LMNA mutation with progerin-like protein accumulation
Homozygous or compound heterozygous ZMPSTE24 mutations
ZOKINVY is not indicated for use in patients with non-HGPS Progeroid Syndromes or with Progeroid Laminopathies known to be processing-proficient. Based upon its mechanism of action, ZOKINVY would not be expected to be effective in these populations.
Strong or moderate CYP3A inhibitors or inducers
Midazolam
Lovastatin, simvastatin, and atorvastatin
The most common adverse reactions are vomiting (90%), diarrhea (81%), infection (78%), nausea (56%), decreased appetite (53%), fatigue (51%), upper respiratory tract infection (51%), abdominal pain (48%), musculoskeletal pain (48%), electrolyte abnormalities (43%), headache (37%), decreased weight (37%), increased aspartate aminotransferase (35%), myelosuppression (35%), cough (33%), decreased blood bicarbonate (33%), hypertension (29%), and increased alanine aminotransferase (27%).
Gastrointestinal Adverse Reactions
Gastrointestinal adverse reactions were the most frequently reported adverse reactions. Of the 57 patients (90%) that experienced vomiting, 30 (53%) patients had mild vomiting, 26 (46%) patients had moderate vomiting, and 1 (2%) patient had severe vomiting.
Of the 35 patients (56%) that experienced nausea, 34 (97%) patients had mild nausea and 1 (3%) patient had moderate nausea.
Of the 51 patients (81%) that experienced diarrhea, the majority of patients (92%) experienced mild or moderate diarrhea; 38 (75%) patients reported mild diarrhea and 9 (18%) patients reported moderate diarrhea. Four (8%) patients reported severe diarrhea.
Loss of fluids and dehydration can be severe, leading to hospitalization. As a result, patients should receive therapy for diarrhea at the earliest signs in order to avoid possible severe complications.
Alanine Aminotransferase and Aspartate Aminotransferase Elevations
Increased alanine aminotransferase was commonly reported (17 [27%] patients). Of the 17 patients with increased alanine aminotransferase, 14 (82%) patients had mild increases, 1 (6%) patient had moderate increases, and 2 (12%) patients had severe increases.
Increased aspartate aminotransferase was also commonly reported (22 [35%] patients). Of the 22 patients with increased aspartate aminotransferase, 21 (95%) patients had mild increases and 1 (5%) patient had a severe increase.
Increases in blood pressure have been documented in patients treated with ZOKINVY. At baseline 22 (35%) patients had either a systolic blood pressure or a diastolic blood pressure or both above the 95th percentile. Over the course of the trials, 18 (29%) patients had hypertension based on systolic blood pressure or diastolic blood pressure measurements above the 95th percentile on 3 or more occasions. Five (8%) patients who were normotensive at baseline had either systolic blood pressure or diastolic blood pressure above the 95th percentile at the end of treatment.
Ophthalmic Adverse Reactions
Lonafarnib caused retinal toxicity in monkeys at 3.7 times the human dose based on plasma drug exposure, but not at 2.1 times the human dose.
Laboratory Abnormalities
Some patients treated with ZOKINVY developed laboratory abnormalities. These included:
Electrolyte abnormalities (43%), such as hyperkalemia, hypokalemia, hyponatremia, or hypercalcemia
Myelosuppression (35%), such as reductions in absolute neutrophil count, white blood cell counts, lymphopenia, hemoglobin, or hematocrit
Increased liver enzymes, such as aspartate aminotransferase (35%), or alanine aminotransferase (27%)
These laboratory abnormalities often improved while continuing ZOKINVY, but it is not possible to exclude ZOKINVY as a cause of the abnormalities. Periodically monitor electrolytes, complete blood counts, and liver enzymes, and manage abnormalities accordingly.
Lonafarnib caused nephrotoxicity in rats at plasma drug exposures approximately equal to that achieved with the human dose. Monitor renal function at regular intervals during ZOKINVY therapy.
Retinal Toxicity
Lonafarnib caused rod-dependent, low-light vision decline in monkeys at plasma drug exposures similar to that achieved with the human dose. Perform ophthalmological evaluation at regular intervals and at the onset of any new visual changes during ZOKINVY therapy.
Lonafarnib caused impaired fertility in female rats at 1.2 times the human dose based on plasma drug exposure.
Lonafarnib caused impaired fertility and testicular toxicity in male rats at 1.5 times the human dose based on plasma drug exposure, and toxicity in the male reproductive tract in monkeys at doses lower than the human dose based on plasma drug exposure.
About The Progeria Research Foundation
The Progeria Research Foundation (PRF) was established in 1999 by the family of Sam Berns, a child with Progeria. Within four years of its founding, the PRF Genetics Consortium, in collaboration with Francis Collins, MD, PhD, discovered the Progeria gene. PRF has funded and co-coordinated all Zokinvy-associated clinical trials for Progeria and Progeroid Laminopathies, conducted at Boston Children's Hospital, and supports scientists who conduct Progeria research worldwide. PRF is the only non-profit organization solely dedicated to finding treatments and the cure for Progeria and its age-related conditions, including heart disease. PRF's International Patient Registry includes over 300 children with Progeria in more than 65 countries. For more information, please visit www.progeriaresearch.org.
About Eiger
Eiger is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of first-in-class, well-characterized drugs for serious rare and ultra-rare diseases for patients with high unmet medical needs.
Zokinvy for the treatment of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS or Progeria) and processing-deficient Progeroid Laminopathies is the Company's first FDA approval. A Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) has been accepted and is under review by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Outside the U.S., Eiger's established global Managed Access Program, expected to span greater than 40 countries, ensures all children and young adults with Progeria and Progeroid Laminopathies have access to treatment.
Eiger's lead clinical programs target Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV) infection, the most serious form of human viral hepatitis. Eiger is developing two complementary treatments for HDV. Lonafarnib is a first-in-class, oral prenylation inhibitor in a global Phase 3 trial. Peginterferon lambda is a first-in-class, well-tolerated type III interferon entering Phase 3.
For additional information about Eiger and its clinical programs, please visit www.eigerbio.com.
About Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher (PRV) Program
Under the FDA's Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher program, the sponsor of a rare pediatric disease drug product receiving a priority review voucher may transfer (including by sale) the voucher to another sponsor. The voucher may be further transferred any number of times before the voucher is used, as long as the sponsor making the transfer has not yet submitted the application. Under the terms of Eiger's Collaboration and Supply Agreement with The Progeria Research Foundation (PRF), Eiger and PRF would equally share any proceeds from any potential sale of the voucher.
Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical facts, including statements regarding our future financial condition, timing for and outcomes of clinical results, business strategy and plans and objectives for future operations, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include terminology such as "believe," "will," "may," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "contemplate," "intend," "target," "project," "should," "plan," "expect," "predict," "could," "potentially" or the negative of these terms. Forward-looking statements are our current statements regarding our intentions, beliefs, projections, outlook, analyses or current expectations concerning, among other things, our anticipating significant milestones in 2020 and 2021, the timing of our ongoing and planned clinical development, including our ability to support the launch of a new product and ship to specialty pharmacies; our development programs for Zokinvy generally; and the potential approval of Zokinvy in jurisdictions outside of the U.S., including the EU; the risks related to the commercialization of Zokinvy, our ability to manufacture sufficient quantities of Zokinvy, and the commercial launch of Zokinvy in the U.S., the market potential for Zokinvy as a treatment for Progeria and PL; our progression and enrollment of our Phase 3 D-LIVR study in HDV; our ability to maintain supply of our commercial and clinical trial materials; our plans to advance Lambda in HDV in the U.S. and EU; our ability to transition into a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company; our ability to finance the continued advancement of our development pipeline products; and the potential for success of any of our product candidates. These statements concern product candidates that have not yet been approved for marketing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). No representation is made as to their safety or effectiveness for the purposes for which they are being investigated. Various important factors could cause actual results or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements that Eiger makes, including additional applicable risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" sections in the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2020 and Eiger's subsequent filings with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on information currently available to Eiger and speak only as of the date on which they are made. Eiger does not undertake and specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of any new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise.
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Criticise us, but don’t mock us, FG tells media
The Federal Government has said the war against corruption remains the toughest of all the three cardinal issues that it campaigned with before the conduct of the 2015 general elections.
The other two cardinal points are revamping of the economy and tackling insecurity.
It, therefore, called on the media to stop mocking the Federal Government over its declaration of war against corruption in the country.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this on Monday in Abuja at the opening of the 68th General Assembly of the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria.
The theme of the conference was “The Media and the fight against corruption.”
Rather than mocking, Mohammed said the media should join hands with the government in its determination to stamp out corruption in the country.
He said the fight must not be seen as that of President Muhammadu Buhari alone, warning that corruption is capable of killing the country if not well tackled.
He said, “Without mincing words, let me use this platform to appeal directly to the media in general to join this administration in facing down the problem of corruption.
“As we have said times without number, this fight must not be seen as Buhari’s fight. It must not be seen as the Federal Government’s fight. It is our fight. If we fail to win by defeating corruption, it will simply kill us as a nation.
“This appeal to the media to join us in the fight against corruption is borne out of the fact that the Fourth Estate of the Realm cannot afford to sit on the fence, as far as this fight is concerned. We are not saying the media should not criticise us over our strategy for the fight, but they should stop mocking us.
“In recent times, it is not unusual to read such headlines as ‘Buhari’s government losing anti-corruption war,’ ‘Buhari’s anti-corruption war is failing,’ ‘Arewa Youths knock President Buhari over failing anti-corruption war.’ This is sheer mockery, not reporting! And this war is not Buhari’s war. It is our war.
“Make no mistake about it: Of all the three broad issues that we campaigned with – revamping the economy, fighting corruption and tackling insecurity, the toughest is the war against corruption.”
While saying that most Nigerians were direct beneficiaries of corruption, he said others were subsidised by sleaze.
He appealed to the media to join the war against corruption by writing strong editorials against it and also donating air time for jingles.
In his address, the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, commended the roles played by the media in the past for advocacy and crusading.
He, however, said, “Media practitioners that are supposed to help fight corruption have unfortunately been sucked into the cesspool of malfeasance. One of the difficult tasks I faced soon after I took over as Acting Chairman of EFCC was having to investigate senior journalists including media owners that partook of the sharing of monies meant for arms to fight insurgency in the North-East.
“It was shocking that even the ones that have since been arraigned in court, still don’t feel they did anything wrong!”
In his speech, the Chairman of BON, who is also Chairman of Channels Television, Mr. John Momoh, said that broadcasting stations were currently faced with many problems.
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Contact Point > Issues > Autumn 2017 > Frank A. Brucia ’44A | From the Heart
Frank A. Brucia ’44A | From the Heart
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At the 118th Annual Alumni Meeting in March 2017, Dean Nader A. Nadershahi ’94 announced the creation of the Dr. Frank A. Brucia Loyalty Society. “In recognition of Dr. Brucia’s 50 consecutive years of philanthropy, we are creating this donor society in his honor to acknowledge consistent giving to the dental school,” Nadershahi told attendees at the plenary session. “It is a fitting way,” he continued, “to observe Frank’s 100th birthday. He has given to our school every year consecutively for half of his lifetime.”
Alumnus Frank A. Brucia ’44A is glad to share a lifetime of learning experiences with the Dugoni School of Dentistry family. It might be a little lesson in the Italian language or what makes a great cup of espresso (dark and sweet). You might hear what makes a great dental practice or learn about consistency in philanthropy. He may also tell you about his happy 69-year marriage to his late wife, Helen. Brucia, at 100 years of age, speaks from experience and from the heart.
A first-generation American, Brucia was born in San Francisco on March 23, 1917 to an Italian family who had moved to the West Coast for business in wine and olives, and to contribute to the founding of the San Francisco Opera. He wanted to be a chemist. Even as a student at Galileo High School, he enlisted his friends to sign up for a summer course in chemistry at University of San Francisco; he remembers how the kind nuns brought them cookies and how much he enjoyed chemistry. His father suggested, however, that he was better suited for an occupation where he could be self-employed. After graduating from University of California, Berkeley, Brucia tried dentistry by attending the College of Physicians and Surgeons (now the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry).
[pullquote]”He has given to our school every year consecutively for half of his lifetime.”[/pullquote]
“I didn’t love dentistry at first,” Brucia reveals, “but the more I practiced, the more positive I became and then I saw it as a beautiful profession.” With World War II in progress, upon graduation in 1944, he and his classmates were inducted into the U.S. Army Air Corps as first lieutenants—the war effort needed dentists. Brucia was eventually sent to Florida, where he met his future wife, Helen Marie, a dental assistant from North Carolina. When his war adventures took him overseas, he was doing prosthodontics for the U.S. military in Japan, an assignment he was told “did not exist on paper” (translation: no funding) in a tiny, ill-equipped lab and a jeep that also “did not exist on paper.” The war ended; Brucia was discharged and married his sweetheart Helen at the Presidio in San Francisco. Three children, Kristina (Davis), Ric Brucia and Dr. Jeff Brucia ’88, followed.
The early days, however, were not easy, as Brucia delights in recounting. When he and Helen began planning and setting up his private practice in the Dante Building at 1606 Stockton Street in North Beach, it was difficult to make ends meet. In fact, he reports that for the month of November 1946, his practice earned a mere $6.50. He couldn’t make the rent. He went on the road with a mobile dental unit, treating the children who lived in migrant worker camps in the Sacramento Valley. He enjoyed the work and paid the bills, while Helen was setting up appointments and expanding the practice back at the office.
[pullquote]“I didn’t love dentistry at first,” Brucia reveals, “but the more I practiced, the more positive I became and then I saw it as a beautiful profession.”[/pullquote]
As Brucia’s dental practice began to thrive, as it does to this day under the guidance of his son Jeff, he became more and more involved in prominent dental organizations, most notably the California Dental Association (CDA) and the San Francisco Dental Society (SFDS). In April, the SFDS dedicated the Dr. Frank A. Brucia Meeting Room, honoring him as a former board member, president, trustee and delegate to CDA, as well as substantially contributing to the acquisition, set-up and remodeling of the building that the SFDS calls home.
Brucia began his relationship with the Dugoni School of Dentistry, then known as the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 77 years ago. His support for the dental school has been amply demonstrated over the years by his donations of time, talent and treasure, earning him the Alumni Association’s highest honor, the Medallion of Distinction in 2000. In addition to giving to the Dugoni School consecutively for 50 years, he unequivocally loved interviewing prospective students as a member of the Admissions Committee and continued to do so as a retiree until it became too difficult to hear well enough. The decibel levels of older dental drills and other equipment Brucia used back in the day had taken their toll.
What words of wisdom or lessons does Brucia have to share as a centenarian? He laughingly says, “Always have 25% children as your patients. It perpetuates your practice and you can send the challenging patients to a pediatric specialist.” It also ensured that dozens of grateful former patients were around to appreciate and recognize their beloved Dr. Brucia with cards and notes on his 100th birthday. On a more serious note, Brucia iterates what he has told generations of students, “Don’t limit yourself to the curriculum. Go beyond the requirements.” His ideal is to “pursue perfection, and then you’ll achieve excellence. Always chase something beyond your reach.”
Brucia is supremely modest about his history, saying “I was not a super dentist, but I achieved the maximum I could with my skills, and always tried to do more.” To look at his many contributions as a dental professional, a business leader, a father and husband, Brucia has more than achieved excellence.
The basis of donor recognition in the Dr. Frank Brucia Loyalty Society is 10 consecutive years of giving to the Dugoni School of Dentistry and $50,000 lifetime total giving. Associate Dean for Development Jeff Rhode explains, “We want to recognize our alumni and friends who have given generously and faithfully over time as well as a lifetime of giving, and Dr. Frank Brucia has provided a shining example of how that can build over 50 years of philanthropy.”
If you would like information about membership in the Dr. Frank A. Brucia Loyalty Society, please contact Anita Ayers, manager of the Annual Fund, at aayers@pacific.edu or 415.929.6402.
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NEW EDITOR OF U3A’S NEWSLETTER PLANS TO DOUBLE NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS
Posted By: admin July 6, 2017
The new editor of Crewkerne & District U3A’s newsletter, plans to double the number of publications from six issues to twelve a year, providing monthly news and updates for the group’s members. Maggie Hewson, who recently took over as the newsletter editor, aims to make it as “newsy as possible.” As part of her plan, she has appealed to group leaders to keep her informed of everything that is happening. Maggie Hewson said: “I hope that publicity in the newsletter will help with the setting up of new groups and finding a new leader for those that need one.” In addition to covering more news on the groups, Maggie also wants to publish a rolling calendar of events that are planned by the specialist groups in the local U3A.
Crewkerne & District U3A currently has 48 specialist groups under its umbrella, ranging from Ancient History, Bridge and Colour Therapy to Table Tennis, Ukulele and Writing For Pleasure. The first Crewkerne & District U3A newsletter was issued in September 1998. Crewkerne & District U3A also produces a magazine under the editorial reins of Teresa Bond, who recently produced a special edition of the magazine to commemorate the group’s 20th anniversary. The souvenir magazine covers the history of Crewkerne & District U3A from its early days in 1998, its charitable donations and fund-raising events, current group activities and contains colour photographs, true stories, anecdotes and poems.
The different newsletter and magazine editors during the past 20 years have all contributed to the publications ongoing success. As a new chapter in its history begins, the U3A’s motto on the back cover of the Special Edition 2017: “Those who teach shall learn & those who learn shall teach,” rings as true today as it did all those years ago.
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Christian P Haines
Assistant Professor of English
Email: chaines@psu.edu
Tu, W, 9am-10am; and by appointment. Office hours are held on Zoom. Please arrange for a time slot in advance via email.
PhD, Comparative Literature, Graduate Minor in English, December 2012, University of Minnesota
B.A., English; Minor: History, Summa Cum Laude, May 2006, University of Florida
Christian P. Haines is an assistant professor of English at Penn State University. His first book, A Desire Called America: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons , was published by Fordham University Press in October 2019. His work has appeared in journals including Genre, Criticism, Cultural Critique, LIT, and boundary 2, as well as in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics, Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature (UNH Press), and Biotheory (Routledge). He serves as a contributing editor for Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. He's also co-edited a special issue of Cultural Critique, “What Comes After the Subject?” (Spring 2017) and a special issue of the minnesota review, "Is there a place for the commons?" (Fall 2019). He’s currently writing a second book, The Scored Life, which looks at finance and contemporary culture, as well as doing research for a book on weird fiction and weird biology, A Natural History of the Weird.
His research and teaching focus on nineteenth-century and contemporary American literature, lyric poetry, critical theory (especially biopolitics, queer theory, and Marxism), continental philosophy, game studies, critical finance studies, and utopian studies.
American Literature Before 1900
American Literature After 1900
Theory and Cultural Studies
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Political earthquake ripped fabric of authoritarianism
By Guest contributor(s)Sunday 26 July 2020 No Comments
The aftershocks of the Arab Spring
Almost a decade after the 2011-12 Arab uprisings, protest movements across the region are demanding an end to existing power structures, a goal they cannot achieve without directly engaging in politics. And throughout the Arab world a new regional line-up is replacing old sectarian rivalries.
by: Hicham Alaoui
scientists know that aftershocks are often more damaging than the quakes they follow. The 2011-12 Arab Spring was a political earthquake that ripped deep fissures in the fabric of authoritarianism across the Arab world; it signified the power of popular movements when unshackled by fear. In 2019 we witnessed its greatest aftershock, as a second wave of unrest shook governments and unsettled the region.
The protests unleashed by recent events in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Sudan are the logical amplification of the Arab Spring. They serve as the latest evidence that the region’s societies refuse to capitulate in the face of economic and political injustice. Of course their opponents, the authoritarian regimes, are equally committed to maintaining power, adapting to each struggle in order to survive.
The Arab world’s structural factors have remained constant since 2011-12, and feed into today’s aftershocks. The first is the youth of the region’s population: a third of the Arab world is under 15, and another third between 15 and 29. For the past decade the Arab world has seen its largest and most educated youth generation come of age, one that is typified by its deep immersion in social media and command of online technologies.
The second constant is economic: development is lagging. Outside the wealthiest Gulf states, most Arab countries have seen their overall unemployment and poverty rates worsen since the Arab Spring. The current Arab youth unemployment rate, according to the World Bank, is 27% — the highest regional figure in the world [World Bank]. The desire to emigrate from Arab countries, mostly for economic reasons, has reached historically high levels. In the latest 2018 survey by the Arab Barometer (1), a third or more of respondents in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia reported wishing to leave their country, especially the young: a staggering 70% of Moroccans aged 18-29 want to leave. Governments do little to halt this outflow, using it to get rid of young people likely to protest over their situation.
The third structural cause of resentment is the lack of progress in governance. The paucity of democratic politics, outside of Tunisia, has translated into a deepening marginalisation of the masses. Many people perceive corruption to be endemic, and believe getting a job or access to decent services requires signing up to cronyism rather than personal merit.
A landscape of protests
On the activist side, several new trends have emerged over the past year. First, popular movements now understand that just toppling a leader does not guarantee regime change, particularly if military and security institutions still command their domains of power and the underlying rules of the political game remain untouched. They are not asking for hastily convened elections: Algerian and Sudanese activists, for instance, are keen to avoid the mistakes of the 2011 Egyptian revolution (2); they want the entire underlying systems of authoritarian rule to be dismantled.
The protesters also have a more critical awareness of the power, and the limitations, of information technology. Once, social networks permitted them to escape censorship and state repression. Now, they also allow them to express engagement and carry on virtual, yet permanent, struggles against the state, deploying fierce criticism, artistry and humour to delegitimise politicians and government institutions. These online campaigns are most apparent in Algeria and Lebanon — though protesters there have also taken to the streets — but they have also erupted in countries perceived by the West as calmer, like Morocco and Jordan. Social media, then, has evolved from a form of escapism into a permanent battleground between the state and part of society. One major inconvenience for the protesters is that the authorities also use the Internet and social networks to disseminate propaganda and to identify, and repress, their most active opponents.
Finally, activists have moved further away from grand ideologies. The Arab Spring was marked by disenchantment with the great ‘ism’s’ — pan-Arabism, Islamism, socialism and nationalism. Mass movements have become inured to promises of utopia, preferring quotidian struggles to improve their governments. The aftershocks of 2011-12 have encouraged this evolution by ending the philosophical romance with democracy. Now, opposition forces demand first of all a dismantling of the entire structure of the old political economy, which engenders inequality and injustice. Women also play a more central role in new popular movements today.
Across the barricades
Authoritarian regimes have learned lessons from the last decade, too. The fates of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia and Ahmed Ali Saleh of Yemen sent the message that engaging in democratic manoeuvres was dangerous. When popular movements attack the system, the winning strategy for governments is no longer to tolerate dissent in the hope that showing goodwill can buy time. Rather, the rational response is continued repression.
The fate of exiled Saudi dissenters shows how far governments will now go to suppress all threats. This new repressive trend is fuelled by a perverse realisation among regimes: they can get away with it. The ‘international community’ may castigate human rights violations, but foreign powers have become complacent over how Arab states treat democratic opposition. The Sissi regime in Egypt remains a valued western ally; it has not been held to account over the overthrow of an elected government, the killing of a thousand protesters at demonstrations in Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in 2013 (3), or the death of the former president, Mohamed Morsi, under suspicious circumstances during his trial in June 2019.
The assassination of Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 left Saudi relations with the rest of the world unperturbed. Assad remains in power in Syria despite the carnage of the civil war. In 2011 French foreign minister Michèle Alliot-Marie’s offer of aid to the Tunisian government created a scandal in January 2011. Now, France’s support for UN mediation in Libya and its simultaneous arming of General Khalifa Haftar’s army go virtually unnoticed.
Sudan is the exception. Its response to the Arab Spring has been unique, and peaceful negotiation may open a path to democracy: the scale of the protests has allowed opposition leaders to rally popular opinion, and the government has no international backing. What distinguishes Sudan is the strength of its civil society and trade unions and the willingness of activists to engage the military leadership in formal political negotiations. NGOs as well as unions have been happy to get involved in politics for decades.
In contrast, a key feature of the recent aftershocks in Algeria, Iraq and Lebanon is ‘get out-ism’ (dégagisme) a desire to remove all political elites. Yet this radical demand has not been accompanied by the building of political structures that would enable negotiation with the regime: activists remain aloof from the political arena, fearful of being discredited by any contact with ruling elites. They are also committed to horizontal organisation, which prevents leaders and spokespeople from emerging. The lack of leadership began as an asset — if only because it limits the efficacy of repression — but now undermines the possibility of ending the crisis. Dégagisme can lead to a stalemate, until one side blinks.
Moreover, popular movements do not always have economic leverage to exert pressure on those in power: the Algerian and Iraqi governments are dependent on exports of hydrocarbons, produced by industries that are at a sociological and geographical distance from society. The Hirak (popular movement) in each of these countries cannot touch the economic heart of the regime.
Sunni-Shia narrative loses appeal
Beyond the Arab Spring’s lessons to governments and oppositions, the sectarian landscape and geopolitical situation have evolved. The struggles between state and society today are no longer taking place so much in a context of rivalry between counter-revolutionary Sunnism, embodied in some Gulf states, and Iran and its allies.
The counter-revolutionary bloc under Saudi-Emirati leadership, mobilising swiftly to stop the Arab Spring, magnified sectarian conflicts in order to fragment societies and conflate democratic opposition with Iran, which it portrayed as the archenemy, and its subordinates. The Iran-led axis — linking Tehran with Hizbullah, the Assad regime, the Houthis in Yemen and Iraqi militias — fed into this dynamic. Sunni chauvinism, embodied in the Saudi-Emirati nexus, acted as a convenient foil in different national conflicts, and justified supporting Shia-aligned actors.
Now, however, this regional strategy has fractured. The sectarian narrative has lost its appeal among youth activists: in Iraq and Lebanon, dégagisme is targeting ruling elites of all confessions. In Iraq, Shia protesters have even attacked Iran’s diplomatic missions (4). The game has changed for the Iranian regime, which is now facing challenges both at home — with regular demonstrations against the regime — and within its sphere of influence abroad.
The Saudi-Emirati bloc’s counter-revolutionary campaign has hit a wall. Providing financial support to favoured political factions and rulers has not guaranteed client states remain stable, as Egypt has proven. Gulf aid did not enable Sissi to impose a new model of governance combining authoritarianism, rapid economic development and political stability. Instead, Egypt, where the army has become a major player in every sector of the economy, has become an anti-model that no other Arab country wishes to emulate.
The failures of the Sunni coalition expose the Saudi regime’s overreach. The latest example is the hostility in many Arab capitals towards Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ (see ‘A hate plan, not a peace plan’, in this issue). The heavy investments made by Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman (MBS) have failed to sweeten the pill of a planthat answers the Israeli right’s dreams. Another Saudi failure, the Yemen war, has turned into a quagmire with tragic humanitarian consequences, and has not netted any strategic victory. Rather, it has revealed the kingdom’s own military weaknesses and failures in projecting hard power abroad.
Domestically, Saudi Arabia’s goal of diversifying its economy away from hydrocarbons is far from being achieved. International investors did not greet Aramco’s public offering at the end of 2019 with the expected enthusiasm; it seems rather to have been an extension of the political pressure displayed in November 2017, when many Saudi VIPs were detained in Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton hotel and released only after making substantial contributions to the Saudi treasury coffers (5). In December 2019, after repeated prevarications over the Aramco offer price, many Saudi investors were pressured to buy shares, putting up their own assets as collateral. The result is not privatisation and diversification, but a deepening of the state presence within the economy.
The Sunni counter-revolutionary bloc must also contend with fundamental changes in US geopolitical strategy. The Arab world no longer figures as prominently in Washington’s grand strategy as a superpower as it once did. Thanks to alternative suppliers, the US economy and even global markets can weather any interruption of Middle East oil production. Further, armed threats from the region, such as ISIS and Iran, are not considered existential threats, as Al-Qaida was once construed. The American public has no more appetite for Middle East interventions, except in the case of Iran attacking Israel.
Sunset of American hegemony
For this reason, the Trump administration has all but abandoned its role as the Gulf’s protector against Iran. The US assassination of the Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in January was driven more by a desire to appear strong, faced with Iraqi unrest threatening the US embassyin Baghdad. Until then, the US had refused to engage in military operations against Iran, despite repeated provocations, including the Revolutionary Guards’ seizure of oil tankers in the Gulf, the downing of a US drone and an attack on Saudi oil refineries. The US has also been passive in the face of Turkish aggression in northeast Syria, abandoning its Kurdish allies.
The US has entered a Jacksonian phase of its foreign policy, willing to intervene overseas only to defend its homeland security, without desiring any long-term entanglements. This sunset of American hegemony has forced Saudi Arabia and Iran to draw similar conclusions. Saudi Arabia now recognises American support is no longer unconditional; and Iran grasps the limits of its own influence and capacity for regional disruption, since attacking the Saudi oil refineries has barely affected global energy prices. An accidental chain reaction of conflict is still possible around the issue of Israel’s security. It is also possible that limited conflicts will continue between the US and Iran. These will contribute to regional disruption, without becoming a major conflict with open fighting between US and Iranian forces.
The regional order that defined the Middle East in the 2010s is reconfiguring according to a new logic. Saudi Arabia is now discreetly backpedalling on the embargo it imposed on Qatar in 2017, which was its biggest foreign policy blunder in a generation; and the UAE has begun withdrawing its military commitments in Yemen. Both are also more open to engaging with Iran directly in hopes of defusing regional tensions. That does not mean they will abandon their rapprochement with Israel, sought primarily for security reasons. Israeli defence and surveillance technology, including software surveillance, is especially coveted within this marriage of convenience. So too is the ability of Israel’s military to strike at the interests of Iran and its allies, no matter where.
The decline of American hegemony can also be seen in Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ in January. The US has always supported Israel; now it has clearly abandoned all pretence of mediating between the parties, in order to allw the Israeli right to end the matter.
Saudi Arabia, its regional partners and Iran have become aware of the unsustainability of brinkmanship and the irrationality of the latent conflict in the Arabian Gulf. Their geopolitical confrontation has shifted, with their rivalries now playing out in the eastern Mediterranean rim. Two new alliances are forming. On one side stand Egypt, Israel, Cyprus and Greece, which are bound by common interests in exploiting offshore natural gas reserves. Their maritime presence and military collaborations are growing denser.
Libya a zone of lawlessness
Opposing this bloc are Qatar, Turkey and the Libyan government in Tripoli. In this nascent great game, Libya represents the last arena where violence can play out by proxy. It has become a zone of lawlessness, with drones and mercenaries occupying the battlefront and foreign forces openly supporting one camp or another. In many ways, Libya may be the main victim of the reconfiguration of geopolitical rivalries in North Africa and the Middle East. Those rivalries have effectively removed Libya from the Maghreb and made it part of the Levantine question.
In this reconfiguration, the Russian factor is unique. Russia, which is present in Syria and active in Libya, pursues a counter-revolutionary impulse, but this is does not come from a global strategy. Moscow sees some authoritarian regimes as partners that serve its interests in specific situations. Its toolkit includes low-cost yet highly effective military interventions that utilise small bases and often private contractors. Indeed, its own Wagner Group is succeeding where the American firm Blackwater failed, with operations extending from Syria to the Central African Republic. Moscow does not have a long-term vision for the regional order, intervening within existing conflicts in order to extract geostrategic benefits at very low cost. The Russian vision for the Middle East is therefore tactical rather than strategic.
Except for Sudan, all these arenas of contestation are at a stalemate. This raises the familiar question of whether the monarchies offer the best recipe for political stability, a point originally made during the Arab Spring, after the fall of Ben Ali in Tunisia and his counterpart Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. The argument was that monarchies had deep cultural and social roots in their national societies, and therefore commanded greater legitimacy. As political institutions, they were also supple and flexible. Standing above the fray of formal politics, they could mediate conflicts and provide leadership during crises.
Jordan and Morocco are unlike the princely Gulf states, where political activity is limited — except Kuwait, which has an elected parliament. Both have parliamentary elections, and long fuelled the argument in favour of monarchies in the Arab world. They combined active royal power with a plurality of political parties, some of which claimed to be opposition parties, though without going so far as to challenge the monarchy. But over the last few years, their mode of governance has remained unchanged. And neither the Jordanian nor the Moroccan monarchy has exhibited the reactivity and flexibility that once helped them defuse crises, notably by coopting part of the political opposition. In Jordan, the ongoing presence of nearly a million Syrian refugees and existential fears surrounding the Palestinian impasse have limited the opposition’s ability to act. Morocco faces no such external threats.
Activists in Morocco have learned there is a glass ceiling to dissent — they must not openly call into question the monarchy itself. So long as the ceiling is respected, the monarchy can adapt to any given crisis and continue in its old conservative ways. To use an economic metaphor, a product that enjoys a monopoly can afford never to change. Once a competing product enters the market, then it must change to survive. Now, new protest movements in Morocco are going beyond their self-imposed limits by desacralising the monarchy. Anti-monarchical sentiments are already being expressed. Once the status quo becomes untenable, the question for the monarchy will be how to utilise what remains of its legitimacy and political resources to contain republican currents.
Hicham Alaoui
Hicham Alaoui is an associate researcher at the Weatherhead Center, Harvard University, and the author of Journal d’un prince banni: Demain, le Maroc, Grasset, Paris, 2014. All notes are by the editorial team.
(1) ‘Arabs are losing faith in religious parties and leaders’, Arab Barometer, 5 December 2019.
(2) See Alain Gresh, ‘Shadow of the army over Egypt’s revolution’, Le Monde diplomatique, English edition, August 2013.
(3) ‘Egypt: Security forces used excessive lethal force’, Human Rights Watch, New York, 19 August 2013.
(4) See Feurat Alani, ‘Mobilising for a new political system in Iraq’, Le Monde diplomatique, English edition, January 2020.
(5) See Ibrahim Warde, ‘Saudi Arabia’s future for sale’, Le Monde diplomatique, English edition, December 2017.
Translated by Wendy Kristianasen
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Time to dust-off your gym shoes and swimming togs
The government announced further easing of lock-down restrictions last week. Outdoor pools can reopen to the public from 11 July, followed by indoor gyms, pools and leisure centres on 25 July 2020.
In a recent press release they said:
The Government has outlined the measures that will allow outdoor pools to reopen from 11 July and indoor gyms, swimming pools and sports facilities to reopen from 25 July, ensuring millions of people can get back into more sport and fitness activities.
The guidance, published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, has been compiled with input from the trade body ukactive, the Sport and Recreation Alliance, Sport England and other sports bodies, and in consultation with Public Health England and the Health and Safety Executive.
It includes advice for providers of pool, gym and leisure facilities on cleaning, social distancing, and protection for staff to help venues get back up and running safely.
It also supports the re-opening of sports halls which are vital to the return of play for many sports, including badminton and volleyball. Guidance produced by National Governing Bodies will complement the government guidance and help ensure indoor sports can be played safely from July 25.
Venues must ensure they can enable customers, staff and volunteers to maintain social distancing before, during and after participation.
Measures to ensure the safety of the public and the staff and volunteers who manage these facilities include:
Limiting the number of people using the facility at any one time, for example by using a timed booking system;
Reducing class sizes and allowing sufficient time between each class to avoid groups waiting outside during changeover;
Ensuring an appropriate number of people are in a swimming pool at any one time;
Spacing out equipment or taking some out of service to maintain social distancing;
Enhanced cleaning and providing hand sanitizer throughout venues;
Considering how the way people walk through their venue could be adjusted to reduce contact, with queue management or one-way systems;
Ensuring adequate ventilation;
Encouraging the use of outdoor spaces for individual, team or group activities, making sure to comply with the latest restrictions on public gatherings;
Exercise or dance studios should have temporary floor markings where possible to help people stay distanced during classes;
Customers and staff should be encouraged to shower and change at home wherever possible, although changing rooms will be available.
Today’s announcement follows a recent visit by government, Sport England and public health officials, led by Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, to a series of ukactive member sites. This allowed officials to see first-hand how the sector is preparing to reopen safely.
This guidance is for gyms, swimming pools and indoor sports facilities in England. Those in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should refer to guidance from the devolved administrations.
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Main man for mutant mice
By Lesley Hall | From the Collections
Mice used in scientific research.
Wellcome Images No. C0018209
Archives and Manuscripts is pleased to announce that a detailed catalogue of the papers of the geneticist Professor Hans Grüneberg FRS (1907-1982) is now available online. Although a rudimentary boxlisting of this collection has been available for some considerable time, this failed adequately to reflect the richness and importance of Grüneberg’s correspondence, covering the years 1922-1982, with colleagues, friends, family, institutions, publishers, etc. This correspondence has now been listed in detail with (as far as possible, since some signatures remain illegible, or consist merely of a nickname) the names of correspondents given, searchable via the online catalogue.
Grüneberg was something of a prodigy, publishing his first paper (on Devonian fossils) in the yearbook of the Elberfeld Natural History Society when he was only 17. He studied medicine and genetics in Bonn and Berlin but his career in Germany was adversely affected by the rise of the Nazis to power and early in 1933 he lost his position at the Elberfeld Municipal Hospital. Shortly afterwards he was invited to pursue genetic research with J. B. S. Haldane at University College London, where he arrived in August 1933, finding the ambience very different from what he was used to in Germany. Apart from a period in the Army during the Second World War, he spent the rest of his life at UCL, retiring as Emeritus Professor of Genetics in 1974.
Along with C H Waddington (with whom there is a substantial tranche of correspondence in this collection), Grüneberg established the field of development genetics, studying pathological processes in mutant mice, and formulating a “pedigree of causes” of genes, which was an important model for human disease. His interest in mouse mutations led him into correspondence with amateur breeders of fancy mice as well as scientific colleagues, while he was also interested in questions of best practice in feeding, housing and general maintenance of laboratory mice. His ‘waltzing mice’ were featured in a BBC science programme. He took an active part in the discussions of the Committee for Standardized Nomenclature of Inbred Strains of Mice.
The collection, while reflecting Grüneberg’s own significant work in genetics, and his importance in establishing the mouse as a leading animal model in mammalian genetics, also includes his later work on snails and radiation-induced mutation, and his involvement in the teaching of the subject in medical schools. It contains much correspondence from leading contemporaries in the field, including fellow refugees such as Charlotte Auerbach FRS. There are also substantial amounts of material on his travels, particularly to India and Sri Lanka, and his relationships with colleagues in those countries, and on his work as external examiner in genetics at the University of Malaysia.
Apart from a small amount of material closed for reasons of Data Protection, this collection is available to researchers subject to the usual conditions of access to material in Archives and Manuscripts.
Lesley Hall
Lesley Hall, FRHistS, PhD, DipAA, has been an archivist at the Wellcome since 1979. She has published extensively on the history of sexuality and gender in Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries, given many talks and conference presentations, and featured on radio and television. Further details can be found at her website.
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Senior Iranian Delegation Visits Damascus for Talks
By Ahmad Majidyar | Fellow and Director of IranObserved Project - The Middle East Institute | Jan 3, 2017
Iran’s Fars News Agency reports that a high-level Iranian parliamentary delegation left Tehran for Damascus on January 3 to hold meetings with senior Syrian officials. The chairman of Iranian Parliament's Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, heads the delegation. Other lawmakers who accompany Boroujerdi include Mohammad Ashouri Taziani, Ahmad Amirabadi-Farahani, Kamal Dehghan Firouzabadi, Abol-Fazel Hassan Beki and Ruhollah Hazratpour. According to Iran’s Fars News Agency, the Iranian delegation will meet with President Bashar al-Assad and other Syrian top officials, including the chairman of parliament and prime and foreign ministers.
Boroujerdi, who is close to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been diligently involved in Iran’s war efforts in Syria over the past years. In October 2015, for example, he led a delegation of Iranian lawmakers to Damascus as Iranian forces prepared to bolster the Assad forces for a ground offensive in Aleppo. The Iranian media has not provided any details about the agenda of Boroujerdi’s current trip, but it may be part of Tehran’s effort to coordinate with Damascus on future war plans beyond Aleppo. The two sides will inevitably discuss pros and cons of a peace initiative being proposed by Turkey and Russia as well.
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The five-year project has received €3million in funding.
ERC-funded project to explore the origin of diversity in star and planetary systems
One of the University of Exeter’s most distinguished astrophysics researchers has received a significant funding boost from the European Research Council (ERC), it has been announced.
Professor Stefan Kraus, an Associate Professor in Astrophysics, has received a five-year grant from the respected research council through its Consolidator Grants funding scheme.
The award will see Professor Kraus lead an international team to explore the origin of diversity in star and planetary systems. The five-year project has received €3million in funding.
Most stars do not exist alone but are orbited by planets or stellar-mass companions. One of the big open questions is how such systems form and what causes the diversity that is observed in their orbital characteristics.
An intriguing finding has been the discovery of planets orbiting their stars on very close-in orbits that are tilted with respect to the stellar rotation axis. These planets cannot have formed at their observed location, but must have been born further away from the star and then been transported onto the tilted, close-in orbits afterwards. Similarly, also many star-star systems are much too close to have formed in situ.
In the new project, the team lead by Professor Kraus will study the orbital configuration of hundreds of star-star and star-planet systems and apply a novel approach that allows them to measure simultaneously the properties of the stars, their orbits, and the alignment between the orbital axis and the stellar rotation axis.
“We should be able to find out how these systems typically look like at the time of formation and what dynamical interactions happen afterwards,”said Professor Kraus. “Intriguingly, we can study both star-star and star-planet systems with our method and learn what mechanisms are common between star and planet formation, and how they differ.”
To enable these breakthroughs, the team will build an interferometric instrument, named BIFROST, that combines the light from telescopes spread out more than hundred metres apart. This will enable exquisite precision, while, at the same time, enable measurements at unprecedented high spectral resolution.
“Combining the extreme precision achievable with interferometry and high spectral resolution is the key for this project,” said Professor Kraus, “but it will enable also many other innovative application in the future, ranging from studies on the gas around active galactic nuclei to characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres.”
“I am delighted to have the opportunity to take on this ambitious project and to work at the cross section between astrophysics research and cutting-edge technology. It will be exciting to take on this challenge and to work with experts spread over the whole globe and with two of the world’s leading observatories.”
The project will involve observatories both on the northern and southern hemisphere. BIFROST will be installed at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer facility that observes the southern sky above Chile. In parallel, the team will use Georgia State University’s CHARA array in California and an instrument that has been built as part of a collaboration between the University of Exeter and the University of Michigan.
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Exeter one of eight UK green energy innovators to secure major collaboration to supply world’s fastest growing offshore and renewable energy markets
The University of Exeter is part of a pivotal new research partnership to develop the next generation of marine renewables.
The University’s Renewable Energy department will lead the involvement in a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Universities of Exeter and Harbin Engineering University (HEU), in China, and TORC, the joint venture research and incubation centre established in March 2019 by the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult and China’s Tus Wind.
The new academic research partnership will be led by Professor Lars Johanning, one of the most prominent academics in the UK for marine renewables. The project will focus primarily on developing an international academic / industry partnership to develop vital new marine renewables, such as offshore floating wind.
Professor Johanning said: “Offshore renewable energy technologies already provide a fast opportunity in reducing carbon emission. China is particularly active in developing offshore wind technologies, an area which is set to become an important sector for the global energy future. Building a Green Energy society will drive the economy following the covid-19 situation. We are proud working together with HEU and TORC on the realisation of China’s offshore wind energy targets, helping to achieve the green energy agenda at an affordable price of electricity.”
The MOU is one of eight new agreements to develop and provide renewable energy technologies, services and research in China, announced today (June 9th) at a virtual ceremony hosted in Yantai City, Shandong Province.
The eight innovators, from backgrounds as diverse as Formula 1, robotics, oil and gas, marine energy and digital, have all been supported by TORC.
Dr Stephen Wyatt, ORE Catapult Director of Research and Disruptive Innovation, said, "We are delighted that these companies have partnered with our research and innovation centre in Yantai to take their world-leading technology to the Chinese offshore wind market, which is forecast to be the biggest in the world by 2030. Through TORC, our unique partnership between ORE Catapult and Tus Wind, we can provide the necessary support to ensure these companies succeed in China”.
Commenting at the signing ceremony in Yantai, Senior Vice President, Tus Holdings and Chairman of TORC, Charlie Du, said “The ocean energy industry in China is growing at 20% per year and will be the largest such market in the world over the next 20 years. Supporting, nurturing and developing the world’s leading marine science expertise and technology from both the UK and China will play an instrumental role in driving the world’s economic recovery from the Coronavirus”.
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Ladies and Gentlemen We Have a Dictator
Re: Ladies and Gentlemen We Have a Dictator
Postby alpha » Mon Jun 08, 10:15 am
Dazzler wrote: Again, stunned at the level of political ignorance on display.
Why would Sanders run on a libertarian ticket when everything he's ever advocated relies on collective action? It would wreck his healthcare plans and his student debt plans alone.
The democrats don't work collectively anymore. That's so last century. The democrats have even gone to the trouble of making the courts state that the democratic party does not have to be democratic, which is the only reason Biden is on their ticket. No democracy here Daz and hasn't been in a couple of generations.
Postby Cat » Mon Jun 08, 10:44 am
Yep, and this is why we have an Electoral College.
Our elites wouldn't have it any other way. Now, or in the distant past.
Postby Rudy » Mon Jun 08, 1:32 pm
Rudy wrote: Show me the way if you know it.
Convince me.
First off we the people need to make the electoral college dead, so oppressidential elections can be democratic, for the first time in american history, so no small hurdle. Then abolish the two parties and their backers the private bankers and begin the task of nationalizing private companies that have been supportive of our regime's evil, which would be done by arresting the private equity firms, that have been raiding private companies for several decades now and stealing the co's assets whilst forcing it into bankruptcy. Think Toys R Us, as an example. Utterly illegal, by our laws, but nobody's prosecuting, so we have to overhaul our entire justice system too, from our corrupt judges, to our equally corrupt prosecutors. These are kinda big hurdles too, so likely can't be accomplished before November. So my advice to you Rudy is your vote for the prez. doesn't amount to anything, because of the electoral college. Vote for anybody, but the powers that be, that have put you, your family and likely too many of your friends in dire straits. However, if your mantra is "Not this year", then they've got you by balls and they'll never let go, only squeeze that much harder. Just look around, have they squeezed hard enough yet? For untold millions of americans they have, they've failed humanity worse than perhaps any other country in the world, presently. How can anyone, in their right mind, vote for more of this crap?
I'm not a fucking ape.
I understand the problems.
I'm looking for answers.
You can't just blame voters for voting.
Postby Bohannon » Mon Jun 08, 1:47 pm
This says it all about rootti tutti: "Well, I tend to favor Trump over Biden. Biden can't string two coherent sentences together..." I guess he thinks that tRump can? tRump cannot even make a complete sentence.
Speaking of dictators, has anyone actually seen Kim Kong Un lately? Is he still missing from public view?
Think he got "the Rona" as R. Kelly puts it?
Postby Cat » Mon Jun 08, 3:15 pm
modern roots wrote: At least Trump can talk straight.
Please.....he's sounds like he's got a serious cognitive defect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftpc4fwcDfk
It's like a cross between Dean Martin and a feral cat!
Postby modern roots » Mon Jun 08, 5:40 pm
Biden's worse than that. Did you watch all the debates? He struggled in every one. You can tell he's losing it mentally. Bottom line...he's too old. We need a 45 or 50 year old in there that's a 3rd party.
Postby slither » Mon Jun 08, 11:19 pm
Stunned?
I believe Alf is the one with the quizzical gaze.
Postby slither » Mon Jul 06, 9:45 am
Statues.
Don’t forget the statues.
10 years in federal prison for fucking with a statue?
Postby MileHighDenver » Mon Jul 06, 10:16 am
Rudy wrote: And, with that, I stop wasting my time.
Postby Rudy » Mon Jul 06, 9:23 pm
Own it.
You've been brainwashed.
All of your roads lead to the orange tinted angry guy.
Postby modern roots » Tue Jul 07, 12:20 am
MileHighDenver wrote:
Postby Rudy » Tue Jul 07, 1:02 am
I don't get the connection.
I am no longer wasting my time.
Must be the effects of your brain washed synapses.
Postby modern roots » Tue Jul 07, 4:32 pm
Rudy wrote:
We'll see how long this lasts.
Postby Rudy » Tue Jul 07, 5:16 pm
Better just sit your dumb ass down then.
It didn't even last one hour.
More name calling and nothing to do with the thread.
That's all you got.
Being as all the fallacies are already in overuse, I am claiming ad hominems as my own.
Dolt.
And please don't take my posts personally.
This is easy, and it isn't exclusively for your benefit.
I consider these well deserved wholesale statements of disrespect for all Republican enablers and apologists.
And every bit as effective as trying old fashioned logic.
You un-masked mouth breather.
Didn't last long, did it?
Postby Rudy » Sat Jul 11, 2:06 am
July 10, 2020 at 10:04 a.m. CDT
" People have debated whether Donald Trump is fascist since he announced he was running for president. In 2015, Jamelle Bouie wrote in Slate that Trump, in his campaign speeches and Twitter utterances, exhibited seven of the 14 characteristics identified by the Italian novelist Umberto Eco in his defining essay “Ur-Fascism.” In 2016, the Georgetown professor John McNeill assessed Trump’s fascist tendencies on a scale of zero to four “Benitos,” after the father of fascism, Benito Mussolini. As an amateur, Trump fell short.
That was then. What about now? And, more important, what about the Trump of a potential second term in the White House?
On June 1, as demonstrators gathered and marched in Washington and around the country to protest the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police, President Trump, in a brief speech in the White House Rose Garden, called for states to use the National Guard to “dominate the streets” and promised that if they didn’t, “I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.” Federal forces then used tear gas and stun grenades on peaceful protesters to clear a path for him to walk from the White House to nearby St. John’s Episcopal Church for a photo op with a Bible as prop.
“The fascist speech Donald Trump just delivered verged on a declaration of war against American citizens,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) tweeted. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) — noting in an opinion column three days later that the president’s “attempt to use chaos to shred democratic safeguards and consolidate authoritarian power is deadly serious” — put it this way: “This is our own Reichstag fire and, yes, Trump is playing the role of would-be Fuehrer, proclaiming a ‘God-given signal’ to seize more power.”
I first reported on Trump in 1982, when he conned me into putting him on the Forbes 400 rich list. That Trump was just a younger version of this Trump, and now I worry that what happened in June was a mere prelude; he’s certainly capable of a far worse Reichstag-fire-like event that would allow him to steal the 2020 election. And if he does win a second term, legitimately or not, his words and actions of the past four years provide 12 indicators that he would seek to replace our democracy with a fascist dictatorship.
1. Trump uses military power and federal law enforcement to suppress peaceful political protest. In June, he deployed the National Guard and federal officers to violently evict protesters in Washington, terrorizing them with two military helicopters flying low near the crowd. Trump also had 1,600 members of the 82nd Airborne on standby outside the capital and readied tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition. It’s reported that he wanted to deploy 10,000 troops to Washington alone. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, took this so seriously that he got into a shouting match with the president over the prospect of deploying active-duty troops on U.S. soil.
2. Trump persistently lies about voter fraud, setting the stage for him to use emergency powers to seize control of the election or challenge the results if he loses. During a recent special election in California, for example, after a Republican mayor requested the opening of an additional polling station, Trump tweeted falsely that the Democrats “have just opened a voting booth in the most Democrat area in the State. They are trying to steal another election. It’s all rigged out there. These votes must not count. SCAM!” Trump has repeatedly tweeted that mail-in voting will lead to fraudulent and rigged elections. After winning the 2016 presidential election while losing the popular vote, he claimed a landslide victory and said that Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote was due to “millions of people who voted illegally.”
3. Trump has repeatedly suggested that he might remain in office after a second term and has offered reason to doubt he’d leave peacefully after this first term. “Under the normal rules, I’ll be out in 2024, so we may have to go for an extra term,” he said at a rally last September. A year earlier, he remarked, “President for life . . . maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday.” It’s a joke he’s tossed off on several occasions, and the power of suggestion is so strong in Trump and his followers that Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and former Trump attorney Michael Cohen have all expressed serious concern that Trump may try to steal the election or contest the results, and not leave the White House if he loses.
4. Trump appears to believe he has the power to outlaw speech critical of him, and he calls the free press “the enemy of the people.” He tweeted of the New York Times and The Washington Post: “They are both a disgrace to our Country, the Enemy of the People.” Former national security adviser John Bolton, in his new book, claims that Trump said of journalists: “These people should be executed. They are scumbags.”
5. With Fox News promoting Trump’s lies as truth, the president controls one of the most powerful propaganda machines ever created. During the impeachment trial, for example, Fox hosts repeatedly attacked the character and mental faculties of Democratic representatives and sworn witnesses, while focusing almost exclusively on the testimony of pro-Trump Republicans. When it did show footage of Democrats and witnesses, the network frequently used voice-overs to explain or interpret what was being said, rather than broadcasting what was actually being said.
6. Trump believes that he has the power to do what he wants, regardless of Congress or the courts. “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president,” he has said. He has also claimed to have the “absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department” and, in the event the judiciary branch disagreed, “the absolute right to PARDON myself.” His attorney general, William Barr, and his own lawyers have made clear that this is the administration’s position as they have rejected both congressional and criminal subpoenas for information during the past few years. Their arguments — including an assertion to a federal appellate court last October that the president could shoot someone in the middle of New York’s Fifth Avenue and still be immune from prosecution until he left office — came crashing down with a Supreme Court decision Thursday. “We cannot conclude that absolute immunity is necessary or appropriate under Article II or the Supremacy Clause,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote.
7. Trump acts as if he owns our government and can fire any official who defends the law. He has dismissed an FBI director and a deputy FBI director, as well as five inspectors general and U.S. attorneys, all of whom were investigating or considering either his abuse of power or the alleged crimes of his cronies. This past week, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who served as a national security aide at the White House until earlier this year and was up for a promotion, resigned from the military, citing “bullying, intimidation, and retaliation” after he testified under oath to Congress counter to Trump’s interests.
8. Trump uses federal prosecutorial powers to investigate his opponents and anyone who dares scrutinize him or his allies for the many crimes they may have committed. After the Mueller investigation of Russia’s role in the 2016 election, Trump’s Justice Department began a criminal probe into the origins of the inquiry — to, in Trump’s words, “investigate the investigators.” He tried to get the Justice Department to prosecute former FBI director James Comey and Hillary Clinton.
9. Trump viciously attacks his critics and has publicly implied that the Ukraine whistleblower should be hanged for treason. During a speech to diplomatic staffers in New York last September, Trump said: “I want to know who’s the person who gave the whistleblower the information? Because that’s close to a spy. You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart? Right? The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now.”
10. Trump has messianic delusions that are supported with religious fervor by millions of his supporters. He has “jokingly” looked up to the sky and said, “I am the chosen one” in relation to negotiations with China. Then-Energy Secretary Rick Perry echoed other evangelicals who’ve said that Trump was sent by God to do great things when he seriously proclaimed that Trump is the “chosen one.” A Guardian report described the evangelical response to Trump’s photo op in front of Lafayette Square’s St. John’s Episcopal Church, which many viewed positively: One evangelical supporter was so moved that she began speaking in tongues when she saw the footage, according to her son.
11. Trump subscribes to a doctrine of genetic superiority and incites racial hatred to scapegoat immigrants and gain power. He has rallied his base with dog-whistle attacks, calling Mexicans rapists and criminals. When he attacked a group of progressive members of Congress from diverse backgrounds, he stated that they should go back to the places they came from. Over the years Trump has frequently praised his “winning” genes, at one point telling an interviewer, “I’m proud to have that German blood — there’s no question about it.”
12. Trump finds common ground with the world’s most ruthless dictators while denigrating America’s democratic allies. The oppressive leaders he has praised include North Korea’s Kim Jong Un (“He gets it. He totally gets it”); the Philippines’s Rodrigo Duterte (“What a great job you are doing”); Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman (“You have done a spectacular job”); and, of course, Russia’s Vladimir Putin (“You know what? Putin’s fine. He’s fine”). Meanwhile, he has attacked traditional U.S. alliances and allies, like NATO and Germany’s Angela Merkel (“Stupid”).
Postby modern roots » Sat Jul 11, 5:16 am
Rudy wrote: July 10, 2020 at 10:04 a.m. CDT
It's Obama's fault.
Postby Rudy » Sat Jul 11, 3:00 pm
"As we are experiencing firsthand, you cannot fight the pandemic with lies and disinformation any more than you can fight it with hate or incitement to hatred. The limits of populism and denial of basic truths are being laid bare."
- Angela Merkel -
- 9 July 2020 -
Postby modern roots » Sat Jul 11, 5:24 pm
Obama the dictator.
(o)(o)
Postby slither » Sat Jul 11, 7:21 pm
(. )( .)
Postby modern roots » Sun Jul 12, 12:59 am
Obama the dictator made you two do that.
Postby slither » Sun Jul 12, 3:29 pm
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The pink and white blooms of a Saucer magnolia added a bit of color to a row of boxwood shrubs, March 23, 2008, along the Colonnade at the White House.
Courtesy George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum (P032308CG-0042)
The White House is more than just a beautiful building. For more than 200 years, it has been both the home and the office for the Commander in Chief of the United States and a symbol of our democracy. The only private residence of a Head of State open free of charge to the public, the White House is also the people’s house. The building and grounds are open for tours and its press areas broadcast news to the world. The White House has also served as a gathering place in both times of national celebration and times of mourning.
The history of the White House begins with an Act of Congress, signed by George Washington in December of 1790, which determined that the seat of government would be settled in the District of Columbia. President Washington worked with Pierre L’Enfant, the city planner, to choose a location for the Presidential residence. James Hoban, an Irish-born architect, was chosen to design the home, having produced the best proposal.
President George W. Bush and Mrs Laura Bush participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open the newly renovated James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, July 11, 2007, at the White House.
Courtesy George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum (P071107ED-0337)
The cornerstone was laid in October of 1792 and President Washington oversaw construction. The building took nearly 8 years to complete so President Washington never got the chance to live in the home he had such a large part in producing. Instead, the honor of becoming the first residents went to John and Abigail Adams. Since the Adams, each President and his family have added their touch to this grand home. Following Adams, President Jefferson opened the White House for public tours, a tradition that has remained in practice ever since, except during war time.
Even though the building was completed in 1800, it had to wait a century, under President Theodore Roosevelt, for its name to be formalized as “The White House.” Before then, it was called many other things, including “The President’s House” and “The Executive Mansion.” This name change preceded Roosevelt’s own renovation of the White House, extending the living quarters for his large family.
The White House has also survived two fires, the first set by the British during the War of 1812 and the second in the West Wing during the Hoover Administration. Both of these events triggered repairs and renovations, but the most comprehensive renovation was initiated by President Truman who had the entire structure gutted, rebuilding it for modern use. He also added a balcony to the Yellow Oval Room on the south face of the White House. This initially controversial addition has been used by Presidents to entertain dignitaries and celebrities for the beautiful view it affords. Even with the extensive renovations, the exterior stone walls remain original, standing the test of more than 200 years.
When the Kennedys came to the White House in 1961, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy was surprised and saddened that so few historic furnishings remained. Instead of focusing on modernizing like the previous renovations, she recognized the importance of the historic character of the White House and embarked on a restoration. She formed a Fine Arts Committee to assist her in acquiring authentic period pieces. Americans rose to the call and donations arrived, including three original chairs from President Monroe’s Oval Room.
Under President George W. Bush, several important renovations to the White House were completed. In 2006 and 2007, the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room and the White House Situation Room were renovated and modernized. The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is now home to the original Situation Room, which is used as a classroom to help educate and inspire future leaders.
About the Gardens and Grounds
Flowers bloomed on April 14, 2003 in the Rose Garden of the White House.
Courtesy George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum (F5839-09)
President Washington did not just plan construction of the building, but also recognized the importance of the gardens surrounding the residence and proceeded to buy the land that would become the south lawn. This lawn has been used for all types of events since, and is currently where the President welcomes Heads of State.
It was President Adams, the first resident, who was able to plan the first garden. Since then, Presidents and First Ladies have worked to cultivate gardens fit for welcoming Heads of State and for Presidential speeches to the Nation.
Thomas Jefferson redesigned the gardens and was the first to plant groves of trees. Though the trees he planted have not survived, his concept did and now the grounds are tree-lined. Many American traditions were started using the grounds. The Easter Egg Roll, originally conducted on the Capitol grounds, was moved to the South Lawn by Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878. In 2001, President Bush launched Tee Ball on the South Lawn to encourage fitness among America’s youth and promote our national pastime to people of all ages.
In 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt commissioned the famous architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to redesign the gardens, and this layout remains the framework for the grounds today. President Kennedy had the Rose Garden, conveniently located just outside the West Wing, redesigned so as to be able to hold public events. Since then, Presidents have continued to use this beautiful space to hold events and give important speeches. The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum pays tribute to the importance of the Rose Garden through a recreation that can be visited during the museum tour.
White House History
The White House under President Bush
Brady Press Room Renovation
The White House Gardens
About the Presidency
George W. Bush FAQ
The First Lady & Her Role
Laura Bush FAQ
Barney & Miss Beazley
Barney & Miss Beazley FAQ
Presidential Trivia
First Ladies Trivia
Life in the White House
Dining & Diplomacy Gallery
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Nancy Pelosi Re-elected as House Speaker
U.S. Senate passes $2 trillion emergency relief bill to stabilize economy devastated by coronavirus pandemic
T-Mobile to offer $15 phone plan, free 5G service, other freebies to remove hurdle on Sprint merger deal
AT&T to pay $60 million to settle FTC complaint over its unlimited data plans
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Yahoo Shows Signs of Progress as 2Q Revenue Increases 5.2 Percent
July 18, 2016 July 18, 2016 Marivic Cabural Summers
Yahoo! Inc (NASDAQ:YHOO) reported a 5.2% increase in revenue for the second quarter, a sign that the company is making progress in turning around its business.
Earlier this year, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced an aggressive strategic plan including job cuts, office closures and other initiatives to accelerate the company’s transformation towards growth and profitability.
The company is currently in the process of selling its search and advertising business, and it is expected to select the final bidder on July 18. Some of the bidders include Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ), TP Capital, and a group of investors led by Dan Gilbert, the founder of Quicken Loans and is supported by Warren Buffett.
Yahoo second-quarter financial results
Yahoo posted $1.308 billion in revenue for the second quarter, up from $1.234 billion in the same period a year earlier. Its Mavens revenue was $504 million and Non-Mavens revenue was $749 million.
According to the company, its total traffic-driven revenue was $1.235 billion and non-traffic driven revenue was $55 million.
Its GAAP display revenue was $470 million; the number of Ads sold increased 9% and the price-per-ad declined 15%.
Yahoo’s GAAP search revenue was $711 million; the number of paid clicks declined by 24% and the price-per-click rose 8%.
Yahoo reported that its loss from operations was $490 million and non-GAAP income from operations was $39 million. Its net loss was $440 million or $0.46 per share. Its adjusted earnings were $0.09 per share compared with $0.10 per share expected by analysts.
The company wrote down non-cash goodwill impairment charge of $395 million related to its Tumblr unit. As of June 30, Yahoo has $7.66 billion in cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities, up from $6.83 billion on Dec 31, 2015.
Yahoo Board focused on delivering shareholder value
In a statement, Mayer said, “With the lowest cost structure and headcount in a decade, we continue to make solid progress against our 2016 plan. Through disciplined expense management and focused execution, we delivered Q2 results that met guidance across the board and in some areas exceeded it.”
She added that the company’s Board “has made a great progress on strategic alternatives. We are relentlessly focused on delivering shareholder value.”
Yahoo generated additional value for shareholders by selling its real estate in Santa Clara. Its net cash proceeds from the transaction were $246 million.
The company established Excalibur LLC to explore the divestiture of more than 4,000 non-strategic patents and pending applications.
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Introducing Chitrangada to a global audience
Dance, Films, Tagore, Tagore dance 3 Responses »
Final scene of Chitrangada
First of all, let me introduce this 36-second introductory trailer for our film version of Chitrangada, which was designed by our friend Enrique Nicanor and Obhi:
As you’ll see, the trailer announces the global premiere of Chitrangada on 23/24 September 2012. Why two dates, you may be wondering? And what does ‘global premiere’ mean?
Well, Chitrangada is the third and final film in our Tagore dance film trilogy. The world premiere of Shyama was organised by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in May 2009. The world premiere of Chandalika was also organised by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in May 2011, at the end of their special Tagore weekend to mark the 150th birth anniversary.
Preparing these three films, and particularly translating Tagore’s poetic Bengali into English for their subtitles, has made us realise that the international opera and classical ballet scene comprises a fairly limited repertoire of (Western) works. However, Chandalika, Chitrangada and Shyama would fit very easily into this repertoire … if only they were more accessible to Western audiences.
My tour of Shyama in Egypt earlier this year, sponsored by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, included several of the dancers who performed in Chitrangada.
With Enrique at the Giza Pyramids
We performed Shyama with a specially adapted version of the soundtrack from our film version of it, projecting its English and Arabic captions and subtitles above the stage. The performances were greatly appreciated by the audiences, mainly because we made them accessible to an international audience.
The intention underlying Tagore’s dance innovation was to make his Bengali poetry accessible to audiences across cultural and linguistic frontiers. Unfortunately, although the dance-dramas are widely staged for Bengali audiences, few non-Bengalis were aware of them, or indeed the Tagore dance form, before we completed Shyama. Over 70 years after his death, the possibilities of digital distribution created by the Internet now allow us to help him achieve this objective.
This is why we thought of doing something special to launch Chitrangada and celebrate the completion of the Tagore dance film trilogy. We’d liked the idea of a global premiere ever since seeing how the environmental film Age of Stupid organised one almost three years ago, centred on a live event in New York.
I’m still finalising the details but here’s what we have in mind. The central event will be a charity gala premiere at the heart of Europe, at a major hall in Brussels, Belgium, on the evening of Sunday, 23 September. This should not only give our friends a chance to have their ‘red carpet moment’ but also help to raise some money for the Sishutirtha children’s home and school in Santiniketan, which is run according to Tagore’s educational principles.
I used to be a volunteer dance teacher at Sishutirtha and, through our dance director and production designer Shubhra Tagore, Sishuthirtha provided some elements of the costumes for Chitrangada. Supriyo Tagore and Shubhra Tagore, who both kindly took part in Chitrangada, helped to found Sishutirtha to restore basic rights to children.
Before the film, there will be a 1-hour live show The story of Gitanjali, marking the 100th anniversary of Tagore completing the English Gitanjali in September 1912. Obhi will direct a special, stage version of the show we presented in the garden of Shakespeare’s Birthplace to celebrate Tagore’s 151st birthday in May. We’re hoping that an internationally well-known actor will take on the role of the narrator.
In the same way that opera, ballet, theatre and concert performances are relayed live to cinemas around the world, the live show will be relayed to venues around the world and then the film will be shown with the subtitles in the local language. A US firm is making the premiere available to screens not only in cinemas but also in museums, libraries and colleges. Of course, it’s only realistic for people to watch the premiere live if they are in Europe or West of Europe. For those in countries East of Europe, such as in Australia, the premiere will have to be on Monday, 24 September.
If you’d like to help us bring the art of Tagore’s work to the whole world by being part of the global premiere, please comment on this post.
Posted by kaberi at 4:05 pm Tagged with: Arjun, ballet, Bangla, Bangladesh, Bengali, chandalika, chatterjee, chitrangada, dance, drama, global, India, kaberi, Mahabharata, Nibedita, opera, premiere, Rabindrasangeet, Santiniketan, Sen, shyama, Sourav, Subhra, tagore, trailer, Visva-Bharati
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AztecLady does Shiloh Walker’s, The Missing
Posted in: AztecLady Reviews, I love that bitch like a fat kid loves cake
Tags:The Missing
The Missing, by Shiloh Walker
Coming out on November 4th from Berkley, The Missing is my current favorite of the novels by Ms Walker that I’ve read so far. Honestly, I think her writing improves with every work she puts out.
The Missing explores the realm of paranormal, or psychic, abilities, and whether they can be harnessed and used as tools, as well as the toll such gifts can take on those who possess them. It is perhaps not a coincidence that foresight, psychometry, and other paranormal powers have been long branded as “curses.”
The back cover blurb:
Love lost
As a teenager, Taige Branch was able to do things with her psychic gift that others couldn’t understand—except for Cullen Morgan, the boy who stole her heart. He did his best to accept her abilities, until his mother was brutally murdered—and he couldn’t forgive Taige for not preventing her death.
Passion found
Now a widowed father, Cullen Morgan has never forgotten Taige. But what brings her back into his life is another tragic event. His beloved little girl has been kidnapped, and Taige is his only hope of finding her.
A love that never died
Working together against the clock, Cullen and Taige can’t help but wonder whether—if they find his daughter in time—it isn’t too late for the overpowering love that still burns between them…
Are You As Excited Today As I Am?
Posted in: American Politics
TTG and I will be staying up all night again to watch the results come in, just like we did in 2004, back at a time when I thought Bush was a better prospect than Kerry. Oh how times have changed. TTG wants McCain to win, and I of course want Obama to be the next POTUS.
Anyhoo, for people who aren’t sure what the candidate’s positions are on key issues, here’s a great synopsis drawn up by one of the editors at Yahoo UK:
1. Economy
McCain: Pledges to maintain and even extend tax cuts put in place under President Bush. He has promised to balance the budget by the end of his first term in 2013 and has unveiled a 300 billion-dollar “McCain Resurgence Plan” to buy up bad home loans from homeowners and mortgage servicers, and replace them with fixed-rate mortgages, enabling families to stay in their homes.
Obama: Promises to cut taxes for working class families and low-income homes earning less than 75,000 dollars a year, while raising taxes for those homes with an average income of more than 250,000 dollars per year. Obama says 95 percent of Americans would see their taxes lowered or unchanged. He has proposed a 50 billion dollar fund to jumpstart the economy and save more than a million Americans from losing their jobs.
McCain: A fervent supporter of the US surge launched in 2007. He has vowed “no surrender” and has said he is convinced that Washington is winning the war against the insurgency. He believes it would be a mistake to leave Iraq before Al-Qaeda in Iraq is defeated and before a properly trained Iraqi security force is in place. When Iraqi troops can safeguard their country, then US troops can go home.
Obama: Said he was against the war in 2002 and has vowed to end the conflict and begin to withdraw the troops immediately. He says military commanders believe US troops can be withdrawn from Iraq at the rate of one or two brigades a month. That would take 16 months, until mid-2010. A residual force would remain in Iraq for counter-insurgency missions and to protect American personnel, but Obama is opposed to establishing permanent bases.
3. Energy
McCain: Wants to expand America’s offshore drilling and promote and expand the use of domestic supplies of natural gas. Also wants to limit carbon gas emissions but has set a modest goal of cutting them by two-thirds by 2050. He wants to build 45 nuclear energy plants, and is opposed to federal support for clean energy. McCain will also issue a Clean Car Challenge with a 5,000 dollar tax credit for every customer who buys a zero carbon emission car. He will also commit two billion a year to promoting clean coal initiatives.
Obama: Wants to limit carbon gas emissions and has fixed the goal of reducing greenhouse gases by 80 percent before 2050. He wants to pump 150 billion dollars into the research of clean energy over the next 10 years. Now supports after initially opposing limited US offshore drilling. Within 10 years, he wants to save more oil than is currently imported from the Middle East and Venezuela and create some five million green collar jobs. Obama also wants one million plug-in hybrid cars which can get 150 miles to the gallon on the roads by 2015.
McCain: Has called for Russia to be excluded from the Group of Eight most industrialised nations and criticised former president and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as “a dangerous man.”
Obama: Has denounced “Russian aggression” in Georgia and says pressure has to be kept up on Moscow to be more transparent and democratic. He says he will address the challenges posed by a resurgent Russia with a strategy which will encompass the entire region.
McCain: Believes health care should be made more accessible, and believes this can be achieved by increasing competition in the market-place among insurers. He thus proposes replacing a tax break on employer-sponsored health plans with a 5,000 dollar tax credit enabling working Americans to shop around for coverage. He also proposes greater oversight of insurance and pharmaceutical companies to prevent them from profiting unreasonably at the expense of consumers.
Obama: Wants all Americans to be covered by a universal health care plan. His plan, based on incentives and cost cuts, would be voluntary but oblige parents to insure their children. He also wants to require insurance companies to cover pre-existing health conditions, and provide a small business tax credit to help them afford protection for all employees.
McCain: Says “there is only one thing worse than military action and that is a nuclear-armed Iran.” He is against any presidential-level talks, which he believes would only lend legitimacy to the regime’s hardliners. He would like to tighten sanctions, mostly economic, outside the UN sphere if necessary.
Obama: Is in favor of launching a dialogue with Iran, without pre-conditions as he says it represents a serious threat to the Middle East region and the United States. He has indicated talks would begin at a lower level first. He says if Tehran abandons its nuclear program and support for terrorism, the US would offer incentives like membership in the World Trade Organization, economic investments, and a move toward normal diplomatic relations.
7. Immigration
McCain: Was a key mover in 2006 legislation to try to regularize the situation of illegal immigrants, but insists on the need to secure the borders before any other reforms can be carried out.
Obama: Supports immigration reform which boosts border controls while legalizing under certain conditions the 12 million illegal immigrants already in the United States.
Good yes? OK, now go off and vote, before it’s too late if you haven’t already.
Now, from a personal point of view, let’s hope that the people who say they are going to vote for Obama, actually vote for him once they get into the voting booth, or this could be an absolute disaster for the Democrats. Also I couldn’t possibly bear TTG’s smugness if Mccain was to win. Urrgghh.
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Cristiano Ronaldo: What one can learn from a great player with great attributes
Shashank Vyas
There are many who say Cristiano Ronaldo is not the best player. He is below Lionel Messi. But for his fans, he is the best and among the all-time best. He is a great player with great attributes. You may be his hater or fan, but there are many things you can learn from this legend.
Ronaldo worked on his skills. He trained his body to become a superior specimen and honing his football skills to perfection with endless hours of training. If you want to stand on world celebrity platform, then you have to make sacrifices, work hard, never give up. You’ve to be willing to do things that others won’t, go the extra mile. Only then will you be the best at what you do.
Each one of us is endowed with a talent and Cristiano Ronaldo’s was playing football. Even at a very early age, his passion for football was already very evident. He lived and breathed football, often skipping meals just to have time to play the sport. During times when he was supposed to be doing his homework, he would sneak out a window with a ball and head out to the football field.
Passion for what we do certainly matters. Some even consider it as an investment in a chosen career. Although we might not go to the extent of skipping meals like Ronaldo did, passion certainly allows us to bring more of “us” into an endeavor. It makes us more creative, energized, confident and persistent – qualities that contribute positively to the path of success.
Make sacrifices
He left his home in Portugal as a young boy to play football in Manchester when he was just a young teenager. He probably works out harder than any footballer in the world to be where he is. Unlike many of his teammates, he never drinks or smokes, never ever, because he knows the damage alcohol can do to the body of an athlete. He barely ever indulges himself, living the life of an extremely highly paid prisoner so that his body remains in prime condition and it shows. In fact, his former teammate Wayne Rooney was believed to have been more naturally talented of the two and actually outshone him in the initial years and while Wayne Rooney’s still world class, he simply can’t hold a candle to Ronaldo because he couldn’t apply himself to his art to the same level. Life often gives us lots of options. Hit the gym or have a beer while watching telly? Work on the report tomorrow or join the gang for a night out? The point is you need to take a call on what you’re willing to do to achieve success because being the best requires sacrifices. You can’t be a dilettante and expect to be the best.
Never gives up
Soccer greatness was not handed to Cristiano Ronaldo on a silver platter. In fact, if we are to look at his childhood, we would say that his opportunities were very limited. His family was poor and his father was a drunkard. As a result, his mother had to keep two jobs just to feed the family.
Despite these, Ronaldo never did let go of his dreams of playing football. He did not even let his father’s heavy drinking sway him. Instead, it disciplined him to never touch alcohol in his life. His struggles did not end even after he turned pro. His father died and his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. When he was with the English football club, Manchester United, his commitment was put under question when he was about to transfer to Real Madrid, another football club based in Spain. Nevertheless, Ronaldo refused to be thrown off course by his situation and never wavered on his focus as a football player. Instead, he looked upon the challenges as stepping stones to be the best.
Stay one step ahead of your competitors
Over the years, Ronaldo has adopted his game so that he can score goals from anywhere in the opposition’s half. Ronaldo trains rigorously so that he is always one step ahead of his opponents.
He initially was the king of step-overs. Then, when the opposition started to figure out his moves, he improved his game in different areas.
How do you stay ahead of the game? What is your strategy to keep improving yourself so that your competitors will not be able to predict your next moves?
Keep on improving
And the scariest part about Ronaldo is you get the impression that he’s not done. That he’s actually going to get better and better. Born in the same generation as Messi, these two stalwarts have simply redefined the game with goal-scoring stats that are just unfathomable. They’ve pushed the bar so high that both are now talked off as the greatest to ever play the game (though they still have to win cups for their countries). Ronaldo realizes that it’s not over. ‘Ronaldo improves every day. Look at his numbers three years ago and you think, ‘It’s impossible he can do better,’ and then you look at him this year and he’s done better again. He’s always improving and because of that, he is the best.’ No matter whereyou’ve reached in life, there’s always the possibility to go one better.
At 28, you get the feeling that despite all the accolades and the personal and team awards, the mythical Cristiano Ronaldo story isn’t over by any stretch of the imagination and all of us can hope that neither is ours, because if one human being can do it, then others are capable of it.
Lionel Messi Cristiano Ronaldo
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The Book of Armagh (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 52) is a ninth century Irish manuscript. It is also known as the Canon of Patrick and the Liber Ar(d)machanus. It contains some of the oldest surviving specimens of Gaelic.
The manuscript was thought to have belonged to St. Patrick and, at least in part, to be a product of his hand. Research has determined that at least part, if not all, of the manuscript was the work of scribe named Ferdomnach of Armagh (died 845 or 846). Ferdomnach wrote the first part of the book in 807 or 808.
There are 221 folios of vellum. It measures 7.75 inches by 5.75 inches. The text is written in two columns in a fine pointed insular minuscule. The manuscript contains four miniatures, one each of the four Evangelist's symbols. Some of the letters have been colored red, yellow, green, or black. The manuscript is associated with a tooled-leather satchel, believed to be of great antiquity.
The manuscript contains important early texts relating to St. Patrick. These include two Lives of St. Patrick, one by Muirchu Maccu Machteni and one by Tirechan. Both texts were originally written in the seventh century. The manuscript also includes other miscellaneous works about St. Patrick including the "Liber Angueli" (or the Book of the Angel)., in which St. Patrick is given the primatial rights of Armagh by an angel. Some of these texts are in Gaelic and are the earliest surviving continuous prose narratives in that language. The only Gaelic language texts of greater age are some fragmentary glosses found in manuscripts on the continent.
The manuscript also includes significant portions of the New Testament including the Epistles of St. Paul, the Epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude, the Book of Revelations, and the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, John, and Luke. There is also prefatory matter including prefaces to Paul's Epistles (most of which are by Pelagius), the Canon Tables of Eusebius, and St. Jerome's letter to Damasus. The manuscript closes with the "Life of St. Martin of Tours", by Sulpicius Severus. The New Testament texts are based on the Vulgate, but with variations characteristic of insular texts.
The people of medieval Ireland placed a great value on this manuscript. It was one of the symbols of the office for the Archbishop of Armagh. The custodianship of the book was an important office that eventually became hereditary in the MacMoyre family. It remained in the hand of the MacMoyre family until the late seventeenth century. By 1707 it was in the possession of the Brownlow family of Lurgan. It remained in the Brownlow family until 1853 when it was sold to the an Irish antiquary, Dr. Reeves. In 1853, Reeves sold it to the Anglican Primate of Ireland, who presented it to Trinity College.
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Joseph W. Lane1
Joseph W. Lane married Mary Elizabeth Rollier.1
Child of Joseph W. Lane and Mary Elizabeth Rollier
Dr. Frank Lesley Lane+1 b. 2 Jun 1863, d. 1 Jul 1911
Josiah Lane
M, b. 6 July 1736, d. 13 August 1813
Josiah Lane was born on 6 July 1736 at Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA. He was the son of Ebenezer Lane and Mary Leavitt. Josiah Lane married Lucy Tower on 27 November 1760 at Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA. Josiah Lane died on 13 August 1813 at Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA, at age 77.
Lenora L. Lane
F, b. July 1891
Lenora L. Lane was born in July 1891 at Columbus, Franklin Co., OH. She was the daughter of Frank Lane and Emma Hawkins.
Lydia Lane
F, b. 29 August 1727, d. 25 August 1746
Lydia Lane was born on 29 August 1727 at Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA. She was the daughter of Ebenezer Lane and Mary Leavitt. Lydia Lane died on 25 August 1746 at Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA, at age 18.
Maria Lane
F, b. circa 1808, d. March 1883
Maria Lane was born circa 1808 at Pennsylvania.1 She was the daughter of John Lane and Nancy Ann Geach. Maria Lane married William Howland on 4 March 1832 at Morgan Co., OH. Maria Lane died in March 1883 at Logan Co., IL, OBITUARY - Maria (Lane) Howland (mother of Allen T. Howland), Granville Times, Granville (OH), March 30, 1883, page 3:
The remains of Mrs. Maria Howland, who died last Monday, In Chestnut, Ill., were brought to Granville for interment, reaching here Wednesday, about half past twelve o'clock. Funeral services were held in the Episcopal Church, Rev. W. C. P. Rhoads officiating, after which the corpse was interred in Maple Grove Cemetery. A large number of sympathising friends from here, Newark, Union Station and other places attended the funeral. Mrs. Howland was about 75 years of age, and was well known here, and highly respected by all. She was the mother of ex-sheriff Howland, of Newark, and John Howland of Granville. We tender or sympathies to the relatives in their sad bereavement.
Child of Maria Lane and William Howland
Allen Temple Howland+ b. c 1834, d. 12 Jan 1894
[S1388] 1850 Federal Census, Muskingum County, Ohio. Microfilm Image, NARA Series M432, Roll 717.
Mary Lane
F, b. 29 September 1671, d. 11 December 1715
Mary Lane was born on 29 September 1671. She married Caleb Bates. Mary Lane died on 11 December 1715 at age 44.
Child of Mary Lane and Caleb Bates
Mary Bates+ b. 26 May 1694, d. 29 Feb 1768
F, b. 16 June 1723
Mary Lane was born on 16 June 1723 at Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA. She was the daughter of Ebenezer Lane and Mary Leavitt. Mary Lane married Dr. Daniel French, son of Stephen French and Abigail Beal, on 3 January 1744 at Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA.
Mary Lane1
F, b. February 1897
Mary Lane was born in February 1897 at Missouri.1 She was the daughter of James Edgar Lane and Loretta A. Stover.1
[S1838] 1900 Federal Census, Linn County, Missouri. Microfilm Image, NARA T623, Roll 871; FHL #1240871.
Mary Alice Lane1
F, b. 11 March 1870, d. 10 August 1935
Mary Alice Lane was born on 11 March 1870 at Missouri.1 She was the daughter of James J. Lane and Mary Frances Smith. Mary Alice Lane married John William West on 28 August 1887. Mary Alice Lane married George Washington Davis, son of John Davis and Margaret Moore, on 19 November 1896.1 Mary Alice Lane died on 10 August 1935 at age 65. She was buried in August 1935 at Evergreen Cemetery, Braymer, Caldwell Co., MO, Find A Grave Memorial# 52266341.
Child of Mary Alice Lane and John William West
Minnie West1 b. Apr 1891
Child of Mary Alice Lane and George Washington Davis
Gertie Davis1 b. May 1897
[S950] 1900 Federal Census, Caldwell County, Missouri. Microfilm Image, NARA Series T623, Roll 844; FHL #1240844.
Mary Isabelle Lane
F, b. January 1889
Mary Isabelle Lane was born in January 1889 at Newark, Licking Co., OH. She was the daughter of Frank Lane and Emma Hawkins. Mary Isabelle Lane married Arthur S. Thompson on 22 October 1914.
Mary Jo Lane
F, b. 2 November 1939, d. 26 May 2018
Mary Jo Lane was born on 2 November 1939 at Elk City, Beckham Co., OK. She was the daughter of Albert Wilburn Lane and Eva Jo Mitchell. Mary Jo Lane married Kenneth Barton Howell, son of Morris Barton Howell and Bernice Dorothy Calhoun, on 5 May 1955. Mary Jo Lane died on 26 May 2018 at age 78
Obituary -- (Findagrave.com):
Mary Jo Lane Howell was called home to be with her maker on May 26, 2018.
She was born to Albert and Eva Jo Lane on November 2, 1939 in Elk City, Oklahoma.
Mary Jo was a lifelong resident of Big Spring, Texas after marrying her true love, Kenneth Howell on May 5, 1955.
She was a homemaker who loved her family, Jesus, and hot coffee!
Mary Jo enjoyed spoiling her grandchildren, cooking, and going to church. She was a long-time member of First Baptist Church in Big Spring.
Mary Jo was preceded in death by her loving husband, Kenneth Howell, her parents, a son, Michael Howell, a sister, Shirley Dennis, and a grandson, Joshua Howell.
She is survived by her daughter, Rebecca Winters, and her husband, Roger; two sons, Gary Howell, and Terry Howell and his wife, Kelley, all of Big Spring; an older brother, Jack Lane, a younger sister, Suzanne Harrison, a younger brother, Justin Lane; five grandchildren, Sydney Winters, Amy Winters, Michael Hope Howell, Samuel Howell, Sheena Howell; one great-granddaughter, Marin Howell, and one adopted granddaughter, Angela Griffin; and several nieces and nephews; and her best friend of 63 years, Gwen Faulkner.
A special thank you to the staff at Parkview Nursing and Rehabilitation for the wonderful care that was given to our loved one.
A funeral service will be held at 2:00 PM Wednesday, May 30, 2018, at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch Chapel with interment to follow in Trinity Memorial Park. There will be a viewing from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM on Wednesday at Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to First Baptist Church in Big Spring in memory of Mary Jo Howell.
Arrangements under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home of Big Spring. Condolences may be sent at: www.NPWelch.com.
She was buried on 30 May 2018 at Trinity Memorial Park, Big Spring, Howard Co., TX, Findagrave #190166002.
Milton La Clair Lane
M, b. 16 January 1910, d. 4 January 1980
Milton La Clair Lane was born on 16 January 1910 at Black Hawk Co., IA. He was the son of John Lane and (?) Kirkpatrick. Milton La Clair Lane married Arlene Jeanette Huppert, daughter of James Earl Monroe Huppert and Mary Jane Healy, on 4 March 1938 at Lancaster, Schuyler Co., MO. Milton La Clair Lane died on 4 January 1980 at Waterloo, Black Hawk Co., IA, at age 69.
Child of Milton La Clair Lane and Arlene Jeanette Huppert
Robert La Clair Lane+ b. 26 May 1939, d. 4 Sep 1970
Nancy Durinda Lane
F, b. 19 April 1861, d. 17 May 1940
Nancy Durinda Lane was born on 19 April 1861 at Scott Co., VA. She married Charles Lee Bear, son of Samuel Kennerly Bear and Susannah Nancy Wood, on 6 November 1881 at Nodaway Co., MO. Nancy Durinda Lane died on 17 May 1940 at Seely, Crook Co., WY, at age 79.
Child of Nancy Durinda Lane and Charles Lee Bear
Maude Elsie Bear+ b. 30 Sep 1886, d. 26 Dec 1952
Richard Lane
M, b. 1812, d. 1892
Richard Lane was born in 1812 at Pennsylvania.1 He was the son of John Lane and Nancy Ann Geach. Richard Lane married Elizabeth Horne. Richard Lane died in 1892 at Granville, Licking Co., OH. He was buried in 1892 at Maple Grove Cemetery, Granville, Licking Co., OH.
Child of Richard Lane and Elizabeth Horne
Hannah Minerva Lane+ b. 2 Apr 1835, d. 29 Jul 1918
[S281] 1880 Federal Census, Licking County, Ohio. Microfilm Image, NARA Series T9, Roll 1040; FHL #1255040.
Robert Lane
M, d. before 2018
Robert Lane was born. He was the son of Harry Mervin Morris Lane and Gladys Adeline Parrett. Robert Lane died before 2018.
Robert La Clair Lane
M, b. 26 May 1939, d. 4 September 1970
Robert La Clair Lane was born on 26 May 1939 at La Porte City, Black Hawk Co., IA. He was the son of Milton La Clair Lane and Arlene Jeanette Huppert. Robert La Clair Lane died on 4 September 1970 at La Porte City, Black Hawk Co., IA, at age 31.
Sarah Lane
F, b. 4 December 1692, d. 16 June 1726
Sarah Lane was born on 4 December 1692 at Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA. She was the daughter of Ebenezer Lane and Hannah Hersey. Sarah Lane married Elisha Leavitt, son of Israel Leavitt and Lydia Jackson, on 24 January 1712 at Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA. Sarah Lane died on 16 June 1726 at Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA, at age 33.
Children of Sarah Lane and Elisha Leavitt
Elisha Leavitt+ b. 1 Mar 1713, d. 30 Jun 1790
Nehemiah Leavitt b. 21 Nov 1721, d. 1771
Sarah Lane was born on 20 April 1726 at Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA. She was the daughter of Ebenezer Lane and Mary Leavitt. Sarah Lane married Simon Stodder on 22 October 1755.
Theodore Lane1
M, b. December 1892
Theodore Lane was born in December 1892 at Missouri.1 He was the son of James Edgar Lane and Loretta A. Stover.1
Theodore Horace Lane
M, b. 3 November 1901, d. 8 February 2001
Theodore Horace Lane was born on 3 November 1901 at El Dorado, Butler Co., KS, WW II draft registration. He married Jeannette Wells. Theodore Horace Lane died on 8 February 2001 at age 99. He was buried in February 2001 at Pacific View Memorial Park, Corona del Mar, Orange Co., CA, Findagrave #50668265.
Child of Theodore Horace Lane and Jeannette Wells
Gail Elizabeth Lane+ b. 5 May 1937, d. 18 Jan 2001
Anna Jane Laney
F, b. 30 March 1867, d. 4 October 1908
Anna Jane Laney was born on 30 March 1867 at Savannah, MO. She was the daughter of David H. Laney and Martha Waugh Culbertson. Anna Jane Laney married Harrie B. Triem Sr., son of Peter Andrew Triem and Mary Ann McBride, on 19 March 1891. Anna Jane Laney died on 4 October 1908 at St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., MO, at age 41.
Children of Anna Jane Laney and Harrie B. Triem Sr.
Martha Faye Triem+ b. 10 Aug 1895, d. 1 Jun 1943
Leona Belle Triem b. 30 Jul 1901, d. 16 Apr 1988
Harrie B. Triem Jr.+ b. 7 May 1903, d. 16 Nov 1989
David H. Laney
M, b. 15 December 1821, d. 28 October 1916
David H. Laney was born on 15 December 1821 at Pennsylvania. He married Martha Waugh Culbertson on 7 July 1857. David H. Laney died on 28 October 1916 at age 94.
Child of David H. Laney and Martha Waugh Culbertson
Anna Jane Laney+ b. 30 Mar 1867, d. 4 Oct 1908
Grace Laney1
F, b. 20 December 1893, d. 4 March 1924
Grace Laney was born on 20 December 1893 at Texas.1 She married William Elbert Weber in September 1910. Grace Laney died on 4 March 1924 at age 30. She was buried in March 1924 at Blackwell Cemetery, Blackwell, Kay Co., OK, Findagrave #86467284.
Child of Grace Laney and William Elbert Weber
George William Weber+1 b. 14 Jul 1911, d. 15 Feb 1993
[S4401] 1920 Federal Census, Ellis County, Oklahoma. Microfilm Image, NARA Series T625, Roll 1463.
Agnes Lang1
F, b. 2 July 1873, d. 30 May 1954
Agnes Lang was born on 2 July 1873 at Germany.1 She married James Calvin Penny on 4 October 1889.1 Agnes Lang died on 30 May 1954 at age 80.
Child of Agnes Lang and James Calvin Penny
Mildred Penny+1 b. 27 Feb 1899, d. 7 Apr 1974
[S3193] 1900 Federal Census, Colorado County, Texas. Microfilm Image, NARA Series T623, Roll 1622; FHL #1241622.
Alice Dona Lang1
F, b. October 1859, d. 29 May 1943
Alice Dona Lang was born in October 1859 at Virginia (now WV).1 She was the daughter of George Washington Lang and Judith Ann House.1 Alice Dona Lang died on 29 May 1943 at Tacoma, Pierce Co., WA, at age 83.
[S3196] 1870 Federal Census, Washington County, Kansas. Microfilm Image, NARA Series M593, Roll 442; FHL #545941.
Anna Maria Lang
F, b. 19 January 1749
Anna Maria Lang was born on 19 January 1749 at Bethel Twp., Lancaster Co., PA. She was the daughter of Urbanus Lang and Catherine Blum.
Benjamin Lang
M, b. 1751
Benjamin Lang was born in 1751 at Bethel Twp., Lancaster Co., PA. He was the son of Urbanus Lang and Catherine Blum.
Catharine Lang
F, b. 25 July 1767, d. 6 September 1844
Ancestors of Olive Rodgers Wendell
Catharine Lang was born on 25 July 1767 at York Co., PA, Note in Larimore Bible, says she was aged "77y 1m 11d" on the date of her death. She was the daughter of Killian Lang and Rosina Scheit. Catharine Lang married Philip DeWald, son of Henrich DeWald and Maria Catherine Greaver, circa 1785 at York Co. (probably), PA. Catharine Lang died on 6 September 1844 at Hampshire Co., VA (now WV), at age 77 Note in James Larimore family Bible.
Note: Check Gideon Long, age 44, born VA, found in Bennington Twp., Licking Co., Ohio in 1860. Was he kin to Catherine Lang, and Ann Eliza DeWald?
Children of Catharine Lang and Philip DeWald
Mary DeWald+ b. c 1789, d. 31 May 1852
Catherine DeWald+ b. c 1792, d. 6 Jan 1873
Anna Margarethe DeWald b. 20 Mar 1794, d. c 1827
Lydia DeWald+ b. 4 Apr 1796, d. 1866
Louisa DeWald+ b. 6 Aug 1798, d. 17 Jun 1883
Daniel DeWald+ b. 30 Jul 1800, d. 21 Jan 1886
Ann Eliza DeWald+ b. 18 Jan 1803, d. 5 Apr 1887
Catherina Lang
F, b. 1744
Catherina Lang was born in 1744 at Bethel Twp., Lancaster Co., PA. She was the daughter of Urbanus Lang and Catherine Blum.
Charles Dellet Lang1
M, b. 25 May 1875, d. 14 January 1941
Charles Dellet Lang was born on 25 May 1875 at Washington Co. (probably), KS.1 He was the son of George Washington Lang and Judith Ann House.1 Charles Dellet Lang married Malinda M. D. (?) circa 1908.2 Charles Dellet Lang lived in April 1910 at Buffalo Twp., Barton Co., KS.2 He lived in April 1930 at White Twp., Lane Co., KS.3 He died on 14 January 1941 at Utica, Ness Co., KS, at age 65.
Children of Charles Dellet Lang and Malinda M. D. (?)
Howard R. Lang2 b. 18 Aug 1908, d. 29 Nov 1999
Marion E. Lang3 b. c Oct 1915
Dean E. Lang3 b. c 1923
[S2295] 1900 Federal Census, Washington County, Kansas. Microfilm Image, NARA Series T623, Roll 503; FHL #1240503.
[S3202] 1910 Federal Census, Barton County, Kansas. Microfilm Image, NARA Series T624, Roll 432; FHL #1374445.
[S3203] 1930 Federal Census, Lane County, Kansas. Microfilm Image, NARA Series T626, Roll 707; FHL #2340442.
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Corrected text of the call for papers
Edith A Moravcsik edith at uwm.edu
Sun Jan 31 03:18:02 UTC 2010
Previous message: Call for papers: competing motivations
The text of the call for papers for the conference on competing motivations that I posted yesterday included an incorrect e-mail address for Andrej Malchukov. Please find the corrected text below. I am sorry for the error.
Conference on
COMPETING MOTIVATIONS
We invite papers on the role of competing motivations in the emergence and use of linguistic structures from linguists, psychologists, and others working in related fields.
TIME AND PLACE
The three-day conference will take place NOVEMBER 23-25 (TUESDAY-THURSDAY) 2010 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
The conference is organized by Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology) and Edith Moravcsik (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (emerita)) and will be sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
In addition to the papers selected from abstracts and the introductory and closing talks by the conference organizers, there will be a number of invited presentations. So far we have the following on board:
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky
Joan Bresnan
Wolfgang Dressler
John Du Bois
John A. Hawkins
Helen de Hoop
Brian MacWhinney
Gereon Müller
Frederick Newmeyer
Michael Tomasello
Competing motivations is a topic coming in different guises in linguistics and related disciplines. In language typology, the concept of competing motivations was explicitly introduced by Du Bois (1985), and since then it has made its way into many contributions including typology textbooks (e.g. Croft 1990; 2003). Currently it is a common trend in functional typology to view the evolution of grammar as resulting from different partly converging but also potentially conflicting functional motivations. An approach to typology where competing motivations (“conflicting constraints”) have been accorded the status of a major theoretical concept is Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004, Müller 2000). In OT, grammatical patterns are viewed as resulting from constraint interaction, and cross-linguistic variation is attributed to different rankings of constraints. A similar approach has been introduced in psycholinguistics under the name of Competition Model (Bates & MacWhinney 1989), which addressed the question of how different cues are weighted in language comprehension and language acquisition when the cues are in conflict.
These three strands of research have not been totally independent from the start (e.g. OT was inspired by the work in psycholinguistics and cognitive sciences), and recently there have been further signs of the converging tendencies in these fields. On the one hand, with the rise of functional OT (Bresnan & Aissen 2002) conceptual differences of functional typology and OT (see Haspelmath 1999 for discussion) have been reduced, and some recent work explicitly tries to further integrate OT and functional typology (see, e.g., Malchukov 2005; de Hoop & Malchukov 2008). On the other hand, OT shows further convergence with psycholinguistic research, with the rise of OT semantics and bidirectional OT approaches that are concerned with comprehension optimization (de Hoop & Lamers 2006). John Hawkins’ work (2004 et passim) aiming to explain generalizations found in typological and psycholinguistic work in terms of a few general principles grounded in processing goes in the same direction. It seems that these new developments have overcome some of the problems of the early competing motivation approaches noted in the literature (Newmeyer 1998) and are opening new perspectives in the respective disciplines. It should also be noted that there is an increased awareness of the similarities of competing motivations models as practiced within linguistic disciplines and beyond (e.g., in psychological research).
The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers from linguistics and other fields that adopt the competing motivation approach in one form or other another, and to promote further integration and cross-fertilization between them. Topics to be addressed include but are not limited to the following:
• application of the competing motivation approach to individual languages and cross-linguistically;
• application of competition models in psycholinguistic research (both language comprehension and language production);
• theoretical questions such as:
• What motivations are at work in given domains?
• What evidence is there for the existence and the weighting of the constraints?
• What factors determine the weightings of the constraints?
• How are competing motivations manifested synchronically and diachronically? (cf. Haspelmath’s (1999) notion of ‘diachronic adaptation’ and the research program of ‘evolutionary phonology’ advocated by Blevins (2004)).
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
(a) Length: up to one page of text plus up to one page containing possible tables and references
(b) Format: The abstract should include the title of the paper and the text of the abstract but not the author’s name or affiliation. The e-mail message to which it is attached should list the title, the author’s name, and the author’s affiliation. Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously.
Please send the message to both organizers at the following addresses:
andrej_malchukov at eva.mpg.de
edith at uwm.edu
(c) Deadline: The abstracts should reach us by WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31.
Submitters will be notified by FRIDAY, APRIL 30.
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competition. In M. Amberber & H. de Hoop (eds.) Competition and
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True Beelievers: Hives on prairie land produce research opportunities
Khye Hill is decked out in white coveralls and clutching a metal container, from which white smoke drifts out of the spout.
The junior ecology major is about to get up close and personal with a bee hive. The smoker is used by beekeepers to help calm the members of the colony – who might otherwise be a tad upset that a crowd of people has arrived to inspect their living conditions.
“Never before in my life,” Hill says with a laugh when asked how many times he’s done this.
The addition of three hives to the 40 acres of tall grass prairie land at Missouri Southern is definitely something to buzz about. Dr. Katie Kilmer, assistant professor of biology and environmental health, says the idea came about during a classroom discussion.
“I teach a Principles of Biology class which goes into animal and plant diversity,” she says. “We were talking about the importance of bees as pollinators and how honeybee populations are crashing all over the country and world. People are being encouraged to take up beekeeping on a small scale rather than just as a commercial enterprise.
“One of my students asked if we had beehives on campus and I said I’d look into it and see.”
The answer was no, there weren’t any hives on campus, but she quickly discovered there was support for the idea.
“The Joplin Beekeepers Association’s response was more enthusiastic than I could have imagined,” says Kilmer.
The association donated three hives that MSSU will use for training purposes. When those hives have grown big enough to reproduce into new hives, they plan to donate more.
“Eventually we may have up to eight hives on the prairie,” says Kilmer.
The typical hive can grow big enough to support 40,000 to 50,000 bees, says Phil McGowan, a member of the local association. A really large hive can reach 60,000.
“We’re offering Missouri Southern some instruction on what to look for in a hive,” he says.
On this particular spring afternoon, McGowan says they’ll be looking to confirm that the queen bee has started laying eggs. Hill’s smoker will help to ensure the worker bees stay relatively calm during the process.
“The queen has probably been laying eggs for the last several weeks,” McGowan says. “They’re getting ready for the spring build up.”
Should one wonder if there’s going to be a nice supply of honey created from the hives, the answer is yes.
“We do have a long-term goal of being able to collect and market the honey, with proceeds being used to fund student research at Missouri Southern,” says Kilmer. “But right now, our focus is on getting our hives established and learning how to care for and manage the bees.”
At the moment, the primary emphasis is on the undergraduate research opportunities presented by the hives.
“The main goal for my research project is to gather information to determine the type of pollen the bees in this area are using,” says Hill. “We can help people determine what type of native plant species can be introduced in their area to attract bees.”
Another long-term goal is to establish a beekeeping club on campus.
“We want MSSU to become a more bee-friendly campus,” says Kilmer. “There are certifications available from different organizations. And forming a club on campus could give students – even those outside of the sciences – an outlet to look into in order to explore beekeeping.”
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Bond at 50 || By: Julian Sancton || October 5, 2012 01:40 PM EST
From Shirley Bassey To Dr. No, The 007 DNA Of Adele’s Skyfall Theme
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With her soulful contralto, Adele was born to sing a Bond theme song. She delivers with “Skyfall,” produced by regular collaborator Paul Epworth, and released yesterday on James Bond’s 50th birthday. That should be a relief to music lovers and Bond fans alike, but just how much musical DNA does Adele's "Skyfall" share in common with the best Bond themes to date?
At some point in the mid '70s, Bond theme songs lost their way. I blame Carly Simon. “Nobody Does it Better,” which she sang for 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me, is a perfectly good pop ballad — it was Simon’s greatest hit, after all — but it was not a Bond song. It broke all the traditions: its title was different from the movie’s, it was in a major key, and it made no musical allusions to the composer behind the unmistakable 007 sound, John Barry.
As if in apology, producers brought back Goldfinger and Diamonds are Forever songstress Shirley Bassey for the next movie, Moonraker, but the rekindling was all too brief.
After that, there was a string of songs that sounded like '80s sitcom theme songs. Seriously, listen to Sheena Easton’s “For Your Eyes Only” and imagine it playing over Three’s Company–style opening credits, with scenes of Bond walking into MI6’s office and throwing his hat onto the coat rack while Ms. Moneypenny rolls her eyes and smiles.
Same with “Octopussy.” Just think of what “Thunderball”’s Tom Jones could have done with that title.
MGM and Albert Broccoli seemed to come to their senses after realizing what a mistake they’d made entrusting the theme song for The Living Daylights to A-Ha.
They took a step in the right direction with the next one, Gladys Knight’s “License to Kill,” which opens with a direct quote of the opening motif from “Goldfinger.”
In 1996, with “Goldeneye,” Tina Turner did with the music what Pierce Brosnan did with the character and helped rescue the entire franchise.
Since then, the only real crime against 007 tradition was Madonna’s disjointed dance number for Die Another Day.
Adele’s “Skyfall” is the most classic Bond theme since the classic Bond themes. The song may not be as infectiously hummable as some of Adele’s other hits, like “Rolling in the Deep,” but it fits perfectly within the James Bond tradition. Breaking the song down to its constitution elements, we can see how it compares to its predecessors:
You can’t listen to this song and not immediately think of Shirley Bassey, though Adele throws in a little more melisma.
C-minor key
More than three quarters of James Bond songs are in a minor key. The only other one in C-minor, however, was Garbage’s “The World is Not Enough.”
Dr. No references
Peppered throughout the song are echoes of the original instrumental theme John Barry wrote for Dr. No, including the unmistakable four-note riff here played by the electric guitar 1 minute 50 seconds in, and the distinctive, sixties-sounding final chord (a minor ninth, if you’re curious), which is the same chord that concludes the Dr. No theme.
Like Carly Simon’s “Nobody Does it Better,” the song begins simply, with vocals over piano. But then the strings, electric guitar, and John Barry–esque horn blasts kick in, bringing to mind the Sean Connery–era Bond themes. Thankfully, “Skyfall” did away with the tambourine.
The rising fifth in the hook (“… let the sky fall”) is reminiscent of “Goldfinger,” “Diamonds Are Forever,” and “The World is Not Enough,” which all have same interval in the main melody. Also like “The World is Not Enough” and Sheryl Crowe’s “Tomorrow Never Dies,” the verse ends on a suspended fourth chord.
Tempo: ca. 78 bpm
Practically the same as “License to Kill.”
This song does a better job of integrating the title into the lyrics than many of its predecessors, although Adele has to break the nonsensical title into two words. Carly Simon simply plopped the words “The spy who loved me” into an otherwise boilerplate love song, and Chris Cornell didn’t even bother including “Casino Royale” into his theme song, “You Know My Name.” Adele’s repetition of the title at the end of the song makes me think of what Tom Jones did with “Thunderball” and Tina Turner did with “Goldeneye.”
Anything else? How much deeper can we go in overanalyzing this? Let me know in the comments.
Julian Sancton is a writer based in Manhattan. He has contributed to Vanity Fair, Esquire and Playboy, among other publications.
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Tags: Adele, bond at 50, James Bond, Skyfall
Colonel Neville says:
Excellent summation. Major author and more, Mark Steyn, who was a friend of the great John Barry, has written some outstanding insights into Barry and the Bond Themes. Look 'em up...No, really. Colonel Neville.
starsword says:
Reblogged this on starsword and commented:
Major New World Order Song!
The Cantankerist says:
Wow. I can't think of a singer who reminds me *less* of Shirley Bassey. Adele's got great range and a soulful timbre to her voice, but she emphatically does *not* have the front edge that made Bassey so distinctive (and which this song desperately needed).
As I commented elsewhere, there *was* a young British soul singer who did, but dammit, we missed the window on that one. 🙁
Great work! But please note - Monty Norman wrote the JB theme song, not John Barry, and Carly Simon only sung the song "Nobody Does It Better" as it was written by Marvin Hamlisch with lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager.
Mark Z says:
Technically, I believe the theme from "Live And Let Die" is also in a major key, though the instrumental section that is closest to a Bond riff is in minor. So maybe you have to blame Paul and Linda McCartney - or, more likely, blame the producers who approved the songs. (Read Jon Burlingame's "The Music of James Bond" for more.) (And I'm not dissing LALD; it's one of my favorite Bond themes!)
slwstr says:
Well, maybe Madonna's song was "disjointed" yet it worked very well with the whole soundtrack conception of that particular soundtrack.
A very well written article, I enjoyed humming all the other Bond songs to myself as you made references to them.
Have you noticed that all the Daniel Craig Bond songs follow the same chords? (i - VI - IV, or Bm - G - E) I haven't looked into it very much, but I think this new chord progression (or at least bass line) will be a new addition to the Bond theme and used in the future Bond films.
Bill Webster says:
Great songs !!!
dedektif says:
I savor, cause I discovered just what I was looking for. You have ended my four day lengthy hunt! God Bless you man. Have a great day. Bye
badderman says:
# "Seriously, listen to Sheena Easton’s “For Your Eyes Only” and imagine it playing over Three’s Company–style opening credit"
Seriously, be an idiot.
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