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home24 SE: home24 SE launches capital increase
home24 SE / Key word(s): Capital Increase
08-Dec-2020 / 17:50 CET/CEST
Disclosure of an inside information acc. to Article 17 MAR of the Regulation (EU) No 596/2014, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG.
NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION, PUBLICATION OR FORWARDING, EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH DISTRIBUTION OR PUBLICATION WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. OTHER RESTRICTIONS ARE APPLICABLE. PLEASE SEE THE IMPORTANT NOTICE AT THE END OF THIS PUBLICATION.
Berlin, December 8, 2020 - Today, the management board of home24 SE (the "Company"), with approval of the supervisory board, resolved to conduct a capital increase from authorized capital against cash contributions with exclusion of shareholders' subscription rights (the "Capital Increase"). The Company intends to issue up to 2,640,918 new ordinary bearer shares with no par value, corresponding to up to 10% of the Company's existing share capital. The number of new shares and the placement price will be determined on the basis of an accelerated bookbuilding which commences with immediate effect. The new shares will carry the same rights, including dividend rights, as the Company's existing shares.
The new shares from the Capital Increase will be offered exclusively to institutional investors and be admitted to trading on the regulated market (regulierter Markt) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Prime Standard) and included in the existing quotation for the Company's shares. In connection with the Capital Increase, the Company has agreed to a lock-up period of 90 days, subject to customary exceptions.
In view of the Company's recently announced plans to further advance preparations for the initial public offering of its Brazilian subsidiary, Mobly S.A., the Company intends to use the net proceeds from the private placement primarily to strengthen its European business. In particular, the Company intends to make investments into additional working capital, customer-centric technology, its showroom concept, to scale performance marketing, especially with stronger focus on its European non-DACH markets and to strengthen brand awareness, as well as to potentially make use of external growth opportunities.
Person making the notification: Dr. Martin Bredol, Capital Market Compliance Officer
Information and Explanation of the Issuer to this News:
This announcement may not be published, distributed or transmitted, directly or indirectly, in the United States of America (including its territories and possessions), Canada, Japan or Australia or any other jurisdiction where such announcement could be unlawful. The distribution of this announcement may be restricted by law in certain jurisdictions and persons who are in possession of this document or other information referred to herein should inform themselves about and observe any such restrictions. Any failure to comply with these restrictions may constitute a violation of the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
This announcement does not constitute an offer of, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase, securities of home24 SE or of any of its subsidiaries in the United States of America, Germany or any other jurisdiction. Neither this announcement nor anything contained herein shall form the basis of, or be relied upon in connection with, an offer in any jurisdiction. The securities offered will not be and have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the 'Securities Act') and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements under the Securities Act.
In the United Kingdom, this announcement is only directed at persons who (i) are investment professionals falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (as amended) (the 'Order'), (ii) are persons falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (high net worth companies, unincorporated associations, etc.) or (iii) to whom it may otherwise be lawfully communicated (all such persons together being referred to as 'Relevant Persons')). This document must not be acted on, or relied upon, by persons who are not Relevant Persons. Any investment or investment activity to which this document relates is available only to Relevant Persons and will be engaged in only with Relevant Persons.
In member states of the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom the placement of securities described in this announcement (the 'Placement') is directed exclusively at persons who are 'qualified investors' within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 (Prospectus Regulation).
No action has been taken that would permit an offering or an acquisition of the securities or a distribution of this announcement in any jurisdiction where such action would be unlawful. Persons into whose possession this announcement comes are required to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions.
This announcement does not constitute a recommendation concerning the Placement. Investors should consult a professional advisor as to the suitability of the Placement for the person concerned.
This release may contain forward looking statements, estimates, opinions and projections with respect to anticipated future performance of home24 SE ('forward-looking statements'). These forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the terms 'believes,' 'estimates,' 'anticipates,' 'expects,' 'intends,' 'may,' 'will' or 'should' or, in each case, their negative, or other variations or comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements include all matters that are not historical facts. Forward-looking statements are based on the current views, expectations and assumptions of the management of home24 SE and involve significant known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. Forward-looking statements should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results and will not necessarily be accurate indications of whether or not such results will be achieved. Any forward-looking statements included herein only speak as at the date of this release. The Company does not undertake any obligation, and does not expect to publicly update, or publicly revise, any of the information, forward-looking statements or the conclusions contained herein or to reflect new events or circumstances or to correct any inaccuracies which may become apparent subsequent to the date hereof, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Neither the Company nor any other person accepts any liability whatsoever in respect of the achievement of such forward-looking statements and assumptions.
Information to Distributors
Pursuant to EU product governance requirements, the shares have been subject to a product approval process, under which each distributor has determined that such shares are: (i) compatible with an end target market of retail investors and investors who meet the criteria of professional clients and eligible counterparties, each as defined in MiFID II; and (ii) eligible for distribution through all distribution channels as are permitted by MiFID II. Any distributor subsequently offering the shares is responsible for undertaking its own target market assessment in respect of the shares and determining appropriate distribution channels.
Philipp Steinhäuser, ir@home24.de
08-Dec-2020 CET/CEST The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases.
Phone: +49 30 - 609880019
Fax: +49 30 - 2016329499
E-mail: ir@home24.de
ISIN: DE000A14KEB5
WKN: A14KEB
Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange
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Visit The Plaza
Elizabeth Henstridge
Born in England, Elizabeth Henstridge trained classically and worked in theatre and film before coming to Los Angeles in 2012. Before she could unpack her belongings, Henstridge booked a starring role in The CW pilot “Shelter,” produced by Bad Robot/J.J. Abrams. Currently, Henstridge plays Simmons on ABC’s “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D,” which is going into its seventh and final season. She has loved becoming a part of the Marvel family and cultivating a rabid fan base. As a bonus, she’s learned a lot of scientific jargon, which her “mum” is quite pleased about. Henstridge is also making headway on the directing path, having directed the “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D” episode “As I Have Always Been,” which will air in 2020.
In addition to acting and directing, Henstridge is passionate about working with the cleft lip and palate charity Smile Train, The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and Teenage Cancer America in Los Angeles.
Christmas at the Plaza cast
Ryan Paevey
Nick Perrelli
Bruce Davison
Reginald Brookwater
Julia Duffy
Amanda Clark
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Hamamatsu Photonics congratulates winners of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics
Hamamatsu, Japan – October 7, 2015 – Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. would like to congratulate Professor Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo and Professor Arthur B. McDonald of Queen's University (Canada) for being jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.
Hamamatsu employees are especially delighted by the recognition of Professor Kajita, whose research at the Super Kamiokande was conducted in a large-scale facility that included photomultiplier tubes manufactured by the company’s Electron Tube Division. Professor Kajita was one of several top-tier physics researchers in Japan that provided feedback to Hamamatsu during the development of the high-performance 20-inch photomultiplier tube (R3600-05) that was installed at the Super Kamiokande facility to detect atmospheric and solar neutrinos. When observations at the facility began in 1996, there were 11,200 pieces of this photomultiplier tube installed in a 50,000-ton tank of pure water placed 1,000 meters underground. In 1998, when Professor Kajita announced the results of his observations at an international conference on neutrino astrophysics in Gifu Prefecture, his statement that “there is mass in neutrinos” was widely reported by news media in Japan. It is a source of great pride of Hamamatsu employees to have contributed to the discovery of new knowledge, as this is part of the company’s mission to continually support humankind’s journey of scientific discovery.
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Calling Out Health Equity on Martin Luther King Day 2019
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 20 January 2019 in Artificial intelligence, Baby health, Bioethics, Business and health, Cognitive computing and health, Data analytics and health, Design and health, Diabetes, Financial wellness, Food and health, Grocery stores, Health costs, Health disparities, Health ecosystem, Health equity, Health social networks, Money and health, Retail health, Smart cities, Social determinants of health, Sustainability, Uninsured, Violence and health, Wellbeing
On this weekend as we appreciate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., I post a photo of him in my hometown of Detroit in 1963, giving a preliminary version of the “I Have a Dream” speech he would deliver two months later in Washington, DC.
Wisdom from the speech: “But now more than ever before, America is forced to grapple with this problem, for the shape of the world today does not afford us the luxury of an anemic democracy. The price that this nation must pay for the continued oppression and exploitation of the Negro or any other minority group is the price of its own destruction. For the hour is late. The clock of destiny is tickling out, and we must act now before it is too late.”
As I meditate on MLK, I think about health equity. By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries: suffice it to say, We’re Still Not #1 for health outcomes, albeit we’re the biggest spender on healthcare, per health citizen, in the world.
Underneath that statistic is a shameful state of health affairs: that people of color and the LGBTQ communities in the U.S. have lower quality of health and many services than white people do:
Black women have higher breast cancer death rates than White women
Asian women are less likely than White women to receive a pap smear
Hispanic women are more likely than non-Hispanic White women to be diagnosed with cervical cancer at an advanced stage
Rates of hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes are higher for Black women than for women in other racial/ethnic groups
The rate of hospital admissions for lower extremity amputations due to uncontrolled diabetes is higher for Black women than White women
The rate of new AIDS cases is higher for Black and Hispanic women than for non-Hispanic White women. Black and Hispanic men had even higher rates than women, as well as higher rates than non-Hispanic White men
Black women receive treatment for depression less frequently than White women and Hispanic women received treatment less frequently than non-Hispanic White women
Hispanic women received treatment for substance abuse less frequently than non-Hispanic White women.
If these statistics don’t move you, then here’s a finding from the National Academy of Science’s Shorter Lives, Poorer Health that might surprise you: today, people in the U.S. under 50 have poorer health outcomes than our cohorts in other developed countries. For women under 50, we’d rather live in other industrialized countries where fewer women under 50 die from noncommunicable diseases, heart disease, injuries, perinatal conditions, drug-related causes, and communicable and nutritional conditions.
Yes, more younger women in the U.S. — the wealthiest nation in the world — lose more life-years due to malnutrition, infectious disease, injury, and lifestyle-borne diseases like diabetes and heart disease than in our fellow rich countries.
And in 2018, a new statistic emerging that the rate among women for deaths due to opioid overdoses rose. One of the most heartbreaking aspects of this concerning trend is a link to pregnant women and newborns.
What’s new today versus previous MLK Days is that the rate of white male middle-age deaths is on the rise, as well. So when we consider health disparities and public health, it’s important to realize there’s one boat, one health commons, and every person in America is impacted by those social determinants of health beyond the healthcare system: clean air (ask a miner in West Virginia), clean water (ask your cousin in Flint, Michigan), good jobs (with health benefits – ask any worker without them), nutritious food (ask someone living in a food desert), social connections (ask an isolated senior), and in my growing appreciation, access to connectivity/broadband networks (ask anyone looking for a job or a clinic for a lab test without a good smartphone data plan).
In 2019, an emerging concern is how the growth in adoption of artificial intelligence and cognitive computing among health care organizations – particularly, insurance plans, providers, and pharma. AI can be used for good, to be sure. The promises of Big Data in health cover a wide range: hospitals anticipating and preventing inpatient readmissions; health plans deploying more effective population health programs; and research-based life science companies being more intelligent and efficient in finding cures.
But AI also can mine data from sources beyond the medical claim that mashed together profile people in ways that can be used to bias business choices in the interest of cost-saving or simply-put, prejudice. We must guard against exacerbating health disparities with these sorts of AI applications in health and medical care.
This week’s news covering a U.S. District judge ruling against the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S . Census is another example of how institutions, and public ones at that, can try to mis-use data or mis-appropriate data. For an in-depth look into this phenomenon, see my report, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Health Information is Getting Tracked and Used, written for the California Healthcare Foundation.
Finally, read what U.S. doctors have to say about health disparities in JAMA. The top line for doctors lies in the concluding sentence: “Apart from the human and economic consequences affecting today’s adults and workforce, the health disadvantages faced by today’s children carry profound implications for tomorrow’s adults, the nation’s economy, and national security. Now the question is what US society is prepared to do about it.”
To this end, I am encouraged (immediate-term, anyway) by the growing understanding and embrace of the role of social determinants for health in America among both providers and health plans.
Coming full circle to Dr. King, there’s a paragraph from MLK’s speech delivered at the Great March of Detroit that especially resonates on his special Day:
“We are coming to see now, the psychiatrists are saying to us, that many of the strange things that happen in the subconscious, many of the inner conflicts, are rooted in hate. And so they are saying, ‘Love or perish.’ But Jesus told us this a long time ago. And I can still hear that voice crying through the vista of time, saying, ‘Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.'”
Health Populi’s Hot Points: I am a child of metro Detroit. As a very little girl, I lived through the Detroit Riots of 1967, a few days after which my father drove us through the fire-devastated neighborhoods of his friends and clients who lived and worked around 12th Street and Grand River. It was a visceral moment for me in my life, one of my earliest memories, seeing burned-out shops on pedestrian main streets. I remember still the smoky smell which my young lungs breathed in. I wondered why something like this happens.
In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait; The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. In college, I delved deeply into urban economics and urban planning, soaking in Jane Jacobs’ seminal work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, among other influential books on the syllabus.
At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I then learned to connect the dots between our environment, our socioeconomic status — especially the role of education — and health.
Addressing health disparities is as much about access to health insurance as it is to access to good and well-priced food, safe schools, education, good jobs, and sound social policies about gun ownership and use. We must also attend to seeing that broadband and connectivity, and net neutrality for access to the online world, services, and communities, are guaranteed to all health citizens in America.
These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. Those of us whose work touches any aspect of health and health care must attend to public health and commit to reducing health disparities in America. A healthy populace is more productive across so many dimensions. As we continue the hard work to re-build the national economy and continue to expand affordable health care access, public health should and must be seen and used as a pillar for economic growth.
This post is updated from previous versions that have run here on Health Populi to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, birthday.
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Canada Blooms 2009
From March 18 to 22, 2009, Canada Blooms returned to Toronto to transform the Metro Toronto Convention Centre into Canada’s largest flower and garden festival. Now in its thirteenth year, the 2009 Festival celebrates the best of Canadian gardens and explores the tradition of gardening and horticultural excellence across the country.
The RBC Speakers Series presented five education days featuring North America’s premier gardening experts. Themed days included Organic Gardening Day, Design Day, and Scents and Sensibilities.
Canada’s Largest Standard Judged Flower Show - With the theme ‘Sea to Sea,’ the Garden Hall was filled with exciting amateur competitions in horticulture and floral design from the best Ontario flower arrangers and international competitors
Plastic nursery pots can be a landfill nightmare, but in the hands of talented artists Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins, they beaome a provocative and unconventional work of art. This renowned artistic team created Land-Escape, a sculptured landscape that re-imagined a landfill site teaming with discarded plastic pots, transforming shredded plastics, bulk material and pellets into a brightly coloured art installation.
The largest garden at this year's show, The Heart and Stroke Foundation Pulse Garden, in partnership with Humber College, featured flowering dogwoods, Japanese maples, rhododendrons and ‘Red Prince’ weigelas, a variety of perennials and signature Foundation red and white tulips. At one end, a waterfall and pool encircled by a wheelchair ramp added to the beauty and tranquility. Across from the pool, nursing students were on hand to take blood pressure readings.
Canada Blooms is a not-for-profit volunteer-driven event which to date has reinvested over $500,000 in proceeds into community horticultural projects. This year’s proceeds will benefit the Toronto Botanical Gardens’ children’s programs.
It takes five days of preparation to create over six acres of breathtaking gardens
About 500 people work around the clock to transform the Metro Toronto Convention Centre into Canada’s largest flower and garden festival.
It takes about 32 dump trucks to bring in over 1,400 tons of sand, and eight truckloads of mulch to create the plant beds for the Festival.
$1.5 million of specialized equipment is donated by major horticultural equipment manufacturers, such as forklifts, skid steer and wheel loaders, to do the work.
Growers prepare more than 300 trees, 400 shrubs, 4,000 pots of perennials, 600 potted evergreens, 1,400 flowers, and about 80,000 bulbs for the Festival.
A technique called “forcing” is used to ensure that each of these trees, shrubs and flowers are in bloom during the five-day Festival. Trees and plants are artificially cooled in June to put them into dormancy, and then brought into greenhouses in January and ‘fooled’ into thinking that it’s time to grow again.
There are more than 100 dedicated individuals from The Garden Club of Toronto and Landscape Ontario, who work throughout the year to bring Canada Blooms to life. During the Festival, there are nearly 800 more volunteers from across Canada who contribute their time.
www.canadablooms.com
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Fire at Ice Factor
Due to a fire within Ice Factor on Wednesday afternoon (29th July), the facility is currently closed until at least Monday 3 August. Customers affected by this temporary closure are being offered rescheduled dates to visit.
Fire investigators are expected to visit Ice Factor today (Thursday) to determine the cause of the fire that was discovered within the sauna / steam room area in the rear of the building by a staff member at approx. 2:45pm.
It is the first fire at Ice Factor, the world’s largest indoor ice climbing facility since it opened in 2003.
Firefighters from the local Kinlochleven station were very quickly on the scene and were later supported by crews from Fort William and Oban.
Building evacuation procedures were followed and over 80 people were quickly accounted for and evacuated.
There is extensive damage to the sauna and steam room and smoke damage throughout the building.
Jamie Smith, owner of Ice Factor International, believes damage to the facility, one of Scotland’s leading adventure tourism attractions could run into tens of thousands of pounds. He commented:
“I would like to thank the staff and emergency services for their very quick response to this incident as soon as the fire alarm activated. The fire crews did an amazing job in very trying circumstances.
“While we await the outcome of the investigation into the cause of the fire, I wish to reassure our many loyal customers that we will work very hard to ensure Ice Factor, one of Scotland’s top adventure tourism attractions is open again for business as soon as possible.”
The facility has already enjoyed its best year since 2008 with over 162000 visitors.
Ice Factor Kinlochleven, the world’s largest indoor ice climbing facility and the National Ice Climbing Centre cost over £3.4 million to convert from a Victorian aluminium smelter.
The facility annually attracts over 150,000 visitors, including members of Scotland’s mountain rescue teams and Armed Forces who benefit from practicing on ice walls designed to replicate the winter ice conditions to be found on the likes of Ben Nevis. Ice Factor Kinlochleven consistently ranks as one of the world’s top climbing centres.
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Responses to the Current Ventilator Shortage: FDA’s Recommendations and Guidance for Industry and Health Care Providers
Neil Olderman, Mark Phillips and Brett Warner
Responses to the Current Venti...
The Society of Critical Care Medicine estimates that the United States has over 200,000 ventilators, although other organizations have lower estimates. According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the federal government emergency stockpile has around 12,700 ventilators. Manufacturers of medical ventilators are immediately increasing production because it appears current inventory of ventilators will not be sufficient to treat a surge in coronavirus patients. For example, GE Healthcare is hiring more people and increasing the number of shifts it operates so that it can produce ventilators around the clock, and Medtronic said that it has already boosted ventilator production by 40% and is on track to more than double its ventilator production capacity.
The U.S. government has invoked the Defense Production Act of 1950 (DPA), which allows the federal government to direct businesses to produce specific goods that are critical to the national defense. The DPA allows the president to require businesses to prioritize and accept contracts for required materials and services and to provide incentives for the domestic industrial base to expand the production and supply of critical materials and goods.
During a White House briefing President Donald Trump said that the DPA was being invoked “just in case we need it.” In North America, General Motors and Ford have shut down auto production and are beginning to evaluate whether they can help with the production of ventilators or other equipment. The British government is working with a number of manufacturers to build a “basic, functional ventilator” that is far cheaper and easier to produce than a standard model. The timeline for automakers to retool and receive regulatory approval to produce medical equipment is unknown; however, it is unlikely to provide additional ventilator production in the short term.
With an anticipated shortage of ventilators looming as more patients with COVID-19 present for treatment, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on March 22 published a set of recommendations to health care providers (HCPs) meant to help lessen the shortfall.
While HCPs should, whenever possible, use conventional FDA-cleared ventilators to support patients with respiratory failure, providers may use alternative devices if the number of ventilators is running low. Examples of such alternative devices include ventilators labeled for home use, emergency transport ventilators, anesthesia gas machines, noninvasive ventilation patient interfaces and airway pressure devices used for treatment of sleep apnea. FDA further recommended contacting the manufacturer of the device being used outside of its labeled instructions for specific guidance and taking appropriate precautions with environmental control and additional filtration, if feasible.
HCPs also may have the option of using ventilators from outside the United States. FDA explained that it is seeking to make ventilators that are not currently legally marketed in the United States available to boost supply during the public health emergency.
With respect to ventilator accessories, FDA advised HCPs to consider extending the shelf life and duration of use of these products. Specifically, FDA recommended extending the duration of use of passive humidifiers (heat-moisture exchangers) for up to one week depending on patient condition and available resources.
HCPs are to report potential or actual shortages to FDA at deviceshortages@fda.hhs.gov.
FDA’s letter to health care providers can be found here.
FDA’s recommendations to HCPs are based upon the agency’s policy to expand the availability of ventilators, other respiratory devices and accessories that will remain in effect only for the duration of the public health emergency related to COVID-19. FDA presented the policy as a guidance document, “Enforcement Policy for Ventilators and Accessories and Other Respiratory Devices During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency.”
In sum, FDA does not intend to object to limited modifications to the indications, claims, functionality, or to the hardware, software, or materials of FDA-cleared devices used to support patients with respiratory failure or respiratory insufficiency, without prior submission of a premarket notification, where the modification will not create an undue risk in light of the public health emergency. The guidance provides a table of the types of devices and their accessories to which the policy applies. FDA also provides examples of the types of modifications that FDA currently believes would not create undue risk for modifications that involve the following:
FDA-cleared indications, claims or functionality
Hardware, software and material changes to FDA-cleared ventilators and anesthesia gas machines
Use of ventilator and anesthesia gas machine breathing circuit devices beyond their indicated shelf life and duration of use
Validation of changes made to hardware, software, materials or duration of use
With respect to labeling of modified devices, FDA recommends, in part, that the manufacturer describe the device’s new indications and delineate FDA-cleared indications and claims from those that are not FDA-cleared.
As noted in the letter to HCPs, the guidance states that health care facilities should use FDA-cleared conventional/standard full-featured ventilators when necessary to support patients with respiratory failure. Alternatively, health care providers should use a device subject to an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), if any; however, at this time no EUAs have been issued for ventilators.
FDA also states its interest in interacting with manufacturers of ventilatory support devices that are not currently legally marketed in the U.S. as well as manufacturers who have not previously been engaged in medical device manufacturing with capabilities to increase supply of these devices. FDA asks that such manufacturers email details listed in the guidance to the provided address. FDA will work interactively with manufacturers through its Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) process.
Even if production is able to ramp up to meet demand, there are other issues that hospitals will confront. The first is whether hospitals can find enough staff to operate additional ventilators. The U.K. is currently drafting emergency legislation to bring students and recently retired nurses in to practice. The second is the amount of lead time needed to fill orders for ventilators. According to Premier Inc., a group purchasing organization, the typical timeframe for filling ventilator orders is eight weeks.
Some recent reports have mentioned the possibility of modifying one ventilator so that it can serve multiple patients in the event of a disaster surge. Dr. Greg Neyman and Dr. Charlene Babcock addressed this possibility in an article for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine in 2006, and Dr. Kevin Menes used one ventilator to treat two patients after the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017. This method has various drawbacks, including the increase of cross infection risk between patients; however, one infectious disease expert has said, “Normally I would worry about possible cross infection between the patients using the same device, but if it is a choice between certain death for half the patients and the possibility of a subsequent chest infection, I do not think there is any debate.” FDA’s recent letter to HCPs and guidance, described above, do not suggest that concurrent use of a ventilator for multiple patients is acceptable, rather FDA’s apparent focus is on modifying existing ventilators, expanding potential uses of existing equipment and interacting with potential equipment manufacturers who could supply additional ventilators.
Amy Judge-Prein, Jessica Barth, and Theodore Lis of Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP also contributed to this update.
As the number of cases around the world grows, Faegre Drinker’s Coronavirus Resource Center is available to help you understand and assess the legal, regulatory and commercial implications of COVID-19.
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ESG Integration and Values-Based Investment
elea Webinar Series
By Professor Vanina FarberVanina Farber
This webinar, led by Professor Vanina Farber, elea Chair of Social Innovation and Jaume Iglésies, Head of UBS WM Sustainable Investing Advisory appeared live on Wednesday, 13th May at 11am CEST. Whereas previous webinars in the elea series focused primarily on investments in private markets, this webinar focuses on sustainable investments (SI) in the public equity and debt markets.
How do environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria impact investment decisions? Do these criteria still count in times of crisis and if so, how much so? Professor Vanina Farber and Jaume Iglésies delve into sustainability investing as it stands today.
Professor Farber defines SI as “an investment strategy that incorporates ESG considerations into the investment decision. We want to know the impact of these criteria on your portfolio.”
To begin the webinar, Vanina Farber asks participants if they would like their retirement/pension fund to use a sustainable investing strategy. Over half of participants say “yes, because it will likely enhance returns in the long term.”
Commenting on this, Jaume Iglésies finds that while very advanced, this thinking isn’t yet reflected by the average client.
“But we’ve seen a huge jump in the last ten years from ESG being somewhat marginal to now being found all over the place.”
At UBS, sustainability investing needs to generate more than financial performance. There’s a growing number of clients who want their investments to reflect certain values or considerations that are important to them, be it climate change, gender equality or social inequality.
“Sustainability investing is certainly not a niche market anymore, with more than a third of all investing today being considered sustainability investing,” explains Jaume Iglésies.
He says it has become standard practice for requests for proposals (RFPs) from investors to include questions about sustainable investing: is it part of what you do as a financial institution? How you do it? And, demonstrating your track record.
“In most western European countries, you can’t get around RFPs from a large investor without addressing ESG topics,” says Jaume Iglésies.
In categorizing UBS clients into three broad groups based on how they react to sustainability investing, Iglésies shares how 15-25% of clients are in the “Yes, finally!” category i.e. they are actively seeking sustainability investing opportunities and have been waiting for a financial institution to put forward the corresponding proposals.
The “Why not?” clients, according to Iglésies, are those who need to be convinced. They are open to SI if three main conditions are met: (1) performance is at least as good as conventional investing; (2) it won’t cost more to invest in SI; and (3) it’s easy to invest in SI.
“Return expectations on sustainability investing are going to be in line with conventional investing. There’s no reason to believe that it’s going to be lower. In fact, the oldest social investing index, the KLD400 has even outperformed the S&P 500 from when it was created 30 years ago.”
“Companies that have good corporate governance, good risk management, treat their employees well and have good client relationships are more likely to be sustainable – all these things seem to reward investors.” In essence, ESG performance can serve as a proxy for a well-run company.
But what’s the best way to begin the conversation with a client who has not previously been exposed to SI? Jaume Iglésies warns against the temptation to begin by trying to make an emotional connection with your client first.
“You’re going to end up having a super nice, almost intimate conversation with your client but they’re immediately going to put SI in the ‘UNICEF+’ bucket. Once that happens it’s almost impossible to have a discussion around risk, returns or diversification.”
“When I talk to relationship managers at UBS, I recommend trying to make the economic case first, explaining that this is a sound investment strategy, that has its own merits and that we believe will deliver good returns. The additional benefits will unfold naturally.”
“Clients understand that investing in a company that makes products and services that benefit society is better than investing in a coal company. Or that investing in a company that researches renewable energy is better than investing in a highly polluting oil company.”
Participants asked if applicability of ESG criteria on investments is becoming more of a trend in other parts of the world apart from Europe. Jaume Iglésies explains that there is an increasing footprint in Asia, the Americas and emerging markets.
“We like to do engagement of SI in emerging markets. You get more bang for your buck,” he says. The potential for SI is enormous in the diversity and breadth of opportunity in emerging markets but there are also more risks.
Jaume Iglésies answers a number of questions about how performance of SI is measured at UBS as well as examples of the methodology for applying ESG criteria to SI. He also makes a number of important comments on how the COVID-19 crisis has impacted SI.
In terms of key takeaways, Jaume Iglésies reminds us:
“SI is here to stay. People want to give a sense of purpose to their investments. Instruments now exist on the market to do this so we only see SI growing in the future.”
To find out more about upcoming webinars from the elea Center for Social Innovation, please visit the Center’s page here.
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All you need to know about the WhatsApp new Privacy Policy?
WhatsApp recently announced an update on its privacy policy and reached out to its consumers worldwide to consent to the new policy by Feb 2021. However, a lot of confusion and chaos started with many known celebrities deciding to put their views on twitter to move to alternate platforms.
Misinformation and fake news added further to the confusion for users of WhatsApp with multiple self-proclaimed tech experts sharing views without reading actual policy and communication published by WhatsApp.
Given the dynamic scenario, India Future Foundation (IFF), a not for profit Cyber Awareness and Research working in areas of Trust, Safety and Freedom of Expression in India has decided to put forward an explanation of WhatsApp Privacy Policy and how it impacts Privacy, Safety and Security of WhatsApp users.
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Rob Zerby
Visa, Inc.
Jacqueline Brinkerhoff, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, SailPoint
Michael Bruemmer
Experian Data Breach Resolution
Governance & Risk Management , Healthcare , Incident & Breach Response
Breach of Obamacare Site Spilled Sensitive Data
94,000 Victims' Income, Pregnancy Status and More Potentially Exposed Howard Anderson (ismg_editor) • November 12, 2018
(In a Nov. 13 update, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services states: " We are continuing to work with law enforcement to investigate the breach, and our estimate of affected consumers has been updated to a final total of 93,689.")
See Also: The Home is the New Battleground for CISOs and their Executive Teams
More than two weeks after announcing that the Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, had been hacked, the Department of Health and Human Services has revealed that the breach exposed a wealth of information, including partial Social Security numbers and immigration status.
In its Oct. 19 statement, which was scant on details, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Systems - the unit of the Department of Health and Human Services that administers the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare - acknowledged that data on 75,000 individuals was exposed. Now, in a notification letter dated Nov. 7 that's hidden on the HealthCare.gov website, HHS is describing that data (see: Obamacare System Breach Affects 75,000).
"HealthCare.gov includes a way for licensed insurance agents and brokers to search for consumers who have an application stored on HealthCare.gov. This allows agents and brokers to help some consumers update their applications if any information changes," the letter notes.
"On October 16, 2018, we found that a number of agent and broker accounts engaged in excessive searching for consumers, and through those searches, had access to the personal information of people who are listed on Marketplace applications," the letter states. "We immediately shut off these agent and broker accounts, and also shut off the entire agent and broker function while changes were made to improve security."
Data that may have been inappropriately accessed, according to the letter, includes:
Name, date of birth, address, gender and the last four digits of the Social Security number;
Expected income, tax filing status, family relationships, whether the applicant is a citizen or an immigrant, immigration document types and numbers, employer name, whether the applicant was pregnant and whether the applicant already had health insurance;
Information provided by other federal agencies and data sources to confirm the information provided on the application;
The results of the application, including whether the applicant was eligible to enroll in a qualified health plan, and if eligible, the tax credit amount;
If the applicant enrolled, the name of the insurance plan, the premium and dates of coverage.
"The information that was accessible did not include bank account numbers, credit card numbers or diagnosis or treatment information," states the letter, which does not reveal the details of how the website was hacked.
Attorney Adam Greene of the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine notes: "The limited good news is that full Social Security numbers were not exposed. CMS should be commended for limiting access to the full SSNs; otherwise this could have been much worse. The bad news is that this is otherwise what everyone feared with respect to HealthCare.gov. The site collects a lot of personal data and is an attractive target to hackers or insiders abusing their access."
ID Theft Protection Offered
The letter notes that HHS will provide those whose data was exposed with free identity theft protection services.
"At this time, we don't know whether all of this information was actually accessed or misused. However, since this breach involves sensitive personal information, including partial SSN, there could be a risk of identity theft," the letter acknowledges.
The tool through which the breach occurred is only available through the currently disabled Direct Enrollment pathway for agents and brokers, HHS noted in its original Oct. 19 statement. The rest of the HealthCare.gov website continues to function; open enrollment for Obamacare began Nov. 1.
The Nov. 7 notification letter states that HHS is continuing to investigate the breach "and putting additional security measures in place to make sure HealthCare.gov and the marketplace process are safe and all consumer information is protected. Please be assured that all information will be protected during open enrollment."
How Did Hack Happen?
Based on the limited details that CMS has released, "it is difficult to determine how the breach might have happened," former healthcare CIO David Finn, executive vice president at security consultancy CynergisTek, noted when HHS issued its original statement.
"It could be anything from phishing to stolen credentials to a brute force attack," he said. "Agents and brokers should be taking a good look at their own users and sites. And any impacted consumer should be checking credit reports, claims, banks and even medical records."
It's safe to say that HealthCare.gov is a target for hackers, Finn notes. "Healthcare ... is now in the top targeted industries, and there is no indication that this is going to lessen."
Security Scrutinized
Security of the HealthCare.gov site, as well as the related backend systems of the Federal Facilitated Exchanges, has been closely scrutinized, even prior to the rocky launch of Obamacare's first open enrollment season in the fall of 2013. That launch was plagued with technical problems, including individuals encountering great difficulties accessing the site (see Insurance Exchanges: Work in Progress).
In addition, the lack of end-to-end security testing before the launch of HealthCare.gov on Oct. 1, 2013, had been a sore point focused on during several Congressional hearings that followed in the months afterwards.
Then in September 2014, HHS disclosed that that malware had been uploaded on a HealthCare.gov test server in July 2014. HHS officials said at the time that the malware was designed to launch a distributed denial-of-service attacks against other websites when activated. No consumer data was exposed in the incident, officials said.
In response to criticism from privacy advocates and others, HHS in 2015 also made a number of fixes to the HealthCare.gov site to scale back on the release of consumer data to third-party commercial sites (see: Healthcare.gov Makes Privacy Fixes).
Watchdog Review
HealthCare.gov systems have also been the subject of security reviews by various government watchdog agencies, including the Government Accountability Office.
For instance, in March 2016, GAO issued a report noting that between October 2013 and March 2015, CMS reported 316 security-related incidents affecting HealthCare.gov and its supporting systems (see: Report Spotlights Healthcare.gov Security Weaknesses).
But the study also noted that none of the security incidents reported by CMS showed evidence that an outside attacker had successfully compromised sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information.
Nonetheless, that report noted GAO found weaknesses in systems and connections supporting HealthCare.gov, including the Federal Data Services data hub - a portal for exchanging information between the federal marketplace and CMS's external partners.
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Risk Management Framework: Learn from NIST
90 minutes · Premium OnDemand
From heightened risks to increased regulations, senior leaders at all levels are pressured to improve their organizations' risk management capabilities. But no one is showing them how - until now.
Learn the fundamentals of developing a risk management program from the man who wrote the book on the topic: Ron Ross, computer scientist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In an exclusive presentation, Ross, lead author of NIST Special Publication 800-37 - the bible of risk assessment and management - will share his unique insights on how to:
Understand the current cyber threats to all public and private sector organizations;
Develop a multi-tiered risk management approach built upon governance, processes and information systems;
Implement NIST's risk management framework, from defining risks to selecting, implementing and monitoring information security controls.
Ron Ross
Sr. Computer Scientist & Information Security Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
https://www.inforisktoday.com/breach-obamacare-site-spilled-sensitive-data-a-11698
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CEO & Co-founder, DueDil
Justin Fitzpatrick, DueDil’s Co-founder & CEO, oversees all aspects of the commercial and financial operations, including the go to market and international expansion strategy, enterprise sales, strategic partnerships, finance and legal. Prior to his role at DueDil, Justin has held the positions of VP, Global Business Development at Gerson Lehrman Group and Managing Director of Brightwire, Inc. He was, until recently, a founding non-executive Director of Innovate Finance. He has lived and worked in Asia and Europe for nearly a decade, and has established offices for fintech start-ups in Singapore, Tokyo and London. Justin holds a Masters in Political Science and Finance from the University of Oxford and LBS. He earned his BA with a double major in Political Science and Asian Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also speaks Japanese.
Manoj Saxena
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Show Rundown: September 5, 2018
Did JD Harmeyer Already Break One of His Wedding Vows?
Paul McCartney Returns to Talk His New Album, His Favorite Beatles Covers, and the Day He Met John Lennon
“Looking back on the whole Beatles career and particularly me and John writing, that does amaze me,” the rock legend admits to Howard
All the time in the world still wouldn’t be enough for Howard to ask every question he had for Sir Paul McCartney on Wednesday morning as the living legend returned to the Stern Show studio for another unforgettable interview that covered (and uncovered) stories from Paul’s youth, his first meeting with John Lennon, what really caused the Beatles to break up, and why he still loves making new music, including his 17th solo studio album “Egypt Station,” available Friday.
Check out the many highlights from Paul’s interview with Howard (below).
When Paul Met John
As a teenage boy growing up in Liverpool, England, Paul told Howard none of his peers paid any interest to him whenever he’d mention his ability to write songs. That is until he met a young man named John Lennon.
“When I met John, I said, ‘Oh yeah, I’ve written some songs.’ He said, ‘So have I,’” Paul recalled, likening it to a light bulb going off. Soon after, he and John began writing songs together, forming a bond over their mutual love of music. But it was their shared experience of having their mother pass away that brought the boys even closer.
“We both lost our moms and we loved them and nobody in the world understood except us,” Paul explained.
Together, McCartney and Lennon would go on to write some of the most influential music in history, impacting rock and roll, fashion, and an entire generation of impassioned fans.
“The thing is, you know, we weren’t trying to create a revolution,” Paul admitted to Howard. “We were just kids from a poor area in Liverpool who wanted to make some money.”
With the Beatles being the best-selling band in history, that original goal has most certainly been accomplished. But aside from the cash, Paul said he simply always wanted to write “something memorable” fans could appreciate. Making a memorable tune was crucial for McCartney, who never learned to write music and therefore had to figure out ways to quickly capture the melodies that popped into his mind. To this day, Paul still can’t read or write sheet music.
“I kind of don’t want to,” he told Howard. “I could never relate to those little dots on the page and the music I heard in my head.”
While fans and music critics alike have long praised McCartney’s songs, it took John Lennon some time before he was willing to outwardly compliment his bandmate’s songwriting talent. It happened on the set of the Beatles’ 1965 film “Help!” John was listening to a cassette of “Here, There and Everywhere,” set to be released on the band’s album “Revolver,” and told Paul he thought it was “a really great song.”
“He never complimented me like that,” Paul said. “I remember it to this day, you know, exactly where I was when he said it. It was great … it really gave me a lot of confidence in that song and in my writing.”
Beatles Song Stories
Paul offered plenty of behind-the-scenes stories of how he penned some of the Beatles’ biggest hits, even debunking some long-standing rumors about the band’s music. Check them out (below).
Had Paul listened to his father’s advice, the chorus of “She Loves You” could have sounded somewhat different. The elder McCartney suggested his son sing “she loves you, yes, yes, yes” rather than the now famous lyric “she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.” Thankfully, Paul decided not to make the edit before stepping into the recording studio.
“He had musical ability but he didn’t have ‘hip’ ability,” Paul joked about his dad.
Though the Beatles’ debut single was primarily written by McCartney, it was originally intended to be sung by John Lennon. It wasn’t until the band got to the recording studio that producer George Martin changed the arrangement a bit, asking John to start his harmonica part one beat earlier, thereby not allowing him to perform the song’s vocals. Instead, Martin asked Paul to sing the lead vocals.
“I was so nervous,” Paul said, telling Howard you can hear the shakiness in his voice on the track.
Considering Paul is far from a native French speaker, he needed some help writing the French lyrics heard in “Michelle.” His friend Ivan’s wife was a French teacher who sat down with Paul and offered him lines in French that would rhyme within the song.
“She actually wrote it, all the French,” Paul told Howard.
McCartney had nothing about a car in mind when he first began composing the song “Drive My Car.” He told Howard he initially wanted to write something about a guy giving a girl “golden rings” but he and Lennon couldn’t come up with lyrics that made any sense with that concept.
“We were stuck and he agreed, this is going nowhere,” Paul said.
After a cup of tea, the two decided to get rid of all mention of rings and instead frame it around a girl who wanted a chauffeur but had no car to be driven in. The completed song was written soon after the idea came to them.
Paul told Howard “All My Loving” is unique because it’s the first song he wrote by coming up with the lyrics before the tune. He said he was riding a bus when the inspiration struck, and he started jotting down words that looked like a poem, which he eventually turned it into the hit song.
While talking to Howard about his beliefs in God, Paul recalled how one of the Beatles’ biggest hits “Yesterday” came to him in a dream, perhaps a sign that a higher power does indeed exist. According to McCartney, he literally woke up with the tune in his head.
“I was just lucky that I remembered it,” Paul said.
It was band member George Harrison who gave Paul a note on what he could add to “Hey Jude” to make it a better song – a suggestion Paul immediately shot down. George suggested inserting guitar riffs after each line of the song to emphasize the lyrics. Paul, however, wanted to stick with the just the simple piano and drum backing track.
“It didn’t seem like a good idea and the rule in the Beatles was if it was your song you were allowed to call it. You were the boss of the song,” Paul told Howard.
As sacred as Paul’s music may be, both to his fans and to McCartney himself, he told Howard he’s never heard a Beatles cover he didn’t like.
“Anyone who covers a song of mine, I love,” Paul said.
Countless artists have done their own renditions of Beatles tunes but when asked which covers Paul considered to be the best, he singled out Ray Charles and his version of “Eleanor Rigby,” Esther Philips and her song “And I Love Him,” and of course Joe Cocker’s unique take on “With a Little Help From My Friends.” Paul recalled listening to Joe’s demo of that song in the basement of Apple Records with producer Denny Cordell.
“They changed the arrangement completely … I loved it,” Paul told Howard.
No Clunkers
It seemed all of Paul’s music that Howard played on Wednesday was a hit song, either for the Beatles or for his many solo projects. Which begged the question: has Paul ever written a truly bad song?
“Looking back on the whole Beatles career and particularly me and John writing, that does amaze me,” Paul said of his accomplishments. “We wrote something, I think, just short of 300 songs … Every single time we sat down we came away with a song.”
Even now, Paul told Howard he’ll often be up on stage performing one of his hits and think back to being the 24-year-old kid who first wrote it. “How’d I come up with that?” Paul said with a laugh.
Who better to answer once and for all what caused the Beatles to break up than an actual Beatle? According to McCartney, the person responsible for the band calling it quits was John and John alone.
“There was a meeting where John came in and said, ‘Hey guys, I’m leaving the group,’” Paul remembered. John’s girlfriend Yoko Ono was present for that announcement, just as she was present for many of the Beatles’ recording sessions at the time.
“Looking back on it … the guy was totally in love with her and you know, you just gotta respect that. So we did and I do,” Paul continued.
But when it came time for the Beatles to put out their final album “Let It Be,” McCartney was pressured by his bandmates to delay the release of his own self-titled debut solo album. Paul told Howard how Ringo Starr even showed up at his house with a letter demanding he not put his solo effort out on the date he’d already scheduled.
“It was bad enough that we were splitting up, it was bad enough that all that money we’d earned and all that fame was going down the pan,” Paul said of the incident.
In the end, “McCartney” hit store shelves on April 17, 1970, beating “Let It Be” by about a month. Paul’s second solo album “Ram” was released one year later and he admitted to Howard he took a few subtle jabs at Lennon within the lyrics of that album’s songs, including in the hit song “Too Many People.”
“We were writing songs at each other, like, weaponizing songs,” Paul said. However, contrary to what some have said over the years, Paul’s lyric “You took your lucky break and broke it in two,” though directed at Lennon, was not originally written as “Yoko took your lucky break.”
“It didn’t last long,” Paul said of his and Lennon’s feud with each other, explaining to Howard how thankful he is they settled their differences when they did. Just over a decade after the Beatles released their last album, John was shot and killed outside of his New York apartment building by Mark David Chapman. “I feel very blessed that we got over it because if we hadn’t, and then John goes and gets killed, I don’t know how I would have dealt with that,” Paul continued.
Don’t Stop the Music
Many might wonder why Paul McCartney, after all he’s achieved as a musician, is still working as hard as ever even now at age 76. He told Howard while some grow tired of a life of touring and performing live, he still loves it.
“I was walking down a corridor in a Four Seasons … it was a nice hotel,” Paul said of a stop he recently had on tour. “I was thinking, ‘I’m loving this.’”
That’s not to say he doesn’t recognize the preferential treatment he gets as a rock icon. He referred to it as the “bubble” – taking private planes, avoiding going through customs, being driven to each gig, having an escort to each event, and being handed your guitar right before you step on stage.
And while there’s only one name on the marquee outside, McCartney explained his concerts take a tremendous effort from his whole team — a team he said he’s become very close with throughout the years. “When you come back on tour it’s like reuniting with a family,” he described.
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This month, Paul heads out on the road once again, this time for his “Freshen Up” tour following the release of his new album “Egypt Station.” He’s scheduled to play 22 shows on three different continents with concerts on the calendar well into 2019. Still, Paul told Howard he’s nothing but excited to play for his many fans.
“I’m very lucky to be alive and to have stuff in my life that I love doing,” McCartney said.
Paul McCartney’s new album “Egypt Station” is available Friday. For “Freshen Up” tour info visit paulmccartney.com.
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Ithacon returns for 43rd year this weekend
Event will feature “Star Trek” actors J.G. Hertzler and Tim McCormack, novelist Nick Sagan and cartoonist Doug Arthur
The comic-book convention Ithacon returns to Ithaca College for its 43rd year on Saturday and Sunday with guest artists and writers, plus vendors, a costume parade, workshops for aspiring artists and writers, panel discussions and other activities.
“Star Trek” actors J.G. Hertzler and Tim McCormack, novelist and “Star Trek” writer Nick Sagan, and indie cartoonist Doug Arthur are among the more than three dozen artists and writers who will appear at the free event, co-sponsored by the Comic Book Club of Ithaca and the IC School of Humanities and Sciences.
Ithacon also will feature comic-book artists Bill Anderson, Steve Ellis and William Rodriguez; comic-book writers Tom Peyer and Roger Stern; YA fantasy novelists Caytlyn Brooke (”Dark Flowers”) and Paul D. Smith (”Jason and the Draconauts”); fantasy artists Storn Cook and Alan Pollack; crafters who create cosplay accessories and other fan-oriented art; and other artists, writers, cartoonists and webcomics creators. (For a complete lists of the guests, go online to comicbookclub.org).
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Hertzler, McCormack and Sagan will appear on Sunday only and will participate in a panel discussion about “Star Trek.”
Hertzler has portrayed several roles across four different “Star Trek” series and is best known as the Klingon commander General Martok on “Deep Space Nine.” He has co-written 2 “Star Trek” tie-in novels, “The Left Hand of Destiny, Book 1” and “Book 2.” He also does voice-over work (e.g., the role of Deathstroke for Warner Bros./ DC Comics), and, in 2013, was elected to the town board of Ulysses.
McCormack appeared as Ensign Bennett in 51 episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” where he was also the main double for Brent Spiner (Data) and other actors.
Nick Sagan is the author of the “Idlewild” trilogy, and he has written several “Star Trek” episodes, including “Attached” (for ”The Next Generation”) and “Relativity” (for “Voyager”). He is also an instructor at Ithaca College in Media Arts, Sciences and Studies.
Arthur attended Caroline Elementary School in Ithaca, then wrote and drew his first comic books in fourth and fifth grade at Severn Elementary in Corning. He created his indie comic strip “Tales From the Dougside” in college and began publishing in 1994. Collections include “We All Travel Time” and “Pocketful of Crime: A Rogue's Gallery of Horrible Humor.”
Troopers from the 501st Legion, a “Star Wars” costuming organization, are returning to Ithacon, and representatives from the Kingdoms of Novitas, a live-action roleplayers group, also will attend.
Comic-book vendors will be at the convention to buy, sell and trade old and newer comic books, plus related items such as “Star Trek” and “Star Wars” collectibles, action figures, toys and DVDs.
Kids’ activities include workshops on drawing and storytelling for comics as well as character development; panels on webcomics and graphic novels; a costume parade; drop-in video games; a “Zombie Maze” and more.
The Comic Book Club of Ithaca, the longest-running comic-book club in the country, grew out of a middle-school group and was formally established as a community organization in 1975. The first Ithacon took place in 1976 and featured four guests. The partnership with Ithaca College began in 2014 with Ithacon 39.
The co-chairs of Ithacon 43 are Bill Turner, a co-founder of the CBCI, and Katharine Kittredge, a professor of English at Ithaca College and co-creator of the Pippi to Ripley conference.
CBCI meetings are at 7 p.m. the first and third Tuesdays of the month at the Tompkins County Public Library (101 E. Green St. in Ithaca).
•What: Ithacon 43
•When: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday
•Where: Emerson Suites at Phillips Hall, Ithaca College
•More info:comicbookclub.org
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If the rule of law imbues a legal system with legality does it also serve the interests of justice?
When we obey laws, in the sense of general abstract rules, laid down irrespective of their application to us, we are not subject to another man’s will and are therefore free.1
I consider a basic question: ‘If the rule of law imbues a legal system with legality does it also serve the interests of justice?’
Part I will investigate the concept of legality in relation to the rule of law, and ascertain whether the rule of law is strictly an instrument of the constitution or instead forms the cornerstone of a wider theory of justice. Part II will briefly examine whether the conclusions of Part I reflect the function of the rule of law in our constitution.
‘Government by law and not men’ is a common understanding of what constitutes a liberal democracy, that is, a state in which the exercise of governmental power is constrained by law. As the Supreme Court of Canada has said, ‘democracy in any real sense of the word cannot exist without the rule of law.’2 However, this does not tell us a great deal about what the rule of law exists in. Let us assume – in the words of John Rawls – that a legal order is of public rules addressed to rational persons.3 What gives these rules legality?
Perhaps no theory of the rule of law better exemplifies this than one whose influence is such that ‘it might almost be described as a substitute for the written constitution.’4 In 1885, in his Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution5 A. V. Dicey identified the universal rule of ordinary law as one of the fundamental principles of the British constitution, in contradistinction to the legislative supremacy or sovereignty of Parliament. He gave the rule of law three meanings, the first of which is key to understanding the notion of legality:
It means, in the first place, the absolute supremacy or predominance of regular law as opposed to the influence of arbitrary power, and excludes the existence of arbitrariness, of prerogative, or even of wide discretionary authority on the part of government…6
…no man is punishable or can be lawfully made to suffer in body or goods except for a distinct breach of law established in the ordinary legal manner before the ordinary courts of the land.7
Dicey is here asserting the ‘absolute supremacy’ of the law, and distinguishing it from what he calls ‘arbitrary’ power, or ‘wide discretionary authority’ on the part of the ‘government’. It is useful at this point to distinguish the ‘government’ or ‘executive’ from Parliament itself. The former is responsible for administration and policy; the latter embodies the legislative function. This dichotomy and its limitations will be discussed presently, however for the moment it is sufficient to note that Dicey considered Parliamentary sovereignty as much ‘a legal fact’ as the rule of law.8 Dicey was not, as Martin Loughlin observes, concerned to ‘place any limits whatever on sovereignty’.9
If the rule of law or regular law in Dicey’s words is opposed to the influence of arbitrary power, and in fact excludes arbitrariness on the part of the government, the logical inference would be that ‘arbitrary’ is here used to connote an absence of legal control. Paul P. Craig, in his evaluation of Dicey’s conception of the rule of law as essentially formal (that is, concerned with the manner in which the law is promulgated) offers a useful starting point. He argues that Dicey used the notion of arbitrariness to
…describe those norms which have been passed in the correct legal manner, but where the resulting law was impossibly vague or unclear, with the result that individuals had no idea how to plan their lives in the light of the relevant legal rule.10
In referring to ‘those norms which have been passed in the correct legal manner’, Craig is here referring to Parliamentary enactment. The task of the rule of law on this interpretation is to address the deficiencies of a particular Act, which may through its poor draftsmanship prejudice the liberty of the citizen. The rule of law, embodied by the ordinary courts, is thereby a mediator between the citizen and her government. It ensures that ‘the statutory powers claimed by public officials are properly authorized, and that the citizen can safely rely on the relevant wording in formulating his plans and deciding on the scope of his liberties under…the law.’11Arguably then, the rationality of a coercive agency is dependent upon the curtailment of any discretionary powers it may possess.
Lon L. Fuller has argued ‘that the attempt to create and maintain a system of rules may miscarry in at least eight ways’:12
The failure to achieve rules at all, so that every issue must be decided on an ad hoc basis;
A failure to publicise, or make available to the affected party, the rules to be observed;
The abuse of retroactive legislation;
A failure to make rules understandable;
The enactment of contradictory rules
Rules that require conduct beyond the powers of the affected party;
Introducing such frequent changes in the rules that the subject cannot orient his action by them, and,
A failure in congruence between the rules announced and their actual administration.
This is a comprehensive list of considerations, which arguably all fall with Craig’s ambit of ‘vague and unclear’ law. It has been powerfully argued that Dicey’s construction of the rule of law as a juristic principle excludes the possibility of any of the above because it ‘embodies the liberal and individualistic bias of the common law in favour of the citizen.’13This statement invokes a conception of Dicey quite different to Craig’s strictly formalistic interpretation. Such an interpretation has at its root a positivistic approach to the understanding of the law, which Fuller, in his discussion of the foreseeable failings of a system of law was at pains to distinguish, as we shall see. Craig’s understanding of Dicey is faithful to an undiluted principle of legality, made manifest in the negative virtue ideal of the rule of law, which Joseph Raz forcefully argued for in an essay which highlights both the formidable strengths and undeniable weaknesses of the positivist ideal. 14
In this case, the ideal of legality is predicated on the principle that ‘the making of particular laws should be guided by open, stable, clear and general rules’. 15 However Raz is quick to dispel any illusions that ‘the notion of generality is of the essence to the rule of law…and that equality is related to the generality of law.’16Rather, the key aim of such rules is to impose a framework within which particular laws are enacted. This framework is germane to what Raz believes to be the one basic idea underlying the rule of law, the idea of effective guidance:
The law to be law must be capable of guiding behaviour, however inefficiently. Like other instruments, the law has a specific virtue which is morally neutral in being neutral as to the end to which the instrument is put. It is the virtue of efficiency; the virtue of the instrument as an instrument. For the law this virtue is the rule of law.17.
Raz’s formalistic conception is the consequence of a stringent separation between legal and political norms, which will be discussed in more detail below. This dichotomy is intrinsically important to the instrumental conception that Raz articulates, of the rule of law as a procedural tool within our constitution. Considerations of justice are absent on such an understanding; in its place we observe an insistence ‘that the rule of law merely enhances the ability of law to achieve its purposes whatever these are.’18. It is clear then, that Raz’s answer to the question which informs the spirit of this enquiry is an emphatic ‘No’. Is this answer the correct one however? I believe not, for two related reasons.
Few public law theorists would disagree that Raz’s conception of the rule of law is highly coherent. However it seems obvious that his elegant conception bears little relation to the rather more messy reality of the world in which we live. Returning to Fuller, it is difficult to disagree with his criticism that the jejune nature of positivism ‘recognises in the functioning of a legal system nothing that can truly be called a social dimension.’19Raz’s conception exemplifies this abiding positivist malaise, of an impractical detachment from reality. An offshoot of this is Raz’s contention that the rule of law is a negative virtue. This subsists in an understanding of the rule of law as ‘largely a mechanism for the execution of government objectives’.20
While analytical positivism invariably lacks a social dimension, is it enough to highlight this in advocating a more substantive conception of the rule of law as the correct one? Clearly not; however F. A. Hayek’s forceful riposte to the ‘science of norms’ on which positivism is predicated points us in the right direction:
…it must fail even in its immediate aim of making judicial decisions more predictable. Norms cannot be judged according to whether they fit with other norms in isolation from facts, because whether the actions which they permit are mutually compatible or not depend on facts. This is the basic insight which throughout the history of jurisprudence has constantly appeared in the form of a reference to the ‘nature of things’21
It is here that we can draw a number of important parallels between Hayek and Dicey, which I believe offer a particularly persuasive concept of the rule of law that reflects its place within our constitution. It is useful to begin by distinguishing between Hayek’s twin concepts of nomos and thesis. The former is essentially the product of spontaneous growth, and encompasses rules of just conduct, which have come to be accepted through long usage as the framework for just co-operation. As Loughlin observes, ‘it is perhaps most clearly reflected in the continuous, adaptive process of the common law.’22The latter relates to instructions that command execution of particular tasks. Such instructions are understood in this context to refer to legislation. The crucial distinction between nomos and thesis is thus drawn: ‘With the emergence of thesis the idea of law, which in the sense of nomos was viewed as a constraint on power, is transformed into an instrument for the use of power’
The concept of nomos is conducive to the concept of a functioning legal order, which is here understood as fundamental to the concept of a rule of law that recognises the ‘limitations of the powers of legislation’ and thereby implies ‘recognition of the inalienable right of the individual, inviolable rights of man.’24The importance of abstract, general rules to Hayek’s prescription is critical; in contradistinction to those of Raz’s argument they do not serve the purposes of government, ‘but rather form a basis for the successful pursuit of countless purposes of different individuals.’25 Hayek argues that such a ‘consideration is in fact the rationale of the great liberal principle of the Rule of Law.26
The ideal of abstract, general rules cannot be derived from the commands of government nor indeed Parliament. Hayek instead argued that purpose–independent rules can only evolve through custom. Hayek and Dicey therefore occupy common ground. The rule of law secures legality and justice for both men was a function of this principle. For Dicey, this is best expressed in the second and third meanings he bestowed on the rule of law. His principle of personal liability expressed in his insistence on ‘the equal subjection of all classes to the ordinary law of the land administered by the ordinary law courts’ is a reflection of the idea that rules must be abstract and general in the Hayekian sense that they apply to everyone irrespective of their situation and clarifies the importance of his third meaning:27
…with us the law of the constitution, the laws which in foreign countries naturally form part of the constitutional code, are not the source but the consequence of the rights of individuals, as defined by the courts; that, in short…the constitution if the result of the ordinary law of the land.28
Dicey’s theory of the constitution was ‘an exercise in constructing the subject in the image of the common law mind’, and evinced an effort to ‘[instil] a perception of statute law as an alien incursion’.29Hayek’s reference to the ‘nature of things’ is a reflection of the importance of custom and practice, which is a key component of the ‘common law mind’ that informed Dicey’s understanding of the conception of the rule of law. It has been powerfully argued that the power of Dicey’s doctrine consisted in
…his firm grasp of [the] fundamental idea [that] if important liberties are given protection, and standards of justice and fairness accepted and upheld, it is ultimately because – and largely to the extent that – they find expression in the common law.30
The common-law tradition is exemplified by Entick v. Carrington31, in which the judgement of Camden CJ evinced the extent of juridical respect for notions of ‘liberty’ and ‘property’. Indeed, as Ian Loveland has observed, Entick provides a classic example of the courts upholding the rule of law in the sense of the theory that Dicey later produced’.32
Dicey’s formulation resists the formalistic interpretation that Paul. P. Craig imposes. The juridical nature of his theory, grounded as it is within the tradition of the common law that Entick evokes surely transcends the ‘shackles of the Hobbesian authoritarianism he learned from J. L. Austin’. It is a formulation which reflects the synergy between legality and justice. Legality is determined by the adherence to the various precepts already discussed.
These precepts (and by extension the rule of law) are not immune from attack. On this understanding, the rule of law is not a guarantee of justice within a legal system. However, as Rawls has argued, because these precepts guarantee the regular and impartial administration of rules, they are incompatible with injustice.33 This is a more persuasive conception than the positivist prescription of the rule of law in which the two are separated.
The state in which we live today has changed radically from that which Dicey knew. State involvement in the everyday life of the citizen has increased exponentially through statute law, which invokes the notion of Parliament contracting in to administrative law and the principle of judicial review, which forms its centrepiece. It may be argued that Dicey’s fear of collectivism and his related dislike for statute law has had a lasting influence; indeed it is frequently observed that the ‘citizen-versus-state’ approach of English administrative law, which is perhaps best characterised by judicial review, is something for which Dicey must bear responsibility.34
In 1981, there were 558 applications for judicial review; by 2001 the number had risen to nearly 5000 applications. I wish to consider one particular case, M v. Home Office35, which concerned the government’s failure to obey an order of the court. M, a national of Zaire arrived in the UK seeking asylum. Kenneth Baker, then Home Secretary, refused his application and M was subsequently returned to Zaire. However M had applied for judicial review, which although refused twice, was subject to a second renewal. The judge in the case issued an order for M’s immediate return, however attempts to secure this end failed. M’s lawyers subsequently initiated proceedings for contempt of court against Mr Baker.
This case is notable because it represents the judiciary’s preference for a mandatory model of judicial review. Further, it confirmed that injunctions ‘whether final or interim’36 do lie against officials and Ministers of the Crown, and that mandatory prerogative orders would be made available. However, Lord Woolf’s judgment has been criticised for his reluctance to countenance committal of a Minister who is also serving as a Member of Parliament.
Though the Court of Appeal found Mr Baker personally guilty of contempt37, Lord Woolf talked in terms of contempt orders as lying either against the Minister ‘in his official capacity’ or against ‘the office.38 Despite this, Carol Harlow optimistically observed:39
The House of Lords has gone some way to demystify the Crown. A welcome parity between central government and other public bodies has been achieved. There is potential too for a sensible theory of public service liability based on the Diceyan principle of personal liability coupled, as it never could have been in Dicey’s day, with vicarious liability on the part of the department.
The importance of abstract, general rules to a connection between legality and justice is established. Such rules must not only ‘reflect people’s expectations about the sort of conduct which is generally appropriate in different circumstances’, they must apply equally to everyone in the same situation.40 Accordingly, justice is no more subjective a notion than legality. They are co-related, in that the sabotage of one implies an attack on the other. The applicability of such a conception to the constitution today is by no means straightforward. Nonetheless recent case law shows that the judiciary (that cornerstone of Dicey’s conception of the rule of law) intends to reconcile the two:41
The core of the existing principle is, I suggest, that all persons and authorities within the state, whether public or private, should be bound by and entitled to the benefit of laws publicly and prospectively promulgated and publicly administered in the courts. I doubt if anyone would suggest that this statement, even if accurate as one of general principle, could be applied without exception or qualification…I think that this formulation, of course owing much to Dicey, expresses the fundamental truth propounded by John Locke in 1690 that “Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins”42
F. A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (London, 1960), 153
Reference concerning Certain Questions Relating to the Secession of Quebec, (1998) 161 DLR (4th) 385, 416-17.
J. Rawls, A Theory of Justice, rev. edn. (Oxford 1999), 207.
C. Harlow & R. Rawlings, Law and Administration, (London 1997, 2nd edn.), 38.
10th edn. (London, 1959)
Ibid. 202-3.
Ibid. 188.
M. Loughlin, Public Law and Political Theory (Oxford, 1992), in which Loughlin quotes Dicey, op cit. 37.
Ibid. 58.
Paul P. Craig, Formal and Substantive Conceptions of the Rule of Law: An Analysis [1997] Public Law, 471.
Trevor R. S. Allan, Legislative Supremacy and the Rule of Law: Democracy and Constitutionalism [1985] The Cambridge Law Journal, 118.
Lon L. Fuller, The Morality of Law, rev. edn. (New Haven, 1969), 33.
Trevor R. S. Allan op cit. 119.
Joseph Raz, The Rule of Law and its Virtue (1977) The Law Quarterly Review, 195
Trevor R. S. Allan, Law, Liberty, and Justice, The Legal Foundations of British Constitutionalism (Oxford 1993), 24.
Fuller, op cit. 193.
Allan, Ibid. 24.
F. A. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty (London 1973), i. 106.
Loughlin, op cit. 88.
Loughlin, Ibid.
F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (London 1944), 63.
Hayek, Ibid. 56.
Dicey, op cit. 202-3.
Dicey, op cit. 203.
Loughlin, op cit. both at 48.
Allan, Ibid. 4.
[1765] 19 State Tr 1029.
I. Loveland, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Human Rights 4th edn. (Oxford, 2006), 60-61
Rawls, op cit. 208.
Harlow & Rawlings, Red Light Theories, in Law and Administration (London, 1997), 66.
[1993] 3 WLR 433.
C. Harlow, Accidental Loss of an Asylum Seeker (1994) 57 MLR 622
[1992] 2 WLR 98-99.
[1993] 3 WLR 433 at 466.
.Harlow, op cit. 626.
The Rt. Hon. Lord Bingham of Cornhill KG, speaking on the occasion of the sixth Sir David Williams lecture, in 2006.
John Locke, Second Treatise of Government (1690), Chap XVII, s.202 (Cambridge University Press, 1988), p 400.
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There is a constant demand for native English language teachers in Japan, with private conversation schools and the JET Programme as the main sources for teaching positions. There is also a certain demand for teachers of other foreign languages.
Conversation Schools
"Eikaiwa" or English Conversation schools are a big business in Japan, offering Japanese people of all ages the opportunity to practice their English communication skills with native speakers in small classes or private lessons.
Aeon, Nova, Shane English School and ECC are some of the leading conversation school chains, each operating around 200 schools or more across Japan. In addition, there are many smaller chains and countless independent schools.
The major conversation schools operate recruitment offices overseas, including the USA, Canada, UK and Australia. The requirements to get a job differ from company to company, but many require little more than a university degree in any field.
JET Programme
JET stands for "Japan Exchange and Teaching", and is a government operated program that recruits non-Japanese people for foreign language teaching and counseling positions at schools and companies in Japan. Most JET participants work as Assistant Language Teachers (ALT) at high schools and junior high schools.
The citizens of over 30 countries are eligible to apply for a position in the JET Programme at the Japanese embassy or consulate of their home country. Requirements are a university degree in any field and a good command of the language they will teach. JET participants are hired on a rolling one year contract basis for typically 3-5 years.
At conversation schools and in the JET Programme, there is also a certain, though considerably smaller, demand for native speakers of foreign languages other than English, especially French, German, Spanish, Italian, Korean and Chinese.
The JET Programme
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Read about Augmented Reality surgeries, artificial muscles and the effect of exercise on your heart in the January iteration of the latest science news from Ionizer!
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It’s time to quench your scientific curiosity with yet another bundle of the latest happenings in the science research world. Last month we came across the discovery of a new form of matter after bose-einstein condensate and the biggest black hole dicovered so far!
January was equally filled with exciting scientific discoveries and here is a quick round of the top 10 most interesting things you must know about!
Latest Science News from January 2018
1. AR To Revolutionize Surgery
The surgeon’s view.
Image Credit: Philip Pratt, et al. Eur Radiol Exp, 2018
Amidst the latest science news of 2018, let me first tell you about my number one pick.
A team at the Imperial College London is set out to help surgeons improve the outcome of reconstructive surgery by making one big change in the procedure: replacing the handheld scanner that uses ultrasound (to detect blood vessels underneath the skin), with the Microsoft HoloLens.
The HoloLens, as the name suggests, enables the wearers to interact with ‘holograms’ by immersing them in ‘mixed reality’ (augmented + real). The HoloLens, in general, is a ‘self-contained’ computer headset. The holograms are made visible through the visor. To see how the amazing HoloLens works, have a look at the video below:
The team carried out a number of procedures at the St. Mary’s Hospital where the surgeons used HoloLens while operating on the patients who were being operated for reconstructive lower limb surgery. You would, of course, want to know how now that you know the concept of how HoloLens works.
The team used HoloLens to overlay images of the CT scans on the patients’ legs, hence enabling the respective surgeons to ‘see through’ the surgery. The surgery procedures were all successful. The team firmly believes that this new tech can help improve surgical outcomes for patients as it helps the surgeons find and then reconnect the main blood vessels during the reconstructive surgery.
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Dr. Philip Pratt, lead author of the study, and Research Fellow (in the Department of Surgery and Cancer) proudly claims that his team is among one of the very first to have successfully utilized HoloLens in the Operating Theater. He was quoted saying, “Through this initial series of patient cases we have shown that the technology is practical, and that it can provide a benefit to the surgical team. With the HoloLens, you look at the leg and essentially see inside of it. You see the bones, the course of the blood vessels, and can identify exactly where the targets are located.”
In the future, the team has high hopes for automating the process even further.
Full Release: Imperial College London, European Radiology Experimental
You just read about something pretty epic above. You’re at the stage where you feel what else has technology got to offer that could possibly surprise me anymore. You’re wrong, my dear friend, very wrong. This field never ever ceases to amaze. Meet the second pick for the latest science news from January 2018.
2. Swallowable Sensors Unveiling the Mysteries of Your Tummy
This is a close up of the ingestible gas-sensing capsule developed by researchers at RMIT University.
Image Credit: RMIT University/Peter Clarke
Let me tell you that as of now, the now in which we exist, there are vitamin-pill-sized ingestible capsules that can help figure out everything that’s going on inside your tumtum and send the data to an app on your phone. These swallowable sensor-capsules are engineered by a team of researchers at the RMIT University located in Melbourne, Australia. The team speculates that their brainchild is capable of revolutionizing the way in which gut disorders are prevented, detected and diagnosed.
The swallowable pill is capable of detecting and measuring the gut gases (hydrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide) in real time, and then send the recorded data to your phone.
The researchers are also of the opinion that they have quite possibly unveiled an entirely new immune system mechanism in the human body, the existence of which was previously unknown, unheard and un-thought of.
They observed that the stomach releases oxidizing chemicals to fight foreign compounds that prolong their welcomed-stay in the gut. This possibly indicates a gastric protection immune mechanism against foreign bodies. It is something which has never been reported before.
During the trials of the pill, the team found out that the colon may contain oxygen. In the words of study lead and co-inventor of the capsule, Professor Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, “Trials showed the presence of high concentrations of oxygen in the colon under an extremely high-fiber diet. This contradicts the old belief that the colon is always oxygen free. This new information could help us better understand how debilitating diseases like colon cancer occur.”
Presently, doctors rely on either surgery or fecal matter to analyze gut microbes, but this new tech changes everything. It offers an invasion-free method to measure the gut microbiota.
The ingestible sensor capsules have passed human trials and have proved to be safe and harmless. The team is now set on commercializing the technology.
Full Release: RMIT University, Nature (Electronics)
3. Alcohol Damages DNA, Increases Risk of Cancer
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It is nothing new when I say alcohol is bad for you. We have all repeatedly been told about the numerous harms of alcohol intake. However, this time, when I say it is harmful, I mean gravely, fatally harmful.
A recent study conducted by a team of scientists from the Cancer Research UK shows how alcohol causes damage to DNA in stem cells, further increasing the risk of cancer.
In this particular study, researchers used mice to demonstrate the permanent genetic damage caused due to exposure to alcohol.
At the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, mice were given diluted ethanol (alcohol). The scientists then used ‘chromosome analysis’ and ‘DNA sequencing’ in order to examine the damage caused by acetaldehyde, a harmful chemical produced when the body processes and breaks down alcohol. On further study, they found that acetaldehyde can damage DNA and permanently alter DNA sequences within the blood stem cells.
Faulty or damaged stem cells can pave way for the development of cancers. The researchers claim that these findings have helped them understand how alcohol consumption leads to an increased risk of the development of at least 7 types of cancers, including bowel cancer and breast cancer.
In the words of scientist and lead author of the study, Professor Ketan Patel, “Some cancers develop due to DNA damage in stem cells. While some damage occurs by chance, our findings suggest that drinking alcohol can increase the risk of this damage. Our study highlights that not being able to process alcohol effectively can lead to an even higher risk of alcohol-related DNA damage and therefore certain cancers. But it’s important to remember that alcohol clearance and DNA repair systems are not perfect and alcohol can still cause cancer in different ways, even in people whose defense mechanisms are intact.”
As per the data collected by the team, it is known that within the UK, alcohol contributes to 12,000+ cancer cases every year, so cutting down a bit on the amount you drink wouldn’t possibly hurt.
Full Release: Cancer Research UK, Nature
4. ‘Muscle Memory’ Exists at a DNA Level
A recent, intriguing research published by a team of researchers from the Keele University has shown that human muscles are capable of containing a ‘memory’ of earlier growth at the DNA level. The genes in the muscle ‘remember’ periods of skeletal muscle growth and this memory helps them allow the muscle to grow larger later in time.
The team from Keele, along with researchers from the Universities of Liverpool John Moores, Northumbria and Manchester Metropolitan, using the latest genome-wide techniques, discovered the genes of over 850K+ sites on human DNA ‘marked’/’unmarked’ with specific chemical ‘markers’ or ‘tags’ when the muscle grows due to exercise, then goes back to normal, and then grows back again due to exercising in later life.
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These markers or tags tell the genes whether they should be inactive or active, instruct them to turn off or on without causing any change to the DNA.
This research is important, especially when it comes to athletes.
Consider the growth of an athlete’s muscle due to exercise and activity. Consider then that the athlete in context gets injured and loses muscle. The genes accountable for ‘muscle memory’ may help the recovery of the muscle once these genes are activated.
However, now consider another scenario of an elite athlete taking performance-enhancing drugs. Their muscle may retain this growth’s memory. So, even if they get caught and are banned for a short period of time, they may continue to be at an advantage over the other players due to the earlier drug usage. Hence, the drugs can create long-lasting changes thanks to the ‘muscle memory’, making the short-term bans unnecessary as well as rendering them useless.
Full Release: Keele University, Nature
5. Proper Exercise can Help Your Heart Stay Young
An optimum amount of exercise begun in time can reverse the damage in aging hearts, as per the latest study conducted by a team of researchers at the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine (IEEM). IEEM is a collaboration between UT Southwestern Medical Center and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
Exercising can help prevent the risk of heart failures in the future, if and only if it is enough exercise and if it is begun in time. For the process to actually be beneficial and of any substance, it should begin before the age of 65. It is during that time period of a person’s life that the heart still has some plasticity and an ability to remodel itself.
The exercise regimen includes four to five workouts per week; generally in the form of half-an-hour long workout sessions, along with warm-ups and cool-down exercises.
The study was conducted with the help of 50 participants who were divided into two groups.
One group received supervised exercise training for two consecutive years, and the other group participated in balance training and yoga.
After the span of two years, studies showed that the participants who exercised had an 18% improvement in their maximum oxygen intake while performing the exercises, and also more than 25% improvement in the elasticity of the left ventricular muscle of the heart.
To find out about the exact exercise regimen, read the full release on the website of UT Southwestern Medical Center, the link to which is provided below.
Full Release: UT Southwestern Medical Center, Circulation
6. J147: The Alzheimer’s Drug that Turns Aging Cells Youthful
The experimental drug J147 is something of a modern elixir of life.
Image Credit: Salk Institute
Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences developed an experimental drug called J147 in 2011. It was developed after much research and study on compounds from plants that displayed the ability to reverse cellular and molecular signs of aging in the brain. J147 is a modified version of curcumin, which is found in the curry spice turmeric.
J147, the then experiment, has now been dubbed the ‘modern elixir of life’. In mice, it has reversed aging and treated Alzheimer’s disease. What was previously not understood, was that how this drug was capable of reversing the process of aging at the cellular and molecular level. This puzzle was solved when a study was published on January 7, 2018, in Aging Cell. As per this study, the drug basically binds to a protein in the mitochondria (fondly known as the ‘powerhouse of the cell’ as it generates energy). Once it does that, it makes aging cells appear more youthful.
The mitochondrial protein that J147 binds with is called the ATP synthase, which has previously shown to control aging in flies and C. elegans worms. The researchers showed that by manipulating the activity of the ATP synthase (which is to help generate adenosine triphosphate or ATP), neuron cells could be protected from multiple toxicities related to the aging brain.
On further experimentation, it was found that the modulating activity of the ATP synthase with the J147 led to healthier and more stable mitochondria.
J147 has completed the FDA-required toxicology testing in animals. Now, funds are being sought to initiate clinical trials in humans.
Full Release: Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, Wiley Online Library
7. Self-healing Devices Mimic Muscles
HASEL actuators can be designed as soft grippers to handle and manipulate delicate objects, like this raspberry.
Image Credit: Keplinger Lab / University of Colorado Boulder
Soft Robotics is a relatively new field with a number of persistent challenges in the face of the brave researchers who struggle day and night working to create the next-gen robots.
Robots that are not metal droids, but soft and ‘human’. Opposed to the stiff metal droids, soft robots have huge potential considering that they can adapt to dynamic environments and are much more suited for close interactions with humans.
One of the major challenges in this field is the lack of actuators, or ‘artificial muscles’ which can replicate and demonstrate the versatility and the performance of real, biological muscles.
That’s old news.
In the NEWs, we have HASEL.
The Keplinger Research Group in the College of Engineering and Applied Science (at the University of Colorado at Boulder) has developed a new class of electrically activated, soft devices that mimic the expansion and contraction movements of natural muscles.
As if this wasn’t enough,
-These devices can be constructed from low-cost materials
-They can self-sense their movements
-They can self-heal from electrical damage
They are HASEL – Hydraulically Amplified Self-healing Electrostatic actuators!
The HASEL actuators can perform a range of tasks, from grabbing delicate objects to lifting heavy weights.
Don’t believe me? See for yourself:
The HASEL actuators are at par with the speed, efficiency, and strength of biological muscles. Their versatility may inspire a new generation of prosthetic limbs.
Full Release: University of Colorado (Boulder), Science Robotics, Science
8. Unhappiness Among Screen-addicted Teens
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Psychology professor, Jean M. Twenge from the San Diego State University was convinced that screen-addicted teens are unhappier compared to the rest. So, along with colleagues Gabrielle Martin (SDSU) and W. Keith Campbell at the University of Georgia, she set out to explore the link between screen time and adolescent life-satisfaction.
They processed data from the ‘Monitoring the Future (MtF) longitudinal study’, a national survey of more than a million U.S. teens in the grades 8, 10, and 12.
The survey had questions regarding how often the students spent time on their phones, computers, and tablets. It also had questions regarding their ‘live’, ‘in-the-flesh’ social interactions as well as regarding their overall happiness.
As per their study, they found that teens who spent a lot of time in front of their screens either playing games or texting or video-chatting or using social media, in general, were less happy in comparison to the teens who employed their time majorly for sports, social interactions, and other off-screen activities.
Professor Twenge carries the firm belief that it is the screen trend that causes the unhappiness, even if the study does not show any causation for the same.
As per Twenge, “The key to digital media use and happiness is limited use. Aim to spend no more than two hours a day on digital media, and try to increase the amount of time you spend seeing friends face-to-face and exercising — two activities reliably linked to greater happiness.”
Full Release: Science Daily
9. The Effective Brain Pacemaker
Most of the researchers take on the Alzheimer’s disease by focusing on improving the patients’ memory. Going off the main road, the researchers at the Wexner Medical Center (The Ohio State University) wanted to try the much-avoided path of trying to slow down the memory decline in the Alzheimer’s patients. The aim was to slow down the deterioration of the decision making and problem-solving skills in the patients.
The team wanted to see if bringing a ‘brain pacemaker’ into the scene would help improve functional, cognitive and behavioral abilities in the patients. So, it was a ‘first ever’ when they surgically implanted thin, electrical wires into the frontal lobes of the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. This implant is called the Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) implant. It has been compared to the cardiac pacemaker, for it performs a similar function with respect to the brain instead of the heart.
Director of the Division of Cognitive Neurology at Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center’s Neurological Institute, and co-author of the study, Dr. Douglas Scharre, is a neurologist who focuses primarily on treating patients with Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
He was of the opinion that because the frontal lobes hold our capabilities of problem-solving, organizing and planning, as well as carrying out good judgments, there would be the possibility that by stimulating this region, the Alzheimer’s symptoms in patients would slow down.
And this is precisely what he did.
To everyone’s happiness, he turned out to be right.
It was found in the pilot study that stimulation of the frontal lobes can reduce the pace of the performance decline observed in people with early stage or mild Alzheimer’s.
Full Release: Wexner Medical Center (The Ohio State University), IOS Press
10. Cognitive Training for a Younger Brain
Brain imaging revealed more energy efficient brains in the cognitive training group compared to the exercise and waitlist control groups.
Image Credit: Michael A. Motes, et. al., Neurobiology of Aging, 2018
We are all aware of the toll that old age takes on our brain. Our decision making becomes a blur, our ability to plan and organize becomes clouded. All in all, the cognitive decline that comes with aging is unforgiving, unavoidable and persistent. However, as per the research of a team at the Center for BrainHealth at the University of Texas (Dallas), there might be a ray of hope in this relentless situation.
The researchers conducted a clinical study that involved adults aged 56-71. After being given cognitive training, the participants’ brains were more energy-efficient, i.e., they performed tasks easier than before. This was found out by the team by studying the neural activity of the participant while they performed a task.
The cognitive training used the SMART program – Strategic Memory Advanced Reasoning Training – developed at the Center for BrainHealth.
The various strategies included in the cognitive training were:
-Focusing on the most relevant information and filtering out the rest
-Ways to continuously synthesize information and encourage and formulate deeper thinking
-Inspiring innovative thinking, etc.
To read about the entire study, check out the full release in the links mentioned below!
Full Release: University of Texas (Dallas), Neurobiology of Aging
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'''October 23, 1912 [LAT]:''' “Colony for lepers on San Clemente. The establishment of a colony on San Clemente Island for the care of all the lepers in the country, the project to be under Federal direction, is a departure recommended yesterday by County Health Officer Sawyer…”
'''October 25, 1912 [ ]:''' “...Four cases of leprosy have been treated at the county hospital during the past year. One of the patients is dead, according to the last report of the City Heal Commissioner Powers. Sawyer believes that there are 30 lepers in California and that the number on the mainland of the United States is about 150. He says there is no cause for alarm in these figures, because they are not unusual...We want a national home like those in the Philippines and on the island of Molokai in Hawaii. We want to give the afflicted ones social intercourse, churches, schools, libraries, theaters and other advantages. "The handling of leprosy by individual counties and states is too expensive a task, and it needs expert federal control. San Clemente Island is in a wonderful climate, and not so isolated that it would not place any one in danger. I have it from competent authorities that a water supply can be developed there for 300 persons, and this might be increased by distillation, as the case on our battleships...”
'''August 9, 1986 [LAT]:''' “The family of a San Diego fisherman who drowned last winter under mysterious circumstances off San Clemente Island filed a $10.8 million lawsuit Friday against the Navy, contending the man died after stray Navy explosives struck his boat. The suit, filed in federal court in San Diego, alleged that Boyd Reber of San Diego and crewman Frank Germano of Ventura died February 25 in an explosion of either a missile or live ordinance fired by sailors in target practice off San Clemente Island. The lawsuit accuses the Navy of negligence by failing to warn the fishermen of danger and in allowing explosives to strike their boat. It seeks damages of more than $10.8 million, covering the cost of the boat, and the loss suffered by Reber’s wife and 3-year-old child…”
'''August 9, 1986 [LAT]:''' “The family of a San Diego fisherman who drowned last winter under mysterious circumstances off San Clemente Island filed a $10.8 million lawsuit Friday against the Navy, contending the man died after stray Navy explosives struck his boat. The suit, filed in federal court in San Diego, alleged that Boyd Reber of San Diego and crewman Frank Germano of Ventura died February 25 in an explosion of either a missile or live ordnance fired by sailors in target practice off San Clemente Island. The lawsuit accuses the Navy of negligence by failing to warn the fishermen of danger and in allowing explosives to strike their boat. It seeks damages of more than $10.8 million, covering the cost of the boat, and the loss suffered by Reber’s wife and 3-year-old child…”
As I reported previously, Japan intends to stand up a new amphibious warfare brigade by April 2018: The initial size of the brigade will be around 2,000 troops, but this is slated to increase to 3,000 once the force becomes fully operational sometime in 2018. The new brigade’s principal mission will be to defend the 6,000 islands and islets of the Ryukyu Islands chain, which stretches southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan. The Western Army Infantry Regiment, based in Sasebo in Nagasaki Prefecture, is the nucleus of this new unit, as I noted: Seven hundred troops of the light infantry regiment are currently charged with defending the remote islands. However, the establishment of the new unit has been plagued by inter-service rivalry, budgetary constraints, and the Japan Self-Defense Force’s traditional problem of a lack of inter-service coordination, which, given that any amphibious warfare operation will require all three services to cooperate, may prove particularly problematic. Lack of inter-service coordination remains one of the biggest challenges for the Japanese military. “One of the shortcomings is that GSDF and MSDF [Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force] are not coordinating their efforts the way they should,” a former U.S. liaison officer in Japan told USNI News last week. “It’s kind of done in parallel, and that’s the wrong way to do things. Look around at Iron Fist and ask where the MSDF is.”
'''December 1, 2020 [waterworld.com]:''' “U.S. Navy to upgrade WWTP on San Clemente Island following EPA agreement. San Clemente Island is home to Navy SEAL training facilities and is the Navy's only remaining ship-to-shore live firing range. SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND, CA-- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a Federal Facility Compliance Agreement (FFCA) with the Navy whereby the Navy will complete major upgrades to the wastewater treatment plant on San Clemente Island. San Clemente Island is home to Navy SEAL training facilities and is the Navy's only remaining ship-to-shore live firing range. “The improvements to the wastewater treatment plant on San Clemente Island will protect coastal water quality," said EPA Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator John Busterud. “This demonstrates the Navy’s commitment to improving its wastewater infrastructure.” The EPA and Navy entered into the FFCA to address violations at the treatment plant tied to discharge of pollutants, which can impact water quality and ocean wildlife. These violations place the facility in Significant Non-Compliance with its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. The Navy also violated its permit by failing to properly operate and maintain all facilities and for failing to perform maintenance on all monitoring instruments. The Navy has agreed to design and install an upgraded wastewater treatment system to bring the facility into full compliance with the Clean Water Act. The Navy also agreed to update and improve its operation and maintenance program for the improved wastewater treatment plant. The upgrades will cost approximately $2.3 million and completion is expected by October 2021. The San Clemente Island wastewater treatment plant discharges to a portion of the Pacific Ocean deemed as an Area of Special Biological Significance (ASBS). Such areas support an unusual variety of aquatic life, and often host unique species. Discharges into this area have the potential to impact aquatic life and could contribute to the impairment of water quality that harms the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the ASBS. The treatment system now has the capacity to treat 30,000 gallons per day of wastewater generated at the Naval Base. San Clemente Island is located about 70 miles west of San Diego and just south of Santa Catalina Island. This settlement furthers EPA’s National Compliance Initiative to reduce facilities that are in Significant Non-Compliance and improve surface water quality by assuring dischargers comply with NPDES permit requirements. ”
Los Angeles Herald, 1891
San Clemente Island airfield (1935-1941).
The original airfield was a hard packed gravel-dirt strip located in the center of the island. Work started in 1938 and paved over that original strip, completed in 1941.
SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND THROUGH TIME
San Clemente Island Range Complex
EARLY REFERENCES:
1888. Cheetham, Francis T. San Clemente Fifty-Two Years Ago August 1888 Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly 22(1):33-46, March 1940
1897. Grinnell, Joseph Description of a new towhee from California [San Clemente Island] Auk 14:294-296, 1897
1897. Grinnell, Joseph Report on the birds recorded during a visit to the islands of Santa Barbara, San Nicolas and San Clemente in the spring of 1897 in Pasadena Academy of Sciences 1:1-25, 1897
1899. Smith, Ruth Tangier One of California's Desert Islands (San Clemente Island) in Land of Sunshine 10(2):65-72, 1899
1904 Trask, Blanche Flora of San Clemente Island Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences 3:76-78, 90-95, 1904
Mrs. Blanche Trask, tireless explorer of the Channel Islands, first visited San Clemente Island in October, 1896, walking the length of the island and discovering Quercus tomentella (Erythea 5: 30. 1897). She apparently also was there for a short time in October 1902; and she returned in 1903, living on the island for three months in late spring and publishing a narrative "Flora of San Clemente Island" (Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 3: 76-78, 90-95, 1904). The first set of her plants , at the California Academy of Sciences, was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 (with the exception of a few sheets). But she apparently also sold sets of San Clemente plants, however, and they are represented at the Gray Herbarium , New York Botanical Garden, United States National Museum, and several European herbaria, including Edinburgh.
Since 1934, San Clemente Island has been owned and operated by various naval commands. More than a dozen range and operational areas are clustered within a 60 mile radius of the island. The Commander-in-Chief, Naval Forces, Pacific (CINCPACFLT) is the major claimant for the island, and Naval Base Coronado (NBC) is responsible for its administration. Today San Clemente Island's primary function is two fold:
(1) to support tactical training of the Pacific Fleet
(2) to continue as a key research and development facility.
The island provides the Navy and Marine Corps a multi-threat warfare training range. A major part of Navy training takes place on the ranges right off the island shores. The primary range covers over 149,000 square miles and is the Navy's busiest Fleet airspace. Also included in this training area are two mine exercise areas, the Southern California Anti-Submarine Warfare Range, seven submarine areas, the shallow water Undersea Training Range, and two laser training ranges. In total, San Clemente Island is a very unique combination of airfields, airspace and ranges unlike any other facility owned by the Navy. It is the only location in the Pacific where surface ships, submarines, aircraft and Navy expeditionary forces can train in all warfare areas simultaneously using shore gunnery, bombardment, air defense, anti sub and electronic warfare.
Bruce, Stewart C. A Historical Geography of San Clemente Island 1542-1935
1542 “On Tuesday, the 3rd of October [1642], they [Cabrillo's expedition] left the port of San Miguel [San Diego] and during Wednesday, Thursday and Friday they continued on their route about eighteen leagues along the coast... On Friday night they were near some islands that were about seven leagues from the mainland... The dawn of Saturday, the 7th of October, found themselves on the islands, to which they gave the names of San Salvador [Santa Catalina Island] and Victoria [San Clemente Island]....” Paez, Juan. Cabrillo's Log, 1542-1543: A Voyage of Discovery in Western Explorer 5:2 & 3 (7). Cabrillo Historical Association.
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March 15, 1769 [Fr. Juan Vizcaino aboard San Antonio, sea-going arm of Portola's expedition]: “Drizzling about daybreak and not a little mist. An island [San Clemente Island] was seen (the first). We are going to turn the point jutting out to the left. Heavy sea and cold. On the point of the Island which faces toward the east, with a hummock rising from the sea, we saw people who raised smoke, and upon passing parallel to the said points, of which there are two [China Point and Pyramid Head], with a bay or port between them [Pyramid Cove], the other one tapering to a point, we could see the light on the other side, but not a tree, only the grass was beginning to grow green.”
March 16, 1803: The otter-trading vessel, Leila Byrd, run by Captain William Shaler and his partner, Richard Cleveland, was becalmed at San Clemente Island. Supercargo Richard Cleveland reported:
“the crew observed eleven completely nude individuals, men, women and children, living in a cave on the south side of [San Clemente] the island. These natives live exclusively on fish that they baked in the earth.”
» Cleveland, R. J. A Narrative of Voyage and Commercial Enterprises. John Owen, Cambridge, 1842 » Shaler, W. Journal of a Voyage between China and the North-western Coast of America made in 1804 Saunders Studio Press, Claremont, 1935.
June 25, 1851 [SDU]: “...Sec. 3. County of Los Angeles, Beginning on the coast of the Pacific...including the islands of Santa Catalina and San Clement...”
July 24, 1852 [Los Angeles Star]: “Los Angeles County Indians. [Letter No. XXII.] Finis. Having given a sketch of the Angeles County Indians from the time they were the free, natal possessors of the soil, living contented in a state of nature, until these civilized times of squatting and legislative oppression, in which not only they, but those bearing their blood in a fourth degree, are included, to the shame of this our country, and disgrace of the framers of such laws, I shall now conclude them, with a very short review of how far their ancient manners and customs remain in force among the handful left of a once happy people. Their former lodges are not now in existence, and most of the Indians remaining in the county are from other parts —from Santa Ynez to San Diego. A few are to be found at San Fernando, San Gabriel and the Angeles. Those in service on ranchos are a mere handful. You will find at present more of them in the county of Monterey than in this, excluding the three places names above. Death has been very busy among them for years past, and very few more are wanting to extinguish this lamp that God lighted! The Indians from the northwest coast killed great numbers years ago on the Islands. Those of San Clemente, the remains of which some eighteen years since [1834] were collected in caves on the Island, showed the whole of them to have been possessed of double teeth all round, both in the upper and under jaw. I have previously mentioned that their language has deteriorated much since the conquest. Numerous causes affect all languages, and one of the many which did so to theirs, was the want of their former Councils held so frequently, in which their wise men spoke with eloquence suited to the occasion, using more dignity and expression, which naturally elevated the minds of all, and gave a tinge of better utterance even in ordinary conversation. They have, at present, two religions—one of custom, and another of faith. Naturally fond of novelty, the Catholic one serves as a great treat—the forms and ceremonies an inexhaustible source of amusement. They don't quarrel with their neighbor's mode of worship, but consider their own the best. The life and death of our Savior is only, in their opinion, a distorted version of their own life. Hell, as taught them, has no terrors. It is for whites, not Indians, or else their father would have known it. The Devil, however, has become a great personage in their sight; he is called Zizu, and makes his appearance on all occasions...”
June 16, 1853 [DAC]: “U.S. Surveying Schooner Ewing, off San Pedro, June 1st, 1853. Lieut. Commanding James Alden, U.S.N., Chief of the Hydrographic party on the West Coast:
Sir—I have the pleasure of reporting my return to this place, from the shoal to the southward of San Clemente and San Nicolas, which I have made a thorough examination of, having been five days anchored upon it. The shoal or bank is in Lat. 32 deg. 30 min. N., long. 119 deg. 10 min. 50 sec. W. by N., (by compass), distant forty-six miles; Island of Clemente bears N.E. 1/2 N., (compass), distant forty-three and a half miles. The nature of the bottom is hard, composed of white sand, broken shells and coral; the least water found ten fathoms, which would be about nine reduced to low water, and the character of the soundings, as you will find upon reference to the chart which I send herewith, irregular and abrupt. The weather, while at anchor upon the shoal, we found different from that which ordinarily prevails upon the coast in the vicinity, bearing a strong resemblance to that upon the Banks of Newfoundland. The current is irregular, frequently setting against the wind, and running with a velocity of nearly two knot per hour, producing a heavy sea and causing the water to break in heavy weather as has been reported. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, T. H. Stevens, Lieut. Commanding, U.S.N.”
July 14, 1853 [NYT]: “Lieutenant F. H. Stephens of the U.S. Coast Survey, has completed an examination of the shoal near San Clemente and San Nicolas islands on the California coast… the island of San Clemente bears NE half N distant forty-three and a half miles…”
1854 “The beautiful islands of St. Clemente or St. Salvador, is just appearing over our larboard. I say beautiful island, because it rises fair and graceful out of the oceans, and stands so lofty and relieved against the sky. At the distance from which we have the view, it does not look like land, but resembles a darkish cloud; yet, as we approach, the appearance is constantly changing. The bright clouds around and above it very ditinctly mark its outline. Now it presents the character of its soil, barren clay and rock, with sparce stinted vegetation. This island is said to be about fifteen to twenty miles long and is not inhabited.” [E. S. Capron, 1854]
February 18, 1854 Los Angeles Star
August 9, 1856 [SFBulletin]: “U. S. Marine Survey.—Capt. Alden and his assistants, having completed the survey of our harbor and the coast in the immediate vicinity, sailed with the Active, on Monday morning last [28th July], for San Clemente Island. They intend making a thorough survey of the island, and that past of the coast lying between Monterey and San Francisco.”
August 20, 1856 [SFDEB]: “The San Diego Herald says, Captain Alden and his assistants having completed the survey of our harbor and the coast in the immediate vicinity, sailed with the Active on Monday morning last, for San Clemente Island. They intended making a thorough survey of this island, and that part of the coast lying between Monterey and San Francisco.”
September 28, 1857 [DAC]: “…Having visited and examined San Clemente, Santa Catalina, San Nicolas, Santa Cruz, and San Miguel, we [Coast Survey] found them offering no inducements for agriculture, and very few indeed for raising stock, whilst there are so many advantages on the main[land]. In a few words, we may characterize their disadvantages as: want of water and want of fuel, with high, bold and rugged sides, which in many places become precipitous…”
December 5, 1857 [LAStar]: “Delinquent Tax List for the State and County for the year 1857... Owner unknown. 20,000 acres. Island of San Clemente...”
1860-1862: W. E. Greenwell and his team were on San Clemente Island to conduct a topographic survey. No complete map was produced.
January 11, 1861 [California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences]: (Continued from the Farmer of Dec. 28, 1860.) “IV.—D. Indians of Los Angeles County—No 1. 69. Lodges, Languages, etc. The following account of the Los Angeles Indians, by our deceased friend Hugo Reid, was published in the Los Angeles Star; in a series of twenty-two numbers, from February to 24 July 1852. Being the only account of the Indians of that county of any value, and now entirely out of print, we republish them in the Indianology, to give the inquirer one of the most excellent and reliable papers written on the California Indianada by one who resided in the country, twenty years before his death, in 1853. This history of Reid's is accounted of great value among the Ethnologists of Europe and America, who have repeatedly sent to this country for it without avail, as no complete copies of it are now to be had in the State. Lodges.—Before the Indians belonging to the greater part of this county were known to the Whites, they comprised as it were one great Family under Chiefs. They spoke nearly the same language, with the exception of a few words; and were more to be distinguished by a local intonation of the voice than anything else...The following are the principle Lodges or Rancherias, with their corresponding local names: Yang-na, Los Angeles; ... Pineug-na, Santa Catalina Island;,,,Kinkipar, San Clemente Island... There were a great many more villages than the above, probably some forty; but these are a fair sample of their names...”
June 5, 1862 [Greenwell letter]: “[San Clemente Island has] about 150 head of wild sheep…”
February 7, 1865 [SF Bulletin]: “Matters on the Southern Coast. San Pedro, February 2, 1865. For the last ten days we have had a series of rain storms...Nearly every trip the steamer takes up fat beef from this county; and mutton from Clemente Island went up by last trip of the Senator, which must have caused surprise to many persons there, knowing as all do of the severe drought for the past two years. The mutton has but one fault—it is too fat. We killed one of the sheep recently which weighed, dressed, 109 pounds. Before cooking it was necessary to strip off the tallow which, when tried out, weighed nearly 40 pounds. The men residing on Clemente (which is 20 miles or more outside of Catalina) engaged in herding sheep, which grow to enormous size though they __ ___ to ___ without water. Several ___ ___ have prospected for mineral on San Clemente, but have not succeeded in finding any thing ___, though minerals exist there. One of the men living there, a Swede, I think, who is generally known by the name of John Brown No. 1, has a sloop, and frequently takes freight and passengers from the island. The other two men, who are Americans, have a nice vessel, nearly completed, built by themselves there, and will soon be ready to transport their own sheep and wool to a market. The climate on both Catalina and Clemente is said by all those who have resided on these islands, to be much superior to that on the mainland, not being so liable to sudden changes, neither is there much fog. I have written this much for the purpose of letting the readers of the Bulletin, and those who are invalids particularly, know of a chance to regain health without previously visiting the Islands, as many have done... ”
October 5, 1872 [Weekly Alta California]: “The Los Angeles Ranchos... Catalina Island, James Lick... San Clemente Island. Unrecorded...”
1874: Lieut. Col. R. S. Williamson conducted a topographic survey on San Clemente Island for the Lighthouse Board to determine areas for possible lighthouses.
1878: Stehamn Forney conducted a survey of San Clemente Island for the U.S. Coast Survey. His work resulted in a detaild topographic map in 1879.
April 11, 1878 [SF Bulletin]: “San Clemente Island. San Clemente Island lies about twenty-five miles west of Catalina Island, and is about its equal in size. At present it is utilized as a sheep-run, there being at the time of the last shearing from ten to fifteen thousand sheep browsing on its pasturage. In consequence of its distance from the mainland, added to its isolated position, shepherds are dispensed with, and no attention is paid to the flocks by their owners from one shearing to another. Strange to say, not a spring or stream of water has yet been discovered on any part of the island. The sheep are supposed to obtain moisture to allay their thirst from the sea fogs with which the grass is almost constantly drenched. These fogs also sustain good pasturage throughout the year, and the sheep are always in good condition, the wool season having fairly set in, sheep-shearers are now on their way to the Island to ease the flocks of their fleece. The wool is brought away in the schooner that conveys the shearers thither. The number of sheep on the Island cannot be ascertained until the shearing, which will continue for three weeks or a month has been completed. Unless some evil has befallen the flock, their number is now double that of last year. (Los Angeles News.)”
April 24, 1878 [SBDP]: “The Hassler arrived this afternoon from San Clemente Island where she has been engaged for the past three weeks surveying. She will remain about one week.”
May 18, 1878 [LADH]: “Oscar Macy, who has returned from of some weeks duration at San Clemente Island, informs us that fully 9,000 sheep perished there last season on account of the drouth. About 7,000 still remain on the Island, all of which are in a flourishing condition, the grass being very luxuriant.”
September 14, 1878 [Stehman Forney to Mr. Carlile Pollock Patterson, Superintendent, U.S. Coast Survey]: “…I returned to Catalina Island, struck my camp and proceeded by sailing vessel, with men, horses, and camp equipment to San Clemente Island, where I arrived September 14, 1878…”
October 24, 1878 [SBDP]: “The Hassler arrived this afternoon from San Clemente where she has been engaged for the past three weeks surveying. She will remain about one week.”
December 22, 1878 [NYT]: “The Lebanon (Penn.) Courier prints the following extract of a letter from Stehman Forney of the United States Coast Survey, dated on the Island of San Clemente in the Pacific, December 1, 1878:
‘I am at present engaged in making a survey of San Clemente Island. It is 40 miles from the mainland, and is 22 miles in length and 2 miles wide. It is a wild, dreary place, with no water on it, except in immense natural tanks, which are so deep and precipitous that the water in them is inaccessible. I transport the water for my men and horses from the mainland. There is no wood, either, on the island, which is of volcanic formation, and composed of lava and conglomerate. The top of the island is covered with an abundance of grass, which sustains about 10,000 sheep, and, strange to say, they live, grow very fat, and are very profitable to their owners, and yet in the summer season get no water, except in the form of dew on the grass. There is, however, a peculiar plant on the island, called the ice plant, which is filled with moisture and is eaten by the sheep to quench their thirst. They are very fat, and make the finest mutton I have ever eaten.”
June 30, 1879 [Stehman Forney to Mr. Carlile Pollock Patterson, Superintendent, U.S. Coast Survey]: “At the north end of the island there is a small indentation in the shoreline. This place is known as Clemente Anchorage, but is not considered a safe or comfortable place to anchor… There is a house and corral at this place. Anchor to the southward of the house close under the high cliffs in seven fathoms. This place is called Wilson’s Cove, and is the point from which all the wool that is raised on the island, is shipped… The island of San Clemente is the property of the United States, and at present is occupied by Messrs. Goodwin and Mace of Los Angeles, Cal. They support from eight to nine thousand head of sheep upon it…”
April 6, 1880 [San Francisco Bulletin]: “Last week a gang of 25 sheep shearers, principally Indians from San Bernardino, came over from San Clemente Island and were paid off in Los Angeles. About half of them were afterwards arrested for being drunk and for fighting.”
July 3, 1880 [LAH]: “Arrived at San Pedro July 1st, sloop Flora, Perry master, from Clemente Island with cargo of abalone shells for I. Morrison.”
September 14, 1880 [LAH]: “Arrived at Wilmington September 11th, sloop Flora, [Captain] Perry master, from Clemente Island with cargo of shells.”
January 11, 1881 [LAH]: “Arrived January 9th, schooner Alexander, [Captain] McMillen master, from Clemente Island.”
January 28, 1882 [LAH]: “Col. Oscar Macy got home yesterday from a brief visit to San Clemente Island.”
April 12, 1881 [LAH]: “Arrived, April 7th, schooner San Mateo, Sylvia, master, twelve hours from San Clemente Island, with passengers and wool.”
January 31, 1882 [LAH]: “One of the lighters belonging to Gen. Banning, that was blown to sea during the severe gale of the 12th inst., was recovered by Capt. Samuel Sylva while returning from Clemente Island on the 25th inst. Her cargo of about fifty tons of coal was safe and dry. From the position in which she was found it would indicate that she had made the entire circuit of Catalina Island and was bound toward San Diego to take water.”
October 24, 1883 [San Diego Sun]: “The schooner Ellen, Captain Behen, consigned to Mr. A. Wentscher, arrived on Sunday from Clemente Island with six hundred gallons of oil and eight hundred seal skins. She was absent one and a half months.”
November 17, 1883 [San Diego Sun]: “The schooner Ellen, Captain Wilson, consigned to Mr. A. Wentscher, arrived yesterday, from Clemente Island, with four hundred seal skins.”
November 23, 1883 [LAT]: “A Chinaman who drowned at San Clemente Island last Saturday, was brought up from Wilmington, and after a coroner’s inquest was held, the body was buried from the undertaking establishment of Mr. Albert Brown. The Chinaman was with others, engaged in fishing on the island, and accompanied by his brother, on the fatal day were plying their vocation when their little boat was overturned and both thrown into the water. One regained the boat and was rescued. The other drowned.”
April 23, 1883 [SFMC]: “The sloop Isabella, Captain Charles England, will sail this morning for San Clemente Island.”
November 19, 1883 [SFMC]: “…On Catalina Island, sixty miles east of Santa Barbara, are 15,000 sheep, and on Clemente Island, 80 miles east of that city, are 10,000 sheep. Forty miles west of the same city is San Miguel, on which are 2000 sheep. Each one of these ranches has a sailing vessel to carry freight etc. to and from between the islands and the mainland, and they are kept busy the greater part of the time…”
January 25, 1883 [LAH]: “Los Angeles lights at sea. The peculiar merit of out electric lights, and the distance at which they may be seen, was forcibly illustrated yesterday, by the statement of some gentlemen from the Island of San Clemente eighty miles distant. They stated that the high mast lights of the city are all visible from that island, in clear weather, and the captains of coasting vessels report that they are clearly seen from their decks, when the light from the San Pedro lighthouse is invisible. When they see the nine colored stars in the east, the skippers know their latitude without reference to the stars or the lighthouse. These facts show the propriety of having an electric light in our lighthouses along the coast. While lighting our streets at night the electric rays reach out over the sea to 'tell the homesick mariner of the shore,' and waken visions of orange groves and the perpetual beauty and odor of flowers in fair Los Angeles.”
February 2, 1884 [SDRU]: “The electric lights on the high masts at Los Angeles can be distinctly seen from the Island of San Clemente eighty miles out to sea.”
August 4, 1885 [SF Chronicle]: “The Academy of Sciences held a meeting last evening, Professor Davidson presiding and C. Walcott Brooks, Secretary... Professor Davidson gave a description of the San Clemente Island, drawing a map on the board and describing different points.”
April 7, 1888 [DAC]: “Los Angeles, April 6. It has been learned that on the 10th of March the body of an unknown man was washed on the beach of San Clemente Island, about seventy-five miles from the mainland. The body was naked and was covered with holes, which may have been made by seabirds. Some Indian children found it. It is supposed that the remains were those of a sailor from some passing ship.”
October 5, 1888 [LAT]: “Pasadena. It is reported that an ancient temple, dedicated to the god Chiuigehinich, has been discovered on San Clemente Island. A number of prominent scientists and businessmen went to the island this evening in a yacht for the purpose of investigating the rumor.”
October 15, 1888 [LAT]: “Pasadena. The prospecting party that started for San Clemente Island yesterday week, returned this morning enthusiastic and well satisfied with the results of their trip, although insufficient time prevented as full an investigation as was desired. The party was as follows: Col. W. A. Ray, W. H. Wakeley, Sam Wakeley, H. J. and W. L. Vail, J. W. Wood, Delos Arnold, George Prosser, L. Jarvis, Frank Healy and C. E. Deschampaugh… Several broad plateaus exist, which with proper cultivation would probably prove fertile, but the only use to which the island is put at present is that of sheep-grazing, about fifteen thousand of these animals now existing there under the care of an Irishman, whose lonely residence there dates back 25 years. As this man, Tom Gallagher by name, is a Republican, it is supposed that the vote of San Clemente will be sold for Harrison and protection—to wool… No less than six perfect skeletons were found… numerous stone mortars and pestles, many broken and some entire… earrings of abalone shell, and numerous other trinkets…”
July 5, 1890 [SFC]: “San Pedro, July 4. Captain Innes, a resident of San Pedro, went hunting on Clemente Island two weeks ago. He expected to be back the next day, but as he was not heard from a search party went over and found his body this morning. He had probably been dead two days. He had wandered around weak from want of food, and had fallen and struck his head on a sharp stone and was killed instantly.”
August 12, 1890 [Riverside Daily Press]: “Riverside goes to Clemente. Hurrah! we've been to San Clemente Island and have seen the Robinson Crusoe of the Pacific. Last Wednesday morning a party, exclusively of Riverside people, got together by Dr. Shugart, sailed out of Avalon harbor on the yacht Hattie, bound for this lone island in the Pacific Ocean. The party consisted of Dr. and Mrs. K. D. Shugart and Marion Waite, Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Way, Hon. A. P. Johnson, wife and son Orson, Mrs. Jno. McFarland and son Chauncey, J. H. Roe, wife and daughter Mary, John Bigelow and H. L. Morton. The Hattie is a staunch one-masted yacht, forty feet long, with a vapor engine which runs by gasoline and takes the boat along five miles an hour when there is no wind...We started about 10 a.m. and plowed the blue waters in a southerly direction for six hours, till at 4 p.m. we cast anchor in Dakin's Cove where Tom Gallagher lives out his lonely life. The island is 30 miles from Catalina and 60 from Laguna. It is 21-3/4 miles long—just the same as Catalina, and from one to five miles broad. We had heard that it was a sand island, but it is nearly as hilly as Catalina, the highest point being 1960 feet...The southern shore of Clemente is the most desolate coast I have ever seen. It fairly gives me the horrors. Extensive sand slopes stretch down to the beach, which is lined with black and jagged rocks, around which the surf thunders ominously. But it is par excellence the place to find abalone shells. Here you can pry them off the rocks or pick them up empty. Chinamen had lately been along collecting abalone meat, which they cook and dry. They throw away the shells and Riverside orchardists pick them up. The rarest are the yellow ones, which must be pulled out from under with boat hooks. Marion Waite got a perfect Indian skull, McFarland a nearly complete skeleton, Dr. Way a whale's vertebra and rib, and the rest, limpets, black and white key-hole varieties. As for abalones, we all got all we could lug over the hill. Gallagher's billy goat is a character. The old man said he had been known to eat a plug of tobacco. To test it, Dr. Shugart cut off a good sized pipeful and handed it to him with a Jewfish kind of smile. Billy took it, winked once and swallowed it promptly. Having begged in vain for more he resumed his former diet of old newspapers, tin cans, etc. The old Crusoe keeps the goat to get the sheep into any corral he wants them in. The goat understands it, and marches out of one corral into another, the sheep following. They are sheared in February, 50 men coming over for the purpose. Last time they sheared 14,000 and a good many got away. There used to be twice as many, Gallagher said, but they have gradually killed all the brush and water-containing shrubs on the island, and are now decreasing. There is no spring of water on the isle, and it is a singular fact that they live from July till November without getting a single drink. In July the "tanks" or ponds dry up, and no more water till next rains...They even chew the cactus, or "tunies”, because it is filled with moisture. The poor things sometimes drink sea water, which kills them. Yet they keep fat, and on the whole seem to enjoy themselves better than some people I know. Just think of going to far Clemente for a hot chicken dinner! We had one there. The venerable occupant keeps fouls and we bought one for fifty cents, cooked it on his big range, and ate it with relish. T. B. Gallagher was born in Ireland nearly 70 years ago, he does not know his age but looks about that. He came to "Ameriky" when a lad, served ten years in the "rigular arrmy, Oh!", came to San Bernardino some time before the war, visited San Clemente 30 years ago, and has resided there for 28 years past. He is employed to remain as a guard for the sheep and property for the owners—Goodwin, Mace & Hubbell of Los Angeles. He has now with him a Mexican, Alvitre Martinez by name, who has been there since last shearing time, five months. He can't speak Spanish and Alvitre "no spikky mucho Engliss," so they must have an interesting time. I was witness to an unsuccessful attempt on Gallagher's part to make him understand a question. It was a no go. But for many, many years Old Tom has had to "go it alone", his solitude being interrupted only by the annual shearing and occasional yachting parties. When asked if he did not get lonesome, he laughed and said "Oh, I often go over to the mainland, but I soon get tired of it and come back. I needn't stay if I don't want to." He looks hale and hearty, and sticks close to his pipe, and is good for many years yet, no doubt; but some morning he won't get up any more, and the two white dogs will howl and nobody will be there to feed them. After one day and two nights on the island we bade adieu to the hospitable master of this inhospitable shore, shoved off the bouldery beach, climbed gladly up the side of the Hattie, steamed three miles to the isthmus, debarked and got more shells, bones and "trash", returned and at 1 o'clock hoisted sail and "sailed the ocean blue" till Castle Rock (dubbed Gallagher's Nose by our party) disappeared beneath the horizon and Catalina loomed loftily along the lee...”
1891: W. W. Allen, surveyor hired by the Lighthouse Board to determine rights of way for roads connecting the three lighthouse reservations on the island.
May 14, 1891 [DAC]: “San Diego, May 13. County Surveyor Allen, with a complete surveying outfit, sailed today for San Clemente Island to make a Government survey for three lighthouses and a road to connect them.”
June 15, 1891 [San Diego Union]: “Surveys have just been completed at San Clemente Island, sixty miles off Del Mar, for three lighthouses with connecting roads. County surveyor W. W. Allen has done the preliminary work.”
August 21, 1891 [LAT]: “It was reported on the streets yesterday that a number of settlers are making their way to San Clemente Island where they are locating Government land. It is said that water has been found only nine feet from the surface and the land will grow anything. Another big crowd will go over Sunday.”
August 22, 1891 [LAH]: “San Clemente Island. Plenty of good land claimed to be open to settlers. San Clemente Island is now the scene of considerable excitement. Some few weeks ago two Glendale men went to the island and discovered that it contained considerable fine land, but no water. They prospected and found plenty of good water, however, at a depth of ten feet, and so came back to this city and attempted to file claims under the preemption act. The island belongs to the government, but it is a question as to whether the land is open for settlement, as all the islands are reserved by the government except where they are conveyed by special grant. The Indians have a tradition that years ago, during an earthquake, San Clemente was cut off from the mainland, with the Indians that happened to be in that locality, and that they all died from thirst, as no water could be had. The place has of late years only been considered good for sheep pasture. If it be true that plenty of water can be had, and that the land is open for settlement, there will be a big rush of land seekers.”
August 23, 1891 [LAH]: “San Clemente Island. No filings on land on the Island are receivable. Inquiry was made at the United Stated Land Office yesterday in regard to the alleged stampede of settlers to San Clemente Island for the purpose of taking up lands. No filings have so far been made on any land on the island, and none would be received if offered, for the reason that Clemente has never been surveyed, and there are no plats of the island in the local office. The receiver does not know whether or not the land is reserved from settlement by the government, but the supposition is strong that it is, for if the land were open to settlers plats of the island would be on file here. The local office directs all inquiries to the deputy surveyor-general of the United States for this district, whose headquarters are at San Francisco. No report of the discover of water on the island has been made to the receiver.”
August 27, 1891 [LAH]: “Fifteen claims have been filed in the county recorder’s office to land on San Clemente Island within the past four weeks. A Herald reporter last evening saw one of the island boomers, and was told that the soil is mainly a rich sandy loam, similar to that in the famous San Gabriel Valley. The island is twenty-nine miles long by from three to five miles wide. It is not broken and rocky like Catalina, but is made up of rolling plateaus of, as stated, what appears to be the very best quality of soil. ‘Land Register Seamans told me,’ said a settler whom the Herald man saw last evening, ‘that we are all right, and that we have a good thing. He is going to cross to the island on Friday. ‘To show that the soil is good, I will tell you that I found luxuriant growths of wild cherry and wild plum trees, and mountain mahogany, and rank plants of malvia. The wild cherries were longer than most of the domestic ones now in the market here.’ ‘How about water?’ ‘Plenty of it. We have one well eight feet deep in which there is three feet and six inches of good water. We have a well contractor over there now, who is to put down a number. Why, there used to be a spring and a little lake on the island. When those fellows who have got sheep there took possession they stopped up the spring and drained the lake, so as to keep people from interfering with them. The spring was on the middle ranch, as it is called, and we will clear it out. ‘Have not these sheep men any title?’ ‘Not a particle. No one has. All people can do is to file possessory claims in the county recorder’s office, and when the government survey is made those who have complied with the requirements of the homestead law will get the land they have filed on.’ ‘How much land is there?’ ‘There are about 75,000 acres altogether, of which at least three-fourths are good land.’ ‘Who have claims there now?’ ‘There are fifteen altogether. I can’t remember all the names; among them are G. W. Sanford and Mr. Bruns, of Verdugo; Carl Stromsen, Andrew Olden, Fred Entwoldsen, of San Pedro; W. S. Deacon, W. W. Freeman, and D. W. Freeman, of Los Angeles. Several hundred men have arranged to go to the island this week, and a petition is already being circulated asking for the establishment of a post office. It is not probable that Oscar Macy and his associates in the sheep business on the island, will give up their bonanza without a struggle, though if as claimed they have no lease, it is hard to see how they can fight. The only inhabitant of the island has been an old sailor named Gallagher, who has turned his luck to the world and ‘let her go,’ and for many years has taken care of his sheep. He swears by the place, saying it has the finest climate in the world, and that living there has added decades to his life. He has lived there as long as any one can remember, and he does not know how old he is now, and presumably expects to remain there for an indefinite period. The party which returned yesterday come for more supplies, and will return on Friday. They are sanguine as to their prospects, and have caused a widespread fever among those adventurously inclined to go to San Clemente and get a quarter section. In these affairs the wise man looks well before he leaps.”
August 27, 1891 [LAH]: “It has always been understood here that San Clemente Island was waterless — that is fresh water could not be developed there by the digging of wells. Since the excitement started about the island being pre-emptible by settlers, however, water has been developed there, we are assured, in sufficient quantities for all purposes. A gentleman who returned from the island yesterday informs us that he found plenty of water there. He is one of the settlers, and believes that he can hold his location as long as the government does not want the island for military purposes. When asked, how he could hold it as against the parties who had leased it for sheep grazing, he said it was not true that the government had ever leased the island or any portion of it. If this is so, it will prove a revelation to all the old-timers here.”
August 28, 1891 [LAH]: “There appears to be little doubt but that San Clemente Island is open for settlers, and that the adventurous men who have taken up claims there, as exclusively announced in yesterday’s Herald, will make a good thing out of their enterprise. United Stated Land Register Seamans yesterday said about the matter, ‘we have no information in our office that San Clemente is reserved by the government for any purpose, and no one has any lease of it. It is only known to us as unsurveyed government land. ‘The only way in which anyone can acquire a claim to unsurveyed government land not reserved, is by occupying it, and thus getting a possessory right; after the land is surveyed and the plat filed in the local land office, the occupant of the land will have the preference in the privilege of making entry. I do not think there is anything in the way of the men who have taken claims there eventually getting titles. A number of expeditions were fitted out yesterday for the island, and in a few days time, it will probably be over run with settlers.”
August 29, 1891 [LAH]: “Over on the island. The San Clemente boomers satisfied with their prospects. W. C. Deacon, one of the settlers on San Clemente Island, returned to this city yesterday. He stated to a Herald reporter that there is no question about it being easy to obtain water on the island. The well sunk a few weeks ago is apparently inexhaustible. There are now about twenty claims taken; and thirty odd people will go over on Monday or Tuesday. Mr. Deacon asserts that the land is of the very best quality, and displayed a government chart which showed that the greater part of the island consisted of plateaus. The quality of the soil Mr. Deacon said, was demonstrated by the luxuriant growth of wild fruit trees. He is well satisfied with the speculation and the prospect of eventually getting a title to his land.”
August 29, 1891 [LAT]: “The attempt to boom San Clemente fell flat, and the island will continue to be used as a sheep pasture as it has been for years.”
September 2, 1891 [LAH]: “The sheep men have no lease to the island. A San Diego County Surveyor enthuses over the place. Land as good as found anywhere. The climate perfect. Ex-supervisor Oscar Macy was seen by a Herald Examiner reporter yesterday and asked about San Clemente Island. He stated that the Wool Growers’ company in which he was interested had no claim to the island beyond that of using it as a pasture. He did not think, however, that people would care to settle on it to any great extent. The San Diegan, of Monday, contains the following matter apropos: ‘A good deal of interest is just now being manifested in San Clemente Island, which lies forty miles off the coast due west from Del Mar. It has been supposed by most people that the island was personal property through the operation of a Mexican land grant, but a search of the records show that it is ordinary government land, and as open to entry by homesteaders as any other unsurveyed government land. The result of this discovery is that a number of people from Los Angeles have gone “west” to San Clemente and staked out homestead claims. There is also talk here of organizing a party for the same purpose. Last May County Surveyor Allen, acting as United States deputy surveyor, went to San Clemente with a force of men and ran lines for three light house reservations and for a road to connect them all. The land lays somewhat in the form of a pyramid, the north end tapering to quite a narrow point, and the south end or base being broader. A light house reservation was staked off at the two corners of the base or south end, and at the north end, called Schubert’s Harbor. Mr. Allen said today his surveyors showed the island to be 20 miles long and from 2 to 6 miles wide. Portions of it are plenty high enough to keep people out of the mud, the altitude in places reaching 1900 feet. The shore next to San Diego is almost a wall, the bluffs rising from the water at an angle of 45 feet up to about the highest elevation of the island. From the crest of this bluff the land slopes gently to the waters’ edge on the west. The southern third of the island is broken and full of canyons, of value only as reservoirs for water caught by winter rains. The northern two-thirds is fairly level, the slope being to the west and north. At the extreme northern end the land is sandy, but the middle belt is of adobe foundation, “and when I was there,” said Surveyor Allen, “was covered with fileria two feet high. There are in fact,” he said, “thousands of acres of as good land there as there is anywhere in the world, and the climate tempered by the ocean, is perfect.” Up to a short time ago, it was supposed no fresh water could be obtained except that which was caught in the canyons, but a well was then dug and reasonably good water was found. The absence of water is the chief obstacle to a residence and cultivation of the soil, however. Tom Gallagher has for over twenty years been the sole occupant of the land, which has been used as a free sheep pasture by the San Clemente Wool Grower’s Association. Indian mounds and relics found there make the place of historic interest.”
September 3, 1891 [LAH]: “Captain Condit’s sloop Hattie carried a party to San Clemente Island last week. Among those on board were Messrs. Harris, Howard, Condit, Arthur Kenney, Charlie Hubbell and Gay Lewis.”
September 5, 1891 [LAT]: “The Clemente Colonists. W. W. Freeman, one of the Clemente Island colonists, last evening called at The Times office to deny the statements made by Secretary Howard of the Park Commission, who, he says, is working in the interest of the sheep men. Freeman says that while there are only eight or ten men on the island at present, twenty or twenty-five claims have been entered and the settlers expect to take possession about October 1. Freeman says water is abundant, and a good supply can be had by ten to fifteen-foot wells. He further says two-thirds of the island is good farming land.”
September 5, 1891 [LAT]: “San Clemente Island is not to be restored to the public domain. Commissioner Carter of the General Land Office some time ago received an application to have San Clemente Island, located about thirty miles off the southwest coast of California, restored to the public domain. In view, however, of its possible importance as a naval station the Commissioner has rejected the application.”
September 10, 1891 [LAH]: “The experience of a couple of San Diego boys at San Clemente Island. E. Tiel, a well-known young man about the city, says the San Diegan, started with a companion for a pleasure tour to San Clemente Island, a few days ago. They embarked on the yacht Excelsior, and made their way to the island without anything to mar their pleasure. Arriving there they anchored off shore about half a mile. They then placed their guns into the yacht’s row boat and made for the shore, but trouble then began. Upon getting near shore the breakers upset their small boat, and swept the boys and the guns to the beach in a heap. As they had taken nothing from the yacht but their guns the accident left them without anything to eat, and all the matches they had were spoiled by the wetting. The only ting to do was to try and get back to the ship. They launched their small boat, but as soon as the breakers were reached they were upset again and washed ashore. After repeated trials with similar results the boys gave it up and started with their guns to try to kill some game, as hunger had set in. After an hour or so they killed a goat and brought it back to the place where they first landed. But the cooking of the meat was now found to be difficult. How was a fire to be started? One of the boys had a microscope and some fine grass was gathered and after a long trial a fire was started by the concentrated rays of the sun. For four days they were held prisoners until finally old Neptune was caught alseep and the ocean became quiet. They then passed the breakers and and got aboard their yacht nd immediately set sail for San Diego They don’t think much of San Clemente.”
September 12, 1891 [MD]: “The commissioner of the general land office refuses to restore San Clemente Island to the public domain. It is a military reservation, and the boomers there and their victims can acquire no title.”
September 16, 1891 [HL/BP]: “The Honorable To the Secy. Of Interior: Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of September 11th, 1891, and in reply… the entire surface of San Clemente Island off the Coast of California be held permanently for the use of the light-house establishment, and therefore request… that the necessary instruction be given to the commissioner of the General Land Office that no part of the island be restored to the public domain… Very Respectfully, Charles Foster, Secy. T. A.M.”
September 16, 1891 [LAH]: “San Clemente Land. Justice King declares the land valuable and water plenty. Justice P. E. King, of Burbank, who has been spending the past three weeks on San Clemente Island with his wife and daughter, has returned to his home and gives a most glowing account of the possibilities of that hitherto unappreciated spot. ‘I have taken 160 acres of as fine land as your foot ever trod on,’ he said yesterday, ‘and on it I have a well of fresh, sweet water, eight feet from the surface, which you couldn’t pump dry in a week.’ The justice says that about twenty-five entries have so far been filed on San Clemente Island lands. The settlers are proceeding under the Act of 1852, which allows citizens to file on unsurveyed lands in the office of the county recorder. There are 50,000 acres of good arable land awaiting settlers, and water is obtainable on very much of this, at very little cost. Most of those who have already taken up claims have located about what is known as ‘Northwest harbor,’ which is a fine body of water well protected by a head of rocks and a submerged reef. Most of the land at this particular spot has been taken up, but further down the island there is a large area of plateau land, gently sloping to the outer shore, on which grow wild cherries, wild oats, alfileria and other grasses. Very little of this land has as yet been entered. Several cabins have been erected at Northwest Harbor, and there are about fifteen people residing there. The land about the harbor rises slowly to the hills, and forms a magnificent natural amphitheatre, said to exceed in beauty even far-famed Catalina. Between the harbor and the center of the island there is a strip of rocky soil, but beyond this land there is a rich, sandy adobe, of great fertility and depth. There are 20,000 sheep on the island and 12,000 goats, the latter of which are easily killed, proving fine eating. The water in the wells is said to be so excellent that boatmen running from Northwest Harbor to San Pedro carry enough for the return trip, as they prefer it to the water obtainable at the latter place. The yacht Mystic is making regular bi-weekly trips between San Pedro and San Clemente, and other boats make occasional visits to the island. Several excursions have also gone from San Diego, sixty miles distant. Northwest Harbor is forty miles from San Pedro and forty from Del Mar, and is equally accessible from both places.
September 18, 1891 [LAT]: “Two San Diego boys were shipwrecked on San Clemente Island and had to play Robinson Crusoe for four days.”
September 20, 1891 [LAT Classifieds]: “Government Land! San Clemente Island. For full particulars of land, transportation, etc. see W. W. Freeman, rooms 55 and 56, New Wilson Block, corner First and Spring at Los Angeles. Open evenings from 7 to 9.” [Advertisement ran multiple times through the end of the year.]
September 23, 1891 [LAH]: “Are they antiques? Captain Envoldsen's Find at San Clemente Island. Captain Envoldsen recently made a discovery at San Clemente which has been much discussed by the residents of the island. At the east end of the island the captain found three rock houses seven or eight feet high. They were made of big slabs of rocks and were put together as if by a professional bricklayer. Tom Gallagher, the pioneer explorer of the island, never knew of the presence of these houses. It is supposed that they were constructed by Indians years ago. Near the house was found a well. It appeared to have been recently filled, consequently someone must have known about these slab houses.”
December 17, 1891 [LAH]: “About San Clemente Island. Editors Herald: For the benefit of those who are intending to settle on San Clemente Island, I wish to state that it is not at all as represented by certain parties interested in a scheme to put money in their own pockets, at the expense of the poor, deluded land-seekers. The island is perfectly barren and has no fresh water on it. A number of the would-be settlers have made attempts to strike water by digging wells, and have been unsuccessful in each and every case. There is only one well on the island and that is almost on the ocean beach, where there a brackish water is obtained, which is not fit for drinking purposes, and even the sheep refuse to drink it as long as they can find it elsewhere. They also boast of having a good harbor which is a lie on the face of it, as the so-called harbor is open to all winds except the south winds, and within the last three months no less than four staunch boats have been lost in this very harbor, and during a great portion of the year it is impossible to land on the beach in the harbor, on account of the high surf, and several persons have nearly lost their lives in making the attempt. This is the true state of affairs, and should be enough to deter any sensible man from settling there. But there is another obstacle even more insurmountable than the absence of water. The land, like all islands, is a military and naval reservation, and always will be, which any one can learn by addressing a letter to the land department at Washington. Yours truly, A-Would-Be-Settler.”
January 3, 1892 [LAH]: “Justice P. E. King of Burbank, on a recent trip to San Clemente Island, secured a curiosity, which has been named 'What-is-it?' Mr. King thinks it is a petrified ostrich egg. Others think it is a geode, and so on. Mr. King presented it to the Southern California Science Association, and Dr. B. H. Alter has the 'What-is-it?' in his custody for the society.”
January 9, 1892 [MD]: “The people who flocked to San Clemente Island some months ago to take up government land, paying the promoters of the scheme for transpiration and from $25 to $50 apiece for locating government land, are a disgusted crowd. The entire island is a government lighthouse reservation and not subject to entry.”
February 14, 1892 [SBMP]: “The schooner Ruby was at the wharf yesterday, discharging her cargo, which consisted of ten tons of abalones from the San Clemente Island consigned to some Chinese merchants of this place.”
March 14, 1892 [LAH]: “Was he murdered? Captain James Posey, who owns the schooner Lou, returned a few days ago, says the San Diego Sun, from a voyage to San Clemente Island. At the time he reported that he had seen a dead Chinaman on the island, but as another Chinaman was near the spot he concluded there was nothing unusual about the affair. It now transpires that there is a mystery surrounding the matter. Ah Gin and Lee Duc had been fishing together for several months. One day last week Lee returned from a fishing trip of long duration, alone. He was asked what had become of Ah Gin, and replied that he knew nothing about him. Soon after this Mr. Duc disappeared, and has not been seen in the city since. A reporter made inquiries in Chinatown last night and today, but no definite information could be obtained. The Chinamen all seem to know Ah Gin and Lee very well, but they won't say much regarding the disappearance of either. Captain Posey says that when he saw the dead Chinaman the body was lying on the rocks about a quarter of a mile from shore, and that he supposed the man had died of disease and was being got ready to bring back to San Diego or to be buried on the island. Two Portuguese fishermen who arrived yesterday report that they also ran across the body of a Chinaman, but that the birds and beasts had eaten the flesh off the bones until it was only by the clothing that the nationality could be established.”
March 29, 1892 [LAH]: “Yesterday Judge Smith of the superior court administered a severe lecture to Amos Abbott, who was arrested for contempt of court early in the week. Abbott was subpoenaed to attend the trial of his brother, and instead of obeying the mandate of the court he went over to San Clemente Island, from whence he was brought back by Deputy Sheriff Anderson. After giving him a lecture, Judge Smith fined Abbott $400, or in default of payment there of 200 days' imprisonment in the county jail.”
May 3, 1892 [LAT/SB]: “The schooner Ruby left for San Clemente Island yesterday morning, taking down four Chinamen who will remain on the island for four months gathering abalones. The Ruby will bring a load of gravel from the island.”
July 12, 1892 [SBMP]: “The Union Mill & Company’s schooner, Ruby, has not been heard of for two weeks. It left San Clemente Island in charge of Captain Libbey and Cremon Meesia. They intended to bring back a load of Chinamen from the island, but the owners fear the government officials have seized the boat on suspicion.”
August 17, 1891 [LAH]: “The schooner Kewee, Captain Whitley, arrived today from San Clemente Island with 500 sheep for Oscar Macy.”
November 25, 1892 [LAT/SB]: “The schooner Ruby returned from San Clemente Island yesterday morning after a very rough trip of five days coming. She had been gone eighteen days and brought back 850 bags of abalone shells. The schooner will leave on another trip in a few days.”
December 10, 1892 [LAT/SB]: “The owners of the schooner Ruby received a telephone message Thursday night from San Pedro announcing the wreck of the schooner on San Clemente Island. No particulars were given, further than that the boat was a total loss. The schooner was a small, two-masted vessel, and was owned by Thomas Clark and E. P. Stevens of this city. The Ruby had gone to San Clemente Island after a cargo of shells, and it is supposed that she ran against a rock. There were three men aboard: Clarence Libbey in command; E. P. Stevens, one of the owners, and a seaman. No one was hurt. The schooner was valued at $1500 and was not insured.”
December 14, 1892 [LAT/SB]: “Latest news from the wreck of the schooner Ruby of this place, at San Clemente Island, goes to show that the vessel was a total loss and that Mr. Stevens, one of the owners, came near losing his life. When the Ruby reached the island, although the storm had abated, there was a heavy swell on. Mr. Stevens and two men had remained on the island from the last trip to gather shells for another load. The Ruby anchored a safe distance off shore, and Clarence Libbey, the master, and young Nidever, after making everything safe, went ashore in the small boat. Soon afterward the swell was so heavy as to break the anchor chain, and the vessel began drifting ashore. Stevens, Libbey and Nidever took the small boat and went on board to try to save the vessel. This they would have done, getting sails up at once, had she not struck a sunken rock which broke a hole in her bottom, when she sank. Stevens, who could not swim, took refuge in the rigging, while Libbey and Nidever swam ashore with a fish line. He was under water much of the time, and had imbibed considerable seawater, but after awhile was as good as new again, but with a keen realization of the danger he had just passed through. After resting completely the three men took an otter boat, and by rowing and sailing made their way in the open boat, first to San Nicolas Island, then to San Pedro where Mr. Stevens chartered another vessel and went back after the men left on San Clemente, together with their effects and the shells gathered. They are expected in Santa Barbara in a few days.”
December 21, 1892 [LAT]: “San Clemente Wool Company vs. Alexander O’Larrey; suit in ejectments to recover possession of part of San Clemente Island and for $500 damages. The plaintiff claims to have been in exclusive possession of all of San Clemente Island for 20 years past, and alleges that within the last year the defendant has unlawfully taken possession of Mosquito Harbor on the island. The plaintiff sues for restitution of the premises and $500 damages.”
February 7, 1893 [SBMP]: “The schooner San Mateo came in Sunday night from San Clemente Island with a cargo of twelve or fifteen tons of abalone shells.”
February 9, 1893 [LAH]: “Redondo Beach, Feb. 8,— Captain Gent moored his yacht Oregon along side Redondo wharf at 2:30 P.M. today, just in from San Clemente Island. The Oregon brought in a full cargo of abalone shells gathered by the crews of the steam schooner Hetty and the Oregon on the beaches of San Clemente. Captain Gent left San Clemente yesterday at noon, making a good run into this port. The remaining members of the crews with the Hetty he left at San Clemente, all in good health and spirits. Captain George Earle, with the Hetty, will soon proceed from that island to the island of San Nicolas, located to the northwest, where they will make their next rendezvous. Captain Gent proposes putting to sea tomorrow for San Nicolas Island, or as soon as he can ship sufficient stores aboard the Oregon required for the crews of the expedition.”
February 28, 1893 [SBMP]: “The schooner Santa Rosa came in from San Clemente Island Sunday with a cargo of four tons of gravel. The schooner will take a load of lumber back to Santa Rosa Island.”
February 28, 1893 [LAH]: “San Pedro, February 27. The skeleton of a lost man found. About 10 years ago C. Frankel, with a party of friends, went to San Clemente Island for his health. One night Mr. Frankel wandered away from camp and never returned, and although a most thorough search was made, no trace of the missing man could be found. A few days ago as Captain Ross of the yacht White Wings was exploring a deep canyon on the south side of the island he came across the bleached skeleton of a human being, which is supposed to be that of the missing Frankel, as no one else has been lost since that time whose remains have not been found. Mr. Frankel was quite wealthy, and his relatives, who reside near here, will probably have the remains brought over and buried.”
March 5, 1893 [LAH]: “Messrs. Hall & Trudel, the enterprising abalone shell and curio dealers and collectors, have chartered the steam tug Pelican, under the command of Capt. Alexander Smith, for a trip to San Clemente Island, to leave Redondo on Wednesday, March 8th. The trip is intended to combine business with pleasure, the business part being the collection of spoils gathered by Capt. George Earle and his party, who went out to San Clemente about six weeks ago for the steam schooner Hatty. Reports have been received from time to time, from Captain Earle's party, indicating some rare and valuable finds on and about San Clemente. Accommodations for eight or 10 excursionists as passengers have been made my Messrs Hall & Trudel for the trip, and any one desiring to be ;in it' should be on the alert. The Pelican will make an early start from Redondo wharf, at 6 o'clock A.M. March 8th.”
March 9, 1893 [LAH]: “The excursion trip to San Clemente Island by the steamer Pelican had to be postponed until tomorrow, on account of extra work on the moorings in this port.”
August 31, 1894 [LAH]: “Judge S. C. Hubbell has returned from a fishing trip to San Clemente Island.”
January 16, 1894 [SBMP]: “...Dr. Yates had both shells and fossils from the islands... Among the beautiful specimens of shells was an immense paper nautilus from San Clemente which attracted much admiration.”
August 30, 1894 [SBDI]: “The sloop Restless arrived from San Clemente Island last night with a cargo of abalones and shells, being the catch of a party of Chinamen who have been at work there for some time past.”
March 31, 1895 [LAT/SM]: “The following message sailed in a bottle was picked up on the beach today: ‘We think Island San Clemente, March 1, 1895. Our three-mast schooner Howitzer, from Guaymas to San Francisco in ballast, was wrecked on the rocks day before yesterday and the crew are now waiting to be rescued. Please send us your immediate assistance as our provisions are very low. James E. Von Blich, Captain. Henry Awer, First Mate.’ An Associated Press dispatch from San Francisco says the Merchants Exchange here has no record of the schooner Howitzer. No such vessel is known and it is believed the story of the wreck is a hoax.”
June 4, 1895 [SFCall]: “Sloop reported ashore on San Clemente. Los Angeles, June 3. — it is reported that a sloop in command of Captain Harlow has gone ashore on the Island of San Clemente, about forty miles south of San Pedro. The name of the sloop is not known and no details are obtainable.”
June 5, 1895 [LAH]: “They ate the ship's dog. Rough trip of the crew of a little craft. Loss of the sloop Crest. Terrible hardships endured by three sailor men. After weathering a gale the Captain lost his bearings and the vessel was wrecked on San Clemente. San Pedro, Cal., June 4. — Captain Harlow of the wrecked sloop Crest is at present at the marine hospital here slowly recovering from the effects of starvation and thirst and with feet poisoned with cactus and swollen to twice their natural size and cruelly burned by the sun and the awful story of their sufferings as told by the captain is as follows: On April 19th the sloop Crest was brought round here from her winter quarters, Alamitos Bay, and was thoroughly overhauled and refitted on the 13th of May, when the craft sailed for Pismo beach, near Port Harford, the intent being to fish and run excursions during the summer. The crew of three consisted of Captain Harlow, Harry Wilkinson and W. Warren and the ship's bulldog called Jim Corbett. They arrived all well at Santa Barbara on the 15th, where they purchased provisions and refilled their water casks. They sailed again that afternoon but it blew so hard off Point Concepcion that they ran into Coho and laid there for twenty-four hours weather bound. On Friday, the 17th at 6:00 P.M. they sailed once more and rounded Point Concepcion, steering a course for Point Arguello, with a light northwest breeze. At 9 P.M. a nice breeze opened up from the north which the captain thought would carry him fairly on his course during the night, but no preparations were made for stormy weather. As the wind increased they reefed the main sail, but before they could stow the jib it was blown away. By this time the wind was blowing a gale and the sea was running high. As nothing more could be done, the tiller was lashed and the vessel hove to for the wind to go down. The weather not abating, and being unable to wear ship, they were compelled to remain as they were for four nights and three days, or until Tuesday morning. They they got under way and steered a course E.N.E. until they sighted San Clemente Island, which they took to be Santa Rosa Island. The provisions being exhausted and the water all gone, by Thursday evening they were compelled to kill the captain's dog, drinking the blood and cooking and eating a portion of its flesh and throwing the remainder overboard on sighting land. Anchoring the sloop they went ashore in the small boat on Friday, and the captain being the only man able to walk, hunted for water. He found some and carried a two-quart can to his crew, whom he found in a deplorable condition, they having drank salt water during his absence. It was then decided to sail for the mainland, and the sloop was once more manned, but the centerboard would not work, and the little craft fouled in the kelp, struck a rock and began to break up. Warren and Wilkinson landed and the captain passed the compass, gaff, boom and mainsail, a blanket and some loose clothes ashore and then landed himself. The last seen of the ill-fated craft she was slowly settling down. This is where their greatest hardship commenced. For two days the men roamed the island, still thinking they were on Santa Rosa. Harry Wilkinson was so ill, they had to leave him by the water until they could secure help. The captain eventually reached Judge Hubbell's ranch, where he was given the kindest care and attention. The men were soon put aboard the yacht Keywee and brought to San Pedro. Harry Wilkinson recovered enough to go on to San Francisco on the St. Paul's last trip. Warren is in Los Angeles, and Captain Harlow is slowly recovering his health under the care of Dr. Hill and Steward Duffy at the Marine hospital.”
June 17, 1895 [LAT]: “Honorable S. C. Hubbell returned from San Clemente Island yesterday, bringing full confirmation of the wreck of the sloop, Crest, and the sufferings of her unlucky crew… The Crest had sailed from San Pedro for Pismo, a small seaport on the coast of San Luis Obispo County. Her crew consisted of Captain W. A. Harlow and two seamen, Wafton Warren and Harry Wilkerson, and a small white bulldog. They took with them a small quantity of provisions, and only ten gallons of water, as they had anticipated smooth sailing and a quick passage. Off Point Dume they encountered a northwester which raged with such a fury that it carried away the rigging, tore off the rudder and drove the small craft far out to sea… they drifted ashore at the lower end of San Clemente Island… As soon as the castaways had recovered somewhat from their sufferings they were sent to San Pedro on the company’s sloop in care of Captain Pete…”
July 4, 1895 [LAT/P]: “San Clemente is a lighthouse reservation, but why don’t we have the lighthouse? A gentleman, a famous yachtsman on the eastern coast, stated that not having a light on the island was a criminal neglect.”
August 23, 1895 [LAT/SCat]: “Dr. de Souchet, who came here [Santa Catalina] from Los Angeles for his health, returned yesterday from a week’s exploring expedition to San Clemente Island with Indian curios, beads, wampum, etc. He was accompanied by his nephew and a guide, and walked forty miles a day while exploring.”
September 17, 1895 [SanDU]: “...San Clemente [Island] is frequented by Chinese abalone fishermen from Santa Barbara and San Diego, and on the second night we came upon a camp of five Chinamen from San Diego, who treated us with great hospitality...”
March 1, 1896 [LAT/SP]: “Collector John T. Gaffey, with some deputies and assistants, started yesterday on a cruise to San Clemente Island to look for contraband Chinamen. Before his departure, Mr. Gaffey swore all of the newspapers to secrecy, representing that his object might be foiled by premature publication, but the secret has leaked out… Mr. Gaffey suspects that Chinamen are being landed at San Clemente, whence they are brought to California shores in fishing boats, and he proposes to break up the traffic…”
March 4, 1896 [LAT]: “John T. Gaffey, the Collector of Port, is still over across the San Pedro channel hunting for a band of seventy-five unregistered Chinamen which is said to be at San Clemente awaiting a favorable opportunity to slip into the country. It is reported that there really is a party of Chinamen on San Clemente, but that the men are merely Santa Barbara fishermen...”
March 5, 1896 [LAT]: “Weather too rough to capture Chinese smugglers. John T. Gaffey, Collector of the Port, returned yesterday from his attempt to reach, with his expedition, San Clemente Island, believed to be a point from which unregistered Chinamen have been landed on American soil…”
March 5, 1896 [LAH]: “The report from Los Angeles concerning secreting illicit Chinamen on San Clemente Island is not believed here. A party of Santa Barbara Chinamen has been on the island several weeks, gathering fish and shells. The schooner Restless is now on her regular trip to Clemente with provisions.”
March 9, 1896 [LAT]: “Unexplained presence of schooner at San Clemente. Reports indicating the presence of contraband Chinese on San Clemente, and perhaps on San Nicolas Island, also continue to be heard. From the captain of a boat which makes frequent trips about the islands and to San Pedro it has been learned that a four-masted schooner was seen about ten days ago in Smugglers’ Cove, which indents the coast line of the southeast end of San Clemente…”
March 11, 1896 [LAT/SB]: “Three Chinamen held by customs officers at San Pedro, suspected of being smuggled from San Clemente Island, are well known here, where they have resided twenty years, and been engaged a long time abalone gathering on Channel Islands. Their certificates are in the hands of an attorney.”
March 28, 1896 [MD]: “Three Chinese who are held by the Customs officers of San Pedro, suspected of being smuggled from San Clemente Island, are well known at Santa Barbara, and their certificates are there in the hands of an attorney.”
May 6, 1896 [LAT]: “The athletes of the University of California will not go East this spring. This conclusion was reached today when H. B. Torrey, the hurdler, told Captain Merwin that it would be impossible for him to accompany the team on its tour. Torrey is a student assistant in the department of biology. The department has arranged to do summer work on San Clemente Island, beginning about May 20…”
June 2, 1896 [LAT]: “San Clemente will be haunted by biologists this summer. Several instructors of the science departments of the University of California will visit the island in company with a number of students and they will spend the summer in scientific research.”
July 23, 1896 [LAH]: “Santa Ana, July 21,—The tramp boat Santa Barbara of San Diego, who has been spending its vacation at San Clemente Island, was off the east end last evening.”
July 30, 1896 [LAH]: “After an eight-day trip the sloop Ocean has returned from San Clemente Island, with the following pleasure party aboard: J. M. Templeton and son, Fred Foster, Will Brill and John A. F. A. Foot, all of Pasadena. They succeeded in gathering a fine collection of shells.”
August 2, 1896 [LAH]: “Sir: Your letter of June 17, 1893, to the honorable, the secretary of the treasury, proposing to lease San Clemente Island, California, has been referred to this office. In reply the board informs you that San Clemente Island is a lighthouse reservation. It is held for lighthouse and other government purposes. Answer has been made to similar applications that the board did not find itself able to recommend the leasing of the whole or any part of the island. Respectfully yours, F. A. Mahan, Captain of Engineers, U. S. Army, Engineer's Secretary.”
“Los Angeles, California. Sir: I am in receipt by reference from the department of your letter dated June 17, 1893, requesting information in regard to purchasing or renting San Clemente Island, situate off the coast of California. In reply I have to state that said island is, therefore, not subject to disposal. This office has no authority to lease or rent surveyed or unsurveyed land. Very respectfully, S. W. Lamoreaux, Commissioner.
Judge S. C. Hubbell is one of the sheep syndicate, which includes some of the wealthiest men of the city, and he was asked about his right to the island yesterday, but was rather reticent. He denied having any lease of the island or any title to it, but said that they had their sheep there by a right that they had purchased from sheep owners who preceded them, and while not saying so gave the reporter the impression that the company had some sort of a right which he did not feel like discussing. He admitted having 3000 sheep there, but declined to go into the details of the profits derived from them. In fact, very little light on the matter was obtained from Mr. Hubbell, except a denial of a rumor that the company intended to make a summer resort out of the island, which he laughed at as absurd, as the place is too barren and not supplied with enough water. The facts are, then, that a private company has been allowed the valuable right of making a sheep ranch out of the island, keeping its employees there, monopolizing the feed and making presumably thousands of dollars a year out of it, without paying anything for it, as the above letters plainly say that the island cannot be rented. There are a number of people who would like to know how the matter has been arranged with the federal authorities, if they have been, and if there is no understanding between the company and the department officials, have the latter been aware of the use that is being made of the property?”
August 17, 1896 [LAT]: “The report comes of a singular discovery by a naturalist on San Clemente Island, which, on the faced of it, seems almost incredible. While clambering about among the rocks this naturalist noticed an unusual number of humming birds going and coming from some point far up the rocky ravine. He followed the procession and found that the birds entered a small hole in the side of the ravine. He peered into this hole, after tearing away some of the side earthen wall, and there a wonderful sight met his eyes. There was a cavern about twenty feet square. In it were thousands of humming birds of beautiful plumage. They appeared to have constructed apartments for separate families about the sides of this cavern. It was a kind of cooperative housekeeping affair. Ornithological experts have never known of such a thing before. Usually the humming bird is the most independent of birds as well as ‘sassy.’ Cooperation among hummers is extraordinary.”
September 9, 1896 [LAT/SD]: “The junk Acme has returned from San Clemente Island with Chinamen and abalone shells.”
September 17, 1896 [SanDU]: “San Clemente is frequented by Chinese abalone fishermen from Santa Barbara and San Diego, and on the second night we came upon a camp of five Chinamen from San Diego who treated us with great hospitality.”
September 24, 1896 [LAH]: “Avalon, Sept. 23,— The yacht Nellie, of fifty tons, has returned from a cruise of San Clemente Island with the following party: Mr. Swanfeldt and family, Charles Parker and Mr. A. B. Chappell. Captain Frank Whittley, the owner, was in command. Fishing and hunting was enjoyed.”
September 24, 1896 [LAH]: “Avalon, Sept. 23,— Messrs. J. A. Graves, H. E. Graves, Los Angeles; William E. Harris, John L. Petrie, New York, and F. W. Henshaw of Oakland, who have been stopping at the Metropole, left this morning on a week's fishing trip to San Clemente Island on the La Paloma.”
December 1, 1896 [LAH]: “San Pedro, Nov. 30, — The schooner Freia, Captain Martin Bernson, put in here for shelter to await the subsiding of the heavy seas. The vessel is from Washington and is getting a cargo of abalone shells and meat, which she will carry back north. Her cargo is to be loaded aboard at San Clemente Island.”
December 25, 1896 [LAH]: “Schooner Brothers, Capt. Widing, arrived from San Clemente Island.”
January 30, 1897 [LAT/P]: “The Pasadena Academy of Sciences was duly organized this evening at Throop Hall. The business meeting was preceded by some discussion of scientific subjects. Professor C. F. Holder gave an interesting address upon ‘Deep Sea Life’…He also touched upon the discoveries made at San Clemente Island and showed a number of skulls and utensils exhumed from an Indian grave.”
March 28, 1897 [LAH]: “M. A. Call, one of the Throop students who, with Prof. Hoag, started upon a ten days' scientific exploration trip on San Clemente Island, returned today. The party reached San Pedro at four o'clock on Thursday afternoon. The sloop that was to take them to the island was found in bad shape and the captain who was to run her was half seas over in a nearby saloon. Finally they got started and the captain, who was still under the influence, threatened to sink everything. Prof. Hoag and his boys persuaded him not to do so however, and they returned to the mainland. The party re-embarked in another boat Friday evening. Mr. Call, however, did not join them, but returned home.”
April 2, 1897 [LAH]: “Avalon, April 1. E. B. Hoag, professor of biology in Throop University, accompanied by five students, has just returned from a week's visit to Clemente Island, where they went for the purpose of pleasure and research. Prof. Hoag made an interesting collection of rocks and minerals while Joseph Grinnell, the assistant curator of the museum, succeeded in securing some fine specimens of birds, including several new varieties. Some of the party returned to Clemente this morning on the Bertha, where they intend to search for Indian relics at the west end of the island.”
May 9, 1897 [LAH]: “At the meeting last night of the Academy of Sciences of Throop Polytechnic Institute an expedition of the members to the Islands of San Clemente and San Nicolas was organized. The expedition has been contemplated for some time and the generous subscription of H. C Merritt has made t possible. Bugs, Indian relics and plants will be gathered in and placed in the Throop collection.”
May 11, 1897 [LAR]: “The expedition under the auspices of the [Pasadena] Academy of Sciences will leave tomorrow (Tuesday) for scientific research on the Santa Barbara islands. A schooner has been chartered, and fully equipped. The party will consist of Joseph Grinnell, Horace Gaylord, Harry Galyord and James Britton. They will probably be joined later by Professor Hoag of Throop, and F. S. Daggett. The plan is to spend the first week on Santa Barbara Island, the second on San Nicolas, and about two weeks on San Clemente.”
May 22, 1897 [LAT]: “The schooner Manatee has just returned from San Clemente Island, having taken an expedition there in quest of abalones and Indian relics. The captain reports a stormy passage after leaving Catalina Island, having drifted as far south as the Coronado Islands.”
May 25, 1897 [LAT/Red]: “The schooner yacht Manatee, used for carrying provisions to abalone gatherers on San Clemente Island, and bringing abalones and Indian relics back, parted her anchor and drifted ashore in front of the bathhouse. But little damage was done as the water was not rough.”
May 31, 1897 [LAT/P]: “Harry D. Gaylord, one of the members of the expedition sent out under the auspices of the [Pasadena] Academy of Sciences, returned this morning from San Clemente Island. The other members of the party are still at the island, where Mr. Gaylord will rejoin them within a few days, having come back to Pasadena only to be present at the exercises of Memorial Day. Santa Barbara Island and San Nicolas Island were visited by the party, and at the latter, many interesting Indian relics were found. Three species of birds new to this coast have been discovered. The expedition is meeting with much success in its researches, and Mr. Gaylord speaks with enthusiasm of the work already accomplished.”
June 4, 1897 [LAT/P]: “Harry Gaylord will return tomorrow (Friday) to San Clemente Island to rejoin the expedition sent out by the Pasadena Academy of Sciences.”
June 4, 1897 [LAT/Red]: “The schooner yacht Manatee is still on the beach in front of the bath house, and is daily becoming more deeply bedded in the sand. She is owned by a number of fishermen here. The man owning the sails and rigging has stripped her, and nothing remains but the hull. While the owners are quarreling over the possession of the wreck, the party of relic-hunters she carried to San Clemente Island is awaiting her return with provisions, and to carry them and their shells and Indian relics back to the mainland. The friends of the marooned relic hunters are making arrangements for another boat to go to San Clemente to bring the men home.”
June 5, 1897 [LAT]: “The scientific researches which are being carried on by the Pasadena Academy of Sciences on San Clemente and other islands off the southern California coast, promise to give results of an unusual interest. These islands are practically virgin soil and are not only rich in archaeological remains, but also contain many new varieties of animals and vegetable life. It is probable that a second expedition may follow the present one.”
June 10, 1897 [LAH]: “Avalon, June 9.— E. L. Doran, accompanied by his nephew, A. C. Breese of Los Angeles, left for San Clemente Island yesterday. Captain Al Holbrook went along as navigator. They expect to be gone for a week.”
June 11, 1897 [LAT]: “Santa Barbara Islands. Pasadena, June 10. — Messrs. H. D. Gaylord, Joseph Grinnell and Horace Gaylord of the Pasadena Academy of Sciences expedition to the Santa Barbara Islands, returned late last night bringing back many interesting and valuable relics. They visited San Nicolas and San Clemente islands, besides the Santa Barbara group, finding many evidences of former Indian occupation, especially on the first named islands. A hermit was found living on San Clemente. Otherwise the islands are uninhabited.”
June 13, 1897 [LAT]: “DeMoss Bowers of this city has returned from a two months’ sojourn on San Clemente Island with a rare collection of Indian relics to supplement an already choice collection in his possession. Much interest has been excited among archaeologists over these San Clemente specimens, as many of them are unique and of particular interest. Some of the curious consist of ornaments, trinkets and utensils of stone, bone and shell, stone pipes, whistles, figures of seals, birds, fish, butterflies, etc. ‘San Clemente Island,’ said Bowers yesterday, ‘is one of the most desolate and forbidden places that can be made on the bleak western side, and there isn’t a harbor on the whole island that is a safe anchorage at all times. There are one or two places very difficult to reach, where a certain amount of water may be procured. We were compelled to go twenty miles for the water we used. A company has a man to look after some stock on the island, but he is unable to succor distressed parties. Six or eight men have lost their lives by drowning, by starvation or thirst, or through being lost on San Clemente, and it is a good place to stay away from.”
July 14, 1897 [LAH]: “Redondo. The yacht Violet, Capt. Sherubel, has a charter party for San Clemente Island the latter part of this week.”
July 21, 1897 [LAT]: “Judge and Mrs. S. C. Hubbell and daughters and Dr. Brainerd will leave in a day or two for San Clemente Island for a stay of three or four weeks.”
July 25, 1897 [LAH]: “Judge and Mrs. Stephen C. Hubbell, with their daughters and Dr. Brainard, have gone to San Clemente Island, where they will remain two or three weeks.”
Augusy 5, 1897 [LAH]: “Alec O'Leary, in his fourteen-foot boat, in company with his dog, Bo'sun, made the trip from San Clemente to Avalon yesterday in eight hours, leaving San Clemente at 7 A.M. in the morning and arriving here at 3 in the afternoon.”
September 9, 1897 [LAH]: “W. J. Rouse returned last night from a hunting trip on San Clemente Island.”
September 26, 1897 [LAH]: “Early this morning a large party left for Newport, where they will take the naptha launch Santa Barbara and go on a five days' trip to San Clemente Island, and possibly touch other places. Those in the party are: Ed H. McPherson of McPherson, Thomas Brown, C. H. Canfield, Dr. W, B. Wood, A. B. Tiffany, Fred M. Robinson, Samuel Sollenberger, Earl Hemphill, S. M. Craddich and John Woolsey of Orange.”
September 29, 1897 [LAH]: “The party which left Orange early Friday morning to visit San Clemente Island returned Monday evening. Their provisions ran short, they were nearly all seasick, and altogether they will have few pleasant recollections of their 'pleasure' trip.”
September 30, 1897 [LAT/SCat]: “S. C. Hubbell of Los Angeles, who is a monopolist to the extent of owning all the sheep on San Clemente Island, sailed over from there this morning in the Brothers, to take the steamer for San Pedro today.”
October 15, 1897 [LAT/SCat]: “This morning Jim Gardner and T. V. Hardwick sailed for San Clemente Island in the sloop Violet, taking with them a supply of provisions for Alex O’Leary at Mosquito Harbor. The island belongs to the government, and in anticipation of its being thrown open to settlement some day, O’Leary five years ago located at Mosquito Harbor, where there are about two acres of available land and a stream of water…”
October 22, 1897 [LAT/SP]: “San Pedro harbor work… San Clemente Island, to which Senator White lately referred as a source of rock supply, in a communication addressed to the Secretary, is owned by the United States for lighthouse purposes. Rock was once taken from there for the improvement of Wilmington Harbor. I shall recommend to the War Department that authority be secured from the Lighthouse Bureau to draw upon the San Clemente quarries, and the specifications will provide for the use of that rock, if thought best, as it is of good quality.”
October 23, 1897 [LAH]: “San Clemente Island is owned by the United States for lighthouse purposes. Rock will be at once taken from there for the improvement of Wilmington harbor. I shall recommend to the war department that authority be secured from the lighthouse bureau to draw upon San Clemente quarries, and the specifications will provide for the use of that rock if thought best, as it is of good quality. (Maj. C. E. L. B. Davis of the corps of engineers of the United States army).”
October 24, 1897 [LAT/SCat]: “T. V. Hardwick and Jim Gardner returned from San Clemente Island yesterday morning in the sloop Violet. They brought back several goat skins and report Mosquito Harbor as being filled with yellowtail in the mornings in quantities unlike anything they had ever seen.”
November 7, 1897 [LAT/SCat]: “George and Louis Emerson, B. Ogden and Charles Parker of Avalon leave tomorrow for San Clemente Island to remain ten days.”
December 2, 1897 [LAT]: “A recent report became current to the effect that three or four people had filed claims on San Clemente Island, hoping thereby to profit from the government’s need of rock for use on the breakwater construction at San Pedro harbor…”
December 18, 1897 [LAT/SP]: “Rock for San Pedro. San Clemente and Santa Catalina islands visited by experts and samples secured. Differences in the cost of transportation from two islands…”
December 18, 1897 [SN]: “San Clemente Island, off the coast of Southern California, is unsurveyed Government land. The island is, in fact, a reservation held by the Government for lighthouse purposes, and is under the jurisdiction and control of the United States Treasury Department. Nothing short of an act of Congress, it is said, can place that land open to the filing of private claims.”
December 25, 1897 [LAT/SP]: “The Wilmington Transportation power yacht La Paloma, Captain Smith, arrived from San Clemente Island this morning. She had on board the crew of the schooner Minnie [Minna], which was wrecked last week. The Minnie, a small schooner of twenty-seven tons, Captain William Gerald in command, belongs in San Diego. She left that port some three weeks ago with a crew of one seaman and a cook. On the morning of Saturday, December 18, a squall was encountered and the Minnie was overturned. Fortunately as small skiff was being towed at the stern of the vessel. The captain and the crew swam the heavy sea to the boat and with the greatest difficulty freed it from the schooner. They had scarcely got into it when the Minnie went down. She was about thirteen miles east-southeast of San Clemente Island at the time, to which the shipwrecked crew pulled their way. They reached the island in such an exhausted condition that they could not pull the skiff ashore, so they left it in the shallow water on the beach. After resting a few hours the men walked about the island until they came upon some Mexican sheepherders who fed them. They learned that they had walked fourteen miles from the east end of the island. They went from there to Gallagher’s place, a distance of seven miles, on horses that the Mexicans had lent them. They remained there for four days and as good fortune would have it, La Paloma put in to Gallagher’s landing and they were brought here in that yacht. The men were barefooted, and their feet were full of cuts and bruises from the long walk over the island. They left here today for San Diego on the steamer Alexander Duncan.”
December 26, 1897 [LAH]: “San Diego, Cal., Dec. 25.—Skipper William Gerull has lost his little schooner Minna. He arrived today on the steamer Alex Duncan and reports that a week ago the Minna capsized in a squall and Gerull and his cook saved themselves by swimming to San Clemente Island. There they were cared for by sheep herders several days until they were taken to San Pedro on the Banning Bros. launch Paloma and thence to this city on the Duncan. The Minna was a tub-shaped craft of about twenty tons.”
January 1, 1898 [LAT/SD]: “Skipper Gerull of this city, who lost the schooner Minna a week or more ago just off San Clemente Island by being capsized, left here a day or two ago in the schooner Lura, to search the high seas for his lost Minna.”
January 1, 1898 [LAH]: “Captain William Gurrull, whose schooner Minna was wrecked off San Clemente Island recently, left port a few days ago with the schooner Lena in the hope of finding something of value from his boat. He returned last night having in tow the sloop Ranger of San Pedro, which went adrift off St. Nicholas [San Nicolas] Island on Dec. 9, and whose crew was brought here on the British ship Roby. The Ranger was found by Gurrell about eight miles off shore drifting leisurely towards the tropics. The Ranger is a little battered, but skipper Gurrell expects several hundred dollars as a reward for his prize.”
January 16, 1898 [LAT/SCat]: “A.M. Jennings of New York, a builder of breakwaters and jetties, who expects to bid on the San Pedro Harbor work, chartered the Paloma Monday, and, accompanied by John Lesher of Baltimore, visited San Clemente to inspect the rock there. They also went to Empire Landing to view the Catalina quarries.”
January 27, 1898 [LAT]: “I. N. Day, the man who built the Cascade Locks in Oregon, and Charles A. Warren of the firm of Warren & Malley, are in the city and staying at the Hollenbeck. They are here to look over the San Pedro Harbor with a view of putting in a bid for the work. They will examine the stone quarries at San Clemente and Santa Catalina islands…”
January 29, 1898 [LAT]: “Major Charles E. L. B. Davis of San Francisco, the government engineer who will open the bids for the San Pedro breakwater on February 10… has been anxious to visit the islands of Santa Catalina and Clemente for a personal inspection of the rock to be found at those quarries… On Thursday he chartered La Paloma, and accompanied by six contractors and J. B. Banning, left Avalon for Clemente at 7 A.M. The party landed at Gallagher’s…”
January 30, 1898 [LAT/SCat]: “Avalon. Bidders on the proposed breakwater at San Pedro are coming over every day to visit the quarries at Catalina and Clemente…”
February 4, 1898 [LAT/SP]: “The chamber has started a movement, the purpose of which is to have San Clemente, San Nicolas and Anacapa islands opened to settlement.”
February 11, 1898 [LAT/SP]: “San Francisco. Harbor bids are opened… Bids for the construction of the proposed breakwater at San Pedro were opened at noon… One proposition called for the taking of stone from private quarries and the other called for the taking of stone from the government reservation on San Clemente Island…”
February 18, 1898 [LAT/SP]: “The Board of City Trustees at Tuesday evening’s meeting indorsed the resolution of the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce in favor of opening San Clemente, Anacapa and San Nicolas islands to settlement.”
March 4, 1898 [LAT]: “Fight is won. San Pedro contract to be awarded. San Clemente rock to be made use of… awarding the contract to the firm of Heldmaier & Neu of Chicago, their bid being something less than $1,500,000…”
March 15, 1898 [LAH]: “Terminal Island, March 14.—Major Davis of the Engineer corps, and Major Sutton of the regular army were overnight guests at the Tavern on Friday, they having arrived from San Clemente Island that day, at which place they had been examining the rock for the harbor breakwater. Major Sutton is the officer who will be in the immediate charge of the works while under construction.”
April 3, 1898 [LAT/SP]: “The sloop Kee Wee, a twenty-ton craft owned by F. K. Whittley and engaged in the traffic between this port and Santa Catalina and San Clemente, capsized this afternoon about a mile off Deadman’s Island. The wind was blowing about forty miles an hour from the west. Gus Knowles and George Johnson, the crew of the sloop, were picked up by a boat from the United States Fish Commission steamship Albatross, which was anchored about a quarter of a mile away. The Kee Wee was returning from San Clemente Island with livestock when she turned turtle.”
April 6, 1898 [LAT/SP]: “It is not expected that the sloop Kee Wee, which capsized in a gale and sunk in the channel last Saturday, will be recovered. A search for indications by which to find her location was unsuccessful.”
June 19, 1898 [SBMP]: “The Restless brought over a cargo of abalones and shells from San Clemente Island yesterday.”
July 11, 1898 [LAH]: “The yacht La Paloma, which started for San Clemente Island yesterday morning, returned in the evening. When out about fifteen miles the barometer fell as though it was going right on through the bottom of the glass, and Capt. Goodfellow decided that the safest course was to turn and run for the shelter of the island before the expected blow should set in. The yacht was sighted from the seal rocks and the launch Narod was sent out to tow them in.”
July 27, 1898 [LAH]: “...Most of the bidders made two bids, one for stone from their own quarries and the other for stone from San Clemente Island, which the government was to furnish without royalty. In the above list those for the Clemente rock are the ones given, except in the case of the last bidder, their offer for that rock being $2,249,187.”
August 20, 1898 [LAH]: “San Pedro harbor assured. San Francisco, Aug. 19.—(Special to the Herald.) The San Pedro harbor contract has been signed and sealed and sent to Washington, and within a month or so work will be under way on the big breakwater... There is much preliminary labor necessary, before rock hauling from San Clemente Island can begin. Two strong sea-going tugs are to be secured, and ten large barges built...”
August 21, 1898 [LAH]: “The yacht Aggie has just returned from San Clemente Island after a three-day's trip. Mr. Wiltsee, the owner, reports a very pleasant trip, as the weather was all that could be asked for. The guests on the voyage were J. C. Jordan, Mrs. Jordan, Miss Bender, Miss A. Moffitt, C. A. Williams and Dan McFarland.”
August 21, 1898 [LAH]: “Captain W. E. Burnham's yacht San Diego has returned from ten days' trip to San CLemente Island. On the way over they caught sixteen yellowtail and two barracuda. Those on board were W. Sidney Smith, C. O. Sharr, H. Gregg and H. A. Walton.”
September 1, 1898 [LAH]: “San Clemente Island rock may be used in the building of the San Pedro breakwater, for which the contract has already been signed, and the bond approved.”
September 1, 1898 [LAH]: “The yacht Violet has returned from San Clemente Island. In the way back she made an exceedingly fast run until she came about half a mile from the harbor, when the wind left her, and it took her almost as long to get into the bay as it did to make the entire trip from Clemente.”
September 4, 1898 [LAT/SP]: “The schooner Brothers arrived from San Clemente Island this morning.”
September 4, 1898 [LAT/OC]: “J. B. Joplin and W. J. Rouse left this morning for San Clemente Island for a week’s pleasure.”
September 9, 1898 [LAH]: “W. J. Rouse returned last night from a several days' hunting trip on San Clemente Island.”
September 10, 1898 [LAH]: “J. B. Joplin returned this morning from a yachting trip to San Clemente Island.”
September 14, 1898 [SFCall]: “Pasadena, September 13. San Clemente, a desert island so called, which lies in the Pacific in the Santa Barbara Channel group [?], is to be colonized, if the plans of Mr. Bolton and forty odd families of this neighborhood he has interested do not fall through. These families have pooled their belongings and propose to squat on 160 acres each… The only inhabitants of San Clemente are a few sheep and cattle herders, and a hermit, Alec O’Leary, who lives with his goats and cat and dog miles from human beings. Sometimes he comes to the mainland, making the trip in a skiff with a flour sack for a sail. The climate of the place is excellent and the soil good. There is but one obstacle in the way of settlement by farmers. This island, together with Santa Barbara and San Nicolas islands and several of the Santa Cruz group, was set aside by the government for lighthouse and naval purposes. A very plain title cannot, therefore, be secured by the settlers, but the would-be colonists think that their rights, if they can cultivate the soil, will receive as much respect as those of the sheepherders, and eventually the government will grant them title.”
September 23, 1898 [LAT]: “Plenty of suitable rock on San Clemente Island… ‘At San Clemente Island I [Mr. Neu] found a quarry of suitable rock, at the north end of the island and about 3000 feet southeast of Wilson’s Cove. We will build piers for mooring barges there, so that the rock can be loaded directly from the quarry into the boats…’”
October 6, 1898 [LAT/SCat]: “The Violet, Captain C. F. Reeves, returned last night from a trip to Clemente, having taken over three months’ provisions for Alex, the hermit of Mosquito Harbor.”
November 13, 1898 [LAT/SCat]: “The little schooner Amy, Captain Jenkins of San Diego, dropped anchor in the bay late Thursday night, party laden with guano. When interviewed, the captain stated that he had put in here in distress, having lost his skiff and tools, and that on replacing them he would return to Clemente Island, where he had a gang of Chinamen gathering guano and would complete his cargo and return home…”
November 20, 1898 [LAH]: “Dying by the thousands. It is reported that the dry season is playing havoc with the herds of sheep on San Clemente Island, and the animals are dying rapidly owing to a lack of water and feed. Judge S. C. Hubbell of this city, is interested in the San Clemente Wool Company, and he states that within a month all of the flocks will be gone. The sheep are simply dying from starvation and thirst. There is no disease among them, and in spite of this fact, the owners, and shepherds are helpless to save them, as it is impossible to provide the animals with water or food.”
November 22, 1898 [LAH]: “Mr. Anunsen returned from San Clemente Island today, to which place he had accompanied the men he brought down with him on Saturday evening, and he will now attend to the building or purchase of barges. It seems probable that most of them will be built at this place, there being already a good ship yard, belonging to the Bannings, on Mormon Island. The ' Hercules is a large, powerful tug and is capable of doing good work. She made the trip here from Coos Bay, with a heavily loaded barge in tow, in the remarkably good time of six days...”
November 22, 1898 [SBMP]: “…The first work, Superintendent Anunsen, says will be building of a rock breakwater at San Clemente Island, east of Wilson’s Cove, to cost $34,000, and take about four months’ time. This is where the rock for use at San Pedro is to be procured, and the surf at the island is so heavy as to necessitate the breakwater…”
December 30, 1898 [LAT/SP]: “The powerboat Clemente arrived this morning with a ton of San Clemente lobsters for the Haniman Fish Company.”
January, 1899 [Land of Sunshine/p. 66]: “…the island is often unapproachable on account of rough weather. At such seasons, one old man, who had lived there for thirty years, used to have the island to himself, and might see no human face for three months at a time. His cabin stands just above the shore at Wilson’s Cove, and near it are the few rough buildings used by the sheep men… The place is usually known, from his name, as Gallagher’s…” [Smith, Ruth Tangier San Clemente Island 10(2):65-72, 1898-1899]
January 13, 1899 [SFC]: “Los Angeles, January 12. J. A. Anunsen, who has charge of the San Pedro Harbor work for Neu & Heldmaier, the contractors, sailed for San Clemente Island this morning on the tug Hercules. A force of eighteen men is now employed on the island surfacing the hill from which stone will be quarried for the breakwater. The stationary engine and huge lifting derricks, capable of hoisting tons of rock at one raising, will be taken to San Clemente on Monday on the barge which has been constructed at San Pedro. A schooner carrying framing timbers, the keel and sides for the first dumping barge, which will be built at Terminal Island, will arrive from the north on Friday. Work on constructing their own protective breakwater began today.”
January 22, 1899 [LAT/SCat]: Avalon. The tug boat Hercules put into Avalon Bay Thursday evening, having on board P. W. Neu of the firm Heldmaier & New, the contractors building for the San Pedro Harbor, with J. S. Anunsen, their foreman, and a friend, Adam Myer of Chicago. The party had been to Clemente Island.”
February 5, 1899 [CDT]: “One of our desert islands. San Clemente, off the coast of California and under our flag, is as barren as Sahara… Wilson’s Cove offers a comparatively safe harbor… San Clemente forms a pasture for thousands of sheep and a smaller number of cattle, and Wilson’s Cove is the headquarters of the sheep herders when they are on the island. That is chiefly in the spring and summer…”
March 8, 1899 [SDU]: “Hermits of the Pacific. ...Sixty or more miles to the south [of San Nicolas Island] is the Island of San Clemente, about twenty-two miles in length, where lived an Irishman up to the present year. His name was Gallagher, Gallagher of San Clemente, and he too, was at war with all the world, thought it is but fair to say that once a year he left his island home and repaired to Los Angeles, where he diligently spent his money, then returned to live alone for another year. Gallagher preferred his own society and that of his sheep and dog. He never was afraid of their overreaching him, he once said. He lived on San Clemente, fifty miles off the coast, for twenty years, and was finally stricken with paralysis, being found by some fishermen sitting in is chair looking out over the sea and unable to move. They took him to Los Angeles, where he died...”
March 28, 1899 [LAT]: “The San Clemente Wool Company has brought suit against one Peter Jensen, who has squatted on the island of San Clemente and is alleged to have taken up almost one hundred acres of land. The wool company claims title by long continued and undisturbed possession, and now seeks to recover damages and restitution.”
May 14, 1899 [LAT]: “Aleck O’Leary pulled into Avalon yesterday afternoon in a little unpretentious home-made skiff about twelve feet in length, having rowed over from San Clemente Island. He left home about 6:30 A.M., and arrived here at 3 P.M., making the distance of nearly forty miles in less than nine hours. He had with him three goats and his faithful dog. O’Leary is holding down a government claim on Clemente, and as his larder was depleted, he sought the nearest base of supply.”
June 7, 1899 [LAT/SP]: “…The Brothers has been in use for several years carrying stock to and from Clemente Island. She will probably sail for the south in about a fortnight.”
September 11, 1899 [LAT/P]: “H. Seward, who recently returned to Pasadena from the Klondike, is organizing a company here and in El Monte to colonize San Clemente Island. It is said that forty families have enlisted in the movement, and want to take up government land. They are informed that they cannot get a title, as the land is reserved for naval and lighthouse purposes; but they propose to squat if they can do no better. They propose to raise fruit and breed sheep.”
September 14, 1899 [SFCall]: “Pasadena, September 13. San Clemente, a desert island so called, which lies in the Pacific in the Santa Barbara channel group, is to be colonized, if the plans of Mr. Bolton and forty odd families of this neighborhood he has interested do not fall through. These families have pooled their belongings and propose to squat on 160 acres each… San Clemente is frostless. There is water standing in pools in the canyons. Wild goats and quail are there in abundance. Years ago a sheepherder brought over three brown goats and left them corralled while he visited Los Angeles a hundred miles away. When he returned to the island the goats had broken away and were never caught. They multiplied and today hundreds of them dwell in the caves or rock shelters and scurry up the canyons. The only inhabitants of San Clemente are a few sheep and cattle herders and a hermit, Aleck O’Leary, who lives with his goats and cat and dog miles from human beings. Sometimes he comes to the mainland, making the trip in a skiff with a flour sack for a sail… There is but one obstacle in the way of settlement by farmers. This island, together with Santa Barbara and San Nicolas Island and several of the Santa Barbara group, was set aside by the Government for lighthouse and naval purposes.A very plain title cannot be secured by the settlers, but the would-be colonists think that their rights, if they cultivate the soil, will receive as much respect as those of the sheep herders and eventually the Government will grant them titles.”
September 27, 1899 [LAH]: “The Pasadenans who thought of forming a colony on San Clemente Island have been informed by the government that there is no use of their going there because the land has all been surveyed and set aside for naval and lighthouse purposes, and they could not get title to it.”
November 15, 1899 [LAT/SP]: “Japanese abalone divers. The abalone industry is to be carried on by more modern methods. Recent advances in the price of the shells have brought about the change. Heretofore the abalones gathered from along this part of the coast and the shores of the neighboring islands, have been taken almost altogether at low tide. But the range of high and low water does not compass all of the hunting ground. The abalone is somewhat of a deep water creature, and may be taken from far beneath the surface if the means are at hand wherein to take them…The schooner Edith has just returned from a trip to San Clemente Island, where she went with a number of Japanese who will collect abalones. The little brown men are equipped with diving apparatus, and will take the much prized univalves from submarine grounds which have hitherto been undisturbed by man.”
January 30, 1900 [LAH]: “The gasoline schooner Clemente arrived here Thursday from Clemente Island with 1500 pounds of lobsters and 1000 pounds of fresh fish.”
February 11, 1900 [LAT]: “Another party has just returned from San Clemente Island, bringing with them a large amount of Indian relics…”
February 27, 1900 [LAT/SCat]: “San Clemente is given over to sheep raising, C. S. Hubbell & Son owning the herds. Sheep shearing is now on, and they have some forty or fifty men there rounding up and shearing. Last season they lost a large number of sheep because of the drought, but they have fared better this season in respect to rain, and feed is plentiful. Some weeks ago, when no rain fell here, they had a copious downpour.”
March 20, 1900 [LAH]: “The action of the department will cause a cessation of work for about six months. Heldmaier & Neu met with a great deal of trouble in attempting to carry out their contract. For instance, they intended to get their rock from San Clemente Island and did take considerable rock from that island, but it was not of sufficient gravity. This necessitated removing their plant to Santa Catalina, where they purchased quarries and invested about $300,000. This and other unfortunate drawbacks interfered with the progress of the work which caused the chief of engineers to annul the contract.”
August 21, 1900 [LAT]: “The power launch Luella leaves today for San Clemente Island for a cargo of crawfish for the Los Angeles market.”
August 24, 1900 [LAH]: ”The power launch Luella is back from San Clemente Island with over 2000 pounds of crawfish.”
August 24, 1900 [LAH]: ”Santa Barbara, Aug. 23,—One of the two men arrested here a day or so ago, charged with stealing abalones from Chinese fishermen on Santa Cruz Island, was seen in the county jail this morning. He refused to admit his guilt of the theft, but when closely questioned said that he knew who the parties were who some time ago caused the death of a Chinaman on San Clemente Island by stealing his provisions. The man may yet be brought to the point of telling who these provision thieves were. If they can be located the most serious charges will be brought against them, as their victim perished of starvation.”
November 6, 1900 [SBDI]: “The Saturday Post of Los Angeles is engaged in a movement to open San Clemente Island of the Santa Barbara group, to settlement… ‘The island is all public land. It is all monopolized by a wool company. It has been monopolized by this wool company for more than thirty years. The people have received nothing for their land. The island is a free pasture for the wool company. The company has houses, corrals, etc., on the island. It pays no tax or rent for the land. Settlers have been driven from these lands repeatedly. Federal officers protected the wool company…’”
December 30, 1900 [LAH]: “On the bank of the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, is an extensive aviary, where in palm-thatched houses birds of all nationalities thrive and multiply. This bird home is located on the corner of Bradford Street and Arroyo View Drive... Two small foxes that were captured on San Clemente Island are quite tame and can be led about with a chain. Perched upon a branching tree stump, in their outdoor drawing room, were two fine eagles. They seemed absolutely indifferent to and independent of their surroundings, spreading and folding their dark-plumaged wings with happy abandon. Even in caged quarters they seemed the embodiment of strength, power and contentment. They were captured with great difficulty by the hermit of San Clemente Island, who narrowly escaped with his life in attempting to procure the young birds. The old birds had built their nest among the crags of a rugged cliff, high above the dashing waves. This was their sentinel tower and from its heights they watched for prey. Hawks, diving into the waves for their daily repast of fish, would barely have time to taste the delicious morsels when the great birds would swoop down upon them and an exciting battle in midair would take place. When, in excitement or despair, a hawk would drop a fish, an eagle, with marvelous rapidity of movement, would invariably catch it before it reached the water. The hermit, discovering the birds, made the perilous ascent of the cliff, but upon reaching the nest, was beset by the old birds, that in the majesty of paternal protection, seemed in their fury to be endowed with indomitable strength. He hastily placed and held the small birds beneath his coat, while with his free hand he partially protected himself from the infuriated birds... S. Tyler, who owns the collection of birds and beasts, is a born naturalist, and it has been the delight of many years to gather and care for his beautiful pets.”
March 31, 1901 [LAT]: “Old property values. A copy of an old Los Angeles newspaper, El Clamor Publico, for November 28, 1857, a weekly printed entirely in the Spanish language, contains a delinquent tax list, which throws an interesting light on real estate values at that remote period in the history of Los Angeles. For instance… 20,000 acres of the island of San Clemente, to an unknown owner, at $46.43…”
August 11, 1901 [LAT]: “The island of San Clemente, lying to the south of Catalina, is visited by very few persons, there being no regular means of communication. The whole island is a lighthouse reservation of the United States government, and is leased by a San Francisco wool firm…”
[ref DFG Book?] “In late 1901, an abalone camp was set up on San Clemente Island, which is 43 miles southwest from San Pedro. The camp was opened with the permission of Charles Howland, who was the secretary of the San Clemente Island Wool Company, which leased the island from the federal government. The cost for a license to use the island and to fish was $5 for five years. The camp consisted of three large tents for the workers, and drying racks.”
September 3, 1901 [LAH]: “The Eagle returned yesterday from a week's cruise to San Diego and San Clemente Island.”
March 9, 1902 [LAT]: “For many years settlers have made determined efforts to obtain the right to file homesteads on San Clemente Island, which is described by some who have visited it, as equal in all respects to Santa Catalina Island, with many valleys that are capable of cultivation. Yet is has been found impossible to obtain the sanction of the government for this course. The island has been monopolized by a San Francisco wool firm, and its population consists of one man…”
March 15, 1902 [LAT/SCat]: “Bautiste, a market fisherman who maintains a camp at San Clemente Island, on his trip from there here yesterday, reports having seen immense schools of flying fish and tuna in the channel.”
October 19, 1902 [LAT/SD]: “The Corinthian Yacht Club left this evening on the Dophin for a cruise to San Clemente Island. The party will arrive there at daylight and will pass the day in hunting and fishing, leaving late in the afternoon and reaching home Monday morning.”
November 25, 1902 [LAT/SP]: “The steamer Robert Dollar, Captain Johnson, was chartered Saturday by Captain Edwin Jadwin and other government officials of Los Angeles, to take a party to San Clemente Island. The meaning of the visit to San Clemente is not known, but it is believed here that the government desires a survey of the island, with a view to establishing marine barracks. The Robert Dollar is due to arrive here tonight.”
April 22, 1903 [LAT/SCat]: “’Johnnie’ Robarts, majorodomo of San Clemente Island, accompanied by his wife, is visiting his friends here. Mr. Robarts and his brother, with their wives, are the only residents of San Clemente and life becomes rather monotonous after being marooned for a year or so at a stretch. Robarts is superintendent of the San Clemente Wool Company, and as the season of sheep shearing has just been closed, he reports a successful and prosperous year. They have had a force of fifty or sixty paisanos in rounding up and shearing, their one yearly diversion, and these were brought over with a cargo of wool on the company’s schooner, The Brothers, last Saturday.”
August 18, 1903 [LAT/SCat]: “Avalon… S. C. Hubbell, lessee of San Clemente Island, and president of the San Clemente Island Wool Company, is at the Hotel Metropole. The Meteor made her usual Monday trip to the island of San Clemente this morning with the following party: R. T. Whittlesey, J. A. Larraide, George D. Henck, Glenn Whittlesey, H. G. Williams, O. Lawler, Los Angeles; Grangier Hyer, Ontario; Mrs. William O’Brien and Mrs. Dawson Hawkins, Colorado Springs; Charles J. Barnes and Henry B. Ruggles, Redlands.”
September 1, 1903 [LAT/SCat]: “The Meteor went out this morning on what will probably be its final regular trip to San Clemente Island for this season, with the following party: G. B. Smee, Covina; Frank Lambert, Monrovia; E. W. Crowther, Placentia; Mrs. C. Driskell, Clyde N. Driskell and Alfred Hutchings, Pasadena; C. M. Smith, Avalon; and Mrs. Lucy Robarts. Mrs. Lucy Robarts, wife of superintendent of the San Clemente Island Wool Company, who has been visiting her parents here, Mr. and Mrs. Vincenti Moricich, for three weeks, returned to her home on San Clemente this morning.”
September 16, 1903 [LAT/SP]: “When the little powerboat Leone arrived from San Clemente Island Sunday evening, she had on board four Chinese fishermen, who were arrested on the island by Fish Commissioner Hall, charged with having taken lobsters under size. They will appear for trial in Justice Downing’s court tomorrow.”
July 18, 1905 [SBMP]: “A party of scientists under the charge of Professor C. C. Nutting, all of the biological station at Point Loma, are cruising about Santa Barbara Island on the launch Loma. The first object of the trip is to take soundings over a line between Point Loma and San Clemente Island, a distance of about 26 miles...”
August 27, 1905 [LAT]: “W. R. Randolph, a Kansas City real estate dealer, has a new idea to spring on the public. Said Mr. Randolph: ‘Say, do you know what I’d do if was a Los Angeles real estate man? Well, I’d turn every stone possible to get hold of a slice of San Clemente Island, or the whole of it, if I could, and then I would cut it up into island villa tracts and put it on the market…”
August 17, 1906 [LAH]: “Special excursion from Avalon to San Clemente Island, Sunday, August 19, 1906, leaving Avalon at 9 A.M. Procure your tickets in advance from Banning Co., Pacific Electric Building, Los Angeles. Both phones 36.”
September 28, 1907 [LAH]: “Wanted. Help. Teamsters, San Clemente Island, $40 mo. & food; Laborers, San Clemente Island. $40 mo. and board.”
September 28, 1907 [LAT]: “Los Angeles youth drowned at San Clemente Island.”
September 28, 1907 [LAH]: “Long Beach, September 27. Verne Ward, son of Mrs. E. F. Ward of 1177 East Forty-ninth Street, Los Angeles, was drowned while bathing at San Clemente Island this afternoon about 1 o’clock. He went to Clemente Wednesday on the launch Music on which he was learning to be an engineer. Captain J. W. Russell, owner of the Music, brought the body to Long Beach this evening. The young man had been employed aboard the Music for two or three months.”
April 3, 1908 [LAT/SA]: “The Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association of this city is awaiting a copy of the bill and its amendments under which San Clemente Island has been leased to the San Clemente Wool Company, of which Mayor Harper and C. T. Howland of Los Angeles are the principal stockholders. Mayor Harper and Howland have been here to explain the terms of the lease and to meet objections likely to be voiced by the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association and the Chamber of Commerce. They declare that under the lease plenty of reservations are made for visitors. The company pays $1500 a year rental, and herds 10,000 sheep on the island, the term of lease being twenty-five years. The protests were started on the ground that no reservations will appear when the bill and its amendments are received from Washington by Secretary N. A. Ulm of the association.”
June 2, 1908 [SBMP]: “Horrid death faced fishers. Three local men escape starvation on San Nicolas Island. Visiting yachtsmen from San Pedro find cached food supply and almost get away with whole stock of provisions before fishers appeared... Before they had time to remove their supplies thither, the schooner Edith from San Pedro, carrying Thomas [Charles T. ?] Howland of the Clemente Island Company, and a party of surveyors, reached the island. Landing, they found the fishermen’s' cache and believing it to be an abandoned store, removed the contents to the schooner, even taking some of Hansen's clothing. The schooner was still anchored in the little harbor when the fishermen returned to the shack for food supplies, and found the Howland party. Had the Edith sailed with the fisher's provisions, the trio surely would have starved.”
June 4, 1908 [SBMP]: “...Dispatches received from Admiral Sebree yesterday morning directed that officer commission one of the cruisers of the squadron under his command to proceed at once to San Clemente Island and reconnoiter for the purpose of ascertaining whether that locality is well adapted for the purposes of a naval target field and range...”
September 24, 1908 [SFC]: “Los Angeles, September 23. With the cooperation of Giffort Pinchot, chief of the United States bureau of forestry, and of County Game Warden Morgan of Los Angeles the sportsmen’s clubs of southern California, led by the Tuna Club of Catalina, have started a movement for a national game fish preserve at San Clemente Island, about 60 miles at sea from San Pedro. The island is government property, leased for a number of years for grazing purposes. Most of the record breaking fish that are taken every year come from the vicinity of San Clemente, and it is a desire to protect these fish that congress at its next session will be asked to create the preserve.”
December 16, 1908 [SFC]: “Washington, December 15. The house committee on interstate and foreign commerce agreed today to a favorable report on the senate bill to authorize the secretary of commerce and labor to lease San Clemente Island, just off Los Angeles, to the San Clemente Wool Company for 25 years. The company will attempt the novel process of redeeming the sand under water and will plant spineless cactus, promising to spend $25,000 for this purpose and other improvements.”
January 22, 1909 [LAT]: “Fears are entertained for the safety of Captain Mason and his engineer, who started in the launch Camiguin yesterday for San Clemente Island. There is no shelter near there, and unless the boat got in the lee of Catalina she must have experienced some rough weather.”
May 14, 1909 [LAT]: “Gradually the truth of young Roy Carr’s travels since he jumped his bail two months ago is coming out. He is now probably in Honduras… Carr was on San Clemente Island as late as the 23rd ult., when a launch called for him, and he went to San Diego…”
July 15, 1910 [LAH]: “Avalon, July 14.—With a view to purchasing the entire stock of sheep here, C. F. Howland, lessee of San Clemente Island, and representatives of the Southwestern Packing Company have visited the stock this week and estimate there are 15,000 sheep on Catalina.”
July 17, 1910 [LAT]: “…‘Spineless cactus? Oh Burbank invented it, did he? Well, there’s just where my brother and I got stung. You see, we were mighty in love with the idea, and we bought 200 leaves at $2.50 a leaf. Well, we planted it and the stock ate most of it and the rest died out, and we felt sort of discouraged, but we thought we would try it another year, so we planned to put out a whole wad of money for another set out, and we paid down $500 to Luther Burbank to clinch the order. About that time along comes a government official, one of Pinchot’s men, and he said, ‘Are you trying to grow spineless cactus? I can get you all you want for nothing. This is a government island.’ And he took us [Howland brothers] up to Los Angeles, and out at Westlake Park there was a lot of the stuff that had been there for seven or eight years. We had to go through a lot of red tape, and we got a wagon load for the carting away. We felt mighty fine, but how to get out of what we had ordered from Burbank. We just wrote him a letter to cancel the order, and he sent us back the money and said he had so many orders to fill he was delighted to get out of that one. But the stuff won’t grow.’ But I’ll tell you what we are trying now, and it will start on a barren rock: the Australian saltbush. I have seen it spread ten feet in a year, and all kinds of stock can eat it…”
August 19, 1910 [LAH]: “Several precincts remain to be heard from before the exact result of the primaries in Los Angeles county will be known. One of these embraces San Clemente Island. Twelve votes live on the island. There are periods when a boat is able to make a landing only once a month. Thus the returns from that precinct may not be in for weeks…”
October 7, 1910 [LBP]: “Captain Joe Freeby of the steamer Edith of San Pedro, who resides in this city, returned to Long Beach yesterday after taking six Mexican laborers and 20 tons of seed barley to San Clemente Island, 60 miles from here. Freeby is employed by Howland Brothers of Los Angeles, proprietors of the San Clemente Wool Company, to pilot the Edith to and from the island and to transport the big herds of sheep, which are exported from the island to the big markets of the west every month. The captain of the Edith now says there are from 30,000 to 35,000 sheep roaming the island at present time, all of which are the property of the San Clemente Wool Company. The laborers taken over to the island are employed to help dig dams in various parts of the numerous canyons to hold rainwater for the sheep. The present existing conditions make it necessary for some of the sheep to cover a long range of ground before they can secure water, and the continual running makes them poor, and therefore takes more grain to feed them. The 20 tons of seed barley, which was taken over the first week will be sowed in about two weeks. Last year the output of barley on the island was 180 tons, all of which was fed to the sheep. Sheep are sheared on San Clemente in January and this work gives employment to about 75 men. Only 18 people reside on the island year around, and these are herders who spend most of their time in the saddle looking after the big herds.”
October 16, 1910 [LAH]: “The rock supply for the filling of the 1800 feet left open in the government breakwater in Los Angeles harbor probably will coe from San Clemente Island, a distance of seventy miles by sea, and Morro Rock, and island owned by the government near the breakwater building at Port Harford, in San Luis Obispo county… the sea haul is much cheaper than by rail, as the rock is loaded on barges and towed to the scene of the operation, where it is dumped into the ocean.”
December 23, 1910 [SBMP]: “When Theodore Roosevelt visits Southern California about the first of March, he will spend at least three days in camp on San Clemente Island, fishing in company with Charles F. Holder and former Governor George C. Pardee. Mr. Holder, who is a close friend of the former president, is the discovered of San Clemente Island as a fisherman’s paradise and makes camp there at least once a year. He has introduced many of his friends to it, and Stewart Edward White, Gifford Pinchot, Frank P. Flint and others have become regular habitués...” [Note: Pardee, a Republican, was 21st governor of California. He served from 1903-1907.]
November 24, 1911 [LAT]: “San Clemente Reserve. Island beyond Catalina may be set aside by government to propagate game and fish. Sportsmen interested in protecting the game fish of Southern California waters are making an effort to have San Clemente Island set apart by the government as a game and fish reserve. In this way it is hoped that the rapidly-waning sport off the coast may be restored to its former greatness…”
March 16, 1912 [LAT/SP]: “San Pedro man drowned off San Clemente coast… The Bear brought two survivors of the wreck, Lester and Austin Freeman, brothers, who also had a narrow escape from drowning. Lester Freeman, who lives in Riverside, and his brother, Austin Freeman of San Bernardino, chartered the lost Dora on March 1, from Benman for a week’s fishing trip and left this harbor, arriving at San Clemente the following Saturday night. The sloop was anchored near Wilson Harbor, and about 2 o’clock on Sunday morning a heavy storm came up accompanied by a tremendous sea. The Dora’s anchors failed… The two Freemans managed with great difficulty to make shore and spent the night in a barn owned by the San Clemente Wool Company. In the morning when the sea had subsided they made their way back to the Dora and found Benman dead in the cockpit of the little craft. His body was taken ashore and the two brothers with the help of several employees of the Clemente Wool Company, dug a grave on the bleak bluff of the island, where the body was buried. Revenue cutter Bear on a cruise today sighted the wreck of the Dora and went to investigate…”
March 18, 1912 [LAT]: “San Bernardino. Austin Freeman, who with Lester Freeman and ‘Chips’ Benman, was in a shipwreck off San Clemente Island last Sunday, Benman being drowned, was heading a treasure hunting expedition at the time. He is a member of one of the pioneer families. His father had a chart showing where treasure was buried on the island during the very early days of California. For years Austin Freeman has been seeking to interest local men of means in outfitting an expedition to the treasure island, only recently succeeding. It is not known here who put up the money for the disastrous voyage. The Freemans will start again soon. They are positive that the treasure will eventually be found. According to the word coming down through their father, now deceased, the treasure is of vast amount.”
May 2, 1912 [LAT]: “At the Lighthouse Service Bureau, Osborne made an effort to secure lights for the southeastern end of Catalina Island and San Clemente Island, as a protection to ships in the Panama Canal service. He met with little encouragement and says he is afraid a great deal of pressure will be necessary to secure the establishment of more lighthouses in these waters.”
August 27, 1912 [LAT]: “Islands denuded. Clarence B. Linton of Long Beach, who was here today, and who has the abalone concession on San Nicolas and San Clemente islands, says that the accessible parts of the Channel Islands have been almost denuded of abalones, and that it will not be a very long while until the abalone shell and meat industry in Southern California will be a thing of the past. There are portions of San Nicolas and San Clemente islands where the mollusks are as thick as bees in a hive, but it is impossible to reach them from either sea or land owing to the threatening rock-bound coast. It is rumored, says Linton, that P. Sandoval is losing his hold on the abalone and fishing concession on the Lower California coast, and that several Californians are after the concession from the Madero government.”
October 19, 1912 [LAT]: “No snakes on San Clemente. After hunting reptiles on the Channel Islands for the past three months, Prof. J. R. Slevin of the [California] Academy of Science of San Francisco, finished a four-day hunt on San Clemente Island and added nine varieties of lizards to his collection. No snakes were found on San Clemente Island… Each specimen has been preserved and will be sent to San Francisco. ‘It is the desire of my department,’ said Prof. Slevin, ‘if possible, to connect the Channel Islands by their reptiles and other scientific proofs. I have found exactly the same species of lizards on San Nicolas, Santa Barbara, Santa Catalina and San Clemente islands. Two of these islands, however, have no snakes…”
October 23, 1912 [LAT]: “Colony for lepers on San Clemente. The establishment of a colony on San Clemente Island for the care of all the lepers in the country, the project to be under Federal direction, is a departure recommended yesterday by County Health Officer Sawyer…”
October 25, 1912 [ ]: “...Four cases of leprosy have been treated at the county hospital during the past year. One of the patients is dead, according to the last report of the City Heal Commissioner Powers. Sawyer believes that there are 30 lepers in California and that the number on the mainland of the United States is about 150. He says there is no cause for alarm in these figures, because they are not unusual...We want a national home like those in the Philippines and on the island of Molokai in Hawaii. We want to give the afflicted ones social intercourse, churches, schools, libraries, theaters and other advantages. "The handling of leprosy by individual counties and states is too expensive a task, and it needs expert federal control. San Clemente Island is in a wonderful climate, and not so isolated that it would not place any one in danger. I have it from competent authorities that a water supply can be developed there for 300 persons, and this might be increased by distillation, as the case on our battleships...”
January 16, 1913 [LAT]: “As a direct result of the exclusive publication in The Times October 23 last of a plan originated by County Health Officer Sawyer to convert San Clemente Island into a leper colony under Federal supervision, Congressman A. W. Lafferty of Oregon will soon introduce a bill to bring this about…”
February 14, 1913 [LAT]: “Wilson is interested. President-elect evinces appreciation of national leper colony project for San Miguel Island… San Miguel Island, instead of San Clemente, may become home for the colony, because a water supply can be obtained there…”
December 31, 1913 [LAT]: “Beginning Monday next the launch Eagle, owned by Captains Denslow and Anderson, will inaugurate a weekly service to San Clemente Island from Long Beach, which because of the hunting and fishing they believe will prove attractive and profitable. According to the schedule, the Eagle will go to San Clemente via Santa Catalina, passing the first night at the latter place. Tuesday morning the trip will be resumed, where the passengers will remain until Wednesday evening, returning here Friday. San Clemente is sixty miles from Long Beach.”
January 28, 1914 [SBMP]: “That the Union Oil tanker reported ashore at San Clemente Island is really at San Miguel is an unconfirmed report that is received here.”
April 14, 1914 [TI/Avalon]: “Arrangements have been made by the Long Beach Tuna Club to weigh fish caught at Clemente Island at Camp Shade, Mosquito Harbor. Captain Shade has been appointed official weigher of this club. It would be a great convenience to Avalon anglers if some such arrangement could be made by the Catalina Tuna Club, for it would allow anglers to remain for several days longer, instead of having to cross the channel with the first record fish the angler caught.”
May 4, 1914 [LAT/SP]: “The power schooner Edith arrived from San Clemente Island today with a cargo of sheep. On account of the copious rains this winter, livestock on all the islands are reported in fine condition. There is plenty of grass and hay. About 3500 head of sheep will be the increase on San Clemente Island.”
May 20, 1914 [LAT]: “Memorial Day will be spent on San Clemente Island by employees of the Mullen & Bluett Clothing Company, who will make the trip on the launch Yankee Boy, sailing the evening of the 29th…”
November 3, 1914 [LAT]: “Fourteen arrested, San Clemente now peaceful. With a deputy sheriff and a boatload of other officers after him, William Blair, rowing desperately away from San Clemente Island toward the three-mile limit and neutral waters, refused to quit when the rough seas capsized his little boat and pitched him into the ocean. Kicking off his boots and coat, he swam sturdily. To the amazement of the officers he did not turn back to land, but headed straight out to sea, seeking to get away from the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles county authorities. While the officers waited to wonder whether the man was merely fooling or possessed of exceptional courage, the fugitive secured a good lead and it was an exciting chase. Blair was caught before he could get far enough to secure immunity and, with two other men, arrested on San Clemente Island, was brought to Los Angeles yesterday morning and lodged in jail. Just what plan Blair had made for maintaining existence in the event that he succeeded in his mad dash for liberty he declined to explain to the deputy. Now he will have to explain to the court whether or not he is guilty of stealing sheep. This was the second trip made by Deputy Sheriff Jack Adams and eight deputies to the island where Howland brothers, the lessees, allege fishermen have been committing depredations on their property. Notices were served last week on the fishermen to leave the island, Howland brothers alleging that they are the sole lessees and in control of the entire island. Ten Russian and Norwegian fishermen were brought in last Friday and committed to jail. Adams furnished free transportation for many others to San Pedro. He went again to the island Saturday armed with warrants and with a force of armed men. The island is about forty miles outside of Catalina, and it was an all-night trip for the launch. Nearly all the fishermen against whom complaints had been made had observed the warning in the notices served upon them and departed. J. Randall and W. Swanson were arrested and then the deputies started after Blair. He had heard of their coming, however, and with his skiff loaded with provisions started for the high seas. This made thirteen in custody yesterday forenoon. Fritz Frye, sparring partner of Battling Johnson, and also wanted for depredations on San Clemente, was undone by his curiosity. Hovering about the sheriff’s quarters with his ears open to learn what had happened, he was detected and arrested. The fourteen prisoners will be given a hearing next Thursday morning. Four were admitted to bail, the other ten being still in jail yesterday. Deputy Adams says all is peaceful now on San Clemente and that the island tempest is permanently settled.”
November 11, 1914 [SBDNI]: “San Pedro. Fear three died in storm on island. One of the severest storms in years swept San Clemente Island on Sunday night, according to Reginald Breet of Newport, who arrived here today in the fishing boat Ruth. He declared two fishing boats were pounded to pieces on the island beach. He also said that three unidentified men on an unidentified sloop, which had landed lumber on the island, were believed to have been drowned. It is feared also that three men in fishing boats were lost. The storm came suddenly from the southwest and there was no chance for the boats to put to sea and ride it out. They were hurled on the beach and pounded to pieces by the heavy surf. The waves were immense, according to Breet, who said that the storm was so terrific at times that it was difficult for men on shore to keep their footing against the driving wind.”
November 11, 1914 [San Pedro News Pilot]: “Storm hits San Clemente Island. Three men believed to have been drowned and two boats wrecked. Edith and Mary Ann total wrecks. Storm hits San Clemente Island hard. Three men are believed to have lost their lives and two power boats are known to have been wrecked on San Clemente Island by a terrific storm that raged Sunday night and reached the height of its fury early Monday morning. It is feared that damage that has not been reported has been done. News of the disaster was brought to port this morning by Reg. Brett, who has been working at the crawfish camp of Billy Bonder of Newport. Brett brought Capt. Al Gregory of the power schooner Edith to port to get assistance. The Edith is a total wreck but a tug will be sent to the island to save the 40 horse power engine, which lies in about fifteen feet of water. The launch Mary Ann, a fishing boat, is also a wreck and is high and dry on the rocks. The barge of Howland Bris. is also high and dry on the beach. A sloop rigged fishing boat with a crew of three is believed to have been lost. The boat came up to the barge at Howland Bros. ranch and discharged lumber for traps and moved off. Later three men were seen battling in the heavy sea in a skiff and finally a skiff was sighted in the storm bottom up. The sloop was leaking when she was at the float. "All the crawfish camps suffered heavy damage from the storm," said Brett, at the Daily Pilot office today. "After the storm abated the beach was strewn with a mass of lobster traps and lumber in the wreckage. We were on this side of the island. How much damage was done on the other side we do not know, but it must have been considerable for the storm came from the southwest and then veered to the southeast so that both sides of the island got it. "Our boat, the Ruth was not damaged. Souder had the motor going and expected every minute to have to cut the anchor line when the storm broke. He was unable to pull up the anchor. The Ethel H had a narrow escape, but the boys from Wilmington saved her by hard work and much bailing. The sea rolled in on the beach and the breakers smashed the crawfish camps with their lumber and traps into kindling wood. "There were about 20 camps left on the island with about forty men. Before Howland Bros. started to get rid of them there were forty-six camps." ”
November 26, 1914 [LAT]: “Caught with the goods. Seven more Clemente Island crawfishermen are arrested on sheep stealing charge…”
February 7, 1915 [LAT]: “This has been the worst winter I have ever known on the Pacific Coast. At San Clemente Island there have been four wrecks this winter, to say nothing of two house boats and nearly 3000 crawfish traps…”
December 3, 1915 [LAT]: “Willie Pearson, aged 32, a lobster fisherman, lost his life at Long Point, San Clemente Island yesterday. With Chris Fosstrum he was attempting to make a landing in a skiff. The boat capsized and both men were thrown into the breakers. Fosstrum swam ashore, but Pearson went down. He was unmarried, and had relatives in Oakland and Norway.”
January 10, 1916 [LAT]: “Question: Please find sample of ore enclosed, picked up on San Clemente Island. I would like to ascertain through the columns of your department your opinion as to the nature of the white crystals therein. Answer: We searched hard for the white crystals, but failed to locate them. There is grayish amphibole (microscopic) in the mass; various iron oxides and a trace of manganese, with sulphur and quartz present.”
April 6, 1916 [LAT]: “Third of a million for San Clemente Island. Big cash deal includes twenty-five thousand head of sheep. Famous and romantic ocean rock, home of prehistoric civilization and of pirates and smugglers, is taken over by one of Montana's biggest ranchmen, and will be used for great flocks of blooded wool-bearers. The lease of San Clemente Island, 25,000 head of sheep, blooded stallions, draft mares, colts, mules, jacks and other property on the island, were sold yesterday by the San Clemente Wool Company to Lewis Penwell of the Lewis Penwell Company and associates. The consideration, reported as all cash, was $300,000. The deal was made through W. B. Merwin & Co. of this city. San Clemente Island is one of the most famous in the world, chiefly for the many evidences of a high prehistoric civilization which have been found there. Its rugged caves and natural havens have sheltered pirates and smugglers without number, one of its bays being even now known as Smuggler's Cove. Its fishing grounds are regarded as the finest of any about it by thousands of years of hard-won life on its inhospitable rocks has made it a favorite with writers of fiction and on archaeological subjects. The San Clemente Island sheep ranch is larger than any in California. Sheep have been pastured on it for more than sixty years and with the water system and other improvements made by the San Clemente Wool Company it has been regarded as one of the best ranches in the country. Charles T. Howland, one of the principal owners of the San Clemente Wool Company, has retained an interest in the new concern and will be on the board of directors. Mr. Penwell is a prominent sheep and ranch owner of Montana. He is owner or part owner of twenty-five big ranches in that State and has conducted operations on a big scale for many years. Last year 105,000 sheep were sheared on his ranches. He has recently become interested in Southern California and its lands, but the San Clemente purchase is the first of any considerable size to be made by him here. Mr. Penwell and his associates will take possession about the time the sheep are sheared, which will be near the end of the month. The enterprise will be managed by E. G. Blair, president of the Blair-Penwell Company of Montana, which has recently sold its holdings. Most of the sheep now on the island will be sold soon and replaced with pure bred stock. Twenty-five thousand Hampshire Down and Rambouillet ewes will be put on the island some time this year. Mr. Howland says that an increase of not less than 80 percent a year can be depended upon from them. That the venture will be highly successful is the belief of the new owners. The sheep business all over the country is crowded for range or pasture room. Mutton and wool command an exceedingly high price on account of the world's shortage. Mr. Penwell and Mr. Howland say conditions on San Clemente are ideal for sheep and that a high percentage of increase will be obtained from the pure bred ewes to be shipped there. The forage is excellent, consisting mostly of red-top clover and alfalaria, the latter a type of pin clover that grows in a wild state in some portions of Europe and which has been naturalized in California and a few other states in this country. San Clemente Island is owned by the United States government, and is held by the sheep company under long-time lease. It is twenty-two miles long and four and a half miles wide. Sheep were first put on the island in 1854, and have been pastured there ever since. For half a century the animals existed without water save what they got from occasional morning dew and from a small, water-bearing plant, "siempre viva."
April 27, 1916 [LAT]: “Announcement was made yesterday at the Van Nuys by Lewis Penwell, who recently leased San Clemente Island and purchased the 25,000 sheep and other livestock there, that a $300,000 corporation will shortly be formed to develop the island and the stock into the finest sheep ranch in the country. Mr. Penwell, who is sometimes called the ‘Sheep King of America,’ will go to the island tonight or tomorrow with Charles T. Howland, one of the former owners of the property. The plan of development for the island, according to Mr. Penwell, includes among other things the addition of about 5000 sheep of the Rambouillet type to the stock already there. The new animals are expected to cross with the peculiar island type of sheep now on the ranch, and to make the herd one of the most valuable in the land, as it is believed the mixed strain will produce animals of excellent wool and meat value. Regarding the incorporation, Mr. Penwell stated yesterday that very little of the stock remains unsubscribed, most of it being taken in advance by himself and his associates, including Charles T. Howland, who will be actively identified with the corporation. The money realized will be used to purchase sheep and for improvements. E. G. Blair, who will manage the ranch for the corporation, is at present on the island, with Robert Knowland, engaged in gathering the sheep, shearing, weeding out undesirable stock and making a final count. The work is expected to be completed Saturday night and plans will immediately be made to secure additional sheep. Additional fencing will be done shortly and a preliminary survey of improvements started. Mr. Penwell states that every effort will be made to breed to highest grade stock in America, since the curtailment of sheep growing in many localities, by the increase in the price of agriculture acreage, has made fine sheep growing on low-priced land one of the most profitable pursuits in America. He asserts that the number of sheep is decreasing rapidly and that he price of wool and mutton is going higher steadily. It is planned to proceed about 20,000 lambs annually on the island. These will be marketed through packing houses and the new corporation will devote all its attention to producing. Mr. Penwell purchased the lease of the island several weeks ago from the San Clemente Wool Company, who held it under a long term agreement with the United States government. Mr. Penwell states that the new owners will not discourage archaeological exploration parties, and as the island is noted for its many remains of a prehistoric civilization this will be good news to persons interested in studying the island from a scientific standpoint. Many parties have conducted explorations on the land, which is said to be one of the most picturesque along the California shore.”
October 23, 1916 [LAT]: “Sitting bolt upright on a pile of rock, with a gaping wound in his left breast made by a bullet from a rifle which he was carrying and which accidentally discharged when he pitched headlong from one of the narrow sheep trails on San Clemente Island, the dead body of Lorenzo Higuera, a sheep herder, was found Friday by a searching party that had been out for four days looking for him. The unfortunate man was carrying a rifle and revolver and about his waist a heavily-loaded cartridge belt. It is thought that he stumbled on one of the steep narrow sheep trails, and after plunging down the hillside, struck the pile of rock on which his body was found with such force as to cause the rifle which he carried in his hand to discharge with fatal effect. The bullet pierced his heart and physicians say that death was instantaneous. The remote spot in which the body was found made it extremely difficult to recover, as at this point the trails are narrow and the grades steep in places. The body was finally gotten to the boat landing and brought to Wilmington in a motorboat. The funeral services were conducted at the Wilmington Catholic Church at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon with Rev. Father Elling officiating. The interment took place at Wilmington cemetery.”
November 28, 1916 [TI/Avalon]: “Captain W. I. Danielson and I. L. Newberry made a trip to San Clemente Island to overhaul their moorings, returning home Saturday they sighted several schools of fish.”
April 7, 1918 [LAT/OX]: “One thousand acres on San Clemente Island, formerly used only as pasture, will this year be planted to beans, the Hogue-Kellogg Company of this county having secured a lease on the island, the most southerly one of the Catalina group, from the government.”
April 12, 1918 [OC]: “Lease of San Clemente, the most southern of the California group of islands, has been secured from the government by the Hogue and Kellogg Company of Ventura. The island is 60 miles from the mainland. The company plans to plant 1000 acres of beans on the island. The island has been utilized in the past mostly for stock grazing.”
May 17, 1918 [OC]: “The Hogue-Kellogg Company which has leased San Clemente Island from the government has begun improvements there. The Ventura Post says: H. E. Lowe, deputy in the office of the county surveyor Petit, has gone to San Clemente Island, which is beyond Catalina, for a few days. He was accompanied by a representative of the Hogue-Kellogg company here, the latter planning to do some work for the company there.”
July 6, 1918 [Coronado Eagle Journal]: “One thousand acres on San Clemente Island, one of the Catalina group, formerly used only as pasture, will this year be planted to beans.”
August 26, 1918 [OC]: “Joe V. Conklin, who has been looking after the interests of the Hogue-Kellogg Company in San Clemente Island has returned to Ventura. Because of lack of rain he was unable to get the land on the island in shape for planting a crop of beans this year, and the company will let the land lie idle until next season. San Clemente is beyond Catalina Island about seventy miles from the mainland. During Mr. Conklin’s stay there only one boat was able to reach the island because of the rough seas.”
May 3, 1919 [LAT]: “Mrs. Carmen Ferrer, who says her father, William Walton, is first officer of the United States battleship Maryland, was taken into custody yesterday by Deputy United States Marshal Cavanaugh, on San Clemente Island, charged with having forged a signature to a money order for $5. The Ferrers were on the island temporarily, on account of the ill-health of Mrs. Ferrer, whose husband is employed as a range rider there. The accused woman, who is 18 years of age, was reared in Nicaragua, although born in Arizona… Frank Ferrer gave up a good position with the Southern Pacific to take his wife to San Clemente for her health, as he says she is a sufferer of tuberculosis… A letter came for Santiago V. Ferrer, inclosing a money order, and Mrs. Ferrer, thinking it was for her husband, had her friend endorse it… Being unable to read or write English, she says, she did not understand that the letter and money order were for her brother-in-law and not her husband…”
July 24, 1920 [LAT]: “Dr. Robert W. Thomas, who is in charge of the municipal clinic at San Diego, and Health Commissioner Powers of Los Angeles, are trying to interest Internal Reveniue Collector Carter, and through him the government, in the establishment of a sanatorium near Los Angeles, to accommodate the narcotic addicts who have partially recovered their health and need assistance. One of the places suggested is San Clemente Island, which is the property of the government, but the great drawback is the fact that there is not a drop of water on the island or any opportunity to get any except as it is brought from Catalina or the mainland…”
July 28, 1920 [SDET]: “Plan advances to herd drug addicts together on San Clemente Island. Between the hours of 8 o'clock and 9:30 o'clock each morning during the week, George Coop, the veteran elevator operator at the city hall, is a conductor of a mixed throng of race, color and sex — addicts to narcotics — which now is dependent on the free clinic of the health department for daily "shots."... With the council almost constantly hounding the free clinic, Dr Thomas is working on a scheme to move all narcotic addicts to San Clemente Island, Government, state, and county officials have endorsed the plan. A big hospital on San Clemente would be built largely with the aid of a government appropriation... Dr. L. M. Lowers, health commissioner in Los Angeles, and the Collector of Internal Revenue John P. Carter, who are largely instrumental in the establishment of the clinics in Los Angeles and San Diego have requested the Washington government to give serious thought to the plan of placing a federal sanitarium on San Clemente. The government controls this island through a lighthouse reservation. At present, and for years past, the island has only been used for grazing goats and sheep. Island has handicap. The one great drawback to its cultivation or being used for resort purposes is the lack of water. There are no springs or streams there...”
September 20, 1920 [SDET]: “Proposing that an isolation hospital for the treatment and cure of dope addicts be established on San Clemente Island. Dr. Robert William Thomas, former head of the San Diego county narcotic clinic, today suggested what he says is a practical plan for solving this problem. Dr. Thomas enthusiastically endorses the suggestion that such a hospital be provided and he proposes that this island, like the famous Molokai Island in Hawaii, where lepers are isolated and treated, be utilized for reclaiming the dope victims of California. Doctor Thomas says that he stands ready to do for dope addicts what Father Damien did for exile lepers at Molokai. On San Clemente Island he proposes to cure the addicts medically by the withdrawal method, and psychologically by teaching them new, rigorous, healthful, economic and social habits. San Clemente Island is 65 miles off Pacific Beach, and is due south of Catalina Island. It is 20 miles long, eight miles wide and is practically uninhabited. In the damp season rangers [ranchers] bring cattle to the island to graze. The rest of the year it lies desolate. There is no water. Lack of water on the island is not, according to Doctor Thomas, as obstacle that cannot be overcome. If wells cannot be drilled it would be simplicity itself, he says, to set up on the island a condenser similar to those used by the navy on war vessels...”
September 17, 1921 [LAT]: “Lieutenant H. M. Haver, commanding officer of the destroyer Farragut, and one of the few Naval Reserve officers who had an independent command during the World War, has been selected by Commander A. H. Woodbine to conduct the weekly reserve cruise tomorrow. One Eagle boat is to be used and San Clemente Island has been selected as the destination. Naval reserves intending to take the cruise are asked to notify Commander Woodbine immediately.”
August 30, 1922 [LAT]: “Youths rescued from island. Rescued after being lost forty-eight hours on the island of San Clemente, a barren waterless bit of land that juts from the Pacific miles beyond Catalina Island, two Los Angeles youths reached Los Angeles harbor late last night in a weakened condition and with their clothes and bodies torn from scaling the rocky cactus-strewn slopes of the island. Of a party of four young men, two became separated and were lost. For two days and nights they wandered without food or water, as they searched vainly hour after hour for some signs of human habitation… The two searchers at that time came upon the camp of a Russian sportsman at Mosquito Harbor. Fifteen minutes later Elmer Adams and Beatty reached the scene, stumbling into the camp on the verge of exhaustion. They had been attracted by the glow of the campfire. The youths then fired their guns and attracted the attention of the power cruiser Mañana yesterday morning and were taken to Catalina Island, reaching Avalon yesterday afternoon.”
March 23, 1923 [LAT]: “…It is planned to appoint a committee to carry a petition before Congress at the next session of that body to ask that funds be given for the purchasing and building of of a Federal narcotic asylum on San Clemente Island, a few miles from Catalina. According to those interested in the American Narcotic Crusade movement, the island can be purchased for $160,000, and the erection of a suitable building, necessary repairs, and the cost of the island is estimated at approximately $5,000,000.”
April 30, 1924 [SDET]: “Recommendations for the establishment of six radio compass stations in southern California for the protection of merchant shipping and naval movements have been forwarded to Washington by Lieut. Com. W. J. Ruble, battle fleet radio officer, according to advices received at naval district headquarters here this morning. The stations would be established at Point Sur, Point Arena, Point Del Gado, Point Buchon, Point St. George and San Clemente Island according to reports. First proposals of the establishment of new stations followed the wreck of destroyers at Point Hondo last year. It is said that 25 merchantmen have gone on the rocks in this part of the pacific in the past few years and that these vessels might have been spared had radio warnings been given them.”
June 12, 1924 [ ]: “Two premature explosions killed three officers and forty-five men of the battleship Mississippi today and injured a score of others and the menace of death still hounded the crippled dreadnaught tonight as she left her dead and injured behind and headed out to sea to protect harbor life and shipping from the peril of a third blast. The first explosion occurred at 1 p.m., while the Mississippi was engaged in target practice off San Clemente Island, forty-five miles from here, spreading death among the eighty-eight men in No. 2 turret. Officers said the premature blast might have been due to a sailor giving the signal for the electric flash igniting the charge in one of the turret's fourteen-inch rifles before the breech was properly closed or it may have resulted from a "flareback" caused when a fresh charge was being loaded into the breech. As the stricken ship reached the goal of its race for surgical assistance — the hospital ship Relief, just inside the breakwater here — a second blast rocked the vessel. The charge in the damaged turret's second fourteen-inch rifle exploded, hurling the steel projectile out to sea, and narrowly missing the prow of the passenger liner Yale, which was leaving the harbor for San Diego. The men were all from the battleship New Mexico doing observation duty in accordance with the interchange of officers and men between the various ships of the fleet when practice was being held. Had the turret, which was revolving at the time the explosion on the battleship Mississippi occurred, remained in the position in which it was at the time of the explosion, the bang fire from the left gun would have gone into the center of the city of San Pedro, witnesses aboard the ship said. When the gunner's hand, guilding the controls was wrenched away by the explosion, the guns kept revolving and stopped as they pointed directly aft. Thus, fortune probably saved the lives of many citizens and the destruction of much property in San Pedro. Lieut. Jack Kennedy, the athletic officer of the Pacific Fleet, was among the first to help remove the injured and dead. He was at first reported killed. Ensign J. J. Leveasseur, officer on the New Mexico, dived forty feet from the shell deck down the shaft of the endless powder chain bucket, thus saving his life when the flames of smokeless powder spread in its death path. Lieut. Zellars, 25 years old, one of the three officers killed in the turret fire in No. 2 turret of the battleship, leaves a wife at his home in Long Beach. He is not believed to have any children. His home city is said to be Atlanta, Ga. Ensign H. D. Smith from the U.S.S. New Mexico was the first man to enter the turret No. 2, following the burning of the smokeless powder about snuffed out the lives of two score men. Upon entering the turret, Ensign Smith took with him an air hose which immediately caused the flames again to shoot forth. After flooding the turret the second time with water, Ensign Smith was able to enter. All the men were dead at that time, their faces swelled and puffed almost beyond recognition by the intense heat. Identification marks on the clothing however, were still discernible…”
1926: “In 1926 Theo Murphy and his wife, Lettie, arrived on San Clemente Island. Murphy, the island’s last sheep rancher, had gone into partnership with E. G. Blair to manage a flock of approximately 20,000 animals (Hatheway and Greewnwood 1981:31).
August 26, 1932 [LAT]: “…Latest addition to the Los Angeles whaling fleet is the former coastwise lumber steamer Willamette, renamed California and being reconditioned as a whaling factory ship for local operation by the California Whaling Company. With the killer ship Columbus, renamed Monterey, the California will next week establish an operating base in a San Clemente Island anchorage and operate until January 1. Captain F. K. Dedrick, general manager, expects to secure a minimum of 800 tons of whale oil monthly, in addition to a new plan for disposing of whale meat for manufacture of dog and cat food.”
May 12, 1933 [LAT]: “Wigwag tells of trio’s death. Two men and woman vanish in sea off island. Victims in skiff unable to combat howling wind. Member of party signals destroyer Preble. Trying to row a little skiff through high seas and in a howling wind out to a forty-two-foot speedboat anchored 300 yards offshore in Mosquito Bay at lonely San Clemente Island Wednesday morning two men and a woman found their little craft borne relentlessly away from their goal and out to the open sea, and probably were drowned not long after, according to a story first wigwagged from the shore of the island to a destroyer and then relayed here by wireless yesterday. The missing trio are William Rudolph and Mr. and Mrs. John Sweedborg, all of San Pedro. With Jack Gardner, Jack Long and Charles Carney, also of San Pedro, they chartered the speedboat Let's Go two weeks ago and went to San Clemente Island. Wednesday all the party were on shore when Rudolph and the Sweedborgs decided to row out to the speedboat. They had scarcely left the beach when the wind's force increased and they found themselves helpless against the strong current which was carrying them out to sea. While the other three men were forced to watch impotently from the shore, they saw the hapless crew of the skiff getting dimmer and dimmer in the distance and finally, when the skiff disappeared around a bend of the island, one of the men on shore, Carney, started a laborious climb across the desolate and rocky island in the hope that on the other side he could find and attract the attention of some ship which might be able to rescue the three in the skiff. It took Carney six hours to cross the island. Arriving at Pyramid Bay, he was rewarded by sighting the U.S.S. Preble, a destroyer anchored a short distance offshore. Carney knows the wigwag system of signaling used in the Navy and after attracting the attention of the crew of the Preble, he wigwagged the story of the plight of the three persons in the skiff. The Preble's commander at once wirelessed the tale to the destroyer base at San Diego and the U.S.S. Dorsey was sent out to search for the two men and the woman. All day yesterday the Dorsey searched fruitlessly for any trace of the three persons or their tiny craft. at nightfall it wirelessed a request to the San Pedro Coast Guard station to take up the search and also to send a patrol boat down to Mosquito Harbor to pick up the three men on shore and to tow the Let's Go, which apparently was disabled, back to port. Last night Patrol Boat No. 253 set out to carry on the quest.”
May 14, 1933 [San Bernardino County Sun]: “Terror story disclosed as trio rescued. Two men and woman on way back to San Clemente Island after narrow escape. Avalon, Catalina Island. May 13.— Rescued by a whaling schooner after two days and nights of helpless drifting in a row boat without food or water, Mr. and Mrs. John Sweedborg and William Rudolph of Los Angeles were on their way back to San Clemente Island tonight. A graphic story of bravery born of desperation was related by Sweedborg about his second night in the ocean. The little launch was swept by the heavy waves out intoi the range of the gunfire from the United States fleet, holding target practice off San Clemente Island. Mrs. Sweedborg waved her sweater and the three shouted and yelled in a vain attempt to attract attention. Sweedborg, fearing they would not be able to hold out much longer, decided to risk his life by rowing a raft which held afloat one of the targets, and place himself directly in the fire of the big guns. He said the little craft was almost to the raft when the battleship pulled in the target and steamed back to the harbor. "My heart sank when i saw that target streaking away," Sweedborg told his rescuers. "I didn't think we'd live the night through." Owners of sheep grazing on the island, they had gone there in a launch to patrol the waters against rustlers. One of the oars of the small boat was lost early Wednesday as they were proceeding toward shore from the launch, and they were carried out to sea. They were picked up 40 miles southwest of here yesterday morning by the whaler Port Sanders, whose lookout sighted the rowboat from the crow's nest. At first it was believed to be empty and the crew of the Port Sanders sought to salvage it. As the whaler approached the forms of the woman and two men were seen collapsed in the bottom f the craft. Sweedborg, having swallowed a quantity of salt water when thirst attacked him unbearably, was helpless. Mrs. Sweedborg and Rudolph, who used their shoes to bail after the boat's buckets were lost, were exhausted and suffering acutely.”
May 15, 1933 [Wilmington Daily Press Journal]: “Three persons believed lost, found at sea. Island Lookouts, San Pedro man taken to Catalina. Three persons who drifted for five days on the Pacific ocean before they were rescued yesterday, returned to their home on San Clemente Island today, none the worse for their harrowing experience. The three, Mr. and Mrs. John Sweedborg and William Rudolph, left the island Wednesday in a skiff, intending to row up to a motor cruiser for supplies. A gale came up, they lost one of the oars, and were clown out to sea. Coast guard vessels and the destroyer Preble searched for the missing trio, who meanwhile had drifted into the range of gunfire from the United States. In desperation they attempted to fasten their skiff to one of the naval targets, but it was towed away before they could make fast to it. Friday all lost consciousness. Capt. Finn Nalm of the whaler Port Sanders found them drifting far at sea and removed them to a hospital in Catalina. Sweedborg was delirious from drinking salt water. He and his wife are employed as guards to protect sheep on San Clemente Island. Rudolph, a San Pedro man, was visiting the couple.”
July 7, 1933 [SBMP]: “The 70-foot purse seiner, Valencia, burned and sank off San Clemente Island south of here, it was learned here yesterday. The Valencia has frequently put in at this port in the past for supplies, and her owner, Steve Vlatkovich, is known in waterfront circles. Vlatkovich and all members of the crew of ten were rescued by the Coast Guard cutter Bonham, one of the newer type cutters. The Valencia left San Pedro Tuesday in quest of blue fin tuna.”
August 15, 1933 [LAT]: “NRA funds were yesterday allocated in San Pedro to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey for completion of a hydrographic survey of the California coast, and as first project in this area, topographic survey of San Clemente Island was begun under the direction of Lieutenant R. W. Knox. The new appropriation will insure completion of arrested topographic and hydrographic surveys of the eight Channel Islands, from San Clemente north to San Miguel; continuance of the offshore surveys by the steamers Pioneer and Guide; and early publication of a complete new set of navigation charts of the California coast. The survey of San Clemente Island, the first since 1870, will require three months…”
[June 1933 San Clemente Island]: “...As part of their southern California work, it was necessary to establish survey control on San Clemente Island. As both the Coast Guard and Navy were unable to guarantee a return trip from the island, Pierce had to hire a fishing boat to pick up him and his crew when finished on San Clemente. The trip out was made on a Navy tug USS KOKA. The fishing boat charged $50.00 for the 120 mile trip--60 out and 60 back. Prior to getting to San Clemente, it was "an absolute impossibility to obtain any information concerning drinking water on the south end of the island"--consequently "we were forced to take over three 25-gallon barrels of fresh water as part of our equipment.
"The party and equipment was landed on the sandy beach on Smugglers Cove in a whale boat thru a moderate surf. The Navy personnel in returning to the anchored KOKA thru the surf capsized their whale boat, the only casualty being a broken oar.... On this section of the island the time of year we worked here it resembled a desert more than any other type of country. A low cactus, of ball type, made packing difficult as the sharp cactus penetrated the heaviest type of leather boot. There was practically no vegetation other than cactus, and all of the deep ravines and canyons were dry...."“ [Some Notes from Lieutenant Charles Pierce Part 1: The California Coast 1932-1933 in The American Surveyor, August 21, 2016]
[1933 San Clemente [Island], under the jurisdiction of the Navy, had a fleet training facility at Wilson Cove. A small crushed rock and shell air strip, built in 1933, [????] was also used by the Marines. These two facilities were connected by a six-mile macadam road. In late 1938, a project began to improve the existing airfield. The WPA and a civilian contractor built a 3000-ft. and a 2000-ft. runway plus a hangar. The runways were available for use in December 1939. The remainder of the project reached completion in July 1941. http://www.militarymuseum.org/NAASSanClemente.html
January 20, 1934 [SDET]: “Isles off southern coast to get lights. Seven new lights are to be established Feb. 10 on islands off the coast, according to report by Capt. H. W. Rhodes, superintendent of lighthouses for the 18th district. Two of the lights are to be placed on San Clemente Island, one at China Point, the second at Pyramid Head and the third at the end of the headland at the northerly end of San Clemente. The other four lights are to be established on San Nicolas Island, Catalina Island (east end and west end), and Santa Barbara Island.”
February 20, 1934 [LAT]: “Circumstances surrounding the death at San Clemente Island last Sunday of Allen Oxspring, 30 years of age, 1939 Eastlake Avenue, were under investigation yesterday by deputy sheriffs. Oxspring, according to a report made to the coroner, was fatally injured when he fell from a cliff while on a goat-hunting trip with several friends. The body was taken to the undertaking parlors of Palm & McLin in San Pedro.”
November 7, 1934 by an executive order San Clemente passed from the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Commerce to the control of the Secretary of the Navy.
1935: In 1935 the Navy moved civilian workmen out to the prospective naval base to build barracks, roads, and a pier at Wilson's Cove.
January 23, 1936 [TI/Avalon]: “Captain George Michaelis visited Avalon last Tuesday en route to San Clemente Island. Capt. Michaelis states that the officers of the 11th Naval District are constructing a 500-foot steel pier at Gallagher’s Landing, San Clemente Island, and that two airplane fields are now under construction there. One of the fields is located near the ranch house, and the other at the east end of the island.”
February 18, 1937: “The USS Wyoming (BB-32) departed from Norfolk on 5 January 1937, transited the Panama Canal and headed for San Diego soon thereafter. The ship spent the following weeks engaged in assault landing exercises and gunnery drills at San Clemente Island. On 18 February, during the culminating phase of a multi-faceted (land, sea, and air) exercise, a shrapnel shell exploded prematurely as it was being rammed into one of the ship's 5 in (130 mm) broadside guns. One officer and six enlisted Marines were killed, and 11 were wounded. Immediately after the explosion, Wyoming sped to San Pedro, where she transferred the wounded Marines to Relief. After completing her slate of exercises and war games off the island on 3 March, Wyoming stood out of Los Angeles harbor on that day and then headed back to the East Coast.”
November 15, 1938 [SDET]: “Notice to mariners. Southern California Islands. San Clemente Island light, previously reported extinguished, was relighted November 8.”
1939: The Navy developed the first Landing Craft, Vehicle and Personnel (LCVP) "Higgins Boat" at San Clemente Island. This was the beginning of the Naval Amphibious Force, which was one of the key factors in the outcome of WWII.
July 20, 1939 [SBNP]: “The Coast Guard patrol boat Cahoone reported today it had taken in tow the fishing boat Harmony on charges that it was within the 300-yard naval restricted area off San Clemente Island. It was the fourth vessel seized since July 1 on similar charges.”
November 9, 1939 [SBNP]: “Scientists to explore San Clemente Island for burial ground of prehistoric Indians…”
1942: Following commencement of WWII hostilities, the Navy accelerated use of the Shore Bombardment Area (SHOBA) at the southern end of the island for fleet training.
October 1942 [USNIP]: “ » Flynn, S. E. The History of San Clemente Island U. S. Naval Proceedings 68(476):1417-1426 October 1942.
January 1942: a Marine scouting squadron with 19 Vought SB2U Vindicators and one J2F Grumman Duck operated from the airfield. The next month another project commenced to extend the runways and make additional improvements. In March, a 200-man Army detachment set up two radar stations on the island. Two months later, the Marines returned for flight operations with the establishment of an antiaircraft machine gun training unit. The Marines utilized J2F Ducks for target towing. http://www.militarymuseum.org/NAASSanClemente.html
February 1943: the Navy commissioned NAAF San Clemente Island. The location was evaluated for blimp operations and deemed, at that time, to be unsuitable due to strong and unpredictable winds. In March, the Bureau of Ordnance came to the station for a two month period to test 1600-lb. bombs. VJ-7 supported the project with two PBY-5As. In July, the Navy formed a Combat Information Center (CIC) - Team Training Unit. The unit's syllabus consisted of a three-week course training 589 officers and 1914 men during its existence. The next month, this unit trained the first of seven ARGUS units. ARGUS was a shore-based radar unit that provided the CIC mission for island bases. Airborne radar targets for training were provided by VJ-7 with two PBY-5As and 12 SBDs.
January 1944: Seabees built two permanent radar installations on the island. The next month, the Navy upgraded San Clemente to an NAAS. Beginning in April, fighter components of VC squadrons started using the station for gunnery training. A total of 10 groups of 10 to 15 FM-2s, supported by San Diego's CASU 5, trained at the base during 1944. In June, the Navy established a Special Projects School for Air that taught radio and radar countermeasures. The School utilized 15 SNBs and trained 44 teams during the war.
March 1944 [USNIP]: “Today it [San Clemente Island] is the site of the U.S. Fleet Training Base, an activity within the Eleventh Naval District. Civilians are forbidden to pass within one mile of its shore line,” notes Lieutenant Commander Stanley A. Wheeler.
Early 1945: the Navy rebuilt the runways. On April 15, an Airborne Early Warning Training Unit began operations from the station. In June, this unit operated one SNJ, three TBM-3Es, and nine TBM 3Ws. Also that month, LTA began operations at San Clemente, as blimps from Santa Ana and Del Mar averaged three landings a week. San Clemente, had three asphalt runways -- the longest 5,000 ft. On the northern tip of the island was Castle Field, a dirt strip used for emergencies. In March 1944, station personnel numbered 117 officers and 749 men with barracks for 100 officers and 600 men. The station usually had a J2F Duck, but in mid-1944 also had a GH ambulance plane.
1949: In 1949 Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS), China Lake, began using San Clemente Island as a test and evaluation range on an occasional basis.
October 27, 1957 [LAT]: “Navy closes San Clemente Island area. The Navy will conduct shore bombardment exercises in the Pyramid Cove area, San Clemente Island, tomorrow from 1 to 10 p.m.; Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. All fishermen and yachtsmen are warned to avoid the Pyramid Cove area during this period.”
January 3, 1960 [LAT]: “San Diego, January 2. The body of a man believed to be James McCoy, 37, of Wilmington, a fisherman, who disappeared while fishing off San Clemente Island December 19, was found today on a beach at the island by navy personnel. Dep. Coroner Jesse Canale said positive identification has not yet been made.”
March 31, 1960 [LAT]: “Two workers at a construction job on San Clemente Island were killed yesterday when their truck overturned while working on a naval base area. The victims were Joseph Henry Hargroves, 14516-1/2 Burton Ave., Lawndale, and Richard L. Whitten, 1220 Margarita Dr., West Covina. Both were in their 20s, sheriff’s deputies said. The bodies were taken to Long Beach.”
January 11, 1961 Following the war, San Clemente became an ALF to San Diego and remains so to this day. The Navy has since abandoned the WW II station site and built an 8,000-ft. runway at the former Castle Field. In 1961, the Navy named the facility Admiral Frederick C. Sherman Field in honor of the three-time winner of the Navy Cross and carrier task group commander during World War II.
February 20, 1969 [LAT]: “Sealab 3, the Navy’s 299-ton deep ocean habitat for aquanaut operations, will be placed on a barge and towed from San Clemente Island to Long Beach for repairs to seal off leaks in its helium pressurization system. Meanwhile, pathologists examining the body of aquanaut Berry M. Canon, who died of a heart attack at a depth of 610 feet Monday while attempting to inspect the laboratory, said in San Diego that autopsy reports will not be available for several days.”
May 4, 1969 [Independent-Press-Telegram]: “Long Beach Firm Erects Unit on Island. Tri-Cor, Inc., of Long Beach, is building a new government facility for the United States Navy on San Clemente Island. The $6,200 structure, designed by L. R. Schwabauer, measures 20 by 60 feet and has an eave height of 14 feet. Tri-Cor is a franchised builder of Pascoe Steel.”
August 17, 1969 [LAT]: “Firm Given Contract. Gardena—B. F. Gosser Inc. of this city was awarded an $815,754 contract to construct barracks at the San Clemente Island Naval Undersea Warfare Center in San Diego, according to an announcement from Rep. Glenn M. Anderson (D-Hawthorne).”
April 22, 1974 [LAT]: “A skin diver drowned when he became tangled in seaweed at China Point off San Clemente Island. Trevis D. Marsha, 58, of Ukiah, and a diving partner were swimming back to a chartered 85-foot sport-fishing vessel named the California when the companion looked back and saw Marsha face down in the water. When thepartner tried to administer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Marsha’s body sank. Divers aboard the vessel retrieved his body and tried unsuccessfully to revive him.”
January 6, 1977 [LAT]: “Navy searchers found the body of Thomas J. Burns, Jr., 28, of San Diego at the base of a 300-foot sea cliff near the southern tip of San Clemente Island after he failed to return from a goat-hunting expedition. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Burns, a temporary employee of the Naval Undersea Center on theisland, and a San Diego State College graduate, apparently fell accidentally. He was hunting goats as part of a Natural Resource Management Project effort to restore the island to its natural ecological condition.”
August 9, 1986 [LAT]: “The family of a San Diego fisherman who drowned last winter under mysterious circumstances off San Clemente Island filed a $10.8 million lawsuit Friday against the Navy, contending the man died after stray Navy explosives struck his boat. The suit, filed in federal court in San Diego, alleged that Boyd Reber of San Diego and crewman Frank Germano of Ventura died February 25 in an explosion of either a missile or live ordnance fired by sailors in target practice off San Clemente Island. The lawsuit accuses the Navy of negligence by failing to warn the fishermen of danger and in allowing explosives to strike their boat. It seeks damages of more than $10.8 million, covering the cost of the boat, and the loss suffered by Reber’s wife and 3-year-old child…”
January 13, 2018 [The Diplomat]: “US, Japan Kick off Joint Military Exercise. The U.S. Marine Corps and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force kicked off their annual Iron Fist Exercise on January 12. Last week, the U.S. Marine Corps and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) launched the 13th iteration of the amphibious warfare exercise Iron Fist 2018, held at Camp Pendleton and San Clemente Island in southern California. The exercise, which kicked off on January 12, involves around 500 U.S. Marines and sailors of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit and around 350 soldiers of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force’s Western Army Infantry Regiment. Iron First is expected to conclude on February 12. The five-week long bilateral drill will focus “on advanced marksmanship, amphibious reconnaissance, fire and maneuver assaults, staff planning, logistical support, medical knowledge sharing, fire support operations, including mortars, artillery and close air support, and amphibious landing operations,” according to a U.S. Marine Corps press release. The major emphasis of the exercise will be on combined amphibious warfare operations at the platoon, company, and battalion levels. The “culminating training event” will be a joint amphibious assault.
“It is essential that U.S. Marines and sailors maintain our strong working relationships with our Japanese military partners and continue building our mutual understanding of each other’s amphibious capabilities,” said Colonel Fridrik Fridriksson, the commanding officer of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. This year’s exercise will be a bit more complex than Iron Fist 2017, Fridriksson told USNI News last week. “There will be a little bit more combined arms, there will be a little bit more live fire, and it will be a little bit more technical… This is really designed to support the Japanese and do what they want to do.”
December 1, 2020 [waterworld.com]: “U.S. Navy to upgrade WWTP on San Clemente Island following EPA agreement. San Clemente Island is home to Navy SEAL training facilities and is the Navy's only remaining ship-to-shore live firing range. SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND, CA-- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a Federal Facility Compliance Agreement (FFCA) with the Navy whereby the Navy will complete major upgrades to the wastewater treatment plant on San Clemente Island. San Clemente Island is home to Navy SEAL training facilities and is the Navy's only remaining ship-to-shore live firing range. “The improvements to the wastewater treatment plant on San Clemente Island will protect coastal water quality," said EPA Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator John Busterud. “This demonstrates the Navy’s commitment to improving its wastewater infrastructure.” The EPA and Navy entered into the FFCA to address violations at the treatment plant tied to discharge of pollutants, which can impact water quality and ocean wildlife. These violations place the facility in Significant Non-Compliance with its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. The Navy also violated its permit by failing to properly operate and maintain all facilities and for failing to perform maintenance on all monitoring instruments. The Navy has agreed to design and install an upgraded wastewater treatment system to bring the facility into full compliance with the Clean Water Act. The Navy also agreed to update and improve its operation and maintenance program for the improved wastewater treatment plant. The upgrades will cost approximately $2.3 million and completion is expected by October 2021. The San Clemente Island wastewater treatment plant discharges to a portion of the Pacific Ocean deemed as an Area of Special Biological Significance (ASBS). Such areas support an unusual variety of aquatic life, and often host unique species. Discharges into this area have the potential to impact aquatic life and could contribute to the impairment of water quality that harms the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the ASBS. The treatment system now has the capacity to treat 30,000 gallons per day of wastewater generated at the Naval Base. San Clemente Island is located about 70 miles west of San Diego and just south of Santa Catalina Island. This settlement furthers EPA’s National Compliance Initiative to reduce facilities that are in Significant Non-Compliance and improve surface water quality by assuring dischargers comply with NPDES permit requirements. ”
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US Ready to Restart Negotiations With North Korea, But Analysts Expect Little Progress From Talks
by admin · August 21, 2019
Washington is ready to return to the negotiating table with Pyongyang to discuss denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the top U.S. envoy on North Korea, Stephen Biegun, said Wednesday, following the conclusion of annual U.S.-South Korean joint military drills.
Speaking at a news conference in Seoul, Biegun told reporters that the U.S. is prepared to engage as soon as we hear from our counterparts in North Korea, noting that U.S. President Donald Trump had directed his team to restart working-level talks with Pyongyang.
I am fully committed to this important mission and we will get this done, Beigun said, dismissing speculation that he may be appointed as the new U.S. Ambassador to Russia.
I will remain focused on making progress on North Korea, he said.
Biegun was in Seoul for talks with South Korea, and his counterpart, Lee Do-hoon said the two had discussed how to resume negotiations with the North and make substantial progress.
His statement on Wednesday came a day after U.S. and South Korean militaries ended 10 days of joint exercises that largely focused on computer simulations instead of previous large-scale annual drills to expedite talks with North Korea, but during which Pyongyang repeatedly tested missiles and issued public insults to South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
Negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang have stalled since Trump refused to lift sanctions on North Korea in exchange for a pledge by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to partially disarm during a second summit between the two in Vietnam in February.
The pair met for a third summit in June at the inter-Korean Demilitarized Zone and agreed to restart talks, but no date has been set to do so.
Trump said earlier this month that he had received a letter from Kim, asking to resume negotiations after the U.S.-South Korean drills came to a close.
Little expected from talks
Analysts suggested that while talks are likely to start again, it is too early to say how productive they might be.
Gary Samore, former special assistant to the President and senior director for nonproliferation at the White House, told RFA he believes working-level talks will resume later in August or September, but expects little to change.
I don't know that they'll make very much progress because I don't see much evidence that either the U.S. or North Korea have changed their position toward denuclearization, he said.
Chris Hill, the former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea between 2004 and 2005, agreed that the two sides may have their heels dug in too deeply to come to any agreements.
The history of the working-level talks in the last year and a half has been that they are not very substantive and that they have a very unclear set of conclusions, said Hill, who is currently Professor of the Practice in Diplomacy at the University of Denver.
I don't think that we should assume that Trump is really interested in this or willing to make any concessions, he said.
Ken Gause, senior foreign leadership analyst with Arlington-based research firm CAN, told RFA that in order to see real progress from talks, the U.S. will have to dangle substantial concessions in front of North Korea.
You're going to have to put something on the table significant enough that the North Koreans want to engage I think it has to be economic, he said.
I don't think the North Koreans are interested in security concessions. I think they're interested in stuff that will put money into the regime.
Frustrations acknowledged
Biegun's comments came a day after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged difficulty in dealing with North Korea in an interview on CBS.
We haven't gotten back to the table as quickly as we would have hoped, but we've been pretty clear all along we knew there would be bumps along the way, he said, adding that he had felt frustrated by North Korea's recent, repeated firing of short-range missiles.
Yes, I wish that they would not, Pompeo said.
But in the end, Chairman Kim made a commitment to President Trump, in Singapore in June of last year, where he said he was prepared to denuclearize, he added, referring to the first summit between the two leaders.
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SEOUL, South Korea will be without one of their most versatile players for the final camp ahead of next month’s Olympic women’s football qualifying matches. The Korea Football Association (KFA) announced Friday that forward/defender Choo Hyo-joo has been dropped from the women’s national team with a stress fracture in her left foot. Midfielder Jang Chang was named as Choo’s replacement. Choo, 20, is a rising star in South Korean women’s football. She scored four goals in 10 matches for the under-20 national team from 2018 to 2019, and helped South Korea finish third at the Asian Football Confederation U-19 Women’s Championship in October 2019. Two months later, Choo made her senior international debut. She was also selected by head coach Colin Bell for two earlier qualifying matches for the Tokyo Olympics in February 2020, and scored a goal against Vietnam in the second of those two matches. With the Tokyo Olympics having been postponed by a year to July 2021, South Korea’s two-legged playoff series against China, with the winner punching a ticket to Tokyo, has also been pushed back from February 2020 to February this year. Bell will open camp Monday in Gangjin, 410 kilometers south of Seoul in South Jeolla Province, and Choo was one of 26 players selected. She can also handle defensive duties and Bell listed Choo as one of his eight defenders, hoping that she could provide some offensive punch from the back while he moved other pieces around. Choo had also missed the national team’s November training camp with injury. The 26 players will train in Gangjin through Feb. 10 and then relocate to Jeju Island for the second phase from Feb. 11 to 18. Jeju will host the first leg of the playoff on Feb. 19, and the next match will be in Suzhou, China, on Feb. 24. The aggregate score will determine the winner. South Korea are ranked 18th in the world, three spots below China. In 37 all-time meetings, South Korea have four wins, six draws and 27 losses against China. Women’s football joined the Olympics in 1996, and South Korea, dubbed the Taeguk Ladies, have never qualified for the event. Source: Yonhap News Agency January 15, 2021
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The Metropolitan Bar
Located above one of London's oldest Underground stations.
7 Station Approach, Marylebone Road, Marylebone, London, NW1 5LA
This pub is named after the Metropolitan Railway – the world’s first urban underground railway which passes under Marylebone Road. The company’s house style was developed later, mainly by its own architect, Charles W Clark. His grandest scheme was for the reconstruction of Baker Street which included a new company headquarters and Chiltern Court, a huge block of flats above the station. The work was begun in 1911, yet was not completed until the late 1920s.
A framed poster from 1932, promoting London locations reachable by the London Underground.
A framed drawing of an early London Underground station.
A framed poster publicising the London Underground.
A framed copy of an early Metropolitan Line route map.
A framed poster publicising the running times of the London Underground.
A framed copy of a Metropolitan Railway Working Timetable, from March 1926.
A framed illustration of the coat of arms of Saint Marylebone.
A framed poster advertising the Baker Street Bazaar.
A framed poster publicising an event commemorating the Duke of Wellington.
A framed poster advertising apartments for rent in Chiltern Court, Baker Street.
A framed photograph of Madame Tussaud.
London’s Madame Tussauds is located just down the road from The Metropolitan Bar.
A framed photograph of Chiltern Court and Baker Street Station, in 1931.
A framed photograph of Great Central Hotel, Marylebone Road.
A framed photograph of Marylebone Road, London.
A framed print of Madame Tussaud’s, Marylebone Road.
Coats of arms found on the ceiling of the pub.
The ceiling of the pub, featuring decorative light fixtures and coats of arms.
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Hugo Short Stories
Jim C. Hines / E. Lily Yu, Hugos, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Mike Resnick, Nancy Fulda, Review /
First off, happy book day to my friend Lisa Shearin, whose book All Spell Breaks Loose [Amazon | B&N | Mysterious Galaxy] is out today. And last week marked the release of Mira Grant’s Blackout [Amazon | B&N | Mysterious Galaxy].
This year will be my first Worldcon, and the first time I’ve voted in the Hugos. I’ve been diligently downloading and devouring the Hugo Voters Packet, starting with the short stories, because … well, they’re short!
Shadow War of the Night Dragons: Book One: The Dead City: Prologue, by John Scalzi. I wonder how I’d feel if a story I wrote for an April Fool’s Day joke made the Hugo ballot. On one hand, it’s delightfully random and unexpected. At the same time, I think I’d have this nagging sense of, “Wait, what about all the stuff I wrote that wasn’t a joke?”
As a joke, this was marvelous. Tor and Scalzi went all out, including cover art, and the story was an amusing read. It’s nice to see humor on the ballot. And there’s an actual story here amidst the jokes and the over-the-top fantasy tropes. I can honestly say that when I finished reading, I wanted to know what happened next.
You could tell Scalzi was having a good old time with this one. That said, some of the humor felt a little forced. While it’s a fun read and you should check it out, I don’t see this one taking home a rocketship.
Movement by Nancy Fulda. This is a first-person SF story set in the near future about a girl named Hannah with temporal autism. Hannah’s parents are trying to decide whether to pursue a new technology which could help her integrate into society, but becoming more “normal” isn’t always a good thing. This made me think of Elizabeth Moon’s award-winning novel The Speed of Dark, which I reviewed here. Like Moon, Fulda does a very good job of capturing her protagonist’s voice, showing us the world through Hannah’s eyes. As the father of an autistic child, it’s hard for me to be entirely objective about this story, but I really appreciated it, and I thought the ending worked well.
Also, even though Hannah doesn’t think it’s terribly effective, I totally want to invest in shoulder-mounted mosquito-killing laser technology!
The Homecoming by Mike Resnick. Resnick is one of the most prolific writers in our field, and “The Homecoming” has a lot going for it. It’s an emotional story of an estranged son (Philip) coming home to visit the father who wants nothing to do with him. His mother has Alzheimer’s, and has only a few lucid minutes each day. Philip left Earth years ago, after radically redesigning his body into an alien form, in order to explore another world. His father took it as a rejection of family and humanity.
To me, it felt like a metaphor for a father unable to accept his son’s sexuality. I could be reading into it, but this is how the story resonated for me — the father mourning his lost grandchildren, hating the life his son has chosen, while the mother takes on the role of peacemaker, bringing them together despite her infirmity.
While the SFnal elements were wonderful, the ending felt too quick and easy, and didn’t really work for me. It didn’t feel true.
The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu. This is, in my mind, a good example of that sense of truth I’m talking about. Jack’s mother was a mail-order bride from China. When he’s young, she makes origami animals and infuses them with life: a paper tiger purrs and prances, the tinfoil shark swims, and so on. It’s amazing and beautiful. But as Jack grows older, he rejects his Chinese heritage, wanting to fit in with his “American” peers. In doing so, he rejects his mother as well. Only after she’s gone does he learn the rest of her story.
There is no neat ending here, but there is … understanding. Movement. Regret and loss, but with a thread of connection through the story’s magical element.
One of the things I admire about this one is that it’s not overstated. Jack has little understanding or compassion for a mother who sold herself in a catalog, but there’s a line later on where he’s prepping resumes and says, “I schemed about how to lie to the corporate recruiters most effectively so that they’d offer to buy me.” It’s just one line, and Jack doesn’t see the connection, but the reader does. One line is all it takes.
This story has already won the Nebula award, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it take the Hugo as well. Yeah, it’s really good.
The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu. Let me put it this way: this is a story that made wasp nests beautiful and magical in a mere two paragraphs. It’s a story of clashing civilizations, in which the wasps colonize the less powerful bees, a situation with many real-world parallels. The wasps take tribute from the bees, but offer them “the honor of watching us elevate [you] to moral and technological heights you could never imagine.”
This kind of story could become preachy, but it never does. It is what it is, unapologetic and disturbing. Yu takes advantage of the shorter insect lifespan to show the evolution of a new line of bees: anarchists who set out to create a new future.
Like Liu’s story, the ending isn’t neat or happy, but it feels right. There’s a sense of movement that feels circular even as it moves forward. There’s a lot going on in this one, and I may have to reread it to catch things I missed my first time through.
Discussion is welcome, and since the stories are all online, you don’t even have to be registered for Worldcon to read them.
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Stephen A. Watkins
I don’t get a vote, but for my money I’d say that either “Paper Menagerie” or “Cartographer Wasps” is going to get it. Those were my two personal favorites among the nominees – and also, I think, the two best written stories of the bunch.
I think Resnick and Scalzi have the best name recognition, but I suspect you’re right that it will be either Liu or Yu.
Lisa Shearin
Thank you so much for the shoutout, Jim! You’re the best!
Joris M
I have read the stories a while ago, and still cannot make an easy decision between the Fulda, Yu or Liu. They all have their own strengths. “Movement” with the parents not understanding their children, and being left behind in the changes. “Paper Menagerie” with its focus on identity, culture and integration. “Wasps and Bees” with the effects of colonialism and exploitation (even after the initial event has past), on humans, wasps, and bees.
I think it’s a pretty cool dilemma to have, though 🙂 I like the strength and range of the short story ballot this year.
Christina Vasilevski
I’ve read all 5 short stories, and my thoughts are somewhat close to yours:
Shadow War of the Night Dragons: The story was funny, but rather slight. Playing with tropes is a good thing – the story is fun! – but there wasn’t much at the heart of it compared to the other stories.
The Homecoming: I agree with you in that the ending was abrupt and attempted a level of emotion it didn’t earn. I felt the dialogue was a bit forced and repetitive – especially the use of “dammit” several times within a short space of dialogue to convey strong emotion.
The Paper Menagerie: I’m the odd one out in that I didn’t like this one very much. Like “The Homecoming,” I thought it tried too hard to reach heights of emotion it didn’t earn. I was okay with the story until we read the mother’s letter to her son – that brought it to a screeching halt for a few reasons:
1. The story says that the mother’s letter to her son was written on the same paper that she had used to create the paper tiger. Yet it also says that this same piece of paper was torn apart and taped back together. Could she really have written a letter of that length on an origami-sized piece of paper in such poor condition?
2. The mother mentions she grew up among farmers and other peasants, and then became an undocumented worker in Hong Kong. This would indicate a low level of literacy – yet the letter she’s left behind is skillfully written, and there aren’t any odd/broken turns of phrase you might expect from someone with her level of schooling. Granted, the letter was spoken out loud by an interpreter, so we can’t know if the interpreter was smoothing out some of the language, but I still found it jarring.
The Cartographer Wasps: There was a lot of good detail and world building in this story – a really wonderful degree of imagination. Yu’s got a great feel for words, and this is my runner-up choice.
Movement: This leaves me with Fulda’s story. Hanna is a well-realized character, and you can sense that a lot of the story was informed by Fulda’s own family experience of autism. I thought the repetition of the final two lines – and what Hannah’s real meaning behind those words were, as well as the likelihood her parents wouldn’t understand her meaning – was devastating. I’m voting for Fulda here.
Wordwizard
I am a brand new member of this group, and just found your website. Thank you for the helpful reviews and links!
The Paper Menagerie made me cry. Odd that no one has commented on the connection of its title to The Glass Menagerie….
I have tweeted the Anarchist Bees to the attention of my friend and fellow anarchist Teller–We shall see whether it rates a response from him(not a SF fan).
I haven’t seen The Glass Menagerie. Are you familiar enough with it to say whether there’s an overlap in story/theme as well, or just the title?
It is a play about a girl (with a menagerie of glass animals) whose shyness gets in the way of her living her life and pursuing love. The connection may be tenuous, but how many titles are there with the form THE MENAGERIE? The mother who made and mended the animals so carefully was isolated by her language-shyness….and lost the love of her beloved son. A minor detail of the play has the girl acquiring the nick-name Blue Roses when her beloved mis-hears a reply as to why she wears a leg brace which makes her self-conscious. The red and green candy canes play a minor but important part in the fate of the Tiger. The girl’s favorite animal, a unicorn, gets broken at the end. She speculates maybe he is happier becoming an ordinary horse and being able to fit in more easily….Perhaps this is reaching, but perhaps not. It would be worth asking the author, if that were possible.
The computer edited my reply. I wrote “but how many titles are there with the form THE [material noun used as adjective] MENAGERIE?”
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Actors: Harvey Keitel
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart. Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes intrigued by his Maori-friendly acquaintance, George Baines, leading to tense, life-altering conflicts.
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
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'I kept my promise to Americans': Trump pens op-ed at 100 days
The President reflected on his first 100 days in office in an editorial published by the Washington Post
Updated: 8:53 AM PDT Apr 30, 2017
Abigail Elise
President Donald Trump on Saturday penned an op-ed in the Washington Post, reflecting on his first 100 days in the Oval Office as 45th president of the United States."One hundred days ago, I took the oath of office and made a pledge," he wrote. "We are not merely going to transfer political power from one party to another, but instead are going to transfer that power from Washington, D.C., and give it back to the people."Trump skipped the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday evening - the first president since Ronald Reagan to do so - to make an appearance at a farm expo centerin Harrisburg. He discussed issues like the steel industry and illegal immigration in front of about 7,000 people. "What we’ve accomplished on immigration and criminal enforcement is nothing short of historic," the Washington Post read. "After decades of unending illegal immigration and mass uncontrolled entry, we’ve turned the tide as never before — illegal border-crossings are down 73 percent." Trump also spoke of putting Americans back to work."After years of federal contracts going to foreign bidders, we are ensuring that government agencies enforce 'Buy American' rules and give preference to American companies — and that American companies hire American workers," he wrote.Employment in the private sector increased by 298,000 positions in February, and a survey from CareerBuilder earlier this month claimed that 45 percent of US employers plan to hire full-time employees during the second quarter of 2017. "Issue by issue, department by department, we are giving the people their country back," he promised. "The White House is once again the People’s House. And I will do everything in my power to be the People’s President — to faithfully, loyally and proudly champion the incredible citizens who love this nation and who call this God-blessed land their home."
President Donald Trump on Saturday penned an op-ed in the Washington Post, reflecting on his first 100 days in the Oval Office as 45th president of the United States.
"One hundred days ago, I took the oath of office and made a pledge," he wrote. "We are not merely going to transfer political power from one party to another, but instead are going to transfer that power from Washington, D.C., and give it back to the people."
Trump skipped the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday evening - the first president since Ronald Reagan to do so - to make an appearance at a farm expo centerin Harrisburg. He discussed issues like the steel industry and illegal immigration in front of about 7,000 people.
"What we’ve accomplished on immigration and criminal enforcement is nothing short of historic," the Washington Post read. "After decades of unending illegal immigration and mass uncontrolled entry, we’ve turned the tide as never before — illegal border-crossings are down 73 percent."
Trump also spoke of putting Americans back to work.
"After years of federal contracts going to foreign bidders, we are ensuring that government agencies enforce 'Buy American' rules and give preference to American companies — and that American companies hire American workers," he wrote.
Employment in the private sector increased by 298,000 positions in February, and a survey from CareerBuilder earlier this month claimed that 45 percent of US employers plan to hire full-time employees during the second quarter of 2017.
"Issue by issue, department by department, we are giving the people their country back," he promised. "The White House is once again the People’s House. And I will do everything in my power to be the People’s President — to faithfully, loyally and proudly champion the incredible citizens who love this nation and who call this God-blessed land their home."
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Kansas fights claim of man wrongly imprisoned for 23 years
FILE – In this Oct. 13, 2017, file photo, Lamonte McIntyre, left, who was imprisoned for 23 years for a 1994 double murder in Kansas that he always said he didn’t commit, walks out of a courthouse in Kansas City, Kan., with his mother, Rosie McIntyre, after Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark A. Dupree, Sr. dropped the charges. Kansas is fighting McIntyre’s compensation claim for the years spent behind bars before a court vacated his convictions. McIntyre’s case was one of three that helped prompt the state last year to allow the wrongfully convicted to seek compensation from it. (Tammy Ljungblad /The Kansas City Star via AP, File)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is fighting the compensation claim of a man who spent 23 years in prison for a double homicide before a judge vacated his convictions, which were secured despite a complete lack of physical evidence and motive tying him to the crimes.
Lamonte McIntyre’s case was one of three that helped prompt the Legislature last year to allow the wrongfully convicted to seek compensation. The law provides for $65,000 for each year a person spent behind bars, along with health insurance benefits, financial assistance for higher education and various social services.
When signing it into law, then-Gov. Jeff Colyer publicly apologized to McIntyre and the other men saying “we will make it right.”
The state attorney general’s office supported the compensation claims of the other two men, Richard Jones and Floyd Bledsoe, allowing the court to quickly grant them money and officially declare them innocent. But it issued a statement Wednesday saying it couldn’t do so for McIntyre because it found “the record of prior judicial proceedings” in his case to be “insufficient.” Furthermore, it recommended in a legal filing last month that the court rule against McIntyre’s claim and require McIntyre to pay any costs.
McIntyre’s attorney, Cheryl Pilate, blasted the attorney general’s office’s position, saying there is nothing in the compensation law that would prevent the office from independently examining the facts of a claimant’s case and to reach an agreement with a claimant. Although the office’s position is disappointing, it doesn’t mean McIntyre has lost, she said.
“What it means is we have a year or more of litigation ahead of us and that the purpose of the act — which was to provide swift relief and assistance to unjustly convicted people who were just released from prison — is defeated,” Pilate told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “The whole purpose of the statute is to avoid this kind of situation, to avoid something that is akin to a civil lawsuit in terms of its complexity and the length of time it takes to resolve.”
McIntyre, 43, told KMBC-TV that he was disappointed by the development.
“I’m frustrated because I feel like this is not something I have to continue to fight for, but I’m going to continue to fight for it if I have to,” he said.
McIntyre was 17 in 1994 when he was arrested in Kansas City for the killings of 21-year-old Doniel Quinn and 34-year-old Donald Ewing, who were shot in broad daylight. McIntyre was sentenced to two life sentences in their deaths, but he was freed in 2017 after the district attorney asked the court to vacate his convictions and to drop all charges, calling his case an example of “manifest injustice.” Prosecutors presented no physical evidence tying McIntyre to the killings and their case largely hinged on testimony that was allegedly coerced.
As far as the other two men whose cases were cited as examples of why the compensation law was necessary, Kansas agreed to pay $1.1 million to Jones, who spent 17 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a 2000 robbery that he says was committed by someone who looks just like him. And the state agreed to pay $1.03 million to Bledsoe, who spent nearly 16 years behind bars for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl — a crime that his brother confessed to in a suicide note.
The attorney general’s office has also challenged the claims of two other former detainees. The district court ruled in July against the claim brought by Michael Mata, who as a juvenile in 2011 was incarcerated for less than a year before his conviction for aggravated indecent liberties with a child was overturned on appeal. The attorney general argued that Mata’s relatively short time at a juvenile correctional facility didn’t meet the requirement for damages under the law. Mata has filed a notice of appeal, the attorney general’s office said.
Still pending in district court is a petition filed by Bobby Harper, who spent nearly two years in prison before his 1987 burglary conviction was reversed by the Kansas Supreme Court. The attorney general asked a court to reject Harper’s claim because it says Harper cannot prove he’s “actually innocent,” as the compensation law requires.
by Keith Horinek, KSNT / Jan 16, 2021
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - The Washburn University Men's and Women's basketball teams were in action Saturday afternoon in Lee Arena against the Pittsburg Gorillas.
The lady Ichabods lost a close game in overtime 61-69. The 8th ranked Ichabod men won their 10th game of the season against the Gorillas 84-62.
by AP / Jan 16, 2021
(AP) - Responding to warnings of potentially violent demonstrations, governors across the nation are calling out National Guard troops, declaring states of emergency and closing their capitols to the public ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week.
Though details remain murky, demonstrations are expected at state capitols beginning Sunday and leading up to Biden’s succession of President Donald Trump on Wednesday. State officials hope to avoid the type of violence that occurred Jan. 6, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, leaving a Capitol Police officer and four others dead.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The National Rifle Association announced Friday it has filed for bankruptcy protection and will seek to incorporate the nation’s most politically influential gun-rights group in Texas instead of New York, where a state lawsuit is trying to put the organization out of business.
The announcement came months after New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the NRA, seeking its dissolution over claims that top executives illegally diverted tens of millions of dollars for lavish personal trips, no-show contracts for associates and other questionable expenditures.
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Under this agreement, Gemini will provide samples from prospective patients for their clinical trial for a customized next generation sequencing panel, and Genosity will use its clinical and technical expertise to develop, CLIA validate and implement the molecular assay in its CLIA/GCP/GLP laboratory. Genosity will then perform testing to support Gemini’s Phase 2a clinical trial in AMD to identify patients with defined molecular profiles suitable for enrollment in the study. Genosity is uniquely positioned to offer custom assay development and implementation for high-complexity assays to biopharma and biotech partners, offering both robust laboratory meeting required regulatory standards to support clinical trials and a sophisticated end-to-end genomics software solution to support future commercialization efforts across a range of next generation ‘omics’ technologies.
Robert Daber, President and Co-founder of Genosity said, “At Genosity, we make the complex possible. Our unique expertise and capabilities allow us to address complex clinical problems and not only help develop diagnostic solutions but provide a roadmap for clinical and regulatory implementation. Gemini is a leader in leveraging molecular information to develop precision therapeutics in AMD and we are excited to expand our testing menu to support another partner’s need to have a unique Biomarker test available for Trial support.”
“GEM103 has already demonstrated promise in Phase 1 clinical studies as a potential treatment for patients with dry AMD who have complement factor H loss of function gene variants associated with their disease,” said Jason Meyenburg, Chief Executive Officer of Gemini Therapeutics. “We are pleased to partner with Genosity, and look forward to leveraging their high quality genetic sequencing data as a means to advance not only patient enrollment in our Phase 2a ReGAtta clinical trial, but the overall GEM103 development lifecycle.”
About Genosity, Inc
Genosity is a life science biotechnology company that employs its expertise, technical, laboratory and novel software solutions to enable its strategic partners to fully realize the value of precision medicine in both the research and clinical markets. For more information, please visit us at https://genosity.com.
About Gemini Therapeutics
Gemini Therapeutics is a clinical stage precision medicine company developing novel therapeutic compounds to treat genetically defined age-related macular degeneration (“AMD”). Gemini’s lead candidate, GEM103, is a recombinant form of the human complement factor H protein (“CFH”), and is designed to address both complement hyperactivity and restore retinal health in patients with AMD. GEM103 is currently in a Phase 2a trial in dry AMD patients with a complement factor H mutation. The company has generated a rich pipeline including recombinant proteins, gene therapies, and monoclonal antibodies. Gemini’s CLARITY natural history study is designed to provide unprecedented insight into the role of genetic risk in common retinal diseases and began in December 2018.
For more information, visit www.geminitherapeutics.com.
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Magna Gun Club
Magna Gun Club is a multi discipline club based in Surrey that offers the opportunity to shoot Gallery Rifle, Full Bore Rifle from 200 to 1000 yards, Practical Rifle (Full Bore Rifle and Long Barrel Rifle), Muzzle Loaded Pistol and the occasional Clay Pigeon shoot. For more information about these different types of shooting, please see the Disciplines page.
Shooting and the possession of firearms is strictly regulated in the UK. It is necessary for new members to serve a supervised probationary period of six months, and to undergo basic training in the safe handling of firearms and the safety procedures applied to the different types of shooting range we use. The Membership page provides more information on this subject and details on how to join Magna.
If you would like to take up shooting as a sport, and would like to apply to join Magna, please email the club secretary for more information and an application form on secretary@magnagunclub.co.uk.
Based in Surrey (UK), Magna Gun Club has approximately 25 members. The club uses the National Shooting Centre, National Rifle Association (NRA) Bisley Ranges for most shoots, but also has a long-standing association with the Little Chalfont Rifle and Pistol Club, and is often invited to shoot at their range.
Magna maintains a very high standard in safety and training. The club has members who are competent trainers in a variety of shooting disciplines and several members are NRA qualified range officers.
Whilst enjoying the sport and camaraderie, safety always remains the primary concern when shooting. Magna provides one-to-one training for anyone new to shooting, and the training follows the NRA novice shooter training programme.
Novices are only permitted to shoot under supervision during their initial safety and weapon handling training. Once training has been completed, many members progress on to more advanced training to qualify as Club Instructors and Range Conducting Officers (RCOs).
Magna Gun Club is keen to promote shooting in the UK, and is pleased to welcome new members. If you are interested in attending a shoot to find out more about joining Magna please email: secretary@magnagunclub.co.uk. Before attending a shoot you must be invited, be of good character and you will be required to sign a declaration that you are not prohibited from handling firearms and ammunition (see section 21 of the Firearms Act 1968). Come along, meet the other members, see what goes on and decide whether it’s for you. That’s how we all started in the sport and we understand what it is like to be new to a sport and new to a group of people. Rest assured you will receive a warm and friendly welcome!
Although strict in its policy of safe handling and correct range etiquette, Magna has always been, and remains, a social club. All members know and respect each other and enjoy each others company.
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Mandragora Magika
A Midsommar Fan's Dream
For over five decades, there has been a rarely discussed horror subgenre which now seems to be capturing the world’s attention. “Folk Horror” as it has been termed features stories that fit into one of two categories; they either rely heavily on folklore to tell their tale or deal with themes relating to the fear of folk (people) in general. Most people pinpoint 1968’s WITCHFINDER GENERAL as the first folk horror film and together with 1971’s BLOOD ON SATANS CLAW and 1973’s THE WICKERMAN, the three make up the “Unholy Trinity” of the Folk Horror Genre. One can spend countless hours dissecting the genre and figuring out which films fit the criteria to be included but for decades those three films have been at the forefront of the genre. However, recently a new crop of films have been made which bleed from the same Folk Horror vein. Most notably 2015’s THE WITCH (which, as the official favorite film of Mandragora Magika, will be discussed endlessly in another post) and 2019’s MIDSOMMAR.
MIDSOMMAR (Written and directed by Ari Aster of HEREDITERY fame) stars Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor and Will Poulter. In an effort to discuss the film without spoiling any of its glory, I’ll give you the official synopsis for those who have yet to partake in the MIDSOMMAR ritual. “After a family tragedy, a young American couple joins some friends at a midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that grow increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing.” That summary alone left me dying to see the film, but I do not think it prepared me for the visual masterpiece I was to experience. To me, MIDSOMMAR fits perfectly in the folk horror genre and indeed, it ranks up at the very top. Beautifully filmed with brilliant colors, and spectacular views, the filmmakers paid attention to every detail. Everything from the embroidered clothing to the music to gleeful joy of the midsummer maypole completely captivated me. The use of runes throughout the film to add to the story telling was done in such an impressive and thought-out way that it became one of my favorite things about the film. Whenever I watch the film, I find a new mind-blowing moment that I hadn’t noticed before and I have a feeling this will continue over time.
Needless to say, I absolutely loved MIDSOMMAR, so when A24 announce the release of an extended directors cut of the film, I didn’t think twice about purchasing a copy. The Collector’s Edition of the film features the 171-minute directors cut housed in a clothbound slipcase. Also included is an illustrated 62-page book featuring the stunning artwork in the film by artists Ragnar Persson as well as an introduction by Martin Scorsese. Throughout the film, I was entranced with the artwork of the town and wanted a more detailed look at all of it. The book included in the Collector’s Edition is exactly what I was looking for. As for the extended version of the film, I feel like every scene cut from the original release was important and added to the understanding of the story. I do not think a single second of this film should have been cut so the extended edition is the only way I’ll be watching it going forward. A24 has gone above and beyond with this Collector’s Edition and I truly hope they will release similar versions for their other films (and by other films, I mean THE WITCH specifically – come on A24!).
With the release of MIDSOMMAR and THE WITCH, A24 is one film away from completing their own “Unholy Trilogy” and I, for one, cannot wait until they reach that milestone. They have proven to be the new studio to go to for genuinely unsettling yet thought provoking horror and they have made a fan of this witch.
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New Reserve Library to move forward with additional appraisals
By Richard Meek
Published 12:00 am Saturday, November 28, 2020
RESERVE — Plans for a new library in Reserve appear to be moving forward, at least ever so tentatively, but only after a last minute compromise brokered by St. John the Baptist Parish President Jaclyn Hotard galvanized council members during a Zoom meeting this past Tuesday.
Heeding Hotard’s solution, council members reversed an earlier decision and approved a motion approving the purchase of two parcels of land contingent on the Library Board securing additional appraisals on each property capped at certain dollar values.
Approval for the purchase of a parcel of land on the corner of Highway 44 and Fifth Street in Reserve is contingent on the appraisal not to exceed $265,000.
A similar ordinance is also in place for a second parcel located at 1482 Highway 44, with a $200,000 contingency.
The two parcels of land, which buttress the St. John Theatre, are scheduled to house the new library in Reserve, a facility community leaders have been heralding is needed because of parking challenges at its current location.
Hotard’s compromise ended a lengthy discussion that featured multiple twists and turns that even council members found difficult to follow.
Adding even greater complexity was the fact the council had recently approved rezoning both land parcels from residential to commercial, essentially driving up property values overnight.
Confusion settled in almost immediately as the council began debating an ordinance authorizing the administration to execute an act of sale for the Highway 44 corner property for $265,000, based on a recent appraisal paid for by owners Susan Campbell and Courtney Millet.
When Councilman Robert Arcuri asked how many appraisals had been secured, Hotard deferred to Council Chairman Lennix Madere, saying, “I thought you might know.”
To which Madre replied, “I don’t know.”
From that point the debate transitioned to whether additional appraisals were needed. Councilman Michael Wright pointed out on several occasions that when purchasing property, as recently happened for a right-of-way, the parish must acquire three appraisals.
“I’m wondering why we only have one appraisal on the property,” Arcuri said. “It’s always best to compare.”
As the discussion unfolded, council members supporting additional appraisals stressed they were not against the overall project but wanted to be good stewards and make sure the parish was paying fair market value.
Library director Andrea Tullos said LaPlace appraiser Gregory Miller completed the appraisal and said the values were in line with other properties in the area.
Tullos said she was not opposed to securing additional appraisals but expressed concern that the desired properties could be sold to outside buyers.
“That still doesn’t mean we can’t get multiple appraisals,” Madere said. “I want to make sure we are paying the right amount and not overpaying.”
Councilman Thomas Malik expressed his trust in the Library Board, saying he was confident no board member would agree to the purchase price if it was not a good deal.
Councilwoman Tammy Houston said she believed it was unfair to the property owners to pay for two more appraisals since they were not notified beforehand that three were required. However, it was pointed out the council was learning of the appraisals for the first time, so there was no opportunity to inform the property owners in question. Additionally, the Library Board would be picking up the tab on the additional appraisals.
“I do believe we need to be transparent and make sure it is a fair price,” Councilwoman Tyra Duhe-Griffin said.
The vote for approval was 4-4, killing the motion. Councilwoman Tonia Schnyder was not present for that vote but did call in near the end of the meeting.
In fact, it was Schnyder who pointed out that the Campbell property was valued far less than $265,000 in January 2019, according to the assessor’s website, and if indeed the higher appraisal is correct, then back property taxes could potentially be owed by the property owners. She said records show that taxes on that property totaled about $200 a year ago.
Initially, it appeared the ordinance to purchase the property at 1482 Highway 44 from Charles and Stacey Waller for the appraised value of $200,000 was headed to a similar fate until Hotard offered her compromise.
The parish president’s proposal was simple in its structure, mandating that the appraisals for the Campbell and Waller properties could not exceeding $265,000 and $200,000 respectively.
After meeting with some initial resistance, the proposal passed 8-1, with Councilman Warren Torres as the lone dissenter.
“It’s a very good price,” Houston said, adding that the project itself is one Reserve residents should be proud of.
“It used to be a booming area; (the library) is going to make it beautiful again,” she said.
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Why we fight for human rights
'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
'Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter' – Martin Luther King Jr.
Our passion for the job
More than 50 years after civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr spoke these famous words, they continue to inspire our staff.
Having just celebrated yesterday’s Human Rights Day with our community legal centre partners, the legal assistance sector has a strong history of standing up for others.
At their heart, human rights provide the rules to govern how we interact with one another. They also offer a line in the sand we should never cross about how human beings should be treated.
Human rights are a set of principles to guide governments so every human being is treated with fairness, equality, dignity and respect. At Victoria Legal Aid, we use human rights to advocate for the basic rights and freedoms that belong to us all.
The need to stay vigilant about the protection of human rights is reflected in statistics that show some groups in Australia are particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses.
These include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, asylum seekers, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people living in poverty and people with a disability.
A 2014 Australian Human Rights Commission Report, ‘Face The Facts’ revealed:
one-in-three women aged 15 years and over have experienced physical violence
one-in-four women aged 15 years and over have been sexually harassed in the workplace
one-in-five women aged 15 years and over have experienced sexual assault
four-in-ten Australians aged 18 years and over have a disability or long-term health condition
eight-in-ten gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people experience homophobic abuse
the average life expectancy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is 10 years less than that of non-Indigenous Australians
more than one-in-four older Australian live in poverty
one-in-three people who access assisted homelessness services are 18 years and under.
Standing up and protecting people’s human rights
We have a long and proud history of championing human rights through our work, including:
the right to freedom from arbitrary detention through our Migration Program
the right to equality before the law and freedom from discrimination through our Equality Law Program
the right to freedom from cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment for people living with disability and people experiencing mental health issues through our Mental Health and Disability Law Program and Independent Mental Health Advocacy
rights to housing, social security, health and education through our Economic and Social Rights Program
protecting the rights of children and young people through our Family, Youth and Children’s Law program and our Youth Justice team, and
the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty and to procedural fairness in criminal proceedings through our Crime Program.
Current work that affords an opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives includes our work on robo-debt, our contribution to the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System (see our submission Roads to Recovery), the Power2Prevent coalition around preventing workplace sexual harassment and improving the National Disability Insurance Scheme for our clients.
Our advocacy is about securing fair and equal treatment for people who are too often kept from participating fully in society because of unfair laws and policies that block them from their human rights.
Eleanor Roosevelt holding a Universal Declaration of Human Rights poster. (UN Photo, 1 November 1949, United Nations (Lake Success), New York, Photo #1292)
Supporting stronger protections for human rights
We have called for an Australian Charter of Human Rights in our submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s ‘Free and Equal’ inquiry into stronger human rights protections.
Our submission outlines the need for a national Charter of Rights to better protect people’s human rights in our everyday lives.
A Charter would ensure the Australian Government considered human rights when developing new laws and policies, and government agencies and public authorities would take human rights into account when delivering public services.
Our experience with the Victorian Charter is that it contributes to improving public sector standards, centring human rights in decision-making and upholding our clients’ rights.
Australia is the only Western democracy without a Charter of Rights or similar law. Our submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s ‘Free and Equal’ inquiry proposes that an Australian Charter of Rights is the best way to safeguard people’s human rights into the future.
An important role in society
Our work is focused on people and human rights – people whose equal worth, rights and dignity are challenged or denied, and people who see these injustices and work together to address them.
Across our programs, our lawyers advocate for procedural fairness for our clients to be treated as innocent until proven guilty, for people who have experienced family violence to be supported to move on with their lives, for families who love each other to live together, and for people living in poverty to be free from mistreatment, discrimination and harm.
Read our submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s ‘Free and Equal’ Inquiry Discussion Paper: A model for positive human rights reform in Australia.
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Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2009
An Act to authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of certain sums for the service of the years ending 31st March 2009 and 2010; to appropriate those sums for specified purposes; to authorise the Department of Finance and Personnel to borrow on the credit of the appropriated sums; to authorise the use for the public service of certain resources for the years ending 31st March 2009 and 2010; and to revise the limits on the use of certain accruing resources in the year ending 31st March 2009.
[6th March 2009]
BE IT ENACTED by being passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly and assented to by Her Majesty as follows:
Issue of sum out of the Consolidated Fund for the year ending 31st March 2009 and appropriation of that sumN.I.
1—(1) The Department of Finance and Personnel may issue out of the Consolidated Fund and apply to the service of the year ending 31st March 2009 the sum of £12,485,717,000.
(2) That sum is appropriated for the purposes specified in Schedule 1.
(3) The authorisation and appropriations in this section supersede those in section 4 of the Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 3) and section 1 of the Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 11); and, in relation to any amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 1, any increase or decrease by virtue of this section in the aggregate amount appropriated by those provisions is given in brackets after the amount.
Use of resources (other than accruing resources) in the year ending 31st March 2009N.I.
2—(1) For the purposes of section 6(1) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 6), this section authorises the use of resources in the year ending 31st March 2009.
(2) The use of resources by—
(a)the Northern Ireland departments;
(b)the Northern Ireland Assembly;
(c)the Northern Ireland Audit Office;
(d)the Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints;
(e)the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation; and
(f)the Food Standards Agency,
in that year is authorised to the amount of £15,730,008,000.
(3) In that year, resources may be used by a Northern Ireland department or a body or person mentioned in subsection (2) for the purposes specified in relation to that department, body or person in column 1 of Schedule 2 up to the amounts specified in the corresponding entries in column 2 of that Schedule.
(4) The authorisations in this section supersede those in section 6 of the Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 3) and section 3 of the Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 11); and, in relation to any amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 2, any increase or decrease by virtue of this section in the aggregate amount authorised by those provisions is given in brackets after the amount.
(5) In this section “resources” does not include accruing resources within the meaning of section 8(1) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 6).
Revised limits on use of certain accruing resources in the year ending 31st March 2009N.I.
3—(1) For the purposes of section 8(1) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern Ireland) 2001, this section sets the relevant limits on the accruing resources that may be directed to be used for certain purposes in the year ending 31st March 2009 in addition to resources authorised by this Act to be used for those purposes in that year.
(2) In that year accruing resources not exceeding the amount specified in column 3 of Schedule 2 may be directed to be used for the purposes specified in the corresponding entries in column 1 of that Schedule.
(3) The limits set by this section supersede those set by section 4 of the Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008; and, in relation to any amount specified in column 3 of Schedule 2, any increase or decrease by virtue of this section in the amount of the limit set by that section is given in brackets after that amount.
4—(1) The Department of Finance and Personnel may issue out of the Consolidated Fund and apply to the service of the year ending 31st March 2010 the sum of £5,618,965,000.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 4 referred to (12.3.2010) by Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 6), s. 1(3)
Power of the Department of Finance and Personnel to borrowN.I.
5—(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Department of Finance and Personnel may borrow on the credit of the sum specified in section 4 any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole £2,809,483,000.
(2) Any money so borrowed shall be repaid, with any interest due thereon, out of the Consolidated Fund not later than 31st March 2010.
in that year is authorised to the amount of £7,078,596,000.
(4) In this section “resources” does not include accruing resources within the meaning of section 8(1) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern Ireland) 2001.
Short titleN.I.
7 This Act may be cited as the Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2009.
SCHEDULE 1N.I.SUMS GRANTED FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31ST MARCH 2009
Sums Granted
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
For expenditure by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on development of the agriculture and agricultural products industries and alternative land uses, provision and funding of education, training and development services to the agri-food industry, provision of veterinary services, measures associated with the provision of scientific services (by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute and other scientific bodies), measures associated with the Innovation Fund, prevention and eradication of animal diseases, protection of animal welfare, protecting plant health, regional measures for farm support and conservation and enhancement of the countryside, rural development measures (including anti-poverty and social exclusion), market support, grants for capital and other improvements, support for agriculture in special areas, assistance to production and market development, promoting production hygiene and safety, making hardship payments to farmers, flood defence measures, maintenance of watercourses, protection and conservation of sea fisheries and aquaculture, implementation of the European Union Common Fisheries Policy and local fisheries policy, support operation of the Loughs Agency of the Foyle, Carlingford and Irish Lights Commission and the Fishery Harbour Authority, protection and conservation of forests, extension of woodland area, promotion of recreational use of forest areas, supply and sale of timber, payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation, payments under the European Union Structural Funds Programmes, payments under the European Fisheries Fund, payments in relation to the Common Agricultural Policy and administration costs.
(+40,359,000)
DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE, ARTS AND LEISURE
For expenditure by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure on libraries (other than library services to schools), arts and creativity, the North/South Language Body, museums, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, W5, events, sports, inland fisheries, certain inland waterways (including payments to the Rivers Agency), Waterways Ireland, administration and certain miscellaneous services, costs associated with Review of Public Administration (including payments on behalf of the proposed new Northern Ireland Library Authority), Integrated Development Fund, linguistic and cultural diversity, grants in aid to the Education and Library Boards for public library services, grants in aid to certain bodies.
(−18,696,000)
For expenditure by the Department of Education on pre-school education, schools (including library and support services for schools and pupils), other related services, certain services for children, young people and families, and associated departmental administration and services; grants and grants in aid to education and library boards for certain services (including for core and school-related administration); grants and grants in aid to certain other bodies; payments by the Department in respect of certain teachers' salaries; repayment of loans; the youth service, community relations measures for young people, millennium volunteers, other related services and associated departmental administration and services; grants and grants in aid to education and library boards for youth service and community relations provision and directly associated administration; grants and grants in aid to certain other bodies for youth service and community relations provision; and payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and other European Union Structural Funds Programmes for schools, youth service and community relations provision.
Teachers' superannuation
For expenditure by the Department of Education on pensions, allowances, gratuities etc., certain payments to the Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund, and certain payments on behalf of the education and library boards and the Department for Employment and Learning, in respect of premature retirement compensation.
DEPARTMENT FOR EMPLOYMENT AND LEARNING
For expenditure by the Department for Employment and Learning on higher education (including universities and colleges of education); further and adult education; youth and adult skills training; management and enterprise training; student support and other matters relating to tertiary education, including grants in aid to certain bodies, grants in respect of Educational Maintenance Allowances and certain payments to the Department of Education in respect of teachers' premature retirement compensation; repayment of loans; labour market services including employment law, tribunals and labour relations; employment schemes and services including those for people with disabilities; payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and other European Union Structural Funds Programmes; and, administration costs, including redundancy payments and departmental research.
(−109,675,000)
DEPARTMENT OF ENTERPRISE, TRADE AND INVESTMENT
For expenditure by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on economic development, innovation and R&D policy, policy evaluation and research, assistance to aircraft and shipbuilding industries (including the residual costs in connection with the privatisation of aircraft and shipbuilding companies), economic infrastructure in support of economic development including energy and minerals, sustainable energy and telecommunications, grant payment to Invest Northern Ireland including hardship payments to beef and pork processors, development of tourism including grant payment to the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, Tourism Ireland Ltd, InterTradeIreland, payments under European Union Structural Funds Programmes, payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation, business regulation, trading standards and consumer affairs services, the provision of a debt advice service, social economy, grant payment to the Consumer Council, grant payment to the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, assistance to the gas and electricity industries (including the residual costs in connection with the privatisation of the electricity industry in Northern Ireland), administration costs and other related services, including grants in aid.
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND PERSONNEL
For expenditure by the Department of Finance and Personnel on central Finance and Personnel Policy, NICS Financial Services, NICS Procurement Services, NICS Personnel Services, NICS ICT Services, NICS Accommodation Services, other common services including the Departmental Solicitors' Office, the Northern Ireland Law Commission, the Centre for Applied Learning and Delivery and Innovation Services, Energy Efficiency grants to District Councils, administration of centralised funds, departmental administration costs, grant in aid, other common services, the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, General Register Office, Land and Property Services, operational and programme costs of the Special European Union Programmes Body, payments and income under the European Union Structural Funds Programmes, sponsorship of secretariats, tribunals and other independent bodies.
Superannuation and other allowances
For expenditure by the Department of Finance and Personnel on pensions, lump sums and gratuities to or in respect of persons covered by the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme (NI), civil pensions and gratuities.
The North/South Pension Scheme
For expenditure by the Department of Finance and Personnel on the Northern Ireland share of pensions, lump sums and gratuities to or in respect of persons covered by the North/South Pension Scheme.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, SOCIAL SERVICES AND PUBLIC SAFETY
For expenditure by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on policy development, hospital, community health and personal social services, Health and Social Care Trusts, family health services, Health Estates Agency, training, welfare foods, grants to voluntary bodies, centrally financed services, the Food Safety Promotion Board, special initiatives, the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and other European Union Structural Funds Programmes, prison patients' benefits, grants to district councils, administration, related services and fire fighting, rescue and fire safety services.
Health and personal social services superannuation
For expenditure by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on superannuation benefits to or in respect of persons engaged in the health and personal social services or in other approved employment.
(−5,246,000)
For expenditure by the Department of the Environment on conservation; natural heritage; built heritage; environmental legislation and protection; planning services; the Review of Public Administration; grants to district councils in support of local services, emergency financial assistance, waste management and construction product enforcement regulations; payments to Local Government Staff Commission; road safety services, driver and vehicle licensing, driver and vehicle testing, transport licensing and enforcement; consultants' fees, computer hardware and software, purchase of equipment, plant and vehicles; payments under European Union Structural Funds Programmes; departmental administration costs and repayment of loans.
DEPARTMENT FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
For expenditure by the Department for Regional Development on support for the Roads Service including design, construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, footpaths, street lighting and car parks; purchase of land, property, vehicles, plant, equipment and stores; public liability claims; costs associated with the decriminalisation of parking enforcement; operation and maintenance of the Strangford Ferry; support for air and sea ports including salary, wages and other costs in respect of the Donaghadee Harbour; grants in respect of the Rathlin Island ferry service and works to Ballycastle and Rathlin Harbours; support for transport services including current and capital grants in respect of rail and road passenger services including fare concessions, fuel duty rebate, transport for people with disabilities, rural transport, provision and maintenance of bus shelters, purchase of buses and rolling stock and capital works; support for regional planning, transport planning and visioning; support to implement the Review of Public Administration; energy matters; consultants' and other fees; research and development; salaries and wages, general administrative expenses and central administration costs; certain early retirement and compensation payments; graphics unit; computer hardware and software; office machinery and equipment; related services including services to other departments; payments under European Union Structural Funds Programmes; payments under European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation; repayment of loans; payment of income subsidies, current and capital grants and net lending to NI Water Limited, equity injections and supporting the costs associated with the maintenance of the shareholder and water policy functions.
(+9,885,000)
DEPARTMENT FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
For expenditure by the Department for Social Development on central administration costs including a grant to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for administering the Housing Benefit Scheme, departmental corporate services costs, the administration costs of the Social Security Agency and Child Maintenance and Enforcement Division including the costs of administering services provided to the Department for Work and Pensions and other departments and on accommodation costs; costs incurred as part of the Welfare to Work initiative; cost of preparing for the introduction of measures announced in the Review of Public Administration; on social security benefits including non-contributory retirement pensions, payment of the cash value of EC officials transferable State Pension rights to the Pension Scheme of the European Communities' Institution, age related payments, over 70s' payments, Christmas bonus payments, attendance allowance, carer's allowance, severe disablement allowance, disability living allowance; pensions, gratuities and sundry allowances for disablement and specified deaths arising from industrial causes; compensation for sufferers, or their dependants, of certain dust related diseases; payment of compensation to mesothelioma sufferers or their dependants; income support, pension credit, payments of spousal and child maintenance, jobseeker's allowance (income based), jobseeker's allowance (contribution based), employment and support allowance (non contributory), back to work bonus, child maintenance bonus, payments of job grant; on grant in aid to the Independent Living Fund, grants to Motability; a grant to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for the payment of rent rebate, rent allowance, rates rebate for tenants and discretionary housing payments, cost of housing benefit rates rebates for owner occupiers; the cost of paying assistance from the Financial Assistance Scheme; sums payable into the Social Fund for expenditure on community care grants, budgeting and crisis loans, maternity payments, funeral payments and cold weather and winter fuel payments; sums payable to the Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund as compensation payments in respect of statutory sick pay and statutory maternity pay; central administration costs relating to the Housing Programme; on housing services, including certain grants; on housing support under the Supporting People Programme; on fuel poverty credit/payments, central administration costs relating to the Urban Regeneration and Community Development Programme; on urban regeneration including certain grants in aid and on other services such as promotional activities and events; community development including grants to voluntary bodies and statutory bodies; grants to support the Renewing Communities Initiatives; payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation; payments under the European Union Structural Funds Programmes.
OFFICE OF THE FIRST MINISTER AND DEPUTY FIRST MINISTER
For expenditure by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister on support for the government; the North/South Ministerial Council; the British Irish Council; the Civic Forum; expenses of the Planning Appeals Commission and the Water Appeals Commission; the Reinvestment and Reform Initiative including grant in aid to the Strategic Investment Board and Ilex; grant in aid to the Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland; promotion and administration of sustainable development policy; promotion of human rights, equality of opportunity and social inclusion including older people and people with disabilities and the alleviation of disadvantage, deprivation, poverty and hardship, including in situations of severe stress, crisis or emergency; the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland; community relations, district council programmes, victims and survivors, the Commission for Victims and Survivors, children and young people, the Commissioner for Children and Young People for Northern Ireland; payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation; administration and other services, grants and grants in aid.
For expenditure by the Northern Ireland Assembly on remunerating and supporting Members of the Assembly in discharging their duties in their constituencies, in the Assembly and elsewhere; the costs of general administration including staff costs, general expenses and equipment, accommodation and other services.
ASSEMBLY OMBUDSMAN FOR NORTHERN IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND COMMISSIONER FOR COMPLAINTS
For expenditure by the Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints on the costs of administration and other support services, for the provision of an independent, effective and free system for investigating complaints from individuals who claim to have suffered injustice through maladministration by Northern Ireland government departments, their agencies, public and local bodies and the Health and Personal Social Services; the provision of an independent investigative resource to support the work of the Committee on Standards and Privileges in dealing with complaints against Members of the Assembly.
(+31,000)
FOOD STANDARDS AGENCY
For expenditure by the Food Standards Agency on the costs of administration and other support services in protecting public health from risks which may arise in connection with the consumption of food, and otherwise protecting the interests of consumers in relation to food including the range of food safety enforcement activities required under European Union and Northern Ireland legislation, providing consumers with accurate and reliable information so that they can make healthy eating choices, facilitating and delivering training courses, commissioning surveys and participating in programmes to increase public awareness of food safety and consumer choice issues and on related services and grants to district councils.
(+274,000)
NORTHERN IRELAND AUDIT OFFICE
For expenditure by the Northern Ireland Audit Office on the costs of administration and other support services in providing objective information, advice and assurance on the use of public funds; encouraging beneficial change in the provision of public services, the highest standards in financial management and reporting and propriety in the conduct of public business; conducting data matching exercises for the purpose of assisting in the prevention and detection of fraud.
NORTHERN IRELAND AUTHORITY FOR UTILITY REGULATION
For expenditure by the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation on administration costs, regulation of the electricity, gas and water and sewerage industries, protection of electricity, gas and water and sewerage consumers, promotion and development of the natural gas industry, duties and functions as set out in various pieces of enabling legislation, administration of the Climate Change Levy Renewable Exemption Scheme, the Electricity (Guarantees of origin of Electricity produced from Renewable Energy Sources) Scheme, and the Renewables Obligation Scheme, development and administration of an all-island energy market, costs associated with the single electricity market committee, co-operation with international regulators, services to other departments and other miscellaneous duties which may arise.
Section 2 and 3.
SCHEDULE 2N.I.AMOUNTS OF RESOURCES AUTHORISED FOR USE AND AMOUNTS OF ACCRUING RESOURCES WHICH MAY BE USED IN YEAR ENDING 31ST MARCH 2009
Resources authorised for use
Total Accruing Resources
A. For use by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on development of the agriculture and agricultural products industries and alternative land uses, provision and funding of education, training and development services to the agri-food industry, provision of veterinary services, measures associated with the provision of scientific services (by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute and other scientific bodies), measures associated with the Innovation Fund, prevention and eradication of animal diseases, protection of animal welfare, protecting plant health, regional measures for farm support and conservation and enhancement of the countryside, rural development measures (including anti-poverty and social exclusion), market support, grants for capital and other improvements, support for agriculture in special areas, assistance to production and market development, promoting production hygiene and safety, making hardship payments to farmers, flood defence measures, maintenance of watercourses, protection and conservation of sea fisheries and aquaculture, implementation of the European Union Common Fisheries Policy and local fisheries policy, support operation of the Loughs Agency of the Foyle, Carlingford and Irish Lights Commission and the Fishery Harbour Authority, protection and conservation of forests, extension of woodland area, promotion of recreational use of forest areas, supply and sale of timber, payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation, payments under the European Union Structural Funds Programmes, payments under the European Fisheries Fund, payments in relation to the Common Agricultural Policy, administration costs and associated non-cash items.
A. For use by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure on libraries (other than library services to schools), arts and creativity, the North/South Language Body, museums, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, W5, events, sports, inland fisheries, certain inland waterways (including payments to the Rivers Agency), Waterways Ireland, administration and certain miscellaneous services, costs associated with Review of Public Administration (including payments on behalf of the proposed new Northern Ireland Library Authority), Integrated Development Fund, linguistic and cultural diversity, grants in aid to the Education and Library Boards for public library services, grants in aid to certain bodies, and provision for associated non-cash items.
A. For use by the Department of Education on pre-school education, schools (including library and support services for schools and pupils), other related services, certain services for children, young people and families, and associated departmental administration and services; grants and grants in aid to education and library boards for certain services (including for core and school-related administration); grants and grants in aid to certain other bodies; payments by the Department in respect of certain teachers' salaries; repayment of loans; payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and other European Union Structural Funds Programmes; and provision for associated non-cash items.
B. For use by the Department of Education on the youth service, community relations measures for young people, millennium volunteers, other related services and associated departmental administration and services; grants and grants in aid to education and library boards for youth service and community relations provision and directly associated administration; grants and grants in aid to certain other bodies; payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and other European Union Structural Funds Programmes; and provision for associated non-cash items.
A. For use by the Department of Education on pensions, allowances, gratuities etc., certain payments to the Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund, certain payments on behalf of the education and library boards and the Department for Employment and Learning, in respect of premature retirement compensation; and provision for associated non-cash items.
A. For use by the Department for Employment and Learning on higher education (including universities and colleges of education); further and adult education; youth and adult skills training; management and enterprise training; student support and other matters relating to tertiary education, including grants in aid to certain bodies, grants in respect of Educational Maintenance Allowances and certain payments to the Department of Education in respect of teachers' premature retirement compensation; repayment of loans; administration costs, including redundancy payments, departmental research; and associated non-cash items.
B. For use by the Department for Employment and Learning on labour market services including employment law, tribunals and labour relations; employment schemes and services including those for people with disabilities; payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and other European Union Structural Funds Programmes; administration costs, including redundancy payments, departmental research; and associated non-cash items.
A. For use by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on economic development, innovation and R&D policy, policy evaluation and research, assistance to aircraft and shipbuilding industries (including residual costs in connection with the privatisation of aircraft and shipbuilding companies), economic infrastructure in support of economic development including energy and minerals, sustainable energy and telecommunications, grant payment to Invest Northern Ireland including hardship payments to beef and pork processors, development of tourism including grant payment to the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, Tourism Ireland Ltd, InterTradeIreland, payments under European Union Structural Funds Programmes, payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation, business regulation, trading standards and consumer affairs services, the provision of a debt advice service, social economy, grant payment to the Consumer Council, grant payment to the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, assistance to the gas and electricity industries (including the residual costs in connection with the privatisation of the electricity industry in Northern Ireland), administration costs, associated non-cash costs and other related services, including grants in aid.
A. For use by the Department of Finance and Personnel on central Finance and Personnel Policy, NICS Financial Services, NICS Procurement Services, NICS Personnel Services, NICS ICT Services, NICS Accommodation Services, other common services including Departmental Solicitors' Office, the Northern Ireland Law Commission, the Centre for Applied Learning and Delivery and Innovation Services, Energy Efficiency grants to District Councils, administration of centralised funds, departmental administration costs, grant in aid, other common services and associated non-cash and notional items.
B. For use by the Department of Finance and Personnel on the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, General Register Office, Land and Property Services, operational and programme costs of the Special European Union Programmes Body, payments and income under the European Union Structural Funds Programmes, sponsorship of secretariats, tribunals and other independent bodies, departmental administration costs, grant in aid, other common services and associated non-cash and notional items.
A. For use by the Department of Finance and Personnel on pensions, lump sums and gratuities to or in respect of persons covered by the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme (NI), civil pensions and gratuities and associated non-cash items.
A. For use by the Department of Finance and Personnel on the Northern Ireland share of pensions, lump sums and gratuities to or in respect of persons covered by the North/South Pension Scheme and associated non-cash items.
A. For use by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on policy development, hospital, community health and personal social services, Health and Social Care Trusts, family health services, Health Estates Agency, training, welfare foods, grants to voluntary bodies, centrally financed services, the Food Safety Promotion Board, special initiatives, the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and other European Union Structural Funds Programmes, prison patients' benefits, grants to district councils, administration, related services and associated non-cash items.
(+209,525,000)
B. For use by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on fire fighting, rescue and fire safety services, administration and associated non-cash items.
(−686,000)
A. For use by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on superannuation benefits to or in respect of persons engaged in the health and personal social services or in other approved employment and associated non-cash items.
(−50,000)
A. For use by the Department of the Environment on conservation; natural heritage; built heritage; environmental legislation and protection; planning services; the Review of Public Administration; grants to district councils in support of local services, emergency financial assistance, waste management and construction product enforcement regulations; payments to Local Government Staff Commission; road safety services, driver and vehicle licensing, driver and vehicle testing, transport licensing and enforcement; consultants' fees, computer hardware and software, purchase of equipment, plant and vehicles; payments under European Union Structural Funds Programmes; departmental administration costs; repayment of loans and associated non-cash items.
A. For use by the Department for Regional Development on support for the Roads Service including design, construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, footpaths, street lighting and car parks; purchase of land, property, vehicles, plant, equipment and stores; public liability claims; costs associated with decriminalisation of parking enforcement; operation and maintenance of the Strangford Ferry; support for air and sea ports including salary, wages and other costs in respect of the Donaghadee Harbour; grants in respect of the Rathlin Island ferry service and works to Ballycastle and Rathlin Harbours; support for transport services including current and capital grants in respect of rail and road passenger services including fare concessions, fuel duty rebate, transport for people with disabilities, rural transport, provision and maintenance of bus shelters, purchase of buses and rolling stock and capital works; support for regional planning, transport planning and visioning; support to implement the Review of Public Administration; energy matters; consultants' and other fees; research and development; salaries, wages, general administrative expenses and central administration costs; certain early retirement and compensation payments; graphics unit; computer hardware and software; office machinery and equipment; related services including services to other departments; payments under European Union Structural Funds Programmes; payments under European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation; repayment of loans and associated non-cash items.
B. For use by the Department for Regional Development on payment of income subsidies, current and capital grants and net lending to NI Water Limited, equity injections, supporting the costs associated with the maintenance of the shareholder and water policy functions; consultants' and other fees; salaries and wages, general administrative expenses and central administration costs; graphics unit; computer hardware and software, office machinery and equipment; and associated non-cash items.
A. For use by the Department for Social Development on central administration costs including a grant to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for administering the Housing Benefit Scheme, departmental corporate services costs, the administration costs of the Social Security Agency and Child Maintenance and Enforcement Division including the costs of administering services provided to the Department for Work and Pensions and other departments and on accommodation costs; costs incurred as part of the Welfare to Work initiative; cost of preparing for the introduction of measures announced in the Review of Public Administration; on social security benefits including non-contributory retirement pensions, payment of the cash value of EC officials transferable State Pension rights to the Pension Scheme of the European Communities' Institution, age related payments, over 70s' payments, Christmas bonus payments, attendance allowance, carer's allowance, severe disablement allowance, disability living allowance; pensions, gratuities and sundry allowances for disablement and specified deaths arising from industrial causes; compensation for sufferers, or their dependants, of certain dust related diseases; payment of compensation to mesothelioma sufferers or their dependents; income support, pension credit, payments of spousal and child maintenance, jobseeker's allowance (income based), jobseeker's allowance (contribution based), employment and support allowance (non contributory), back to work bonus, child maintenance bonus, payments of job grant; on grant in aid to the Independent Living Fund, grants to Motability; a grant to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for the payment of rent rebate, rent allowance, rates rebate for tenants and discretionary housing payments, cost of housing benefit rates rebates for owner occupiers; the cost of paying assistance from the Financial Assistance Scheme; sums payable into the Social Fund for expenditure on community care grants, budgeting and crisis loans, maternity payments, funeral payments and cold weather and winter fuel payments; sums payable to the Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund as compensation payments in respect of statutory sick pay and statutory maternity pay; and associated non-cash items.
B. For use by the Department for Social Development on central administration costs relating to the Housing Programme; cost of preparing for the introduction of measures announced in the Review of Public Administration; on housing services, including certain grants; on housing support under the Supporting People Programme; on fuel poverty credits/payments; and associated non-cash items.
C. For use by the Department for Social Development on central administration costs relating to the Urban Regeneration and Community Development Programme; cost of preparing for the introduction of measures announced in the Review of Public Administration; on urban regeneration including certain grants in aid and on other services such as promotional activities and events; community development including grants to voluntary bodies and statutory bodies; grants to support the Renewing Communities Initiative; payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation; payments under the European Union Structural Funds Programmes; and associated non-cash items.
A. For use by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister on support for the government, the North/South Ministerial Council, the British Irish Council, the Civic Forum, expenses of the Planning Appeals Commission and the Water Appeals Commission, the Reinvestment and Reform Initiative including grant in aid to the Strategic Investment Board and Ilex, grant in aid to the Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland, promotion and administration of sustainable development policy, administration and other services, grants and grants in aid and associated non-cash items.
B. For use by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister on promotion of human rights, equality of opportunity and social inclusion including older people and people with disabilities and the alleviation of disadvantage, deprivation, poverty and hardship including in situations of severe stress, crisis or emergency, the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, community relations, district council programmes, victims and survivors, the Commission for Victims and Survivors, children and young people, the Commissioner for Children and Young People for Northern Ireland, administration and other services, payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation, grants and grants in aid and associated non-cash items.
A. For use by the Northern Ireland Assembly on remunerating and supporting Members of the Assembly in discharging their duties in their constituencies, in the Assembly and elsewhere, the costs of general administration including staff costs, general expenses and equipment, accommodation, other services and associated non-cash items.
A. For use by the Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints on the costs of administration and other support services including associated non-cash items, for the provision of an independent, effective and free system for investigating complaints from individuals who claim to have suffered injustice through maladministration by Northern Ireland government departments, their agencies, public and local bodies and the Health and Personal Social Services; the provision of an independent investigative resource to support the work of the Committee on Standards and Privileges in dealing with complaints against Members of the Assembly.
(+2,000)
A. For use by the Food Standards Agency on the costs of administration and other support services in protecting public health from risks which may arise in connection with the consumption of food, and otherwise protecting the interests of consumers in relation to food including the range of food safety enforcement activities required under European Union and Northern Ireland legislation, providing consumers with accurate and reliable information so that they can make healthy eating choices, facilitating and delivering training courses, commissioning surveys and participating in programmes to increase public awareness of food safety and consumer choice issues and on related services, grants to district councils, and associated non-cash items.
A. For use by the Northern Ireland Audit Office on the costs of administration and other support services including associated non-cash items; providing objective information, advice and assurance on the use of public funds; encouraging beneficial change in the provision of public services, the highest standards in financial management and reporting and propriety in the conduct of public business; conducting data matching exercises for the purpose of assisting in the prevention and detection of fraud.
A. For use by the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation on administration costs, regulation of the electricity, gas and water and sewerage industries, protection of electricity, gas and water and sewerage consumers; promotion and development of the natural gas industry, duties and functions as set out in various pieces of enabling legislation, administration of the Climate Change Levy Renewable Exemption Scheme, the Electricity (Guarantees of origin of Electricity produced from Renewable Energy Sources) Scheme and the Renewables Obligation Scheme, development and administration of an all island energy market, costs associated with the single electricity market committee, co-operation with international regulators, services to other departments, other miscellaneous duties which may arise and associated non-cash items.
For expenditure by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on development of the agriculture and agricultural products industries and alternative land uses, provision and funding of education, training and development services to the agri-food industry, provision of veterinary services, measures associated with the provision of scientific services (by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute and other scientific bodies), measures associated with the Innovation Fund, prevention and eradication of animal diseases, protection of animal welfare, protecting plant health, regional measures for farm support and conservation and enhancement of the countryside, rural development measures (including anti-poverty and social exclusion), market support, grants for capital and other improvements, support for agriculture in special areas, assistance to production and market development, promoting production hygiene and safety, making hardship payments to farmers, flood defence measures, maintenance of watercourses, protection and conservation of sea fisheries and aquaculture, implementation of the European Union Common Fisheries Policy and local fisheries policy, support operation of the Loughs Agency of the Foyle, Carlingford and Irish Lights Commission and the Fishery Harbour Authority, protection and conservation of forests, extension of woodland area, promotion of recreational use of forest areas, supply and sale of timber, payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation, payments under the European Union Structural Funds Programmes, payments under the European Fisheries Fund, payments in relation to the Common Agricultural Policy and administration costs. 151,977,000
For expenditure by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure on libraries (other than library services to schools), arts and creativity, the North/South Language Body, museums, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, W5, events, sports, inland fisheries, certain inland waterways (including payments to the Rivers Agency), Waterways Ireland, administration and certain miscellaneous services, costs associated with Review of Public Administration (including payments on behalf of the proposed new Northern Ireland Library Authority), Integrated Development Fund, linguistic and cultural diversity, grants in aid to the Education and Library Boards for public library services, grants in aid to certain bodies. 66,954,000
For expenditure by the Department of Education on pre-school education, schools (including library and support services for schools and pupils), other related services, certain services for children, young people and families, and associated departmental administration and services; grants and grants in aid to education and library boards for certain services (including for core and school-related administration); grants and grants in aid to certain other bodies; payments by the Department in respect of certain teachers' salaries; repayment of loans; the youth service, community relations measures for young people, millennium volunteers, other related services and associated departmental administration and services; grants and grants in aid to education and library boards for youth service and community relations provision and directly associated administration; grants and grants in aid to certain other bodies for youth service and community relations provision; and payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and other European Union Structural Funds Programmes for schools, youth service and community relations provision. 908,754,000
For expenditure by the Department of Education on pensions, allowances, gratuities etc., certain payments to the Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund, and certain payments on behalf of the education and library boards and the Department for Employment and Learning, in respect of premature retirement compensation. 52,139,000
For expenditure by the Department for Employment and Learning on higher education (including universities and colleges of education); further and adult education; youth and adult skills training; management and enterprise training; student support and other matters relating to tertiary education, including grants in aid to certain bodies, grants in respect of Educational Maintenance Allowances and certain payments to the Department of Education in respect of teachers' premature retirement compensation; repayment of loans; labour market services including employment law, tribunals and labour relations; employment schemes and services including those for people with disabilities; payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and other European Union Structural Funds Programmes; and, administration costs, including redundancy payments and departmental research. 344,331,000
For expenditure by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on economic development, innovation and R&D policy, policy evaluation and research, assistance to aircraft and shipbuilding industries (including the residual costs in connection with the privatisation of aircraft and shipbuilding companies), economic infrastructure in support of economic development including energy and minerals, sustainable energy and telecommunications, grant payment to Invest Northern Ireland including hardship payments to beef and pork processors, development of tourism including grant payment to the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, Tourism Ireland Ltd, InterTradeIreland, payments under European Union Structural Funds Programmes, payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation, business regulation, trading standards and consumer affairs services, the provision of a debt advice service, social economy, grant payment to the Consumer Council, grant payment to the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, assistance to the gas and electricity industries (including the residual costs in connection with the privatisation of the electricity industry in Northern Ireland), administration costs and other related services, including grants in aid. 104,366,000
For expenditure by the Department of Finance and Personnel on central Finance and Personnel Policy, NICS Financial Services, NICS Procurement Services, NICS Personnel Services, NICS ICT Services, NICS Accommodation Services, other common services including Departmental Solicitors' Office, the Northern Ireland Law Commission, the Centre for Applied Learning and Delivery and Innovation Services, Energy Efficiency grants to District Councils, administration of centralised funds, departmental administration costs, grant in aid and other common services; the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, General Register Office, Land and Property Services, operational and programme costs of the Special European Union Programmes Body, payments and income under the European Union Structural Funds Programmes, sponsorship of secretariats, tribunals and other independent bodies. 122,714,000
For expenditure by the Department of Finance and Personnel on pensions, lump sums and gratuities to or in respect of persons covered by the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme (NI), civil pensions and gratuities. 33,300,000
For expenditure by the Department of Finance and Personnel on the Northern Ireland share of pensions, lump sums and gratuities to or in respect of persons covered by the North/South Pension Scheme. 150,000
For expenditure by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on policy development, hospital, community health and personal social services, Health and Social Care Trusts, family health services, Health Estates Agency, training, welfare foods, grants to voluntary bodies, centrally financed services, the Food Safety Promotion Board, special initiatives, the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and other European Union Structural Funds Programmes, prison patients' benefits, grants to district councils, administration, related services and fire fighting, rescue and fire safety services. 1,726,153,000
For expenditure by the Department of the Environment on conservation; natural heritage; built heritage; environmental legislation and protection; planning services; the Review of Public Administration; grants to district councils in support of local services, emergency financial assistance, waste management and construction product enforcement regulations; payments to Local Government Staff Commission; road safety services, driver and vehicle licensing, driver and vehicle testing, transport licensing and enforcement; consultants' fees, computer hardware and software, purchase of equipment, plant and vehicles; payments under European Union Structural Funds Programmes; departmental administration costs and repayment of loans. 58,756,000
For expenditure by the Department for Regional Development on support for the Roads Service including design, construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, footpaths, street lighting and car parks; purchase of land, property, vehicles, plant, equipment and stores; public liability claims; costs associated with the decriminalisation of parking enforcement; operation and maintenance of the Strangford Ferry; support for air and sea ports including salary, wages and other costs in respect of the Donaghadee Harbour; grants in respect of the Rathlin Island ferry service and works to Ballycastle and Rathlin Harbours; support for transport services including current and capital grants in respect of rail and road passenger services including fare concessions, fuel duty rebate, transport for people with disabilities, rural transport, provision and maintenance of bus shelters, purchase of buses and rolling stock and capital works; support for regional planning, transport planning and visioning; support to implement the Review of Public Administration; energy matters; consultants' and other fees; research and development; salaries and wages, general administrative expenses and central administration costs; certain early retirement and compensation payments; graphics unit; computer hardware and software; office machinery and equipment; related services including services to other departments; payments under European Union Structural Fund Programmes; payments under European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation; repayment of loans; payment of income subsidies, current and capital grants and net lending to NI Water Limited, equity injections and supporting the costs associated with the maintenance of the shareholder and water policy functions. 436,760,000
For expenditure by the Department for Social Development on central administration costs including a grant to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for administering the Housing Benefit Scheme, departmental corporate services costs, the administration costs of the Social Security Agency and Child Maintenance and Enforcement Division including the costs of administering services provided to the Department for Work and Pensions and other departments and on accommodation costs; costs incurred as part of the Welfare to Work initiative; cost of preparing for the introduction of measures announced in the Review of Public Administration; on social security benefits including non-contributory retirement pensions, payment of the cash value of EC officials transferable State Pension rights to the Pension Scheme of the European Communities' Institution, age related payments, over 70s' payments, Christmas bonus payments, attendance allowance, carer's allowance, severe disablement allowance, disability living allowance; pensions, gratuities and sundry allowances for disablement and specified deaths arising from industrial causes; compensation for sufferers, or their dependants, of certain dust related diseases; payment of compensation to mesothelioma suffers or their dependants; income support, pension credit, payments of spousal and child maintenance, jobseeker's allowance (income based), jobseeker's allowance (contribution based), employment and support allowance (non contributory), back to work bonus, child maintenance bonus, payments of job grant; on grant in aid to the Independent Living Fund, grants to Motability; a grant to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for the payment of rent rebate, rent allowance, rates rebate for tenants and discretionary housing payments; cost of housing benefit rates rebates for owner occupiers; the cost of paying assistance from the Financial Assistance Scheme; sums payable into the Social Fund for expenditure on community care grants, budgeting and crisis loans, maternity payments, funeral payments and cold weather and winter fuel payments; sums payable to the Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund as compensation payments in respect of statutory sick pay and statutory maternity pay; central administration costs relating to the Housing Programme; on housing services, including certain grants; on housing support under the Supporting People Programme; on fuel poverty credits/payments; central administration costs relating to the Urban Regeneration and Community Development Programme; on urban regeneration including certain grants in aid and on other services such as promotional activities and events; community development including grants to voluntary bodies and statutory bodies; grants to support the Renewing Communities Initiative; payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation; payments under the European Union Structural Funds Programmes. 1,552,257,000
For expenditure by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister on support for the government; the North/South Ministerial Council; the British Irish Council; the Civic Forum; expenses of the Planning Appeals Commission and the Water Appeals Commission; the Reinvestment and Reform Initiative including grant in aid to the Strategic Investment Board and Ilex; grant in aid to the Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland; promotion and administration of sustainable development policy; promotion of human rights, equality of opportunity and social inclusion including older people and people with disabilities and the alleviation of disadvantage, deprivation, poverty and hardship, including in situations of severe stress, crisis or emergency; the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland; community relations; district council programmes; victims and survivors; the Commission for Victims and Survivors; children and young people, the Commissioner for Children and Young People for Northern Ireland; payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation; administration and other services, grants and grants in aid. 32,129,000
For expenditure by the Northern Ireland Assembly on remunerating and supporting Members of the Assembly in discharging their duties in their constituencies, in the Assembly and elsewhere; the costs of general administration including staff costs, general expenses and equipment, accommodation and other services. 18,401,000
For expenditure by the Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints on the costs of administration and other support services, for the provision of an independent, effective and free system for investigating complaints from individuals who claim to have suffered injustice through maladministration by Northern Ireland government departments, their agencies, public and local bodies and the Health and Personal Social Services; the provision of an independent investigative resource to support the work of the Committee on Standards and Privileges in dealing with complaints against Members of the Assembly. 612,000
For expenditure by the Food Standards Agency on the costs of administration and other support services in protecting public health from risks which may arise in connection with the consumption of food, and otherwise protecting the interests of consumers in relation to food including the range of food safety enforcement activities required under European Union and Northern Ireland legislation, providing consumers with accurate and reliable information so that they can make health eating choices, facilitating and delivering training courses, commissioning surveys and participating in programmes to increase public awareness of food safety and consumer choice issues and on related services and grants to district councils. 4,364,000
For expenditure by the Northern Ireland Audit Office on the costs of administration and other support services in providing objective information, advice and assurance on the use of public funds; encouraging beneficial change in the provision of public services, the highest standards in financial management and reporting and propriety in the conduct of public business; conducting data matching exercises for the purpose of assisting in the prevention and detection of fraud. 4,015,000
For expenditure by the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation on administration costs, regulation of the electricity, gas and water and sewerage industries, protection of electricity, gas and water and sewage consumers, promotion and development of the natural gas industry, duties and functions as set out in various pieces of enabling legislation, administration of the Climate Change Levy Renewable Exemption Scheme, the Electricity (Guarantees of origin of Electricity Produced from Renewable Energy Sources) Scheme and the Renewables Obligation Scheme, development and administration of an all-island energy market, costs associated with the single electricity market committee, co-operation with international regulators, services to other departments and other miscellaneous duties which may arise. 833,000
TOTAL 5,618,965,000
SCHEDULE 4N.I.AMOUNTS OF RESOURCES AUTHORISED FOR USE IN THE YEAR ENDING 31ST MARCH 2010
A. For use by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on development of the agriculture and agricultural products industries and alternative land uses, provision and funding of education, training and development services to the agri-food industry, provision of veterinary services, measures associated with the provision of scientific services (by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute and other scientific bodies), measures associated with the Innovation Fund, prevention and eradication of animal diseases, protection of animal welfare, protecting plant health, regional measures for farm support and conservation and enhancement of the countryside, rural development measures (including anti-poverty and social exclusion), market support, grants for capital and other improvements, support for agriculture in special areas, assistance to production and market development, promoting production hygiene and safety, making hardship payments to farmers, flood defence measures, maintenance of watercourses, protection and conservation of sea fisheries and aquaculture, implementation of the European Union Common Fisheries Policy and local fisheries policy, support operation of the Loughs Agency of the Foyle, Carlingford and Irish Lights Commission and the Fishery Harbour Authority, protection and conservation of forests, extension of woodland area, promotion of recreational use of forest areas, supply and sale of timber, payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation, payments under the European Union Structural Funds Programmes, payments under the European Fisheries Fund, payments in relation to the Common Agricultural Policy, administration costs, and associated non-cash items. 166,843,000
A. For use by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure on libraries (other than library services to schools), arts and creativity, the North/South Language Body, museums, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, W5, events, sports, inland fisheries, certain inland waterways (including payments to the Rivers Agency), Waterways Ireland, administration and certain miscellaneous services, cost associated with Review of Public Administration (including payments on behalf of the proposed new Northern Ireland Library Authority), Integrated Development Fund, linguistic and cultural diversity, grants in aid to the Education and Library Boards for public library services, grants in aid to certain bodies and provision for associated non-cash items. 64,908,000
A. For use by the Department of Education on pre-school education, schools (including library and support services for schools and pupils), other related services, certain services for children, young people and families, and associated departmental administration and services; grants and grants in aid to education and library boards for certain services (including for core and school-related administration); grants and grants in aid to certain other bodies; payments by the Department in respect of certain teachers' salaries; repayment of loans; payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and other European Union Structural Funds Programmes; and provision for associated non-cash items. 893,173,000
B. For use by the Department of Education on the youth service, community relations measures for young people, millennium volunteers, other related services and associated departmental administration and services; grants and grants in aid to education and library boards for youth service and community relations provision and directly associated administration; grants and grants in aid to certain other bodies; payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and other European Union Structural Funds Programmes; and provision for associated non-cash items. 18,180,000
A. For use by the Department of Education on pensions, allowances, gratuities etc., certain payments to the Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund, certain payments on behalf of the education and library boards and the Department for Employment and Learning, in respect of premature retirement compensation; and provision for associated non-cash items. 234,876,000
A. For use by the Department for Employment and Learning on higher education (including universities and colleges of education); further and adult education; youth and adult skills training; management and enterprise training; student support and other matters relating to tertiary education, including grants in aid to certain bodies, grants in respect of Educational Maintenance Allowances and certain payments to the Department of Education in respect of teachers' premature retirement compensation; repayment of loans; labour market services including employment law, tribunals and labour relations; employment schemes and services including those for people with disabilities; payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and other European Union Structural Funds Programmes; administration costs, including redundancy payments, departmental research; and associated non-cash items. 338,732,000
A. For use by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on economic development, innovation and R&D policy, policy evaluation and research, assistance to aircraft and shipbuilding industries (including the residual costs in connection with the privatisation of aircraft and shipbuilding companies), economic infrastructure in support of economic development including energy and minerals, sustainable energy and telecommunications, grant payment to Invest Northern Ireland including hardship payments to beef and pork processors, development of tourism including grant payment to the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, Tourism Ireland Ltd, InterTradeIreland, payments under European Union Structural Funds Programmes, payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation, business regulation, trading standards and consumer affairs services, the provision of a debt advice service, social economy, grant payment to the Consumer Council, grant payment to the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, assistance to the gas and electricity industries (including the residual costs in connection with the privatisation of the electricity industry in Northern Ireland), administration costs, associated non-cash costs and other related services, including grants in aid. 104,943,000
A. For use by the Department of Finance and Personnel on central Finance and Personnel Policy, NICS Financial Services, NICS Procurement Services, NICS Personnel Services, NICS ICT Services, NICS Accommodation Services, other common services including Departmental Solicitors' Office, the Northern Ireland Law Commission, the Centre for Applied Learning and Delivery and Innovation Services, Energy Efficiency grants to District Councils, administration of centralised funds, departmental administration costs, grant in aid, other common services and associated non-cash and notional items. 73,967,000
B. For use by the Department of Finance and Personnel on the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, General Register Office, Land and Property Services, operational and programme costs of the Special European Union Programmes Body, payments and income under the European Union Structural Funds Programmes, sponsorship of secretariats, tribunals and other independent bodies, departmental administration costs, grant in aid, other common services and associated non-cash and notional items. 22,793,000
A. For use by the Department of Finance and Personnel on pensions, lump sums and gratuities to or in respect of persons covered by the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme (NI), civil pensions and gratuities and associated non-cash items. 190,853,000
A. For use by the Department of Finance and Personnel on the Northern Ireland share of pensions, lump sums and gratuities to or in respect of persons covered by the North/South Pension Scheme and associated non-cash items. 990,000
A. For use by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on policy development, hospital, community health and personal social services, Health and Social Care Trusts, family health services, Health Estates Agency, training, welfare foods, grants to voluntary bodies, centrally financed services, the Food Safety Promotion Board, special initiatives, the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation and other European Union Structural Funds Programmes, prison patients' benefits, grants to district councils, administration, related services and associated non-cash items. 1,702,204,000
B. For use by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on fire fighting, rescue and fire safety services, administration and associated non-cash items. 37,214,000
A. For use by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on superannuation benefits to or in respect of persons engaged in the health and personal social services or in other approved employment and associated non-cash items. 404,803,000
A. For use by the Department of the Environment on conservation; natural heritage; built heritage; environmental legislation and protection; planning services; the Review of Public Administration; grants to district councils in support of local services, emergency financial assistance, waste management and construction product enforcement regulations; payments to Local Government Staff Commission; road safety services, driver and vehicle licensing, driver and vehicle testing, transport licensing and enforcement; consultants' fees, computer hardware and software, purchase of equipment, plant and vehicles; payments under European Union Structural Funds Programmes; departmental administration costs, repayment of loans and associated non-cash items. 63,531,000
A. For use by the Department for Regional Development on support for the Roads Service including design, construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, footpaths, street lighting and car parks; purchase of land, property, vehicles, plant, equipment and stores; public liability claims; costs associated with the decriminalisation of parking enforcement; operation and maintenance of the Strangford Ferry; support for air and sea ports including salary, wages and other costs in respect of the Donaghadee Harbour; grants in respect of the Rathlin Island ferry service and works to Ballycastle and Rathlin Harbours; support for transport services including current and capital grants in respect of rail and road passenger services including fare concessions, fuel duty rebate, transport for people with disabilities, rural transport, provision and maintenance of bus shelters, purchase of buses and rolling stock and capital works; support for regional planning, transport planning and visioning; support to implement the Review of Public Administration; energy matters; consultants' and other fees; research and development; salaries, wages, general administrative expenses and central administration costs; certain early retirement and compensation payments; graphics unit; computer hardware and software; office machinery and equipment; related services including services to other departments; payments under European Union Structural Funds Programmes; payments under European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation; repayment of loans and associated non-cash items. 772,007,000
B. For use by the Department for Regional Development on payment of income subsidies, current and capital grants and net lending to NI Water Limited, equity injections, supporting the costs associated with the maintenance of the shareholder and water policy functions; consultants' and other fees; salaries and wages, general administrative expenses and central administration costs; graphics unit; computer hardware and software, office machinery and equipment; and associated non-cash items. 309,032,000
A. For use by the Department for Social Development on central administration costs including a grant to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for administering the Housing Benefit Scheme, departmental corporate services costs, the administration costs of the Social Security Agency and Child Maintenance and Enforcement Division including the costs of administering services provided to the Department for Work and Pensions and other departments and on accommodation costs; costs incurred as part of the Welfare to Work initiative; cost of preparing for the introduction of measures announced in the Review of Public Administration; on social security benefits including non-contributory retirement pensions, payment of the cash value of EC officials transferable State Pension rights to the Pension Scheme of the European Communities' Institution, age related payments, over 70s' payments, Christmas bonus payments, attendance allowance, carer's allowance, severe disablement allowance, disability living allowance; pensions, gratuities and sundry allowances for disablement and specified deaths arising from industrial causes; compensation for sufferers, or their dependants, of certain dust related diseases; payment of compensation to mesothelioma sufferers or their dependants; income support, pension credit, payments of spousal and child maintenance, jobseeker's allowance (income based), jobseeker's allowance (contribution based), employment and support allowance (non contributory), back to work bonus, child maintenance bonus, payments of job grant; on grant in aid to the Independent Living Fund, grants to Motability; a grant to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for the payment of rent rebate, rent allowance, rates rebate for tenants and discretionary housing payments, cost of housing benefit rates rebates for owner occupiers; the cost of paying assistance from the Financial Assistance Scheme; sums payable into the Social Fund for expenditure on community care grants, budgeting and crisis loans, maternity payments, funeral payments and cold weather and winter fuel payments; sums payable to the Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund as compensation payments in respect of statutory sick pay and statutory maternity pay; and associated non-cash items. 1,301,486,000
B. For use by the Department for Social Development on central administration costs relating to the Housing Programme; cost of preparing for the introduction of measures announced in the Review of Public Administration; on housing services, including certain grants; on housing support under the Supporting People Programme; on fuel poverty credits/payments; and associated non-cash items. 255,100,000
C. For use by the Department for Social Development on central administration costs relating to the Urban Regeneration and Community Development Programme; cost of preparing for the introduction of measures announced in the Review of Public Administration; on urban regeneration including certain grants in aid and on other services such as promotional activities and events; community development including grants to voluntary bodies and statutory bodies; grants to support the Renewing Communities Initiative; payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation; payments under the European Union Structural Funds Programmes; and associated non-cash items. 60,681,000
A. For use by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister on support for the government; the North/South Ministerial Council; the British Irish Council; the Civic Forum; expenses of the Planning Appeals Commission and the Water Appeals Commission; the Reinvestment and Reform Initiative including grant in aid to the Strategic Investment Board and Ilex; grant in aid to the Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland; promotion and administration of sustainable development policy; promotion of human rights, equality of opportunity and social inclusion including older people and people with disabilities and the alleviation of disadvantage, deprivation, poverty and hardship, including in situations of severe stress, crisis or emergency; the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, community relations, district council programmes, victims and survivors; the Commission for Victims and Survivors, children and young people, the Commissioner for Children and Young People for Northern Ireland, payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation; administration and other services, grants and grants in aid and associated non-cash items. 31,296,000
A. For use by the Northern Ireland Assembly on remunerating and supporting Members of the Assembly in discharging their duties in their constituencies, in the Assembly and elsewhere, the costs of general administration including staff costs, general expenses and equipment, accommodation, other services and associated non-cash items. 21,879,000
A. For use by the Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints on the costs of administration and other support services including associated non-cash items, for the provision of an independent, effective and free system for investigating complaints from individuals who claim to have suffered injustice through maladministration by Northern Ireland government departments, their agencies, public and local bodies and the Health and Personal Social Services; the provision of an independent investigative resource to support the work of the Committee on Standards and Privileges in dealing with complaints against Members of the Assembly. 611,000
A. For use by the Food Standards Agency on the costs of administration and other support services in protecting public health from risks which may arise in connection with the consumption of food, and otherwise protecting the interests of consumers in relation to food including the range of food safety enforcement activities required under European Union and Northern Ireland legislation, providing consumers with accurate and reliable information so that they can make health eating choices, facilitating and delivering training courses, commissioning surveys and participating in programmes to increase public awareness of food safety and consumer choice issues and on related services, grants to district councils and associated non-cash items. 4,143,000
A. For use by the Northern Ireland Audit Office on the costs of administration and other support services including associated non-cash items; providing objective information, advice and assurance on the use of public funds; encouraging beneficial change in the provision of public services, the highest standards in financial management and reporting and propriety in the conduct of public business; conducting data matching exercises for the purpose of assisting in the prevention and detection of fraud. 4,115,000
A. For use by the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation on administration costs, regulation of the electricity, gas and water and sewerage industries, protection of electricity, gas and water and sewage consumers, promotion and development of the natural gas industry, duties and functions as set out in various pieces of enabling legislation, administration of the Climate Change Levy Renewable Exemption Scheme, the Electricity (Guarantees of origin of Electricity Produced from Renewable Energy Sources) Scheme, and the Renewables Obligation Scheme, development and administration of an all-island energy market, costs associated with the single electricity market committee, co-operation with international regulators, services to other departments, other miscellaneous duties which may arise and associated non-cash items. 236,000
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Graduate thread spun through senior squad
8 January 2021 14:55 By The Tig
It was perhaps an overlooked statistic among all of the facts and figures behind the performance against Bath last weekend that eight of the starting line-up came from the Leicester Tigers academy.
Just glancing down a teamsheet which featured international names like Nemani Nadolo, Kini Murimurivalu, Ellis Genge and Jaco Taute, it may have escaped some supporters’ notice that more than half of that winning team was homegrown. And that there were another three among the replacements.
There is no way of knowing exactly how many would have been included if the coaching team had everyone available for selection, but having them there and knowing they are in the first-team picture will have supplied a big boost as another important stage in the journey back to where everyone wants to see the club.
Led by club captain Tom Youngs, the top end in terms of experience in that team also boasted his brother Ben and fellow front-rower Dan Cole, men who have seen it all in the game and who account for 700 first-team appearances for their only top-flight club.
Throw in Harry Wells and George Ford, who are both around the 100 games mark, and those five have more appearances for Tigers than all of the remaining members of the squad added together.
Wells and Calum Green were a few years apart in academy intake terms but are cast in the same mould of the traditional Tigers second-rower, the latter-day Louis Deacons, going about their work with the minimum of fuss and maximum of effort.
While Wells has just topped 100 games, Green gained the bulk of his first-team experience elsewhere before returning to green, white and red. Ford and Charlie Clare in the current crop did likewise, which shows the pull the club has for players who have come through the ranks.
George Martin is another Deacon, Wells or Green, a forward who has come through to make an early impression and who, it is hoped, will be wearing the colours for many more years to come.
In the backline, Freddie Steward is taking his chance to shine. He is yet to reach 20 appearances in senior rugby and, while he was a master in the air against Bath, his feet will remain firmly on the floor as he continues his development, recently saying he didn’t want to be a player who “played 10 games and faded” but rather wanted to kick-on with top-class coaching and company.
For good measure, the replacements included hooker Clare who has played his way into the matchday 23 since restart last summer and 21-year-old Joe Heyes who has just passed 50 games at prop. Alongside them, the emerging Jack Van Poortvliet made his European debut during a win in France and followed up with his first Premiership outing of the season in another winning team.
There are others, too, most notably Tommy Reffell, Ben White and Harry Simmons, and now young prop James Whitcombe has had his senior debut to provide hope of continued generations of the Bens, Toms, Dans, Calums and Harrys that all supporters crave alongside the signings from elsewhere.
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US Top 40 Singles: w/e August 3, 1968
Four instrumentals in this week's chart, but notably the Herb Alpert single is not one of them. Ten songs, a solid quarter of the chart, are cover versions and revivals of earlier hits. The Cream and Vanilla Fudge recordings are roughly a year old by the time of this chart and taken from the previous album than their current LP's that were in the stores. The Dells' 45 (itself a remake of their own 1965 recording) clocks in at over six minutes, putting it in the rare company of unusually lengthy 1968 top 40 singles, being released after Richard Harris' "MacArthur Park" and before The Beatles' "Hey Jude". The late great Marvin Junior of The Dells may also hold the record with this single for the longest note held on a top 40 hit, clocking in at 17 seconds, it is truly a stunning performance!
1 The Eyes Of A New York Woman by B.J. Thomas
2 I Can't Stop Dancing by Archie Bell & The Drells
3 She's A Heartbreaker by Gene Pitney
4 Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash
5 Never Give You Up by Jerry Butler
6 Eleanor Rigby by Ray Charles
7 Alice Long (You're My Favorite Girlfriend) by Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
8 Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife by Glen Campbell
9 Light My Fire by Jose Feliciano
10 Lover's Holiday by Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson
11 Sealed With A Kiss by Gary Lewis & The Playboys
12 Face It Girl, It's Over by Nancy Wilson
13 Halfway To Paradise by Bobby Vinton
14 Don't Take It So Hard by Paul Revere & The Raiders
15 Reach Out Of The Darkness by Friend & Lover
16 Here Comes The Judge by Shorty Long
17 Angel Of The Morning by Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts
18 The Look Of Love by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
19 Soul Limbo by Booker T. & The MG's
20 Indian Lake by The Cowsills
21 Dream A Little Dream Of Me by Mama Cass with The Mamas & The Papas
22 Autumn Of My Life by Bobby Goldsboro
23 Stay In My Corner by The Dells
24 Journey To The Center Of The Mind by The Amboy Dukes
25 (You Keep Me) Hangin' On by Vanilla Fudge
26 This Guy's In Love With You by Herb Alpert
27 Sky Pilot (Part 1) by Eric Burdon & The Animals
28 People Got To Be Free by The Rascals
29 Pictures Of Matchstick Men by Status Quo
30 Born To Be Wild by Steppenwolf
31 Sunshine Of Your Love by Cream
32 Turn Around, Look At Me by The Vogues
33 The Horse by Cliff Nobles & Co.
34 Lady Willpower by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
35 Jumpin' Jack Flash by The Rolling Stones
36 Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan
37 Grazing In The Grass by Hugh Masekela
38 Stoned Soul Picnic by The 5th Dimension
39 Classical Gas by Mason Williams
40 Hello, I Love You by The Doors
Labels: charts, pop
US Top 40 Singles: w/e July 29, 1967
The US hits from the original "summer of love" included a remarkable single from Janis Ian that she wrote when she was 13 years old, recorded when she was 14 and released in September 1966 when she was 15. It was nearly a year later, after it caught the ear of Leonard Bernstein who then raved about it on national TV, that "Society's Child" was reserviced to radio stations and given a heavier promotional push, sending it into the top 40. The song's topic of interracial romance prevented airplay in some markets due to controversy.
1 Let's Live For Today by Grass Roots
2 Step Out Of Your Mind by The American Breed
3 Ain't No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
4 Your Unchanging Love by Marvin Gaye
5 You Were On My Mind by Crispian St. Peters
6 Let The Good Times Roll & Feel So Good by Bunny Sigler
7 Don't Go Out Into The Rain (You're Going To Melt) by Herman's Hermits
8 The Happening by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
9 To Love Somebody by Bee Gees
10 In The Chapel In The Moonlight by Dean Martin
11 Hypnotized by Linda Jones
12 All You Need Is Love by The Beatles
13 My Mammy by The Happenings
14 Don't Sleep In The Subway by Petula Clark
15 Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking) by Janis Ian
16 I Like The Way by Tommy James & The Shondells
17 Pleasant Valley Sunday by The Monkees
18 More Love by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
19 For Your Love by Peaches & Herb
20 Make Me Yours by Bettye Swann
21 There Goes My Everything by Engelbert Humperdinck
22 A Girl Like You by The Young Rascals
23 Soul Finger by The Bar-Kays
24 Silence Is Golden by The Tremeloes
25 Carrie Ann by The Hollies
26 Here We Go Again by Ray Charles
27 Jackson by Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
28 Come On Down To My Boat by Every Mother's Son
29 I Take It Back by Sandy Posey
30 San Francisco (Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) by Scott McKenzie
31 C'mon Marianne by The Four Seasons
32 Up, Up And Away by The 5th Dimension
33 White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
34 Mercy, Mercy, Mercy by The Buckinghams
35 A Little Bit O' Soul by The Music Explosion
36 A Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procol Harum
37 Can't Take My Eyes Off You by Frankie Valli
38 Windy by The Association
39 I Was Made To Love Her by Stevie Wonder
40 Light My Fire by The Doors
FM Rock: April 1968
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FM Rock: March 1968
US Top 20 Singles: w/e July 9, 1983
FM Rock: February 1968
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This page, TIR 88-9: Sales Tax Treatment of Purchases with U.S. Government Bankcards, is offered by
Technical Information Release TIR 88-9: Sales Tax Treatment of Purchases with U.S. Government Bankcards
The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced a new program for administering U.S. Government purchases by federal employees. The U.S. Department of Commerce provides an official "U.S. Government Bankcard," issued through the Mastercard system, to federal employees who are authorized to make certain government purchases on the credit of the United States. Federal employees can use the U.S. Government Bankcard only for U.S. Government purchases of goods within an authorized spending limit, and not for travel, meals, entertainment or for personal purchases. The Massachusetts Department of Revenue has agreed to participate in the U.S. Government Bankcard program. The purpose of this Technical Information Release is to explain the Department of Revenue procedures for administering the new U.S. Government Bankcard program.
Sales to the United States or its agencies are exempt from Massachusetts sales tax. G.L. c. 64H, s. 6(d). Generally, in order to be eligible for the exemption, a sale must be directly to the United States or to a U.S. agency. If the credit of the U.S. Government is bound by a purchase made by a federal employee, the employee is an agent of the U.S. Government and the sale is exempt from Massachusetts sales tax. The Department of Revenue will accept the U.S. Government Bankcard as evidence that a particular sale is exempt under G.L. c. 64H, s. 6(d).
The new procedures are as follows. In order for a purchase to be exempt from Massachusetts sales tax, an authorized federal employee must present to the vendor the U.S. Government Bankcard with an additional personal identification at the time of purchase. If the Mastercard system authorizes the sale, the vendor will charge no sales tax, but will otherwise treat the purchase as an ordinary credit card transaction. The words "U.S. Government Tax Exempt" will be imprinted on the vendor's copy of the sales receipt. The vendor must retain this receipt for the vendor's records. See 830 CMR 62C.25.1(4). No other substantiation is required for the Massachusetts sales tax exemption to apply to a U.S. Government purchase of goods.
The Department of Revenue will continue to accept Forms ST-2 and ST 5 for U.S. Government purchases of goods by federal employees, but those forms are not required with the U.S. Government Bankcard. The U.S. Department of Commerce anticipates that all federal agencies will be participating in the program by the end of fiscal year 1990.
If you have any questions about the new Department of Revenue procedures, you may call or write:
Determinations Bureau - Room 303
Stephen W. Kidder
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Bengals running out of chances to pick up 3rd win
By Mitch Stacy - AP Sports Writer
Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Alex Erickson (12) fumbles the ball in the first half of an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys in Cincinnati, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. The Cowboys recovered. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Possibly the best opportunity left for the Cincinnati Bengals to win another game this season came and went last Sunday.
The Dallas Cowboys came into Paul Brown Stadium at 3-9. Andy Dalton, a quarterback who was cast aside by the Bengals, was starting in place of the injured Dak Prescott. The Dallas defense struggles against the run. The chance for a feel-good victory at home was right there for the Bengals, but again they fumbled it away.
Cincinnati fumbled on each of its first three drives — one of them a scoop-and-score — leading to 17 first-half points by the Cowboys on the way to a 30-7 humiliation. Dalton rubbed it in their faces with a 7-yard touchdown toss with two minutes left and the game already in hand.
The Bengals (2-10-1) now look ahead to a Monday night game against Pittsburgh. The Steelers (11-2) have lost two straight and have playoff positioning to worry about, so they won’t be overlooking the last-place Bengals.
On top of that, the Bengals will have to wait to see if their quarterback of the moment, Brandon Allen, will be fit to play after hurting his right knee late in the Dallas game.
Allen, who began the season on the practice squad, was promoted to starter after Joe Burrow — the Heisman Trophy winner and top overall draft pick — was lost for the season to a knee injury Nov. 22. The Bengals have lost all three games Allen has started.
Coach Zac Taylor said Monday that Allen is day to day.
If he can’t go, then it will be another seldom-used backup, Ryan Finley, or even journeyman Kevin Hogan, who was signed to the practice squad two weeks ago.
After the Steelers, Cincinnati will finish against Houston and Baltimore. If the current run of futility continues, the Bengals will be stuck on two wins for the second straight season, this one marked by great hope to start, then bad luck, multiple injuries to key players, COVID-19 issues and close games that could have gone their way and didn’t.
“It’s frustrating,” Taylor said. “It’s hard to get rid of this feeling that we feel at the end of every week.”
The Bengals’ defense has made some strides. After holding three of four previous opponents to 20 or fewer points, Cincinnati allowed only 101 rushing yards to the Cowboys, held Dalton to 185 passing yards and sacked him twice. Dallas settled for field goals three times.
WHAT NEEDS WORK
The offensive line has been a patchwork the entire season because of injuries, and the guys who have been in there are underperforming. The run game has been terrible since Joe Mixon was injured in October.
Veteran WR A.J. Green caught six of his seven targets for a team-leading 62 yards and his second touchdown of the season.
Kicker Randy Bullock, who had missed three of his past five field-goal attempts, was put on the inactive list so the Bengals could give Austin Seibert a shot. Seibert’s only chance was a PAT, so he’ll be the No. 1 guy again on Monday. Guard Michael Jordan also was a healthy scratch because of poor play.
Taylor said LB Logan Wilson has a foot injury and is day to day.
3.8 — Average rushing yards per carry for Cincinnati this season.
Come up with a plan for whichever quarterback is playing that will give the Bengals a chance to win a third game. That might at least make all this easier to swallow and earn Taylor a chance at another season with a healthy Burrow and Mixon.
“I mean, it gets harder every week,” defensive end Sam Hubbard acknowledged. “You know, you just got to come to work and keep trying, keep trying to turn this thing around and get a win. But after a while it gets harder and harder.”
https://www.limaohio.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2020/12/web1_125926493-f13e190da83945cd95b76f31870475a8.jpgCincinnati Bengals wide receiver Alex Erickson (12) fumbles the ball in the first half of an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys in Cincinnati, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. The Cowboys recovered. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)
By Mitch Stacy
AP Sports Writer
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Udayan Roy
B.Sc., Presidency College, Calcutta UniversityPh.D., Stony Brook University
udayan.roy@liu.edu
http://myweb.liu.edu/~uroy/
Macroeconomics, International Trade, Development Economics
Author, "Review: The final triumph of Adam Smith?" published in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (2008)
Co-author, "The effect of labor market monopsony on economic growth," published in the Journal of Macroeconomics (2008)
Author, "International Trade and the Value of Time," published in the Review of International Economics (2005)
Co-author, "Fiscal Policy, Long-Run Growth and Welfare in a Stock-Flow Model of Public Goods," published in the Canadian Journal of Economics (2004)
Co-author, "Optimal Growth with Public Capital and Public Services," published in Economics of Planning (2002)
Author, "Vertical Product Differentiation and the Value of Time," published in the International Economic Journal (1998)
Author, "Economic Growth with Negative Externalities in Innovation," published in the Journal of Macroeconomics (1997)
Author, "Intra-Industry Competitiveness and Economic Growth," published in the Journal of Economics and Business (1997)
Co-author, "Job Rotation and Public Policy: Theory with Applications to Japan and the USA," published in the International Journal of Manpower (1994)
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HEALTH CARE & PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
M.H.A. in Health Administration
The Master of Health Administration degree, provides the comprehensive curriculum needed to succeed as a manager or leader in a highly complex, competitive and ever-changing health care environment. This 42-credit program examines both practical and theoretical problems and challenges in the field, and provides an understanding of a wide range of topics including organizational structures, health care policy analysis and healthcare management.
Your plan of study is comprised of 18 credits of foundation courses, including: "Principles of Public Administration," "Organizational Theory and Behavior in the Public Sector," "Economic Environment and the Public Sector," "Analytical Methods," "Computer-based Management Systems" and "The Policy Process in Health Care Administration."
The Advanced Core Curriculum (nine credits) explores various aspects of public sector administration, with courses including: "Human Resource Administration," "Fundamentals of Budgeting and Finance," and "Administrative Responsibility and the Legal Environment." Nine credits of electives and a thesis round out the program. Students matriculating on a full-time basis can complete this program in just over two years. All M.H.A courses meet in-person on the LIU Post campus, and are available on both evenings and weekends.
The M.H.A. program at LIU Post prepares students for service in executive and managerial-level positions public, nonprofit, and health care organizations. Our graduates are currently serving in the hospitals and health care practices; local and national nonprofits; and local, state, and federal government positions. Additional detail on the sectors, organizations, and titles of our M.H.A. program graduates is available here.
Information on the cost of the M.H.A Program is available here. Financial aid and graduate assistantships are available here.
Both pre-service and in-service students in the M.H.A Program have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience through internships in public, health care, and nonprofit organizations. Past interns have worked in a variety of organizations on Long Island and in New York City.
Check out the LIU Post Graduate Bulletin to learn about admissions, degree requirements, course descriptions, and more.
Master of Health Administration Program Mission Statement
The mission of the Master of Health Administration (M.H.A) Program at LIU Post is to prepare leaders for service in public, nonprofit, and health care organizations. Primarily focusing on Long Island and the New York Metropolitan area, the M.H.A Program will emphasize the complexities and unique challenges of service delivery in these sectors and the training of skilled and creative pre-service and mid-career leaders. Embracing the broader mission of Long Island University, the M.H.A Program will meet this purpose in an inclusive environment that encourages access and excellence for a diverse student population. Mirroring the globalization of public, nonprofit, and health care services, the M.H.A Program will draw students from both domestic and international populations. The M.H.A Program will cultivate principled practitioners who are intently focused on values of effectiveness; efficiency and responsible use of resources; equity and fairness; accountability; and engagement with and respect for diverse constituencies. In support of the M.H.A Program mission, faculty members will engage in scholarly research and community and professional service aimed at advancing knowledge in the field of administration and effecting positive change in public, health care, and nonprofit services.
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News: DNA Evidence Collected By M-Vac Helps Solve 40 Year Old Cold Case
DNA Evidence Collected By M-Vac Helps Solve 40 Year Old Cold Case
On December 4th, 1977 Sharon Schollmeyers was a 16 year old girl living in an apartment in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. Unfortunately, there was a murderous stalker who was dangerously close and it proved to be deadly for her. According to court documents the next day Sharon was found by her mother naked in her bathtub in 6 inches of water with a halter-top used as a gag in her mouth and a scarf around her head as a blindfold. She had been strangled, suffocated and her death was ruled a homicide.
In the 1977 police report, the building manager, Patrick McCabe, let the victim's mother into the apartment and waited in the living room as the mother searched for her daughter. When the victim was discovered McCabe made the 911 call to report the incident. Unfortunately, despite a thorough investigation, the case went cold. However, the investigators were astute enough to properly preserve the evidence which would, as new technology became available, provide the DNA profile that would ultimately lead to the arrest. Amazingly, the building manager that had made the original 911 call was the same man that had raped and murdered the victim.
"As a law enforcement agency, we never give up on a case," stated Detective Wilking, the Salt Lake City PD PIO. "We are always looking for that piece of the puzzle that will make the difference. In the Sharon Schollmeyers case, the M-Vac came through for us and produced a full DNA profile that we didn't have before, which led to the CODIS hit. Sharon and her family have been waiting almost 40 years for justice, and thanks to the latest in technology, determination and the hard work of many investigators over decades of effort we were able to bring this case to a close and provide the justice that Sharon deserves."
According to the court documents, the case evidence was submitted to a private crime lab in Salt Lake City for M-Vac DNA testing, including the halter-top that was used to gag the victim. Despite almost 40 years after the heinous crime had been committed, the aggressive collection method produced a full DNA profile that could be loaded into the federal DNA database, and the match to Patrick McCabe was made. McCabe has since been convicted of 2nd degree murder and aggravated burglary and faces up to life in prison.
"We are extremely proud of the way the M-Vac performed in this case," said Jared Bradley, President of M-Vac Systems. "Agencies that are using the M-Vac, especially for difficult cases or when the evidence is large, rough or porous like in the Shollmeyers case, are getting really impressive results. Salt Lake City PD is one of those agencies that has successfully used the M-Vac on a number of cases and we are excited to hear of these latest results. Most importantly though is Sharon can now rest in peace and her family can move on knowing Sharon's killer has been caught."
The M-Vac System is being utilized by an increasing number of police agencies and crime labs both in the United States and internationally. As investigators are assigned difficult cases, having a tool like the M-Vac immediately available helps immensely. It can collect critical DNA evidence from a variety of surfaces at the crime scene, in the evidence processing facility or in the crime lab. As the world's most advanced wet-vacuum forensic DNA collection system, the M-Vac opens up cases and evidence to potential DNA profiles that were not available in the past.
Case No: 171902460 FS 3rd District Court, Salt Lake County, Utah
M-Vac Systems is the world's leader in wet-vacuum forensic DNA collection. Made in the USA and engineered for maximum collection capabilities, M-Vac Systems' technology is the most innovative and capable forensic DNA material collection tool available for crime scene investigators, forensic scientists, sexual assault nurse examiners and other law enforcement specialists. For a more detailed description of the product and validation data, visit why mvac. Additional information and sales quotes can be obtained by contacting M-Vac Systems by phone or through the website.
To see the original press release click here.
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The west is in. Now what?
Can the West shape the national agenda? A Maclean’s debate.
By Maclean's February 3, 2010
The rise of Western Canada was the topic of a round table discussion last week in Calgary, broadcast live by CPAC. Joining Paul Wells and Andrew Coyne were Fort McMurray’s Mayor Melissa Blake, Alberta’s Minister of Culture Lindsay Blackett, Saskatchewan’s Environment Minister Nancy Heppner, Lloyd Axworthy, the University of Winnipeg’s president, and the Wildrose Alliance’s Rob Anderson. CPAC’s Peter Van Dusen moderated the event.
Coyne: How do we define the West beyond geography? Is there such a thing as a kind of western agenda, a western political culture?
Blackett: We have a spirit of collaboration amongst governments. We’ve had joint cabinet meetings with Alberta and Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. We have the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA) with B.C. that we want to extend to Saskatchewan. Independently, we haven’t had a lot of clout, but when we band together—not just economically but politically, and with commonality on issues—we have a lot more success, and that’s not something the other provinces really have.
Anderson: People come here for the opportunities. It’s a great place for a fresh start, to accomplish something important. I think the culture is kind of based around that.
We are a self-reliant region and we need to quit looking out to the federal government, and other places, to solve our problems.
Coyne: And yet it’s a paradox, isn’t it? This region that votes so robustly Conservative federally is also the region that has consistently returned NDP governments provincially. What is it about the West’s political culture that it can vote for both of those types of parties—sometimes at the same time?
Axworthy: If you go back into the history, whether it’s Social Credit or the rise of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, they were both populist movements really fighting against eastern establishments.
One thing that is really affecting Western Canada, as much as the rest of country, is that what we are dealing with is now so much outside our borders, we’re somewhat vulnerable to external trade patterns, to climate-change issues, to issues of disease. We’re having to come to grips with issues that are not of our own making but we have to find our own solutions. That’s causing a lot of confusion in the political system right now because the old, conventional wisdoms don’t apply.
Coyne: But isn’t that one of the things that defines the West: it’s always been exposed to the elements, exposed to resource crises, it’s always had to adapt to change, and part of the culture of the West is a receptivity to change, one manifestation of which is it keeps throwing up these new parties. But there’s a willingness to experiment that perhaps the rest of Canada has not been as known for.
Blackett: That’s true, but in terms of commonalities, we’re not beholden to somebody else. And hard work is not a dirty word here, and that sense of entitlement is not as pervasive as it is back East.
Wells: The strains of any complex society have always been a little starker in the West, partly for geographic reasons. Harsher challenges, bigger distances, but also more opportunity, money just popping out of the ground. And there’s two reactions to that: “Leave me alone so I can make a stand on my own,” or “Let’s band together for protection.”
Anderson: There’s no doubt we have a wealth of resources in the West. Unfortunately, one of the things that has hurt us in the last few years is this idea that maybe we’re not as friendly as a province as we were once to do business in. We’ve got to get back to that spirit of entrepreneurship, that pro-business attitude that we had here in the West that you still see in Saskatchewan and that you even see in B.C.
Coyne: Lindsay, is he right that Alberta’s losing that sense of entrepreneurship and friendliness to business?
Blackett: Our premier stated last week that we want to be the most competitive region in the country to do business, not just in oil and gas. That means a lot of work reducing red tape and making sure we have the same low tax regime, that we’re attractive. Maybe that’s something that had slid over the last 10 to 15 years. But we’ve got to reinvent ourselves. I think we’re more than capable.
Coyne: Talking of reinvention, probably the most striking change in the West is what’s been happening in Saskatchewan, going from being a have-not to a have, going from a shrinking to a growing province. How is that changing Saskatchewan in terms of its sense of itself, in terms of its political culture?
Heppner: [Premier Brad Wall] is the biggest promoter of our province I have ever seen. We are pioneers and entrepreneurs and hard-working people and have always had a quiet pride in our province. I don’t think our pride is quite so quiet anymore, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. We stood up and realized we don’t have our hand out to Ottawa, we don’t have to yell and scream at Ottawa to get things done, we can stand on our own two feet. That goes hand in hand with the entrepreneurial spirit of the Saskatchewan Party.
WESTERN-BRED solutions are needed for oil sands problems
Coyne: I’ve heard Saskatchewan and Alberta now are much more similar than they were.
Heppner: We have a lot of the same resources, same issues, same opportunities, same challenges. Out of the provinces, the greatest similarities are between Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Axworthy: We shouldn’t get too carried away that somehow there’s going to be this congeries of regional conglomerates who can do their own thing in their own way. There is the vision that somehow we can build up walls because we’ve got gas and oil and potash. Commodities are going to be increasingly in demand, but they also bring costs. There’s a lot more sense of self-sufficiency, pride and confidence, but can you convert that into a much stronger sense of how you shape a national agenda.
Van Dusen: How happy is the West seeing a lot of its hard-earned money going to auto plants in Ontario and Quebec?
Anderson: The West has always been pan-Canadian. Look at the contribution we make every year—between $10 and $20 billion. We do this because we care about the country. That’s why we haven’t put up very much of a fight or a stink. However, there has to be a recognition and fairness.
Van Dusen: So how understanding is the West of current economic policies you’re seeing from Ottawa?
Blackett: Last year, we gave $21.1 billion to Canada [in] net equalization payments, and $131 billion over the last 10 years. When times are tough, people start to ask tough questions: “What do we get back in return for that money?” In terms of health care transfers we get, I think, $545 per Albertan. Every other province gets $746. We are giving the most, but we’re getting the least.
Wells: Mayor Blake, every new diplomat that lands in Ottawa makes a beeline to Fort McMurray. And yet, during federal election campaigns there’s not a federal party that figures there’s any point wasting a campaign day in Fort McMurray because it’s a settled question. Do you sometimes feel a little ignored by the Canadian government?
Blake: I feel a lot ignored. When you get that kind of international attention, you would like to have more inclusion when it comes to the considerations. Contemplating all the discussion related to the environment, I’m quite concerned. What is this going to mean in terms of our community growth perspective, and long term? I don’t have an answer because we’re not well engaged.
Coyne: Supposing the Harper government decides it’s tired of taking a beating internationally, and there are votes to be had in Quebec and parts east by beating up on the oil sands? Does the West go, “We’re not in. We thought we got the government we wanted and it turns out they’ve been Ottawashed”?
Axworthy: Rather than falling back on, “It’s those damned bastards in Ottawa or Toronto who are at fault,” a lot of the responsibility rests on us to come up with solutions. Think tanks in the West have talked about the importance of a clean energy grid.
Blackett: Our premier decided to commit $2 billion to carbon sequestration because he wanted to be a leader—not just in Canada but the world.
Heppner: In our province, we have legislation that’s going to be passed this spring that will have a tech fund that large emitters can access to implement low-carbon technologies. We’re not sitting back waiting for the federal government to dictate. We’re moving ahead with real solutions.
Coyne: If the numbers are right, and the population continues to shift to the West, you’re going to see dozens of seats moving into the West, the balance of power fundamentally shifting in Parliament, and, at some point, it’s going to dawn on people: “Wait a minute, we’re not facing that big, bad Ottawa anymore, we’re running the place.” So what’s going to be the West’s agenda?
Anderson: What makes Canada so wonderful is that it has such diverse regions. There needs to be respect for that diversity. That means letting provinces, as much as possible, govern themselves, and taking, as a national government, the best ideas in health care, education, and trying to implement those as much as possible on a national stage.
Axworthy: I don’t think diversity is necessarily measured by provincial autonomy. I think boundaries are becoming increasingly irrelevant—the issues, the crises, the risks and the opportunities transcend boundaries. We have to learn how to act better as a country, and I would start with political reform. I think that’s where we’re weakest. There’s a lot of ways of changing Parliament, changing the way the executive works, and changing how we do relations between regions.
We should be, as westerners, because we’re closer to it, really putting an effort into how to deal with the fundamental changes going on in the Canadian North. The opening of water gives us new transportation and trade routes, if we’re smart about it. On the other side, the impact upon the people and the animals and the flora of the North is becoming tragic. Those are, to me, our national issues: we can’t do them from Alberta, or from Manitoba, or from P.E.I. They’ve got to be done in a collective, collaborative, co-operative way.
Coyne: Senate reform has been a traditional hot-button issue in the West. But if the West becomes more powerful in the House, does the impetus for Senate reform lessen?
Blackett: If we have a bigger say in decision-making on a national perspective, if we feel that we have a seat at that table–which we don’t feel now—I think the overwhelming desire will lessen somewhat.
Coyne: In a strange way, the upside of being out of power for the West was that it never got into the trap of taking all the government largesse. As you start to have more control over the levers of power, is there going to be a temptation for the West to fall into the same traps and start directing the lolly to its own direction and corrupting itself?
Blackett: There’s always a danger in that, but I think what the West has going for it and what we could contribute, if you’re looking forward 20 or 30 years, is that ability to use innovation and technology.
Coyne: Nancy, having been on both sides of this divide [Heppner was formerly a staffer with the federal Tories], how do you keep them focused on a western agenda and western interests, when they seem to be changing quite a bit once they get into power?
Heppner: I would hope that we don’t change our attitude. When you look at provinces like Saskatchewan and Alberta, if the price of oil goes down there’s no bailout for us. The provincial coffers suffer—nobody is stepping up to help us out. We’re not used to having things like that in our province. I think there would be a resistance for the largesse. I think what we would expect is not entitlement, but fair share.
Coyne: Melissa, what’s your perspective from a municipal level of government?
Blake: We’re in such a predicament in terms of our financial sustainability we would take assistance from anybody willing to give it to us. That said, I think my ties are much more strong with the province than they ever would be with the federal government. I would welcome anything that I could get, and so it counters what you’re hearing as probably a more provincial perspective, which would be where may heart would lie, it’s just not what my reality is in my community.
Wells: So you’re not clamouring for governments to get out of your way. You think that other levels of government are altogether too much out of your way already.
Blake: I feel neglected, yeah.
Anderson: We have this vision that in order to have a unified country, we have to have a centralized government that appeals to everyone, to every region. And so you get this kind of bland policy, and frankly the needs aren’t often met. One of the big challenges moving forward is decentralizing, getting the money, getting the resources from the bureaucracy down to the ground to the people that need it, so that includes decentralizing to the provinces and decentralizing from the provinces to the communities as much as possible.
Axworthy: If you give up on national standards then you are going to have uneven standards. But why not move the headquarters of Indian Affairs to Regina or Winnipeg or Calgary? Have more governance here so that it’s reflective. Having spent a lot of years in Ottawa as a westerner, there is an entitlement, too often, to have all those institutions in one area. That’s part of the government reform that has to take place.
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Apple Shipping Low-Cost iPhone to China Mobile
Friday September 6, 2013 2:19 pm PDT by Juli Clover
After years of ongoing negotiations, it appears that Apple and China Mobile have finally reached a deal that will see China's largest carrier offer the iPhone. According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple is currently preparing to ship the new low-cost iPhone "5C" to the carrier.
A deal would cap years of negotiations between the two companies. Apple has tried to hammer out a deal with China's largest wireless carrier that has 700 million subscribers, seven times the size of the U.S.'s largest wireless carrier Verizon Wireless. Greater China is Apple's third biggest market after the U.S. and Europe in terms of sales.
Apple has asked Foxconn, its longtime contract manufacturing partner, to add China Mobile to the list of carriers slated to receive a new low-cost iPhone, one of these people said. It isn't clear when the phones would be delivered.
Reaching a deal with China Mobile has not been an easy feat for Apple, and the two companies have been in negotiations and talks for more than two years.
Rendering of Apple's Low-Cost iPhone 5C
Much of the problem stemmed from China Mobile's use of TD-SCDMA, which Apple's iPhones have not previously supported, though revenue share terms were also an issue. Tim Cook met with China Mobile officials several times over the course of the year and in August, China Mobile chairman Xi Guohua reported that the company was close to achieving an agreement with Apple.
Apple's lower-cost iPhone, which has been developed primarily for emerging markets like China, is expected to carry a price tag between $400 to $500, making it more affordable than alternatives like the upcoming flagship iPhone 5S. Apple will announce its new iPhone lineup on September 10, with an event to follow in Beijing on September 11.
While China Unicom and China Telecom are expected to receive the iPhone on September 20, China Mobile's launch could come somewhat later because of the need for regulatory approval on the TD-SCDMA compatible iPhone.
Update: According to Bloomberg, a deal is close to being finalized, but it will not be announced during the September 10 iPhone event.
Ryth
...and one of the last strongholds/strangleholds of Android is about to fall.
Folks...the marketshare % is about to take a drastic swing worldwide.
It already had shifted in the US when T-Mobile finally got the iPhone 5 in the spring leaving Android in the USA no place to hide.
With the iPhone appearing on more and more carriers where Android has had exclusivity is going to bring their % tumbling down.
Can't wait for the analysts to try to spin this one.
Rogifan
Oh get off it already. It would be a great disservice to us if the market became >90% iPhone.
But of course it's fine if its 90% Android, right?
Why do you assume they will choose an iPhone by default? They are probably more than happy with how open Android is, so while I am sure iPhone sales will pick up I doubt this is the Android crusher you believe it will be.
Because the same assumptions have been made everywhere and everywhere the iPhone appears, it takes the majority of % of share.
They said the same thing about T-Mobile. iPhone has been out for a while and T-Mobile is more Android type people. And low and behold, iPhone takes the #1 sales slot from them also. People want the iPhone and with the new 5c, it's even more reasons for the mid range/low to possibly buy it.
I guess we'll see right?
theheadguy
...and one of the last strongholds/strangleholds of Android is about to fall. Folks...the marketshare % is about to take a drastic swing worldwide. It already has shifted in the US when T-Mobile finally got it and Android no longer had a place to hide.
Aussi3
Apple shares are going to go up massively when this happens
GuitarDTO
We get it. China Mobile is getting the iPhone. Yay.
Larger screen please.
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2018/19 MCAD–Jerome Fellowship Panel Discussion
Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Jerome Artist Discussion moderated by Victoria Sung, assistant curator of the Walker Art Center
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design, on behalf of the Jerome Foundation, is honored to spotlight the recent work of the recipients of the 2018/19 MCAD–Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Early Career Artists: Mara Duvra, Marjorie Fedyszyn, Tucker Hollingsworth, and Boone Nguyen, all of the Twin Cities. Over the fellowship year, curator Victoria Sung visited with the fellows and wrote an essay about each artist that is included in the exhibition catalogue.
Mara Duvra’s current body of work is a continuation of a project, Tending: meditations on Blackness and interiority. With photographs, found objects, and texts, this work uncovers poetic representations of tenderness, calm, and silence as visual and tactile modes of self-study. “To allow for breath, space, and time. To allow also for the body.” (Gabrielle Civil) Read an interview with Duvra.
Marjorie Fedyszyn has been working with handmade, overbeaten abaca paper for the duration of the fellowship. With this new material, Fedyszyn continues to explore the tensions between power or control and vulnerability. Integrating memories and feelings of her life experiences through her art, she strives to reach her viewers and elicit conversations on our shared human experiences. Read an interview with Fedyszyn.
Tucker Hollingsworth is continuing to make work that expands the perceived limits and definitions of what a camera is possible of making, doing, and even in some cases, being. These images captured “from nature” have the distinct look of having been manipulated when they are, in fact, due to the serendipitous process of clicking the shutter of a damaged or otherwise non-functioning camera. Read an interview with Hollingsworth.
Boone Nguyen's multimedia installation––including still photography, observational video, and soundscapes––interrogates the dichotomy between the personal and the universal. Which cultural objects and whose stories, lives, and actions are deemed valuable, and thus worthy of preserving? How do we recover, reclaim, and reanimate what is consigned to be forgotten? Through an engagement with these questions, his own family archives, and the materials collected in the Hmong Archives and East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul, Nguyen’s project explores the social agency and collective histories of displaced and marginalized communities. Read an interview with Nguyen.
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Media > Fact Pages > Climatron Plants
Climatron® Plants
Geodesic Dome Conservatory
The Missouri Botanical Garden’s iconic geodesic dome greenhouse, the Climatron®, encloses what might be the most surprising half-acre of land in the Midwest.
From the moment that you enter, no matter the season, you are immersed in a thriving tropical rain forest environment. You feel the heat and humidity; you hear the sounds of gurgling water and cascading waterfalls. A lush, green landscape of exotic plants surrounds you. Some plants and flowers perch on inhospitable-looking rocks, while others cling to trees that appear to brush the top of the 70-foot-high dome. There is a river aquarium with strange fish, and a bridge overlooking the unusual vegetation. Everywhere, there are bright flowers.
The Climatron needs no interior support columns, providing plants with more space and light than a conventional conservatory. The dome houses more than 2,800 individual plants, including 1,400 tropical species. The double coconut palm (Lodoicea maldivica) has the largest seeds in the entire plant kingdom, weighing up to 50 pounds each. This particular tree was planted inside the Climatron in 1982.
Nearby is the traveler’s palm (Ravenela madagascariensis) from Madagascar, so named because thirsty travelers could find stores of water in many parts of the plant, from its fan-like leaf folds to its flower bracts to inside its hollow leaf bases, which can hold up to one quart of water each. Although not a true palm, the traveler’s palm is nonetheless striking. A true palm on display is the old man palm (Coccothrinax criinita), which earns its moniker because its fibrous trunk looks like the long, straggly beard of an old man.
Further down the path, visitors will encounter a bed of water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes)with its spongy, air-filled leaves floating on a small pond alongside glass sculptures created by famed artist Dale Chihuly. Across the way is a sampling of cycads, the primitive ancestors of pines nicknamed “dinosaur plants” because they flourished alongside the dinosaurs millions of years ago. Of special interest to locals is the Dioon edule from Mexico, which dates back to the 1904 World’s Fair held in St. Louis.
Plants growing on top of plants, called epiphytes, form their own forest. View orchids, bromeliads and ferns, as well as an epiphytic cacti and a rare epiphytic cycad. Ever wonder where your favorite sweet treat comes from? Look for a chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao) with football-shaped fruits growing along the trunk. Inside are beans that can be scooped out, fermented, dried, roasted and refined. Also growing in this “Plantation Trail” area are other plants that bring economic benefits, such as rice, papaya, pineapple and bananas.
One of the strangest looking trees on display is the screw pine (Pandanus),which looks like it is standing on twisted stilts. It is actually a flowering plant whose leaves are used in thatch, baskets, hats and mats.
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Dan Padilla
MAJ Pacesetter
Birmingham attorney Dan Padilla wanted to become a trial lawyer because of his father. “He is my inspiration. My father was not an attorney; he was an executive at Ford Motor Company. However, he has always made it a priority in his life to give to others who are less fortunate. Specifically, he was actively involved in numerous charities and giving back to the community of southwest Detroit where he grew up, never forgetting his roots. Witnessing the humanitarian nature of my father really inspired me to find a career in which I could do the same,” stated Padilla.
Padilla decided to become a member of MAJ because he had some great mentors who valued what the membership has to offer. “They taught me how important it was to become involved. The leadership of MAJ and their membership are selfless and dedicated to helping people. I believe that it is important for trial lawyers to be part of MAJ because it is an association that is unified toward common goals; provides resources, ideas and strategies that are applicable in all phases of practice; and serves to give a voice to those who do not have the means to be heard. Being actively involved in MAJ is critical to the success of the Plaintiff’s bar. The stronger we are, the more power we have to make a difference for our clients. I am proud to be part of such an outstanding organization,” said Padilla.
A monthly contributor to Justice PAC, Padilla believes that Justice PAC is critical to help people become more knowledgeable. “Through organizations such as MAJ, we are able to effectively disclose legal discrepancies and make people aware of how their rights are affected. Insurance companies and their lobbyists continue to throw money to destroy the rights of citizens. Justice PAC is out there to defend the rights of the citizens and to make sure that the special interests don’t erode the justice system.”
Padilla’s firm specializes in individuals who have been seriously injured. “I have been fortunate to have a great team of attorneys and staff that have been with me a long time. We represent a lot of skilled trades. Many of our clients who get injured will never be able to return to their previous employment. Our representation is critical to their future, and we take that very seriously.
“The most gratifying aspect of practicing law is when I represent a client who originally thought their case was hopeless and we are able to assist them in obtaining a successful result. One of my most satisfying cases was representing a 7-year-old girl who was mauled by a dog. The defendant attorney was very aggressive and the defendant showed no remorse. At trial the defendant’s arrogance was overwhelming. We obtained a significant verdict for this young girl, and I still keep in contact with her and her parents. My most memorable case was when I represented a young man who was horrifically injured as a result of hitting an electrical wire as he was hauling an oversized load. Many of his co-workers attempted to put the blame on the plaintiff. It was clear that they were lying to save their jobs. After months of discovery and some diligent investigation, we found an ex-employee who finally admitted fault. It was extremely gratifying to settle the case for a significant sum just before picking a jury.”
Padilla and his wife have been married for fifteen years and have three sons. “I enjoy playing basketball and golf. My wife and I enjoy traveling and spending time with our children.”
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John Breunig: Why we shouldn't turn the page on China news
John Breunig
June 14, 2020 Updated: June 14, 2020 9:31 a.m.
Cardboard figures of Chinese President Xi Jinping wearing a face mask and U.S. President Donald Trump stand in front of a souvenir shop in downtown Moscow on June 3
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From left, Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands on Nov. 9, 2017, during a meeting outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
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China President Xi Jinping, right, greets U.S. President Donald Trump before a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka.
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Evan Osnos, winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction for “Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China,” on Nov. 19, 2014 in New York City.
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“Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China,” by Evan Osnos
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The White House is seen through several layers of recently erected security fencing and barricades from the north side of Lafayette Squre in Washington, D.C., on June 5 2020, amid ongoing demonstrations over the death of George Floyd in police custody.
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Workers remove a security fence Wednesday, June 10, 2020, near the White House in Washington. The fence was erected as protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis, moved to Washington.
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George Costanza grumbled to Jerry Seinfeld about that day’s New York Times over coffee at Monk’s Cafe.
“When are they gonna learn that any news about China is an instant page-turner?”
I repeated the gag to Evan Osnos over lunch on Greenwich Avenue back in February. We’ve known each other since before the “Seinfeld” episode aired in 1998. After serving in 1994 as co-editor of the Greenwich High School newspaper, The Beak, Evan interned at Greenwich Time. He recalled me sending him on his first assignment, to cover a sailing event, laughing at his shallow nautical knowledge.
He navigated more familiar waters when we chatted again a few days ago. I moderated a discussion with Evan for Stamford-based World Affairs Forum (WAF) titled “China & the U.S.: Shaping the Narrative.” I know as much about China as George Costanza, and even less than Evan knows about sailing (he at least has one clip in his archives).
On the other hand, Evan is one of the most authoritative journalists covering China, which is part of his politics and global affairs beat at The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer for 12 years. His first book, “Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, won the National Book Award in 2014.
Evan, whose sole shortcoming may be his humility, showed mercy when we brainstormed potential issues for the Zoom forum beforehand. He considered questions pitched by WAF members and offered rewrites so I wouldn’t be awkwardly rehearsing pronunciations of Chinese names overnight.
I joked that the audio version of his January New Yorker essay on China-U.S. relations clocks in at 1:21:27, while we only had an hour. He demonstrated how deftly he can condense layered issues by stripping 98-word questions to their Twitter-friendly essence, which makes Evan the ideal person to interview himself.
The George Costanzas out there will always turn the page on China, a profound miscalculation of its relevance in their lives. The World Affairs Forum audience is considerably more sophisticated. We invited live questions and collected 41 before the clock ran out.
I chased the elephant from the room early in the exchange by veering off-theme to ask Evan about his May 11 article, “How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump.”
As evidence that not everyone in the town loathes him for revealing Greenwich’s political identity crisis in the pages of The New Yorker, he reached northeast of his computer’s camera to retrieve a Tod’s Point sticker he received in the mail “from a reader who enjoyed the story.”
It didn’t escape Evan’s attention that his article happened to drop during the peak of the polarizing debate in Greenwich over the post-pandemic schools budget.
“It felt to some people like the decision to cut funding from education in Greenwich was an extension of the kinds of values they don’t like about the Trump Administration. So these two things became fused in people’s minds,” he said.
One of Evan’s most acute observations in the article is how “the economic divisions that would come to define America in the age of Trump became evident on the lush back roads of Greenwich, in a sign so subtle that it was easy to miss. Many of the new estates going up were no longer surrounded by the simple stone walls, stacked to the height of a farmer’s hip, that crossed the New England landscape. Instead, the builders introduced a more imposing barrier: tall, stately walls of chiselled stone, mortared in place.”
In recent weeks, he has become concerned about walls closer to his current home. For years, he could jog along Pennsylvania Avenue past the most famous address in America, a symbolic declaration of openness in contrast to shielded locations of seats of power in places such as Beijing and Cairo, where he also has lived.
That changed June 4, when the White House was wrapped in a fence and the street was blocked in the aftermath of protests over George Floyd’s death while in police custody. Evan’s musings about the significance of Trump’s wall to the WAF audience were a first draft of an article he published Wednesday.
“It’s a metaphor for the way in which we feel right now,” he said during our discussion. “Many people feel alienated from American government.”
Evan’s phrasings are so precise that I wished we were in front of a live studio audience when he uttered a rare gaffe about “the Biden Administration.”
But when he tried to synthesize the broad discussion into a sound bite, he might as well have printed it in bold on a page.
“The single greatest takeaway from our conversation today is that neither China nor the United States are showing themselves to be reliable, predictable stewards of global security at the moment.”
People who turn the page on China miss that it is poised to dominate the 21st Century the way the United States defined the 20th. Evan predicts “you are going to see China as a main character in the upcoming presidential campaign,” though there is essentially radio silence between the superpowers right now.
“People love to look back at the Soviet struggle as a model because we won that one. It’s like asking the Mets if they want to go back to being the ’86 Mets. Of course they do,” he said.
That brand of metaphor is sometimes needed to get people to pay attention. He tossed out another one as he tried to contextualize whether Chinese leaders envision dominance outside of their “neighborhood.”
“Or do they see themselves carving out this zone of control within the context of the world in which they are superpower roommates with the United States,” Evan said.
China and the United States as superpower roommates (cue to clip of Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in yet another “Odd Couple” reboot).
Now there’s a premise for a sitcom, though one of the leads may be recast in a few months.
John Breunig is editorial page editor of the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time. Jbreunig@scni.com; twitter.com/johnbreunig.
Reach John on
Having worked as a reporter, photographer, city editor, managing editor, page designer and sports editor, John Breunig has started work at every hour of the day at one time or another. His wife cracks wise that as a Jesuit-educated Libra, John weighs all sides and takes far too long to make any decision. Naturally, that has led to his current gig as editorial page editor for the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time. As a columnist, he has written about poverty, sexual assault and gun safety, but inevitably gets the most reader feedback to lighter fare about raising The Kid.
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A Canadian Woman Has Been Arrested For Slapping A U.S. Border Officer In The Face
As if the relations with our southern neighbour couldn't get any worse.
Published September 10 2018
Updated September 10 2018 at 03:45 PM
If you've ever travelled to the States, there's definitely been a time where you've been pretty fed up with the border security as you're trying to get through. It's no secret that they can be unbelievably rude.
READ ALSO: Winnipeg Is The Most Disgusting City In Canada Right Now
Although we may imagine giving the border control a piece of our minds, we usually just keep our cool and put up with whatever they dish out to us. Seriously, who would want to get arrested at the border for fighting an officer?
Well, One Canadian woman in paticular finally had enough with a U.S. border officer, punching him square in the face to make a pretty big point.
The altercation began when the woman attempted to enter America to visit Niagara Falls State Park earlier this month. She was quickly stopped by the border patrol.
Due to an alleged past behaviour while crossing the border (looks like there's a bit of a trend here) she was denied access to the U.S. and told to turn around.
It's said that then the woman began threatening the border officer, promising to punch them in the face.
One thing led to another and she ended up giving them a literal slap across the face. I mean, did she think this would help her gain access to the U.S.?
The woman was immediately arrested for the outburst and is now facing some pretty big charges, including assault of an officer.
@customsborderembedded via
It's not certain whether or not she is officially banned from entering the States ever again, but we can probably bet that she won't be going back anytime soon.
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EXPLAINER: Who has been charged in the deadly Capitol riot?
by: ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press
U.S. Capitol Police hold protesters at gun-point near the House Chamber inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Dozens of people have already been arrested and prosecutors across the U.S. have vowed to bring to justice those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, sending lawmakers into hiding as they began their work to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
The top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia has said “all options are on the table” for charging the rioters, many of whom were egged on by President Donald Trump’s speech hours earlier at a rally over his election loss. Investigators are combing through photos, videos and tips from the public to track down members of the violent mob.
A Capitol Police officer died after he was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher as rioters descended on the building and many other officers were injured. A woman from California was shot to death by Capitol Police and three other people died after medical emergencies during the chaos.
Some questions and answers about the investigation into the Capitol breach:
HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CHARGED?
The U.S. attorney’s office for D.C., which handles both local and federal cases in the district, had filed 17 cases in federal court and at least 40 others in the Superior Court by Saturday. The cases in Superior Court mainly have to do with things like curfew violations and gun crimes. Those being tried in federal court, where prosecutors can generally secure longer sentences, are charged with things like violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, assaulting a federal law enforcement officer and threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Defendants facing federal charges include Richard Barnett, the Arkansas man shown in a widely seen photo sitting in Pelosi’s office with his boots on the desk. Barnett is charged with crimes including theft of public money, property or records.
Another man being tried in federal court, Lonnie Coffman of Falkville, Alabama, was arrested after authorities say they found guns and 11 Molotov cocktail explosive devices made out of Mason jars, golf tees and cloth rags in his pickup truck.
A Florida man identified as the person seen in a photo shared widely on social media carrying the speaker of the House’s lectern also was arrested Friday. Adam Johnson faces charges including theft of government property.
WHY HAVEN’T MORE PEOPLE BEEN CHARGED YET?
Prosecutors say these charges are just the beginning. Authorities said Friday that said additional cases remained under seal and dozens of other people were being sought by federal agents.
U.S. attorneys in several states, including Kentucky, Ohio and Oregon, said people could face charges in their home states if they traveled to Washington and took part in the riot. The FBI has released photos of people inside the Capitol, urging the public to help identify them.
It takes time to build a case. Capitol Police arrested just more than a dozen people the day of the breach while D.C. police arrested around 70. Many people freely left the Capitol, which means investigators now have to work to identify them and track them down. Authorities have to distinguish between those who traveled to Washington only to participate in the rally before the riot versus those who were part of the insurrection at the Capitol. It can take weeks for investigators to go through photos and video, identify suspects, interview witnesses and write a complaint to secure an arrest.
Those who’ve been charged so far could also lead investigators to others who joined in the violent siege on Capitol Hill.
COULD THEY FACE MORE SERIOUS CHARGES?
Michael Sherwin, acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said this week that prosecutors are not keeping anything out of their “ arsenal for potential charges.” As prosecutors gather more evidence, they can add more charges against those they’ve already arrested.
Experts say federal prosecutors could bring rarely used seditious conspiracy charges against some of the rioters. In the wake of protests across the U.S. over police brutality this summer, then-Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen told prosecutors in September that they should consider using the sedition charge, which calls for up to 20 years in prison, against violent demonstrators. Rosen, who took over the top Department of Justice job when Attorney General William Barr stepped down last month, said the charge does not require proof of a plot to overthrow the U.S. government and gave the hypothetical example of a group that “has conspired to take a federal courthouse or other federal property by force.”
COULD TRUMP BE CHARGED?
Trump urged the crowd to march on the Capitol, even promising to go with them, though he didn’t in the end. The president told his supporters to “fight” to stop the “steal” of the election, while his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, called for “trial by combat.”
But the legal bar for charging the president or any other speakersat the rally with inciting violence is high. Experts say it would be tough to prove that the president intended for violence to happen on Capitol Hill. Trump’s speech likely would not be considered illegally inciting violence because he didn’t specifically call for people to storm the Capitol, experts say.
Richer reported from Boston. Associated Press reporter Michael Balsamo contributed to this report from Washington.
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by: MARK THIESSEN, Associated Press
Posted: Oct 14, 2019 / 08:40 PM EDT / Updated: Oct 14, 2019 / 09:09 PM EDT
Gina Virgilio leaves the courtroom Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, in Anchorage, Alaska. Virgilio will service 60 years in prison for killing her boyfriend, Michael Gonzalez, in 2012 by setting the couch fire to the couch he was sleeping on. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A woman who poured gasoline on the couch where her sleeping boyfriend lay and then shut the door after seeing him jump up and yell “hot, hot” will spend 60 years in prison for first-degree murder.
Saying it represents as horrific an offense as he’s ever dealt with, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Michael Wolverton on Monday sentenced Gina Virgilio to 99 years with 39 years suspended. She also was sentenced to 10 years of probation after her release for the 2012 death of Michael Gonzalez.
Virgilio, 32, sat with her face buried in her hands as Wolverton announced the sentence. He said she was not a monster and has shown remorse but did a “horrific, horrific, thing.”
Before sentencing Virgilio indicated to the judge that mental illness drove her to this act.
“I hate me for what I did. I can never bring him back,” she said.
There was no motive for the murder, which she called frustrating.
“You can’t make sense out of a mind that makes no sense,” Virgilio said. “Everything that ever happened with my son, with Michael, it was from my mind. When you believe something, you act on those things.”
She said once she has come back to normal, her life picked up right where it was before she got into drugs. She’s active with a faith-based therapeutic program at the women’s prison, and she is setting records in the running program.
Gonzalez family members gave heart-wrenching victim impact statements to the court on Oct. 4. The rest of the sentencing phase was continued to Monday.
Outside the courtroom, the victim’s youngest brother was relieved with the sentence and happy to have the seven-year ordeal over.
“I believe as long as she gets out at a late enough age to where she’s not a danger to me, my family or society, I’m OK with it,” Austine Gonzalez said.
Virgilio entered a plea deal earlier this year, and the state agreed to a sentence of 30 to 70 years. But during sentencing Monday, the state pushed for 70 years, noting circumstances of the crime warranted the higher end.
“I think the court considered and made an appropriate sentence,” Anchorage Assistant District Attorney Patrick McKay said. Virgilio’s public defender, Craig Howard, declined comment.
Virgilio’s supporters spoke on her behalf Monday, including a brother and three representatives of organizations that help at the prison.
Her brother, Reginald Carney, said he was closest to Gina among the family’s six siblings.
He said she began to change after she began experimenting with drugs, at about age 20, everything from Oxcyotin and marijuana to cocaine.
She later graduated to intravenous meth use. In January 2012, she disappeared for about two weeks, attending a meth-fueled party somewhere between Talkeetna and Willow that began a six-month decline into drug psychosis that ended with Gonzalez’s murder.
“Her brain was fried from the meth,” Howard said.
She lost weight, kept distance from loved ones and once tried to kill her child. She also became obsessed with fire, Howard said.
The state eventually took the child from her, shortly before she set the apartment on fire. Before the fire, her brother took her to the emergency room, fearful she would harm herself.
She was released after about three hours with the prognosis of drug-induced psychosis, which would pass.
After the fire, she tested negative for drugs and alcohol.
On the night of June 7, 2012, Virgilio and Gonzalez held a party for Gonzalez’s 24th birthday. While he passed out or fell asleep on the couch early the next morning after drinking beer, she found a gas can and walked a quarter mile to the nearest gas station. When she got there, she only had 53 cents in her pocket, so the clerk gave her $5 for gas.
Virgilio then walked back to the apartment, stared at her boyfriend for a while and doused the couch, the carpet in front of it and the area in front of the apartment’s only doorway with gasoline.
She lit mail on fire and tossed it inside. When she saw Gonzalez get up and yell “hot, hot” she shut the door and fled. He died from smoke inhalation and severe burns.
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Just Transition Transaction case study – towards energy equity
26 October 2020 | Story Nicole Forrest. Photo Adobe Stock. Read time 7 min.
Climate change experts from UCT have carried out a case study to understand what a just transition of South Africa’s energy landscape into a low-carbon environment could look like.
Three University of Cape Town (UCT) climate change experts have carried out a case study to understand what a just transition of South Africa’s energy landscape into a low-carbon environment could look like. This Just Transition Transaction (JTT) aims to simultaneously solve the electricity supply crisis in South Africa while moving the country towards renewable energy, its emissions commitments and job creation in terms of the Paris Agreement.
With 2 500 sunlight hours per year, the country would need only 3 000 km2 of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells (0.25% of the total land mass) to meet its electricity demand. Add wind, the theoretical potential of which could generate enough electricity to keep the lights on across the world, and it seems that renewable energy is the logical choice for power production.
Despite this, electricity supply in South Africa has been insufficient for more than a decade. This supply crisis has been driven by major operational, structural and financial challenges in the energy sector. Operationally, reliance on inefficient and outdated plants makes it impossible to produce enough power to meet the country’s needs.
Low tariffs that are not fully cost reflective and which often go unpaid by municipalities have added to structural challenges caused by corruption. Finally, with growing debt and no access to capital markets, the financial constraints facing Eskom place the state-owned entity (SOE) in a dire situation.
Adding to these challenges, heavy reliance on coal-fired power has meant that South Africa is the world’s 14th largest emitter of greenhouse gases, having produced 556 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) in 2017 alone.
A roadmap
In their case study, Climate finance to transform energy infrastructure as part of a just transition in South Africa, Professor Harald Winkler of the Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment, Samatha Keen, a UCT international climate policy consortium research partner, and Dr Andrew Marquard from the Department of Chemical Engineering set out a roadmap for resolving South Africa’s energy crisis through a shift to renewable energy. The study outlines how a just transition to renewables could address the above challenges, create jobs and move South Africa towards net-zero emissions.
“A just transition in South Africa’s electricity sector from coal to cleaner energy is critical for climate change mitigation.”
“A just transition in South Africa’s electricity sector from coal to cleaner energy is critical for climate change mitigation. And to be just, the transition must leave no one behind. A just transition transaction, as a mechanism, mobilises blended finance to fund the accelerated phase-out of coal, thereby accelerating a transition from coal to renewable energy, and the protection of the livelihoods of those communities and workers affected,” said Professor Winkler.
Similar to the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), the latest version of which was released in 2019, the study’s JTT aims to develop infrastructure based on a least-cost electricity supply-and-demand balance. However, said the authors, “The IRP includes a schedule for decommissioning coal, but at the same time building 1 500 MW of new coal. The JTT would accelerate the phase-out of coal-fired power plants – in other words, faster than the IRP. This faster phase-out of coal is essential to attract climate finance.”
The Just Transition Fund
The study envisions a climate finance transaction of US$11 billion – the largest and most significant of its kind – that will channel funds towards the accelerated phase-out of coal-fired power, keeping Eskom solvent as it decarbonises, and supporting the communities and workers affected by the shift away from coal.
Approximately one-third of the finance ($4 billion) would flow from concessional loans, helping to keep the SOE afloat. The interest rate differential on these funds would accrue to the Just Transition Fund (JT Fund) and be channelled towards supporting social and green industrialisation programmes that will encourage growth and employment.
“Financing the transition is particularly important in a developing country like South Africa, with pressing needs for investment in development and for societal justice.”
“Realisation of the JTT depends on the international climate finance community mobilising at least $4 billion of concessional finance for the deal. Financing the transition is particularly important in a developing country like South Africa, with pressing needs for investment in development and for societal justice,” said Winkler.
“The JT Fund can support development projects in a manner that promotes social justice, particularly in Mpumalanga. An example would be a reskilling programme in Mpumalanga, so that workers who lost their jobs in coal-fired power stations or coal mines would have a better chance of taking on new opportunities. Another example would be support for regional economic development plans by the provincial government or specific districts.”
An energy evolution
The transition towards renewable energy also has the potential to drive industrialisation while localising the technology value chain. This will encourage localised job creation as well as community infrastructure ownership to create a sustainable Independent Power Producer (IPP) model that will not make South Africans reliant on private corporations for electricity.
The study aligns with UCT’s environmental sustainability strategy, which acknowledges the urgent need for climate mitigation while recognising that the transition away from fossil fuels must allow for continued growth of jobs and the economy.
“The university’s own campus transformation is on a similar transition into a low-carbon campus over the next 20 to 30 years.”
Manfred Braune, the director of environmental sustainability at UCT, said that the university recognises the importance of the JTT and aims to follow a similar energy evolution.
“The university’s own ... transformation is on a similar transition into a low-carbon campus over the next 20 to 30 years, aiming for net-zero carbon status by 2050, or earlier if possible, in line with the Paris Agreement goals,” he said.
“UCT has completed a detailed feasibility for rooftop solar PV systems across all campuses and is now in the planning stage to decide how these will be rolled out in terms of finance and procurement. In the long term, once it is legally [permitted] to purchase renewable energy from IPPs or from the municipality, UCT will aim to purchase a growing amount of renewable energy to reduce our carbon footprint.”
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Psyched Wellness Ltd. Adds Kevin Feeney to the Advisory Board
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - November 26, 2020) - Psyched Wellness Ltd. (CSE: PSYC) (OTC Pink: DCNPF) (formerly Duncan Park Holdings Corporation) (the "Company" or "Psyched") a life sciences company focused on the production and distribution of artisanal functional and psychedelic mushrooms, is pleased to announce that Kevin Feeney has joined the advisory board of the Company to work with the team on identifying novel uses for Muscimol, the psychoactive constituent of Amanita Muscaria.
"When Jeff and David contacted me about Psyched Wellness and their interest in the therapeutic potential of the famed Amanita muscaria mushroom, I was enthused," says Kevin Feeney. "Amanita Muscaria has a long history of use for treating a number of ailments including anxiety, insomnia, pain, and inflammation. While this mushroom has been largely overlooked in both standard and alternative medicines, its potential applications are rich and largely unexplored, and shows promise in such disparate areas as treating alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal as well as alleviating cognitive impairments related to Lyme disease and Alzheimer's. I look forward to working with Jeff, David, and the rest of the Psyched Wellness team to explore this underappreciated medicine and help bring a quality product to market."
Kevin Feeney, PhD, JD, is a cultural anthropologist and lawyer currently working as a Program Director and Instructor in Interdisciplinary Studies - Social Sciences at Central Washington University. His primary research interests include examining legal and regulatory issues surrounding the religious and cultural use of psychoactive substances, with an emphasis on peyote and ayahuasca, and exploring modern and traditional uses of Amanita muscaria, with a specific focus on medicinal use and preparation practices. He has recently published an edited volume on Amanita muscaria (Fly Agaric: A Compendium of History, Pharmacology, Mythology, and Exploration) and has also been published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Human Organization, and Curare, among other books and journals (Research articles and other writings can be found at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin_Feeney). He is a current board member of Cactus Conservation Institute, which is dedicated to the study and preservation of vulnerable cacti and is also a member of Chacruna's Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants.
"Adding Kevin to our team is a key development in the growth of the company as we look to expand our understanding of the medicinal potential of Amanita Muscaria," says Jeff Stevens, CEO of the Company. "His experience studying psychoactive substances and specifically Amanita Muscaria is key to identifying new novel uses of the compound for various health and wellness applications."
The Company has also issued 750,000 options at a strike price of $0.185 to certain advisors and consultants.
Jeffrey Stevens
Psyched Wellness Ltd.
Email: jstevens@psyched-wellness.com
Website: http://www.psyched-wellness.com
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About Psyched Wellness Ltd.:
Psyched Wellness Ltd. is a Canadian-based health supplements company dedicated to the distribution of mushroom-derived products and associated consumer packaged goods. The Company's objective is to create premium mushroom-derived products that have the potential to become a leading North American brand in the emerging functional food category. The Company is in the process of developing a line of Amanita muscaria-derived water-based extracts, teas and capsules designed to help with three health objectives: promote stress relief, relaxation and assist with restful sleeping.
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al-hashimi interview
kurdish ‘might become al-maliki’s targets’
Dana Asaad
Iraq’s beleaguered vice president Tariq al-Hashimi remains in Iraqi Kurdistan and in a sticky situation. He spoke to NIQASH about his upcoming trial for terrorism, how he thinks the current political crisis…
12.01.2012 | Sulaymaniyah
As most Iraqi observers now know, the last US troops were barely out of Iraqi airspace in late December 2011 when the delicate coalition government in Baghdad was hurtled into a serious political crisis. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked parliament to dismiss one of his three deputy prime ministers and also issued an arrest warrant for one of Iraq’s two vice presidents, Tariq al-Hashimi, on charges of terrorism.
Al-Hashimi was on his way to a meeting in the semi-autonomous state of Iraqi Kurdistan at the time and was allowed to continue on his way. And almost a month later, he remains there ostensibly under the protection of Kurdish politicians, who seem to be mediating in the case.
NIQASH met al-Hashimi in Sulaymaniyah and talked to him about the charges against him, under what conditions he would return to Baghdad, how the current political crisis can be resolved and whether that solution involves more federalism.
NIQASH: In terms of the charges of terrorism against you, you have always insisted upon your innocence. But if that is so, then why did you leave Baghdad and why don’t you return there?
Tariq al-Hashimi: I left Baghdad on Dec. 17 so I had left the city before the testimonies of my guards [against me] were broadcast on TV. I came to Sulaymaniyah after an official invitation was extended to me on Dec. 15 by His Excellency, the President of the Republic [Kurdish politician Jalal Talabani]. The invitation was extended to me and my colleague Khodair al-Khozaei [also a vice president] in order for us to attend the presidency’s council meeting.
NIQASH: So you’re saying you were not trying to escape the arrest warrant?
Al-Hashimi: No, I did not run away. I am confident that the judiciary and the Iraqi courts will uphold my name and reputation in due course.
NIQASH: So why don’t you just return to Baghdad?
Al-Hashimi: Because I don’t trust the judiciary in Baghdad. This is why I officially requested that the government transfer my trial to Kirkuk. This is a legitimate request under Article 55, which gives the defendant the right to request a change of location for a trial.
NIQASH: And why Kirkuk? Beforehand you were saying you wanted the trial to take place in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan?
Al-Hashimi: Yes, that’s true. At first I did want to have the trial take place in Iraqi Kurdistan. However Iraqi Kurdistan’s judicial system operates independently of the rest of Iraq, which means there are no administrative links between Baghdad and Erbil. So I chose Kirkuk instead. And I believe I’ll get a fairer trial in Kirkuk than I would in Baghdad.
The other issue is my personal safety. I believe I’ll be safer in Kirkuk - especially after al-Maliki’s decision to disband the security detail responsible for my personal safety, and to confiscate its weapons. I have no protection in Baghdad anymore so I cannot go there. I also have the feeling that al-Maliki’s agents inside the security apparatus will influence the judiciary. In Kirkuk that won’t happen. In Kirkuk, this issue will be handled properly and the matter will be re-investigated, including the testimonies and confessions of my guards.
In Baghdad, the judiciary is very much under the executive branch’s influence. In fact, there are a lot of warrants that are never actioned. And my bodyguard’s confessions made it into the media within two days.
NIQASH: If the Iraqi government promised to provide you with protection, would you go back to Baghdad?
Al-Hashimi: I don’t trust the government so I don’t trust any promises they might make. And by the government, I mean Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki himself. I have a problem with him as a person. He cannot tolerate any opposition, he cannot tolerate people criticising his failed administration and he cannot tolerate me when I talk about human rights violations in Iraq. It’s clear that he doesn’t tolerate any kind of criticism, no matter how legitimate or substantiated. This is why he is targeting me.
NIQASH: You’re saying al-Maliki is a dictator?
Al-Hashimi: I won’t use this term. We need to agree on the terminology before we go any further. I do believe that al-Maliki is ruling the country with an iron fist. He is the commander of the armed forces, the defence minister, the interior minister, head of intelligence and the national security chief. How can one person hold all of these very sensitive positions?
So what I can say is this: if we allow this situation to continue, then the country will see change - from a democratic system into an autocratic system of governance.
NIQASH: You say you’re innocent, but how do you explain what your bodyguards confessed to on television? They accused you of running a death squad that targeted police officers and political rivals.
Al-Hashimi: I’m sure these testimonies were made under pressure and as a result of torture. If it’s true, then why doesn’t the government accede to my request to transfer the case from Baghdad to Kirkuk?
I am a former Iraqi officer. Is it logical that I give orders to my guards to kill traffic police or politicians, or to carry out bombing attacks?
When I left Baghdad, the intelligence services searched my house and my offices. They were surprised because they found nothing but Kalashnikov weapons belonging to the guards. They were expecting to find heavy artillery and labs for making explosives.
These crimes may have happened. But neither I nor members of my security detail were involved. I trust them completely and I am confident they are innocent. In fact, you can read the documents released by Wikileaks [in 2010] to find out who’s committing such acts. Al-Maliki or al-Hashimi? There are many people close to the Prime Minister involved in criminal acts.
NIQASH: In the past you’ve expressed your opposition to the idea of an Iraq made up of federal states. Now you’re seeking the protection of the strongest federal state in Iraq, the semi-autonomous state of Iraqi Kurdistan. Has the situation you find yourself in changed the way you think about federalism in Iraq?
Al-Hashimi: The problem is al-Maliki trying to control everything. As he does this, he is driving Iraq’s provinces to demand their independence, which is something the Iraqi Constitution gives them the right to do.
At the same time, Iraqi provinces are also comparing themselves with Iraqi Kurdistan. They’re comparing their own achievements over the last eight years with those of Iraqi Kurdistan and they see the huge difference. They’re comparing the improvements in Iraqi Kurdistan to the negligence, the lack of services, the human rights violations and the high unemployment rates that exist in their own areas.
We tried to encourage al-Maliki to respect the Constitution and we gave him ample opportunity to prove that respect as well as his respect for a centralized government. However he didn’t do this. So the provinces are left with no other options.
The elections have allowed the Shiite Muslims to win a majority and to monopolize the prime ministerial office. We don’t have any problem with this, provided that the prime minister is just and fair in his administration and that the government represents the interests of all of the Iraqi people and not just one sect.
Personally I am now convinced about federalism. But I don’t believe we should divide the country up because this would be disastrous for all parts of Iraqi society. Federal states shouldn’t be built on a sectarian basis – although obviously the case of Iraqi Kurdistan is a special one.
NIQASH: Do you think the current crisis will lead to a divided Iraq?
It all depends on al-Maliki’s policies. We will not accept the monopolization of power by al-Maliki. The Iraqi government should represent all Iraqis, there needs to be an end mismanagement and corruption and there should be respect for human rights. Otherwise consequences will be severe.
NIQASH: How do you feel about the way the Kurdish politicians have dealt with your case?
Al-Hashimi: I’m not surprised about it at all. My case has nothing to do with my relationships within the Iraqiya list or with the Kurdish leaders. They have all dealt with this in an objective and professional manner and they’re not asking for anything in return for their support.
At the same time, it is important to remember that if the Kurdish leaders allow al-Maliki to continue monopolizing power, including pushing me around, then he will continue to do this and in the future other individuals will be targeted. So the Kurds are not only protecting al-Hashimi, they’re protecting their own future. They might become al-Maliki’s next targets. And in general the Kurdish are protecting the political process in Iraq because it is at risk from al-Maliki.
If the Republic of Iraq’s Vice-President can be accused in this way, then what guarantees do the Kurdish leaders – or other politicians in Baghdad – have that they will not be treated the same way as I am being treated?
NIQASH: Where does your political bloc, the Iraqiya list, currently stand in regard to your case?
Al-Hashimi: Firstly, there is consensus within the Iraqiya list that this lawsuit is a political problem. For me to regain my reputation, this crisis must have a fitting legal resolution. And this should be done in court. The Iraqiya list is unanimous on this – and this is their understanding of the case and how they want to deal with it.
Personally, I agree too. I have been accused by the judiciary so the case should be resolved by the judiciary. I should be pronounced innocent and my reputation restored. I won’t accept any other kind of settlement and I insist upon my day in court.
NIQASH: Today everybody is talking about the upcoming National Conference, proposed so that all parties can get together to discuss their differences. It’s apparently scheduled to be held soon in Baghdad. Do you think this conference could put an end to the current political crisis?
Al-Hashimi: A National Conference is necessary. However I don’t imagine it will put an end to the existing problems which have been evolving over eight years. There are two options for Iraqis now. The first is to work at building a genuinely democratic system. Or to surrender and move toward an autocratic regime. We can either build a democracy or allow al-Maliki to build his own system. The upcoming conference could determine which option Iraq goes for.
NIQASH: Does this mean that you will attend the conference, even if it is held in Baghdad?
Al-Hashimi: That’s what I’d like to do – and it is what Iraqiya would like too. We really want to see an end to this crisis and we want to settle legal disputes.
The computers and files taken from my offices should be returned and I should be able to reopen my offices, my bodyguards should be allowed to get back to work and those who have been detained should be released. If that happens, I will participate in the conference.
As for the conference venue, we have not yet agreed that it should be held in Baghdad. We’ve requested it be held elsewhere. According to the Iraqiya list and to Dr Ayed Allawi [head of the list] it is important that the president of Iraqi Kurdistan attend the conference. But he has said he will not attend if the conference is held in Baghdad.
NIQASH: In previous interviews, you said that the situation in Iraq could only improve after the US troops withdrew. But as soon as they left, you were accused of terrorist acts. Were you wrong about what you said earlier?
Al-Hashimi: I’ve never been protected by the Americans. In fact, what I want is for Iraq to regain full sovereignty. I’ve been demanding this for years. So no, I wasn’t wrong. During my time as a politician I have not been protected by the Americans, I’ve been protected by the Iraqi people. In the end, we are responsible for resolving our own problems and conflicts. Which is no different from any other nation in the world.
NIQASH: Are you in contact with US politicians?
Al-Hashimi: No. The last meeting I had was with the US ambassador in Baghdad before my trip to Kurdistan. Since then there’s been no contact with anyone from the Embassy.
NIQASH: The warrant for your arrest was sent from Baghdad to the highest courts in Iraqi Kurdistan a few days ago. Have you heard anything about this?
Al-Hashimi: Nothing at all, other than what everybody else has also heard via the media. Anyway this won’t change the way I see things because shortly after the warrant was issued, al-Maliki had already said at a press conference that Iraqi Kurdistan should hand me over.
So in general, this doesn’t change anything. The leaders of Iraqi Kurdistan have not changed their positions and they sympathize with me because of this injustice.
NIQASH: There are also rumours that your family have already fled Iraq, via Sulaymaniyah airport. True or not?
Al-Hashimi: This isn’t true. There’s only my wife and she lives in Baghdad. A few days ago she travelled to Jordan. My son studies in London. And other family members are adults and they have their own lives.
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N.J. superintendent killed while jogging was struck by student late for trip
Updated Jan 16, 2019; Posted Apr 19, 2016
N.J. school superintendent dies after being struck by car while jogging
Gallery: N.J. school superintendent dies after being struck by car while jogging
By Kevin Shea | For NJ.com
ROBBINSVILLE -- The Robbinsville High School student who was driving the car that struck and killed the district's superintendent Tuesday morning was late for a school trip when the crash occurred, according to two sources involved in the investigation.
Robbinsville school Superintendent Steven Mayer in a December 2013 photo.
Superintendent Steven Mayer was jogging with his dog along Robbinsville-Edinburg Road about a mile from the high school around 6:15 a.m. when he was hit. Both Mayer and his dog were killed, authorities said.
The 17-year-old girl who was driving the car has not been identified and the department said no charges have been filed.
The teen was supposed to be among a group of students on a school trip to New York, and the bus had been waiting for her, according to the two sources who asked to not be named because they were not authorized to speak about the ongoing investigation.
The bus left without her, but it later returned to the school with the trip canceled after those on board were informed of Mayer's death, the sources said.
The Mercer County Prosecutor's Office is investigating the crash.
Mayer, who has been Robbinsville's superintendent since 2009, was a resident of the township and lived near the high school. He had three children.
News of his death hit the small Mercer County community hard and he was widely mourned by school and local officials as a dedicated educator, natural leader and family man.
He joined the Robbinsville district following several teaching and administrative posts at districts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Robbinsville Mayor Dave Fried described Mayer as a "ball of energy.''
"He was someone you always wanted to be around. He was passionate about our kids, the school. He was an educator and he was also a coach. He brought so much of his energy to our district," Fried said.
Fried also reminded everyone that another family also is grieving after Tuesday's tragedy.
"There are two families involved in this tragedy, both Dr. Mayer's and the student's family and we're praying for them all,'' Fried said at a morning press conference. "It's heartbreaking for all of us.''
Kevin Shea may be reached at kshea@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter@kevintshea. Find NJ.com on Facebook.
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Discovery of critical phenomena in a quantum spin liquid
(Nanowerk News) For the first time, a NIMS research group led by Takayuki Isono (postdoctoral researcher) and Shinya Uji (Deputy Director-General of the Research Center for Functional Materials), and the University of Tokyo research group led by Professor Kazushi Kanoda (School of Engineering), jointly observed quantum critical behavior of the magnetic susceptibility for an organic material with a triangular lattice, when the material was in a quantum spin-liquid state at very low temperatures (Nature Communications, "Quantum criticality in an organic spin-liquid insulator κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu2(CN)3").
(Left) Scaling plot of magnetic susceptibility. Vertical axis represents scaled magnetic susceptibility, and different colors on the curve stand for different conditions under which measurements were taken. As you can see, magnetic susceptibilities exhibit a universal scaling function (dotted curve) across wide ranges of temperatures and magnetic fields. (Right) Magnetic phase diagram. The red area (quantum critical regime) represents critical behavior of magnetic susceptibility near a quantum critical point at absolute zero temperature and zero magnetic field. Existing theories cannot explain the critical exponents that were obtained. (click on image to enlarge)
In general, atomic and molecular arrangements of materials become more stable (ordered state) as they get colder, like water turning to ice as it gets colder. Quantum spin liquid is an exception to this law, and its electron spin states remain disorderly and unstable (liquid-like state) at very low temperatures.
A quantum spin-liquid state had been discovered in some materials, but it is still unknown how the liquid state is maintained at very low temperatures.
To understand the nature of quantum spin liquids, it is necessary to understand the universal properties of materials, which do not depend on their microscopic details (e.g., constituent elements).
In this research, the joint group grew a high-quality single crystal of an organic spin-liquid material, κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu2(CN)3, and took precise measurements of its magnetic susceptibility up to 17 tesla at extreme temperatures as low as 0.03 kelvin.
As a result, it was found that the material’s magnetic susceptibility tends to diverge with decreasing temperature, and the magnetic susceptibilities exhibit a universal scaling function across very wide ranges of temperatures and magnetic fields.
These results indicate that this material exhibits critical spin-liquid states near a quantum critical point at zero magnetic field. Moreover, the group successfully estimated critical exponents (universal quantities) that can be determined only by basic properties of the material, which do not depend on its microscopic details.
The critical exponents determined in this study will serve as powerful indices for sorting out theoretical models related to this mysterious liquid state. Existing theories did not explain the exponents we obtained experimentally.
Based on these exponent values, we hope that progress will be made in theoretical modeling and detailed understanding of the mechanism that drives quantum spin liquid phenomena.
Also, the relationship of quantum spin liquids to high-temperature superconductivity (for example, of copper oxide materials) is of great interest. As such, an advancement in theoretical understanding of spin liquids may also lead to understanding of the high-temperature superconductivity mechanism.
Source: National Institute for Materials Science
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Florida Georgia Line Make History with “Cruise” and “Meant To Be”
by jwills | November 20, 2020
Florida Georgia Line have just accomplished something that no other country act has ever done before! For the first time in 62 years of RIAA Gold and Platinum history, they earned two Diamond Single Awards with “Cruise” and “Meant to Be.”
“Cruise” which is a RIAA 11X PLATINUM single and “Meant to Be” feat. Bebe Rexha a RIAA 10X PLATINUM single, were both officially certified Diamond singles, with “Meant To Be” being only one of six songs in the past four years to achieve RIAA Diamond status. Only 43 singles have reached Diamond status in RIAA Gold and Platinum history. Since they appeared on the country scene in 2012, FGL’s total digital single awards is at 54 MILLION.
FGL’s Brian Kelley reacted to the news about the awards “Thank you guys for the recognition and this ride has been a dream come true. It’s pretty crazy hearing the numbers. It’s pretty wild to think about it in that time span. Just super grateful.”
FGL’s Tyler Hubbard was also surprised by the honor “It is surreal and it is nice to take a second to let that sink in, and honestly we’re so thankful. It’s awesome to know it’s connecting. When I hear those numbers that’s what I hear, and I just think that’s something that we can all be proud of. Thank y’all for being a part of this team. We’re humbled by it, we’re really extremely motivated, we’re all in a great headspace, and we’re feeling really creative and all this does is inspire us even more.”
While “Cruise” and “Meant To Be” were the big award winners, Florida Georgia Line was informed of seven more milestone certifications for their music, that include Can’t Say I Ain’t Country (RIAA GOLD album), “Simple” (RIAA 2X PLATINUM single), “Blessings” (RIAA GOLD single), “Talk You Out of It” (RIAA 2X PLATINUM single), “H.O.L.Y.” (RIAA 6X PLATINUM single), “This Is How We Roll” (RIAA 6X PLATINUM single), and “I Love My Country” (RIAA GOLD single).
Check out the music video for “Cruise” from Florida Georgia Line right here…
photo credit: John Shearer
written by jwills | published November 20, 2020 4:23 pm
category: NCD News | related posts: Cruise, Diamond Award, FGL, Florida Georgia Line, Meant to Be
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Bruce H. Stern
Stark & Stark
Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
Women May Experience Concussion Symptoms Differently Than Men
Females experience concussions differently than males but there has been little research on the topic. Dr. Mayumi Prins, a professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and director of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center education program, is looking to change that. He notes that most research has focused on male concussion patients and therefore there is little information available as to the science as to why females may suffer more concussions and experience more prolonged symptoms.
Scientific research has shown that female and male brains differ in terms of activity patterns, anatomy, chemistry, and physiology. Concussions may affect females differently than males for a variety of reasons, including hormonal issues and differences in upper bodies – especially the way muscles in the neck react after collisions. Also, females may be more likely than males to disclose concussion-related symptoms such as headaches, diminished social interaction, and depression, according to Prins.
Females may also take longer to recover from brain injuries than males. While the majority of people who experience concussions recover in a week or two, some experience prolonged symptoms known as post-concussive syndrome. People who experience post-concussive syndrome should contact a neurologist.
While female athletes sustain concussions at a higher rate than males when playing sports such as soccer, basketball, baseball, and softball, Prins notes the benefits of participation in sports and that the relative risk of concussion is quite low compared to other activities.
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Bruce H. Stern is a Shareholder and member of the Accident & Personal Injury Group, where he concentrates his practice in the area of traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries and wrongful death. In July 2004, Mr. Stern began publishing Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog as a way to share his knowledge in the field of brain injury law. Additionally, Mr. Stern is the author of numerous articles and a frequent lecturer on the subject of traumatic brain injury litigation, evidence and trial techniques. He also co-authored a book entitled "Litigating Brain Injuries"...
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The Road From Social Isolation to Authoritarianism Is Smooth
What is America's most pressing social problem? Depending on whom you ask, you will get different answers: secularization, racial discrimination, long-term unemployment, drugs, technological stagnation, family breakdown, cultural decline. All of those are serious ills, but I would like to submit a different answer — one linked to all the above, one that gets virtually no public attention: loneliness. Once in a while, America's loneliness epidemic comes in for some consideration. Bowling Alone, the book by the excellent sociologist Robert Putnam, became a best-seller and has stuck around the zeitgeist somewhat. Putnam blamed technology and its atomizing effects — and he was writing in 2000, before pornography came in free-streaming HD video, before social media was all-encompassing, when easy entertainment options like Netflix or video games were much less advanced and therefore less addictive. We don't seem to be alarmed nearly as much as we should be, so it's worth rehearsing the facts. Putnam has chronicled the historically low membership levels in all sorts of social organizations, from (you guessed it) bowling leagues to churches to labor unions to PTAs to churches to the Boy Scouts. A 2014 study by the National Science Foundation found that one in four Americans said they had no one with whom they could talk about their personal troubles or triumphs. The number doubles to more than half if immediate family is not counted. That this stat alone doesn't make us run around screaming as if our hair were on fire boggles the mind. And this itself should be alarming: We've become inured to the new loneliness, like the fish who asks, "What's water?" This contrasts notably with one of the characteristics that most astonished Alexis de Tocqueville when he visited from France in 1831: Americans' tendency to form voluntary associations for nearly anything and everything. That key American trait is eroding and turning in a French direction. Loneliness has impacts too many to name. On public health, on well-being, on social life, on the economy (given the voluminous evidence that informal exchange of ideas is central to innovation). It's easy to see how the other social problems I've noted, from family breakdown to drug addiction to secularization, can both be caused by loneliness and in turn reinforce it, in a socially destructive cycle. But the impact is also political. A famous social-science finding that has been replicated over and over is that levels of social trust are linked to politics and economics. Rule of law, democracy, and capitalism seem to require high levels of social trust. Societies with lower levels of social trust, meanwhile, tend to become corrupt, authoritarian, and economically stagnant. And it doesn't take a Ph.D. to figure out that pervasive loneliness leads to lower levels of social trust. Another noteworthy finding, also repeated, is that France tends to have much lower levels of social trust relative to comparable advanced countries. It's often been remarked that "Trumpism" represents something different from conservatism as traditionally understood. That something might be called "conservatism in a lonely society." Conservatism offers up Edmund Burke's little platoons as the engines of social progress, but in a society turned lonely, that offer becomes meaningless because it stops being relevant to people's everyday experiences. The last credible-seeming way to maintain social order, then, becomes what Donald Trump has promised: lawless authoritarianism. Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is a Paris-based conservative and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He wrote this column for the National Review. Twitter: @pegobryWhat's your view?Got an opinion about this issue? Send a letter to the editor, and you just might get published. Continue reading...
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US Jews Plan Smaller Hanukkah Celebrations Amid Virus
Many Jewish Americans are already accustomed to more intimate celebrations of a holiday focused more on the home than on the synagogue
By Elana Schor and Luis Andres Henao • Published December 11, 2020 • Updated on December 11, 2020 at 3:58 am
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Jewish Americans from a variety of branches of the faith are celebrating Hanukkah with smaller-than-usual gatherings this year, in hopes of keeping the year-end holiday safe but still joyful as coronavirus cases spike across the country.
Many Jewish Americans are already accustomed to more intimate celebrations of a holiday focused more on the home than on the synagogue, including Haredim or ultra-Orthodox communities. So the recent successful Supreme Court challenge to New York restrictions on in-person worship by some Orthodox groups won't mean much as far as their Hanukkah plans.
But celebrating Hanukkah during a pandemic still poses a challenge to some Jewish Americans, for whom the holiday has risen in prominence in part because its social elements and timing line up with non-Jewish holidays such as Christmas.
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That has often provided a reason to host get-togethers, said Rabbi Avi Shafran, director of public affairs at Agudath Israel of America, a plaintiff in the court case.
But such large gatherings are "not an essential part of the holiday on any level whatsoever,” he added. “So to Haredim, to us ultra-Orthodox, it’s not something that’s going to cramp our style.”
Hanukkah is not affected by the restrictions on electronic device usage that observant Jews heed during the sabbath and holy days, allowing for virtual celebrations.
So, like many others, Shafran and his wife, who have nine children and 50 grandchildren, celebrated with some of them via Zoom this year in a nod to health recommendations — "just as festive ... because the meaning of the holiday is not parties, it’s the memory of ancient times,” Shafran said.
Before he lit the candles of the branched candelabra called a menorah, he recited blessings, including one expressing gratitude to God for life: “This year,” Shafran said, “we really have to thank God.”
Rabbi Moshe Hauer, executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, also planned to connect with extended family via Zoom, in addition to hosting a small in-person family get-together.
“Family gatherings are going to be limited, with or without the Supreme Court decision,” he said.
The eight-day holiday beginning Thursday at sunset, also known as the Jewish Festival of Lights, honors the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the second century B.C. following victory over the Syrians. Celebrated with the nightly lighting of the menorah, it usually falls in December but sometimes in late November.
Hauer linked Hanukkah's underlying message of the Jewish people's endurance, “the triumph of the spirit against tremendous odds," to the present-day coronavirus crisis.
“There’s been a tremendous power of the spirit to continue to practice and continue to worship and celebrate, and find new ways to celebrate,” he said.
Rabbi Daniel Sherman of Temple Sinai, which describes itself as New Orleans' oldest Reform congregation, said it has been more difficult to adapt other holidays on the Jewish calendar to the constraints of the pandemic.
“In some ways Hanukkah is a little bit easier, because the main celebration of Hanukkah is a home celebration as opposed to everyone coming to temple each night,” Sherman said. His synagogue is planning a drive-through candle-lighting on Thursday at the Audubon Zoo, as well as nightly candle-lightings over Zoom.
Still, Sherman added, “people are used to having friends and family over for those home celebrations, and this year the challenge is to have that Hanukkah spirit still, even though it might just be your immediate family or you might just be by yourself.”
For Esther Reisman, who teaches Bible studies and Jewish history at Beth Jacob Academy in Brooklyn, Hanukkah gatherings with extended family can typically include dozens of people. But this year it may be just her and her husband, Rabbi Yisroel Reisman of Agudath Israel of Madison, also a plaintiff in the Supreme Court case.
“It will be much, much smaller,” she said, adding that many others in their community were planning intimate gatherings just with immediate family members. Reisman's family was also consulting a specialist in infectious disease to minimize any risk, she said.
Hanukkah is more of a minor holiday in Israel, though it is still a festive occasion marked by communal candle-lighting gatherings, school vacation and the consumption of deep-fried, and often elaborately decorated, doughnuts known as sufganiyot.
With confirmed coronavirus cases quickly rising, the Israeli government this week announced plans for a nighttime curfew to prevent large public gatherings but subsequently backtracked. Instead, it has encouraged people to celebrate at home with their immediate families.
In the U.S., the holiday can take on a Christmas-like quality in some Jewish communities. In Ohio, Chabad Columbus is planning outdoor events designed for families to attend at a safe distance, including a menorah-lighting via helicopter performed by a man costumed as a member of the Maccabee family, which plays a central role in the Hanukkah story.
Rabbi Hara Person, the chief executive of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, urged celebrants everywhere to remain “very cognizant about what our home gatherings look like" in the pandemic context.
Hanukkah is “about spreading light and spreading joy,” Person said, and “we need to maintain that idea of spreading light by not spreading infection.”
Associated Press religion coverage receives support from the Lilly Endowment through the Religion News Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for this content.
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What David Cameron could learn from Marx about radicalisation (but probably won't)
In the hands of politicians religion becomes impregnated with 'polemical bitterness' - to talk about religion without considering its 'political tendencies' is to chose a path of willful blindness.
William Eichler
Karl Marx. Flickr/Montecruz Foto. Some rights reserved
The government is, apparently, concerned about radicalisation. David Cameron told the Globsec conference in Slovakia that the Islamist narrative about the evils of the west is given too much credence. “[It] paves the way” he said, “for young people to turn simmering prejudice into murderous intent. To go from listening to firebrand preachers online to boarding a plane to Istanbul and travelling onward to join the jihadis.”
George Packer, writing in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre last January, put forth a similar argument. He was adamant that the murder of twelve people in the heart of France was not the result of France’s foreign policy, it had nothing to do with the invasion of Iraq, and it certainly was not connected to Islamophobia. It was, he wrote, “only the latest blows delivered by an ideology that has sought to achieve power through terror for decades.”
Ideology alone, according to this line of thinking, creates murderers. Western actions play no part in the process. Jihadists are created, not by war abroad or discrimination at home, but solely by hate preachers and the YouTube videos they use to indoctrinate impressionable young minds.
This is not, of course, an entirely false picture. Islamism is a noxious ideology (yes, even in its most peaceful forms) and people are manipulated by hate preachers on the Internet. But there is more to it than this and Karl Marx can, perhaps, provide some guidance.
In an article for the Rheinische Zeitung in 1842, Marx discussed the relationship between religion and political actors. “In their hands” he wrote referring to politicians, “religion acquires a polemical bitterness impregnated with political tendencies”. This is not merely the truism that religion is exploited for political ends. Marx was also saying that religion--and by extension all ideologies--is always infused with and animated by objective, historical factors or, as he put it, “political tendencies”.
This is most certainly the case with Islamist ideology. It is steeped in the politics of the present and to deny this obvious fact is dishonest. To explain radicalisation simply in terms of an ideology spreading, like a disease, through Muslim communities and infecting the naive without reference to foreign policy in the Middle East or Islamophobia is to opt for a willful blindness to reality.
Radicalisation is about the “war on terror”. It is about the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq and the catastrophic results of this that we are seeing today. And it is about Islamophobia. There are other factors involved, to be sure. But to ignore these very real, concrete issues - the “political tendencies” - is to fall dramatically short of understanding why Islamism is able to find itself an audience and why it is that a minority of Muslims are attracted to its “polemical bitterness”.
There is another important, and related, aspect to this issue. Who exactly is Cameron talking to? He is happy to upbraid the Muslim community in Britain but he is more reticent when it comes to our allies abroad. The government was less concerned about Islamist ideology when it flew the flag half-mast over Whitehall out of respect for the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia or when it sent Prince Charles to develop our “special relationship” with the Wahhabist kingdom. It is easier to preach to Bradford than it is to stand up to Riyadh, and, it seems, “British interests” trump the interests of British people.
A frequent response to any analysis of Islamism and the attractions of jihadist violence that seeks to view them in their correct historical and political context is one of anger. Explanation, it is argued, is equal to justification. This is nonsense and to avoid approaching the former in a realistic fashion out of fear of drifting towards the latter is simply to opt for a willful blindness.
David Cameron is unlikely to read any Marx in the near future. Perhaps, though, if he is so concerned about the spread of Islamist ideology and the threat of jihadist terrorism, he should read, and learn from, the recent history of the catastrophic failure of the “war on terror”. War abroad, discrimination at home and the propping up of dictatorial regimes have proven to be ineffective and immoral ways to fight terrorism.
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The Winds of Dune (Compact Disc)
By Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Scott Brick (Read by)
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With their usual skill, Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have taken ideas left behind by Frank Herbert and filled them with living characters and a true sense of wonder. Where "Paul of Dune" picked up the saga directly after the events of "Dune," "The Winds of Dune" begins after the events of "Dune Messiah."
Paul has walked off into the sand, blind, and is presumed dead. Jessica and Gurney are on Caladan; Alia is trying to hold the Imperial government together with Duncan; Mohiam dead at the hands of Stilgar; Irulan imprisoned. Paul's former friend, Bronso of Ix, now seems to be leading opposition to the House of Atreides. Herbert and Anderson's newest book in this landmark series will concentrate on these characters as well the growing battle between Jessica, and her daughter, Alia.
Brian Herbert has been nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards. In 2003, he published "Dreamer of Dune," a Hugo Award-nominated biography of his father.
Kevin J. Anderson has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Reader's Choice Award. He set the Guinness-certified world record for the largest single-author book signing. Scott Brick has narrated for many popular authors, including Michael Pollan, Joseph Finder, Tom Clancy, and Ayn Rand. He has also won over 40 "AudioFile" Earphones Awards and the "AudioFile" award for Best Voice in Mystery and Suspense 2011. In 2007, Brick was named "Publishers Weekly"'s Narrator of the Year.
"Scott Brick delivers an impressive one-man show. Brick's voice is ideally suited to this sprawling story, the second book in the Heroes of Dune trilogy. In many scenes Brick must handle differentiating between the speech and thoughts of the various characters, and he does so with aplomb...Listeners will be glued to the high drama." - AudioFile "This is actually a very good story, easy to listen to and becomes more involved as the metaphorically speaking pages are turned...Once again, Macmillan has produced a polished product and with Scott Brick narrating, you can be sure the story is well delivered." —SFcrowsnest
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Publication Date: August 4th, 2009
Science Fiction - General
Kobo eBook (August 3rd, 2009): $9.99
Mass Market (August 3rd, 2010): $9.99
Hardcover (August 4th, 2009): $32.75
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Female soloists
Bori Keszei
Budapest-born Bori Keszei made her debut at Debrecen's Csokonai Theatre in 1996, in the role of Barbarina (in Le nozze di Figaro) before going on to sing numerous lyric coloratura roles as a soloist at the National Theatre of Szeged between 1997 and 2001. From the latter year until 2003, at first as a member of the Hungarian State Opera's studio, and later as a regular member of the company, she sang the roles of Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Norina (Don Pasquale), Gilda (Rigoletto), Melinda (Bánk bán) and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) there. From 2003 until the birth of her first child in 2008, she was a soloist at the Wiener Staatsoper, where she sang Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Zdenka (Arabella) and Adele (Die Fledermaus). Apart from opera, she has proved her skill in numerous genres, including singing Maria (in West Side Story at the Szeged Open-Air Festival), Rolla (in Miska the Magnate at the Budapest Operetta Theatre) and Svetlana (in 56 Drops of Blood, at the Vörösmarty Theatre in Székesfehérvár).
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L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea)
Eiffel Art Studios – Miklós Bánffy Stage
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Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow)
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L’oca del Cairo, ossia Lo sposo deluso (The Goose of Cairo or The Deluded Bridegroom)
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SGS U.S. Testing Company, Inc., Application for Expansion of Recognition
65:2438-2439
1910.7(c)
[Docket No. NRTL-2-90]
SUMMARY: This notice announces the application of SGS U.S. Testing Company, Inc. (SGSUS), for expansion of its recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) under 29 CFR 1910.7, and presents the Agency's preliminary finding. This preliminary finding does not constitute an interim or temporary approval of this application.
DATES: Comments submitted by interested parties must be received no later than March 14, 2000.
ADDRESS: Send comments concerning this notice to: Office of Technical Programs and Coordination Activities, NRTL Program, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room N3653, Washington, DC 20210.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bernard Pasquet, Office of Technical Programs and Coordination Activities, NRTL Program at the above address, or phone (202) 693-2110.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) hereby gives notice that SGS US Testing Company, Inc. (SGSUS), has applied for expansion of its current recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL). The expansion request by SGSUS covers the use of additional test standards. SGSUS has also requested recognition to use additional supplemental programs. OSHA recognizes an organization as an NRTL, and processes applications related to such recognitions, following requirements in Sec. 1910.7 of Title 29, Code of Federal Regulations (29 CFR 1910.7). Appendix A to this section requires that OSHA publish this public notice of the preliminary finding on an application.
The most recent notice published by OSHA for the SGSUS recognition covered a correction of recognition (63 FR 69683, December 17, 1998). The correction pertained to the renewal and expansion of the SGSUS recognition, which OSHA announced on May 19, 1998 (63 FR 27598) and granted on August 28, 1998 (63 FR 46084). In these notices, OSHA had imposed certain conditions on SGSUS, which we repeat in this notice and will include in any final notice on this expansion request.
The current address of the SGSUS facilities (sites) recognized by OSHA are: SGS U.S. Testing Company Inc., 291 Fairfield Avenue, Fairfield, New Jersey 07004, SGS U.S. Testing Company Inc., 5555 Telegraph Road, Los Angeles, California 90040.
General Background on the Application
SGSUS has submitted a request, dated August 9, 1999 (see Exhibit 14), to expand its recognition as an NRTL for the four (4) additional test standards listed below. In this letter, the NRTL also included a request for recognition to use the two (2) additional supplemental programs also listed below.
SGSUS seeks recognition for testing and certification of products to demonstrate compliance to the 4 test standards listed below and OSHA has determined the standards are appropriate, as prescribed by 29 CFR 1910.7(c). As is the case for any NRTL, the SGSUS recognition for a particular test standard is further limited to equipment or materials (i.e., products) for which OSHA standards require third party testing and certification before use in the workplace. As a result, OSHA's recognition of an NRTL for a test standard excludes any product(s), falling within the scope of the test standard, for which OSHA has no such requirements. In addition, testing or certification to these standards will be limited to those sites that have the proper capability and programs. In fact, this limitation applies to all test standards for which SGSUS is currently recognized. This treatment is consistent with the recognition that OSHA has granted to other NRTLs that operate or utilize multiple sites.
ANSI/UL 696 Electric Toys
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ANSI/UL 1310 Class 2 Power Units
ANSI/UL 6500 Audio/Visual and Musical Instrument Apparatus for Household, Commercial, and Similar General Use
The designations and titles of the above test standards were current at the time of the preparation of this notice.
Programs and Procedures
SGSUS also seeks to use the supplemental programs listed below, based upon the criteria detailed in the March 9, 1995 Federal Register notice (60 FR 12980, 3/9/95). This notice lists nine (9) programs and procedures (collectively, programs), eight of which (called supplemental programs) an NRTL may use to control and audit, but not actually to generate, the data relied upon for product certification. An NRTL's initial recognition will always include the first or basic program, which requires that all product testing and evaluation be performed in-house by the NRTL that will certify the product. SGSUS has already received recognition for two of the supplemental programs, and the on-site review report indicates that SGSUS appears to meet the criteria for use of the following supplemental programs for which it has applied:
Program 3: Acceptance of product evaluations from independent organizations, other than NRTLs.
Program 9: Acceptance of services other than testing or evaluation performed by subcontractors or agents.
OSHA developed the program descriptions to limit how an NRTL may perform certain aspects of its work and to permit the activities covered under a program only when the NRTL meets certain criteria. In this sense, they are special conditions that the Agency places on an NRTL's recognition. OSHA does not consider these programs in determining whether an NRTL meets the requirements for recognition under 29 CFR 1910.7. However, OSHA does treat these programs as one of the three elements that defines an NRTL's scope of recognition.
Conditions -- Use of Programs
As previously mentioned, OSHA included certain conditions in the Federal Register notice for the renewal of the SGSUS recognition, published on August 28, 1998 (63 FR 46084). The conditions applied to the recognition to use the additional programs listed in that notice, and also apply to the programs listed in this current notice of our preliminary finding. These conditions are in addition to the requirements detailed in the previously cited March 9, 1995 Federal Register:
SGS U.S. Testing Company, Inc., Fairfield, New Jersey, will review and approve the qualifications of all external organizations prior to SGS U.S. Testing Company, Inc., accepting test data from these organizations.
SGS U.S. Testing Company, Inc., Fairfield, New Jersey, will review and approve the qualifications of all external organizations prior to SGS U.S. Testing Company, Inc., using a site of any of these organizations for witnessed test data.
Preliminary Finding on the Application
SGSUS has submitted an acceptable request for expansion of its recognition as an NRTL. In connection with the request, OSHA performed an on-site review of the SGSUS facility in Fairfield, New Jersey, on June 7-8, 1999. Discrepancies noted by the assessor during the on-site review were addressed by SGSUS following the on-site evaluation and are factored into the recommendation in the on-site review report (see Exhibit 15).
Following a review of the application file, the on-site review report, and other pertinent documents, the NRTL Program staff has concluded that OSHA can grant, to the SGS U.S. Testing Company, Inc., facilities, listed above, the expansion of recognition to use the additional four (4) test standards, also listed above, with the limitations to be applied as noted. The staff also grants use of the two (2) supplemental programs, subject to the above conditions. The staff therefore recommended to the Assistant Secretary that the application be preliminarily approved.
Based upon the recommendation of the staff, the Assistant Secretary has made a preliminary finding that the SGS U.S. Testing Company, Inc., facilities listed above can meet the recognition requirements, as prescribed by 29 CFR 1910.7, for the expansion of recognition, subject to the above limitations and conditions. This preliminary finding does not constitute an interim or temporary approval of the application.
OSHA welcomes public comments, in sufficient detail, as to whether SGSUS has met the requirements of 29 CFR 1910.7 for the expansion of its recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory. Your comment should consist of pertinent written documents and exhibits. To consider it, OSHA must receive the comment at the address provided above (see ADDRESS), no later than the last date for comments (see DATES above). You may obtain or review copies of the SGSUS request, the on-site review report, and all submitted comments, as received, by contacting the Docket Office, Room N2625, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, at the above address. You should refer to Docket No. NRTL-2-90, the permanent record of public information on the SGSUS recognition.
The NRTL Program staff will review all timely comments and, after resolution of issues raised by these comments, will recommend whether to grant the SGSUS expansion request. The Assistant Secretary will make the final decision on granting the expansion and, in making this decision, may undertake other proceedings prescribed in Appendix A to 29 CFR 1910.7. OSHA will publish a public notice of this final decision in the Federal Register.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of January, 2000.
Charles N. Jeffress,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-916 Filed 1-13-00; 8:45 am]
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The strength in us all ePub download
by Sara Henderson
Sara Henderson Professionals and Academics English
Author: Sara Henderson
Category: Professionals & Academics
Publisher: Macmillan Australia; First Edition edition (1994)
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In her bestselling sequel The Strength In Us All Sara updates us on life at Bullo and tells more of the . Oh my gosh, I laughed so much throughout this book written by the late Sarah Henderson. This book is a follow up from Strength to Strength which was also a very enjoyable read.
In her bestselling sequel The Strength In Us All Sara updates us on life at Bullo and tells more of the colourful stories about Charlie, Uncle Dick, the girls and their animals, and all the other unforgettable characters that have played a part in her remarkable life.
In 1959, Sara met American war hero and shipping magnate Charles Henderson III, and so began what she calls the world's most demanding, humiliating and challenging . The Strength In Us All. Sara Henderson.
In 1959, Sara met American war hero and shipping magnate Charles Henderson III, and so began what she calls the world's most demanding, humiliating and challenging obstacle course any human could be expected to endure. Three years after their marriage, Charles presented Sara with her new home, a tin shack in a million acres of red dust. After twenty years of back-breaking work on this remote Northern Australian cattle station, Charlie's death revealed that Sara had not only been left with a floundering property, but also with a heart-breaking mountain of debt.
Sara Jane Henderson (15 September 1936 – 29 April 2005) was an Australian pastoralist and author who became an Australia household name after the publication of her autobiography From Strength to Strength in 1993 about rebuilding Bullo River cattle . .
Sara Jane Henderson (15 September 1936 – 29 April 2005) was an Australian pastoralist and author who became an Australia household name after the publication of her autobiography From Strength to Strength in 1993 about rebuilding Bullo River cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. Henderson moved to Bullo River Station, 360 kilometres south-west of Darwin with her husband Charles, an American ex-serviceman, and her three daughters, Marlee, Bonnie and Danielle.
Book by Henderson, Sara. A Modern Day "We of the Never Never"! By Thriftbooks. com User, January 23, 2000. I was lent a copy of this sequel to "From Strength to Strength" I couldn't put it down and now am struggling to get copies of it and the first book. Even jumping into the sequel without the introductory book, Sara's tales are mesmerizing, adventurous and well written! 0. Report.
In her best-selling sequel The Strength In Us All, Sara updates us on life at Bullo and tells more of the colourful stories about . Sara Jane Henderson (15 September 1936 – 29 April 2005) was an Australian pastoralist and author.
In her best-selling sequel The Strength In Us All, Sara updates us on life at Bullo and tells more of the colourful stories about Charlie, Uncle Dick, the girls and their animals, and all the other unforgettable characters that have played a part in her remarkable life. She was named Businesswoman of the Year in 1991 for managing the Bullo River cattle station, 360 kilometres south-west of Darwin in the Northern Territory.
The strength in us all. Chippendale, . You must be logged in to Tag Records. The strength in us all, Sara Henderson. The strength in us all, Sara Henderson Pan Macmillan Chippendale, . Australian/Harvard Citation. 1994, The strength in us all, Sara Henderson Pan Macmillan Chippendale, . Book, Online - Google Books. Henderson, Sara, 1936-2005.
Ever since The Strength in Us All was published in 1994, I have been receiving letters and phone calls, basically asking, ‘What’s happening now?’ So I was very tempted to name this book just that, as it answers the much-asked questions and brings you up to date on the Bullo saga!
Ever since The Strength in Us All was published in 1994, I have been receiving letters and phone calls, basically asking, ‘What’s happening now?’ So I was very tempted to name this book just that, as it answers the much-asked questions and brings you up to date on the Bullo saga! But The Strength of Our Dreams (the third book in the Strength Series) is a much better title, because it describes the book perfectly
The captivating sequel of Sara Henderson's first book, From Strength to Strength
The captivating sequel of Sara Henderson's first book, From Strength to Strength. The Strength of Our Dreams is the long-awaited follow-up to From Strength to Strength and its equally best-selling sequel, The Strength in Us All. It continues the story of this amazing Australian, taking us through the last six years of her incredibly varied life: the special joys of being a grandmother, the frustrations of the outback farming life, and the humorous side of fame.
The Strength of Our Dreams is the long-awaited follow-up to From Strength to Strength and its equally best-selling sequel, The Strength in Us All.
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Flarik
I a fan of Sara Henderson. Hat is off to her and her family. I can see how the situation might create some difficult family dynamics and I feel for her daughters, but Sara is a professional from top to bottom when it comes to telling her story. I've read all the books and liked them all equally. An incredibly inspiring woman.
Arith
My husband had asked me to purchase this for him as he had enjoyed Sara Henderson's earlier life stories. And again he was not disappointed.
Great read. So down to earth. Love them all
Wooden Purple Romeo
It was really an interesting story of their lives-- I couldn't have done it
The book makes good sense. It is filled with interesting happenings. Sara & her families ability to relate to animals and birds is an inspiration.
Nayatol
i loved this book it was as enjoyable as the first book. her life is amazing and filled with so many near misses. this is typical of life in remote places you take more chances than others would do. you live life to the full. life is hard but that builds character. the life out bush is bred into you and you cant leave no matter how many times you get knocked down i know because i was born and bred in the bush. good luck marlee and franz i hope those indonesians clean up there act.
GYBYXOH
I was lent a copy of this sequel to "From Strength to Strength" I couldn't put it down and now am struggling to get copies of it and the first book. Even jumping into the sequel without the introductory book, Sara's tales are mesmerizing, adventurous and well written!
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January Moon
The Northern Cheyenne Breakout from Fort Robinson, 1878–1879
By Jerome A. Greene
History / United States / 19th Century
History / Native American
History / Military / United States
Reviews & Praise
Historian Jerome A. Greene is renowned for his memorable chronicles of egregious events involving American Indians and the U.S. military, including Sand Creek, Washita, and Wounded Knee. Now, in January Moon, Greene draws from extensive research and fieldwork to explore a signal—and appallingly brutal—event in American history: the desperate flight of Chief Dull Knife’s Northern Cheyenne Indians from imprisonment at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
In the wake of the Great Sioux War of 1876–77, the U.S. government expelled most Northern Cheyennes from their northern plains homeland to Indian Territory, in present-day Oklahoma. Following mounting hardships, many of those people, under Chiefs Dull Knife and Little Wolf, broke away, seeking to return north. While Little Wolf’s band managed initially to elude pursuing U.S. troops, Dull Knife’s people were captured in 1878 and ushered into a makeshift barrack prison at Camp (later Fort) Robinson, where they spent months waiting for government officials to decide their fate. It is here that Greene’s riveting narrative edges toward its climax.
On the night of January 9, 1879, in a bloody struggle with troops, Dull Knife’s people staged a massive breakout from their barrack prison in a last-ditch bid for freedom. Greene paints a vivid picture of their frantic escape, which took place under an unusually brilliant moon that doomed many of those fleeing by silhouetting them against the snow. A climactic engagement at Antelope Creek proved especially devastating, and the helpless people were nearly annihilated.
In gripping detail, Greene follows the survivors’ dreadful experiences into their aftermath, including creation of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Carrying the story to the present day, he describes Cheyenne tribal events commemorating the breakout—all designed to ensure that the injustices of nineteenth-century U.S. government policy will never be forgotten.
Jerome A. Greene is retired as Research Historian for the National Park Service. He is the author of numerous books, including Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn since 1876, Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876–1877: The Military View; Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876–1877; and Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
Greene’s January Moon should prompt more research into aftermath of the Great Sioux War (and other Indian conflicts of the late 19th century) and the effects of the disreputable reservation system, the concentration of tribes far from their Native homelands and the failure of the federal government to protect and treat America’s indigenous people with the respect they deserved as human beings and fellow Americans.—True West magazine
“Greene’s January Moon should prompt more research into aftermath of the Great Sioux War (and other Indian conflicts of the late 19th century) and the effects of the disreputable reservation system, the concentration of tribes far from their Native homelands and the failure of the federal government to protect and treat America’s indigenous people with the respect they deserved as human beings and fellow Americans.” —True West
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David Lindley: The Musican From Mars Strikes Again
Terry Roland Posted On June 2, 2010
DAVID LINDLEY
The Troubadour Jester of Reggae, Oud and Polyester
By Terry Roland
During this interview with David Lindley he described the great violin player, Sugar Cane Harris as a ‘force of nature.’ This could easily be said of Lindley as well. With a recording session list as long and legendary as anyone could possibly imagine, he remains a person with no sense of his own celebrity. While he is known for his love of polyester on stage, playing a modern day cosmic court jester, his music is diverse. He plays with love for the tradition of each instrument, such as the oud, a love for the song, and especially his audience. His latest release with friend and long time collaborator, Jackson Browne, Love is Strange, will be accompanied by a summer tour. For more information and other releases visit www.davidlindley.com.
TERRY: Hey, how’s it going?
DAVID: I just got a new instrument. An oud. Got it from aguy in Athens.It has an unusually long scale, so I have to do a lot of mental adjustment. It’stime for a break though, so it’s a good time to talk. I’m kind of scrambled at the moment.
TERRY: Ah yes, scrambled brains and oud.
DAVID: With really high decibels, that’s a good song!
TERRY: Well, I thought we’d go back to the beginning with Kaleidoscope. Weren’t they signed to Electra?
DAVID: Yes, we were.
TERRY: What got you guys into world music?
DAVID: We were different than a lot of the bands. I started playing when I was 17. I knew this guy named Solomon from gigs when I was playing at bluegrass festivals. He could sing, play 12 string and Flamingo guitar. I’d get together with him and he’d make things interesting. From that we got a bunch of guys together for the band.
TERRY: How long were you together?
DAVID: If you count the length of the band by albums, wereleased four. Then, we disbanded.
TERRY: I’ve heard of reunions over the years.
DAVID: Yes. I remember contributing to one album. There were many incarnations, but if Solomon wasn’t part of it, it wasn’t reallyKaleidoscope. You know how it gets, so many personnel changes until you can’t recognize the band anymore.
TERRY: Yeah, I call it The Byrds Syndrome.
DAVID: That’s exactly what it is. The Byrds Syndrome. That’s a good name for it.
TERRY: So you went from Kaleidoscope to being the guy-in-demandfor session work.
DAVID: The first session I remember was playing for the New Christy Minstrels for some live stage production. I was hired to play 5 string banjo. I’d be playing behind the stage while the group member acted like it was him playing the banjo. After that I did a bluegrass compilation with McGuinn, Mason Williams and a lot of others. It’s out there somewhere. The masters have been bought and sold over and over again. I ended up working with a Kenny Loggins when he was really young.From there word got out that I was the guy to hire.
TERRY: Of all of the session work you’ve done are there any that stand out for you?
DAVID: Let’s see. There’s so many. I’d say Etta James. I did some sessions with her. I love the Cooder/Lindley Family Band live at the Vienna Opera House. That’s a new CD in release.
Oh yeah, there’s the Trio sessions with Dolly Parton,Emmylou Harris and Linda Rondstadt.
I remember I did a live gig with Dolly around that time. Shewas going around introducing everybody in the band and when she got to me, she said, “And Here’s DAVID Lindley fromMars.” I just made this face.
TERRY: So you kept your other worldliness intact?
DAVID: Yes. One of my all time favorite moments was on a television show, I think it was David Sanborn on NBC in New York City I played “People Get Ready” with Curtis Mayfield. I remember he turned around to me and said,”Play the solo, David.” Then, a voice in my head said, “don’t screw this up.” It was like this voice of the child of James Earl Jones and Orson Welles talking to me.
TERRY: That’s one of the advantages to hearing voices, getting help on stage.
DAVID: Well, yeah, it’s okay as long as you know their origin. If you don’t know where they’re coming from, you’re in trouble. But, the solo went really well and Curtis was happy.
TERRY: Then, we get to your Jackson Browne years. That’s where I come in. I remember the first time I heard you was back then. How did that start?
DAVID: I spent three or four months in England with The Terry Reid Band. Jackson was over there doing a gig at Cambridge.I sat in with him. I said to him “wow we’ve got this great sound. We gotta keep this.” We started touring together. We did mostly acoustic, just me and him. Eventually, it grew into aband and a huge thing.
TERRY: That’s what I remember. The Running On Empty Tour,this guy starts singing Stay and I’m going, who is that guy???
DAVID: Yes. It was me coming out from behind the shadows.The guy sitting down with the long hair, whose eyes you couldn’t see, emerging from the shadows like Dr. Calgary. Here he comes!!!
TERRY: It’s somewhere around that time when you formed El Rayo Ex.
DAVID: That was around the early 80s. I was playing with Jackson and he kept saying I needed to record this reggae music I was doing. Our first was the Blue album. It took off. It startedgetting played all over the place. When we put the band together, I wanted people who could do a show by themselves. I got Ras Baboo, this multi-instrumentalist, Trinidad, Rastafarian guy,for percussion, Ian Wallace on drums, and Bob Glaub. We got into this place where we had basic organic chemistry. Really, that’s what it was. We take out this musical compound and combine it with another to create something entirely new.
TERRY: I was talking with someone yesterday about all of the differences in country music and how Californiacountry is a really distinctive style of music.
DAVID: Oh yeah. That’s really true. When we were younger we listened to country and bluegrass.
That’s how Jerry Garcia started the Grateful Dead, from bluegrass. Oh, and the Bakersfield sound!Really great people like Merle Haggard. Man, Buck Owens was great. One of the best live albums every recorded is Buck Owens and the Buckaroos Live atCarnegie Hall. From early California country came The Burrito Brothers and Poco. You know the music was all from the migration of people from Arkansas and Oklahoma.Their kids picked up on it.
TERRY: Any Live venues stand out for you during that time?
DAVID: Oh yeah. I grew up playing the Ice House. Bob Stane is a great guy and helped a lot of people. It was a really good scene there. Kind of The Troubadour East. I played the Ash Grove too. Oh, and El Monte Legion Stadium!On the radio you’d hear spots from Don & Dewey. That was Don Harris, Sugar Cane Harris. I sat down with him once. In an hour I learned all kinds of things. He was intense, a force of nature, really cosmic. I got a call from Dewey to come to do a session with Sugar Cane, but I couldn’t at the time. He and his brother would play El Monte Legion. I was really big on that place.
TERRY: Tell me about the difference playing solo and with a band.
DAVID: Solo, I can put the petal to the metal and you hear what the song’s about. I want to do this Lightning Hopkins kind of thing. He used to deal with things in his own way. I played with him at the Ash Grove. I got to hang out backstage with him. I evenplayed on stage with him once. I learned a lot from him.
TERRY: What kind of things did you learn?
DAVID: I think that’s where I had my first polyester experience. He was cool. He wore beautiful polyester. I think it started there in my subconscious and surfaced later.
TERRY: What triggered the emergence of polyester?
DAVID: I saw this video of me live in Germany playing at the Rock Palace,I think it was. I was boring. I didn’t move! So, I decided to get some clothes that moved on their own. I saw The African Brothers Dancers album cover. They had the best polyester. I mean, polka dots with plaids that should have clashed but didn’t. Polyester became my vestments! They came out of central Asia. It was the crazy musicians who started it. They’d get all dressed up in patchwork. Usually really cheapo stuff. Eventually, they’d become the jesters.
TERRY: I know you enjoy doing covers. Tomorrow I have an interview with Chip Taylor.
DAVID: Really!! Wow, that’s great! Wild Thing!
TERRY: Yeah. That song is amazing. I’ve worked with Barry McGuire and a lot of people know “Eve of Destruction” but some people don’t. It seems like everybody knows Wild Thing, no matter what age, culture, the song is just everywhere. Every week I have the privilege of playing music with a group of disabled adults. They’re autistic,have cerebral palsy, mentally retarded and sometimes they have a combination the mall. I started playing that riff on the guitar and then I raised my arm in theair and thirty of them all shouted, WILD THING!!
DAVID: Yeah. And when you get right down to it, that’s whatit’s all about right there. That’s why we’re doing what we do.
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Book Review: A haunting novel
Published January 5, 2016 · Updated January 4, 2016
Rosalie Grosch
Arden Hills, Minn.
Powerfully written, hauntingly beautiful, and touching, The Year That Trembled is a vivid word picture of the troubling times young people faced living in the Vietnam War years.
Events in Scott Lax’s moving debut novel are narrated through the observations and experiences of Casey Pedersen, one of four young men who have recently graduated from high school. The four of them find an old house to rent in an idyllic setting, aptly called Little Meadow. Left uncultivated for years, the land had returned to what it once had been, a peaceful place for nature to reclaim its own. A newly married couple rents an old house nearby and together the six young people search for the meaning of life, a meaning that would find itself in nature, music, spirituality, friendship, and love.
The varying personalities of each one come to life as they search for that which brings them pleasure, at least momentary pleasure. Questions, conflict, and pain tear away at the dailyness of living when forced to grow up quickly.
In the midst of the natural tranquility found in Little Meadow, the tumult of the world around rages. The Vietnam War is a dark shadow hanging over all of the young people. Feeling that their lives are in the hands of the people in Washington, D.C., fear of the unknown takes control. The Selective Service Lottery, the process by which young men would be drafted, is just days away. Reckless partying and living for the moment become a disguise for the uncertainty and fear looming before all of them. Surely one of them would have his number called and he would be the unlucky one, marching into the darkness of the seemingly senseless Vietnam War.
The novel not only looks into the lives of the very young men but also searches the emotions of the women who love them and fear losing what they have when they are left behind. Nothing seems permanent, not even deep love. “Grab that which is in front of you” seems to be their marching orders. What seems frivolous to one of them in the group becomes something of deep importance to another. Support and wisdom come from the most unlikely one in the group.
Do the young people ever discover the meaning of life? Perhaps not yet, as the wounds of war are too fresh. But they are encouraged to push on and realize that things will return to normal. War will end. Living for the moment will seem a thing of the past as they find a way to engage in life at a deeper level.
If one were to create a painting of this novel, one would need to use psychedelic colors, colors that jump out at you but clash with each other. All would be painted against a black background with just a hint of light up in the right-hand corner. Scott Lax has brilliantly created a word picture that does just this. He has also produced a feature film version of the novel and has written a stage play version that has been produced.
I used the words “hauntingly beautiful” at the beginning of this review. I find that days after finishing this novel those words still roll around in my heart. One can’t help but feel deep empathy not only for the young people in this novel, facing a world of uncertainty, but also for all the young men and women today who live with fear of the unknown.
The Year That Trembled was published in 1998. Both it and his second novel, Vengeance Follows, are available from publisher Gray & Company at www.grayco.com. Scott Lax is a Norwegian American living in Ohio, and both his novels feature Norwegian American protagonists.
Rosalie Grangaard Grosch was born into a Norwegian/American family in Decorah, Iowa. A graduate of Luther College, she taught music and English in American schools, taught English and developed a team teaching program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and was a drama/music/English teacher in Lae, Papua New Guinea and Activity Director/Consultant for a long term care facility in St. Paul/Minneapolis, Minn. She is a contributor to Chicken Soup for the Soul and has written numerous articles for publication.
This article originally appeared in the Jan. 8, 2016, issue of the Norwegian American Weekly. To subscribe, visit SUBSCRIBE or call us at (206) 784-4617.
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Cash excited for Leeds clash
Matty Cash says he is expecting "an incredible atmosphere" at The City Ground on Saturday night as Nottingham Forest host fellow promotion chasers Leeds United.
Cash has enjoyed a superb season so far in his new position at right-back and the 22-year-old has paid tribute to head coach Sabri Lamouchi for developing his game in ways he couldn't imagine.
He said: "From the day he joined the club he has been pretty hard on me but that's what I need. He has been teaching me all about the new position I'm playing in and I need his quality of coaching to help me improve. He demands the best from us in training every day and that's great.
"If we win on a Saturday then the training session on the Monday is always the toughest because he demands that we improve and work on our skills ahead of the next game. Understandably he wasn't happy after the Birmingham game but he has encouraged us to get back on track this weekend.
"We know how big the game is on Saturday, especially considering the position of both teams in the league, and Forest vs Leeds is always a massive fixture. The atmosphere is going to be incredible so we're all looking forward to it."
There was plenty of speculation surrounding Cash in the January transfer window but the Forest man is only concentrating on life at The City Ground and a potential push for promotion.
He said: "It's always nice to hear people mentioning your name but my intention was to stay here from day one of the transfer window. I'm enjoying my football here and I'll just leave everyone else to do the talking. My number-one aim is Nottingham Forest and I want my future to be here and I want to be successful.
"It means a lot to me to come through the academy, to make my debut at 18 and to still be in the first-team now. For me it's a dream come true because aged 17, I was working in a toy shop and now I'm playing for Nottingham Forest. I'm treating every day as a blessing because I'm playing for one of the biggest clubs in the country so my mind is concentrated on playing here.
"I've always had to appreciate earning money so I keep my feet on the ground and stay level-headed. To be playing football in front of 30,000 people most weeks is incredible so I just try to focus on where I've come from to where I am now."
Nottingham Forest vs Leeds United on 08 Feb 20
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Business Management, Consumables - Paper
Paper Usage — Making the Grade
Paper manufactured overseas is comparatively inexpensive and readily available, but what's its long-term potential for commercial printers here in the United States?
BY ERIK CAGLE
Like Beanie Babies and baseball cards, foreign paper has become too much of a good thing.
The respective markets all reached a saturation point, but when it comes to paper, you won't hear any printers complaining about the situation. Collectors may bemoan the dwindling value of Rainbow the Unicorn or a 1984 Fleer Update Kirby Puckett, but it's not likely the decline in price for Phoeno Star No. 2 is going to make a commercial printer throw a mug of coffee against the wall.
Foreign paper is inexpensive and readily available. It is also partly to blame for depressed paper prices in the United States.
"There's no question (foreign paper) was the cause of the weak market in the second half of the year," states Brian Kullman, paper supply chain strategist for R.R. Donnelley & Sons. "The print market was quite strong and printer/publisher inventories were reasonable."
The Asian economic woes and overcapacity may have played pivotal roles in the U.S. market. According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics quoted by Pulp & Paper Week, U.S. imports of coated and uncoated free sheet and groundwood were up 12 percent, while exports in the four categories were down an average of 6 percent.
There was a big increase in imports last year for both groundwood and free sheet papers, and it was a response by European and Asian manufacturers to the softness in Asia.
"If you look at relative price levels in Europe and North America, in their local markets, the price levels for groundwood papers are similar now, whereas they were 15 percent higher in North America last summer," Kullman points out. "Once the prices reach relative parity in the two markets, then the additional freight expense becomes more of a deterrent to shipping European paper here."
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Clever solutions for diverse tasks
ADIF, the infrastructure manager of the Spanish Railway, has been operating machines from our DIC series for a long time. In the picture, the DIC 40 catenary inspection vehicle during operation near Madrid.
Vehicles that can be used flexibly for the repair and maintenance of the rail infrastructure on both railway and metro lines are in demand. Plasser & Theurer’s auxiliary vehicles from the DIC series meet this demand. Thanks to high-quality components also used on larger machines, the vehicle series fulfils the quality standards of high-class machines at low acquisition costs.
In the early 1990s, the first DIC machines were introduced onto the Spanish market. Today, more than 160 units have been supplied to many regions of the world, including North Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. In addition, the DIC series is used in European countries such as Italy, France, Poland, Spain and Portugal.
Plasser Ibérica, our Spanish partner company, designs and manufactures the machines, Plasser & Theurer’s know-how and experience have shaped both the machines’ design and manufacture. The machines are fitted with key components from Austria. The result: high-quality machines from the DIC series.
Designed for the most diverse tasks
The modular design of the DIC series makes it possible to build machines that meet the individual needs of our customers, without changes to the basic pricing structure. Today, the series comprises machines that are between 8 m and 30 m long, ranging from small auxiliary vehicles, such as the DIC 10, to machines in a two-part design, such as the DIC 90. The machines’ possible fields of application include the transportation of staff, spot maintenance, track repair and maintenance as well as the installation and maintenance of contact wires.
The infrastructure manager of the Spanish Railway ADIF (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias) has been operating auxiliary vehicles from the DIC series for a long time. Taking advantage of the great flexibility and high quality of the DIC series, ADIF successfully manages the railway infrastructure in several regions with separate budgets and staff.
In OBW or MTW design
In 2017, the DIC 30 was added to the series. The machine was put on show at iaf in Münster. It is available as an OBW track motor vehicle and as an MTW motor tower car. Both versions are equipped with a spacious crew cabin and a modern control system, contributing to the compliance with EN standards. In standard design, the MTW version of the DIC 30 is equipped with a contact wire holding device, a crane and an elevating platform with folding railings and a range of up to 12 m. The OBW version is equipped with a powerful work crane and a loading platform. In addition, the vehicle can be fitted with a measuring device for contact wire measurements. All key components of the DIC 30, such as wheelsets, brakes, hydraulic and pneumatic components, meet the high quality standards of Plasser & Theurer machines.
TTC catenary installation and renewal train
Recently, Plasser Ibérica supplied two TTC catenary installation and renewal trains to Saudi Arabia. They are used for the construction of the high-speed line between Mecca and Medina.
The machines in three-part design consist of a VPL self-propelled auxiliary vehicle with a lifting platform, a VTC overhead line installation system, a contact wire holding device and crane for loading cable drums to the VTC, and a DIC 40 as tractive unit. Using this functional and cost-effective system, up to two contact wires and one carrying cable can be installed with final tension in one pass. It is suited for both conventional and high-speed lines and has been approved as a rail vehicle in accordance with EU technical specifications.
Auxiliary vehicle of choice for Metro Madrid
Mitentscheidend für den Erfolg der DIC-Serie ist das Angebot für die Instandhaltung von Light-Rail-Systemen, also auch für Metros. Rund 50 DIC-Fahrzeuge gingen bereits an Metrobetreiber. Die größte Flotte betreibt die Metro Madrid, die in den Jahren 1997, 2001 und 2004 bis 2014 DIC-Maschinen für unterschiedlichste Einsatzzwecke anschaffte.
Crucial for the success of the DIC series, the vehicles can be operated on metro lines. Metro Madrid operates the largest fleet of DIC machines for the most diverse applications.
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Here are some things coach Brian Flores said Monday:
• We need better communication, run defense and pass defense. We've got a lot of corrections to make. Too many big plays. Not getting off the field on third down. There are plays to be made on critical downs.
• Byron Jones (groin) was in for treatment on Monday. It's a quick turnaround. He'd have to heal pretty quickly to play. We're not ruling him out just yet.
• Noah Igbinoghene is a mentally tough kid. Playing against a receiver of that caliber he had some instances he covered him well. And a lot of instances where Diggs was able to get open against him. He'll learn from it. There are some things he can easily do better to put himself in a better position.
• There are a lot of challenges to a short week. At the end of the day you just don't enough time. You don't have your normal schedule to hit first, second, third, red zone, two minute. Everything is condensed. You just have to get it all in in a short period of time. As far as putting anything brand new in, it's hard to do, you don't get to practice. You never see it full speed. For most teams, you may throw one or two new wrinkles in, but it's off of something you already have in. So there's not a lot of new learning.
• Preston Williams needs to catch the ball with his hands.
• Not enough pass rush. We have to do a better job as a coaching staff of putting them in position to rush better. The players have to work their techniques and fundamentals and rush better. We are still trying to find who does what best.
• Xavien Howard is healthy. We wouldn't put him out there if we didn't think he was healthy. We had injuries yesterday. He was on John Brown. To me we just have to cover the guys that we're on. The guys we put you on, those are the guys we expect you to cover.
• 0-2 is tough. There is a lot to improve on. And that's kind of where my focus is. A lot of things from last week are correctable. We made some corrections yesterday, not enough to win the game. The thing we have to do is finish.
• We need more pressure, mixing coverages, keeping someone on the weak side. We have answers to the crossing routes. As a press team, as a cover one team, we have to cover better. We have to coach it better. We have to mix the coverages. We have to cover better. We have to coach it better and that starts with me. We're not pointing fingers or making excuses. These guys work. They want to get better. It is important to them. My experience says we will improve if we have the attitude that we've had.
• There is always a sense of urgency in this league for sure. I try to be positive more than not positive. But I think these guys look there is a great sense of urgency in this building. I think guys want to be good. They want to win. They want to improve. They want to get better. There is definitely a sense of urgency. I don't want to misconstrue positive encouragement with a lack of sense of urgency. I don't think anyone feels that here. Players work extremely hard. They want it. I understand that. It's not all positive. I try to be demanding. And tell them how important each play is.
• I want to send condolences to James White and his family. He lost his father. His mom is in critical condition. His father is an incredible person who did a lot for a lot of young people in South Florida.
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/broken-justice-episode-4-public-defenders-fight-back-the-full-transcript
Broken Justice Episode 4: Public defenders fight back – the full transcript
Nation Dec 10, 2019 2:47 PM EST
https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2019/11/episode-4-broken-justice.mp3
Amna Nawaz:
Hey y’all. You’re about to listen to episode four in a five part series. If you didn’t start from the beginning, trust me, it’ll all make a lot more sense if you stop right here and go back to episode one.
Steve Hanlon:
We got 16,000 public defenders who are mad as hell. And they’re not going to do it anymore.
That’s Steve Hanlon. He’s a lawyer who’s spent his career fighting systems for violating civil rights. And now he’s trained his eye on the failures in the public defender system in America.
This is a disease. And it’s gone on for 50 years.
We’ve told you about some of the consequences for the clients in this system. But there are real consequences for public defenders too. Long hours, low pay, and the feeling that they’re constantly failing the people they’re trying to help. And the stress of the job is crushing them.
Public defender:
It hardens me up in a way that is uncomfortable. The only way that I feel like I can go through it mentally and emotionally is by dismissing certain functions of my job. And the reason for that is because if I don’t, the emotional drain is impossible.
This has been public defense for decades, suffering from the same chronic issues: too many clients, not enough lawyers and, despite dire warnings, not enough funding.
At some point when you get your face rubbed in the mud enough you’ve got, you’ve got to stand up and fight back.
In the last few years, Steve has been trying to fight back, and for many reasons, he’s taken that fight to Missouri.
Missouri is the epicenter of this whole movement to end this abandonment of the rule of law.
The question is “Can you fix something that’s been broken for so long?”
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Frank Carlson:
Do they have a nickname for public defenders?
Defendant: Oh yeah, yeah they call ‘em public pretenders
Public defender: These are my docket cases, probations.
Public defender: I have 119 open cases.
Public defender: 131 open cases.
Public defender: Hey, here’s your 200 cases. You have court in 20 minutes. It’s across the street. Go.
Public defender: I feel the stress of 150 souls on my back.
Public defender: And you know that some of them are slipping through the cracks
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Ricky Kidd: Ricky
Ricky Kidd: I 100 percent believe that I’m in prison today because of the Missouri public defender system.
This is “Broken Justice,” a show from the PBS Newshour about the public defender system in Missouri – and what it tells us about justice in America. I’m Amna Nawaz:.
And I’m Frank Carlson:.
So Frank, Steve Hanlon:, how did you first hear about him?
Well, when I first started reporting this story, I kept seeing Steve’s name come up. He’s a lawyer in his late seventies and he represents thousands of other lawyers across the country as General Counsel for the National Association for Public Defense. And he’s also a major critic of this system.
Everybody has agreed that we will abandon the rules for lawyers for this population of primarily black and brown people you cannot do mass incarceration unless the whole justice system rolls over and plays dead. This will be the legacy of my generation of lawyers to the next generation of lawyers unless we put an end to it.
Steve’s also someone who thinks he has an idea for how to fix it.
I think we have thought at the problem. But I do not think we have thought through the problem. And I think we have used the wrong law. And I think we have used the wrong facts.
See for years Steve and groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center have been trying to address the problems of public defense across the country primarily through lawsuits–suing states and local governments for failing to adequately represent clients.
Radio announcer:
The ACLU has filed a class action federal lawsuit on behalf of suspects who can’t afford their own lawyers.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho says the state’s public defense system is broken and it’s taking Idaho to court to prove it.
They’ve been saying, “Look, these clients had terrible representation from their public defenders, and that’s mainly because there wasn’t enough money in the system.” In fact, right now the ACLU has an open lawsuit against Missouri’s public defender system saying exactly that.
Newscaster:
The ACLU of Missouri just filed this lawsuit today against the state over a lack of money from the state for people who can’t afford a lawyer.
In many cases, these lawsuits force state and local governments to improve their systems. But Steve thinks those reforms don’t go nearly far enough and that it’s been too easy for the systems to eventually backslide to the status quo.
So what does he think we should do?
Well for starters, he thinks you have to define the problem — not with anecdotes or stories about individual clients — but with some objective measure to prove that the system is actually overloaded.
So how do you do that? How do you objectively prove that the system is overloaded?
You need data! You need to figure out how many cases a public defender can actually manage.
Ok, so how do you figure that out?
Right, it’s not easy. We’ve heard a lot of public defenders talking about their caseloads.
131 open cases.
I have over a hundred cases.
I have ninety five open cases right now.
Different kinds of cases take different amounts of time. Like a murder is generally going to take a lot longer than a probation violation. So Steve says what you actually need to know is the number of hours a public defender should be spending on each kind of case because public defenders like everyone else, only have so many hours in a day.
So Steve thought if he could just figure out a standard number of hours each kind of case required, public defenders could use those to draw a line in the sand and to say, no more. So Steve recruited a St. Louis accounting firm to come up with the standard number of hours any defense attorney — public or private — should be spending on each kind of case.
For sex felonies, they needed to do 63.8. For juvenile they needed to do 19.5. For probation violations they needed to do 9.8.
And to no one’s surprise, Missouri public defenders weren’t spending nearly enough hours on their cases.
For a higher level felony, they were doing, I can’t believe this, 8.7. They needed to be doing 47.6.
So Steve had his numbers and they were way off. So then what?
Well Steve thought Missouri’s public defenders could use these numbers in at least two ways: one was to convince the state to give them more money to hire more lawyers and another was to convince the courts that they couldn’t take on any more cases — so judges and prosecutors would then have to figure out what to do. So let’s talk about the money first.
Michael Barrett:
In order to provide constitutionally effective representation in all our cases, for all our clients, we would need about 300 more lawyers at a cost of about $20 million.
That’s Michael Barrett:. He took over as the head of Missouri’s public defender system after Steve’s study was completed. And in 2016, he used Steve’s numbers to launch a crusade — starting with state lawmakers. He wanted every cent that Steve Hanlon:’s calculation said he needed, another $20 million dollars to hire 300 more lawyers — or a 50 percent increase in his budget.
Ok, a 50 percent budget increase is huge. Did Missouri lawmakers buy that?
They actually kind of did. They said “Ok, these workload numbers seem real. But we don’t have $20 million to give you. How about four and a half million instead?” Michael said “Ok, that’s a good start,” and the legislature passed the increase.
Ok, so he gets four and a half million that’s definitely not 20 million, but sounds like it’s a small win?
Well it was. Until Jay Nixon, the democratic governor, said “not so fast.” He blocked almost all of that increase. And Michael was pissed.
Here we are, we finally get some funding and then the governor doesn’t want us to have it.
Ok, and here comes this big dramatic moment, Amna … are you ready for it?
I’m ready.
But remember, dramatic by lawyers’ standards.
Ok, I’m tempering my expectations, go ahead.
Michael Barrett: had this obscure power to assign a case to anyone in the state with a law license — to essentially turn anyone into a public defender for a single case. And so he assigned one to the Governor.
A bitter budget battle in Missouri going to a new level last week.
Missouri governor Jay Nixon has just been recruited to be a state public defender.
Wait so after the Governor blocked his funding, Michael Barret assigns him to work as a public defender? That’s some serious trolling.
Yeah, it was something. Here he was, the top official in the state and the former attorney general, being told that he was going to have to represent a poor client.
You knew that would, that would upset him.
What is he going to do, not fund us?
I mean, the man’s got a point, right? So what happened?
Well a court eventually ruled that Michael didn’t have the power to assign the Governor a case. Only a judge could do that. And so the Governor didn’t have to represent that poor client.
I wanted to bring attention to this matter because so many people were being incarcerated without competent representation.
Michael got the attention he wanted, and he used it to rally his troops and to say to the world, people’s constitutional right to a lawyer is being violated day in and day out, and we’re going to try everything we can think of to change that.
Here’s what I don’t get: I was in the military. I served alongside people that went off and died and spent years in the desert so that we can enjoy these constitutional rights, only to come home and have some guy in a suit take it away from us? And it’s shocking to people when we’re not ok with that? What am I missing here?
Those guys in suits, as Michael Barrett: calls them, the people who are refusing to provide more funding, what do they say about all of this?
Well in public, they’re generally supportive of public defense. Here’s former Missouri Governor, Eric Greitens, in his 2017 state of the state address:
Eric Grietens:
I believe in the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees the right to a fair trial and adequate legal representation for all.
But then when it comes to actually providing the funding public defenders say they need, well that’s a different story.
According to next year’s budget, the Governor plans to cut one million dollars from public defenders.
For decades, reports have found Missouri near the bottom of the pile for public defense funding across the country, and so far nobody has put up the money to change that. Under the last few governors, funding for public defenders hasn’t increased in a way that would meaningfully address this caseload crisis.
We reached out to the current governor, Mike Parson, the house budget chair, Cody Smith, the former governor, Jay Nixon, and they either didn’t respond to our requests or declined to comment on this issue.
Ok, so Michael Barrett wasn’t getting anywhere trying to get more funding. But what about the other option Steve Hanlon proposed? Taking the fight to the judges?
Well that was happening too. Public defenders across the state were trying to use Steve Hanlon:’s data in the courts to refuse cases. The state law said that in order to refuse cases, public defenders needed to convince the presiding judge in their district that they were overloaded. But in most cases, even with the new data, judges weren’t buying it.
Dwight Scroggins:
It’s silly, it’s, it’s ridiculous.
Judges wouldn’t tell me this on the record, but Dwight Scroggins, a former prosecutor in Buchanan County, Missouri echoed what a lot of judges believe about public defenders.
I think they benefit if they can convince people that they are in crisis. I think they spend too much time trying to make the case that we’re in crisis and we need more money and more attorneys and too little time trying to do more with what they have.
Well, what does he mean by that, do more with what they have?
Well, some critics argue that there isn’t really a crisis in public defense at all; that public defenders just need to learn to be more efficient at their jobs.
And what does that mean, exactly?
Well one of the suggestions you hear a lot is that public defenders should do something called “horizontal representation.”
Ok, I’m asking this a lot, but what does that mean exactly ?
Right, it sounds complicated but just means they wouldn’t follow a single case from the beginning to the end, like they do now. Instead there’d be a different public defender for every stage of a case — one for pre-trial motions, one who worked on the bond hearing, one who took the case to trial, and so on.
Hmm, well what is wrong with that strategy?
Well Michael Barrett says it’s basically just processing people accused of crimes, not actually representing them.
Do me a favor, call up a firm, talk to any of those lawyers and say, “Explain to me the virtues of horizontal versus vertical representation.” They’ll say “I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.” It is a made up term for the idea that in the public defender world, defendants don’t have a lot of value and so they shouldn’t have an attorney who represents them from the beginning of their case to the end of their case.
But if defendants have a lawyer at every step of the process, how is that not representation?
Well you know when you lose your luggage at the airport, and you have to go to that little room at baggage claim?
I am very familiar with that room.
Right, well Michael compares horizontal representation to that.
That poor woman who gets yelled at when the person gets off the plane and the luggage is not there. They go in the room and they say “Where the hell is my luggage?” You know why she’s calm? She’s not responsible for it. She wasn’t in charge of putting it on the plane. She wasn’t in charge of taking it off the plane. She knows it’s not her responsibility.
You have four or five different attorneys in the office pointing fingers at each other. No one’s held accountable. And so yeah it would be efficient. Heck it’d be efficient if we cut a window in the side of the courthouse and just drove through it with our client and took plea and drove off. That would be efficient too, but it’s not constitutionally effective.
Ok, so public defenders aren’t buying that idea, and judges weren’t buying Steve’s numbers or the premise that public defenders were overloaded. They’re basically at a stalemate.
Yeah. And public defenders didn’t know it then, but the stakes were about to get a lot higher.
In the fall of 2017, something or, I should say, someone brought this tension between public defenders and the courts to a head: Karl Hinkebein.
Karl would be very mad at me for even talking about him. To say he shied away from any fanfare would be the understatement of the decade.
Karl died earlier this year, and so Michael Barrett:, then the head of Missouri’s public defender system, told us his story.
Karl was the consummate public servant.
Like so many of his colleagues Karl was handling a lot of cases, way more than he should have been. And then he got very sick.
He had health problems for a number of years and he even spent a long time in hospital. And so, Karl just being a workhorse who took the more complicated cases, would just continue to do the work.
But Karl was falling behind. He was missing deadlines that couldn’t be missed. And he wasn’t talking to his clients to tell them what was happening with their cases.
There’s the world’s best juggler who can do whatever 15, 20 balls but then throw ten extra balls his way and suddenly doesn’t look like the world’s best juggler anymore. And as good a lawyer, or juggler, as Karl was, no one could handle that many cases.
Ultimately the office responsible for oversight of lawyers in the state charged Karl with neglecting six clients and missing deadlines. And in 2017, the Missouri State Supreme Court heard that case. Here’s the lawyer representing that office:
Alan D. Pratzel:
In this case, it’s undisputed the respondent breached these ethical duties and responsibilities to numerous clients.
What did Karl say in his defense?
He pretty much said “Yeah, I did miss these things.” Here’s his attorney arguing on his behalf.
Sara Rittman:
The problems that occurred in this case resulted from an attorney with severe and chronic physical health problems coupled with a broken public defender system.
Essentially, Karl tried to argue that there was a double standard: one for private attorneys and another for public defenders like him. Because private attorneys could turn down cases. Public defenders felt that they couldn’t. But in his hearing, one of the state supreme court judges said that was no excuse.
Zel Fischer:
Because when they take their oath to follow the rules of professional responsibility, sometimes that means not taking the case, and sometimes that means taking a different job.
Wait taking a different job? It sounds like the judge was saying if he couldn’t handle the cases, he should have just quit?
That’s exactly right.
Wow. So what did they rule?
Well they put Karl on probation. If he violated that he’d lose his law license. And a few months later, while still on probation, he ended up retiring.
I remember when that happened it wasn’t just this office. Shockwaves through every office in the entire state.
For public defenders across the state, how the court handled Karl’s case felt like the rug had just been pulled out from underneath them.
We thought you had our backs. If I can lose my license over this I’m out.
I don’t consider myself a martyr. And I, I don’t mean to sacrifice my entire life, and profession, and law degree, so that I can help support and be complicit in a system that does not seem to care much for the people that I’m working for.
Wait a minute. This is our bar licenses that are on the line. Right? This is our livelihoods that are on the line.
So you’ve got public defenders who are already at capacity, and can now back that up with hard numbers, trying to turn down more cases with trial judges. And those judges for the most part are saying no. They can’t do that. And then the state’s Supreme Court says, “Hey public defenders, we’re going to hold you responsible if you miss something in any of these cases. And, on top of that, we might take away your law license?”
Wow, ok, so we started this episode with Steve Hanlon:, that numbers guy who is trying to fix this broken system in Missouri with data. But now, even with that data, at least for the public defenders, things seem to be getting worse, not better.
That’s exactly what I thought, but Steve told me that this is just part of a process of beginning to hold people accountable for how this system actually works. And he says it’s been broken for so long that changing it is going to require some painful but necessary steps, and that’s going to take time.
The night is always darkest right before the dawn. So, are we at dawn?
Are we at midnight? Are we at three thirty in the morning? Where, how close to dawn are we?
If I knew the answer to that I wouldn’t be sitting here talking to you, Frank?
Steve talks in terms of decades, not years. And he looks to cases like the long fight to desegregate the schools, which culminated in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
And he points out that even when major cases like those are won, the forces on the other side don’t just quit. The fight goes on. In fact, some recent reports have found that school segregation in the U.S. over the last couple of decades has been getting worse, not better
So let’s all keep in mind here, even in our greatest dreams, they’re going to push back. Let’s not kid ourselves, ok?
He also says this goal — to get more money to hire more lawyers to represent all these clients — it isn’t the only solution. It’s not even the best one.
You can give us more lawyers, we can make the system bigger. And that’s called the supply side solution. And then there’s the demand side solution. And that means stop prosecuting all this low level stuff that’s really mental illness, and addiction, and that sort of thing.
In the next episode of “Broken Justice,” we’ll explore that approach in St. Louis County, where one prosecutor is shaking up the system from his side, which might end up actually helping public defenders too.
Wesley Bell:
Look, we have limited resources. We’d rather reallocate and focus our resources on the serious and violent offenders.
Plus, Ricky Kidd, serving life in prison without the possibility of parole, finally gets another day in court.
Ricky Kidd:
I’m aware of the percentage of cases that are won and lost but I always just, I have to wake up every day believing that this is it.
That’s on the next episode of “Broken Justice.”
“Broken Justice” is hosted by me, Amna Nawaz, reported by Frank Carlson and produced by Vika Aronson. Editing by Erica R. Hendry and Emily Carpeaux. Engineering by Tom Satterfield.
Production assistance from Chris Ford. Fact-checking by Maea Lenei Buhre, Amber Partida, and Harry Zahn. Taka Yasuzawa and Alex Sugiura composed our theme music. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions.
Sara Just is our Executive Producer.
Let us know what you think of the show and send your questions to podcasts@newshour.org. Tweet us @NewsHour and leave us a review in apple podcasts. And check out the show extras on our website: pbs.org/newshour/podcasts.
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Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter
For this new edition of The Writer's Tale, Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook expand their in-depth discussion of the creative life of Doctor Who to cover Russell's final year as Head Writer and Executive Producer of the show, as well as his work behind the increasingly successful Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures spin-offs. Candid and witty insights abound throughout two years' worth of correspondence, covering David Tennant's last episodes as the Doctor and the legacy that Russell and David leave behind as a new era of Doctor Who begins.
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Not sure about you, but when I was in high school, Florence + the Machine were one of the top bands on my CD list. Florence Welch, lead singer of Florence + the Machine, has one of the greatest studio and in live voices this generation has ever seen. It's not anything like you've ever heard, it has a bit of rust to it that'll make you wanna listen to more. Born in England, Welch took on music at an early age. She went to school at the Camberwell College of Arts before dropping out to pursue her music career. While we hear a lot of those stories that don't turn out well, her destiny was set in stone. Fun fact: Before there was ever a Florence + the Machine, there was only 2 friends just making music together. That other frient was Isabella "Machine" Summers. After getting their big break at an open mic night, the rest was history. Releasing their debut album 'Lungs' in the Summer of 2009, they skyrocketed to enormous success. Peaking at Number 1 in the United Kingdom and at Number 2 in Ireland. Weeks later when the album was released in the United States, the album debuted at No. 17 on the Billboard Heatseekers Album chart. Fast forwarding to their second album, 'Ceremonials' went on to sell 1 million copies alone.
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Swine: A kiwi horror experience. No. 8 wire ethics, but wrapped around your neck.
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Swine is a feature length horror film set in the quiet, yet to be developed, town of Serenity Glade. A century ago it was “Potter's Farm” and was the financial heart of the area, but due to deaths in the family and the evolution of cities, it lies dormant. Fraudulent property developer Charlie Hesternan has founded Serenity Glade in the hopes of selling it off to unsuspecting buyers. Gerald, our hero, has come out of an early retirement, and become a real estate agent. Gerald has been contacted by Hesternan to sell all the plots of Serenity Glade, at an inflated value of $100M.
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03/07/2020 Angels Nationals 1:30PM - 3:00PM Quartz Hill Little League / Field C
03/07/2020 Yankees Braves 1:30PM - 3:00PM Quartz Hill Little League / Field D(South West)
03/14/2020 Giants Yankees 9:00AM - 10:30AM Quartz Hill Little League / Field C
03/14/2020 Dodgers Athletics 10:30AM - 12:00PM Quartz Hill Little League / Field C
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03/14/2020 Padres Angels 1:30PM - 3:00PM Quartz Hill Little League / Field C
03/14/2020 Pirates Nationals 1:30PM - 3:00PM Quartz Hill Little League / Field D(South West)
03/21/2020 Nationals Dodgers 9:00AM - 10:30AM Quartz Hill Little League / Field C
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03/21/2020 Yankees Padres 1:30PM - 3:00PM Quartz Hill Little League / Field D(South West)
04/04/2020 Dodgers Pirates 9:00AM - 10:30AM Quartz Hill Little League / Field C
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04/04/2020 Giants Athletics 12:00PM - 1:30PM Quartz Hill Little League / Field C
04/04/2020 Yankees Angels 1:30PM - 3:00PM Quartz Hill Little League / Field C
04/04/2020 Padres Cubs 1:30PM - 3:00PM Quartz Hill Little League / Field D(South West)
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04/18/2020 Nationals Giants 10:30AM - 12:00PM Quartz Hill Little League / Field C
04/18/2020 Pirates Braves 12:00PM - 1:30PM Quartz Hill Little League / Field C
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Machu Picchu Intihuatana
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The Intihuatana, which in Quechua means “place where the sun is tied”, is one of the major mysteries of the Inca culture due to, is not known the exact purpose of this stone. Is located in one of the terraces of the temple of the three windows in the sanctuary of Machu Picchu and is a monolith carved and polished in several planes, with a prism-shaped and its four vertices indicate the four cardinal points.
according to previous studies, Is said that it was an observatory of the solar year, that could establish the solstices and equinoxes as well as a central and indispensable part of a complex system of astronomical measurements that served at the Incas to determine the beginning and the end of the agricultural year, fulfilling a function of both social and religious.
Certainly this enigmatic monolith attracts the admiration of thousands of visitors who travel to see the magnificent sanctuary of Machu Picchu. They pose their hands or lie down on this irregular sculpture, feeling a strange energy, an inexplicable force that emerges from each of its four edges.
For archaeologists who studied the ruins since 1877, the term was used to denote Intihuatana carved stones in general. However, this is not for the Quechua tradition, as the name that the Spanish chroniclers collected for this type of work was the term “saywa” or “sukhanka”.
Then other studies, when it was discovered its role in the astrological conception of the Incas, it was understood that by illuminating the sun in the center of the sculpture is cast a shadow, which was accurate astrological instruments like the time with respect to the sun’s position in the space.
For what was useful?
The most important celebrations of the Inca Empire were determined according to the measurement of the shadows of Intihuatana, accurately marking the winter solstice, which gave the start to the celebrations of IntiRaymi, the Sun Festival: the religious and social Inca ceremony.
In this event, various rituals were performed to ask the sun not to abandon them during the agricultural period, to ensure the support of its people. Therefore, they should tie it to Intihuatana symbolically. To achieve this, the high priest officiating a public ritual offering to the Sun and with his hands fixed his shadow on the stone.
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Classrooms & Schools of the Future
The education of our children is of utmost importance, and the spaces and environments that they are taught in can help, or hinder the process.
The majority of schools in New Zealand date from the 1950s to the 1970s, and consist of small classrooms with orderly rows of desks all facing the front. Since then, teaching styles have developed and now focus on a more collaborative approach, which many of New Zealand’s schools are just not built to accommodate.
Recognising that change was needed and taking cues from teaching styles in Scandinavia and the UK, the Innovative Learning Environment (ILE) philosophy of flexible open learning spaces was introduced. The ILE philosophy is one of open plan learning. It focuses on spaces that are designed to “encourage collaboration and inquiry, both for learners and teachers, and allow teachers to teach in the style that best suits the needs of diverse learners.”1
Diversity is the key, and the aim is to ensure that all children – irrelevant of their background or disability – have an equal opportunity and access to education through inclusive and accessible teaching styles and buildings.
To this end, the ILE system also recognises the importance of the built environment, highlighting the core elements of accessibility, air quality, heating, health and safety, lighting, insulation, sustainability and acoustics as being key in producing successful learning environments. Once these aspects have been addressed, materiality and colour and their impact on children’s ability to learn must also be considered.
The interconnecting flexible spaces that form the backbone of the ILE environments recognise and enhance the power of learning as a community. These spaces must be carefully designed to augment this, drawing on relevant experience to reinforce a sense of identity in the design.
While the ILE philosophy is the currently accepted thinking in New Zealand, education styles and methods are constantly being updated and revised depending on what new studies bring to light, or even which government is in charge. The school environment is required to be flexible enough to accommodate these differences, while providing robust and well-designed buildings that will stand the test of time.
Prendos and Respond-Architects have a wealth of experience in this area, working with the Ministry of Education and the schools themselves to both update existing buildings, and to design and produce new build Innovative Learning Environments.
As designers, we strive to meet these requirements to produce flexible, nurturing and durable buildings and spaces, both internal and external, to support the children of today in becoming the leaders of tomorrow.
By Joseph Lyth, Architectural Designer at Respond-Architects, Auckland. 18/05/2017
1 http://ile.education.govt.nz/
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READ: Augliera still exemplifies Bearcats' mentality
Thomas, a left-handed hitting resident of Merrick, N.Y., came into the Binghamton program as a catcher, and played catcher for his first college season. In high school, he won the Ryan T. Caulfield Award given to best catcher in Nassau County as well as the MVP and Outstanding Catcher for Rawlings Grand Slam Challenge and Long Island All-Star Challenge. He also threw out 60 percent of base-runners.
With the Bearcats, Thomas became the first Binghamton player since 2008 to earn first-team All-America East Conference honors for three seasons. He joined pitcher Zach Groh (2006-08) and first baseman Brendan Hitchcock (2005-07).
READ: Sinicki a fixture in Binghamton U. baseball
Thomas started 186 career games for Binghamton. He graduated as the program's all-time leader in walks (132) and on-base percentage (.453). He ranks among the school's career top-10 in RBIs (fifth, 125), hits (seventh, 206) and runs (seventh, 120).
This past season, Thomas hit a team-high .352 with a .478 on-base percentage and a .521 slugging percentage. He ranked among the top three in the conference in all three categories.
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Home Join & Support Corporate Support Become a Corporate Partner HSBC: A Growing Partnership
HSBC: A Growing Partnership
In 1997 the HSBC Oriental Garden introduced Sydney to a new world of plants. Since then the partnership has evolved, but at its core it continues to drive biodiversity conservation and progressing the conversation of natural capital, both in Australia and internationally.
The Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust is a world leader in scientific research into plant preservation and and biodiversity conservation. HSBC is committed to playing a leading role in the transition to a net- zero economy and scaling up investment in nature-based climate solutions. The work we are funding through this partnership will shape the future of reforestation and regeneration, and as such complements our broader ESG goals.
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HSBC’s investment in the Botanic Gardens’ Investigating Rainforest Resilience project will bring together critical genetic information, seed resources and seed biology in a whole of ecosystem approach to preserving endangered ecological communities. https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/Science/Rainforest-Conservation-Research
HSBC funding will contribute to the Botanic Garden’s Australian Institute of Botanical Science. Set to launch in 2021, this new Institute will encompass the Garden’s world leading research programs, facilities and collections, advancing the fundamental knowledge of plants to drive effective solutions to the damaging effects of a changing climate.
Collaborating for Conservation and Sustainability
HSBC’s employees show great commitment to the partnership, with dozens of employees contributing volunteer hours at the Gardens each year.
In February 2020, HSBC Australia installed a giant sculpture made out of 5,600 native plants in Sydney’s Barangaroo. Created in collaboration with the Botanic Gardens and sustained with recycled water, the ‘living lion’ celebrated the launch of HSBC’s 40th branch and highlighted our organisations’ shared commitment to sustainability.
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Home » A Tale for the Time Being Lib/E (Compact Disc)
A Tale for the Time Being Lib/E (Compact Disc)
By Ruth Ozeki (Read by), Ruth L. Ozeki (Read by)
Available for special order
Kobo eBook (March 11th, 2013): $12.99
March 2013 Indie Next List
“Nao, a suicidal Japanese girl, postpones her death as she grows closer to her 104-year-old great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun. Ruth, an American author with writer's block, discovers a diary washed ashore on her remote island in the Pacific Northwest. Ruth becomes obsessed with Nao and her diary, and readers will be drawn in as their stories intertwine. Ozeki's creatively constructed novel, complete with footnotes, Japanese characters, and appendices, will have readers marveling at the leaps in time and connection that bring the two women together in this witty, daring, and thoughtful novel.”
— Cheryl Krocker McKeon, Book Passage, San Francisco, CA
A brilliant, unforgettable, and long-awaited novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki
A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace-and it will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine.
Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox-possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao's drama and unknown fate, and forward into her own future.
Full of Ozeki's signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.
Publication Date: March 12th, 2013
Paperback (December 31st, 2013): $18.00
Hardcover (March 12th, 2013): $28.95
Paperback (Chinese) (March 20th, 2020): $31.20
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Home / Media / Vinyl - New / Lou Reed – Live At Alice Tully Hall – January 27, 1973 – 2nd Show
Lou Reed – Live At Alice Tully Hall – January 27, 1973 – 2nd Show
Live At Alice Tully Hall – January 27, 1973 – 2nd Show captures Lou Reed’s New York City live debut as a solo artist, at the Lincoln Center venue during his Transformer tour. He was backed by The Tots, a tight, funky, twin-guitar combo whose gritty bar-band approach offered an energized accompaniment to Reed’s material, whether that was the Velvets (“Heroin,” “Sweet Jane”) or songs from his first two solo albums, Walk On The Wild Side and Vicious. Mixed from the original multi-track tapes by Matt Ross-Spring, these fourteen live tracks are available for the first time, released first on RSD Black Friday on two LPs pressed on burgundy vinyl and packaged with a new essay by Ed McCormack, rare pictures and memorabilia.
Side A: “White Light/White Heat”, “Wagon Wheel”, “I’m Waiting For The Man”, “Walk And Talk It”, “Sweet Jane”
Side B: “New Age”, “Vicious”, “I Can’t Stand It”, “Satellite Of Love”
Side C: “Heroin”, “I’m So Free”, “Walk On The Wild Side”
Side D: “Rock And Roll,” “Sister Ray”
Elvis Presley – 50 Greatest Hits
Johnny Cash – Greatest Hits and Favorites
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (2LP)
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Moonlight and magnolias . . . with a side of crystal meth
What would we Louisiana expatriates do without our hometown newspapers . . . to remind us why the hell we left in the first place?
I am from Baton Rouge. My hometown newspaper is The Advocate, which isn't the gay publication of the same name but is rather queer, come to think of it.
Anyway, The Advocate has, in the past, printed some pretty insane things. Those were a warm-up for this dog whistle.
DAN FAGAN (whatever a Dan Fagan is) accuses Mitch Landrieu of being a race-baiter and then -- somehow -- brings the whole argument about Confederate monuments to "Because abortion."
I am pro-life. And I am here to tell you this is, to quote George W. Bush, "some weird shit." It's also why I have become, as a pro-lifer, allergic to so much of the "pro-life movement," which has devolved to a bunch of pro-birth political hacks who are fine with merely delaying the execution of society's most vulnerable members to a later date.
In light of that, Fagan's argument comes down to this:
SO . . . society should be in the business of honoring things that aren't moral, ethical or right? Fagan is saying that Landrieu is a race-baiting scoundrel because he tore down New Orleans' monuments to the Confederacy and white supremacy.
And refusing future honors to Democrats, because abortion, will somehow be a cosmically just payback for tearing down monuments to those who fought for slavery? Which, of course, was somehow both horribly wrong yet worthy of honor via public monuments to the men and states dedicated to the perpetuation of institutionalized human bondage.
Actually, the non-disingenuous analogy here would be removing a statue of a Mitch Landrieu who went on to commit treason against the United States in the name of legal abortion -- and then to fight a bloody civil war against it. Because abortion.
The Democrats may be on the wrong side of history regarding abortion, but they're no traitors and, thus far, have refrained from firing upon Fort Sumter. Today's Republican Party, on the other hand, is placing itself on the wrong side of history on virtually every other issue -- some of them just as morally fraught and morally non-negotiable as abortion.
And, by the way, any number of the GOP's members in this Age of Trump are this close to being demonstrably treasonous.
Now, what does this son of the South, who now lives in the Gret White Nawth, have to say about Fagan's philosophical treatise, one he obviously penned for the benefit of Confederacy-loving mouth-breathers who can't use "treatise" in a sentence? Well, I'm thinking of a certain bumper sticker we used to see a lot in the South in the 1960s and '70s -- often affixed to pickup trucks.
Labels: abortion, Baton Rouge, civil rights. racism, Civil War, culture, Democrats, GOP, Louisiana, media, Mitch Landrieu, monuments, New Orleans, politics, Republican, segregation, The Advocate, the South
Dez Crawford said...
Standing ovation, my dear friend. Standing ovation.
Moonlight and magnolias . . . with a side of cryst...
3 Chords & the Truth: Thoughts and prayers
Meme-ing down your leg with holy water
3 Chords & the Truth: Wonderful world of music
Now that's what I call a Rocket 88
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Postgame Quotes: Revs 1, Man United 4
July 14, 20119:24AM EDT
New England Revolution head coach Steve Nicol
Well obviously we’re happy with the way things went things went in the first half. I thought we were pretty solid, defended well. We were fitter and sharper than them, so it was important that we kept things tight and we did. We changed the whole back four because we have a huge game coming up on Sunday. We knew it would cause us some problems, but we know what we have to do to look after ourselves for Sunday. Obviously for the fans, it was good to see some goals - and obviously, a good night for everybody. I’m sure (Sir) Alex (Ferguson) is happy with what he saw. It’s a training session, basically, for them, so he’ll be pleased, I’m sure.
There were a couple occasions where we kept it pretty well (in the first half). We had a couple of chances – Shalrie (Joseph) was unlucky with the header. But obviously they had a chance with [Dimitar Berbatov] – a great save from Matt (Reis.) But as far as I can remember, we restricted them to that great chance. Other than that, I thought we defended well. We’re playing against players who, at the end of the day, are smarter between the ears than your average player and I thought we dealt with that well.
On the Revs’ goal …
[Laughing] It’s nice to see things coming together.
(Benny Feilhaber) again used his brain. We hoped to have him playing in front of Shalrie and Pat (Phelan), but he wasn’t getting on the ball and he made the adjustment himself to get on the ball. It certainly paid (off) for us, as whenever he had it, he was picking people out and picking our players out. So that adjustment was his own, but that shows you what a talented player he is.
If (Michael Owen) was 41, he still would have taken it well. Obviously your legs go a bit, but as I keep saying, it’s what goes on between your ears. He finds that extra half’s-yard, that extra yard that’s not in his legs, he finds it with his brain – his positional sense. When you have the guys of that caliber, they have to give him the ball. Then there’s only one thing that’s going to happen and he’s going to put it in the back of the net.
Revolution midfielder Kenny Mansally
It felt great. This is big year for all of us. A team like Manchester United, one of the best teams in the world, so coming in to compete with them, at least the first half and we kept the ball and in the second half we were kind of misunderstanding each other. But I think for us it was a great game for us and a great experience for us.
“Yeah, because like today, the way we started the game, we’re getting ready for Philadelphia because in the league we know where we stand … we want to get more points so that we can be in the playoffs. So, that’s where our focus is, so we’re working hard for that. Especially me, coming from the bench all the time, so I’m just going to work hard to be in the starting lineup.
Wow. For me, like if you told me we were going to get this kind crowd every game I don’t think we would lose any points. Because you know you get the home support and this kind of crowd, it’s unbelievable. So, I think for us today we got that support and that’s all we need so we’re just going to compete and get the points going.
Yeah, for me, I’m just going away so the ball touched me and I saw it in the back of the net … it can be started any where the ball touches, you have to go and a team like ManU and you get a goal like that, I feel happy.
“Yeah, because you competed with ManU, one of the best teams in the world, and you kept the ball and forced things to happen. You can identify who is ManU or Revolution and I think we got possession. The only thing is we know we can create chances. We keep the ball and for me, I was on the bench and loved it and getting in at that time so we could get something going.
New England Revolution midfielder Shalrie Joseph
We can take some positives in terms of how we moved the ball, defensively we were sharp, especially in the first half, and we created a little bit of chances but, as I said, at the end of the day, we got beat 4-1 by a better team.
I think that was the most important thing that we got out of tonight, especially the starting 11. We were a very confident team and I thought we moved the ball well, possessed it in great areas, had great chances and get a shutout. But at the end of the day, mental mistakes over and over was we got punished for. A team of Manchester’s caliber, you can’t make those kinds of mistakes and tonight we lost 4-1.
The positive thing about it was we moved the ball well and that’s where we’ve been struggling: to keep possession, to create chances, to move the ball on teams in MLS. Tonight we did it against probably the second-best team in the world and we can tip our hats for that and take a little positives out of that even though we still lost 4-1. At the end of the day, we have to be better over the weekend and take what we did tonight in the first half and transfer it into the MLS season and MLS games and try to be better every week.
Matt (Reis) is unbelievable, that’s not surprising to me. He does that in practice all the time so it’s just like another save for him, but he kept us in the game early. They had a couple of chances early and Matty came up with big saves. I had one in the first half that I should have done better [to finish] off a Christ Tierney cross. I mean we kept the ball well and that’s where we’ve been struggling to do in the MLS season and tonight we did that in the first half. We moved it well and created chances and getting numbers off the ball moving, get third runners in and we can take a lot of positive from that.
New England Revolution defender A.J. Soares
I feel good, I feel confident about the team. I thought we went in and played well. We hung with the biggest club in the world. You couldn’t ask for anything more - 0-0 at halftime. Fortunately for the fans, they got some action in the second half. As a fan, for myself personally, it’s amazing to watch those guys play. They’re great, but no disrespect to them, I think we hung and did well.
(We had) no fear at all. We took it like we were going out and playing an MLS game. Anytime you’re playing a team like that, your emotion gets up a little more. It’s an exciting thing. It’s possibly a once-in-a-lifetime thing to play against Man United.
They’re not at their fitness level yet at all. They’re only a few days in. With that being said, I felt like I hung - marked (Dimitar) Berbatov mostly, saw a little bit of (Wayne) Rooney, a little bit of Nani, but I felt confident. I feel like I did a good job.
I think after watching that [performance], regardless of the score line, we gave them an exciting game. We’re a good team and we’ve had some bad luck this year. We’ve had a few ups and a few downs, and I think that everyone who came out today saw that we have quality. Hopefully they are excited to come back and watch us again.
I think they select the best pass every time. They play to the proper side every time. They had good technique. It’s nothing incredibly different that they do than any normal, average player. It’s just that they do it every time the right way. That being said, when you watch Shalrie (Joseph) today, Shalrie showed that he’s at the level of those guys. He could be on that team without a question. It’s just consistency. It’s them selecting the right ball every single time.
New England Revolution midfielder Benny Feilhaber
I knew I was going to play a little bit over a half and coming up is the Philadelphia game only four days away, so I was happy with my performance for the most part.
They turned it up a notch in the second and we definitely, I think to be honest, I think the first three goals we could have done better at. The fourth goal they played tic-tac-toe on us in the box so that was a great goal. But the first three goals I thought we could have done better. But give them credit as well, they’re a great team.
There’re always things that can improve; you’re playing against one of the best teams in the world so it’s just good to be out there and kind of challenge yourself against that kind of competition. So it was really fun. I thought we did really well in the first half. I didn’t think they dominated the game in the first half. I thought we had our chances, we had some possession. It’s always good to get anything positive against these guys. Forty-five minutes is a solid amount of time. At the end of the day, you’ve got to get 90 minutes and regardless whether you’re playing Man U. or if you’re playing Philadelphia, or whoever you’re playing, you’re going to have to get 90 minutes to get a result. If we play the way we played in the first half for 90 minutes against Philadelphia I’m sure we can get something.
I just told Kenny (Mansally), ‘Stand there and I’ll bank it off you and go in.’ No, I’m glad Kenny was there because I don’t think that was going in the goal. I was just going to try and aim that spot because the wall was really close - I don’t even think they gave us 10 yards - but wanted to go goalie-side. I miss-hit it a bit, and Kenny was in the right spot, hit it off the shins - or wherever it hit him - and great finish by him.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson
It was all about getting our tempo back and these are the types of games that help towards that. I thought in the second half when we speeded up the passing up through the last subs, we scored some very good goals through that. So I am satisfied.
The first half (New England) were very competitive. And I think what happens when you make changes in a game, sometimes you lose that momentum you had in the first half. I thought they did pretty well then, I think that maybe they weren’t as forceful and powerful as they were in the first half. Athletic, it’s what you expect of the States’ teams – they’re all athletic, very committed, fit, and organized. So yeah, they’ll be pleased.
Well, (soccer in the U.S. is) new. We’ve got 130 years of history behind us. English soccer’s been going for a long, long time. I’ve noticed an improvement last year when we came across, added more teams, a bigger league and I think that it’s a far, far bigger project in terms of soccer throughout the country. It’s taken off. There’s no question that it’s take off, soccer, here – that’s absolute no doubt about that. And you’re getting some good crowds for the games now. I think that I would say that there will be big decisions on how to lay the line, i.e. the travel, maybe split the country into different leagues, something like that. For the United States to do that, I think would make for far better competition and bring more teams into the soccer and that way then. I look at the States as incredible potential. The potential is that you’ve got young kids throughout the country – millions – playing soccer but how long college football, college soccer, there’s nowhere for it to go, so until you get a league that relegates, and the soccer leagues, from MLS straight down, so that young kids in the leagues, schools can go to different types of leagues depending on their abilities. They have it in England, they have it in Germany, they have it in France and then they got the relegate system so that it enables all kids to have an opportunity like … going up to school. Once they get that, then the league gets stronger.
It doesn’t matter where you go to have your preseason. The end thing is that you hope come through without any injuries first of all, two that the players get the fitness required to start their league program. So it doesn’t matter where we go, it’s the end game is to make sure everyone’s fit. Now, coming to the States is an advantage in the sense that the travel, food, language, accessibility to a lot of things, have a walk down the street, go and get a coffee, have a coffee; the relaxation that you don’t get in other countries. You go to the Far East, it’s phenomenal, the Far East, in terms of support and affection for Manchester United. There’s thousands outside the hotel. So you get there first for relaxation and reconciliation but you’ve got to admire the fanaticism of support in the Far East. No matter whether it’s Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, it’s all the same. They can think of it that way in the States, of course, but not as intense, you know?
Manchester United Midfielder Nani
(New England) showed good quality. They played good football. They have the advantage over us because they are in competition already. We just started now. It was good to play them.
(Their) position was good. They play compact. In the first half, it was very, very compact. A lot of quality when they pass the ball. I think they can be a good team.
We prepare all season to win the league, the Champions League and we will see how this season [goes].
Manchester United Forward Wayne Rooney
I thought it was a decent game, and it’s good to get your first game under your belt. It’s most difficult to play your first game. It’s a difficult pitch to play on. Overall, I was pleased to get a run out.
(The start of a new season) is exciting, and hopefully we can gel well quick and bring success to the team.
It was a good game. Obviously, it’s always difficult your first game back in preseason, but I thought did well and it was a good result.
Manchester United Goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard
I think it is a bit as I imagined. You play very much in the middle. It doesn’t seem like you use the central defenders a lot with the ball. I was maybe a bit surprised that it was so technical – playing back and forth with small passes, not as many long passes I would have expected.
It was the first match of the season. For us it was about getting a lot of air through the lungs for the outfield players. For the goalkeepers, it was about keeping your focus high. There were long parts of the game when I didn’t touch the ball very much, so it was very much about keeping the focus.
I think (our fitness) was pretty good, but of course, there is a lot to come. There is going to be a lot of running still before the first (league) match of the season. We still have a hard time in front of us.
Manchester United forward Federico Macheda
Yeah, it was good to be back that way. I’m very happy because it was a good start.
I’ve never been here. That was the first time, it was pretty impressive.
Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic
I think it was a good game; it was a lot of goals. After the first week of training, I think you see some benefits today. We just trained five days and this is the first game and I think we did alright. But I expect a lot of, much better game and much better football in the next few games.
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COVID-19 crisis - CPP's response
The NHS – How can we make it last another 70 years?
Our key takeaways from sessions at both the Labour and Conservative conferences
By Charlotte Alldritt and Florian Ranft
Public services, welfare and skills
After weeks of party infighting, the prospect of crunch time Brexit negotiations ahead and haunted by the nightmare of last year’s conference shambles, the pressure on the prime minister to deliver a strong speech last week was immense. With a bit of self-deprecation and help from Dancing Queen, by most accounts she pulled through. The prime minister who once was thought might last fewer days in office than Sir Douglas-Home showed again her staying power.
But those hoping for a glimmer of a domestic agenda or more clarity on the future relationship with the EU were to be disappointed. In Liverpool the week before, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn –having also proved resilient in the run up to the party conferences – presided over a confused debate on Brexit. What was the Labour party’s line, and how did this differ between members of the front bench (notably John McDonnell and Keir Starmer) or the position agreed at the TUC conference only a few weeks previously?
Lack of direction on Brexit by both leaders created space for a return to values and well-worn rhetoric, including the much-loved (and sure-fire vote winner), the National Health Service. Theresa May celebrated her Conservative government’s robust response to the NHS funding crisis, with the promise of an extra £20.5bn per year. Jeremy Corbyn stressed that the additional money may not be enough for frontline services.
Hosting fringe events on the future of the NHS at both conferences, the Centre for Progressive Policy (CPP) examined how we should think about health and social care over the next 70 years, how any changes would affect the NHS workforce and the huge, unresolved issue of funding and delivering social care. Speakers and attendees included: (Conservative party conference) Sarah Wollaston MP, chair of the Health Select Committee, Dame Julie Moore, Professor of Health Systems, Warwick University and Ian Hudspeth, Leader of Oxfordshire County Council; (Labour party conference) Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the British Medical Association, Maureen Dalziel, former chair, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, Greg Parston, Executive Director, Centre for Health Policy, Imperial College and Lord Victor Adebowale, CBE, Chief Executive of Turning Point and non-executive board member, NHS England.
Central to our debates were three key questions:
How can we create a high quality, truly sustainable health and care system?
If we are investing more money, how should this best be spent, and will it be enough?
How can we think differently when it comes to population health management, technology and the workforce?
Key takeaways from sessions at both the Labour and Conservative conferences were:
The challenge of good health is bigger than the NHS: speakers and participants in both conferences agreed that we must look beyond improving front line NHS services if we are to take health more seriously. The increase in life expectancy in the UK – previously a trend that had almost come to be assumed – has plateaued. There are also signs that some regions are falling behind more rapidly than others. The causes of this are yet unclear but CPP’s ‘Diagnosis Critical’ report (June 2018) identified population inequalities across the country remain a major concern for improving health outcomes overall. Despite the seminal work of Sir Michael Marmot in his 2011 Review, policymakers and the public seem unable to integrate health into wider economic and social policy. For the NHS to survive it needs to think outside its own institutional walls.
Plugging the holes in the system is not enough: Speakers emphasised the need for political deliberation as to how to place the NHS on a sustainable funding model whilst delivering world-class care. It was suggested that the anticipated £20.5bn annual funding boost by 2022/23 will help to lift morale within the NHS and potentially improve services but it cannot be a silver bullet for solving the underlying structural pressures on the NHS, such as demographic change and a shortage of sufficient, suitably trained workforce. Health and social care require a radical whole-system overhaul in combination with a long-term financial plan. This financial plan will also have to address the rebound effect of the underfunded social care sector. Without this, it is very likely that we will be back at square one in a few years.
Moving to deep-place integration of health and social care: A whole–system approach acknowledges that the NHS is not based on hospital treatment alone and the importance of largely place-based, social and economic determinants of good health over the life cycle. Tackling health inequalities will demand coherent national and local governance and accountability, and appropriate financial incentives that foster collaborative, dynamic and integrated economic and social policy. Joint primary, secondary health and social care services must put patients first through the lens of population health management and prevention. At present there are too many perverse financial and regulatory incentives that act against the health ‘system’ working effectively or efficiently in the interests of the people it serves.
We heard that Greater Manchester is already committed to tackling the root causes of health inequalities by moving from a medical to a social model of health, which takes into account – and seeks to build into institutional policy, practice and financial flows – the environmental, working and cultural circumstances of a person, alongside (or as part of) their health condition. But whether and how central government allows the city-region to go further and enables other places to do similarly within a national health service setting remains a question of debate. Finally, the issue of integration must apply between different health providers, enabling closer working practices and facilitating exchange of information through better communication and improved technology (e.g. Bromley-by-Bow Centre or Sandwell Integrated Primary Care Mental Health and Wellbeing Service).
Speakers and participants acknowledged that a key issue is how to raise awareness about the social and economic determinants of health, which are deeply rooted in our communities. This is a tricky task on the local level where health is still mainly perceived as a responsibility of the national government and the fixing of potholes, for example, a more appropriate priority for local authorities.
Ultimately there is a steep hill to climb for local and national politicians, through the media, in communicating the risk that NHS, the crown jewel of the UK welfare state, may not survive another 70 years if the circle between a long-term strategy and sustainable funding cannot be squared. Deliberative research by CPP shows that the public do not currently grasp the scale of the problem and are expecting additional money to raise the quality of services, not just fill an abstract financial gap. The nation’s health depends on more ambitious, more fundamental change.
NHS: It is system not a service and needs a strategy not a plan
Systems need a different kind of leadership, one that that facilitates collective leadership
Local government and the National Health Service
We have celebrated the 70th Birthday of the NHS with pride but we need to be open to ideas to make it even better.
Diagnosis critical
Marking the launch of CPP’s health and social care programme, this report has identified two stark population inequalities which powerfully show why this work is needed.
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Science and Natural History Filmmaking
University of Otago · Division of Sciences
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Admission to the programme shall be subject to the approval of the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Sciences), on the advice of the Director of the Centre for Science Communication.
Every applicant must either
be a graduate, or
have equivalent qualifications or experience acceptable to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Sciences).
In considering an applicant’s qualifications, regard will be had to the detail of the course of study followed to gain the qualification, as well as the applicant’s performance in the programme.
If your first language is not English you need to meet our English language requirements as follows: IELTS score of 6.5 in the academic module (with no individual band below 6.0); we also accept a number of other English language tests. Due to COVID-19, we currently accept Duolingo English Test (DET), IELTS Indicator Test, and TOEFL iBT Special home Edition.
Don’t meet the English language requirements? The University of Otago Language Centre English for Otago programme offers a pathway for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students to meet the English language requirements for undergraduate and postgraduate study.
Dunedin is a UNESCO City of Literature, supports an International Science Festival, and is the wildlife capital of New Zealand, with colonies of seals, albatross and penguins in the city's boundaries. It is perhaps no accident, therefore, that it has also become a hub for natural history filmmaking. The outstanding natural environment and dynamic cultural environment provide an excellent setting for the University of Otago’s Centre for Science Communication, the home of story-telling and science. Students in endorsement produce a thesis comprising a creative component (e.g. film, book, exhibition etc.) and original research.
SCOM 402 The Craft of Storytelling
SCOM 405 Business of Filmmaking
SCOM 409 Introduction to Science Communication
SCOM 411 The Techniques of Natural History and Science Filmmaking 1
SCOM 413 Digital Production for Science Communication
(One other paper at 400-level may be substituted for one of the prescribed papers, with approval from the Director of the Centre for Science Communication.)
Thesis: SCOM 5A (60 points) and SCOM 5B (60 points) (including production of a film).
Structure of the Programme
A candidate may be exempted from some or all of the prescribed papers on the basis of previous study.
A candidate shall, before commencing the investigation to be described in the thesis, secure the approval of the Director of the Centre for Science Communication for the topic, the supervisor(s), and the proposed course of the investigation.
A candidate may not present a thesis or other material which has previously been accepted for another degree.
For the thesis, the research should be of a kind that a diligent and competent student should complete within one year of full-time study.
Otago offers students an unrivalled campus experience and a vibrant, social student culture. The majority of Otago’s 21,000 students live, work and play in Dunedin - New Zealand’s only true university city. Otago is home to over 3,000 students, from over 100 countries.
NZ $35,798
New Zealand is a relatively affordable country to live in. Dunedin, being a student-focused city, has living and entertainment options for all budgets.
Students are eligible for the Otago International Excellence Scholarship.
Further details of qualification
Bachelor’s degree in Science. English requirements must be met by late October. Deferral not possible for Science and Natural History Filmmaking endorsement. The Science and Natural History Filmmaking endorsement is subject to limitations on enrolment numbers. Qualified domestic students are given first preference, but places may be available for international students.
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Jerry Stahl: Government has a "fascist-adjacent" devotion to business
The author of "Permanent Midnight" talks about Lou Reed, literature and what can still make him angry
By Larry Charles
November 3, 2013 9:00PM (UTC)
Larry Charles, Jerry Stahl (AP/Carlo Allegri/Todd Williamson)
No one gets to see it all but Jerry Stahl has seen a lot of it. Best known for the addiction memoir "Permanent Midnight," later made into a movie starring Ben Stiller, Stahl's latest book is the novel "Happy Mutant Baby Pills," a biting look at big Pharma. He recently chatted with the writer and producer Larry Charles.
It seems to me your work has always been autobiographical yet increasingly coded. Explain the autobiographical underpinnings of "HMBP."
I don’t know how coded, but this book is autobiographical on a couple of fronts. First: I was the kind of kid who read the backs of cereal boxes, dying to be a writer, then basically grew up and wrote the backs of cereal boxes, along with sex toy advertisements, fake Penthouse Forum letters, and other prestige gigs. It was like an apprenticeship. In the same way, Lloyd, in the book, is a failed novelist who pays the rent writing side effects copy for Big Pharma commercials (he coined the term “anal leakage” – a side effects triumph), penning the content for Christian dating sites, etc. ... While he’s trying to be a writer he’s also got one foot in the criminal world. So he’s definitely some alternate universe version of me. Except, unlike Lloyd, I never killed anyone – that I know of.
Prior to writing the book – front No. 2, I took part in a drug trial at Cedars-Sinai Hospital for a new hepatitis C cure. (Hep C’s the ex-junkie curse – it’s why Lou Reed, in the end, had to get a new liver, which ultimately killed him.) Before starting, they told me the pills were so toxic, if my pregnant girlfriend so much as touched me while I was on them, our baby would be born polka dot with a Ron Perlman head. We’d have had to fuck in Hazmat suits. A situation which gave rise to Nora, the book’s other main character. Her plan is to get pregnant, then ingest every ruinous over- , under- and beyond-the-counter toxin she can find. By way of protest against capitalism and its cancer-causing, DNA-savaging fallout, she will give birth to the most mutant baby ever seen.
Happily, our baby was born fine. Though in my research I discovered that human breast milk has been shown to contain toilet cleaner, benzene, paint thinner and lithium, among other things. On the plus side, I’m thinking – given the state of the world -- my kid might need some free lithium.
Explain the difference between writing for mediums such as TV and movies vs. novels.
Easy. If a novel sucks, or if it’s great, it’s all you. In TV and movies, there are always a busload of people wanting to change, cut or generally alter your vision of whatever the hell it is you’re trying to do. You know, “We love it, but could you make the lead character a 9-year-old Chinese girl and set it in 3004?” Put differently, with a novel, you torture yourself; in show business, that job is outsourced to producers.
Does and can literature still play an important role in the society?
The implication here is that "society" constitutes some homogenous entity. But literature at the Sarah Palin end of the spectrum might be different from lit in the Glenn Greenwald wing. (Revelation versus Chris Hedges, Tom Clancy versus Tom Pynchon.) I’m more the Hedges and Pynchon school. I like to think that literature – at least the kind I love and try to create – can help with the struggle to not lose one’s shit, providing some kind of psycho-emotional relief to readers by describing people who have lost theirs. Not that I’m altruistic. But that’s just a side effect. The truth is, I write to get the voices out of my head. As to whether books change anything, I hear "Mein Kampf" turned some heads.
What changed in America that marginalized the American writer?
Has anything changed? I remember reading Stanley Elkin’s definition of an American writer, “He’s the guy, when the businessman next to him on a plane asks, ‘What do you do,’ and he says, ‘I’m a writer,’ the businessman asks his name and then says, ‘Never heard of you.’” Now, when so many people are just trying not to go under, reading anything longer than an email is a luxury. At the same time – paradoxically -- post-Internet, everybody’s a writer. That said, being out of the mainstream is not necessarily a bad thing. (Having a movie made of your life is a mixed blessing, from a writerly point of view ...) When you exist on the margins – cult status! – maybe you mean more to the person who reads you. Nobody’s running down the street screaming I just found this wild-ass writer, John Grisham! I remember, as a kid, when you discovered that cool album by the band only you and two friends knew about, it meant something. I’m not the Beatles. But maybe I’m that band.
Is there a country that still places literature in the center of their culture?
The only two I know are France and Ireland. When I landed in Dublin, the cab driver found out I was a writer and regaled me with a crash course on Flann O’Brian. Can you imagine an American cabbie talking your ear off about William Gaddis, or Flannery O’Connor? France, too – great place to be a writer. I’ve spent a lot of time over there. My books get much more play in Paris than New York. Makes me feel like a jazz guy from the '50s – shunned at home, but hot to the French.
I read yesterday that France passed a law saying Amazon couldn’t offer free delivery, because it was putting independent bookstores out of business. Parisians love their bookstores. People can still sit at a cafe in Pigalle and be left alone to scribble in their notebooks all day. If they do that over here, it’s a laptop, and they’re writing a spec "Louie."
What makes you angry, both on a frivolous and global level?
Hard to pick one thing – but of late the delusional nature of the American psyche can get to me. The America is No. 1 insanity, as likely to be perpetrated by Chris Matthews as Sean Hannity. I mean, No. 1 at what? Domestic spying? Fascist-adjacent governmental devotion to banks and business? Stripping its citizens of dignity, hope and food stamps? Letting industry poison the water and air? (Though that title might to go China, too.) I get particularly angry – now that I have a baby in the house again – about drones. Don’t the people who keep blowing up grandmothers in Afghanistan and Yemen and God knows where else realize that, one of these days, those poor bastards are going to start sending drones in our direction? And if they’re as random and inaccurate as ours, it’s not going to be pretty.
Does or can anything make you happy anymore?
Fortunately, I destroyed my life early. Before 40, not to brag, I lost everything – health, family, money, respect, you name it. Come back from that, it’s all gravy. More or less. Maybe it’s a pretty low bar – but for most of my existence, life was something to endure, not enjoy. But strange things happen when you don’t die young. Like ending up grateful. Not because things are always good – but because you know how fucking bad they can be. And you’re alive to feel them.
People who have been to hell are the happiest people I know.
Do you care what people say about you when you're gone and whether you do or you don't, what do you think they'll say?
Remember that great story about Jerry Lewis? How he’d pretend to leave an attaché case in the office whenever he had a meeting, but it was really a tape recorder? He’d come back in 15 minutes, get the case he “forgot,” then listen to what the suits said about him. I sometimes wonder what expression Jerry wore on his face, listening to himself being crucified.
To answer your question, I was an outsider out of the gate. I grew up in a neighborhood where my old man was the only guy who wore a white shirt to work. I was the only Jew in a grade school of 800. I used to get beat up for killing Jesus, which I must have done in a blackout because I couldn’t remember doing it. The shell forms early. The worst you can imagine, I’ve probably heard. Plus which, after they make a movie of you, all bets are off. Once you’ve seen movie stars reenact the worst moments of your life, 9 feet high, you don’t need therapy.
What made you leave Pittsburgh? What brought you to Los Angeles?
The first words I remember consciously thinking are, “I want out of here.” I was out of Pittsburgh by 16. The way I got to L.A. – I was living in New York, trying to support myself writing, and took a job as humor editor for Hustler, where I had to write gag copy for genitalia-shaped fruits and vegetables folks mailed in from the Midwest. I took the job because I knew Hustler was moving from Columbus – where I lived in a YMCA for three months – to Los Angeles. I had a bit of a drug problem in New York, so I thought moving to L.A. would help. At least that was the idea …
You have been so revealing both in your novels and journalism. Is there anything people would be shocked to find out about you?
Yes. Don’t spread it around, but I feel like the luckiest man alive. I write the books I want to write, I’m not in prison, I live with a smart, beautiful woman, I’ve got an 18-month-old baby girl and a daughter in her 20s who’s one of the funniest people I know. I’m friends with some of the most creative people on the planet, I get to sleep indoors, and I no longer secretly hope that every plane I step onto will crash. Anything more would be greedy. Square is the last frontier.
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British entrepreneurs find a European e-home in Estonia
British entrepreneurs are flocking to become “e-residents” of Estonia to take advantage of company formation rules and avoid the economic fallout from leaving the European Union.
The scheme, which was set up in 2014, allows non-Estonians access to services such as company formation, banking and taxation. Since then, 3,372 British citizens have become e-residents of Estonia, more than a third of them in the past 18 months.
The programme does not grant individuals citizenship but enables them to remotely set up a company in Estonia without it physically being based there. It allows them to retain regulatory alignment and access to the EU single market. Applicants must pay a €100 fee and 20 per cent corporation tax on any businesses registered in the country.
There are almost 70,000 Estonian e-residents from around the world, who are given a digital identity card that enables them to access services and sign and authenticate documents. The Times columnist Edward Lucas was the first person to become an e-resident.
Estonian officials estimate that businesses using the programme have generated a total of £1.5 billion sales since its inception.
By Tom Ball, The Times, 2 November 2020
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Court Ruling Seamen Subject to Mandatory Arbitration Provision Despite the Jones Act
In a recent decision from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Alberts v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 15502 (5th Cir. 2016), reflecting the pro-arbitration philosophy of the courts, seamen have been given yet another big setback in the pursuit of their right to a jury trial granted to them by the United States statute, the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 30104.
Our seamen and crewmember injury lawyers elaborate on the changes to the Jones Act and how it affects a seaman’s right to a jury trial in cruise ship employee injury cases.
What is the Jones Act?
The case of Alberts v. Royal Caribbean Cruises involved a crew member working for Royal Caribbean Cruise lines, a Miami-based cruise ship company, who was a United States citizen and resident. There are not many United States citizens working aboard these foreign-flagged cruise ship companies. The crew member brought a case against the cruise line company pursuant to Jones Act negligence, which allows an employee to sue his or her employer for negligence. The Jones Act is a special grant of a party by Congress, enacted in 1920 to help protect workers on ships due to the unique nature of their employment.
Recognizing that seamen are clearly on unequal bargaining power with their employers, this congressional act is remedial legislation designed to provide seamen with a remedy when they get injured due to negligence on the part of their employer. The Jones Act, being remedial legislation, provides that the employer is responsible for a cruise ship employee injury if negligence played any part, no matter how small, in producing the injury. In order to further protect seamen against overreaching by unscrupulous employers, in addition to granting seamen the right to a jury trial for their claim, the Act prohibits an employer from contracting away its liability for negligence.
Arbitration Agreement Changes for Seamen and Cruise Ship Employees
However, the right to a jury trial has been taken away by enforcement of arbitration provisions employers have inserted into the employment agreements. The arbitration provisions require crew members to arbitrate any of their disputes, denying them a right to a trial by jury against the employer. All of the major cruise line companies are utilizing these arbitration agreements to deny these crew members the right to a jury trial.
The arbitration agreements are enforceable in accordance with the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the “New York Convention”).
In order for the convention to apply, and a seaman’s employment agreement compelling arbitration to fall within the convention and require arbitration, there are four jurisdictional prerequisites that must be met for a court to compel arbitration. They are as follows:
There is an agreement in writing within the meaning of the Convention;
The agreement provides for arbitration in the territory of a signatory of the Convention;
The agreement arises out of a legal relationship, whether contractual or not, which is considered commercial; and
A party to the agreement is not an American citizen, or that the commercial relationship has some reasonable relation with one or more foreign states.
When a foreign citizen is involved as a crew member, the foreign nature of the transaction is clearly satisfied. However, there was a difference of opinion as to what would happen when a United States citizen is the crew member, and the employer is also considered a United States citizen due to having its principal place of business in the United States such as Royal Caribbean Cruise lines.
In this United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit case, Alberts got around the foreign requirement by stating that the fact that the cruise ship itself traveled in international waters contemplated performance in other countries, satisfying the international relationship requirement. Accordingly, despite the applicability of the Jones Act, and its provisions precluding contracting away a seaman’s right to a jury trial and attempt to lessen liability, the court, in this case, ruled the arbitration provision was enforceable and the cruise ship crew member would be required to arbitrate his claims.
This is yet another setback for seamen, especially United States citizens who would not contemplate a court could consider their relationship to be an international or foreign relationship with a cruise ship company based in Miami.
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Our maritime lawyers at Rivkind and Margulies, P.A., continue to fight for crew members, whether in court or arbitration and continue to pursue all arguments to avoid arbitration, and to avoid employers of seamen trying to escape their responsibilities under this remedial legislation called the Jones Act. Our law firm is committed to helping crew members receive justice.
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Olympus Has Fallen DVD review
Subtitles: Spanish, English
Rated: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment
If Hollywood studios insist on competing with each other in narratives of choice, at least we have some variety in the stylistic choices of these films. Within the first half of 2013, there were at least three films with central storylines involving the White House being invaded. In the most cartoonish sense, we have the ninjas invading the Oval Office in G.I. Joe: Retaliation. More in-line with the buddy action comedies of the 1990s is Roland Emmerich’s White House Down, while director Antoine Fuqua takes us down a darker path with Olympus Has Fallen.
Gerard Butler heads up the ‘Die Hard in the White House’ plot as former Presidential guard Mike Banning. After this secret service agent fails the president, he is shamed with a job across the street from the White House, but an opportunity for redemption arises when an insurgent attack suddenly takes out the ground security and invades the White House, codename Olympus. The President of the United States (Aaron Eckhart) is taken hostage in the bunker, with only Banning as a hope to save him.
When I read reviews saying that this was a dark film, I guess I assumed that they were merely referring to the fact that the lights are off in the White House for much of the film. It is dark in this sense, but also in the sense that there is little humor or light spectacle in the deaths. The type of action utilized here is the same as those in the Expendables films, minus the cheesy one-liners. Banning doesn’t just kill the invaders; he brutally hurts them and then emotionlessly ends them. The film might have been helped with some humor and less patriotic fervor, or perhaps may have been better accepted by audiences ten years ago when it may have served some cathartic purpose.
Entertainment Value: 8/10
Quality of Filmmaking: 6/10
Historical Significance: 6/10
Disc Features: 1/10
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Secretary of the NSDC of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov presented a web resource with public data of the COTA system’s open part: “Spatial and functional transformation of Ukraine: representative bodies of local self-government in the context of decentralization”
A web resource with open data, which is used to monitor and comprehensively analyze the state of national security in terms of regional development trends, forecasting socio-political, economic and social processes at the regional level, has been launched in Ukraine.
The process of decentralization of power has been ongoing in Ukraine since 2014. The broad powers and resources received by local governments through decentralization reform also require an improvement in the system of control over their activities, in particular by the public.
A web resource with public data of the COTA system’s open part: “Spatial and functional transformation of Ukraine: representative bodies of local self-government in the context of decentralization”, which can be used by any citizen of Ukraine, is an auxiliary tool that will increase efficiency, transparency and accountability of local authorities.
It was developed by the Staff of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine within the “COTA” information-analytical system.
Users will be able to receive real-time prompt, up-to-date and reliable information on all key processes and indicators that characterize the life of the regions.
The web resource was presented at the National Coordination Center for Cybersecurity at the NSDC of Ukraine by Secretary of the Council Oleksiy Danilov.
The web resource consists of several blocks.
The first – “Territorial organization of local government”, where users can familiarize with the new administrative-territorial structure of Ukraine and get additional statistical information.
The second – “Monitoring of the election process” – contains data allowing for a comparative analysis of the results of local elections held this year, particularly in terms of party representation and self-nomination, candidates and elected deputies of local councils, heads of the amalgamated territorial community and more.
The third – “Formation of representative bodies of local government” - where you can see the summary of this year’s election, in particular, the total number of registered voters, the number of votes cast for each candidate, the number of spoiled ballots, the number of invalid ballots and actual voter turnout.
Thus, thanks to this resource, journalists, analysts, experts will be able to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the regional dimension of the newly elected representation of local communities.
Organization of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
Throughout 2020, the NSDC of Ukraine adopted a number of strategically important decisions for the development of the state 16.01.2021 09:24
Secretary of the NSDC of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov held an interagency meeting on a stable supply of energy to domestic consumers 15.01.2021 13:18
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Clayton Pond
Clayton Pond (b. 1941) was among the first artists to employ silkscreen printing in a fresh, distinctly personal way. His paintings and limited edition silkscreen prints are immediately recognizable for their bright, cheerful colors and their compositional balance. Over the span of his career, his work has revealed a fascination with vibrant color interactions, and the infinite possibilities that color relationships present. Deviating from the expected and rejecting the conventional, his particular use of color offers the viewer a charming, idiosyncratic interpretation of the world. Pond’s subject matter ranges from immediate, domestic, and every-day surroundings to the outlandish, surreal, and fantastical, including his imagined perspective of outer space. His interpretations of the human condition evoke his unique sense of humor. Throughout his career, the artist has enjoyed depicting both literal images and abstractions, or “section paintings.” In a section painting, Pond enlarges small areas from his larger works, creating a delightful exploration of detail. By recasting an otherwise recognizable object (such as a toilet seat), the artist suggests a whole new set of associations with the amplified image. In many of these works the original subject matter is not immediately discernable, and in this way the artist is interested not only in playfulness and experimentation, but also in the subconscious and its influence on the viewer. He occasionally paints relief sculptures, which he refers to as “3-D paintings.” In these, he may paint on separated layers of Plexiglas or, alternately, on cut-out, layered pieces of aircraft birch plywood. This process takes to a more literal level the three-dimensionality suggested by the colors and shapes in his one-dimensional paintings. Commenting on landscape painting, the artist has said he considers it “difficult to improve upon the real thing, or to compete with the scale and three-dimensional aspect of nature.” However, he has no qualms about “messing around with man-made objects.” Pond has said in the past that he does not identify with one particular movement, though critics have suggested a connection to the Pop and Op Art movements. Life, he has said, is the main influence in his work. He transitions easily between making paintings and prints, and the influence between the two is apparent. Clayton Pond’s artwork has been exhibited and collected internationally. He has had over 60 solo exhibits. His work is in the permanent collections at MOMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Air and Space Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Art and many more. ABOUT HIS PRINTS Through trial and error Pond determined that the silkscreen printing process, or serigraphy, was the best printing method for translating the images of his paintings into limited edition prints. Pond thinks of this stencil printing process as just another way of painting. Historically, artists’ prints were engravings, etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs. Prior to 1960, serigraphy was primarily a commercial printing process. When artists did make serigraphs they commonly used very few colors and the ink dried to a dull, chalky surface. Pond received early recognition in the 1960s and 1970s for his serigraph prints. His work stood out at the time not only because of his use of bright multiple colors and strong imagery, but also because of his technical advances in this printmaking process. His prints were unique because they had up to twenty very bright and shiny colors and very sharp registration. The colors looked as if the ink was still wet, and the prints had a topographically varied surface created by the thickness of the ink layers. Pond developed a reductive process of layering the colors, requiring very tight registration, color upon color, starting with a wide-open stencil, then reducing the open area for each subsequent color. He would then coat his prints with varnish. The varnish added a uniform glossy surface that enhanced the intensity of the color. The varnish also protected the colors from scuff marks and the fading resulting from oxidization. For many years Pond printed most of his own print editions, developing his unique methods and becoming a master printer of his own work. Eventually the time spent printing numerous commissions made it difficult to spend as much time on his paintings as he would have liked. In 1978, Robert Blanton, a master printer with a wide range of expertise, came to work in Pond’s studio, where he printed for and collaborated with Pond. A year later, Blanton started his own print shop, Brand X Editions Ltd. Pond moved his printing equipment to the Brand X studio and continued producing prints under Blanton’s supervision. ABOUT THE ARTIST Clayton Pond was born in 1941 in Bayside, NY, and raised in the Long Island sailing community of Port Washington, NY. As a child he was always interested in drawing, designing (houses, cars, and boats), and model-making. He got his first sailboat while in high school, sparking a life long interest in sailing When the U.S.S.R. launched the first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, Pond and his high school peers were encouraged to study math, science and engineering so that the U.S. could beat the Russians in the space race. Not until his sophomore year at Hiram College was he able to take his first elective: he chose art. That spring, during his first one-man show in the lobby of his dorm, he proudly announced (to his parents’ dismay) that he wanted to go to art school and become an artist. He transferred to Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and earned his BFA degree in 1964. One of the first Pop Art shows was held a short walk from the school at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA. It was not clear to Pond at the time what Pop Art was about. The artists’ work on display was diverse, the only common thread appearing to be a mutually shared art dealer, Leo Castelli. His graduate studies at Pratt Institute (MFA degree, 1966) were formative for his art career. It was there he began to discover his artistic individuality. He developed his drawing style and a keen interest in the use of bright, intense color relationships in his paintings. He also taught himself the serigraph process. While pursuing his graduate degree at Pratt, he began exhibiting and selling his art and building an exhibition resume. He became affiliated with the Pratt Center for Contemporary Printmaking and joined Sylvan Cole’s Associated American Artists Gallery, where he was featured in their New Talent Exhibition in 1966. In the same year his silkscreen prints were shown in the 15th National Print Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and in the Boston Printmakers Annual where he won the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Purchase Prize Award. The following year Pond’s work was included in a group exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In the fall following his graduation from Pratt he joined the Martha Jackson Gallery, one of the most prominent galleries in New York at that time. He had his first New York painting exhibition there in 1968. Martha Jackson Gallery remained Pond’s primary gallery for his paintings and prints throughout most of his New York career. Later on, the gallery transitioned to become the David Anderson Gallery, owned by Martha Jackson’s son, and the relationship continued. Pond was among the early artists to pioneer the SoHo area of lower Manhattan. He moved to his Broome Street studio in 1966, and then to Greene Street in 1969. Compared to his suburban childhood on Long Island, life in the art community and industrial loft building area of New York City was an exciting experience. The interiors of his studio lofts, and the street-found objects he used to outfit them, became the subject matter for much of his art during this period. Of particular interest were the Greek-columned façades of the SoHo Cast Iron District, declared a National Historic Landmark area in 1978. Pond lived and worked in his studio loft on Greene Street for twenty-six years. In 1995 Pond moved to Atlanta, Georgia with his family, where he continues to work in his studio making drawings, collages, paintings, and painted relief sculptures. He spends part of his summers in Vermont and the Adirondacks Mountains of upstate New York.
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Albuquerque's Culture vs. Crime
Albuquerque City
Albuquerque is the largest city in New Mexico and is known as a modern-day cultural and political center. The area used to be the dwelling of Native American Pueblos in 1540 when Europeans first entered the country. Due to the residing foreigners, Albuquerque dwellers were mostly Hispanic or mixed Hispanic-Native American in ancestry until the late 19th century. Presently, Albuquerque is widely popular for its preserved culture and ethnicity. However, due to inopportune circumstances, the city has also become known as a nest of criminals and unfortunate events.
The Rich Culture Of Albuquerque
Albuquerque is rich in Southwestern culture. It is the home of various cultures as well. Albuquerque is known as one of the most culturally diverse cities in the U.S.A. According to archaeological evidences, humans have inhabited the area for at least 10,000 years therefore making Albuquerque one the oldest established locations in America (Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d.). Its history and culture heavily influenced by the Spanish and Mexican Rule dating back more than 300 years ago are the highlights of Albuquerque culture today. Today, Albuquerque is recognized for its ethnicity in cuisine, festivities, history and cultural centers.
Albuquerque Described As A Dangerous City
Albeit rich in culture, many have described Albuquerque as a dangerous city teeming with criminals and that it is a rather a broken city, what with the poverty and crime rates skyrocketing. The stories went as far as comparing Albuquerque to TV programs showing exaggeratingly dangerous cities. The statistics have shown the conditions the city of Albuquerque is in and how significantly serious the citizens' predicaments are.
As of 2012, Albuquerque's violent crime rate was 418.2, significantly exceeding the U.S. Average of 214.0. As of 2014, there are 790 registered sex offenders in Albuquerque (city-data.com) and an estimate of 33,869 crimes in Albuquerque annually. Albuquerque's index had exceedingly surpassed that of U.S. Average standard numbers. As a matter of fact, Albuquerque has nearly doubled the national average. These crimes include murder, theft, arson, assaults and rape. According to AreaVibes, Albuquerque's index is 44% higher than the New Mexico average and that Albuquerque is safer than 5.9% of the cities in the nation.
Even the cases in Albuquerque were more disturbing than others. In September 2013, a 15-year-old boy shot his 12-year old cousin by accident thinking that the gun wasn't loaded. In 2012, a man pleaded guilty for beating his 5-year-old stepson to death. In 2013, an Albuquerque police officer was fired after being caught in sexual contact with a minor. Another case involved minors performing at strip clubs. In June 2013, a woman was sexually assaulted at knifepoint by a teenager in Bosque.
There are many cases in which gangs, drugs, and organized crime are involved. Gangs consist of only a few individuals who commit rather minor crimes that affect only a small portion of the population. More often than not, violence and gang activity is associated with illegal substances. These illegal substances are either sold to other gangs or produced by gang members themselves for their usage.
The competition for drug distribution has increased the friction between gangs, resulting to violent confrontations and further endangering the public. However, organized crime poses the greatest threat of all. It focuses on organizing illegal activities that affect a great portion of the population. These activities may focus on money-making or assassinations, but what makes these activities more dangerous is that they are more calculated and greater in number than those of regular gang crimes.
Many among these felonies are violent crimes and are the most common among the offenses committed in Albuquerque. Due to the number of threats circulating in Albuquerque, it is only imperative that those in law enforcement gain proper training before being deployed for duty. It is crucial that they must stay ahead of criminals using effective defensive strategies and techniques.
There also have been crime prevention programs where a series of activities and possible solutions were applied to mitigate illegal activities. It has been recorded that there are about 2,000 participating neighborhoods in the programs. These programs aim to organize neighborhoods on a block-by-block basis (City of Albuquerque Website, n.d.). Among the focuses of the programs are general audience/organization presentations, neighborhood watch, personal safety, sexual assault and rape prevention, fraud and con game prevention, child safety, business crime prevention, and crime prevention through environmental design.
It saddens many historians and cultural activists that the rich culture of Albuquerque be tainted due to criminal activities within the area. Not only do these activities give Albuquerque a bad name, but they also endanger the populace. Today, citizens of Albuquerque and neighboring cities are continually proposing solutions that could mitigate the present predicaments. It is imperative that citizens and lawmakers be able to provide countermeasures to ensure the safety of those who dwell in the city.
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Season 5 of 'Homeland' To Shoot in Germany This Summer
Homeland will become the first American TV series to shoot an entire season in Germany.
Showtime and Fox 21 Television Studios have announced today that season five of the Emmy and Golden Globe award winning series Homeland will shoot on location in Germany. Beginning production in early June at the famed Studio Babelsberg in Berlin, Homeland will become the first American television series to shoot a full season entirely in Germany. Season five will pick-up two years after Carrie Mathison’s (Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe Award winner Claire Danes) ill-fated tenure as Islamabad station chief. Struggling to reconcile her guilt and disillusionment with years of working on the front lines in the “war on terror,” Carrie finds herself in a self-imposed exile in Berlin, estranged from the CIA and working for a private security firm. Homeland’s 12-episode season will premiere this fall on Showtime.
Produced by Fox 21 Television Studios, Homeland was developed for American television by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, and is based on the original Israeli series Prisoners of War by Gideon Raff. Along with Gansa, Gordon and Raff, the executive producers for season five are Alexander Cary, Chip Johannessen, Meredith Stiehm, Patrick Harbinson, Lesli Linka Glatter, Avi Nir and Ran Telem.
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Coach Noffsinger brings a wealth of coaching and swimming experience to his role as Tigershark Head Coach. He volunteered as a Tigershark coach in the 2016 summer season and took on the head coaching position of Mountain Aquatic Club (MAC) in the fall of 2016. Coach Noffsinger is a certified USA Swimming coach and a Certified Level 5:2 Coach with the American Swim Coaches’ Association. After starting as an age group swimmer with the University of Hawaii Age Group Team, Coach Noffsinger swam with Silver Spring MD YMCA in the Washington, DC area. He went on to swim for West Virginia University on an athletic scholarship and was co-captain for the WVU Mountaineers his senior year. Over the past 30 years, he has coached in Fort Mead, Maryland, Lufkin, Texas, and Dothan, Alabama. He was also a certified USA Swimming Official, officiating many meets where his three daughters competed. Coach Noffsinger’s focus is on building the fundamentals with correct technique and form. He also wants his swimmers to enjoy the sport and have fun while swimming. So, while working on technique and conditioning, he will be challenging swimmers with drills and games.
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Coach Alyssa Summers returns to the Tigersharks for 2019 for her fifth season to focus specifically on the Rookie II Group Swimmers. Coach Summers, a former Lawrence University swimmer and a professor of Biology/Biochemistry at the University of the South, started her swim career at the age of 10 on a summer league team just like the TigerSharks, and then moved to year-round swimming with Vancouver Swim Club in Washington and then with the Multnomah Aquatic Club in Portland, Oregon, in high school. As a student athlete at Lawrence University, she was a National Team Member in 1999 in the 50 FR, 100 BR, and 100 FL and the Midwest Conference Swimmer of the Year in 1997, 1998, and 1999. Coach Summers set several Lawrence University records, three of which are still standing. She was inducted into the Lawrence Hall of Fame in 2010. In addition to her strong background as a swimmer and former assistant coach with Mountain Aquatic Club, Coach Summers has served as the assistant coach for the Appleton YMCA swim team, assistant coach for Nike summer swim camps, and a swim instructor for Vanderbilt Summer Swim. She is married to Rich Summers and lives in Sewanee with her two children, Anara (age 9) and Eli (age 5), both of whom are Tigershark swimmers. Coach Summers is looking forward to this upcoming summer!
Assistant Coach Nan Long
Coach Nan Long returns in her fifth year as the Rookie I group coach, bringing many years of coaching experience to the benefit of TigerSharks. Coach Long spent six years coaching with Tullahoma Swim Club as the 10 & Under coach, served as assistant coach for TigerSharks one summer, and spent two years teaching private swim lessons. Additionally, she served as a Mountain Aquatic Club developmental coach from 2015 - 2017, and the assistant coach of the St. Andrew’s-Sewanee Swim Team since 2015. Coach Long also served as the assistant coach for the SAS Swim Team from 2005-2009, head coach from 2013-2015, and was named Coach of the Year in 2013 by the Middle Tennessee High School Swim Association. Coach Long cannot wait to work with her Rookie swimmers again this summer! Email Coach Nan at [email protected]
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SHADEmakers Ltd is a UK-based company that has been supplying ultra-high-quality parasols and umbrellas to the world since 2003.
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Initially focused on the UK and Europe, SHADEmakers has widened its horizons and is increasingly supplying its products to prestigious projects in North and South America, Asia, Africa and Australasia.
From sun-drenched Dubai and Barbados, to the more temperate climes of London and Dublin, its stylish yet highly-functional parasols can be found adorning hotels, museums, golf courses, restaurants, gastro pubs, super yachts, Formula One events, schools, trade events, and the homes of private consumers.
This expansion has been a result not just of the high quality of its products, but of the company’s customer-focused ethos. At SHADEmakers, a company that is big enough to cope yet small enough to care, the customer’s needs and wants truly are paramount.
The man with his hand on the tiller is Mike Kirkby-Jones, who owns the company with his wife Anne Crosbie. Mike is a qualified builder with an MBA (Sydney, New South Wales), while Anne, a qualified accountant, holds an MBA from the same universities.
Now based at his factory in Welwyn Garden City, UK, and with an office in Sydney, Mike established SHADEmakers as the exclusive UK/European importer and distributor of the then New Zealand-designed and made Shademaker range of side- and centre-post parasols and umbrellas.
But with his commercial design and construction background, he was never going to be satisfied acting as a mere middleman, and within a few years he was designing and constructing his own range of quality “shade solutions.”
The company now has a full-time engineer and designer and a modern, fully equipped factory dedicated to the manufacture of a range of parasols, umbrellas and sunshades. And a commitment to ongoing innovation means new and innovative shade products are always in the pipeline.
Their current range of Side Post (Cantilever) and Centre Post umbrellas are made from a combination of corrosion-free materials: marine grade stainless steel, aluminium, composite, and various exposure-grade timbers.
SHADEmakers have already earned a reputation as experts in side post (asymmetric) shade, with their range of Storm parasols capable of withstanding wind speeds of up to 70 mph (112 kph).
Mike made a deliberate choice to manufacture his high-quality parasols in the UK, and to use local suppliers as much as possible. He currently sources more than 90 per cent of his components here (with fabrics coming from Europeand a few parts from Australia).
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Hornets top Brookwood in opener
By Wesley Hallman
Published 10:50 pm Thursday, August 25, 2011
Chelsea High School senior quarterback Jake Ganus looks for an opening in the Brookwood defense in the Hornets' 34-7 win in their season opener Aug. 25. (Contributed/Cari Dean)
By WESLEY HALLMAN / Sports Editor
CHELSEA — Chelsea High School senior linebacker Russ Birdsong wanted to make sure no one made an inaccurate assumption following the Hornets’ preseason jamboree against Lincoln.
Birdsong and his teammates were hungry to get back out on the field and prove any doubters wrong.
One week after a less-than-stellar performance, Chelsea responded with a 34-7 win over Brookwood in its first regular season game of the 2011 season Aug. 25.
Birdsong led a defensive unit that kept the Brookwood offense off the scoreboard and limited the Panthers to only 45 yards of total offense in the first half. Brookwood scored its lone touchdown in the game on an interception return.
“We came out with a chip on our shoulder,” Birdsong said.
While the Hornets’ defense was pitching a shutout, the Chelsea offense racked up 245 yards of total offense in the opening half and scored on four of its five first-half possessions. Chelsea finished with 370 yards of total offense.
Senior quarterback Jake Ganus led the Hornets (1-0) with 166 rushing yards and three touchdowns on 17 carries in the victory. Ganus also completed 10-of-14 passes for 87 yards and a touchdown.
Junior running back Julius McCall rushed for 121 yards and a touchdown on 21 carries.
Despite the offensive production in the opening half, Chelsea coach Wade Waldrop wasn’t pleased with the Hornets’ execution in the second half.
“I feel like we’re not a very good football team,” Waldrop said. “We’re not very consistent. We expect a lot out of this group. We’ve got to play a full four quarters.”
McCall put the Hornets on the scoreboard with 7:17 remaining in the first quarter with his 4-yard touchdown run, which capped a 12-play, 68-yard opening drive. Sophomore kicker Taylor Martindale added the extra point to give Chelsea an early 7-0 lead.
Ganus scored his first touchdown in the game on a 2-yard keeper with 4:10 left in the opening quarter. Martindale’s extra point put the Hornets ahead 14-0.
Ganus darted into the end zone from 12 yards out, which capped an eight-play, 91-yard drive early in the second quarter, to give Chelsea a 21-0 lead following Martindale’s third extra point.
Following the Hornets’ first three-and-out in the game, sophomore running back Aki Coles reeled in a 5-yard touchdown pass from Ganus with 16 seconds remaining in the opening half. Martindale’s extra point gave Chelsea 28-0 lead at the break.
The Chelsea offense stalled in the second half, with Ganus’ 3-yard touchdown run midway through the fourth quarter accounting for the Hornets’ only score in the final 24 minutes.
While the offense struggled, the Chelsea defense continued to keep the Brookwood offense out of the end zone in the second half.
Birdsong led the Hornets with 12 tackles. Junior defensive back Davis Shoemaker finished with a fumble recovery and an interception in the win.
“I thought our defense played very well,” Waldrop said.
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Israeli Import, Export, Cyber Regulation & Enforcement
Background –The General Israeli Regulatory Framework
According to the Israeli Import and Export Order 2006 (supervision of products, services and dual-use technology export), the export and trade of any product or technology explicitly mentioned in one or more of the Wassenaar Arrangement’s (1996) nine categories as dual-use, (said categories include inter alia: advanced materials, computer and electronics products, data security products etc.) requires a permit from the authorized regulators (i.e several named officials within the Ministry of Economy). Supplemental to the said order, the Law for Supervision of Defense Export, 2007 limits the possibility of trade in certain products that possess military capabilities. The Wassenaar Arrangement is a multilateral export control regime (MECR) with 41 participating states (excluding Israel) that was established in order to contribute to regional and international security and stability by promoting transparency and responsibility in transfers of conventional arms and dual-use goods and technologies, seeking to prevent destabilizing accumulations within malicious intended entities. The State of Israel has adopted the Wassenaar Arrangement and although it is not a formal member it is considered as an “obeying country”, therefore the Israeli Ministry of Economy adopted the Wassenaar Arrangement and has used the same definitions used under the Wassenaar Arrangement to define dual-use products as any product, software, technology, knowledge and services generally used for civilian purposes but which may also possess military abilities (or may be transformed into such) and applications which may contribute to the manufacturing or distribution of weapons. The export and trade of military or defense products is regulated separately by the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Draft for Order of Cyber Products Supervision (2016)
The Department for Supervision of Defense Export within the Ministry of Defense has issued a proposed draft for the definition of products and knowledge to be supervised in the cyber field. The proposed draft would not only assimilate the requirements of the Wassenaar Arrangement in the Israeli legal system, but also expand the list of products that will be subject to extensive regulation both in development stages and while conducting business with respect to applicable products. Final adoption of the draft, and matching legislation if such will actually follow, would give Israel the challenging opportunity of being a pioneer in adopting the regulation regime described in the Arrangement. Although the draft was only recently published (7th of January 2016), the Israeli cyber industry is already in turmoil over the regulatory changes it provides. Aside for claims of problematic results for the entire sector and the financial outcomes that such regime will create, the draft explicitly states that certain “highlighted” parts of it are an expansion of the Wassenaar arrangement’s dual-use products list. Since Israel is the first to implement a local arrangement that will enforce the “expanded” Wassenaar regulatory regime, the local cyber industry as well as Israel’s defensive equipment manufacturers, are highly concerned of a new competitive burden to which it might be exposed in its day to day business as well as the incentive for successful corporations to shift their operations to other jurisdictions.
The main product features that will be regulated under the proposed draft, should it be made into law, are: intrusion software, software weakness oversight and detection, systems or components designed or adjustable to fit strategic and defense purposes and any software with forensic capabilities.
It should be emphasized that at this point, in light of the unified opposition presented from cyber companies, Israel’s defensive equipment manufacturers, the Department for Supervision of Defense Export within the Ministry of Defense, has announced that it will welcome suggestions from the industry as to how to “soften” the actual implementation of the Cyber Products Supervision.
Furthermore, we note that the actual ratification of the Order of Cyber Products Supervision requires further government and legislative approvals.
On October 11th, 2015, the Rehovot Magistrate Court in Israel ruled in the case of the State of Israel vs. Illan Shimon Yaacobi, in which for the first time the State of Israel handed down a criminal sentence for the illegal export of supervised products through eBay (and has made such verdict a matter of public record). The esteemed court sentenced the defendant, an Israeli citizen who bought de-commissioned radios and communication supplies and equipment from sub contractors of the IDF in a legal manner and subsequently sold them on eBay after repairing such devices for a total of more than $200,000. All said products were “Supervised Products” according to the Law for Supervision of Defense Export, 2007. While the esteemed court sentenced Yaacobi for community service and a fine of NIS70,000 (approx.$17,800), it explicitly stated that the leniency of the sentence is solely due to this instance being the first time a criminal verdict is handed down with respect to an Israeli individual for such a breach of defense export rules.
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NBA Scouting Notebook: Isaac Okoro
Behind the Scenes of the Virtual NBA Draft
Things will look a bit different this year for the NBA draft broadcast. Here is how the league and its television partners are preparing to showcase the event virtually.
Ben Pickman
Last Friday, Carlton Myers celebrated his 25th anniversary working at the NBA. He began his tenure by logging game footage. Now, as the vice president of live production and entertainment at NBA Entertainment, he is helping to lead the league’s virtual 2020 draft broadcast.
“I could have never imaged that,” says Myers, when asked whether he thought he’d ever be quarterbacking a virtual event of this magnitude.
For the first time since 2013, the NBA draft will not commence from Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Instead, on Wednesday evening, it will consist of a virtual telecast with prospective draftees waiting anxiously from their respective homes.
To adjust to the unique circumstances, the NBA has set up 19 satellite trucks, in five different countries, which will help ensure immediate interviews with participants. It’s also shipped out 39 broadcast technology kits to prospects that will be used to showcase the reactions of many of the event’s other draftees. As part of the at-home experience, players additionally received a media technology kit to help with postdraft interviews and a gift locker that includes a number of products, including all 30 of this year’s New Era draft hats.
“We're in the virtual world now so we’re able to ‘invite’ a lot more draftees to the broadcast than we had done before,” says Myers, who himself will be one of the few people in ESPN’s studios. He recently led the in-arena sound and entertainment production in the NBA’s Disney bubble.
Ahead of the draft, Sports Illustrated spoke with Myers about what the broadcast will be like, how it will compare with other recent virtual drafts and how the league’s bubble might have shaped Wednesday’s event.
The following conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
SI: What can viewers expect the NBA draft broadcast to be like?
Carlton Myers: They can expect to see more draft prospects than ever before being involved with the draft. We’re in the virtual world now so we’re able to ‘invite’ a lot more draftees to the broadcast than we had done before. Last year, I think we had 24 invitees at Barclays Center. This year we’ll have up to 58 draftees as part of the broadcast, so that will be the most we’ve ever had at one time. The fact that we’re virtual this year actually opens it up to more players being involved.
Seeing reactions from the players is one thing that we really focused on from the technical side, making sure to get that genuine reaction immediately after [commissioner Adam Silver] or [deputy commissioner Mark Tatum] announce their name. That’s something they can look forward to. And then one of the greatest interests from us and ESPN has been for us to tell these guys’ stories. A lot of these players were robbed of being able to tell their stories on national television with the tournament being canceled last year. So through the broadcast we’ll be able to let everybody know who these guys are—really understand the players, not only as basketball players, but as people.
SI: How would you compare what you hope Wednesday’s experience will be like with the most recent WNBA draft and NFL draft?
CM: We did the WNBA draft and that was the first, real virtual sporting event that took place during the pandemic. I think we did a pretty good job accomplishing that. I think it’ll be similar in some ways to the WNBA draft, in getting the players’ live reactions, that’s something we really focused on. But one of the biggest differences is that Adam Silver and Mark Tatum will be in Bristol at the ESPN studios.
It’s gonna look a lot more modernized because [WNBA commissioner] Cathy Engelbert was at her home. But now we’re able to have Adam and Mark go to ESPN. There’s going to be a large-scale video screen that’s behind them that will show graphics related to each of the teams. Once a player’s announced you’ll see the player live from their living room on that screen and with Adam in the same picture. That way we can really get the relationship moment between the two of them.
SI: When did you start the planning process on the virtual draft?
CM: When the pandemic hit, obviously no one knew where we were gonna be at this time. Originally the draft was not planned to be virtual. We had about three or four different versions of the draft that we were ready to execute: one virtual, one full fans, one partial fans and players still traveling. As we got through the bubble and finished the season, everybody had the understanding that this draft was gonna be virtual, so we went back to the beginning of the virtual model that we started planning back in June and kind of fleshed it out with ESPN and came to the point we’re at now. So it kind of evolved. If we would have had the ability to bring players across the country and everybody be together safely, we would have done that. But obviously given the situation we’re not able to.
SI: What’s the biggest thing you think you’ve learned since June?
CM: As a general rule, one thing we learned in the bubble is to try and make things as comfortable and normal for the players, to try and put them in a comfort zone. A lot of things we did in the bubble were done to give them the similar experience to what they are used to. So that’s kinda hard to apply in this draft situation, but I think doing things like sending them all 30 hats and sending them the gifts they would have received if they were on site will help.
We’re also going to do a draft class photo, which is something they would have done on stage with Adam Silver had they been in person. We’ve given them the ability to submit us photos of them in their suits, and we’re gonna stitch that all together and produce a draft class photo for these guys.
SI: During the NFL draft one of the unique quirks for viewers was getting a glimpse into various coaches’ homes and lives, like seeing Patriots coach Bill Belichick’s dog making a cameo at his table. Will we learn if any coaches have any dogs or get any similar cameos? Where will team executives be?
CM: Right now, we think they’ll all be in their war rooms or in their practice facilities, and we haven’t had the request to do big things from home. We would have done this anyway probably at a lower number, but we’ll have more than 17 team war rooms online as well, so we’ll be able to do live look-ins to team war rooms and interviews with team personnel during the draft. They’ll also be a couple of NBA coaches that will be incorporated in the draft and some college coaches as well, and we think some of them will be in their homes.
SI: What will a successful draft broadcast look like in your mind?
CM: If we can get the immediate the reaction of players and viewers can see that, that to me is one of the most important pieces of it and it is usually one of the best moments of the draft. I think that was missing at some of the other drafts that we’ve done or it wasn’t consistent. We want to do everything possible to keep that consistent. So I think having that moment happen for the majority of the guys will be a success for us.
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058: On Tinea Versicolor And Finding Confidence w/ Steph Gaudreau
|In Healthy Skin Show, Tinea Versicolor
|By Jennifer Fugo, MS, CNS
Chronic skin rashes can be isolating. We often want to shut ourselves away and hide to prevent embarrassment and judgment.
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My guest today is Steph Gaudreau. Steph believes women have the right to be strong and take up space because the world needs our voices.
She's a nutritional therapy consultant, strength coach, best-selling author, podcaster, and Lord of the Rings nerd. Steph lives in San Diego, CA.
Join us as we talk about Steph's journey with Tinea Versicolor, and why your skin condition does not define you.
Has your skin condition made you feel embarrassed and alone? Tell me about it in the comments!
When did Steph's skin condition start?
The shame caused by skin conditions.
You are valuable and worthy.
Steph's book and why it is different from other health and wellness books.
“I think that's probably the number one thing that I've learned is to make sure you're not sitting around in sweaty clothes.” [4:54]
“When it comes out, it does make me more self conscious about my skin and how I look and stuff like that.” [7:17]
“You're a real person who has their struggles, but every body has their struggles and it doesn't mean you're any less valuable of a person.” [10:00]
Find Steph online
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My appearance on Harder to Kill Radio: How to Conquer Your Skin Issues
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058: On Tinea Versicolor And Finding Confidence w/ Steph Gaudreau FULL TRANSCRIPT
Jennifer: Hi everyone and welcome back to the Healthy Skin Show. Today I've got a good friend who's joining me. Truth be told, it's a friend that I've spent quite a bit of time with in person and a lot of time chatting back and forth online. We live on different sides of the country, but she's someone who I looked up to for a long time and feel very grateful that I can call her a friend. And then to just have her here and share her wisdom and her experience with you is truly a gift. Her name is Steph Gaudreau. She believes that women have the right to be strong and take up space because the world needs our voices. She's a nutritional therapy consultant, strength coach, bestselling author, podcaster, and Lord of the Rings nerd. She lives in San Diego, California with her wonderful cat. We share that as well. Thank you so much for being here, Steph. I appreciate it.
Steph: Oh, thanks so much for having me. It's so good to be here and to celebrate this show that you have and all the great things that you're doing in your business. It's amazing.
Jennifer: It's really nice that we get this opportunity to connect with people out there who feel very stuck. And that's one reason that I wanted to have you on the show today is to share your experience with skin issues that you've dealt with in the past. Because I know when I dealt with my issues, I felt really alone. I felt very embarrassed and ashamed and I didn't know anybody else that was going through it. So can you talk a little bit about what the skin issue you had? And when did it start?
Steph: Yeah. Oh Gosh, I think the first I ever learned about Tinea versicolor is because my mom had it and I got, I've gotten a lot of things from my mom and Tinea is one of them. I noticed that she would get these darker patches on her skin, these almost circular, it almost looks like a flat rash and it's not red, but it's just a discoloration and it can get kind of red. But I would always notice that she would have this discoloration. So in the winter time, sometimes it would appear like darker on her light skin and then the reverse would happen in the summer. Those spots would stay very white. And so I knew relatively early on that this was just something she had, but I didn't really know what it was. And the first time she ever explained to me that it's a fungus, I think I was like, Oh wow, okay, that's gross. And that's pretty much all I knew about Tinea. And then I ended up getting Tinea myself, and again, I'd had, I didn't make the connection back to watching her go through it when I was a kid. And then I sort of started, I noticed I was developing these patches of discoloration. Again, sort of darker tan color, but in spots. And this gave me a really interesting insight into what it's like to have conditions like vitiligo because, and this is a very different situation than that, but I became extremely self conscious of this because I would get it mostly on my shoulders. This is where it would show up a lot. And then you know, around where my sports bra would be obviously because of fungus and warmth and being in the gym and stuff like that. But to have it so prominent, especially during the summer where those spots would essentially like get bleached out on my skin as my skin got a little bit tan in the summer. And I was really self conscious of this. So I have finally had to go to the doctor and figure out what is this thing. And the doctor said, okay, well this is, this is Tinea versicolor, this is a fungus that lives on everybody. But for some reason in some people it just overgrows and that's why you get these patches. But the treatments either are like folk treatments, at the time, all I could find was put apple cider vinegar on it or go on these really heavy duty medications. So I ended up sort of not knowing what to do. And one of the things that I kind of went for the middle solution, which was it's a shampoo or like a cream that you put on. It's almost like a liquid and it smells very sulfury. It doesn't smell very good and that took care of it. But it came back and it's come back a few times since I had it the first time. The last time I had it again, I spent a lot of time in a gym. I do Brazilian Jujitsu, we're constantly sweaty. I mean I change out of my sweaty clothes as soon as I can. I think that's probably the number one thing that I've learned is to make sure you're not sitting around in sweaty clothes. But the last time I went to the doctor, and I said, hey, I have this thing called Tinea versicolor and it's back. And all the things I've tried to get rid of it on my own haven't worked, you know, what solutions do you have for me? And so I was offered again this, you know, shampoo. I was offered a sort of like a spray that I could put in my hair. And then I was offered a pill, which was essentially the equivalent of an antibiotic, but an Antifungal pill. And when I asked my friend who's a doctor, what I thought, oh, this seems a little bit extreme to take this pill. And when I asked my friend, who's a doctor, what is this medication? And she just thought, well if you want to obliterate your gut then go ahead and take that. And I said, no way. So, you know, I just think that there's not a whole lot of knowledge out there about what it is. And being that I work at the time I was working at a gym, I would come into contact with a lot of people. I'd see a lot of people, you see a lot of people's bodies cause they're wearing tank tops or they're shirtless or it's a crossfit setting. I would notice occasionally I'd see people that would have the telltale spots of Tinea and I'd ask them, do you know what this is? And they'd be like, I have no idea. I've had this my whole life. I've had it for a really long time. I'm really embarrassed by it. You know, I usually want to cover up because it's ugly. I just don't want to show it. And so I would tell them this is a thing called Tinea versicolor and they had never heard of what it was. So that's just something that I've had to deal with pretty much on and off. And luckily now I don't have it. It comes back every once in a while, but now I know that there are certain things I can do. And then for me as well, I would get really flaky and my scalp. And then of course we have that association of Dandruff or like that you're dirty cause you don't wash your hair. You know, it just brings up a lot of stuff for people and it brought up a lot of stuff for me where it, it's not something that's really, you know, it's not disabling for me but when it comes out, it does make me more self conscious about my skin and how I look and stuff like that.
Jennifer: It's interesting too because everything that you do and the one thing that I love, I mean there's many things I love that you put out into the world is that you offer people this way to embrace who they are and share their thoughts and just take up space instead of feeling like you have to hide. And I know for myself I didn't have that, but I would hide because it was on my hands and people shake hands. And so in this particular case, like you said, it's embarrassing if you have, you want to go out swimming, if you want to go to the beach, if it's just really hot and you can't bear to have that area covered if you're at the gym, any number of things. It's just really interesting that there is shame no matter what type of skin condition you have that seems to be woven into it. It's like this traumatic experience that results because you end up with something where your skin is not showing up perfectly. And do you think, and now in hindsight, cause it's sort of behind you, so to speak, and you also have a much different perspective on your life and health and whatnot. Do you have any words of wisdom to maybe share with everybody who's listening who right now is still stuck in that phase of like they're really embarrassed and they feel a sense of shame about their skin?
Steph: Yeah, I mean, I think the thing that resonates for me is something that I learned from Brené Brown, which is, guilt is sort of like when you feel bad because you did something and shame is when you feel bad because you're a bad person. In our journeys, when we experience things like skin issues, where does that transfer over from something we just feel, we feel bad about the thing to feeling bad about ourselves. And I don't know where that line is for different people and I don't even know if he can pinpoint one event, although I'm sure for a lot of folks there is like one thing that happened to them, somebody made a comment, somebody even, you know, they had the perception that somebody looked at them strangely that they saw they were staring or they looked away or you know, those things, we can internalize them even if that's not what the person was intending. And I think even from my husband and his Eczema, all the things that he's dealt with, the biggest thing that I would just want people to remember is that you're, you're a whole person. You're a real person who has their struggles, but every body has their struggles and it doesn't mean you're any less valuable of a person or worthy to take up that space because of your skin and the issues that you might be dealing with your skin at any one moment. And that there is power in your story. Brené Brown also talks about this, like when we name the thing that we feel ashamed about, we take away its power. And I think, you know, that doesn't mean everybody necessarily needs to become a blogger or devote a social media account to their condition. But I think the more we can open up about that and the more we can use our voice and say, you know, these are the things that I'm going through. The more it normalizes it. And you'd be surprised how many people will come out of the woodwork and say, you know, I also had this, or I dealt with this too. I had something similar and it really affected me. And thanks for making me feel not so alone. So the more we can share, the more we can just step into that. I think the better. And I know that's not always the case. We sometimes want to run and hide or hide ourselves away because we have this perception that people are going to make judgments about us.
Jennifer: And you're very right on about that spot on, I would say. I know I constantly felt like a leper basically. I thought I was literally gonna have to stop teaching. I wasn't gonna be able to go out anymore. I had to stop exercising. I had to do a lot of different things, not just because of the shame, but also the pain that I was physically in. Another thing I wanted to talk about too. So you have this new book, which I think is honestly one of the best, most practical, most reasonable, like I even learned from it, of how to make changes over the course of 30 days. And, and the thing that's nice about it is it a, there's really no dogmatic nonsense in it that leads to further food fear. Cause I feel like a lot in the wellness world especially, but even in the skin world, people get outside of the just dermatologist cycle and they're like, okay, what's the next thing I can do that can help me? And they get stuck in this idea that it's all about food and they start micromanaging every little thing that they eat, thinking that that's going to fix it. And they end up on very tiny diets. And I think what you offer people is a really smart way to start making simple changes when you haven't really cleaned up your diet. And on top of it, adding in some movement that if you're uncomfortable right now going to the gym, cause I know like I couldn't go to the gym, I didn't want ever anybody to see this. And if people saw me touching equipment, my hands are all messed up. They would freak out. So you have this really great book with also these fitness things, fitness routines or just exercises in them that you can do at home and you don't really need any, you don't really need much equipment at all. Do you want to just talk a little bit about what the book is about so that if people are like, hey, I don't really know what to do next but I know I need to start making changes, I would love for them to learn more.
Steph: Yeah, absolutely. And thanks for the kind words that means a lot. I know that there are tons of books out in the market that talk about nutrition and fitness and what goes on in between your ears with your own thinking. And I really aim to provide something that was a little bit against the grain. So like you said, a lot of people have been through so many restrictive diets. They've just been focusing on cutting things out. Use exercise to punish themselves for what they eat or they just feel like the barrier to entry is so high that they can't get started. And one of my favorite things to do is to like chunk it down so that it's so easy that I made, it almost seems like too easy, right? Like how, like is that gonna do anything? And yes, I think for myself working with so many people over the years, I see that most people want to make gradual change. We have to honor where people are at in their lives, the access that they have to certain resources and equipment and food even and that and acknowledge as coaches that not everybody is in the same position. So I really wanted to make something that was accessible and that would help people learn how to add in some of these habits and almost like test drive certain things that they can then put into this toolbox and reached back into later on. Maybe the time's not right for them to exercise now or maybe it is and they want to figure out how they can work this into their lives. I mean, a lot of the women in my community are busy moms or in their workplace, they don't have three hours to go to the gym every day. And so the constant thought is, well, unless I can do hours and hours, then like, why bother? You know, I'm not able to do as much as someone else or the people that I see on social media. So I really wanted to create something that was approachable that would give people real sustainable, lasting behavior change. Because, I mean, you can do anything for a week really, but what can you do? What are the skills, the habits, what are the behaviors? What are the the rituals that you can keep doing for a long period of time. I'm not interested in what you can do for a week. I want to know that in five years maybe are not doing the same exact things, but you've really found a way to incorporate good nutritious food into your life that also allows you to enjoy social situations and being able to go out with people that you know, enjoy life being like just having health as a goal. Like where you're just working on your health all the time. Certainly there are times where that's going to require more time and attention and then the idea is that you've developed those patterns, you develop those habits that you can carry forward with you. I call it healthing so hard, like healthing so hard isn't your focus. It's I'm living in my life and I'm able to incorporate things that really make me feel good on a daily basis. One of the things I do is I have in that program or in this book, a whole sequence that you can use for this 30 days that's, you can do it at home with a couple sets of dumbbells and like a bench or something sturdy like a sturdy chair. And I actually do these workouts on my front porch all the time because sometimes I don't go to the gym and I just want to get a quick workout. So you know, you can stop right now. Go do that, spend half hour, come back in. You don't have to commute. You can watch your kids, they can do it with you. I mean, I just wanted to make it really accessible and really flexible for people with the intention of getting away from the strictness and the idea that building health has to be hard and it has to be something that we can never enjoy and that exercise can't, it's only supposed to hurt. Like it can't be enjoyable. And that the ultimate goal for me is to help people build their health. And weight loss is sometimes an outcome from that, but sometimes it's not. And I try to be real honest and upfront with people about that too is can you build this sense of inner strength? Can you feel good on a daily basis? Can you add to your health in a way that you're able to fully enjoy your life? And if I can help you accomplish that, then I feel like I've done my job.
Jennifer: And this is perfect. As I said, for people that are struggling right now, especially if you're at the beginning of your food transition out of a diet where you just like don't care to eat anything to something that's way healthier and that's sustainable too. I love that all the meals are very practical. You don't have to be a chef. Also, the fact that you could do these exercises at home, was the one thing I was really impressed. I was like, I could do these at home. This is so great because I don't need to, I'm not comfortable say, you know, like when I was in the midst of this, I wouldn't go into the gym. That was done. That got taken away from me. And so to be able to do some movement at home, to help deal with stress, because movement is great for relaxing, but also, I mean you don't always have to use weight either. It can just be body weight. And I love that you're guiding people through that and giving them these options because those two pieces, the food and the movement are important no matter where you are on your journey. And so I just want to remind everybody that Steph also has a fantastic podcast. It's great for mindset. It's not PG. So keep that in mind some of you love like the PG thing. It's not PG, but I will say I was very blessed to be a guest on her Harder to Kill radio show earlier this year. And I'll link that episode here so you can also check that out. But she's also just got a lot of encouragement and wisdom that she shares in a very real way. That again, the idea of it's okay to take up space. You don't have to feel like you have to shrink from your life and you don't deserve to be in your life anymore because of what's happening to you. And I think that's, that's a lesson and a reminder and wisdom that we need repeated over and over and over again. As you move through your journey. , and stuff, everyone can find you over at stephgaudreau.com we will put the links to all of that. You're also on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. You've got a youtube channel and you've got a great gift for everybody. It is your five day healthy habits kickstart. And that may be a really great way to get involved in what stuffs has to offer cause she's also a lot of different fitness programs and things like that that you can stream online. Is there anything else? Like, we've got the book, the Core 4 book that is now available. And so you can get that on Amazon and probably in most other places, right?
Steph: Yeah, pretty much everywhere you can get books.
Jennifer: Awesome. And we'll put a link to that. So we'll make it really easy in the show notes for you to find all of these resources from Steph, connect with her. I feel so lucky that I get to share all of you with Steph because she been a real inspiration for me over the last few years and she's also got a lot of great recipes over on her website as well. Her website is a wealth of knowledge, so I know that you will love it. Thanks so much Steph for joining us. I really appreciate it.
Steph: Thanks for having me. I appreciate that.
Jennifer Fugo, MS, CNS
Jennifer Fugo, MS, CNS is an integrative Clinical Nutritionist and the founder of Skinterrupt. She works with women who are fed up with chronic gut and skin rash issues discover the root causes and create a plan to get them back to a fuller, richer life.
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Steve Knauth
Florida Memory Project
If Washington Jenkins had ever contemplated the future, he likely never imagined the scene pictured here. In 1876, Jenkins was named keeper at a house of refuge for shipwrecked sailors, one of five stations in Florida placed approximately 25 miles apart, from the Indian River Inlet to Cape Florida. His station, New River House No. 4, was near the site of today’s Hugh Taylor Birch State Park in central Fort Lauderdale.
Back then, Florida was virtually uninhabited. Living with his wife and children on a paycheck of $400 a year, Jenkins walked the beach, especially after storms, to “afford succor to shipwrecked persons who may be cast ashore, and who, in the absence of such means of relief, would be liable to perish from hunger and thirst in that desolate region,” as the United States Life-Saving Service described his professional role.
By the mid-20th century, many decades after he’d died, Jenkins’ lonely piece of beach had become home to a yachting and marine center that helped transform the habits and expectations of boat owners. Bahia Mar, which is Spanish for “ocean bay,” opened its doors to the public in 1949. Geared to a new generation of recreational boaters, it was intended to set a standard as a modern marine facility. At the junction of the New River and the Intracoastal Waterway, it offered 400 slips, marina facilities and a hotel—amenities that Jenkins couldn’t have imagined.
The idea certainly caught on. Today, Bahia Mar serves yachts from around the globe and hosts one of the world’s largest in-water boat expositions, the annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. The city of Fort Lauderdale is the home port for more than 40,000 boats. As for the houses of refuge, they were gradually abandoned over the years. Jenkins’ place of employment became a U.S. Coast Guard station located not far from Bahia Mar. An original station on Hutchinson Island in Martin County serves today as The House of Refuge Museum.
This article originally appeared in the June 2019 issue.
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Poldark’s Fifth and Final Season Is Airing on PBS This Fall
Join Ross Poldark for one final ride.
Credit: Courtesy of PBS
Over the past four seasons of the acclaimed drama Poldark, we've joined the titular character, Ross Poldark, on his journey through politics, love, and everything in between. It began with his return to Cornwall after the Revolutionary War and has surged through the ups and downs of his life and the lives of his family and neighbors. Poldark is returning to Masterpiece on PBS this fall with the fifth and final season of the series. Watch the teaser trailer below, and catch a glimpse of what Poldark and his compatriots will encounter in the forthcoming season.
Watch the teaser trailer:
Poldark stars Aidan Turner (The Hobbit, And Then There Were None) as Ross Poldark. Eleanor Tomlinson (Death Comes to Pemberley, Colette) stars as Demelza Poldark, and the series also features Jack Farthing (The Riot Club, Burn Burn Burn) as George Warleggan, Luke Norris (The Duchess, Skins) as Dwight Enys, Gabriella Wilde (Endless Love, Carrie) as Caroline Enys, Ellise Chappell (Yesterday) as Morwenna Whitworth, and Harry Richardson (Death in Paradise, Dunkirk) as Drake Carne.
According to PBS, new characters will also be joining the cast: "In addition to the beloved cast regulars, a number of new cast members will join Poldark for Season 5, including: Lily Dodsworth Evans (Genius), Kerri McLean (Electric Dreams) and Sofia Oxenham (Grantchester). Vincent Regan (300), Peter Sullivan (Entebbe) and Freddie Wise (Maleficent 2)."
While this is slated to be the last season of Poldark, the character could make his way to the screen again. PBS shares the sentiments of Karen Thrussell, Executive Producer for Mammoth Screen, who says, "We are confident that fans of the novels will appreciate the care with which Debbie Horsfield is continuing to adapt Winston Graham's saga. This will be the last series in the Poldark chronicle…for now. Who knows what the future may bring."
The fifth season of Poldark will air on Masterpiece on PBS beginning Sunday, September 29, 2019, at 9/8c. Check local listings to confirm. Be sure to catch up on season four before the new episodes air, and to learn more about Poldark, visit pbs.org.
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Will you tune into the last season of Poldark on PBS this fall? What's your favorite show to watch on Masterpiece on PBS?
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Reflections on the Collection by Frances ThimanGuy Turner2020-06-16T10:44:30+01:00
Reflections on the Collection
by Frances Thiman, the composer's niece
…I wondered if you would be at all interested, or able, to take and house some of [my Uncle Eric’s] music for the choir at Southwell, and its Library? At least they would perhaps be used there, which would give me great pleasure to think of. I wondered even if a small special collection could be set up...?
On 28th August 2010 I sent this brief and rather ungrammatical email to Paul Hale, then Rector Chori at Southwell Minster…
…and in October 2014 the Eric Thiman Archive was launched at a Friday lunch-time concert of his music in Southwell Minster, to a large audience who had gathered from all over the country, one or two even coming from abroad. There was an accompanying exhibition of Memorabilia, arranged by the Archivist. And this was just the start…
Paul Hale was enthusiastic about my emailed message, and suggested further that an official Archive be established, to become the main repository of all Eric’s works and of information about them.
Those years between 2010 and 2014 were partly taken up with the renovation of the Archbishop’s Palace, where the new Paul Hale Choir Library and the Archive was to be housed – this involved two Heritage Lottery applications. But there was much discussion about the Archive, a thicket of emails, and communication with a large number of Eric’s former colleagues and students, publishers and other organisations, and the collection of as much as possible of the music. In particular we should mention Kathy Adamson, the Royal Academy of Music Librarian, and Howard Friend, Managing Editor (Chester/Novello) at Music Sales, which now holds the rights to Thiman works published by many publishers; and Gerald Barnes, a former colleague and friend of Eric’s, who provided much of the music initially. Eric's own personal archive had passed, via Mrs Thiman, to Gerald.
And now the website has been finalised, with many thanks to the Southwell Minster team. It contains lists of works and articles published about Eric and about the Archive itself, and the occasional Newsletters produced by the Archivist. It also contains the catalogue of compositions held in the Collection – and for that matter the ones we have yet to find. Considering that there are well over 1300, this last has been a huge task.
The main reason for all this development and activity was the appointment as Archivist in January 2014 of Guy Turner, a Lay Clerk at Southwell Minster, also a composer and conductor himself. He has traced lost compositions, curated the Memorabilia exhibition (see Newsletter 1), created the CD of Eric’s music, conducted and performed locally some of Eric’s works and persuaded others to perform them, produced publicity materials – and many other things. And in May 2019, he performed with a local choir the World Premiere of the work most recently found, Psalm 23, still in manuscript, with its mysterious pseudonym. (This is fully described in Newsletter 5). Not only that but Guy’s daughter Hannah, also a musician, is responsible for the design of the Collection's leaflet, and his son Ben, a recording engineer, produced the CD. Thus the Turners have all turned their hands – and varied and considerable skills – to the project. I cannot thank Guy and his family enough for all they have done. I must also thank Paul Hale for his initial ideas and commitment.
A mature student, David Dewar, has embarked on a PhD at Bristol University – initially this was to be a study of Eric’s works, but he has latterly increased the scope of his research into music-making in the first half of the 20C in England, including the interaction between professional and amateur musicians. There is now also the possibility of a bio-bibliography of Thiman being published in the States, as a direct result of the Collection's work.
I did not know my uncle as well as I would have liked – many others certainly knew him better. Perhaps those who know composers and teachers best are those who perform their works under their direction, or who study under them. My parents, both Londoners, moved to Nottingham when I was three, my father taking up the post of Head of Modern Languages at Nottingham High School. They thought to stay for perhaps a few years, but my father remained at the school until his retirement, and in Nottingham thereafter. As a young family we travelled to London during the summer and at Christmas to visit all the relatives on both sides, and our times with Eric and Madeline, his wife, were always red-letter occasions, with wonderful food and a large number of games – card games and word games especially – at all of which Eric excelled, and which indeed he usually won. Inevitably however, the relatives became fewer and we no longer visited regularly, and after a while I did not see Eric very much. However, we sang his songs at my school, frequently at prize days, and I remember playing his piano piece ‘Flood Time’ for an Associated Board exam – as do perhaps many others still. I was delighted to hear the song ‘The Path to the Moon’ at the Southwell launch concert, sung by a very small boy in the choir, as it had apparently been set for his singing exam. It has been a great privilege to learn to know more about my uncle’s work in this way, to meet some of his former colleagues, students and friends, and in particular the musicians of Southwell Minster.
Mysteries and Surprises
The Names: When and why exactly did Eric drop the second ‘n’ from the surname? Was it his own initiative, or his publisher’s at the time?
Eric published some songs in a more popular vein under the name ‘Harding’ (that being his middle name, his mother’s maiden name). One of his former students and choir members, Dorothy Webster, was able to give us copies of some of these songs that were in her possession, and this was the first we knew of these pieces.
Why did Eric write a vocal piece with only ‘Paulatim’ as the composer’s name? This Latin word means ‘little by little’ and there is a Victorian children’s book called ‘Eric or Little by Little’, so the reference is clear. But why the pseudonym? (There is a fuller discussion of this in Newsletter 5).
The Complete Works: We have a listing in his own (or perhaps Madeline’s) typescript with Eric’s handwritten amendments – but it includes only 599 pieces. Eric’s various publishers have their own inventories, and the Performing Rights Society at one point listed about 800 works: most official sources list between about 450 and 630 works. One contributory reason for this disparity may be the different versions of his name, and different versions of the same work. Yet Guy Turner has already collected and listed well over 1300 – it has been a massive and complex job, and is not yet finished. Each communication from Guy over the years has increased the number of works! But why has it been so hard to establish the full number?
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