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DJ Garth is a pioneering House music DJ who is largely credited with both defining and capturing the sound of San Francisco house music in the mid-1990s. As a recording artist, his production is featured on several San Francisco club anthems such as “Twenty Minutes of Disco Glory”. He co-founded the Wicked Sound System and established a series of memorable underground parties which were important in putting San Francisco on the club/rave map.
Born and raised in England, Garth moved to San Francisco in 1990 and became a key player in the city’s exploding dance scene. He organized the Full Moon events that led to increased underground interest in rave culture, and in 1991, he led the Wicked Sound System venture with friends and fellow DJs Jenö, Thomas Bullock and Markie. By 1994 the team had saved enough money to buy a custom Tony Andrews-designed Turbosound system, teaming up with a 1947 Greyhound bus which allowed the Wicked act to tour the States.
This annual tour along with early appearances at Burning Man & Reggae on the River Festivals gave them the credibility to produce their own music and start their own record label. Wicked Records’ first (and most successful) release was DJ Garth’s 1996 collaboration with E.T.I., “20 Minutes of Disco Glory,” which remains a popular House track. It was featured in the soundtrack for the movie Groove.
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Sonia Rykiel Taps Juergen Teller and Gisele Bündchen for Fall
In the campaign, the Brazilian model is seen without makeup in the black-and-white shots, taken in an artist’s studio.
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IN THE ROUGH: Sonia Rykiel has tapped Juergen Teller for its fall advertising campaign starring Gisele Bündchen.
The Brazilian model is seen without makeup in the black-and-white shots, taken in an artist’s studio. The images mark a stark departure from the French fashion brand’s previous two advertising campaigns, which featured graphic colored backdrops by graphic design duo M/M (Paris).
The fall shoot was art directed and styled by Katie Grand, who said she took her cue from pictures of the label’s founder, Sonia Rykiel, in the Seventies.
“They were very elegant black-and-white snapshots of her in the studio and on a car, and reminded me of Juergen Teller’s work. Once Juergen had agreed to work with us, we wanted to work with a woman with Madame Rykiel’s joie de vivre, and the obvious choice was Gisele,” she said.
“Juergen does not often shoot in black-and-white and we asked him to shoot film to give an authenticity to the images,” Grand added.
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THE PENNY CARS STADIUM
Southburn Mechanical renew partnership
We are delighted to announce that Southburn Mechanical Services are the latest local company to sign up as an official club partner.
Established in 1990, Southburn is a family run business that prides itself on the quality of service provided. Co-owned by George Lowdon and Kenny Morgan, the pair have amassed 80 years experience in the mechanical trade between them.
They have an experienced staff below them, and have a well-kent face in assistant manager (and George’s son) Reece. Reece spent three years in the youth set-up at Airdrie, and featured in the Under 20s side that won the league two years ago under Stevie Findlay.
Reece is currently playing for Carluke Rovers, while working full time at the garage.
He said: "I still have lots of friends at the club, and have a lot of time for Stevie Findlay.
"This is our second year in the partnership and we now have a large amount of Airdrie fans who use our services, so there is always plenty of chat about the Diamonds.
"We are delighted to continue to offer all season ticket holders and staff members 10% discount on labour and also discounts on tyres."
The garage is open six days a week, and is a member of the Good Garage Scheme, where it holds a 99% feedback award from over 150 reviews.
Services offered include clutch repairs, servicing, auto electrics, MOT preparation, air-con recharge and servicing, diagnostics, MOT, tyres, diagnostic equipment, electrical work and a pick up and drop-off service.
For further information, please visit the facebook page or the website.
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Israel’s Famed Photographer: 10 Iconic Photos
Mar 4, 2017 | by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller
A snapshot of the work of David Rubinger, the renowned Israeli photographer who has died at the age of 92.
David Rubinger, Israel’s famed photographer, died last week at the age of 92.
Born in Vienna, Rubinger’s life mirrored that of the Jewish state he helped found and whose history he so memorably documented.
Saved from the Holocaust when he secured a place in 1939 on a Zionist youth group ship to Palestine, he later fought in World War II as part of the celebrated “Jewish Brigade” in the British army, seeing action in Malta and Italy. He later fought in Israel’s War of Independence and then settled into life as a news photographer, working for Israeli newspapers and internationally for Time-Life.
In 2004, Rubinger briefly found himself the subject of international news. After his wife of 54 years, Anni, died in 2000, Rubinger started dating a 78 year old Jerusalem widow named Ziona Spivak. In 2004, she was brutally murdered in her home by a Palestinian man she’d once employed and to whom she’d given charity often in the past. Writing about his love in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth at the time, Rubinger poignantly explained “that even late in life love can burn as fiercely as it does in youngsters.”
David Rubinger’s photographs convey the beauty and passion of Israel over the past six decades. Here are a few of the notable images he captured in the life of the homeland he did so much to help build.
Young Jerusalemites Celebrate the UN Vote to Establish a Jewish State, November 30, 1947
On November 29, 1947, the nations of the world voted to partition Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state. Arab leaders rejected the vote and promised to declare war on a Jewish state, vowing to drive the nascent Jewish country into the sea. The Jewish community rapturously celebrated the vote.
Rubinger recalled the scene in Jerusalem: “For anyone privileged to have been living there at the time, this surely was one of the most momentous happenings that one could have imagined. We, along with all our neighbors, were glued to the radio. At midnight, a majority vote was cast for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. The city erupted with milling crowds thronging the streets, singing, dancing, and celebrating.”
Israeli Woman Learning to Throw a Grenade, 1948
The modern state of Israel came into being on Friday, May 14, 1948. Hours later, the armies of Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon invaded the new Jewish state. Vastly outgunned and outmanned, Israel scrambled to raise a fighting force to repel the invaders.
Searching for Dentures in No-Man’s Land
Following Israel’s War of Independence, Jordanian forces occupied the eastern half of Jerusalem, including the famed Old City containing the Western Wall and other holy sites. No Jews were allowed to live or visit the eastern half of the city, and Jewish homes near the border were frequently the targets of sniper fire from Jordan.
In this tense atmosphere, a patient in a Catholic hospital located along the border leaned out of an open window and accidently dropped her dentures. Retrieving them required a major international mission. UN officials declared retrieving the dentures a priority and sent in an Israeli officer, a French officer waving a huge white flag to deter Jordanian snipers, and several nuns from the hospital. After searching through the rubble of no-man’s land, one nun, Sister Augustine, glimpsed something on the ground, bent down, and triumphantly held up the missing dentures.
Rubinger’s photo appeared in Life magazine, where it provided a ray of light in the otherwise unrelenting gloom of Jordanian violence and occupation.
Israeli Paratroopers at the Western Wall, June 7, 1967
In the midst of the Six Day War, David Rubinger covered the fighting in Jerusalem. Making his way on foot to the front lines in the Old City of Jerusalem, he arrived at the Western Wall a few minutes after Israeli troops took control of Judaism’s holiest site. Rubinger remembered: “To get the most effective shot...it was necessary for me to lie down on the ground and shoot skywards so that I could capture in my lens both the victorious Israeli paratroopers and as much of the Wall as possible.”
Blowing the Shofar at the Western Wall, June 7, 1967
When Israeli troops reached the Kotel, Israeli army’s Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren blew a shofar, marking the first time in 1,997 years that the Wall, the remnant of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem, was once again Jewish control.
David Rubinger recalled the intense emotions at the time: “The scene around me was extremely emotional…. People were crying with joy and relief, and I have to admit that, as I shot my pictures, tears were rolling down my cheeks too.”
Marc Chagall and Golda Meir, 1969
David Rubinger followed the artist Marc Chagall around the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, as he sketched pictures that would eventually become the magnificent tapestries that adorn its walls and mosaics that decorate the floors. On the day of the tapestries’ unveiling, Rubinger had his camera trained on the artwork when he suddenly realized that he’d be able to photograph the tapestries any time. This was his only opportunity, however, to capture the reaction of the artist and Prime Minister Golda Meir.
“So instead,” Rubinger recalled, “I turned around and took a close-up picture of Chagall at the crucial moment when he leaned over and took hold of Golda’s elbow just as the covers were removed from his tapestries. I overheard him say to her in Yiddish, ‘Nu se gefaelte dir, Goldie?’ (Well, do you like it, Golda?) I saw her gasp as the work was uncovered, and I think she was overwhelmed. He smiled at her with evident satisfaction.”
Entebbe Rescuers Coming Home
In 1976, an Air France flight carrying 244 passengers from Athens to Paris was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, with help from the German Baader-Meinhof Gang. The plane was forced to land in Libya for refueling, then flew to Entebbe in Uganda. There, hijackers separated the Jewish and/or Israeli passengers, released the non-Jewish passengers, and then demanded the release of scores of convicted Palestinian terrorists from prisons around the world in return for the Jewish prisoners. Israel refused to negotiate with the terrorists and launched an audacious rescue mission instead. One hundred out of the 103 Jewish hostages were rescued; one Israeli officer, Yoni Netanyahu (brother to current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) was killed.
David Rubinger captured the moment when the returning heroes landed in Israel: “I was at the airport to welcome back our brave and courageous boys and photographed the pilot who led the four Hercules rescue planes as he was held aloft on the shoulders of the jubilant crowd.” Years later, Rubinger met the pilot he’d photographed, who was not pleased, telling Rubinger ,“After I was seen publicly in your photograph in Time, our security services forced me to wear a wig for a year to avoid my being recognized and possibly attacked!”
Golda Meir Feeding Her Grandson
In the 1950s, Life magazine commissioned Rubinger to spend a few days with Golda Meir, then Foreign Minister of Israel. A capable and formidable leader, Golda Meir also had a tender side, which Rubinger captured in his photos. He later recalled: “I watched her in a true domestic role, putting out nameplates for a diplomatic dinner at her home, going shopping, buying sweets and clothes for her grandchildren, and cooking in the kitchen for the family. This kitchen became known as ‘Gold’s Kitchen,’ a place where, when she was foreign minister and later prime minister, many far-reaching political and military decisions were made….”
Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, 1980
Rubinger was present when Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat met to negotiate the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.
Operation Solomon, 1991
Operation Solomon was the airlift of over 14,000 Ethiopian Jews from Addis Ababa in a massive 36-hour operation, on May 24 and 25, 1991. David Rubinger photographed the planes as they landed and recalled the incredibly scene. “Many of the Ethiopian community in Israel who had arrived on the earlier aliyah were at the airport to welcome their relatives, so you can imagine how moving the scenes of families being reunited. It was a very emotional time. I covered one such story of a young man who had arrived in Israel as a child but was now a sergeant in the Israeli Defense Forces, happily settled and waiting for his relatives to join him.”
(All quotes are from Israel Through My Lens: Sixty Years as a Photojournalist by David Rubinger with Ruth Corman, Abbeville Press Publishers, London: 2007.)
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(7) Willig Rivera, April 23, 2017 4:49 PM
We must always remember!..
These photos with there stories help the younger generation understand the Jews will never again let these things happen. It makes us stronger, to remember!..
(6) Rachelle Leaf Berliner, March 13, 2017 11:19 PM
A picture is worth 1,000 words.
Wonderful photographs recording memories of an amazing time!
(5) Dvora, March 10, 2017 11:20 PM
Eloquent Essay on David Rubinger-Dr. Miller
I loved the photo's, the memories, the people who are no longer with us, and those who still are. I am sorry for David Rubinger's passing but he was a righteous man and may his memory reflect that for generations.
(4) LIBNY G PINEDA, March 8, 2017 2:01 AM
Brief and to the point. Pictures and narration touch the hearts of many who like me love Israel. Shalom Yisrael!
(3) Anonymous, March 6, 2017 11:35 AM
May his memory be a blessing!
Amen! Beautiful tribute! Thanks for posting!
(1) Helen Rosenfeld, March 5, 2017 3:39 PM
What a lasting memory all saved in photos- incredible
This is a portion of your life that you just don't forget
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Study: Airline passenger satisfaction hits record high during pandemic
Airline passenger satisfaction is at an all-time high for the airline industry, . according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index study for April to September. Half-empty flights, a less-crowded airport terminal and shorter lines for security are signs of the impact of the pandemic. and may be why airline passenger satisfaction is up. ACSI in its report said “less crowded flights mean better service for those that do fly”. Southwest Airlines took the No. 1 spot in the ranking, followed by Delta Air Lines in the No. 2 position
Atlanta Airport Blog | Dec 16, 2020
By Kelly Yamanouchi, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Southwest ranked 1st, Delta 2nd in ACSI survey
Half-empty flights, a less-crowded airport terminal and shorter lines for security are signs of the impact of the pandemic — but in normal times they would be markers of a pleasant travel experience.
That may be why airline passenger satisfaction is up this year, when COVID-19 has caused historic cuts in the airline industry and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising Americans to avoid travel for the holidays.
In fact, passenger satisfaction is at an all-time high for the airline industry, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index study for April to September. Satisfaction reached a score of 76 for the period, up from the previous high of 75 in April 2019 to March 2020, based on interviews with thousands of travelers.
ACSI in its report said “less crowded flights mean better service for those that do fly.”
For December holiday travel, AAA forecasts a 58.8% decline in air travel in Georgia. Automobile travel in Georgia is expected to decline by 22.9%.
Southwest Airlines took the No. 1 spot in the ranking, followed by Delta Air Lines in the No. 2 position. Delta is the dominant carrier in Atlanta, and Southwest is the second-largest. Both airlines improved their scores and rankings from last year.
Delta stands out in the industry for its pandemic policy of blocking middle seats through March 31, 2021, and ranks highest for cleanliness and seat comfort. But Southwest ranks higher for the check-in process and for the best value.
Airlines saw a decline in satisfaction with call centers, in a year when hundreds of thousands of travelers were trying to get refunds for canceled trips due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Even though airlines slashed their flight schedules this year due to the steep decline in travel, satisfaction with flight schedules dropped only 1%, according to ACSI. Carriers also significantly cut back their in-flight food and beverage service, but that did not play a big role in overall satisfaction.
The ACSI COVID-19 travel report was based on interviews with 4,642 customers chosen at random and contacted by e-mail between April 1 and Sept. 30, 2020. ACSI is a national economic indicator started at the University of Michigan and licensed to ACSI LLC.
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 16 October 2018 - Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Lois Mitchell, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and His Highness the Aga Khan today inaugurated the new Aga Khan Garden, Alberta, the northern-most Islamic garden in the world, and the first garden of its kind in western Canada.
The Garden was a gift to the University of Alberta from His Highness the Aga Khan, celebrating over 40 years of partnership between the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and the University of Alberta. Construction on the Garden, which was recently completed, marked both the 150th anniversary of Canadian confederation and the Aga Khan’s Diamond Jubilee – 60 years since he became Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslim community.
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James Lee McDonough sheds light on how the Union army stole past the .
James Lee McDonough sheds light on how the Union army stole past the Confederate forces at Spring Hill and their subsequent clash, which left six Confederate generals dead. Attempting to draw the Union army north, General John Bell Hood's Confederate forces focused their attacks on Sherman's supply line, the railroad from Chattanooga, and then moved across north Alabama and into Tennessee. He is the author of numerous books on the Civil War, including Shiloh-In Hell Before Night, Chattanooga-Death Grip on the Confederacy, and War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville.
The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process .
The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) introduced a new set of significant challenges. Under the administration of President Andrew Johnson in 1865 and 1866, new southern state legislatures passed restrictive black codes to control the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans
His contributions to a Union victory in the Civil War and a reformed army command structure that affirmed civilian .
His contributions to a Union victory in the Civil War and a reformed army command structure that affirmed civilian oversight and improved relations between the Chief and Secretary alone should guarantee him a place in history, but his ability to maneuver in the complex political arena of the period makes his biography a relevant and useful read. Connelly refutes some of the more damaging allegations leveled against Schofield in James L. McDonough's Schofield: Union General in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1972), and by so doing establishes himself and his text as the authority on the subject.
The civil war determined, once and for all, that America was one nation, indivisible. But it did not determine what kind of a nation it would be, says Heather Cox Richardson. Somehow, Americans had to construct a new country out of the bitterly divided states.
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Klamath Dams Must Go: EPIC Works to Restore Clean, Clear Water
By epic
The dams in the Klamath River obstruct fish passage to the upper basin and degrade water quality. For salmon, these dams create an impossible obstacle in their journey home. For river communities, the dams threaten cultural survival and public health. Today EPIC joined an effort to press the California State Water Resources Control Board to address the issue by reviewing PacifiCorp’s application for 401 certification. To compliment the the work of dozens of organizations and Tribal governments working to remove the dams through the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement/Klamath Hydro Settlement Agreement, EPIC is pursuing this initiative in order to press the process forward.
This spring and summer, EPIC expects to see a draft Environmental Impact Statement on the KBRA and draft legislation that has the potential to drive rapid dam removal on the Klamath. We will work steadily and in regional coalition until water quality is improved, flows are sufficient, dams are out of the river, and the salmon can return home.
For the last ten years, EPIC has worked to protect and restore the Klamath-Trinity Watersheds by fighting destructive logging, road building, mining, and grazing proposals on national forests by engaging in every process available. Our work to protect clean and clear water in the basin includes supporting the recovery of endangered species like the coho and chinook salmon. This year, in addition to submitting a petition to list the Upper Klamath Spring Chinook Salmon under the Endangered Species Act, we participated in a successful lawsuit targeting the California Department of Fish and Game’s lack of enforcement for listed endangered coho salmon on two major tributaries to the Klamath, the Scott and Shasta rivers. In addition, we are engaged in fighting in-river gold mining operations that further threaten river health and fish habitat. All of these efforts would not be possible without our incredible allies. EPIC is proud to be a part of a growing alliance of conservation organizations and Tribal governments working to protect and restore these basins.
Joint Press Release:
Coalition Calls on California Regulators to Enforce Clean Water Standards
As the California State Water Resources Control Board prepares to meet next week in Sacramento, conservation groups concerned with Klamath River water quality sent a letter to the board today urging an end to the ongoing delay in Clean Water Act certification for Klamath dams. Four dams owned by utility company PacifiCorp have operated under annual license extensions since their 50-year license expired in March 2006. In that time, the State of California has failed to process a Section 401 certification application that would require PacifiCorp to meet certain water quality standards under the auspices of the federal Clean Water Act.
“Our request today is quite simple – treat PacifiCorp’s dams like any other dam in California and ensure that they clean up the water flowing out of their facilities before they can make another dime off the Klamath River,” said Ani Kame’enui with Oregon Wild, a leading advocate for restoring the Klamath Basin’s river and wetland ecosystems.
“We need to get the dams out of the river, and it needs to happen now,” said Andrew Orahoske, conservation director for the Environmental Protection Information Center. “These antiquated obstructions block the flow of clean water, resulting in toxic conditions and dead salmon.”
In a comprehensive 2008 report, the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences concluded that increasing natural flows downstream from the dams would improve water quality and benefit fish populations. Currently, pollution levels are so high that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency listed the Klamath River as “impaired” under section 303(d) of the federal Clean Water Act.
“The salmon can’t wait any longer, they need clean water. We owe it to future generations to make a stand for the Klamath and Trinity River salmon, and the time to act is now,” concluded Orahoske.
Ironically, the delay in the clean water certification process stems from a February 2010 settlement agreement signed by PacifiCorp, California, Oregon, and other parties to outline a potential process for removal of four Klamath River dams. Section 6.5 of the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement (KHSA) calls for PacifiCorp to “…withdraw and re-file its applications for Section 401 certifications as necessary to avoid the certifications being deemed waived…” This delay of the Section 401 certification process was meant to provide time for the KHSA and its companion agreement (the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement or KBRA) to be enacted by Congress.
Both the KHSA and KBRA have faced an uphill battle in the U.S. Capitol with supporting legislation yet to be introduced in either chamber. The latter settlement deal has a price tag of $1 billion. Furthermore, during the settlement process that produced the two agreements, major concessions were made to large-scale agribusiness operators in the Upper Klamath Basin, compromising the ability to undertake rapid restoration of the imperiled watershed. The upcoming Water Board meeting on May 17 marks a board imposed deadline for restarting the Section 401 certification process in the absence of KHSA legislation enactment.
“The Water Board was right to set a deadline to reengage in the clean water certification process and we’re urging them not to delay any longer,” added Kame’enui. “The dam settlement deals have a lot of heavy political baggage and it would be a disservice to the Klamath River to let them bog down progress on the clean water front any longer.”
The Section 401 certification process has long been viewed by dam removal proponents as a crucial step in the dam relicensing process. Klamath River water quality issues near the dams and in the reservoirs behind the dams are notorious, with yearly outbreaks of toxic algae blooms. Considering current poor water quality conditions in the river, many observers believe that PacifiCorp will not be able to comply with the requirements of any 401 certification without removing the dams or drastically altering their operations.
The letter to the Water Board was signed by Cascadia Wildlands, Center for Biological Diversity, Environmental Protection Information Center, Lane County Audubon, Oregon Wild, Salem Audubon Society, Umpqua Watersheds, Inc., and WaterWatch of Oregon.
View a copy of the letter to the California State Water Resources Control Board.
View EPIC Press Release
This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 at 2:34 pm and is filed under Blog, Clean Water.
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After nearly two months in jail, Chelsea Manning submits powerful appeal for release By Niles Niemuth
7 May 2019 — WSWS
Betraying my principles is “a much worse prison than the government can construct”
Whistleblower and political prisoner Chelsea Manning submitted an appeal Monday to the federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia asking for her release from jail.
Manning has been held in the Alexandria City Jail since March 8. She was detained for contempt of court after she refused to testify before a grand jury impaneled to bring frame-up charges against WikiLeaks publisher and journalist Julian Assange.
“She is convinced that to cooperate with this grand jury would be a betrayal of her beliefs about the grand jury process, and this grand jury process in particular,” Manning’s attorneys told the court in a written statement on Monday. “She is prepared to suffer the consequences for her beliefs, and it should surprise nobody to find that she has the courage of her convictions.”
Chelsea Manning [Credit: Sparrow Media]
Manning’s eight-page statement is a powerful declaration of political principles. She is being targeted by the Trump administration as part of a nearly decade-long vendetta against her and Assange for exposing the US government’s war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“After two months of confinement, and using every legal mechanism available so far, I can—without any hesitation—state that nothing that will convince me to testify before this or any other grand jury for that matter,” Manning declared. “With each passing day my disappointment and frustration grow, but so too do my commitments to doing the right thing and continuing to refuse to submit.”
“The idea I hold the keys to my own cell is an absurd one, as I face the prospect of suffering either way due to this unnecessary and punitive subpoena: I can either go to jail or betray my principles,” Manning stated. “The latter exists as a much worse prison than the government can construct.”
Manning served seven years of a 35-year sentence in a military prison after she was convicted of leaking classified and sensitive documents exposing US war crimes to WikiLeaks in 2010. Most notably, she released the “Collateral Murder” video, which shows the 2007 attack by US Apache helicopter gunships in Baghdad that killed two Reuters journalists and at least a dozen Iraqis.
While Manning has not been charged or convicted of any new crime, she has been treated as a convict, held in the solitary confinement for her first 28 days in jail. UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Juan E. Méndez, has declared that prolonged isolation amounts to torture when used as a punishment, in pre-trial detention, indefinitely or when the person already suffers from a mental disability.
As her attorneys have noted in a previous appeal for her release, Manning indicates that she has already given the government everything she knows about her interactions with WikiLeaks and Assange during trial in 2013 and that any testimony before the grand jury would be duplicative. The real purpose of the government’s efforts to force her to testify before the grand jury is to undermine her testimony as a defense witness for Assange.
Manning’s statement describes the terrible impact of the enforced isolation on her mental health, which has been compounded by the year of solitary confinement she suffered when she was imprisoned by the Obama administration.
“I experienced difficulty keeping attention on anything, sometimes referred to as a ‘dissociative stupor.’ Thinking and concentrating get harder. Anxiety, frustration with minor things, irritation, and a spiraling inability to tolerate each symptom take hold,” she explains. “At one point I started feeling ill during a short visit in a non-contact visit booth while struggling to have even a normal conversation. After weeks of under-stimulation, I became nauseated with vertigo and vomited on the floor, ending my visit prematurely.”
Making matters worse, Manning also noted that she has been denied access to necessary medical attention for a recent gender reassignment surgery, putting her at risk for permanent injury or a potentially deadly infection. She has also been denied regular access to sunlight, must keep her mind busy with puzzles without access to good literature or friends, and has gained 20 pounds since March due to poor nutrition.
Manning is taking a courageous stand to defend Assange, who was snatched from the Ecuadorian embassy in London on April 11 by British police after his asylum was illegally cancelled by the government of Lenin Moreno.
Assange was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for bail jumping over spurious sexual assault allegations and now faces rendition to the United State. He faces an initial charge of attempted computer hacking that carries five years. He is accused of seeking to assist Manning to crack a password so that she could conceal her identity while using military computer networks.
Once in the United States, it is certain that the Justice Department will unseal further charges against Assange, including under the Espionage Act, which opens him up to the possibility of the death penalty.
“I believe this grand jury seeks to undermine the integrity of public discourse with the aim of punishing those who expose any serious, ongoing, and systemic abuses of power by this government, as well as the rest of the international community,” Manning explained.
“Therefore, participating in this fishing expedition—which potentially exposes other innocent people to the grand jury process—would constitute an unjustifiable and unethical action. Now, after sustaining serious psychological injury from my current confinement, I don’t wish to expose any other person to the trauma and exhaustion of civil contempt or other forms of prison or coercion.”
Manning noted her appreciation for the dozens to hundreds of daily letters of support, which provide her with “warmth and strength” from “colleagues, educators, lawyers, diplomats, activists, factory workers, veterans, journalists, union leaders, store clerks, gardeners, chefs, airplane pilots, and politicians…”
While Manning and Assange are cruelly pursued by the US government for their efforts to expose the truth, they have won the support and admiration of millions of workers and others around the world who will fight for their freedom.
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Chris Hedges: Biden Admin-Redux: Deep State, Empire and Censorship January 16, 2021
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illegal immigration News Stories & Reports
Thread: Senator Mike Lee: Congress At Fault For Obama’s Amnesty Power Grab
Senator Mike Lee: Congress At Fault For Obama’s Amnesty Power Grab
6:22 PM 03/01/2015
Derek Hunter
Republican Sen. Mike Lee said “almost all of” President Obama’s executive amnesty action is ultimately the fault of Congress passing vague laws.
Asked how much of the blame for the shift in power from Congress to the executive branch should be laid at the feet of Congresses of the past, Lee said:
I’m going to make a lot of people unhappy with what I’m about to say in response to that question, but almost all of it is Congress’s fault. We’re kidding ourselves if we think we can come up with a system of laws that delegates all of this lawmaking power to the executive branch. We’re kidding ourselves if we don’t think presidents, Democrats and Republicans alike, are going to abuse that. We’re kidding ourselves if we don’t think that’s going to result in an erosion of not only our constitutional order, but also liberty itself. So, yeah, this is Congress’s fault, it is overwhelmingly Congress’s fault and we’ve got to turn it back.
Speaking with me on my WBAL Radio show at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Lee was unambiguous in his warning that Republicans, particularly conservatives, cannot rely on the courts to keep executive power in check. Congress, when passing laws, has to be explicit in its language to prevent presidents from having wiggle-room in the implementation and expansion of laws.
“We cannot allow the president to act as though he were a government of one,” Lee said. “He is not. We have a Constitution, that Constitution puts the legislative power, the power to make law, in the hands of Congress. And if the President of the United States doesn’t like our current immigration laws he needs to go through Congress, he can’t just decree it.”
On the strategy some Republicans have suggested of letting this issue play out in the courts. “We don’t know how that litigation is going to turn out. And I think it would be unwise for us to proceed as if that preliminary injunction is going to stick,” Lee said.
On relying on the courts, particularly the Supreme Court, Lee said, “We have to get away from the idea that so many of us have that the Constitution is something that only the courts worry about. Or the legislative branch can just say, ‘Well, we defer the courts on that issue.’ A lot of problems have occurred as a result of the Members of Congress and Presidents have taken that approach, and in the process they stopped reading the Constitution, they stopped taking personal responsibility with what they, themselves, have an obligation to defend under the Constitution.”
In addition to the fight over immigration, Senator Lee briefly discussed his love of the band Journey. Listen to the whole interview here:
http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/01/se...er-grab-audio/
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It is easy to agree with Senator Mike Lee on this, but the voters that kept electing those Congresses are the ones truly responsible. While serving Mr. Lee cannot say that, but I have many times and I will continue to say it! It is taking responsibility for our errors, the firs step in correcting four errors! The voters that don't vote are the ones causing so much confusion.
Unions, GOP Senators raise alarm on Obama’s amnesty power-grab
By Newmexican in forum illegal immigration News Stories & Reports
Mike Krieger On The UN Power Grab
White House Power Grab that Congress and America Doesn’t S
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DODECANESE ISLANDS, Greece
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The Dodecanese islands are in their bigger part (Kos and Rhodos islands excepted) bare of vegetation although not to such extend as the Cyclades. The Dodecanese islands located at the Southeastern end of Greece are the warmest Greek sailing destination - good to visit even in early April or late October and November. The charter bases are set in the nice new marina of Kos island and in the old harbor of Mandraki in Rhodos. The prevailing winds are blowing from NW and they are less strong than in the open Aegean Sea.
In spring and September winds are “traditionally” calmer from Southeast. The “character” of the islands is influenced partly from the Venetians and a lot by the Knights of St John and the middle Ages, though visually and culturally the Dodecanese remains purely Greek.
The Dodecanese are located East of the Cyclades, West of the coast of Asia Minor, and North-East of Crete. It is an enchanted world, where the sun paints pictures and gives life. The mild winters and refreshing summers give the Dodecanese one of the healthiest climates in the Mediterranean. The islands of the Dodecanese are engaged in a beauty contest with no clear winner.
These islands are a sailor's paradise of more than 163 islands and islets. You will find on each island uncounted beautiful beaches and bays that you should not miss. However the must see islands are:
Rhodes is the capital of the Dodecanese, an island which is ideal not only for those who want to relax but also for those looking for an action-packed holiday! With its bright green hills, rich green valleys and uninterrupted line of golden beaches, Rhodes is truly a blessed place. Add in the excellent facilities for tourism, the island’s special blend of cosmopolitan and traditional, and numerous cultural and archaeological sites and you’ve got the perfect holiday destination.
The endless coasts with the turquoise waters, the vegetation, the affluent water springs, the ancient and medieval monuments, as well as the impressive Italian buildings feature Kos island; the third largest island of Dodecanese complex, located just 4 miles away from the Turkish coasts. The name «Kos» probably derives from the daughter of the mythical King Meropas, called Koos.
Kos is the birthplace of Hippocrates «the father of medicine» (460-377 B.C) and was already inhabited during Neolithic Period (5th - 4th millennium B.C). The Knights of St. John conquered the island during the 14th century, reinforcing the older castles and building new fortifications. During Ottoman occupation, the island was attacked by several intruders (Knights, Venetians etc), while during Italian occupation (1912-1945) some really important, monumental public buildings were constructed. The island was officially united with Greece in 1948. It extends over a surface of 290 km2; its coastline is 112 km and counts 31,000 inhabitants.
It can be reached by ferry from Piraeus Port or by airplane from the Athens International Airport, «Eleftherios Venizelos».
Nisyros is one of the most beautiful Aegean islands, still untouched by the tourism growth. It is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, situated between Kos and Tilos. The island extends over a surface of 41 km and its coastline is 28 km long. It can be reached by ferry from Piraeus, Kos and Rhodes.
According to mythology, it was created from the Battle of Giants, during the war between Gods and Giants. Poseidon chased the Giant Polyvotis down to Kos, cut a part of it and threw it to his enemy, sinking him forever in the bottom of the Aegean Sea. The legendary rock is the modern Nisyros and it is said that the volcano’s explosions are the angry breathing of the defeated Giant. These explosions shaped the island, which is considered to be the youngest volcanic centre in Greece, still active – along with the volcanoes of Milos, Santorini and Methana. During antiquity the island thrived on obsidian commerce, extracted by the inhabitants of Nisyros, from the nearby island, Gyali.
Symi is a cosmopolitan island, where one of the prettiest and largest neoclassical towns of the country has been developed. It has rich, mythological tradition, since it has been firstly inhabited during the prehistoric age. The king Nireas took part in the Trojan War and became a legend. The inhabitants devoted themselves to sponge-fishing and ship-building, activities which provided decrees (firmans) of favorable treatment on behalf of the Sultan, during Turkish occupation (since 1522). It was at that time when the School of Aghia Marina and the Anagnostirio Aigli (Reading-Room) have been founded. The island reached its peak during 19th century, when it counted 25,000 inhabitants. In 1945, the delivery of Dodecanese to the Allies was signed on the island of Symi. Symi was officially united with Greece in 1948. It can be reached by ferry from Rhodes’ port. The island extends over a surface of 58 km2, its coastline is 85 km long and it has 2,500 inhabitants.
It is the island of the sea- sponge harvesters
Climbing up giant vertical rocks; diving in a sea bottom where centuries- old ship wrecks lie; enchanting caves; wonderful beaches und picturesque island settlements. This is Kalymnos: a destination offering more than you can imagine!
Welcome to Kalymnos, the island of the sea-sponge harvesters! The fourth largest island of the Dodecanese Group is widely known as an international sponge-harvesting trade center. After WW II, Kalymnos remained the only Greek island engaged in the sea sponge-harvesting activity, supplying domestic as well as foreign markets. Thanks to its unique geomorphology, Kalymnos is a tourist destination known worldwide for offering alternative vacations and activities such as climbing, scuba diving, mountain hiking and spelunking, a true paradise for passionate action-lovers!
Hóra and settlements
The capital of Kalymnos is the port-town of Pothia, a colourful island settlement spreading amphitheatrically over the foot and slopes of two hills and the valley between them. Pothia boasts remarkable architectural features; in its narrow streets, stand next to one another impressive old mansions (among them stands out the Vouvalis Mansion, the house of a prominent sea sponge merchant and benefactor of the island), elegant captain houses and modest one-storey sponge-harvesters’ houses. Each neighborhood has its own church but the most impressive ones are considered to be those of 1861 Sotiras Christos (Christ Saviour), with a silver dome and a marble iconostasis (icon screen) crafted by the eminent Greek sculptor Giannoulis Chalepas and Agios Nikolaos church. Outstanding buildings such as the Town Hall and the Prefecture Hall boasting a beautiful italianate architecture reveal the long presence of Italian conquerors on the island.
Worldwide known as a sacred island for it is the place where Saint John wrote the Book of Revelation, Patmos is an ideal destination for nature lovers thanks to its lace-like coastline, sheer cliffs and volcanic soil.
Designated as “Holy Island” by the Greek Parliament in 1981 as well as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999, Patmos had been used as a place of exile by the Romans on account of its steep morphology. That’s how St. John found safe refuge here in the 1st century A.D., exiled by the Emperor Domitian.
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CenturyLink $45 12 - 140 Mbps DSL 87%
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There are nine internet providers serving the 97351 area, and 89.13% of households will have internet options from more than one provider. Among nine internet providers in 97351, prices start at $44.99 and available download speeds reach up to 140 Mbps.
The largest internet providers serving the 97351 ZIP code are Spectrum, CenturyLink, and HughesNet bringing cable, DSL, and satellite options to the area.
Cable internet from Spectrum is available to nearly all in the 97351 ZIP code, covering 90% of households. Many will also have the option of DSL from CenturyLink, which covers 87% of the area. Independence’s third most-available internet provider, HughesNet, offers satellite to around 100% of residents in the 97351 ZIP code.
Internet prices for Spectrum start at $44.99/mo.*, which is about the same as the average starting price for internet in Independence, $47.99.
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For those who value internet speed as much as cost, Spectrum offers download speeds up to 100 Mbps and upload speeds up to 5 Mbps in 97351 ZIP code. These download speeds are available to 90% of the area, and are about the same as the average max speeds from all Independence's providers, 69 Mbps.
DSL from CenturyLink offers broadband to nearly all households in the 97351 ZIP code, covering 87% of the area.
Internet prices for CenturyLink start at $45/mo.*, which is about the same as the average starting price for internet in Independence, $47.99.
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For those who value internet speed as much as cost, CenturyLink offers download speeds up to 140 Mbps and upload speeds up to 20 Mbps in 97351 ZIP code. These download speeds are available to 87% of the area, and are slightly faster than the average max speeds from all Independence's providers, 69 Mbps.
Internet prices for HughesNet start at $59.99/mo.*, which is significantly higher than the average starting price for internet in Independence, $47.99.
HughesNet customers who choose the lowest-priced plan can expect speeds up to 25 Mbps, which comes to an estimated $2.40 per Mbps, about the same as the average cost per Mbps for the lowest priced plans in Independence, $1.78.
For those who value internet speed as much as cost, HughesNet offers download speeds up to 25 Mbps and upload speeds up to 3 Mbps in 97351 ZIP code. These download speeds are available to 100% of the area, and are slightly slower than the average max speeds from all Independence's providers, 69 Mbps.
CenturyLink is the fastest internet provider in the 97351 ZIP code with download speeds up to 140 Mbps. These speeds are available to 87% of households in 97351. The next fastest internet provider in the 97351 ZIP code is Spectrum, offering download speeds up to 100 Mbps to 90% of the area.
Alyrica Networks offers the cheapest internet in the 97351 ZIP with service starting at $39.99/mo. This is slightly less than the average starting price for internet in Independence, $47.99.
Monmouth Independence Network is the largest fiber-optic internet service provider serving the 97351 ZIP code, covering 87% of the city.
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The New School students still occupy cafeteria as contract talks continue with unionized workers
The New School cafeteria worker Abad DeGraffe looks at a protest sign hung over a television on Thursday, May 3, 2018. Photo Credit: Freestyle Digital Media
After 45 food service workers at The New School received a notice that they were going to be laid off, hundreds of students took over the university cafeteria.
A week later, they are still there.
An announcement made by The New School administration to replace cafeteria workers with non-union employees sparked anger within the school community. In response, cafeteria workers affiliated with the Unite Here! Local 100 union asked students to rally for them in a meeting on April 27, after which a full-fledged occupation of the cafeteria by members of the Communist Student Group began.
The New School had decided to end its contract with Chartwells, a multinational food-service company that employed the workers. In a letter obtained by amNewYork, the university said it had decided to self-operate its food services, a move Local 100 secretary-treasurer Jose Maldonado said was “extremely rare.” The university would be willing to give the workers a chance to re-apply for their jobs on “competitive terms,” the letter adds.
The New School students took over the university cafeteria after its workers’ jobs were put in jeopardy, now having occupied the space for four days. Photo Credit: Rajvi Desai
After a week of negotiations, a joint announcement released to the student body Monday evening detailed that the union and The New School administration have reached an agreement to extend the current contract with Chartwells, in order to continue providing the workers benefits while both parties negotiate a new contract.
Treating the development with heavy cynicism, occupation organizers joined the Student Employees at The New School union members, or SENS-UAW, as they began their first day of picketing outside The New School Tuesday. The graduate student worker union is alleging that the university has continuously delayed their right to unionize and been hesitant of bargaining with them as a collective, according to a statement on their website.
“We are still here to continue to fight,” Victoria Capraro, third-year student and Communist Student Group member, said. They do not plan to end the occupation until all the workers have contracts, she said.
Forty people have consistently been inside the occupied space and organizers have added another sleeping area for more students to join, Capraro added.
The students initially decided to take matters into their own hands after a petition circulated by the union challenging the administration’s decision did not receive a response from the administration. Communist Student Group members then took up residence in the cafeteria located at 63 Fifth Ave., and demanded every cafeteria worker’s job be saved. The group also asked for higher wages for the workers and better or equal benefits than what they were receiving under Chartwell’s contract.
The New School students set up beds, tarps and couches for a cafeteria occupation in the University Center at 63 Fifth Ave. Photo Credit: Rajvi Desai
On May 1, International Workers’ Day, students flooded the cafeteria at 11:30 a.m. At least 50 of them slept there overnight throughout the week, according to Capraro.
“We, the students, we see [the cafeteria workers] every single day. A lot of them consider themselves mothers to us,” she said. “It’s the cafeteria workers who are asking me if I’m going to class; cafeteria workers are asking me how my day is going.”
Soon after the occupation began, workers were instructed to lock the pantry. For several days, the students pooled their money together and made a “self-sufficient” cafeteria, Capraro said. Approaching finals, several professors have come into the occupied space and taught classes, she added.
The cafeteria looked like a Soviet-style campaign office on May 3, with signs reading “Socialism is the future” and “Protest Organize Occupy Walk Out Resist Strike Shut it Down” crowding the walls and blocking school surveillance cameras. Students nested with tarps, sleeping bags and couches dragged in from the faculty rooms. A water station read, “The revolution will not be providing sparkling water. Thank you for understanding.”
About a day and a half into the sit-in, The New School president David Van Zandt went into the occupied space and verbally promised to rehire all of the workers, according to Capraro. In an email sent shortly after, the administration vowed to offer employment to all of the workers, with “benefits equal to or better” than what they were currently receiving.
Abad DeGraffe, who has worked at the cafeteria for almost two years, said that the administration’s efforts have left him feeling scared and unappreciated.
“This was supposed to be the last chapter of my life,” DeGraffe said. “I came here to retire. Not to hope that one day I’m going to get fired or laid off.”
The New School students have no intention of leaving the cafeteria.
“We are not restricted by any regulations,” occupation organizer and one of the Communist Student Group’s founding members, Robert Griswold, said. “We are communists and we rely on our own forces and build revolutionary worker power.”
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the Directors: Ingmar Bergman
Every word I have ever written on this blog has been in preparation for this post. It’s all been leading up to this – my expansive Director’s post on my favorite filmmaker, Ingmar Bergman. I saw my first Bergman film in the summer of 2008 and my life was forever altered. Seeing The Seventh Seal that warm, isolated evening in July redefined how I viewed cinema. The way I watch movies has never been the same, and it is with great joy that I’m finally able to present my exhaustive post explaining why.
I rewatched every film Bergman directed specifically for this post, so my thoughts on his films are as current as they can be. This post is a bit long (Bergman made a lot of movies), but I hope you find value in it.
Crisis (1946)
There’s a common misconception that great filmmakers aren’t allowed to make bad movies, and if they do, we often skewer them more viciously than we would a mediocre filmmaker. To be clear, Crisis isn’t an awful film, but there’s nothing inherently grand about it either. The plot is relatively simple: a small town gal named Nelly gets a dose of the big city and returns home a wiser, fuller woman. There are interesting character developments, including three love triangles. The first is Nelly’s daughterly affection being split between her foster mother and her birth mother; the second is between Nelly, her mother, and the man they both love, Jack; and the final one concerns Nelly, Jack and a homely suitor pursuing Nelly.
Crisis doesn’t feel like a Bergman film – there are dashes of decent cinematography, and the performances are occasionally strong – but, interestingly, I like the movie more than Bergman himself. In his memoir, “Images” (which I’ll be referencing often in this post), Bergman said the making of Crisis was one of the worst experiences of his life. “I recall the first day of shooting as a complete and unadulterated horror,” he writes. “In theory I knew exactly what I wanted to do. In reality, everything went straight to hell.” As we’ll see, Bergman was always his harshest critic. C-
It Rains on Our Love (1946)
There’s a poignant message at the core of It Rains on Our Love, which declares that once you are persecuted, you never look at things the same. The world around you is uglier, a little less friendly. This film concerns itself with Maggi and David, two troubled people who meet by chance and fall in love. They start a new life together, intending to bother no one in their quaint little town. But because Maggi and David have made mistakes, they are consistently marginalized by the people around them. The best scene of the film comes near the end, when the lovers look out over their village, a place they once adored together, and remark how it no longer seems beautiful. They were unjustly harmed, and they will never look at people, and the world that inhabits them, the same. While the film is far from great, it’s nice to see one of Bergman’s favorite themes, that of tested love, exercised so well so early. B-
A Ship Bound for India (1947)
A Ship Bound for India is a needlessly complex melodrama about the strained relationship between a sailor, Johannes, his stern father, Captain Alexander, and Sally, the woman they both love. Relying heavily on flashbacks (a narrative device Bergman would later master), the film begins in the present, with Johannes and Sally reconnecting, then jumps back seven years to chronicle the sad stories of everyone involved.
The film is too complicated for its own good. Bergman initially liked the movie, thinking he had made a small masterpiece. But after a disastrous screening at the Cannes Film Festival (the sound didn’t work and reels played out of order), the film was critically panned and never regained its footing. Still, Bergman learned a valuable lesson from his hardship: it is essential to oversee all aspects of the filmmaking process, including the sound mixing and printing of your film. D+
Music in Darkness (1948)
After losing his sight due to a firing range accident, once-talented pianist, Bengt (Birger Malmsten, a staple of Bergman’s early work), becomes an embittered man, despite receiving love from Ingrid, a servant of Bengt’s wealthy parents. What’s unique about Music in Darkness is that Bergman isn’t interested in watching a disabled person grow to accept their circumstances. As the movie goes on, Bengt becomes more callous, while the disenfranchised Ingrid becomes more wholesome. Once the character roles are established, Music in Darkness becomes rather conventional, but the film is still a fine effort. In fact, the movie is worth seeing alone for its surreal montage that takes place while Bengt is in a coma. If you’re as obsessed with Bergman’s Persona as I am, you’ll appreciate watching the director embrace obscurity so early in his career. B-
Port of Call is one of Bergman’s finest early efforts. It also marks the first time Bergman really got outside and explored a setting. The movie releases Bergman from the caged-in, theater-like sets of his first four features, and places him in a gritty, working-class Swedish shipyard. The film is about a small town girl with a troubled past who meets a sailor and falls in love. Port of Call is a love story told Bergman’s way, with tragedy being the bridge that brings the lovers together. There’s some risqué material in the film (for one made in 1948), including critiques of the juvenile penal system, religious conservatism, and man’s hypocrisy of female sexual exploration.
Most notably, Port of Call is the first Bergman film where the cinematography is engaging throughout. Lensed by Gunnar Fischer (who would go on to shoot Bergman’s Summer with Monika, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Magician, and more) Port of Call’s reliance on darkness and reflection help capture the secretive unease of the characters. B
One of the principal intentions of film is to create a world your audience becomes so engulfed in, they forget they’re watching a movie. Bergman, however, never cared about this. His films often contained characters talking to the audience, and Bergman himself occasionally appeared, most notably in Persona, when he’s shown directing a scene with cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Prison contains a great early instance of this. After the film’s amusing prologue, a narrator (Bergman himself) tells us that we’ve just seen the prologue of “our” film, and proceeds to recite the credits for Prison. He ends by cheekily saying, “Something like six months has passed since the prologue,” and then the movie begins again.
Prison is a very complex film. In the beginning, a director is pitched an idea by his old professor: make a movie in which the Devil declares that Earth is hell. The director doesn’t like the idea, but he can’t stop thinking about it. He tells his friend, a suicidal writer, about the idea and suddenly the idea turns into a film within the film. Prison was Bergman’s first movie made outside of the studio system, and while it isn’t as accomplished as his other complex work, it is the first taste of what the director would do with his independent vision. B-
Thirst (1949)
At the center of Thirst is a tumultuous train ride shared by wife Ruth (Eva Henning) and husband Bertil (Birger Malmsten). As they travel from Italy to Stockholm during post-WWII, Ruth, who’s troubled past fuels her alcoholic mania, and Bertil fight over present hardships and past woes. The argument is vicious and engaging, but when Thirst devotes long sections to various subplots, the film becomes less interesting. The movie is based on a series of short stories, and I suspect the disconnected nature of the tales works better in print than it does on film. Eva Henning gives one of the great early Bergman performances as Ruth, but I wish Bergman found a way to sustain the Ruth/Bertil sequence for the length of a feature film. Cutting away from it does that portion of the movie a disservice. B-
To Joy (1950)
Bergman often put a bit of himself in his films, and To Joy is one of his most blatantly autobiographical pictures. The film opens with a musician named Stig learning that his wife and child have died in a horrible accident. We then jump back to see how Stig (Stig Olin) and Martha (Maj-Britt Nilsson) met, fell in love and shared a life together. Their marriage was not an easy one; Martha was riddled with insecurity, Stig was an unfaithful asshole. But the love was there, and for better or worse, they managed to keep finding each other.
The parallels between To Joy and Bergman’s life are plentiful. Stig is a musician trying to prove himself, which reflects Bergman’s filmmaking career at the time. The film was made when Bergman was going through his second divorce (one caused by his own infidelity), Stig’s mentor in the film is played by Bergman’s real life mentor, the great director and actor Victor Sjöström, and Bergman himself appears in To Joy, looking right into the camera as if to shame himself. I was indifferent on To Joy when I first saw it, but knowing how openly Bergman was critiquing himself through Stig makes me appreciate the movie much more. B
This Can’t Happen Here (1950)
“Few of my films do I feel ashamed of or detest for various reasons. This Can’t Happen Here was the first one.” Those are Bergman’s thoughts on This Can’t Happen Here, taken from “Images.” This Can’t Happen Here is a lame spy thriller Bergman made for a paycheck. It was meant to be a crossover hit with America (they simultaneously shot it in English and Swedish), but the movie bombed everywhere. Bergman called the process of making the film tortuous from beginning to end. He had no casting control or script approval; no interest or no vision. This Can’t Happen Here is a rare Bergman film that looks and feels nothing like a Bergman film. Bergman’s wish was that no one ever saw it (I was only able to watch it in a college course focused on showing obscure foreign films). Best to respect the man’s wishes. D
Summer Interlude (1951)
Summer Interlude is where things begin to shift for Bergman. For the most part, his post-Summer Interlude career consists of very well made films that are still discussed, with a few oddballs mixed in. Before Summer Interlude, it was the other way around.
When we first meet Marie (Maj-Britt Nilsson), she’s a 28-year-old successful ballet dancer getting little out of life. She’s down, repressed, lost. When she receives the diary of a former lover, she remembers. She remembers the summer she spent with Henrik (Birger Malmsten). She remembers their innocence, their discovery; she remembers what it was like to live. She also remembers the tragedy that struck toward the end of summer, leading her down the depressing path that leads her to where she is now.
Summer Interlude is an Ingmar Bergman film. It looks and feels like his work while dealing with themes that would come to define his career. Marie’s transformation from old and cynical to young and free is jarring; it makes for a classic Bergman performance. The film was based on a summer interlude Bergman had with a woman when he was young. The film took him years to write, but the result is a smart, unsentimental remembrance of love and love lost. A-
Secrets of Women (1952)
Secrets of Women is about a group of four sisters-in-law who take turns telling stories about the men in their lives. Some stories are sad, others are funny, but most aren’t as profound as they intend to be. These flashback tales of infidelity, depression, pregnancy, and paternal disarray all carry little weight. But Secrets of Women is notable for its most humorous segment, in which a wealthy married couple (played by Gunnar Björnstrand and Eva Dahlbeck) is stuck in an elevator and forced to talk to one another. As a standalone sequence, the elevator scene is one of the best things Bergman made at the time of the film’s release. But everything else falls just below the line of being noteworthy. B-
Summer with Monika (1953)
We’ve all thought about it: quitting our jobs, leaving home, going away. No responsibility, no worry. Maybe you’re leaving with someone special, someone you just met, someone you’re infatuated with. Maybe your trip is an open-ended boat journey for the summer. Docking at this pier and that, skinny-dipping during the day, making love on the beach at night. You’ll fall in love, you’ll be happy. But what happens when the illusion stops? When the money runs out and the clothes are dirty and the food is gone. Worse still, what will come of your love when you inevitably return home?
Such is the journey of Harry (Lars Ekborg) and Monika (Harriet Andersson, her first of many incredible Bergman performances), two young, idealistic lovers who leave jobs they hate and families who don’t respect them, and go away for the summer. What develops is a great film about the idolization of young love. “Why do some people have all the luck while others are miserable?” Monika asks Harry during the most telling exchange in the film. “We have each other,” he responds. And in return, she says nothing. Because at that point, what else is there to say? A
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
Sawdust and Tinsel is often regarded as a comedy, but the film is actually a uniquely dark look at how past mistakes haunt you forever. Circus owner Albert Johansson (Ake Grönberg) is not a decent man. He left his wife and children years ago and has now taken up with a much younger actress in his troupe, Anne (Harriet Andersson). When the circus returns to Albert’s hometown, Anne warns him that if he visits his abandoned wife, Anne will leave him. Albert visits his wife anyway and is faced with a dilemma of atoning for his past or saving his future. He can’t have both, and he could have neither.
Bergman said that this film was intensely autobiographical, and it displayed many of his worst qualities as a man, including his longing after former lovers, and his romantic jealousy when in relationships. Fun fact: When cinematographer Hilding Bladh had to leave the shoot for other commitments, the great Sven Nykvist came on board to finish shooting, planting the early seeds of what would become one of cinema’s finest director/cinematographer collaborations. A-
A Lesson in Love (1954)
A Lesson in Love showcases a gentle and easygoing Bergman. The film is often labeled as a decent warm-up to Smiles of a Summer Night, the finest comedy Bergman made. David (Gunnar Björnstrand) and Marianne (Eva Dahlbeck) are a married couple on the outs, who together remember how they got to where they are. The film relies on extensive flashbacks, some revealing the couple in happier times, others showing David and Marianne at their humorous worst. Björnstrand is the clear highlight here. David is unlike any performance the actor delivered for Bergman (Smiles of a Summer Night aside); whimsical, charming, light on his feet. When you juxtapose David with Björnstrand’s work as a vile priest in Winter Light, for example, you can fully appreciate the range of one of Bergman’s most gifted actors. B
Dreams (1955)
Dreams was spawn out of retribution. Having made a series of box office failures (including Sawdust and Tinsel, which failed to connect with audiences), Bergman promised his financiers that he would bring in money with his next film. So he made Dreams, a conventional film about three people hoping their dreams will come to life, even for a moment.
A fashion photographer, Susanne (Eva Dahlbeck), travels to Gothenburg with her best model, Doris (Harriet Andersson), and each manages to get into romantic trouble while they’re there. Susanne longs to reconnect with a former lover, while Doris meets and goes home with an older man (Gunnar Björnstrand). All three main characters have secrets and desires, and they act on them accordingly. The problem is, the film goes where you expect it to. Every actor involved is great, and Bergman has fun shooting a frantic scene set in an amusement park, but all told, Dreams is proof that intentional convention and Ingmar Bergman do not necessarily mix. C
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Let’s get it all straight: Fredrik (Gunnar Björnstrand) is married to the much younger Anne (Ulla Jacobsson), but Fredrik is still smitten with Desiree (Eva Dahlbeck), an actress he had a relationship with between his marriages. Desiree may feel the same about Fredrik, but she’s currently sleeping with Count Carl-Magnus (Jarl Kulle), who is married to Charlotte (Margit Carlqvist). To add to the romantic entanglement, Fredrik has a grown son, Henrik, who may be in love with Anne (who is technically Henrik’s step mother). Desiree gets the idea to put all of these people together in her country home for an evening, where comedic chaos ensues.
Smiles of a Summer Night is one of Bergman’s best films, and easily the best comedy he made. The film toes the line of farcical and earnest; it’s extremely well written, and every cast member (I haven’t even mentioned Fredrik’s nosy maid, played by Harriet Andersson) is excellent. Despite the complicated romantic intentions of the characters, Smiles of a Summer Night is one of Bergman’s most accessible films. At the time of its release, the film was the most expensive Swedish film ever made. But the movie was a huge success, resulting in Bergman being given full financial and creative freedom in many of his films to follow. And look where he went from there. A
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The most moving explanation I have ever heard of a director describing why they do what they do comes from Ingmar Bergman explaining what happened to him while writing The Seventh Seal. Before making the film, Bergman had a paralyzing fear of death. It was a fear that took hold of his every waking moment. So he wrote about it. He wrote about his fear of mortality and his desire to understand religion. He titled the prose The Seventh Seal, named after a passage in the Book of Revelation. And right as Bergman was set to begin shooting the film, he realized that his fear of death had been excised. Of this revelation, Bergman said, “Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer intrusive. The bottom line is: it’s gone.”
From The Seventh Seal forward, Bergman (mostly) made films to understand who he was. He explored his faults, personal fears, and constant struggles, and put them into his work. It is for this reason that his career is sharply divided by the movies he made before The Seventh Seal (many of which are fine, most of which are lacking), and the films he made after The Seventh Seal.
The Seventh Seal is often parodied for its unique, stark imagery, but most of these humorous incarnations come from a place of respect. Because who can forget the tired, embattled knight, Antonius Block (Max von Sydow), playing chess with Death (Bengt Ekerot) on a foreboding beach? Similarly, once you’ve seen The Seventh Seal, the shot of several people dancing with Death in silhouette, en route to their ultimate demise, will not leave your mind.
Concerning the film’s story, I find it’s better to let the film reveal itself to you. If you haven’t seen it, I promise it isn’t as complicated as you may have heard. It’s easy to consume and even has amusing bits of humor sprinkled throughout. The Seventh Seal is an uncontested masterpiece, one of cinema’s finest works. I will cherish it forever. A+
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Bergman’s meditative masterpiece, Wild Strawberries, is one of the film’s finest depictions of melancholic remembrance. The film is a journey into the mind of a hopelessly broken man named Isak Borg. Borg (the great actor/director Victor Sjöström) is an obstinate asshole, rife with contradictions. While en route from Stockholm to Lund, Borg has dreams and nightmares about his youth; harsh reflections that force him to examine his plight. Sjöström is astounding in the film; the performance ranks among the finest Bergman ever captured. Ingrid Thulin (as Borg’s daughter-in-law) gives her first (and ultimately one of her best) Bergman performances here. Her quiet consideration is a perfect balance to Sjöström’s cantankerous attitude.
Wild Strawberries was Bergman’s way of commenting on his failures. Like Isak Borg, Bergman was in a personal crisis, suffering through his third divorce, fighting bitterly with his parents, and ending yet another affair (this time with Bibi Andersson). But professionally, Bergman, like Borg, was highly respected. It is this dichotomy of personal struggle and professional success that Bergman was interested in exploring. “Isak Borg equals me,” Bergman wrote in “Images.” “I had created a figure who, on the outside, looked like my father but was me, through and through.” All of Bergman’s best films were a lacerating depiction of his personal troubles. Wild Strawberries is certainly one of the best examples of this. A+
Brink of Life (1958)
Brink of Life (also widely known as So Close to Life) is a rare Bergman effort that is hardly discussed but remains great. The film tells the stories of three women sharing the same room in a maternity ward. Stina (Eva Dahlbeck) is excited to have her child and is supported by her loving husband (a gentle Max von Sydow); Cecilia (Ingrid Thulin) has a horrible husband (Erland Josephson), who she is considering separating from; and Hjördis (Bibi Andersson), alone and unsupported, resents her unborn child and is considering an abortion.
The film is one of Bergman’s most exacting portrayals of life as a woman. Bergman was such a keen observer of the hardships of women, and that is on full display here. The three female leads (along with Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, who plays a nurse) were all awarded the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival (Bergman also won Best Director). Interestingly, Brink of Life never really resonated with Bergman. Prior to writing “Images” in 1990, Bergman hadn’t seen the film since its release. “All together, the film isn’t much,” Bergman wrote. “The actresses remain its biggest asset.” I agree with the second part. A-
The Magician (1958)
The Magician is Bergman’s way of openly mocking his critics. Back in Bergman’s day, if a critic didn’t like your work, they described why they didn’t like it, and arrogantly suggested ways in which the filmmaker could improve. Focus on this theme or that, use different lighting, hire other actors, and so on. This infuriated Bergman, and of this anger, The Magician was born.
The film is about Albert Volger (Max von Sydow), a magician who has increased trouble believing in his work. Volger travels to a new town with his troupe, including wife Manda (Ingrid Thulin). Once in town, they are immediately scrutinized by Vergerus (Gunnar Björnstrand), the Minister of Health, and Egerman (Erland Josephson), the police chief. The townspeople fear that the magician will actually harm them with real magic, even though Volger himself insists he is a complete fraud
Volger represents Bergman’s insecurity as a filmmaker, while Vergerus and Egerman are surrogates of the critics who preyed on Bergman’s self-doubt. Bergman said that Vergerus was a proxy for critic Harry Schein, who loathed much of Bergman’s work. (Most interestingly, Schein was married to Ingrid Thulin. Can you imagine what dinner parties with these people must have been like?) This is clever film, one I’ve never been able to pin down fully. One on hand, The Magician doesn’t hit me as hard as Bergman’s other films do. In the middle of the movie, for example, von Sydow, Thulin, Björnstrand and Josephson are all absent for more than 20 minutes, and the film suffers for it. On the other hand, I never want to stop writing or talking about it. A lot is going on in this film, certainly more than what’s on the surface. Bergman always insisted it was a comedy. That’s something to think about. A-
The Virgin Spring (1960)
I suppose every prolific filmmaker has a movie like The Virgin Spring. That is, a film the director himself hates, but the audience generally appreciates. The Virgin Spring is a complex morality tale. After a young woman is raped and killed on her way to church, her father (played by Max von Sydow) vows revenge on her murderers. The film posits a few dilemmas: Is the concept of “eye for an eye” morally correct, even if the Bible says so, and how proportionate should the revenge should be to the crime?
This is a masterful film, and its story has been retold countless times in film, most notably in Wes Craven’s first feature, The Last House on the Left. But Bergman grew to hate The Virgin Spring. While he says the making of the film was pleasant, Bergman eventually sided with his critics, who called the movie a cheap knockoff of Kurosawa. The Virgin Spring ultimately won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film, but Bergman didn’t care. He barely mentions the movie in “Images” and refers to the film as “an aberration” in “Bergman on Bergman.” I simply do not understand Bergman’s problem with the movie. I believe it remains one of his seminal classics; a turning point from “old Bergman” (in which his films were set far in the past), to “contemporary Bergman.” The Virgin Spring is one of my favorite Ingmar Bergman films, and will undoubtedly remain as such. A+
The Devil’s Eye (1960)
The old Irish proverb says that “A woman’s chastity is a sty in the Devil’s eye.” And while you and I may dismiss that amusing maxim, Bergman based an entire comedy on it. In The Devil’s Eye, the wholesomeness of a vicar’s daughter (Bibi Andersson) has caused a sty to form in the eye of the Devil himself. Annoyed by this, the Devil sends Don Juan to Earth on a mission to deflower the innocent young woman. But when Don Juan arrives, he finds himself entranced by the woman, thus sending everyone involved into a frenzy.
As the plot may suggest, The Devil’s Eye is slight Bergman. Bergman himself never really liked the movie, and time has proven that what went on behind the scenes was more impactful than what made it into the movie. The Devil’s Eye marked the last time Bergman and his then-regular cinematographer, Gunnar Fischer, would work together. Fischer and Bergman had polar opposite personalities and rarely saw eye to eye. Due to a prior commitment, Fischer was unable to shoot The Virgin Spring, so Bergman hired Sven Nykquist to lens that film. With the Bergman/Nykquist collaboration going so well on The Virgin Spring, and the Bergman/Fischer collaboration going so poorly on The Devil’s Eye, Bergman made Nykquist his new cinematographer, and together, they created some of the finest looking films ever made. B-
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Through a Glass Darkly presents a new form for Bergman: contemporary-set films, small cast, shot locally (on Bergman’s resident island, Fårö), and lensed with a keen understanding of physical light as character. The film was a career rebirth, a metaphor Bergman makes clear during the movie’s opening shot, which shows four characters running out of the ocean, toward the camera.
Through a Glass Darkly is an emotionally complex tale of mental health, jealousy, and deception. Karin (Harriet Andersson) has just been released from the hospital after being treated for schizophrenia. Her kind husband, Martin (Max von Sydow), does not think she can be helped. Her detached father, David (Gunnar Björnstrand), is using Karen’s illness to enhance his writing. And her young brother, Minus (Lars Passgård), is tormented by the neglect he receives from his father. The film covers 24 hours of emotional hell for the characters, mainly Karin, whose mental state slowly descends into a living nightmare.
Although the movie won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Bergman was never a fan of it. He loved Andersson’s performance and cherished Sven Nykquist’s photography, but not much else. I disagree with the master, yet again. A+
Winter Light is one of the best character studies ever made. The film is 81 minutes long, and needn’t be a minute longer. In that tight frame, Bergman perfectly encapsulates regret, turmoil, angst, and rage through the character of Pastor Tomas Ericsson (Gunnar Björnstrand, a career-best performance). The film is as easy to watch as it is difficult. The ease of the picture is in its length, sure, but also in the way it looks. Bergman and Nykquist constructed a church on Fårö and spent days sitting in it, watching how the sun would affect the lighting within the structure. Once they had their lighting cues, they began filming, creating a film in which every shot is gritty, cold, and flawless.
The difficulty of the film is how ruthless the characters can be; many are spiteful and beyond redemption. When I rewatched the movie for this post, I remembered Tomas being a bastard from the beginning. But this is wrong. At the start, he is confused, sick, longing for answers. He becomes mean. This is best captured in two sequences, which remain highlights of Bergman’s career. The first is Tomas’ ex, Märta (Ingrid Thulin, her beauty hidden behind her character’s angst), reading a long, scathing letter she has written to Tomas. The second is Tomas sharing his frustration about the letter to Märta.
Winter Light is a great film. It’s so good, that a documentary about the making of Winter Light, Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie, runs more than two times the length of Winter Light itself. Sometimes it takes a while to explain why something is great. A+
The Silence (1963)
The time, unknown. The place, unknown. We don’t know where they are, but neither do they. So begins The Silence, Bergman’s conclusion to his unofficial Faith Trilogy, preceded by Through a Glass Darkly and Winter Light. The movie starts on a train, but soon, Ester (Ingrid Thulin), Anna (Gunnel Lindblom), and Anna’s son, Johan (Jörgen Lindström), decide to shack up in a mostly abandon hotel and wait. For what, we’re not sure. The setting seems to be war-torn. The people of the town walk around aimlessly; some look hungry, others look energized. There’s a purposeful displacement of The Silence that makes the movie inherently unsettling. It’s pure Bergman.
Ester and Anna aren’t getting along, and it’s unclear if they ever really have. While Ester drinks and smokes her health away in the hotel room, Anna takes to the streets, experiencing the mystique of the town. Johan is left to fend for himself, quietly encountering people around the hotel. Of the Faith Trilogy films, The Silence is the most mysterious. There’s a hypnotism within it that’s appealing. To pick a favorite among the trilogy is reductive, but The Silence could safely be called the most captivating. A+
All These Women (1964)
On paper, All These Women is essential. It was Bergman’s first film in color, one of his few comedies, and it contains the direct influence of Federico Fellini’s 8 ½, a film Bergman revered. All These Women is about a gregarious biographer, Cornelius (Jarl Kulle), who has been hired to pen the biography of a great cellist, Felix. Cornelius is invited to Felix’s mansion, where the musician lives with his (many) wives and mistresses. Chaos ensues shortly after Cornelius’ arrival, as he spends most of his time behaving like a sex-crazed loon.
All These Women is an absolute farce, amusingly blanketed between Bergman’s great Faith Trilogy, and his experimental, near-horror masterpieces (Persona, Hour of the Wolf, Shame, The Passion of Anna). Bergman said he only made All These Women to help his financiers at Svensk Filmindustri earn a profit. Also, Bergman was so unsatisfied with the color palette of the film that he didn’t shoot on color again for another five years. In short, the historical significance of All These Women is better than the film itself. C-
Persona (1966)
Persona is the one. It’s the Ingmar Bergman film above all Ingmar Bergman films. It’s his game changer. The film is a deconstructive masterpiece; perhaps the finest “mind fuck” movie ever made. With Persona, it’s as if Bergman was daring us to judge it, knowing damn well that the film was nearly impossible to understand fully.
A famous actress, Elisabet Vogler (Liv Ullmann, in her first Bergman role), falls mute for reasons not fully explained. Elisabet is cared for by nurse Alma (Bibi Andersson, deviating from Bergman comic relief to deliver the best performance of her career), who travels with the actress to a remote sea cottage in hopes of healing Vogler. Without knowing what you’re getting into, one can assume that the simple plot, along with the film’s brisk 83 minute run time, should make for easy viewing. But from the first frame of Persona, Bergman makes it clear that we’re in for something different. The first six minutes of the movie are worthy of intense discussion, and the subsequent minutes reveal a psycho-sexual, minimalist horror work of art that I will love forever.
The first time I saw Persona remains one of my most memorable movie-watching experiences. It was a weekday, and I woke up strangely early. I decided to watch Persona, which I had bought blind a few days before. The film was short, so I would have plenty of time to watch it before work. I turned it on and sat transfixed for 83 minutes, unable to move, unable to divert my eyes. When it was done, I immediately replayed it, not caring that I’d be late for work. The movie puzzled me. It tortured and inspired me. Currently, Persona sits as my third favorite movie of all time. I don’t anticipate it leaving anytime soon. A+
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Hour of the Wolf is a hypnotic fringe nightmare that enraptures me more every time I watch it. Some say it’s Bergman’s only true horror film, but I think it plays better as a warped psychological thriller. In that regard, it makes for a great double bill with Persona. As noted astutely by Bergman biographer, Marc Gervais, both Persona and Hour of the Wolf are about artists suffering through a personality disintegration. The collapsing artist in Hour of the Wolf is the painter Johan Borg (Max von Sydow, at his most unhinged), who, with his wife, Alma (Liv Ullmann), experience many strange occurrences on a small island.
The film is best known for two crazed sequences. The first is an extended flashback in which Johan harms a boy near the water. The scene is shot in stark contrast, the blacks and whites nearly blinding us, and remains one of the most audacious sequences Sven Nykvist ever shot for Bergman. The second sequence is the film’s conclusion, in which Johan spends 20 minutes falling into his own insane, sexually humiliating nightmare. Like many of the great Bergman films, Hour of the Wolf takes some warming up to. Its impact hits you long after you watch it. A
Shame (1968)
Shame is unlike any war film I’ve seen. The film does not concern itself with military tactics or political agenda. We are given no soldiers to root for, no side to lash out at. Instead, Bergman was interested in showing what war does to people. As Roger Ebert said, “Shame is a war film that is against all war.”
In the film, Bergman creates a fictional Swedish civil war and uses a married couple as a gateway into the madness of conflict. What makes Shame so unique is that, like Eva and Jan Rosenberg (Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow, respectively), we have no idea who is terrorizing the couple at any given time. Or why. Eva and Jan have no opinion about the war. They’re only trying to understand and survive. “When society can no longer function, the main characters lose their frame of reference,” Bergman writes of Shame in “Images.” “Their social relations cease. The people crumble. The weak man becomes ruthless. The woman, who had been the stronger, falls apart.”
Shot to perfection and mixed with hauntingly realistic sound, Shame is a technical marvel. Narratively, Shame is one of Bergman’s most secretly complex films. On the surface, it’s a straightforward war film, but when you dig deeper, Shame challenges its audience to identify the nightmare of war. I didn’t really “get” Shame when I first saw it, but the film improves with every viewing, always making me question who, and why. A
The Rite (1969)
A judge (Erik Hell) interviews three performers in his office: Hans (Gunnar Björnstrand), the genial leader, Thea (Ingrid Thulin), Hans’ irritable wife, and Sebastian (Anders Ek), an unstable drunk who is sleeping with Thea. The Rite is split into segments, half of which are set in the judge’s interview room, while the other half shows us the performers living their daily lives. The problem is that for most of the film’s running time, we have no idea why the judge is questioning the artists so severely, and by the time the judge’s intentions are revealed, it is too little too late.
Ultimately, The Rite is an uneven effort. The sets are distractingly claustrophobic, but the performances are pleasantly amusing. The film is also one of the most sexually explicit Bergman made, which is one of the reasons it’s still talked about today. Simply put, The Rite is lesser Bergman, with sparse waves of redemption included throughout. C+
The Passion of Anna (1969)
The Passion of Anna (titled more appropriately as The Passion in Sweden) is one of Bergman’s strangest films. Bergman narrates the film himself, clips from Shame are edited in (odd, given that The Passion of Anna is in color, and Shame is in black and white), and, most inexplicably, The Passion of Anna occasionally cuts to interviews with the actors discussing the film we’re watching. For the first 10 minutes of the movie, for example, we watch Andreas (Max von Sydow) go about his life. Then without warning, we cut to Bergman briefly interviewing Max von Sydow about Andreas, then cut back to the film itself. Bergman does this four times, once for each main character in the film. But why?
The film is about the quietly morose Andreas and his interactions with Anna (Liv Ullmann), a sad woman who wanders into his life, and Eva and Elis (Bibi Andersson and Erland Josephson), the married couple that both Andreas and Anna know. Time passes freely as the characters deal with sexual exploration, emotional confusion, and psychological terror. The Passion of Anna is not polished Bergman - it’s gritty by design. The camera moves erratically or stays still for single extended takes, the color is muted but also strangely vivid, the landscapes are dirty but gorgeous, and the narrative is self-reflexive but unique. Like Persona, Hour of the Wolf and Shame, The Passion of Anna isn’t interested in reality. It’s an experiment in emotional derailment. A-
The Touch (1971)
One of the biggest debates among Bergman enthusiasts is whether or not The Touch was lost in translation. The dialogue is flat, and the delivery is often detached; did shooting the film in English degrade the quality of the script? The plot of The Touch is familiar but compelling. A married woman (Bibi Andersson) meets a charming man (Elliot Gould) by chance. The two engage in a passionate affair, and the man slowly begins to reveal his true, manipulative colors.
The Touch should work; it has a plot Bergman explored often, and it features great actors. But something was lost while making it. For example, there is very little to appreciate about the look and pace of the film, which is rare for a Bergman film. Bergman typically went to great lengths to frame his compositions, and hold the tension of a scene, but those things are absent in The Touch. Bergman himself detested the film, noting in “Images” that he, “Bungled [the story] so badly.” The Touch isn’t necessarily a bad film, but it is inferior Bergman. C
Cries and Whispers (1972)
The Touch was a disaster, both commercially and critically. Yet Bergman, himself no stranger to finding inspiration in his inner turmoil, used the depression he experienced while making The Touch to fuel his next screenplay, Cries and Whispers. And here we have a great artistic lesson: if you fail, accept it. Take that failure and use it as motivation. Because through Bergman’s crippling depression, he subsequently made the best film I have ever seen about loss and grief.
Cries and Whispers is a masterpiece. Rarely do films understand shame, jealousy, pain and death as well as this one. The film takes place at the end of the 19th century and is set almost entirely within a few rooms of a large mansion. The interiors of the mansion still haunt me. Massive, sparse, bathed in a blood red color. Four women occupy the lifeless space: Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is slowly dying of cancer (few film deaths are more emotionally gruesome than this one), Agnes’ cold sisters, Maria and Karin (Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Thulin, respectively), and their kind maid, Anna (Kari Sylwan).
Few can watch Cries and Whispers easily. It’s a draining film. Every time I brave a viewing, I spend 91 minutes yearning for the women in the film to love and be loved in return. But they can’t. They’re too far gone. They’ve experienced the harshness of life, and it has made them cold. But I hope. I hope they have days like the one the movie ends with. It’s such an oddly satisfying conclusion, perhaps the most moving thing Bergman ever captured on film. Cries and Whispers has been one of my Top 10 films for a decade, and I certainly cannot imagine it ever leaving. A+
Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
The expansive relationship drama, Scenes from a Marriage, was a huge departure for Bergman. Cries and Whispers was a financial burden. No one wanted to finance the challenging film, so Bergman put up most of the money himself. Even the cast forfeited their salaries, instead taking percentage points of the film’s profit. With Scenes from a Marriage, Bergman set purposeful budget limitations for himself: modern day setting, blank interior sets, dialogue-heavy screenplay; six scenes each taking one week to shoot. The scenes would be shot for Swedish television, airing over two months in 1973. The film was a risk – a tonal and aesthetic reversal from Cries and Whispers – but the risk was beneficial, as every subsequent Bergman film was made for television.
Scenes from a Marriage details the arduous marriage of Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson). We see the highs and lows of their union, in all its ugly glory. The lasting result is as honest and unflinching as relationship movies get. Note that there are two versions of the film, the original 281 version (with each scene lasting 50 minutes), and the 167-minute version that played in theaters. The short version is superb, but the full version is unquestionably superior. A+
The Magic Flute (1975)
There were few things Bergman revered more than Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute. His love for the piece was boundless. “The Magic Flute became my companion through life,” Bergman wrote in “Images.” It was his life-long dream to direct the opera, and in 1975, he released one of cinema’s highest-regarded stage performance films.
Filming a play or opera with the intention of releasing it as a film is not easy. The camera is still and afar, the sound is distant, the emotion is lost. To make the filmed version of The Magic Flute more vibrant, Bergman used editing as his best asset. During the movie, he often cuts to audience reactions; children staring gleefully at the stage, they’re expressions of wonder filling our hearts. Bergman also gives us backstage glimpses of the performers getting ready and taking breaks. I get very little satisfaction from watching filmed stage events, but damn if The Magic Flute isn’t completely alive. For each of its 135 minutes, you can tell Bergman is living out his dream. His passion for the material fills every frame. A-
Face to Face (1976)
Face to Face is Liv Ullmann’s movie. She’s the reason to see it, she’s the reason to talk about it. Like much of Bergman’s best work, Face to Face is a challenging meditation on the madness of the mind. Nightmares executed as reality is one of Bergman’s favorite themes, it’s what makes his best films so relentlessly engaging.
Ullmann plays a successful psychiatrist who is losing her grip on reality. Her breakdown is slow but absolute. We’re often confused by what is real and what is being conjured in Ullmann’s head. The material is Ullmann’s to own, as the film would not endure without her dedicated performance. Take, for instance, the astounding seven and a half minute scene that occurs nearly an hour into the film. In the scene, which is captured in one shot, Ullmann lays in bed and tells her would-be lover (Erland Josephson) about a horrific attack she recently survived. In the sequence, Ullmann is given free reign to explore any emotion at her disposal. She hits a great many of them – confused adulation, crippling sadness, sudden anger – and ultimately, we’re left with an extended close-up of her pained face as she stares off, vacantly exploring the hell of her damaged mind. A damaged mind the viewer has a hell of a time exploring. A-
The Serpent’s Egg (1977)
The Serpent’s Egg is one of the most frustrating films Bergman made. The movie, which was Bergman’s only Hollywood production, is about an American Jew (David Carradine) in Berlin dealing with the loss of his brother, while living with his newly-widowed sister-in-law (Liv Ullmann). The first 100 minutes of the film are full of forced moments, ridiculous sequences, bland performances, and lazy narration. Sven Nykvist shoots the hell out of the movie, but his compositions are filled with empty material. Then everything changes. The final act of The Serpent’s Egg is tightly constructed, mysterious, and thrilling as all hell. The act is so excellent, it deserves to be in a better movie. Based on this, I feel confident recommending the movie in its entirety. The third act may be too little too late, but the film is one worth exploring all the same. C-
Autumn Sonata (1978)
While writing this post, I rewatched every film Bergman directed. And I can tell you with absolute certainty that my rewatch of Autumn Sonata was one of the most visceral movie watching experiences I’ve had in some time. I had only seen the film once, nearly a decade ago. Age and perspective made Autumn Sonata better. It’s one of the most emotionally draining films I’ve ever seen; so full of love, longing, and emotional cruelty.
Eva (Liv Ullmann) invites her mother, Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman), to Eva’s home for an extended visit. The two haven’t seen each other in seven years as Charlotte is a famous pianist and has been away performing. The visit begins smoothly. Charlotte is energetic, nervous, and controlling, but it’s nothing Eva isn’t prepared for. After some initial small talk, Eva reveals a secret: Eva’s disabled sister, Helena (who is Charlotte’s other daughter), is in the next room. Upon hearing this, Charlotte’s rage is unleashed. She feels trapped and deceived. We come to learn that Charlotte is a quiet monster, a woman who cares only about herself and loathes anyone (her children included) who tries to occupy her time.
During this visit, Eva comes to terms with her mother’s mistreatment, and finally gains the courage to say something about it. Autumn Sonata is a simple film, but one laced with so much heartbreak that it’s uncomfortable to watch. Nearly one-third of the film is a drunken argument between Eva and Charlotte, a scene that matches the best acting both Ullmann and Bergman ever put on screen. Throughout the movie, it’s important to take note of Ullmann’s appearance. Her hair, glasses, and clothes are designed specifically to make Eva look like a child who never grew up. Autumn Sonata is about a daughter who wants nothing more than to be loved by a mother who has no idea how to love anyone. And it is absolutely devastating. A+
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
From the Life of the Marionettes begins with a shocking jolt of violence. A man and a woman stand amicably, then, without warning, he kills and rapes her. Throughout the rest of the movie, we see interviews with people who knew the murderer, Peter, then jump back in time to give those interviews context. Why did Peter murder this woman? What could provoke such a hideous crime? And, most tellingly, how reliable are the subjects of these interviews?
Bergman made From the Life of the Marionettes while he was exiled from Sweden. The director was scared and pissed off, and from his passionate fury, From the Life of the Marionettes was born. While the film may be considered lesser Bergman, Bergman himself regarded it as one of his favorite films he made. The movie is a raw experiment, but one that mostly works. B
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Fanny and Alexander is Ingmar Bergman’s magnum opus. It was intended to be Bergman’s final film, one unlike any he had made. “After Fanny and Alexander there will be no more feature films for me,” Bergman said. “Fanny and Alexander is like a summing up of my entire life as a filmmaker.” The film was a massive undertaking. It had more than 50 speaking parts, a huge budget, lavish sets and costumes, and a final runtime that exceeded five hours. The result is a film of absolute importance, one of cinema’s grandest achievements.
The film concerns itself with the wealthy Ekdahl family, as witnessed through the eyes of the two titular children in the family. The Ekdahl’s are big and festive, an important theater family. But after Fanny and Alexander’s father dies, their mother remarries a strict bishop, forcing the children out of their peaceful home and into a concrete dungeon where the bishop resides. There is, of course, much more to the film than I’ve described (I could spend pages dissecting this movie), but it’s best to discover it for yourself.
Like Scenes from a Marriage, there are two versions of Fanny and Alexander readily available. I was raised on the three-hour theatrical cut; the version that won four Oscars, including Best Foreign Film and Best Cinematography. But when Criterion released the longer, five-hour version of the film (made for Swedish television), I was able to view Fanny and Alexander in all its intended glory. Both versions are excellent, but the extended cut is as big and bold and beautiful as cinema gets. There is magic in every frame of this film. What a sight it is to behold. A+
After the Rehearsal (1984)
After the Rehearsal is one of the great, hidden gems of Bergman’s filmography. The film is 72 minutes long, features three characters, and takes place entirely on one stage. Because Fanny and Alexander was meant to be Bergman’s final film, the inspiration for After the Rehearsal surprised the director. “After the Rehearsal was meant to be a pleasant title episode on my road toward death,” Bergman wrote in “Images.” The film is about Henrik (Erland Josephson), an aging theater director who is preparing a production of Stringberg’s “A Dream Play.” On this particular day, Anna (Lena Olin), the lead actress in the play, returns after rehearsal to speak with Henrik. The two dive into an intensely personal conversation, and by the end, Henrik is left questioning the value of his life and art. An older, alcoholic actress named Rakel (Ingrid Thulin) occasionally appears on stage as well, though it is unclear whether Rakel is alive or dead, related to Anna and/or Henrik, or not.
All three actors are excellent in the film, as is Bergman’s script (the film is very autobiographical) and strong direction. The one problem I have with After the Rehearsal is that it is so damn hard to find. The film was never given a proper home video release, so you either have to find crude copies online (none of which have English subtitles), or purchase a rare DVD on Amazon. For Bergman enthusiasts, this late Bergman entry should not be missed. A-
The Blessed Ones (1986)
Finding The Blessed Ones, let alone watching it, is an achievement in and of itself, as this movie is all but impossible to track down today. If you can find it, however, you’ll discover a fragile little Bergman wonder. The film is about an older couple who meet through their faith and soon marry. The woman (Harriet Andersson, great as ever) slowly goes insane while her co-dependent husband (Per Myrberg) does nothing to treat his wife’s madness. In fact, as she gets worse, he quietly accepts his wife’s delusions, perhaps realizing that she won’t live much longer regardless.
Furious that After the Rehearsal was distributed in American theaters (Bergman wanted it to be solely released on television), Bergman intentionally shot The Blessed Ones on video, and it looks it. The film has the aesthetic of a soap opera, rather than a lavish Bergman production. Yet, the man’s craft remains mostly intact. The Blessed Ones is another personal, late Bergman film that is worth tracking down if you can find it. B
In the Presence of a Clown (1997)
At the start of In the Presence of a Clown, Carl Åkerblom (Börje Ahlstedt), is in a mental hospital having attempted to murder his fiancée. He is joined by another patient, Professor Osvald (Erland Josephson), and later visited by a kindhearted clown, who may or may not be Death. Carl is sprung from the hospital in 1925, and he quickly discovers a way to give silent movies dialogue. But during his first “production,” a mishap occurs, forcing Carl to face the people of his life in an intimate way.
In the Presence of a Clown is a fine film, but certainly a lesser final effort from Bergman. The movie is two hours long and could be considerably shorter. Still, Ahlstedt and Josephson are great, and the film leads up to a surprisingly satisfying conclusion. Also worth noting, In the Presence of a Clown is easy to find online, if interested. C+
Saraband (2003)
Many directors soften with age. The emotional despair of their work lessens, the risks they take are less dire. Such is not the case with Ingmar Bergman’s final film, Saraband. The film is a family drama in which humility and pain are paramount. It’s one of the most emotionally brutal films Bergman ever made, which is certainly saying something.
Saraband reunites Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) from Scenes from a Marriage. The two have been estranged for decades, but at the start of the film, Marianne tells us she’s been thinking about Johan. She goes to visit Johan in his country home, where she intends to stay for an undisclosed amount of time. Shortly after Marianne’s arrival, we meet the film’s other two characters: Johan’s son, Henrik (Börje Ahlstedt), and Henrik’s daughter, Karin (Julia Dufvenius). Johan and Henrik detest one another, while Henrik and Karin are stuck in a wildly inappropriate co-dependent relationship. The four characters spend the film contemplating their lives and their purpose of their relationships.
While it is great to see Ullmann and Josephson reunited for Bergman’s swan song, the real triumph of the film is Börje Ahlstedt. The first time we meet Henrik, he is aggressively lashing out at his daughter. As the film progresses, we get context for Henrik’s fury. About an hour into the movie, Henrik asks Johan for money. What follows is a brutal conversation that rivals any similar conversation Bergman wrote. Ultimately, Henrik wants to be heard and loved. Instead, he lives as a sad man. And we can’t take our eyes off him. Ahlstedt’s Henrik is one of the great Bergman performances.
It’s also worth noting that Saraband is by far the most contemporary film Bergman ever made, and not only because it was his last. Characters curse freely (rare in Bergman’s films), they wear New Balance sneakers, and say things like, “You’re on a roll.” It’s so refreshing to know that Bergman could write for any time. Now and then, past and present, the man was always relevant. A
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Brittani Burnham June 20, 2017 at 11:57 AM
Amazing job, Alex! Bergman was a director I wasn't familiar with until I started blogging. It's yet another reason I'm glad I started, otherwise I would be missing all of this. I've had a few Bergman films on my Blind Spot lists and The Seventh Seal is the next one I plan to watch. Persona and Smiles of a Summer Night are my favorites.
Alex Withrow June 21, 2017 at 11:21 AM
Thanks so much! So glad you like Persona and Smiles. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on The Seventh Seal. It's so different yet engaging. I adore it.
Nick9000 June 20, 2017 at 12:21 PM
By jove, you finally did it! Congratulations!
I still have yet to see a Bergman film. I own The Seventh Seal and Persona, so that's gonna change soon.
What are your thoughts on Torment, The Best Intentions, Private Confessions, and Faithless? Written, but not directed by Bergman. There are more, but those I'm most interested in, Torment being his big break, The Best Intentions being a Palme d'Or winner, and the latter two being directed by Liv Ullmann.
Finallllyyy! Excited to hear your thoughts on his films.
I love all of those movies he wrote, particularly The Best Intentions. I haven't seen Torment in some time, and could stand to give it another go. I decided to limit this post to just the feature films Bergman directed (with the TV films that were also released in America) because it seemed balanced. But I do love those scripts and the films spawn from them.
Nick9000 June 28, 2017 at 5:18 AM
I'm totally gonna do a Bergman run at the July Criterion B&N sale. All the blu-rays ("DVDs can wait" is my philosophy).
I'm curious. Which non-Criterion Bergman films would you like to see get inducted into the Collection?
Alex Withrow June 28, 2017 at 9:34 AM
Ohhh great question. Hour of the Wolf, Shame, and The Passion of Anna are the big ones. Though their MGM DVD releases aren't bad. Face to Face and Saraband could definitely use the Criterion touch, and it would be great if they picked up After the Rehearsal, because that one is so under seen, but very well done.
Henrik J. June 20, 2017 at 12:37 PM
I have not watched nearly enough Ingmar Bergman films, but i have loved all the ones i have seen. The Seventh Seal and Persona are probably my favorites so far. This has definitely made me interested in checking out more of his work. This is probably one of your best posts so far. I really enjoyed reading about all these movies.
Thanks so much man, that means a lot. This beast took a Long. Damn. Time. so I am very pleased that you like it. I recommend Cries and Whispers next. It is so emotionally brutal but so well made.
Henrik J. June 23, 2017 at 11:26 AM
I will definitely seek that one out next. Sounds great. Love the cast as well.
Alex Withrow June 23, 2017 at 2:53 PM
Dell June 20, 2017 at 3:07 PM
I am way under-versed on Bergman. I've only seen The Seventh Seal and The Virgin Spring. They're both outstanding, as you say. I had no idea Bergman didn't care for the latter. I'm with you. I'm not sure what problem he could have with it. As a side note, I only watched it because I heard how heavily Last House on the Left borrowed from it.
I honestly had no idea Bergman hated The Virgin Spring until researching this post. Reminded me of the way Woody Allen detests Manhattan, which is one of my favorite Allen films.
Isn't it crazy how much The Last House on the Left borrowed from The Virgin Spring? Craven's film is obviously much more gruesome, but the plot is essentially the same.
thevoid99 June 20, 2017 at 7:41 PM
Goddamn!!!!! You did it!!!!! You've conquered a giant. So far, I've seen only 22 of his films based on my list of what I've seen from him so far. I hope to do him real soon and create a proper Auteurs piece on him. Maybe in multiple parts. I definitely agree with your choices on what you thought was great and what wasn't so great. All These Women is so far my least favorite of his so far. As far as my favorite, I think it's either Cries & Whispers or Persona as I've been back-and-forth on which of the 2 films is better.
I discovered Bergman in the spring of 2007 w/ The Seventh Seal being the first of his films that I had seen and it became a journey since.
BTW, where's the segment "Daniel" from Simultania that he did between Persona and Shame?
Oh, what about Mr. Sleeman is Coming and his other TV theater films?
I cannot WAIT to read your Auteurs piece. Such a vast filmography but so worth it. Love your list as well. We're pretty much in line, though I like Saraband a bit more than you (though it's hard to tell if you disliked it at all, given that it is placed after so many masterpieces).
I could not find Simultania anywhere, so I left it off. Similarly, I realized that if I sought out all of his filmed theater projects, movies based on his scripts, filmed operas, and so on, this post would never get written, so I limited it to his feature films, and a handful of TV films that were also released in America.
I actually liked Saraband. I thought it's a great final film from Bergman. I heard Simultania is hard to find as is some of his TV theaters. That is the reason why I'm not doing Bergman immediately because I want to do everything and get it right.
Yeah I hear you on that. Again, I can't wait to read your post. And I'm happy you like Saraband. The man went out still hitting so hard.
thevoid99 July 12, 2018 at 5:25 PM
I think I just found your Xmas present: https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1427-ingmar-bergman-s-cinema
Alex Withrow July 16, 2018 at 9:14 AM
Holy god. That is a thing of absolute wonder.
The Chatty Moviegoer June 21, 2017 at 10:33 AM
Cries and Whispers is my /favorite movie/, and this is an EXCELLENT post :D
That's awesome! So happy you love that movie so much. Thanks so much for the comment!
Mark Woollon June 21, 2017 at 10:38 AM
Lovely to see you finally release this- and that it was realized so damn well. I've been piecing together my own look at Bergman's career bit by bit and the slew of stunning A-rated movies just keeps on coming. Hard to believe he's actually this good.
Winter Light is ungodly, one of my favorites of his. Cries & Whispers really grew on me after re-reading your Top 10 too, so thanks for that :)
Thanks Mark, I really appreciate that. He really was that good. But I appreciate that he had flaws in his work as well (and that he commented on his flaws so freely in "Images".)
Winter Light is a beast. So much emotional hatred packed into its brisk run time.
María Val. June 21, 2017 at 6:47 PM
I saw your email and I have remembered I hadn’t checked up on your blog lately (I’ll explain you in the email why I’ve been a bit “off” the internet) and what a nice surprise to find this incredible and magnificent post! You do honestly deserved a big applause for doing this list. I knew Bergman at a very young age because my mother (she’s been my greatest teacher on cinema) adores him at much as you do. If she had to pick her favorite directors Bergman, Truffaut, Kubrick and Lynch are the ones I think she loves the most. Followed closely by Fellini and Herzog.
I loved to read your thoughts on his films. I haven’t seen all those films yet, so I’m adding a few to my to-watch list, specially the ones from his younger days ‘cause I didn’t even know about some of those. Not sure if I could pick a favorite, but definitely I’m right there with you with your feelings towards The Seventh Seal. I’ve also been very concerned with that idea of death since I was very young. I really liked something Cronenberg said about it on an interview where he asked the journalist if he remembered the first time he realized he will not live forever, as at some point of our life we discover that death exists and it’s a very defining moment. And The Seventh Seal makes me think about all that. Thinking about all those iconic moments you’ve written about, I think that one is my favorite Bergman film and one of my favorite films ever. It’s full of magic moments. Talking about magic, I actually liked a lot The Magician. I think it’s because I loved Von Sydow there (and everywhere). He was very magnetic in that character, I remember I was mesmerized by some of his scenes. My other top-favorite from the ones I’ve watched has to be Fanny and Alexander (the first Bergman film I saw, when I was quite young) and I loved it. I also liked a lot The Virgin Spring (didn’t know about how Bergman felt about it), The Serpent’s Egg (loved the final part you've mentioned, it left quite a big impression on me, and I’m a big fan of the Carradine family), Wild Strawberries and Shame. There are a few I’m sure I’ll love I haven’t seen yet like Hour of the Wolf or Cries and Whispers. I'll try to watch them asap. But I didn’t like Persona as much as you and a lot of people do. I loved the visual part of it, but it didn’t leave the same emotional impact on me as the others did.
I love that question from Cronenberg. I wish I could find that interview clip, sounds like a great moment. I had no idea Bergman hated The Virgin Spring either, but he really loathed it. So, so strange.
I really think you'd appreciate Cries and Whispers. I would love to hear your thoughts on that one. Its style is very classic, but it is so emotionally brutal. One of the greats. Thanks so much for the comment! I LOVED hearing that your mom is such a Bergman admirer.
Dan Heaton June 21, 2017 at 10:59 PM
Sadly, I've only seen four Bergman films - Persona, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, and Fanny and Alexander. You gave all four A+ grades, and I can't argue with any of them. Wild Strawberries was the biggest surprise for me, as I entered it with fewer expectations. It might be my favorite of all of them, though it's really splitting hairs at that point.
Yep, those are four great ones right there. Really, as good as movies get for me. Add Cries and Whispers and you've got the Top 5 Bergman Films, no question. Thanks for the comment!
TheVern June 24, 2017 at 2:51 PM
I have only seen one Bergman film and that is Persona. I do plan on seeing the Seventh Seal and Virgin Spring soon. While I love the visuals of Persona. I didn't get engaged as much as I would have liked to. Maybe it's one I should rewatch again, but it was very much a chore to get through the first time. I like slow movies, but this felt way too slow for even me. Still impressed that you put this thing together and I appreciate all your efforts
Bergman is a challenging filmmaker, no question. And Persona, despite being one of his shortest and most critically acclaimed films, is not an easy film to digest. So I get where you're coming from. Bergman made few accessible films, but that's what made him so unique. I hope you watch some of his other stuff soon!
Goddamn this is quite a run down. You can never say enough about Bergman; even when he isn't perfect, he's interesting. I like Thirst and Scenes from a Marriage but there are still a couple on this list I haven't seen.
That's damn right. I don't love every Bergman film, but they are all interesting in some way. Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
LT June 28, 2017 at 11:33 AM
So glad to find you and just sent a link to my cousin in upstate NY who taught film. YOU are amazing!
Wow - thanks so much! I really appreciate that!
@DunkelziffR June 28, 2017 at 4:29 PM
As always, great blog, Alex! I love Berman although I must confess I have only watched a few of his films. "Wild Strawberries" remains my favorite Bergman film - a masterpiece. I find "Sawdust and Tinsel" usually vastly underrated. Perhaps it's the poor picture quality that makes this movie harder to watch for younger audiences. But it tells a compelling and archaic story.
Keep up the great work, Alex.
Thanks for the comment! I can't say enough good things about Wild Strawberries. A masterpiece, indeed. As for Sawdust and Tinsel, I think, like many of Bergman's films, it gets better with repeat viewings. I found myself liking it much more when I rewatched it for this post. Great stuff.
Chris June 29, 2017 at 12:14 PM
Great post! That’s a lot of dedication to Bergman. I’ve “only” seen a dozen or so. His characters are psychologically interesting, though sometimes I find his work just too dark. Thanks for sharing your mini-reviews, a great way to (re)discover films from his filmography. Particularly enjoyed your piece on The Seventh Seal. Bergman seems to have used filmmaking as a kind of self-therapy, would you agree with that? You’ve got to admire a director who is bold enough to take autobiographical elements and put his vulnerability on screen.
The Silence (1963) (YES! the most captivating of the faith trilogy)
Fanny & Alexander (1982) 3h version (first half underwhelmed me, the second half is brilliant)
GREAT comment! One of the reasons I love Bergman so much is because all of his best films were self therapy. Very well said. I too admire a director who makes such autobiographical work, especially when that director wasn't exactly the best person in real life. Bergman was a tough man - he could be kind yet volatile; he loved often and cheated openly. And he put those indiscretions on the screen, sometimes disguised as metaphor, but they were there all the same.
Love that you're a fan of his work, and love your top 5. All great picks.
I guess his problems were great material for art. I can see that reading about Bergman's life (as you have) is the key to unlocking his films. At least to a certain extent, there's still going to be mysteries such as in Persona
I've always loved Bergman's work, but I definitely appreciate his films more having read Images and other books about him. Persona... yeah, that's just out there. He did write it when he was recovering from horrible bout with pneumonia. so I'm sure that played into the film's mania.
Alex, in Crisis the Girl is called Nelly. Jenny is her real mother. I'm sure it was just a confusion.
I'm too reviewing every IB movie for my podcast.
Alex Withrow September 6, 2017 at 10:51 AM
Ahh great catch. Yep, just a little confusion. What's the name of your podcast? I'd love to listen to it.
Tyler October 25, 2017 at 1:04 AM
Alex, this is an absolutely fantastic retrospective - one of the most detailed, comprehensive, and well-written retrospectives of Bergman's films I've ever come across. He's simply one of the greatest filmmakers who has ever lived (my personal #1) and it's an absolute joy to dive back through his career yet again. The Seventh Seal, Winter Light, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander... the man has made an incredible number of films that I would consider among the greatest ever made. Can't say enough hyperbolic things about the man, as I'm sure you'd agree. Again, props for the time and work that has obviously gone into this, it was an absolute joy to read dude.
Alex Withrow October 25, 2017 at 10:37 AM
Thanks man! Christ, this thing was a beast! Took me forever to watch all of his movies again and write this up. I truly feel that my entire blogging was leading up to this post, so I'm very happy you were able to read it and you liked it. Bergman is my #1 for sure - just look at all those movies you listed! Such an incredible body of work.
Again, very good to hear from you. I hope you're doing well!
Mark Woollon November 25, 2018 at 1:34 PM
Just got the Criterion box-set. Miraculous. It really is investing in something I hope to keep for my entire lifetime, Bergman's films mean that much to me.
Alex Withrow November 26, 2018 at 3:13 PM
Hell yes! If I didn't already own most of those movies, I would absolutely go in for that box set. Enjoy it, my friend!
Florian Decros January 5, 2019 at 7:19 AM
Hi Alex ! First, I'll say that I recently discovered your blog and I love it, and I learn a lot of things about cinema too, it's always a pleasure !
If I comment, it's also because I see that you're praising Bergman a lot (and you're not the only one obviously), so it really gives me the envy to check his work, but I just don't know where to start. I have a limited experience with "arthouse" cinema (basically, I love Kubrick and Lynch and can't stand things like French New Wave, and I can get quickly bored by "slow cinema" like Tarkovsky) so I'm kinda confused : Persona, Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, something else ? I saw the first ten minutes or so of "Persona", I must admit that the opening looks incredible but as soon as the "story" starts it quickly strays in "that'll be pretty boring" territory". What are your tips to get into his filmography ? (If you want, here are my film ratings : https://rateyourmusic.com/film_collection/floflo79/r0.5-5.0,ss.rd, you can check them out)
Again, I love your blog and writing and look forward every new thing you post !
(PS : I'm french so sorry if there are grammatical mistakes)
Alex Withrow January 10, 2019 at 2:39 PM
Hi Florian! Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting. And your English is very good! So, "slow cinema" is definitely an acquired taste, and I'm honestly not sure if there is any one film (or several films) that can help change a person's taste and make them enjoy slow cinema. Does that make sense? You kind of have to appreciate the style of slow cinema in order to enjoy it. But personal taste is personal taste, and that's hard to change. For example, I get little-to-no enjoyment out of huge superhero movies, but I can watch the five hour version of Fanny and Alexander with no problem. One movie isn't right and one movie isn't wrong, it's just all about personal preference.
Bergman and Tarkovsky go hand in hand to me, so if you aren't a fan of Tarkovsky's work, I'm not sure if Bergman will be for you. However, if you do want to give Bergman a try, then The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, Persona, Cries and Whispers, and Fanny and Alexander are some of his masterpieces. They are all rather slow, but they are cinematic works of art.
I hoped that helps a bit!
Florian Decros January 19, 2019 at 2:46 AM
Thanks for the reply ! I agree with your point of view, but I still gonna give Bergman a chance, I think I'll start with "Fanny and Alexander". Despite being one of the longest ones (I have the 5 hour version), it really seems interesting and apparently it's more accessible. Congrats again for your blog ! Cheers.
I'm SO happy you're going to give Bergman a chance. He's my all-time favorite, and if you give in to his style, there is so much gold to be found. Enjoy!
Todd Koenig September 30, 2019 at 2:41 PM
Wonderful post. I am currently working through the Criterion box with great pleasure, and I haven't gotten to some of these yet. But so often I was in agreement while reading.
Not always, of course. I would bump 'Dreams' up to the "good" tier. I found it an intriguing mix of characteristic Bergman and those glossy mid-20th-c. "women's pictures" of cigarette smoke and perfect coiffures. The Bergmanesque parts are those lacerating speeches by the two women show up to shatter the illusions. But of course, no two lists will be alike.
Thank you for linking to this on Letterboxd.
Alex Withrow September 30, 2019 at 3:34 PM
Thanks so much, Todd! I have to say, your appreciation for Dreams makes me want to watch the movie again immediately. And I love hearing that you're making your way through the box set. That thing is so damn impressive!
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MTU Aero Engines looks to focus on hydrogen as the engine fuel of the future
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MTU Aero Engines (MTU), Germany’s leading engine manufacturer, has openly welcomed Airbus’ ZEROe concepts in relation to emission-free aviation. “Hydrogen is a highly attractive future option for us as an engine producer as well,” says MTU Chief Operating Officer Lars Wagner, adding: “It should be used as a fuel right away.”
MTU sees three possible uses for hydrogen: Converted to sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs), hydrogen could be dropped into existing aircraft and engines right away. “Direct combustion of liquid hydrogen in gas turbines is possible in technical terms, too,” says Dr Stefan Weber, Senior Vice President Technology & Engineering Advanced Programs at MTU in Munich, highlighting the second possible use. That would require some adjustments in the engine, especially the combustion chamber, which Weber thinks could be done in just a few years. By contrast, much larger challenges await for infrastructure and aircraft manufacturers, since they will have to find ways to provide and transport the liquid hydrogen and then carry it along inside appropriate tanks inside the aircraft.
In the long term, MTU is relying on a third option for using hydrogen: converting it into electricity by means of a fuel cell. This application is also described by the MTU experts in their Technology Roadmap for achieving emissions-free flight. This technology promises almost zero emissions, but it is still in the early stages of development in aircraft propulsion applications. “We call our fuel cell concept the flying fuel cell. We have an established team of experts working on it in Munich,” Weber explains. In August, MTU teamed up with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to launch a cooperative project with the aim of demonstrating the new technology in a Do228.
MTU’s development work is also focusing on the further development of the gas turbine to leverage the full amount of potential available. Further optimized and combined with revolutionary drive concepts that significantly improve the cycle, considerable reductions in all emissions can be achieved. MTU is currently focusing on what is known as a WET engine (Water-Enhanced Turbofan). This concept reduces fuel consumption by more than 15 percent regardless of fuel type, considerably lowers all emissions – especially NOx levels – and, according to initial estimates, also reduces formation of contrails.
Lars Wagner explains: “We need both propulsion concepts – an optimized gas turbine combined with WET technology and fuel cells – because they have different areas of application.” The hydrogen-powered fuel cell is especially suitable for short- to medium-haul aircraft, as it requires less tank volume than in the case of long-haul aircraft. For these types of planes, gas turbines will continue to make sense for the foreseeable future. “But in that case, using SAFs,” Dr Stefan Weber sums up, adding, “Realizing the new technologies, and reaching our climate targets, will depend to a crucial degree on receiving appropriate funding, both nationally and at the European level.”
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Franck Courchamp has published over 135 scientific studies, and three books, among which two directed to the general public and he has presented his work in over 50 international conferences. He is also active in popularization, notably with several documentaries, motion design movies, books or comic books. He has been awarded the Silver Medal of the CNRS and elected as a Member at the European Academy of Science and holds the AXA Chair of Invasion Biology.
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Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham. Although there have been many personnel shifts over the years, the band was formed in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Terence "Geezer" Butler (bass), and Bill Ward (drums).
Originally formed as a heavy blues band named Polka Tulk, the band began incorporating occult and horror-inspired lyrics with doomy, detuned guitars, changing their name to Black Sabbath and releasing a string of gold and platinum records in the 1970s.
As one of the most influential heavy metal bands of all time, Black Sabbath helped define the genre with releases such as 1971's quadruple-platinum Paranoid.[1] Black Sabbath has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide,[2] and were named second only to Led Zeppelin in VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.[3]
Ozzy Osbourne was fired from the band in 1979, and while initially replaced by former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio, Black Sabbath would see a revolving lineup in the 1980s and 1990s that included vocalists Ian Gillan, David Donato, Glenn Hughes, Ray Gillen and Tony Martin. The original lineup reunited with Osbourne in 1997 and released a live album, Reunion, which spawned the Grammy Award winning single "Iron Man", 30 years after the songs initial release on Paranoid.
Currently, the early 1980s line-up featuring Iommi, Butler, Dio, and Vinny Appice are touring under the moniker Heaven and Hell, a title taken from the 1980 Black Sabbath album of the same name.
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Photos from my time served in the National Capital Region.
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Centre Block of the Parliament during the winter.
Centennial Flame
The Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada.
Mike Pearson
The statue of Lester B. Pearson on Parliament Hill.
The façade of the Canadian Supreme Court Building in Ottawa.
Evening reflections on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa.
Peace Tower
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Ottawa Memorial
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Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica
Notre-Dame in Ottawa during Doors Open.
Old City Hall
The Rideau River next to Old City Hall in Ottawa, Canada.
Rideau River in the Evening
The Rideau River near Green Island.
A cyclist on the path near the Ottawa River.
Centre Block snapshot
Centre Block in the winter when I first moved to Ottawa.
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AITA wants Davis Cup venue to be shifted from Pakistan
New Delhi [India], Aug 14 (ANI): Amid tension between India and Pakistan after the abrogation of Article 370 which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, All India Tennis Association (AITA) has written a letter to International Tennis Federation (ITF) to shift the Davis Cup venue from Pakistan or postpone the tournament for sometime.
"AITA has written to ITF asking for the change in venue of upcoming Davis Cup or postponing the tournament for some time until the situation between two countries becomes a bit sorted. Safety of players is our priority and in this situation, we cannot go and play there. AITA have mailed ITF regarding this matter," AITA sources told ANI.
In the letter written, AITA Secretary-General Hironmoy Chatterjee has expressed that the ITF is pushing AITA to get the Davis Cup tie shifted to a neutral venue.
"We are extremely surprised that you have suggested that India can request for shifting this tie to a neutral venue. In case the Davis Cup Committee and the Board of Directors of ITF are satisfied with the security arrangements in Pakistan, they are most likely to refuse our request," Chatterjee wrote in a letter to ITF.
"In case the Board of Directors of ITF and the Davis Cup Committee are not 100% certain about the future because of the escalating tensions, the Board of Directors is fully authorised to either postpone the tie or hold the same at a neutral venue. We are, therefore, surprised that you are pushing us to make a request to shift the tie to a neutral venue. This responsibility rests with the ITF," he added.
The Indian team is scheduled to travel to Pakistan for the first time in 55 years to participate in the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group-1 tie at Islamabad on September 14 and 15.
Earlier, AITA Secretary-General Chatterjee on Monday wrote to the ITF, seeking final certificate confirming the safety of everyone who will be travelling to Pakistan for the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group-1 tie.
"The government has asked us to follow the Olympic Charter. AITA has clearly stated to government and players that ITF has taken full responsibility for safety," Chatterjee said in the letter written to ITF.
"We're aware that you had done a safety check before diplomatic ties were downgraded (by Pakistan). ITF may find it appropriate to do another check to its own satisfaction to ensure the safety of all the stakeholders connected with the tie," he added. (ANI)
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Jimmie Briggs is a documentary storyteller, writer, and advocate for racial and gender equity. He is a member of the New York City Gender Equity Commission. He is a co-founder and executive director emeritus of Man Up Campaign, a globally focused organization to activate youth to stop violence against women and girls. Author of Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War, Briggs holds a Medal of Distinction from Barnard College. He has served as an adjunct professor of investigative journalism at the New School for Social Research and was a George A. Miller Visiting Professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.
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Iowa Study Suggests More Stringent State Policies on Lighting Could Cut the Number of Farm Vehicle Traffic Accidents by More than Half
A new study from the University of Iowa College of Public Health finds that traffic accidents involving farm vehicles in the Midwest would be cut by well more than half if state policies required more lighting and reflection on those vehicles.
The study by the college’s Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health (GPCAH) compared rates of farm equipment-related crashes in nine Midwestern states in the context of the states’ policies on lighting and marking vehicles. Those states report an average of more than 1,100 farm vehicle related crashes each year, often causing severe or fatal injuries.
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has issued standards on lighting and marking farm vehicles to promote safety among all roadway users. The standards suggest certain numbers of headlights, taillights, turn signals, and other exterior lighting visible to drivers, as well as the number and size of reflective markers.
The organization’s standards are not all required by state laws, but many of the nine states in the study have adopted some of them or have their own policies that address the same issues. The researchers found fewer crashes in states with more stringent lighting and marking policies, in particular those that adhered to ASABE’s standards. States with greater compliance with ASABE standards had 11 percent fewer farm equipment road crashes than states with lesser compliance. Illinois law and policy was most compliant with the standards, while Missouri was the least.
Using data from 2005-2010, researchers determined the number of accidents annually would be cut 60 percent, from 972 to 385, if states implemented policies that increased compliance with ASABE standards by 25 percent over current policies.
In Iowa, crashes would decrease from an annual average of 164 to 65, or 60 percent.
Marizen Ramirez, associate professor of occupational and environmental health and the study’s lead investigator, says most farm vehicle crashes with passenger vehicles stem from the fact that most passenger vehicle drivers are not familiar with farm vehicles and cannot correctly gauge the speed at which they are moving. This often leads to vehicles approaching too quickly and attempting to pass in unsafe conditions which can result in a crash.
She says the likelihood of a crash is greater in October and November, when more farm vehicles are on the road for the harvest and the sun sets earlier.
“We know that farmers spend a lot of time on the roads, especially during planting and harvest,” she says. “Our research shows that lighting and marking — like reflectors, slow moving vehicle emblems, and taillights — can help farm vehicles stand out on roadways so passenger vehicle operators are more likely to see them.”
The GPCAH study is published in the current issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and is available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5013097/.
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UNC Faculty Member Named to National Academies Report Committee
Dr. Stacie Dusetzina, assistant professor of health policy and management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been confirmed as a committee member for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) report titled “Ensuring Patient Access to Affordable Drug Therapies.”
[Photo: Dr. Stacie Dusetzina]
The committee is charged by the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) with recommending policy actions that could address drug price trends, improve patient access to affordable and effective treatments and encourage innovations that address significant needs in health care.
“Drug pricing and access are complex issues affecting pharmaceutical manufacturers, payers and patients,” Dr. Dusetzina said. “These topics have been at the forefront of discussions about health-care access in recent years and are highly contentious, given the high financial stakes for manufacturers and payers. The NASEM’s commitment to providing objective, scientific insights into this complex topic is welcome.”
The NASEM are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the world’s most pressing challenges. The organization was formed through congressional charter by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 and is viewed as the nation’s premier source of independent, expert advice on scientific, engineering and medical issues.
Over 15 months, the committee will examine patient access to affordable and effective therapies, focusing specifically on drug pricing, insurance design and inflation in the cost of drugs. Its 17 members come from a variety of backgrounds, including academia, the military, Congress, state health departments and the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Dusetzina is also assistant professor in the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Her principal research interests are at the intersection of pharmacy and public health, specifically the role played by medications in large patient populations and how insurance policies and reimbursement decisions affect treatment use.
“My research centers on patient access to medications,” Dr. Dusetzina said. “Because of my experience in the topic, I have been able to share my work with the committee in our recent meetings and look forward to contributing to the report in these and other critical areas. I am thrilled to be a part of this important committee.”
Dr. Dusetzina earned a doctorate from the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and completed postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Health Care Policy. At UNC, she is a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and the Carolina Health Informatics Program.
Read more: https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/dusetzina-named-to-national-academies-report-committee/
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One Man and One Woman – The Latest Australian Open Betting Odds
Written by: Luke
With the remainder of the Christmas treats still making a racket in the cupboard and the ‘New Year, New Me’ motto still yet to get into full swing, the Australian Open drops on us before we even expect it to.
Now the qualifying rounds are almost concluded, the meat and gravy of the tournament proper gets underway with the first round on Monday 14th January, and there’s plenty of potential clashes to look forward to over the next fortnight.
Despite it coming early in the calendar, the Aussie Open isn’t one that goes unnoticed by the sporting world, although it was given a serious boost in interest levels this week with Sir Andy Murray confirming this could be his last ever tournament.
The British tennis legend has had a sparkling career that has spanned over more than a decade, culminating with two victories at Wimbledon in 2013 and 2016. However, surgery on his hip has taken its toll and with injury forcing his hand, Murray is likely to only be a bit part player in Aus.
Nonetheless, names are aplenty for the first Grand Slam of the season, so we’ve taken a look at a couple of those to follow in the Australian Open betting odds from both the men’s and women’s side of the draw.
As one of the rising stars of the tennis world, the 22-year-old Danill Medvedev could move one step further up the ladder with a positive performance Down Under. The young Russian stands at a mountainous 6ft 6in and that makes him ready-made for the bouncy hard-court game that presents itself in Australia.
Currently ranked at number 16 in the world, he certainly has a bright future ahead of him, and although that may come in many years from now, there’s reason to think he could go far in the next two weeks.
A finalist at Brisbane most recently, he saw off Andy Murray, Milos Raonic and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga before Kei Nishikori got the better of him in the final. They are four of the biggest names on the circuit, which goes a long way to illustrating just how good Medvedev could be.
His start to 2018 painted a similar story as well by winning the final of the Sydney International against 19-year-old Alex de Minaur. That may seem nothing special, but the pair played out the ‘youngest final’ since 2007, when 20-year-old Rafael Nadal defeated 19-year-old Novak Djokovic in the final of Indian Wells.
In the process, Medvedev became the tournament’s youngest winner since 1989 and don’t forget that the likes of Lleyton Hewitt, Roger Federer and Pete Sampras have all won the Sydney International since then.
Interesting? Yes. Daniil Medvedev is a name to remember, and he’s 66/1 to win the tournament with Royal Panda.
Unlike Medvedev, Karolina Pliskova is an established name in the women’s game and is surely overdue a visit to a Grand Slam final.
Rather miraculously, her one and only Grand Slam final came at the US Open in 2016, with her best effort since then a semi-final exit of the 2017 French Open. This is all despite her reaching number one in the world during 2017 and currently holding 7th place in those same rankings.
Her Grand Slam record is rather underwhelming to say the least, but the Australian Open seems to bring out some of her most consistent form in the majors. Her last two trips Down Under have resulted in two quarter-final finishes, although she was maybe a tad unlucky to bang into the in-form eventual finalist Simona Halep last year.
She’s clearly got the tools to get the job done and with form on her side after winning in Brisbane last week, 2019 could be the year that she banishes her Grand Slam hoodoo. She’s 16/1 to win the tournament with Ladbrokes.
Here are the bookmakers offering the best Australian Open betting odds
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As a qualified sports journalist, Luke has worked with nationally-recognised outlets covering events from the World Cup to the Grand National. Luke is one of the few men who has to admit that their father was the better footballer, but at least he can take comfort from the fact he got to see his Dad score at Wembley. When Luke isn’t talking football, you’ll normally find him following his other passion, horse racing and has his own horses in training with Paul Nicholls and Mark Johnston.
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Interview: The Staff Behind Yuri on Ice
by Rose Bridges & Jacob Chapman, Sep 27th 2017
Yuri!!! on Ice is one of the biggest anime hits of the last few years. Its messages of love and overcoming self-doubt, alongside its stirring portrayals of competitive figure skating, have reached global audiences well outside of anime fandom. With the announcement of a sequel film and numerous fan events in Japan and elsewhere, the series shows no sign of slowing down.
Nowhere was this more apparent than at AnimeFest 2017 in Dallas, held August 17-20. The headline guests were Yuri!!! on Ice director Sayo Yamamoto , writer and original designer Mitsurou Kubo , and character designer and chief animation director Tadashi Hiramatsu , who spoke to packed panels and offered autographs alongside various actors from the English dub . Anime News Network was fortunate enough to sit down with these three talented creatives to discuss the Yuri!!! on Ice phenomenon.
ANN: When you first decided you wanted to make an anime about ice skating, did you also know that you wanted to tell a love story? At what point in imagining Yuri!!! on Ice did you discover that element?
SAYO YAMAMOTO : My intent with Yuri!!! on Ice was not to be a "love story" in the narrow sense of a "love affair," or "carnal love." At least when you say "rabu sutorii" in Japanese, that would be the context of those English words. The whole answer to this question is answered by Yuuri in his speech at the end of episode 5, leading into the Grand Prix Series.
MITSUROU KUBO : Our idea about love in the context of Yuri!!! on Ice , as expressed by Yuuri Katsuki in episode 5, was already written before production began. So the theme has always been there in terms of what love means to the context of Yuri!!! on Ice as a whole.
TADASHI HIRAMATSU : This theme would not be in the context of coupling specific characters together, but the very general concept of what love is for each character.
Yuri!!! on Ice is a very global story compared to most anime. What kind of research went into portraying so many nations and cultures believably?
HIRAMATSU: The production schedule was very pressing, so I wasn't able to go overseas to do personal research. I based some of it on some personal experiences I'd had abroad, but the bulk of the research came through photo references, online material, books, music, and film.
YAMAMOTO: As for Ms. Kubo and myself, we went to all the matches in China and Russia and also the Grand Prix Finals, and a lot of story elements were inspired by these field trips. Actually, Yuuri's words at the press conference in episode 5 were written on the plane when we were traveling to one of these matches. We do need to do much of our work at our desks, but that's not the only place where inspiration comes, and those field trips definitely contribute to our efforts.
KUBO: For example, Yuuri losing his nuts in Barcelona was based on a real-life experience that one of our friends went through. Those moments may not be essential to the plot, but the details from these field trips add color to the story. So that's one of the rewards of traveling overseas to do field research.
I am from Detroit, and one of my friends trained at the Detroit Skating Club, and she said that the depiction of it in the show is very accurate.
YAMAMOTO: I'm glad to hear that, and I really envy you! Detroit is one of the holy sites that nurtured many great Japanese skaters.
KUBO: It was through figure skating that we got interested in various cities, and it gave us the desire to visit them. So figure skating itself has been a great inspiration for us.
Victor and Yuri are from vastly different cultures, so they must work hard to communicate their love to each other throughout the series. What do you think is most essential to the surprising strength of their relationship against such great odds?
KUBO: When you have two fictional characters get into a deep relationship, there's a trope that this has to have a specific significant meaning. As Coach Victor and Student Yuuri think about what their relationship is, the result is meant to be seen through what their figure skating is about. Be they lovers, friends, or rivals, the two of them could only have something that is meaningful to them, and a lot of that is open to misunderstanding from other people. So I took the most care to depict a strong relationship between the two of them in a non-verbal form as much as possible, told mostly through their actions and the course of the story, so that their relationship would not be seen in any too-convenient mold.
For much of the series, there are an astonishing six skating routines per episode! Mr. Hiramatsu, what was it like managing that kind of workload for the team?
HIRAMATSU: It was very hard. There was the challenge of animating the individual routines, with each of them performed by different skaters, so the music and choreography would all be quite different. I didn't directly animate the routines, but the animation director would ask me to brush up on the expressions or the poses of the characters, so that was most of my involvement. As production went on, the schedule got tighter, and fatigue built up for the staff. So the challenges kept on piling up and getting bigger.
Anime is often sexually explicit, but Ms. Yamamoto's work portrays sexiness in a way that you do not see in other anime. How would you describe your instinct or philosophy for conveying such eroticism through animation?
YAMAMOTO: I don't really like to succumb to common notions of eroticism. If I can't get excited by it myself, then it's not the kind of depiction I want. So it has to be something much more accessible, and something that I find to be true to life.
Since you are so skilled at portraying the sexiness of both men and women, do you approach the depiction of male and female bodies differently? Or do you consider them more similar than different in eroticism?
YAMAMOTO: For me, I don't see much differentiation, I just have to feel the sensuality for myself. If I can imagine a male person being sensual in that way, then it works for me, and I feel the same for females. It's not really the gender, but the charm of each individual, that I really want to feel and depict in my work.
Ms. Kubo, Yuri!!! on Ice was your first time writing for anime, and it is an enormous hit! How does this make you feel about writing anime in the future? Are you considering other original projects for animation, or just focusing on Yuri!!! on Ice for now?
KUBO: Yuri!!! on Ice was the first time that I was involved on an anime project, and personally I consider that you have to be working in a particular field for at least 10 years in order to gain professional trust. They say that when you draw manga, you have to continue drawing manga for at least 15 years before you can call yourself a manga artist. This is the kind of time one must invest to earn that professional dignity. My role on Yuri!!! on Ice was made possible with the help and support of many people. I don't think I personally have gotten to the point where I have the professional credentials to say I can do anything for anime, and in fact, Yuri!!! on Ice was my project only because I worked with director Yamamoto. There is really no room for me to be involved in any other anime project. In fact, I was recently at an anime convention in Japan, and the production team from another studio asked me if I'd be interested in working with them. But I declined, saying that Yuri!!! on Ice has my full capacity, and that's all I can do.
There's a strong theme through Yuri!!! on Ice about the direct relationship between personal feelings and artistic expression. Which skater's relationship between their feelings and their expression spoke to you most as an artist?
HIRAMATSU: For me, and this might not just be limited to figure skating, but when someone tries to put on their best for a performance, what they're feeling internally at that moment might not be directly related to what they're trying to show. Everyone does strive for perfection, but what's reflected is always more complicated. When I look at characters like Yuuri Katsuki, J.J., or Georgi Popovich, each of them have their own internal conflicts in the moment. I find it interesting that those the elements add a personal touch to their performance that is unique to them.
KUBO: This would also not be limited to just figure skating, but when you are a manga artist and not an athlete, anyone who is writing a sports story must come to the question of "I'm not an athlete, but how am I to think like the main character and draw a manga about them by myself?" But then I look at figure skaters, and they may not be ballet dancers, but they might use ballet music for their performances. They are not stage actors, but they use songs from musicals for their routines. They do what they can to come as close to what they're depicting through their own method of expression, which is figure skating. And when you look at a character like Yuuri Katsuki, he has his "eros" that he may not be aware of himself, but he is the only one capable of bringing that out. It's that kind of closeness to your own depiction that is inherent to all the skaters in the series, and that really gets me back to the spirit of being a creative talent myself, because it's all about getting as close as possible to your subject. So I receive my encouragement from the various characters, and as they strive to express themselves on the ice, I try to do the same through fiction. So I resonate with a lot of the characters.
Yuri!!! on Ice has an extremely eclectic soundtrack. What was the process of developing diverse pieces for each skater like, and which pieces were you most excited about? During the choreography process for each program, did the music, character's personality, and skating influence each other in any unexpected ways that changed what you had imagined at first?
YAMAMOTO: In terms of selecting the soundtrack, I discussed this with Ms. Kubo in pre-production and we came up with ideas for music that would match the personalities of each character. I would relay that to the music producer, Keisuke Tominaga , and his team would come up with the music that would match what I wanted. In the context of the story, my favorite track is a difficult question to answer, because I would have to say all of them. But in particular, " Yuri!!! on Ice " was the most challenging song to use, and yet at the same time it is the most representative of the show.
Kenji Miyamoto is a choreographer who likes to bring out the best elements of the skaters. I thought that he would be able to apply his technique to animated characters, and in fact it worked out very well. In terms of later alterations of the choreography based on other elements, the only change that was ever made was during Yurio's exhibition skate, when his glove comes off. At first, it was going to be taken off by a spectator, but I thought that would not resonate as much with the viewers, so it gets taken off by Otabek instead. I would not say there was much change in choreography from what Miyamoto originally conceived.
At what moment did you first realize that Yuri!!! on Ice was becoming such an enormous success, and how surprised were you by this phenomenon?
YAMAMOTO: I would say the moment that we realized its success was when the Yuri!!! on Ice movie was greenlit, because it's very rare that an original story gets greenlit for a sequel or a continuation. There are some times when original stories have pre-promised sequels, but that's usually an intended continuation on the part of the label or publisher, and it's not really done for a story that's coming directly from the creator. In fact, everyone except for us was puzzled by the concept of Yuri!!! on Ice , asking "How are you supposed to sell this show?" It was really only the three of us who had faith in our show. So when the follow-up was greenlit, we thought that was a really quantifiable measurement of success.
HIRAMATSU: The announcement for the movie was done at an anime event in Tokyo, and Ms. Kubo and I were there. There was an explosive reaction from the audience. That was the moment when it dawned on us, that sense of "Is this what it's like to have a hit?"
KUBO: It is rare for Mr. Hiramatsu to go to anime events, but he was there at that moment to realize that Yuri!!! on Ice was this big success. For me, my experience was different, there was a specific moment when I felt this was a different kind of success. Yuri!!! on Ice was picked up by very few stations for broadcast, and even then, I felt like I was the only one who was in a position to promote this show. If an anime is based on a preexisting manga, then the popularity of the manga would be the promotion material. But when it's an original story and I'm the only one who can talk about it enthusiastically, I have to take on that great task. I told management that I would take on any interview requests so that I could promote the show, and I also tweeted a lot to get the word out. But I got a specific feeling when episode 7 aired. That's when I started getting a lot of comments not just domestically, but suddenly from overseas, all thanking me for Yuri!!! on Ice . It was a puzzlement because I would get comments before, but I'd never been explicitly thanked for working on any series. Episode 7 was the moment when I couldn't follow the replies to my Yuri!!! on Ice tweets anymore, so I realized that the show would sell itself from this point on. I realized the success was already there.
YAMAMOTO: On the topic of how it came to be that Ms. Kubo single-handedly fielded most of the interviews, there are actually a couple of reasons. First, the reality was that before broadcast, Yuri!!! on Ice had not actually garnered so much attention yet, and so there were not actually so many requests. Once the show started to broadcast, however, we were fortunate to receive a flood of interview requests. But by that time, as the director, I was pulling multiple all-nighters just to ensure we could deliver the next episode on time. Basically, I just did not have any time to allocate toward the press. Thankfully, our production side took our workload into consideration and managed the accepting and rejecting of all interview requests. Because of this, I never really knew how many or what kinds of interview requests we were actually receiving. I wasn't intentionally trying to avoid interviews, but the simple truth was there just wasn't enough time.
Fortunately, Ms. Kubo worked with me very closely on the Yuri!!! on Ice story and character development. I was confident that she could represent this work exactly as I would, and I was elated when she agreed to answer the interview requests for us. Thank you again, Ms Kubo, I really appreciate it!! For those of you who may not know, Ms. Kubo is also a TV and radio personality, and her skills at conversing are amazing! Truth be told, one of the reasons I invited her to this project was because I really enjoyed listening to her talk on the radio.
Now, I'm just so glad I can meet with fans and finally participate in these interviews together with Ms. Kubo and Mr. Hiramatsu!
Thank you so much. I really love Yuri!!! on Ice . It's had a big impact on my life, so I am honored to have this interview with you.
ALL: Thank you very much.
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Better Together: Workcred and ANSI World Standards Week Event Examines Collaborative Solutions for the Future Workforce
Ina first of its kind collaborative event during World Standards Week, Workcred and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) welcomed more than 150 guests for thought-provoking and engaging discussionsand several solutionsfor Building an Effective Workforce for the Future. Special keynote speaker Patrick Gallagher, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh and former acting deputy secretary and director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. Department of Commerce, kicked off discussions, noting that while work and education have always been fundamentally linked, one of the elements that has shaped them both is technology.
Dr. Gallagher explained that the speed of technology is simultaneously disrupting and creating jobs, and reshaping job competencies. And as employers try to keep pace with the change, they struggle with identifying required competencies for their workers. "What is most needed is adaptability, communication, and the ability to work at organizations," he said. "How do we standardize the informational interface between workers and jobs?" Dr. Gallagher asked. "If any community knows how to tackle this, it's the standardization industry."
"Transformative technologies such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are dramatically reshaping industries, necessitating new skills and job roles, and requiring workers to reskill and upskill quickly," said ANSI CEO and president, Joe Bhatia, in his opening workforce conference statement.
"As future technologies bring new pressures on the labor market, lifelong learning and reskilling initiatives are key to assuring two key things: That individuals will be able to remain competitive in an ever-shifting labor market, and that businesses will be able to find the skilled talent they need."
Fireside chat-style sessions brought together leading experts from companies (Google.org, IBM, Amazon Web Services, and Kaiser Permanente), workforce-focused organizations (JFF), ALF-CIO Working for America Institute, and WorkingNation), institutions of higher education (Georgetown University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Northeastern University), standardization organizations (National Fire Protection Association, International Code Council, and the NCCCO Foundation), and other prominent organizations (Markle Foundation and Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank). Through interactive panels, sessions highlighted The Future of Work; New Credentials for the Future Workforce; Upskilling, Reskilling, and Retraining Today's Workforce; and the Future of the Standards Workforce.
Stuart Andreason, Ph.D., of the Center for Workforce and Economic Opportunity at the Atlanta Reserve Bank, noted the importance of partnerships to maximize employment opportunities, including collaboration with different sectors and consortiums across regions.
Shanika Hope, Ph.D., who leads content and research at Amazon Web Services (AWS) explained that AWS collaborates with educational institutions to co-develop curriculums to prepare students for the workforce, and explained that AWS specifically works in tandem with college presidents to help them realize the skills and competencies needed to fill the talent pipeline. Dr. Hope noted the progress of Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), which offers a regionally recognized cloud computing specialization certification developed by AWS. NOVA is one of several participating colleges that collaborates with AWS's Educate Program, which helps connect skills training with labor needs.
Filling the "New Collar" Jobs and Creating "Stackable" Certificates
As technology necessitates different skillsets and new job roles, Alex Kaplan of IBM discussed a solution to fill "new collar" jobs that require deeper technical skillsetsfrom digital design developers to associate analyststhrough IBM's P-TECH program, also known as "Pathways in Technology Early College High Schools." The public-private partnership helps high school students build skills and earn a higher education degree from the outset of their training and participating schools map skills that are valuable to the program's business partners. IBM's P-TECH program offers tools and case studies to help school districts, colleges, state education administrators, and businesses establish P-TECH schools. The primary objective of the program, co-developed by IBM working together with educators, policymakers, and elected officials, is to "make a more skilled workforce," said Kaplan.
"Think of occupations as buckets of skills sets," said Jeff Strohl, Ph.D., the director of research at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, who led the afternoon keynote session. Dr. Strohl added that the speed of change of the task level of jobs is faster than educational systems can keep up, but that standardization and quality control will still be important to facilitate the new era of changes. "The stackable certificates model is also a good way to think about improving how education and training systems can evolve to better react to market changes," he added.
Sara Yerkes, senior vice president of government relations at the International Code Council (ICC), discussed ICC's "Safety 2.0" initiative to provide professional development through its high school technical training program, which connects students to the International Residential Code (IRC) in conjunction with construction trades training. The company's Military Families Career Path Program helps veterans transition their skills, while ICC's Board Shadow Program provides emerging professionals an opportunity to "shadow" the Board of Directors at the ICC Annual Conference to experience real-time leadership.
Bartholomew Jae, director of education and development at the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) discussed NFPA's online, classroom, and hands-on training. Graham Brent, CEO of NCCCO Foundation, highlighted efforts to create opportunities in the crane operator industry. NCCCO is a co-founder and sponsor of Lift & Move USA, a program that brings high-schoolers, teachers and career counselors together to a one day open house that provides them with insights on industry. NCCCO also helps connects military vets with crane and rigging industry opportunities.
Several of the expert panelists noted the importance of the ability to communicate and collaborate across culture and regions. "Soft skills are really at the heart of it," said IBM's Kaplan. "We need to find ways not only to manage soft skills but to teach soft skills," he noted.
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Five Places to Recharge in Howard County
By By Pete Pichaske
Everybody needs to recharge their batteries once in a while — to get away, slow down, take a few deep breaths. But not everybody wants to do it the same way. Some want to be pampered in luxury. Others would rather wander through wooded trails. Others could think of nothing better than guided spiritual retreat with like-minded pilgrims.
Fortunately, you can find any of these options in Howard County, where a variety of facilities offer an array of retreat spaces for the weary, burned-out seeker of solace.
HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY: Therapy in The Wild
Mt. Pleasant Farm, 10520 Old Frederick Road, Woodstock
410-465-8877 | hcconservancy.org
Admission is free, but some programs and workshops are not.
Situated just north of Old Frederick Road in Woodstock, the nonprofit Howard County Conservancy at Mt. Pleasant Farm does not offer overnight rooms or spiritual workshops. It doesn't offer yoga classes or exercise machines, hot tubs or massages. What the conservancy offers is 232 acres of pure, unadulterated nature — an increasingly precious commodity in Howard County.
Call it nature therapy, if you will. For some people, it beats yoga or hot tubs any day.
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"We have a lot of people who come out here and sort-of use the trails and the grounds to connect with nature," says Meg Boyd, the conservancy's executive director, noting that the property has four miles of trails.
The land was part and parcel of the 300-year-old Mt. Pleasant Farm, which in 1993 was left for preservation by then-owners Ruth and Frances Brown. In increasingly developed Howard County, many find the open space a welcome oasis.
"We have a really nice variety of habitats, which I think is a little different from what you'll find in some other places," Boyd says. "We have streams; we have forests; we have grasslands and meadows. And we have a nice variety of wildlife that you'll find in all those different habitat areas."
The conservancy is more than a place to tramp through unspoiled habitats. It offers structured activities, such as summer camps for children, guided hikes for adults and kids, and workshops and lectures on such topics as snakes, bats and food preservation. It also features a variety of resident animals, including goats, a barred owl and chickens.
Many of the classes are held in the 8,700-square-foot Gudelski Environmental Education Center, built and opened in 2005. The center also houses natural exhibits, periodic displays of nature-oriented art, and a large room that can be rented for conferences and private parties, including weddings.
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Outside, there is the landscaped, 1.4-acre Honors Garden, which includes fountains and a walking path and is "designed to be reflective in nature," according to Boyd. An outdoor play area for children, meanwhile, features natural attractions such as jumping logs rather than plastic slides and swings.
In fact, just about every aspect of the conservancy is designed with that same goal: feeding visitors hunger for raw nature. "That's sort of our tagline," Boyd says. "Connecting people to nature."
BON SECOURS RETREAT+CONFERENCE CENTER: Quiet Simplicity
1525 Marriottsville Road
410-422-1320 | rccbonsecours.com | info@rccbonsecours.com
Day visitors can roam the grounds for free, but fees are charged for meals, overnight rooms and organized retreats.
"Reflect, Regroup and Recharge" is the mission of the Bon Secours Retreat and Conference Center in Marriottsville, and the center takes that charge seriously. You won't find pampered luxury or scintillating nightlife here — in fact, you won't find any nightlife at all. But you will find plenty of opportunities for peace and quiet and simple reflection.
The center's picturesque 313 acres include the largest labyrinth on the East Coast, extensive woodlands perfect for relaxing hikes and a landscaped pond encircled by a walking path and benches.
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The center's main building has 70 comfortable but Spartan rooms for rent (no distracting televisions or telephones). It also has a chapel, a tiny fitness center, a bookstore stocked with spiritual literature, an array of conference rooms (two of which can accommodate up to 150 guests) and two dining halls (three if you count a small, two-table room for people who want to dine alone).
A ministry of the Sisters of Bon Secours, a Catholic religious order, the center conducts numerous organized retreats and seminars throughout the year, ranging from a four-day retreat on compassion to a two-hour labyrinth walk. But the center also rents out its facilities, both overnight and during the day, to groups and individuals looking for all manner of retreats.
"Our own retreats are largely faith-based or spiritual," says Tessa Barnett, the center's marketing coordinator. "But we're also open to outside organizations that are not faith-based. … We have business groups that come here, groups that come here to do yoga. There's a group that comes here to do quilting."
The center also welcomes people who come on their own, just looking for some peace and privacy. "This is a nice place to come and sit in quiet and reflect on things," Barnett says.
While the Marriottsville center has been a retreat haven since 1980, it was just three years ago that Bon Secours hired a marketing coordinator and only two years ago that the name was changed from Bon Secours Spiritual Center to Bon Secours Retreat and Conference Center. Both moves were part of an effort to get over the label the center was once tagged with: "Howard County's best-kept secret."
"The name change has opened the community's eyes to what we have to offer," Barnett says. "We open our arms to everyone."
HAVEN ON THE LAKE: Healing Mind and Body in Downtown Columbia
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The Columbia Association promises that the mind, body and wellness retreat that is due to open in September on the downtown Columbia lakefront will not be your typical fitness center.
Indeed, fitness center does not begin to describe a facility whose offerings will include — but not be limited to — the following: Pilates, massages, acupuncture, yoga (a range of types that will include hot yoga, a yoga wall and aerial yoga), nutritional counseling, tai chi, meditation, barre and a separate "healing environment" with a pool, sauna and large hot tub overlooking Lake Kittamaqundi. CA has partnered with The Still Point, a spa and wellness center with locations in Clarksville and Highland, to provide several of the services.
The $3.5 million, 27,000-square-foot center also will include a café, with food and beverage provided by Whole Foods, which is opening this year in the same building — the iconic former Rouse Co. headquarters designed by architect Frank Gehry. The center also will feature a 7,000-square-foot outdoor patio.
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"It's a very comprehensive retreat that's going to offer more types of mind and wellness programs under one roof than any other place in the Mid-Atlantic area," says Rob Goldman, CA's chief operating officer. "It will be an extensive program."
Why such a comprehensive offering, and why in Columbia? As Goldman explains it, CA had the space available and the Howard Hughes Corp., which owns and is redeveloping much of downtown Columbia, was looking to open some sort of wellness center. Moreover, he says, the people of Columbia wanted such a facility. CA surveyed Columbia residents on what type of health center they wanted, he explains, and the mind, body and wellness option was preferred over any other by a 2-to-1 margin.
Membership in the center will be open to Columbia and non-Columbia residents alike. Options will include annual memberships and day passes. The center also plans to offer half-day and full-day packages, and might work with area hotels to offer days-long packages.
NAVA HEALTH & VITALITY CENTER: Western and Eastern Cures for What Ails You
8880 McGaw Road, Suite B, Columbia
800-672-NAVA (6282) | navacenter.com
It offers annual and monthly memberships, and nonmembers can order individual therapies.
At the Nava Health and Vitality Center, which opened in January in Columbia, visitors can get a personalized wellness plan designed to cure whatever ails them, whether it's anxiety, fatigue, a flagging sex drive or any of a number of ailments.
That plan is tailored to the individual's needs and wants, and includes a smorgasbord of treatments provided by an array of specialists and supplements — all under one roof.
"Nava offers a revolutionary approach to total body wellness that draws from Eastern, Western and alternative methods, while its foundation is grounded in science," says company spokesman Houshyar Karimabadi. The care is provided, he says, by a team of "physicians, certified nutrition experts, chiropractors, acupuncturists and massage therapists."
The Columbia Nava center is the first of several planned for the Baltimore and Washington area, including one in Chevy Chase due to open this fall. Brianne Atkins, manager of the Columbia center, says clients have spanned the spectrum, from an NFL player looking to improve his performance to regular moms and dads looking to slow the effects of aging.
Members are given a battery of tests and diagnostics that result in their own personal "custom vitality plan." The plan, Karimabadi says, is used as "a roadmap for addressing the underlying causes of our client's symptoms and is designed to integrate only the relevant therapies and supplements that will help our clients feel and perform at optimal levels."
Therapies, like the clients, span the spectrum from "hormone optimization therapy," designed to restore depleted or imbalanced hormone levels, to simple massage, and all are done on-site. "Our focus is a holistic approach, and we have it all in one house," Atkins says.
SHRINE OF ST. ANTHONY: A Catholic Oasis
12300 Folly Quarter Road, Ellicott City
410-531-3800 | shrineofstanthony.org | cderenge@companionsofstanthony.org
Open from dawn to dusk, and visitors are welcome to hike the grounds and tour the shrine free.
Drive up the gently sloped driveway off Folly Quarter Road in western Ellicott City, past the statues of St. Anthony and a donkey and on up to the Shrine of St. Anthony, with its magnificent courtyard, imposing arches and terra cotta roof, and you'd be forgiven for thinking you've made a wrong turn into Renaissance Italy.
What you've entered, in fact, is a historic slice of rural quietude that is gradually being transformed into one of the area's unique options for day retreats and conferences.
The Shrine of St. Anthony sits on 230 acres of rolling countryside that once belonged to Charles Carroll, an 18th-century scholar, statesman and — fittingly in this case — the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 1928, the Franciscans purchased the property to use as a novitiate, a seminary for young men training to be Roman Catholic priests. The building they erected was modeled after the Sacro Convento, the 13th-century Italian friary where St. Francis of Assisi is buried.
At one point, the friary was home to 50 or 60 friars. But over the years, their numbers began to dwindle. Only about nine friars still live there, and the facility is no longer a seminary.
Faced with "too much space and not enough men," as Assistant Director Joseph White puts it, the shrine began to transform itself about 10 or 15 years ago. "We started to open up more to the community," he says, "moving from a very private place to a very public place."
Today, St. Anthony's brochures bill the shrine as "an ideal oasis for all types of retreats, conferences, days of reflection, and much more." It has no overnight facilities, but organizations can rent rooms for meetings and buy meals in the dining hall, which is decorated with portraits of the seven Franciscan popes. Individuals, meanwhile, can meditate in the shrine's quiet library, walk two miles of wooded trails, meet with a friar for "spiritual direction" and, of course, attend daily Mass. The friars regularly host Catholic-themed workshops and seminars for the public.
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White says the shrine’s greatest gift to visitors is serenity. “We have all the modern amenities you could want and we’re not too far from anything in Howard County,” he says. “But it’s also very quiet here. That’s probably the biggest attraction for most people. … You can walk a hundred yards in any direction and be by yourself.”
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2 equity mistakes to avoid
By Sheyna Steiner Sheyna Steiner's Twitter profile
Apr. 30, 2015 /
Hitting the snooze button on retirement savings is way too easy. Retirement is far away and you have plenty of time to figure out how to invest those savings piling up in your 401(k) account, right?
Time may not be on your side.
The way savings are invested through your career will have a direct impact on the amount of money you end up with in retirement. Despite the magnitude of the decision, many people may underestimate the importance of planning their portfolio, or asset allocation.
Over a third of households with defined contribution plans have extreme asset allocations, according to a recent analysis by HR consulting firm Towers Watson of the triennial Federal Reserve report, the Survey of Consumer Finances. Analysts at Towers Watson looked at the three reports between 2004 and 2013.
Here’s a summary of some of their findings over the nine-year time period:
More than one-fifth, 22 percent, of all workplace plan investors hold only equities.
Fifteen percent of defined contribution participants have no money in stocks.
Nearly 16 percent of investors between the age of 25 and 34 have no money in stocks.
About 18 percent of investors between the ages of 65 and 74 invest only in equities.
The problem with all-or-nothing in stocks?
On both ends of the age spectrum, many investors are at risk of being mildly not-right to extremely wrong about their asset allocation. The only caveat is if the investor has other investment accounts; for investors with multiple investment accounts, the 401(k) would reflect only a portion of their overall asset allocation. But let’s assume that’s not the case.
For the 16 percent of young people with no money in stocks, they are losing out on valuable growth that could boost their savings efforts during the formative years of their career. They have a lot of time to recover from any stock market downturns, and every little bit of extra return can boost the amount of money available for compounding over time.
Plus, here’s an interesting tidbit from the Towers Watson analysis:
Human capital (expected future earnings) is generally considered bond-like, thereby offsetting the risk associated with equities for younger workers, with the risk offset declining gradually over their careers.
In other words, not only do they have lots of time for investments to recover, they have many potential working years in front of them. As their career winds down, the cushion of future payments they can look forward to also dwindles.
For investors near retirement, 18 percent of those over age 65 who hold only equities run the risk of having their retirement income crippled by a market downturn, particularly if they need to start drawing on their 401(k) in a down market. Being all-in equities can heighten that risk as opposed to a more diversified portfolio with safe investments to mitigate market volatility.
Learn more about how asset allocation can protect your retirement, and check out would have happened to your money if you had invested $100,000 in one of these six portfolios.
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Sheyna Steiner is an investing analyst/writer for Bankrate.com Before joining Bankrate, Sheyna Steiner worked as a customer service representative in a brokerage, an assistant in an actuarial office, a writer's assistant and as an inattentive receptionist on several separate occasions. She joined Bankrate in April 2006 as an editorial assistant. After two years she was promoted to staff writer, working primarily on investing and retirement beats. In addition to writing articles, Sheyna blogs about investing and CDs. Her favorite topics include socially responsible investing and anything about consumers being ripped off by the man -- and how they can fight back. In her role as investing analyst/writer, Sheyna is known for making complicated investment and personal finance topics accessible for everyone. She has been interviewed by The Palm Beach Post, Fox Business and CNN. In 2011, Sheyna was part of a team that won a prestigious journalism award -- a Best in Business award from the Society of the American Business Editors and Writers for coverage of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. In 2007, she was part of a team that won the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for the coverage of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee's cut to short-term interest rates in September 2007 and the impact it had on consumers. Sheyna is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y.
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Reckless Guide To Kidderminster
Reckless' guide to Kidderminster Harriers ahead of Saturday's game.
Kidderminster Harriers v Barnet
Skrill Premier League
Stadium: Aggborough Stadium, Hoo Road, Kidderminster, DY10 1NB
Club Colours: Red and White
Nickname: The Harriers
Brief Directions by Road and Rail: Via the M25, M40 and M42 get onto the M5 heading north. Leave M5 at junction 4 (signposted A491 Stourbridge). After approximately 5 miles, turn left onto A456 and follow towards Kidderminster. At roundabout on Kidderminster Ring Road, take first exit (signposted A451 Stourport). At next roundabout, take first exit (signposted A448 Bromsgrove), then take first turning on right (Hoo Road).Aggborough Stadium is approximately half a mile along on the left hand side. These directions are courtesy of KHFC. Kidderminster Station is only half a mile away from the stadium and you can smell the legendary Aggborough soup in the air.
Car Parking: Car Parking is available at either end of the stadium, at the South Stand Car Park and Stadium Close Car Park (£5.00 per car, £10.00 per mini bus and £15 per coach).
Eating and Drinking Locally: The fayre inside Aggy was renown as some of the best in the country at this level in the past. Homemade pies and gravy were a must as was the Cottage pie, which I do hope is still presented. What I can confirm is the legendary homemade Aggborough soup is still available.
The Harriers Arms can be found next to the stadium where visiting fans are permitted in small numbers. The Railway Bell, next to the station is a great bet for a pie and a pint while the King and Castle (inside the station) is a gem for real ales and ciders.
Ground Description: The ground was the first in the country to host a floodlit FA Cup match, when on 14 September 1955 Harriers played Brierley Hill Alliance in a Preliminary Round Replay, which Harriers won 4-2.
The main or Reynolds Stand is a single tiered stand built in 1994 with executive areas to its rear. Opposite is the smart looking East Stand, opened in 2003 which replaced the original much loved terrace. Part of the East Stand is given to away supporters who can also be allocated the South stand enclosure which has room for around 1,300. At the far end is the North Terrace, a home fan strong hold. The capacity is a healthy 6,500
Seating Prices: £17 for adults, £11 for concessions and £8 for U16s, whilst children under the age of five are admitted FREE.
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Discrete Mathematics With ApplicationsIn 37-42, assume that R and S are relations on a set A . Prove or disprove each statement. If R and S are transitive, is R ∪ S transitive? Why?
In 37-42, assume that R and S are relations on a set A . Prove or disprove each statement. If R and S are transitive, is R ∪ S transitive? Why?
8.1 Relations On Sets8.2 Reflexivity, Symmetry, And Transitivity8.3 Equivalence Relations8.4 Modular Arithmetic With Applications To Cryptography8.5 Partial Order Relations
Problem 10TY
In 37-42, assume that R and S are relations on a set A. Prove or disprove each statement.
If R and S are transitive, is R ∪ S transitive? Why?
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TJ Dillashaw believes fighting Urijah Faber would be a “joke,” but would love to “whoop his ass”
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TJ Dillashaw doesn’t think having his comeback fight against Urijah Faber makes sense.
Ever since Dillashaw got suspended, many pointed to his return fight against Faber as one that should happen. The two have a rivalry due to Dillashaw leaving Faber’s gym, and then knocking out his pupil, Cody Garbrandt twice. However, the former bantamweight champion believes fighting Faber would be a joke. But, if it happens, knows he would beat up the Hall of Famer.
“It is a little bit of a joke, I wouldn’t mind beating the guy’s ass but it is a little bit of a joke. It would be a grudge match but he isn’t even ranked in the top-15,” Dillashaw said to ESPN. “I’m coming back looking to fight for the title and they want me to fight a guy not ranked in the top-15. At least make it worth my while. I would love to whoop his ass, it would feel good but it is kind of a joke.”
As of right now, Dillashaw does not have his return fight booked. He is eligible to return on January 18 so should get fight news soon. Urijah Faber, meanwhile, has not fought since he lost to Petr Yan at UFC 245 and whether or not he even fights again is uncertain at this point. So, that could be another hurdle in making this grudge match.
TJ Dillashaw has not fought since he lost by knockout against Henry Cejudo for the flyweight title in January of 2019. He then was suspended for EPO use but is able to return next month.
Urijah Faber, meanwhile, has not fought since he suffered a TKO loss to Petr Yan at UFC 245. Before that, he TKO’d Ricky Simon in the first round in his return to the sport after beating Brad Pickett in 2016 and retiring on a win.
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The Woman Project: An Interview with Conway
When Kassia Conway was working on the artwork for her latest single, “Woman”, she felt that the photo of her wasn’t a proper representation of the song or the word itself.
“I just wanted it to be a thousand faces and that was literally the first thought I had because I was looking at my face with the word ‘woman’ over it and thought it would be great if somehow I could just digitize it to a million faces,” she said.
Her brain was on overdrive, as she’s a very visual person, but she wasn’t quite sure how to go about creating a million faces. She was thinking about the popularity of selfies – dramatic angles, Snapchat filters, the whole nine yards – and tried to think of the bigger picture, literally.
She had mixed feelings towards social media and technology but decided to confront that by making an app called The Woman Project. The app allows the user to stream “Woman”, where 20% of the proceeds are automatically donated to Planned Parenthood. It can also translate the app in 50 languages, make a donation to women’s charities and offer a chance to take a selfie that’s shared on The Woman Project’s Instagram.
“I wanted to use the thing that I have a problem with to change how I feel about it,” she said. “I wanted to put a show of strength and a call to arms for women to just simply stare you back in the face and go, ‘Not today are you going to feel bad.’ You're going to see this photo and you're going to see it say ‘Woman’ in one of these languages and it's going to look like somebody you've never seen and that's all there is and you're not going to feel bad. You're going to feel good and you're going to feel like you're a part of something. All of that was in there in the creation of the app.”
Conway saw that representation has been an enormous issue lately, especially in the media, but the song “Woman” wasn’t about that at first. It was originally written to highlight the positive aspects and actual qualities of women instead of having to focus on the negative comments surrounding the gender as a whole. It became a moment to celebrate in the midst of dealing with heaviness. What started out as an empowerment anthem turned into so much more.
She’s been able to see firsthand how The Woman Project has reached more people than she ever thought possible. Some of the stories and personal messages have brought tears to her eyes, which proves that the statement she was hoping to make was heard by other women and that this social situation can change for the better. Kassia Conway is one voice among many, but her willpower to make everyone’s voices heard is absolutely the proper representation of the word woman.
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Colin James "Miles To Go" Tour 2019
March 17, 2019 - Royal Theatre Victoria. With his 19th studio album, Miles to Go, Colin James is getting back to the blues. Wait a minute, you ask: hasn’t Colin James always played the blues? Well, yes, but back when he was signed to his first record deal in 1988, his producer—who’d worked with Ray Charles and Derek and the Dominoes—explicitly told him not to play any blues, because the label expected a pop hit. When James later made one of the biggest albums of his career—1993’s Colin James and the Little Big Band, released years before the so-called “swing revival”—his label hated it, as did critics and many fans before it went on to go triple platinum in Canada. Then there was the acoustic blues album National Steel in 1997, made with Colin Linden, which was the first time James made a full-on blues album, which landed him on folk festival bills alongside the likes of John Prine and John Hiatt. It was an explicit embrace of the blues James had loved since the Regina-born guitarist was 16 years old and was blown away by James Cotton at the Winnipeg Folk Festival. A song that Cotton played that night, “One More Mile,” became the title track to the new album: bookending it in electric and acoustic versions. It wasn’t until 2016’s Blue Highways that James found himself on a blues chart: the album spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Roots Music Report’s Blues Chart. It also landed him one of his biggest hits: “Riding in the Moonlight,” a Willie Dixon song that James once covered when busking in the streets and subways of Toronto and Montreal, landed on a Spotify playlist and garnered millions of streams. When James set out to make Blue Highways, an album of blues covers recorded with his touring band, he always intended it to be the first of two installments. Now we have Miles to Go, in which James records nine new covers of his favourite artists (Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Little Willie John, Robert Johnson, etc.) and adds two originals, “I Will Remain” and “40 Light Years.” “Blues has always been a pass-it-forward kind of thing,” says James. “It’s also surprisingly hard to write. You have to be careful how modern you get in your phrasing. Certain writers can write a song that sounds like it was done 40 years ago, but it’s deceptively hard.” To be a blues musician is to always have a dialogue with the past. As with much blues music, it’s the performances on the original versions rather than the actual song that drew James to them. That said, what could he possibly bring to them in 2018? “You bring what you can,” he says. “If I feel like I’ve brought enough, then I put it out. I knocked a bunch of songs off this record when I realized that I can’t bring anything to them that isn’t there already. All my life I’ve tried to bring vitality to older songs. Hopefully my dedication to it is what floats it over the mark. That’s a subjective thing; some people will always prefer the original. However, there’s always a group of people coming up to see me after a show who might say, “Oh, I never would have heard ‘One More Mile’ by James Cotton—nothing in my life would have pointed me there.” So much of Colin James’s career has pointed him to this moment: joyfully tangled up in the blues, which, as he notes, “is the only genre where you can maintain a young profile at the age of 53.”
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Home » Vision Science » New Online Features Translate Vision Science to Everyday Life
New Online Features Translate Vision Science to Everyday Life
From National Eye Institute Press Release - May 18, 2009
National Eye Institute Celebrates Healthy Vision Month
Nearly 14 million Americans experience vision problems, ranging from the need for glasses to blindness. The National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, supports vision research that leads to sight-saving treatments for these conditions. During Healthy Vision Month this May, NEI unveils three online resources for the public to get an inside look at the research process and its impact on public health.
Online Newsmagazine – www.nei.nih.gov/EYEonNEI
Eye on NEI will feature in-depth stories, interviews with researchers, vision science images, and answers to eye health questions. The first biweekly edition includes a profile of Erik Weihenmayer, the only blind man to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Weihenmayer recounts his experiences with testing a breakthrough vision device known as BrainPort. The device, developed with NEI support, allows visually impaired people to "see" objects and words by relaying electrical signals from the tongue to the brain.
Multimedia Timeline – www.nei.nih.gov/lca/nei_timeline
This interactive timeline details the research path toward gene therapy treatment for Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a blinding genetic condition that affects the eye’s retinal tissue. In a recent NEI-supported study, three young adults with LCA experienced improvements in day and night vision after undergoing gene therapy. The timeline incorporates video interviews with researchers, scientists, and medical experts to trace the scientific process from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside.
Vodcast and Podcast – www.nei.nih.gov/healthyeyes
Many vision problems can go undetected without regular, comprehensive dilated eye exams. In vodcast and podcast interviews for the new Healthy Eyes Web page, NEI’s Dr. Janine Austin Clayton explains that nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and presbyopia are common vision problems that are easily corrected once diagnosed. Visitors can also use the Web page to send free e-cards to encourage family and friends to get their vision checked.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — The Nation's Medical Research Agency — includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
Full Press Release can be found here.
Nathan Bonilla-Warford, OD
Bright Eyes Family Vision Care
Located in the Westchase area of Tampa.
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'It was unbelievable': Tiger brings his cub to the course
By Karen Crouse
December 22, 2020 — 10.54am
As he does with the accessories in his golf bag, Tiger Woods neatly arranges his life in tidy compartments. His life as a high-profile golfer goes in one slot, his family goes in another and, like his favoured chunky peanut butter and banana sandwiches and the rest of his luggage, he'd prefer to keep it all separated.
When Woods made an exception this week, teaming up with his 11-year-old son, Charlie, at the PNC Championship, the results were perhaps predictably distinct.
Charlie had a blast and Woods was a nervous wreck.
Tiger Woods hugs his son Charlie after their final round. Credit:Getty Images
The dynamic duo, as they were described by breathless television announcers, finished seventh at 20-under, five strokes behind the winning team of Justin Thomas and his father, Mike, who were grouped with the Woodses in the first round.
But as far as Tiger Woods was concerned, this was one event where success was all about the details, not the digits.
"I'm just making sure Charlie has the time of his life," he said on Saturday.
Tiger Woods' father, Earl, who died in 2006, possessed a pride in his child's precociousness with a golf club that led to Woods, 44, making his first television appearances and submitting to his first interviews before he started kindergarten.
Because of Woods' accomplishments, which include 15 major titles, Charlie has also grown up in the spotlight, widely photographed and ogled since birth. Over the past year, as his interests have shifted from soccer to golf, his swing has been scrutinised on the internet as if it contained the meaning of life.
"This is a different world that we live in now," Tiger Woods conceded. "Everyone has a phone, everyone has an opportunity to video, he's been out there."
But it's one thing to exist in a fishbowl and quite another to be dropped into the shark tank of a 36-hole televised competition featuring 20 teams in which major winners or Players champions are paired with family members in a scramble format.
Woods and Charlie celebrate on the 18th. Credit:Getty Images
With Tiger and his cub in the mix, the low-key event became a major production, eclipsing the LPGA's tour championship, held roughly 200 miles – and a distant universe of hype – away and won by the women's world No.1, Jin Young Ko. More than 200 people and multiple television cameras were gathered around the first tee to watch Charlie's opening shot on Saturday.
"A lot of people are trying to use him to build up, or write or talk about things," Tiger Woods said. "Just making sure he's able to have fun playing the game of golf."
Woods insisted that Charlie be excused from media interviews throughout the week. When he met with reporters, Tiger Woods' usual facility with words escaped him. Many of his thoughts trailed off.
"I'm trying to make sure Charlie has the right environment, that he's sheltered and away from this," Woods said on Saturday while addressing a small group of reporters. "I do all of this so he can practise and play and enjoy the golf side of it."
On one hole during the first round, Woods spoke with Justin Thomas about how excruciating it was to want so badly for Charlie to play well but to be helpless to do anything but watch.
He need not have fretted. Charlie, playing from forward tees set up for him and the octogenarians Gary Player, 85, and Lee Trevino, 81, split the fairway with most of his drives and often placed his approaches inside his father's efforts.
The opening round featured Charlie's first-ever eagle on a par-five, which he took in stride until his excited dad squeezed a bashful smile out of him with a bear hug.
"He hit some of the most incredible golf shots," Tiger Woods said.
In introducing the golf world to his son, Woods revealed the man behind the golfing machine. Woods, an 82-time PGA Tour winner who says he competes to win, repeatedly used the word "perfect" to describe a round that ended with the Woodses trailing by four strokes.
Woods can bore holes in his competitors' games with a glare, but a few times over the weekend his eyes pooled with emotion as he talked about the father-and-son bonding opportunity the tournament provided.
From his mannerisms to his mechanics, Charlie came across as a miniature version of his father. He seemed comfortable in the company of adults and well-schooled in golf's etiquette, walking to every tee box with the club he was going to use in one hand and his teed ball in the other. He stayed out of the way when it wasn't his turn and wasted no time hitting once over the ball.
Woods, who said he constantly emphasises having fun on the course and being "respectful," beamed at the mention of Charlie's good manners.
Neither Thomas nor Woods expressed surprise at the quality shots that Charlie consistently produced. They'd seen them all when they practised and played alongside him during the months when the tour was shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic.
"I knew he was going to wow a lot of people," Thomas said, adding, "The kid's a gamer, he's a grinder, he's competitive."
Every afternoon when he was finished playing 18 holes, Charlie made a beeline for the range to hit more balls. During one post-round session, the children of another major winner were on the range not far from him. As they twirled and tossed their clubs like they were batons and cried out to get their parents' attention, Charlie was a few yards away, quietly and methodically working his way through a bag of balls.
Retired LPGA star Annika Sorenstam, a 10-time major winner, noticed that her 9-year-old son seemed enamoured of Charlie and more enthusiastic about the game after watching him play.
"When you see somebody your age and your size do what Charlie's doing, it's a little more inspiring to see what you can do," Sorenstam said.
Trevino crossed paths with Tiger Woods before the first round. "Now you know how your father felt," he said he told him.
Woods' voice grew thick. "It's unbelievable," he replied.
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Juvenile female employee fights back during robbery attempt inside Zachary yogurt shop
by: Anum Siddiqui
ZACHARY, La. (BRPROUD)- Curtis Richard has been arrested after a robbery and fist fight at a Zachary yogurt shop.
According to the Zachary Police Department, instead of paying for his item, Curtis attempted to rob the business.
The juvenile employee who was working at the time sustained minor injuries after the two got into a fight.
Curtis has been booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish prison for ‘Simple Robbery, Theft, and Simple Battery.’
by Chessa Bouche / Jan 16, 2021
BATON ROUGE – The LSU men's basketball team looks for a fourth consecutive victory when the Tigers host the South Carolina Gamecocks in the Southeastern Conference's final game of the Saturday schedule at 7:30 p.m. CT at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
The Tigers are 9-2 overall and 4-1 in the SEC while South Carolina, returning to play for the first time since Jan. 6, is 3-2 and 1-0 in the league, one of the two remaining unbeaten teams in the league.
by Anum Siddiqui / Jan 16, 2021
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD)- Saint's fans and Walk On's on Burbank Drive are looking forward to a win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
General manager, Dustin Loveless, says the Saint's season is bringing in business during the pandemic.
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD)- The Baton Rouge Fire Department reported to a house fire around 8:20 a.m. on Jan. 16 at 454 Finchley Avenue.
According to BRFD, the fire began in the laundry room due to a malfunction with the dryer.
14-year-old murdered on Christmas Day in Louisiana; family speaks out
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EU to religious leaders: Don’t jeopardize health progress during Christmas
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The annual high-level EU meeting with religious leaders took place on Friday and focused on the response to the coronavirus crisis and EU’s migration policy.
A dialogue with religions and philosophical and non-confessional organisations is enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty and aims at giving religious communities the possibility to express their opinion on EU policies and to influence the Union. The meeting today gathered representatives of the three monotheistic religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
“We agreed that solidarity shouldn’t be limited to crisis times but become an active part of our future,” said Margaritis Schinas, European Commission Vice-President for Promoting our European way of life, at the press conference following the meeting (27 November). This was also the theme of the meeting. He quoted one of the religious leaders: “We stand for faith, love and hope.”
In short interventions during the press conference, the religious leaders stressed that religions play an important role in the EU and called for more cooperation and unity. They also accepted the COVID-19 measures as very much needed for the safety of all citizens even if they meant restrictions in religious services and the celebration of religious holidays.
There is mounting pressure in some EU member states to relax the measures during the forthcoming holiday period to allow families to celebrate a traditional Christmas. Is it worthwhile to sacrifice a month of lockdown restrictions – which have resulted in a reduction in infections – for a few days of celebrations?
Replying to the question, Vice-President Schinas referred to a previous press conference this week with Health Commissioner Kyriakides. “We are both very clear that we under no circumstances should jeopardize in the weeks to come the very important progress that has been made during the second wave of the virus.”
“This is of course in the hands of the member states,” he added, “but there is also a European dimension to it. We have a collective duty to make sure that we now, at the end of the second wave, won’t make any mistakes.” He quoted the Belgian Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo, who has stated that he does not want to ruin “four weeks of progress in four days”.
From a religious point of view, Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm underlined that the church is absolutely cooperating with the public health effort to limit the spread of COVID-19. “To do otherwise would counter our own message. Love of God and love of our neighbour cannot be separated. We must celebrate the Christmas message in a way that doesn’t endanger people.”
The European Commission plans to issue guidance next week to the member states to allow for a common understanding and coordinated approach during the holiday season.
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The Ford-Kavanaugh hearings: Who won?
Even the most bullish Democratic pollsters are sceptical about a resounding November win
Thu, Oct 11, 2018 - 5:50 AM
Leon Hadarbtworld@sph.com.sg
US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand speaking to protestors rallying against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill, on Oct 4, in Washington, DC. There is a growing feeling in Washington that the Democrats and their supporters may have overplayed their hand during the debate over the Kavanaugh nomination.
IT'S no secret that Brett Kavanaugh was not President Donald Trump's first choice as a nominee for the US Supreme Court. Judge Kavanaugh had worked in the White House under former Republican President George W Bush, a fierce critic of Mr Trump in addition to having close personal and political ties to members of the GOP establishment in Washington that include many Never Trumpers.
So it was not surprising, as some news reports indicated, that the populist President's first choice for the Supreme Court was an outsider like himself, the 46-year-old Circuit Court Judge and former law professor, Amy Coney Barrett. While the Democrats in the Senate may have disagreed with the views of this Catholic jurist on abortion and other socio-cultural issues, they would probably have been reluctant to reject the nomination of a woman to the Supreme Court. In that case and in an ironic twist, the current #MeToo political zeitgeist could have benefited President Trump and his Supreme Court nominee.
But under pressure from Republican lawmakers and other establishment types in Washington, President Trump decided to embrace Judge Kavanaugh who seemed initially to be a safe political bet, until reports suggested that he may have been involved in a sexual assault.
For several days, the American media coverage was dominated by the allegations about the incident that the accuser, Dr Christine Blasey Ford, said had taken place 36 years ago when she and Mr Kavanaugh were teenagers and attended a party in Bethesda, Maryland. And then there were the accusations by two other women relating to young Kavanaugh's misbehaviour in high school and college.
Some of President Trump's supporters then suggested that the most politically cost-effective step by him would have been to withdraw the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh and to instead press ahead with the nomination of Judge Barrett.
The Republicans have been relying on the support of a narrow majority in the Senate and the concern was that Republican female senators, joined by one or two centrist GOP lawmakers, under the impact of the sexual misconduct allegations and being sensitive to pressure from women's groups, would not approve Judge Kavanaugh's nomination. That would have delivered a major political blow to the White House, bringing an end to Republican hopes of having a majority of five conservative judges in the Supreme Court.
Moreover, a long and protracted Senate debate over the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh, with extensive public airing of the sexual misconduct accusations by three women, had the potential of eroding support among women for Republican candidates in the midterm congressional elections in November, even (or especially) if President Trump's nominee won the nomination.
But President Trump decided to take a calculated political risk and to stick by his man. The move may have ended up paying off for the embattled President who remains under the investigation of a Special Counsel over allegations that his election campaign had colluded with Russian officials to deprive the Democratic presidential candidate of election victory in November 2016.
While Dr Ford's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee was praised as "believable" and "credible" by many politicians and pundits who, on the other hand, criticised Judge Kavanaugh for being too "emotional", "angry" and partisan during his appearance before the committee, it seemed that the Senate hearings and the lack of concrete evidence to support the accusations against Judge Kavanaugh failed to sway female and centrist Republican senators to vote against him.
While everyone seems to agree that the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings and the noisy public protests on the sidelines helped produce a sense of drama - and perhaps even a unique political moment that highlighted the #MeToo agenda - it is not clear to what extent all of this is going to affect the outcome of the midterm elections, and by extension, to determine the fate of the Trump presidency.
Earlier Democratic hopes and Republican fears centred on the expectations that the political and media spectacle in Washington would energise the electoral base of the Democratic party and lead many Republican women to vote against their party in November. That in turn, could have strengthened the Democrats' chances of winning control of the House of Representatives and the Senate and open the way to impeachment proceedings against President Trump.
But there is a growing feeling in Washington that the Democrats and their supporters may have overplayed their hand during the debate over the Kavanaugh nomination. More specifically, that the main target of the Democratic campaign - Republican suburban women - may have been politically alienated by the images of the angry protesters interrupting the Senate hearings and targeting for personal attacks Judge Kavanaugh and his family, while threatening to retaliate against those senators who supported his nomination.
At the same time, while there is very little doubt that the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings would help mobilise supporters of the Democrats in November, who have been energised even before the #MeToo movement in Washington, it is also quite likely that more Republicans would get out to vote in November as a way of supporting President Trump in the face of Democrats' threats to impeach him and Judge Kavanaugh in the next two years.
The Democrats still have a better than 50 per cent chance of taking over the House of Representatives, especially if they win around 20 "red" or Republican-leaning congressional districts that went for Candidate Clinton two years ago.
But then, even the most bullish Democratic pollsters are sceptical that their party would declare victory in the Senate in November and are worried that their party could end up losing two or three Senate seats in the midterms.
In fact, the most electorally vulnerable Democrats would be those senators who represent "red" states that went big for President Trump in 2016, but who voted against the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh last week, such as Joe Donnelly from Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp from North Dakota, and Jon Tester from Montana.
But Joe Manchin from West Virginia, the only Democrat who voted in support of Judge Kavanaugh's nomination, is expected to get re-elected in November.
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Mozart, Beethoven & Schubert: Piano Sonatas (Live)
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Clara Haskil
Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, Op. 6 No. 1, K. 330
I. Allegro moderato (Live)
II. Andante cantabile (Live)
III. Allegretto (Live)
Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-Flat Major, Op. 31 No. 3 "The Hunt"
I. Allegro (Live)
II. Scherzo. Allegretto vivace (Live)
III. Menuetto. Moderato e grazioso (Live)
IV. Presto con fuoco (Live)
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-Flat Major, D. 960
I. Molto moderato (Live)
II. Andante sostenuto (Live)
III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace con delicatezza (Live)
IV. Allegro ma non troppo (Live)
Solo: Clara Haskil Soloist
The magic, the radiance and the concentration that emanate from the platform are so powerful that everything else – the concert hall and auditorium – seem to fade away, so that listeners think that all that they can sense and perceive is the presence of the artist. – Die Presse
Recorded 8 August 1957
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Liberty Counsel Compels Leaders to Sever Ties With SPLC
4:10PM EDT 6/21/2018 Liberty Counsel Staff
The Liberty Counsel and other organizations are urging organizations to break off ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center. (Hernan Pinera via Flickr)
Liberty Counsel joined a coalition of 47 other conservative leaders and organizations in releasing an open letter to government agencies, news organizations, corporations and social media platforms to sever their ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and its ongoing effort to defame and slander mainstream conservative organizations.
The SPLC grossly misrepresents and labels Liberty Counsel and other pro-family and conservative organizations as so-called "hate groups."
The letter from the 48 organizations read in part:
"We, the undersigned, are among the organizations, groups and individuals that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has maligned, defamed and otherwise harmed by falsely describing as 'haters,' 'bigots,' 'Islamophobes' and/or other groundless epithets. We are gratified that the SPLC has today formally acknowledged that it has engaged in such misrepresentations. ... Editors, CEOs, shareholders and consumers alike are on notice: Anyone relying upon and repeating its misrepresentations is complicit in the SPLC's harmful defamation of large numbers of American citizens who, like the undersigned, have been vilified simply for working to protect our country and freedoms. With this significant piece of evidence in mind, we call on government agencies, journalists, corporations, social media providers and web platforms (i.e., Google, Twitter, YouTube and Amazon) that have relied upon this discredited organization to dissociate themselves from the Southern Poverty Law Center and its ongoing effort to defame and vilify mainstream conservative organizations."
The SPLC's lack of credibility has been evidenced by this week's defamation settlement with Islamic reformer Maajid Nawaz and the Quilliam Foundation. The SPLC agreed to pay a $3.375 million settlement as the result of a demand from Nawaz and his organization for the inclusion on the SPLC's now-defunct "anti-Muslim extremists" list published in December 2016. In a video and a written statement on its website, SPLC president Richard Cohen issued an apology which includes, "The Southern Poverty Law Center was wrong to include Maajid Nawaz and the Quilliam Foundation in our Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists. Since we published the Field Guide, we have taken the time to do more research and have consulted with human rights advocates we respect... We would like to extend our sincerest apologies to Mr. Nawaz, Quilliam and our readers for the error, and we wish Mr. Nawaz and Quilliam all the best."
"Liberty Counsel has joined other leaders and organizations to urge all reputable news organizations, government agencies, corporations and social media to immediately stop citing the Southern Poverty Law Center's discredited and dangerous propaganda as a reliable source," said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. "The SPLC's stated motivation is to 'destroy' groups with which it disagrees and it accomplishes this objective by falsely labeling nonviolent organizations as 'hate groups.' This label is false, defamatory and dangerous and the SPLC and those who rely upon the false label must stop," said Staver.
Find more information that exposes the truth about the Southern Poverty Law Center here.
For the original article, visit lc.org.
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Revival Meetings Break Out Near Charlotte, N.C.
12:42AM EDT 6/3/2008 Paul Steven Ghiringhelli
Like many flocking to Florida’s Lakeland Outpouring since April 2, thousands more are descending on MorningStar Ministries’ campus in Fort Mill, S.C., in search of a similar experience.
For the last six weeks, excluding two evenings set aside for rest, extended worship and healing services have been held every night in an affluent suburb south of Charlotte, N.C.
MorningStar founder Rick Joyner said in his many years of full-time ministry he’s never witnessed anything so strong and consistent. He believes it could “morph into revival” and eventually “break out” around the world.
“It’s increasing, not decreasing,” he told Charisma. “We’ve seen more real and serious high-level miracles in the last five weeks than we’ve seen in the entire time of our ministry.”
Joyner said during meetings people are delivered from oppression and healed of a variety of ailments, such as tumors, paralysis, allergies, blindness, deafness and acid reflux.
A young mother of two from Fort Mill told Charisma that without any expectation for healing, the pain from her ulcer disappeared the day after attending a meeting last week. She said instead of pain during the night, she is experiencing God’s peace.
The gatherings have been dubbed “Holy Spirit Breakout,” named after the “breakout room” on campus where students from MorningStar’s ministry school prayed for others on April 23 after returning from meetings in Lakeland, Fla., led by evangelist Todd Bentley.
In an update on MorningStar’s Web site after the “breakout,” Joyner said his students begged him to keep things going. “My response was that I did not start it, and I sure would not stop it,” he said. “As long as the Lord is moving, we will be meeting every night, but when He stops or moves on, so will we.”
Joyner explained what is occurring at MorningStar as connected to a dream he said he had last year in which God told him if he “honored the fathers,” revival would come to America within six months. He held a conference on March 21 dedicated to this theme.
A month later, Joyner wrote in a bulletin that God linked honoring the fathers with revival in America because a “major gate of hell” had been opened to America over the years through the “dishonoring of fathers and fatherhood.”
Last week in California, Joyner visited healing evangelist Oral Roberts, someone he considers a father of last century’s healing movement. Joyner said the aging leader told him he thinks what’s happening at MorningStar is “totally God.”
Numbers attending daily services at MorningStar have ranged between several hundred to a couple thousand. Joyner said half the crowd often raise their hands to indicate that it’s their first time attending. He said the current facility could hold up to 3,000 people.
Though he expects attendance to jump when school lets out for the summer, Joyner said numbers are not what excite him most. “To be honest with you, it seems that when the crowds are a little smaller the Lord moves more powerfully.”
If a larger venue becomes necessary in the coming months Joyner said the former PTL Club studio on campus could accommodate up to 5,000 people.
The PTL Club was a TV program in the 1980s hosted by televangelist Jim Bakker, who later spent time in prison for fraud. In 2004, Joyner purchased Bakker’s abandoned and dilapidated property formerly known as Heritage USA and, in a nod to what he calls the redemption of Jim Bakker, called MorningStar’s vision for the property’s continued restoration Heritage International Ministries.
According to Joyner, reliable prophetic words about revival coming to the Charlotte, N.C., area have been declared for more than 50 years. “I’m not saying this is it,” he said. “To us, it’s like a spiritual birth pang or contraction leading to revival.”
But if revival is eventually birthed, as Joyner hopes it is, he does not believe it will only be local. “I think it will break out all over the place,” he said. “I think the ‘encouragement barometer’ of the whole body of Christ is going to go way up. I think ultimately what is coming will go beyond revival and to a great awakening. I think we’re just in the very first stages. I think we’re in for several very intense years.”
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Source Claims Prince Harry ‘Snapped’ Over Meghan Markle’s Unfair Treatment
Robert Arissen
Prince Harry should be enjoying some of the happiest times of his life right now with his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and young son, Archie Harrison. Just before Archie was born, Harry and Meghan were able to move to a newly renovated home in Windsor, England. But they didn’t live there long.
In early 2020, the royal couple made the unexpected announcement that they were resigning from their positions as full-time senior working royals. However, things reportedly got worse before they left the United Kingdom.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle faced brutal treatment from the British tabloids
This afternoon, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended the annual Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey on Commonwealth Day, alongside Her Majesty The Queen and Members of The Royal Family. The Commonwealth is a global network of 54 countries, working in collaboration towards shared economic, environmental, social and democratic goals, and the Service today seeks to highlight the vast community which spans every geographical region, religion and culture, embracing diversity amongst its population of 2.4 billion people, of which 60 percent are under 30 years old. As President and Vice-President of the @Queens_Commonwealth_Trust, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been passionate advocates of the Commonwealth having spent many years working closely with the next generation of Commonwealth leaders. The theme of the Commonwealth for 2020 is ‘Delivering A Common Future: Connecting, Innovating, Transforming', placing emphasis on youth, the environment, trade, governance, and ICT (Information and Communications Technology) and innovation. From working to protect the earth's natural resources and preserving the planet for generations to come, to championing fair trade and empowering the youth of today to transform the communities of tomorrow, the Service celebrates the Commonwealth's continued commitment to delivering a peaceful, prosperous and more sustainable future for all. Photo © PA
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Ever since Meghan and Harry got together, Meghan has been harassed in the British tabloids. There were harsh news stories regarding her family drama, her background, and her position within the royal family.
The Duchess of Sussex was portrayed in a negative light, and to say that she and Harry were upset would be an understatement. According to The Guardian, the situation continued to get more complex after Archie was born, and the royal couple felt that moving away from London was the best thing for them to do.
Unfortunately, the treatment didn’t stop even after they moved to Windsor. Not surprisingly, Meghan and Harry were angry, and they didn’t keep quiet about the fact that they weren’t happy with royal life.
Prince Harry always stood by Meghan Markle
More from tonight as The Duke and Duchess of Sussex joined veterans, serving members, world-class musicians, composers and conductors of the Massed Bands of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines for the annual Mountbatten Festival of Music — an event to help raise funds on behalf of the @RoyalMarines Charity. Photo © The Duke and Duchess of Sussex / Chris Allerton
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Prince Harry is a supportive husband, and it shows in his actions. He has always stood by Meghan and offered his full support, making it clear that he wouldn’t stand for any negative treatment.
According to USA Today, Harry has always gone out of his way to protect his wife, and there was even one point where he released a statement out of concern for her safety. Sadly, Harry knows all too well just how much pressure comes along with being a member of the royal family.
He and Meghan said on more than one occasion that they value their privacy, and they just weren’t getting that in the United Kingdom. Understandably, Meghan’s safety was Harry’s main concern.
Prince Harry realized a move was best for his family, source claims
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Us Weekly reports that Prince Harry came to the realization that Meghan was never going to be treated fairly. He knows she doesn’t deserve all of the negative press that she had been receiving, and he wasn’t just going to sit back and let it happen.
“When it became clear Meghan was never going to get a fair shake, Harry snapped,” a source told Us Weekly. “He’s adamant that it was his call to move to Canada.”
Harry felt this was a sure sign that the couple needed to go to North America, a place where they could feel comfortable and have some peace and quiet.
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Vatican announces canonical investigation of Cardinal Pell
Cindy Wooden
Australian Cardinal George Pell arrives at the County Court in Melbourne on 27 February, 2019. PHOTO: CNS photo/Daniel Pockett, AAP images via Reuters
The day Australian Cardinal George Pell was jailed in Melbourne after being found guilty of child sexual abuse, the Vatican announced his case would be investigated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
“After the guilty verdict in the first instance concerning Cardinal Pell, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will now handle the case following the procedure and within the time established by canonical norm,” Alessandro Gisotti, interim director of the Vatican press office, said on 27 February.
A court in Melbourne ordered that Cardinal Pell be taken into custody on 27 February; he is scheduled to be sentenced 13 March on five charges related to the sexual abuse of two 13-year-old boys in the late 1990s when he was archbishop of Melbourne. The cardinal continues to affirm his innocence and plans to appeal the verdict.
Cardinal Pell, a former archbishop of Sydney, took a leave of absence in mid-2017 from his position as prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy. The Vatican confirmed on 26 February that the cardinal’s five-year term as prefect ended on 24 February.
Australian Cardinal George Pell arrives at the County Court in Melbourne on 27 February 2019. PHOTO: CNS photo/Daniel Pockett, AAP images via Reuters
The canonical investigation of Cardinal Pell announced by the Vatican is not the first church investigation of allegations against him; in June 2002, then-Archbishop Pell stepped aside as archbishop of Sydney while an independent church review board investigated a claim that he sexually abused a 12-year-old boy at a youth camp in 1961 while a seminarian. The board found insufficient evidence to corroborate the accusations.
When a deacon, priest or bishop is accused of abuse, the first phase of the investigation generally is carried out by the diocese where the abuse is alleged to have occurred. For instance, in the case of Theodore E. McCarrick, the former cardinal dismissed from the clerical state on 16 February, the initial investigation was carried out by the Archdiocese of New York, and once the allegations were determined to be credible, the case was handed over to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The Vatican statement of 27 February did not mention an archdiocesan inquiry, but apparently that is not necessary in cases where there is a criminal court conviction.
According to information posted by the Vatican in conjunction with the 21-24 February summit on abuse, when the doctrinal congregation opens a process, two modes of proceeding are possible: either with a trial or with a shorter administrative process. In both cases, the accused has the right and opportunity to know the evidence against him and to respond.
If found guilty, the penalties can vary depending on the seriousness of the crime and, often, the age of the accused; possible penalties include removal from office, restricted ministry, “a life of prayer and penance” without any public ministry and dismissal from the clerical state.
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“ I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.”
Kate Moss is an English model, known for her waifish figure, who rose to fame in the early 1990s' heroin chic fashion trend, while her Calvin Klein projects brought her to fashion icon status, and to be listed by TIME in the world's 100 most influential people (2007).
She was born on Wednesday January 16th 1974, in London, England.
2021 is a year to be organized and practical. Kate Moss has to take care of details, while committing herself entirely to her goals. Kate's concentration and ability to focus will be much improved over last year. She will have an attitude of realism and determination.
There can be a sense of limitation and some frustration during 2021. However, it is a year of important opportunities that must be seized. There can be considerable work-related travel. Moss must be flexible this year to make full use of the opportunities that present themselves. It will require a combination of perseverance, hard work, and versatility. Kate Moss will receive recognition for her efforts and support from her friends and family.
2021 is a good year to buy real estate or remodel her home. It is also a good time to take care of projects which have been postponed for to long. Kate ought to fulfill her obligations and not be afraid to spend some of that hard earned money. Selling and trading during this year usually is quite successful. 2021 is the year to work on her foundation and prepare herself for the many changes that will undoubtedly come next year. As a result of her hard work, there will be much satisfaction and a feeling of accomplishment.
January and February 2021 will bring some important change, a new opportunity perhaps. March 2021 requires self-reflection and reshaping of Moss' plans. It is a good time to meditate on what lies ahead. June 2021 brings a new and important step - a breakthrough, perhaps - in her work. October 2021 brings changes and a sense of chaos. Kate Moss may feel threatened by the changes that are on the horizon. But November 2021 brings assistance in the form of a promotion or additional financial support.
Let's take a look now at Kate's monthly forecast for January 2021.
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About Kate's Personal Year Cycle
In numerology, each year of Kate's life is part of an evolving pattern that can be described as a nine-year cycle or epicycle. These cycles begin at Kate Moss' birth and progress, one by one, through nine steps that complete an epicycle, and then begin again.
Read more about our numerological yearly forecast for Kate Moss . . .
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Which state wants AFL Grand Final more?
South Australia is set to push its case for the AFL Grand Final to be staged at Adelaide Oval, but the government’s bid is lagging behind Western Australia and Queensland.
by Reece Homfray
7th Aug 2020 7:59 PM
The SA Government wants to host the AFL Grand Final at Adelaide Oval but has done nothing to convince the league it deserves it, as WA lodges a formal submission to bring the showcase game to Perth.
SA Premier Steven Marshall on Friday reiterated his position that Adelaide Oval would be a perfect venue for footy finals which are all but certain to be locked out of Melbourne due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
But while WA gets on the front foot to bring the Grand Final to Optus Stadium, Mr Marshall said SA had not made any request.
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"I don't think the AFL are calling for official submissions to be lodged by a certain date, but it is fair enough to say that we are very interested in playing finals footy here at the Adelaide Oval," Mr Marshall said.
"It's an excellent venue and we've proven time and time again that the Stadium Management Authority can manage large crowds very efficiently and I think South Australia should be considered.
"I think we've put ourselves in a really good situation to bid for a large number of events but of course they've always got to be assessed on an individual basis to make sure we can keep the patrons who are attending and the more broader community here in South Australia safe.
Asked whether that included the Grand Final, Mr Marshall said: "Yes".
Football at Optus Stadium has been played in front of crowds. Picture: Getty Images
It comes amid reports the WA Government has lodged a formal submission to the AFL to host this year's AFL finals series - including the premiership decider - backed by Covid-19 protocols to protect players, staff and fans.
It is understood significant work has also been done on a detailed proposal for Queensland to host the 2020 Grand Final.
But a spokesman from Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's office on Friday said it was "premature to talk about" the possibility of Queensland hosting the decider.
"Queensland is happy to be in a position to help the AFL season continue and allow fans - especially those in Victoria - the chance to cheer their team," he said.
"As the temporary home of the AFL in 2020, Queensland is well positioned to secure the AFL grand final which will deliver a major boost for Queensland's tourism sector."
But with the MCG holding a contract to host the Grand Final until 2057, AFL chief executive Gill McLachlan tempered any talk that it could be on the move this year despite no football being played in Victoria since the first week of July.
"I don't want to sound too sort of structured about this but we have got a contract to play the Grand Final at the MCG and until that changes that's where the Grand Final will be," McLachlan said on 3AW radio.
"I don't want to sound naive or silly but clearly there are people making assessments about where things are at in Victoria and if we are unable to play it here or that changes then clearly we've got a lot of great alternatives in Western Australia, which have made it clear they are keen, and Queensland are keen as are others.
"We're lucky we have got great interest but I don't feel right now it is appropriate to be looking beyond that when we have got an existing agreement, challenged as that might look in the current environment."
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Cape employers left in lurch by H-2B lottery scramble for summer staffing
Sean F. Driscoll @SeanFDriscoll
Apr 29, 2018 at 3:00 AM Apr 29, 2018 at 6:29 AM
With just weeks to go until the unofficial start of summer, many of Cape Cod's seasonal businesses are still scrounging around for the workers they need to keep operations at full speed during the all-too-short high season.
The region has long been reliant on the H-2B visa program, which allows American companies to hire overseas workers to fill short-term labor shortages. But an unexpected use of a lottery system by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to allocate the 33,000 visas available means many companies that applied for the workers did not get them despite following procedures that, in years past, would have virtually assured their requests were approved.
"Those who made the lottery are overjoyed," said Jane Nichols Bishop, owner of Peak Season Workforce, a staffing firm that helps companies through the visa process. "But the many — and I stress many — employers who did not make the lottery are struggling."
For Mac Hay, co-owner of Mac's Seafood in Wellfleet, the H-2B process this year was a mixed bag. He got about half the 50 workers he wanted, and a trip to Puerto Rico with other Wellfleet businesses to try and bring back some kitchen staff from the island that is still recovering from the ravages of Hurricane Maria last year was unsuccessful.
The company was at a job fair Thursday at Nauset High School, which nets him a few high-schoolers per year, and he has hired some H-2B workers who were already in the country via a transfer process, but overall this summer will mean a lot of overtime spent to fill in the staffing gaps.
"It just makes the season that more stressful and challenging," he said.
The timing of the H-2B visa allocations does not leave businesses much room to make a Plan B if they do not get their workers. Congress has set the cap of H-2B visas at 66,000 per federal fiscal year, with 33,000 for workers who begin employment between Oct. 1 and March 30 and the other 33,000 who begin work between April 1 and Sept. 30. The latter allocation is what Cape and Islands businesses fight for annually.
Employers seeking the visas must offer jobs to Americans first and advertise the available jobs before they can get certification from the U.S. Department of Labor for the foreign workforce. If that certification is approved, they must apply to immigration services for visas before working with the embassy of their workers' home country for final approval. The Labor Department opens its certification process just 90 days before an H-2B worker would start, meaning most Cape businesses were applying Jan. 1 for positions that would start April 1.
Delays at the Labor Department pushed back their release of certified applications to Feb. 20 instead of being announced on a rolling basis; Citizenship and Immigration Services, citing the Labor Department's delay and an overwhelming demand for workers, used a lottery system to approve petitions rather than doing so with a first-come, first-served system.
On the Cape and Islands, employers requested about 2,000 seasonal workers this year, according to statistics from the Labor Department. Citizenship and Immigration Services does not provide data on which applications it approves for visas.
The $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill signed into law March 23 by President Donald Trump included a provision that allows the Department of Homeland Security to increase the number of H-2B visas by 63,000, but DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has yet to act on the matter. Thursday, at a budget hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives' Homeland Security Committee, Nielsen was asked by U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-Massachusetts, about the issue. She did not make her timeline for deciding to authorize additional visas clear during Keating's questioning.
"The clock's ticking, and businesses are losing money," Keating said during the hearing. "American jobs are getting hurt by this, because by not hiring their full complement of workers, they're closing down for days."
"There is no reason to have a visa program that puts American businesses out of business," Nielsen said.
Keating later characterized Nielen's responses as "deflecting" the issue.
"We have employers in our district that are losing revenue and the ability to make money," he said. "It's hurting the overall tourism industry ... and hurting the small businesses (Trump's administration) claims to defend."
Homeland Security officials did not respond to an email seeking comment.
At the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, a job fair in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is shaping up for May 7-8 in hopes that, in contrast to Hay's efforts in Wellfleet, some idled hospitality and kitchen staff from the island can be brought here for the summer to fill in the gaps left by the H-2B process. Chamber CEO Wendy Northcross said ultimately nine businesses will fly representatives to San Juan, accompanied by chamber chief of staff Christopher Adams, seeking to fill "a couple of hundred positions," but more than 60 businesses representing around 1,000 jobs expressed interest in the venture when it was announced earlier this month.
Although the workers will not need visas like an H-2B hire would, the recruiting is not without effort. Businesses must certify the jobs and hours each employee would work, and that housing will be available, before they are allowed to recruit on the island. Northcross said the chamber has been working Puerto Rico's state travel office to navigate the local rules and find accommodations for the trip.
"We're looking at this as a pilot to see if we can create a bit of a system and cement these relationships and maybe expand on it next spring," she said.
While the Puerto Rican connection may yet prove fruitful, Bishop said her clients at Peak Season Workforce will continue to be left in the lurch by the H-2B visa process until permanent changes can be made, and the dangling hope of 63,000 additional visas that Homeland Security has yet to release is proving to be more stressful than helpful.
"It is extremely frustrating for our clients and for all businesses who require H-2B visas to know that (63,000) visas are available and could be given out tomorrow," she said. "But we can't get them released. The frustration is palpable. It defies logic.
"I would scream at her if I could talk to her," she said of Nielsen. "What the hell is she doing?"
— Follow Sean F. Driscoll on Twitter: @seanfdriscoll.
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Book Ten: The Soldiers of Halla. Journal of an adventure through time and space. Book One: The Merchant of Death. Book Two: The Lost City of Faar. I saw nieces and nephews grow into adults, produced a TV series, and saw the world change in dramatic ways. Some of those changes were great; others weren’t. But no matter what happened over that time, whether it was good, bad, or in between, I always had one constan. obby Pendragon. Book Ten: The Soldiers of Halla.
The Soldiers of Halla book. When I first began reading the last book in Pendragon series I was skeptical. It has all been leading to this. For some reason all I could think about as I was reading at was the somewhat lame excuse for a plot twist the 8th book had been. However I had loved the nineth and pretty much the rest of them too so why should this one be bad.
Here is the final book in the Pendragon series: The Soldiers of Halla. All of the main characters of the earlier volumes make their reappearance here in the final fight for Halla and for the vindication of the human spirit. This book is more philosophical than any of the previous volumes. Perhaps this deeper story-line is what lifts the Pendragron Series beyond the realm of the television screenplay.
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The Soldiers of Halla is the tenth and final book in the Pendragon Adventure series by D. J. MacHale. It concludes the battle between the Travelers and Saint Dane. The title was revealed by D. MacHale on December 9, 2008, and was taken from a closing line in the preceding book, Raven Rise. The jacket cover was revealed on March 3, 2009; the book itself was released on May 12, 2009.
We were a little wiser and maybe somewhat overwhelmed by all that had been revealed to us. But at least we were together
We were a little wiser and maybe somewhat overwhelmed by all that had been revealed to us. But at least we were together. d over the head with a big fat reality stick. Uncle Press addressed us all. In spite of all you’ve heard, Solara is not dead. At least, the Solara that has always been is not dead. You all sense the presence of the spirit here, don’t you?. I looked around to see my friends nodding. Solara is at its lowest point. The toll of this battle has been huge.
The Soldiers of Halla. Narrated by William Dufris. All the thrills and sadness; the hope and despair. Bobby Pendragon's heart-pounding journey through time and space has brought him to this epic moment. He and his fellow Travelers must join forces for one last desperate battle against Saint Dane. At stake is not only the tenth and final territory, but all that ever was or will be. Everywhere. This is the war for Halla. Every question is answered. Every truth is revealed. The final battle has begun. Read on the Scribd mobile app. Download the free Scribd mobile app to read anytime, anywhere.
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Читать онлайн - MacHale D. MacHale The Soldiers of Halla Chapter 1 The missile hit without warning. We didn’t know we were under attack until, well, we were under attack. I had no idea what it was all about, other than the fact that I had only been on this strange territory for a few minutes, and I already wanted to leave. Uncle Press was walking maybe forty yards ahead of the Travelers
Written by D. MacHale, Audiobook narrated by William Dufris. The Soldiers of Halla.
Written by D. Pendragon Book Ten. By: D. Narrated by: William Dufris. Series: Pendragon, Book 10. Length: 18 hrs and 1 min. Categories: Kids, Ages 8-10.
It has all been leading to this. Every victory. Every loss. All the thrills and sadness; the hope and despair. Bobby Pendragon’s heart-pounding journey through time and space has brought him to this epic moment. He and his fellow Travelers must join forces for one last desperate battle against Saint Dane. At stake is not only the tenth and final territory, but all that ever was or will be. Everywhere. This is the war for Halla. Every question is answered. Every truth is revealed. The final battle has begun.
Trash Obsession
Well, after 9 books, countless plot twists, and endless theories as to how the series would end, DJ MacHale finally ended the epic Pendragon Adventure. I won't reveal any spoilers, only comment on the book and the story it tells (and ends)
I will admit, at first, I was a little worried how MacHale would set up the pace. The first 150 pages, while undoubtedly important, seemed to have an aggravatingly slow, detail by detail method of storytelling. Those concerns were luckily unfounded, as the action never ceased once Bobby finally set off on the main adventure. The action was well done, and the explanations behind all the Traveler mysticism actually worked surprisingly well. Many complained of how MacHale revealed all the secrets in only 70 pages in one book. I can see why, but I'm glad he chose this route. I feel like if he had revealed these secrets in bits and pieces throughout the series (as several people have suggested), it would have made the truly cosmic revelations less interesting, and probably would have overloaded the books. I also appreciated how MacHale used description. While prose isn't his strong point (and arguably, these books weren't supposed to provide epic prose in the first place), in this book he finally nailed the right balance on how much detail to reveal. His descriptions of the Territories in the first 9 books were epic, but were sometimes burdensome. Since the final book doesn't spend too much time on any one territory, it's finally free of that problem. The characters were of course still as lovable as ever, though I do feel like some (Notably Siri and Gunny) could have been given more to do. But I guess one has to keep in mind that this ultimately is Bobby's story (in this book more than any other). Overall, I feel the story the book told made a good finale. It wasn't perfect, but no book, and especially no book finale, ever really is.
O.K, I lied. I will spoil one thing, because I absolutely have to talk about the ending.
For those who don't know, the story ended with the Travelers departing this world to take on their role as almost-literal gods. The epilogue had a Bobby with no memories of his life as a Traveler, dying in a hospital with his beloved Courtney, making out, just like in the first book. Uncle Press walked in (sound familiar?), and handed Bobby the Journals he recorded as a Traveler. The End.
Many people hated this ending. It boggles me as to why. I totally understand why MacHale did this: He wanted to prove that the job of being a Traveler is a selfless job, a theme he tried (and largely succeeded in) weaving throughout the series. But he knew that he couldn't just have Bobby go through all he went through with no reward (He even had Bobby point out the unfairness of this). So he gave Bobby the one thing he wanted: a normal life. Many didn't understand how this was possible, but I think I do: Uncle Press mentioned that the Spirits of Solara have the ability to live in whatever reality they want. I think this was what ultimately happened to Bobby. I think he chose to live a life as if the Traveler adventure had never happened. As to why MacHale had Uncle Press show up to remind him of this adventure, I don't know. But I suppose it doesn't matter: I personally like endings that don't always give you all the answers.
So overall, this was a great book, and a great way to end a great series. Hobey Ho!
Phain
"Here is the final book in the Pendragon series: The Soldiers of Halla. Author D. J. MacHale goes to great effort to explain all the unexplained, to tie the loose ends... This book is more philosophical than any of the previous volumes. We realize that this has not been simply an adventure story, but the screenwriter MacHale has given us a saga that allows us to reflect on the essential reality of humanity: the freedom to choose good and to fight evil. All of the main characters of the earlier volumes make their reappearance here in the final fight for Halla and for the vindication of the human spirit.
Perhaps this deeper story-line is what lifts the Pendragron Series beyond the realm of the television screenplay. What seemed like the story of a preadolescent thrown into an adventure beyond him (in volume 1) has become the story of the unlikely hero fostering what is most noble in the human spirit, not simply to preserve a civilization but to "save the world".
On a personal note, I received this volume (like the last three volumes in the Pendragon Series) on the day it was first made public. The reading has been exciting, stimulating, entertaining, troubling... all the things that make for an engaging story. Will the Pendragon series stand the test of time? Is it too American? Time will tell. For our place and time, however, the Pendragon series is an important contribution for those who would engage the issues of our time: justice, integrity, solidarity, loyalty, the humble pursuit of truth, the need to fight for what is right (to name a few). Pendragon, from book 1 to this final book 10, is a series that I highly recommend.
Bladebringer
No need to go into all the details, but this book had everything. The explanation of where Press and Bobby and the travelers come from was sound and believable enough. The return of favorite characters was a plus and the whole setup and conclusion were clever and I know it had to be hard to try and wrap up this series, explain everything and make the book where even those who had never read Pendragon could follow. Critics want only what they want and who cares about that. Books can't be all things to all people, but this one comes close. I have loved this series from the beginning and I hope DJ MacHale writes another series at some point. So far he is 2 for 2 in my book--I also liked Encyclopedia Brown when I was a child.
Fantastic ending. Very satisfying. The suspense at the end makes the whole book. I highly recommend this book and by all means the whole series if you haven't read the others.
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If you have read the book and hate the epilogue, read it again and consider Bobby could have been void of his memories until the journals are once again in his hand, thus his wish is granted at the end of the book.
Phenade
Im a fan of all the pendragon books. They are totally awesome. This book was no diffrent. But you know how all the books start out with Bobby looking back and saying this is how it all began, well if the epilogue had been in the beginning I would have thrown the book down, before I had even started. Thats how much it felt off. So the story went in a diffrent direction towards the end but oh well, it was still good and deserved 5 Stars. That was until you read the epilogue. I actually went back and reread it twice and then thought. Wow. That was not what I expected. I hope that in future versions of Pendragon that the epilogue is not included. It just makes you go HUH, I read these books for how many years to end up with a.... a... since of blah. "This is not the way it was meant to be".
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Clipperton Finance, active member of the French Tech Tour 2009 leading team
Date: July, 1st, 2009
Paris, France – July 4, 2009
For its 30th edition, the Tech Tour visited France a third time and showcased its rich culture of technology and innovation. The French Tech Tour highlighted the strong potential and depth of the French high-tech ventures during its unique two-day tour across the country via Paris and Strasbourg.
Participation was limited to 60 invited international professionals featuring a broad spectrum of senior representatives from VC funds to leading corporations and institutional investors. The French Tech Tour followed a double agenda, firstly to showcase 24 of France’s most promising technology companies for potential investment or partnership and for the delegates to extend their local networks in France; secondly, to promote France’s recent decision to accelerate innovation, research and economic growth by investing in nationwide competitiveness clusters.
Furthermore, the agenda included interactions and meetings with a range of key figures from various disciplines including venture capital, corporate, entrepreneurial and academia.
Clipperton Finance was involved in all steps of the organization of the French Tech Tour 2009, as a member of the selection committee, with the seat of VP of Sponsoring. Clipperton Finance is also very proud to have seen 3 of its clients selected in the top 24 most promising privately held technology companies in France.
You will find here the presentation given by Clipperton Finance during the opening dinner at Pavillon Gabriel, regarding the outcome of companies selected for the previous French Tech Tour in 2005. This look back at the past 3 years shows a maturing French investment market with strong domestic French VC investment but also a significant percentage of foreign participation in investment rounds (40-50% of rounds over the period included 1+ non-French VCs). Clean-tech has also emerged as a significant investment category, jumping from €8m in 2005 to €80m in 2008. Since 2005, for the 25 Tech Tour companies listed then, a total €263m of additional funding has been raised. As of June 2009, 19 of these companies were still independent, 12 of which showed mature revenues (i.e. over €5m), and 5 of which were acquired by international players (ARM, Intercim to name a few). Moreover, since 2005 the still independent companies have seen their cumulated revenues grow by 78%, with the top 5 performers growing at 92% CAGR over the period.
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About Clipperton Finance
Based in Paris and London, Clipperton Finance is a European corporate finance boutique dedicated to the High Tech and Media industries. Clipperton is focused on start-up and high-growth companies in the Internet, Software, Telecom, Components, CleanTech, MedTech and Media spaces, advising them in their financial transactions: fundraising/capital increases and Mergers & Acquisitions. Over the past years the company and its team have successfully structured numerous high level international transactions in the European High Tech sector.
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Complexity and Networks Favor Teams
By Gerry McGovern | Sep 4, 2018
CHANNEL: Digital Workplace
PHOTO: James Thomas
The internet is a network. It’s not a hierarchy. In fact, the DNA of the internet is a distributed network that has no hierarchy, has no center-point. On the internet, there is no one definitive way to get to anywhere. The best way at any given moment depends on the exact circumstances of that given moment.
The internet is remaking human society, how we organize, how we interact, make decisions, do things. And the internet is part of a general trend driven by complexity, rapid change, and increasingly global interconnectedness, which demands a network response, a team response.
In Ireland, there is a game called hurling which goes back thousands of years into myth and legend. This year has been an extraordinary year for hurling, with some of the best games in memory. Limerick ended up winning the All-Ireland Final. Limerick, and their beaten finalists, Galway, were very much team-driven. Ireland has another unique sport called Gaelic football. Dublin is dominating and Dublin is team-driven too.
Team-driven means that there are no superstars, no individuals upon which everything depends. The team is the unit of performance. Both Gaelic football and hurling have speeded up enormously in recent years. In such fast, frenetic, unpredictable environments, the idea of a manager orchestrating play is simply not possible. The purpose of the manager is to help build a team that, once it goes out on the pitch, is able to adapt and make decisions based on what is happening. Sure, there is a game plan, but it is at the edges of the game plan where games are won. The players — the team — need to become the decision makers, the leaders.
A key factor in successful sports team dynamics, whether it be for Limerick, Galway, Dublin or the New Zealand All Blacks, is humility. In complex, fast-paced environments, those that thrive are those who want to constantly learn, who are hungry for performance data, those who are willing to fit in when fitting in is the right option, and stand out when the moment demands.
It is more and more difficult for an individual to succeed on their own today. The unified, cohesive team has a greater chance to deal with uncertainty and speed. As the speed of change increases, the need for teams become even greater. As complexity increases, the need for teams increases. Individuals can simply not keep up with the pace of change we face today.
Of course, individual talent matters. However, on its own it has little chance against a cohesive team. Of course, there is still a need for introverts and the insights that they can bring. However, at some point, the insights must feed into a team or a network if anything of real importance is going to be achieved. The lonely scientific genius is an increasingly endangered species. We may love to hear stories about mavericks who buck the system, but these are modern-day fairytales. The future is a team sport.
Gerry McGovern is the founder and CEO of Customer Carewords. He is widely regarded as the worldwide authority on increasing web satisfaction by managing customer tasks.
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Grove City was founded between Harrisburg Pike and the Scioto river, and was founded in 1853. Named for the groves of oak, beech, maple, and walnut trees that grew where the town began, the village grew rapidly with the addition of the rail line connecting Cincinnati to Columbus. In the 1920’s, Grove city added Beulah Park Race Track, a dance auditorium, a movie theatre, and restaurants. An electric train served as both a commuter train into Columbus, and made Grove City an entertainment destination for those who lived in Columbus. The town continued to grow, especially once the I-270 beltway was completed.
Grove City offers older neighborhoods with mature trees and historic homes, established neighborhoods with mature trees, and newer development with room to grow and build, and even a few remaining properties with a rural feel. It’s a wonderful mix where you can find something for every taste and preference.
The Century Village Historical Park offers a look back in time. Grove City offers a lovely selection of parks with bike and hiking trails throughout the area. The historic Little Theatre Off Broadway offers live entertainment, or take a stroll through the Sommer House Gallery.
Grove City Town Center offers an array of boutiques, antiques, book stores, and so much more. Looking for heavy duty shopping? Easton Town Center and other Columbus options are just minutes away on I-270.
Grove City Brewing Company is the area’s first microbrewery, located in the historic Town Center. Hop Yard 62 offers craft brews, live music, and more! Plum Run Winery offers a tasting room, events, and can even offer vineyard tours. 3 Brothers Diner serves Mexican-American fusion diner selections that have Grove City regulars lining up.
South-Western City School District serves 21,647 students, and is the second largest public school district in the county, and fifth largest in the state. They offer 1 kindergarten center, 18 elementary schools, 5 intermediate schools, 5 middle schools, 4 high schools, a technical training school, and a career academy. Want to learn more? The Ohio Department of Education offers a Report Card for every district.
Grove City retains the pioneer spirit and focus on growth, while valuing the past. An interesting mix of historic and cutting-edge, this eclectic and independent spirit is seen everywhere from the town center to the residential neighborhoods, to the shops, restaurants, and entertainment options that have made Grove City a favorite for over 100 years.
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Home / Exhibitions / The Gallery / Seediq Bale
Seediq Bale
Row-long Chiu, published by Akata
In 1583, when a Portuguese ship put into a port on the coast of Taiwan for fresh supplies, her captain was so struck by this exquisite island that he christened it Ilha Formosa, or Beautiful Island. Little wonder then that four centuries later, this same island has inspired Seediq Bale, a work that can be regarded as a gem of the present day comic strip. Its author, Row-long Chiu, has a thorough knowledge of the culture of the Seediq tribe which has allowed him to give a particularly affecting and well-informed portrayal of one of the most horrifying episodes in Taiwanese history. Seediq Bale is indisputably one of the most authentic of Taiwanese graphic novels which will have a profound effect on its readers. For all these reasons, the Belgian Comic Strip Centre is very proud to be exhibiting the French translation of this Asian comic strip masterpiece.
Willem De Graeve, Belgian Comic Strip Center.
In 1930, after many decades of oppression, the Taiwanese Seediq tribe lead the longest and most violent revolt in the history of the Japanese occupation of the island. Led by their highly revered chieftain Rudo Mouna, these headhunting warriors rise up to win back their pride, to honour their ancestors and to defend their right to continue to follow the Gaya philosophy that guides their lives. Far more than just a graphic novel, Seediq Bale - les guerriers de l’Arc-en-Ciel compels recognition as a heartfelt profession of faith on behalf of oppressed peoples and of respect for tribal cultures.
Born in 1965, Row-long Chiu was influenced from childhood by his father and grandfather, who were both illustrators. Row-long Chiu soon excelled in writing and drawing in a realist style. But it was his encounter with the Seediq tribe that was literally to change his life. Influenced by the many hours spent in their company, and by his Seediq wife, Chiu began researching the history of the tribe and gathering historical documentation on the uprising of 1930, when 300 Seediq aborigines revolted against the Japanese colonists and occupiers. This "Wushe Incident", to give it its historical name, was the most heroic but also the most tragic rebellion in modern Taiwanese history. Row-long Chiu helped to produce several textbooks in the aboriginal language before finally publishing La révolte de Wushe (1990), the first Taiwanese comic strip to deal with the history of its natives. In 2011, La révolte de Wushe was made into a film titled Seediq Bale, Warriors of the Rainbow.
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The Restoration of ‘The Battle of Pharsalus’, a cassone panel, by Apollonio di Giovanni (c.1403-1489)
‘The Battle of Pharsalus’ cassone panel, tempera, gold and silver on panel, 16 x 61 ⅞ inches (40.5 x 157.2 cm).
The treatment involved retouching to correct areas of wear and unresolved old restoration, in order to improve the readability of the scene. External structural work was commissioned to remove an old cradle that was holding the panel under considerable tension. This restoration was carried out on behalf of a private collector.
Katherine Ara
Notes on Condition (before treatment)
The cassone had a pine cradle attached, which was holding the panel under considerable tension, causing a number of fractures to open. The paint and ground layers were structurally in good condition, and had not been affected by the fractures. There were scattered minor losses across the surface, and whilst the existing retouching was generally sympathetic to the work, several areas of wear had not been fully resolved in this previous campaign.
Treatment Carried Out
Following the Studio’s recommended treatment, the panel was first surface cleaned to remove a light coating of dirt and dust from both the face and the reverse. The painting was then sent out to a structural conservator to have the old cradle removed and to repair the fractures.
Once returned to the Studio, all areas of loss from paint and ground were filled and textured to match the surface of the paint. The existing varnish layers and restoration were left in place, since the varnish was not discoloured and the restoration was sympathetic. Further retouching was then carried out, including to areas of loss and abrasion, in order to correct areas of unresolved old restoration and improve the readability of the overall scene. The painting was locally varnished to integrate this retouching and to even out the surface gloss.
A new reproduction frame was commissioned to better suit the painting, and in-depth art historical research was carried out in the Studio.
To see photographs of treatment sequences for further works recently restored in the Studio and details about the restoration processes carried out, please visit Katherine Ara Ltd’s website gallery.
The Restoration of 'Still Life of Flowers in a Glass Vase' by Maria Van Oosterwyck (1630-1693)
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Jesco on Schedule to Open New Long Island Facility
The new facility is called a "game changer."
Mon February 09, 2015 - Northeast Edition
Jesco is currently in the process of building a new full-service facility in Babylon, N.Y.
Jesco Incorporated, a John Deere Construction Equipment Dealer in four states throughout the Northeast, is currently in the process of building a new full-service facility in Babylon, N.Y.
The new facility will be strategically located in the township of Deer Park and will service customers throughout New York City and Long Island.
“This facility will be a game changer in the way Jesco is able to service our customers on Long Island,” said Anthony Falzarano, vice president of sales of Jesco. “Without a full service location, it has been difficult to accommodate rental and shop service requirements of the Long Island construction community — this will change that. We will now be able to add to a rental fleet that is currently more than 650 units strong and growing by the day.
“The project is moving along as scheduled and we are excited about our grand opening just a few short months away.”
The 21,000 sq.-ft. facility will boast eight service bays that will be equipped with 10-ton (9 t) overhead cranes. Located at 110 Jeferyn Blvd. East in Deer Park, N.Y., the full-service facility will be constructed on a lot that is nearly five acres.
“What separates Jesco from other dealerships is the people we employ,” said Jonathan Robustelli, president of Jesco. “We are excited about the opportunity that lies ahead and look forward to staffing our new Long Island facility with employees that will continue to separate us from the pack”
In addition the John Deere construction products at the Deer Park facility, Jesco also will rent, sell and service Deere compact equipment products, Ditch Witch products, Bomag roadbuilding equipment, Genesis demolition tools, Indeco hydraulic breakers and Hydrema compact dump trucks.
“Rental business has been critical to Jesco’s business model and will play a large role in the success of our new Long Island branch,” said Andrew Falco, Jesco regional rental manager.
Jesco expects the Deer Park facility to be fully operational by May 2015. The company also has locations in South Plainfield, Fairfield and Mt. Holly, N.J.
For more information, call 800/241-7070, or visit http://www.jesco.us/.
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Okland to Build Riverton's Mountain View Village Phase II
Tue December 29, 2020 - West Edition #1
The property is designed to be a community gathering place, a commercial hub and a residential community with views of the Wasatch Mountains.
Craig Trottier, president of CenterCal Properties LLC, announced that Okland Construction has been selected to build the 85-acre Mountain View Village Phase II lifestyle development in Riverton, Utah. Okland will begin work immediately on the property that is designed to be a community gathering place, a commercial hub and a residential community with views of the Wasatch Mountains.
"We're very pleased to be working with Okland Construction, which has a wonderful reputation for completing countless outstanding projects in the west, such as City Creek, 11 South Main and Adobe," said Trottier. "We're confident that Okland will bring our vision for Mountain View Village to life with great oversight and skill. We look forward to working with them until completion of the project in 2021."
CenterCal, a full-service commercial real estate company with properties throughout the western United States, has reported that Mountain View Village Phase II will include five pocket parks with unique amenities, a show fountain, a covered market-hall style pavilion with a collection of eateries and common indoor and outdoor seating, a 14-screen movie theater complex, retail stores, restaurants and commercial spaces.
"Okland is very enthusiastic to team up with CenterCal properties on another wonderful project," Okland Construction Project Director Harmon Tobler said. "Our team is always looking forward to delivering a place where the community can come together and have an experience as a family. CenterCal is a trusted partner that shows great respect for not only their business and retail partners, but the community as a whole. Okland Construction is honored to be teamed up with such a fantastic group of individuals on a great project for our company and the Salt Lake community."
Phase I of Mountain View Village is complete and includes a Harmons Grocery Store and Fuel Stop, a variety of more than 35 retailers, businesses and dining choices and a 10-ft. high "Majestic" eagle bronze statue created by renowned sculptor Brian Keith. Phase II will feature additional Norman Rockwell-style bronze sculptures by Keith, honoring the Unified Fire Department, the National Guard and Riverton City Police.
CenterCal's additional lifestyle properties include Station Park in Farmington and Canyon Corners in Park City, and others in Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California.
For more information, visit www.centercal.com.
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The I-4 Megaproject — Much More Than Just a Road Build
Mon November 20, 2017 - Southeast Edition #24
A rendering of the I-4 Ultimate. (FDOT Illustration)
The I-4 Ultimate megaproject serves as a great example for where the future of transportation is headed globally. Its design and engineering is on the cutting edge of infrastructure development, and the support given to the project by Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) and its dealer Flagler Construction Equipment (Flagler) epitomizes the modern job site.
“What we're seeing at the I-4 Ultimate project is one of the most advanced infrastructure projects in the world,” said Tony Spake, commercial business manager of Volvo CE. “Some 600 engineers contributed to the project's design-engineering, so there are numerous examples of leading safety and traffic flow features. But this project also will help define how future highway systems are financed and managed, and how they will interact with the spaces they inhabit.”
Powerful Partnerships
At its essence, the project is a $2.3 billion reconstruction of a 21-mi. stretch of Interstate 4, from west of Kirkman Road in Orange County to east of State Road 434 in Seminole County, cutting through Orlando along the way. The work involves the construction of two dynamic tolled Express Lanes in each direction, 140 bridges, 15 interchanges, nine toll gantries, architectural features and elements, and mixed-use spaces.
SGL Constructors (SGL) is the construction joint venture of Skanska, Granite and Lane. The I-4 Ultimate project is a Public-Private Partnership (P3) among FDOT and I-4 Mobility Partners (I-4MP). The members of the I-4MP team include:
• Skanska Infrastructure Development (equity member)
• John Laing Investments (equity member)
• SGL - Construction Joint Venture — Skanska (lead joint venture partner), Granite Construction and Lane Construction
• HDR and Jacobs Engineering Group (design joint venture)
•Infrastructure Corporation of America (lead operations and maintenance firm)
Experts said that these partnerships among private companies, state governments, municipalities and taxpayers are globally on the rise, and that they improve both the operations of megaprojects and their overall success rate.
“The infrastructure industry has literally transformed itself through PPPs,” said Steven E. Polzin, a director at the Center for Urban Transportation of the University of South Florida. “They improve project financing and increase efficiencies in terms of process and timing. They also do a great job in minimizing the disruption of traffic during construction, which is important because the I-4 reconstruction is a lengthy project. This is a good learning experience and will be a model for future endeavors.”
Telematics Tenacity
The use of telematics and predictive analytics also is an increasing global trend in infrastructure construction, and it's being used heavily on the I-4 project. Where construction has lagged behind other industries in adopting new technologies, the lower costs of sensors, cloud connectivity and computing power have all contributed to an increase in the adoption of telematics
Approximately 70 Volvo excavators and compactors are active on the I-4 Ultimate project, and they are all being monitored by Volvo's ActiveCare Direct telematics program. The program can detect critical machine failures and predict maintenance needs, increasing uptime on the project.
Once again, a partnership is key to the program's success. Volvo CE and Flagler are working together to maintain the project's fleet, with Volvo actively monitoring the machines and alerting Flagler to potential issues. Flagler, which sold and rented most of the equipment on the project to SGL, then employs its field technicians to perform a fix or maintenance action on the job site.
“The use of telematics and predictive analytics is set to explode in the construction industry,” said Dave Adams, product sales manager of connected services at Volvo CE. “There are potentially millions, if not billions, in potential savings we could see from increasing machine uptime through a program such as ActiveCare Direct. Not only does it help solve equipment issues more quickly, it helps avoid the catastrophic failures that can bring an entire job site to a halt.”
Dynamic Designs
The I-4 Ultimate Improvement Project is a great example of how an infrastructure project can transcend its core function. While the I-4 corridor is essentially a system of roads and bridges, leading-edge design features will change the face of the communities it serves. The project is on the global forefront of a type of design thinking that creates value where it previously didn't exist.
Take for example the project's environmental considerations, which won the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure's Envision Platinum Certification. Some 99 percent of the concrete and steel removed from old roads and bridges has been recycled, for example, and much of the new I-4 makes use of recycled materials.
Or take into account the many features being built that serve people not actually driving on the highway in vehicles: rail and pedestrian crossings, overpasses and bike trails, mixed-use spaces under bridges and overpasses that will be turned into sporting venues, shopping centers and restaurants.
Aesthetic features, such water fountains, city medallions, LED lighting, artwork and dramatic landscapes will contribute to an overall sense of esteem and pride in the communities along the corridor.
According to Foresight, the global infrastructure report created by professional services firm KPMG, these types of considerations and design features have become expected by the population.
“We have seen increasing pressure on government — and through governments — to prioritize infrastructure investments that deliver greater social and environmental benefit; simply put, to become more responsible leaders.”
Community Core
Several initiatives that will improve safety and traffic flow along the interstate also reflect global trends, such as the straightening of curves, the leveling of highway grades, the installation of tolled express lanes and the increase in length of acceleration and deceleration lanes for incoming and outgoing traffic.
Floridians said they look forward to the new I-4 corridor. Highways that can move commuters more quickly and safely improve daily life, ease business costs and contribute to a higher standard of living — especially in a region that hosts some of the world's most popular tourist destinations.
“It's a massive, multi-faceted project with a strong Public-Private partnership in an obviously busy corridor that's critical to the region,” Polzin said. “This project will have some physical and social impact, and it will improve mobility in the community, which allows it to thrive, compete, and remain attractive for business and travelers.”
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#Infrastructure#Major Projects#London
London’s TfL reopens major construction projects
London’s government transport body, Transport for London, restarts work on major projects after multiple months of inactivity.
Dan Weatherley
|Jun 10| 5 min read
A “phased restart” is set to take place for around 300 sites that Transport for London runs and owns. During the UK’s coronavirus lockdown, all of these sites have had work halted completely, meaning delays are inevitable for each project.
Transport for London’s construction projects ranges from small infrastructure enhancements to some major key projects including the Bank station upgrade and the Northern Line extension.
The Northern Line extension will add a brand new Tube station built into Battersea Power Station which is currently undergoing a complete renovation to rejuvenate the former industrial building.
The Bank upgrade is set to considerably increase capacity at the station.
Whilst the construction sites will all open, most of these will be running at a reduced capacity in order to adhere to social distancing rules that have been put in place by the British government. A distance of two metres will need to be adhered to whilst on site.
A number of new health and safety measures have been put in place including the introduction to staggered shifts and rigorous hygiene procedures.
The news comes as TfL also plans to restart the Thames Clippers service from next week.
Workers for the sites have been encouraged to avoid public transport where possible. Heidi Alexander, London’s deputy mayor for transport stated: “It’s vital that construction workers make journeys to sites on foot or by bike if at all possible in order to keep services safe for those who really need it”
She then went on to say: “If workers have to travel on public transport, I’m pleased that our plans for staggered shifts will help them avoid the busiest times.”
One of London’s largest transport infrastructure projects, Crossrail, has also seen many of its workers return to site, after construction stopped on the 24th of March, a day after the UK announced full lockdown measures.
Crossrail’s Chief Executive, Mark Wild, stated that he aims to have parts of the line open by the middle of next year. He also stressed that he was “completely committed to doing everything we can, notwithstanding the real impact of COVID-19, to meet or beat the schedule that we outlined.”
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News and Community > News > Sir AP McCoy joins starting gate for Children’s Heart Centre
Sir AP McCoy joins starting gate for Children’s Heart Centre
| 15th March, 2017
McCoy joins the starting gate for new Children’s Heart Centre
Children’s Heartbeat Trust are holding an exclusive dinner with World Champion Jockey, Sir Anthony McCoy in Belfast City Hall on 21st April.
The most successful jockey of all time, Sir AP McCoy, will be the special guest at an exclusive dinner in Belfast City Hall on the 21st April to help raise funds for a new Children’s Heart Centre at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.
The Moneyglass man was Champion Jockey a record 20 times and won some of the world’s most famous races including the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase, King George VI Chase and the Grand National. The event will be an intimate evening with Sir AP McCoy, where he will tell the inside stories about his life and career as one of the world’s most successful and dedicated sportsmen of our time.
Organised by local charity, Children’s Heartbeat Trust, ‘An Evening with Sir AP McCoy’, will raise funds for the new Children’s Heart Centre in Belfast which will be a dedicated centre for the care and treatment of children and young people with congenital heart disease. Over two hundred babies are born with a congenital heart defect each year in Northern Ireland and many will have to face open heart surgery and ongoing treatment for their complex condition. Children’s Heartbeat Trust is a chosen charity of the Deputy Lord Mayor, Cllr Mary Ellen Campbell, and this exclusive dinner is one of the special events being held at City Hall during her year in office.
Speaking at the launch, Sarah Quinlan, Chief Executive, Children’s Heartbeat Trust, said: “We are delighted to host an evening with 20 time Champion Jockey Sir AP McCoy at Belfast City Hall with kind permission of the Deputy Lord Mayor, Councillor Mary Ellen Campbell. We have all followed AP’s career, and may have even won a few bets with his successes, and are thrilled he’s returning home to share his sporting stories with us.
“The goal of this exclusive evening is to raise vital funds to create a child and family centred environment at the new Children’s Heart Centre which is being built at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. The new facility will deliver high quality services for hundreds of heart children in Northern Ireland, matching the world leading care already provided by our doctors and nurses.”
Children’s Heartbeat Trust is a local charity that delivers practical and emotional support to children and young people with heart disease in Northern Ireland their families. The charity has been involved with the development of the Children’s Heart Centre since its conception to ensure that heart children and their families continue to receive the best quality care and treatment possible.
An Evening with Sir AP McCoy takes place in Belfast City Hall on Friday 21st April. Tickets are available for purchase by contacting Lynn Cowan on 028 9031 2228 or [email protected]
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Discussion in 'General Hobbies and Interests' started by axelthefox, Apr 2, 2020.
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Just a little update--I have been trying to schedule some appointment with a Christian counselor so I can finally get some sort of resolution to this whole ordeal. Only problem is, many haven't returned yet. I've been under a lot of emotional and mental stress recently, and nights like tonight don't help it, so I think it's about time that I get honest, weight-carrying answers. On another note: I have started back up drawing animals and anthros, since what I'm drawing is completely innocent and fine in every way, shape or form.
Wayfaring, Axel, LaBelle--once again, I can't thank you enough for the support you've given me and continue to give me. It has given me a lot of hope, and I don't want you guys to underestimate just how much your guidance has meant to me...
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I wonder how hard it would be to play speed metal in fursuit with a guitar.
Speed metal - Wikipedia
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Ey, no problemo! I hope the counseling stuff works out!
Good to hear you're drawing again. I draw digitally too (though I've got a bad procrastination habit). I've been trying to work out some character designs lately, while also sharpening up on some fundamentals.
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Woah, that's really cool. It looks like he can stick his fingers out from his gloves, so it's probably not too much harder than usual. I don't know if it'd be possible with normal fursuit gloves.
It's interesting how a fursuit (or costumes in general tbh) can heighten the cool factor of a performance. It not only adds a visual flair, but the added difficulty of wearing a costume makes the performance itself seem more impressive.
I play drums and I asked my best friend if I could borrow his fursuit for a moment. Let me tell you--trying to grip sticks with paws is very hard... Not impossible, but man was it one of the hardest things I've ever done. The worship team I'm on has done some silly things, but nothing that made playing as hard as that. (PS: If I ever did own a suit, one of the things I might do would be playing drum covers while in my suit. That way people wouldn't have to see my "drummer faces"--haha...! Nah, it would just be plain fun though.)
Hmmm, makes me wonder if there's a market for fursuit gloves that have more grip or something, like "tactical paw gloves".
Playing drums is cool, though I've never heard the term "drummer face" before. Is it a funny face that drummers make while drumming?
Nice avatar btw! ^^
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Thanks Wayfaring--made that like, 8 months ago or so, it's "okay"... And yes, you're right on the money about the "drummer face" thing--just Google it and you'll see. I don't really do them that often, but when I'm playing an exhausting worship song-set, when I'm gasping for air, it can happen... If you look at that guitarist that Axel sent's paws, you can see that they're designed so that he can still touch the strings with his fingers--it'd be impossible to play a guitar correctly with a regular bulky paw--you'd just muffle the strings. I've played drums with weight-lifting gloves before, but those wouldn't go too well with a fursuit.
...Out of curiosity--for both Axel and yourself--why is it that you chose the animals that you did for your avatars (or "fursonas," if that's what they are to you)? Do you share similar traits to that animal...? Do you just think it's cool or cute...? Everyone has their own reasons, just curious as to what you two's are.
Ahh, cool cool.
I don't consider it a "fursona" per se, but I chose a coyote 'cause I like coyotes, and it meshes well with the idea of a wayfarer. Hbu?
My profile picture is just a fox I made one evening--it was kind of a "first go" at drawing an anthropomorphic animal and it's not great, but it's also not terrible.
Recently I asked multiple people who I had known a question, just out of curiosity: "If I were a kind of animal to you, what animal would I be?" I had no idea what the response I'd get would be, but every single person I asked it to shot back with the exact same answer: "Definitely a wolf." Honestly when I heard that, I was a bit concerned as to why they were saying as aggressive of an animal as a wolf--but, when they said why, some of their reasons warmed my heart, like them saying that I'm "loyal," "defend others," "am a natural leader," and "just love others." My best friend, after I asked that, stopped me and said "Look--me and others kinda see you as this 'Alpha' guy, but not because we think you're mean or something--it's because you put others first and look out for us." I never thought such a silly question would come back to brighten my day like that--for someone like me who struggles with giving myself self-worth, that brought me on the verge of tears.
Because of that whole ordeal, I'm actually currently making what I guess you could call my quote-unquote "fursona"--which is, of course, a wolf. Hope to have it done by this week, I'll post it in here if y'all want me to once it's done.
Honestly for a "first go" it's pretty lit. Much better than my first attempts at anthropomorphic animals. ^^"
It sounds like you've got some good friends and are a good friend in return, so wolf makes sense in that regard. It's interesting to hear the kinds of traits people assign to certain animals. I haven't asked that question myself, but knowing who I know, I'd probably get assigned to some kind of bird.
I'd be down with seeing your fursona once it's done.
I really don't know how good of a person I am, but I'm fortunate to have some very kind people close to me. Also, thanks for what you said about my profile drawing... I agree that it's interesting to hear how different people see the same animal, and that's why for my JROTC unit I'm leading this year, I did an icebreaker asking them "What's your favorite animal and why?" Multiple gave the same answers, but their reasons varied. If somebody says that someone is "wolf-like," that can be interpreted in two primary ways. Some people affiliate wolves with roughness, harm, deception, lust, and sexual aggression; some people affiliate wolves with softness, bravery, sincerity, love, and attractiveness. There's just no telling until you ask.
I don't know you well enough to really say what kind of animal I think you'd be, but you're a very fun and outgoing kinda guy--I like you. I mean--unless you were some kind of cheery, playful kind of bird, I don't think I'd see you as one. (PS: I'll post the drawing once I'm done with it--especially since you guys would actually 'like' to see it.)
It's been on my heart to tell y'all this, so... Thank you for being so accepting and caring towards me. I can't say a lot of the things I have said and asked on here where I live, because anytime I have tried, I've been shot down, name-called, shamed, and rejected. I'm a stranger to whom you have no obligation or reason to be this kind and attentive to, but, you don't judge and just let me be myself--that alone means more to me than you could ever know. Out in the world, I live in constant fear of harm and rejection--but when I'm here, I can be at-ease and get things off my chest without a worry in the world. When I first considered being a Furry, I did so because I wanted to run away and hide from myself--today, I want to be one because it will help me be "more" like myself, and if it weren't for your encouragement then I don't know how secure I'd be in who Christ has made me. So, from the bottom of my heart--thank you, I love you guys, and I wish I could squeeze you with all the thanks that is in me...
I don't know you well enough to really say what kind of animal I think you'd be, but you're a very fun and outgoing kinda guy--I like you. I mean--unless you were some kind of cheery, playful kind of bird, I don't think I'd see you as one.
Aw, thanks! It's nice to hear that I'm fun, though admittedly I'm not as outgoing IRL. I'm more socially awkward.
Eyyy, I'm glad we could help! I wish things were better where you were at, but I'm glad you were able to talk about things here. We're Christians, oi? We're supposed to love one another unconditionally, so it's all good. ^^
I'm an extrovert for sure--I need to be around people otherwise I just kinda don't know what to do--but when I'm not in the best mood, I can turn timid, just hanging around people without really saying a word. Plus, what does being nice and loving and fun to be around have to do with being socially awkward...? Most shy people are very sweet and caring, they're just not ones to really talk much.
I wish more people would learn to love and accept. Before I even thought about being a Furry, I just kinda treated them like everyone else, because they're people too--I quickly realized that how I carried myself around them wasn't how most people do... Fellow Christians: If you feel the need to say "I love everybody, BUT--" then you need to have your heart checked.
I don't use the word "love" lightly--but I don't discriminate in using it. I still love the people in mental asylums, the people who have hurt myself and others--I love Furries, no matter the choices they make, because they are by no means unworthy of my love and affection (plus they are amazing love-givers themselves). Even though I struggle most days with loving myself, I swear on my heart that I try with all my life to love everyone who comes into contact with me--and I don't understand why it is so hard for others to at least 'try' to do the same...
Oh, I didn't mean to infer anything about social awkwardness, I just meant that I'm not very outgoing IRL, and may come off as more outgoing in text than I would in person.
I agree, I wish people would be quicker to love than to hate. I think it's just very easy to fall into fear and/or hate, and to draw lines and see things in terms of "us versus them." It can be hard to love people sometimes, but whether we do or not is always a choice.
I feel you there with the struggle to love oneself though. I do love myself, but it's surprisingly easy to put myself down. I don't let it keep me down though, so it's all good.
Until recently, I haven't even cared about myself at all. It was only when I realized that I hardly knew what I liked, who I was, and what I wanted to do with my life that I longed to start making me, well, "me." I had been so caught up in leadership and JROTC that I both acted and felt like a robot--I convinced myself that I just didn't have time for friends or for myself. I will always put others before myself, but now that things are quiet (with quarantine and cancelations), it's time to focus on me. That's why I've been so emotional about this Furry thing--it's one of few things that I just know is "me," and I know is something that I find joy in.
I've absolutely filled the chat with personal stuff since I joined a bit ago--so, I want to step away from that because, well, this is a Furry forum--let's talk about all things Furry. I want to know how you all are doing and what's going on in your lives. So--my personal dilemmas aside--let's talk about the one thing we have in common: A love for things Furry.
All right! I've decided to do Inktober this year, so that's something I'll be up to this October. I've got the first prompt done and included a Yoshi, 'cause Yoshi are cool.
As for furry things, what's your guys' favorite movie(s) with anthropomorphic characters?
Oh cool...! And wow, you sound like me--"Why draw that?" "Because it's cool." Haha...!
Favorite movie with anthros... I know it's stereotypical, but I've gotta say Zootopia. That movie had grown men crying in laughter, and no matter how many times I watch it, I always see or hear something new and laugh every time...
Have two parts left on my 'sona and then I've gotta color him up. I feel like if I try to perfect him, I'll never finish--so, he could end up like my profile picture where he has a paw with five fingers--bet ya can't unsee that now.
It's the rule of the cool!
Zootopia is pretty great, though I've only seen it in its entirety once. Nick and Judy's character dynamic was awesome.
Nice! I had to look really close to notice the five-digits, but I see it now. Though y'know, you aren't wrong to put five digits on a hand-paw. The front-paws of foxes and wolves have five digits: four digits that touch the ground and a dew claw higher up on the foot.
The Nick and Judy relationship was great--and it was a story where the guy and girl protagonists DON'T end up together at the end--THANK YOU, Disney...! (Like, they'd make a cute couple, but thanks differing from the mainstream.)
Unfortunately though, the Nick and Judy relationship is another one of those Furry things that people tried to sexualize--seriously, most fan art stories have some sort of "intimate" element in them, and it's why I refuse to watch them. Their choice, but people shouldn't assume that everyone who likes anthros must like that too--that's like saying every Star Wars fan must like the prequels (have fun with that...).
PS: True about the dewclaw...! That is considered part of the foot and not the paw, though--so close... Didn't know you knew so much about animals--haven't really had someone to talk about them with in a long time.
Alright, I need y'alls opinion on something. Got a few color palettes for my fursona (and future anthros) here and I want to know which you like best, because I'm an indecisive guy and I don't want to choose something that looks good in the moment. I don't know if him being a wolf changes your mind about some of these choices, but in-case it does, he is a wolf.
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“The Window Up Above” by Mickey Gilley, the Version that became No. 1
After writing the song, George Jones debuted “The Windows Up Above” on Billboard’s Country Chart with it on November 13, 1960. The song stalled at No. 2 in early 1961. Although it didn’t become a No. 1 hit, the song stayed on the chart for over 34 weeks!
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No New Song? Cover Old Songs
“The Window Up Above” re-emerged as Mickey Gilley’s fourth consecutive No. 1 hit. The song was also Mickey Gilley’s fourth consecutive cover. The reason behind Mickey Gilley had covered so many old songs is because Nashville didn’t take him seriously. The writers during that time thought he was a copy of his cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis that’s why they didn’t offer him any of the top new songs of the day. Gilley even claims that his record company didn’t take him seriously.
With no new songs coming, Mickey Gilley revived older songs. “Window Up Above” (originally “The Window Up Above”) is a non-voyeuristic cheating tune that was written in George Jones’ living room in Vidor, Texas. Floyd Cramer did the piano on the original version of the song. On the other hand, Gilley supplied his own version with a Jerry Lee Lewis-style of piano sound for the remake.
The Success of the Song
Back in 1975, Mickey Gilley was tied for material. So, Eddie Kilroy, his producer suggested that he cut a few songs that he had played on stage a few years earlier. “The Window Up Above” was a favorite from his patrons and he performed it often. His studio version of the song emerged as a single. On June 7, 1975, it became his fourth consecutive No. 1 record.
After “Window Up Above,” Mickey Gilley returned to the “FTD approved” themes of “Room Full of Roses” and “I Overlooked An Orchid” with a cover of Eddy Arnold’s 1948 hit, “Bouquet of Roses.” Thereafter, Gilley closed out 1975 with a risqué tune called “Overnight Sensation.”
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Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology
Research Centres Overview
Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology Overview
What Is Experimental Criminology?
What Does The Centre Do?
The Centre's research programme is currently focused in three major areas:
One is restorative justice, through the multi-national efforts noted above. This includes its responsibility for the Campbell Collaboration's systematic review of the effects of face-to-face restorative justice on crime victims and offenders.
A second area of research is homicide prediction and prevention. This includes various initiatives with UK police and health agencies, as well as with Philadelphia's Adult Probation and Parole Department. The first paper of this project on forecasting homicide was published by the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A).
The third and most rapidly-growing area is the conduct of field experiments in collaboration with UK police agencies, led by the Greater Manchester Police in its TEST (Tactical Experiments and Strategic Testing Program)
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China approves sweeping national security legislation for Hong Kong, jeopardizing the city's autonomy
Kim Hjelmgaard / USA TODAY
China approved sweeping new national security legislation for Hong Kong on Thursday, in a move that jeopardizes the city's autonomy, has sparked pro-democracy protests and drawn fierce criticism from the United States.
Critics have warned the law could spell the end of Hong Kong as a global financial hub. The legislation's adoption by China’s National People’s Congress, the nation's rubber-stamp Parliament, comes less than 24 hours after the Trump administration said that it no longer considers the former British colony to be autonomous from mainland China.
A "disastrous decision," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday, denouncing the law. It bans sedition, secession and other forms of subversion against Beijing. It also allows China's state security agencies to operate in the city.
President Donald Trump has signaled he is considering sanctions or other punitive measures such as visa restrictions or tariffs against China for the move.
It erodes Hong Kong's "one country, two systems" political, legal and economic framework, in place since 1997. The policy, set to expire in 2047, enshrined freedoms of speech, press, assembly and an independent judiciary.
Hong Kong has swiftly become a new battleground in escalating Cold War-like tensions between Washington and Beijing. The world's two largest economies have for years sparred over areas from human rights to technology.
However, despite the signing of the first phase of a trade deal in January, relations between the superpowers have deteriorated sharply in recent months as each side has accused the other of wrongdoing over the coronavirus outbreak.
Daniel Russel, a former Asia affairs adviser to President Barack Obama and now vice president of the Asia Society Policy Institute, a U.S.-based think tank, said China's new legislation is a "decisive show of force by (China's President) Xi Jinping, signaling a willingness to defy international opinion, to challenge the United States, and to threaten the people of Hong Kong."
Pompeo's announcement Wednesday that Hong Kong no longer merits special treatment under U.S. law was something he was required to make under U.S. legislation that grants Hong Kong special trading status – including exemptions from certain tariffs and export controls that the United States imposes on China.
"Hong Kong and its dynamic, enterprising, and free people have flourished for decades as a bastion of liberty, and this decision gives me no pleasure," Pompeo said. "While the United States once hoped that free and prosperous Hong Kong would provide a model for authoritarian China, it is now clear that China is modeling Hong Kong after itself."
China has dismissed concerns the law will limit freedoms in Hong Kong. Carrie Lam, the city's pro-Beijing leader, has called it a "responsible" move that will protect Hong Kong's law-abiding majority. The law is due to be operational from September.
Last year, pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong held disruptive rallies for weeks to voice their opposition to an extradition law for criminal suspects. Beijing put the bill on hold, but did not fully withdraw it, in a bid to restore order in the city.
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X-51A Waverider Scramjet Passes Mach 5
by Lockheed Martin
in Air Force News
Lockheed Martin announced today that its Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) rocket motor successfully boosted the experimental X-51A WaveRider beyond Mach 4.5, the speed at which a scramjet will start and begin to provide thrust. The successful boost helped the X-51 hypersonic scramjet engine to accelerate to a historic Mach 5, a first for the vehicle.
The X-51 WaveRider is an unmanned aerial vehicle designed for extended hypersonic flight durations. The successful boost with the ATACMS rocket motor will allow for future advancements in hypersonic flight.
In this test, the modified ATACMS motor was air-launched from a B-52 aircraft at 50,000 feet, and data collected validates its performance well beyond the original design specifications. This was the first time an ATACMS rocket motor has been used as a booster for an air-launched vehicle. More tests using the ATACMS motor are planned.
The modified motor included a Boeing designed lightweight, high performance exit cone which was produced by Aerojet, a GenCorp company, for Lockheed Martin. The program is managed by a Boeing and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne team for the U.S. Air Force and DARPA.
“The ATACMS rocket motor has proved its power in combat, and now we’re happy to see it performing a mission that advances hypervelocity flight technology,” said Scott Arnold, vice president of Precision Fires at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control.
“We are proud to have played a part in this new milestone in hypersonic flight and to have been given the opportunity to demonstrate our ability to modify existing motor designs for future applications,” said John Myers, vice president of Tactical Programs for Aerojet.
Aerojet is a world-recognized aerospace and defense leader principally serving the missile and space propulsion, defense and armaments markets. GenCorp is a leading technology-based manufacturer of aerospace and defense products and systems with a real estate segment that includes activities related to the entitlement, sale, and leasing of the company’s excess real estate assets.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employs about 136,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation’s 2009 sales from continuing operations were $44.5 billion.
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Dereham Times > Sport
National medals for swimmer
Published: 10:34 AM August 12, 2010 Updated: 12:42 PM October 6, 2020
Dereham double bronze medallist, Marcella Aris, 14, who swims for City of Norwich, has just got back from the National Youth Swimming Championships, held in Sheffield, with the two medals in her bag.
Marcella was competing in the youth age group 14-17 years for the first time. The age group is split in two age groups 14-15 and 16-17.
On the first day she swam a magnificent 1500m freestyle in a massive 22-second personal best time of 17:07.56 to take the bronze medal, beaten only by two 15-year-olds.
On day two she had to compete in the 400m freestyle heats, in which she finished seventh.
That same evening she had to swim in the 400m freestyle final, before a packed crowd. Not letting the occasion get to her, she swam the 400m of her life, coming home in 4:19.10, a six-second pb, for the bronze medal.
On day three, she swam a superb 800m freestyle to finish fourth in a pb 8:59.51 the fastest 14-year-old in the country this year over the distance.
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On day four Aris led off the 4x200m relay team, setting a new pb for 200m freestyle, 2:06.51, and leading them to a final place.
This year Marcella won a Norfolk County Council Sports Aid award, and would like to thank them for the support this gave her in achieving her successes.
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D. Plump Consulting Raises Over $100 Thousand for Non-Profit Organization
D. Plump Consulting, a firm specializing in public relations and special events is proud to announce the 5th Annual Denum & Diamonds for Autism event, held on October 23, 2010 at a private estate in Hidden Hills, California, raised over $100-thousand dollars (net) for children with autism.
The event, produced by D. Plump Consulting's Founder and Chief Executive Consultant, Daphne Plump, raised the much needed funds for ACT Today! (Autism Care and Treatment Today!). ACT Today! is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to provide access to resources and treatment for children with autism.
500 guests attended the star studded event, including George Clinton (Singer / "Father of Funk"), Actor David Boreanaz ("Bones"), Actor Max Ryan ("Sex and the City:2"), Adrienne Maloof ("Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" & Philanthropist), Saleisha Stowers (Winner, "America's Top Model"), Greg Grunberg (Actor, "Heroes"), Actor Scott Grimes, Tom Bergeron (Host, "Dancing With the Stars"), Chris Hayes (3x Super Bowl Champion), Don "The Dragon" Wilson (World-Renowned Mixed Martial Artist), Brandi Glanville (Singer/Actress), Actress Marla Maples, World-Renowned Autism expert Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh, The Bronx Boys (Award-Winning International Hip Hop Dance Group), Won G (International Hip Hop Artist & Philanthropist), Actress Marissa Jaret Winokur, corporate and community leaders, parents of children with autism, and other supporters.
"This is the most successful Denim and Diamonds for Autism fundraiser to date, " says ACT Today!'s Executive Director Nancy Alspaugh-Jackson.
Corporate sponsors of the event, included: TWIW Insurance Services, LLC (Diamond Sponsor), Sovage Premium Denim and Urban Behavior (Denim Sponsors), RT Specialty LLC (Event Sponsor), Blue Angel Vodka (Beverage Sponsor), Judy and Jay Hearst (Paddle Auction Sponsor), Reaction AV (AV Sponsor), Hope Wine (Wine Sponsor), and The Auto Gallery (Auto Sponsor).
"This event was truly an extravaganza," says Daphne Plump. "Sovage Premium Denim and Urban Behavior opened the dinner program with a fashion show featuring some of the latest looks for all ages, followed by a gravity defying performance from international hip hop dance troupe, The Bronx Boys. But I think the most inspirational moment occurred when, Cupcake, a puppy rescued by All American Pet Company, found a new home with a family of three children with autism."
"A Miracle is defined as an unexpected event attributed to divine intervention. Sometimes an event is also attributed to a miracle worker. As Lisa (President of All American Pet Company) and I witnessed, everyone in attendance (at the 5th Annual Denim & Diamonds) has the ability and has chosen to help these children. To us, that's a miracle, "says Barry Schwartz, CEO, All America Pet Company.
For more information about the annual Denim & Diamonds for Autism event, and to the view the 5th Annual Photo Gallery, visit: www.denimanddiamondsforautism.net.
About D. Plump Consulting:
D. Plump Consulting is a firm that specializes in special event management and production, public relations, media relations, marketing and consultation. D. Plump Consulting serves worldwide as an independent contractor. For more information, visit www.dplump.com.
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Home » NEWS » 5 Kdramas to Binge Watch While Lee Jong-suk Does Military Service
5 Kdramas to Binge Watch While Lee Jong-suk Does Military Service
It always sucks for the drama family when a beloved actor is enlisted to complete military service. Though we’re gonna be without Lee Jong-suk’s awesomeness for a while we can still keep close to him by binge-watching his best dramas so far.
Here is a list of Lee Jong-suk’s dramas to binge watch while we wait on his return.
1. Romance Is a Bonus Book (Jan. 2019- present):
This drama centers around the life of a talented writer who’s the youngest editor-in-chief ever at his publishing company. He later becomes entangled in the life of a former copywriter desperate for a job. The two started living together and started to realize their feelings for each other surpassed friendship.
2. I Can Hear Your Voice (2013)
A public defender tries to open the blind eyes of justice with help from a psychic high school boy to bring down a killer with a personal vendetta.
3. Doctor Stranger (2014)
Yes, this handsome oppa also played the role of a doctor who escaped North Korea but gets separated from his love. In South Korea, he meets a woman who looks just like her. He later became a top surgeon and reunite with the woman he left behind.
4. Pinocchio (2014)
After his life is shattered by the media, a young boy tries to cover up his past until the girl he loves found out the truth about his family.
5. W: Two Worlds
And last, on the list, we have W: Two Worlds. This is a love story about a couple who live in the same era but in different worlds, when pulled into a webtoon they become entangled with a murder.
So Kdrama family I’m hoping you’ll binge watch these dramas and honor our dear Oppa until he returns to us.
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Home News @en The Cànova of wine (and others): in San Donato in Collina a...
The Cànova of wine (and others): in San Donato in Collina a sign of entertainment … and vice!
The term Cànova, now completely disappeared, would signify “the shop where they would sell retail wine, oil and other essentials”. The Canabae were shacks that stood at the rear of Roman military camps where the Canovai would sell bread and wine to the soldiers and services to prostitutes!
The widespread use of the Cànove in the past has meant that we find them mentioned by the greatest writers and poets of every age, all of whom have retold their own experiences, from Marco Polo to Villani, from Pietro Aretino to Gabriele D’Annunzio.
They were mainly found in the popular districts of the city, in markets and along roads – such as San Donato in Collina, now converted into a butcher shop – where the movement of people was frequent and continuous. In addition to the marble insignia of the strangest and most attractive forms, the so-called “frasca” (a leafy branch) was displayed on the door to indicate that the shop was open and that wine was sold there.
The frequenters of the cànove were not just travelers and passing merchants, but also included the local population who would spend their free time there, often finding their unique opportunity for leisure and vice. In fact, crooks, thieves and women of easy virtue were found there and brawls that even transcended into bloody events were frequent. Which is the reason why, in 1783, His Royal Highness issued a motu proprio which regulated the opening and management of these establishments and granted the “Mestiere di Canoviere di Vino” (Expertise in the Canoviere of Wine) only after verifying certain security but also monitoring guarantees over the quality of the wine sold which was often watered down, or “baptized” as it was called then.
The cànove existed until the early twentieth century, as Vasco Pratolini also testifies when he writes that Metellus went with his mason friends to drink wine “sitting at tables outside the cànova.” Since then, the marble signs have almost all been destroyed. We have traced only one in Florence and five in the surrounding areas, including that of San Donato in Collina.
It is worth nothing that, in general, the passing years have not changed the original use of the establishments much: in fact, where wine was poured and food was eaten, today, in addition to wine and bread, a little bit of everything is sold: from salt to herring, from cigars to loose pasta and from meat to fruit.
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Thom Yorke, the enigmatic Radiohead frontman releases a brand new album. Anima was written by Thom Yorke and produced by Nigel Godrich. The album features 9 tracks, some of which can be heard in the new Paul Thomas Anderson film of the same name, with an extra track exclusively on vinyl. Traffic kicks things off with a nagging hook and some throbbing electronics and this seems to be the common thread throughout this amazing album. There's traces of Autechre, Massive Attack, Vangelis and Tangerine Dream all over this but it's still all sewn together by Thom and his machines in a very unique style. It's a not a million miles from where he or Radiohead are right now but with tracks like the submarine bleep of Not The News or the sizzling drum break dub of Impossible Knots there really is only one man that makes music like this. His best solo album yet by far.
Thom Yorke - Anima LP Released 19/07/19
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al-Bukhārī, Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl
al-Bukhārī, Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl (810–70 (AH 194–256)). Compiler of one of the main collections of ḥadīth, known as Ṣaḥīḥ (‘sound’, ‘genuine’). He travelled extensively in search of ḥadīth, which he subjected to careful scrutiny—much needed, since spurious ḥadīth were circulating. The Ṣaḥīḥ contains over 7,000 narratives, though because some are repeated, the total is under 3,000. Together with the Ṣaḥīḥ of Muslim (d. 875 (AH 261)), al-Bukhārī's collection is accepted as the main definitive compilation of reliable ḥadīth, and as such, comes second only to the Qurʾān as a source of principles for legislation and religious practice.
"al-Bukhārī, Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl ." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. . Encyclopedia.com. 13 Jan. 2021 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
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Muslim b. al-ḥajjāj al-Qushayri
al-Bitruji
al-Bistāmī, Abū Yazīd
Al-Bekri and Leo Africanus
Al-Bekri
Al-Baẓak, Maẓli'aḥ ben Elijah Ibn
Al-Battān
al-Baṣrī
Al-Bargeloni (i.e. "of Barcelona"), Isaac ben Reuben
al-Bannā
Al-Bakrī, Ab
al-Baiḍāwī
Al-Baghdadi, Abu Mans?ur ?Abd Al-Qahir Ibn T?ahir Ibn Muh?ammad Ibn ?Abdallah, Al-Tamimi, Al-Shafi?i
al-Baghdadi
Al-Azm, Sadik J.
Al-Azm, Sadik (1934–)
Al-Avani, Isaac
al-Assad, Bashar
al-Asmāʾ al-ḥusnā
al-Asmai
al-Ashʿarī, Abū ʾl-ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl
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Inspections, Compliance, Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations
July 18, 2016: Cincinnati Man Sentenced for Illegally Importing Drugs into U.S.
Office of Criminal Investigations
U.S. Department of Justice Press Release
Western District of Virginia
ABINGDON, VIRGINIA – United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today the sentencing of an Ohio man for conspiring to illegally importing prescription drugs into the United States.
Michael Louis, 61, of Cincinnati, Ohio, previously pled guilty to one count of conspiring to illegally import prescription drugs into the United States and to illegally distribute tramadol. Today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, Louis was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of four months and was ordered to forfeit $2,500.
“We are proud to work with our partners at the Food and Drug Administration to ensure the quality and authenticity of the drugs coming into our country,” United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. said today. “Consumers must be confident that they products they buy are safe and authentic.”
The investigation of the case was conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Criminal Investigations. Assistant United States Attorney Randy Ramseyer prosecuted the case for the United States.
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Addition of New Standards of Fill for Wine and Distilled Spirits; Amendment of Distilled Spirits and Malt Beverage Net Contents Labeling Regulations
A Rule by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau on 12/29/2020
Agencies:
This final rule is effective December 29, 2020.
27 CFR 4
Agency/Docket Numbers:
Docket Nos. TTB-2019-0004 and TTB-2019-0005
T.D. TTB-165
Re: Notice Nos. 182, 183, and 184
1513-AB56
1513-AC45
TTB-2019-0004
Elimination of Certain Standards of Fill for Wine
TTB Authority
Current Standards of Fill for Wine
Current Headspace Requirements for Wine
Current Standards of Fill for Distilled Spirits
Current Headspace Requirements for Distilled Spirits
Notices of Proposed Rulemaking
Comments on the Proposed Elimination of the Standards of Fill
Comments Regarding the Addition of Specific Sizes
Comments Opposing Addition of Any New Sizes
Comments on Proposal for an Expedited Approval Process
Comments on Labeling Distilled Spirits With U.S. Measure and Malt Beverages With Metric Measure
TTB Analysis
U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement
Administrative Approval Process
TTB Finding
Regulatory Analysis and Notices
Regulatory Flexibility Act
Inapplicability of the Delayed Effective Date Requirement
Drafting Information
List of Subjects
27 CFR Part 4
Amendment to the Regulations
PART 4—LABELING AND ADVERTISING OF WINE
PART 5—LABELING AND ADVERTISING OF DISTILLED SPIRITS
PART 7—LABELING AND ADVERTISING OF MALT BEVERAGES
This PDF is the current document as it appeared on Public Inspection on 12/28/2020 at 8:45 am. It was viewed 96 times while on Public Inspection.
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, Treasury.
Final rule; Treasury decision.
This final rule amends the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) regulations that govern wine and distilled spirits containers to add seven new standards of fill for wine and distilled spirits. Although TTB had originally proposed to generally eliminate the standards of fill for wine and distilled spirits, TTB is not adopting that proposal at this time. The amendments described in this final rule will provide bottlers with flexibility by allowing the use of the added container sizes, and will facilitate the movement of goods in domestic and international commerce, while also providing consumers broader purchasing options.
TTB is also amending the labeling regulations for distilled spirits and malt beverages to reflect current policy by specifically stating in the regulations that distilled spirits may be labeled with the equivalent standard United States (U.S.) measure in addition to the mandatory metric measure, and that malt beverages may be labeled with the equivalent metric measure in addition to the mandatory U.S. measure.
Jennifer Berry, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, Regulations and Rulings Division; telephone 202-453-1039, ext. 275.
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) administers regulations setting forth standards of fill for containers of wine and distilled spirits products distributed within the United States. For wine, the authority to establish these standards is based on section 105(e) of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act (FAA Act), codified at 27 U.S.C. 205(e), which authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations relating to the “packaging, marking, branding, and labeling and size and fill” of alcohol beverage containers “as will prohibit deception of the consumer with respect to such products or the quantity thereof * * *.” For distilled spirits, the authority to establish standards of fill is based on two provisions of law: (1) Section 205(e) of the FAA Act as discussed above, and (2) section 5301(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (IRC), codified at 26 U.S.C. 5301(a). Section 5301(a) of the IRC authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations “to regulate the kind, size, branding, marking, sale, resale, possession, use, and reuse of containers (of a capacity of not more than 5 wine gallons) designed or intended for use for the sale of distilled spirits * * *” when the Secretary determines that such action is necessary to protect the revenue. TTB administers these IRC and FAA Act provisions pursuant to section 1111(d) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as codified at 6 U.S.C. 531(d). In addition, the Secretary of the Treasury has delegated certain administrative and enforcement authorities to TTB through Treasury Order 120-01.
The standards of fill for wine are contained in subpart H of part 4 of the TTB regulations (27 CFR part 4). The term “standard of fill” is used in the TTB regulations and in this document to refer to the authorized amount of liquid in the container, rather than the size or capacity of the container itself. For better readability, however, this document sometimes uses the terms “size” or “container size” and “standards of fill” interchangeably. Within subpart H, paragraph (a) of § 4.72 (27 CFR 4.72(a)) authorizes the use of the following metric standards of fill for containers other than those described in paragraph (b) of that section:
3 liters;
1.5 liters;
1 liter;
750 milliliters;
100 milliliters; and
50 milliliters.
Paragraph (b) of § 4.72 states that wine may be bottled or packed in containers of 4 liters or larger if the containers are filled and labeled in quantities of even liters (4 liters, 5 liters, 6 liters, etc.).Start Printed Page 85515
Requirements for headspace, the empty space between the top of the wine and the top of the container, are also contained in subpart H of 27 CFR part 4. Within subpart H, paragraph (a)(3) of § 4.71 (27 CFR 4.71(a)(3)) states that a standard wine container must be made and filled so as to have a headspace not in excess of 6 percent of the total capacity of the container after closure if the net content of the container is 187 milliliters or more and, in the case of all other wine containers, a headspace not in excess of 10 percent of such capacity.
The standards of fill for distilled spirits are contained in subpart E of part 5 of the TTB regulations (27 CFR part 5). Within subpart E, paragraph (a)(1) of § 5.47a (27 CFR 5.47a(a)(1)) specifies the following metric standards of fill for containers other than those described in paragraph (a)(2) of that section:
1.75 liters;
500 milliliters (authorized only until June 30, 1989);
In the case of distilled spirits in metal containers that have the general shape and design of a can, that have a closure which is an integral part of the container, and that cannot be readily reclosed after opening, paragraph (a)(2) of § 5.47a authorizes the use of the following metric standards of fill:
In addition to the metric standards specified above, § 5.47a contains provisions regarding tolerances (discrepancies between actual and stated fill), unreasonable shortages in fill, and distilled spirits bottled or imported before January 1, 1980, and marketed or released from customs custody on or after that date (the date on which the U.S. volumetric standards were replaced by the § 5.47a metric standards, as discussed in more detail below).
Requirements for headspace are contained in 27 CFR 5.46(b), which states that a standard liquor bottle of a capacity of 200 milliliters or more shall be held to be misleading if it has a headspace in excess of 8 percent of the total capacity of the bottle after closure.
Unlike wine and distilled spirits, there are no standards of fill prescribed for malt beverages under the FAA Act. However, in the case of malt beverages, § 7.22(a)(4) of the TTB regulations (27 CFR 7.22(a)(4)) requires the display of net contents on the brand label as mandatory label information.
On July 1, 2019, TTB published Notice Nos. 182 and 183 in the Federal Register (84 FR 31257 and 84 FR 31264).
Notice No. 182 proposed to eliminate all but a minimum standard of fill for wine containers. The minimum container size was retained to ensure the container would be of sufficient size to accommodate required labeling. The notice also proposed, in response to a petition, to increase the minimum headspace from not in excess of 10 percent of the container's capacity to not in excess of 30 percent for clear containers 100 milliliters or less. Finally, TTB also sought comments on alternatives to eliminating the standards of fill, including authorizing some or all of the petitioned-for sizes that were discussed in the notice, and developing an expedited administrative process for adding new standards in the future.
Notice No. 183 proposed to eliminate all but minimum and maximum standards of fill for distilled spirits. Retaining the minimum was proposed to ensure the container would be of sufficient size to accommodate required labeling, while the maximum maintains the distinction between bottled and bulk products. The FAA Act at 27 U.S.C. 206(c) establishes a bulk distilled spirits container as one having a capacity in excess of one wine gallon, while paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 206 do not permit the retail sale of distilled spirits in bulk containers to consumers.
In Notice No. 183, TTB also proposed to amend the labeling regulations for distilled spirits and malt beverages to reflect current policy by specifically stating that distilled spirits may be labeled with the equivalent standard U.S. measure in addition to the mandatory metric measure, and that malt beverages may be labeled with the equivalent metric measure in addition to the mandatory U.S. measure. Similar labeling is authorized for wine labels in 27 CFR 4.37(b) and has been authorized for distilled spirits and malt beverage labels as a matter of policy, but has not been explicitly stated in the distilled spirits and malt beverage regulations.
As in Notice No. 182, in Notice No. 183 TTB also sought comments on alternatives to eliminating the standards of fill, including authorizing some or all of the petitioned-for sizes that were discussed in the notice, and developing an expedited administrative process for adding new standards in the future.
In Notice Nos. 182 and 183, TTB provided reasons for proposing the elimination of the standards of fill, including the following:
1. It would address several petitions TTB had received on this issue, would eliminate the need for industry members to petition for additional authorizations if marketplace conditions favor different standards in the future, and would eliminate restrictions on competition and the movement of goods in domestic and international commerce.
2. It would address concerns that the current standards of fill unnecessarily limit manufacturing options and consumer purchasing options, particularly where consumers may seek smaller containers to target a specific amount of consumption.
3. TTB believed that the current and proposed labeling requirements regarding net contents (see 27 CFR 4.32(b)(2) and 4.37, 27 CFR 5.32(b)(3) and 5.38) and those regarding the design and fill of containers (see 27 CFR 4.71 and 27 CFR 5.46) provide consumers with adequate information about container contents, so standards of fill are not necessary to prevent consumer confusion.
4. Limiting standards of fill is no longer necessary to ensure accurate calculation of tax liabilities or to protect the revenue.
5. TTB's current experience with malt beverages, for which there is no Federal standard of fill requirement, shows no disproportionate level of revenue compliance or consumer deception issues related to bottle sizes.
The comment periods for Notice Nos. 182 and 183 originally closed on August 30, 2019, but TTB reopened and extended the comment periods at the request of commenters (see Notice No. 184, 84 FR 39786). The extended comment periods ended October 30, 2019. Because Notice Nos. 182 and 183 proposed similar regulatory amendments and the substance of the comments received were similar, TTB is finalizing the two notices in one final rule.
TTB received 644 comments in response to Notice No. 182 and 603 Start Printed Page 85516comments in response to Notice No. 183, for a total of 1,247 comments. Commenters included producers, wholesale distributers, retailers, trade associations (domestic and foreign), members of Congress, foreign government entities, and members of the public.
TTB also considered 79 comments concerning standards of fill that were submitted in response to Notice No. 176, Modernization of the Labeling and Advertising Regulations for Wine, Distilled Spirits, and Malt Beverages, published in the Federal Register (83 FR 60562) on November 26, 2018. When these additional comments are taken into account, TTB reviewed 1,326 comments regarding standard of fill issues as summarized below.
Of the 1,326 comments TTB received, 1,251 comments address the proposed elimination of the standards of fill. A total of 110 comments support the proposal—40 comments to Notice No. 182, 40 comments to Notice No. 183, and 30 comments to Notice No. 176. Of the 1,141 comments opposed to eliminating the standards of fill—575 commenters to Notice No. 182, 560 commenters to Notice No. 183, and 6 comments to Notice No. 176—960 are nearly identical form letters, a majority of which are associated with three wholesale distributing companies and their employees.
Commenters supporting the elimination of the standards of fill generally state that the standards are unnecessary, restrictive to producers, and out-of-date. They note that there are no standards of fill for malt beverages or for other consumer products, and state that this does not cause difficulties. They contend that eliminating the standards of fill will result in lower costs for producers, will facilitate international trade, and will provide consumers with more options in beverage alcohol packaging. The American Craft Spirits Association (Notice No. 183, comment 78) states that it surveyed its membership concerning the rulemaking and “found overwhelming support for elimination of the current standards.” It adds that “[i]n order to promote innovation within the industry and competitively enter products into the global marketplace, smaller spirits producers must have maximum flexibility to quickly meet consumer demand as well as diverse regulatory standards.”
Several of the wine commenters who support elimination of the standards of fill cite the fact that they are unable to use certain can sizes to package wine because they are not among the authorized standard sizes. For example, Senator Charles Schumer (Notice No. 182, comment 12) cites the inability of New York wineries to package their wine in 250 milliliter and 355 milliliter cans as grounds for eliminating the standard of fill regulations. The Senator argues that these sizes are popular single serving sizes that are readily available to producers since they are already mass produced for beer and soda.
Commenters opposing the elimination of the standards of fill cite a number of reasons to retain the standards. The most often cited argument is that the standards of fill prevent consumer confusion. For example, commenters state that eliminating the standards of fill will cause a proliferation of sizes, making it difficult for consumers to compare prices on similar products. The Wine Institute (Notice No. 182, comment 162) states “consumers may not be able to tell the difference between a 750 milliliter wine bottle and a 700 milliliter bottle, which could create an opportunity for producers to reduce costs and taxes while not necessarily reducing their prices. The current federal standards of fill allow consumers to shop by cost comparison without needing to calculate the price per milliliter.”
A handful of commenters cite the European Union's (EU) experience prior to 1990, when it had no standards of fill for distilled spirits. Drinks Ireland (Notice No. 183, comment 77) states that without standards of fill the market situation was “complex, expensive, and confusing for consumers.” The American Distilled Spirits Association (Notice No. 183, comment 111), citing comments submitted in response to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm's 1987 Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Notice No. 633, June 24, 1987, 52 FR 23685) on standards of fill, notes that the EU's lack of standards resulted in “a confusing array of bottle sizes being sold side-by-side on retail shelves creating an environment ripe for consumer confusion.”
A number of commenters state that eliminating the standards of fill is inconsistent with the FAA Act. A letter signed by 52 members of the Congressional Wine Caucus states it would “run directly counter to TTB's stated mission of prohibiting consumer deception” (Notice No. 182, comment 168). Similar comments include that of the Wine Institute, which comments that eliminating the standards of fill “would lead to the chaotic consumer marketplace that the FAA Act was intended to prevent.” Six industry associations filing jointly (Notice No. 183, comment 108) state that retaining the standards of fill is consistent with TTB's statutory authority under the FAA Act to protect consumers.
Opposing comments also argued that eliminating the standards of fill will result in conflicting State requirements. These commenters report that a number of States defer to the Federal standard of fill requirements, so elimination could result in a patchwork of different State rules. The Congressional Wine Caucus states: “38 states defer to the federal standard and if it is eliminated, these states will be forced to enact new container size requirements. This will create serious disruption to business as wineries would have to overhaul their sales, marketing, and compliance models to adjust to 38 varying state regulations.”
No State entity submitted comments to either notice, although TTB did request comments in Notice Nos. 182 and 183 from State regulators on whether the proposal would present regulatory issues at a State level. However, TTB did receive a comment from the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association (NABCA), which represents jurisdictions, including States, which directly control the distribution and sale of beverage alcohol within their borders. NABCA (Notice No. 182, comment 64; Notice No. 183, comment 55) opposes the elimination of the standards of fill and comments that the States currently using the Federal standards will enact new standard of fill requirements that could be different in each State.
Numerous commenters state that a proliferation in sizes will cause harm to distributors and retailers. According to many of these commenters, more sizes will result in additional SKUs, which will increase costs for these industry members. Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits (Notice No. 183, comment 66) states that the increase in SKUs “will have cascading economic ramifications throughout the entire value chain—from supplier to wholesaler to retailer to the end consumer. It will require major wholesalers, for example, to invest in elevated inventory levels, enhanced material handling capabilities, and increased storage space.” The California Grocers Association (Notice No. 182, comment 169) states that “Eliminating the regulation on standard wine and spirits sizes will increase our costs,” and provides examples relating to such things as shelf space and inventory.
Opponents also contend that eliminating the standards of fill will Start Printed Page 85517cause an increase in counterfeit and gray market imports that are currently prevented because the standards do not include some common international sizes, most specifically the 700 milliliter size. A large number of commenters state that adulterated products could more easily enter the country, resulting in injury and possibly death to consumers. This concern is expressed by Moët Hennessy USA, Inc. (Notice No. 183, comment 100) in its comment: “* * * we wish to express a serious concern that will be impacted by changes to the existing standards—unauthorized importation of distilled spirits and wine products * * *. Allowing unauthorized imports robs Moët Hennessy USA and other authorized importers of the opportunity to protect against those risks and to ensure that our products are being sold in the intended state and manner. U.S. consumers should never face the risk of injury or death due to untraceable adulterated or counterfeit product brought in by an unauthorized importer.”
Finally, a few commenters argue that malt beverages are different in meaningful ways from wine and distilled spirits, and the fact that there are no standards of fill for malt beverages does not imply that there should not be standards of fill for wine and distilled spirits. These commenters state that because of historical practices consumers have different expectations for malt beverages than they do for wine and spirits. Additionally, Sazerac (Notice No. 183, comment 67) reports that a number of States mandate specific standards of fill for malt beverages, which it argues has driven standardization nationally. Heaven Hill Brands (Notice No. 183, comment 96) notes that in most states malt beverage distributors have the ability to distribute directly. It contends that “[t]his direct distribution by suppliers allows for more flexibility in size due to fewer limitations resulting from a distributor's management of malt beverage inventory. Distilled spirits, however, must go through the distributor tier and have a much longer shelf life creating long periods of storage.”
Both Notice Nos. 182 and 183 stated that TTB was also considering maintaining the standards of fill, but “liberalizing the existing regulatory scheme” by adding certain additional standards of fill. In the respective notices, TTB listed sizes for which it had received a petition as 200, 250, 355, 620, and 700 milliliters and 2.25 liters for wine, and 700, 720, 900 milliliter and 1.8 liters for distilled spirits. A large number of commenters expressed support for the addition of specific petitioned-for sizes as follows:
Wine—250 milliliter: This size was supported by 51 commenters. Proponents of this size note that some wines are currently being sold in aggregate packages of four 250 milliliter cans, which together equal one liter, an authorized standard of fill. Industry members state that the 250 milliliter is popular with consumers as a single serving size, with some further stating that this size promotes portion control and responsible drinking. In his comment, Senator Schumer states that “a recent wine consumer survey by WICResearch.com concluded that `the total wine market will grow in order to satisfy consumer preferences,' if TTB permitted sales of wine-in-a-can in a single 250 milliliter size, which the survey revealed is the single-serve size most popular with consumers.” Wine Institute notes that 250 milliliter containers are “ideal serving containers for consumption at certain licensed venues such as stadiums, parks and other locations where glass or larger containers are not viable,” and retailers wish to sell them individually in such venues.
Some commenters report that retailers often separate the containers from the aggregate packages, causing trade enforcement issues at the State level. To remedy this, these commenters recommend TTB approve the 250 milliliter size as an authorized standard of fill.
Wine—355 milliliter (12 oz.): This size was supported by 38 commenters. Several cider producers state that since the 355 milliliter (12 oz) can size is standard in the beer industry, their customers want and expect that size, making it critical to their commercial success. These producers note that, in the production of cider, apples often naturally ferment to an alcohol by volume (abv) level just above 7.4%, so producers often take steps to lower the abv below 7% so that the standards of fill regulations will not apply, enabling them to use 355 milliliter containers. They state that sugar levels in apples vary widely depending on climate and other factors, making final alcohol levels difficult to predict. They argue that being able to use the 355 milliliter container size will eliminate this uncertainty.
Wine—200 milliliter: This size was supported by 23 commenters. Several cider industry members state that their customers are seeking products in this size. The Vermont Grape and Wine Council (Notice No. 182, comment 74) and Presque Isle Wine Cellars (Notice No. 182, comment 37) state that this size is good for ice wine and is the size used in Canada for ice wine. Other commenters note that this size is authorized in Europe, so its approval will facilitate trade.
Other wine sizes: The other container sizes proposed in Notice No. 182—620 milliliter and 700 milliliter—were supported by two comments and one comment, respectively. TTB received no comments specifically addressing the proposed 2.25 liter size. However, TTB received comments proposing additional wine sizes that had not been proposed in Notice No. 182: 20 milliliter, 180 milliliter, 225 milliliter, 255 milliliter, 300 milliliter, 360 milliliter, 473 milliliter (16 oz), 475 milliliter, 550 milliliter, 568 milliliter, 650 milliliter, 720 milliliter, 1.8 liters, and 3.5 liters. Several of these sizes were suggested in Notice No. 176 by cider producers who contend that the sizes are important for their industry's success. Other proponents state that their proposed sizes are authorized in another country, so approval will facilitate trade.
Distilled spirits—700 milliliter: This size was supported by 18 commenters, who generally state that the 700 milliliter size is popular in other countries, so approval will facilitate trade and allow U.S. consumers more options in imported distilled spirits. However, several other commenters specifically cite the 700 milliliter size as a size that should not be approved. These commenters state that 700 milliliter is too close to the currently approved 750 milliliter size, and also contend that the size is the most popular bottle size worldwide with counterfeiters. Constellation Brands, Inc. (Notice No. 183, comment 107) states that the “existence of both a 750 ml and 700 ml size in the marketplace could lead to consumer confusion and allow for confusing or misleading pricing practices. The addition of a 700 ml size could also enable sales by unauthorized importers.” Moet Hennessy USA, Inc. (Notice No. 183, comment 100) states that the prohibition against the 700 milliliter size has kept many unauthorized spirits imports out. Approval, it believes, “will `open the floodgates' for unauthorized spirits imports into the U.S.” It further states that “unreputable operators * * * refill used spirits bottles with different liquid, causing potential serious risk to consumers.”
Other distilled spirits sizes: Three of the petitioned-for sizes—720 milliliter, 900 milliliter, and 1.8 liters—received Start Printed Page 85518support from three Japanese trade associations and the Japanese National Tax Agency. Several other additional distilled spirits sizes were proposed by commenters that had not been proposed in Notice No. 183: 20 milliliter, 250 milliliter, 350 milliliter, 355 milliliter, 500 milliliter, 1.5 liters, 2 liters, 3 liters, 3.75 liters, and 5 gallons. Five commenters proposed the 1.5 liters size, stating that the size is used in other countries, so its approval will align the standards of fill more closely with the global marketplace. The EU referenced all nine of its authorized sizes (100 milliliter, 200 milliliter, 350 milliliter, 500 milliliter, 700 milliliter, 1 liter, 1.5 liters, 1.75 liters and 2 liters) in its comment. The proponents of these sizes cite their usage in other countries and state that their approval will facilitate trade and offer additional options to U.S. consumers.
Numerous commenters to both notices opposed the approval of any new sizes, stating that the existing standards of fill already provide a wide variety of package sizes. Some of these commenters are not against the addition of new sizes per se, but rather believe that the current rulemaking did not provide enough opportunity for the public to focus on the petitioned-for sizes. E. & J. Gallo Winery (Notice No. 182, comment 146) states that “[e]ach proposed new standard of fill should be the subject of a separate rulemaking proceeding so that commenters can review each in the context of existing standards of fill and any other proposals under consideration. Among other things, those rulemakings should address whether a proposed new standard of fill should replace an existing standard of fill or whether it should be limited to a particular package type such as cans or Tetra Paks. This type of deliberation is not possible in the current rulemaking.”
Both Notice Nos. 182 and 183 proposed the option of instituting an expedited approval process for standards of fill were TTB to continue to approve individual standards. A total of 33 comments from both notices specifically address this proposal.
Only four comments express complete support for an expedited approval process. The U.S. Association of Cider Makers (Notice No. 182, comment 158) supports an expedited process because “the industry and marketplace change faster than the existing proposed rulemaking process can react, and we believe it is unreasonable to rely on NPRMs to quickly respond to market innovations.” The National Association of Beverage Importers (Notice No. 182, comment 136 and Notice No. 183, comment 105) states that an administrative process would “enable TTB to `test the waters' of multiple sizes.” It could, for example, permit the optional use of a 700 milliliter distilled spirits bottle for a limited period of time to determine how consumers react and the industry implements the introduction of this standard size from the global market.
Thirteen comments express complete opposition to any administrative approval process. These commenters generally state that new sizes should be approved by rulemaking, which will allow for public comments and transparency. Some of them also comment that it is not clear how such a process would work. Sazerac Company, Inc. (Notice No. 182, comment 85) states that “the public should be given a meaningful opportunity to comment on potential changes as this should not be merely an administrative decision. Without sufficiently clear, publically-available standards, these standards could change over time without public input as officials change.” Sazerac also states that it believes comment would be required under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) because the standards of fill are binding on industry.
An additional 16 comments express support for an expedited process if it includes a public comment period or an opportunity for “open consultation” with all stakeholders before new sizes are approved. Several of these commenters also state that they would like additional information about how an expedited process would work.
No comments were received regarding the Notice No. 182 proposal to increase the minimum headspace for wine containers from not in excess of 10 percent of the container's capacity to not in excess of 30 percent for clear containers 100 milliliters or less.
Five comments to Notice No. 183 opposed the proposal to amend the labeling regulations for distilled spirits and malt beverages to specifically provide that distilled spirits may be labeled with the equivalent standard U.S. measure in addition to the mandatory metric measure, and that malt beverages may be labeled with the equivalent metric measure in addition to the mandatory U.S. measure. Such labeling has been allowed under TTB policy, but it has not been explicitly authorized in the regulations. These commenters state that such dual labeling is unnecessary and will cause “label clutter.” Six comments to Notice No. 182 expressed opposition to allowing U.S. units on wine labels, even though TTB made no proposal on the issue in Notice No. 182, as the wine labeling regulations already state that wine may be labeled with the equivalent U.S. unit in addition to the mandatory metric unit. See 27 CFR 4.37(b).
As discussed above, TTB received 110 comments that expressed support for eliminating the standards of fill, asserting that eliminating the standards will provide them with greater flexibility to meet consumer demands and grow their businesses. TTB received 1,141 comments that oppose eliminating the standards of fill (including the 937 nearly identical comments from individuals associated with three industry members). These commenters contended that eliminating the standards of fill would cause consumer confusion and potentially lead to a proliferation of differing State container size requirements that could cause further consumer confusion. Commenters also expressed concern about significant market disruption.
Based upon these comments, particularly those with regard to the potential consumer confusion, TTB believes that the appropriate action at this time is not to eliminate all standards of fill but instead to identify and authorize specific standards of fill from among those sizes that were the subject of notice and comment and for which TTB received sufficient information to make a determination.
TTB notes that, while some commenters expressed support for eliminating of the standards of fill (including Senator Charles Schumer), the comments themselves focused specifically upon ensuring that certain can sizes, such as 250 milliliter and 355 milliliter for wine, were authorized. TTB believes that its authorization of these sizes largely addresses these commenters' concerns.
Commenters expressed considerable support for most of the sizes TTB included in its proposals. However, few commenters supported authorizing the 620 milliliter, 700 milliliter, and 2.25 liter sizes for wine (which received specific support from 2, 1, and 0 commenters respectively).Start Printed Page 85519
The 700 milliliter size for distilled spirits was the only proposed size, for either wine or distilled spirits, for which some expressed opposition. With regard to the 700 milliliter size, TTB received supportive comments from industry members who state that approval of the 700 milliliter size for distilled spirits will facilitate trade for U.S. exporters and importers, because it is commonly used in other countries, and none of the commenters opposed to the 700-milliliter size provided information that would support a finding that the 700-milliliter size will be any more misleading to consumers than the other sizes supported by commenters generally. While some commenters noted that the 700-milliliter size is close to the already authorized 750-milliter size, as noted above, commenters supported approving the 355-milliliter size for wine, although 375-milliter is already an authorized size, and no commenters suggested that the closeness in size would lead to confusion. Additionally, although TTB understands the concern that commenters raised with regard to the potential for counterfeit products in the 700-milliliter size, TTB believes it is appropriate to continue to apply enforcement measures to deal with counterfeit products of any size.
In light of this, TTB believes that the addition of most of the petitioned-for sizes will result in many of the same benefits that were intended when it proposed eliminating the standards of fill—providing bottlers with more flexibility, facilitating the movement of goods in domestic and international commerce, and providing additional purchasing options to consumers, but without causing the disruption commenters expressed concerns over regarding the proposed elimination of standards of fill.
On October 7, 2019, the United States and Japan reached an agreement (the Agreement) on market access for certain agriculture and industrial goods. On December 30, 2019, a Federal Register notice (84 FR 72187) was issued to implement the Agreement. As part of the Agreement, the United States reached a side letter agreement with Japan dated October 7, 2019, which addresses issues related to alcohol beverages, including standards of fill (“Side Letter”). See https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/agreements/japan/Letter_Exchange_on_Alcoholic_Beverages.pdf. The Side Letter states that the U.S. Department of the Treasury will take final action on Notice Nos. 182 and 183. If the final action does not address certain sizes—180, 300, 360, 550, 720 milliliters, and 1.8 liters for wine, and 700, 720, 900 milliliters, and 1.8 liters for distilled spirits—then the U.S. Department of the Treasury shall propose new rulemaking to allow for those sizes. The Side Letter took effect with the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement, which entered into force on January 1, 2020.
In Notice No. 183, TTB referenced the distilled spirits sizes listed in the Side Letter. It described the petitions from three Japanese trade associations and a Japanese government agency for those sizes. These entities submitted comments that supported the elimination of the standards of fill, but further stated that, if the standards are not eliminated, they support the approval of their petitioned-for sizes. These proposed sizes for distilled spirits are discussed in Notice No. 183. Because TTB had not received petitions for the wine sizes listed in the Side Letter, TTB did not reference those sizes for wine in Notice No. 182. Nevertheless, TTB did receive comments from a Japanese trade association and a Japanese government agency proposing the approval of those sizes. The two comments support the elimination of the standards of fill, but requested the approval of the 180, 300, 360, 550, 720 milliliters, and 1.8 liters sizes for wine if the standards of fill for wine are not eliminated.
TTB requested comments regarding whether it should include in the new regulations an expedited administrative approval process that would replace the requirement for separate rulemaking in order to add new sizes to the standards of fill. This expedited approval process was offered as a quicker and less burdensome way to facilitate the expansion of bottled sizes without creating unnecessary industry burden. However, few commenters supported the process unless it included a public comment period or other means to consult with the industry, similar to the existing rulemaking process. Other commenters expressed support for an administrative approval process provided that TTB establishes criteria for approving additional sizes, and stated that TTB had not identified appropriate criteria for such a procedure. Consequently, TTB believes that an administrative procedure for approving new standards of fill is not appropriate at this time.
After careful analysis of the comments discussed above, TTB has decided not to eliminate the standards of fill for wine and distilled spirits. Rather, TTB is adding certain sizes for which TTB had aired petitions in Notice Nos. 182 and 183. Based upon the comments received to those notices, TTB is authorizing the addition of the 200, 250, and 355 milliliters sizes for wine to § 4.72, and the 700, 720, 900 milliliters, and 1.8 liters sizes for distilled spirits to § 5.47a.
At this time, TTB is not adding the 620 milliliters, 700 milliliters, and 2.25 liter wine sizes for which it had aired petitions, because comments received regarding these sizes did not provide sufficient information for TTB to determine that they should be authorized standards of fill. TTB will consider including these sizes and any new petitions for additional sizes in subsequent rulemaking. Moreover, TTB is not adding a 2-milliliter size for distilled spirits that was the subject of a petition because, as discussed in Notice No. 183, TTB believes that a minimum size of 50 milliliters is needed to ensure sufficient space on the container for required labeling.
TTB is adopting the proposal in Notice No. 182 to increase the minimum headspace in wine containers from not in excess of 10 percent of the container's capacity to not in excess of 30 percent for clear containers 100 milliliters or less. TTB is likewise adopting the Notice No. 183 proposal to amend the labeling regulations for distilled spirits and malt beverages to specifically provide that distilled spirits may be labeled with the equivalent standard U.S. measure in addition to the mandatory metric measure, and that malt beverages may be labeled with the equivalent metric measure in addition to the mandatory U.S. measure.
TTB will conduct rulemaking to propose the addition of new standards of fill for wine, including the 180, 300, 360, 550, 720 milliliters, and 1.8 L sizes that Japanese government entities and Japanese industry associations requested during the comment period, and which were included in the Side Letter signed as part of the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement discussed above.
TTB certifies that this final rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. This final rule will provide wine and distilled spirits bottlers and importers with additional flexibility to use new bottle sizes if they so choose. This proposed regulation does not impose any new reporting, Start Printed Page 85520recordkeeping, or other administrative requirements. Accordingly, a regulatory flexibility analysis is not required.
The collection of information in this rule has been previously approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the title “Labeling and Advertising Requirements Under the Federal Alcohol Administration Act,” and assigned control number 1513-0087. This regulation will not result in a substantive or material change in the previously approved collection action, since the nature of the mandatory information that must appear on labels affixed to the container remains unchanged.
It has been determined that this final rule is not a significant regulatory action as defined in Executive Order 12866 of September 30, 1993. Therefore, a regulatory assessment is not necessary.
Because these regulations relieve a restriction by providing wine and distilled spirits bottlers and importers with additional flexibility to use new bottle sizes if they so choose, and do not impose any new reporting, recordkeeping, or other administrative requirements, it has been determined, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(1), that these regulations will be issued without a delayed effective date.
Jennifer Berry of the Regulations and Rulings Division drafted this document, along with other Department of the Treasury personnel.
Alcohol and alcoholic beverages
Customs duties and inspection
Packaging and containers Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
For the reasons discussed in the preamble, TTB is amending 27 CFR parts 4, 5, and 7 as follows:
1. The authority citation for part 4 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 27 U.S.C. 205, unless otherwise noted.
End Authority Start Amendment Part
2. Section 4.71(a)(3) is revised to read as follows:
§ 4.71
Standard wine containers.
(3) Headspace. It must be designed and filled so that the headspace, or empty space between the top of the wine and the top of the container, meets the following specifications:
(i) 187 mL or more. If the net contents stated on the label are 187 milliliters or more, the headspace must not exceed 6 percent of the container's total capacity after closure.
(ii) Less than 187 mL. If the net contents stated on the label are less than 187 milliliters, except as described in (a)(3)(iii) of this section, the headspace must not exceed 10 percent of the container's total capacity after closure.
(iii) Exception. Wine bottled in clear containers with the contents clearly visible, with a net content stated on the label of 100 milliliters or less, may have a headspace that does not exceed 30 percent of the container's total capacity after closure.
3. In § 4.72, amend the table in paragraph (a) by adding to the list of authorized standards of fill three new sizes after the entry for 375 milliliters, to read as follows:
Metric standards of fill.
355 milliliters.
Authority: 26 U.S.C. 5301, 7805, 27 U.S.C. 205.
5. In § 5.38, revise paragraph (a) to read as follows:
Net Contents.
(a) Standards of fill. The net contents of distilled spirits shall be stated in metric measure. The equivalent standard U.S. measure may also be stated on the container in addition to the metric measure. See § 5.47a of this part for tolerances and for regulations pertaining to unreasonable shortages.
6. In § 5.47a, amend paragraph (a)(1) by adding to the list of authorized standards of fill four new entries in numeric order, to read as follows:
§ 5.47a
Metric standards of fill (distilled spirits bottled after December 31, 1979).
(1) * * * 8 liters.
Authority: 27 U.S.C. 205.
8. In § 7.27, the introductory text of paragraph (a) is revised to read as follows:
(a) Net contents shall be stated in standard U.S. measure as follows, and the equivalent metric measure may also be stated:
Signed: December 22, 2020.
Elisabeth C. Kann,
Acting Administrator.
Approved: December 22, 2020.
Timothy E. Skud,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Tax, Trade, and Tariff Policy.
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Movie Review – Far From The Madding Crowd (2015)
Director : Thomas Vinterberg
Principal Cast : Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge, Juno Temple, Jessica Barden, Sam Phillips, Tilly Vosburgh, Rowan Hedley.
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Synopsis: In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong farm owner Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.
What we think : Just a lovely, enthralling romantic drama; Far From The Madding Crowd is hardly the stuffy, headache-inducing period piece I was expecting, and is, in fact, one of the better films of the genre to come out this year. Don’t make the mistake of skipping or avoiding this one – see it, and enjoy.
Madding? Not maddening?
The fourth direct adaptation of the famous Thomas Hardy novel, Far From The Madding Crowd’s 2015 version is a delightful, wry, taciturn entry into the period drama genre that belies its literary origins and fleshes out into a terrific opus worthy of attention. It’s not often a genre film such as this actually works for me – I usually find this kind of movie pandering and/or irritating – but Madding’s rural pleasantness, it’s genteel stateliness, is really rather charming. Plus, Carey Mulligan makes a terrific lead. I admit to being unfamiliar with Hardy’s novel, other than that which I’ve gleaned in passing from past adaptations (which isn’t much), but with such a lovely story at hand it’s little wonder there have been numerous productions of it.
Plot synopsis courtesy Wikipedia: In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong farm owner Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan) attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts), a sheep farmer; Frank Troy (Tom Sturridge), a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood (Michael Sheen), a prosperous and mature bachelor.
I really enjoyed this movie. That takes a lot for me to say; I’ve seen more than a few ponderous period films, most of which end up as stuffy, irritatingly shallow affairs (most, not all) that do little to make me feel much beyond borderline contempt for high-class British aristocracy. Far From The Madding Crowd made me smile broadly, more than a few times, and the rounded, effortless chemistry between the cast is effective, sweet, and at times moving. David Nicholls’ screenplay contains an earthy, often taciturn nature about it; the film’s tones are soaked in period romanticism, rebounding from the shock of loss (an early moment in which Mr Oak loses his farm to a wayward sheepdog) to pleasantly ingratiating overtures of affection.
The film’s beauty wouldn’t be so much without the luminous performance of Carey Mulligan, who, as Bathsheba Everdene (a cumbersome name, if there ever was) shines as she holds the film on her talented shoulders. Mulligan has an inscrutable presence about her, a steely exterior riveted by life experience and a societal expectation, although the veneer more than amply shattered by the affections of three vastly different men. Matthias Schoenaerts, who also starred in Suite Francaise, plays Gabriel Oak with reserved masculinity; he doesn’t take Everdene’s crap, and he’s quick to give her his opinions, whether she wants them or not. Both Mulligan and Schoenaerts have terrific chemistry (I’m on Team Gabriel!) and although their on-screen relationship is fractious, it’s their repartee I most enjoyed.
Not to be outdone, Michael Sheen, the consummate actor, delivers an unswerving, solid portrayal of the more “mature” Mr Boldwood, a neighboring farmer who efforts to woo Everdene. Sheen’s the more genteel of the trio of potential suitors, and although Boldwood is certainly more circumspect than either Oak or Frank Troy, he’s a worthy entrant into the race for the young woman’s affections. Then there’s Frank Troy, a man with a good game who woos Everdene as a conquest rather than for any meaningful relations; he’s cavalier, handsome, roguish, and above all makes the hearts of women flutter, but as somebody who would suit Bathsheba’s strong-willed personality, it’s a match made in hell. Of course, both Troy and Bethsheba end up getting hitched (spoiler!) but, in true romantic film tradition, it doesn’t last long. The guy’s a knob.
Directed with stately atmosphere by Danish helmer Thomas Vinterberg (better known for making the Oscar Nominated The Hunt) Far From The Madding Crowd isn’t ostentatious or frivolous, nor is it plain or boring – exactly the opposite – for its engrossing love story unravels in smooth, manicured strokes of narrative delight, manifesting emotional resonance through sheer power of the story. The regional affectations of the film’s production design, with its rural settings and soft-hued period detail, make this a story bathed in hardship-riven survival; the stations of life and people’s clamoring to attain higher stations for their own benefit is a way of life I don’t understand, and this scratfalling is the kind of thing that irritates me most in these kind of movies. Yet, Madding’s depiction of the hardships of this period aren’t irritating as much as they are melancholy, a ubiquitous necessity driven by circumstance perpetuated by a few.
Shot in Dorset, in the South of England, Far From The Madding Crowd looks beautiful. Wonderful landscapes, the kind you really only get in romance films these days, embraced with cool, intemperate climate and dusky saturated colors, Madding’s occasional narrative lugubriousness is contrasted by the shadowy, dim English landscapes on which the story is set. If I had to describe the film in one word, it would be lush. At it’s core, Far From The Madding Crowd’s heartbeat is strong with passion, even in the face of staid propriety, and a more lovely of the period you’re unlikely to find. Filled with wit, sadness, hope, hopelessness, romance, love and tragedy, Far From The Madding Crowd is arguably the best period film of the year, and easily a favorite I will not mind returning to more than once. Engaging and approachable, the cumbersome title and familiar settings should not put one off seeing this magnificent movie.
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It's maddening that the title word is madding and not maddening.
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Yes, that does drive me…. well, you know.
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Rafe (2019) – male hybrid falcon - peregrine X saker
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Rafe (2019) – male hybrid falcon - peregrine (Falco peregrinus) X saker (Falco cherrug)
A hybrid is a cross between different species. In captivity many species of falcon are hybridised to gain the characteristics of both species. A hybrid also exhibits 'hybrid vigour' which hopefully makes for a better hunting bird. Hybrids do occur in the wild but as they are not as perfect as pure species they usually do not survive and replicate themselves in the wild.
The peregrine is renowned for its speed, reaching over 320 km/h (200 mph) during its characteristic hunting stoop (high-speed dive), making it the fastest bird in the world, as well as the fastest member of the animal kingdom. According to a National Geographic TV program, the highest measured speed of a peregrine falcon is 389 km/h (242 mph)
The saker falcon is a large hierofalcon, larger than the lanner falcon and almost as large as gyrfalcon at 45–57 cm (18–22 in) length with a wingspan of 97–126 cm (38–50 in). Males weigh between 730–990 g (26–35 oz) and females 970–1,300 g (34–46 oz). It resembles a larger but browner gyrfalcon. It is larger and more heavily built than the related lanner falcon.
Saker falcons tend to have variable plumage. Males and females are similar, except in size, as are young birds, although these tend to be darker and more heavily streaked. The call is a sharp kiy-ee or a repeated kyak-kyak-kyak.
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Natalie K. Hunt, 89
Natalie K. Hunt
Blue Earth Natalie Kate (Mueller) Hunt, 89, of Blue Earth, went to be with her Lord on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 22. Funeral services were held Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018 at Bloomington Lutheran Church, Bloomington, Pastor Scott Spaulding officiated. Burial was at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
Natalie was born in Witoka (near Winona), on May 29, 1929, the 10th of 11 children born to Adolph and Kate Mueller. She grew up on the family farm and graduated from Winona High School and attended Dr. Martin Luther College in New Ulm. In 1949 she moved to San Diego, California, where she met a U.S. Navy submarine sailor, Charles “Chuck” Hunt. They married in March of 1950.
Chuck and Natalie were blessed with four sons, Charles (Chuck), Randall (Randy), William (Bill) and Timothy (Tim). Natalie was often a “single mom” as her husband went on six-month long sea duties during their marriage. The family lived in the San Diego area until 1964 when they moved to Denver, then Aurora, Colorado, where her husband was a Navy recruiter. In 1968, the family moved back to Natalie’s home state of Minnesota, where they made their home in Bloomington.
Natalie worked for the Owens Corporation as an office manager. She then became co-owner of Vinyl Sash Windows and Great Lake Products with her husband and son Bill. They retired in 1991 and moved to their lake home on Lake Volney near Le Center. After her husband’s death in 1992, Natalie eventually moved to Brillion, Wisconsin, in 1999, to be near her son, Tim and family.
In 2014, Natalie moved to Blue Earth, where she was first a resident of Southview Estates, then Friendship Court, and finally Moonlight Lane, all at St. Luke’s Lutheran Care Center.
Natalie was always very active in all the different Lutheran churches she was a member of over her years. She was also active in politics, and worked on several campaigns, including for Sen. Dave Durenberger. But most important to her was her family, all who will miss her very much.
Natalie is survived by her sons, Chuck (Pam), of Blue Earth, and their children, Nate (Sue) Hunt, Nick (Karmen) Hunt, Katy (Wade) Volk; Randy (Shirley), of Appleton, Wisconsin, and their children, Phil (Kelly) Hunt, Tom (Rachel) Hunt, Sonya (Nate) Krake, Cory (Amanda) Grassell; Bill, of Clear Lake, Wisconsin, and his children, Valerie (Rob) Newman, Matt Hunt, Tyler Hunt; and the late Tim and his children, Alex (Melissa) Hunt, Jenny Hunt, Emily Hunt and Carrie Hunt; two sisters, Dorothy Lau, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and Alice Klawiter, of Winona; two sisters-in-law, Dorothy Mueller and Mary Mueller of Winona; 21 great-grandchildren; many nephews and nieces; and countless friends from across the country.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Chuck; her parents, Adolph and Kate; her parents-in-law, Richard and Carrie Hunt; brothers, David, Pete, Alfred, Marvin, Robert, and Herbert; sisters, and Lula, Clara; and her beloved son, Tim.
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This latest image of Jupiter, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 25 August 2020, was captured when the planet was 653 million kilometres from Earth. Hubble's sharp view is giving researchers an updated weather report on the monster planet's turbulent atmosphere, including a remarkable new storm brewing, and a cousin of the Great Red Spot changing colour - again. The new image also features Jupiter's icy moon Europa. CREDIT: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team.
Hubble Captures Crisp New Image Of Jupiter And Europa
September 20, 2020 September 20, 2020 Eurasia Review 0 Comments
By Eurasia Review
This latest image of Jupiter, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 25 August 2020, was captured when the planet was 653 million kilometres from Earth. Hubble’s sharp view is giving researchers an updated weather report on the monster planet’s turbulent atmosphere, including a remarkable new storm brewing, and a cousin of the Great Red Spot changing colour — again. The new image also features Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.
A unique and exciting detail of Hubble’s new snapshot appears at mid-northern latitudes as a bright, white, stretched-out storm moving at 563 kilometres per hour. This single plume erupted on 18 August 2020 and another has since appeared.
While it’s common for storms to pop up in this region, often several at once, this particular disturbance appears to have more structure behind it than observed in previous storms. Trailing behind the plume are small, counterclockwise dark clumps also not witnessed in the past. Researchers speculate this may be the beginning of a longer-lasting northern hemisphere spot, perhaps to rival the legendary Great Red Spot that dominates the southern hemisphere.
Hubble shows that the Great Red Spot, rolling counterclockwise in the planet’s southern hemisphere, is ploughing into the clouds ahead of it, forming a cascade of white and beige ribbons. The Great Red Spot is currently an exceptionally rich red colour, with its core and outermost band appearing deeper red.
Researchers say the Great Red Spot now measures about 15 800 kilometres across, big enough to swallow the Earth. The super-storm is still shrinking, as noted in telescopic observations dating back to 1930, but its rate of shrinkage appears to have slowed. The reason for its dwindling size is a complete mystery.
Researchers are noticing that another feature has changed: the Oval BA, nicknamed by astronomers as Red Spot Jr., which appears just below the Great Red Spot in this image. For the past few years, Red Spot Jr. has been fading in colour to its original shade of white after appearing red in 2006. However, now the core of this storm appears to be darkening to a reddish hue. This could hint that Red Spot Jr. is on its way to reverting to a colour more similar to that of its cousin.
Hubble’s image shows that Jupiter is clearing out its higher-altitude white clouds, especially along the planet’s equator, which is enveloped in an orangish hydrocarbon smog.
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is visible to the left of the gas giant. Europa is already thought to harbour a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust, making this moon one of the main targets in the search for habitable worlds beyond Earth. In 2013 it was announced that the Hubble Space Telescope discovered water vapour erupting from the frigid surface of Europa, in one or more localised plumes near its south pole. ESA’s JUpiter ICy moons Explorer, a mission planned for launch in 2022, aims to explore both Jupiter and three of its largest moons: Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa.
Hubble also captured a new multiwavelength observation in ultraviolet/visible/near-infrared light of Jupiter on 25 August 2020, which is giving researchers an entirely new view of the giant planet. Hubble’s near infrared imaging, combined with ultraviolet views, provides a unique panchromatic look that offers insights into the altitude and distribution of the planet’s haze and particles. This complements Hubble’s visible-light picture that shows the ever-changing cloud patterns.
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Andrew Clapham
Head of asset-backed finance, Bear Stearns International
Author: Phillip Eade
Bear Stearns' international expansion continues apace, and in Andy Clapham, the bank now has on its books one of Europe's leading experts in securitization.
Clapham has as much experience in securitization as just about anyone outside the US. It was he, you may remember, who in 1996 kick-started the collateralized loan obligations (CLO) market in Europe with the Rose deal. This raised $5 billion against NatWest's portfolio of 300 corporate loans and won the Euromoney deal of the year award. It has since been copied by countless other banks.
Rose gave this easy-going Englishman a reputation for innovation that he has held on to ever since. "He's someone who looks at things in new ways," says one former colleague, "and he's prepared to take risks to develop new structures." Another adds: "He's one of the most creative people in the market from a structuring prospective. And he's a master at seeing opportunities within regulatory environments. He's also a very well-rounded, nice guy, not all arrogant or hard-nosed. He's great to work for, demanding yet relaxed."
While at NatWest, Clapham was also involved in the creation of the sub-prime mortgage market, and he later made waves with the £1 billion acquisition and subsequent securitization of student loans from the British government - another first in Europe - and a similar £1 billion deal involving housing association loans.
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M&A Supply Signs Distributor Agreement With Johnson Controls
Johnson Controls, (NYSE: JCI), the global leader in delivering products, services and solutions that increase energy efficiency in buildings, announced its agreement with M&A Supply Company Inc. to sell York® brand residential and light commercial HVAC equipment. M&A Supply will sell York products throughout Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and northern Florida.
Effective January 1, 2011, M&A Supply will offer the entire Unitary Products portfolio of residential and light commercial offerings, including high-efficiency air conditioners, heat pumps, package units and gas furnaces as well as other energy-efficient products and controls.
"Johnson Controls has a long-standing dedication to quality and innovation that is unmatched in the industry," said Eddie Anderson, president, M&A Supply. "The York product line is well regarded by distributors and dealers, and it’s backed by extensive training and technical support."
"M&A Supply has built an outstanding reputation in the region through its dedication to its customers," said Rodney Rushing, vice president and general manager, Unitary Products, Johnson Controls. "We look forward to extending our reach into the Southeast with a partner that represents a similar vision of quality products and customer service."
M&A Supply was previously the exclusive distributor of American Standard Heating & Air Conditioning equipment, owned by Ingersoll Rand.
York® products from Johnson Controls include energy-efficient, residential central air-conditioners, heat pumps, furnaces and accessories and innovative light-commercial, packaged heating and cooling systems marketed through a national distribution network and delivered to home- and building-owners through qualified York heating and cooling dealers.
Johnson Controls is a global diversified technology and industrial leader serving customers in over 150 countries. Our 130,000 employees create quality products, services and solutions to optimize energy and operational efficiencies of buildings; lead-acid automotive batteries and advanced lithium ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles; and interior systems for automobiles. Our commitment to sustainability dates back to our roots in 1885, with the invention of the first electric room thermostat. Through our growth strategies and by increasing market share we are committed to delivering value to shareholders and making our customers successful.
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News Menu, Uncategorized, Wind Energy, wind energy
The crisis of the wind energy company Suzlon
Suzlon Group, India’s largest renewable energy solutions provider, announced its fourth quarter (Q4 FY20) and annual audited results for financial year 2019-20 (FY20).
J P Chalasani, Group CEO, said, “It was a highly challenging year where the market remained restricted to very low volumes and the country witnessed only 20% capacity utilization. Suzlon has installed 350 MW in FY20 in spite of working capital constraints and the Debt Restructuring process. Our Operation and Maintenance Service (OMS) and SEForge our forging and foundry business continued to perform well. Post the delayed transition phase the Industry has installed ~2.1 GW in FY20, taking the overall installed capacity to 37.7 GW and contributing 44% of India’s installed Renewable Energy capacity. The market in now on a path to recovery and tenders from earlier auctions are yet to close. The Company is very well positioned to take advantage of this opportunity post the debt restructuring. The Government’s thrust on ‘Make in India’ and becoming ‘ATMANIRBHAR’ will also help Suzlon’s growth as we would be able to manufacture wind turbines and its components for the sector as a whole in the country and reduce imports.”
Swapnil Jain, CFO, said, “In FY20 our debt restructuring and working capital constraints continued to impede our operations and that is reflected in our performance. Our losses at EBIDTA level are primarily because the WTG (Wind Turbine Generator) business, was almost at a standstill resulting in under-absorption of overheads and certain non-recurring costs. Having closed our debt restructuring successfully we have also reduced our fixed costs in FY20 thereby bringing down our break-even levels significantly. Post restructuring we will have an improved balance sheet in FY21, equipping us to ramp up execution of our order book.”
Suzlon Group Q4 FY20 and Annual financial performance (FY20) at a glance (consolidated):
FY20 at Rs 2,933 crores
Q4 FY20 Rs 643 crores
EBIDTA (Pre-forex)
Loss of Rs 423 crores in FY20; EBITDA margin at -14.4%
Loss of Rs 150 crores in Q4 FY20; EBITDA margin at -23.2%
EBIT (pre-forex)
Loss of Rs 841 crores in FY20
Loss of Rs 264 crores in Q4 FY20
Net Loss of Rs 2,692 crores in FY20; Net loss of Rs. 834 crores in Q4 FY20
Key highlights:
Debt Restructuring:
Closed with unanimous approvals of consortium lenders
FCCB restructuring approved by 99.9% bondholders
Government to inject Rs 90,000 crore to revive the DISCOMs
Privatisation of DISCOMs in Union Territories
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Sportsmen Want Permanent Uranium Mining Ban
By admin on July 12, 2011 in Local News
The U.S. House of Representatives has included a provision in a spending bill that would short-circuit a 2-year-old ban
on new uranium mining covering one million acres of public lands surrounding the Grand Canyon National Park. But local businesses and sportsmen say that protecting these lands from new uranium mining is critical for supporting hunting, fishing, and tourism jobs in the region.
The mining “rider” is included in the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations bill for FY2012, which will be voted on by the full
House Appropriations Committee on tomorrow at 10:30 AM ET. (A link to live streaming video of the committee meeting can be found here: http://appropriations.house.gov/Calendar/EventSingle.aspx?EventID=250368)
The measure comes on the heels of a June 20 announcement by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar that the department would extend the current ban on new uranium mining ban for another six months while science and public input is evaluated and this fall, potentially recommend a full withdrawal of 1 million acres of public land around the Grand Canyon from mineral leasing for 20 years.
“Secretary Salazar made the right decision to support tourism by protecting the Grand Canyon from uranium mining,” said Jennifer
Wesselhoff, President/CEO of the Sedona Chamber of Commerce. “The sponsors of this rider need to understand that they are hurting our economy, not helping it, if they allow new mining claims to move forward.”
Tourism to Grand Canyon National Park fuels nearly $700 million in annual economic activity. The Colorado River, which flows through the Grand Canyon, provides drinking water for 25 million Americans, recreational opportunities, and fish habitat.
“Uranium mining threatens to pollute our clean water and spoil habitat for fish and big game near the Grand Canyon,” said Jim Stipe, chairman of the Arizona Council of Trout Unlimited. “Fishing and hunting are big business in Arizona, especially near the Grand Canyon, and have been for generations.”
According to the Arizona Game and Fish Department, hunting and fishing contribute $1.34 billion to the state of Arizona and support more than 17,000 jobs.
“While nuclear energy is important to both the environment and the economy of the United States, this is not the place to mine this
resource,” said Steve Clark, president of the Arizona Elk Society. “As Secretary Salazar said: “Let us be cautious.” Caution could protect
our water supplies and wildlife habitat, and preserve these areas for future generations to enjoy.”
Prior to the Secretary’s announcement last month to extend the uranium
mining moratorium, approximately 300,000 people made their voices
heard in a public comment period – including many whose lives and
livelihoods depend on the Grand Canyon and surrounding lands.
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Claire Williams hails Sir Frank’s 'resilience' in 50th year as F1 team boss
Records are made to be broken, but the one Sir Frank Williams is clocking up – 50 years as team boss and counting – will likely never be surpassed.
When Williams realised a racing career wasn’t going to be for him, he turned his attention to being a mechanic – and then setting up his own race team, Frank Williams Racing Cars. He enjoyed success in F2 and F3 before making the step up to F1 in 1969 with friend Piers Courage.
In the 50 years since, he’s run two teams in Formula 1 and suffered extreme lows – losing his wife Ginny to cancer, the car accident that confined him to a wheelchair, seeing Courage and Ayrton Senna die in his cars - and great highs – winning 114 races along with nine constructors’ titles and seven drivers’ titles.
While his daughter Claire has taken over the day-to-day running of the team as Deputy Team Principal, Frank remains the figurehead of the Williams team we know today – the one he founded in 1977 with Sir Patrick Head that began life in an old carpet factory.
“Dad has the most extraordinary tenacity and resilience but I think it all comes down to his passion,” says Claire. “He just loves F1, it’s his life. When he came out of boarding school, and that was quite a lonely period for him growing up, Formula 1 gave him a community.
“Certainly after the accident, it gave him something to live for, as much as his family did. Williams is what kept him going, which is why he refers to F1 as his oxygen. He lives and breathes for it, and continues to do so today.”
I’ve always been nuts about speed, since when I was a boy, I’d drive around pretending I was a driver - that sort of nonsense.
Sir Frank Williams
Triumph and Tragedy: The Story of Frank Williams
Frank, 77, sounds as passionate as he has ever been about motor racing, insisting “I’m not going anywhere yet!”
He added: “Fifty years in Formula 1. Honestly, I haven’t thought about it very much. I can’t say I’ve loved every minute of it, because moments have been very difficult - I’ve lost my wife, I’ve lost drivers. But Formula 1 has been very good to me. I’ve always been nuts about speed, since when I was a boy, I’d drive around pretending I was a driver - that sort of nonsense.
“Patrick Head joining was significant, he was key in making this company what it is. We’ve had great success but there’s a well-known expression in F1: ‘You’re only as good as your last race.’ We will keep on fighting.”
His son Jonathan, who runs the Williams Heritage division, added: “Dad is nothing if not determined. His accident was dramatic, life changing for all of us. We, as a family, had to adapt. Mum had to adapt but also rebuild Dad and around him. She was exceptional.
“Dad’s determination to return to Formula 1 never waned. He is a racer – and he’s always looking to the next race. His competitive nature is as strong as it’s ever been. What he has achieved is a great legacy for our family, for his grandchildren and for the fans. But the story continues – he’s not done yet.”
His other son Jaime hasn’t been involved in motor racing, instead moving to London and opening a small record store.
“I wouldn’t say it’s important for Dad to be the longest serving team boss in Formula 1,” he said. “He isn’t a man who dwells on his achievements. He will be thinking about what happens next, about the next Grand Prix. Dad’s strength is his perseverance.
“The things that he has managed to achieve in the face of adversity are extraordinary. It takes a special person to be able to keep going regardless of the things that life has thrown at him over the years. He kept going and he achieved great things because he did.”
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Jets’ revamped offensive line bonds with jokes, playbooks
by: DENNIS WASZAK Jr., Associated Press
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — The big guys up front on the New York Jets’ offensive line got close while being far apart.
Group texts. Silly memes. Funny jokes. Serious Zoom conversations.
They all helped keep the lines of communication open during a few months of social-distanced bonding for a revamped unit loaded with several players who never actually met each other in person until a few weeks ago because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“To be honest with you, I don’t know if it’s the group of guys that (general manager) Joe Douglas brought together or the pandemic or what have you,” center Connor McGovern said. “But this is one of the closer groups as a whole I’ve been around.”
That’s a tribute to the players, with many forced to get to know each other — and their senses of humor — from afar. Guard Greg Van Roten, a Penn graduate, emerged as a comedic star on the group texts.
“Greg’s going to be in with very high level humor, being an Ivy Leaguer,” McGovern said with a smile before adding that guard Alex Lewis is also pretty funny. “Everybody has their kind of niche and we’ve meshed really well.”
Now comes the tough task: translating that camaraderie from mobile devices to football trenches.
The Jets will be just the fourth NFL team since the 2010 season to start five different offensive lineman in Week 1 of a season from the group that started the season opener the previous year. New York will join the 2018 Indianapolis Colts, 2015 Kansas City Chiefs and 2014 Miami Dolphins to undergo such drastic turnovers on the O-line.
“Thankfully, we are all veterans and we’ve all played football before, so it’s not our first time on the field,” Van Roten said. “It’s just going to be our first time next each other. So the biggest challenge when you have a new group like that is that we all speak football, but we might call things by different names. So we’ve just got to get on the same page with our communication if we want to be effective and hit the ground running fast.”
Last year, the Jets’ starting offensive line for their season opener was: center Ryan Kalil, left tackle Kelvin Beachum, left guard Kelechi Osemele, right tackle Brandon Shell and right guard Brian Winters.
They were inconsistent and struggled mightily. None remains with the team.
This year’s projected starting O-line in Week 1 at Buffalo is: McGovern at center, first-round pick Mekhi Becton at left tackle, Lewis at left guard, George Fant at right tackle and Van Roten at right guard. Only Lewis, who started 12 games after Osemele was cut early in the season after a dispute over a shoulder injury, was with the team last year.
“When you look at our offensive line, we’re a lot bigger than last year, I know that,” coach Adam Gase said. “It’s a really good-looking group, it’s very deep. I’ve really been impressed how these guys work.”
McGovern, Fant and Van Roten signed three-year deals during free agency, and the 6-foot-7, 363-pound Becton joined the bunch a few weeks later as the No. 11 overall pick.
Since finally coming together in person a few weeks ago, the newcomers and the handful of returning backups have picked up right where they left off on their phones.
No traditional group dinners because of the pandemic, of course. But study sessions and video game marathons are regular events.
“There’s not a whole lot else to do but hang out with each other,” McGovern said. “It’s actually kind of funny how just something as simple as playing Call of Duty as a group of four of us or whoever, how much that brings you together because you’re joking and all that kind of stuff.”
Quarterback Sam Darnold has joined some of the meetings, getting a feel for the guys who will be in front of him. With no preseason games this summer, practice time in camp is even more valuable.
“Every single rep I get with them, I make sure that I’m clear on what the cadence is,” Darnold said. “The guys have been really good and those guys are asking a ton of good questions and it’s just been really good so far.”
The Jets can also look to this nugget of optimism: Of the three teams since 2010 that were in a similar position on the offensive line, two went on to make the playoffs — Colts and Chiefs — and the Dolphins finished 8-8.
“We’re talking through the playbook with each other after our runs,” Lewis said. “In the locker room, we’re quizzing each other, just pushing one another. That’s the best way you can build chemistry right now. We’re trying to take full advantage of all the time we have together.”
AP Pro Football Writer Josh Dubow contributed.
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Iran announces arrests over downing of Ukrainian plane that killed 176
By Nasser Karimi and Aya Batrawy
Iran announces arrests in deadly plane crash
Iran said some arrests have been made in the accidental downing of a passenger plane that killed all 176 people on board.
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's judiciary said Tuesday arrests have been made for the accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane that killed all 176 people on board just after takeoff from Tehran last week.
The announcement came amid an upswell of anger and protests by Iranians in recent days over the downing of the jetliner last Wednesday and apparent attempts by senior officials in Iran to cover-up the cause of the crash.
Iran, which initially dismissed allegations that a missile had brought down the plane, acknowledged only on Saturday — three days after and in the face of mounting evidence — that its Revolutionary Guard had shot down the plane by mistake as the force braced for a possible military confrontation with the United States.
Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said “extensive investigations have taken place and some individuals are arrested.” His statement on the judiciary's website did not say how many individuals had been detained or name them.
RELATED: Iran admits it shot down jetliner by mistake
Iran's president on Tuesday also called for a special court to be set up to probe the incident.
"The judiciary should form a special court with a ranking judge and dozens of experts," President Hassan Rouhani said in a speech televised in Iran. “This is not an ordinary case. The entire the world will be watching this court.”
Rouhani called the incident "a painful and unforgivable” mistake and promised that his administration would pursue the case “by all means.”
“The responsibility falls on more than just one person," he said, adding that those found culpable “should be punished.”
“There are others, too, and I want that this issue is expressed honestly,” he said, without elaborating.
Rescue teams are seen on Jan. 8, 2020 at the scene of a Ukrainian airliner that crashed shortly after take-off near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran. (Photo by AKBAR TAVAKOLI/IRNA/AFP via Getty Images)
Iran shot down the plane as its forces were on alert for possible U.S. retaliation after Iran launched ballistic missiles on two military bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq. No one was hurt in that attack, which was carried out in response to the stunning killing of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani in an American airstrike in Baghdad.
While Rouhani pointed to mistakes and negligence, he also repeated the government's line that the tragedy was ultimately rooted in U.S. aggression.
“It was the U.S. that made for an agitated environment. It was the U.S. that created an unusual situation. It was the U.S. that threatened and took our beloved (Soleimani),” he said.
Rouhani called the government's admission that Iranian forces shot down the plane a “first good step.”
He added that Iranian experts who retrieved the Ukrainian plane's flight recorder, the so-called black box, have sent it to France for analysis.
RELATED: Iran anti-government protests erupt over shooting down of Ukrainian passenger plane: ‘Death to the dictator’
The plane, en route to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, was carrying 167 passengers and nine crew members from several countries, including 82 Iranians, 57 Canadians — including many Iranians with dual citizenship — and 11 Ukrainians, according to officials. There were several children among the passengers, including an infant.
Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Guard’s aerospace division, said over the weekend his unit accepts full responsibility for the shootdown. He said when he learned about the downing of the plane, “I wished I was dead.”
The incident raised questions about why Iran did not shut down its international airport or airspace the day it was on alert for U.S. military retaliation.
The shootdown and the lack of transparency around it has reignited anger in Iran at the country’s leadership. Online videos appeared to show security forces firing live ammunition and tear gas to disperse protests in the streets.
Also Tuesday, Iran's judiciary said that 30 people had been detained in the protests, and that some were released, without elaborating further. An Iranian film director who'd called for protests in Tehran's Azadi, or Freedom, Square is among those released.
Iranian authorities briefly arrested British Ambassador Rob Macaire on Saturday evening. He's said he went to a candlelight vigil to pay his respects for the victims of the Ukrainian plane shootdown and left as soon as the chanting began and it turned into a protest.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador on Sunday to protest what it said was his presence at an illegal protest. Britain, in turn, summoned Iran’s ambassador on Monday “to convey our strong objections” over the weekend arrest.
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Man charged with pimping woman in northwest suburbs of Chicago
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS (Sun-Times Media Wire) - A West Side man has been charged with promoting prostitution in the northwest suburbs.
Gabriel Johnson, 31, is charged with one felony count each of promoting prostitution and being an armed habitual criminal, according to a statement from the Cook County sheriff’s office.
About 7 p.m. on Thursday, members of the sheriff’s Vice Unit conducting an undercover operation learned Johnson was profiting from “acts of prostitution” by a 24-year-old woman at an Arlington Heights-area hotel, the sheriff’s office said.
Johnson, who lives in Austin, showed up while investigators were in the hotel room and was ordered to get on the ground when officers saw a gun in his waistband, the sheriff’s office said. The officers arrested him and recovered a loaded 9 mm semi-automatic weapon.
At the time of his arrest, he was also wanted on an outstanding warrant for a charge of unlawful use of a weapon.
The woman was also taken into custody, but was not charged, according to the sheriff’s office. She was offered victim services.
Judge Marc William Martin set Johnson’s bail at $150,000 during a hearing Friday at the Rolling Meadows Courthouse, according to Cook County court records. He also ordered that Johnson be placed on electronic home monitoring if he posts bond.
His next court date was set for June 13, according to court records.
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Film Review, Physical Media 8th December 2020 9th December 2020
CINEMA PARADISO (1988)
by Jono Simpson
A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema’s projectionist.
Film Review, Streaming 29th November 2020 1st December 2020
HILLBILLY ELEGY (2020)
A Yale law student drawn back to his hometown grapples with family history, Appalachian values and the American dream.
Film Review, Physical Media 13th November 2020 17th November 2020
by Barnaby Page
A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn’t spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Film Review, Physical Media 30th October 2020 15th November 2020
THE SHELTERING SKY (1990)
An American couple travel abroad to rekindle their relationship. But as the trip drags on, their attempt at recovering what they once had seems futile.
Film Review 17th October 2020 18th October 2020
NOMADLAND (2020)
by Daniel Broadley
A woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Film Review 29th September 2020 5th October 2020
BEAU TRAVAIL (1999)
An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Djibouti.
Film Review 7th September 2020 8th September 2020
I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (2020)
Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents’ secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself.
Film Review 18th August 2020 15th November 2020
by Alexander Boucher
An incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.
Film Review 30th July 2020 18th August 2020
A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.
Film Review 21st July 2020 22nd July 2020
STORY OF A LOVE AFFAIR (1950)
by Remy Dean
A young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur meets her former lover after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.
Film Review 26th June 2020 28th June 2020
SCORSESE SHORTS (1963-1978)
Where to begin with Martin Scorsese? Perhaps one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinema history, he’s made some of the most…
Film Review 23rd June 2020 8th July 2020
by Jeffrey Bricker
Four African-American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen Squad Leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.
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Texas providers see new direct-to-consumer business opportunities in the wake of expanded telehealth law
by Evan Sweeney |
Jul 6, 2017 8:49am
Memorial Hermann Health System sees telehealth as a way to get new patients in Houston to attribute themselves to the health system.
Several health systems in Texas are exploring direct-to-consumer telemedicine offerings following passage of a new law that provides physicians more leeway to treat patients they haven’t seen previously.
The new state law, signed by the governor in May, aligns Texas with the rest of the country by allowing physicians to see patients via video conference without a prior in-person interaction. The legislation, which came in the wake of a testy legal battle between Teledoc and the Texas Medical Board, was a distinct victory for some of the largest consumer telehealth companies, opening up a new market in the state.
RELATED: Texas governor signs bill to expand telehealth services, ending a long-running holdout
But health systems and medical groups that have been offering telemedicine services to existing patients for several years see the new legislation as an opportunity to expand their existing service lines and cast a wider net to bring in a new subset of patients into their system.
“The problem is many people—the walking well—they really haven’t established a primary care physician yet,” David James, M.D., senior vice president and CEO of Memorial Hermann Medical Group in Houston told FierceHealthcare. “They may not even care to; they want care on-demand. This is really an opportunity for us to be in that market, at least for our own local metro area.”
For the last several years, Memorial Hermann Health System has partnered with the University of Texas to provide telestroke services, follow-up visits for patients after surgery and for certain pediatric subspecialties. Physicians also used telehealth to access behavioral health specialists during patient exams. Under the previous law, patients that saw a doctor within the Memorial Hermann Medical Group could engage via telemedicine with any other physician within the medical group.
RELATED: Most healthcare executives plan to invest in telehealth—here's why
But all of those models tap into the system's existing patient population. The new law allows the organization to utilize a much broader base of independent physicians that work closely with the system’s accountable care organization.
Pushing telehealth to the general population is the next logical progression towards a clinically integrated system, James said, and it may prove more appealing than a telehealth company that lacks a physical location for more intensive care. If Memorial Hermann can offer the convenience of telehealth for minor ailments like the flu, those previously untapped patients are more likely to return when they need medical care at a physical location.
“What it does is provide an easy button for all the patients out there,” James said. “If we become the easy button, you can go online and call and we’ll get you what you need at your convenience and at the level you need."
“It’s true—we’re trying to get patients to attribute themselves to us become marketing-wise ‘sticky’ to Memorial Hermann so that when you do need that next level of care, you’re coming through to us,” he added, estimating the system would deploy new direct-to-consumer initiatives over the course of 18-36 months, a rollout is purposefully slow and deliberate to ensure the supply matches the demand.
The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), which has been providing telemedicine services to patients for the last two decades, is tentatively interested in a similar approach. Alexander Vo, Ph.D. (pictured right), the director of UTMB’s Center for Telehealth Research and Policy, said the system is still in an “active exploration” phase to look at potential options for expanding telehealth.
RELATED: ATA says states' telemedicine progress a mixed bag
For now, UTMB’s telehealth priorities are still focused on providing services to its existing population, but the new law provides an opportunity to push telehealth services to patients they don’t normally interact with.
Despite their interest in direct-to-consumer offerings, both Vo and James eschewed the idea that they would compete with national telehealth companies like Teledoc or Doctor on Demand that are eager to take hold of the market. Instead, they viewed their new telehealth models as an extension of their existing services, and any provider-based consumer models would be driven by quality rather than profits.
“The important thing for us to keep our eye on is that we continue to provide quality care and make sure we meet the standard of care through whatever medium we utilize,” Vo said.
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PFC Fred H Cook Jr.
Tennessee, USA
20 Apr 1944 (aged 20–21)
North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial
Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia
Fred served as a Private First Class, 831st Bomber Squadron, 485th Bomber Group, Heavy, U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.
He resided in Hempstead County, Arkansas prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army on July 1, 1943 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Driver and also as Single, without dependents.
Fred was a passenger on the S.S. Paul Hamilton (Hull Number 227).
On her fifth voyage the S.S. Paul Hamilton left Hampton Roads, Virginia on April 2, 1944 as part of convoy UGS 38, carrying supplies and the ground personnel of the 485th Bombardment Group and the 5th Reconnaissance Group of the United States Army Air Forces to Italy.
On the evening of April 20th the Hamilton and other ships in the convoy were attacked 30 miles (48 km) in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Cape Bengut near Algiers by 23 German Ju 88 bombers.
One aerial torpedo struck the Paul Hamilton and detonated the cargo of high explosives and bombs, and the ship and crew disappeared within 30 seconds. A total of approximately 580 men where lost.
Fred was declared "Missing In Action" in this sinking during the war.
He was awarded the Purple Heart.
Service # 38510134
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The U.S.S. Lansdale (DD-426) and the S.S. Royal Star were also sunk in this attack.
The Lansdale had a loss of Forty-seven officers and men.
The Royal Star lost only one member of their crew.
The Lansdale received four battle stars for World War II service.
Fred H. Cook
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IMAGE COMICS EXPANDS CONVENTION PRESENCE TO INDIA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COMIC CON INDIA
by First Comics News on October 3, 2018 IMAGE COMICS EXPANDS CONVENTION PRESENCE TO INDIA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COMIC CON INDIA2018-10-03T10:21:42-07:00 - News
PORTLAND, OR, 10/03/2018 — Image Comics is pleased to announce that this year—for the first time in the history of the company—Image will have a dedicated booth presence and storefront alongside an exciting lineup of creative talent appearing at Comic Con India and exclusive Comic Con India reprint issues to drive a concentrated and concerted focus on the Image brand abroad.
India is one of the fastest growing markets in the international comics landscape, and Image Comics’ 2018 presence across Comic Con India is an ambitious growth into international sales for the publisher beyond yearly presence at London Book Fair and Frankfurt Book Fair.
“For quite some time we’ve been looking to see what more we can do within India because we’ve seen above average sales growth across Image Comics’ line of titles in both digital and physical formats,” said Jeff Boison, Director of Publishing Planning & Book Trade Sales. “Assembling a contingent of creators to head over and engage existing fans and introduce themselves and their works to new readers in India is the obvious next step.”
Jatin Varma, Founder & Managing Director at Comic Con India, added: “Since our inception, Comic Con India has been the key element in bridging the gap between international content and the Indian fans. Thus, it gives us immense pleasure in hosting Image Comics & their team at our shows this year! And our unique collaboration gives the fans in India a great opportunity try out some of the most popular series under Image Comics along with meeting some of the leading creators.”
Image Comics talent will be represented across Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Declan Shalvey (SAVAGE TOWN, INJECTION) and John Layman (LEVIATHAN, OUTER DARKNESS, two-time Eisner Award-winning and New York Times bestselling CHEW) in Dehli, Sana Takeda (five-time Eisner Award-winning MONSTRESS) in Mumbai, and Vanesa R. Del Rey (REDLANDS), Ram V(PARADISO), Ryan O’Sullivan (VOID TRIP), and Dan Watters (LIMBO) in Bangalore.
Each location will boast exclusive editions of some of the hottest series published by Image Comics which will be given with to each ticket holder attending the shows and include:
SPAWN #1 by Todd McFarlane (Hyderabad)
SAGA #1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Bangalore)
CHEW #1 by John Layman & Rob Guillory (Delhi)
DESCENDER #1 by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen (Mumbai)
For more information on attending Comic Con India, visit: http://comicconindia.com.
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PORTLAND, OR, 10/03/2018 — Image Comics is pleased to announce that this year—for the first time in the history of the company—Image will have a dedicated booth presence and storefront alongside an exciting lineup of creative talent appearing at Comic Con India and exclusive Comic Con India reprint issues to...
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France, 1955, 115 min, Dir. Jules Dassin, Not rated but unsuitable for children, French with English subtitles, Rialto Pictures
Rififi
"The best film noir I have ever seen." – Francois Truffaut
You will be sent a link & password to view the film. After purchase, you can watch the film for 72 hours days on your computer, phone, tablet, Google Chromecast or Smart TV. Click here for detailed instructions on how to watch the film.
Tony Le Stéphanois (Jean Servais), back from prison after taking a rap for Jo le Suédois (Carl Möhner), is ready to settle a few scores and mastermind a brilliant jewel heist. A worldwide smash hit, Rififi earned director Jules Dassin the Best Director prize at Cannes and set the standard for screen robberies for decades to come.
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'We weren't surprised': Inside the Etowah County COVID-19 vaccine clinic that backed up traffic for miles
Donna Thornton
The Gadsden Times
The heavy turnout for the Etowah County Health Department's drive-thru COVID-19 vaccination clinic Thursday at The Venue at Coosa Landing was not a shock for the staff of the Gadsden/Etowah County Emergency Management Agency.
"Judging by the number of calls we'd received, I can't say we were surprised," GECEMA Public Information Officer Breonna Cole said.
The GECEMA helped organize the event, and worked with the Gadsden police, fire and public works departments to help with logistics and traffic.
Distribution began at 7 a.m., and by about 10 a.m., GECEMA reported the supply of vaccine had been exhausted and that people who were not already in the parking lot would need to wait, to return for another distribution at a later date.
Shortly after they arrived for set-up at 5 a.m., Cole said, people started lining up to get the vaccine. It's encouraging, she said, to see that people want the vaccine.
"It would have been disappointing to just have 100 people show up," Cole said.
Cole didn't know how many people were vaccinated; everyone was working to get cleared out of The Venue and had not discussed the numbers.
About 250 first responders and health care workers were vaccinated in a clinic last week at the health department. Thursday's clinic was the first locally to offer vaccinations for those in the second phase of eligibility — which included people 75 or older — as vaccine was available.
The Venue — with roll-up doors that allow vehicles to drive through its main auditorium — made it possible for the health department staff to set up tables and prepare for two lines of vehicles. When needed paperwork was complete, staff members went to vehicle windows and administered the vaccines.
Recipients were given a time and sent to the parking lot to wait for 15 minutes — a precaution against possible reaction to the vaccination. Cole said there were people checking on those in their vehicles during the wait time, to ensure everyone was OK.
Vaccine demand backs up traffic
Traffic in the area was not OK. At times vehicles were backed up on George Wallace Drive as far as the Interstate 759 exit, backed up over the Broad Street bridge and down First Street to the Gadsden City Hall parking lot, and backed up to Meighan Boulevard and onto the bridge there.
Gadsden police were out directing traffic, and the Etowah County Sheriff's Office and city Public Works Department helped direct traffic into The Venue's parking lot, and around to the back entrance.
For Wendy Miller, a nurse practitioner, it was a three-hour wait in vain; just as she and her husband got to The Venue parking lot, they learned they learned the count of people lined up to be vaccinated had matched the amount of available vaccine. They would have to wait for vaccination later.
"It was really encouraging to see that that many people want to take the vaccine," she said.
Miller just wishes she, and more importantly, her husband, could have gotten it Thursday. She said he's immuno-compromised because of medication he takes, and faces greater risks if he contracts the virus.
He works at Snead State Community College and one of his job duties is COVID-scanning people who come into his building — where students are expected to return to on-campus classes soon.
Miller said as a health care provider, she can probably arrange for vaccination through Super Bee Drugs in Rainbow City.
"But I feel guilty getting vaccinated when he can't," Miller said.
Many other people who waited in line were not able to get the vaccine. Miller said when they left The Venue, they headed toward Meighan Boulevard. "There were cars lined up all the way across the bridge," she said.
Among those who received the vaccine were Dale Butler, Charles Scott and David Fowler, all of whom work at Collier-Butler Funeral Home in Gadsden.
Butler said exposure to the virus has been a concern for the business' staff. Further, he said, his wife and daughter are nurses, and when it was learned that vaccine would be available, they urged him to get it.
"We decided to head over — four hours ago," he said. They had just gotten their vaccines, and were waiting
Teresa Johnson spent hours in line, only to be turned away when the vaccine ran out.
"I'm so concerned for my 91-year-old mom," Johnson said. "We have to stay so isolated for her protection."
Gadsden Fire Department Emergency Medical Service Chief Wil Reed got the vaccine. He said he's very relieved that vaccination is underway; he'll be reassured when he can get the second dose of vaccine.
"It will alleviate some of the stress," Reed said.
He said throughout the pandemic, GFD Chief Stephen Carroll has gone "above and beyond" to ensure the department members are safe. Firefighters have done the same, he said, with additional training and using the extra equipment available to them.
The department's volume of calls involving "people under investigation" is increasing, Reed said. The response to such calls differs depending on the kind of call. With most, one responder will go in, in full protective gear, to assess the situation and determine if more personnel are needed, so that if it's not required, personal protective equipment can be conserved.
With a serious event, such as cardiac arrest, Reed said everyone suits up and responds.
He said the department currently has an adequate supply now of PPE — a member of the office staff searches every day for sources — but some items are getting harder to find.
Reed said the chief keeps a daily count on PPE kits and N95 masks used, to ensure the department has what it needs.
He said some of the department's personnel have been vaccinated for COVID-19; some have not by their own choice. It hasn't been a requirement, he said, but it has been encouraged.
Regardless of receiving the vaccine, Reed said, fire department personnel will continue to use the protective gear recommended to defend against the virus while responding to calls.
Contact Gadsden Times reporter Donna Thornton at 256-393-3284 or donna.thornton@gadsdentimes.com.
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A New Approach to Luxury Condo Sales
ST. PETERSBURG, FL-The developer of the Signature Place tower offers a 25% discount on its units.
By Carl Cronan | April 15, 2009 at 04:44 PM
(Carl Cronan is editor of Real Estate Florida.)
ST. PETERSBURG, FL-Just when it seems the only residential condominium sales in Florida involve either foreclosures, auctions or bulk transactions, one local developer is trying a different approach. Signature Place, a 36-story condo tower near the city’s waterfront, is offering 25% markdowns on its luxury units.
Joel Cantor, the Tampa-based developer who built Signature Place on a former US government building lot at 100 First Ave. S. in Downtown St. Petersburg, negotiated the discount with his lending group, led by Fifth Third Bank. He estimates taking a $60-million hit on the project, which totaled $170 million, though he says it beats having to go to court.
“We want to get the building populated, as does the bank,” Cantor tells GlobeSt.com. “I want to do right by our customers, and do something nobody else has done.”
More than 200 units in Signature Place, which ranged in price from $300,000 to over $3 million prior to construction, are now available for below building cost, according to Cantor, who has roughly 20 years of development experience. New contracts reflecting discounts are being negotiated with current depositors, some of whom bought as far back as 2006, as well as prospective owners who still desire high-rise urban homes. Cantor says it took numerous phone calls, e-mails and meetings over the past year to get lenders to agree to the latest deal.
“We’re close to all our buyers. Everybody knows the market has gone down,” Cantor says. “The majority of these people want to go forward. They just want a better price.”
Local brokers are watching to see whether Cantor’s approach will work to reduce the statewide condo surplus any better than, say, bulk sales, which are being attempted in Miami. Lately it appears there are more foreclosures and lawsuits involving condo contracts than completed sales around the Sunshine State.
John Stone, a veteran multifamily investment broker with Clearwater-based Colliers Arnold, says only six bulk-condo transactions have been completed in the Tampa Bay market over the past two years. “The lender’s primary goal is to liquidate these troubled assets for the highest price,” he says.
Cantor shares that same goal, along with trying to maintain his solid reputation as a longtime developer. “I always try to do things right,” he says, “and I don’t give up.”
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Summary of A River in Darkness
Masaji Ishikawa
Amazon Publishing, 2018
Translated by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown. Published by AmazonCrossing, 2018. Text copyright © 2000 by Masaji Ishikawa. Translation copyright © 2017 by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown. All rights reserved.
Concrete Examples
Insider's Take
Masaji Ishikawa’s brutally vivid memoir of life in North Korea depicts sorrow, hunger, deprivation, cold and loss. This short, intense portrait evokes the horrors he found after leaving his native Japan at age 13 in 1960. His Korean father decided to move the family to North Korea, in hopes of finding a better life in the “promised land” described in the country’s extensive propaganda. In fact, the family found only torment. In 1996 – after 36 years in North Korea – Ishikawa escaped back to Japan, facing the loss of his children and his identity. This English-language translation of his autobiography, which he wrote in Japanese in 2000, provides a rare look at life in one of the world’s most enigmatic, oppressive nations. Even with a few inconsistencies in the narrative’s timeline, Ishikawa’s saga is expressive and harrowing. getAbstract recommends it to anyone interested in North Korean life and to those who appreciate detailed personal histories.
Masaji Ishikawa was born in Japan in 1947 to a Korean father and a Japanese mother. When he was 13 years old, his family moved to North Korea, where he remained until his 1996 escape to Japan.
“Grab…Destiny by the Throat and Wring Its Neck”
Masaji Ishikawa doesn’t believe in a set destiny from birth. He believes he had five births. And he fought for his life each time. In 2000, he published his autobiography in his native Japan under the pseudonym Shunsuke Miyazake to document his five lives – including spending 36 oppressive years in North Korea before fleeing in 1996.
“Born Between Two Worlds”
From the moment of he was born, Masaji Ishikawa had to live between two worlds. His mother was Japanese; his father was Korean. Named Masaji in Japanese and Do Chan-sun in Korean, he had what he calls his “first birth” in 1947 in Kawasaki. Though his family had little money, he had a happy childhood in the farming neighborhood of Mizonokuchi, Japan. His mother, Miyoko, came from a well-respected family with close community ties. Her family viewed Koreans as barbarians. Her older brothers had fought with the Japanese army in Manchuria and described Koreans as gorillas –&#...
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Country Report: Russia
Author: Laurence Neville
REFORM BECOMING REALITY
By Laurence Neville
After years of promises, there are tentative signs that Russia is finally getting serious about reforming its economy.
Russia has always been the odd one out in the BRIC quartet of leading emerging economies. While Brazil, Russia, India and China have enormous geographical size in common, the dynamism and rapid growth of the Southern Hemisphere economies have set them apart from Russia. Its role in the global economy has been simply to exploit its oil, gas and mineral wealth: Oil products, gas and metals account for 80% of Russian exports, while oil and gas revenues account for half of federal budget revenue.
As a result, the non-oil budget deficit is still relatively high at 10% to 11% of GDP. “Oil and gas is the major supporting driver of the Russian economy,” says Olga Fedotova, credit analyst at UniCredit. “When we say Russia, we mean oil and gas.”
Given flat oil prices, the dominance of the sector took its toll on the economy in 2012. According to the World Bank, Russia’s economy grew 3.4% in 2012, down from 4.3% in 2011. Although these figures are impressive compared with many developed economies, Russia remains the poor relation of the BRICs.
Evgeny Gavrilenkov, chief economist at Sberbank, points out that Russia’s economy has demonstrated its ability to grow using domestic sources, despite global turbulence and capital outflow. “The effectiveness of the economy is moderately improving: The total increase in labor productivity over the first nine months of 2012 was 3.1%,” he says. Nevertheless, he concedes that “2013 will be another year of muddling through.”
In the long term, the Russian economy requires revitalization to accelerate growth. The challenges are formidable. First, Russia must step out of the shadow of its oil and gas industry. Second, it must seek genuine reform and crack down on corruption, political meddling in the economy, dismal corporate governance and what many see as a disregard for property rights and the rule of law.
In their recent Russia Focus report, Benoit Anne, head of global emerging markets strategy at Société Générale, and Vladimir Kolychev, chief economist at SG-owned Rosbank, say that Russian authorities have established an encouraging reform plan. “Apart from committing to a more comprehensive set of macroeconomic policies (inflation targeting and budget rules), some progress has also been made in other areas,” they note.
For example, measures to improve corporate governance at state-owned companies were announced. Perhaps more important, decrees from president Putin have set a goal of improving Russia’s position in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business ranking from 120th to 20th by 2018.
Shemetov, Moscow Exchange: Investors can now trade Russian government bonds as they do securities the world over
“The government, together with the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, has started to work on a dozen roadmaps to improve the business climate in different sectors of the economy,” note Anne and Kolychev. “Some of these have already been approved despite pressure from vested interests.” Administrative reform is also in the pipeline, while an ongoing anti-corruption campaign seems to be gaining ground.
One of Russia’s greatest reform success stories is its financial market infrastructure. A Central Securities Depository (CSD) was launched on November 6, 2012, satisfying the requirements of US SEC Rule 17f-7 and enabling more US institutional investors to access the market. Another boost for international investors is the creation of foreign nominee accounts: Custodians can now manage documentation on investors’ behalf.
“There will be changes in the level of market activity in Russia following the introduction of these reforms—ease of access is a crucial consideration for investors,” says Alex Krunic, head of product sales for direct custody and clearing at J.P. Morgan.
Meanwhile, the mechanics of the market have also been streamlined. In March, Russia moved to a conventional settlement cycle of T+2 [transaction date plus 2 days] for the 20 most liquid equities and 39 government bonds. “The entire market is expected to move to T+2 by January 2014,” notes Krunic. T+2 trading means investors no longer have to pre-fund their trades, which should increase willingness to trade—and thus liquidity.
Another logistical boost comes from links between the CSD and Euroclear’s and Clearstream’s settlement systems. “An investor in London or New York can now trade Russian government bonds the same way they trade other securities the world over,” notes Andrey Shemetov, deputy chairman at Moscow Exchange.
The reforms to date were thought impossible until a few years ago. However, there is still plenty to do. “The next step for Russia is to build a solid domestic investor base and an effective system of market makers to generate liquidity and effective pricing,” says Jan Dehn, chief strategist at emerging markets investment house Ashmore. Krunic agrees: “Russia does not allow pension funds to hold domestic equities, and assets are primarily held in fixed-income instruments. Changing these rules is on the agenda and will be beneficial.”
One area that remains uncertain is Russia’s $100 billion privatization drive, announced three years ago. The list of privatization candidates is long— plans include up to 5% of Russian Railways (previously expected in 2014), 25.5% of leading bank VTB, 7% of diamond miner Alrosa, and up to half of Russia’s largest shipping company, Sovkomflot. Around 6% of oil company Rosneft could also be sold.
Gavrilenkov, Sberbank: The economy has shown its ability to grow domestically, despite global tumult and capital outflow
However, since president Putin reassumed the presidency, most observers believe privatization momentum has slowed. Moreover, an insistence on focusing share sales on the domestic market could yet scupper any deals that do make it to market.
Moreover, in the oil sector, state ownership has increased from 5% in 2002 to more than 50% in 2013 following the Rosneft–TNK-BP acquisition, notes UniCredit’s Fedotova. “Rosneft has been the major consolidation vehicle, taking over a considerable number of assets from private owners, such as Udmurtneft, Yukos and Itera, and it is planning to swallow TNK-BP to become the world’s largest public oil company,” she adds.
While privatization is important to increase efficiency, it also sends a broader signal about the government’s role in the economy. Likewise, government must send a signal about the importance of entrepreneurial spirit in the Russian economy if it is to lessen its dependence on oil and gas, according to Axel Tillmann, CEO of RVC-USA, US subsidiary of a $1 billion Russian fund of funds. He says that having joined the WTO, Russia is steadily reforming its internal system, including the legal environment. But “a conversion from oil and gas cannot be achieved overnight: It’s a 20-to-25-year process,” says Tillmann.
The potential opportunities are sizable. “Russia could overtake Germany to become the largest European economy before 2020 in PPP terms and by around 2035 at market exchange rates,” according to John Hawksworth, head of macroeconomics at PwC and author of the World In 2050 report. If Russia were to truly embrace reform, it might finally earn its place as a member of the BRICs.
GFmag.com Data Summary: Russia
This article appeared in issue April 2013
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EU must release Solidarity Fund more quickly at times of natural disasters
In light of the ongoing forest fires in Portugal and the 2016 Italian earthquakes, GUE/NGL MEPs have put forward an amendment to the Parliament’s negotiating mandate for the trialogue over the EU budget so that money from the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) can be made available faster to member states in the aftermath of natural disasters.
This comes as Portugal struggles to deal with the worst-ever forest fires which have already claimed the lives of dozens of people.
GUE/NGL is the only group in the Parliament to have tabled this amendment ahead of yesterday’s deadline before the trialogue between the European Parliament and the Commission begins over the EU Budget.
Commenting on the amendment, Portuguese MEP Miguel Viegas said:
“Besides expressing our deep consternation at the loss of human lives – and following on from the commitments that had already been made public – we are asking the European Commission to take urgent action in order to support the victims of the disaster. We have therefore proposed this amendment together with other members of GUE/NGL.”
“The tragedy in Portugal requires effective and timely actions that respond to the immediate and future needs of the affected population.”
“It is increasingly clear that there is a need to not only increase the Solidarity Fund, but to also adapt the rules in order to allow for more flexible and timely mobilisation, covering a wider range of disasters with huge impacts and to reduce the time taken between the catastrophes and the availability of these funds.”
“It should also be added that a consistent approach is, first and foremost, necessary in order to prevent other disasters by putting into practice the recommendations which the Parliament has adopted,” said Viegas.
Meanwhile, Portugal’s Marisa Matias MEP said:
“These tragic Portuguese forest fires have taken so many lives and have already destroyed so much that we need an answer from the EU.”
“That's why it's so important that right now, the European Parliament is defining its mandate for negotiating the EU budget, mindful of a further increase to the EUSF in order to meet the needs.”
“We hope that the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgets will be responsible enough by offering solidarity to the affected families and communities.”
“I sincerely hope that the EU can do much more than to just grieve,” said Matias.
GUE/NGL’s Coordinator on the Committee on Budgets, Liadh Ní Riada, was also unequivocal in her support of the amendment:
“As GUE/NGL Coordinator on the Committee on Budgets, I am more than happy to offer my support to this amendment calling on the EU to release funds to assist the Portuguese government in the battle and clean-up against these horrific forest fires.”
“The EUSF is in place for the very reason of showing solidarity with our European neighbours in times of crisis. The current forest fires raging in Portugal are devastating to natural habitats and human life. I would like to extend my condolences to the Portuguese people and all the families of the 64 people who have sadly lost their lives,” said the Irish MEP.
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GUE/NGL raises dissent over the political conditions of the first-round Brazilian election
The GUE/NGL group raises dissent over the political conditions in which the Brazilian election took place over the weekend in the following statement:
After the first round of the Brazilian presidential election the extreme right-wing candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, gathered most of the votes. The elections were marked, most notably in the last days, by a huge campaign involving much manipulation of public opinion. Despite those attempts, Jair Bolsonaro will be obliged to go to the second ballot against Fernando Haddad, the left-wing candidate who received 29.3 per cent of the first-round votes.
Brazilian voters will have to make a crucial decision in the next round: between a progressive candidate fighting for increased social fairness and against poverty, and an extreme right-wing candidate who spreads hatred and adores the military dictatorship.
There is still a possibility to stop the regressive backlash of an admirer of fascist regimes. The unity of all democratic and progressive forces and the mobilisation of the people is fundamental to achieve this objective.
GUE/NGL expresses its warm solidarity to the Brazilian people and to all progressives and democrats who will face a huge battle for democracy in their country in the days leading up to October 28.
GUE/NGL once again recalls with discontent the difficult conditions in which these Brazilian Presidential elections took place: the coup that contributed to the removal of the legitimate President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff; the political and judicial persecution against Lula da Silva which prevented him from running as a candidate, put him in prison and forbade him to vote; the illegitimate presidency of Michel Temer; the serious social problems affecting a big part of the Brazilian working people; the deep crisis of democratic institutions in which the politicisation of justice plays a significant role; as well as the colossal manipulation operation promoted by the mainstream media and social media networks.
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The Conflict Between Augmented Intelligence, Analytics, and Privacy
Home/Insights/The Conflict Between Augmented Intelligence, Analytics, and Privacy
Friend or Foe? Consumers still aren’t sure if Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be a liberating force or an oppressive one.
In approaching this question, it’s worth noting that there is a closely-related concept that also falls under the AI banner, which deserves to be understood in its own terms. I’m talking about Augmented Intelligence, which refers to a hybrid approach that involves computational programs and manual human intervention.
Artificial Intelligence Versus Augmented Intelligence
You can think of Augmented Intelligence as a best-of-both world’s approach because it produces systems that can respond efficiently, but also with a more human touch. Here’s a quick look at these two technological concepts they both differ and overlap.
Artificial intelligence. This refers to machine learning and algorithms that learn from experience. These are purely digital in nature.
Augmented intelligence. This refers to software that is manipulated (or fine-tuned) by humans so that it responds in a more intelligent (or even human) way.
Whether we are talking about Artificial Intelligence or the augmented variety, technology has always produced mixed-results and that will be especially true as data collection methods, privacy concerns, and AI take center over the next several decades.
The tug-of-war between these forces is inevitable. But as the information revolution shapes the relationship between companies and customers alike, what factors will help ensure that computerized systems evolve in ways that benefit both humanity and the marketplace? Here are a few of the fundamentals that every executive in the digital landscape should be aware of.
In the future, every aspect of life (the home, infrastructure, and the marketplace) will be governed by algorithms, bots, and digital assistants that help run our lives more efficiently.
How AI is Shaping the Future
AI of whatever stripe is one of the key drivers of economic success in the 21st century. Facial recognition, predictive analytics, and data-driven medical diagnostics are just a few of the areas where the technology is already having a huge impact. In the future, every aspect of life (the home, infrastructure, and the marketplace) will be governed by algorithms, bots, and digital assistants that help run our lives more efficiently.
Understandably, many worry that these tools could be misused by the state or corporations for nefarious purposes. The same apps used for navigation, language translation, and product searches can also be utilized to track location, create customer profiles, and hack personal information.
Privacy Concerns in the Information Age
Concern over privacy and human dignity have prompted many thought leaders, business executives, and governments to think long and hard about the best way to protect individuals from some of the risks that come along with AI.
Computer scientists, companies, and government regulators are all wrestling with the ways AI may impact human freedom, both positively and negatively. As you might expect, privacy regulations are evolving as the tools advance, but standards vary widely across the globe, and many businesses and countries are still working to update guidelines based on emerging technologies.
So far, protections for consumer data are far more robust in the EU than they are in the US. And privacy compliance mandates, such as the GDPR and PCI-DSS, which severely limit the way personal data can be collected and processed in Europe, influence the way AI systems are being developed and deployed.
Showing Consumers the Brightside of AI
The situation in the United States is somewhat fluid. But there is a bright side to the story here. Consumers recognize there is a big upside to AI. Yes, consumers are concerned about privacy, but younger consumers, in particular, are quite open to sharing data, so long as they believe they are getting something in return. Here are some stats that illustrate their optimism about AI technology:
A YouGov study found that 43% of consumers surveyed said they would exchange personal data with companies to save money through personalized promotions, discounts, or deals.
The same study found that 39% of users felt comfortable sharing personal data if it led to a speedier resolution of their problems.
Research by my company, Invoca, found that 64% of today’s consumers wanted companies to use their data to direct them to the right person on the phone or in customer service.
If you can convince users that their data will be handled safely and with their best interests in mind, then they will be more willing to share.
It’s no surprise, AI is still a little scary. But when you can point to clear benefits of the technology -- making shopping experiences faster and easier and eliminating wait times for customer service -- then their fear will subside. Once it’s clear that AI can help provide smarter service both online and off, then the fear of AI can quickly turn into demand for more.
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