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Kid Rock's Detroit restaurant to close after his drunken profane anti-Oprah rant
Sky Palma
In the wake of Kid Rock's profane drunken rant where he trashed the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Joy Behar, a popular restaurant in Detroit's Little Caesars Arena that bears the pro-Trump musician's name has announced that it will no longer be in business.
According to The Detroit Free Press, Ilitch Holdings announced on Wednesday that Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, has "voluntarily decided not to renew" his lease for Kid Rock's Made in Detroit restaurant. In a statement, Ilitch Holdings' Chris Granger said that a new business will open in the space that "aligns with our community and company values.”
“We have been in contact with Kid Rock," Granger's statement read. "He has voluntarily decided not to renew his licensing agreement for the Kid Rock’s Made in Detroit restaurant which comes up for renewal in April. We are in the business of amazing and inspiring our fans and guests through an incredible array of world-class sporting and live entertainment events. As our venues are open, inviting, inclusive, and respectful to all, we look forward to bringing on an exciting new concept that aligns with our community and company values.”
Even before Rock's viral drunken rant, his restaurant was not without controversy. When it opened in 2017, the restaurant was the target of protesters who objected to Rock's past use of the Confederate flag.
In addition to Ilitch Holdings' statement, the Michigan National Action Network plans to hold a press conference to "discuss and respond to questions about the reprehensible tirade directed at Oprah Winfrey and others by Kid Rock."
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Abraham's (Many) Women
Morf Morford
Family and Parenting, General
It always amazes me to see the Bible held up as a model for contemporary families and relationships.
Abraham, the Father of three major world religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is, to put it mildly, a peculiar example, but perhaps instructive in spite of himself.
Abraham may be the ‘Father’ of three major world religions, but it is really the mothers (as with modern Judaism and Islam) that make the ultimate hereditary definition in terms of race, ethnicity and religious affiliation.
It is Hagar, mother of Ishmael, who defines the heritage and blessing of Ishmael (Genesis 17:20).
Ishmael is generally considered to be Abraham’s first born son (with much controversy, but probably not how most might expect) – and for 13 years, was treated as Abraham’s only son. Ishmael later becomes the origin of Arab peoples, and, even later, the root of Islam.
Sarah’s son, Isaac, is known by Jews and Christians as ‘the child of the promise’ and, of all of Abraham’s sons (of which there are many), the favorite.
Among other things, Isaac gets the full inheritance (Genesis 25:5-6) which should have gone to the first born son (we see this pattern of the inheritance and blessing NOT going to the eldest son throughout Genesis; i.e., Esau and Reuben).
Abraham’s ‘favoritism’ of Isaac is reflected in the later ‘favoritism’ of Jacob toward Joseph – his ‘favorite’ son produced by his ‘favorite’ wife.
Abraham, in fact, had nine named sons (daughters are not named or mentioned in the Genesis accounts). He also had four ‘first-born’ sons from four different mothers.
Like most men of wealth of the time, Abraham had two wives and two female ‘servants’ (this pattern is followed by Jacob with Rachel and Leah and Zilpah and Bilhah).
Most Christians (prefer to) believe that Abraham had one son, but Genesis names nine; Isaac, son of Sarah, (Genesis 20:12) Ishmael, son of Hagar, Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Jishbak and Shuah, sons of Keturah (Genesis 25:1-2) and, according to most Biblical scholars, Abraham’s literal first born son, Eliezar, son of Masek (Genesis 15:2).
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Few Christians have heard of the name ‘Masek’, but she has left her mark on the modern Middle-East – her name, ‘Masek’ is still a common name in Egypt and much of the surrounding area.
Sarah get a lot of criticism for ‘suggesting’ the liaison that produced Ishmael, but social norms of this time already offered this option, in fact, Abraham, with Masek (Genesis 15:2) had a son and, some scholars believe, it was this son that drove Sarah to make her suggestion (much like the maternal rivalry between Rachel and Leah many years later).
Isaac was not Abraham’s only son – but he was Sarah’s only son. Those of us who are of the tradition of Isaac (Jews and Christians) should more rightly call ourselves children of Sarah.
And Sarah was not Abraham’s only wife. Genesis 25:1 introduces Keturah. Most Christians (and most Jews, I would presume) in defense of Abraham’s monogamy, insist that he married Keturah after Sarah died.
This defies sense. Hebrews 11:12 tells us that when Isaac was conceived, Abraham was ‘as good as dead” at well over a hundred years old. The whole narrative tension over several chapters of Genesis was whether Abraham would EVER have a child with Sarah. Are we really to believe that once Sarah died, Abraham (well over 125 years old) was suddenly reinvigorated and hade six sons with a new wife?
Abraham certainly had a ‘focus on the family’ but it certainly wasn’t (presumably) what James Dobson had in mind; Sarah was Abraham’s step-sister and Keturah (wife number two) was his patrilineal cousin.
We might have our difference now with polygamy, but it was the ‘traditional marriage’ of Abraham’s time (and many centuries later) for at least one practical reason; delivery was by far the most common cause of maternal death.
Other women (especially nursing mothers) with a commitment to each child, needed to be available to raise the surviving children.
The number of children, we must remember, was the ultimate indicator of status and power in those times.
Harems were the prerogative of royalty, but polygamy was a pragmatic strategy to protect children and protect the (patriarchal) family name and legacy.
Keturah, according to some scholars, was one of the daughters of Pharaoh. This might explain the ‘abductions’ of Sarah.
In a crowd of about 2, 000 people (and over 300 trained warriors, Genesis 14:14) it is quite unlikely that Sarah would be seen by any outsider and taken to join any king’s harem at an age well-past 90.
But yet another case of maternal/wife rivalry might explain why these ‘kings’ would take Sarah; perhaps they were taking her at Keturah’s bidding.
It is more than a bit odd that Abraham, a man of considerable wealth, influence and authority (and 318 warriors) would so willingly give up Sarah.
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And, to protect himself, and sacrifice Sarah, he not only lies, but he encourages Sarah to lie as well (Genesis 12:11-20).
If my title ‘Abraham’s women’ seems to raise the idea that the women in his life seemed, to him at least, as objects worth not much more than sheep or cattle, that was my intention.
These are my personal, if not cultural biases I know; but the way Abraham treats his women is, by current standards, a disgrace. He willingly hands over Sarah, lies about their relationship, casts out Hagar (and his own son), seems to ignore Masek and her (and his) son, and his wife, with whom he has six sons (!) is barely mentioned.
And, though multiple sons are named, Abraham’s daughters (if any) aren’t even mentioned.
This whole story (and there’s much more to this one) is one of the many examples of people of faith believing, not what the Bible clearly says, but what they want it to say.
Our faith, and our respect for the Bible, is made much deeper and stronger – and more appealing and practical– as we look closely and go beyond the two-dimensional characters most of us grew up with.
I take a lot of comfort in the fact that Abraham was, in many ways, a typical man, and very much a product of his culture. He was used by God and is still claimed by history, even though he was not always honorable or ethical.
We can, however, learn much from him.
Our choices and actions can, and will define who we are and who we become and could have long-lasting consequences.
And, I am convinced, as with Abraham, there is a far larger story at work in our lives than just our own.
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Faith is not a formula. And I wouldn't even use the word 'relationship' - and probably not the metaphor of 'a journey'. The older I get, the more it seems that faith is a process - a determined focus on listening to the eternal, sifting out the noise and distractions and becoming closer with each breath and each word, to the fullness - and emptiness - of the pulse, hand and purpose of our Creator, which, ultimately brings us where we belong. I'm a teacher and writer, which really means that I am a listener and I share what I see and hear.
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Derek Flood
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Nika Aldrich
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Ideas Fuel Industries
Latest Federal Court Cases, 01/11/21
ABS Global, Inc. v. Cytonome/ST, LLC, Appeal No. 2019-2051 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 6, 2021)
For the second time in two weeks, our Case of the Week concerns issues relating to Article III justiciability of an appeal from an IPR proceeding. Last week we covered the issue of a petitioner’s standing to bring an appeal from a lost IPR. See our write-up of the General Electric v. Raytheon decision here. Standing, of course, concerns a party’s rights when the case (here, an appeal) is filed. This week, the case is about mootness—arising when the patent owner took steps to ameliorate concerns of infringement against the petitioner after the appeal was filed—invoking the voluntary cessation doctrine. The Federal Circuit held that the claim was moot.
Cytonome filed suit against ABS for infringement of the ’161 Patent in June 2017. ABS then petitioned for IPRs against the ’161 Patent. The Board instituted review and found certain claims invalid, but not others. Two weeks later, the district court granted summary judgment of noninfringement of any of the ’161 Patent claims. Two months later, in June 2019, ABS appealed the Board’s final written decision concerning the claims that were not found invalid in the IPRs. In November 2019, ABS filed its opening brief in the appeal from the IPR. Three months later, Cytonome filed its response brief. Attached to its response was an affidavit stating that it “has elected not to pursue an appeal of the district court’s finding of non-infringement as to the ’161 patent and hereby disclaims such an appeal.” Cytonome argued that, because it disavowed its ability to challenge the district court’s noninfringement decision, ABS lacked injury in fact, as required for standing to appeal a loss in an IPR proceeding.
Ultimately, the argument shifted from one of standing to one of mootness. But the Federal Circuit found them to be largely interchangeable concepts, quoting the Supreme Court’s decision in Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Env’t Servs. (TOC), Inc., 528 U.S. 167, 190 (2000) for the phrase “Mootness can be described as the doctrine of standing set in a time frame: The requisite personal interest that must exist at the commencement of the litigation (standing) must continue throughout its existence (mootness).”
The Federal Circuit then assessed the case in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Already, LLC v. Nike, Inc., 568 U.S. 85 (2013), which lays out the voluntary cessation doctrine. There, Nike dropped a trademark case and covenanted not to sue Already for accused products or “colorable imitations” thereof. The Supreme Court held that this mooted the case because there was no longer a potential injury suffered by Already.
Applying the same analysis here, the Federal Circuit found that Cytonome’s decision not to appeal the non-infringement decision from the district court mooted ABS’s IPR appeal. Although Cytonome’s affidavit was substantially narrower in scope than the covenant not to sue in Already, it was nonetheless “coextensive with the asserted injury in fact.”
The Court also considered ABS’s late attempt at oral argument to vacate the IPR decision. The Court found this attempt forfeited, and denied to order vacatur.
Judge Prost dissented only from this last decision. She would have held that vacatur was required under the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950) and its progeny. According to Judge Prost, the Court has a duty of ordering vacatur when an appellee moots an appeal through unilateral action, as Cytonome did here.
A copy of the opinion can be here.
By: Nika F. Aldrich
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SIMO Holdings Inc. v. Hong Kong uCloudlink Network Tech. Ltd., Appeal No. 2019-2411 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 5, 2021)
In an appeal from a district court’s final judgment of infringement, willfulness, and damages, the Federal Circuit reversed, finding the patent not infringed based on a revised claim construction. The Court first addressed whether the claim term, which was in the first paragraph of the claim, but followed the word “comprising” in that paragraph, was part of the preamble. The Court concluded that it was not part of the preamble, but either way, was limiting. The court then concluded that the phrase “a plurality of” followed by a list using the conjunctive “and” before the last item in the list requires more than one of each of the items in the list. The district court had adopted a different construction, finding that the above construction would have “exclude[d an] embodiment[] disclosed in the specification,” in contravention to the Federal Circuit’s holding in Oatey Co. v. IPS Corp., 514 F.3d 1271, 1276–77 (Fed. Cir. 2008).
The Federal Circuit rejected the district court’s interpretation and application of Oatey. The Court explained that while Oatey correctly stipulates a general reluctance to exclude an embodiment, such reluctance must not “outweigh the language of the claim.” Courts should not infer that all embodiments are included in a claim when there is probative evidence that indicates otherwise. Accordingly, the Court reversed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to SIMO and entered a judgment of non-infringement for uCloudlink, thus also undoing the willfulness and damages findings following a jury trial.
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Open Access Library Journal > Vol.4 No.4, April 2017
A Study of the Intervening Effect of Political Stability on the Relationship between Performance Contracting and Measurement, and Public Service Delivery in Kenya ()
Richard E. Ndubai1, Isaac M. Mbeche2, Ganesh P. Pokhariyal2
1School of Business, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
2School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1103402 PDF HTML XML 514 Downloads 1,265 Views Citations
The performance of public agencies is influenced and affected by many factors, both internal and external. The internal factors are in many cases controllable, while external factors tend to fall outside the control of public sector managers. Moreover, the effect may serve to ameliorate performance or intervene to weaken performance and thereby adversely affect delivery of services. This paper explored the intervening effect of political stability, an external factor, on the relationship between performance contracting and measurement, and public service delivery (expressed as customer satisfaction) in Kenya. The study was based on the results of measurement and evaluation of the performance of 470 public agencies that operated under performance contracts between 2004 and 2011. Using regression analysis, it was found initially that on its own, political stability had no significant relationship with or influence on customer satisfaction. It however had an effect on the relationship between performance contracting, measurement and public service delivery, where a unit change in political stability contributed negatively to customer satisfaction by a factor of 0.257, though not statistically significant. Correlation analysis established further that social chaos and turmoil, which result in political instability, negatively impact the attractiveness of a country in the global arena.
Performance Contracting, Performance Measurement, Performance Improvement, Political Stability, Service Delivery, Customer Satisfaction
Ndubai, R. , Mbeche, I. and Pokhariyal, G. (2017) A Study of the Intervening Effect of Political Stability on the Relationship between Performance Contracting and Measurement, and Public Service Delivery in Kenya. Open Access Library Journal, 4, 1-14. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1103402.
Many governments have made attempts at improving the delivery of public services by striving to influence directly, the performance of their public sector institutions. It has been argued that there is a distinct linkage between organizational performance and excellence in service delivery, the latter being a deliverable of the former. In exploring deliverables as a concept, Langdon, (2000) [1] , described outputs as synonymous with deliverables of performance and contended that outputs are the reason for the existence of business organizations. He stated further that all output has a consequence, the result of the output being that which is delivered. He explained that to produce output and consequence there is need for reason and resources, called inputs such as materials, ideas, knowledge and equipment. Both reason (and triggers) and resources are inputs because they are used to produce the output and achieve the consequence. First, a reason is needed for doing the performance, which comes in the form of a request of some kind. For example, the business unit identifies a customer need; an order initiates a core process to deliver what the customer wants or a work group receives its assignment to meet this need. A manager asks individuals to do their part to produce the output. These are all (internal or external) client requests or triggers to start the performance. A service delivered is an outcome resulting from actions directed at making available tangible products for disposal purposes. The manner in which work groups and individuals execute their part in delivering the output in turn determines the quality of service delivery.
Improvement in organizational performance and the consequent improvement in service delivery can be affected, positively or adversely, by both internal and external factors. Internal factors include principally motivation of employees driven by such factors as better communication between managers and workers, greater manager involvement in employee lives, Mayo, (1880-1949) [2] , satisfying psychological and physiological needs of employees, Maslow, (1908-1970) [3] , applying scientific management principles to work planning, Taylor, (1911) [4] and implementing appropriate reward systems. These factors are to a large extent within the control of an organization. External factors on the other hand, are largely outside the span of control of the organization and may result from events that take place within and outside the jurisdiction of organizations or countries. Common among these are the market dynamics of supply and demand, fluctuations in global commodity prices, whether these are caused by market forces or deliberate manipulation, terrorism, global competitiveness of a country’s goods and services, diplomatic relations with other countries and political stability. The variables conventionally associated with political stability include economic and democratic freedom, the predictability of the electoral environment (political certainty), ideological homogeneity of political parties and establishments, ethnic homogeneity and general absence of violence and terrorism. Alesina, et al., 1992: 2) [5] , define political stability as the propensity of a government collapse, either because of conflicts or rampant competition between various political parties, and proceed to state that political stability is beneficial for much of the economic progress that a country may achieve. Yi and Chen (1996) [6] state that riots, political repressions, deaths from political violence and unsuccessful attempts to change the government all signal the imminence of political crisis and increase the probability of irregular government change and major regular government change. Party competition decreases the probability of irregular government change, whereas it increases the probability of regular government change. The fractionalization of the legislature (as indexed by the number of all seats in the legislature divided by those of the largest party) increases the probability of all three kinds of government change. Political stability then relates essentially to the quality of governance. Improvement in the quality of governance impacts positively on service delivery and combines with performance contracting and measurement to improve customer satisfaction. Performance contracting in this context makes reference to a management regimen characterized by defined results that are ultimately measured to establish the extent of achievement. Decline in political stability (political instability) precipitates the converse, principally because it affects performance adversely. This stark reality began to show its glare in the performance of the tourism industry in the Kingdom of Lesotho in 2014. The tiny mountain kingdom had been experiencing serious political turmoil since the formation of a loose coalition government after the May, 2012 general elections. The situation deteriorated in June 2014, leading to the collapse of the coalition, an unscheduled prorogation of parliament, and ultimate Southern African Development Community (SADC) mediated agreement to hold early elections in February 2015. According to a statement issued by the public relations manager of the Lesotho Tourist Development Corporation (LTDC) to the local media, (Motsoeneng, 2014) [7] “The tourism industry is feeling the pinch of a drastic decline in the inflow of tourists as well as decreased spending by both corporate and individual consumers, owing to the political and security instability rocking the mountain kingdom. Despite the LTDC efforts in marketing Lesotho as a tourist and investment destination, political turmoil had left the sector reeling. Businesses have reported a downturn in revenue for lodging, food, events and other hospitality services”.
In Kenya, instability following the 2007/2008 post-election skirmishes resulted in a sharp decline in economic growth from a high of 7.1% in 2007 to a measly 1.7% in 2008, and a proportionally sharp decline in aggregate performance of the public service (Figure 1 and Figure 2).
The country has continued to wade through insecurity challenges perpetrated by terrorist insurgents from a neighboring country.
2. Literature Review
As observed above, Alesina et al. (1992:2) [5] , political stability is beneficial for much of the economic progress that a country may achieve. Further, investment
Figure 1. Economic Growth (percent 2002-2010). Source: Performance Evaluation results, Office of the Prime Minister, Government of the Republic of Kenya.
Figure 2. Public Service Aggregate Performance. Source: Performance Evaluation results, Office of the Prime Minister, Government of the Republic of Kenya (year) 2012.
and growth highly depend on it, recovery is faster under a stable political environment, and issues of employment, human capital development and business development can be dealt with much faster and effectively in an environment that does not suffer from risks of change, or even worse, risk of conflict, because of political instability. This position is corroborated by Busse and Hefeker, (2005) [8] , who argued that government stability, absence of internal conflict and ethnic tensions, basic democratic rights and law and order are frequently found as significant determinants of foreign investment inflows. They proceed to state that countries with a lower political risk and better institutions related to these indicators received―ceteris paribus―more foreign direct investment per capita. Thus, political stability not only allows for higher levels of growth, but also attracts more foreign direct investment. Political risk, whether in the form of conflict or a peaceful, election-based overthrow of a government would not be seen as beneficial for attracting investment. In a publication by the Centre for Public Policy Studies (CPPS) in February 2012, it is argued that political stability gives a peaceful, stable environment that is necessary for any progress in other areas of life―science, economy, developmental and philanthropic progress and in general, sees more progress than a period that a country is under an unstable political situation, for the simple reason that in a stable, peaceful environment, people have the time and luxury of being able to deal with issues other than basic survival needs. Writing in an IMF working paper, Aisen and Veiga (2011:1) [9] , concluded that “…higher degrees of political instability are associated with lower growth rates of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Political instability usually leads to sub-optimal macroeconomic policies and a frequent switch between policies, creating volatility and thus high levels of uncertainty”. The IMF working paper reaffirmed the findings of an older similar attempt, reported by Alesina et al., (1992) [5] which found that in countries with high levels of political instability, economic growth is reported at very low levels. They added that, the two phenomena are in fact, interconnected and affect each other. High volatility in the government establishment may lead to lower growth, but also a poor indicator of growth may lead to higher political instability.
Yi, (1997) [10] , argued that democracy is likely to have a significant indirect effect on growth through its impact on political stability. In 1997, they conducted a study to investigate the long term interrelationship between democracy, political stability and economic growth. The study utilized aggregate data covering 96 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Asia from 1960 to 1980 and employed the simultaneous approach of combining the study of economic growth and political stability with that of economic growth and democracy. The inclusion of democracy as an endogenous variable in the study strengthened the feedback between growth and political stability. The findings of the study were that instability involving drastic political changes is harmful to economic growth. Irregular government change, which is a consequence of political instability, has a negative and significant effect on growth. Alesina et al. (1992:2) [5] argue that despite its positive impact on economic growth, political stability may lead to oppression of democracy, and a government that is ageing, growing its roots further into the ground and showing no signs of letting in new blood. Such a picture of political stability may indeed be detrimental for some aspects of society, perhaps not for the economy, but for aspects related to innovation, culture, democratic representation, and violation of human rights. The paper by the CPPS (1992) [11] , explored also the shortcomings of political stability, observing that many see political stability as a condition that not only does not allow any form of change and thus undermines progress, but more importantly, as a condition that demoralizes the public leaving all in a pessimistic state that does not encourage innovation and ingenuity. It suppresses people and all their creativity and optimism, and blinds them with materialism, trapping them in a pursuit for material happiness rather than virtuous living, morality and ideals.
This study had positivistic orientation and employed a cross-sectional design whereby the research problem was identified, previous published literature reviewed and synthesized, and the hypotheses relating to the research questions specified. The study sought to explore the effect of political stability on the relationship between performance contracting and measurement, and public service delivery. The hypothesis that formed the basis of the study was that there is no significant intervening effect of political stability on the relationship between performance contracting and measurement, and public service delivery in Kenya. Ultimately therefore, the study focused on the effect of political stability on customer satisfaction with the services provided by the public sector. The new constitution was promulgated in August 2010 and this has significantly altered the landscape of structure and profile of government agencies. Requirements in the constitution precipitated wide ranging restructuring of the mainstream civil service resulting in the merger of ministerial functions, there by reducing the ministries and accounting departments from 46 to 18 and virtual abolition of local authorities. The data available for the study therefore was in regard only to agencies in the old, pre-constitution structure. The political stability indices were extracted from the World Bank report on Worldwide Governance Indicators on political stability and absence of violence/terrorism.
The study relied on secondary data emanating from the results of measurement and evaluation of the performance of public agencies on performance contract for the period 2007 to 2011, which was already available. In 2010/11, which was the terminal year for data collection and analysis, the number of public agencies on performance contract was 470, made up of 46 ministries and accounting departments, 178 state corporations, 175 local authorities and 71 tertiary institutions. The focus of the study was the entire population of 470 public agencies. Further, the various categories of public agencies had, by 2010/11, been on performance contract for differing periods; these are 6 years for both ministries and state corporations, 5 years for local authorities and 4 years for tertiary institutions. The analysis was carried out using SPSS version 21 for descriptive and inferential statistics.
4. Data Analysis and Results
The study focused on the five years of 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2010/11, during which period customer satisfaction in the majority of the categories of public agencies was measured. The distribution of the various categories of institutions is shown in Table 1.
The performance measurement and evaluation methodology in Kenya graded excellence on a composite-scoring scale ranging from 1 to 5 with 1 denoting the upper limit of “excellent” achievement and 5 representing the lowest limit of “poor” achievement. The composite scores were inverted, in order to give a rising visual effect to positive achievement and a declining visual effect to poor achievement. Further, the composite scores in each of the four categories of public agencies were averaged for each year to contain the data within manageable parameters.
The data from the agencies was organized, summarized and collated in a
Table 1. Distribution of public agencies on performance contract in 2011.
Source: Organization of Government; Office of the President (2006-2011).
manner that linked with the research question and subsequently analyzed using both descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The analysis was carried out using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 21. Descriptive statistical analysis was carried out to summarize the data and to bring out variability, using the mean, the standard deviation and then computing the coefficient of variation. Correlation coefficients were computed to establish the relationship between the study variables. The extent to which the dependent variable could be predicted from the independent variable, is seen by deriving the regression equation. Coefficient of determination was computed to reflect the goodness of fit of the model. Linear regression analysis was further used to examine the model’s overall and individual statistical significance by using F-value and t- value, respectively. A model equation was derived for the hypothesis using variables that were significant. Table 2 shows the descriptive and inferential statistics of the study’s variables.
As indicated in the table, the public sector in Kenya had an average customer satisfaction index of 0.27779, implying that nearly 73 percent of customers were dissatisfied with the public sector service delivery. Among other variables pitted against customer satisfaction, political stability was found to be the weakest with a mean of −1.31533 on a scale of −2.5 (very weak) and 2.5 (very strong) and had the lowest variability (CV= −8.13%) across the public sector made up of ministries, state corporations, local authorities and tertiary institutions. The coefficient of variation was computed to show the variability in the data of the study parameters. Customer satisfaction shows the greatest variability, followed by performance measurement. The global competitiveness shows the least variability and political stability has fairly negative variability.
In order to establish the intervening effect of political stability on the relationship between performance contracting and measurement and service by public agencies, regression and correlation analysis were used to establish the influence on the relationship.
A correlation analysis of the study variables (Table 3 ) established that customer satisfaction and global competitiveness were negatively related with political stability (R = −0.134 and R = −0.468) although the relationship was not significant. This relationship shows that social chaos and turmoil, which result in political instability, will negatively impact the attractiveness of a country in the
Table 2. Descriptive/Inferential statistics of the study’s variables.
Table 3. Correlation analysis of the study variables.
**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
global arena.
The regression analysis further provided an estimate equation to predict the magnitude of the dependent variable (customer satisfaction) and give values for the predictor variables.
In addition, t-test and p-values were used to determine individual significance of the results of the analysis. Assessment of the overall robustness and significance of the regression models was done using the F-test and p-values. Pearson correlation coefficient, R2, beta coefficients, and p values were computed.
5. The Intervening Effect of Political Stability
The study began with analysis to establish the effect of political stability on customer satisfaction in Kenya’s public sector. The results of the analysis are shown in Table 4.
The results in Table 4 show that political stability had a weak positive relationship with customer satisfaction. This finding is supported by the fact that the mean political stability index was very low at −1.31533. Political stability explained 1.8 percent (R2 = 0.018) of customer satisfaction levels with the remaining 98.2 percent accounted for by other factors implemented in the public sector.
Table 4. Relationship between Political Stability and Customer Satisfaction.
aPredictors: (Constant), Political Stability.
aDependent Variable: Customer Satisfaction. b. Predictors: (Constant), Political Stability.
aDependent Variable: Customer Satisfaction.
The F-value for the model was 0.239 and the derived p-value was 0.633. Since the derived p-value was greater than 0.05, the indication was that political stability had no significant relationship with customer satisfaction.
The results of the analysis conducted to establish the intervening effect of political stability on the relationship between performance measurement and customer satisfaction are shown in Table 5. The results show that political stability explained 4.9 percent (ΔR2 = 0.049) on the direct effect of performance measurement on customer satisfaction. The change in the F-value caused by the intervening effect was 2.712 and was not significant since the derived p-value of 0.126 was greater than 0.05. The F-value for the intervening model was 21.825 and the derived p-value was 0.000. Since the derived p-value was less than 0.05, with table value of 2.145 as compared to a calculated value of 6.530, the hypothesis was rejected suggesting that political stability has a significant intervening effect on the relationship between performance measurement and customer satisfaction. The performance measurement variable had a t-value of 6.530 and was statistically significant while the effect of political stability had a t-value of −1.647 although not statistically significant.
A model equation of the intervening effect of political stability on the relationship between performance measurement and customer satisfaction is described in the following equation.
Customer satisfaction = −1.119 + 0.399 Performance Improvement −0.257 Political Stability.
Table 5. Intervening Effect of Political Stability.
aPredictors: (Constant), Performance Measurement. bPredictors: (Constant), Performance Measurement, Political Stability.
aDependent Variable: Customer Satisfaction. bPredictors: (Constant), Performance Measurement. cPredictors: (Constant), Performance Measurement, Political Stability.
The equation demonstrates that a unit change in performance improvement, impelled by performance measurement, will result in customer satisfaction changing by a factor of 0.399. The unit change in Political Stability contributes negatively to customer satisfaction by a factor of 0.257 though not statistically significant. In the absence of performance measurement and political stability a constant customer satisfaction of negative 1.119 would be realized.
Malaysia is an empirical example of the positive impact of political stability on economic growth. The CPPS report referred to earlier observes that despite perceptions that political stability in Malaysia has been predicated on corruption and manipulation of the electoral system, the country has continued to prosper steadily. According to Heufers, (2002) [12] , Malaysia’s system is flawed in many ways―there are no checks and balances in place, with the executive branch overshadowing and controlling the legislature and judiciary, and the democratic institutions and electoral systems are evidently weak. The government avers however that political stability is the advantage that Malaysia rides on, and that foreign direct investment comes to the country precisely because of this stability. This is backed by many theories and empirical studies, as mentioned in the first section of this paper, as well as by companies stating explicitly that political stability is the main reason that attracted them to Malaysia (The Star/Asia News Network, 2010) [13] .
The report contends however, that in Asia in particular, the so-called tiger economies either have political stability that is not as democratic as the ideal is, or, they are plagued by political instability leading to much volatility in the development of their country. FIDH, (2008) [14] picks out freedom as an important aspect compromised by stability and gives as an example, Vietnam, a country that has a one-party political system and is controlled entirely by that ruling party, observing that the political stability has proved to be detrimental for the country. The economy is one of the most volatile in Asia, and what was once thought of as being a promising economy has recently proved to be in much distress and dangers. The country suffers from much inflation and is plagued by low wages, leaving workers unable to support themselves and their families. On top of that, the “politically stable” system enforces stringent barriers to personal freedoms, by not allowing workers to strike and penalizing them dramatically (FIDH, 2008) [14] . These draconian measures curtail the personal freedoms of the citizens, leaving both citizens and observers in doubt about the “democratic” nature of the country’s government. Similarly, other freedoms are also curtailed, such as freedom of the press, freedom of religion, access to the internet, and political dissent.
Back to Kenya, following positive political reforms subsequent to the post election skirmishes of 2007/08, the country has attained a stable political equilibrium that has seen growth in real GDP rise from the measly 1.7% in 2008 to the 5.6 predicted for 2016!
The preconditions for political instabilities discussed in this paper are evident in a number of countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. These include such countries as Somalia, Zimbabwe, Central African Republic, Mali and Chad, Libya, Myanmar, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and a number of the gulf economies including Iran and Iraq. The consequences in terms of instability in real GDP growth are demonstrated in the table and graph below:
Source: World Bank.
It has however been argued that state legitimacy, the widespread public belief that the society’s governing institutions and political authorities are worthy of support should be a precondition for political stability in advanced capitalist democracies; that a regime’s legitimacy may even be a more important determinant of political stability than how well the regime actually performs (Useem and Useem, 1979: 840 [15] ). It is thus more crucial for the government to gain the general public’s trust and approval for ensuring political stability, rather than having the same ruling party over a long period of time. This study suggests that leaders of countries should pay attention to political stability, as this influences the performance of public enterprises. This in turn would motivate the private sector to enhance its performance, so that it could bring peace and prosperity to the people.
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[2] Mayo, E. (1880-1949) Hawthorne Experiments into Employee Motivation.
[3] Maslow, A.H. (1943) A Theory of Human Motivation. Psychological Review, 50, 370-396.
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https://doi.org/10.1037/h0054346
[4] Taylor, F.W. (1856-1915) The Principles of Scientific Management. (Published in 1911)
[5] Alesina, A., Ozler, S., Roubini, N. and Swagel, P. (1992) Political Instability and Economic Growth. National Bureau of Economic Research. September 1992, WP#4173.
[6] Yi, F. and Chen, B. (1996) Government Capacity and Private Investment: A Study Economic Behavior. Chap. 5, Westview Press, Boulder, Colo.
[7] Motsoeneng Manchafalo, Public Relations Manager, Lesotho Tourism Development. Corporation. Lesotho Times. “Tourism Sector Still Reeling from Instability”. 23 October 2014, p. 17.
[8] Busse, M. and Hefeker, C. (2005) Political Risk, Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment.
[9] Aisen, A. and Veiga, F.J. (2011) IMF Working Paper: How Does Political Instability Affect Economic Growth? International Monetary Fund Working Paper, WP/11/12.
[10] Feng, Y. (1997) Democracy, Political Stability and Economic Growth. British Journal of Political Science, 27, 391-418.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/194123
[11] Centre for Public Policy Studies (1992) Political Stability—An Advantage or a Curse?
[12] Heufers, R. (2002) The Politics of Democracy in Malaysia. ASIEN, 85, 39-60.
[13] The Star/Asia News Network (2010) French Investors See Malaysian Political Stability a Key Attraction. AsiaOne, 8 April 2010.
http://www.asiaone.com/Business/News/Story/A1Story20100408-209090.html
[14] FIDH (2008) Political Stability v. Democratic Freedom? Economic Crisis and Political Repression in Vietnam. Hearing on Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Sub-Commission on Human Rights, European Parliament. Brussels, 25 August 2008.
[15] Useem, B. and Useem, M. (1979) Government Legitimacy and Political Stability. Social Forces, 57, 840-852. https://doi.org/10.2307/2577357
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Pumpkin on the Hot Roof of the World
Tomaž Šalamun
Maruša Krese
Andraž Šalamun
Marko Pogačnik
Tomaž Brejc
Miklavž Komelj
Nikola Madzirov
Veno Taufer
Aleš Debeljak
Ilya Kaminsky
Bob Perelman
Francie Shaw
Matthew Rohrer
Dara Wier
Daniel Halpern
Lori Shine
Daniel Remein
Matvei Yankelevich
Charles Simic
Ilma Rakusa
Mary Ruefle
Milosz Biedrzycki
Ron Padgett
Appearing in the film:
“People read poetry to meet themselves. To meet their true selves.”
was born 4 July 1941 in Zagreb and grew up in the Slovenian port city of Koper. He earned a Master’s degree in Art History at the University of Ljubljana. In 1964 he published his first poems in the influential journal Perspektive, where soon after he was named as an editor in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the authorities from shutting down the publication. Šalamun was arrested and briefly imprisoned following the publication in the journal of his poem “Duma 1964”. In 1966, his self-published first book of poems, Poker, propelled him onto the Slovenian and Yugoslav literary stage as a voice of his generation. In the late 1960s Šalamun became involved with the conceptual art group OHO, curating their first exhibitions in Slovenia and exhibiting as part of the group in exhibitions across Yugoslavia and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1970. In the early 1970s Šalamun was a resident at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, and he would return frequently to the US until the end of his life: as a resident at various artist colonies (Yaddo, MacDowell); as a visiting professor at several US universities (the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Richmond, the University of Texas, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University, among others); and as a poet at countless readings and festivals across the US. In the late 1990s–early 2000s Šalamun served as Slovenian Cultural Attaché in New York City. During his lifetime he published over 50 books of poetry in Slovenian, and his work, translated into nearly 30 languages, has influenced several generations of poets around the world. His books in English translation include Druids (2019), Andes (2016), Justice (2015), On the Tracks of Wild Game (2012), The Blue Tower (2011), There’s the Hand and There’s the Arid Chair (2009), The Book for My Brother (2006), Row (2006), Poker (2003), A Ballad for Metka Krašovec (2001), Feast (2000), The Four Questions of Melancholy (1997) and Selected Poems (1988). Šalamun’s numerous awards include Slovenia’s Prešeren Award for his life's work and the Jenko Prize, the Njegoš Award in Montenegro, a Pushcart Prize in the USA, the European Poetry Prize from the city of Münster, and a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin residency. His first marriage—to the writer Maruša Krese, with whom he had two children, Ana and David—ended in divorce. In 1979 he married the painter Metka Krašovec. Šalamun died 27 December 2014.
“If I didn’t know that he really loved me, it would be difficult... it would be impossible.”
was a Slovenian painter, illustrator and educator. For many years she was a Professor of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. During her career she had several solo exhibitions of her work and received numerous prizes and awards, including the Prešeren Award for her life’s work. She was a member of the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences. She died in 2018.
“I was pulled into one life that was not really my life.”
was a Slovenian poet, novelist, journalist and activist. She lived for many years in Germany and won the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her humanitarian efforts during the Bosnian War. She published seven books of poetry, the novel Da me je strah [That I Am Afraid?](2012), and won the Fabula Award for her short story collection Vsi moji božiči [All My Christmases](2006). She died in 2013.
“When I’m on the canvass, I’m an albatross in the sky.”
is a Slovenian painter and original member of the conceptual art group OHO. He has had several solo exhibitions of his paintings, including at the Venice Biennale. He was awarded the Prešeren Award for his work.
“Freeing words from the networks of meanings is also freeing us as human beings.”
is a Slovenian artist and author. He was co-founder in the 1960s of the conceptual art group OHO and in the 1970s established a rural/artistic community called the Šempas Family. Since the mid-1980s he has worked with geomantic sculptures and has developed a method of Earth healing similar to acupuncture using engraved stone pillars that he calls “lithopuncture,” with numerous public installations around the world. His books in English include Gaia’s Quantum Leap (2011), Sacred Geography (2007), and Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings (1996). His awards include the Prešeren Award. In 2016, he was appointed a UNESCO Artist for Peace.
“I think that typically for my generation was that Tomaž Šalamun was a star, from the beginning.”
is a Slovenian art historian and art critic. He is professor emeritus at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana.
“I find it very beautiful to defend this position of a bird singing.”
is a Slovenian poet and art historian. He is the author of several books of poetry including in English Hippodrome (2016). His awards include the Jenko Prize and the Prešeren Award.
“You were jailed when you were twenty-two...”
is a Macedonian poet, editor and translator. He is the author of several books of poetry including in English Remnants of Another Age (2011). His awards include a residency at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program and the Hubert Burda European Poetry Award.
“Brodsky in Leningrad, Šalamun in Slovenia, they were like these stars, these emerging stars.”
is a Polish poet, essayist, translator and educator. His books in English include the poetry collections Asymmetry: Poems (2018) and Unseen Hand (2011) and the prose works Slight Exaggeration: An Essay (2017) and A Defense of Ardor (2014). His numerous awards include the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Prix de la Liberté, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Berliner Kunstleprogramm, and the Heinrich Mann prize. He taught creative writing for many years at the University of Houston and now teaches at the University of Chicago.
“He is not a poet of bitterness. He’s a poet of light.”
is a Slovenian poet, translator, playwright, editor, and essayist. His books of poetry include in English Waterlings (2002). He has translated over 50 books of poetry from English to Slovene including works by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. In the 1980s he established the Vilenica international poetry festival in Slovenia and was for several years president of the Slovene Writers Union. He is a member of the European Academy of Poetry and served two terms as Chair of the Writers for Peace Committee of P.E.N. International.
“There’s a whole Tomaž Šalamun movement among young American poets.”
is an American poet and educator. He was born in Odessa and moved with his family to the US when he was 16. His books of poetry include Deaf Republic (2019) and Dancing in Odessa (2004). His numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writer’s Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches creative writing and currently holds the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Institute of Technology.
“Genius and genie are not unrelated. If there is anything both are good at, it is going through changes.”
was an Finnish-American poet, translator and educator. He was the author of numerous books of poetry including Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence: Selected Poems 1965–2000 (2001), AHOE (1997) and Corvus (1995). He translated numerous poets from Finnish, German, Swedish, and French into English. He taught at several universities in the US including the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, SUNY Buffalo, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poets at Naropa University. He died in 2013.
“The poet comes with a ‘blazing sword’...but that is an act of healing... it’s an act of catharsis.”
is a South African poet, painter, prose writer, activist and educator. He is the author of numerous books of poetry in Afrikaans and English including Windcatcher: New and Selected Poems (2007) and Lady One: Of Love and other Poems (2002). In 1975 he was imprisoned for seven years for anti-apartheid activities. His works of non-fiction include The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist (1982). He has received numerous honors and awards, including the Ansfield-Wolf Book Award, the Allen Paton Award for Literature, and the Mahmoud Darwish Award for Creativity. He has taught creative writing at the University of Natal, Princeton University, and New York University.
“It was tough for a young kid on his own.”
is an American poet, translator, literary critic, playwright, and educator. His numerous books of poetry include IFLIFE (2006), Ten to One (1999), The Future of Memory (1998) and the collaboration Playing Bodies (2004) with his wife, the painter Francie Shaw. His critical work includes The Trouble with Genius (1994) and The Marginalization of Poetry (1996). He teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
“Maruška was of course furious and not very happy with the situation...”
is an American painter and art educator. She is the wife of the poet Bob Perelman.
“I was star-struck and also sort of ghost-struck, because I thought he was dead.”
is an American poet and educator. His books of poetry include The Others (2017) and Surrounded by Friends (2015) and his poems have been anthologized in numerous books and poetry magazines. His awards include the Hopwood Award for poetry, a Pushcart prize and selection as a National Poetry Series winner. He teaches creative writing at New York University.
“It was like a spell that he would put on the room.”
is an American poet, educator, editor and publisher. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry including In the Still of the Night (2017) and You Good Thing (2013). She is director of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is co-founder and co-director of the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action. She has won numerous awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts. She is co-publisher of Factory Hollow Press and editor of the literary magazine Jubliat.
“The fact that nobody had heard of him and he kind of came out of nowhere...was a big deal.”
is an American poet, editor and publisher. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Something Shining (1999) and Foreign Neon (1991). He is the president and publisher of Ecco Press (now an imprint of Harper-Collins) and published Šalamun’s first book in English, Selected Poems, in 1988. He has received numerous grants and awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, a PEN Publisher’s Citation, and the Editor’s Award from Poets & Writers. He has taught writing at Columbia University, The New School for Social Research and Princeton University.
“Religion doesn’t own this fire. This fire is part of all of us.”
is an American poet, editor, writer and former managing editor of Wave Books. She is the author of several poetry chapbooks and her work has been published in numerous literary magazines in the US.
“He was pushing for a kind of total freedom in his own poems and in the poems of his students...”
is an American poet and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of several poetry chapbooks and is co-founder of the Organism for Poetic Research, an experimental online platform for research in poetics.
“His work just inspired all these younger writers to adventure in that way.”
is an American poet, prose writer, translator and publisher. His books include the collection of poems Alpha Donut (2012) and the novel in fragments Boris by the Sea (2009). His translations from Russian include works by Daniil Kharms, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Alexander Vvedensky. He is a Visiting Professor at Columbia University and also teaches at CUNY and Bard College. He is co-founder of Ugly Duckling Presse and edits its Eastern European Poets series (which includes two books by Šalamun: Poker and On the Tracks of Wild Game).
“He’d lock himself up for days and just write.”
is an American poet, translator, prose writer and educator. He is the author of 40 books of poetry, including most recently Scribbled in the Dark (2017) and The Lunatic (2015) and several collections of prose. His translations into English include work by Vasko Popa, Šalamun and Günter Grass. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Frost Medal. In 2007 he served as Poet Laureate of the United States. He is professor emeritus of American literature and creative writing at the University of New Hampshire, where he taught for more than 30 years.
“It’s a permanent process of writing. He’s simply in it.”
is a Swiss poet, translator, prose writer, editor and lecturer. She is the author of several books of poetry and prose and numerous literary translations from Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian and French. She is a member of the German Academy of Language and Poetry and writes about literature for German publications including Die Zeit and Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Her most recent books include the poetry collection Impressum: Langsames Licht (2016) and the prose collection Listen, Litaneien, Loops (2016). Her numerous awards include most recently the Berliner Literaturpreis (2017) and the Kleist-Preis (2019).
“The mystery of the artist is the mystery for the artist himself.”
was a poet, essayist, cultural critic, editor and educator. He was the author of several collections of poems including in English Smugglers (2015), Without Anesthesia (2011), The Dictionary of Silence (1999), and Anxious Moments (1995). His critical writing includes the books The Hidden Handshake (2004) and Twilight of the Idols (1994). He won several awards for his writing including the Prešeren Award. He was for many years professor of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana. He died in 2016.
“The innate right to be was there at all times.”
is an American poet, essayist and educator. She is the author of 16 books including most recently the poetry collections My Private Property (2016) and Traces of the Blast (2013) and the collection of essays Madness, Rack and Honey (2012). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation and received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has taught creative at Vermont College and the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop.
“Total freedom is a myth.”
is a Polish poet, translator and geophysical engineer. He is the author of eight books published in Polish, two in Slovenian and one bookpublished in the USA. In 2010 he was a resident at the University of Iowa International Writing Program. He is the nephew of Tomaž Šalamun and has translated much of Šalamun’s work into Polish. His translations from English include the American poet Jorie Graham.
“There is something anciently defiant about his work that won’t accept any form of jail.”
is an American poet, playwright, performance artist and translator. Her books of poetry include A Sand Book (2019), Mercury (2011), Coeur de Lion (2007), and The Cow (2006). Her first play, Telephone (2009), won two Obie Awards. She has taught poetry at various US universities, including the University of California-Berkeley, Columbia University, The New School, and New York University.
“Tomaž was an explorer in his work. That can be an adventure, but it can also be a little scary sometimes.”
is an American poet, fiction writer, essayist and translator. He is the author of more than 25 books, including the recent collection of poems Big Cabin (2019) and the novella Motor Maids across the Continent (2017). For 20 years he was publications director of the Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City and is a former director of the St. Mark’s Poetry Project. Padgett is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Poetry Society of America’s Frost Medal. His poems were used in Jim Jarmusch's film Paterson.
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Justice Ginsburg blames Roe v. Wade for current anti-choice fervor
Ginsburg said the landmark ruling gave "opponents of access to abortion a target to aim at relentlessly"
By Katie McDonough
May 12, 2013 10:06PM (UTC)
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience at the University of Chicago Law School on Saturday night that a lack of "judicial restraint" in the court's ruling on Roe v. Wade gave abortion opponents a "clear target" that continues to fuel anti-choice activism 40 years later.
As reported by the Associated Press:
"That was my concern, that the court had given opponents of access to abortion a target to aim at relentlessly," [Ginsburg] told a crowd of students. "... My criticism of Roe is that it seemed to have stopped the momentum that was on the side of change."
The ruling is also a disappointment to a degree, Ginsburg said, because it was not argued in weighty terms of advancing women's rights. Rather, the Roe opinion, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, centered on the right to privacy and asserted that it extended to a woman's decision on whether to end a pregnancy...
Ginsburg would have rather seen the justices make a narrower decision that struck down only the Texas law that brought the matter before the court. That law allowed abortions only to save a mother's life.
A more restrained judgment would have sent a message while allowing momentum to build at a time when a number of states were expanding abortion rights, she said. She added that it might also have denied opponents the argument that abortion rights resulted from an undemocratic process in the decision by "unelected old men."
As noted by the New York Times editorial board and Yale Law School professors Linda Greenhouse and Reva Siegel, Ginsburg's previously-asserted idea that the court got "ahead of public opinion" on abortion and "short-circuited" an evolving political process at the state level is deeply problematic:
[P]olitical conflict over abortion was escalating before the Roe decision, and state progress on decriminalization had reached a standstill in the face of opposition from the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1970, a measure legalizing abortion in New York cleared the State Assembly by just a single vote. Only a veto by the state’s Republican governor, Nelson Rockefeller, blocked its partial repeal two years later. Had the Supreme Court waited for the states to move, women in a large portion of the country would still be denied the fundamental right to make their own childbearing decisions.
The claim that the court invited a backlash by getting too far ahead of public opinion does not hold. At the time of the ruling, a Gallup poll showed a substantial majority of Americans favored letting the abortion decision be made “solely by a woman and her physician,” with more Republicans than Democrats in favor. In fact, at the confirmation hearing for Justice John Paul Stevens in 1975, not a single question about Roe v. Wade was posed.
In her Saturday remarks, Ginsburg went on to say that a "worst-case scenario" in which Roe is overturned wouldn't "matter that much" because there are "a number of states that will never go back to the way it was."
Ginsburg's comments are dangerously narrow-minded; the loss of a constitutionally-protected right to abortion (as scaled-back and inaccessible as certain state lawmakers have already made it) would most certainly "matter" to women in those "other states" -- and reproductive health advocates everywhere. Ginsburg herself has acknowledged that a Roe reversal would signal a virtual end to accessible abortion care for low-income women. (Which is, by the way, already a serious problem.)
As she told audiences at the Aspen Ideas Festival in 2010: "The only women who would be truly affected are poor women. Because even at the time before Roe, women who wanted abortions could have a safe, legal abortion… Whatever the court may do, it's only the poor women who will suffer. When people realize that, maybe they will have a different attitude."
And that doesn't "matter that much?"
It seems Ginsburg's neck doily might be on too tight.
Katie McDonough
Katie McDonough is Salon's politics writer, focusing on gender, sexuality and reproductive justice. Follow her on Twitter @kmcdonovgh or email her at kmcdonough@salon.com.
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Pedestrian killed in Chula Vista crash
Minister tells AP Afghan police are hardest hit by attacks
Afghan Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi gives an interview at the Ministry of the Interior in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019. Andarabi said Sunday that police make up 70% of the casualties among security forces in relentless attacks by Taliban and Islamic State insurgents. He said a slow, steady overhaul is underway. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
By KATHY GANNONAssociated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan —
Police in Afghanistan are one of the country’s most-criticized security forces, denigrated as corrupt and inept. Yet Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi says police are also the hardest hit, taking 70% of all casualties among government forces, dozens of whom die each day in relentless attacks by Taliban and Islamic State insurgents.
Still, President Donald Trump is impatient with Afghanistan’s police, saying American soldiers have taken on their job and that it’s time for Afghans to step up. He says that’ll allow Washington to end its longest war, now into its 18th year.
Even as Trump abruptly called off a deal with the Taliban earlier this month that seemed imminent, he expressed his frustration with the state of Afghanistan’s security forces, taking particular aim at the policing.
Leading the Interior Ministry, which oversees the police, is Andarabi. He’s young, Western-educated and part of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s new generation of leaders. He spoke about what he called a slow, steady overhaul of the police during an interview with The Associated Press inside the heavily fortified ministry in the capital, Kabul.
The upshot: Andarabi is setting up systems that he hopes will result in a professional force, one owned and operated by Afghans. That’s a daunting task, especially in light of the high casualty figures and the mountain of complaints.
In some parts of Kabul resident say they cannot leave their homes after dark because of criminal gangs that roam the streets, many with the help of police, they say.
In the outposts and checkpoints around the country police have struggled for days without reinforcements, food supplies running out and often while under attack by insurgents. Police often posts their dire circumstances on social media.
“I don’t say it is easy or doable in a day, or a month or a year, but it is doable,” he said, attributing his optimism to a concerted effort to recruit a new generation into the police and government ministries in the past year.
Andarabi said he’s instituted a new recruitment and promotion system that’s based on what you know, instead of who you know. It’s an attempt to take the “middle men” out of appointments and promotions to try to tackle corruption that is rife in the selection and promotion of police in Afghanistan.
After the Taliban were ousted, Andarabi said many of the initial police recruits were former militia members loyal to a variety of warlords, who came to power with the ouster of the Taliban.
Today, many senior officers in Afghanistan’s security institutions were only in high school when the Taliban were ousted, he said. They spent the intervening years studying and gaining experience.
“All these new leaders in the security sector ... don’t have a legacy of fighting, don’t have the background of different factions, or different groups. This all makes them a team with a common belief,” he said.
He’s also brought in a new computerized data system that tracks allegations of corruption and the officers involved. The hope of this technocratic solution is that eventually a profile will emerge showing areas and people committing the infractions, as well as the types of corruption.
However, the statistics are grim.
In a report released in July, a major source of graft was finally brought into the open by the U.S. watchdog that oversees the billions of dollars in taxpayer money being spent in Afghanistan.
Most of that money goes to the country’s security forces, but it turns out tens of thousands of them don’t actually exist.
A new, tougher-to-fool pay system for Afghan army and police found as many as 35,000 possible “ghost” personnel.
These fake police and soldiers exist only on paper, collecting wages in order for corrupt commanders “to pocket the salaries,” said the report by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction.
The biggest offenders were the police.
According to the report, the new system siphoned out 25,000 possible “ghost” police, reducing the force to just under 91,600.
Washington spends upward of $4 billion a year on Afghanistan’s security forces and SIGAR’s John Sopko says the security forces are dependent on international financing adding an urgency to Andarabi’s task as international patience with the country’s rampant corruption fades.
Frustrated by the relentless corruption, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently said Washington was withdrawing more than $160 million in infrastructure money and other assistance, charging that the Afghan government was rife with corruption.
With presidential elections in Afghanistan coming up on Saturday, Washington’s rare withdrawal of funds and public denunciation of corruption in the government would seem to strike out at the incumbent, Ghani, a leading contender in the race.
Pompeo also issued a warning to all presidential contenders to protect against fraud.
Andarabi said he takes pride in the ministry’s new internal security department, which will keep records of misconduct and allegations of corruption in order to better identify culprits and repeat offenders.
“This all makes it a ‘different police’ and a hope for the future ... where the effort of the international community is not being wasted,” he said.
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What Are the Seven Taxa in Order From Largest to Smallest?
By Staff WriterLast Updated Apr 11, 2020 2:23:03 PM ET
The seven taxa, or units of biological classification, from largest to smallest, are kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species. The second taxon is called phylum for animals, but for plants, it is called a division.
The wolf, for example, is of the kingdom animalia, the philum chordata, the class mammalia, the order carnivora, the family canidae, the genus canis and the species canis lupus. The domestic dog has exactly the same taxa as the wolf except the species, which is canis familiaris. A house cat has the same top four taxa as wolves and dogs, but the last three are the family felidae, the genus felis and the species felis catus. When organisms are given scientific names, only genus and species are used. For example, the wolf is referred to as canis lupus, the dog as canis familiaris, the house cat as felis catus and humans as homo sapiens.
The seven broad major categories of taxa can be broken down into further intermediate categories, such as subphylum, subclass, suborder, subfamily, subgenus and subspecies. Taxonomists, or biologists who specialize in taxonomy, are particularly important in the fields of biodiversity and conservation. Taxonomy enables the classification of species in specific locations, giving precision to decisions concerning conservation.
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You Don't Have To Get Married To Ask For Gifts
Millennials Aren't Waiting Until Marriage To Register For Gifts
Cait Munro
When Anavic Rijo, a 26-year-old from New York City, moved into her apartment a few months ago, she registered. Not to vote in her new district, though we assume she did that, too. She registered at Wayfair, just as matrimony-bound couples or people expecting a baby might. “I had other friends who had done it, so I was like, this is a thing that people do,” she explains.
Wayfair doesn’t yet have a specific registry category for housewarmings — Rijo had to use the newlyweds registry, which had “couples, happily ever after all over,” she laughs. But Target and Ikea both have them, and Amazon has long touted a non-specific wishlist option. Perhaps, like me, you can recall using it to request DVDs from relatives for holidays, back when those were a thing. While it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when the housewarming registry trend began to take off, a spokesperson for Target tells Refinery29: “Since we introduced our housewarming registry a few years ago, it’s been a popular choice for guests, with a steady growth of registered users.”
There’s plenty of data, however, on how much people like using registries. “We do see that young people are using registries both for giving gifts, and for preferring how to receive them,” says Alexis DaSalva, a senior research analyst at the market research firm Mintel. According to Mintel, 70% of people aged 18-34 would prefer to have a wishlist available from someone they’re giving a present to. And it’s actually not just young people who like some gifting guidance: 60% of gift-givers of all ages prefer a list.
And yet, when it comes to the existence of housewarming registries in particular, there’s significant disagreement as to whether or not they have a place in our world. “You don’t register for a housewarming party,” says Lizzie Post, the great-great-granddaughter of etiquette maven Emily Post and the author of the new cannabis etiquette book Higher Etiquette. “A housewarming party is not about outfitting your house. It’s about warming your house with the presence of your family and friends.”
A quick Twitter search for “housewarming registry” proves that Post is far from alone in her hatred of the trend. For every tweet touting a registry that’s just “gone live,” there’s one using a GIF to express distaste for the practice: Oprah saying “I will not accept that,” Kanye shaking his head, Rihanna’s furrowed brow. You get the idea.
But users like Rijo testify that no one in their lives was remotely offended — she says she received everything on her list, purchased by a combination of friends and family members, who were happy to provide items she would use in her daily life.
And to be honest, there are some strong arguments for housewarming registries. For one thing, no one wants to buy (or receive) a gift that won’t be used and appreciated. As conversations about sustainability take centre stage, it feels increasingly important not to give someone something that’s just going to end up in a landfill the next time they KonMari their apartment. Yesterday’s niceties of “oh, don’t get me anything” or “I’ll love whatever you pick out” seem to have necessarily fallen by the wayside as we collectively realise neither our homes nor our planet can withstand the crushing weight of yet one more random trinket. “It’s actually really sweet now, when people come over they’re like, oh my god, that’s what I bought you!” Rijo says.
There’s also the issue of money. Namely, that no one has enough of it. When furnishing a first or even second or third post-collegiate home, unless you’re lucky enough to have a great salary or parents who are willing to chip in for a sofa, chances are, it could take you at least a year to fully furnish the place. By then, your lease is up. For many in the 18-34 bracket, a registry is the only real way to assemble a collection of home furnishings in a timely fashion.
Sure, one could argue that if everyone’s so broke, we should all just stop buying shit for each other (not to mention ourselves) all the time. But what fun is that? The precedent has already been set by weddings —we’ve all heard those stories of couples who are so cash poor from attending everyone else’s nuptials that they can’t afford their own — and the fact remains that it is much easier to cough up $40 to help buy your friend an area rug than it is to come up with $2,000 all at once when it’s your own moving day. Plus it’s, you know, nice.
When Crystal Anderson, manager of production at Man Repeller and the possessor of 16k Instagram followers, recently posted a link in her bio to her Amazon birthday wishlist, she says, “A few people who I talk to regularly on social media, but have never met, sent me some cute little things.”
“There's nothing wrong with a housewarming registry,” she adds. “I'm down to buy you a new set of towels or a toaster! We're all community and have to help each other out!”
Retailers, meanwhile, have every reason to want this trend to pop off, which is why, according to DaSalva, you can expect those who don’t have housewarming registries to adopt them very soon. Just as Hallmark invented Valentine’s Day out of thin air to sell cards and candy, ensuring that housewarmings become a major gift-giving occasion has the potential to drive significant profits.
Like so many of our modern dilemmas, this debate actually harkens back to one originally hashed out on Sex and the City in 2003. In the episode “A Woman’s Right To Shoes,” Carrie gets her Manolos stolen at a friend’s baby shower after she’s forced to remove them at the door (which, ugh, is definitely also a breach of etiquette). Her friend offers to pay her for them, but then balks at the $450 price tag before proceeding to “shoe shame” Carrie for spending so much on footwear. After much back and forth, our heroine registers at Manolo Blahnik (for the record, I’m pretty sure this is a not a thing) and finally gets her damn shoes back. Petty, yes, but the point is that by limiting the act of registering for gifts to weddings and babies, we’re prioritising those “heteronormative” acts over those that celebrate more progressive and more widely attainable notions of selfhood. Not everyone’s going to get married or have a baby, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t get to experience the joy of recklessly pointing a scanner gun at every other item in Bed Bath & Beyond, or whatever the digital age version of that is.
Or, as Anderson puts it: “Of course some people think it's tacky and gauche, but those aren't my people, so fuck ‘em. For the love of all things holy, I'm not asking anyone to purchase a new Louis Vuitton for me!” (Unless, of course, you are literally Carrie Bradshaw, and then you very well might be.)
Ultimately, whether you hate the idea or you’re ready to open a registry for your next half-birthday, we can probably all agree that as long as no one feels pressured to break the bank on gifts, it’s a pretty harmless trend. The fact that it could help cut down on waste (not to mention guilt) is a check in the plus column. So next time you find yourself eyeing a CB2 couch you can’t afford or dreaming of a new juicer, well, maybe consider moving. Or just waiting for your next birthday.
Housewarming Gift Registries Are New Millennial Trend
Home • Living • Weddings
written by Cait Munro
Illustration by Louisa Cannell
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Home and Away star Cornelia Frances dies aged 77
By Broede Carmody
May 29, 2018 — 11.04am
Australian TV legend Cornelia Frances has died at the age of 77.
The actor starred in Home and Away as well as hosting quiz show The Weakest Link. In 2017 she was diagnosed with bladder cancer.
The veteran actor, renowned for playing small-screen villains, went public with the diagnosis in January. She told Nine's A Current Affair earlier this year that being "naughty and wicked" on-screen was great fun.
"I've always played the strong ladies," she said. "I'm going to fight it [the cancer], by God I am. That 60 years in the industry... it's been a wonderful road and I've loved every minute of it. I've loved every soapie I've been on."
Frances, who was nominated for a Logie six times over her career, emigrated to Australia in the 1970s. She became a household name while playing the tenacious nurse Grace Scott on Nine's The Young Doctors.
Cornelia Frances has played numerous roles over the decades. Credit:Fairfax Media
From there, she went on to portray Barbara Hamilton on Seven's Sons and Daughters before taking up the feisty role of Morag Bellingham on Home and Away across four decades. The character regularly clashed with her on-screen brother Alf Stewart, played by Ray Meagher.
Meagher told Fairfax Media that Frances was an "incredibly loved" member of the long-running soap opera.
"We had a moment of silence for her on set this morning and she'll be sadly missed by both cast and crew," he said.
Frances will also be familiar to those who watched the Australian version of British gameshow The Weakest Link, which ran from 2001 until 2002. The program included the memorable catchphrase: "You are the weakest link, goodbye."
Cornelia Frances in The Weakest Link.
In a cruel twist of fate, the beloved TV star was diagnosed at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital – the location for the fictional hospital in Young Doctors. She was told the cancer had metastasised and spread to her hip.
Tributes began pouring in on Tuesday morning, with the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts describing Frances as a "legend" of the industry.
"Our thoughts are with Cornelia's friends and family," the statement read. "She will be sorely missed."
A Network Seven spokeswoman said Frances' on-screen presence inspired a generation of actors.
"This gift was coupled with an ability to bring a sense of dignity and presence into each room she entered," she said. "Her energy and character will be missed."
Author and actor Judy Nunn first met Frances on the set of The Box feature film in 1975. They were friends ever since.
"Everybody who knows Corney – and she had many friends who deeply admired and loved her – would say she was one of the most generous, good-hearted, all-embracing and warm people you could meet," she said. "She died with the same grace and dignity in which she lived."
Broede Carmody
Broede Carmody is a culture reporter at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
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A group of committed dentists from the Alpha Omega professional fraternity is helping Holocaust survivors smile again.
Yuli Nogin was among the approximately one hundred thousand Jews who escaped Kiev in advance of the German occupation in 1941. Just four years old, he and his mother moved from train to train in desperate search of a safe place to resettle. “I was hungry twenty-four hours a day,” recalled Nogin, now eighty-one. “Even in sleep.”
Decades later, as a senior living on a limited income in Boston, Nogin had new worries about food. Eating was painful because of a deeply infected tooth and other dental problems, all too costly for him to fix.
But through the volunteer efforts of Steven Spitz, D94, the tooth has been pulled and an implant is scheduled. Nogin’s mouth, once prone to bleeding, has healed. “In America, there is a lot to eat—but you need teeth to eat this food!” he said with a laugh. “Now I can eat an apple . . . a little bit slowly maybe, but it is one of my favorite foods.”
Nogin’s free dental care—and his renewed pleasure in eating—was made possible by Spitz and the Alpha Omega-Henry Schein Cares Holocaust Survivors Oral Health Program. Dentists from Alpha Omega International, a Jewish dental fraternity dedicated to promoting social justice and oral health in underserved communities, provide lower-income Holocaust survivors with no-cost, comprehensive care, ranging from cleanings and fillings to root canals and implants. Henry Schein, a leading provider for health-care fields, donates the dental supply kits.
Spitz, past president of the Boston AO chapter and AO international president-elect, has been a proud volunteer for the program for four years. “Every Jew, and many non-Jewish individuals, have some personal connection to the tragedy of the Holocaust in their personal history,” he said, “and having the ability to make a concrete difference in honor of family members, past and present, speaks directly to our hearts.”
Nathan Birnbaum, D08P, a former associate clinical professor at the School of Dental Medicine, also has a personal connection to his volunteer work: his father, Jacob, author of the memoir I Kept My Promise, survived six concentration camps. Birnbaum and his daughter, Heidi Aaronson, D08, have now worked with several patients through the program, which carries on a similar initiative the Boston AO chapter and Birnbaum pioneered ten years ago called Dental Assistance for Survivors of the Holocaust. “That was something we were very proud of,” Birnbaum said, “and we’re glad to be able to continue its spirit.”
The Holocaust Survivors Oral Health Program dates to 2014, when Vice President Joe Biden called attention to the estimated one-third of the hundred-thousand Holocaust survivors in the United States living at or below the poverty line, said Allison Neale, J98, director of public policy for Henry Schein. “That people who have endured the horrors of the Holocaust should be living in pain in their older years was, and is, unacceptable to those of us at Henry Schein,” Neale said. Since the partnership with Alpha Omega was launched in January 2015, it has expanded to twenty cities in the United States and Canada and given care to more than twelve-hundred survivors (the value of the work is estimated at nearly $1.6 million).
Spitz has seen firsthand how dental care can make a profound difference to a senior struggling to make ends meet. When one of his patients couldn’t afford to replace a broken denture, she at first tried to fix it herself. “She was such a lively, spunky woman, and she just wanted to feel that she could go out in public,” Spitz said. After he made her a new denture, he sat her up so she could see it. “The look on her face was just amazing. She was beaming.”
The program has a profound effect on the volunteers, too. One of Heidi Aaronson’s patients, Judith Podolsky, had multiple treatments: fillings, root canals, crowns, and dentures. She then took the time to send Aaronson a handwritten letter to express her thanks. “I know it must have been difficult [to write] because she had had hand surgery,” Aaronson recalled. “This is why I am in dentistry. The feeling that I can improve a life—that’s not work. It’s fun. And the best part is that it is life-changing for Judith.’”
“My experience with Dr. Heidi couldn’t be any better. Before, I never had fear at the dentist, but I also never said it was a pleasure! It is a pleasure now. She is very sweet. She says when she sees me on the schedule she is happy. That is how she is. She is wonderful as a person and as a dentist.”
—Judith Podolsky, 76, Brookline, Massachusetts
“I went into dentistry to be able to help people, and for me, the work with Alpha Omega is particularly fulfilling because it’s about helping Holocaust survivors live a full life—a life where they can go out in public and be part of society and share their stories so we don’t forget.”
—Heidi Aaronson, D08
“I feel a special responsibility to help Holocaust survivors—my parents survived concentration camps. Children of survivors of the Holocaust have a kind of unspoken union. We know what happened. We know what our parents suffered through. As a dentist, I want to be sure that survivors, particularly those who are living in poverty, do not suffer. They need and deserve our compassion.”
—Nathan Birnbaum, DO8P, former associate clinical professor at the School of Dental Medicine
“Dr. Birnbaum not only did a great job—he took such good care of me. I am very grateful. Especially for us elderly people who have suffered a lot in life, it is important when a doctor is a good person—attentive, tactful, patient. It’s a wonderful gift.”
—Pilya Voluvich, 87, Brighton, Massachusetts
“The obligation we share to heal the world, known in Hebrew as Tikkun Olam, is deeply rooted in our heritage. We all feel fortunate to have this opportunity to do what we can to improve the quality of life for those who survived the atrocities of the Holocaust.”
—Steven Spitz, D94, president-elect of the Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity
I describe Dr. Spitz’s care as excellent. I am very happy to have found him.”
—Yuli Nogin, 81, Stoughton, Massachusetts
Read the full article by Laura Ferguson at dental.tufts.edu.
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Social Work Degree Programs in New York (A-C)
Those who enjoy helping others through tough times will benefit from the numerous, accredited social work degrees in New York. These programs teach students how to understand and address problems that commonly face troubled youth, struggling adults, and at-risk populations in urban and other areas.
With full accreditation from some of the most prestigious bodies in the country, each of these degree programs also gives students a head start when it comes to finding gainful employment and building experience that will lead to a lucrative, lifelong profession helping others and guiding them toward better outcomes or decisions.
Adelphi University is one of the largest and most prestigious, private universities on Long Island. The school has long been regarded highly for its community involvement and numerous community service programs, for which it has been recognized by the Carnegie Foundation. Adelphi also ranks as one of the best Tier 1 schools in the country, affording its students opportunities in academic engagement, scholarly research, assistantships, internships, and much more. The School of Social Work, with its all-doctoral group of faculty members, oversees both undergraduate and graduate-level social work programs that emphasize the right combination of classroom theory and practical experience in supervised settings. As a result, students graduate with the skills they need to become officially licensed professionals with excellent advancement opportunities.
BSW Degree
Undergraduate students in the Bachelor of Social Work program will be guided toward a large number of field experiences as they continue through their studies at Adelphi. Up to 12 credits of field instruction and experience are required prior to graduation, with most of these experiences being overseen by partner organizations across Long Island and in New York City. In addition to internship and practical experiences, students will focus on the fundamentals of social work, they'll learn about human behavior theory, and they'll take advanced courses in both psychology and sociology. Students will take classes that educate them on the ethical considerations of their future profession, and they'll learn the legal implications of certain social work settings, careers, and organizational types. This strong combination of classroom theory and internship experience gives students a head start when finding an entry-level job or graduate-level program that fits their needs.
MSW Degree
The MSW degree program at Adelphi focuses on practical and classroom experiences equally, in a rather similar fashion to the undergraduate curriculum. As part of their graduate course requirements, all students will take at least six credits of field education and experience that places them in an immersive internship. They'll also study the basics of scholarly research and engage in research activities related to the social work profession. All students are introduced to diagnosis in a social work context, advanced human behavior, sociological, and psychological factors, and advanced social work practice. Graduate students will also take courses in advanced social work organization, learning how to manage private or public practices in this field.
Council on Social Work Education Office of Social Work Accreditation (CSWE), Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)
1 South Ave.
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Binghamton University, State University of New York
School of Community and Public Affairs
Binghamton University is a doctoral degree-granting institution, making it one of just four such universities in the State University of New York System. With a long and storied reputation for academic excellence, the school has been called one of America's "Public Ivies" by a leading publication. Students in the School of Community and Public Affairs benefit form this strong academic reputation as they learn how to serve at-risk populations and cater to those who require the in-depth services of a social worker. The professors who teach courses in this degree program are all seasoned social workers themselves, most of them with doctoral degrees in the field, and they give students excellent opportunities for professional internships, on-campus social work conference attendance, and great networking for post-graduation employment.
Binghamton University's Master of Social Work degree is concerned with both academic research and professional experiences. Students who enroll in this program will take a series of courses that focus on advanced topics within the social work profession. These courses include advanced diagnosis in social work practice, advanced legal and ethical decision-making on behalf of social work clients, advanced sociology and psychology, and organizational considerations for the modern social work practice. They'll also participate in scholarly research under the supervision of a professor on-campus, which will help them compose an optional graduate thesis prior to receiving their degree. All students will also engage in a set number of supervised clinical hours, which is necessary to both obtain the degree and pursue full licensure under New York state laws.
4400 Vestal Parkway East
Email: gradadmission@binghamton.edu
Buffalo State College
Buffalo State lives in the shadow of the University of Buffalo, which has long been a much larger school with a larger number of programs. Even so, Buffalo State offers students some unique advantages: Fewer programs, fewer students, smaller class sizes, and more individualized attention as they seek to become seasoned professionals in their field of study. That distinction has long helped Buffalo State top the rankings when it comes to value, class sizes, and professional outcomes. The School of Social Work gives students the opportunities they need to seek clinical experiences, networking with Buffalo-area social work organizations, and distinction via on-campus honors societies and professional groups. This commitment produces strong job placement in the first few months after graduation from the program.
Social Work, B.S.
Undergraduate students can opt for a Bachelor of Science in social work at Buffalo State, which starts them on a path toward full licensure in the field and advanced practice in both public and private settings. Coursework required includes basic psychology, human behavior, and sociology courses at the beginning of the program. Students then move into more advanced classes in human behavior, legal implications of the social work field, ethical considerations of treatment, and how to handle certain at-risk populations like young children, those with a history of substance abuse, or those who have been incarcerated previously. Required clinical experience gives students the skills they need to seek graduate-level study or entry-level employment immediately after graduation.
Buffalo NY 14222
College at Brockport, State University of New York
Located in the greater Rochester metropolitan area, SUNY Brockport has long been respected as one of the smaller, more accommodating SUNY schools in the Upstate New York region. Much like Buffalo State, Brockport often receives commendations for its smaller class sizes and more intimate settings for even its general education coursework. Brockport's Department of Social Work is known as the best in the Rochester area, and certainly one of the most affordable. The department oversees an undergraduate program in social work that requires internship experience, promotes on-campus networking and conferences, and helps students learn about social work while learning the context of the profession and their place in it as they graduate with their B.S. degree.
Undergraduate Program in Social Work
As with virtually all social work programs in New York, the Brockport undergraduate curriculum is deeply focused on providing clinical experiences to students. As a result, up to 12 credits of field experience and internships can be scheduled by students as they proceed through four years of study. While engaging in these practical experiences, students will learn about human behavior, ethical principles of social work, sociological implications on the social work client, basic human psychology, and legal guidelines that govern the practice of social work both nationally and within New York state. Students will be required to take classes that teach the organization of public and private social work practices, and they'll study extensively the consideration that must be made for the most common, at-risk populations that require the services of social workers.
50 New Campus Drive
Email: socwork@brockport.edu
College at Fredonia, State University of New York
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work and Criminal Justice
Known historically as a teachers' college, SUNY Fredonia has emerged as one of the fastest-growing institutions in the State University of New York System. The school has earned numerous accolades in recent years, topping rankings that measure academic quality, affordability, job placement, and student satisfaction. The social work program at Fredonia employs an all-doctoral group of instructors that have various levels of experience in social work practice both in public and private settings. They focus on student experiences, research, and providing on-campus, extracurricular activities that further professional learning and student understanding.
SUNY Fredonia's BSW requires 12 credits in field instruction or supervised work. Generally, students take three credits per year, permitting them one, semester-long internship across four years of study. Fredonia's requirements ensure that students work with four different employers, and numerous different types of social work organizations, in order to create well-rounded graduates with a promising future in the field. The curriculum at Fredonia focuses on sociology and psychology, with basic and intermediate coursework in human behavior. All students take a required core that focuses on ethical and legal considerations, at-risk populations that includes youth, addicts, and incarcerated groups, and organizational structure that teaches the difference between public and private employment.
W379 Thompson Hall
Fredonia, NY 14063
Email: Brian.Masciadrelli@fredonia.edu
College of New Rochelle
This private institution has long been a fixture in the northern New York City suburbs, and has provided the right combination of moral education and professional preparation for social workers. The undergraduate program is taught by a doctoral faculty with experience in social work, many of whom have worked in New York City in some capacity. Students combine classroom theory with experiential learning, and often participate in professional organizations or honors societies while on campus. The College of New Rochelle earns high marks for its diverse student body, its overall value when compared to similar private institutions, and its overall academic rigor when compared to all social work programs in the state of New York.
Social Work Degree
Students must complete a core curriculum enforced across all majors, specializing in the liberal arts, sciences, and the humanities. In addition to this core, social work students must take their own program's core classes. These courses focus on basic human psychology, sociology, and professional ethics. More advanced courses and electives focus on at-risk populations, human behavior, public and private practice, organizational theory, and more. All students must complete between six and 12 credits of professional work experience via internships in order to graduate from the program, which helps social work graduates enjoy high rates of employment upon graduation from CNR. These requirements also help students gain access to prestigious MSW programs throughout New York and nationwide.
29 Castle Place
Email: info@cnr.edu
College of Saint Rose
School of Mathematics and Sciences
Albany's College of Saint Rose is another leading, Catholic-founded institution that has earned high marks for its academic quality. The school has been in continuous operation since 1920 and, in the near-century since its founding, has long overseen one of the most generous scholarship programs in New York. This helps to offset the high cost of private tuition, and makes the school an excellent value for those in the Capital Region. The College of Mathematics and Sciences, which oversees the BSW program, provides students with numerous internship connections, a mostly doctoral group of instructors, and the opportunity to attend professional conferences, on-campus speaking events, and a plethora of professional organizations of interest to social workers.
Social Work BS Degree
The Bachelor of Science program in social work at the College of Saint Rose makes sure to combine classroom instruction with supervised internships throughout the Albany metropolitan area. All students must take the Catholic-related core curriculum, and they must take a slate of required social work classes that focus on professional ethics and basic human behavior. Students will also enroll in advanced human psychology and sociology courses, teaching them how to address troublesome behaviors in at-risk populations. They'll learn more specifically about those at-risk populations early in the program preparing them for work in up to 12 credits of off-campus, supervised internship experiences in the Albany area.
College of Staten Island
The College of Staten Island is part of New York City's broad CUNY system. This allows it to offer New York City residents access to highly affordable tuition without sacrificing the overall prestige of programs like those in social work. The school's Department of Social Work employs a doctoral faculty, many of whom actively work in academic research or in social work practices throughout the city. Their experience and commitment to research enriches the classroom experience, giving students access to cutting-edge developments in social work as well as practical experiences that allow them to more adeptly enter into entry-level employment after they receive their Bachelor of Science degree.
BSSW Degree
At CSI, students earn a Bachelor of Science in Social Work. This means they focus more extensively on quantitative core requirements as well as laboratory sciences that incorporate human psychology and sociology-relate fields. Additionally, students, focus on the ethical principles and legal framework of social work practice, and they learn the organizational differences between public and private employers. All students must take between 3 and 9 credits of field instruction, which places them into a supervised internship at least one semester in length.
2800 Victory Blvd.
Email: admissions@csi.cuny.edu
Columbia University's membership in the Ivy League is good news for graduate students who choose the MSW Program. Columbia enjoys some of the best professional connections in New York City, with a number of prestigious internships for graduate students that can lend them in high-level professions after they complete the program. Columbia's professors are active researchers and often active social workers. They bring real experience into the classroom in a way that makes students feel as if they're getting unique insight into the profession even before they've begun advanced practice. Required internships and numerous on-campus opportunities give students resume-boosting experience that only furthers the high job placement rate afforded across the board to all Columbia graduates.
The MSW program at Columbia University does require students to engage in at least some research alongside one of the social work program's professors. This research forms the basis of a graduate thesis or capstone course, which will see students present their findings to a faculty panel in advance of graduation. Coursework at Columbia focuses on advanced diagnosis of common issues in at-risk populations, as well as advanced classes in human behavior, human psychology, and the legal framework in advanced treatment of clients. Students in this program must complete at least one professional experience as part of a supervised internship, though they are often encouraged to be working actively in the social work field throughout the entirety of the program.
1255 Amsterdam Ave.
Email: jt2235@columbia.edu
Concordia College is a leading private university serving students in the suburbs of New York City. The school's Christian-based curriculum combines professional skills with personal morals, giving students a solid foundation for treating future clients that is decidedly more in tune with religious values. Professors at Concordia are mostly doctoral-level faculty, though some adjuncts do teach core classes or basic prerequisites. Concordia offers students a wealth of student-professional organizations on campus, and has an extensive number of connections when it comes to placing students in immersive internships during their final three years of study at the school.
The Bachelor of Social Work program at Concordia starts students off with a basic, university-wide general education curriculum in the liberal arts. They then move into classes that focus on basic human psychology, basic sociology, and numerous quantitative requirements. As they move through the program, students will schedule between 3 and 12 credits of field study in a supervised internship. They'll also learn advanced human behavior, legal and ethical guidelines for social work practice, and organizational considerations that focus on the differences between private and public employers. Students will learn how to handle at-risk populations and reduce their risk via social work, and will graduate with a B.S. degree that grants them access to entry-level jobs or graduate-level studies.
171 White Plains Rd.
Each of these programs gives New York's students access to prestigious classroom experiences, excellent internship opportunities, and much more. These accredited social work degrees in New York are the best way to begin a rewarding career in the field.
To see the remainder of accredited social work degree programs in the state of New York, click on the following links:
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In My Shoes
An Interview with Levison Wood
Written by Andrew Mazibrada // Portrait by Martin Hartley
Expedition Photography by Levison Wood
Levison Wood was an officer in the Parachute Regiment, and is now well known for his epic walking expeditions in Africa and Asia. He was the first man to attempt to walk the entire length of the Nile: 4,250 miles, from Nyungwe Forest in Rwanda. In 2015, he walked the entire expanse of the Himalayas, from Afghanistan in the west to Bhutan in the east. There have been other breathtaking expeditions too, including a foot crossing of Madagascar and mountain climbing in Iraq. Here he talks to Andrew Mazibrada about what made him want to trek all over the world.
Sidetracked: When you were 21, you hitchhiked from Cairo to London via Baghdad. In Israel, a bomb went off and the borders were closed to all but Jordan. In Jordan, you couldn’t afford to fly out and the only other border you could cross was into Iraq. What on earth happened there?
Levison: That was my third year at university, in 2003. It was the summer break, and a friend and I went to Egypt with the intention of travelling around Israel and then taking a boat to Greece to spend the summer. The Iraq War had just finished. We set off a few weeks after the combat operations in Baghdad finished in May, and before the insurgency had really begun. It was fairly calm, an interesting time, and we wanted to find out a little bit more. I was a fairly reckless 21-year-old.
We travelled around and initially it was fascinating. Then came an attack on the UN HQ in Jerusalem. The Israelis closed all the borders and ports, and the FCO said that everyone ought to leave. We had no money and didn’t have too many options. The only direction we could go was Jordan. It was fairly safe there, as was Amman; then there were subsequent attacks all across the Middle East – this was the start of the insurgency. We were stuck in Jordan and we had nowhere to go. We couldn’t now get to Greece and couldn’t afford a flight home.
We researched a bit and discovered the border with Iraq was open because the US was in control of the border. We got into a taxi and drove 1,000 miles to Baghdad (it cost us $40). We met US soldiers on the gates and fortunately they let us in. We found ourselves at the Palestine Hotel where all the journalists had been staying. Sadly, the top floor of the hotel had been destroyed as a result of a tank commander mistaking a camera-man for a sniper. Our plan was to sleep rough on the roof of the hotel, but we met Martin Geissler, the ITV newsman, and he asked what we were doing there – we were the first non-journalists into Baghdad. He offered us one of his team’s spare rooms whilst we were waiting for an escape plan to materialise. Their security, ex-special forces, escorted us up to Turkey, passing what was likely Saddam’s hideaway at the time.
How old were you when you joined the Army, and what made you join?
I first joined the OTC when I was a student – the armed forces had always been a career I really liked the idea of. I had read autobiographies of Victorian explorers and they had all been in the military. The OTC gave me a flavour of the Army life and I decided I wanted to travel more, having already travelled around the Middle East. I was interested in the whole region, in fact. I hitchhiked from Nottingham to India through Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran. That took five months and it was fascinating to go to Afghanistan before joining the Army. Then it was Sandhurst after that for a year, and some advanced infantry tactics in the Parachute Regiment. I was in the Paras for about five years.
You have been forced to avoid areas of conflict on your expeditions, for example in the Sudan. How did your experiences in conflict zones like those in Afghanistan prepare you for the expeditions you have undertaken?
The military definitely taught me a lot, giving me practical and, more importantly, mental skills. The Army teaches you to push yourself beyond what you feel is possible. Yet when compared with conflict zones, and tours in the Army, you need a very different mindset going as an individual – you don’t have any backup. No-one is coming to rescue you. I was an independent traveller to these places, but you do learn to appreciate risk. Everyone has guns in these places, and as a former soldier, I was less daunted by this fact; these are soldiers like any others and my understanding of them made it less immediately terrifying.
Walking The Nile // Photos: Levison Wood
Do you think serving in the Army in places like Afghanistan has meant you understand the importance of connecting to local people on your expeditions?
In fact, I learned that before joining to Army. I travelled when I was 18, again at university, then hitchhiked to India. I think I learned more from that than from the fairly short time I spent in the Army. The Army didn’t so much teach me that; more to evaluate risk, who to trust. Telling the good guys from the bad guys. Nuances about who is likely to be dangerous and who is not.
You talked about Sudan having something of a reputation, and then entering the country to find the Sudanese to be friendly people. Do you tend to enter places with an open mind? Was that always the case?
It’s a case-by-case basis. You assess people, put yourself in their shoes. See what their agenda is, who they are. How you approach people depends on who they are. I always have a humble approach: I explain what I am doing because sometimes they are quite suspicious. I break the ice by asking people questions, finding out what they are like and what they are all about. People like talking about themselves.
In an interview with Mr Porter magazine, you said ‘I’m not interested in conquering poles, or making solo expeditions across deserts. I’m interested in walking in the company of people. Sometimes I walk with friends. I always walk with the desire to get embedded in the culture, which is why my two heroes are British explorers Sir Richard Burton and TE Lawrence. They got stuck in. They learnt the language. They travelled in disguise.’ Why is that important to you, and what made it so important to you?
For me, I journey because I am inquisitive about other cultures. I don’t have much to prove; I’ve been to war, I have no constant drive to climb mountains or get to poles. It’s an endless quest and it becomes addictive. I feel like I have done that now. I want to meet interesting people and have adventures. Keeping life exciting and meeting interesting people on the way.
I like travelling with a guy called Ash Bhardwaj, who has travelled with me quite extensively and came with me to Uganda, Sudan, India, and Kashmir. He’s a modern-day Renaissance Man and philosopher. He injects intellectual amusement and humour into my trips. I like travelling with Will Charlton too, who was a friend from uni and a doctor in the Army. Whenever he comes out, he adds pace to any journey and I have to keep up with him.
What made you decide to walk the length of the Nile as opposed to other possible expeditions? What drew you to that particular part of the world and that particular challenge?
It’s an area that has fascinated me since I was a kid. The source was a great mystery and has attracted adventurers for thousands of years (including Victorian adventurers) and I wanted a little piece of that myself. When I left the Army, the first thing I did was volunteer for a charity building clinics in Malawi. The founder of the charity asked me to fund-raise in order to source an ambulance. I got fifteen mates together and fund-raised about £50k. We bought two ambulances from eBay and drove them from London to Southern Africa. It was a bloody great adventure. The vast majority of that route was following the course of the Nile, and that was when the idea came to me. I wanted to follow the course of that great river, but instead on foot.
Logistically, mentally and physically, how do you prepare for an expedition like the Nile, or the Himalayas?
Mentally, I need to know that I am going to put my life in a box for however long I’ll be away, and say goodbye. You tend to be so busy that you don’t have time to think about it until you’re on the plane. Logistics takes up the time: the Nile walk was two years in the planning. The Himalayas were easier as I didn’t need to worry about funding – I had the backing of TV people. Then it’s risk assessments and planning etc. There’s never any time to do any particular fitness stuff – it’s a walking thing and you just start of slowly, five to six miles first day, then build up gradually, and then fitness takes care of itself. Put on weight if you want to. Base fitness does the job.
Walking The Himalayas // Photos: Levison Wood
On any expedition lasting months or even years, tragedy or serious emotional experiences are likely to affect or endanger the progress of the expedition. What do you think the people who undertake these expeditions have inside them that allows them to continue?
It’s a mix; it comes down to conditioning. Your first expedition is very different to your fiftieth. It’s totally personal. On the Nile, it was open-ended. There was the instability of not knowing when you’d seen family again, how long it would take. For the first few months it was all new and exciting. After that, it felt somewhat like a prison sentence. Then, after that, it becomes really difficult and you don’t want to do it. That coincided with the Sudan and it was flat scrubland, not pleasant at all; 52 degrees heat and I wasn’t even half-way there yet. I could even get 3G in the Sahara thanks to cellphone masts. I could get Facebook and Twitter, and it was my birthday; there was no booze and all my mates were having a whale of a time in Ibiza. You question what you’re doing there. You slowly transform, you realise it will come to an end, it will have been worth it. You accept it will be miserable, and you eventually become more in tune with your surroundings. Don’t think about the end, think about why you are there and being in touch with what is around you.
During the Nile walk, a journalist called Matthew Power came to speak to you and tragically succumbed to heatstroke and died. Were you otherwise alone at that point? What effect did this event have on your mental state for the days and weeks that followed?
Boston was my Congolese guide and we had two local game park rangers. Matt was accompanied by a photographer. In the Army, I encountered the effects of climate extremes a lot, especially heatstroke. In the desert, it was extremely hot and we knew how to deal with it. It comes on quickly and can’t be spotted. However, this was the first time anyone had died in my arms and it was terrible. It probably gave me some resilience, in reality. The only way to deal with it was to take four or five days off. We had to take his body out of the jungle, find a coffin and all the other associated terrible things. We had to speak to his family and then came those questions, ethical questions that are always asked: is it right to carry on? Ultimately we came to the decision it would have all been in vain had we stopped then.
You followed the Nile walk with an expedition that became the subject of a best-selling book, Walking the Himalayas, and a television series. From the Silk Route in Afghanistan to the mountain kingdom of Bhutan, you walked more than 1,700 miles across the roof of the world, traversing the length of the Himalayas. Was it strange returning to Afghanistan?
Before the Himalayas walk, the last time I had flown in to Afghanistan had been very different. That was during my time with the Army. We flew in under cover of night then, because there were anti-aircraft guns hidden in the craggy hills around Kandahar. I was thinking about it as we flew in to Afghanistan to start the Himalayas walk – I remember it like it was yesterday. That night had been tense, quiet, really dark outside. There were a hundred Paras sitting with me, many of them flying in to combat for the first time. This time it was more peaceful, on a civilian flight. I had grown my beard to try to fit in, but all the people around me were wearing suits and had slicked-back hair. These were the wealthy classes. When we landed at Kabul Airport, I remember thinking that I had thought I’d left this place behind. There was still a lot of military there, despite the NATO withdrawal – American special forces who didn’t seem particularly covert, even former Soviet soldiers, as well as Afghan soldiers. It was a little strange, yes.
The story of the car crash that nearly took your life, as well as that of your brother and your friend Binod, was told in Volume Seven of Sidetracked (published June 2016). How did you meet Binod?
I met Binod when I was 19, when I was in the mountains in Nepal during a civil war going on at the time between Maoist insurgents and the government. He rescued me, actually. There was a lot of fighting and it was around this time the Nepalese royal family was killed. Binod looked after me for a couple of weeks – we stayed in the hills together. So when I decided I was going to walk the Himalayas he was the obvious choice as my guide. It was great to see him, to have this reunion and see his family after 14 years. That’s one of the things I love about the region – it’s so diverse, but so often friendly and welcoming. The people in the western Himalayas, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, don’t have a great deal in common with the people in the east, in Bhutan and Tibet. Their religion is different, and they speak different languages. But they share a common bond that comes from living in the foothills of this vast mountain range and the dangers and challenges that come with it.
And what’s next for you?
Another 1,700-mile trek along the spine of the Americas from Mexico to Colombia. Beginning in the north-eastern tip of Mexico, I’ll be walking the entire length of Central America, through eight countries. I’ll then attempt to cross the Darien Gap into Colombia and South America. Although I lived in Mexico for three months and I trained in Belize with the Army, this is a part of the world I haven’t really experienced and it has some of the most beautiful but unpredictable places on the planet.
There will be unexplored Mayan ruins in the jungles in Guatemala and Honduras, active volcanoes in Nicaragua, the Panama Canal, and the Darien Gap. I want to spend time with people living in the region, particularly in the remote wilderness where life for indigenous tribes and those who work the land remains pretty much unchanged. I’ll be meeting people, which is a large part of the reason for the walk, trekking with pilgrims and hunting with the ancient Bribri tribe, which is a matrilineal society living isolated from the modern world. In some of the cities, I want to see first-hand the cycle of gang violence and drug trafficking.
After that, just before the end, I am going to try to cross the Darien Gap, which has been called ‘the most intense and brutal 90km of terrain anywhere on Earth’. It should be a really interesting walk.
Levison’s book, ‘Walking the Himalayas: An adventure of survival and endurance‘ is available now.
Levison Wood will shortly be starting his journey through the Americas. For more details visit www.levisonwood.com/ or follow him on Twitter @Levisonwood and Instagram: @levison.wood
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The problem is that nobody is going to go through the effort of checking every edit you make. It doesn't matter how many correct edits you make. If 'some' of your edits are not backed up with proof then they are all going to be removed. Don't bother editing any more, you'll just be wasting your time. Creating a new account (again) isn't going to change anything. You can still check 'I was there' to keep track of any concerts you attended (which is the main reason for the website).
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"Ramones Rock Hard, But Is This Music? By PAUL KAZA Special to the Free Pratt If your musical tastes run to rock 'n' roll in its hardest variety, The Ramones concert at the University of Vermont Sunday was a show not to be missed. If, on the other hand, you like to hear songs which contain more than three or four chords and an occasional change in rhythm, The Ramones would not be your cup of tea. The hard-rocking quartet can legitimately lay claim to being the American pioneers of new wave. They've been doing it for nearly a decade, years before it gained popular acceptance in the late '70s and early '80s. The band certainly has not lost any of its enthusiasm, and its set succeeded in turning Patrick Gym into a makeshift dance hall filled with bodies writhing to the beat. Amid a burst of smoke, the players shook the stage with "Rock 'n' Roll Radio," initiating a frenetic set that included selections from most of their albums. The group leans heavily on a formula which consists of digging up an old classic and beating it into the ground. The Ramones absolutely butchered "Do You Wanna Dance," a song that has been recorded by a hundred artists but has never been so utterly brutalized. "Rock 'n' Roll High School," the title track from a movie in the 70s, painted a disturbing look at the hallowed halls of academia. After "I Wanna Dance with You," the lead singer grabbed a baseball bat and stared rather defiantly into the crowd. 'The KKK Took my Baby Away" Remember that innocent tune, originally recorded by Bobby Freeman? It was yet another example of The Ramones' uncanny ability to ruin a song. For a moment, "Needles and Pins," recorded nearly 20 years ago by Jackie DeShannon, didn't sound too bad. But give The Ramones less than two minutes and they can destroy any pleasant memories you may have associated with a golden oldie. The group makes no effort to break the monotony of their music not a single guitar solo, no backup vocals. The end result is simply gut-wrenching, ear-splitting noise that is about as stimulating as banging your head against a hard wall for an hour. Some of the dancers were coming close to that, with a new craze called "slam bang dancing." The idea is to hurtle yourself forcefully into your partner to the beat of the music. Sound like fun? Maybe it's the '80s version of "The Bump." After "Teenage Lobotomy" and "Surfin' Bird," The Ramones lit into one of their anthems, "Hey Ho, Let's Go," providing impetus for the best idea of the evening: a swift walk directly to the exit door. A mile from the gym, silence never felt better."
Where are the rest of the 30 songs you added? Guesses are not allowed.
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I just saw that you requested a number of Jimi Hendrix Experience songs be attributed to the singles rather than studio albums. Our order of preference is:
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San Francisco’s historic Payne Mansion to become hotel and restaurant
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Justin Phillips April 18, 2018 Updated: April 18, 2018 3:39 p.m.
A view of Payne Mansion taken in October 2017. Built in 1881, it has served as one of the city’s best examples of elaborate pre-1906 Victorian homes.
Photo: Google Maps
After languishing on the real estate market for the last few years, the historic Payne Mansion in San Francisco’s Western Addition neighborhood is now in the hands of a Southern California entrepreneur and his son, who plan to refurbish the property and convert it into a new restaurant and hotel.
Bernard Rosenson is taking over the Victorian structure at 1409 Sutter St., which dates back to 1881. According to his son and business partner Jonathan, they will open a hotel called the Mansion on Sutter at the landmark property. Its corresponding restaurant will be named the 1881.
“The 1881 will feature a full bar and the menu/concept for the restaurant is being developed as we speak,” Jonathan, who is also a sommelier, said via email. The two hope to open the Mansion on Sutter in July.
The Rosenson family owns a number of hotels and restaurants across California, including the Mirabelle Inn in Solvang.
The Payne Mansion is on the National Registry of Historic Places. It was built by Theodore Payne in 1881, and its design is credited to famed Irish architect William F. Curlett. It has served as one of the city’s best examples of elaborate pre-1906 Victorian homes. The Paynes eventually moved away from the mansion to a new home on the Peninsula. Since their departure, the 13-bedroom building has been a restaurant, hotel, offices and even served as a YMCA at one point.
Last year, Payne Mansion was San Francisco’s most expensive Airbnb listing at $10,000 per night, a proposition that included an additional $1,500 cleaning fee. All the while, the estate has been for sale, with its list price fluctuating between $13.9 million less than two years ago to the more recent $12 million.
Justin Phillips is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jphillips@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @JustMrPhillips
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Justin Phillips joined the San Francisco Chronicle in November 2016 as a food writer. He previously served as the City, Industry, and Gaming reporter for the American Press in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He extensively covered the growth and transformation of Southwest Louisiana’s multibillion dollar energy sector. Justin also served as a columnist for the American Press where he won a Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press Media Editors award for his weekly food column. In the past, Justin spent time working in the newsrooms of the Contra Costa Times, the Tri Valley Herald, and the Oakland Tribune. He studied journalism at Louisiana Tech University.
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Kurt Cobain’s guitar from Nirvana’s last tour up for auction
on 18 April 2016 at 11:55 pm
Do you have a spare £34,000?. Image by Peter Collins. Creative Commons
Black-and-white Fender Stratocaster used by the Nirvana frontman as part of the cathartic and destructive close to the band’s performances
Fancy owning a piece of rock history? Well you need worry no more, after a guitar used by Kurt Cobain during Nirvana’s final tour was put up for auction. All you’ll need is a spare £34,000 ($48,537) and then you can meet the minimum bid price.
The instrument was given away by Cobain during Nirvana’s 16 February 1994 show at Palais Omnisport, Rennes, France and is listed for sale on auction house Cooper Owen. In the description on Cooper Owen, the seller explains: “Kurt had 5 of these lefty black and white Strats, shipped by Fender specifically for the end of set jamming and destruction, as they were cheap and they were scared he would otherwise smash his new Mustangs.”
Continuing: “Of these 5 guitars, at least two were destroyed beyond repair (one of which was sold earlier by Mr Vincent – James “Jim” Vincent, Cobain’s guitar tech from Dec 93 onwards) as can be found on YouTube, which leaves 3. Still according to Mr Vincent, one was left unused. The one up for grabs here is therefore one of the two that were played and smashed but repaired and still fully playable.”
The guitar is expected to fetch up to £100,000 ($142,757).
Nirvana released their final studio album, In Utero, in September 1993. The record was the band’s last to be released in Cobain’s lifetime and has since sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.
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Honduras – November 8 2018
Helping separated children returning from the migration ‘caravan’
SOS Children’s Villages Honduras is caring for unaccompanied children who have been sent back to their homeland
Unaccompanied children who attempted to join a migrant caravan to the Mexico-US border are being cared for by SOS Children’s Villages Honduras as they return to their homeland.
Of the 2,125 children who have returned to Honduras since mid-October, 234 were separated from their families and needed temporary care, says Nicolas Alfaro, the National Director of SOS Children’s Villages Honduras. The organisation has provided shelter for at least 30 of these children and is adding capacity as more return to Honduras.
Many of the children had hoped to join other Central Americans in the so-called migrant caravan.
“These children deserve care and protection under international law until they can be safely re-united with their families and loved ones,” Mr Alfaro says. “It is essential that they have care, a safe place to live, and food. Given SOS Children’s Villages’ expertise and 50 years of experience in caring for children in Honduras, we stand ready to help until these children can return home.”
SOS Honduras is working with local social-service agencies to provide care in Santa Rosa de Copán, a busy border city, and in the southern city of Choluteca. Both are home to SOS Children’s Villages.
Two shelters for unaccompanied children
Since 22 October, SOS Children’s Villages has provided temporary care for 30 unaccompanied children at Santa Rosa de Copán. The organisation is opening a second shelter at Choluteca with space for 10 children.
Two of the children at Santa Rosa de Copán were as young as three-years-old and the others have ranged in age from 13 to 17.
Some of the children are awaiting re-unification with their parents in Honduras, while others have parents who themselves have left their country, according to Mr Alfaro. “There are many children who migrated by themselves. They leave because of gang violence, peer pressure, or because they want to look for opportunities in another country.”
“Most of the children arriving at Santa Rosa de Copán are defiant and say they will try crossing the border again, and some are anxious to go back to their families,” Mr Alfaro says. “Some of them are sad. We provide initial emotional care, but they are with us such a short time that there is no opportunity for longer-term mental health care.”
Mr Alfaro says most of the children are in good health and are able to re-join their families quickly. SOS Children’s Villages works with local health officials to provide check-ups and so far there have been no cases of children with serious health problems or signs of abuse.
An ‘exceptional situation’
Honduras has a history of child migration, with thousands returning home every year. But this is the first time SOS Honduras has responded to support unaccompanied children. “This is an exceptional situation,” says Mr Alfaro, noting that migration has grown since a disputed presidential election a year ago fuelled social discontent.
Mr Alfaro is concerned about the longer-term consequences for children seeking to leave the country. “If this situation does not change, this will become a vicious circle and these children will try again and again to leave,” he says. “We are definitely seeing cases of children who don’t know how to read and write, and children who abandoned their education to work in the fields to work for less than four dollars a day.”
The government estimates about 2,100 children that sought to join the US-bound migrant caravan have been returned to Honduras. “Most of them were in Guatemala and returned. Some barely crossed the border before they were returned by the police,” Mr Alfaro says.
Photo: José Gallo
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The Mrs. Hufnagel Chronicles, Part 16
Dr. Westphall reviews the Hufnagel case and finds her medical care inadequate, but he soon discovers the rest of the story.
Per the patient's wishes, Paramedic Faith Yee (Christina
Kokubo) skips the E.R. and brings Mrs. Hufnagel
(Florence Halop) straight to the ward.
If I had to pick my favorite Mrs. Hufnagel appearance, this one, from the episode, "Red, White, Black and Blue", would be the one of the top contenders. Paramedic Faith Yee (Christina Kokubo) wheels a gurney towards the nurses' station. Dr. Jacqueline Wade (Sagan Lewis) directs her to the E.R., where new admissions are supposed to go, but Faith says that the patient insisted. It's Mrs. Hufnagel (Florence Halop), admitted with symptoms of myocardial infarction, and she wants to skip ahead and go straight to her room. Jackie agrees to admit her. Mrs Hufnagel has clearly learned how to work the system, ensuring she gets the side of the building with optimal radio reception.
Later, Dr. Wade presents the case to the Director of Medical Education, Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders). After a round of groans and comments from the other residents, Wade describes how the patient has been re-admitted several times, each time with a more serious condition. Westphall reviews Hufnagel's chart and discovers that different doctors had prescribed medications that combined to create a blood clot and cause an aneurysm to form in her heart, and because of the residents' medical mismanagement, the patient is now seriously ill. He chastises them for not caring and ends up taking the case himself.
Drs. Chandler, Ehrlich, Axelrod and Wade (L-R Denzel
Washington, Ed Begley, Jr., Stephen Furst, Sagan Lewis)
realize the seriousness of Mrs. Hufnagel's medical
mistreatment.
When he arrives at Mrs Hufnagel's room, she is in the middle of fielding an obscene phone call, which she plays along with willingly until the caller gets into the "rough stuff." Hufnagel recognizes Westphall as the "high muckety-muck," and when he informs her of his official title, she balks, "you call what goes on here 'medicine'?" He tries to sympathize, but she soon demonstrates her uncanny ability to seize upon someone's insecurities and turn them into the focal point of the conversation. This exchange is worth typing out.
"The one thing that worries me about dying," she explains, "is being alone. See, I've got nobody. I live alone...just like you. I mean, your wife's dead, you got a daughter in college somewhere, and that retarded kid, boy, that's...that's a kick in the shorts. You poor fellow. The thing I can't figure out is how they can let you run a hospital."
"What do you mean?" Westphall asks.
"You're a jinx!"
"Mrs. Hufnagel..." Donald tries to cut in, but is interrupted.
"Come to think of it, this whole place is jinxed. Auschlander's about ready to kick the bucket; Morrison got his degree from a cracker jack box; Rosenthal isn't exactly symmetrical; Ehrlich, he's got bad luck in his genes...and behind those sensible wrinkles in your forehead, your life's a mess."
And that's all Donald can take. He drops her chart off at the nurses' station, and instructs the nurse to notify Dr. Craig that he will be taking over Hufnagel's case.
Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders) learns firsthand why
the doctors won't treat Mrs. Hufnagel.
I love the reactions on the doctors' faces as they hear about the illnesses that have befallen Mrs. Hufnagel, and each physician remembers that they were the one who treated her for that particular ailment. Their guilt makes it so much funnier when Westphall gets the Hufnagel treatment himself.
In an episode prior to this one, Donald's daughter Lizzie came back home, wanting to drop out of Vassar, but he sent her back in her own best interest, despite missing her and his autistic son Tommy, whom Donald sent to live in a group home after he became unmanageable. Notice how his face drops when she mentions Lizzie.
"Rosenthal isn't exactly symmetrical" -- Nurse Helen Rosenthal (Christina Pickles) found a lump in her breast in season one, and had a mastectomy.
In case you didn't remember what this exchange was about... Before Jackie presents her case, we hear Wayne talk to Phil about his former girlfriend, Nurse Shirley Daniels (Ellen Bry). "It was weird...Shirley acted like everything was great...she was too up." Shirley is out on bail, facing trial for murdering Dr. Peter White (Terence Knox), the St. Eligius rapist from season two. She wants to plead guilty, proud of what she did. Not long after this scene, she returns to work in the E.R. and pulls a gun on a patient and Dr. Jack Morrison (David Morse). It's not a real gun , but we don't know that until after she pulls the trigger. ("Can't anyone around here take a joke?" she responds before walking out.) She makes one more appearance after that, as a prisoner returning to St. Eligius for medical treatment in season five.
I enjoy how well Faith Yee takes the "Suzie Wong" nickname that Hufnagel has bestowed upon her.
Posted by Daniel at 10:37 PM
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Preservation. Education. Community.
“I am about purchasing a plantation to retire to, for I am heartily out of love with the world.”
-James Logan, 1714
Stenton is one of the earliest, best-preserved, and most authentic historic houses in Philadelphia. Completed in 1730 as a country-seat, plantation house for James Logan - Secretary to William Penn; merchant, politician, justice, scientist, and scholar – Stenton was home to six generations of the Logan family, as well as a diverse community of servants and enslaved Africans, including Dinah, who lived and worked at Stenton for over 60 years. Furnished with 18th- and 19th-century Logan family objects, and remaining in little-altered condition, a visit to Stenton offers an unparalleled experience of early Pennsylvania.
The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have worked to “preserve and maintain Stenton as an historic object lesson” since 1899. Today, Stenton administers the award winning History Hunters Youth Reporter Program, which serves over 3,500 underserved Philadelphia schoolchildren each year. Additionally, Stenton’s Colonial Revival Garden was the founding site for the Garden Club of America in 1913, and the site was honored as the winner of the Garden Club of America’s Founders Fund Award in June, 2015. Through tours, educational programs and special events, Stenton continues to transport visitors to the 18th Century.
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Leonore Goldschmidt School
Film footage from the Leonore Goldschmidt School in Berlin
The Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt School in Berlin was founded in 1935 as a Jewish private school in Berlin to enable Jewish children to attend school without reprisals. Jewish schoolchildren were systematically harassed in Nazi Germany since 1933 and finally excluded from attending school at the end of 1938. The Goldschmidtschule offered hundreds of children protection and a good education. In 1939, most of the children were able to emigrate from Germany.
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Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt, born Tacke, was a historian and English specialist with a doctorate. In 1923 she married the lawyer and notary Ernst Goldschmidt. She works as a teacher in Berlin. In 1933 she is put into temporary retirement by the Nazi authorities because she is married to a Jew.
In 1935 Mrs. Goldschmidt founded the private school for Jewish children in Berlin-Grunewald, Kronberger Straße 24, where in the summer of 1937 more than 500 Jewish children were taught by 40 teachers.
Mrs. Goldschmidt was given the status of a bilingual school by hiring a British teacher, and her qualifications were recognised by the University of Cambridge. In this way the children can be prepared for the foreseeable emigration. At the beginning of 1938, the school was granted permission to carry out Abitur examinations. But the events in Vienna in March 1938 reveal the brutal action of the Nazi state against Jews. The Goldschmidts prepare themselves and their school for emigration. In the summer of 1938 they travel to the USA to negotiate the admission of the school there. After their return, however, this project is prohibited by the Berlin authorities. Finally they transfer the ownership of the school to the English teacher. As a result, the school was run as a foreign institution. As a result, the school was not touched in the November pogrom of 1938. This saves the children’s lives. In winter and spring 1939 they can emigrate to England with the children’s transports. Ernst Goldschmidt left Germany on 10 November 1938. Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt left Germany definitively on 20 July 1939. Her school was reopened in Folkestone. Some of the school’s teachers were arrested on 9 November, but are released at the beginning of December. Not all teachers and children can leave Germany in 1939. Many parents of the Goldschmidt students were also not granted the rescue and they died in the death machinery of the Holocaust. Leonore Goldschmidt’s daughter wrote a detailed account of the history of the Goldschmidt School.
The film footage
The films of the American journalist Julien Bryan were probably shot in the summer of 1937 or the following year. His recordings of the Goldschmidtschule were never published.
A few years ago I saw them in the Library of Congress and received a scan permit. We had the HD scans technically edited and improved without changing the original film footage too much. The exact dating of the recordings is not proven. On page 12 of the passport a withdrawal of money in Heidelberg in September 1937 is noted.
Thea Wolffsohn, a former student of the Goldschmidtschule, has seen the pictures and believes to recognize herself on a picture in the classroom. However, she attended the school in 1938. Then these pictures would possibly have been taken after the Goldschmidts had returned from the USA in the summer of 1938.
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Simmons Hanly Conroy Named Most Philanthropic Midsize Business in St. Louis Metro Area
Simmons Hanly Conroy · November 12, 2019
National law firm dedicated to representing asbestos cancer victims makes giving back the bedrock of its culture
Several Simmons Hanly Conroy employees were present to accept the firm’s Corporate Philanthropy Award. From left, Tamara Jesse, Stephanie Elliott, Ashley Kuenstler, Medical Director Amy Fair, Assistant Managing Partner Amy Garrett and Shareholder Ted Gianaris.
St. Louis, MO. – Simmons Hanly Conroy, one of the nation’s largest mass tort law firms, is known for standing for its clients. Today, it was recognized for standing for its neighbors.
During the St. Louis Business Journal’s second annual Corporate Philanthropy Awards, the firm was recognized as the most philanthropic midsize business in the St. Louis Metro area, locally donating more than $1.3 million and close to 1,000 volunteer hours in 2018. Assistant Managing Partner Amy Garrett accepted the award on behalf of the firm.
The firm’s culture of giving can be traced back to its founder, John Simmons. Raised in a small town, he was taught to offer a hand whenever possible. This philosophy became the bedrock of his law firm’s culture. Simmons started the firm in 1999 to give a voice to the voiceless, representing people diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare and deadly cancer caused by asbestos. Today, the firm represents more mesothelioma victims than any law firm in the country
“We’re one of the most successful plaintiffs’ firms in the country,” Simmons said. “It’s not only our social responsibility to share that success with others who need it – it’s something we’re passionate about doing.”
Since 2004, the firm has donated more than 10,000 volunteer hours and millions to non-profits and other organizations focused on helping those in need. Notable donations and efforts include:
The firm and its shareholders pledged $10.2 million dollars to fund the Simmons Cancer Institute at Southern Illinois University. The Cancer Institute is the only one of its kind in downstate Illinois and has more than 20,000 patient visits every year.
The firm created Miles for Meso in 2009, a local 5K that raises awareness and funds for mesothelioma cancer research. There are now Miles for Meso races across the country, and more than $750,000 has been raised to help cancer victims and their families.
Employees came together to form the Simmons Employee Foundation (SEF). Funded solely by payroll deductions and employee donations, the foundation has donated more than $1 million of financial support and countless volunteer hours to hundreds of charitable organizations. One of SEF’s annual efforts is its annual food drive. Every year, employees donated 25,000 pounds of food to five area food pantries during the holidays.
The firm hosts two blood drives every year. In the past 10 years, employees have donated enough blood to save the lives of 3,200 people.
Every year, employees participate in the Adopt-A-Family program for the Christmas season. In the nine years employees have participated, they have purchased Christmas presents for almost 2,000 children and almost 700 families.
Medical Coordinator Amy Fair, who organizes the firm’s Adopt-A-Family efforts, credits firm leadership for employees’ passion for volunteerism and fundraising.
“It really starts at the top,” she said. “Leadership has created an environment where donating time and money isn’t seen as a box to check – it’s seen as a normal, everyday part of our culture and something we are happy to be a part of.”
Employees made a big difference last year during the holiday season. In December, a young mother of three was living in a local homeless shelter after bravely fleeing her abusive husband. She and her children left the family home with a trash bag of belongings just one month before Santa was set to arrive. When firm employees learned of the family’s situation, they sprung into action. The whole family received food, new clothing and shoes, and several Christmas presents to unwrap.
In a thank you note to the firm, the mother wrote, “Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your generosity is above and beyond what I could have imagined. You have given us our first reason to smile in a very long time. I don’t know that we would have made it through the rest of this year without your gift.”
Her family was one of 78 families adopted by the firm last holiday season.
“No matter their situation, we are committed to seeing all of our neighbors succeed,” Simmons said. “Whether it’s in the courtroom or the community, we are proud to be on their side.”
To read the St. Louis Business Journal’s profile on the firm, visit https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2019/11/08/corporate-philanthropy-awards-2019-simmons-hanly.html (behind a paywall).
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The AHTCC Welcomes Mark Calabria as Director of FHFA
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On Monday, April 15, Dr. Mark Calabria Director Calabria began his 5-year term as Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), taking over the position from former acting director Joseph Otting. Director Calabria formerly served as the chief economist for Vice President Mike Pence, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, and as a senior aide on the Senate Banking Committee where he helped draft the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA).
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Star Wars in 4K may no longer be a galaxy far, far away - here's what we want to see
By Jon Porter 09 June 2017
Han shot first, Cloud City CG and more...
Evidence is mounting that Disney is preparing to embrace Ultra HD. The Digital Bits reports that not only is Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 director James Gunn pushing hard for the company to put out its films in 4K, but that Disney is also allegedly waiting for Dolby Vision to become more widely supported before it supports the new resolution.
Of course, we’d love to see Marvel’s titles see a release in the new format, but we’d be lying if we said that there wasn’t a franchise out there that we’re much more excited about.
That franchise is, of course, Star Wars, which also just happens to be owned by Disney.
We already know that a 4K version of the movie exists, the only question is when it's going to make its way to us.
Resolution revolution
Of course the increase in resolution is only half the story when it comes to Star Wars remasters. Since the original movies were remastered in anticipation of the release of the prequels, the films have seen regular cuts and edits made to their content.
CGI segments have been added, background characters have been changed, and, most controversially of all, the Cantina scene was edited to make it appear as though Greedo shot first.
With many of these edits proving controversial among fans, a 4K remaster is the perfect opportunity to iron out the kinks, and straight up remove some of the more egregious changes.
Although there are those who’d settle for nothing less than the film’s completely returning to their original theatrical versions, we’d argue that a compromise would be a better.
Yes, we know that this might be sacrilegious amongst certain fans, but hear us out…
Fix, don’t remove, the crappy '90s CGI
When George Lucas was re-releasing the original movies in 1997 he added a couple of CGI shots to sit alongside the fantastic practical effects present in the original.
The thing is, the shots themselves aren’t a completely terrible idea. In A New Hope an extra shot was added of Red Squadron approaching the Death Star, and in Empire Strikes Back extra shots of the Milenium Falcon approaching Cloud City were added, along with plenty of CGI windows inside the city itself.
All of these shots add something to their respective films. The approach sequences work well as establishing shots and build a nice amount of tension, and the CGI windows in Cloud City make the whole sequence feel a lot less claustrophobic and give the city more character.
Imagine how good this could look with modern CGI.
The only problem with these shots is that they were made at a time when CGI was in its infancy, and they sit alongside some relatively timeless practical effects.
We’d love to see these shots given a fresh coat of paint. Bring them up to the standard of the CGI seen it Rogue One and The Force Awakens and the difference in quality shouldn’t be quite as jarring.
Kill the band sequence in Return of the Jedi
From the relatively tasteful CGI additions in A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back, we turn now to Return of the Jedi, which features one of the most outrageous additional sequences.
It’s tonally out of place, adds close to nothing to the film, and… oh just watch it for yourself.
Remove the Gungan from the Naboo celebrations
This is a small one, but at the end of Return of the Jedi the special editions include a celebration sequence, where various cities throughout the galaxy are shown celebrating the collapse of the Empire at the hands of the Rebellion.
Overall the scenes aren’t half bad. We see the wider impact of Han, Luke and Leia’s mission, and we essentially get confirmation of the fact that the Rebellion are, in fact, the good guys, rather than a rogue organisation working to undermine what is otherwise a stable, functioning system of government.
But when the scene cuts to Naboo, where the streets are filled with partying... Naboos. Well, if you listen careful you can faintly hear the sound of a Gungan yelling the words, “Weesa free!”
We don’t care how it’s done, we don’t care if that Gungan has a family back home, but Disney needs to do whatever it takes to remove it from that scene.
Fix the bloody rocks
With the numerous changes that have been made to the original movies over the years, you almost get the feeling that Lucas started to run out of ideas as he switched to making smaller and smaller changes.
The perfect example is the now-infamous rocks scene in A New Hope, where Lucas digitally added a rock in front of R2D2 to hide him from the Tusken Raiders.
Sure, we can understand the thinking behind this decision. In the original shot R2 is pretty exposed, and yeah, I guess you could argue the Tusken Raiders would have seen him.
But the problem, as with many of the changes implemented by Lucas and his team, is that the solution introduces more problems than it solves. From continuity errors between the shot and those that immediately precede it, to making a crevice too small for the droid to physically fit inside in the first place, the change was simply poorly implemented.
Hide R2 behind a rock if you have to, but at least use the remaster as an opportunity to tidy it up.
HAN SHOT FIRST
We’re not going to bore you with a detailed explanation of why making Greedo shoot first in the Cantina at the beginning of A New Hope is the single most egregious change Lucas ever made to the film.
We’re not going to stress how the point of Han Solo as a character is that he starts the movie as a cold-hearted murderer whose entire point is to go through a character arc as he grows to believe in the Rebellion’s mission.
But we are going to point out just how terrible the scene looks now, with blaster shots superimposed over a scene that was never designed for them, and with Han’s head juddering weirdly to the left to avoid the shot.
For the love of god Disney, just put the shot back to the way it was before so we can forget this entire thing ever happened.
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Rising tuition rates: private vs. public
Peter Cohan WALL & MAIN
For years now, private college tuition has risen significantly faster than inflation, a fact that colleges have used a fancy economics theory called Baumol's Law to explain away. Unfortunately for the families who pay more than $200,000 for the privilege of sending a child to one of those private institutions, the value of the education is hard to justify when comparing its costs and benefits to those of a state school.
The lack of difference in value between state schools and the more prestigious private colleges is compelling. A private college — including tuition, room and board — costs about $50,000 a year, compared to half that price for a state school. But according to a study cited by The New York Times, the average lifetime incomes of comparably talented graduates of public and private institutions are about the same for most students — in terms of financial value, it's hard to justify the tuition difference.
But those rising private college tuitions haven't kept pace with the rise in pay for full professors. For example, since 1970, Harvard's tuition has risen at a 5.4 percent annual rate from $4,070 to $33,696, while the consumer price index has risen at an average annual rate of 4.4 percent from 39.6 to 218.8. The salaries of full professors during that time rose at an even greater rate of 5.8 percent a year, from about $20,000 to $191,200.
When asked about why tuition has gone up so much, academics such as those at William & Mary cite Baumol's Law. This states that when it comes to offering services, the large productivity boosts common in goods-producing sectors are not possible. That claim is certainly questionable as applied to education, given the dramatic increase in the use of technology to prepare syllabuses, communicate with students and calculate grades, among many other education-related tasks.
Clark University in Worcester charges $37,000 in annual tuition.
University President David Angel, in explaining Clark's tuition, said, “I focus on value, cost and affordability.
“Clark's value is in its mission to prepare its students to make an extraordinary difference to the organizations that its students join after graduation. It is rethinking its undergraduate curriculum now for the first time in 30 years with the rallying cry Liberal Education and Effective Practice (LEEP),” he said. “Realizing that mission is people-intensive — the biggest source of Clark's cost. Clark's teaching professionals spend an extraordinary amount of time with students in small classes. And since Clark is a residential college, the professional staff is with students ‘ 24/7 ' — when considering extracurricular activities, athletics, and so on.”
He noted that the Clark provides $35 million annually in tuition assistance, to 85 percent of its students.
A theoretical cause for the tuition increase that seems more plausible to me is the Chivas Regal effect — the idea that universities will charge what the market will bear. As Time explained almost a decade ago, during the 1980s parents increasingly came to feel that “college education was a necessity, a direct conduit to a high-paying job. Easy financial credit, moreover, made it possible for parents to borrow large sums of money; doing so for college became more socially acceptable.”
Whatever the reasons for the rise in tuition prices, however, in general, private colleges aren't worth the higher tuition they charge, and students at public universities graduate with far less debt.
That student debt can be a big deal. Given the weak job market, many students are finishing their educations and discovering they are unable to get jobs that recover their costs.
While the cream of the crop of private school graduates gets the top 1 percent of jobs in hedge funds or successful companies like Facebook, most are in the bottom 99 percent, at the mercy of companies squeezing their employees and outsourcing professional work to countries with lower labor rates. Regrettably for them, the idea that their pricey educations might pay off in the future — should the job market recover — won't help repay their student debts.
But is the $200,000 investment in a top private college education worth the extra $100,000? If you measure the return on investment based on how much money students make, the answer is a resounding maybe. According to Robert Zemsky, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Research on Higher Education, as quoted by Time, a student who graduates from Penn will earn 56.6 percent more than if he graduates just from high school, compared to just 31.7 percent more if he graduates from a “flagship public university.”
If the Penn grad makes $100,000 a year, it will take 6.3 years for her parents to break even on the additional $100,000 in tuition.Parents need to decide for themselves whether that's a short enough payback period to justify the additional investment — or whether the IRHE study is more convincing than the ones that deny the salary differential exists.
Peter Cohan of Marlboro heads a management consulting and venture capital firm, teaches business strategy and is the author of 10 books. His column also runs Mondays and Wednesdays on telegram.com. His email address is peter@petercohan.com.
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Army Captain
Christopher S. Seifert
April 24, 1975 to March 22, 2003
United States Army Captain Christopher S. Seifert bravely served in Assistant Brigade S-2 of the First Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airbone Division as a military intelligence officer. In the days leading up to his Division's deployment for the Iraq War, Cpt. Seifert worked nearly around the clock in 'The Vault', preparing maps and other intelligence. On March 22, 2003, the day before his unit was to move from Kuwait to Iraq, he was killed in a grenade attack.
Christopher was an athlete, a musician and an outstanding student. However, it is his smile people remember most about him.
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S. C. Gwynne’s “Safe at Home” is not really about the children [April 2005]. It is about the parents’ need to be “the best.” By having their children compete for regional, state, and national titles, parents can feel that they have done a superior job of parenting. The fact that their children are running the risk of psychological burnout and injury to not-fully-developed muscles and bones and are subjected to the viciously competitive world of juvenile sports does not seem to bother them.
These are the formative years for a child’s character. The message that these children are receiving is that they are the center of the universe and that the whole family should be sacrificed at the altar of their “talent.” Truly gifted athletes have inner drive. All the “select” teamwork will not replace that. And as soon as that driven parent no longer has power over the child, the child will quit the sport.
Anne Barker
Science? Fiction?
In a word, brilliant! Michael Ennis has shown an admirable degree of journalistic chutzpah by (rightly) taking the citizens of this state to task for making “evolution” a dirty word [“Dissing Darwin,” April 2005]. It’s high time we started calling a spade a shovel and recognized blind faith for what it is: ignorance dressed in its Sunday best.
No doubt the intelligent designers and biblical creationists will make their presence felt, spew their venom, call Mr. Ennis a sinner, a heretic, an atheist, or worse, and demand equal space for their superstitions. They’ll probably even whine that evolution is “just a theory.” Ignore them.
“Convictions,” wrote Nietzsche, “are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” Particularly religious convictions. Texans cannot expect to prosper in the twenty-first century C.E. while enslaved to the ideas of the twenty-first century B.C.E.
Douglas Mauldin
Oh, please. The correlation of Darwinism to state progress is one hardly worthy of noting. Michael Ennis’s claims of molecular “evolution” are laughable at best, downright deceptive at worst.
Stem cells aren’t the issue here; the very value of human life is. Non-embryonic stem cell lines have been shown to be by far the most promising avenues into developing new treatments. While in theory the embryonic stem cells do have much potential, until we better understand the human genome, ESC research is nothing more than barbaric reverse engineering of the human form.
Margret Kiefer
Michael Ennis is an expert on science? What good does it do to raise our C in science to an A when we learn things that can’t be proven? Intelligent design can’t be proven either, but at least it gives us a philosophy that can be lived out in everyday life. We are creatures who have a creator that gives life purpose. Being just some grown-up “pond scum” leads to a meaningless end, not only here but also in the hereafter. Darwinism makes this whole discussion between Ennis and myself pointless. It can best be described by Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Ray Miller
It is easy for the media to insist that our country has not fully assessed responsibility and held people accountable for Abu Ghraib when they don’t get the story they want [“The Buck Stops Nowhere,” April 2005]. There was no failure of oversight. Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez put his trust in the men and women below him to diligently follow orders and plans that were given to him by the Army’s leadership. Understaffed by 50 percent and dealing with a lawless nation and insurgency, Sanchez did what he had been trained to do in war: assess and delegate problems and situations to staff members, whom he had no reason not to trust. Torture is never acceptable. Individuals who tortured Abu Ghraib prisoners have been and will continue to be convicted. These were not acts of Army policy but of an unstable few who felt above the law.
Kerri Beckert
Schools of Thought
Paul, I am sorry to say that your political analysis of school finance gets a C [Behind the Lines: “Disaster!” by Paul Burka, April 2005]. Our Texas “school community” is not a mandarin community but more like the orphans of a long-lost cousin. They are heard from occasionally, but they are not expected to lead or to make policy. “Haughty,” “unrealistic,” and “entitlement” are not words that describe this dissed, underpaid, and overworked community.
J. L. Howell
Gee, Paul, let’s review: Early in the last century, millions of people came to this country seeking better lives. Many of them could not speak English. Guess what? Without the benefit of special assistance, pupil weighting, or other assorted claptrap, they learned the language, worked their buns off, and made themselves and their adopted country successful.
My family and I came to this country nearly fifty years ago. We did have the advantage of speaking English. However, we had to be disease-free and have no background of “moral turpitude,” and we could be deported at once if we became public charges (meaning that we did not qualify for any government assistance). During the five-year residency to qualify for citizenship, we were voteless, liable for all relevant taxes, and subject to the draft.
My family, children, and grandchildren are all proud to be Texans, people known for their get-up-and-go. The whiff of implied guilt for not doing so much for recent arrivals is not welcome. These arrivals have the same need to succeed, the same determination. So stand back and watch them shine.
Henry Overal
Give ’Em the Bird
As I read “Sibling Ribaldry,” by Sarah Bird, I found myself laughing out loud [April 2005]. I am pleased with your newest writer, and Lord knows she is better-looking than the Texas Jewboy, and probably smells better too!
Karen R. Thompson
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Monogrammed "Louis Vuitton" handguns miss the mark
A Las Vegas gun company announced in July that it had created an accessory for the “stylish” gun owner
Eric Magnuson
There has been a spate of gun massacres this year in Wisconsin, Colorado and Texas. Nevertheless, a Las Vegas gun company announced in July that it had created an accessory for the “stylish” gun owner: a handgun grip monogrammed with Louis Vuitton’s logo. The luxury brand quickly distanced itself from Machine Gun Vegas’s design. In a statement, Louis Vuitton says it is “in no way associated with this company. We do not manufacture gun grips and do not condone the alteration of our creations in any way.” A spokeswoman for Machine Gun Vegas says she is “not allowed to discuss” the grip.
Originally appeared in The Art Newspaper as 'Happiness is a warm “Louis Vuitton”?'
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Breslin War Memorial
The "Breslin War Memorial" is a memorial erected by two local business owners, Pat and Sandy Breslin, who were strong supporters of US troops during WWII. When they lost the lease on their fishing business in Belmar, they had the memorial donated to Fort Monmouth, once an active military base in Monmouth County. After Fort Monmouth closed, the memorial was relocated to its original home in Belmar and can now be visited on the 9th Avenue Pier in this beach town of New Jersey.
This is an image of the memorial when it was at Fort Monmouth. Picture taken from https://www.army.mil/article/34903/memorial_with_rich_history_leaves_fort_monmouth
This is the memorial in Belmar at its current location. The image is taken from https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=37972
This is a close up of the Breslin Memorial as it is home in Belmar from the website https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=37972
The Breslin War Memorial is a modest monument near the Belmar Marina in Belmar, New Jersey. Originally erected in 1949, it stands in remembrance of the fallen soldiers during World War II and beyond.
The inscription on the memorial reads:
“To the glory of God and to those who served fought and died that our flag may every fly in honor and in peace. This shrine is reverently dedicated by Pat and Sandy Aug 15, 1949.”
The monument's story starts with Pat and Sandy Breslin in the 1940s. This couple lived in Belmar, New Jersey, and owned a local restaurant and dock which included boats and fishing materials. When the US military base of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, the Breslins vowed to support their men and women in uniform. This oath guided their decision to allow any individual in military uniform, regardless of race, creed, color, or sex, to have a free meal at their local restaurant. Furthermore, the dock, including its 150 boats, bait, fishing equipment, and any other available resources, were also available at any time for uniformed individuals free of charge. The couple even extended the use of their telephone to the soldiers, enabling these servicemen and women to call home. The open arms of this couple impressed many individuals and created a strong support base for many soldiers in the New Jersey area, particularly those based out of Fort Monmouth.
This support for the military continued throughout the wartime era and into the period of peace, and eventually earned the couple national recognition. The Breslins were gifted the flag that flew over the Capitol on D-day and in 1953, they were even visited by the president of the United States, President Dwight Eisenhower. They also received a medal in 1954 from Archibishop of New York and Apostolic Vicar for the U.S. Armed Forces Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman. The Breslins were not motivated by fame nor recognition, but rather due to a fervent and deeply-rooted sense of patriotism. They acted out of a sense of duty, doing all that they could to help serve those who served their country. Their patriotism and sense of duty, which inspired the dedication of the memorial to the fallen soldiers of the United States, is truly remarkable.
The Breslins kept the memorial on their property until 1957, when the lease for their land expired and was not renewed. This required the relocation of the memorial from its home in Belmar, New Jersey. After petitioning the President and contacting the US Army, an agreement was reached that the Memorial would be received at Fort Monmouth, an active duty military base some 25 minutes away. This new location lasted from the 1960s to 2011, upon the closure of Fort Monmouth, where it was returned to Belmar, its original location.
This memorial now stands as a tribute to the fallen, and to Pat and Sandy- and all those like them who support our troops.
Breslin War Memorial. Historical Marker Project. . Accessed February 12, 2019. https://www.historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMPER_breslin-war-memorial_Belmar-NJ.html.
“Fort Monmouth Army Base in Monmouth, NJ.” Military Bases. Accessed March 20, 2019. https://militarybases.com/new-jersey/fort-monmouth/.
Rielly, Chrissie Tate. Breslin War Memorial. The Historical Marker Database. June 16, 2016. Accessed February 12, 2019. https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=37972.
Ziobro, Melissa. “Memorial with Rich History Leaves Fort Monmouth.” www.army.mil. 24 Feb 2010. Accessed March 8, 2019. https://www.army.mil/article/34903/memorial_with_rich_history_leaves_fort_monmouth.
This is the official website of the US Army detailing the history and relocation of the memorial.
This website details the location, further history information, and nearby historical markers.
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Two Female Supreme Court Judges Assassinated in Afghanistan
The latest in a series of killings comes days after the Pentagon announced a cut to U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan to 2,500.
Palin's Specious Interviews for Fox
Palintology
Updated Apr. 25, 2017 10:38AM ET / Published Mar. 31, 2010 6:56AM ET
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Looks like Sarah Palin won’t be giving rapper LL Cool J the ol’ Katie Couric treatment after all: Cool J has complained on his Twitter that Fox News is falsely making it appear as though he sat down with Sarah Palin for her new special, Real American Stories, which airs Thursday Night. He tweeted, “Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else & are misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palin's Show. WOW.” In the promo for Palin’s show, it says LL Cool J will share the “real story behind his incredible life.” LL Cool J isn't the only one being falsely promoted; country singer Toby Keith was also on the list to appear, but his publicist says Fox never contacted them. Though Keith did interview with the network in 2009, he was never interviewed by Sarah Palin.
Update: Fox News has announced that it will cut the LL Cool J footage from Sarah Palin's program, saying in a statement that "[A]s it appears that Mr. Smith [Cool J's real name] does not want to be associated with a program that could serve as an inspiration to others, we are cutting his interview from the special and wish him the best with his fledgling acting career.
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Woman Arrested for Extortion Scheme Against Eliot Spitzer
Updated Apr. 13, 2017 2:47PM ET / Published Oct. 11, 2016 12:59AM ET
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Police in New York say a woman has been arrested and faces charges of grand larceny by extortion for trying to dupe former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer out of $50,000. The woman has been identified as a 25-year-old Russian named Svetlana Zakharova Travis. She fled the U.S. after accusing Spitzer of choking her at the Plaza Hotel back in February but was taken into custody Monday after returning. After the alleged assault near Central Park last spring, the woman reportedly slit her wrists and made the accusations against Spitzer only after police questioned her at the hospital. At that time, local media cited sources saying she had known Spitzer for two years and the two had argued over her plans to return to Russia. She is due to appear at the Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday. Spitzer, whose career famously imploded in 2008 after he was linked to a prostitution scandal, has denied the assault.
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Sweet Tooth May Be Linked to Alcoholism
By Chrisanne Grise 07/11/13
Studies show that the brain's responses to sweets and booze may be closely linked.
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Your dessert cravings may indicate a higher risk for alcoholism, according to various studies. Past research on humans and animals has found that the brain's responses to sweets and alcohol may share the same neural pathways. And a new study, to be published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, showed that test subjects' responses to a sweet taste correlated with their drinking patterns. "Some studies do show that alcoholics, or even non-alcoholics with a family history of alcoholism, have a preference for unusually sweet tastes,” says David A. Kareken, deputy director of the Indiana Alcohol Research Center and co-author of the new study. “While the precise reasons remain unclear, there does seem to be significant evidence suggesting some link between the rewarding properties of both sweet tastes and alcohol." In the new study, sixteen healthy volunteers were given small squirts of either water or a mixture of sugar in water, while researchers conducted a taste test and blood measurements with a technology called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). They found that those subjects who reported drinking more alcohol in general had a stronger response to the sweet liquid; these subjects also reported liking the sweet taste more than subjects who drank less alcohol. Says Kareken: "While alcoholism itself is likely the product of several mechanisms, our findings may implicate a particular brain region that is more generally involved in coding for the value of 'primary' rewards such as pleasures."
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Story By: Matthew Menchaca, Reporter
Although there have been many changes to how it operates, the Ram Pantry is still up and running on the Fresno City College campus amidst the current pandemic.
The Ram Pantry, currently operating behind the Student Center/Bookstore, is now open on Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
In order to make it easier for students to get their food during the pandemic, all students need to do is provide their student ID number and they will be provided with a prepared box of groceries.
To access the Ram Pantry students can park in lots J or K and do not need a parking permit. However, students and staff are required to wear a mask at all times while on campus.
Upon arrival students must walk to the back patio to get their food. This procedure is a change from the recent drive-thru method where Ram Pantry volunteers would take the food to students’ cars.
CalFresh outreach specialist and former Associated Student Government President, DeRon Walker, working in collaboration with the Ram Pantry, explains that the change in procedure is due to the change in the county transmission risk tiers. Fresno County recently changed from tier one to tier two, which allows for the reopening of businesses and operations. This change in tiers has also allowed the pantry to add Wednesday to their days of operation.
Since COVID-19 has impacted the days and hours of operation, the Ram Pantry has seen a significant decrease in student visits. Walker says that before the pandemic there were hundreds of students visiting per day, but now there are only about 100.
This decrease has caused a surplus of food which Walker said may be provided to non-FCC student community members, but normally the pantry’s services are for students only.
Walker says that if community members come to the Ram Pantry in need of help, then the Pantry will take down their information and “encourage them to apply for CalFresh benefits and also maybe encourage them to go ahead and get enrolled to the school.”
The Holiday Season is almost upon us and the Ram Pantry is always taking donations.
For any community members or students looking to provide help, Walker says “people are always welcome to come by and drop off a donation here at the Ram Pantry” and they can contact Student Activities at (559) 443-8688 for directions on how to donate.
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Shafter High's Class of 2020, masked and socially distanced, get their diplomas at a unique ceremony on the high school football field last week. The event met standards set by the state and the Kern Unified High School District. Story, more photos on Page 7. (Jamie Stewart | The Shafter Press)
Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, Shafter High School sent their senior class across the stage, ending what was an unprecedented school year where a graduation ceremony had seemed unlikely just a couple of months ago.
Wednesday, June 24, at the Shafter High Football stadium, the Class of 2020 received their diplomas, opening the next chapter in their lives.
Each senior was allowed two guests who could be seated with them on the football field. The bleachers were empty, with the full area of the football field being utilized. As the students' names were read, the student and his or her guests walked to the front of the dais, ending at the end of the stage where a photographer wait to take their picture.
Principal Russell Shipley gave a few opening remarks and introduced Student Body President Jackson Sanchez. Sanchez told the crowd that the Class of 2020 faced a year like no other in the history of Shafter High. "It started out amazing, with a big win against Wasco on this field," he said. "When 2020 hit, that is where everything would never be the same again."
Sanchez said that with everything that has gone on in the world, the fact that they made it through is a statement on how special this class is. "I honestly didn't even think that we would get this graduation, but here we are, and we look pretty darned good," he said. "If this year has taught us anything is that we can make it through whatever life throws at us. I love you Class of 2020."
Another testament to the perseverance of this class is the record-breaking number of students who are lifetime members of the California Scholastic Federation.There are 59 students in the Class of 2020 who earned this honor.
Another tradition that was honored this year was the decades-long presentation of the Stringham Memorial Awards given out to the top four students ranked in the class. The top student for 2020,with a perfect GPA of 4.50, was Clarissa Vanderpoel. The second-ranked student was Stephenia Ledezma, followed by Ethan Lopez and Rafael Acosta.
Cynthia Brakeman, a member of the Kern High School District Board of Trustees, then addressed the graduates. Brakeman said she understood that there had been obstacles and disappointment this year, and she applauded the class for handling the setbacks with class.
"One thing I would like to encourage you guys to do is, instead of dwelling on the many things that you have missed out on this year, to focus on the fact that you have experienced something that no other class in the history of the district has endured. You will have a story for the ages."
Michelle Gurrola Quinonez with Laura and Amy Quinonez.
As each student was called,they made their way across the stage one last time as high school seniors. It was a moment of relief and pride, but also a bittersweet one for many of the graduates.
Graduate Eddie Avalos said, when asked if there was any disappointment at the moment, "At first, I didn't think it was a big deal, but once it got closer to graduation time, I honestly started thinking, 'This is it. We will never be able to experience so much of what was supposed to be a part of our senior year.'"
Michelle Gurrola Quinonez commented, "Yeah, the last part of the year kind of sucked, but we did get to have a graduation which is great."
This ceremony and last part of the year was a double-edged sword for many of the students.Although they will be remembered for their perseverance and strength, there will always be a part of them that might have preferred a more traditional end to their high school careers.
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OUT WITH A BANG
Where are the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang cast now?
Rebecca Flood
IT'S been more than half a decade since the iconic flying car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang burst onto our screens - and the Child Snatcher haunted our dreams.
The classic children's film was released in 1968, with legendary actor Dick Van Dyke starring in the lead role as Caractacus Potts.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was able to travel on land, sea and airCredit: Alamy
The film is based on James Bond author Ian Fleming's novel, and the screenplay was co-written by famous childrens' author, Roald Dahl.
The two-and-a-half hour long film tells the story of Jeremy, Adrian Hall, and Jemima, Heather Ripley, Potts, and their eccentric father, the inventor Caractacus.
The pair become attached to a car in an garage, which is due to be scrapped, and they beg their father to buy it.
In his attempt to raise the funds, Caractacus runs into Truly Scrumptious, played by Sally Ann Howes.
A famous scene from the film shows the cast smuggled in to the castle as life-sized dollsCredit: Alamy
The quartet end up in the child-free land of Vulgaria, where the Baron and Baroness Bomburst set the notorious Child Catcher, played by Robert Helpmann, to hunt down the Potts kids.
Some 52 years after the iconic film was released, we look at where the main actors are today.
Caractacus Potts - Dick Van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke played the lead as the eccentric inventor Caractacus
Lead actor Dick Van Dyke has had an illustrious career in showbiz spanning decadesCredit: Getty Images - Getty
Dick Van Dyke is one of the most famous actors in Hollywood, with a career spanning seven decades.
The 95-year-old was already a household name from Mary Poppins, but the success of Chitty cemented his legendary status.
Dick has won a Grammy, Tony and five Primetime Emmy Awards, has been recognised as a Disney legend, and he has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame.
In the years since the film's release, he starred in the self-titled The Dick Van Dyke show, Night at the Museum, Curious George and Dick Tracy.
Truly Scrumptious - Sally Ann Howes
Sally played the charming character of Truly Scrumptious, and went on to have a glittering careerCredit: Alamy
Sally Ann Howe got the role after Julie Andrews turned it downCredit: Getty Images - Getty
Sally Ann Howe was cast in the role of Truly Scrumptious, after Julie Andrews - who starred alongside Dick in Mary Poppins - turned down the role.
Sally had a career on the stage before Chitty, but the film put her on the map.
Since the film's release, she went on to star in the west end, appearing in numerous theatre productions including The Sound of Music, The King and I and Hamlet.
Child catcher - Robert Helpmann
The Child Catcher haunted the dreams of children for years to come Credit: Not known, clear with picture desk
Robert Helpmann was given a state funeral in Sydney upon his death in 1986Credit: Popperfoto - Getty
Robert Helpmann struck fear into the heart's of children with his most famous saying “I smell children…” which has haunted the minds of children and adults alike.
He was an Australian ballet dancer, actor and choreographer, and went on to star in a number of blockbusters, including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Don Quixote after the film.
While he played a fearsome role in Chitty, co-star Heather said he was: "The least scariest person I have ever met in my life. There was absolutely nothing about him that was scary.
"He was a sweet and charming gentleman. But the way he moved, could be very scary."
He was so acclaimed in his native country that he was given a state funeral in Sydney upon his death in 1986.
Jeremy Potts - Adrian Hall
Adrian was just nine when he landed the role, and he's now 61 and lives in Staines, south England Credit: Hulton Archive - Getty
Adrian has since given up acting and is the principal at a performing arts schoolCredit: ITV
Adrian Hall was just nine-years-old when he was cast as Jeremy in the smash-hit film.
After landing such a massive role Adrian went back to school to finish his studies, but found it difficult to land more acting jobs.
Eventually he took Chitty off his CV, over fear of being type-cast.
He said: "I know that it stopped me being considered for roles. People only think you're a child actor. It wasn't until I removed it that I got my first jobs."
Adrian, now 61, gave up the limelight to work as a teacher, and is now the principal at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) .
Jemima Potts - Heather Ripley
Heather Ripley was just eight-years-old when she starred in the cult filmCredit: Getty Images - Getty
Heather had a troubled life after finding fame at such a young age Credit: Getty Images
Heather was just nine-years-old when she starred alongside Dick Van Dyke, but after the film's huge success her personal life suffered.
The Scot ran away from her Dundee home when she was a teenager, and blamed her parents' split on her global fame.
She became an activist and lived in makeshift peace camps where she raised her two children, daughter Josie, and son Cosmo.
Heather settled back into her hometown, but encountered a few legal troubles.
Now, the former child star, now 61, is writing a book about the movie and is hoping to return to acting.
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‘NOTHING LIKE IT’
Coronavirus-hit Chris Cuomo reveals he hallucinated seeing his dead father and chipped a tooth during fever battle
Christy Cooney
CHRIS Cuomo has spoken about suffering hallucinations of his dead father and chipping a tooth during a violent fever while battling coronavirus.
The CNN anchor, 49, has been hosting his Prime Time show from isolation in his basement since announcing his diagnosis with the virus earlier this week.
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Chris Cuomo has spoken about suffering hallucinations of his dead father and chipping a tooth during a violent fever while battling coronavirus
Cuomo is the brother of current New York governor Andrew Cuomo and son of former governor Mario Cuomo, and lives in Manhattan with his wife and their three children.
Speaking last night while hosting his show via webcam, he described the symptoms he had been experiencing during the nights.
He said: "I've had a fever, you've had a fever. But 102, 103 plus that wouldn't quit.
"It was like someone was beating me like a piñata.
"And I was shivering so much... I chipped my tooth.
"I was up all night. I was hallucinating. My dad was talking to me.
"I was seeing people from college, people I haven't seen in forever."
Cuomo went on to urge Americans to take the epidemic seriously and to follow government advice to stay at home.
"It was freaky what I lived through last night," he said.
"If you match that with chest constriction and people can't breathe, I totally get why we're losing so many people and why our hospitals are so crowded.
"So here's the message: Don't be beat, but more importantly be better than we're being now.
"Care enough not just to stay home, but to stay on our leaders to make sure that they're doing everything they can to limit this."
The US has so far seen over 215,000 people infected with coronavirus, over 85,000 of those in New York state.
New York is one of a number of states to declared itself a disaster zone amid fears there will not be enough ventilators to meet demand as the epidemic nears its peak.
Lockdowns are currently in force across the country as part of efforts to slow the virus's spread.
Speaking about his brother's diagnosis this week, Governor Cuomo said: "I couldn’t protect my own brother.
"With all he knows and as smart as he is, he couldn’t protect himself.
"So anyone can get it, and everyone has to be protected."
The coronavirus has infected over 950,000 and killed at least 48,000 since breaking out in December.
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Battle Lines Are Being Drawn in America’s Gas War
Ford Motor Co, Honda Motor Co, BMW Group and Volkswagen AG announced a voluntary deal with California in July — drawing a line in the sand for who they’ll be supporting in the fueling fracas taking place between the Golden State and White House. Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s rollback proposal — which intends on freezing automotive emission standards at 2020 levels through 2026 — saw no such support. But the cavalry seems to have finally arrived after sitting on the sidelines during the battle’s opening maneuvers.
General Motors, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Toyota, Mazda, Nissan, Kia, and Subaru all sided against California in a filing with a U.S. appeals court from Monday night. While they’re not setting any economy targets, they are collectively firm on the issue of the state’s ability to self regulate. A large portion of the industry wants a single national standard, not individual states setting their own benchmarks while they attempt to catch up with product.
In their filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the automakers and the National Automobile Dealers Association cooperatively supported the administration’s bid to bar individual emissions rules by states.
John Bozzella, president and chief executive of Global Automakers, explained that automakers had few other options. “It’s been the federal policy for the better part of 40 years that the federal government has the sole responsibility for regulating fuel economy standards, but it doesn’t have to get to that,” Bozzella told reporters, speaking on behalf of the Coalition for Sustainable Automotive Regulation. “We can still reach an agreement [on fuel economy].”
Bozzella added that the Trump administration had not asked the automakers to intervene or take sides and that automakers were still open to efficiency compromises between California, its supporting states, and the federal government.
A spokeswoman for California Attorney General Xavier Becerra told Reuters that the court filing “doesn’t change our resolve to fight as long and hard as necessary to protect our standards.” She added, “The courts have upheld our authority to set standards before and we’re hopeful they will yet again.”
As you might have expected, the backlash has already begun. “Instead of choosing the responsible path forged by four automakers and the state of California, one that will move us toward the cleaner, alternative fuel vehicles of the future, these companies have chosen to head down a dead-end road,” said Senator Tom Carper, the top Democrat for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Mary D. Nichols, head of the California Air Resources Board, was similarly displeased. “We are disappointed in the Association of Global Automakers for hiding behind the Trump administration’s skirts and its assault on public health,” she said in a statement. “[California will] keep working with those automakers committed to a framework that delivers cleaner vehicles that benefit consumers and the environment.”
Of course, the conflict goes back months. California is currently suing the Environmental Protection Agency on several issues, including the proposal to kill its fuel waiver, and other coalitions have gotten in on the fun while U.S. states have begun picking sides.
A group of major environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists and Natural Resources Defense Council, sued in September to block the determination.
On Friday, seven U.S. states, including Alabama, Ohio, Texas, Utah and West Virginia, also filed in support of the Trump regulation, arguing that without the rule their residents would have to pay “higher vehicle costs.”
While EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has suggested the rollback could actually shore up some weak spots it sees in the Obama-era rules, environmental groups are unconvinced. That’s probably with good reason. Most of the rollback’s presumed benefits revolve around having more vehicle choices for consumers, maintaining jobs, and keeping costs down. Environmentalism plays second (or third) fiddle to what the Trump administration sees as prudent for the U.S. economy.
Meanwhile, its opposition is singularly focused on maximizing MPG and adopting EVs by any means necessary. This movement has created some short-sighted (but long-term) proposals that could create more waste before their benefits can be realized. Some of the timelines may not mesh with the realities of America’s infrastructure or economy either. But it’s all for an important cause and could spur on new technologies and higher-paying jobs.
Honestly, we expected the industry to stay more-or-less united on the issue while partisanship made a mess of things in the government. This is probably going to surprise you but Democrats and Republicans haven’t been cooperating well on the issue — now the auto industry itself is totally split on the matter.
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Urlik
…not that the deal the four made with California actually requires them to meet any kind of targets. It was just a deal on principle and met nothing but favorable press for the automakers and California.
We’re inclined to agree and noted that the voluntary agreement with California doesn’t hold the automaker’s to much of anything in our previous coverage. However, Honda has been pretty clear that it still plans on adhering to the Cali standards and has actively been trying to distance itself from the Association of Global Automakers’ latest move.
I agree that I learned that in your prior coverage. :D Good for Honda but their product mix makes it relatively easy to do. If sedan sales keep crashing forcing them to make big changes in their product mix, they may have to give up that goal.
Absolutely. Corporate promises are never to be counted on. But it’s interesting that Honda is even bothering to take a stand it can walk back in a few years.
Well, you can call it a gas war, but the core issue is state vs. federal power. The basis of California’s authority to set auto emissions is a waiver from the federal government.
That puts the state on shaky legal ground, along with the fact that amost all cars sold in California came from other states or countries, triggering the primacy of the federal government via the commerce clause.
California did itself no favors by negotiating a cap and trade scheme with the province of Quebec, bypassing both the US and Canadian governments. That power was yielded by the state to the federal government on admission to the Union.
Regardless of the environmental merits, California has overstepped it’s legal authority.
Lokki
I agree with Lorenzo. I am a believer in States’ Rights, but being a general follower of constitutional requirements, I also feel that this is a classic case of the reasoning that led to the Interstate Commerce Act. Legally California should not be allowed to set their own standards.
Certainly, there was reasonable justification for special California exemption back in the 70’s, and thus they were given such. Were their separate standards successful I might agree with an extension. However, we have not seen that and
California’s request (demand?) to continue its exemption is not helped by their “Talk Big and not do much” history.
I am sure there will be those who feel that the EPA pointing out the facts stated [the extract below] in their letter to California is the result of political bias, but one could equally argue that not bringing up the problems in the past was also and equally the result of political bias.
“ EPA has made reviewing and approving or disapproving of SIPs a priority to meet its goal of providing regulatory certainty with regard to Clean Air Act implementation. This is particularly relevant for SIPs, which provide important air quality benefits to impacted communities. California’s extensive backlog is due to approvability issues, state-requested holds, missing information, or resources. California has the worst air quality in the United States, with 82 nonattainment areas and 34 million people living in areas that do not meet NAAQS—more than twice as many people as any other state in the country.“
JimZ
” I am a believer in States’ Rights”
unless it’s California. Or if a state wants to do anything you don’t agree with.
All states must adhere to the federal constitution. State constitutions must be submitted to Congress as part of its admission to the union, and must be changed if it’s not in conformance with the federal constitution.
Lokki above has one thing wrong – there is no Interstate Commerce Act. That would be an ordinary statute. the Commerce Clause is part of the original Constitution, enumerating the powers of Congress.
It’s Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3: “[The Congress shall have Power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes”.
States have many sovereign rights, but they yielded several sovereign rights to the Federal government on admission to the union.
ToddAtlasF1
Some teachers have some serious explaining to do relating to the complete ignorance of the constitution displayed by defenders of California’s actions.
highdesertcat
“you can call it a gas war, but the core issue is state vs. federal power.”
CA and other states want to have sovereignty over the quality of the air in their states but fail to consider that the pollution is blowing into their states from elsewhere, like from across the Pacific, from Asia and South Asia.
No matter how much America does to achieve clean air, the rest of the world pollutes our air negating any clean air standards we may have. Remember Chernobyl?
Flipper35
Civil War 2.0.
thornmark
CA is turning into a high tech Venezuela where sidewalks are paved w/ poop
CA is not the answer it’s the punchline, they have just about the worst political class in the US who eff up everything they touch
didn’t those geniuses just outlaw the ICE? show how high speed rail shouldn’t be done? and made electricity as reliable as in banana republics?
dal20402
Have you actually been to California, or are you just reciting what Fox News told you?
I lived there for a decade, moving out in December of 2015 and have visited since. Nobody has ever said anything worse than the truth about California. There are some exceptionally myopic sociopaths who don’t see what they don’t want to.
I was in San Francisco earlier this month and saw no evidence of a “high-tech Venezuela.” I didn’t even see any poop on the street, although I know it happens, mostly because local NIMBYs won’t allow any public toilets to be built anywhere (or any housing where people might have private toilets, for that matter).
They had public toilets, but they shut them down when they became health hazards due to the homeless population you were untroubled by. Newsflash, that wasn’t a tent expo that you maintained your oblivious stance towards.
dal20402, Isn’t your question to thornmark a little harsh considering the number of former California residents who have un-assed the state in favor of another state, much to the chagrin of that other state’s residents?
I was born there, but I’ll never go back there to live. And two of my brothers have cashed out of CA and moved to Ensenada, BC, Old Mexico.
I know a lot of people who left California; it’s impossible to avoid in Washington. Every single one I know left because of high housing costs, because no local cities will permit construction of any significant amount of new housing. I think almost all of them would move back if they could afford places to live. Still no evidence of a “high-tech Venezuela.”
This is Washington STATE? Or Washington, DC?
Washington state. Seattle at this point is basically a refuge for tech workers who couldn’t afford San Francisco or Silicon Valley housing prices.
Oh yeah. I’m very familiar with Seattle, Kent-Desmoines, Poulsbo, Olalla, and other areas around Seattle.
My sister had a real estate business there for more than three decades, and still owns property in Kent-Desmoines, Poulsbo, and Olalla. Her kids now run the business. She cashed out and gets monthly residuals from rentals.
She has moved to Vancouver, BC, to live with her (long-time) Canadian husband. But for many, many years, they had dual residences. (BTW, he LOVES American Health Care – no muss, no fuss, no waiting in line.)
Great area. Very green.
Too wet and too cool for me though.
said the drone
I’ve been going to CA for decades and can see the decline – news reports merely affirm it
the state is gorgeous but the insane people that lead it have been wrecking it, leading to the first mass exodus since it became a state
I live one hour drive from SF but avoid it as a plague. There is nothing good about SF. Dirty and smelly place and you will be harassed on the BART or on the street.
ILO, “Dirty and smelly place and you will be harassed on the BART or on the street.”
One of my brothers owned a car dealership and used to live in Oakland, on Clemens Road, so my wife and I used to visit them often and take in the sights, sounds and tastes uniquely SF, like ALL the tourist attractions.
Things changed.
But we have fond memories of when times were still good there. Pictures too.
Even my brother left the area and now resides full-time in Ensenada, BC, Old Mexico.
I wonder if Nancy Pelosi has a wall around her mansion?
I have no doubts. But illegal immigrants, homeless people and drug addicts are not welcomed in those areas. Yes they live in a different world with different rules than common men. And why should not they? They are not stupid.
ILO, some time ago when homelessness in SF became ‘woke’, my brother, who lived in Oakland at the time, told me that the users of the public bathhouses there became livid when the homeless and the illegals tried to use them, or even gain access to them, or even got near them.
He told us, it got violent. Yet I never saw any mention of that on the national news.
Since you live that close, were you aware of the two-class system the public bath houses imposed?
Dude, I’ve been living in California for 45 years and still do. Thornmark’s comment is accurate. You have to be a hard-left socialist to deny what’s happening.
The left is a cult. They haven’t had reason on their side in living memory, and it takes a toll on the mind. Can you imagine the stress of having to convince yourself that this time the climate change alarmists are telling the truth? They need to constantly stay up to date on which virtues become vices as they consolidate and protect power and which vices become virtues as they destroy society. It’s not a game for the sane, and eventually one becomes what they pretend to be.
I flew into SFO in 2004, stayed for a week around Stockton and took a trip to El Dorado county and Lake Tahoe both of which were gorgeous (Stockton wasn’t great then, can only imagine now). Never being west of Ohio I noted several odd things which I had never seen to that point such as hard liquor in the grocery store, “tweakers”, and these small motel like buildings in the country offering “sleeping rooms” for $60/night. I also noted the 1970s daily drivers around and was thrilled to tour a pick-n-pull and help myself to plentiful 70s era Caddy/Lincoln emblems (German stuff less so) and a Cartier clock out of a Conti Mark IV (I also spotted a black Mark VII LSC Special Edition in a parking lot!). I expected to be treated poorly “as not being from around there” which was obvious, but every single person I remember interacting with was at least neutral but I think in most cases were friendly or even warm. Other than the cost being a bit more than I expected (about 30% more for everything) I really liked everything I saw and the people with whom I interacted. I suspect what I spent a week in is long gone and this was the impression I received from some of the people I have interacted with in Las Vegas much more recently.
Alas, Babylon.
Snooder
It’s really not shaky legal ground.
Nor is it, really, a Constitutional question at this point. The statute that governs national emissions and fuel efficiency standards very clearly and explicitly provides for a mandatory and non-discretionary waiver for California.
Now, there can be a legal argument about whether the required elements to be granted that waiver are met, but I personally feel that argument tends for more on the side of California, especially given how much the rhetoric from the administration itself has tended to support the California argument.
I.e., the major case for the government is that the higher standards aren’t necessary and California’s air is good enough without needing to be bolstered by stricter standards. Which is something a competent lawyer could and should argue. But instead, all the stuff coming out of the White House is about how California’s air sucks. Which, yeah, if their air sucks, then under the law, they deserve the waiver.
Waivers can be canceled, based on the proclivities of the administration in power. Elections have consequences.
BTW, have you seen all the air pollution CA is generating with the fires? Legislation kept homeowners from cutting back their own properties, as were large businesses like PG&E.
ToolGuy
If we are going to standardize nationally on one state’s energy policy, I nominate…
Alaska. :-)
I don’t know if I’d like Alaska’s house insulation requirements imposed on my house in San Diego – that’s overkill. I’ll go along with the smog inspection – Alaska eliminated theirs.
Funny, when I was in college in Massachusetts, I had to have my car safety-inspected every six months. The horn, tail lights, headlights, brakes and brake lights, steering and turn signals all had to work, and the tires had to have enough tread. Now they use the California smog test, but require annual inspections, including safety.
Back in California, the smog is required every two years, but a separate safety inspection isn’t. If the tech can drive your car into the service bay for the smog test, it passed the safety test!
I was thinking more of the Permanent Fund Dividend (and one year’s payment might cover the one-time insulation cost)…
CA residents: Pay no attention to that wild fire burning in your back yard. The real threat is climate change from that gas-burning SUV you love.
– Gavin Newsom
I hear that Texas is luring away California residents with promises of electricity.
Since they aren’t going to use all the federal money given to them for forest management designed to stop wildfires to – you know… stop wildfires, they could use that money to add power generation capacity.
I don’t believe that Texas has to lure away CA residents.
My observation is they come voluntarily in droves to Texas as part of the mass-migration out of CA. My daughter did in 2013, when she left her husband.
What’s funny is how so many homeless and illegals in Texas are migrating to CA because of their sanctuary state policies and freebie benefits.
Remember when Gavin Newsom blamed Texas for CA’s homeless problem? True dat.
Don’t really care what California does at this point. California is going to do what California wants and this fight will be tied up in courts for years.
Let’s not forget: President Trump offered up something (lower standards) that nobody of consequence actually asked for. So what was the rationale there? All evidence points towards pure spite of his predecessor.
I’m with Jeff S above – given that one party is on weak legal ground (California), while the other is on weak moral ground (Trump), I’m inclined to just watch this die in the courts until a more progressive and conscientious leader can be elected.
“ that nobody of consequence actually asked for.”
The American people? You know the consumers that actually have to foot the bill for this ridiculous cash grab.
Looking out for his countries people seems like he taking the moral high ground here, more power to him – it’s taken a long time to get someone with a spine that actually listens to the people.
Ain’t nobody asking for thirstier cars that cost more at the pump.
Ain’t no one asking for smaller cars with higher costs, yet that’s what we’re getting.
The lower standards were for fuel mileage, not emissions. If it weren’t for an arcane system of measurements the automakers can use, the requirement would force them to build only subcompacts with 40 HP engines.
Reasonable emissions standards can be met with a large variety of cars, vans, crossovers, and trucks. The fuel economy standards, if strictly enforced, would eliminate a wide variety of vehicles the public wants.
Well, there is one vocal contingent asking for lower mileage standards. The oil industry tycoon who funded Trump’s 2016 election campaign.
“ oil industry tycoon ”
Can you reveal this mystery individual to us? Is it Putin? I bet it’s Putin.
pwrwrench
Yes, I remember Chernobyl, and the Nevada Test Site, and the Rocketdyne reactor meltdowns, and 3 Mile Island, and Hanford Washington, and Rocky Flats Colorado, and so on.
“I am a believer in States’ Rights”
Yep. I note, for many decades, that many of the same people that will argue for “States Rights” about some things, e.g. housing, education, marriage, will call for a “National” (Federal) policy on others, e.g. vehicle emissions and fuel consumption, drugs (prescription and otherwise), immigration.
Re: The problems that California has are caused/exacerbated by “The Left”. That would be a big discussion, but part of the situation is seen in California’s “Success” (if it was a country it would have the 5th largest economy).
How did that happen? During, and for several decades after, WWII California got more money from the Federal government than it paid in taxes. Most of this on “defense spending”. That’s how Silicon Valley got it’s start. Computers and the internet were all developed with taxpayer money. Once they became commercially viable private companies took over and made billions.
Was that “The Left”?
Was that “Socialism”?
A lot of that money that used to go to California now goes to Texas, Colorado, Georgia, Alabama, etc.
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Biden’s Deadly Promise.
The Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act of 2018, more commonly known as the Taylor Force Act, was a direct punishment against the Palestinian Authority for abusing the naivety of previous United States Governments in pandering to Palestinian anti-Semitic duplicity.
For years, the message from Israel was that you can’t be altruistic toward those who want to kill you. This is a principle that is etched into the Jewish soul from too many past experiences.
Yet US Administrations catered to the "victimhood" demands of the Palestinians.
Governments, burdened with the notion that a two-state solution is the only answer to the Israel-Palestinian impasse, have been hectoring Israel while funding Palestinian rejectionism and violence.
Obama-Biden bought into the nonsense that peace can only come when Israel withdraws to vulnerable 1967 borders which, in 1967, were never borders at all.
They gave money to terrorists and threatened to cut off aid to Israel if Jews went to live in Judea & Samaria known, in another act of duplicity, as the West Bank.
The West Bank of what? Jordan? Dive into that conundrum and you end up on Israel’s side.
Jordan invaded the nascent Jewish State more than once with a determination to kill or drive out Jews from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, turning the land into a Jew-free territory.
Thank G-d they failed. However, they occupied all of Judea and Samaria including the Old City of Jerusalem in a war of aggression in 1948 until 1967 when they, and other armies, decided to obliterate the rest of Israel.
Against all odds, the Israeli Defense forces liberated Jerusalem and drove the Jordanian army not only out of the Old City, but all the way back across the Jordan River.
Calling it "the West Bank" as if it is still the western part of Jordan is an anathema to Israelis. It also points to the lie of national Palestinian claims to this land.
There wasn’t a Palestinian entity until an Egyptian, Yasser Arafat, decided to become a Palestinian revolutionary, cloaked himself in a keffiyeh, dressed himself in an army uniform, and strapped a pistol to his belt.
Then all hell let loose! Massacres, plane hijackings, a terror war now in its 40th year. All based on Jew hatred. All sound and fury, signifying a lie.
One victim that got in the way of Palestinian hatred of Jews was Taylor Force, a Christian Texan visiting Israel on a Vanderbilt University study group examining global entrepreneurship.
Sadly, he got in the way of a Palestinian terrorist on a stabbing rampage in the old port of Jaffa. Eleven Israelis were stabbed plus Taylor, who died of his injuries. The attacker was shot dead by the Israeli police after a chase along the Tel Aviv beach front.
Such terrorists are glorified in Palestinian circles. Taylor’s killer is called a martyr even to today, and his family continues to receive a monthly stipend from the Palestinian Authority courtesy, until President Trump came along, of American taxpayers’ money.
Most egregiously, most European government continue to contribute to this awful “Pay to Slay” policy.
The Taylor Force Act of 2018 stopped giving $200 million annually to the PA.
The Act also allows Americans to sue in its courts against those receiving US foreign aid over alleged complicity in “acts of war.” This also applies to acts of terror against US citizens abroad. As a result of this the US Government has stopped more than $60 Million to the Palestinian Authority by virtue of this clause.
To this day, the Palestinians continue to incite violence and terror, reject all peace proposals, and continue to kill Israelis, and anyone standing in their way.
And yet, Presidential candidate, Joe Biden, has declared that he will renew payments to the Palestinian Authority with no pre-conditions.
He promised, "I will reopen the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem, find a way to re-open the PLO’s diplomatic mission in Washington, and resume the decades-long economic and security assistance efforts to the Palestinians that the Trump Administration stopped."
Which shows he learnt nothing in his eight-years in the White House.
The Zionist Organization of America called on Joe Biden to “fund American Jobs, not foreign Palestinian Arab Terrorists.”
Taylor’s parents have been vociferous in objecting to Biden’s Palestinian pledge.
However, it is far more likely that Biden will cater to his Red-Green Democrat Alliance than to the ZOA, or even to the family of a murdered American.
Biden is making the same fatal mistake that he, and his boss, Barrack Obama, made when they suckered up to the Mad Mullahs of Tehran with billions of dollars that went directly into their own “Pay to Slay” policy, as Iran reaped mayhem and bloodshed across the Middle East.
It is the Democrats version of throwing money against a problem hoping some of it will stick.
It won’t.
Biden must either retract this deadly promise, or be opposed in the upcoming US election.
Barry Shaw,
Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
Author of “Fighting Hamas, BDS. And Anti-Semitism.” https://www.amazon.com/s?k=fighting+hamas%2C+bds+and+anti-semitism&i=stripbooks-intl-ship&ref=nb_sb_noss
The Fight Back for the Drug that Dare Not Speak it...
Biden and Iran. Background detail you need to know.
The Tyranny of an American Red-Black-Blue Alliance.
The Dangers to Israel of a Biden Administration.
America on the Brink.
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Marriage Equality Going Nationwide This Year Is Now ‘More Likely Than Ever’ Says HRC
February 9, 2015 by Kyler Geoffroy
Following the news today of the Supreme Court denying a request for an extension of the stay in the ruling striking down Alabama's ban on same-sex marriage, the Human Rights Campaign called the odds of SCOTUS issuing an anti-equality ruling later this year "virtually zero".
Via statement:
This may seem like a simple, procedural move — one the Supreme Court has made in the past in cases ranging from Alaska to Florida. But, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) notes, all those denials took place before the Court had agreed to take a marriage case. The decision to allow marriages to begin in Alabama means something dramatically different now that the Supreme Court oral arguments in a marriage case are just weeks away.
"By refusing to halt marriage licenses in Alabama, the Supreme Court has telegraphed that there is virtually zero risk that they will issue an anti-equality ruling this summer," said HRC Legal Director Sarah Warbelow. "Instead, the odds of a ruling bringing marriage equality to all 50 states have increased significantly."
In light of the Supreme Court's action today, marriage equality will be the law of the land in Alabama beginning on February 9th, 2015. On January 28th, the Alabama Probate Judges Association issued guidance to all parties that, "on the occasion that the stay is lifted, same sex couples may apply for marriage licenses."
HRC congratulates the countless committed and loving couples in Alabama that will soon be able to marry.
And to the couples in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan:
Start your wedding plans now.
Buzzfeed's Chris Geidner concurs, saying Justice Clarence Thomas ended all doubt on the matter today:
In denying the Alabama attorney general’s request to keep a U.S. district court order that strikes down Alabama’s ban on same-sex couples’ marriages on hold while the state appeals, the Supreme Court — even as it considers marriage cases out of four other states — made it clear that the justices will not stop same-sex couples from marrying in the meantime when a judge strikes down a ban.
The cases the Supreme Court has agreed to hear — Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee — come out of the one federal appeals court that said bans on marriages for same-sex couples are constitutional. […]
Given Thomas’ dissent today, the only real question left outstanding is where Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito will end up on the ultimate question. Although both dissented in the Windsor DOMA decision, neither has joined Thomas and Scalia in saying publicly that they would have granted any of the recent stay requests.
The court is expected to hear oral arguments in the cases in April, with a decision expected by late June.
NOM meanwhile, is still grasping at straws:
"A majority of the Supreme Court has cast disrepute on the impartiality of the Court by refusing to follow previous protocol and issue a stay of a lower court ruling while it is being considered by the Court," said Brian Brown, NOM's president. "The issues in play are currently under review by the Supreme Court, and allowing a lower court ruling that overturns a state marriage amendment adopted by over 80% of voters is reckless and undermines the integrity of the Court. We call on the people of Alabama to continue to enforce their state marriage laws."
"A single federal judge does not have the authority to overturn a state marriage amendment and the people of Alabama should refuse to go along with this order," said Brown. "We commend Alabama Supreme Court Justice Ray Moore for ordering state probate judges, who are responsible for issuing marriage licenses, to enforce state law limiting marriage to one man and one woman and to refuse to issue licenses that violate state law. These probate judges have sworn an oath to the people of Alabama and they must honor their oath to the people they serve."
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Locust Grove Georgia Population Charts
According to the most recent Locust Grove Georgia demographics data available from the United States Census Bureau released in the American Community Survey in December of 2020, Figure 1 Locust Grove depicts it has a Population 2019 of 6,954 which is the second most populous of all the places in the greater Locust Grove region. The city with the highest population in the area is McDonough which depicts a population of 24,852 (approximately 3.6 times bigger). Figure 3 uses the Locust Grove population data for a comparison of the population growth/population change estimates from the years 2010 to 2019 and Locust Grove Georgia shows an increase of 1,552 (29%).
The total Locust Grove Georgia greater area population percent change for all areas for the years from 2010 to 2019 is shown in Figure 4 and for Locust Grove indicates it has a Population Change of 28.7% which is the highest of all places in the greater Locust Grove region.
Looking at the Locust Grove population density (measured as people per square mile) and providing comparisons to both the national and state average population density in Figure 5, Locust Grove Georgia depicts it has 646 people per square mile which is the second smallest in order of population density of all the other places in the metropolitan area. The next higher as measured by population density is Heron Bay CDP 7.4% larger with population density of 694. The city with the highest population density in the area is McDonough which shows a people per square mile of 1,970 (approximately 3.1 times bigger). Figure 6 provides Locust Grove demographics for the overall median age for all people in the region and Locust Grove shows it has a Median Age of 36.8 which is the largest of all places in the greater region. The Locust Grove Georgia population data for median age broken out by gender for both men versus the median age of women is shown in Figure 7. Locust Grove Georgia shows a median age of men about 6.2% smaller as the median age of women.
The next demographic analysis (Figure 8) looks at large generational Locust Grove population groups (and can be useful internet research for employment related research or identifying areas with retirees). Key findings in this chart includes that Locust Grove Georgia has the smallest proportion of people less than 20 years of age at 7.9% of the total. Second, it has the largest proportion of people between 20 and 29 years old at 18.0% of the total and is ranked #1. Third, it has the largest proportion of people between 30 and 39 years old at 17.3% of the total and is ranked #1. Also, it has the second smallest when sorted by people less than 20 years of age of all the other places in the metro area in terms of people between 60 and 69 years old at 4.3% of the total. Figure 10 shows the Locust Grove Georgia Hispanic (including non Hispanic whites) population household ethnicity in the region and Locust Grove depicts it has a Hispanic or Latino of 10.1% which is the second most Hispanic Population of all the places in the greater Locust Grove region. Figure 11 compares the ratio of the amount of men to the amount of women and depicts total male population about 12.2% smaller as the total female population.
Locust Grove Georgia Marital Status and Families Charts
Figure 12 shows the detailed marriage characteristics broken down by %residents who are married, never married, single, divorced, and widowed. Locust Grove has one of the largest proportions of never married percent at 20% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Experiment CDP (21%), and #1 East Griffin CDP (21%) are larger. Figure 14 compares the average household size using the average number of people in a family for Locust Grove households. Locust Grove shows it has a Family Size of 3.4 which is less than most other places in the metropolitan area. The city with the highest average family size in the area is McDonough which depicts an average family size of 3.6 (only about 5.2% larger).
Figure 15 shows the overall ratio of Locust Grove households for families to the total number of Locust Grove households and that Locust Grove depicts it has a Families of 71% which is the third most families percent of all other places in the greater Locust Grove region. The city with the highest percent of people who are in a family in the area is Heron Bay CDP which depicts a families percent of 93% (30.6% larger).
Looking at Locust Grove households that are headed by a husband and wife as a percent of all families in Figure 16, Locust Grove depicts it has a Married-couple family of 54% which is in the center range of other places in the greater region. The city with the highest percent of people in a husband and wife family in the area is Heron Bay CDP which shows a husband and wife family percent of 85% (56.8% larger). Figure 17 shows Locust Grove demographics for the head of household for each place using a breakdown of married-couple, male-headed alone, and female-headed alone. Locust Grove Georgia has one of the largest proportions of households at 38.3% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Jenkinsburg (40.0%), and #1 Experiment CDP (54.8%) are larger.
Locust Grove Georgia Mothers and Children Charts
The next section of charts provide a detailed look at mothers and baby births that occurred over the past 12 months. Figure 18 shows the rate of women aged 15 to 50 years old who have given birth. Locust Grove indicates it has a Birth Rate of 2.8% which is the smallest when ranked by percent of women who gave birth of all the other places in the metropolitan area. The city with the highest percent of women who gave birth in the area is Experiment CDP which shows a birth rate of 15.6% ( very much bigger). Figure 19 shows the breakdown of the mother's age for all baby births that occurred in the last 12 months and it has the largest proportion of percent of births to mothers aged 25 to 29 at 62% of the total and is ranked #1. Second, it has one of the largest proportions of percent of births to mothers aged 30 to 34 at 38% of the total and is ranked #2. The only larger city being Heron Bay CDP with 43%.
In Figure 21, the percentage of all births in the last 12 months to mothers that were unmarried is shown (unwed mothers.) Locust Grove shows it has a Unwed Births of 62% which is in the middle range of other places in the metropolitan area. The city with the highest percent of unwed women who have given birth in the area is Jackson which depicts an unwed mother birth rate of 100% (62.1% larger).
Unwed mothers who have given birth in the last 12 months are also shown broken down by age group in Figure 24. Locust Grove Georgia has the largest proportion of unwed mothers aged 15 to 19 at 100.0% of the total and is ranked #1. Figure 25 shows the comparative demographic rate of unwed mothers who have given birth in the last 12 months are broken down by racial group (including the Hispanic birth rate.) Locust Grove Georgia has the largest proportion of White unwed birth rate at 100.0% of the total and is ranked #1.
Figure 26 shows unwed mothers in poverty (based on median household income definition) who have given birth in the last 12 months. Locust Grove Georgia has the largest proportion of unwed births and living between 100% and 199% of poverty level at 100.0% of the total and is ranked #1.
For all births to unwed mothers, Figure 27 breaks down the education level of the mother by less than high school through college and post graduate attainment it has the largest proportion of percent of unwed mothers with some college or an associates degree at 100% of the total and is ranked #1.
Locust Grove Georgia Marital Status Charts
The next set of demographic data looks at the marital status for Locust Grove households which is useful for internet research. Figure 28 compares the total number of single people in each area. Locust Grove shows it has a Total Single People of 57% which is in the center range of other places in the local area. The city with the highest percent of people who are single for any reason in the area is Jackson which depicts a percent single of 66% (15.1% larger). Comparing percent of people who are single for any reason to the United States average of 50%, Locust Grove is 14.3% larger. Also, in comparison with the state of Georgia, percent of people who are single for any reason of 51%, Locust Grove is 12.1% larger.
Figure 30 compares the single people in each area broken down by never married, divorced, and widowed. Locust Grove Georgia has one of the largest proportions of percent never married at 20% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 Experiment CDP (21%), and #1 East Griffin CDP (21%) are larger. Figure 31 shows the demographics for the number of single men adults in each area broken out by never married, divorced and widowed. Locust Grove Georgia has the percentage of men who have never been married in the middle range of other places in the greater region at 10% of the total. Figure 32 shows the number of single women adults in each area broken out by never married, divorced and widowed. Locust Grove Georgia has the largest proportion of women who have never been married at 30% of the total and is ranked #1.
Figure 33 shows the Locust Grove demographics for the ratio of the number of single men between the age of 18 and 65, in each area, broken down by age group for the Locust Grove metro area. Locust Grove Georgia has the percentage of single men 18 to 24 less than most other places in the metropolitan area at 6% of the total. Second, it has in the mid range of other places in the greater region when ranked by single men 25 to 29 at 9% of the total. Third, it has the largest proportion of single men 30 to 34 at 18% of the total and is ranked #1. Also, it has less than most other places in the greater region in order of single men 35 to 39 at 7% of the total.
Figure 34 shows the Locust Grove population data for the ratio of the number of single women between the age of 18 and 65, in each area, broken down by age group for the Locust Grove metro area. Locust Grove Georgia has the percentage of single women 18 to 24 less than most other places in the local area at 7% of the total. Second, it has in the mid point range of other places in the local area in terms of single women 25 to 29 at 11% of the total. Third, it has the smallest proportion of single women 30 to 34 at 6% of the total. Also, it has the largest proportion of single women 35 to 39 at 23% of the total and is ranked #1. In addition, it has the smallest proportion of single women 40 to 44 at 3% of the total. Furthermore, it has the largest proportion of single women 45 to 49 at 34% of the total and is ranked #1.
Locust Grove Georgia Citizenship Demographics Charts
The next section of demographic information provides detailed data Locust Grove residents including: immigrants, citizenship, immigration, country of origin, non citizens and more. To start, Figure 35 shows a high level view of citizenship. Locust Grove Georgia has the largest proportion of citizens by naturalization at 4% of the total and is ranked #1. The next chart (Figure 36) shows for all citizens what the original place of birth was for people who were born in a foreign country and it has the largest proportion of birthplace in the South at 8% of the total and is ranked #1. Second, it has the largest proportion of birthplace in West at 4% of the total and is ranked #1.
In Figure 37, the demographic percentage of Locust Grove residents who were not born in the United States is shown (i.e. percent foreign born.) Locust Grove shows it has a Percent Foreign Born of 7.2% which is the second most percent born outside United States of all the places in the greater Locust Grove region. The city with the highest percent of population who was born in another country in the area is McDonough which shows a percent born outside United States of 8.6% (19.8% larger). Comparing percent of population who was born in another country to the United States average of 13.6%, Locust Grove is approximately half the size. Also, compared to the state of Georgia, percent of population who was born in another country of 10.1%, Locust Grove is approximately three-fourths the size.
Figure 39 provides a detailed analysis of non citizens by breaking them into two age groups: Under 18 and over the age of 18. Locust Grove Georgia shows a percent of non citizens under 18 years old approximately a third the size as the percent of non citizens over 18 years old. Figure 40 provides further information for non citizen age by showing a comparison of the median age for all non citizens immigrants. it has a Non Citizen Median Age of 39.4 which is less than most other places in the area. The city with the highest median age of non citizens in the area is Experiment CDP which depicts a median age of 47.3 (20.1% larger). The next diagram (Figure 41) shows the year of entry that non citizens entered the United States. The year of entry can show the rate of flow at various points of time in the past for when they entered the U.S. it has the largest proportion of non citizens who entered the US after 2010 at 56% of the total and is ranked #1. Second, it has the second smallest when ranked by percent of non citizens who entered the US after 2010 of all the other places in the area in terms of non citizens who entered the US between 2000 to 2009 at 7% of the total. Third, it has in the mid range of other places in the metropolitan area when ranked by non citizens who entered the US before 1990 at 5% of the total.
For all foreign born people who have gone through naturalization (the process of becoming a legal U.S. resident citizen), Figure 42 shows the year when they became fully naturalized U.S. citizens. it has one of the largest proportions of people naturalized 1995 to 1999 at 14% of the total and is ranked #2. The only larger city being McDonough with 17%. Second, it has the largest proportion of people naturalized 1990 to 1994 at 30% of the total and is ranked #1. Third, it has in the center range of other places in the greater region in terms of people naturalized before 1990 at 15% of the total.
Locust Grove Georgia Birthplace Demographic Charts
Figure 43 displays a map of the globe and shows Locust Grove demographic information for large regions of the world that people from this place originally came from. Locust Grove Georgia has one of the largest proportions of from Africa at 6% of the total and is ranked #2. The only larger city being McDonough with 15%.
Figure 44 categorizes the location for where foreign born people originally come from based on very large continental geographic areas. Locust Grove Georgia has one of the largest proportions of from Oceania at 74% of the total and is ranked #3. Only #2 East Griffin CDP (90%), and #1 Experiment CDP (100%) are larger.
Figure 45 is a table that breaks out all the people who were foreign born by which large geographic region where they were born. Locust Grove Georgia has the largest proportion of people who were born in South East Asia at 5.0% of the total and is ranked #1. Second, it has the largest proportion of people who were born in the Caribbean at 50.9% of the total and is ranked #1.
Locust Grove, Georgia Demographics Data
Figure 1: Locust Grove, GA and Area 2019 Population Data
Figure 2: Map of Locust Grove, GA and Area
Figure 3: Locust Grove, GA Population Change 2010 to 2019
Figure 4: Locust Grove, GA 2010 to 2019 Population Percent Change
Figure 5: Locust Grove, GA Population Density
Figure 6: Median Age in Locust Grove, GA
Figure 7: Median Age by Gender in Locust Grove, GA
Figure 8: Locust Grove, GA and Area Age by Generation
Figure 9: Locust Grove, GA and Area Ethnicity Makeup
Figure 10: Locust Grove, GA Hispanic Population
Figure 12: Locust Grove, GA Marriage Status
Figure 14: Locust Grove, GA Average Family Size in Household
Figure 17: Locust Grove, GA Head of Household
Figure 18: Locust Grove, GA Birth Rate (Last 12 months)
Figure 20: Locust Grove, GA Teenager Birth Rate
Figure 21: Locust Grove, GA Unwed Mothers as % of All Births
Figure 22: Locust Grove, GA Unwed and On Public Assitance
Figure 24: Locust Grove, GA Unwed Mother Births By Age Group
Figure 25: Locust Grove, GA Unwed Mother Birth Rate By Race
Figure 26: Locust Grove, GA Unwed Mother Births By Poverty Level
Figure 30: Locust Grove, GA Single People Broken Down By Reason
Figure 31: Locust Grove, GA Single Men in Area
Figure 32: Locust Grove, GA Single Women in Area
Figure 35: Locust Grove, GA Citizenship Status
Figure 36: Citizen Place of Birth for Locust Grove, GA
Figure 37: Locust Grove, GA Percent of Population Foreign Born
Figure 39: Locust Grove, GA Non Citizen Age Breakout
Figure 43: Locust Grove, GA Foreign Born People are From What Region
Figure 44: Locust Grove, GA Foreign-Born World Region of Birth
Figure 45: Locust Grove, GA Foreign-Born Sub-Region of Birth
Figure 46: Foreign-Born Country of People Living in Locust Grove, GA
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The AfCFTA is due for Implementation – what is to be expected?
Sam Smith Blog 27 March 2020
27 Mar 2020 ~ Gerhard Erasmus
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has been designed to boost trade on the African continent. How and when will new trade benefits for merchandise trade (lower tariffs and the elimination of non-tariff barriers) and services (allowing service providers to compete in the markets of the State Parties) materialize? The brief answer is that some essential matters must still be negotiated and finalized, Governments must put certain structures in place, and the private sector (the ultimate importers, exporters, service providers and investors) must be attracted to the prospects of new business opportunities, while they continue with transactions in those markets where they have been operating.[1]
Who will open their markets and how far? Only the State Parties (AU Member States that have ratified the AfCFTA Agreement or have acceded to it[2]) will be under an obligation to comply. Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, has not yet ratified the AfCFTA Agreement. Its decision whether to ratify is unlikely to be taken before the final implications of the AfCFTA’s obligations are known. Some important matters are still being negotiated.
The AfCFTA is a Free Trade Area (FTA) anchored in International Agreements concluded among sovereign States (The African Union is not a party to this agreement.) It means preferential trade under this arrangement cannot begin unless the relevant agreements for Phase I (the AfCFTA Agreement and its Protocols on Trade in Goods, Trade in Services and Dispute Settlement) have entered into force for the states in question. Entry into force has already happened on 30 May 2019, after the 22nd instrument of ratification had been deposited.[3] The number of ratifications now stand at 28 (Cameroon has completed the domestic process, but still has to deliver its instrument of ratification to the depository).[4]
These instruments cannot be implemented before negotiations about all outstanding aspects of Phase I have been completed. The remaining matters are tariff offers, rules of origin and the specifics for trade in services in the priority sectors.[5] This is not an easy exercise when 54 African states at different levels of economic development are involved.
The aim is to commence with preferential trade under the AfCFTA on 1 July 2020, if the outstanding issues are wrapped up in time. There is now an additional danger that COVID-19 may disrupt the scheduled meetings.
The State Parties must also implement the required domestic measures to allow trade under the AfCFTA. For preferential trade in goods it means national tariff books must be updated (which can take time), customs officials must be informed and trained, new rules of origin certificates must become available, and technical information should be shared with business chambers and freight forwarders.
The implementation of trade remedies poses a specific challenge. Most international trade disputes involve trade remedies and safeguards; e.g. when goods are dumped at prices below cost, when exported goods are subsidized, or when new trade liberalization results in an upsurge of imported goods and causes injury to domestic industries. These remedies are important to protect legitimate national and private interests. The AfCFTA has an Annex on Trade Remedies and Safeguards, based on the relevant WTO principles. Investigations thereunder can be complicated. Only about four African countries have the domestic machinery to do so.[6] Establishing national Investigating Authorities will be wise but will require dedicated resources and experts.
Trade in services may need domestic reforms and regulatory structures. New legislation and technical expertise national regulators might be necessary. Disputes about trade in services should not be ignored. Domestic courts often hear cases involving measures taken by national regulators responsible for services such as telecommunication, the energy and financial sectors. In these cases, rules about due process (administrative justice), constitutional rights (e.g. against discrimination) and statutory interpretation apply.
In terms of WTO rules,[7] substantially all trade in an FTA must be free within a reasonable period of time. The implementation of the AfCFTA Agreement will be an incremental process; it is important to understand exactly what the State Parties have undertaken to do. Article 4 of the Agreement explains the nature of the new obligations: The State Parties shall progressively eliminate tariffs and non-tariff barriers to trade in goods; progressively liberalise trade in services; cooperate on investment, intellectual property rights and competition policy; cooperate on all trade-related areas; cooperate on customs matters and the implementation of trade facilitation measures; establish a mechanism for the settlement of disputes concerning their rights and obligations; and establish and maintain an institutional framework for the implementation and administration of the AfCFTA. (Emphasis added.)
The existing Regional economic Communities (RECs) will continue with their trade agendas and regional integration programmes. Trade under REC FTAs will be freer than under the AfCFTA, at least at the beginning. This is a consequence of the principle in the AfCFTA Agreement that the REC acquis shall be preserved.[8] Intra-African trade will continue via multiple tracks. As the AfCFTA advances and becomes more consolidated, there should be more policy convergence and a simplification of rules.
There will be new meetings on the agendas of government officials. The Council of Ministers (consisting of Trade Ministers of the State Parties and meeting twice a year) is an important AfCFTA institution. It will be responsible for the implementation and enforcement of the AfCFTA Agreement and Protocols.[9] Article 11 of the AfCFTA Agreement states that “Decisions taken by the Council of Ministers... shall be binding on State Parties”. The Committee of Senior Trade Officials (composed of Permanent or Principal Secretaries of State Parties and meeting at least twice a year) may become the institution responsible for most of the practical measures required for implementing the AfCFTA. It will develop programmes and action plans, monitor and review the functioning of the AfCFTA, direct the AfCFTA Secretariat to undertake assignments, and request Technical Committees to investigate any particular matter.[10]
A new trade agreement does not guarantee trade – but it does change the incentives to make trade with other partners to that agreement more accessible and attractive. The AfCFTA is a flagship project of the AU and has seen high-level political support. It has the potential to put in place mechanisms to address many of the challenges bedevilling intra-African trade. It could do so in a manner which will provide more certainty and predictability. The main responsibility for ensuring that this happens will lie with the State Parties, supported by the new Secretariat, which will be headquartered in Accra, Ghana. A former senior South African trade official, Wamkele Mene, has been appointed as the first Secretary-General of the AfCFTA Secretariat.
[1] The AfCFTA does not affect trade under the existing Regional Economic Communities (RECs). See Art 19(2) AfCFTA Agreement.
[2] Art 23 pdf AfCFTA Agreement (973 KB)
[3] As required by art 23 AfCFTA Agreement.
[4] See tralac’s ratification monitor, with a list of ratifications.
[5] The AU Summit in July 2018 approved 5 priority services sectors: business, communication, financial, tourism and transport services, including their subsectors.
[6] Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and South Africa.
[7] Art XXIV GATT.
[8] Arts 5(f) and 19(2) AfCFTA Agreement.
[9] Art 11(3) AfCFTA Agreement.
[10] Art 12 AfCFTA Agreement.
Tags AfCFTA African trade and integrationAfrican Union
By Gerhard Erasmus
Gerhard Erasmus
Gerhard Erasmus is a founder of tralac and Professor Emeritus (Law Faculty), University of Stellenbosch. He holds degrees from the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein (B.Iuris, LL.B), Leiden in the Netherlands (LLD) and a Master’s from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He has consulted for governments, the private sector and regional organisations in southern Africa. He has also been involved in the drafting of the South African and Namibian constitutions. He grew up in Namibia.
May AfCFTA State Parties conclude new Trade Agreements?
The Institutional Arrangements of the Tripartite Free Trade Area
Intra-SADC FTA trade and SADC FTA trade with the rest of Africa 2019
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A Star Is Born: Pink Diamond Sells for $71.2M, Shattering the Auction Record for Any Gemstone
A star was born Tuesday when a 59.6-carat, flawless, fancy vivid pink diamond shattered the world record for the highest price ever paid for any gem at auction. The Pink Star's hammer price of $71.2 million at Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite sale in Hong Kong easily surpassed the $57.5 million achieved in May of 2016 by the previous record-holder, the 14.62-carat Oppenheimer Blue diamond.
The Pink Star was hardly a stranger to Sotheby's auction block. Back in November 2013, the extraordinary diamond made headlines around the world as it fetched an astounding $83 million in Geneva. All the fanfare turned sour a few months later when the buyer defaulted on the payment. Sotheby's paid the guaranteed minimum of $60 million and took ownership of the gem. In 2016, the auction house revealed that two firms — Diacore and Mellen Inc. — had purchased an interest in the Pink Star, with the third partner being Sotheby’s.
The newest owner of the Pink Star is Hong Kong-based luxury jewelry retailer Chow Tai Fook, which outbid two other contenders in an intense, five-minute contest. Chow Tai Fook operates more than 2,000 jewelry and watch stores throughout China. In 2016, the company purchased the Aurora Green diamond for $16.8 million at Christie's Hong Kong.
Diacore (formerly Steinmetz Diamond Group) was responsible for taking the original 132.5-carat rough diamond and fashioning it into an oval mixed-cut masterpiece — a process that would take two years. The gem had been unearthed by De Beers in Botswana in 1999. The gem was unveiled to the public as the Steinmetz Pink in 2003. It was sold four years later to an undisclosed buyer.
Sotheby's pre-sale estimate had been set at $60 million, a sum that still would have earned the world record. The final sale price exceeded the estimate by nearly 19%.
It is believed that pink diamonds owe their color to the effects of intense pressure and heat while they were still deep within the earth. These factors caused distortions in the diamond’s crystal lattice that influence the way the gem absorbs green light, thus reflecting a pink hue.
Credits: Images courtesy of Sotheby's.
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COP22: The Spirit of Paris and the Elephant in the Room
Words by Thomas Schueneman
Just as the COP22 climate talks opened in Marrakesh, Morocco, fresh on the heels of a historic year of progress and growing momentum, the surprising result of the interminable U.S. election sucked the air out of the room.
Years of progress between China and the U.S. face the test of a new president who once claimed climate change was a Chinese hoax, then said he was only joking. It is unclear what happens next for the United States.
This is, so to speak, the elephant in the room.
But the rest of the world was at COP22. Even as the United States looks suddenly to an uncertain change of course, the global community sought to reassure its citizens of its resolve.
In the spirit of Paris: Reaffirming commitment
The fear that countries would run for cover in the wake of a Donald Trump victory has not, as yet, come to fruition. As of this writing, 113 countries have ratified the Paris Agreement -- which came into force on Nov. 4, less than one year since its adoption at COP21.
"There is no ignoring that the election of Donald Trump sent reverberations through the negotiation halls," Paula Caballero of the World Resources Institute said in a press statement. "But delegates carried on with a strong spirit of determination. No country stepped back from its commitment to climate action."
In fact, several countries announced ratification in the days just after the U.S. election, including Japan, Italy, Australia, Pakistan and Botswana. In all, 11 countries ratified the agreement during COP22.
In a press release, the Climate Action Network -- a global NGO representing civil society -- welcomed how "governments strongly reaffirmed their resolve to work together on implementing the Paris Agreement, even amidst uncertain political moments."
It seems as if the momentum and "political solidarity" set in motion over decades of hard work that came to fruition in Paris last year remains intact.
Getting down in the weeds: Making it work
If getting past the election was the first hurdle of COP22, many others persisted as the more substantive issues of implementation, ambition and finance took center stage. With earlier-than-expected ratification, this year's COP was also the first conference of parties under the Paris Agreement: CMA1.
Unlike COP21, with its clearly defined aspirational goal of reaching a global agreement, the focus in Marrakesh was on drier, more technical issues. Coming to terms with the devil in the details doesn't play as well to the public. But, perhaps aided by the reaction to Trump's election, key steps were reached by the end of the conference to "advance implementation of the global pact," said WRI's Paula Caballero.
A quick roundup of key points include:
2018 deadline for the rulebook: CMA2 is set for 2018 (COP24) to allow the Ad hoc Working Group Under the Paris Agreement (APA) sufficient time to finish their preliminary work setting ground rules for implementation.
Vulnerable states: The Climate Vulnerable Forum, a partnership of 43 developing countries most vulnerable to climate change impacts, released its CVF Vision -- committing participating nations to adopt 100 percent renewable energy generation "as soon as possible." How soon this happens depends on financing the infrastructure of a new energy economy.
Adaptation fund and climate finance: Delegates from developed nations relented to their peers, ensuring that the Adaptation Fund, started under the Kyoto Protocol, will continue under the umbrella of the Paris Agreement. Seeking to reassure emerging economies that the promise to deliver $100 billion to support low-carbon development still stands, developed nations released the Roadmap to $100 Billion. While welcomed at COP22, the plan was also met with skepticism. Dialogue on finance issue remains difficult, but open.
Decarbonization strategy: Germany, Canada, Mexico and the United States released long-term plans for decarbonization by 2050, called the 2050 Platform.
New partnerships: The NDC Partnership and the Capacity-Building Initiative for Transparency launched to help developing countries achieve their commitments under the Paris Agreement.
The failure of COP15 in Copenhagen cast its shadow in the opening days of Paris. The possibility of the U.S. withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is a long shadow stretching back to 2001 when George W. Bush scuttled U.S. participation in the Kyoto Protocol, one of the first decisions of his new presidency.
Signed by the U.S. in 1997 at COP3 in Kyoto, many terms of the Kyoto Protocol were dictated by U.S. negotiators, only to be abandoned years later by a new administration.
The irony of Trump's unthoughtful comments, whether he was joking or not, is that it is China who benefits most from Trump's threat to "tear up the Paris Agreement." Beyond the damaged credibility, Trump will cede to China the global leadership role for the new energy economy.
Hope remains that, when presented with the consequences of following through on campaign rhetoric, Trump will seek what he considers the best option: saving face. He may come to realize that "making America great again" involves positive participation in global affairs.
Whatever Trump does in the coming months and years is open to speculation. It is unlikely his administration will be friendly to anything that smacks of environmental advocacy. In the U.S. leadership will come from states, cities and private industry. It will be a struggle.
Lessons of history: Lack of political will is no longer an excuse
Well-known for his science fiction writing, author Stanislaw Lem was also one of the most prescient futurists ever to record their vision. For Lem, history was the key to the future. "You can't unlearn what is already learned," writes New Scientist magazine of Lem's philosophy of the future.
As for global cooperation on climate change, lack of political will is no longer an excuse. We cannot unlearn what we learned in Paris or what we've learned about climate change in the fossil energy age. Paris taught us that we indeed have the political will to come together as a global community. Decades of science and observation teaches the consequences of failing to act, and these are already well underway.
The historic adoption and ratification of the Paris Agreement offers the world a reason for cautious optimism. Despite the fear and anxiety of a Trump administration, COP22 pushed ahead with a vision for the future, built on the lessons of history.
We can fail to act on what we know. Or we can push ahead, even in the face of hostile forces. Imperfect as it is, the process at COP22 remains intact.
Image credit: James Nerhebii, courtesy Flickr; UNFCCC
Thomas Schueneman
Tom is the founder, editor, and publisher of GlobalWarmingisReal.com and the TDS Environmental Media Network. He has been a contributor for Triple Pundit since 2007. Tom has also written for Slate, Earth911, the Pepsico Foundation, Cleantechnia, Planetsave, and many other sustainability-focused publications. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists
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Invasive Plants in Tropical Human‐Dominated Landscapes: Need for an Inclusive Management Strategy
R. Uma Shaanker, Gladwin Joseph, N.A. Aravind, Ramesh Kannan, and Ganeshaiah K.N.
in Bioinvasions and Globalization: Ecology, Economics, Management, and Policy
Biology, Ecology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
This chapter argues that solutions to the management of invasive species need to be reworked to take into account the fact that invasive species can impact human livelihoods both negatively and ... More
This chapter argues that solutions to the management of invasive species need to be reworked to take into account the fact that invasive species can impact human livelihoods both negatively and positively. Besides the existing strategies for the management of invasive species, there is a need for alternative strategies in terms of the net benefit they yield, taking of course all benefits and costs into account. A specific case of control of invasive species in largely tropical landscapes is considered, with the attendant problems of human dependence on natural resources as well as lack of investment portfolios to control invasive species. Management strategies are proposed that promote use of the invasive as a way of minimizing the net costs of the invasive species.Less
R. Uma ShaankerGladwin JosephN.A. AravindRamesh KannanGaneshaiah K.N.
This chapter argues that solutions to the management of invasive species need to be reworked to take into account the fact that invasive species can impact human livelihoods both negatively and positively. Besides the existing strategies for the management of invasive species, there is a need for alternative strategies in terms of the net benefit they yield, taking of course all benefits and costs into account. A specific case of control of invasive species in largely tropical landscapes is considered, with the attendant problems of human dependence on natural resources as well as lack of investment portfolios to control invasive species. Management strategies are proposed that promote use of the invasive as a way of minimizing the net costs of the invasive species.
Keywords: invasive species, biological invasions, invasive species management, Lantana, ecosystem management
Globalization and Bioinvasions: The International Policy Problem
Charles Perrings, Stas Burgiel, Mark Lonsdale, Harold Mooney, and Mark Williamson
Invasive species control is a public good. Once provided, the benefits it offers in terms of enhanced protection of human, animal, and plant health, and the productivity of agriculture, forestry, ... More
Invasive species control is a public good. Once provided, the benefits it offers in terms of enhanced protection of human, animal, and plant health, and the productivity of agriculture, forestry, aquaculture, and fisheries, are available to everyone. Like all public goods it will be undersupplied if left to the market. This makes it a collective responsibility — a legitimate role of government at many different scales. This role involves two different functions. One is the development of broad strategies and supporting institutions, statutes, regulations, or agreements for addressing the problem. A second function involves the implementation of that policy, and specifically the use of public resources to undertake all of the actions described in this volume: inspection and interception at the port of entry; sanitary and phytosanitary measures both along pathways; and in situ detection, eradication, and control of harmful species that have been introduced, established, and spread. This chapter considers both broad issues of policy and specific challenges to management.Less
Charles PerringsStas BurgielMark LonsdaleHarold MooneyMark Williamson
Invasive species control is a public good. Once provided, the benefits it offers in terms of enhanced protection of human, animal, and plant health, and the productivity of agriculture, forestry, aquaculture, and fisheries, are available to everyone. Like all public goods it will be undersupplied if left to the market. This makes it a collective responsibility — a legitimate role of government at many different scales. This role involves two different functions. One is the development of broad strategies and supporting institutions, statutes, regulations, or agreements for addressing the problem. A second function involves the implementation of that policy, and specifically the use of public resources to undertake all of the actions described in this volume: inspection and interception at the port of entry; sanitary and phytosanitary measures both along pathways; and in situ detection, eradication, and control of harmful species that have been introduced, established, and spread. This chapter considers both broad issues of policy and specific challenges to management.
Keywords: invasive species, biological invasions, invasive species management, public policy
The Problem of Biological Invasions
Charles Perrings, Harold Mooney, and Williamson Mark
This chapter begins with a discussion of the impact of invasive species throughout human history, and the role of trade, transport, and travel in species introductions. It then considers the ... More
This chapter begins with a discussion of the impact of invasive species throughout human history, and the role of trade, transport, and travel in species introductions. It then considers the ecological and economic dimensions of the problem of invasive species, and policy and management options. The need to recognize the global dimension of the problem is discussed.Less
Charles PerringsHarold MooneyWilliamson Mark
This chapter begins with a discussion of the impact of invasive species throughout human history, and the role of trade, transport, and travel in species introductions. It then considers the ecological and economic dimensions of the problem of invasive species, and policy and management options. The need to recognize the global dimension of the problem is discussed.
Keywords: invasive species, biological invasions, bioinvasions
Prevention: Designing and Implementing National Policy and Management Programs to Reduce the Risks from Invasive Species
Reuben P. Keller and David M. Lodge
This chapter describes and critically evaluates the ‘state-of-the-art’ for national policy and management efforts designed to prevent the arrival of invasive species. Preventing the introduction of ... More
This chapter describes and critically evaluates the ‘state-of-the-art’ for national policy and management efforts designed to prevent the arrival of invasive species. Preventing the introduction of invasive species will almost always be less costly than managing and adapting to species once they arrive. Although this is widely recognized by biologists and economists, only a handful of countries have embraced this approach in their policies for environmental invaders. As nations work to meet their obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), it is likely that the number of countries with programs for preventing invasive species will grow.Less
Reuben P. KellerDavid M. Lodge
This chapter describes and critically evaluates the ‘state-of-the-art’ for national policy and management efforts designed to prevent the arrival of invasive species. Preventing the introduction of invasive species will almost always be less costly than managing and adapting to species once they arrive. Although this is widely recognized by biologists and economists, only a handful of countries have embraced this approach in their policies for environmental invaders. As nations work to meet their obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), it is likely that the number of countries with programs for preventing invasive species will grow.
Keywords: invasive species, biological invasions, invasive species prevention
Current and Future Consequences of Invasion by Alien Species: A Case Study from South Africa
B.W. van Wilgen and D.M. Richardson
This chapter reviews what is known about those invasive alien species that impact on the terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems of South Africa. It briefly reviews the pathways by which these ... More
This chapter reviews what is known about those invasive alien species that impact on the terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems of South Africa. It briefly reviews the pathways by which these species have arrived, how these pathways have changed over time, and how many have become invasive. It then considers the current levels of understanding with respect to impacts, both ecological and economic. This is followed by an account of the prognosis for the growth in these impacts should current trends continue.Less
B.W. van WilgenD.M. Richardson
This chapter reviews what is known about those invasive alien species that impact on the terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems of South Africa. It briefly reviews the pathways by which these species have arrived, how these pathways have changed over time, and how many have become invasive. It then considers the current levels of understanding with respect to impacts, both ecological and economic. This is followed by an account of the prognosis for the growth in these impacts should current trends continue.
Keywords: invasive species, biological invasions, South Africa
The Impact of Invasive Alien Species on Ecosystem Services and Human Well‐being
Liba Pejchar and Harold Mooney
This chapter reviews the literature to understand the significance of making decisions about the prevention and/or control of invasive alien species (IAS) that ignore impacts on ecosystem services. ... More
This chapter reviews the literature to understand the significance of making decisions about the prevention and/or control of invasive alien species (IAS) that ignore impacts on ecosystem services. It reports damage costs associated with IAS in monetary terms. The costs presented for various provisioning, regulating, and cultural services may be roughly comparable since most of the literature mostly clusters around the early 2000s. Whether damage costs of any magnitude will change the way IAS is managed will naturally depend on the benefits of the activities that lead to the introduction and spread of each species. Identifying potential damage costs and estimating their magnitude is a positive first step towards properly accounting for the full impact of IAS.Less
Liba PejcharHarold Mooney
This chapter reviews the literature to understand the significance of making decisions about the prevention and/or control of invasive alien species (IAS) that ignore impacts on ecosystem services. It reports damage costs associated with IAS in monetary terms. The costs presented for various provisioning, regulating, and cultural services may be roughly comparable since most of the literature mostly clusters around the early 2000s. Whether damage costs of any magnitude will change the way IAS is managed will naturally depend on the benefits of the activities that lead to the introduction and spread of each species. Identifying potential damage costs and estimating their magnitude is a positive first step towards properly accounting for the full impact of IAS.
Keywords: invasive species, biological invasions, invasive species management
A Model of Prevention, Detection, and Control for Invasive Species
Stephen Polasky
This chapter constructs a model to analyze optimal policy and management to reduce damage from invasive species that includes strategies for information collection and control, to prevent ... More
This chapter constructs a model to analyze optimal policy and management to reduce damage from invasive species that includes strategies for information collection and control, to prevent introduction and to control already introduced species. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 8.2 presents the model of prevention, detection, and control. The model is analyzed, and results of the analysis are presented in Section 8.3. Section 8.4 contains a brief set of concluding remarks and a discussion of challenges needing further research.Less
This chapter constructs a model to analyze optimal policy and management to reduce damage from invasive species that includes strategies for information collection and control, to prevent introduction and to control already introduced species. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 8.2 presents the model of prevention, detection, and control. The model is analyzed, and results of the analysis are presented in Section 8.3. Section 8.4 contains a brief set of concluding remarks and a discussion of challenges needing further research.
Keywords: invasive species, biological invasions, environmental control
Daniel Simberloff
in Conservation Biology for All
Daniel Simberloff presents an overview of invasive species, their impacts and management in this chapter. Invasive species cause myriad sorts of conservation problems, many of which are complicated, ... More
Daniel Simberloff presents an overview of invasive species, their impacts and management in this chapter. Invasive species cause myriad sorts of conservation problems, many of which are complicated, some of which are subtle, and some of which are not manifested until long after a species is introduced. The best way to avoid such problems is to prevent introductions in the first place or, failing that, to find them quickly and eradicate them. However, many established introduced species can be managed by a variety of technologies so that their populations remain restricted and their impacts are minimized.Less
Daniel Simberloff presents an overview of invasive species, their impacts and management in this chapter. Invasive species cause myriad sorts of conservation problems, many of which are complicated, some of which are subtle, and some of which are not manifested until long after a species is introduced. The best way to avoid such problems is to prevent introductions in the first place or, failing that, to find them quickly and eradicate them. However, many established introduced species can be managed by a variety of technologies so that their populations remain restricted and their impacts are minimized.
Keywords: eradication, introduced species, introduction, invasive species, management
Globalization and Invasive Alien Species: Trade, Pests, and Pathogens
Charles Perrings, Eli Fenichel, and Ann Kinzig
The risk posed by an introduced species depends on a number of factors, some of which are within the control of regulatory authorities and some of which are not. It is a product of the probability ... More
The risk posed by an introduced species depends on a number of factors, some of which are within the control of regulatory authorities and some of which are not. It is a product of the probability that imports will introduce new species and the expected damage done by those species. Among the risk factors taken as exogenous by the regulatory authorities are the invasiveness of the species itself (whether it is a generalist or a specialist, its plasticity, and so on), the bioclimatic similarity between the trading partners, the volume and composition of trade, and the vulnerability of the host (economic and ecological) system. The sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures taken by the exporter may or may not be taken as exogenous. These together determine both the likelihood that a unit of trade will introduce species of different types and the expected damage if a particular species (or class of species) is introduced. This chapter focuses on the nature of the SPS response to the invasive species risks of international trade, and the effect this has on the dispersion of species. More particularly, it asks what determines current country-level decisions to mitigate the risks of species introductions or to adapt to the consequences of establishment and spread, and how these are reflected in the dispersion data.Less
Charles PerringsEli FenichelAnn Kinzig
The risk posed by an introduced species depends on a number of factors, some of which are within the control of regulatory authorities and some of which are not. It is a product of the probability that imports will introduce new species and the expected damage done by those species. Among the risk factors taken as exogenous by the regulatory authorities are the invasiveness of the species itself (whether it is a generalist or a specialist, its plasticity, and so on), the bioclimatic similarity between the trading partners, the volume and composition of trade, and the vulnerability of the host (economic and ecological) system. The sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures taken by the exporter may or may not be taken as exogenous. These together determine both the likelihood that a unit of trade will introduce species of different types and the expected damage if a particular species (or class of species) is introduced. This chapter focuses on the nature of the SPS response to the invasive species risks of international trade, and the effect this has on the dispersion of species. More particularly, it asks what determines current country-level decisions to mitigate the risks of species introductions or to adapt to the consequences of establishment and spread, and how these are reflected in the dispersion data.
Keywords: introduced species, invasive species, biological invasions, international trade, globalization, species dispersal
Bee Pollination in Agricultural Ecosystems
Rosalind James and Theresa L. Pitts-Singer (eds)
Biology, Animal Biology, Plant Sciences and Forestry
Bees play a vital role as pollinators for many agricultural crops. This book discusses the interplay between bees, agriculture, and the environment. Although honey bees are well recognized as ... More
Bees play a vital role as pollinators for many agricultural crops. This book discusses the interplay between bees, agriculture, and the environment. Although honey bees are well recognized as pollinators, managed bumble bees and solitary bees are also critical for the successful pollination of certain crops, while wild bees provide a free service. As bees liberally pass pollen from one plant to the next, they also impact the broader ecosystem, and not always to the benefit of humankind. Bees can enhance the unintentional spread of genes from genetically engineered plants, and may increase the spread of invasive weeds. Conversely, genetically engineered plants can impact pollinators, and invasive weeds can supply new sources of food for these insects. Bees' flower-visiting activities also can be exploited to spread biological control agents that help to control crop pests. Bee pollination is important for production of native plants used for restoration of wild lands. Managing bees for pollination is complex and must consider bee natural history, physiology, pathology, and behavior. Furthermore, transporting bees from native ranges to new areas for pollination services can be controversial, and should be done only after assuring that a non-native bee introduction will not disrupt the ecosystem. Even though bees are small, unobtrusive creatures, they play large roles in the ecosystem. The connection between bees and humankind is symbolic of a broader interconnection between humans and the natural world.Less
Bees play a vital role as pollinators for many agricultural crops. This book discusses the interplay between bees, agriculture, and the environment. Although honey bees are well recognized as pollinators, managed bumble bees and solitary bees are also critical for the successful pollination of certain crops, while wild bees provide a free service. As bees liberally pass pollen from one plant to the next, they also impact the broader ecosystem, and not always to the benefit of humankind. Bees can enhance the unintentional spread of genes from genetically engineered plants, and may increase the spread of invasive weeds. Conversely, genetically engineered plants can impact pollinators, and invasive weeds can supply new sources of food for these insects. Bees' flower-visiting activities also can be exploited to spread biological control agents that help to control crop pests. Bee pollination is important for production of native plants used for restoration of wild lands. Managing bees for pollination is complex and must consider bee natural history, physiology, pathology, and behavior. Furthermore, transporting bees from native ranges to new areas for pollination services can be controversial, and should be done only after assuring that a non-native bee introduction will not disrupt the ecosystem. Even though bees are small, unobtrusive creatures, they play large roles in the ecosystem. The connection between bees and humankind is symbolic of a broader interconnection between humans and the natural world.
Keywords: bees, beekeeping, biological control, gene flow, genetic engineering, insect pathology, pollination, wild land re-vegetation, invasive species
If Invasive Species are “Pollutants”, Should Polluters Pay?
R. David Simpson
This chapter explores the issue of whether policies toward invasive species should look like those adopted in response to other forms of ‘pollution’. It argues that this will depend on whether ... More
This chapter explores the issue of whether policies toward invasive species should look like those adopted in response to other forms of ‘pollution’. It argues that this will depend on whether damages are low enough that preventing invasions should be seen as a ‘lost cause’ and abandoned, or if damages are high enough that prevention is a wise investment and significant resources should be put into preventing invasions. A simple model is developed that lays out these considerations. It is also shown that fixing parameters describing the demand for imports, their cost, and the cost of treating imports to reduce the likelihood of invasion allows the definition of the optimal strategy by reference to the anticipated damages resulting from invasion.Less
This chapter explores the issue of whether policies toward invasive species should look like those adopted in response to other forms of ‘pollution’. It argues that this will depend on whether damages are low enough that preventing invasions should be seen as a ‘lost cause’ and abandoned, or if damages are high enough that prevention is a wise investment and significant resources should be put into preventing invasions. A simple model is developed that lays out these considerations. It is also shown that fixing parameters describing the demand for imports, their cost, and the cost of treating imports to reduce the likelihood of invasion allows the definition of the optimal strategy by reference to the anticipated damages resulting from invasion.
Keywords: invasive species, biological invasions, costs, pollutants, environmental policy
The Role of Space in Invasive Species Management
Julia Touza, Martin Drechsler, Karin Johst, and Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz
This chapter focuses on the spatial characteristics of invasive species management. Specifically, it looks at control of the spread of a species introduced to an area. It begins with a review of the ... More
This chapter focuses on the spatial characteristics of invasive species management. Specifically, it looks at control of the spread of a species introduced to an area. It begins with a review of the emerging literature on the spatial economics of invasive species. The studies are reviewed in terms of their use of space: the inclusion of local heterogeneity and the analysis of a network of areas (i.e., two-patches versus multiple-patches). It is shown that most of the studies either focus on heterogeneity in simple landscapes with two patches, or on complex landscapes with multiple areas but ignoring spatial heterogeneity. The chapter develops a simple model to explore the role of spatial heterogeneity in invasive species management in a landscape with multiple areas. A final section recapitulates the main points and offers conclusions.Less
Julia TouzaMartin DrechslerKarin JohstKatharina Dehnen-Schmutz
This chapter focuses on the spatial characteristics of invasive species management. Specifically, it looks at control of the spread of a species introduced to an area. It begins with a review of the emerging literature on the spatial economics of invasive species. The studies are reviewed in terms of their use of space: the inclusion of local heterogeneity and the analysis of a network of areas (i.e., two-patches versus multiple-patches). It is shown that most of the studies either focus on heterogeneity in simple landscapes with two patches, or on complex landscapes with multiple areas but ignoring spatial heterogeneity. The chapter develops a simple model to explore the role of spatial heterogeneity in invasive species management in a landscape with multiple areas. A final section recapitulates the main points and offers conclusions.
Keywords: invasive species, biological invasions, invasive species management, spatial economics
Invasive Species in the Arctic: Concerns, Regulations, and Governance
Kamrul Hossain
in Diplomacy on Ice: Energy and the Environment in the Arctic and Antarctic
The concern over the introduction of invasive species into the Arctic environment has been relatively new. In the context of climate change, among many other consequences, the possible introduction ... More
The concern over the introduction of invasive species into the Arctic environment has been relatively new. In the context of climate change, among many other consequences, the possible introduction of invasive species is one. Gradual access to the Arctic marine area, resulting from the opening up of the two new sea routes, facilitates the introduction of aquatic invasive species in its waters. The study suggests that, in Arctic waters, invasive species may primarily be introduced via four sources: ballast water exchange and treatment, hull fouling, cargo operations, as well as casualties or shipwrecks. The introduction of invasive species in Arctic waters will have multifaceted consequences, including the unexpected disturbance of its unique ecosystem, which will eventually pose diverse economic, health, and environmental problems, as well as an overall loss of native biodiversity. This chapter intends to achieve the following three objectives. Firstly, it will examine the overall concerns related to the introduction of invasive species into the Arctic. Secondly, it investigates which available international legislative mechanisms may be applicable to this context and how. Lastly, how invasive species are presently addressed in the Arctic governance regime.Less
The concern over the introduction of invasive species into the Arctic environment has been relatively new. In the context of climate change, among many other consequences, the possible introduction of invasive species is one. Gradual access to the Arctic marine area, resulting from the opening up of the two new sea routes, facilitates the introduction of aquatic invasive species in its waters. The study suggests that, in Arctic waters, invasive species may primarily be introduced via four sources: ballast water exchange and treatment, hull fouling, cargo operations, as well as casualties or shipwrecks. The introduction of invasive species in Arctic waters will have multifaceted consequences, including the unexpected disturbance of its unique ecosystem, which will eventually pose diverse economic, health, and environmental problems, as well as an overall loss of native biodiversity. This chapter intends to achieve the following three objectives. Firstly, it will examine the overall concerns related to the introduction of invasive species into the Arctic. Secondly, it investigates which available international legislative mechanisms may be applicable to this context and how. Lastly, how invasive species are presently addressed in the Arctic governance regime.
Keywords: Arctic, invasive species, climate change, regulations, governance
Climate Change and Species' Distributions: An Alien Future?
Chris D. Thomas and Ralf Ohlemüller
This chapter presents analyses that suggest increasing levels of invasion will be observed with increasing climate change, and that invasions of species from far away will increase ... More
This chapter presents analyses that suggest increasing levels of invasion will be observed with increasing climate change, and that invasions of species from far away will increase disproportionately. It suggests that climate change will require us to reconsider our attitudes to the distinction between native and non-native species, because many species are only expected to survive climate change by establishing in new regions, outside their historical ranges.Less
Chris D. ThomasRalf Ohlemüller
This chapter presents analyses that suggest increasing levels of invasion will be observed with increasing climate change, and that invasions of species from far away will increase disproportionately. It suggests that climate change will require us to reconsider our attitudes to the distinction between native and non-native species, because many species are only expected to survive climate change by establishing in new regions, outside their historical ranges.
Keywords: climate change, invasive species, biological invasions, native species, non-native species
Landscape Effects on Population Spatial Spread: Range Shifts, Biological Invasions, and Landscape Epidemiology
Kimberly A. With
in Essentials of Landscape Ecology
Range expansions, biological invasions, and disease spread are all inherently spatial processes that involve the successful introduction or colonization, establishment, and dispersal of organisms (or ... More
Range expansions, biological invasions, and disease spread are all inherently spatial processes that involve the successful introduction or colonization, establishment, and dispersal of organisms (or their propagules) into new areas. Population spatial spread thus involves the interaction of both dispersal and demography with landscape structure. This chapter begins by exploring landscape effects on species’ range shifts and the extent to which species can shift their distributions in response to future land-use and climate-change scenarios. Next, the chapter evaluates the effect that landscape structure might have on invasive spread, including an overview of spatial models that are used to predict whether, when, and how fast an invasive species is likely to spread. The chapter concludes with a discussion of disease spread in a landscape context (landscape epidemiology), which involves the study of how pathogens, vectors, and hosts interact with environmental heterogeneity to influence the incidence and persistence of disease in an area.Less
Landscape Effects on Population Spatial Spread : Range Shifts, Biological Invasions, and Landscape Epidemiology
Range expansions, biological invasions, and disease spread are all inherently spatial processes that involve the successful introduction or colonization, establishment, and dispersal of organisms (or their propagules) into new areas. Population spatial spread thus involves the interaction of both dispersal and demography with landscape structure. This chapter begins by exploring landscape effects on species’ range shifts and the extent to which species can shift their distributions in response to future land-use and climate-change scenarios. Next, the chapter evaluates the effect that landscape structure might have on invasive spread, including an overview of spatial models that are used to predict whether, when, and how fast an invasive species is likely to spread. The chapter concludes with a discussion of disease spread in a landscape context (landscape epidemiology), which involves the study of how pathogens, vectors, and hosts interact with environmental heterogeneity to influence the incidence and persistence of disease in an area.
Keywords: range shifts, species distribution models, invasive species, landscape epidemiology, disease risk mapping, evolutionary landscape epidemiology
Arnold G. van der Valk
in The Biology of Freshwater Wetlands
Biology, Ecology
An exotic or native species from one continent may spread quickly and dominate wetlands in another continent. Such species are known as invasive species and may displace other native species in ... More
An exotic or native species from one continent may spread quickly and dominate wetlands in another continent. Such species are known as invasive species and may displace other native species in wetlands. In the United States, more than 50,000 species of plants, animals, and microorganisms are believed to have been introduced to wetlands. This chapter examines what makes some species invasive, the effects of invasive species on wetlands, and what should be done to control invasive species. It looks at two hypotheses that have been proposed to explain why some plant species become invasive: the landscape sink or disturbance hypothesis, and the superior competitor hypothesis. According to the landscape sink/disturbance hypothesis, a wetland becomes more susceptible to invasion due to changes in hydrology, water chemistry, or physical disturbances. The superior competitor hypothesis emphasises the ability of invasive species to outcompete and displace the native species. This hypothesis has many variants, including enemy release, hybrid vigor, allelopathy, broader tolerance, efficient use, and empty niche.Less
An exotic or native species from one continent may spread quickly and dominate wetlands in another continent. Such species are known as invasive species and may displace other native species in wetlands. In the United States, more than 50,000 species of plants, animals, and microorganisms are believed to have been introduced to wetlands. This chapter examines what makes some species invasive, the effects of invasive species on wetlands, and what should be done to control invasive species. It looks at two hypotheses that have been proposed to explain why some plant species become invasive: the landscape sink or disturbance hypothesis, and the superior competitor hypothesis. According to the landscape sink/disturbance hypothesis, a wetland becomes more susceptible to invasion due to changes in hydrology, water chemistry, or physical disturbances. The superior competitor hypothesis emphasises the ability of invasive species to outcompete and displace the native species. This hypothesis has many variants, including enemy release, hybrid vigor, allelopathy, broader tolerance, efficient use, and empty niche.
Keywords: invasive species, native species, wetlands, plants, animals, microorganisms, landscape sink, disturbance hypothesis, superior competitor hypothesis, physical disturbances
Species’ Invasions
A. Townsend Peterson, Jorge Soberón, Richard G. Pearson, Robert P. Anderson, Enrique Martínez-Meyer, Miguel Nakamura, and Miguel Bastos Araújo
in Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions (MPB-49)
10.23943/princeton/9780691136868.003.0013
This chapter discusses the use of ecological niche modeling to study species invasions, and more specifically to identify and understand genuine exceptions to ecological niche equivalency between ... More
This chapter discusses the use of ecological niche modeling to study species invasions, and more specifically to identify and understand genuine exceptions to ecological niche equivalency between native and introduced ranges of species. In addition, it examines the degree to which the geographic course of species’ invasions can be anticipated based on scenopoetic variables and biotic interactions. The chapter also reviews practical considerations that must be taken into account when exploring the utility of ecological niche models in understanding species’ invasions, such as using niche conservatism to predict likely changes in the distributional potential of invasive species under scenarios of changing environmental conditions. Finally, it describes caveats and limitations of the approach and outlines future research directions and challenges involved in the application of niche modeling ideas in species invasions.Less
A. Townsend PetersonJorge SoberónRichard G. PearsonRobert P. AndersonEnrique Martínez-MeyerMiguel NakamuraMiguel Bastos Araújo
This chapter discusses the use of ecological niche modeling to study species invasions, and more specifically to identify and understand genuine exceptions to ecological niche equivalency between native and introduced ranges of species. In addition, it examines the degree to which the geographic course of species’ invasions can be anticipated based on scenopoetic variables and biotic interactions. The chapter also reviews practical considerations that must be taken into account when exploring the utility of ecological niche models in understanding species’ invasions, such as using niche conservatism to predict likely changes in the distributional potential of invasive species under scenarios of changing environmental conditions. Finally, it describes caveats and limitations of the approach and outlines future research directions and challenges involved in the application of niche modeling ideas in species invasions.
Keywords: ecological niche modeling, species invasions, ecological niche, scenopoetic variables, biotic interactions, niche models, niche conservatism, invasive species
The Impact of Marine Invasive Species on Endangered Species Protection Efforts in a Changing Ocean Environment
Eric V. Hull
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was enacted to promote the conservation of threatened and endangered plants and animals and to preserve their critical habitats. Invasive species continue to ... More
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was enacted to promote the conservation of threatened and endangered plants and animals and to preserve their critical habitats. Invasive species continue to compromise the effectiveness of the ESA. Today, more than 40 percent of all species listed on the endangered species list have been or continue to be significantly impacted by invasive species within their range. For marine protected species, the impacts are significant. Invasive species established in U.S. waters have altered critical habitats and trophic dynamics, decreased juvenile recruitment through increased predation on native species, increased parasitism, altered genetic diversity, decreased species resilience, impaired nutrient cycling and altered water quality, and have reduced marine biodiversity. This chapter addresses the application of the ESA to a rapidly changing marine environment, with emphasis on how current responses to marine invasive species and climate change may affect implementation of the ESA to marine species.Less
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was enacted to promote the conservation of threatened and endangered plants and animals and to preserve their critical habitats. Invasive species continue to compromise the effectiveness of the ESA. Today, more than 40 percent of all species listed on the endangered species list have been or continue to be significantly impacted by invasive species within their range. For marine protected species, the impacts are significant. Invasive species established in U.S. waters have altered critical habitats and trophic dynamics, decreased juvenile recruitment through increased predation on native species, increased parasitism, altered genetic diversity, decreased species resilience, impaired nutrient cycling and altered water quality, and have reduced marine biodiversity. This chapter addresses the application of the ESA to a rapidly changing marine environment, with emphasis on how current responses to marine invasive species and climate change may affect implementation of the ESA to marine species.
Keywords: Endangered Species Act, ESA, marine invasive species, critical habitat, native species
Diversity and Dynamics of Californian Subtidal Kelp Forests
Michael Graham, Ben Halpern, and Mark Carr
in Food Webs and the Dynamics of Marine Reefs
Biology, Aquatic Biology
The chapter describes the geology, oceanography, and patterns of biogeography of the California kelp forests. The structure and biodiversity of the kelp forest food web for all trophic guilds is ... More
The chapter describes the geology, oceanography, and patterns of biogeography of the California kelp forests. The structure and biodiversity of the kelp forest food web for all trophic guilds is described as well as findings from experimental manipulations and long time series studies. The chapter finishes with a discussion of the role of fishing, habitat loss, and climate change on these kelp forests.Less
Michael GrahamBen HalpernMark Carr
The chapter describes the geology, oceanography, and patterns of biogeography of the California kelp forests. The structure and biodiversity of the kelp forest food web for all trophic guilds is described as well as findings from experimental manipulations and long time series studies. The chapter finishes with a discussion of the role of fishing, habitat loss, and climate change on these kelp forests.
Keywords: Channel Islands, ENSO, detritus, habitat loss, invasive species, gastropods, macroalgae, marine mammals, octopus, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, phytodetritus, Point Conception, seastars, sheephead, spiny lobster, subduction
Second Best Policies in Invasive Species Management: When are they “Good Enough”?
David Finnoff, Alexei Potapov, and Mark A. Lewis
The rapid and often shocking consequences of the spread of invasive species has led to calls for the application of rules of thumb in their management. This contrasts significantly with arguments ... More
The rapid and often shocking consequences of the spread of invasive species has led to calls for the application of rules of thumb in their management. This contrasts significantly with arguments that in these types of situations, effort-intensive characterizations of optimal rules of management are likely to be worthwhile. To provide some insight into this debate facing policy makers, this chapter weighs the trade-offs, and characterizes critical parameters of applying simple decision rules in contrast to dynamically optimal decision rules for a simple example of the management of invasive species. It poses the question of whether or not managers can use second-best policies that do not vary over time, nor as conditions change, and not significantly waste resources in comparison to first-best programs of dynamically optimal management which might vary tremendously over time or as conditions change. Over an infinite time horizon, second-best policies always waste some resources compared to first-best policies, but the magnitude of the waste tends to be small. In situations with fast-spreading invasions, low rates of growth in marginal damages, and high rates of growth in marginal costs, second-best policies will waste less compared to dynamically optimal policies. In the opposite circumstances, with slowly spreading invasions, high rates of growth in marginal damages, and low rates of growth in marginal costs, second-best policies will waste more in total compared to dynamically optimal policies.Less
David FinnoffAlexei PotapovMark A. Lewis
The rapid and often shocking consequences of the spread of invasive species has led to calls for the application of rules of thumb in their management. This contrasts significantly with arguments that in these types of situations, effort-intensive characterizations of optimal rules of management are likely to be worthwhile. To provide some insight into this debate facing policy makers, this chapter weighs the trade-offs, and characterizes critical parameters of applying simple decision rules in contrast to dynamically optimal decision rules for a simple example of the management of invasive species. It poses the question of whether or not managers can use second-best policies that do not vary over time, nor as conditions change, and not significantly waste resources in comparison to first-best programs of dynamically optimal management which might vary tremendously over time or as conditions change. Over an infinite time horizon, second-best policies always waste some resources compared to first-best policies, but the magnitude of the waste tends to be small. In situations with fast-spreading invasions, low rates of growth in marginal damages, and high rates of growth in marginal costs, second-best policies will waste less compared to dynamically optimal policies. In the opposite circumstances, with slowly spreading invasions, high rates of growth in marginal damages, and low rates of growth in marginal costs, second-best policies will waste more in total compared to dynamically optimal policies.
Keywords: invasive species, biological invasions, invasion dynamics, decision model, environmental control
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Personality & Political Views: the Link is Closer than You Think
30 May 2016 | Gabriela Czarnek
Part I in a Series on Personality & Culture
On a scale from 1 to 10, (1 representing a state of perfect security and certainty, 10 representing non-stop change and diversity), what is your personal ideal?
Do you consider yourself “liberal” or “conservative”? Something in the middle? Or something that feels altogether different, such as a “libertarian”?
Using similar questions, behavioral scientists made an interesting discovery. They found that one’s taste for uncertainty/certainty in life is significantly correlated with one’s political inclinations. This is just one outcome from a growing body of research revealing how many kinds of individual and group predilections are grounded in unique, deeply-ingrained personality types. This knowledge forms part of the framework of thinking on which Veebit’s groundbreaking Human-Centered Analytics platform is built.
Cultural Differences in Uncertainty Avoidance
Uncertainty Avoidance (UA), is one of six dimensions of personality set forth in Geert Hofstede’s Model of Cultural Differences. While not without its critics, Hofstede’s model has proven enormously influential since the renowned organizational anthropologist first introduced it in 1980.
In Hofstede’s work, Uncertainty Avoidance refers to a culture’s (or country’s) degree of preference for rules and regulations over ambiguity and risk. Hofstede postulates that a tendency to develop such rules represents a way of dealing with the fact that the future can never be known. Cultures with a high level of UA prefer to minimize the unknown (or the sense of it, anyway) with careful planning and intensive rule-making. By contrast, cultures with low UA prefer unstructured situations, informality, and fewer rules. So, we have Mexico, high in UA with a score of 82; the United States, with moderate Uncertainty Avoidance at a score of 42; and Jamaica, with very low Uncertainty Avoidance with a score of 12. Try comparing other countries here.
Uncertainty Avoidance at an Individual Level
Of course, countries are made up of individuals, who can be more or less comfortable with uncertainty. This gets at one of the principles underlying the Veebit Personality & Cultural Model. Social psychologists have come up with several labels for this trait: personal need for structure, personal fear of invalidity, need for certainty, ambiguity avoidance, need for cognitive closure, etc. All of the constructs behind these labels share the idea that a continuum exists between those who dislike randomness and prefer order and those for whom spontaneity and surprise are a highly valued part of life. On this continuum many of us exist somewhere in the middle; with our first question, most of us choose 4-6.
Uncertainty Avoidance and Politics
John Jost, a social psychologist from NYU, suggests that our political leanings are shaped by something more than family, friends and life events. He argues that our psychological motives are the true sculptor of our political selves. The two most important sets of motives in this regard are what Jost calls existential and epistemic needs.
Take epistemic needs — another way of saying the amount and quality of information one needs to make a decision. Jost and his colleagues suggest that people high in uncertainty avoidance (or, as they might say, people high in need for cognitive closure) tend to prefer more right-wing, conservative beliefs. Why? Because conservative beliefs, which favor what’s traditional and already known over what’s risky and harder to pin down, tend to diminish feelings of uncertainty and anxiety.
Researchers note that conservative beliefs provide people with relatively well-structured answers to complex questions regarding social and economic phenomena. Example: The death penalty is neither cruel nor is it unusual: It’s simply a way to deal with a murderer. They further note a linkage between conservative beliefs and traditional worldviews. Example: Marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Any union outside of that is not marriage. Such convictions are great anxiety buffers. They promise relief from the experience of uncertainty, conflict or confusion that change has the potential to stir up. That’s why people are likely to support politicians who provide them with the feeling of simplicity and certainty. For instance, it’s recently been noted that Donald Trump seems to address those needs.
Conservative and Liberal Brains
With that in mind, David Amodio, another psychologist from NYU, carried out an interesting study on the differences between liberals and conservatives at the level of neurological activity. Amodio and colleagues showed that conservatism relates to a less active brain region called the anterior cingulate cortex. This part of the brain (located right behind your forehead) is engaged in detecting ambiguity, inconsistencies, and error. This set of activities, called conflict-monitoring, is less sens
itive among conservatives than liberals when it comes to the task of having to withdraw a habitual response from time to time (triggering the brain to say, in effect, “Oops! Look out right now!”).
The authors of the study claim that this is brain-level evidence for the fact that conservatism is related to uncertainty avoidance: electrophysiological data confirms that liberals are “more responsive to informational complexity, ambiguity and novelty”. For more on the subject, check out the discussion about Amodio’s paper.
Challenges to the Studies on Uncertainty Avoidance
Interesting as it is, Amodio’s and Jost’s research doesn’t tell us which is the cause and which the effect. Does uncertainty avoidance cause us to adopt conservative worldviews or does holding conservative beliefs make us dislike uncertainty?
To discover the answer, researchers conducting another set of studies manipulated threat and uncertainty. Nail and colleagues showed that threat makes liberals think like conservatives; when left-leaning individuals felt threatened (in the case of the study, by being reminded of their mortality) they became just as conservative in their opinions on unrelated issues (such as support for gay rights) as individuals who initially identified themselves as conservative. Thus, feelings of threat and uncertainty would appear to be a driver of conservative beliefs.
For a bit of perspective, we can turn once again from the individual to society. We generally know that people tend to adopt more conservative worldviews during tough times. For example, after 9/11 both conservatives and liberals shifted toward more conservative ideology, as evidenced not only by greater approval levels for George W. Bush and increased military spending in the US, but also by more conservative positions on issues unrelated to the attacks, such as socialized medicine.
What’s more, concludes Jonathan Haidt —another psychologist from NYU and the author of The Righteous Mind— in a 2012 article for The Guardian,
“…we are finding in America and many European nations a stronger shift to the right. When people fear the collapse of their society, they want order and national greatness, not a more nurturing government.”
Two Faces of Political Ideology
Recently, Jost’s theory has been given a new twist by Ariel Malka, a psychology professor and researcher at Yeshiva University. He and his colleagues have pointed out that, in fact, political beliefs comprise attitudes toward two groups of issues: social/cultural and economic. Social issues include religion and government, gun control, birth control, gay marriage and many others. Economic issues include attitudes toward taxes, government intervention, private property, healthcare, and so on. It seems that uncertainty avoidance is related to conservatism only on issues from the social domain (higher uncertainty avoidance is related to more right-wing beliefs).
For economic issues, the situation is different: Higher uncertainty avoidance is related to more left-wing beliefs. Conservative economic beliefs do not stress security and stability: They stress the need for individualism and self-reliance. By contrast, liberal economic beliefs provide people with a greater sense of security. For example, liberals hold with the government using tax dollars to help the poor and needy because they feel they themselves might need the social safety net someday.
Keep in mind, Jost’s theory of political conservatism does not have anything to say about the relative intelligence of conservatives or liberals. His model addresses only why certain people adopt conservative worldviews. Again, at the broadest level his theory postulates that differences in political leanings are strongly rooted in individual psychology around the need for a stable environment versus one that changes frequently.
It is also important to note that everyone is motivated to resolve ambiguity. Put another way, we all need answers. The only difference is that some of us experience a lot of anxiety when confronted with uncertainty and some of us don’t. And those of us who do probably think of ourselves as conservatives while those of us who don’t might opt for the liberal label.
Gabriela Czarnek is the Psychology Research Manager and an Assistant Psychometrician at Veebit where her focus is psychometric modeling for personality traits, attitudes and beliefs. She is a currently a PhD candidate in the field of social psychology, and a graduate of the Educational Measurement program at Jagiellonian University in Cracow (Poland), where she received her degree in Psychology in 2012.
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Coloradan
American Steam merchant
Photo courtesy of the Mariners Museum, Newport News VA
Name Coloradan
Type: Steam merchant
Tonnage 6,557 tons
Completed 1920 - Osaka Iron Works, Osaka
Owner American-Hawaiian SS Co, New York
Homeport New York
Date of attack 9 Oct 1942 Nationality: American
Fate Sunk by U-159 (Helmut Friedrich Witte)
Position 35° 47'S, 14° 34'E - Grid GR 8144
Complement 54 (6 dead and 48 survivors).
Route Bandar Shapur, Iran – Durban (5 Oct) - Port of Spain, Trinidad
Cargo 2500 tons of manganese ore, 29 tons of general cargo and a ton of gold concentrate
History Completed in March 1920 as Eastern Admiral for US Shipping Board (USSB). 1926 renamed Willboro for Williams & Co. 1937 renamed Coloradan for American-Hawaiian SS Co, New York.
At 11.54 hours on 9 Oct 1942 the unescorted Coloradan (Master Robert Hugh Murphy) was hit on the port side by one torpedo from U-159 while steaming on a zigzag course at 9.5 knots about 200 miles southwest of Capetown. The torpedo struck the vessel between the #5 and #6 hatches and destroyed the bulkhead between the holds, blew out the double bottom and damaged the shaft alley. The watch below secured the main engines as the ship quickly settled and sank by the stern within eight minutes. The crew of nine officers, 30 men and 15 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, one 3in, four 20mm and two .30cal guns) launched two lifeboats and all four rafts, but two rafts drifted away before they could be used. Six crew members failed to leave the ship. The U-boat surfaced shortly afterwards and went to the boats for questioning. The third mate answered questions concerning the ship and cargo and the Germans gave him the course and distance to land and wished them a pleasant voyage and good liberty. All survivors were divided equally among the two boats and sailed together until they were separated on the afternoon of 10 October. The next day, the master and 22 men in one boat were picked up by HMS Active (H 14) (LtCdr M.W. Tomkinson, RN), which searched unsuccessfully for the other boat and then landed the survivors in Capetown on 14 October. On 19 October, the other boat in charge of the chief mate with 25 men reached the coast and was towed by a fishing boat to Thorne Bay, South Africa. One day later these survivors were taken to Capetown, where many required hospitalization.
15 of the survivors were later repatriated on the Zaandam, which was sunk by U-174 (Thilo) on 2 November. Six crewmen from the Coloradan died.
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Update on the Geospatial Data Act of 2017
by: Diana Sinton
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Whatever happened to the bipartisan Geospatial Data Act (GDA) of 2017, you may be wondering? This important bill is designed to facilitate and support geospatial data development, sharing, and coordination across federal agencies and partnerships with state and local governments, towards a more robust National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). Unfortunately, the bill has yet to reach congressional floors for a vote. Back in mid-November 2017, parallel versions of a revised Geospatial Data Act of 2017 made their way to their respective committees in the Senate (S. 2128) and the House (H.R. 4395). You can find the committee assignments at the links to the bills above. Those identical bills had been modified to remove language in two places, Sections 11 and 12, that UCGIS and many other organizations and individuals had previously regarded as problematic to the pursuit of open GIS and mapping activities in academic and public sectors.
Since that time, actions have been largely behind the scenes and the bills remain on their respective congressional dockets. Further discussions and debate around data and mapping language have taken place but have yielded no changes to the text.
UCGIS strongly supports the Bill as it is, and we align with groups such as NSGIC (the National States Geospatial Information Council) and Boundless in this. There are many extremely important and worthwhile parts to these Bills that are critical to our NSDI, making enactment worth continuing to pursue in this Congress.
Fortunately and significantly, additional Senators and Representatives continue to join as co-Sponsors of the bill, bringing the number in the Senate to six Republicans, seven Democrats, and one Independent; in the House, two Democrats and three Republicans are co-sponsors. This growing and bipartisan support is essential but more is needed now. The Bill’s first Sponsor, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is set to retire in January 2019, and the odds are stacked against the passage of this legislation, given (dysfunctional) patterns of progress in Congress these days.
Nevertheless, we strongly encourage you to keep informed about the Geospatial Data Act and encourage your State’s Congressional representatives to do the same. In particular, if your State’s Senate or House delegate is on one of the committees to which either Bill is assigned, we encourage you to send a letter of support or make a phone call to let them know you support the bill.
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NFL officials to meet with Oneida tribe, but owners won’t urge Redskins to drop name
As NFL owners meet at one Washington, D.C. hotel, members of the Oneida Nation gather at another hotel, asking that the Washington Redskins change their name. They say the name is a"painful epithet." Team owner Daniel Snyder has said he would never change the name. (Vidya Viswanathan/The Fold/The Washington Post)
By Theresa Vargas and
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Local columnist who previously wrote for the local enterprise team about poverty, race and people with disabilities.
Mark Maske
Sports reporter covering the NFL
NFL officials will meet with the Native American group that is campaigning against the name of the Washington Redskins and hosted a symposium Monday on the issue a mile away from where league owners began gathering for a fall meeting.
“They know we’re not going away,” said Ray Halbritter, a representative for the Oneida Indian Nation. He called the meeting with the National Football League “a move in the right direction.”
The symposium comes three days after President Obama took a stance in the long-standing debate, saying that if he were the team’s owner, he would think about changing the name.
The Oneida Nation launched the “Change the Mascot” campaign a few months ago, drawing inspiration from a high school in its back yard that dropped the “Redskins” moniker. Since then, the New York tribe has emerged as one of the strongest forces behind the growing push to scrap the Washington team’s 80-year-old name, scheduling radio ads to run in every city the Redskins visit this season.
Its conference, held at the Ritz-Carlton in Georgetown, featured a panel of speakers that included the head of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian , a psychologist who spoke about the public health consequences of the word, student activists and politicians — Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.).
NFL to meet with Oneida Nation over Washington Redskins’ name
Team owner Dan Snyder is not expected to be pressured to change the Redskins name by other NFL owners.
Oct. 7, 2013 Participants cast shadows as the Oneida Indian Nation holds a forum to take its case against the Washington Redskins to the nation’s capital. The forum was held near where NFL owners will meet Tuesday. The Indian tribe from New York operates a “Change the Mascot” campaign that has included radio ads in cities where the team plays. Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post
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“I can think of no argument for retaining a name that directly insults Americans and especially our first Americans,” said Holmes Norton, speaking as a third-generation Washingtonian.
She said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell showed leadership last month when he stepped back from his earlier defense of the team’s name and said, “If one person’s offended, we have to listen.”
Nevertheless, no formal discussion of the Washington Redskins’ name is expected among NFL owners who are gathering at another Ritz-Carlton in Washington for a one-day meeting Tuesday, according to two people familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic.
They said they sense little or no sentiment within the league to urge Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to make a change.
NFL officials were invited to the Native American symposium, but none attended the event, Halbritter said. But he said he was encouraged that Goodell had instructed Adolpho Birch, the NFL’s senior vice president for labor policy and government affairs, to schedule a meeting. The sit-down is scheduled for Nov. 22 at the league’s offices, but two sources said it could be held sooner.
On Monday, as NFL franchise owners began arriving for their Tuesday gathering, several declined comment on the name-change issue.
Green Bay Packers President Mark Murphy, who once played for the Redskins, was the athletic director at Colgate when the school changed the name of its athletic teams from Red Raiders to Raiders in 2001. But he declined to speak Monday on the controversy.
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“I’d rather not get into it,” Murphy said.
Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie also declined to comment.
In May, Redskins owner Daniel Snyder told USA Today, “We’ll never change the name. It’s that simple. NEVER — you can use caps.”
In the months since, a string of prominent sports writers has stop penning the word. A group led by a former Federal Communications Commission chairman announced an effort to persuade broadcasters to stop saying the name on the airwaves. And a decision is expected soon in a lawsuit aimed at revoking the federal trademark protection of the team’s name.
Kevin Gover, who heads the American Indian museum and whose son is a plaintiff in the trademark case, said the Oneida Nation has long been a powerful force in the American Indian community and that the tribe’s involvement in the name-change issue has only elevated the conversation. He said he has little doubt that NFL officials, even if none attended the symposium, were listening to what was said.
“Like all major industries, the NFL is very interested in its public image,” Gover said, “and when there is a challenge to that public image, the NFL is inclined to respond.”
During Monday’s event, Gover — who wrote a letter to The Washington Post about the offensiveness of the name when he was a high school senior in 1973 — spoke about how as a child he was called “redskin” and doesn’t understand why, unlike other racial slurs, the word has not become off limits.
Michael Friedman, a clinical psychologist who has researched the effects of stigma and discrimination, said the word amounts to harassment and causes mental and physical harm to a population that already faces higher rates of depression, alcoholism, suicide, diabetes and infant mortality.
“This is a public health issue,” he said. “This is not a political correctness issue.”
Also on the panel were two students from Cooperstown High School and the school board’s president, who earlier this year were behind the decision to change the school’s team from the Redskins to the Hawkeyes. The Oneida Nation later paid for the school’s new uniforms.
The tribe, which has about 1,000 members, has prospered in the casino and resort business and has pledged $10 million over 10 years to the American Indian museum.
The tribe also sponsors the Buffalo Bills and has a “vested interest in the league being a unifying force,” Halbritter said.
“As an Indian nation that values the idea of mutual respect, we only have one simple objective in all of this,” Halbritter said. “We no longer want to be treated as targets of racial slurs. We don’t want our children to be treated as targets of racial slurs. We want to be treated as what we are: Americans.”
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Ex-Washington high school coach arrested on sex charge
By Brady Johnson of the Journal Star
Aug 5, 2019 at 4:49 PM Aug 5, 2019 at 8:09 PM
WASHINGTON — A former Washington Community High School coach was arrested by Washington police Monday on a charge of criminal sexual assault.
The charge alleges Hayley Reneau, 23, "held a position of trust, authority, or supervision in relation to the victim ..." according to a statement by Police Chief Mike McCoy.
The victim was between the ages of 13 and 17, McCoy stated in the release.
Reneau resigned from her position at the high school, where she served as a freshman volleyball and girls basketball coach, on July 29, according to a release from the school.
The WCHS statement also indicated the affected student's family had been notified, as had the Department of Children and Family Services. School officials said in the statement that there was no indication that any other students were affected.
Reneau played basketball for Eureka College and Illinois Central College prior to her graduation.
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Alfred M. Zeien ’52: Intelligence, Dedications, Integrity
Alfred Zeien ’52 with Joyce Zeien at the Webb Ring Dance.
Alfred Michael Zeien was born on February 25, 1930, in Queens, NY. He was a quick learner. Both he and his older brother, Charlie, spoke French, and their father, being a cabinetmaker, made sure they could work with their hands. Al’s performance throughout his school years was outstanding, and as he entered his senior year of high school, he faced the same decision many of us have – which college to attend. With full-scholarship offers from Harvard and MIT in hand, he chose Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, in part, perhaps, because Charlie (Class of 1950) was already there.
In August of 1948 the Class of 1952 met for the first time, 16 young men from varied backgrounds. Since this was soon after World War II, some members of the class were veterans and therefore older, while at least one was only 16 years old. They would pick up one additional classmate during their sophomore year and would be the first class to spend all four years on the Glen Cove campus. They graduated nine.
At the time, the students were helping to convert the Pratt mansion into an institute of higher learning, so Beaver Days were long and frequent. The class developed very strong ties. Alfy, as his classmates called him, was first in his class. This was not something anyone in the class dwelled upon, and when one recruiter came to talk to the class about permanent employment, he asked the students about their class rank. No one answered and no one went to work for that company.
During their senior year, Professor Nevitt, in an effort to give the class some culture, took them into Manhattan for an evening at a nice steak house. Over drinks Al declared to Professor Nevitt that he expected to be Chairman of General Motors at 36. Professor Nevitt replied, “Really now Al, I always dreamed of settling down in a small vineyard of my own in France with a young mistress.” The class dismissed both their comments.
Al decided that upon graduation he would work for Sea Beaver, a small company in Greenwich, CT, building minesweepers for the Korean War. It was during this time that Al married Joyce Lawrence, whom he had been dating throughout his years at Webb. Together they have three accomplished children and five grandchildren, and live in their lovely home of 26 years in Woods Hole, MA.
After Sea Beaver, Al went to the Harvard Business School, graduating with his MBA in 1955. He then joined the General Dynamics Electric Boat yard in Groton, CT, where he was chief estimator and at 28, became sales manager. During this time, he was responsible for representing E.B. in negotiating all submarine contracts with Admiral Hyman Rickover in Washington, D.C. At 33, he was at General Dynamic’s Manhattan headquarters in charge of mergers and acquisitions where he learned some Wall Street lessons. He had three years left to fulfill his proclamation of becoming Chairman by the age of 36. In 1964, General Dynamics bought the Quincy Shipyard from Bethlehem Steel, and Al at 34 became the head of operations at Quincy with 8,000 employees.
In 1968 Gillette bought Braun and hired Al as its General Manager to start an international division. The Zeiens moved to Germany. Al returned to Gillette in Boston in 1973 as Group VP in the Diversified Companies operation, but in a year returned to Germany as Chairman of Braun to stem red ink there. Colman Mockler was Chairman of Gillette, and he brought Al back to Boston in 1978 as Senior VP for technical operations. Al retooled the South Boston plant, doubling output, and played a pivotal role in developing the Sensor brand of razors. In 1981 Al was elected Vice Chairman for technical operations and new business development. In 1984, he negotiated the purchase of Oral-B.
In the fall of 1986, Mr. Mockler assigned Al to head the “A” team response to a hostile takeover attempt by a corporate raider. With Al playing a key role, the team successfully fended off the takeover attempt.
In late 1987 Mr. Mockler announced a major management reorganization. Al Zeien was named Vice Chairman to head International/Diversified. This position involved the traditional businesses in the fast growing European segment and included Braun, Oral-B, and Jafra products. In late 1990, Mr. Mockler announced his intention to retire at the end of 1991, choosing Al Zeien as President/COO effective January 1, 1991. Two months later, Mr. Mockler unexpectedly died of a heart attack and on February 21, 1991, the Gillette Board declared Al Chairman and CEO.
Al took command and instilled a sense of urgency to do things faster and accelerate globalization. In 1990 66% of sales and profits came from outside the U.S. By 1996 70% of sales and 72% of profit came from outside the U.S. The proportion of total sales from Gillette products that were worldwide leaders in their markets grew from 55% in 1990 to 81% in 1996. Al insisted on an increased rate of new-product introduction and asked his senior managers to get out of Boston and move frequently around the world. He scheduled himself for one international trip per month.
Under Al, Gillette’s mission was to achieve or enhance clear leadership, worldwide, in the existing or new core consumer product categories in which Gillette chose to compete and acquired such well-known companies as Parker Pen and Duracell. During his tenure, Gillette became a member of the Fortune 500 companies. When he stepped down as Chairman in 1999, Al foresaw further growth in India, China, and Russia and sounded much like the man his classmates knew him to be.
Al has served on the boards of many companies and institutions, including the Bank of Boston, EMC, Inverness Medical Innovations, Massachusetts Mutual Life, Polaroid, Raytheon, the Boston Museum of Science, and as Chairman of the World Affairs Council of Boston.
Although his career took him away from the marine industry, Al never deserted Webb and his classmates. He and Joyce delighted in the annual reunions of the Class of ’52 where the old bonds remained strong and hosted several of them in their home. Their generosity to Webb includes the establishment of the Alfred M. Zeien Lecture Series in 2000, a program which has allowed a wide variety of talented people to share their experience with Webb students; the establishment of the Dr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Zeien ’52 Student Scholar Endowment, which subsidizes the full cost of tuition and provides a student with $2,500 toward room-and board expenses; and, a Cornerstone Gift to the current Campaign for Webb, which is projected to address infrastructure improvements. For its part, Webb has recognized Al’s beneficence and outstanding career with the award of an Honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1997. The Alumni Association also honored Al with the William Selkirk Owen award in 2013. This award is the Alumni Association’s highest honor and is presented to a graduate in recognition of outstanding achievement and service to the profession and his/her Alma Mater each year.
Al feels that his time at Webb was the most fruitful of his life, establishing lifelong friendships, instilling a strong work ethic, and providing an outstanding education.
He is dedicated to Webb’s continuing to provide the same opportunity to deserving students for years to come. He once told Webb President Keith Michel: “My Harvard degree was important to my career, but it was Webb that made me the person I became.”
Al Zeien is a man of intelligence, dedication to principle, and integrity. Some career. Some life. Some man.
– by Richard P. Neilson ’70
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The Latest: Election observers hail Ukraine vote as free
Iikka Kanerva, OSCE Special Co-ordinator, attends a news conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, April 1, 2019. Early results in Ukraine's presidential election show comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy maintaining a strong lead against the incumbent president in the first round of voting, setting the stage for a runoff vote in three weeks. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The Latest on Ukraine’s presidential election (all times local):
Election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have hailed Ukraine’s presidential election as competitive and free overall.
The OSCE observation mission said in a statement that voters “had a broad choice” at the polls and that the candidates “could campaign freely.” The observers said they have a positive assessment of the election day and expect it to be the case at the impending runoff.
Preliminary results show comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy winning the first round with more than 30 percent of the vote while the incumbent President Petro Poroshenko trails behind. The two are expected to face off in the second round of voting on April 21.
Early results in Ukraine’s presidential election show a comedian with no political experience maintaining his strong lead against the incumbent president in the first round, setting the stage for a runoff in three weeks.
With just over half of the polling stations counted Monday, Volodomyr Zelenskiy had 30.2 percent of the vote, while incumbent President Petro Poroshenko was a distant second with about 16.6 percent. Ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko trailed behind with 13 percent. The results were in sync with a top exit poll.
The strong showing of Zelenskiy reflects the public longing for a fresh leader who has no links to the corruption-ridden Ukrainian political elite and can offer a new approach to settling the grinding conflict with Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Southern Africa was founded in 1963 as a response to the separate and unequal educational systems in South Africa. The property on which the School is situated was originally a farm called "Waterford Park Estate". When His Majesty King Sobhuza II, the former Ngwenyama of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), visited the school in 1967, he gave it the name "Kamhlaba", by which he meant both "of the world", a world in miniature, and also that we are "of the earth" and therefore without distinctions such as race or religion. Differently to all the other UWC schools and colleges, the academic year at Waterford Kamhlaba runs from January to November.
Strong Relationships with Local Change-Makers - The School, through community service, has strong relations with local organizations such as the refugee camp and neighborhood care points (children welfare centres).
Waterford Kamhlaba is the only UWC school on the South hemisphere calendar - While other UWC schools' academic years usually run between September and May, Waterford's follows the South hemisphere norm starting in January.
First Multiracial school in SA - Waterford Kamhlaba was the first multiracial school in Southern Africa; founded as a direct response to South Africa’s system of apartheid, which had racial segregation as a policy did not allow multiracial school. Its history of embracing and celebrating diversity from across Africa and beyond is something deeply ingrained into Waterford Kamhlaba’s nature and continues to be at the core of its values today.
Waterford Kamhlaba offers three educational programmes: the Waterford curriculum in the junior school, consisting of Forms 1 to 3 (11-14 year-olds); the University of Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) program in the middle school, consisting of Forms 4 and 5 (14-16 year-olds); and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP) curriculum in the senior school (16-20 year-olds).
Students in Form 5 do not gain automatic admission to the IBDP but need to go through an application process.
For the IBDP curriculum, the school offers alongside standard courses SiSwati, French, Spanish, Anthropology, Psychology, Business Management, Music, Theatre.
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Waterford Kamhlaba offers a wide variety of sporting activities, including athletics, badminton, basketball, cricket, hockey, netball, rugby, soccer, softball, squash, swimming, volleyball and tennis. Other recreational activities include camping, climbing, horse riding, kayaking and road as well as cross-country running. A variety of art clubs (including drama and music) and societies are run by both staff and students. Since 1979, a commitment to community service has also been formally recognized as an essential part of the school’s policy, organisation and life. A regular commitment of two hours a week to a service project is required of IBDP and Form 5 students, and projects usually vary from involvement at the local hospital, work for the disabled, at local schools and preschools, and environmental awareness activities such as a recycling program.
Ekukhuleni (the place of growing) residence accommodates up to 80 Form 1, 2 and 3 students. Esiveni (the place of the people of the nation) accommodates up to 110 Form 4 and 5 students. Emhlabeni (the place of the people of the world) and Elangeni (the place of the rising sun) accommodate, respectively, up to 130 and 68 IBDP students, in either single rooms or shared rooms; they consist of separate wings for males and females, a common room, computer centre, library, TV room and kitchen. Each day there is one male and one female residence tutor on duty in each residence. The campus also has exceptional sports, arts and learning facilities.
Waterford Kamhlaba is perched on a mountain-top in Sidwashini, about a 10-15 minute drive from Eswatini’s capital of Mbabane. The campus is home to an incredible blend of indigenous flora and fauna. Hiking trails up the school’s peak provide an incredible view of Eswatini’s picturesque landscape.
Students apply through their UWC national committee or through the UWC Global Selection Programme. Direct applications are also possible. For more information about Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Southern Africa, visit the website.
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A Tale Of 2 (Convention) Cities Fearing A Second Wave Of COVID-19
By Ron Elving
Published May 23, 2020 at 7:00 AM EDT
The Spectrum Center in downtown Charlotte, N.C., is the site of the Republican National Convention in 2020.
Two new polls out this week indicate a majority of Americans fear a "second wave" of COVID-19 cases in the near future, which may be washing away the chances for traditional presidential nominating conventions this year.
A recent NPR/PBS/Marist poll found 77% of Americans were very concerned or concerned about a second wave of coronavirus. The next day, the Associated Press and NORC for Public Affairs Research reported that 54% of Americans were "very or extremely concerned" that lifting restrictions will result in new infections (with nearly another 30% somewhat concerned).
Federal health officials, including renowned infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, have warned a resurgence of the virus is likely in the months ahead, possibly coinciding with flu season in the fall. It might also come earlier if the reopening of business reverses the current downward trend in new COVID-19 cases.
So at this point it is hard for convention planners to know whether the last two weeks in August would bring relative calm or a rerun of the outbreaks from March and April. And that has people wondering in the convention host cities of Milwaukee and Charlotte: As much as they wanted to host these events, is the price too high in terms of local residents' exposure?
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Democrats selected Milwaukee to host their 2020 national convention.
Milwaukee was to host the Democratic convention in mid-July but the party's national committee agreed to postpone until the week of Aug. 17. That is the week before the Republicans are slated to gather in Charlotte.
"We don't know yet what the new normal will be at the end of August," notes Harvey Gantt, the prominent Charlotte architect who served two terms as its first African American mayor in the 1980s.
If people are contracting and dying from COVID-19 it makes no sense to go forward.
"I'm not expecting the mayor or the city council to rescind the decision to host, not sure that's even an option," Gantt said. "But if a hurricane blew through here the week before, I think you'd see some reconsideration, and if people are contracting and dying from COVID-19 it makes no sense to go forward."
The 2016 national nominating conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia each drew an estimated 50,000 people — nearly a third of them media personnel. Day and night for a week, throngs pulsed through sports arena hallways, hotel lobbies, meeting rooms and bars. It was great for the local economies, bringing in $180 million to each host city, according to the U.S. Travel Association and supporting thousands of jobs — at least temporarily.
Those dollars and jobs could scarcely be more welcome in any American city than they would be this summer. But it's also hard to imagine a more effective way to spread the virus, endangering not only the conventioneers but also the thousands of workers employed to set up, serve food and drinks, and clean up. For the workers, the choice would be between their health and their job.
"If 50,000 people come here they are going to have a disparate impact on this community and we will be left to pick up the pieces," says Mark Jerrell, an African American man serving in his first term on North Carolina's Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners. "So if you are talking about $10 million in county revenue from taxes, what about the $20 million in medical bills we get as a result?"
Jerrell's district on the County Board is, by his description, "one third African Americans, one third Caucasian and one third Hispanic, Asian or other." He makes it clear he thinks the area's people of color would be vulnerable.
"There's no question some of our people are at a higher level of risk because of their lack of health care and the nature of the work they do," Jerrell said. "We've already seen a disproportionate share of the cases of COVID here in [Mecklenburg] County are people of color."
Gantt made a similar point with respect to the convention and the virus.
"Ultimately the people running the convention itself have to be concerned about keeping their own people safe and seeing what precautions they need to take so that their delegates want to attend," said Gantt.
But he added their responsibilities also extended to the thousands of Charlotteans who would be servicing the convention and related events.
"They have to take care of our people, too," he said. "The onus will be on them to see that the people working that convention are safe."
Pointed questions were being asked weeks ago at town halls and in social media in Milwaukee, too.
"At first a lot of local folks were really excited to have the convention here, to show off our city, our small businesses and black-owned businesses," said Angela Lang, executive director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities in Milwaukee. "We also saw it as a chance to talk about the challenges here, especially in terms of black folks."
Lang's organization was even helping recruit volunteers to work on the convention when the COVID-19 crisis hit and perspectives changed.
"At the end of the day we have to be sure people are safe," she said. "And when you look around you see the people who still have to go to work. Not only health workers but grocery store workers, truck drivers. One thing really clear in this pandemic is the class aspect to who's at risk. And when you paint the picture a lot of these people are black and brown."
What Democratic and GOP leaders are saying
To date, the official responses of the two parties have been so divergent that the two symbols are inadvertently made symbols of the country's political divide.
The Democratic National Committee is voting (by mail) on a proposal to leave final decisions about the convention to a state and local team of health and elected officials. But Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, has said he expects the convention to move toward an essentially virtual mode. And the presumed nominee of the convention, former Vice President Joe Biden, has said he is fine with that or with a hybrid of in-person and virtual.
Polling has shown Democrats in general are more supportive of stay-at-home orders of all kinds, and a New York Times canvass of Democratic delegates entitled to vote at the convention found most would prefer not to hazard a face-to-face confab this year. So, while Milwaukee has waited a long time for its first national major party nominating convention, it may just have to wait longer.
The sentiment has been quite different on the Republican side, where polls and YouTube videos show active resistance to stay-at-home orders. The president has often reiterated his support for a traditional convention, and as recently as last week, officials for the convention and for the Republican National Committee reiterated they were moving "full speed ahead."
That may be the GOP's final word, or it may be bravado or even a negotiating position. The New York Timesreported online Thursday that President Trump might not be as adamant about the Charlotte convention as has been assumed, citing unnamed aides suggesting the president had spoken of scaling back — or even moving the convention to Florida.
More likely than that would be a graduated compromise, possibly with a fraction of the human footprint.
"People keep talking about 50,000," said Gantt. "We don't know that it will be that many, it may wind up being two or three thousand. Or maybe 21,000 spaced out in a very large facility."
That was very much like the solution proposed for the Democrats by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who envisioned a ballpark with delegates six feet apart.
Moving out of Charlotte would seem the least likely scenario at this point. But it would surely flip the script on some in Charlotte who have noted the city has a contract with the Republicans that allows few exit ramps, if any. That contract was cited when, in 2019, some members of the City Council wanted to have a do-over vote on hosting the RNC. (The first was in 2018, and the tally was 6-5 in favor.)
The do-over discussion followed a fiery rally Trump had held halfway across the state in Greenville, N.C., criticizing Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and other women of color just elected to Congress. The crowd was seen national TV chanting "send her back."
One Charlotte city councilman, Braxton Winston, referred at that time to Trump as "an avatar of white supremacy." But the full council adjourned without reconsidering the vote it had taken the previous year.
Shared characteristics
Widely separated by geography and history, the two cities nonetheless share notable characteristics. The growing city of Charlotte is nearing 900,000 people and the surrounding Mecklenburg County adds another 200,000. The city of Milwaukee has fewer than 600,000 and its suburbs within Milwaukee County add another 350,000 (and still more in the counties beyond). In both cases, the core city has become increasingly African American and Hispanic as white residents over the past few generations decamped to the suburbs. Charlotte proper was 35% African American and 14% Hispanic in the latest census estimate. The comparable numbers in Milwaukee today are 40% and 17%.
Both cities have long histories of racially segregated neighborhoods, civil rights struggles and battles over the schools. In 2016, both cities saw violent street confrontations after the shooting deaths of young black men by police officers. In Charlotte, six young men of color had been fatally shot, all but one by a white officer, in a six month period.
But both cities have also seen their political leadership undergo a transformation. Since Gantt in the 1980s, Charlotte has become accustomed to having black mayors, including Anthony Foxx, who was later the U.S. secretary of transportation under President Obama. Vi Lyles, the current mayor, is the first black woman to hold the office. The Charlotte City Council has a black majority, as does the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners.
Milwaukee's population is actually more non-Anglo by percentage than Charlotte, although it has not yet elected a black mayor. State Sen. Lena Taylor, an African American woman, ran a strong second in the most recent mayoral race, losing to 16-year incumbent Tom Barrett (who was first elected over an African American alderman who was serving as acting mayor at the time).
In April of this year, state Rep. David Crowley became the first African American elected as Milwaukee County executive (a post once held by Scott Walker, who would later serve two terms as governor). And while the city's Common Council is divided almost equally between white and black aldermen (with two Hispanics), it has had several black council presidents, including the current president, Cavalier "Chevy" Johnson.
Race may have been at least a subtle subtext of the choice of Milwaukee and Wisconsin to host the convention in 2020. While many factors contributed to Hillary Clinton's loss in the state in 2016, one was a sharp drop in voting in Milwaukee's black community. Some estimates have shown African American voting rates in the state down by nearly a fifth. About 7 out of 10 African Americans in the state live in Milwaukee, where turnout in the city proper dropped 11 percentage points from Obama's last campaign in 2012.
It should be noted that elsewhere in the state 18 less populous counties that had voted twice for Obama switched to Trump in 2016. But the falloff in the Democratic tally in Milwaukee was more than enough to account for Clinton's 22,000-vote loss statewide. It was the first time a Democratic presidential candidate had failed to carry Wisconsin since 1984.
Ron Elving
Ron Elving is Senior Editor and Correspondent on the Washington Desk for NPR News, where he is frequently heard as a news analyst and writes regularly for NPR.org.
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On 30th and 31st of May, the Annual Joint Congress of the Mexican Energy Associations was held in Villahermosa, State of Tabasco in Mexico. Seven associations organized a panel on the Congress Theme “The Energy Sector at the Service of México; Challenges and Opportunities”. The inaugural ceremony was lead by the Energy Secretary, Rocio Nahle.
Our Mexican Member Committee, the association WEC.MEX, organized the panel entitled “The Challenges of Clean Technologies in the Medium and Long Term”. The panel was presided by our president, Angelica Ruiz, CEO of BP Mexico. Juan Eibenschutz, WEC Honorary President and Director General of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, discussed the necessity to re-start the nuclear program, including new technologies like the Small Nuclear Reactors. Diego Arjona, Director General of the National Institute for Electricity and Clean Energies, presented the status and projections of renewable energies as well as the efforts in developing CCUS process in México. Humberto Marengo, Senior Research Staff at the Engineering Institute of our National University, concentrated his remarks on the potential of hydro-energy emphasizing the efforts to develop energy storage installations.
The overall discussion after the presentations was based on how fast the implementation of these technologies could be carried out in order to assure that our contribution to GHG emissions will be curtailed so that a minimum of catastrophic damage occurs due to the impact of the resulting atmospheric temperature increase.
Seminar on “Actualization in Energy Systems based on Publications of the World Energy Council”
The Council's Mexico Member Committee, the National Institute of Electricity and Clean Energies (INEEL), the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), the National Academy of Engineering of Mexico (AIM) and the Colegio de México (COLMEX) initiated the fifth edition of the seminar on “Actualization in Energy Systems based on Documents of the World Energy Council”, on May 22.
Almost 100 participants registered from all over the country . The 5th version of this seminar consists of 54 conferences divided into five modules.
In the first module, twelve presentations describe the different types of energy resources available in nature that are the primary energy inputs to the energy sector. The second module consists of fourteen presentations that describe and analyze the strategic aspects of energy systems and their complexities, as for example the energy scenarios. In the third module, twelve topics about specific perspectives with respect to their optimal performance as for example the resilience factor in the context of cyber risks. The fourth module consists of ten presentations that describe some aspects of a social nature that relate to the energy sector, as for example the role of workers unions in the Mexican energy system. Finally, module five of six presentations deals with the economic aspects of the energy system as for example the rules of trade.
The course is designed to present attendees a global overview of what an energy system implies from all its aspects. In addition to physical technical aspects, it includes presentations and discussion of economic, social and public policy aspects. It is aimed at participants of all specialties and professions working in the energy sector; engineers, accountants, lawyers, science graduates, business administration.
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Author: Rebecca Perry
Rooftop Cinema Club has partnered with BAFTA NY to present a series of screenings, celebrating films that are set in the heart of New York and made by British filmmakers. Screenings will feature extras such as never-before-seen footage, all courtesy of BAFTA.
We’ve decided to take a look into some of the best examples of these films, and one or two may surprise you.
Directed and co-written by London-born Steve McQueen, Shame follows the story of Brandon, an NYC resident who is unable to manage his sex life due to his strong sexual addiction. Arguably Michael Fassbender’s breakout role, Shame went on to be nominated for numerous awards including two BAFTAs and a Golden Globe. This is a firm favourite with Team Rooftop, due to its unapologetic approach to the subject of sex. BAFTA NY Presents Shame - 8:30pm 27th July, Rooftop Film Club at YOTEL New York. Tickets Available: http://www.timeout.com/newyork/shop/shame-july-27
Directed and produced by the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest is often called upon as being one of the greatest films of all time. A tale of mistaken identity that leads to an innocent man being pursued across America, North by Northwest features some of the most iconic scenes in cinema and was eventually nominated for three Academy Awards. Always a winner with Team Rooftop and its customers, a classic that can’t be beaten.
Released last year to critical acclaim, Brooklyn follows the story of a young Irish girl as she immigrates to Brooklyn in search of a better life. British-born Nick Hornby adapted the screenplay and the film went on to be nominated for a host of BAFTAs and Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actress. A favourite with Rooftop Cinema Club customers, this has the tone of an American classic mixed with a little bit of Irish charm.
Despite often appearing on numerous ‘Greatest American Film’ lists, did you know Midnight Cowboy was actually directed by a Brit? London-born John Schlesinger won an Academy Award for his direction of a naive hustler arriving in New York for the first time. It swept the boards at the 1970 BAFTAs, taking home six awards including Best Film, Director and Actor. An impressive first major role performance from Jon Voight, while the ever brilliant Dustin Hoffman excels as the lead.
Did you know 1987’s highest-grossing film, Fatal Attraction, was actually adapted from a British TV show called Diversion? British-born James Dearden adapted his original short film into this award-winning psychological thriller, with Adrian Lyne, also a Brit, taking the reigns as director. Fatal Attraction went on to win a BAFTA Award for Best Editing and both Michael Douglas and Anne Archer were nominated for their roles. A film that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.
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Sadly, cheating is common in a marriage – but it’s usually not with a close family member.
One woman has confessed to doing the dirty with her husband’s father on the kitchen table, where the family usually have dinner together.
Speaking to Kidspot , she confessed to having “pity sex” with her father-in-law, but maintains it all began “in the most innocent way”.
The woman, who hasn’t revealed her name, explained that she’s been happily married to her husband for five years and they have a daughter together.
She began by saying she is not proud of this story, and if her husband finds out the “marriage will be over”.
The family had been happy until a few months ago, until tragedy struck: her husband’s mum died of cancer at just 52.
Her father-in-law came to stay for a while as he was lonely and finding it difficult to cope alone – initially planning on staying for a month or so.
Because her in-laws had always been “wonderful” to her she wanted to do whatever she could to help out.
When her husband went away for a few days, her father-in-law was great at looking after their daughter around the house.
One night they stayed up later than usual, drinking as he showed her photos of his late wife from when they were in high school together.
“I know it’s no excuse but the whiskey was flowing and I just felt relaxed and let my guard down,” she said.
“He was so sad and when I gave him a big hug, things started to feel intimate.
“Before I knew what was happening, his mouth was on mine and then clothes were flying everywhere and we were having sex on my kitchen table. The place where I sit and eat breakfast with my husband and daughter every morning.”
The mum said it was over quickly and they went to their separate beds.
Although she glares at him, she says she’s scared to speak out in case he says anything to her husband.
Now the father-in-law has been living with them for three months and shows no signs of leaving – she feels like this is “punishment” for what she has done and says she deserves it.
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Internet users 'at risk' from poor Web sites
Consumer International claims that many health, finance and price-comparison Web sites are guilty of a wide range of dodgy practices
By Graeme Wearden | November 4, 2002 -- 17:12 GMT (09:12 PST) | Topic: Networking
Many Web sites are putting surfers at risk by providing information that is inaccurate and misleading, research published on Monday claimed.
Consumers International -- which is made up of over 250 consumer organisations including the UK's Consumer' Association -- has conducted a global survey of online content, and warns that many health, finance and price-comparison Web sites are guilty of a wide range of bad practices.
According to Consumers International, 49 percent of health and financial sites fail to give appropriate warnings, such as advising people to consult a professional before acting on their advice.
Consumers International also warns that around half of medical and financial Web sites also neglect to give full information about the people who provide their advice, leaving consumers in the dark about the reliability of their information.
"The results of this research are particularly alarming when you consider that the majority of consumers using the web are relying on it for credible information they can trust," said Anna Fielder, director for Consumers International's Office for Developed and Transition Economies, in a statement.
"Consumers are being put at risk by misleading, inaccurate and incomplete information, for example, where they need to seek health or financial help. There is an urgent need for consumers to be alerted to this matter," Fielder added.
Consumers International's survey also claims that a mere 41 percent of sites that recommend products give sources for their prices, and 60 percent of the Web sites it examined fail to indicate whether their content is influenced by their commercial partners, sponsors or advertisers.
Sites that fail to provide such information are letting down their users, according to the Consumer Association.
"Credibility depends on basic things like providing contact details and disclosing commercial relationships. This study demonstrates that many websites fail to inspire consumer confidence by failing to follow best practice" said Alan Williams of the Consumers' Association.
Consumers International recommends that consumers check a Web site's background before making any decisions based on its content. In particular, it advises that users are sceptical of any site that doesn't have an "about us" section containing information such as a site's postal address, its ownership, and details of any partners and sponsors.
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Olive Thomas ~ Hollywood's Most Tragic Flapper
Olive Thomas was a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl who became a movie star before her
mysterious death.
She was born Oliveretta Elaine Duffy on October 20, 1894, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. Olive was the oldest of three children. After her father died in 1906 the family moved to McKees Rock. When she was a teenager she started working in a department store. In April of 1911 she married Bernard Krug Thomas, a teenage clerk, The couple divorced two years later. Then she moved to New York City with her best friend Anna Daly. They lived together in a small unfurnished room on West 48th Street. Olive entered a beauty contest in 1914 where she was named "The Most Beautiful Girl" in New York City. She started modeling and was offered a job by producer Florenz Zeigfeld. The brunette beauty made her stage debut in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1915 and quickly became the the most popular girl in the show. During her time at the Follies she had a romantic relationship with the Florenz Ziegfeld, who was married to actress Billie Burke. Florenz asked Alberta Vargas to paint a nude portrait of Olive for his private collection. She made her film debut in the 1916 serial Beatrice Fairfax. That same year she married actor Jack Pickford, brother of Mary Pickford. They had a very tumultuous marriage due to Jack's drinking and womanizing. Olive was offered a lucrative contract with Selznick Pictures in 1918.
She appeared in many successful films including Madcap Madge, Youthful Folly, and The Flapper. Olive began an affair with producer Myron Selznick but she wanted to make her marriage to Jack work. In September 1920 she and Jack went on second honeymoon trip to Europe. After an evening of partying in Paris Olive and Jack returned to their hotel room. They were both very drunk. Around 3AM Olive went in to her bathroom and swallowed some mercury bi-chloride. It was a drug that had been prescribed to treat Jack's syphilis. She screamed out in pain and was taken to a hospital. Tragically she died four days later on September 10, 1920. Olive was just twenty-five years old. Her death was ruled an accident but there were rumors she committed suicide after a fight with Jack. Some people even believe she was murdered by Jack to collect her insurance money. She was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York. Ten days after she died her grief stricken friend Anna Daly committed suicide. Since Olive's death many people have claimed they have seen her ghost in New Amsterdam Theatre where she began her career as a Ziegfeld girl.
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Science Says: How risky is that virus? Your mind may mislead
Posted: Mar 5, 2020 / 01:24 AM EST / Updated: Mar 5, 2020 / 01:32 AM EST
Customers look at sanitizing wipes on the shelves of a pharmacy in New York on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. As coronavirus infections spread across the globe, everybody has to make a decision: How worried should I be about getting infected, and what should I do about it? (AP Photo/Marshall Ritzel)
NEW YORK (AP) — Anna Alexander, a property manager in Virginia Beach, Virginia, started the day Monday thinking that she might avoid shaking hands because of the coronavirus outbreak. Then somebody stuck out a hand to shake.
She took it.
“I’m a business person,” Alexander, 65, explained. “But if somebody else does it next time, I might try to be careful because of the coronavirus.”
As the viral infections spread across the globe, everybody has to make a decision: How worried should I be about getting infected, and what should I do about it?
Those decisions can have wide impacts. “Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS!” tweeted U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome M. Adams on Feb. 29. He explained masks aren’t effective in protecting the general public “but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”
The right degree of concern for somebody who lives near a coronavirus hotspot might very well differ from that of somebody who lives far from one. In any case, say experts in how people gauge risk, it’s not a simple, cold statistical calculation. Instead, it is colored by our emotions and other psychological factors.
“Emotions are the filters through which we see the facts,” says David Ropeik, a retired Harvard instructor on risk communication.
And this virus outbreak presents a list of “hot buttons … that ramp up our perception of risk” and sometimes make those perceptions differ from the evidence-based conclusions of medical officials, says Paul Slovic, a psychology professor at the University of Oregon.
For example, it’s new and unfamiliar, unlike the usual seasonal flu that kills a lot more people every year than coronavirus has. It doesn’t appear to be fully understood. And it seems hard to control, either by public health authorities or our own actions.
“We see there is no vaccine that can prevent it,” he said. It can spread through airborne droplets released by infected people, but we can’t be sure the people we meet are truly healthy, which also undercuts any sense of personal control, he said.
As Ropeik put it, in the face of a new and poorly understood threat “we start feeling like we don’t know what we need to do to protect ourselves, and that feels like powerlessness, a lack of control, like driving down the road but with your eyes closed.”
Meanwhile, the information people get from the news and social media is “not particularly reassuring,” Slovic said. “The geographic risk of this seems to be rapidly expanding” and within any country the case numbers start relatively small and then grow, without any known upper bound, he said. And reports focus on people getting sick and dying, not those who’ve become infected and had only mild symptoms, he said. “We’re getting only the scary information.”
What’s more, Ropeik said, “everybody is telling everybody about it” in news and social media, which amplifies the perceived risk.
Ropeik said the coronavirus triggers thinking about years of warnings about lethal pandemics. “This idea of the new disease being a major killer is an idea that has been burned into our recent fear memory,” he said.
Vincent Covello, director of the Center for Risk Communication, based in New York, provided a list of 17 psychological factors that he said can influence how individuals gauge the risks of coronavirus. For example, he said, people are often more concerned about events if they don’t trust the authorities or institutions in charge. They’re more concerned about involuntary things, like exposure to an infected person, than voluntary ones, like smoking or sunbathing. And they’re often more concerned about risks that have delayed effects, like the lag time between infection and symptoms, than those with an immediate effect, like poisoning.
So how can people minimize the risk of overreaction in themselves and others? Don’t spread the word about every little development, including minor missteps by government authorities, Ropeik says. And “don’t just share the scary parts,” but also include things like infection usually causing only mild to moderate symptoms.
Finally, “don’t be a 24/7 information victim,” he said. “Log off, put your phone down, pick up a book … Shut down your risk radar screen for a while…. You’re probably just as much at risk or safe tomorrow as you are now, whether you stay online all the time or not.”
Ben Finley in Norfolk, Virginia, contributed to this story.
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MLB allows Black Lives Matter, social justice jersey patches
by: RONALD BLUM, Associated Press
Cincinnati Reds’ Phillip Ervin, left, Joey Votto, left middle, Amir Garrett, middle, and Alex Blandino, right, kneel during the national anthem prior to an exhibition baseball game against the Detroit Tigers at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Tuesday, July 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Aaron Doster)
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball players have the option of having a patch with “Black Lives Matter” or “United For Change” on a jersey sleeve on opening day of the pandemic-delayed season, and Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle says his team may is considering whether to take a knee in support Thursday night.
World Series champion Washington hosts the New York Yankees in the big league opener.
“I’ve been considering it, especially here over the last week. But as a team, we’re having conversations in our clubhouse over the last two days. I know the Yankees are doing the same thing,” he said Wednesday. “I think it’s really important for for us as a league to echo what other sports leagues have done so far. We’ve seen the MLS. We’ve seen NASCAR. We’ve seen Formula One make really powerful statements.”
Teams have the option of stenciling an inverted MLB logo with “BLM” or “United for Change” on the back of the pitcher’s mound during opening weekend games. Washington opted for the MLB/MLB stencil.
“It’s freedom of speech. It’s the Bill of Rights. It’s what the country’s founded on, to be able to express yourself freely. So I I think it’s a wonderful thing,” said Gerrit Cole, who makes his Yankees debut against Max Scherzer in the opener at Nationals Park.
After discussions among the commissioner’s office and the Major League Baseball Players Association, The Players Alliance and individual players, each player may use a wristband with an inverted MLB logo in which the silhouetted batter is black, the first use of such a logo.
Each player also may use a Black Lives Matter batting practice T-shirt or a T-shirt designed or obtained by the player or his team.
MLB is lifting cleat restrictions for this season, giving players the ability to put messages for social justice and causes on their spikes.
Jersey patches would go on the left sleeve unless a team has an existing patch there, in which case the new one would go on the right sleeve. The special patches will be used Thursday and Friday.
The initiatives that start Thursday were designed to allow players to show support for social justice generally, and diversity and inclusion in baseball. They were deliberately made flexible, allowing players to make individual decisions.
T-shirts with the messages and the special wristbands may be used for the entire season.
When the English Premier League resumed last month, player names were replaced with “Black Lives Matter” during the opening games.
In addition, the Nationals will have a black heart in center field with “D.C.” in the middle. The heart is meant to show support for the D.C. community, the Nationals said.
MLB said that since the death of George Floyd on May 25 it had enhanced existing partnerships with the Jackie Robinson Foundation and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and also made new investments in the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and launched a Diverse Business Partners Recovery Project.
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman met with Black minor league players who were at the team’s complex in Tampa, Florida, to initiate discussions.
“Start the communication of what can be done better, how can we be a part of a more positive change?” he said. “There was very difficult conversations, real personal stories that were shared.”
He continued those talks when the big league roster reported to New York. Cashman supports the expressions of protest.
“Our country is in many ways the greatest country in the world and in some ways, it’s broken in certain aspects, that we’re not all together and not all as one as we should be,” Cashman said. “And because of that you’re seeing demonstrations like kneeling at the anthem as part of that process because part of our community is hurting when it shouldn’t be. And if it’s been ignored for such a long period of time and it’s not been addressed as well as it should have been or could have been, then the great part of America is there’s different ways to express yourself and different platforms to utilize how you express yourself. and in some cases that happens to be kneeling during the anthem.”
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Man dies after shooting in Richmond’s south side
Posted: Jun 22, 2019 / 12:39 PM EDT / Updated: Jun 23, 2019 / 10:01 AM EDT
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond Police are investigating a shooting in the city’s south side Friday night.
Officers said they received a call around 11 p.m., to the 500 block of Old Warwick Road.
Upon arrival, RPD told 8News that they found a 33-year-old man suffering from a non-life threatening gunshot wound. The man was taken to the hospital. However, he died from his injuries Saturday morning.
He has been identified as Arthur Robinson III, 33, of the 5000 block of Old Warwick Road.
The Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the cause of the manner of his death.
Anyone with information on the shooting should contact Crime Stoppers at 804-780-1000.
Gun-rights group that brought thousands to Richmond for Lobby Day last year returns
by WRIC Newsroom / Jan 17, 2021
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- Virginians usually take to the steps of the state Capitol, the first Monday after the General Assembly comes together for its annual legislative session, to address their concerns to legislators, on what is known as Lobby Day.
The Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), a gun-rights group, is planning to attend Lobby Day in the City of Richmond on Monday bringing four caravans from across the commonwealth with them.
Two men injured after Sunday night shooting
by D'Andre Henderson / Jan 17, 2021
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- Richmond Police Department responded to a shooting on Coalter Street Sunday night.
Authorities arrived on the scene where they found two male victims suffering gunshot wounds.
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Local school divisions and government entities are closed Monday for the observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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Rabbi Ozer Glickman, YU Rosh Yeshiva, Dies Suddenly at 67
By: Benjamin Koslowe | News | March 19, 2018
Rabbi Ozer Glickman, a YU rosh yeshiva and teacher in Sy Syms School of Business and Isaac Breuer College, died suddenly on Monday, March 19. Glickman, a resident of Teaneck, New Jersey, leaves behind his wife, Ilana, as well as six children and several grandchildren. He was 67 years old.
The Commentator learned of Rabbi Glickman’s passing on Monday evening when President Ari Berman announced the news at the beginning of a shiur kelali at the Beren campus Beit Midrash. Glickman was seen on the Wilf campus as recently as Monday afternoon on the day of his death. As of the time of publication, Yeshiva University has yet to make a public announcement about the loss.
Rabbi Glickman studied philosophy at Columbia University, where he received his BA. He also studied philosophy and religion on the graduate level at the University of Toronto, and he earned an MBA in finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business in 1980. He studied at Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav Kook and, according to his YUTorah biography, “received rabbinic ordination from leading rabbinic figures in Israel and the Diaspora.”
Since 2000, Rabbi Glickman has been affiliated with Yeshiva University as a rosh yeshiva and teacher of Talmud and halakhah to undergraduate and semikhah students. His “Business and Jewish Law” course in Sy Syms School of Business has 68 students registered this Spring 2018 semester; in Isaac Breuer College (IBC), one of the Wilf campus’ four undergraduate Torah studies programs, Glickman’s “Jewish Values in the Contemporary World” course currently has 35 registered students. In May 2015, Glickman received the Adjunct of the Year award from Sy Syms School of Business.
Rabbi Glickman formerly served as senior vice president of strategic risk management and global head of corporate treasury for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Additionally, he taught at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he was the senior resident rabbinic scholar, adjunct professor of law at the Center for the Study of Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization, and affiliated with its Program in Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies. According to Rabbi Glickman’s Facebook page, in June 2016 he “joined Oliver Wyman & Company in a senior advisory position where he [was] consulted by major financial institutions including some of the largest banks in the world.”
An active user of Facebook and social media, Rabbi Glickman was seen by many students as a role model for and avid advocate of Torah UMadda. He regularly spent time meeting with students about Torah, Jewish philosophy, and networking advice by the Nagel Bagel dining area on the first floor of the Gottesman Library on the Wilf campus.
“Rabbi Glickman was an enormous Torah scholar, someone who spanned fields and disciplines,” said President Berman. “Most of all he was a devoted teacher.”
Rabbi Ozer Glickman’s funeral will take place on Tuesday, March 20 at 2:00 PM at Gutterman Musicant, 402 Park Street in Hackensack, New Jersey. Shiva will be at the Glickman home, 583 Warwick Avenue in Teaneck, New Jersey from Tuesday afternoon through Monday morning, March 26.
The Commentator will update on the situation as it learns more information.
May Rabbi Glickman’s family be comforted together with the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
UPDATE (11:20 PM, Monday, March 19): Yeshiva University will be providing transportation for those who would like to attend the funeral. Wilf campus busses will be leaving at 1:00 PM from Amsterdam and 185th. Beren campus busses will be leaving at 1:00 PM from 245 Lexington.
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173. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)
June 18, 2014 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies) 5 Comments
“Dream, little one, dream,
Dream, my little one, dream.
Oh, the hunter in the night
Fills your childish heart with fright.
Fear is only a dream.
So dream, little one, dream.”
Lullaby from Night of the Hunter (lyrics by Walter Schumann)
DIRECTED BY: Charles Laughton
FEATURING: Robert Mitchum, Billy Chapin, Lillian Gish, Shelley Winters
PLOT: Harry Powell is a self-ordained Reverend during the Great Depression who makes a living by touring Appalachia and marrying widows, who disappear soon thereafter under mysterious circumstances. In prison for stealing a car, he shares a bunk with Ben Harper, a bank robber on death row who has refused to tell the authorities the location of the $10,000 he has stolen. After his release (and Harper’s execution), Rev. Powell finds the robber’s widow, and learns that his young son John knows where the fortune is hidden.
The film is based on a 1953 novel by Davis Grubb. The book was a bestseller at the time of it’s release but has long been out-of-print; Centipede Press is releasing a limited-edition hardcover edition of the novel in July of 2104.
Night of the Hunter‘s Harry Powell was based on real-life murderer Harry Powers, nicknamed “The Bluebeard of Quiet Dell,” a West Virginia-based killer responsible for the deaths of two widows and three children.
Gary Cooper was Laugton’s first choice for Harry Powell but he turned down the role of the serial-killing misogynist preacher, thinking it might damage his career. Robert Mitchum had no such concerns and was eager to play the part.
Mitchum’s autobiography contains several inaccurate accounts of the filming, including the allegation that Laughton heavily rewrote James Agee’s original script (an accusation supported by Laughton’s widow Elsa Lanchester). Film scholars who studied Agee’s original script, which was discovered in 2003, reported that the director shot the film almost exactly as written.
This was the only film Charles Laughton ever directed. Although the story that he was so stung by the negative critical reaction to the movie that he never directed again is often repeated, Laughton himself claimed that he simply preferred directing theater to working on films.
Prior to shooting, Laughton screened silent films by D.W. Griffith to get a feel for the look he wanted for the movie.
In 1992, Night of the Hunter was selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry.
Ranked #71 in Empire Magazine’s 2008 poll of the Greatest Films of All Time. Ranked #2 on “Cahiers du Cinema”‘s list of the “100 Most Beautiful Movies.”
INDELIBLE IMAGE: Pick a single image from Night of the Hunter? It’s a fool’s errand. As much as it hurts to pass up the vision of the “good” Reverend with his right hand of love wrestling his left hand of hate, or the dreamlike serenity of Willa Harper’s final resting place, we think the most meaningful image must come from the children’s flight downriver—specifically, we chose the shot of the skiff passing before the spiderweb, as John and Pearl (temporarily) float away from their murderous stepfather’s snares.
WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: The Night of the Hunter is such a massive achievement that we’re invoking 366 Weird Movies’ sliding scale rule: the better a movie is, the less weird it needs to be to make the List. Not that Hunter isn’t strange, by Hollywood standards (and particularly by 1950s Hollywood standards). Film archivist Robert Gitt called this expressionist/Southern Gothic hybrid “the most unusual and experimental film made in Hollywood in the 1950s.” Perhaps that is why director Charles Laughton decided to bring cinematographer Stanley Cortez, who once bragged “I was always chosen to shoot weird things,” onto the crew. Hunter is packed with shadowy, stagey, artificial shots (contemporary critics complained that the effects—both narrative and visual—were “misty”). Mixing fairy tale menace and Freudian killer fathers while masquerading as a titillating potboiler, Hunter was so unique and unexpected that it slid right under the upturned noses of viewers in the 1950s, that most conformist-minded of decades. Generations since have remembered it fondly—well, in their nightmares, at least—and it has since been elevated into the canon of great movies. And now, of great weird movies.
Original trailer for Night of the Hunter
COMMENTS: An utterly original blend, Night of the Hunter is simultaneously a melodrama, a fairy tale, a film noir, a Southern Gothic, a Biblical Continue reading 173. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) →
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THE ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932) CRITERION RELEASE
November 10, 2011 Alfred Eaker 2 Comments
1932’s The Island of Lost Souls is the first of three cinematic adaptations of H.G. Wells “The Island of Dr.Moreau.” It is easily the best, although the 1997 attempt with Marlon Brando was not the disaster some critics claimed, and in fact was considerably better than the static, unimaginative 1977 version with Burt Lancaster.
The 1932 Island, directed by Erle C. Kenton, is rightly considered a classic, enough so that it has received the Criterion treatment for a 2011 release. This is Kenton’s sole classic. Although he was a prolific director, he was essentially a journeyman, taking whatever was handed to him and usually injecting little style. His other horror films for Universal were The Ghost Of Frankenstein (1942), The House Of Frankenstein (1944), and The House Of Dracula (1945), and they are all second rate, at best.
Island of Lost Souls deviates from the original story (which, predictably, prompted H.G. Wells to voice his disapproval), but the film is simply told. Like 1932’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Island is a pre-Hayes code film, and it shows. Of course, both films were taken from literary sources, and that too is apparent. Lost Souls‘ literacy is due to screenwriter Philip Wylie, who also adapted Wells for James Whale‘s The Invisible Man (1933). The inimitable Charles Laughton, one of the great classic screen actors, plays Dr. Moreua with a classicist’s relish. Laughton is one of the major reasons for this film’s success, and as director Kenton shows atypical subtlety. These factors, combined with well-crafted sets and make-up, add up to a striking milieu.
Island is almost an old-dark-house genre film, except that the stranded visitor, Edward Parker (Richard Arlen) ends up in a sort of kinky, contemporary Eden. God is present in the symbolic persona of Dr. Moreau and although he is the antagonist, he is a three-dimensional one. He is intelligent, crafty, and that naughty twinkle in the divine eye is ever present. God is creating again, although this time he’s attempting to correct his previous mistake by making man from the image of Eden’s animals. Eve (a Wylie addition) appears in the exotic Lota (Kathleen Burke, who notably showed up in the following year’s pre-Code Murders in the Zoo). Lota, AKA Panther Girl, alternately projects innocence and unbridled sexuality, and she is utilized by Moreau to usher forth a new Adamic age, with Parker as the new Adam. Of course, in every Eden there’s a rotten apple or two, and here it’s Parker’s abroad girlfriend (Leila Hyams, from Freaks) and the Beast Men, Moreau’s ungrateful children who hold a grudge against their creator for little things like torture, brutality, and vivisection. The Beast Men are led by the Sayer of the Law (Bela Lugosi, who is well-directed). The Sayer calls the creator out for hypocrisy and original sin. The Beast Men are well sketched here, which is a sharp contrast to the mere animalistic portraits drawn in subsequent versions. The finale is natural jolt, so much so that no other celluloid interpretation of the tale can match it. This lucidly told imaginative spin on Dr. Frankenstein’s Eden still holds up remarkably well.
As for the Criterion treatment, most welcome authoritative commentary is given by historians Gregory Mank and David J. Skall, along with filmmaker Richard Stanley (the original director of the 1997 version, who was replaced by John Frankenheimer). Stanley offers entertaining, honest insight. A little less welcome are reflections by John Landis and Devo. Production stills and the theatrical trailer are excellent supplements. This is a superb release that is essential for classic film lovers.
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United States ex rel. Cohen v. City of Palmer
United States District Court, Ninth Circuit
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ex rel. ARLENE COHEN, Relator, Plaintiff,
CITY OF PALMER, ALASKA, a Political Subdivision of the State of Alaska, Defendant.
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS
SHARON L. GLEASON, District Judge.
Before the Court at Docket 26 is a Motion to Dismiss filed by Defendant City of Palmer. The motion has been fully briefed and oral argument was held in Anchorage on May 13, 2013. For the reasons explained below, the motion will be granted, with partial leave to amend.
FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
The False Claims Act ("FCA"), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733, was enacted in 1863 to protect the federal government from false claims submitted by government contractors. The FCA authorizes a qui tam civil action, in which a private individual (known as a "relator") may bring suit on behalf of the government and share in any proceeds that result from the action.
Arlene Cohen brought this action as Relator on behalf of the United States against the City of Palmer, Alaska. The First Amended Complaint alleges that beginning in 2009 and continuing through 2011, Palmer violated the FCA in its use of federal grant funds for public works construction projects.[1]
The First Amended Complaint makes the following factual allegations:
In February 2009, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ("ARRA") to aid the country's recovery from the recession.[2] ARRA made federal grant funds available for public works construction programs, intended to help stimulate private sector activity. A separate portion of ARRA created subsidies for state and local governments to help stabilize public employment.
The Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") solicited public works construction project proposals from the fifty states, which, in turn, solicited project proposals from localities. Through this process, Palmer applied for and obtained two ARRA grants from the EPA intended to stimulate the private sector, administered by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation ("ADEC"). One grant was for a water main replacement project, applied for on August 3, 2009; the other was for a wastewater treatment facility, applied for on June 2, 2009.[3] The First Amended Complaint does not allege when these projects commenced, when the projects were completed, or any other specific details of these projects. It also makes no allegations regarding how or when the ARRA grant funds were received, or the process Palmer followed in submitting its claims for payment.
The First Amended Complaint asserts that Palmer violated the FCA through its administration of these grant funds "in no less than twenty-four instances."[4] These instances can be grouped into four distinct claims, as explained below.[5]
(1) Bid-Rigging.
The First Amended Complaint alleges that "[o]ne of the standard conditions accepted by Palmer in its applications for the grant funds required a competitive bidding process for construction contracts."[6] However, it alleges, "Palmer decided on its own without proper authority to direct almost all of the labor costs of the two projects to city coffers" by using its own employees, instead of submitting the projects to contractors for competitive bidding.[7]
(2) Excessive Employee Compensation.
The First Amended Complaint also alleges that Palmer paid its public works employees "so-called Davis-Bacon union wages."[8] It alleges that "[e]ven after Palmer was directly informed by the EPA legal office and the State of Alaska that local government workers are never allowed Davis-Bacon wages in federal contracting, defendant Palmer persisted in the pay bonus scheme from July, 2009 until December, 2009" and "enhanced wages for the Palmer public works force were also paid for several months prior to that time by the EPA ARRA funds."[9]
(3) Stockpiling.
The First Amended Complaint also alleges that Palmer purchased $127, 000 in excess building materials ("steel pipe, copper tubing, gate valves, bends and other material") using ARRA grant funds, "all beyond the needs of the two construction projects at issue and obviously so at the time of the materials order."[10] Although the dates of this alleged conduct are imprecise, it appears that it took place in spring 2010 but was not investigated by Ms. Cohen until spring 2011.[11]
(4) Failure to Create Jobs.
The First Amended Complaint alleges that in two forms submitted on September 25, 2009, Palmer guaranteed that it would use the ARRA grant funds to "create jobs and promote economic activity."[12] However, "no jobs are known to have been created or saved in Palmer with the ARRA grant funds from the EPA."[13] The First Amended Complaint alleges that "[t]here are a number of qualified companies in South-Central Alaska that could have completed either Palmer public works project and, if successful with their bid, would have created new private-sector jobs as ARRA intended."[14]
In January 2010, Ms. Cohen alleges that she began gathering information and notifying federal authorities regarding the alleged financial abuses identified in the First Amended Complaint.[15] Ms. Cohen filed the Complaint in this action on October 7, 2011. On August 27, 2012, the United States declined to intervene. Ms. Cohen filed a First Amended Complaint on November 9, 2012 and on February 7, 2013, Palmer filed the present Motion to Dismiss. The motion seeks dismissal of the First Amended Complaint on three grounds: (1) lack of subject matter jurisdiction under Rule 12(b)(1); (2) failure to state a claim under Rule 12(b)(6); and (3) failure to plead fraud with specificity under Rule (9)(b).
I. Applicable Law.
When faced with a challenge to its subject matter jurisdiction, a court must resolve that issue before determining whether a complaint states a cause of action.[16] Palmer's jurisdictional arguments under Rule 12(b)(1) are premised on the public disclosure rule, which is codified at 31 U.S.C. § 3730(e)(4). On March 23, 2010, Congress amended § 3730.[17] The prior version of the statute explicitly stated that public disclosure deprived a court of subject matter jurisdiction and extensive pre-2010 case law discussed the jurisdictional test to be applied when evaluating an alleged public disclosure.[18] However, in the 2010 amendments, Congress changed the language of § 3730(e)(4) from a jurisdictional statement ("No court shall have jurisdiction") to an instruction for dismissal ("The court shall dismiss") of an action if it is based upon publicly disclosed information. In addition, Congress left intact the jurisdictional language of two other provisions in § 3730.[19] The change to § 3730(e)(4) is a clear indication that Congress intended to render the public disclosure requirement non-jurisdictional. As, under the new law, public disclosure no longer deprives the court of subject matter jurisdiction, it is appropriate to apply the standard of Rule 12(b)(6) to FCA claims that may be subject to the public disclosure rule.
Thus, the Court has divided its analysis into two parts: one addressing claims based on facts prior to the March 23, 2010 amendments ("pre-2010 claims) that fall under the prior version of the statute, and one addressing claims based on facts subsequent to the March 23, 2010 amendments ("post-2010 claims") and therefore subject to the current FCA.[20] For the pre-2010 claims, the Court will begin its analysis under Rule 12(b)(1) and resolve the jurisdictional question before addressing the arguments under Rules 12(b)(6) and 9(b). The Court will evaluate the post-2010 claims under only Rules 12(b)(6) and (9)(b). Accordingly, the motion under Rule 12(b)(1) will be denied for the post-2010 claims.
II. Pre-2010 Claims.
The First Amended Complaint alleges that Ms. Cohen "has been gathering information and notifying federal authorities concerning the financial abuses set out in this Complaint since January, 2010."[21] Thus, for the claims based on alleged false claims prior to March 23, 2010, "whether we consider the relevant conduct to be [Ms. Cohen's] disclosure to the Government or [Palmer's] submission of the allegedly false claim[, ]" the prior version of the FCA applies.[22]
Palmer's alleged bid-rigging and overpayment of its employees appear to have occurred, at least in part, before the March 23, 2010 amendments to 31 U.S.C. § 3730 took effect.[23] Palmer's alleged failure to create new jobs is a claim that correlates factually with the bid-rigging claim, as it relies on Palmer's failure to submit the projects for competitive bidding. The claim for stockpiling materials appears to post-date the March 23, 2010 FCA amendments and is therefore addressed in the Court's discussion of the post-2010 claims.
Palmer asserts that because the facts alleged in the First Amended Complaint were publicly disclosed, and because Ms. Cohen was not an original source of those facts, the Court ...
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For the first time in history, more people live in cities than the countryside. Across the globe, there are 21 cities with more than 10 million people, and these numbers are set to increase.In this...
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Cities for People (2011)
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Video of a lecture given in 2011 at the New London galleries in the Building Centre by the Danish architect and city planner Jan Gehl, whose career has focused on improving the quality of urban life by...
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City, The (2009)
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Based on the Lewis Mumford book, ‘The Culture of Cities’, which analyses the historical phases and modern social consequences of metropolitan life. Made for the 1939 New York World’s Fair ("The World...
Thoughts on the Design of Cities and Buildings (2008)
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State of the Mediterranean (2 Parts) (2005)
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Mountains, Fountains and Implied Surroundings (1998)
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Investigates the use of the medium of television to make architectural ideas more accessible to the public in a collaboration between film-makers and architects. Focusing on Matlock Bath in Derbyshire, the...
Homo Urbanus: Habitat II and Beyond (1997 Video)
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With over half the entire population living in towns and cities for the first time in history, the UN Conference on Human Settlements, Habitat II, was held in Istanbul in June 1996 to celebrate a new human...
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Brook Temple "Cross Currents"
Temple graduated from Yale University where the well-known artist, Joseph Albers, accepted him into the art program based on his figurative paintings. Temple says "Albers’ influence was incredible. I threw out my pre-conceived ideas about what color was and discovered this wonderful dialogue that exists between colors. Alber’s class opened a door to a universe I did not know existed. I also learned how to eliminate, isolate and distill down to the essence. I began to realize that when I thought I was at the end of a painting, usually I was really just at the beginning."
In a cross current, oceanic tides pull us away from the shore and the places we know and feel safe, but if you are patient you will return and will eventually be brought back to the land from whence you came. Temple was pulled away from his native California all the way to New York and Yale where his early figurative work became increasingly more and more abstract.
Now, in his recent paintings, Temple returns to the figurative female form and describes it with a brilliant color dialogue. Temple speaks of his painting process in three stages: The concept is the first and easiest part, like sitting on the beach. The second step is chaotic, confusing and deep trouble, a rip tide. The third step is resolution, a return to the shore where everything comes together. Basically, it is an editing process that is never predictable, which is what makes it exciting.
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Environmental Engineering, Building Modelling & Analysis
Building Services Engineering (MEP)
The Sammy Ofer Centre
Members of the We Design For… team provided MEP and Sustainability services up to RIBA Stage 3 of this landmark refurbishment project. The project entailed extensive renovation and partial conversion of existing iconic, Grade 2 listed, Old Marylebone Town Hall into a major new facility for the London Business School.
Works began in February 2014 and the project was completed in Autumn 2017. The project has since been shortlisted for New London Architecture and AJ100 (Architects’ Journal) Awards.
The original Marylebone Town Hall building was built between 1914 and 1920 and completed 19 years before the opening of the Library Annexe that sits directly beside it on the opposite side of a dividing passageway. Both buildings were completed by Edwardian architect Edwin Cooper and yet are very different in construction and layout.
In order to maintain the clear ‘gap’ between the two buildings it was determined that the new glass and steel link should be supported off the existing structure. Initial analysis determined that although the period buildings shared a classical appearance they are structurally misaligned. To resolve this a simple diagrid connecting each pier was established to inform the structural layout, which has resulted in an extremely efficient, yet bold design and an impressive controlled environment suitable for use as both circulation space and for events.
A link between the two buildings was also created in terms of the mechanical and electrical design. The complete refurbishment of the building services was respectful of both the building’s history and the architectural vision.
The project creates a state-of-the-art learning environment that is rooted within London’s historic fabric, breathing new life into one of the capital’s iconic buildings Gavin Robinson, Sheppard Robson
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Kimberlé Crenshaw – Constitution Day Lecturer
Columbia Law School & UCLA
Black Girls Matter
Across the country, women and girls of color face barriers in completing education, accruing wealth, and living free from public and private violence. However, the unique challenges facing women and girls of color are largely invisible in dominant discourses of racial and gender justice. In this talk, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw will explore historical and contemporary instances of intersectional erasure which have led to neoliberal attacks on the wellbeing of women and girls of color as well as initiatives that increase awareness of challenges facing Black women and girls, such as #SayHerName, #Black Girls Matter, and #WhyWeCantWait.
This event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and Penn State Dickinson School of Law and co-sponsored by the Division of Student Life, the Women’s and Gender Resource Center, and the departments of American studies, economics, sociology, and women’s and gender studies. It is also part of the Clarke Forum’s Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty Series.
Kimberlé Crenshaw, professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, is a leading authority on civil rights, Black Read more
Elizabeth Hinton
Federal Policy, Urban Policing, and the Roots of Mass Incarceration
Stern Center, Great Room, 7 p.m.
Shedding light on the devastating outcomes and the deep racial disparities within American law enforcement and penal institutions, Hinton traces the development of the War on Crime from its origins in the War on Poverty through the rise of mass incarceration and the War on Drugs in the 1980s. Hinton’s historical account situates the punitive policies of Ronald Reagan not as a sharp policy departure but rather as the full realization of the shift towards surveillance and confinement implemented by previous administrations.
This program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the departments of American studies, history, philosophy and sociology. It is also part of the Clarke Forum’s semester theme, Inequality and Mass Incarceration in the United States.
Elizabeth Hinton is assistant professor in the Department History and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Hinton’s research focuses on the transformation of domestic social programs and urban inequality in the 20th century United States. She is the author of a forthcoming history Read more
Tibetan Cultural Pageant
A Program that is Part of the Tibetan Monk Residency,
Enlightened Activity: The Green Tara Initiative
Weiss Center for the Arts, Rubendall Recital Hall, 7 p.m.
Tibetan Monks, Drepung Monastery’s Gomang College
This program is a colorful display of traditional Tibetan arts. The monks will perform a variety of dances—the yak dance, snow lion dance, “good luck” dance—wearing special costumes. They also chant in the distinctive way that they use for pujas and will demonstrate their vigorous style of monastic debating.
This residency is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by a Center for Sustainability Education Grant, the Departments of East Asian Studies and Religion, Center for Service, Spirituality, and Social Justice, Waidner-Spahr Library, Division of Student Life and the Luce grant for Asian studies and the environment.
Tibetan Monks Facebook Page
Video of the Lecture:
Inviting Green Tara: An Illustrated Talk and Tibetan Buddhist Ritual
Dan Cozort, Dickinson College
Mandala making is part of a distinctive religious practice called tantra or vajrayana. The practitioner of the Tara tantra chants a liturgy that describes Tara and the cosmos, symbolized by the mandala, but in three dimensions. As he chants, he visualizes the three dimensional mandala and visualizes Tara within it; then he suddenly becomes Tara and visualizes doing feats of vast generosity and healing. The chanting is done in an unusual and distinctive manner; the monks employ a tone so low that it generates overtones, so that each monk is singing a chord. They also use bells, drums, and sometimes a kind of oboe. Before the puja begins, Prof. Cozort will give a short illustrated talk about Tara, the mandala, and the puja, making the connection between what the monks are doing and Buddhist insights into greed, delusion, and ill-will as the roots of environmental degradation and consumerism.
This residency is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by Read more
Tibetan Monk Residency
Tuesday, November 17 – Saturday, November 21, 2015
Monks from Drepung Monastery’s Gomang College, originally near Lhasa, Tibet, and now re-established in south India, will come to Dickinson to present “A Tibetan Buddhist Approach to Thinking About Our Place in the Cosmos.” Over the course of four days, the monks will construct a mandala (symbol of the cosmos) out of colored sand; perform a puja (a ritual involving chanting and visualization of the symbolized cosmos); perform a cultural program with traditional Tibetan dances, chanting, and debating; and visit classes.
Video of Opening Ceremony for the Green Tara Mandala Construction
Time Lapse Video of Mandala Construction
Sacred Art Tour Central PA Facebook Page
Green Tara Mandala Construction
Waidner-Spahr Library
The Green Tara Mandala is a beautiful creation in colored sand. The monks will draw an outline on the mandala platform and then begin to fill it in, Read more
Emanuelle Oliveira-Monte
Obama Is Brazilian: (Re)Signifying Race Relations in Contemporary Brazil
Barack Obama’s election to the American presidency in 2009 sparked a renewed interest in the theme of race in the Americas, and worldwide. The sight of an African American as President of the United States led analysts to declare that North America was living in a post-racial era. But Obama’s election also had a tremendous impact on the imaginary of the African Diaspora. This lecture will examine his characterizations in the Brazilian media, especially in examples of political humor, such as cartoons and memes.
This program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies, Portuguese and Brazilian studies and the department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Professor Oliveira-Monte’s research interests include Afro-Brazilian literature, race relations, race in comparative perspective, the Afro-Diasporic experience, the relationship between politics and literature, literature of human rights, as well as Brazilian Cinema and Popular Culture. Her manuscript Writing Identity: The Politics of Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature (Purdue UP, 2007) examines the intricate connections between literary production and political action by focusing Read more
Breaking Issue: The Iran Nuclear Deal
Dickinson Panelists:
Andrea Lieber, associate professor of religion and Judaic studies
Jeffrey McCausland, visiting professor of international security studies
Edward Webb, associate professor of political science and international studies
Anthony Williams (moderator), visiting professor of political science and security studies
On July 11th, 2015, Iran and a group of six nations led by the United States reached a historic agreement limiting Tehran’s nuclear ability in exchange for lifting international oil and financial sanctions. The overall goal of the accord is to increase Iran’s “breakout time” – the time it would take Iran to make enough material for a single nuclear weapon. Critics of the negotiation question the verifiability of the constraints and the long-term impact on regional and world stability. The panel, comprised of Dickinson College faculty members, will explore the historic negotiation and its international policy, security and cultural implications.
The event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues. It is was also initiated by the Student Project Managers of the Clarke Forum.
Biographies (provided by the panelists)
Andrea Lieber is associate professor of religion and Sophia Ava Asbell Read more
Doris Fuller
Treatment Advocacy Center, Arlington, VA
The New Asylums: Mentally Ill and Behind Bars
In the 1930s, barely one in 100 jail inmates had a serious mental illness. Today, the most conservative estimates are one in five jail inmates and even more of the prison population. With video, personal story and professional insight, Fuller will discuss the role of mental illness in turning the U.S. into the world leader in incarceration and discuss practical measures to curb this trend.
This program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Division of Student Life, health studies and the department of psychology. It is also part of the Clarke Forum’s semester theme, Inequality and Mass Incarceration in the United States.
Doris A. Fuller is chief of research and public affairs, where she conducts and directs the Treatment Advocacy Center’s original studies abd research-driven communications, including public education related to mental illness.
Fuller has co-authored several recent studies from the Treatment Advocacy Center, including:
“The Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in Prisons and Jails: A State Survey” –
How Things Fall Apart: Race and Suspicion in Police-Civilian Encounters
Drawing on years of field research among Black residents in urban neighborhoods, interviews with police, and videorecordings of police-civilian encounters, sociologist Nikki Jones illustrates how race, suspicion and bias shape the earliest moments of such encounters. She will also share findings from her research which reveals key interactional adjustments that could be used to improve the quality of police encounters with the public.
This program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Churchill Fund and the departments of women’s and gender studies, educational studies, policy studies, and sociology. It is part of the Clarke Forum’s semester theme, Inequality and Mass Incarceration in the United States, and its Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty Series.
Biography (Link to UC Berkeley Web site)
Nikki Jones is an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a faculty affiliate with the Center for the Study of Law and Society. Her areas of expertise include urban ethnography, race and ethnic relations Read more
John Geer
The Bruce R. Andrews Lecture
Attacking Democracy
Conventional wisdom says negative political attacks undermine democracy. This lecture will argue, instead, that “attack politics” advance democratic governance.
The event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues, the Bruce R. Andrews Fund and the Churchill Fund. It is also part of the Clarke Forum’s Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty Series.
John G. Geer is vice provost for Academic and Strategic Affairs at Vanderbilt Universit y, interim dean of the Graduate School, and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science. He earned his Ph.D. in 1986 from Princeton University. Geer is past editor of The Journal of Politics. Geer has published widely on campaigns, elections, and public opinion. He is author of In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns, which won Harvard University’s Goldsmith Prize in 2008. Geer has recently published the third edition of Gateways to Democracy (2015). He has provided extensive commentary in the news media about American politics, including live nationwide interviews for FOX, CNN, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, ABC, and NPR. Read more
Steven Strogatz – “Joseph Priestley Award Recipient”
Joseph Priestley Award Celebration Lecture
Synchronization in Nature
Strogatz will discuss spectacular examples of synchronization in nature, from rhythmically flashing fireflies to crowds of pedestrians that inadvertently caused London’s Millennium Bridge to wobble on its opening day.
The Joseph Priestley Award recipient is chosen by a different science department each year. The Department of Physics and Astronomy has selected this year’s recipient, Steven Strogatz. The event is supported by the College’s Priestley Fund and is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues, Student Senate and the Churchill Fund and co-sponsored by the departments of physics and astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, environmental studies, math & computer science, and psychology.
Steven Strogatz is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He works in the areas of nonlinear dynamics and complex systems, often on topics inspired by the curiosities of everyday life. He studied at Princeton, Cambridge, and Harvard and taught at MIT before moving to Cornell in 1994. A renowned teacher and one of the world’s most highly cited mathematicians, he has blogged about math for the New York Read more
Christopher Wildeman ’02
With Comments by Lauren Porter ’06, University of Maryland
Family Life in an Era of Mass Incarceration
This lecture will consider the implications of mass incarceration for American families, focusing especially on the consequences of men’s incarceration for their parents, partner, and progeny.
This program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and is part of the Clarke Forum’s semester theme, Inequality and Mass Incarceration in the United States.
Biographies (provided by the speakers)
Christopher Wildeman is an associate professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University. He is also currently a senior researcher at the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit in Copenhagen, Denmark (since 2015) and a visiting fellow at the Bureau of Justice Statistics in Washington, D.C. (since 2013). Prior to joining Cornell’s faculty, he was an associate professor of sociology at Yale University (from 2010-2014) and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan (from 2008-2010). He received his Ph.D. in sociology and demography from Princeton University in 2008 and his B.A. in philosophy, sociology, and Spanish from Dickinson College in 2002. His interests revolve around Read more
Patricia Hill Collins – “Morgan Lecturer”
Intersectionality, Black Youth and Political Activism
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium (ATS), 7 p.m.
This talk examines how intersectional frameworks shed light on new directions for anti-racist activism, especially among African American youth.
This program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and the Morgan Lecture Fund and co-sponsored by the Churchill Fund, Division of Student Life, the departments of sociology, women’s and gender studies, Africana studies, American studies, anthropology, English, history, philosophy, and political science. It is also part of the Clarke Forum’s semester theme, Inequality and Mass Incarceration in the United States and the Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty Series.
Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park and Charles Phelps Taft Emeritus Professor of Sociology within the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Her award-winning books include Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1990, 2000) which received both the Jessie Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems; Read more
Actor and Monologist, Featured as Karl Marx
Marx in Soho by Howard Zinn
Karl Marx launches into a passionate, funny and moving defense of his life and political ideas in Howard Zinn’s brilliant and timely play, Marx in Soho.
The presentation is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the departments of economics and sociology.
Bob Weick, is the national touring actor of Howard Zinn’s, Marx in Soho. The celebrated actor and Barrymore Award nominee has presented over 250 performances of Zinn’s play from Maine to California. A farrier by trade, Bob began his acting career in 1995 and in the aftermath of the 2000 election, 9/11, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, chose to use his talent to contribute to the education and engagement of students and citizens.
www.ironagetheatre.orghttp://phindie.com/howard-zinn-bob-weick-peoples-history-6757/
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Anthony Ingraffea
Shale Gas and Oil Development: Latest Evidence on Leaky Wells, Methane Emissions, and Energy Policy
(360 W. Louther Street, Carlisle, PA)
Ingraffea will discuss the myths and realities concerning large-scale development of unconventional natural gas/oil resources in shale deposits on both a local and global scale.
This program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Churchill Fund, Center for Sustainability Education, department of environmental studies and Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM). The program is also part of the Clarke Forum’s Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty Series.
Dr. Ingraffea is the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering Emeritus and a Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University where he has been since 1977. He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado. Dr. Ingraffea’s research concentrates on computer simulation and physical testing of complex fracturing processes. He and his students performed pioneering research in the use of interactive Read more
Rush Holt
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
The Glover Memorial Lecture
Advancing Science
Science is, as physician and essayist Lewis Thomas wrote, the “shrewdest maneuver” for discovering the world. Asking questions that can be answered empirically and engaging in open communication so that others can collectively review and verify possible answers lead to the most reliable knowledge—a knowledge that is powerfully applicable in daily life. To thrive, however, science needs the support of the society it serves, and that support must be cultivated.
The event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and the Glover Memorial Lecture Fund and co-sponsored by the Churchill Fund and the departments of physics, policy studies and political Science. This program is also part of the Clarke Forum’s Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty Series.
Rush D. Holt, Ph.D., became the 18th chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and executive publisher of the Science family of journals in February 2015. In this role, Holt leads the world’s largest multi-disciplinary scientific and Read more
Peterson Toscano – (Second Night of Two Performances)
Theatrical Performer, Bible Scholar and LGBTQ Activist
Peterson Unplugged
With sparkling social commentary, Peterson Toscano, a bible scholar, an LGBTQ activist, and a skilled actor, will share excerpts from his original one-person comedies. These comedies include: Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House, Jesus Had Two Daddies, Transfigurations—Transgressing Gender in the Bible, and Does this Apocalypse Make Me Look Fat?
Tonight is the second evening of two performances. The first performance, Climate Change: What’s Faith Got to Do with It? is scheduled for Tuesday, April 21 at 7 p.m.
This event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Division of Student Life, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Office of Community Service and Religious Life, Center for Sustainability Education and Office of LGBTQ Services.
Peterson Toscano is a theatrical performance activist using comedy and storytelling to address social justice concerns. He spent 17 years and over $30,000 on three continents attempting (and failing) to change his same-sex orientation. He is the author of one-person comedies including, Queer 101–Now I Know My gAy,B,C’s, Jesus Read more
Peterson Toscano – (First Night of Two Performances)
Theatrical Performance Activist
Climate Change: What’s Faith Got to Do with It?
People are searching for new ways of looking at climate change. Peterson Toscano provides a lively, insightful, and hilarious presentation that helps his audiences wrap their heads and hearts around global warming.
Tonight is the first night of two performances. The second performance, Peterson Unplugged, is scheduled for Wednesday, April 22 at 7 p.m.
This event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Division of Student Life, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Office of Community Service and Religious Life, and Center for Sustainability Education.
Peterson Toscano is a theatrical performance activist using comedy and storytelling to address social justice concerns. He spent 17 years and over $30,000 on three continents attempting (and failing) to change his same-sex orientation. He is the author of one-person comedies including, Queer 101–Now I Know My gAy,B,C’s, Jesus Had Two Daddies, and Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House, which chronicles his two years in “gay rehab” in Memphis, TN. With his play, Transfigurations–Transgressing Gender Read more
Akbar Ahmed
Islam & the West: A Clash of Civilizations?
Ahmed will explore Samuel Huntington’s thesis of a clash of civilizations and challenge it in light of his own research examining relations between the West and the World of Islam after 9/11.
This program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology, Political Science, Middle East Studies, Sociology and the Churchill Fund. This program is also part of the Clarke Forum’s semester theme, War at Home, and the Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty Series.
Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, D.C. He has served as a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and was the first distinguished chair of Middle East and Islamic studies at the U.S Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Ahmed belonged to the senior Civil Service of Pakistan and was the Pakistan High Commissioner to the U.K. and Ireland. Previously, Ahmed was the Iqbal Fellow (Chair of Pakistan Studies) and Fellow of Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge. He Read more
Catherine Clinton
Mary Lincoln’s Assassination
Lincoln’s assassination on April 14, 1865 proved a momentous evening for the people of Washington, for the people of the American nation – and its impact would be felt across the world. But perhaps the person most affected by this epic tragedy was Abraham Lincoln’s widow, Mary Lincoln– whose fate would be forever transformed by the death of her husband that Easter Saturday.
This program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues, the House Divided Project and the Digital Humanities Advisory Committee.
Biography Forthcoming (provided by the speaker)
Catherine Clinton earned her undergraduate degree in African American studies from Harvard, her master’s in American studies from the University of Sussex and received her doctorate in history from Princeton in 1980. She now holds the Denman Chair of American History at the University of Texas San Antonio and is an international research professor at Queen’s University Belfast. She has written and edited over two dozen books to date, including three biographies, Fanny Kemble Civil Wars (2000), Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom (2004)–which was named as one Read more
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Board Chair/Program Committee Kathy Weisfeld, M.A., worked for Blue Ridge Mental Health. She now volunteers with Yancey Hospice, Appalachian Therapeutic Riding Center and, of course, Carolina Mountains Literary Festival. Her poems have been published in Great Smokies Review and WNC Woman. She was chosen to be mentored by NC Poet Laureate, Joseph Bathanti, as part of the 2011 Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series. Her poem “Equinox” won second place in the 2013 Writers’ Workshop of Asheville National Contest. She has called the mountains of North Carolina her home for over 30 years.
Board Vice-Chair Lucy Gregory Doll began her love affair with books when she started reading at age three during those long Wisconsin winters. This is her fourteenth year with the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival. Despite having an electronics curse upon her, she manages customer services for a firm that repairs electronics for the commercial laundry industry. Her former lives include being a Long Distance Operator back in the days when one dialed ‘O’ to call long distance or the police, and administering the public service programs at the venerable National Theatre in Washington, DC (where she lived on a houseboat). She is a local political activist, a sometimes-writer, President of the Yancey County Chamber of Commerce, and rescue-dog lover who blames television and celebrity-worship for pretty much everything she doesn’t like.
Board Secretary Eliza Millard and her husband Steve moved to Asheville, NC in 1978. She wore several hats while they raised their two children. She was a baker and soup maker at a worker-owned restaurant called Stone Soup. When Steve started an advertising and design agency in the mid 80’s, she became the general office manager and media buyer for Millard Design. As computers began to take over many of her responsibilities at the agency, she found a job in the Early Head Start Preschool program with Asheville City Schools, where she worked for ten years before retiring. Her love for reading began as a child and has never ceased. Literature is a window into other worlds, lives and cultures and, she believes, the foundation of sound knowledge. They now live in Celo, Yancey County where they still have a few loyal clients and Eliza works part time in the M.A.G.I.C. after-school program at South Toe River Elementary. She is honored to have been asked to join the board of the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival.
Board Treasurer Jane Brown Willig has loved the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival since its inception, working the first few grants through the non-profit that stewarded the festival before it became its own non-profit in 2016. She has handled grant writing, management, event implementation, fundraising and finances for local non-profit organizations. She is currently consulting with a company that specializes in magical inventions from Finland. Jane lives in the South Toe Valley of Yancey County, with her husband, Matt, a metalsmith. Jane enjoys reading, hiking the beautiful woods surrounding her home, traveling and spending time with her grown children.
Board Member/Author Liaison Carrie DeVee and her husband Todd moved to Burnsville in 2014. As recent empty nesters, they sold a little horse farm in the Sandhills of North Carolina and moved to their “ happy place” in the Black Mountains. They bought a piece of land with great views and a log cabin fixer- upper. So began the new adventure of their mountain life. Able to retire from many previous careers in the medical profession, Carrie finally had a chance to delve into art, which had always been a passion kept at bay, while raising kids, horses and dogs. She took a pottery class, and fell in love. Four years later, with her own working studio, and pottery in several galleries, she is able to enjoy this new chapter in life as an artist.
In the past, Carrie owned an independent bookstore in a small town in Michigan. This was in the wonderful days before the likes of Barnes and Noble and Amazon, when people used to gather in bookstores. It had a great children’s section, and was very active in bringing local authors in to speak about and sign their books. In this role as author liaison, life seems to be coming full circle, and Carrie is excited to be, once again, working with authors to promote their works and educate people for the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival.
Board Member/Volunteer Coordinator Chris Holobek finally became a full-time resident to Burnsville, coming from a 34-year teaching career concluding in Indianapolis, IN via Germany, Finland, and Norway. After moving here, he was hired at Biltmore, where you might catch him in red as an Estate Ambassador offering world-class guest services. After attending his first literary festival five years ago and being wowed by the presenting authors, he quickly became a volunteer, then segued into the role of Volunteer Coordinator. If you are interested in taking part in this year’s festival, or even next year’s, contact him – he can get you hooked up! With more than 34 years of teaching behind him (grades 3 – 7), he utilizes all of his down time to read, enjoy his farm animals, watch movies, or sit on his front porch to listen to the creek (with a book). While not a writer, he has written three text books, teaching English to Finnish children (as you do).
Board Member Yancey County native Jamie McMahan has been an avid reader since he was a small kid growing up in the Pensacola community, and has been addicted to book collecting for almost as long. A long-time employee of local attorney Donny Laws, he has been serving as Yancey County Planner since 2008 and Director of Planning & Economic Development since 2018. Jamie is active in numerous civic organizations in Yancey County and enjoys spending his free time hiking and fishing and, of course, reading. A member of the William Faulkner Society and the Thomas Wolfe Society, Jamie has a passion for the culture and literature of the American South, particularly his native Western North Carolina. He is excited to be on the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival planning team.
Board Member Dawn Reid was born and raised in the Chicago area. She has lived in various parts of the U.S., but chose North Carolina to retire to. After a long career in law as a legal assistant/paralegal, she really appreciates the beauty and peace she’s found in her community of High Cove. She lives in a tiny house of 385 square feet and it couldn’t make her happier! In addition to some well-deserved rest, she has been involved in the Penland School of Crafts annual auction and, of course, the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival. Books, books, books!
Program Committee member Deana Blanchard says though she was born in western Pennsylvania 1939, shortly after Germany invaded Poland, her real life began in 1973, when she left her first husband in New Jersey, drove her three kids back to Pennsylvania so she could complete her MA in American Lit. The next fall they were in Jamaica where she taught secondary school for two years. She was seeking adventure and found plenty of it. After moving on to Boulder CO, where she became a professional craftswoman, she found the true love of her life, Chuck Young, now her husband of 37 years and partner at Selena Glass & Metal. Ready to head out on the road again, they moved to Yancey County in 1993, where she expects to live the rest of her life. The one constant in her peripatetic life has been and will always be books, books, books! Reading, reading, reading!
Program Committee Amber Westall Briggs is the Regional Library Director for Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey Counties. Most days she is surrounded by book talks and every new idea under the sun. After Amber’s parents had a wild hair to return to the original Westall cabin (built in 1856), the family packed up and left their home in Raleigh to go back to the mountains where her parents were raised. Amber grew up in Celo, seconds from South Toe River in a 900 square foot log cabin (the cabin where Thomas Wolfe wrote about her great-great grandfather- his uncle). Her childhood was spent listening to stories told at her grandmother’s general store, playing in creeks, running through the woods, and devouring books daily. She holds degrees in Literature and Library Science and is certified as a NC Public Librarian by the State Library of North Carolina. Amber has actively served in several region and state-wide library and literary collaborations. Currently, she is a member of the North Carolina Public Library Directors Association; at the state level, she volunteers as a Committee Member of The State Library Continuing Education Committee, The State Library Youth Services Advisory Committee, and The Broadband Initiative Advisory Committee. Locally, she has served or continues to serve on many nonprofit boards. Much like her parents, she and her husband, Shane, moved back to WNC. They raise their 3 children here. She says “each day my children have with their grandparents is a tremendous gift, and having a profession in a rural area such as ours gives me a firsthand look at how libraries impact my neighbors and community members.” She still treasures listening to stories, plays in dirt every chance she gets, jumps in freezing cold rivers and deep sighs at these mountains.
Program Committee Caroline Green Christopoulos is a publicist with Gold Leaf Literary Services, a buyer at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, and a steering committee member of the Asheville Grown Business Alliance. She lives with her husband Zeke, daughter Camille, dog Tiny Cakes, and fish (Brenda, Jabroni, Cakes, and Fishies) in Asheville. She reads lots of light fiction and dark non-fiction. In addition to reading, she loves to cook, eat, drink scotch, laugh, and talk about the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.
Program Committee Carol Clark is Professor Emerita of Economics at Guilford College, in Greensboro, NC where she taught economics, interdisciplinary studies, women studies and writing across the curriculum for 18 years. At Guilford, she designed and led a semester abroad program taking undergraduate students to Mexico to study at the University of Guadalajara and work in low-income communities to learn about the Mexican model of Community Development. Before Guilford, she lived and worked for three years doing economic research for the World Bank and as a Post-Doctoral research fellow for the Rockefeller Foundation in Guatemala, Central America. She retired to Yancey County in 1999 (having spent summers, spring and fall breaks and every weekend possible there from 1983-1999). She has written academic articles, numerous newspaper articles and professional opinion pieces on current economic policy issues, published in WNC Woman, and received the Grand Award in Excellence in Feature Writing category, CASE District III, for her vignettes titled Tres Historias. Currently she is writing a book (provisionally titled Agua y Luz—Water and Light) in which she recounts stories Mexicans, Guatemalans and Nicaraguans told her husband (Tom) and her about their lives, hopes for their children, and nonviolent efforts to create more just and democratic societies. It is part memoir and part teaching in which she sets the stories in their economic, political, religious, and historical contexts. An excerpt (titled Children at the Border) from the book will appear in the Spring issue of the Great Smokies Writing Online Review. She sits on the Reconciliation House Board and has tutored for the Yancey Literacy Council.
Program Committe/PR Maureen Thornton is a former Pan Am Flight Attendant who traded in her wings to become a scientist. After 12 years of flying, she earned her Master’s Degree in Molecular Biology and worked as a research scientist studying the cell cycle. That research led to a co-patent with NASA on a technology used to study the effect of microgravity on cells. It also led to a career change from the research lab into business development, where she spent 13 years working for a national research institute building programs in areas of science and technology – including molecular diagnostics – before retiring in 2015. The beauty of the Western Carolina Mountains drew her from Florida and she now hikes, paints, volunteers and writes. Her publications have appeared recently in The Georgia Review and WNC Woman Magazine, among others. A love of science and the creative arts led her to write a series of articles for the Mitchell News Journal, focused on people in the arts and sciences who live in the local area. She began volunteering with the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival in 2016 and is currently expanding her horizons towards writing fiction.
Graphics and Publicity Britt Kaufmann is a founding planner of the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival who still creates the annual bookmarks and posters. She has had two plays produced by Parkway Playhouse and her poetry and prose have appeared in The Mennonite Literary Journal, Kakalak Poetry Anthology, WNC Magazine, Now & Then, WNC Woman, and The Pedestal Magazine among others. She works as a tutor in the local schools and lives with her husband and three teenage children just outside Burnsville, NC. brittkaufmann.com
Archivist Jennie Boyd Bull, born and raised in Knoxville TN, came home to the mountains of Western North Carolina in 2015, following careers as an editor, writer, librarian, bookstore manager and archivist with nonprofits in Maryland and New York State. Her poetry chapbook, Where I Live: Coming Home to the Southern Mountains (Finishing Line Press, 2018), evokes her first year of retirement here in the Toe River Valley. She enjoys teaching Tai Chi and Qigong, hiking with NC High Peaks Trails, and gardening with Dig In! She is currently writing a memoir and learning to weave, when she’s not swinging in the front yard, weeding the garden, or curled up reading with Lily the cat. From 2016 to present, Jennie has created and maintains an archive of the festival’s inspiring authors, events, and celebrations of mountain culture since 2006.
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The champagne never pops
on December 07, 2011 by Pete Hammond
2.0/5 rating
3.0/5 income
After last year's Valentine's Day scored over $100 million at the domestic box office it's certainly no wonder director Garry Marshall, New Line and Warner Bros. would want to tap the holiday well once again. With New Year's Eve, Marshall and returning screenwriter Katherine Fugate return to their the all-star, multi-storyline formula about the trials, tribulations, dreams and romances of a number of people just as the year is about to turn. But this time, the filmmakers get diminishing returns this time—many of the individual segments are too mundane, contrived and bland even for an episode of The Love Boat. Even with a big name cast that includes three Oscar winners—Halle Berry, Robert De Niro and Hilary Swank—New Year's Eve is at best a pleasant diversion that may not generate much box office interest given its killer end-of-year competition. Expect decent initial results followed by a quick exit from theaters shortly after that ball drops in Times Square.
Without much imagination or innovation, this strictly by-the-numbers affair zigzags between a number of disparate episodes without ever getting below the surface of any of the stereotypical situations set up by Fugate's uninspired script. The film begins by introducing us to Times Square development project VP (Swank) who is responsible for making sure everything goes smoothly with the annual Ball drop. (Of course, it doesn't.) Then it's off to vignette land. We meet loyal, but frustrated secretary Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer) who makes a bucket list of things to do before midnight, aided by a nice messenger boy (Zac Efron) willing to help her reach her dreams. There's Stan (De Niro), a dying man sharing his last moments with a sympathetic nurse (Berry). There's Tess (Jessica Biel) and Griffin (Seth Myers) and Grace (Sarah Paulson) and James (Til Schweiger), two couples racing to see who can deliver their baby closest to midnight in order to win a cash reward. There's Laura (Katherine Heigl), a caterer running smack into her ex, a musician named Jensen (Jon Bon Jovi) playing at Times Square, plus Jenson's backup singer (Lea Michele) who gets stuck in an elevator with the looney Randy (Ashton Kutcher). Oh, and there's an overprotective mother (Sarah Jessica Parker) trying to keep her boy-crazy daughter's (Abigail Breslin) hormonal balance in check.
None of these scenarios amount to much, but some of the actors justify their paycheck by making up with charm what their characters lack in credibility. Faring best are Pfeiffer and Efron who give their all to a silly plotline, particularly in a Radio City Music Hall sequence where Pfeiffer soars above the empty theater like Peter Pan. Biel—who along with Kutcher and Marshall regular Hector Elizondo is a veteran of Valentine's Day—also has a few choice moments, as do Swank and Josh Duhamel, who plays a spoiled rich boy suddenly looking to do something real with his life. Glee's Michele and Bon Jovi provide some nice musical moments and even Ryan Seacrest shows up in this thing, playing, of course, himself "Mr. New Year's Eve." But the best bits are saved for a loony gag reel during the ending credits—in this two-hour long "party," it's really the only scene that pops like a champagne cork.
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Cast: Hilary Swank, Halle Berry, Robert De Niro, Josh Duhamel, Cherry Jones, Chris ‘Ludicris' Bridges, Katherine Heigl, Jon Bon Jovi, Lea Michele, Sofia Vergara, Ashton Kutcher, Sarah Jessica Parker, Abigail Breslin, Jake T. Austin, Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, Jessica Biel, Seth Myers, Sarah Paulson, Til Schweiger, Carla Gugino
Director: Garry Marshall
Screenwriter: Katherine Fugate
Producers: Garry Marshall, Mike Karz, Wayne Rice
Rating: PG-13 for language including some sexual references
Running Time: 117 min.
Release Date: Dec 9, 2011
Tags: Hilary Swank, Halle Berry, Robert De Niro, Josh Duhamel, Cherry Jones, Chris ‘Ludicris' Bridges, Katherine Heigl, Jon Bon Jovi, Lea Michele, Sofia Vergara, Ashton Kutcher, Sarah Jessica Parker, Abigail Breslin, Jake T. Austin, Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, Jessica Biel, Seth Myers, Sarah Paulson, Til Schweiger, Carla Gugino, Garry Marshall, Katherine Fugate, Mike Karz, Wayne Rice
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Books | Out on the Town
YA Novel Fishtailing Wins The 2010 Governor General’s Literary Awards
On November 16th, 2010, The Canada Council for the Arts announced the winner of Governor General’s Literary Awards for children’s literature, with an amazing prize of $25,000 attached to a great honour.
Other prizes were also awarded to the other finalists, but just to be considered for such an award is a prize in and of itself.
All of the books centre around tough subjects and can be sometimes hard to read (especially if one or more of the issues hit home), but the authors are clearly interested in the very real struggles of teens–which is what lands these books on our must-read list.
Here is a look at the finalists (it makes a great holiday reading list!).
by Cheryl Rainfield
Although she has survived a childhood of sexual abuse, 15-year-old Kendra can’t bring herself to go back there, to remember who did it. The memories haunt the edges of her mind and make her flinch at the slightest touch, create beautiful but dark paintings and imagine footsteps following her everywhere she goes–or, are they reall? Her only comfort is in cutting: making shallow cuts along her wrist that let out the pain and block any clear memories of her abuser. Hiding the truth from everyone–parents who badger her, but don’t understand; a therapist who can only be told so much; an art teacher who might not see her the same way–Kendra knows the key to moving past the abuse is to identify the culprit, but she just can’t bring herself to remember. Why choose to relive her worst nightmare?
A scary, but eye-opening look at the inner struggle that goes on when one girl’s world is so upside-down that the only sense of relief comes from drawing blood. The author immediately pulls you into Kendra’s world, making you simultaneously want to scream at her to stop hurting herself and also understand a whole lot better why she continues to do it.
by Lesley Fairfield
“Just a few more pounds…” “I’ll never be happy until I’m thin as I can be…”
Ever thought something similar?
Author and illustrator Lesley Fairfield’s graphic novel follows Anna as she navigates the dangerous path of an eating disorder. Relying on mostly visuals in her illustrations and very few carefully chosen words, the author brings to life Anna’s other half–named Tyranny–who is the physical embodiment of every negative word, thought, feeling she has ever had about herself. Simply put, Tyranny is anorexia personified. And she’s pretty terrifying. With Tyranny’s help, Anna’s life goes from normal high schooler with normal parents and a normal boyfriend, to a high school drop-out with an ex-boyfriend, living alone with no direction for her life. After a friend passes away from bulimia, Anna knows she needs to get help. But how can she tune out the ever-present, ever-loud-mouth Tyranny from dragging her down further?
For anyone looking to get a strikingly visual and personal insight into the real battle of living with an eating disorder, this book is it. It’s clear from the details of the story that the novel is written from the perspective of someone who has actually been there–someone who is looking to help others find their own voice again and defeat their own personal Tyranny.
Me, Myself and Ike
by K. L. Denman
Once the golden boy at his high school, Kit Latimer is sad, angry and–most of all–confused about what happened to make him lose it all. But one thing is clear to him: his life will have purpose in the end. After seeing a documentary on the Ice Man (5000 year old mummy discovered in the mountains that told archaeologists tons about his time period), his one and only friend, Ike, convinces Kit that he should be the next one: the next Ice Man, that is. Kit then goes about secretly collecting all of the necessary “artifacts” that he will need with him to go up into the mountains and “preserve” himself for future civilizations to learn about the current times: a blackberry with music from the past 50 years, modern junk food, bestselling books, a laptop with an official manifesto about his purpose, and more. The more he collects for the future generations to see, the further he moves away from anything connecting him to the present. Kit’s parents are worried that he’s become depressed and want him to see a doctor, so he agrees. Little do they know, he won’t be around long enough to keep the appointment.
This is probably the darkest out of all the novels on this list, possibly because any of the action is overshadowed by your knowledge early on of what he really intends to do: commit suicide. However, it is strangely compelling: you can’t help but care about the main character, Kit, because he’s not a bad guy. Clearly suffering from some sort of mental-health issue that he cannot control, but he still cares deeply about the people around him. But I’ll say no more! Read the book and uncover the mystery!
Free as a Bird
by Gina McMurchy-Barber
Ruby Jean is different. She was born with Down syndrome. She is special. But she was born in a time (1957) when individuals like her weren’t understood–they were institutionalized. Written from her perspective, with her words (spelling, sentence structure, etc.), Ruby Jean tells her story. For the first eight years of her life, she is raised by her grandmother who loves her and teaches her all about life. But after her loving care-giver passes away, Ruby Jean’s mother decides to take her to Woodlands School in New Westminster, B.C., where she will be expected to stay for the remainder of her life. Abused, neglected and isolated from the rest of the word, Ruby Jean is devasted into a state of silent survival. Until one day, a nice lady named Grace arrives, who promises to teach her to cook, clean and live on her own. But the first glimmer of hope is only the beginning in a long journey a life she can’t even begin to imagine.
Definitely one of my favourites, this is a story that comes across in such an honest and vivid way that I would dare you not to be emotional throughout. The author drops you into the world of someone excluded from society for being less-human than a “normal” person, and yet Ruby Jean is probably the most human of us all.
I loved Ruby Jean; I loved this book. Enough said.
Fishtailing
by Wendy Phillips
Written as a series of mostly poetry (with some teacher’s notes/critiques and emails between school staffers) Fishtailing is a totally original look at the individual and collective struggles of those in high school. It follows four teens–Natalie, Tricia, Kyle and Miguel–through their various poetry assignments from their writing teacher, Mrs. Farr. Through these works, the teens paint pictures with their words of what’s going on in their world, without the reader really being privy to the overlaying plot of a usual single narrative. But this is not “Roses are red, violets are blue” kind of poems. They are edgy and beautiful, dark and twisted, graphic and real; getting caught up in a game of love and betrayal, the four of them don’t realize one of them is pulling all the puppet strings, until it’s too late.
Looking for a book that is compelling AND unique? Look no further. It might take awhile to get into the style of writing, but once you do, it’s quite a rollercoaster.
Wendy Phillips, author of award winning Fishtailing
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Home > Data > EMIS > Resources > EMIS Glossary
EMIS Glossary
The purpose of the EMIS Glossary is to provide definitions for many of the terms and phrases encountered when working with and reporting EMIS data. This is not a comprehensive list of the language of EMIS. While the definitions of many of these terms can be found elsewhere on the Department's website, we have gathered them into this glossary in order to provide a central location for common EMIS terms.
You may use the alphabet below to go directly to the terms under any letter. The printer icon at the bottom of the page will allow you to print out a complete copy of this glossary.
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Alternate Assessment for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities (AASCD) This assessment allows students with significant cognitive disabilities to demonstrate their knowledge and skills using an appropriately rigorous assessment aligned to Ohio’s Learning Standards.
Average daily membership (ADM) This is a headcount of public school students used as a measure with which to indicate the size of a school district in terms of enrollment and as the basis of state funding calculations.
Board of Developmental Disabilities (BDD) These county-level organizations provide a range of interventions and programs for students with developmental disabilities.
Career-Based Intervention (CBI) A career-tech program for Grade 7-12 students who are ages 12-21 and identified as disadvantaged (academically, economically, or both) and having barriers to achieving academic and career success.
Career-technical education (CTE) Education methodology and strategies to prepare students for careers as well as continued education. Within career tech are foundation classes and workforce development programs.
College Credit Plus (CCP) Ohio’s College Credit Plus helps students earn college and high school credits at the same time by taking college courses from community colleges or universities. The purpose of this program is to promote rigorous academic pursuits and to provide a wide variety of options to college-ready students.
Career-technical planning district (CTPD) Responsible for coordinating career-technical education options for students within the CTPD. All school districts and community schools are required to be part of a CTPD to ensure their students have access to career-technical education options.
Comprehensive Continuous Improvements Plans (CCIP) The Department’s e-grants system, a unified grants application, verification, and payment system that consists of two parts: the Planning Tool and the Funding Application.
Comma separated values (CSV) Files that contain plain text data sets separated by commas. Each row in the CSV file represents a different row in the database. CSV files are used to transfer data between databases or to open a dataset within a spreadsheet for review.
Community eligibility provision (CEP) A provision that helps schools and districts in high poverty communities meet eligibility to serve no-cost lunches and breakfasts to all their students.
Community school average daily membership (CSADM) This is a count of community school students used as a measure with which to indicate the size of a school in terms of enrollment and as the basis of state funding calculations.
Connected Ohio Records for Educators (CORE) A suite of 18 Web applications that address all aspects of an educator's qualifications, including licensure, educator residency, professional conduct and much more.
Corrective Action Plan (CAP) A step-by-step plan of action to resolve findings from fiscal or programmatic reviews.
Data collector (DC) Allows both districts and regional sites to manage the EMIS reporting process. The Data Collector allows users to collect and review data and validation reports and submit their data to the Department.
Department of Youth Services (DYS) The administrative department of the Ohio state government responsible for juvenile corrections.
District of residence (DOR) School district in which the parent of the child resides unless the child attends a community school then the community school becomes the district of residence. See OAC Rule 3301-51- 01 (B) (56).
District of service (DOS) The district the child attends to receive services if the child does not attend their district of residence. See OAC Rule 3301-51-01 (A) (3).
Dropout Prevention and Recovery (DPR) In accordance with Ohio Administrative Code 3301-102-10, a dropout prevention and recovery school is one to which any of the following applies: any community school that operates a drug recovery program in cooperation with a court; any community school in which the majority of students are enrolled in a dropout prevention and recovery program operated by the school; or a conversion community school whose sponsoring district has received a waiver from having the school's academic data rolled up into the district's Ohio School Report Card because the school primarily enrolls students between 16 and 22 years of age who dropped out of high school or are at risk of dropping out of high school due to poor attendance, disciplinary problems or suspensions.
Early Learning and School Readiness (ELSR) Children's experiences from birth to kindergarten entry, which include developmental areas of language, social-emotional, cognition and knowledge, approaches toward learning and physical well-being.
Education Management Information System (EMIS) Statewide data collection system for Ohio's primary and secondary schools in accordance with Ohio Revised Code 3301.0714.
Education Monetary Assistance Distribution (EMAD) A source for determining whether a student’s family is receiving public assistance.
Educational Service Center (ESC) Regional centers dedicated to providing Ohio school districts with professional development, technology, support, planning and administrative services that help improve student learning, enhance the quality of instruction, expand equitable access to resources and maximize operating and fiscal efficiencies.
End-of-course (EOC) tests Academic assessments given for certain high school core subjects. The end-of-course tests are part of Ohio’s graduation requirements.
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Passed in 2015, this bipartisan measure replaces the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. ESSA represents a shift from broad federal oversight of primary and secondary education to greater flexibility and decision-making at the state and local levels.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) The federal law that protects the privacy of student education records.
Federal Low-Income Counting System (FLICS) A web application that allows both community schools and traditional public districts to review economically disadvantaged community school student data from the School Options Enrollment System (SOES) module, which is part of ODDEX.
Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) Both federal and state laws require that every student with a disability receive a free and appropriate public education (FAPE).
Full-time equivalent (FTE) A way of standardizing the number of hours students attend school--or employees work--per day across districts so that comparisons can be made more easily. For example, each student attending school on a school's regular all day, every day calendar counts as 1 FTE. This way, a full-time student attending a district with a 5 hour school day will count the same as a full-time student attending a district with a 5.5 hour school day.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) This federal law provides for the privacy and security of each individual's health information.
Individualized education plan (IEP) A plan or program developed to ensure a child who has a disability identified under the law receives specialized instruction and related services. It is developed by a team that includes key school staff and the child’s parents.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) A federal law that provides rights and protections to children with disabilities and their parents. It requires schools to provide services to meet the educational needs of eligible students with disabilities.
Information retrieval number (IRN) The unique identifier assigned to every district and school building.
Information technology center (ITC) ITCs provide IT shared services to Ohio K-12 districts. They offer services including accounting, payroll, library automation, EMIS, network management, student information systems, video, remote distance learning, electronic resources, computerized grade book, parental access, web conferencing, Internet access, web and email filtering, firewall and web security, telephony, web hosting, server hosting, and data-driven decision support.
Joint vocational school (JVS) Often referred to as “career centers,” these schools provide a variety of career-technical education options for students and may provide academic courses.
Joint vocational school district (JVSD) Each JVSD serves an area consisting of adjacent school districts in one or more counties and is governed by a joint vocational school board consisting of representatives from the member districts. A JVSD is funded in part through tax levies in all participating counties. Generally, the JVSD provides the majority of the career-technical education programming in a dedicated career-technical education-focused building, as well as in member traditional and/or community schools.
Juvenile detention center (JDC) Serve as a facility for the temporary care of individuals under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, alleged to be delinquent, or who are pending court adjudication, or disposition or as a result of a juvenile sentence for a defined term.
Kindergarten readiness assessment (KRA) An assessment tool that measures a child’s readiness for engaging with kindergarten instruction.
Least restrictive environment (LRE)
The environment where the child with a disability receives an appropriate education designed to meet his or her special educational needs, while still being educated with nondisabled peers to the maximum extent appropriate. The removal of a child with a disability from the general education environment occurs only when the nature or severity of the disability
is such that education in regular classes with the use of supplementary aids and services cannot be achieved appropriately.
Local classroom code (LCC) The code used by the local school district that uniquely identifies a specific classroom (i.e., period and section) within a district.
Local education agency (LEA) A public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a state to either provide administrative control, direction or service functions for public schools.
Local report card (LRC) The local report cards give your community a clear picture of the progress of your district and schools in raising achievement and preparing students for the future. They also include a performance management section users can access by clicking the “Financial Data” button at the top of each report card. The information measures district and school performance in the areas most critical to success in learning, as well as information on academic and financial performance metrics. Ohio School Report Cards data shows educators, school administrators and families where their schools are succeeding as well as areas where they need to improve.
Longitudinal graduation rate (LGR) The percentage of students from a class of beginning ninth graders who graduate by their anticipated graduation date (or in 5 years, 6 years, etc.). Longitudinal rates are always calculated by "cohort", or group of students who began ninth grade the same year.
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) The main law for K–12 general education in the United States from 2002–2015. The law held schools accountable for how student learning and achievement.
OH|ID The goal of OH|ID is to create one simple and secure location for all Ohio citizens to access information and conduct business with the State of Ohio. Through OH|ID, Ohio Department of Education users can access Department of Education and other statewide applications in a more secure, streamlined way. Learn more here.
Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) A codification of the rules of the administrative agencies of the state.
Ohio Association of EMIS Professionals (OAEP) A not-for-profit organization dedicated to learning, using, and sharing the best methods of the professionals responsible for the reporting of school district data.
Ohio District Data Exchange (ODDEX) An application that gives districts additional tools to review their data. Through ODDEX, districts can access a number of applications, including, but not limited to, Student Cross Reference (SCR), School Options Enrollment System (SOES), College Credit Plus (CCP).
Ohio Education Data Systems Association (OEDSA) Serves as the "voice of computer usage in Ohio education" and to provide a common professional organization which would facilitate the communication of information relative to data processing within the administrative offices.
Ohio Education Directory System (OEDS) A directory data system in which organizations maintain their own data. The general public can search OEDS for the most current information about an organization.
Ohio English Language Proficiency Assessment (OELPA) An English language proficiency test composed of four domains (tests): listening, reading, writing, and speaking. It measure a student’s English skills in the four language domains.
Ohio Graduation Test An assessment designed to ensure students receiving a high school diploma demonstrate high levels of academic achievement and meet federal requirements for high school testing. Ohio’s high school end-of-course tests replaced the OGT.
Ohio Revised Code (ORC) Laws of the state of Ohio consolidated into general provisions, titles, and chapters.
Ohio State School for the Blind (OSSB) A publicly funded educational facility dedicated to the intellectual, social, physical, and emotional growth of all students with visual impairments.
Ohio School for the Deaf (OSD) An educational facility and resource center on deafness that provides comprehensive education for Ohio's deaf and hard-of-hearing students that encourages independence and life long learning.
Ohio’s State Tests (OST) These tests evaluate how well our students are growing in the knowledge and skills outlined in Ohio’s Learning Standards. These tests help guide and strengthen future teaching to prepare students for long-term success in school, college, careers and life. Test results also allow citizens to know how their local schools are performing compared to others around the state.
Performance index A measure on Ohio’s School Report Cards, as part of the Achievement Component. The Performance Index measures the achievement of every student, not just whether or not they reach “proficient.” Districts and schools receive points for every student’s level of achievement. The higher the student’s level, the more points the school earns toward its index.
Preschool special education (PSE) In Ohio, preschool special education is for three- to five-year old children with disabilities. The Office of Early Learning and School Readiness aims for families, preschool staff, and the community to work together to meet the needs of young children with disabilities. To meet individual children’s needs, districts offer a variety of preschool special education services. Children with disabilities may receive services in public schools, private preschools, or child-care centers.
Reading Achievement Plan (RAP)
A district’s plan for raising student achievement in reading. Ohio law (Ohio Revised Code 3301.0710) requires each school district or community school that meets the following criteria, as reported on the past two consecutive report cards issued for that district or community school, to submit to the Ohio Department of Education a Reading Achievement Plan by Dec. 31:
The district or community school received a grade of “D” or “F” on the Improving At-Risk K-3 Readers Measure; and
Fewer than 60 percent of the district’s or community school’s students scored proficient or higher on the state’s grade 3 English language arts test.
Reading Improvement and Monitoring Plan (RIMP) Ohio Revised Code 3313.608 states a school must create a reading improvement and monitoring plan for a student who is not on track (reading below grade level) within 60 days of receiving the reading diagnostic results. The district must involve the student’s parent or guardian and the classroom teacher in developing the plan. Reading improvement and monitoring plans allow teachers and parents to work together to understand the student’s reading deficiency and outline reading instruction and supports. The instructional services selected for a student on a reading improvement and monitoring plan rely on the judgment of the student’s teachers and parents.
Schools interoperability framework (SIF) Provides true data interoperability and integration from the smallest school district to the largest state education agency.
School Options Enrollment System (SOES) Community schools enter data concerning the enrollment and attendance of their students in the Education Management Information System (EMIS). EMIS data populates the Ohio District Data Exchange System’s (ODDEX) School Options Enrollment System (SOES). The Ohio Department of Education uses SOES data to inform public districts about their students who are enrolled in community schools.
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) STEM education is an approach to learning where rigorous academic concepts are coupled with real-world lessons as students apply science, technology, engineering and mathematics in contexts that make connections between school, community and work.
Secure data center (SDC) Interactive, quality assurance tool for districts and community schools to check that the data they reported in EMIS is accurate and complete. The SDC shows data associated with many measures on the Ohio School Report Cards, which enables districts and community schools to drill into and see the results of calculations in real time. Multiple historical reports also are available that allow users to view past data and trends. Access to the SDC is role-based behind SAFE, so a district or community school can only see its own data.
Security Application for Enterprise (SAFE) See OH|ID.
State Improvement Grant (SIG) Federal funding that was eliminated with ESSA. Funding is still awarded through 2020-2021; however, no new grants will be awarded.
State Software Development Team (SSDT) Under the direction and support of the ODE Information Management Services, the State Software Development Team (SSDT) develops and maintains state software packages.
Statewide student identifier (SSID) A student identification number is assigned to all 1.7 million K-12 public school children in the state in accordance with Ohio Revised Code 3301.0714.
Student Cross Reference (SCR) Allows districts to track student enrollment across districts. The SCR is populated with data collected through the Student Cross Reference Collection Request. The SCR includes basic demographic data and can be used by EMIS reporting entities to verify enrollment for funding. It is part of ODDEX.
Student information system (SIS) Data originate at the school district or EMIS reporting entity and each entity may choose to report data using any student information software (SIS) of their preference. However, EMIS data is to be reported and submitted according to the data definitions, requirements and rules as instructed in the EMIS Manual.
System to Achieve Results for Students (STARS) A web-based application that provides for planning and management of professional development and technical assistance programs for Ohio educators
Test information distribution engine (TIDE) Stores student demographic information and provides authorized users with tools for administrative tasks.
Third Grade Reading Guarantee (TGRG) A portfolio of projects to support districts in identifying students from kindergarten through grade 3 who are struggling in reading and providing evidence-based intensive support to lead to proficiency (Ohio Revised Code 3313.608, 301.0710).
Uniform School Accounting System (USAS) Used to process and track the accounting activity within a school district. The criteria used for the system's design are those set forth by the Auditor of the State of Ohio.
Uniform School Payroll System (USPS) Used for running payrolls in school districts.
Written acceleration plan (WAP)
Districts must provide all students recommended for acceleration with a Written Acceleration Plan (WAP). The WAP describes the transition plan and supports for the successful implementation of an acceleration. After the successful completion of the transition period established in the WAP, an acceleration becomes a permanent placement.
Written education plan (WEP) All school districts in Ohio reporting services to gifted students must have on file a copy of a Written Education Plan (WEP) for each student served. Ohio Administrative Code 3301-51-15 outlines the specific points that must be included on the WEP.
Important EMIS Links
• EMIS Homepage
• EMIS Learning Library
• @EMISOhio
• emis@education.ohio.gov
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Archive for December 2nd, 2011
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Premium 18
Posted on Fri 2 Dec 2011 at 1:42 AM PST. Filed under Filmmaking, Software.
I tested the new version of MAGIX Movie Edit Pro MX Premium recently, version 18, and I was positively surprised. The application has played a good catch-up with Vegas Platinum and Premiere Elements.
The biggest new features in the new version are its stereo 3D support, full 24p support, and it has accelerated nVidia/AMD support for h.264 decoding & plugins. Three major third party video app developers added support for MAGIX too, proDAD VitaScene 2 (special effects), NewBlueFX Light Blends (transitions), and Red Giant Magic Bullet Quick Looks (color grading).
Other features include screen capturing, DVD/BD burning with various templates, multi-track, multi-cam, fast image stabilization, primary & secondary color correction, masks, good advanced modes in its exporting dialogs, and even Twixtor-like slow motion.
The app is not perfect though. Non-accelerated h.264 is not as fast as Sony Vegas’ plain decoding is, so you better start saving for an nVidia card. Then, the color correction plugins are not very versatile. Finally, the project properties dialog is missing some important setup options, compared to Vegas’.
On the other hand though, this app can do other things that Vegas can’t do, including 64bit support. Stability and overall speed were good while testing the app, although usability could use some touch-up.
Overall, I’d say that this version puts MAGIX on the top-3 of the consumer video editor market. It just needs more setup options in terms of flexibility, rather than more brand new advanced features (e.g. I’d like to tell my editor that my footage is interlaced, etc). But it seems to be getting there!
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Hitler used to say: ‘Nobody talks about the Armenians nowadays’
Putin - LIAR
Edited by: A. N.
On August 22, 1939, Adolf Hitler explained to his entourage why he thought he could get away with mass murder by saying that “nobody talks about the Armenians nowadays,” despite the fact that they had been the victims of a mass murder only 24 years earlier.
Hitler’s sweeping cynicism in this regard is increasingly relevant to an evaluation of what is going on in the world today with its ever shorter news cycles and even shorter attention spans. Now, to give but one horrific example, although it has been less than a year, almost no one speaks anymore about Crimea and Russia’s brutal occupation of that Ukrainian peninsula.
And in this brave new world, some leaders have concluded that whatever they say or do will be forgotten in the press of events, with some insisting that it must be in order to move forward, others saying that it is at least partially true, and still others using the tried-and- true argument that “everybody does it” as if that is a justification.
All of us must remember the Armenians, the Jews, and all the other victims of vicious authoritarian regimes – victims who now include the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians whose peaceful lives were upended and in many cases destroyed by Vladimir Putin’s actions as covered by Vladimir Putin’s lies.
No current leader has exploited this reality more often than Vladimir Putin and nowhere has he made statements of such cynical fraudulence as with regard to Ukraine. The latest of these came yesterday in Budapest, and it deserves to be remembered, like the Armenians, like Crimea, and like so much else, although it will be subsumed by the onrush of events.
Professing himself to be “more an optimist than a pessimist,” Putin said that he “hopes the agreements achieved in Minsk will be observed by both sides and that we will be able to move along the path of resolving this difficult conflict,” once again denying the obvious: his responsibility for the war and the presence of Russian forces.
Putin then expanded on that theme saying about the difficulties the Ukrainian forces find themselves in by saying that “it is always hard to lose and it is always a misfortune for those who lose especially if you lose to people who had been miners or tractor drivers,” another way of denying the presence of Russian troops and his responsibility.
“Nevertheless,” as TASS pointed out, the Kremlin leader called on Ukrainian forces to focus on “the main task of preserving the life of people” by allowing them to “return to their families” and thus “realizing the entire plan agreed upon at Minsk. I am certain,” Putin continued, “this can be done. There is no other way.”
With regard to those accords, Putin said that “perhaps not everyone has yet focused on the extraordinarily important fact that the Ukrainian side, the official authorities in Kyiv in essence agreed to conduct a deep constitutional reform in order to satisfy demands” for “autonomy” or “federalization.”
“But there is another side” to this, Putin continued. “If the representatives of the Donbas agree to take part in this reform, this will mean that we are witnessing a definite move forward in the direction of Ukrainian statehood.”
There are obvious problems with Putin’s remarks in addition to the obvious one of denying his own and Russia’s role in all this. On the one hand, he suggests that Ukraine has committed to something but that the Donbas rebels will only agree to take part in this charade as it suits them. So much for the idea that he talked them in to signing on to the accord.
And on the other, Putin makes it clear that he has no clear understanding of the words he uses. Autonomy is not federalization is not decentralization, but the Kremlin leader doesn’t care. All he wants is to weaken Kyiv but to do so in a way that some Western leaders will genuinely accept as a way forward.
Then Putin praised the German chancellor and the French president for their “great role” in finding a compromise, one that he suggested could be “strengthened by a corresponding resolution of the UN Security Council” as he indicated Russia has proposed, thus ignoring all that was taken out of that resolution so that Moscow wouldn’t veto it.
The Kremlin leader then expressed his conviction that the ceasefire is holding and spreading, despite all evidence to the contrary, and that what is going on in Debaltseve was “entirely predictable” given that Ukrainian forces were surrounded and must either fight to try to break out or surrender.
Putin suggested they would fail and should surrender to save lives. He did not say anything about not using Russian force against them. “Our common task consists in saving lives” lest a failure to do so deepen the divide “between the official authorities and the Donbas militia,” yet another effort by the Moscow leader to level the difference between a state and bandits.
One could go on with this Putin speech and so many of his others, but the important thing is to remember his lies and his belief that he will always get away with them and the actions that follow because so many will want to ignore them in the name of looking to the future. Hitler counted on that too, and the result was not peace but the Holocaust.
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Paul A. Goble
Paul Goble is a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia. He has served as director of research and publications at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn, and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia. Earlier he has served in various capacities in the U.S. State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the International Broadcasting Bureau as well as at the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Euromaidan Press republishes the work of Paul Goble with permission from his blog Windows on Eurasia.
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NCHSAA State Award Winners
Posted by Press Release on April 24, 2014 at 4:58 pm under High School | Comments are off for this article
CHAPEL HILL — Coaches, administrators and media representatives will be among those receiving awards next Thursday when the North Carolina High School Athletic Association holds its 2014 Annual Meeting.
The event is scheduled for the Dean E. Smith Center on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Thursday, May 1, the day after the spring meeting of the NCHSAA’s Board of Directors has concluded.
The Association annually presents these statewide awards in several different categories, all based on those “who have done the most for high school athletics” rather than a single accomplishment or having an outstanding won-loss record.
The awards are named in memory or in honor of outstanding individuals in each category, five of whom are current members of the NCHSAA Hall of Fame. The state winners for 2014 include:
Doris Howard Female Coach of the Year: Patty Evers of East Bladen High School has coached women’s basketball for almost 20 years, the last 12 at East Bladen after coaching at Tar Heel, and has had her basketball team in the finals on several occasions in a couple of different classifications. She has been involved with Special Olympics as a volunteer coordinator and has also taken student-athletes to the NCHSAA Student-Athlete Summer Institute (SASI) for over a decade. She has led the school’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes as well as the DREAM team that has tutored, mentored and started reading programs at area elementary schools, and has also been an excellent volleyball game official. She is a former winner of the NCHSAA’s Toby Webb Award.
Harvey Reid Male Coach of the Year: Phil Padgett of Southwest Onslow High School has distinguished himself as a high school coach in a number of sports, including baseball, golf, basketball and football, with his most outstanding achievements coming coaching football. He has headed the SW Onslow football program since 1988 and has compiled over 250 wins while winning four state championships in football (2000, ’03, ’04, ‘12) and 14 conference championships. He also served as the Southwest baseball coach for nine seasons, leading the Stallions to seven conference crowns and two consecutive berths in the NCHSAA state championship series. He was named to the “100 To Remember” NCHSAA list of coaches for the centennial celebration.
Dave Harris Athletic Director of the Year: David Ball of Clyde Erwin High School is a graduate of Erwin High and Western Carolina with a master’s from Western Carolina as well who is in his 35th year in education. Currently a teacher and athletic director at Erwin, he has been very active in the North Carolina Athletic Directors Association, holding a number of offices, and served as president of the organization for 2011-12. Ball also currently serves on NCHSAA Board of Directors. He was named to the “100 To Remember” NCHSAA list of administrators for the centennial celebration and worked as a baseball official for 14 seasons, including two state championship series.
Bob Deaton Principal of the Year: Jason Curtis of Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh is principal at a school with over 100 years of history, and has served in that capacity since 2006 after holding the assistant principal title and then was on the faculty before that. Prior to going to Gibbons, he was the head volleyball coach and teacher at Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, CA. Not only is he principal at Gibbons, but serves as the moderator for the Surf Club at the school. He has played a vital role in the NCHSAA’s Education and Athletics Committee. Curtis is a graduate of Santa Clara University and earned his master’s at Marymount University in Arlington, Va.
Bob McRae Superintendent of the Year: David Jones of Henderson County is the superintendent of a 23-school district that is the county’s largest employer. He has been very active in NCHSAA activities, including serving on the Education and Athletics Committee as well as a stint on the Realignment Committee. He has been superintendent in Henderson County since 2010 after holding a number of jobs in the system for the 13 years prior to that. He has also been a middle school principal and was a teacher and coach at Edneyville High School, where he led the men’s basketball team to a state championship. He is a graduate of Mars Hill College with a master’s and education specialist degrees from Western Carolina.
Tim Stevens Media Representative of the Year: Charles Curcio of the Stanly News and Press is in his second stint as sports editor there, serving since 2008, and has covered high school athletics extensively, including a number of state championship events involving Stanly County schools. He is the host and play-by-play voice for Stanly County’s Monday Night Football which he has done for 11 years. He has also been the public address voice of Pfeiffer University sports, Carolina Speed indoor football and the Charlotte Checkers hockey team. He is a graduate of Hayesville High School and then went to Pfeiffer University, where he earned a degree in journalism in 1997.
Elton Hawley Athletic Trainer of the Year: Dr. James Scifers of Western Carolina University is a professor of athletic training at the Cullowhee schools. Scifers joined the WCU faculty in 2003 and is a former president of the North Carolina Athletic Trainers’ Association. He served as founding director of WCU’s athletic training program from 2003 until 2010, associate dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences from 2008 until 2009 and director of the School of Health Sciences from 2009 until 2013. He holds a bachelor’s degree from East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, master’s degree in physical therapy from Emory University, and doctorate in orthopedic physical therapy from the University of Maryland-Baltimore. He won WCU’s highest teaching honor, the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, in 2006.
In terms of background of the award’s names, here are some highlights:
Doris Howard of Fayetteville was one of the state’s most successful female coaches during a 41-year career at Hope Mills, Central and Cape Fear High Schools, winning 533 games in basketball, and is in the NCHSAA Hall of Fame.
Harvey Reid, also an NCHSAA Hall of Famer, is the state’s all-time winningest basketball coach with over 800 victories, most of which came at Wilson Fike.
Dave Harris was the athletic director of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools from 1967 to ‘91 after an excellent football coaching career, primarily at Harding. He was a charter member of the NCHSAA Hall of Fame.
Bob Deaton was one of the state’s outstanding high school principals during a long career in education, primarily at Winston-Salem R.J. Reynolds, and was president of the NCHSAA in 1977-78.
Bob McRae is the former superintendent in Randolph County after a long career at Kings Mountain and was president of the NCHSAA in 1997-98. He has served as chair of the Realignment Committee as well as in other NCHSAA capacities.
Tim Stevens is the long time prep sports editor at the Raleigh News and Observer and has been recognized nationally for his work covering high school athletics, as a member of the National High School Sports Hall of Fame.
Elton Hawley is a native of Dunn who for many years was the athletic training coordinator for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools. He was the initial inductee into the North Carolina Athletic Trainer Association Hall of Fame.
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Edward Seto, Former D20 Superintendent
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When Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza proposed a drastic change to the admissions process for the city’s specialized high schools, Asian-Americans, and in particular Chinese-American communities, were up in arms.
Edward Seto, a former superintendent in Brooklyn and a Chinese-American himself, believes he knows why.
“I think they feel that what is being done is politically driven and it’s not fair,” he said.
Seto, an opponent of the mayor’s plan, charges that City Hall made the proposal without properly vetting it or holding public hearings.
“They tried to push legislation through at the eleventh hour, and they found they didn’t have enough support,” he said. “I really believe that both the mayor and the chancellor truly knew that they don’t have the support in the legislature.
“But at least they can claim that they fought the fight,” he added, “and at the end of the day, when they don’t get their way with the legislation, they can say, ‘we tried.’”
What also infuriated the Asian-American community, Seto said, was that de Blasio did not meet or talk to community leaders before forming the plan.
“There was a sense that we don’t even have to meet with you or talk to you because we don’t care what you say,” he said.
But the plan was shot down in Albany, and the Chinese-American community has awoken in outrage. Seto said Asian-Americans have “historically” been much too quiet on many issues, but not now.
“I thank the mayor and the chancellor for picking this issue,” he said, “because I think they have aroused the attention of the Asian community in a way that no other issue probably would.”
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Kerry Cassidy interviews Graham Hancock
Labels Graham Hancock, Kerry Cassidy
Source: projectcamelotproductions.com
I had the great pleasure to interview Graham Hancock, well known author of Fingerprints of the Gods and many other highly regarded books. His books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. He is an author, lecturer, explorer and journalist and has appeared on hundreds of radio and numerous television shows reaching millions with his work. Recently he released a new and fascinating book called Entangled, a novel that involves the story of two strong women, time travel and the battle between good and evil. I was fortunate to be able to catch up with him when he came by Los Angeles on his book tour across the U.S.
Graham is a pre-eminent researcher and investigator with an uncompromising vision into our real history and the powers behind the secrecy that keep humanity blind to its true potential. We spoke of his early dives of discovery into the mystery of Atlantis, Egypt, his new book Entangled and his experience with Ayahuasca that led him on a fascinating journey into the deepest recesses of his own mind. Ultimately, after years of writing superb nonfiction he now turns to fiction as the place to bring to light the mysteries of consciousness.
Graham is frank, open and a dynamic conversationalist. While he is erudite and highly educated he is not an arm-chair investigator. Instead, he has boldly lived the spirit of his passion whether diving in the seas in search of ruins or climbing through jungles in the Amazon. In his new work he follows in the footsteps of the late Terrence McKenna, a brilliant writer and shaman, investigating the nature of consciousness and pushing the boundaries of what is known and accepted in search of the true nature of what it means to be human. ~Kerry Cassidy
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Irish War Memorial Gardens, RBL, Royal British Legion Rep. of Ireland, Second World War, Victory in Japan, VJ Day 75
Pipers, Buglers, Trumpeters, Cornet Players, Town Criers and Churches around the world took part in the important commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day, better known as VJ Day: the day the war not only ended in the Pacific, but also the day the Second World War ended. Organised by Pagentmaster Bruno Peek LVO OBE OPR and his dedicated team, the celebrations ensured this anniversary was commemorated. The past and present veterans of VJ Days along with their families will never be forgotten, even in the difficult times the world is currently going through due to the virus affecting us all.
Bruno Peek said: ;While we must remember and commemorate those who gave their lives or were gravely wounded during years of war, I believe VJ Day 75 is also an opportunity to celebrate the peace that came to us all at the end of the Far East campaign and of WW II.
VJ Veterans and families have always felt they were the ‘forgotten army’ so I felt it important we let them know, and show them, that they are not and never will be forgotten,’.
Commemorations Worldwide
As the day dawned around the world, hundreds of Pipers will played Battle’s O’er, from safe locations of their choice. This traditional march played at the end of a battle officially started VJ Day commemorations. The first pipes sounded in New Zealand and ended 22 hours later across the Pacific on the Island of O’ahu, Hawaii. The pipes rang out on the hour as the clock strikes 06:00am local time from Nepal to Brazil and Ireland to South Africa. Aligning with national events in Australia, pipers there were asked to pipe at memorials at 09:30. Two pipers played at the highest war memorial in England, the summit of Scafell Pike. Pipers Robert R. Procter – lead piper of VJ Day 75 and Corporal Robert Cunningham, Royal Marines, with the generous support from Lakeland Mountain Guides, headed up Scafell Pike through the night to arrive at the top just before the sunrises when the time the pipes sounded across these islands.
At 10:58am around the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Ireland hundreds of buglers, trumpeters and cornet players played the Last Post from safe locations of their choice. This concluded with a two-minute silence at 11:00am, a wreath laying and Reveille.
At 11:10 75 Town Criers, one for each of the 75 years since VJ Day will undertook the ‘Cry for Peace Around the World’ from safe locations of their choice in memory of the millions of those at home and abroad that lost and gave so much to enable us to share and enjoy the freedom we have today. This was followed by the ringing of the ‘Cry for Peace’ from church bells.
The day of remembrance was concluded at 20:18pm with the sounding of ‘Sunset’.
Commemorations in Ireland
Sunrise at Islandbridge. (Photographs by John O’Byrne)
The Irish contribution to VJ Day 75 was devised and planned by the Royal British Legion Republic of Ireland. Brian Duffy, Chairman of the Royal British Legion in the Republic of Ireland, said: ‘Many thousands of Irish men and women fought with the Allies in WW II, including in the Far East so it’s both wonderful and right that we here in Ireland contribute to the commemoration and celebration of VJ Day 75 being embraced by so many around the world’.
A selection of images from the service in Islandbridge to commemorate VJ Day 75. (Photographs by John O’Byrne)
Commemorations in Ireland centered around the Irish War Memorial Gardens Islandbridge, Dublin. At 06:00am piper Anthony Byrne of the Royal British Legion played from the Great Cross while a piper of the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment played at Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland.
Following the two minute silence and Northern Ireland Chairman John Stewart recited the Kohima Epitaph, which in turn was followed by the ‘Cry for Peace Around the World’ by Ciaran Crone: ‘Éistigí! éistigí! éistigí’. The VJ 75 peal from Ireland’s National Cathedral of St. Patrick’s in Dublin commenced at 11.12am.
Sunset at Islandbridge: Bugler Bill Powderly, Standard Bearer Geoff Barry and Chairman Brian Duffy. (Photograph by Wesley Bourke)
That evening ‘Sunset’ was sounded by Bill Powderly.
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Citizen journalist arrested by Chinese authorities for reporting on the coronavirus
A citizen journalist who traveled to Wuhan to report on the coronavirus outbreak was recently arrested by Chinese police. Zhang Zhan has become the fourth known independent journalist to be silenced by authorities for attempting to document the effects of the pandemic.
Chinese human rights blog Weiquanwang broke the news about Zhang’s arrest on June 20. According to the site, local authorities arrested Zhang on June 19, after the prosecutor’s office in Shanghai’s Pudong district, approved her arrest on the charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.”
Zhang is currently being held at the Pudong New District detention center.
Zhang silenced after speaking up against the government
Zhang’s arrest isn’t the first time she’s gotten in trouble with the Chinese government. In 2017, she had her license to practice law revoked after participating in a petition for amendments to a local administrative law on lawyers.
Zhang arrived in Wuhan in February, acting as a video journalist and posting reports on her WeChat account, as well as on YouTube and Twitter.
On May 13, Zhang posted a video on her YouTube channel of her speaking in front of the Hankou Railway Station in Wuhan. Here, she criticized local health authorities’ plan to roll out virus testing at about 180 yuan ($15) per person as being too high a price. She noted that locals had been under lockdown for months and unable to work.
In her video, she added that while human rights had been trampled during the outbreak, people would still be likely to foot the bill to prove that they were virus-free. In Wuhan, citizens must present a mobile-app-generated code showing that they are virus-free to pass security checkpoints.
In addition, she also called out the intimidation tactics that city officials used to try to control the spread of the virus. She specifically called them a “sorrow of the country.”
A day after she posted the video, she went missing.
A couple of days after she disappeared, the Pudong police bureau released a notice stating that Zhang was being detained, according to the U.S. based rights group Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD).
Meanwhile, the Paris-based nonprofit Reporters Without Borders said that Zhang was still being detained in Shanghai as of May 26.
Whether her most recent arrest is related to her past detention is currently unknown as of reporting time.
Others silenced by Beijing
Zhang is the fourth journalist to have been silenced by Chinese authorities in regard to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.
The first of these was another human rights lawyer named Chen Qiushi. Similar to Zhang, Chen had also traveled to Wuhan early this year to document the situation in the city. Chen disappeared sometime in early February with friends and family suddenly losing contact with him. They have since claimed that Chen, who has yet to resurface, had been forcibly quarantined by Wuhan police after he published video reports about the outbreak.
Another person who has yet to surface is Fang Bin. Fang had been accusing the government of covering up the true scale of the outbreak in Wuhan up until. Fang was arrested by Wuhan police on February 10, a day after he uploaded his final video, and has not been seen since.
Li Zenhua, on the other hand, was able to live-stream his encounter with Wuhan police when they went to arrest him. He then went silent for two months after the incident, only to emerge in late April. He has since claimed that he spent two weeks “quarantined” in both Wuhan and his hometown.
Chinese censorship has also gone beyond these four citizen journalists. Reports show that even grieving relatives have been silenced by the Chinese government for asking questions about how their loved ones died.
With the Chinese government continuing to cover up the truth about the ongoing outbreak, it’s likely that these will not be the last to be silenced.
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Tagged: 1999 World Series
I Guess I’m A Former Old Timer (Updated)
This is an all-time first:
I am turning to the sports pages of The New York Post to discover something about my own baseball-related career:
For the last several years, political commentator Keith Olbermann has served as an in-stadium play-by-play man for the Yankees’ Old-Timers’ Day. But the Yankees are making a change, The Post has learned.
The Yankees were not happy with Olbermann posting a photo on Twitter earlier this season of a coach signaling pitches to their batters in the on-deck circle. So they decided to bounce the liberal loudmouth and will have Bob Wolff and Suzyn Waldman provide the commentary for today’s game instead.
Look, it’s their Popsicle Stand and they can do what they want. More over, the Yankees – to use the Post’s phrase – once “bounced” Babe Ruth, to say nothing of Bernie Williams, and Yogi Berra twice and Billy Martin five times. I’m making no comparison, of course. But in that context, I’ve got no complaint there. I wasn’t going to say anything about this, in fact.
And then somebody from the Yankees leaked it to the paper.
On a personal level, however, I do know that I have a legitimate complaint in one respect. Old Timers’ Day is today, and I’ve been doing the “color” on the public address system for the last ten years, and one year prior to that as well (not the play-by-play; that is, obviously, entirely the province of Hall of Famer Bob Wolff and it’s my honor to sit next to him; Suzyn Waldman has usually been with us to do Old Timers’ interviews during the game). After eleven years of doing this, I think it would’ve been fitting if the Yankees had told me rather than let me hear it from somebody outside their organization the week before the event. It just seems like you’d want to preserve the dissemination of details about your company’s decisions like that to your company, rather than have a guy hear a rumor and then have to call up and ask.
I can’t vouch for the legitimacy of the motive described in The Post because this is the first time I’m hearing about it. But on a macro level, that does worry me in terms of the suppression of information. I might have been sitting in the stands when I tweeted the photos in question, but I saw nothing that any eagle-eyed guy in the press box couldn’t have seen (and trust me, they started looking). There was a coaches’ assistant in a Yankee jacket and a Shamwow-Seller’s Headset with a radar gun sitting three rows back of home plate signalling pitch speeds to Alex Rodriguez and other Yankee players in the on-deck circle on Opening Day this year, and I took a picture of it, largely because to see the signals, Rodriguez had to basically look right over my head.
The Yankees explained that the radar gun they used for their scoreboard wasn’t working that day, and the coaches’ assistant, Brett Weber, was simply supplying information the players usually got from the scoreboard. It was technically a violation of a rule prohibiting the transfer of such information from the stands or press box to the field. My point in tweeting the photo was that it didn’t seem to me to be cheating (after all, it was information about the last pitch, not the next one) — it just seemed weird. And after asking that Weber be vacated from his seat for one day, MLB accepted that explanation and he was back the next game – on the proviso that he not do any more signaling. And I haven’t seen him do any more signaling.
The problem, of course, is that Weber signaled all last year, too, and not just pitch speeds. He had a clipboard and some thin cardboard with which he seemed to be explaining to players in the on deck circle what kind of pitch they had just seen, and where it was. After the storm about the tweet broke, I talked to several friends of mine who happen to be American League managers. One real veteran gave me particular kidding grief about it and when I said it wasn’t anything new and had started the year before, he said “The hell it did. They’ve been doing all the years I’ve been coming to this place and the old Stadium and we complain and complain and nobody’s ever done anything about it before.”
For generations – and I mean pretty much since Jacob Ruppert bought the team in 1915 (or maybe it was from the time it moved from Baltimore in 1903), the Yankees have been notorious for trying to manage information. I can remember the day in a playoff series when they went after a fly with a cannon. We were setting up the interview stand in the clubhouse as the Yankees moved to within a few outs of eliminating advancing. Suddenly, the door opened and as intense a series of obscenities as I’d ever heard resonated through the room. It was a player who was not happy about having just been removed from the decisive game before its conclusion. Obviously, we in the Fox crew were being given a great courtesy – a few extra minutes to make our “set” look good. None of us would have dreamed of reporting what the player did – the definition of a gamer who had every right to blow off steam – or to whom his invective was directed. We were reporters, and we were “there” – but we were there under controlled and agreed-to conditions. The threats started to pour out of every Yankee exec who had contact with any of us that if we reported a word of it, there’d be hell to pay and jobs and contracts threatened. And we were all dumbfounded by the overreaction. We got it – and still the Yankees yelled and threatened.
There were far more dire consequences threatened about a story about Roger Clemens nearly getting into a fist-fight with a fan during the subsequent World Series. I had obtained a videotape of the confrontation, but had already decided not to run it, because it showed only Clemens’ response, not the utter and unjustifiable provocation by the fan. It would’ve made a great front page for The Post, but the video not only told just half the story, in doing so, it completely erased the truth of the story and replaced it with images that implied Clemens was entirely at fault. As I say, I had already decided not to run it, told the Yankees I had it, and that I would have to run it if the story got out some other way. And while at least one executive understood my dilemma and thanked me completely for my journalistic restraint, others made efforts to somehow seize the tape from me, or prevent my network from running it (even though we weren’t going to).
I should also point out here that of all the story-suppression efforts, I never got any of them from George Steinbrenner himself. Not even when the story was about how a couple of other reporters seemed to be very close to confirming some very ugly rumors about the owner himself. I contacted the club, mostly to find out if the stuff was true (and potentially to break it myself), and while some of his underlings freaked out, Steinbrenner himself told me he had no complaints. “That’s your job. I get it.”
It’s also kind of a shame that whoever from the Yankees leaked this information about Old Timers Day to The Post put Yankees’ Vice President/General Manager Brian Cashman on the spot. In my previous capacities at SportsCenter, and later as the host of the Playoffs and All-Star Game on NBC, and of Game Of The Week and the World Series on Fox, I have often reported things Cash didn’t like, but he’s always been professional and pleasant and there are few in the media who have had the slightest serious problem with him (a record that very few other Yankee figures of the last 40 years can claim).
The day that The New York Daily News published the story of the tweetpic of Weber, four fingers raised, I happened to be at the ballpark and got corralled by the beat writers who were trying to figure out what it was all about. In the middle of this, Cashman came over to explain, and to say it was no big deal from the Yankees’ point of view (as I said it wasn’t from mine) and to very publicly reassure me that the team had no problem with what I did, or with me.
Today, this statement seems to be inoperative.
Back on that brilliant spring Saturday in April, Cash even had a joking explanation for this: “He was just ordering four beers, Keith,” Cashman said with a laugh.
So I showed him the picture I didn’t tweet and asked him (with my own laugh), if that was the case, if they really didn’t have a bigger problem than just improper hand-signaling: POSTSCRIPT: You will find this silliness in the comments. It’s worth it
I believe this also stems from Keith Tweeting a picture of Jorge Posada’s name crossed out on Joe Girardi’s lineup card on the day Posada asked out of a game. As he was NOT a ‘reporter’ that day, in my opinion, Keith had no right to post that picture other than to fuel his own ego to simply prove he can. Also, KO was obviously trying to embarrass the longtime Yankee catcher who was probably at the all-time low of a generally nice career. Who kicks a guy like that when he’s down? As a baseball fan, I find that itself is unforgivable.
FYI, I’m not only a 20+ year Olbermann fan, but a frequent and loquacious defender of his and the Posada incident has soured me so much I’m sad to say I’m starting to lose faith in his political message around which I have long based my own beliefs.
While the truth may never come out, don’t discount the Posada incident as a reason for Keith’s exclusion from this prestigious Yankee event.
Go Yanks!
Yeah, this is pretty dumb. The tweeted picture this poster has gone nuclear over was of a copy of the printed line-up/scorecard sheets the Yankees give out in the press box and to every spectator in the suites areas who asks for it. It showed where I had crossed off Posada’s name on my sheet and written in Andruw Jones’ name. It was obviously my handwriting. And I tweeted it only to illustrate tangible proof that even the Yankees had been crossed up by Posada’s unwillingness to bat ninth.
Where on earth would I get a copy of Joe Girardi’s line-up card, during a game?
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Cloud Musings
Observations and comments on cloud computing, cyber security, cognitive computing and big data analytics.
Cancer, cloud and privacy shield
(Originally published in Dell PowerMore)
For more than 10 years, the rapid rise of cloud computing has enabled an even more rapid application of cloud to genomic medicine. In fact, since the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) lifted a 2007 ban on uploading their genomic data into cloud storage, the explosion in cloud use has accelerated. Some of the most impressive accomplishments in this field have included the:
• Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) project, that brings together whole-genome sequencing data from the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) projects. This resource describes over 2000 tumor and matched control samples that cover more than 30 cancer entities. Academics will be using the EMBL-EBI Embassy Cloud and high-performance computing centers at the University of Chicago, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in Seoul, the University of California in Santa Cruz, the University of Tokyo and the Heidelberg Center for Personalized Oncology at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) (http://news.embl.de/science/1507-genome-cloud/);
• 100,000 Genomes Project in the United Kingdom includes genomic data from 70,000 people including National Health Service patients with a rare disease, plus their families, and patients with cancer;
• Phoenix, Arizona-based Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium on personalized medicine trials which uses high-performance computing in the cloud to sequence tumor samples to create new treatment database that help determine personalized drug therapy approaches for children. The project is also being expanded to pediatric cancer clinical trials in EMEA, starting with sites in France and Lebanon.
“Cloud Powered Genomics” brings with it:
• Speed. The time it takes to process the required 90 billion data points is reduced from 10 days to 6 hours or less
• Precision. The analysis of multiple terabytes of data now enables an ability for doctors to prescribe treatments that are fully matched to the individual patient instead of relying on treatments designed for a broad base of patients.
• Collaboration. Researchers and doctors worldwide can now share diagnostic and case information while drawing on an existing storehouse of massive medical knowledge which, in turn, helps improve outcomes and refines treatment protocols.
• Scalability. Storage and processing capacity grow over time as vast amounts of data are collected.
While cloud computing enables researchers and doctors to cost effectively analyze the enormous amount of data necessary to produce these insights at a rapid rate, the privacy issues raised are also daunting. Last year’snullification of Safe Harbor by the European Courts brings these issues to the forefront.
Even without announcing specific details, the European Commission announced a new framework for governing the flow of data across the Atlantic Ocean. Referred to as “Privacy Shield”, the agreement is meant to be a reflection of the requirements set out by the European Court of Justice in its ruling on 6 October 2015, which declared the old Safe Harbour framework invalid.
“The new arrangement will provide stronger obligations on companies in the U.S. to protect the personal data of Europeans and stronger monitoring and enforcement by the U.S. Department of Commerce and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), including through increased cooperation with European Data Protection Authorities. The new arrangement includes commitments by the U.S. that possibilities under U.S. law for public authorities to access personal data transferred under the new arrangement will be subject to clear conditions, limitations and oversight, preventing generalised access. Europeans will have the possibility to raise any enquiry or complaint in this context with a dedicated new Ombudsperson.”
Specific elements highlighted by the EC include:
• “Strong obligations” and “robust enforcement” on companies that handle Europeans’ personal data
• The U.S. Department of Commerce will monitoring of company published commitments to “Privacy Shield” that make the commitments enforceable under U.S. law by the FTC.
• Applicability to companies that handle human resources data from Europe.
• “Clear safeguards and transparency obligations” on U.S. government agencies’ access to data,
• Written assurances from the United States that access will be subject to “clear limitations, safeguards and oversight mechanisms”.
While the agreement has been lauded by many, its effect on the use of cloud computing on trans-Atlantic genomic research is still questionable. This new development will certainly introduce uncertainty and doubt into the business side of this important and burgeoning industry. We can only hope that any unintended circumstance don’t hinder this important medical progress.
( This post was written as part of the Dell Insight Partners program, which provides news and analysis about the evolving world of tech. Dell sponsored this article, but the opinions are my own and don’t necessarily represent Dell’s positions or strategies.)
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Hello and welcome to another episode of “I Weigh” with Jameela Jamil. I hope you’re all right. I’m fine. I’m actually quite pumped to bring you today’s episode, to the point where I don’t really want to talk about very much. I just want to get straight into it because I feel like there is so much that was said in this episode that is so important. And I don’t want to dillydally. So I am talking to Matt Haig. He is the great author of the bestselling novel “Reasons to Stay Alive”. And he’s written so many great books. “The Humans”, “How to Stop Time”, “Notes on a Nervous Planet”. But he also has an extraordinary book that is already getting rave reviews called “The Midnight Library” that comes out on the 29th in America. And he, I will let him explain what this book is about at the end of this podcast. But he is the voice of reason on the Internet. He is who I look up to in all of my darkest and most chaotic moments. He has dedicated his life to being so open about his own experiences with mental health, with suicide. And actually, I will offer a trigger warning here that we do talk about suicidal ideation or suicide attempts in this podcast, in a very informative and helpful and loving and shameless way. But it’s definitely something I need to make you aware of in case you are feeling fragile and just not ready for that conversation yet. Maybe bookmark this for later. But it is definitely a very helpful thing for me to have heard, having been someone who was, you know, in the past suicidal myself, but also someone who has been the carer for suicidal people. I just feel like there was so much helpful information and so much great content around how we shouldn’t shame ourselves or shame one another for losing control of the way that we feel. And we don’t shame ourselves for these same feelings around our bodies. So therefore, why do we do it when it comes to our mind? And Matt has a wonderful way of highlighting our kind of societal ignorance. And also, he’s a progressive. He’s always thinking ahead of how we get better. He’s always planning for what we need to do next rather than just in an outcry about what a mess everything is, he’s a solutionist. And so we talk all about his mental health history, what led him to writing the book, “Reasons to Stay Alive”, which is one of the more important books in many people’s lives. We also talk a lot about social media and the impact that it’s having on all of us. And, you know, we do touch on Cancel Culture and Call Out Culture. And just the way that human beings speak to one another, including the way that we reflect upon our own online behavior and things in the past that we are both ashamed of and feel like weren’t helpful in our work. It was a very, very personal whats and all chat. Neither of us held back at all. And we have both been, I would say, incredibly vulnerable in this episode, because even though we don’t really know each other, we have such a similarity in the fact that we are obsessed with baring all and telling all of the truths we can, as we’re learning them so that everyone can learn on a journey together. We don’t believe in perfection. We believe in progress. So please enjoy the episode. I know you will. If you aren’t aware of him yet, follow him on Instagram, follow him on Twitter, read his books. He will just nourish your soul. I’m talking about the excellent Matt Haig. Oh, my lord. It’s one of my favorite voices of our generation. It’s only bloody Matt Haig. Hello and welcome to “I Weigh”.
MATT HAIG [00:03:35]
Thanks Jameela, that’s very kind of you. And it’s very nice to, and speak to you again.
Yeah, likewise. Thank you for giving me your time. I know you are very, very busy promoting your new book, “Midnight Library”, which we’re going to talk about later. How are you doing during this odd year?
I’m doing OK during this odd year. I, my mental health has been a bit weird on and off, but I mean, in terms of my actual life, not masses has changed, compared to lots of people because I work from home and we homeschool our kids. And yeah, so we’re luckier than most people and we haven’t had to do that many things that we would feel uncomfortable with. But yeah, just psychologically, as someone who has health anxiety and general anxiety anyway and is prone to getting addicted to the news and just the general catastrophizing, it’s been a kind of perfect storm for everyone in that sort of mindset, including myself. So, yeah, I’m just like, yeah. Surviving 2020. And-.
Mmhmm. How has your mental health felt specifically worse? Is it just the anxiety, the things you mentioned?
Well, the thing is, in March and February, when it really started to kick off, I was in a massive mental health dip anyway, which was totally not related to Covid. And then Covid sort of came in at the worst possible time for me. So selfishly, personally and yeah. So I just fell into total, sort of like hypochondria, but also hypochondria for other people. I was like panicking about my parents. I was panicking about my partner. I was panicking about my kids. I was just, I was just useless. I was just useless to absolutely anybody around me. And that lasted for about a few weeks. And then during actual, like in the UK, when we had proper full blown lockdown, I totally calmed down. I literally, I felt it was almost good for my mental health at that point because so much had been taken away. It was like the acoustic version of life. And it was like a life edit that I hadn’t planned or asked for. None of us had. But it was actually kind of good and necessary. And I wasn’t having to commute to London. I wasn’t having stressful, pointless meetings. I was just having time with my kids. I was having time at home. And that felt really nice, that period. I feel we’re in another sort of uncertain period currently where everyone’s on a kind of different track and got different views about how dangerous or not Covid is and whether we should be wearing masks and all this nonsense. So I find that stressful because not everyone is on the same page.
But, you know?
Heading us towards what is potentially going to be another stressful couple of months of further lockdown during Christmas time, which will be the least fun time for anyone to have to be isolating on their own. You have always been so astonishingly frank online with, when it comes to your mental health, even when you cancel like a mini tour, you were always so upfront with your followers and tell them that because you are suffering with your mental health.
You never make a different excuse. And because of that, I think so many of us have found great solace in your work and your words. It’s been another, for many unfortunate reasons, your, your book, which was already such an epic bestseller, “Reasons to Stay Alive”, which I can’t wait to talk to you about. That book has come back in such a big way and so many people are buying it. Bookstores are running out of it constantly. And this book has been out for years because people need to hear more rhetoric that is hopeful but also brutally honest around mental health. You are such a master of empathy, in my opinion, and, and also just such frankness in a way that it feels almost impossible to be embarrassed when reading your work. So I really appreciate your contribution to the mental health community.
Well, I really appreciate your honesty and frankness on all kinds of issues. Including, including mental health. And I, no, I think it’s great. I think we need more honesty and more frankness and openness. And I hope it just encourages other people. Because I didn’t always used to be like this. I used to be someone who used to make up any excuse. You know, I’ve had fake food poisoning. I’ve had, you know, loads of times I’ve just sort of called in sick for any other reason. It was only through writing directly about it that gave me the confidence. And I do acknowledge that I’m privileged. I haven’t got an employer who’s going to fire me because I’m mentally unstable. So I’ve sort of written books about me, mentally unstable. So, yeah. But I just think, I think we’re not progressing that far, really, in the mental health conversation. I think we’re talking about mental health a lot. But there’s just so much talk is stigma building and, yeah. You see it all the time, like poli-, heated political debates on any subject. You know, we’ll be dismissing each other on grounds of mental health. And I-.
I find that kind of ugly. And that happens on both sides of the divide as well, which is a bit depressing.
One hundred percent. It’s interesting that you talk about food poisoning as your excuses, because for most of my life, I’ve been mentally ill and that has been always my number one go to. Because there’s just something about, and I go one step further and I say diarrhea because it just shuts down all further questions. No one wants to know.
No one wants to hear about it. Everyone immediate, is immediately mortified for you and somehow themselves. And it’s just like an instant get up. So anyone who I’ve ever given that excuse to, I didn’t have the shits.
I just didn’t want to come. Anyway, I, I really appreciate that. And yeah. What do you think have been the greatest struggles for lockdown? Without wanting to hammer home the absolute obvious, but you know what I mean. What are you finding that people-? Do you think it’s that we are too attached to our devices and they are rubbing us a little bit of empathy? ‘Cause that’s truly what the blue light does. It stops your brain from producing empathy or happy chemicals and messes your brain, stops your sleep.
Stops your sleep. That’s really, I mean, I’ve, I’ve literally had to force myself away from my phone and put it in the kitchen overnight. So I don’t have, I don’t do bedtime scrolling now because that used to be my, my killer.
I mean, it’s bad enough in my day. But I noticed I was getting like bad eyes and dra-, and I realized it was because I was just on my phone even more.
That I had been in 2019. I was just on my phone all the time and it wasn’t necessary social media, it was more like news addiction.
Doom addiction, I feel like we all have.
Oh God. So what’s happened now? Firenado. Oh God. So, yeah. I get it.
You’re in California, where it’s all going.
Yeah. I just have to look outside the window. Yeah.
No. But yeah. So I had that, totally. And I think that’s a big thing, obviously. But I think it almost goes to a sort of deeper existential level because I feel like we have, we’re in this time of total sudden uncertainty where it’s made us all, finding it really hard to plan the future in any meaningful way. And we’ve had sort of, you know, even things like, you know, whether it’s the new James Bond movie not coming out or something. It’s just like all these things that we just take for granted, that there’s going to be a cinema to go to, or restaurants to go. And then suddenly all these are staples of modern existence were just, it showed how vulnerable civilization is all of a sudden, and it made therefore us who invest so much in this modern civilization, feel suddenly very fragile. And it made everything like feel kind of apocalyptic. And I think had a big psychological effect. One thing that’s really helped me in lockdown, I’ve been reading a lot. I’m not really a religious person, but I’ve been reading a lot about Buddhism. And there’s a great American Tibetan Buddhist called Pema Chödrön, who has written a book in the 90s called “When Things Fall Apart”. And it’s great about uncertainty and about accepting sort of suffering and despair as part of the same whole as joy and contentment and everything else. And she thinks the problem in Western culture, the reason, one of the reasons why we have so many sort of existential crises on an almost daily basis is we almost expect the world to be free from suffering and misery. And we almost feel entitled to a sort of permanent state of happiness and contentment, which wasn’t really ever ours or wasn’t really human things.
No, neutral is really probably the only realistic-.
And all the other things, we’re also only able to appreciate them in comparison to one another, right?
Yeah. No. Absolutely. And I, also, you know, in my own life, I don’t know about you, but often my worst experiences. Years later, or maybe even just months later, I’ve turned out to be pretty fertile in some other way. And I’ve been sort of, so there hasn’t been much that I, you know, I wouldn’t want to live through suicidal depression again.
But, but I wouldn’t want to press a button and sort of have never had it. Now it’s in the past because all kinds of things came out of that, a sense of gratitude came out of that, a sense of being able to cope with neutral existence.
Yeah. I was talking about this with Joe Lycett on a different episode recently where we were just saying that actually he and I personally have quite enjoyed ourselves being in lockdown because we realized we were hyper socializing and going out, not giving ourselves chances to process our meetings or conversations or work. I, for one, now go to a dog park for three hours every single day, every single evening. And I live next to this gorgeous park that makes me so happy that I haven’t been to in five years. I’ve lived right near it and I’ve not been in five years. I’ve just denied myself this wonderful thing because I was just on this fucking rat race and also just like, or hiding in my house. And now I just don’t take it for granted. I think I will keep that up forever. I don’t think I’m ever going to let anything take away my dog time to watch a bunch of dogs, like give each other unexpected blowjobs in the park.
And the love they have balls, not actual ballocks, as in a tennis ball.
You know, it’s just so full of joy and there’s just so much kind of humanity and like animal and man and nature. I think it’s great.
Yeah. My dog’s calmed down in lockdown. I don’t know if that’s because Maltese terriers are meant to have separation anxiety. And she’s had no separation from us. So she’s totally chilled out. She’s like, yeah, she, she meditates now. And she’s-.
Well, we’re all fucked when the world comes back and the dogs are just shitting everywhere to get back at us. I want to talk to you about “Reasons to Stay Alive”. Will you talk to me about what this monumentally important book was for you and what it’s about?
“Reasons to Stay Alive” was the book I was closest to not writing. It was a book I was scared to write. It’s a book, I, my publishers didn’t want me to write. It’s a book I wasn’t given much money for. It’s a book that people tried to talk me out of writing. It was meant to be a very small book. It was a book I felt I should write after a conversation with a friend who works in publishing. Not a part of my publisher, but she said, Oh, you should write it. I said, Yeah, but I’m not like a A-list celebrity. I’m not like a person who’s had a massively unique, traumatic experience that caused my depression. You know, there’s no story. There’s no capsular story to it. What’s the point of me writing? And she said because of that, people will relate to it. Because there isn’t always a clear cut back story to depression or panic disorder or OCD or those things. And sometimes part of the hell of a mental health problem is you don’t know the trigger. You don’t actually know what got you into that hole. So therefore, you don’t always know what can get you out of the hole. And that for me is what made me suicidal at the time. So I saw her point and, but then even so I didn’t know how to write it. I didn’t know whether it should be a memoir. I didn’t know whether it should be a self-help book. I didn’t know if it should be something in between. And I tried to forget what kind of book I was writing. I tried to even forget I was writing a book. I tried to just remember me when I was 24 years old in Ibiza, living and working there with my girlfriend. And it was our third summer there. And when I had this total breakdown in September, 21 years ago this month, I tried to just think what would have helped me? What words would have helped that 24 year old person who literally, I don’t even, I mean, I say I was suicidal, I was suicidal, but it wasn’t a death wish. It was just I, literally, I have no fucking idea how I go on to tomorrow feeling exactly like this today. There was no break from it. There’s no off switch, it was 24/7. It was, it ruined my sleep. It ruined my waking life. It was just a total nightmare that I was trapped in. And I was claustrophobic. It was hell, And I didn’t realize even that I was experiencing depression. I didn’t. I was so illiterate about mental health. I knew obviously the words depression. I need the word anxiety. But people weren’t really talking about it back in 1999 and 2000. It was kind of just the thing that other people had. My view of mental illness back then was you are either a sane person, a normal inverted calm person, or you were a mad person. So I realized I wasn’t anymore a sane person. So I thought, oh, my God, that’s it. I’m gonna be in a straight jacket. I’m gonna be in a padded cell. This is what mental illness is.
That’s how crude and binary my thinking was. And yeah, so I was trying to write this book that would hack into the brain to try and give them some belief in a future self that is thankful that that person didn’t die.
Yeah. I’m all about that. All about educating people. That sometimes, sometimes, I mean some people have like true suicidal ideation. But I know that in my own like history of depression, anxiety, OCD and, and suicide attempts that I had made in the past, that for me it wasn’t like a long, drawn out planned thing. It would be a day or an hour of such panic, where it was just like sort of stop the world, I want to get off.
I truly, you know, I think I’ve heard you talk about it. It’s the difference between, not just generally wanting to jump out of a window, but, oh, my God, the room’s on fire. I have to jump out the window in order to get away from the room being on fire. And I think that it’s important to understand that both can exist.
That it’s not alway this planned, long, sad, drawn out-.
Sometimes it’s, it’s just instantaneous panic. And I think that because you and I both had experience with that, I guess we’ve kind of taken it upon ourselves as our duty to remind people that what if you just hang on?
Yeah, totally.
What if you just keep going? What could happen?
I mean, the thing I remember, the scary thing I remember is I was in, you know, because people think of Ibiza as like a party island and a crazy place. We’re in a very, very quiet part of the Ibiza on the East Coast. And we were on a, in a villa on a cliff top overlooking the most beautiful Mediterranean view. You’ve got these limestone cliffs. And I was looking at that view and I just thought, it’s utterly meaningless. I will never, ever be able to appreciate beauty or anything good in my life at all. You know, I’m literally here, I’m living in Spain in a nice villa. I’ve got a beautiful girlfriend who I love and I’ve got all these things and I literally, I can’t get out of this painful state and, you know, so because of the location on the cliffs and everything, I just was, you know, urging myself to die. And I genuinely still don’t know exactly how or why I made it through that week. It was a trip to a medical center where I prescribed Diazepam, but that-. I’m not anti medication at all. And Diazepam works for lots and lots of people. But in my subjective experience, in that moment, the Diazepam made the panic attacks worse.
And. Yeah. So I should have, I was just given the wrong pills for me in that situation. But, yeah. So I don’t know, but I did live. And I lived long enough to see some sort of fluctuation. And I think as soon as you see a fluctuation, not, not a moment of happiness but a moment of not feeling that pain, you realize that can be other moments where you’re not feeling like that. I don’t know if that is how you experienced it, but for me, the feeling of, the feeling of being trapped is thinking it’s never going to get better. It’s never going to get better. I’m always gonna be in this sort of crap place and, yeah, that’s what’s dangerous.
Well, you think you’re in a life sentence. And I think that, that’s, that was the hardest thing for me, was just, ah, fuck this, I can’t keep going like this. And I did somehow find the, the motivation to keep going. And it wasn’t much motivation, but I tried my best to keep going. And in doing so, embarked upon this really ruthless journey of changing everything in order to save my own life. So what were your “Reasons to Stay Alive”?
My “Reasons to Stay Alive” were in that moment, you know, in that moment, I will be honest. I had no reason to live that I could see in that moment. My, all my “Reasons to Stay Alive” kind of come with hindsight and my, the fact I stayed alive then, you know, it’s easy to say, well, I had people who loved me and I had a support network, which is kind of true. I did have parents and a bit of a partner who were the only three people in the world who knew what I was going through.
If your logic brain isn’t working in that moment, you know what I mean? That’s not the lobe that’s kicking in.
Absolutely, Jameela. And I was just like thinking, actually that was almost an incentive to go the other way because I was like, I’m a burden on these people. I, it would be selfish of me to stay alive. You know, I can remember, like, you know, after Robin Williams’ death, people were talking about selfishness because he had a family, and it’s like, it’s just such a misunderstanding of what depression can do. You, I would, I was feeling selfish for being alive. That’s, that’s how ridiculous it was. And that’s how much depression can lie to you. I was literally so wallowing in the state of everyone would be better off without me. And I’m just gonna be this black hole sucks everyone in. And it’s just a horrible, horrible thing. My, my reason, you know, when I’m asked the question now, like I was at an event last year in London and I was asked, you know. Yeah, but you had a girlfriend. You had parents. You had some sort of support. You had people you could talk to. What would you say to somebody who’s got nobody at all or feels they’ve got nobody? How do you stay alive for other people if you’ve got nobody? And I was saying, I really struggled with that for a while. And, but I now think the answer to that question is that you still stay alive for other people. But those people, other people aren’t the people in your life at that moment, they’re not even other people that will exist in a future moment. They’re you. There are other versions of you. I am a different person. I am still me. I’ve still got memories of that time. But I’m such a different person to who I was at 24. And that experience was part of the experience that made me a different person. And there’s so many different versions of me in life that aren’t all identical. That, you know, and each one of those is grateful for that 24 year old who stayed alive. So you stay alive for those other selves.
For the person you’re going to become.
Not necessarily for others. For sure.
I’m, I’m, yeah. I. So many of the things and people that were in my life at that time are now gone. And so it’s this whole different existence, whole different human, whole different way of moving through the world. And that’s the person that I have ended up being glad I stayed alive for. It was me. And I think we need to be better at learning that you, yourself, are important and everything else is just cake. Humans and companionship and all these different things are important. But maybe sometimes our mental health is a way of letting us know that the current life that we’re living isn’t working and maybe these just aren’t the right people or maybe I need to shift something or change something in order to meet my tribe, my people. And I’ve definitely met more soulmates, you know, and friends and, you know, a better relationship in this new version of myself. When I just sort of dropped the layers of, you know, one of the best things you ever said, something you said once, which I quote all the fucking time, is “depression gave me fake news”. You said that on Twitter and it just moved me so much. It was the first time I’ve liked those two words used together. And I think that is one of the greatest ways of putting it, is that it just lies to you, lies to you about your worth. It lies to you that things can’t ever shift and change in any meaningful way. And it lies to you that you even deserve that often.
Yeah. It’s Fox News for your brain, isn’t it? It’s just your, your, just the negative, you know. And it’s so hyperbolic as well.
Negative fear mongering. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, from news headlines I had in my head was you are going to be dead by the age of 25. Andrea is going to leave you. This is going to happen. Everything, everything is shit. You’re gonna, if you, if by some miracle you’re still alive, you are going to be totally mad, you know-.
And unbearable to live around. Yeah.
Yeah. I grew up watching “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and I just thought that’s what it was. I was just gonna be in some mental asylum and, yeah, just. And none of those things happened.
No, you talk a lot about self stigma. That you’re like well there is a lot of society, a societal stigma, rather, there’s also a lot that we stigmatize ourself in. I want to press a little bit further into what you mentioned of, you know, I am a straight, white, privileged male. I am slim. I have a loving girlfriend. I don’t have a significant trauma from my background, what, like an event necessarily that I can trace my tr-, my, my feelings or my pain back to. Like I don’t have this big dramatic story. I’m just sad.
And I don’t necessarily know exactly why I’m so sad and I feel like that, the lack of that conversation is devastating.
Yeah, well, because, I mean, one of the heavy things about depression, the one thing that makes it worse is guilt. And so when, when you’re there and you haven’t, well, I mean, at the time, I did have a little bit of financial worry, but it wasn’t like I was a 24 year old who just left university, it was a kind of normal thing.
I mean, everything was, you know, everything was generally kind of, kind of good, you know? I had been to university. I had middle class Parents. I was white, male, heterosexual person with no, no one stigmatizing me externally. I had no prejudice to overcome. I, you know, I was Mr. Privilege. Mr. Entitled. I mean, this happens and you kind of want a reason. You kind of, you suddenly feel like a victim because your, your head is literally destroying you. And you’d rather be anyone else. You’d look at anyone else. You’d look at a 90 year old person on the street and you’d want to sort of change into their mind, literally jump out of yourself and yet, out externally, you’re this 20 something person with your whole life ahead of you.
You know, your parents are still alive, there’s been no inciting incident. You are your own drama. And you, you know, that you brought it on yourself. That’s how you feel even though-.
It almost makes you feel madder, doesn’t it? It almost makes you feel more like, like as if you are even sicker because then you’ve just like, almost like created it. It’s fiction and it’s something that you have made yourself rather than being able to do something, I guess like maybe a relief to being able to trace it back to a trauma. You know, I, I’m in a relationship with someone who struggled severely with his mental health. And when we first got together, I remember him being so reticent to accept it because his childhood wasn’t as bad as my childhood. So there was a part of him that was just like, well, I can’t, I can’t be. I don’t deserve to feel this bad.
I’m, I’m weak, I’m wrong because I didn’t have as bad a child-, and I say constantly just reassure him that’s like this isn’t how the brain works. This isn’t how our chemicals work. This is such a disaster. And I feel like so many people who don’t have a visceral trauma or a disability or some sort of, you know what I mean? Like, they weren’t, didn’t have one massive event feel so, A, like it’s harder to find the explanation for why you feel this way, but also like they find it hard to accept it and they don’t feel like they deserve empathy, care, support.
I used to fantasize that I blacked out something. I used to think I had, you know, there’ve been some Catholic priests or there’ve been some incident.
That I couldn’t, couldn’t remember. I had been abused as a child or something, which didn’t happen. But I used to, I used to think, wouldn’t it be convenient? Wouldn’t it make my brain make more sense? I obviously don-, now I’m rational. I’m not mentally ill. I don’t wish that happened to me. But when you’re looking for a narrative, you want to, I mean, I’m not saying my childhood was perfect. You know, I was a bit bullied at school. You know, I had certain sort of behavior. My mum had postnatal depression. My mum’s got a lot of anxiety because she was adopted, so she doesn’t really know who her parents are. A lot of her insecurities and separation anxieties were passed on to me, and she’s acknowledged all of that stuff as well. But no, I mean, generally speaking, I had kind of a happy childhood. I wasn’t always necessarily a happy person within that childhood. You know, there’s a bit of self-harm. I’ve got a mole on my cheek, which when I was like a teenager of a certain age, all I could see when I looked in the mirror was thus mole.
Which I now look back at photos of me as a teenager, I’m like, where’s the mole? There’s no, what are you worried about this thing on your face for? But I once I got a toothbrush and tried to rub off the mole on my face, until it was-, because I wanted a scar on my face rather than a mole. I thought a scar was more manly to have. And so I obviously wasn’t right. But no one is really-.
Telling you otherwise.
Yeah. Exactly.
And also, no one knows more, and people are less likely to ask you if you’re OK.
That’s another really interesting thing about privilege. So, like, you know, even as part of my childhood, and like the fact that I am a brown woman and I’ve had a disability and all this trauma, because when I was at the peak of my mental, my nervous breakdown, I was famous and I was thin.
And I was, you know, sort of like deemed pretty.
Glamorous, you were glamorous.
Yeah. And I was on the cover of magazines and I was a deejay. So no one actually asked me if I was OK. People would come in with, oh, my God, is everything just great? And then you just feel like such a prick if you’re not like, yeah. ‘Cause you got money. You have access to all these different things. And so then you just end up holding it all inside. And no one’s saying to you, is this a bit hard and weird? In fact, I now make it my business to, as soon as I see someone win an award. I walk up to them and be like, it’s OK if you don’t actually feel anything right now. And if this hasn’t made you as happy as you thought it would. And they normally like, grab me and look me in the eye, there’s like wide eyes going, thank you so much. I was so worried that I’m dead inside or if they are, you know, rising very fast in fame while they’re being dragged on the Internet, like I’ll reach out to them privately and just be like, you all right? Because no one asks. No one, no one reaches out to you. And so you don’t reach out for help yourself. And so it’s just this sort of blame culture.
Yeah. And I think a deeper level, it’s important that people, I don’t think people should be going round and, you know, raising money for poor celebrities.
To give a priority and have longer in rehab in Arizona or whatever. I don’t think that. But what I do think is interesting is the fact that we as-, the assumption that this whatever fame brings with it or whatever money brings with it is somehow salvation is damaging, not just to celebrities, it’s damaging to everybody. It’s damaging to, you know, I mean, this whole re-, you know, and it’s before social media, this pre-dates social media. This goes back to, you know, the start of, like reality TV or whatever. This idea about normal life is something you need to be saved from. And there’s going to be someone like Simon Cowell waving a wand and you will, you will escape your, you know, not horrendous upbringing, but your ordinary life is, you know, with a record contract. And you will you, will reach this other land of red carpets and paparazzi and everything will be sparkly and gold and I’m wonderful. And that’s not just something celebrities express. That’s just like the culture we’re in. It’s like everyone feels and everyone now is the kind of celebrity within their own world because of social media accounts. And this, that and the other. Everyone’s presenting themselves, in magazines of themselves on Instagram or whatever, even if you’ve got like, if you’ve got a million followers or you’ve got like 300 followers, we’re all doing essentially the same think, I think.
On just different scales.
I remember you and I talking yesterday about the fact that one of the most devastating things can be when you get the things that you’ve thought would make you happy and you realize that they don’t.
And that is just like such an interesting, and a lot of people will never have the privilege to even find that out. They’ll never get that car or win that award or like get that person or get that body, this, that and the other. But I can say that, like, one of the most, one of the shittiest parts of sometimes getting the things that you want and that you thought would make you happy is the realization that you don’t. And then you’re like fuck, I’m back at square one. And in fact, when people are fuckers to me in this business, like people who are competitive with me or ruthless, and, you know, the types who would just step over your dead body, wouldn’t piss on fire to put you out because they have their eye on the prize so hard and they’re so competitive and so obsessed with their own position in this industry. The thing I wish for them the most is to win that big award. I’m not, I fucking hope you win that award because you’re going to realize it doesn’t mean shit. No one’s going to remember tomorrow, you stupid asshole. And you’re then going to realize, oh, my God, I made everyone’s lives miserable, or even just Jameela Jamil’s life fucking miserable because I was so obsessed with this award that means nothing. It doesn’t change your life at all. All the shit that I had. I’m so grateful for it, but mostly I’m grateful for the, for the realization at 26 that it wasn’t gonna save my life, that I still would have to save my life just the same way as anyone else. There’s no short cut.
Yeah, one of the-. Yeah. You had it quite young, didn’t you?
You were, you, you were a famous person, quite young and I think-.
Yeah, I was 22, I think. Yeah.
Yeah. So. Yeah. But I mean, with me, I mean, my sort of like privilege is different. With me, like I literally as a struggling writer, I thought when I get money, you know, it will be better. It will be different. And the only thing, the only worry money fixes is financial worries. You still have all the other worries. And what happens when you, when you solve one worry, I think, is, if you, if you’re prone to anxiety and worry anyway, the other, other worries, which were slightly lesser when you have the money worry, they’ll rise up and fill the money worries place. So there’s always almost the same quantity and capacity for anxiety in any sense. And I remember thinking as well that all I wanted was like to have my name on a book and be published. It doesn’t, you know, it doesn’t even have to be on the tables in a bookshop. It can just be there as a physical thing, that like one of the person in the world reads and connects to. And then I’ll be happy.
And I really remember thinking, yeah, that that might not stay. And I said, I made a promise to myself, no, you’ve got to stay being grateful for being like-, and that lasted about a week.
Max. When you’ve got a publishing deal. And then like then you want to be a best seller. Then you get a best seller. And then you’re like, no, you got to be number one bestseller. Then you want sort of film writer, then you want the first film made. Then you want it to be a good film. There’s no end to, there’s always at, the level, the goalposts can move very quickly. So you have to realize that happiness comes from somewhere else. And yeah, you can get a thrill and it adds color to life having successful achiev-, I don’t want to belittle that because it is great and occasionally, if you see it, but if you put all your investment in going to a fancy party or being a number one bestseller or whatever it is.
Living in that house. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. If you define-, if you see yourself, how will this see, that’s when it becomes dangerous. When you feel like, oh, you know, if I get, I don’t know, a few hundred thousand followers on Instagram or whatever, then that will sort of embolden me. It never does. It actually weakens you because you’ve placed your sense of self esteem at the hands of external, uncertain things, which, you know, fundamentally makes you more fragile, not-.
Totally. Investing in anything outside of yourself is really, really dangerous. Even if it’s a person that you love. You’ve got to like, it’s such a cliche, but the cliches are a cliche for a reason. You know, I’ve seen you talk a lot about, you know, there is light at the end of the tunnel and like, these things are true. And that time is a great healer. You know, these are some of the great lessons that you’ve learned.
Over the course of your life.
All, all the cliches, but they’re all cliches for a reason because like since, since like Neolithic cave people days, they had moments of despair and realizing that, you know, they won’t necessarily get attacked by wolves next Friday. And, you know, things aren’t always as bleak as they seem. And we’ve always had that. I mean, we’ve got new problems now.
Every, every age has its problems, but we didn’t invent mental health problems. So.
No, for sure. For sure. I also think it’s really important that if anyone is struggling out there to understand that mental health is not a destination, it’s an on going journey. And so if you took a big dip this year like I did, then there’s nothing wrong. Like I came, I had this massive nervous breakdown, I was 26. I tried to kill myself, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I hadn’t done that in like nine years. So I just, I was like, I’ve hit rock bottom. And you only ever hit rock bottom once. So now it’s only going to be up from here and I’ll never fall again. And I’ve learned all my lessons and now I am unbreakable. I’m Bruce Willis. Although actually he’s very break-. Is he? No, I don’t remember. Anyway, no, yeah. I’m Bruce Willis. So I, so I was absolutely stunned to see that when I was being sort of like hounded and trolled and everyone was like saying that I contributed to the death of a friend or, which I had nothing to do with or they were saying I had Munchausen. I was lying about my sexuality, lying about cancer, lying about this, that and the other. Just like going after me in such like a personal way. It wasn’t about not proving with me or thinking I was annoying or not liking me or follow me online. I don’t give a fuck about that. I don’t care about people’s opinions per say. But when I was being gaslit, it triggered this like part of my child trauma that I clearly hadn’t worked on yet or worked on enough. And I became suicidal again in February and I was so embarrassed. I was so embarrassed. I didn’t even tell any of my friends until maybe like a month ago because I spent five months just like so mortified. That I was like, me? The great doer of therapy? The one who overcame all of these things? How can I get back here? And I, there was no, I had no empathy towards myself. I was just like, oh, God, I fucking failed. Everything I’ve said about getting better is a lie. It wasn’t. I did get better, but shit happens and you fall again. And that’s being human. You are never just immortal. You’ll never like impossible to hurt. You can be hurt again. And what’s important to focus on, which very rarely do we ever think about is how fast are you getting out of it this time? Because this time it’s been five months. Last time it was two years. Another time it might be one year if I go through this again. But I came back out, I had all the mechanisms. I knew what to do this time.
I understood it this time. I had, I had the language for it. So I’ve still made progress. I just haven’t reached the top of the mountain because fuck will I ever? Does anyone ever? And if they do, do they stay there? No.
No, that’s one of the things that was most dangerous for me was when I thought I was better, because when you think, because, because I had this idea that you’re either ill or you’re better and then you believe you’re better because it’s comforting to believe you’re better and then you have another panic attack. And if you hadn’t believed you were better, it would have just been a panic attack. But believing I was better meant having a panic attack, that was like a drop of ink going into a glass of water and suddenly the whole water goes dark because it was like, OK, I’m not, I’m not a well person. So I, I’m an ill person again. And then the panic happened and then the depression happened. And then, yeah. And it’s so, it’s so much, you know, so when people say, are you feeling better? I say no. They, they then tilt their head and look sympathetic. And it’s like, no, but that’s good because it means I see my mental health as this continual state of flux.
Rather than this fixed state. And it’s very dangerous because if you believe in a fixed state of wellness, then you become ill, then you believe in a fixed state of illness that you’re not going to get out of. So, I mean, what, what, what do you think got you out? You had your dip in February. What got you out? What helped get you through that?
What helped me was to tell, like, my absolute closest three people. So like my boyfriend and my two best friends. How I felt, exactly how I felt. The fact that I was not safe near any given window and that I, I needed, I needed some sort of like some, some, some, some sort of intervention. And they got me to a doctor who put me on meds for the first time. And so I was put on these like temporary anti-anxiety meds. I’d never been on them before. Even with all of my shit that I’ve been saying about de-stigmatizing mental health, I still thought, no, you know, because meds mean that I’m fixing the symptom, not the cause.
Right, yeah.
And I’ve definitely revised that thought of just like sometimes they just get you through the emergency, just like any painkiller. That’s what they are. They’re a pain killer. And so I used them, you know, in the process of my leg healing, you know? I would take a painkiller. And so I did the same thing for my brain. It completely just numbed me out. So I was able to kind of sail through that moment. And then when I was ready, I’ve now gone back into therapy. I’m trying like hypnosis and a couple of different things and I now have the people to call, know how to approach this, know how to talk about it and know how to understand my own shame, because I think even just recognizing your own inner bully’s thoughts is like an unbelievable superpower when you like can identify the difference between a bully and the truth.
You’re right, yeah.
I think that is just a magnificent gift that you normally only get from experience. And so that’s how I was able to get out. It was meds, temporarily. And then although if I’d stayed on them also great. And I will always go back to them now if anything ever like that happens again. If I get trolled by the world.
But I think the amount of heat you were getting the point, I think-.
It was mad.
Almost anyone have had some mental toll on it. And I think anyone who would say otherwise would be lying because I just think-.
I couldn’t even grieve my friend’s death. Like this woman I’ve known for such a long time and whether or not we always agreed on everything like I cared about her.
No, I know. I know, I know. Because you message me on that day, we were somehow in contact, and you just heard, and you were like genuinely, genuinely, emotionally devastated by that and then to see what happened next and all that crap. Yeah, no, and it was just, and what’s worse is people are monetizing, you know, this, damaging other people’s mental health. Aren’t they? Those people who are just literally, their job is is to pick on a different person in the public eye. And it’s not, often, mainly women. It’s very often marginalized groups. And then they’re just doing their thing and, and getting applauded for it.
And you know, preaching to the converted.
[00:45:04] I kind of feel like, I kind of feel like they kind of a little bit, like the dark, the darker forces, they kind of want to push us over the edge to suicide or to that kind of Britney Spears 2007 like meltdown that she was fully pushed towards by, I mean, every force possible. I think they almost want that because then they get to sell more papers grieving us, you know, suddenly martyring us and talking only positively about us to quickly cover up the fact that they drove us to that point. I’m talking about just those of us in the public eye.
You know, I’ve always been so open about my mental health history. So to watch the way that very, very powerful men in this industry and women went after me. I was like, oh, you know exactly what you’re doing.
You know, that isn’t sustainable for one human being. And this comes from nothing. How do you feel about the kind of, the state of social media right now? I’m having to step back like at times where I’ll post, but I will not read because I’m too depressed by the screaming.
Well, yeah. I mean, and you know, to be brutally honest, it can come from anywhere. That screaming. And you know, it can just be a symptom of being on social media.
You know one of-, just as dangerous when you’re mentally ill to believe you well, it’s almost dangerous sometimes to think that there’s a loyal tribe of people who stick together on social media because it can be so fickle.
Things can, things can change in an instant. And you can, and what’s really annoying is someone doesn’t know you or where you’re coming from, and you will tweet your, your ten words or whatever.
And it’s a bit ambiguous and it’s open to interpretation. And then someone with a lot of followers somewhere else will take the worst possible interpret-, interpretation of it. And then your timeline for the next four days is just people saying the same angry point over and over and over and over again. And even if they’ve got a legitimate point, it kind of gets annoying and depressing when it’s the same point that people are making 10.000 times over. And that’s just the mechanics of social media. I mean, that’s why it’s different, you know, when people say, oh, well, people have always been like this, people have always had different heated political debates. It’s always been the same. I think there’s something about the numbers, the sheer quantity of, of things and things we’re seeing, which is fundamentally bad for our brain.
I think it’s tribal. I think it’s a tribal thing. I really do, like I really think that often people are saying shit. And you know what I say this as a former troll. I’m a reformed troll. I’m a reformed-.
Yeah, me too.
I’m a reformed asshole. You know? I didn’t know you were.
I’ve said horrible things, Jameela. I mean. I mean, I like to think mainly to horrible people who are saying horrible things, but I still, I still never felt good when I was doing that.
I don’t think anyone feels good when they’re putting out that much negativity because there’s a way to have causes and there’s a way to, you know, have issues where it is about positivity and boosting things up and boosting marginalized people.
You know, looking after-.
I sometimes I’ve, I’ve, like I’ve referred to someone online as looking and behaving like a freshly wanked cock, which I thought was funny at the time. But even I look back and I’m like, was that the most constructive way to make my point about the way in which they were treating marginalized people? Nope. You know, so I’ve definitely, and I was a proper troll. I should to be such a scathing little bastard about celebrities or people or politicians in a way that really had no actual end goal. But it didn’t make me feel better. I just I-.
I was externalizing my own unhappiness. I was just projecting on the easiest possible target where I don’t have to deal with the repercussions, ’cause they’re not standing in front of me. They’re never gonna see me. I’m never gonna meet them. But where I was getting to with the tribal thing is that, you know, it’s this ne-, it’s this fear. We now speak out about things often that we don’t care about just because we want to make sure that other people know that we’re on the right side of that conversation. So we’ll see someone trolling or like just piling on and we’ll be like, fuck, I better join that pile on. Because if I’m not safe within the pile on, then I’m outside of the pile on where I am no longer safe.
So I feel like we sometimes join into pile-ons of things we don’t care about. We speak so passionately, but we don’t really give a fuck.
And it’s, careful of that. If you’re someone who’s doing that because you’re afraid of the optics, because you’re afraid of the unsafety of being on the outside. So if I don’t vocally speak out about this thing, obviously there are things that we all need to speak out about.
That are just basic human proper rights when it’s for equality, but when it’s something that you’re just like a bit, where someone has done something that isn’t cool or trendy or worth mockery, like, do you have to join in or are you doing that for the safety of being in the in crowd? Because I have this sort of reputation for calling shit out when I see it, people now whenever anything’s going on, like, can you please speak out about this? And it’s like if you are telling me to speak out about it, then that means you are already aware of it and what’s wrong with it? I’m not the Punisher. I’m not coming in here to, like, behead all these, like, public figures who’ve done something wrong. I try to call attention to things that other people haven’t noticed yet.
Right. Yeah.
I’m not here to pile on. So when people-, when I’m being silent about things that are clearly all over the fucking newspapers. Someone being told given what for, they’ve already maybe even responded. I’m not going to speak out about that thing just so that I can show you that I care.
I just recognized that my voice isn’t now necessary because it’s out there. We all know what’s wrong with it. We’ve taken it down, the think pieces already exist. This idea that I now need to show my medal of solidarity is something that exists within our entire generation now. So you don’t need to join in if the point has already been fucking made better by someone else.
No, and actually, it can be counterproductive because it becomes a point where there’s so much weight going in one direction, it lends sympathy to the target, you know? So, so it’s almost like-.
Yeah, once attention is raised, it can be overkill, and then your public shaming goes one step beyond and it’s just like, you know, whatever has been said and done, it’s like, OK, enough already. You know?
But yeah. No, I agree. And I mean, even I get that. Like I mean anything mental health related I will get, and people with very good intentions, very nice things and thinking that you haven’t noticed something which has been all over the media or something. Or just by being silent, you’re accused of being complicit in something that’s, like for instance, at the last election because I voted Green and not for the Labor Party in the UK, people thought, oh well, he-. I had the other day that I campaigned against Jeremy Corbyn, I didn’t campaign against Jeremy Corbyn. I just happened to live in Brighton so it made sense to vote for the Green Party. And I wanted an environmentalist candidate and blah, blah, blah. But it’s like, it’s like silence becomes loud in people’s head.
Like you haven’t said something.
And in cases like racial inequality that makes sense.
There are areas where it is vital that we do add our voice and speak up and if we’re piling onto an institution rather than necessarily just an individual. If we’re piling onto a system, an institution, a political party, I think that’s different because those people are actively not listening to us, which is why shit is still going on this far. But when it is an individual who has made a mistake. Just-.
Ask yourself how much of a difference you’re doing it and why you’re doing it. And if it’s to make yourself feel better, or to make you look good or if it’s actually because you hope to educate and called that person in and out at the same time?
Yeah. And often if it is something that you care about, and it’s a genuine issue you care about and you can actually just draw attention to the issue.
Which I now am starting to try to do. Even this morning, I just I deleted my tweet, quote tweeting someone who done something offensive and I was like, not going to even give it air. Please just support this charity.
That supports those people. It was like within two minutes, I was like, Oh, fuck. I’ve done it again. I’m just creating shit and articles that don’t need to be written and piling onto an individual, where actually she’s a product of an entire culture of hatred towards immigrants. Anyway, I’m not even saying she specifically hates them. I dunno. But it wasn’t great or very empathetic what she wrote. Please tell me before you go about your book, “Midnight Library” and what it’s about.
Well, “The Midnight Library” is a library between life and death where a woman who, who has had her own mental health difficulties, she ends up doing something stupid. And she ends up in this library between life and death. And all the books in the library are different versions of her life if she had lived her life a different way.
It’s such a good idea. I hate you so much. Oh, God. It’s such a fucking amazing idea. It’s the library that we all need. Sorry, I just had to say that. Keep going.
And she’s got lots of regrets. So she has the chance to undo them. For instance, she was in a band and in, in one version of the multiverse, she’s up, the band is an absolute massive international sensation. She gave up swimming, her dad really wanted her to swim. And she was an amazing swimmer. And in one life, she’s got Olympic medals for swimming and one life she carried on with a science career and became a glaciologist in the Arctic Circle researching climate change. And there’s all these lives she could have lived, whereas she’s now stuck with her cat in Bedford, feeling unfulfilled and suicidal, and like she’s let lots of people down. And so it’s got a little bit of “It’s A Wonderful Life” and all that kind of stuff.
“Sliding Doors” and, yeah.
Yeah. I think out of everything I’ve written, I’m sort of like proudest of this because it’s precisely what I wanted to write in that moment. And yeah, and people seem to be liking it, so I’m pleased. And yeah.
I’ve heard only good things. I’m so excited to see whichever movie is going to be made of it. And if I could please just be at least catering in that film, I’d be happy. I’ll clean the loos.
I will put, I will put you for it, Jameela.
Thanks. I’m great at selecting snacks. And so what I think is so interesting about the idea for this book is that you deal with regret and whether or not it’s actually helpful or not. Where do you now, like, stand on that, having written this whole book?
Regrets? Well, yeah. No, I was dogged by regret when I was depressed. I was regretting that I was depressed. I was regretting that I’d lived a life that got me into that mess. And regret is a massive thing. I still have a few little minor regrets, like I gave up piano when I was 14 years old.
I wish I hadn’t. I’ve been doing an app called simply piano, and trying to get playing like, I don’t know, “Bohemian Rhapsody” and stuff. But no. So I’ve got, I’ve got tiny little regrets. But I don’t regret the bad things. I don’t regret-. I think regret, you know, the thing you should regret, just like the only thing to fear is fear itself. Only anything to regret is regret itself. I think you can waste so much of your life consumed by what ifs. And the thing is with what ifs, you have no idea if you’d have done something different, what outcome that would have had. You have no idea that the grass would really be greener, if you had done this or if you have won that or if this, or you’d had stayed with that person or whatever, you have no idea how things would turn out. I believe that most lives, obviously people start life in different positions and there’s more privileged lives than others. But I think most lives contain their fair share of trauma and sadness and things-, but also their share of happiness and good things and contentment and love and thankfulness. And, you know, we kind of have live, to live life to learn how to live life. And, you know, it’s always a first draft. And we’re here to fuck up and we’re here to sort of be there for each other. And I just believe in sort of humans and forgiveness and learning.
I agree. I so agree. Progress, not perfection, it’s the sort of mantra of “I Weigh”.
It’s everything that we care about. And, you know, not perfection obsessed culture needs to understand that all of our great lessons, all of our great growth, all of our building happens in our mistakes. Everything I’ve ever learned, I learned from what I fucked up never from what I just instantly achieved or success.
And so I’m a more interesting and pathetic, and, you know, just sort of, I think valuable person for the mistakes I was able to learn from, rather than the things that I just was naturally gifted with. Like when someone comes up to me, I remember once, this is like a heartbreaking moment for me, realizing I’m such a vacuous twat. Was I was at Grat-, Latitude Festival over in England and I was watching a band playing, this girl came up to me, and she was so excited to see me. And this is no shade to this young girl. But she was shaking and just like couldn’t believe she’s gonna meet me. And I, and she had this kind of visceral reaction where I thought, she’s gonna be like, your company color means so much to me. But she was just like, you are my lipstick idol. And I was like, oh, fuck. I was in my 20s. And I was like, shit, I’m someone’s lipstick idol. I don’t even make that lipstick. I just put it on, my already big mouth. Fuck. What am I putting out into the world? What am I not putting out? What is the meaning of my life? And it like, it shaped my existence. That moment shaped my existence. Where I just realized I didn’t ever want to be called someone’s lipstick idol ever again. I can be your fuck up.
You’re my lipstick idol.
Thank you. If I can fuck up idol-, by the way, I love lipstick. Happy if you like the way I look in it. But Christ, I want to, I’d like-.
I want to, I just want to mean more to even just my mates than that. I don’t have to have an impact on the world. I just want to know I had an impact on my world. And so that’s, that’s my goal. Anyway. I am-.
You are achieving that goal. And “I Weigh” is achieving that. I think “I Weigh” is a great thing, you know, as, especially as a father now. And I know that’s such a cliche, isn’t it? But like, you know, as my kids grow up, I so worry now they’re hitting puberty and the future and all that toxic crap out out there about body image and, you know, and it’s subconscious. So much of it’s subconscious. But the fact that you’re, you’re making it conscious and articulate and getting people to, to really assess their value in terms of valuable things rather than external crap that comes out of TV advertising and the Internet is fantastic.
Thank you. Well, I love you loads. I think we could have an entire episode just telling each other all the reasons we love each other. Matt Haig, thank you so much for everything you put out into the world and for how incredible you are and just what a source of integrity and honesty and just a light of hope and growth. You are one of my favorite people. I could spend an entire hour telling people why. I think they get the jist, after having listened to this. Thank you for being so honest and thoughtful on this podcast, and I hope that you come back to us again soon.
Thank you. I definitely will if I’m allowed. Thank you.
Always allowed. Thank you so much for listening to this week’s “I Weigh”. I would also like to thank the team, which helps me make this podcast. My producers, Sophia Jennings and Kimmie Lucas. My editor, Andrew Carson. My boyfriend, James Blake, who made the beautiful music you are hearing now. And me, for my work. At “I Weigh”, we would love to hear from you and share what you weigh at the end of this podcast. You can leave us a voicemail at 1-818-660-5543. Or e-mail us what you weigh at [email protected] And remember, it’s not in pounds and kilos, it’s your social contributions to society or just how you define yourself in life. Here’s a little message from one of our “I Weigh” listeners. “I weigh surviving over and over again. I weigh being an unapologetic autistic woman. We exist. I weigh doodling and music and learning to have fun. I weigh adoring all animals. I weigh being terrified of recovery and choosing it anyway. I weigh refusing to be ashamed anymore”.
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Famous for his "Peaceable Kingdom" series, Edward Hicks depicted this Biblical event in the early 19th century
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Sherman Steve Maria
Show #5078 - Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Maria Capucciati, a knowledge manager from New York, New York
Steve Jenkins, a video game tester originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sherman Lo, a researcher from San Mateo, California (2-day champion whose cash winnings total $35,201)
WOMEN SINGERS
CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD
(Alex: You have to identify the state for us.)
LET'S PLAY POST OFFICE
I'D RATHER "NOT"
The 411 on this R&B singer: her song "Be Without You" was No. 1 in 2006, & her middle initial J. stands for Jane
In this type of strike, strikers stop work but refuse to leave the factory
The current price of one first-class stamp for a one-ounce letter
According to tradition, Robin Hood was born in this English place
1890's "Church at Auvers" is in the typical frenetic style of this artist
She met Cris Judd, her second husband, while filming the video for "Love Don't Cost A Thing"
NEA stands for National Endowment for the Arts, or for this union representing teachers
20500 is the ZIP code of this Washington, D.C. location
Generic name for a lightweight laptop computer
This Dutchman's 1655 "Head of Christ" is seen here
"Toxic" was a hit from her 2003 "In the Zone" CD
In 1955 2 labor organizations combined to form this; George Meany became its first president
The most popular commemorative U.S. stamp ever featured this man
South Bend school noted for its law school & sports teams
Before he ran away to sea, this French postimpressionist painted "The Yellow Christ", seen here
LaDonna Gaines is the real name of this '70s disco queen
The 1947 Labor-Management Relations Act curbed labor's power; these 2 legislators sponsored it
In 2002 the Post Office reported that more than 3,000 letter carriers suffered injury due to these
"Public" person authorized to authenticate contracts & other documents
In the 19th century, Gustav Bauernfeind depicted Jerusalem, including this location
Do cry out loud the name of this woman heard here
"Don't cry out loud..."
In the 1860s some well-"train"ed workers met to form the BLE, the Brotherhood of these
"GU" is the official postal abbreviation for this U.S. territory
One of Jean-Paul Sartre's best-known works is "Being and" this
EGYPTIAN HISTORY
BOGIE & BACALL SPEAK!
HU, WATT, WARE, NGUYEN & WYE
THE ALIENS ARE HERE!
SCIENCE STUFF
ON THE "GOO"
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew walks among some desert ruins.) While walking in this ancient Egyptian capital, you'll see Saqqara, which was its principal burial area
In this film, Bogie told Conrad Veidt, "Your business is politics. Mine is running a saloon"
In the late 1960s the president & vice president of South Vietnam shared this name
This southwestern U.S. tree of genus Prosopis, often used for smoked BBQ, is invading Saudi Arabia, India, Africa & Australia
Superconductivity occurs at temperatures near the point known as this
This company has dropped the "BF", sold its tire business & become a leading maker of landing gear
After the death of this Egyptian queen in 30 B.C., Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire
Bacall's first film line was said to Bogie in "To Have and Have Not": "Anybody got" one of these
On March 15, 2003 he was elected president of the People's Republic of China
This porcupine lookalike seen here is pigging out in New Zealand because it has no natural predators
This type of rock that develops from magma can be divided into 2 groups: extrusive & intrusive
Foie gras source
(Sarah of the Clue Crew walks among the pyramids at Giza, Egypt.) The Egyptian period from about 2700 to 2200 B.C. is known as the Pyramid Age, or by this ancient name
Upon meeting this actor in "The Shootist", Bacall observes, "You seem like a man accustomed to giving orders"
As a junior at the University of Houston, this Heisman Trophy winner threw 46 TDs; his NFL career total was only 5
An Asian fungus has killed virtually every one of the American variety of this popular holiday nut tree
Perennial plants live for many years; just change the first syllable to get this term for plants that live only 2 years
1971 Wimbledon-winning woman
In the 1400s B.C. it was the "lofty" 2-word religious title of Hapuseneb
When Bogie as Philip Marlowe kisses Bacall in this film, she says, "I like that. I'd like more"
This Coloradoan served as President Reagan's Secretary of the Interior from 1981 to 1983
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a cute story, but this animal's introduction to Hawaii to control the rat population has turned ugly
Iridium, osmium, rhodium, palladium & ruthenium are members of this precious metal's "group"
Don't throw out that shirt you can't fit into; donate it to this organization founded in 1902
(Jimmy is in Giza, Egypt.) The pyramid of this son of Khufu is smaller than his dad's Great one, but he got his face on the Great Sphinx
In "Key Largo", Bogie tells this actor that he wishes for "a world in which there's no place for Johnny Rocco"
The ruins of Tintern Abbey lie in a meadow on the right bank of this Welsh river
Introduced from Asia in 1876 as a hay & to control soil erosion, this vine is now a menace in the southern U.S.
Einstein's Nobel Prize was for work on this effect in which light absorption leads to electron emission
A one followed by 100 zeros
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CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE
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News for and about the Health 2.0 Community
Dev Challenge
Interview with Ann Mond Johnson, Chairman at ConnectedHealth
May 4, 2012 - By Andy Krackov
Ann Mond Johnson will join us on stage at the Health 2.0 Spring Fling: Matchpoint Boston on the Health 2.0 2.0 panel where she will discuss he journey and endeavors into multiple companies in the Health 2.0 space, and the lessons learned along the way. This interview is part of Spring Fling: Matchpoint Boston series.
Indu Subaiya: It goes without saying that your background in consumer facing health has been interesting and you have seen a lot of innovation and services for consumers. First with, and even before, founding Subimo and then going to the acquisition WebMd, and now chairing the Board at ConnectedHealth. Tell us a little bit about your journey starting with Subimo. What were you trying to change at the time? Do you think you achieve that?
Ann: Sure, and thank you first of all for giving me the opportunity. It’s always fun to talk about our story because I think in retrospect it’s more powerful than when you’re in the moment, if that makes sense. When you’re in the middle of it, it’s hard to tell that you’re making a difference or you’re making progress and stepping back it’s fun to look back on our success and to see what we did and what we didn’t to and how we did it.
I would say the first thing to remember is that our focus at Subimo was to help consumers make better decisions about their health for themselves and their family. It was interesting because when we started the company in 2000, there wasn’t a whole lot of discussion about things like hospital acquired infection rates, comparative outcomes, variation and outcomes and so forth. But in our previous lives we had work with all this clinical data, so our focus was to take very complex, involved data sets and make them more accessible for the consumer.
The Health 2.0 Boston event is focused on partnering, so I think it’s worth pointing out that part of our growth at Subimo was that as we made clinical information about hospitals and physicians available to consumers through their health plan and employers. We allowed individual hospitals in each market free access to our data so that they could review and comment as necessary.
This was a transparency that was really unique at that time and was especially welcome because there was a whole lot of discussion emerging in 2000 and 2001 about transparency at a national level, particularly the groups like Leapfrog. By allowing hospitals to have access to this information and engaging them in a dialog, they helped evangelize the data rather than fight us. We found that although we are providing our tools and information to the payers in the market, we are also ultimately facilitating discussions between payers and providers about the outcome variation and quality. At Subimo, we thought that the consumer won because they had access to much better information.
In terms of whether we accomplished what we set out to do, which was to help people make better decisions, I think that we can all agree that consumers are much more aware of variations and outcomes today than they were 12 years ago. So, I would say that while we all have a long way to go as a society, improving health systems and improving how we pay for services, how we incent providers for services, I would say that Subimo contributed significantly to that offer.
Indu Subaiya: I would completely agree because I think reading about Subimo, it was almost synonymous with the consumer directed healthcare movement and that was the example people pointed to. In some ways, you were I think ahead of your time because now, look at the Health Data initiative that Todd Park is evangelizing, Castlight Health and groups like it, and this was 12 years before.
One of the themes at Boston is going to be partnerships and mergers, and what it’s like for an entrepreneur to go through different life-cycles in a company. What was it like being acquired by WebMD, and how did your role change in that transition?
Ann: We were acquired by WebMD in 2006 and that came about because we saw an opportunity to do much more in healthcare decision support and felt that WebMD provided the best option for continuing the growth of the products that we had initially created. We not only had products that were focused on comparative quality, but also products to help people assess what might be their best insurance options and cost quality trade offs, even on the outpatients setting.
The acquisition was completed at the end of 2006, and at that point I transitioned into a product strategy role within the Health Services division. That is the division within WebMD that provided services to health plan and to large employers. Initially, a majority of our focus was taking the best-of-breed products and figuring out the best and most effective approach to deliver them to health plans and large employers. I would say that I learned a lot during that experience. I left at the end of 2008 and I feel lucky that I’m able to call many of my former colleagues my friends today.
Indu Subaiya: How big was Subimo at the time that was acquired in terms of employees? Was it a big shift in terms of the size of the company?
Ann: Yeah, it was a big shift. We were a much smaller organization in terms of full-time employees and WebMD, of course, has this phenomenal brand. If you think about trusted brands in health, clearly the public portal WebMD was the most trusted brand in healthcare.
Indu Subaiya: So, you were in that role for two years; can you connect the dots for me from that point to being involved with ConnectedHealth?
Ann: Connected Health was started by two of my colleagues who had been with me at Subimo, Joe Donlan and John Fiacco were both co-founders of Subimo along with myself and Tracy Heilman. They had a vision about continuing to help consumers make better decisions. The industry that they went after was health insurance. So there are a lot of similar themes between what we did at Subimo and what we’re focusing on the ConnectedHealth. John and Joe, to their credit, really started from ground zero getting their licenses as health insurance brokers, and really understanding that health insurance and benefits continue to be confusing for people all over the U.S., including myself, even though, I’m very ingrained in it.
What the team at ConnectedHealth does now is to put insurance in context. It’s not just about health insurance, we are focused on the broader goal. We’re looking at health insurance, life insurance, disability, critical care. Health insurance is one part of helping people protect themselves.
The other thing that we found with insurance, which is not too dissimilar for making decisions about your provider or hospital, is that we believe the market of insurance and making decisions about it is only going to get harder as the market shifts to a retail focus. What we’ve learned in studying consumer behavior and decision making is that too many choices can make making a decision difficult, especially when it’s hard to compare options. If you add to that our inability to accurately assess risks, either for cancer or the risk of our house burning down, we have a hard time really estimating the likelihood of things happening. We can either overestimate it or underestimate it. It turns out that we’re not very good at making complex decisions, so that’s really the focus of ConnectedHealth now, helping people navigate that system and make better decisions for themselves and their family.
Indu Subaiya: How do you think the world will change for consumers with these health insurance exchanges that we are anticipating? It certainly seems like a need for ConnectedHealth will be even greater as we look at the horizon.
Ann: We certainly believe the need is going to become greater and we have certainly seen this. Not just with the health insurance exchanges but with the fact that employers are talking more and more about shifting from a defined benefit to defined contribution, and creating an environment where the consumer has a pocket of money to deal with and is making decisions that best reflect the needs of their family and themselves at that point in time.
Indu Subaiya: Right, and that’s been a spectrum that’s been moving in that direction for a while now.
Ann: Correct. I think that regardless of what happens with the Supreme Court, the reality from our perspective is the retail focus and making things more understandable for consumers is going to expand.
Indu Subaiya: I think we share your point of view on that. One point that’s sort of related to the work of ConnectedHealth is the transition we’ve seen as health insurance plans position themselves in a changing market. I believe it was Mark Bertolini of Aetna who said famously at Health 2.0 that we are no longer a health plan, we are a technology services company with an insurance vehicle attached to. Earlier you spoke about WebMD having a trusted consumer brand, do you think health plans can become trusted brands for consumer audiences as we evolve in this landscape?
Ann: I had a lot of optimism about this. If someone or some organization helps you manage your health, then they should be a trusted brand. However, as you know, it’s clear that many plans and insurance carriers have some work to do in terms of trust. At the same time, we’ve seen some recent efforts such as Aetna repositioning themselves or CIGNA repositioning themselves with their Go You campaign. Even with Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Florida changing their name to Florida Blue. From our vantage point if an insurance company is interested in a long-term relationship with the member and is not expecting to lose them during open enrollment, then a plan must become a trusted brand.
Indu Subaiya: Absolutely. We are seeing some interesting acquisitions where plans are merging with or acquiring smaller innovative startups, and if there are going to be those distribution platforms for consumers, there certainly has to be a repositioning there.
Ann: No question.
Indu Subaiya: Last but not least, as you know we have a lot of entrepreneurs working very hard in the trenches. Since you have led companies at many different stages, what are some of your favorite lessons learned as a leader in the healthcare technology space that you’d want to share?
Ann: The three lessons that I would share is that with experience there comes fewer surprises, what to expect, how to respond and where to find the best resources for the company. Even where to be searching for best resources for the company. That can be technology, it can be people, it can be any number of different things.
Another lesson is the importance of staying focused. All too often it’s tempting to go off in different directions that look sexy or enticing but are not core to either your expertise, your focus or what the market really needs. The lesson of being focused is important.
Finally, the third lesson, which is one that I’ve learned from the very first company I was with, is that people always want to be part of a winning team. There’s a lot of fun and excitement and a ton of energy in working with smart and focused people, and I would have to say that our group has been really lucky in that respect all along.
Indu Subaiya: Those are great words of advice and ones that I am listening to eagerly as I think about how Health 2.0 is growing as a company. Your point about focus is interesting because sometimes you may have an initial bit of success, but then how do you choose and direct the ship?
Ann: Exactly. I’ve read some studies and articles about entrepreneurs going through multiple companies and some have a high risk of not being as successful in their second as they were in their first. Part of the reason for that is that with their first they had an area of expertise that they focused on, and then with the second endeavor they thought that they could be just as successful in anything else.
Indu Subaiya: Absolutely! We wish you luck with the new company and I’m looking forward to seeing you in Boston in a few weeks.
Ann: We look forward to seeing you as well. Thank you!
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Nepal: victory turns sour
As a strike wave sweeps the country, the Maoist leadership agrees to banning strikes.
Since the Maoists emerged in the April 2008 Nepal elections as the largest party (though without an absolute majority) to lead the new coalition government, they have failed to heal existing divisions - in their own party, within the parliamentary political system and its ruling class - or within the intermingled social, caste and ethnic tensions across the wider society. In fact, all these divides have widened. And since November a strike wave has spread across the country.
Maoist 'People's Vanguard' versus striking workers
The ongoing strike wave is diverse(1); everyone from transport workers, labourers and poor villagers to doctors, teachers, students, journalists and other professionals are striking and blockading across the country. The demands are equally wide-ranging; wage rises to counter rising food and fuel prices, demands for better public services, local councils in remote rural areas demanding increased funding from central government, calls for land distribution to the rural poor. There are also many short local strikes and actions in protest at attacks, murders and intimidation by political factions; relatives of murdered victims demand compensation and investigation of the crimes. Some strikes are led by different unions (with their various political affiliations, including the Maoists), others actions are self-organised by participants. Therefore some will be a more genuine expression of self-organisation in pursuit of material need - while others may be called as political strikes to pursue, not workers interests, but only political advantages of one party faction over another.
And the conditions of life giving rise to the social unrest grow worse. Inflation of basic goods continues, the electricity infrastructure cannot meet anywhere near the demand of consumers; 16 hr interruptions to supply for "load-shedding" have become routine across the country and both domestic and business life is planned around them. (Some claim this is partly a result of the Maoist destruction of electricity sub-stations during the 10 year guerilla war and the subsequent decline in infrastructure projects.(2)) This frustrates employers and workers alike, limiting productivity for bosses and also lowering pay for workers who aren't paid for interruptions. The hungry bellies of the poor are rumbling with discontent, and even the professional middle classes are feeling pangs of frustration.
Faced with the unrest, Maoist Party leader and Nepalese Prime Minister Prachanda proposed to fellow politicians a ban on all public sector strikes, to which the seven major parties all agreed. In a recent press interview, just prior to the agreement, the Maoist governmental Finance Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai tried to justify a ban;
Q: The business community's concerns are exactly what you stated. One, they say, the government's attitude to labour issues leaves a lot to be desired and that labour problems are getting worse. Second, there cannot be high growth until there is an adequate supply of power.
Bhattarai: I wouldn't say the situation is getting worse. Things were much worse in the past. But the people wanted very fast recovery; that hasn't happened. Things are improving but not to the desired level. Both the management and workers have a common interest now, for the development of the economy. They both fought against the feudalism, autocracy and monarchy. Now, to create a vibrant industrial economy, is in the interest of both the management and the workers. But this reality is not sinking in their minds. This government is playing its role in creating a healthy relationship between the two. There were some disputes, especially regarding the minimum wage issue. This has been solved. So what I appeal to the management is that they should provide the minimum wage. The workers shouldn't resort to bandas and strikes. If this understanding is honoured we'll have a healthy environment in the days to come.
Q: So the party wants to ensure that whenever there is a labour dispute, legal recourse should be taken?
Bhattarai: Yes. At least for some time, there should be no bandas and strikes in the industrial, health, education sectors, on the major highways, in the public utility sectors. The government is trying to build political consensus on this issue.
http://www.kantipuronline.com/interview.php?&nid=175026
80% of Nepal's population is rural and amid the rocky mountain terrain there is a shortage of arable land (only about 20% can be cultivated) and a lack of infrastructure; unsurprisingly there is increasing seasonal and permanent migration to cities into casualised employment. But most of the country is too economically weak to develop much beyond a subsistence economy - and in the present global recession attracting significant foreign investment looks more remote than ever.
Nepal is in reality an underdeveloped capitalist economy with certain remaining feudal hangovers within social relationships. (These traditions are either declining or adapting to modern-day norms.) Abolition of monarchy and the pro-democracy movements in recent decades might be seen as part of an unfinished bourgeois revolution(3) - yet the Maoist leadership generally present their desire to move towards greater industrialisation as the beginning of a bourgeios-democratic revolution. The Maoists portray the present period as one in which Nepal is emerging from feudalism (as supposedly evidenced by the recent abolition of the monarchy; unlike, e.g, 'feudal' royalist Britain!) and so needs to build up a strong national industrial economy. The lack of a strong national entepreneurial bourgeoisie has hindered such a development in Nepal, and - like nationalist and leftist parties across the '3rd World' - the Maoists intend to play that developmental role themselves, in alliance with other 'progressive' bourgeios forces. The Maoist leadership are reported to be discussing with China the creation of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in Nepal. SEZ's are industrial zones offering partial or complete tax exemption to foreign investors (and sometimes also to native capitalists) along with other financial benefits including stricter labour discipline. Having just passed the relevant legislation, their concern to impose stricter discipline on unruly workers is clearly linked to establishing SEZ's and a general desire to attract greater foreign investment;
KATHMANDU, Jan 22: After four years of finalizing the draft, the cabinet on Thursday endorsed Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Act, paving way for the implementation of the SEZ projects in the country. [...]
...the Act treats SEZ as a land where other domestic laws related to labor and industries would not be applicable. It has mooted an autonomous SEZ Authority to oversee its operations.
The source stated that the ratification of the Act, which had so far lingered due to the differences over the tighter labor provisions, had became possible after the seven parties recently agreed not to launch strikes in the industries or disturb productions.
“The Act allows workers to unite and practice collective bargaining, but prohibits them from undertaking activities that affect production and normal operations of industries,” said the source. It also allows the entrepreneurs to hire workers on a contract basis. [Our emphasis.] http://myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=1357
Courted by rivals
Last year we observed;
Any future Maoist rule in Nepal, whether in local or central government is likely to try to model itself on the regimes of those Indian states run by local 'Communist' Parties - crude forms of municipal Stalinism with an increasingly market-oriented openness to foreign investors enticed by tax-free Economic Processing Zones. Much like those typically seen in other more developed Asian economies, but with even more 'competitive' wage levels. But that is so far wishful thinking for Nepal; one of the least developed economies with one of the least skilled workforces and a weak infrastructure - and consequently, so far, one of the least attractive investment options. http://libcom.org/news/nepal-terai-ethnic-strike-ends-concessions-010320...
Maoist leaders have expressed desires for closer economic co-operation with both its big brother neighbours. It is likely that in the long term, China intends to treat Nepal as an extended zone of its economic activity, somewhere with cheaper labour costs to outsource to, so as to offset rising labour costs in China. But, for the moment, the global recession limits the likelihood of such investments. Nepal's southern neighbour, India, is never happy to see closer relations between Nepal and its rival China, but it has its own economic leverage. India is downstream from the untapped hydro-electric potential locked in Nepal's great Himalayan water systems, has longed wanted to exploit it and can offer investment and expertise. China is investing in various infrastructure and transport links in poorer South Asian countries, but northern Nepal is hemmed in by the Himalayan peaks and so remains dependent on India for the continued flow of essential supplies across its southern border. It is a commonplace that Nepali politicians periodically use the anti-Indian nationalist card to distract from their problems and failings at home, as the Maoists are doing at present; but for all the nationalist rhetoric, they know any threat to an open border would be, at present, close to economic suicide. (This was illustrated when India expressed its dissatisfaction at Nepal buying arms from China by closing the border for several months in the 1980s - a move that progressively paralysed Nepal.)
The Nepalese and Indian armies have traditionally had a close relationship. The famous Ghorkas serve in both armies. The Indian army trains most Nepalese officers - there is such a close relationship that the Indian Army chief is honorary chief of the Nepali Army traditionally and vice-versa. The negotiations that are dragging on over how/if/when Nepal's Maoist ex-guerillas should be integrated into the Nepalese Army are therefore of some concern to India. The Maoists are attempting to gain greater control over the Army, causing serious unease in rival parties.
Old or new maoism for the Party?
A deep split in the Maoist Party has emerged; Prachanda and co.'s ruling elite are comfortably settled in their lucrative governmental positions(4) and appear to prefer to pursue a 'parliamentary road to [so-called] socialism'. Having ended the 10 year civil war after realising its limits as, at best, an indefinite stalemate between state and guerillas - and being forced to acknowledge that, in any case, powerful neighbours India and China would probably not sit idly by in the event of a bloody military coup likely to destabilise the wider region - the party leadership committed itself to parliamentary conquest and secured electoral victory.
Meanwhile, the lower level party cadre have gained little from the electoral road. Unlike in many other 'national liberation struggles', the Nepali Maoists did not decisively defeat other ruling class factions - instead, they achieved political power via a compromise with them. So many of the comfortable official posts are already filled; as one of the poorest countries in the world, Nepal has too few resources to expand its existing bureaucratic class or its entrepeneurial middle class sufficiently to absorb former guerilla personnel to their satisfaction. So, after ten years of war, what's on offer for those lower in the Party hierarchy seems scant reward for their efforts. Now a faction led by a senior Party leader Mohan Biadhya, popularly known as Kiran, are demanding an immediate progression towards 'full communism'; i.e., a one party state capitalist system in the style of traditional Maoism.
What's in a name? The PFDNR
These dissatisfied Party elements who want to 'march firmly onward to a communist state/People's Republic' are becoming more openly critical of the democratic gradualism of the Party leadership and their parliamentary roles. One recent manifestation has been the dispute over names; the pro-democratic faction wants to drop 'Maoist' from the party name and become simply the Nepal Communist Party. This is largely a gesture to the IMF and other foreign aid and investment providers, showing them that the NCP has put down the gun and embraced mainstream politics. But for the Party hardliners this is the most despicable renegade 'revisionism'. (Both sides are aware that such disputes and any resolution symbolically reflect the balance of power in the Party. Those who control the slogans, symbols, labels and icons remake the Party in their own image partly by the dissemination of images of the powerful; for the "vanguard party" they are an essential tool of hierarchical power. See "The Mao Cult"; http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/cult.html) Similarly, a long debate between the two factions at a recent Party conference over 'the way forward' included a clumsy compromise over the retitling of the the nation-state. As "blogdai", a cynically amused Nepali blogger, put it;
Those brilliant Maoists have been banging their heads together for six days to try and mend a catastrophic rift in their party. It seems most of the hard-liners want to announce an all Communist "People's Republic" immediately; while Prachanda wants to go a little slower so as not to throw the country back into chaos. After what blogdai can only assume to be an excruciating application of sheer brainpower, our boys in red have decided to call Nepal the "People's Federal Democratic National Republic." Just think of the expense in stationary this will incur! PFDNR Nepal.
http://nepalnow.blogspot.com/
The growth of political and economic gangsterism
The Young Communist League (YCL) is sometimes described as the disguised military arm of the Maoists, or, increasingly, as their paramilitary wing(5). In 2006, after the Maoists agreed to end their 10-year “People’s War,” they signed a peace pact with the government, thereby agreeing to confine their “People’s Liberation Army” (PLA) in designated cantonments under UN supervision. About 20,000 members of the Maoist PLA are living in forest camps as the government seeks to integrate them into the national Army. However, Nepal's military has said it doesn't want to accept the fighters immediately "because they are still politically motivated".
There is general disbelief at the small number of PLA fighters registered in the cantonments. It seems that the party transferred a substantial number of PLA personnel to the YCL so that they could move around freely, provide support to the party’s activities and continue their fundraising activities of extortion and protection rackets levied on businesses.
At present, the frustrated former soldiers have too much time on their hands, too little money and few prospects for advancement. This is a serious problem for the Maoist politicians and for the wider society. Their racketeering and extortion, intimidation and assassination of political rivals and critics destabilises the country, inhibits industrial production, retards the formal political process and encourages the growth of other paramilitary factions such as the UML 'Youth Force' and various ethnic/separatist groups.
Paramilitary or parliamentary?
The YCL has been both an asset and a burden to the Maoist leadership since the ceasefire. During tough negotiations with other parties, it has been useful for the Maoists to encourage a certain level of paramilitary activity by the YCL. It has served as a warning that, if the Maoists don't get what they want, the possibility of a return to guerilla war remains. It has also implied that if political concessions are not given, the Maoist leaders will look discredited in the eyes of their hotheaded youth and so risk losing control of them and/or be less concerned at reining them in. But now, as the two rival Party factions - hardliners and parliamentarians - face each other, who can command the loyalty of the YCL may become crucial. It seems likely that the hardliners may have the YCL on their side, the parliamentary road having delivered so little to the rank'n'file soldiers. Yet a hardline effort to immediately advance to a state of one-party rule would mean an attempted military coup; in effect, a probable return to an indefinitely stalemated guerilla war. So we could see a smaller Maoist guerilla faction taking again to the hills, while the Maoist politicians remain in Parliament. (The Maoist parliamentarians could retain their own paramilitary force and/or ally with other parliamentary groups.)
In response to growing post-election Maoist brutality, other political parties have formed youth groups. Youth cadre of the non-Maoist Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (UML)(6) - the third largest party in Parliament - have been abducted and murdered by the YCL; last week another was viciously attacked with machetes by YCL cadre. Now the UML Youth Force - itself accused of intimidation and involvement in extortion - is threatening its own 'People's War' against the Maoist-led government if the YCL are allowed to continue in their gangsterism. As one former UML leader put it, when expressing fears that the Youth Force may become as much of a problem as the YCL;
"If the ruling party itself keeps a paramilitary force then there is no reason why other parties won't also try to form their own," he said, adding "and if everybody starts to form their own paramilitary forces then the atmosphere in the country will be very dark. The Prime Minister should seriously think about this thing," Nepalnews reported. http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-59575.html
This seems to be what is increasingly happening - "War is the continuation of politics by other means" - (Clausewitz).
Maoists have also intimidated journalists critical of their brutality and have admitted murdering at least one(7). Several newspapers have been targetted and temporarily shut down by Maoist trade unions and journalists attacked by Maoist goon squads; the union activity here being used for intimidating critics rather than pursuing workers' interests. The UML's Youth Force have also recently carried out a similar attack on a newspaper office.
In the southern Terai plains region an ethnic Madhesi movement (which includes ex-Maoists) continues to call for national independence for the territory and to compete with Maoists and other factions for paramilitary dominance of the area. A female journalist, Uma Singh, was killed in Terai last week; her murder may be a response to her writings against the dowry marriage-payment system that has such oppressive consequences for women in Nepal (8). But she was also critical of land seizures and extortion rackets in Terai carried out by a former Maoist cabinet minister (now sacked)(9), and her father and brother were 'disappeared' by the Maoists during the civil war. Some suspects have now been arrested, one a local Maoist leader.
Class, state or nation?
Back in 2006 during the popular pro-democracy protests that eventually toppled the King and preceded the Maoist ceasefire, we commented;
And the consequences for the development of any autonomous movement of self-organised class struggle beyond and against bourgeois democracy? The industrial working class is a minority in a predominantly peasant population. We make no hierarchies of one sector of the poor being more important or radical than the other; but the industrial workers have certain specific potential areas of struggle (transport, industry etc) that are unique to them and would be of crucial importance in any future movement. The rural and urban poor are dependent on an alliance with each other to affect any real change in their own mutual interests. So far they have only taken sides with one or other of the factions competing to rule over them. To go further than a more democratic management of continued poverty they will have to stop taking sides and start making sides. Despite the limits of the pro-democratic framework of recent events, many of the poor may have realised, through the flexing of their collective muscle, a sense of their own potential power to act more directly in their own class interests. Without wanting to be determinist, in the absence of an autonomous movement of the poor moving beyond demands for democracy, there will probably need to be a period of disillusionment with a new Kingless democracy system before any such autonomous movement will emerge.
http://libcom.org/news/article.php/nepal-maoists-protests-analysis-2006
Is the time ripe for such a movement, is it close and soon to emerge from the present confusion? The Maoists were, for many Nepalese, a hope for major change in the stagnating corruption of political life. But this illusion is evaporating. The options ahead look difficult for the ruling class and bleak for the poor - as the Parliamentary political process is impeded by distrust and the added decision-making problems of a coalition government; as parliamentary rivalries threaten to spill over into paramilitary war; as a split within the Maoists between gradualist democrats and one-party state capitalists looks more likely; as electricity infrastructure, food and fuel inflation hardships increase daily.
If the Maoist hardliners break away from the parliamentarians and take the YCL paramilitaries with them, this could easily spark a renewed civil war involving the national Army, various paramilitary wings of parliamentary parties (including Maoist oppositionists) and also smaller ethnic separatist groups.
Perhaps the one bright spark is the ongoing strike wave; maybe an independent social movement of rural and urban poor will emerge from the growing cynicism with the false promises of political solutions. Most Nepalis appear weary of war and many disillusioned with politics. But with these class struggles surrounded by a tangled web of intersecting ethnic, separatist, nationalist and political group tensions, and these divisions and rivalries becoming more brutal and militarised - the potential of an autonomous working class movement emerging look difficult, to say the least. And divided though the ruling class is, the one thing that unites them, from left to right, is the necessity to ban strikes. The politicians have already illustrated that - whatever the gloss put on it - they understand their conflict as an inter-class one to decide among themselves who will govern and exploit the poor, and by what methods.
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1) http://www.nepalbandh.com/index.php - is a site that lists an updated chronology of 'bandhs' ([b-awN-dh] adj.: Bandh, a Nepali word literally meaning 'closed') - i.e. strikes and public protests in Nepal.
2) As one blogger in Nepal says; "The Maoists can not just shrug off from their share of responsibility to their bourgeois counterparts for accepting past mistakes. While the past Panchayat, Kangressi, & “hijda” UML governments were certainly corrupt to their bone-marrows, the Maoists should not forget that they were also running a parallel government for the past 15 years. During their People’s War, the Maoists claimed to control all Nepal’s territory except Kathmandu and not only obstructed new development projects but also destroyed the existing infrastructures – a revolutionary method of weakening the “feudal governments” by forcing people into the Dark Ages. The Maoists even used to warn people not to expect any construction projects, as they were uprooting the remnants of feudalism." http://drdivas.wordpress.com/
3) See our earlier analysis; http://libcom.org/news/article.php/nepal-maoists-protests-analysis-2006
4) See our earlier comments; http://libcom.org/news/nepal-a-nice-little-earner-maoist-ruling-class-le...
5) See our earlier comments on the YCL; http://libcom.org/news/democratic-stresses-nepal-its-regional-implicatio...
6) Somewhat confusingly, the non-Maoist 'Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist' (UML) is a long-established parliamentary party, while the Maoist party - until recently the 'Nepal Communist Party (Maoist)' (NCP-M) - has just merged with/absorbed the smaller CPN-Ekata Kendra Mashal (EKM) and so become the United
CPN-Maoist. Though, as noted in the text above, the 'Maoist' may soon be dropped.
7) "In 2007, a year after signing the peace agreement and pledging not to attack the media, Maoists killed journalist Birendra Shah in southern Nepal. For almost a month, the former guerrillas denied having a hand in Shah’s disappearance. However, after continuous pressure by Nepal’s leading media organization, the Federation of Nepalese Journalists, [the Maoists] accepted responsibility. The main suspects accused of actually carrying out the attack are still at large." http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?fecvno...
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/
8) Dowry is a financial obligation paid by the bride's family to the family of the bridegroom. (Less commonly, in some cultures payment can be in the opposite direction -referred to as "bride-price".) On dowry, see; http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400&no=... and for speculation on the caste basis for dowry and bride-price traditions; http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/practices1.html
9) http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/issue/2009/01/19/Comment/15576
Red Marriott
check out this article, first published in the red star, the maoist's english paper, then in countercurrents and other places. i think the writer would be sympathetic to the above concerns. He also discusses Bakunin!
http://anarkismo.net/article/11580
Entdinglichung
more interesting stuff on internal conflicts in the CPN(M) on the (generally maoist) website "Revolution in South Asia": http://southasiarev.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/indian-maoists-on-political-controversies-in-nepal/ & http://southasiarev.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/nepal-%e2%80%9cwe-are-all-geared-up-to-launch-such-a-struggle-from-the-street-the-parliament-and-the-government/
I'm expressing more than "concerns" above. I consider the Maoists as merely one form that (attempted) capitalist development takes in certain circumstances - therefore not a force contributing anything towards the abolition of class society.
Thanks for the links; interesting that R. Kissoon, who 2 years ago was writing much more enthusiastically about the Maoists, is now questioning the vanguardist strategy.
Feb 20 2009 14:31
There was a short exchange on the pro-maoist Kasama website about the above article. See comments below the article on this page; http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/prachanda-nepalese-people-will-seize-power/#comment-11628
(My intervention begins at comment 33.)
My response to those defending the proposed maoist strike ban can be summarised;
You are in effect saying that until Nepal has developed sufficient infrastructure to a certain level, the workers must postpone their class struggle and so leave themselves defenceless - and you are trying to justify that by saying that the advancement of that class struggle is secured by the presence of the maoists in the ruling class, who must be free to exploit the workers as part of ‘the building of/struggle for socialism’. Nothing could be more absurd, anti-working class and counter-revolutionary.
If, as is one possibility, there is a maoist state coup - and abandonment of parliamentary democracy - the exploitation of the working classes will continue, justified in much the same pseudo-communist terms.
Ret, do they not have a smiley on that site? I'm surprised you didn't use it more..
agree with ed - your responses there were models of clarity, ret
a minority group around Matrika Yadav has split from the ruling Maos, accusing the party's leadership being hungry for power:
http://southasiarev.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/matrika-yadav-leaves-the-ucpm-maoist/
"He criticised the Unified CPN (Maoist) saying that they could not do anything different from other political parties even after they reached the power."
RedTom
"Exploitation" continues in Nepal, sure, but under what conditions will it end? Markets will continue to exchange surplus product unless conditions are put into place that would allow those kind of social relations to dissolve.
Khawaga
unless conditions are put into place that would allow those kind of social relations to dissolve.
"Put into place" by who?
Jan 8 2010 21:03
I am extremely flattered that the glorious heroic vanguard of the courageous exploited peoples of the world - the Maoists' Communist Party of Nepal - has replied in a video to the controversy begun by this article;
http://partisan-news.blogspot.com/2010/01/did-nepali-maoists-ban-strikes.html
What the statement and online maoist responses avoid dealing with is that when they were in government maoist ministers stated their intentions to introduce legislation to ban strikes in SEZs - as explained in the article above and in a later article reporting that the maoists had restated their intentions; http://libcom.org/news/nepal-maoists-restate-intention-ban-strikes-other-news-10042009
The maoists use the fact that the article was reposted in some places by others with the title "Maoists ban strikes" to deny that they ever did ban strikes, which is true, as they left government shortly afterwards; but also avoid admitting they intended to legislate to do so.
It's just some geek in LARPing gear, not the real nepalese maoists
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Rough Cuts | ‘Unholy’ alliance in SONA Day protest
By Vic Sumalinog on July 18, 2019
Personally we are in favor of lifting Martial Law in selected areas in Mindanao. But we do not agree that it is only Davao City that should be the sole beneficiary of such lifting, if at all, the President decides to do it as recommended by some sectors.
We believe that there are other areas in this southern Philippine island where martial rule can also be done away with without fear of being attacked or taken over by armed terrorist groups.
Yes, there is no reason to doubt the capability of the local officials of Davao City led by Mayor Inday Sara Duterte-Carpio to provide the appropriate security measures to prevent entry of terrorists and create havoc in the area. But it is mortal sin to underestimate the ability of local officials like those of General Santos City, Cagayan de Oro City, Butuan City, and even Zamboanga City to do what Davao’s Inday Sara can if only to secure their respective LGUs from the possible entry and influence of extremist groups.
Besides, it surely does not look good in the eyes of other Mindanaoans if the city where the President comes from becomes the only area where Martial Law is to be lifted. It surely will create some kind of stigma that will stick in the minds of local executives in other cities and provinces where martial rule would remain in force. That is, that they are weaklings and helpless in standing against terrorist threats.
They may take it to mean that that it is only the home city of the President that has the local executives who can take on the terrorists and their backers; that it is only the mayor of Davao City who have the means to mobilize security forces to obviate any form of attack against its people.
Of course we will agree that there are more areas in Mindanao where martial rule should even be implemented strictly considering the vulnerability of their location vis-à-vis the convergence of people whose tribes, culture and religious beliefs of those from whom local terrorists are known to have come from or part of.
These areas perhaps, should be the last in the hierarchy in determining the provinces and cities where Martial Law in Mindanao should be lifted.
Meanwhile, we Davaoenos should be thankful to the power above for the peace that has continued to reign in our city.
We can only hope that the relative peace that the people in this part of Mindanao are currently enjoying will last much longer that we can think of. We must, therefore, not remain cowering in fear of possible terrorist attacks in the city, as much as be submissive to the thought that Martial Law cannot bring Mindanaoans, its people and the community, anything good.
Yes, let’s not be blinded by negativism attendant to the term Martial Law, especially the kind of military regime that is presently obtaining in Mindanao.
Many will possibly not agree with us that there is some kind of an “unholy” alliance of several groups who would be mounting supposedly a massive protest in time of President Rodrigo Duterte’s 4th State of the Nation Address (SONA) this coming Monday, July 22.
We say there is an “unholy” alliance among protesters because they will be coming from various sectors with different agenda but are banding together to badger what to them is a common enemy – the President.
One group of protesters consists of known left-leaning personalities who in the past had been haranguing the alleged intervention of the United States in Philippine affairs. But they were the “silent lambs” when the issue was about China because their leaders are long adherents of the Maoist and Leninist doctrines.
Another is a group that has in its ranks people who are strongly anti-Duterte policy on China, anti-Duterte’s brand of politics, and those who simply want to get back at the President on the “misfortune” of their public life with the rise of Duterte as national leader. This second group appears to have the backing of the country’s elite and a small sector of the business community. And of course prominent of the group are the country’s “Am-boys” or the highly pro-American individuals. So, we can only expect that during the protest rally they will be throwing at the President everything they can think of, perhaps including the kitchen sink, if there is one available at the protest site.
But as always, there will be participants from the labor groups who have made it their usual fare during commemoration of important events in the country such as Labor Day, Independence Day, and of course the SONA day. But normally, their protest action is more a reminder to the administration of what this particular group of protesters believes, are unfulfilled government commitments.
Let’s see how far ousted former Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno can mobilize participants in her call for protest on SONA day of the President.
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With its population of almost 600,000 Málaga is the sixth largest city in Spain and the southernmost large city in Europe. It lies on the northern Mediterranean "Coast of the Sun" - Costa del Sol - about 60 miles east of the Strait of Gibraltar and 80 miles north of Africa. The city enjoys a subtropical climate and boasts the warmest winters in Europe, with average daytime temperatures above 63 °F from December to February.
Málaga is one of the oldest cities in the world with a 2,700 year history since it was founded by the Phoenicians as Malaka about 770 BCE. After the Phoenicians the city was controlled by the Roman Republic, then the Roman Empire followed by the Arabs until 1487 when it became, and has remained, a Spanish possession. Key commercial activities are tourism, construction and technology services but efforts are in progress to diversify.
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A really nice boat, but...
The MSC line has a romantic name for each of their ships, MSC Magnifica, MSC Splendida, MSC Fantasia, MSC Poesia and so on. Our incarceration was on the Poesia - Italian for Poetry - and each deck was named after a famous Italian poet. Famous Italian poet! - there's an oxymoron if ever there was one.
The Poesia was commissioned in May, 2008, and, at eighteen months old, was in first class condition. No complaints in that department. Unfortunately, that is the entire list of positive attributes I can come up with. The rest of the "package" was a recurring horror.
American based cruise lines have long since moved away from fixed seating dining - a regimen wherein there is normally two dinner times, 6:30 and 9:00pm for example, and the hapless inmates choose one or the other for the duration of their sentence. They are then assigned to a table seating from two to as many as 10 people - the same 10 people for dinner every night of the trip! Woe was us.
Assigned to a table for eight, we were cell mates with a pleasant couple from Antibes, in France, he German, she French along with four caricatures of everything bad about herd traveling. Two obnoxious sisters from Texas vulgarly flaunting their inheritance from Daddy and a veterinarian from the backwoods of Canada with ill fitting teeth complete with matching wife.
For my taste, give me meat and potatoes and 15 minutes, and I'm ready to move on. Not so for these excruciating waterbourne soirees.
Nothing was ever quite right for the Texan mamas. Hot tea was required with every course and its delivery never failed to elicit an imperious "Where is the honey?". The wine was corked, cloudy, too hot, too cold, veggies not cooked or overcooked - it was always something.
The hayseed animal molester was equally aggravating. Having left the epicenter of culture back in Calgary or wherever, these hicks were determined to get value for their money. They ordered every course - all six of them - at every meal but only after prolonged interrogation of the poor waiter over each dish, as they struggled to understand what it actually was. Whenever they had any doubt about what might turn up they simply ordered a second, different dish as a standby.
Now the restaurants open promptly at 6:30pm and purport to shutter their doors at 6:45pm to discourage latecomers. Our schedule thus was boxed in: beginning at 6:45, we endured a 45 minute pantomime while our companions haggled and argued over their selections. Then, waiting
patiently(?), while the Cheese and Fruit course was chomped to oblivion by the horse-dentured vetinerarian. Next up, with unabashed lethargy, he and his spouse would pick their way round the salad course which, once completed, was followed by soup which they slurped and dribbled through with the finesse of large Labrador dogs. Hooray - if all went smoothly, by 8:15 the main course arrived and five minutes later we had eaten and left. Can't think how we denied ourselves the experience of dessert, cheese plate, coffee and after dinner drinks, but we did.
Two nights of this were enough, and we determined to dine at the buffet instead. Error! Unlike every other cruise ship wherein the buffett is a 24 hour-a-day affair, seamlessly morphing from breakfast, to lunch, to afternoon tea to dinner to early morning pastries and back to breakfast, all the time maintaining a fresh fruit selection, desserts, beverages, ice cream, pies, custards etc., the MSC buffet closes completely at 4pm and then reopens one section from 8 to 11pm to serve - Pizza? No contest. Faced with more time at the trough with the sassy sisters and the dozy doc, the pizza won hands down. But wait! Obviously the Italians have never been to Papa John's or Pizza Hut to sample real pizza - here they were making genuine Italian pizza (as if there is such a thing ;o) ) that would be too far severe even for Weight Watchers. Oh well.
Breakfast was another daily debacle, no matter where one hid on the ship. At 9:30am sharp an abrasively plangent female read the ship's daily newsletter over the public address system at a volume ensuring that it could not be missed. Although this recitation took only 4 or 5 minutes to complete, that was just the Italian version.
The entire missive was then repeated five more times in German, French, Dutch, Spanish and English. Totaly exhausting.
As for the food, we skirmished with the chaos of the formal restaurants two or three times for breakfast and lunch - couldn't get cold milk for cereal, did get cold coffee; couldn't get crispy bacon, did get crispy egg - you get the idea. So as self-exiled dining room outcasts we were doomed to the buffet. Reminiscent of POWs in WWII movies, we quickly discovered the secret of restarting the beverage machine after it had been shut down by the guards, learned exactly when to strike at the pastry counter to snag the edible ones and even found the back door to the gelato machine. Eventually we even managed to bribe the jackbooted Maitre d' of the second main restaurant and were awarded a private table for two for the rest of the trip. Not too shabby.
When the ship finally entered US waters, the FDA swarmed on board, - well, maybe not swarmed, more sort of lumbered - inspected the facilities, promptly shut down all the kitchens and revoked landing permission in Charlotte Amilie. Pretty much everything came to a halt at this point for 12 hours or so while every crew member that wasn't dead or mortally moribund, scrubbed, polished, swept and sterilized every nook and cranny on the ship. Beyond smelling like a hospital for the next day or so, not much else seemed different but the redoubtable G-Men were satisfied.
Cleaning up the ship unfortunately, did nothing for the shameful condition of the two Unincorporated Organized Territories - possessions of the USA - that we were to visit next. These shabby communities presented a shameful introduction to America for the 2,000 Europeans on board.
More boat pictures here.
Part II - A Brush with Disaster in Tunisia
Our introduction to Africa was not too propitious. Overall though, the day blended quite easily into the rest of the trip and thus passed with little notice. Having had our cab driver disappear for a nooner or whatever in the middle of downtown Tunis, when he finally reappeared his stunt driving efforts to get back on schedule ended with his cab totaled and us marooned in the middle of a freeway. When, finally we were rescued, the poor guy was
slumped against his wreck repeatedly mumbling "De firsta accidenta in thirty years".
By this time we were really late. The replacement cab and driver eventually arrived and he did his level best to complete the itinerary but, when we arrived back at the dock entrance, we discovered he was not authorized to enter so we had to leg it back to the ship. About halfway there the local MSC Cruise Line Agent screeched to a halt beside us, motioned for us to get in and fairly flew to the quay. Here, the last gangway was being hauled on board and the ship was about to leave. Abandoned in North Africa was a fate we were grateful to miss.
The Tunisian Republic is about the size of Washington state with a population of about 10.3 million - 1-1/2 times that of Washington state - and is both the smallest nation along the Atlas Mountain range and the northernmost country in Africa.
It is an Arab country bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. With its name is derived from the capital Tunis, located in the north-east, the south of the country is part of the Sahara desert while the remainder is mainly fertile soil. It boasts nearly 800 miles of coastline.
This combination of arable land close to the coastline has played a prominent role throughout recorded history. First was the famous Phoenician city of Carthage, then came the Africa Province known as the "bread basket" of the Roman Empire. Later, during the 5th century CE, the area was occupied first by Vandals, then Byzantines in the 6th century and Arabs in the 8th century before being subjugated by the
Ottomans at which point it became the "Regency of Tunis". The Ottomans were driven out as the European scrambled to confirm their Empires in the 19th century, becoming a French protectorate in 1881.
Finally, after obtaining independence in 1956, the country took the name of the "Kingdom of Tunisia" until the end of the reign of Lamine Bey and the Husainid Dynasty. With the proclamation of the Tunisian Republic on July 25, 1957, the nationalist leader Habib Bourguiba became its first president and the modernization of the country began.
Today Tunisia is an export-oriented country, in the process of liberalizing its economy under an authoritarian regime controlled by Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and masquerading as a procedural democracy. Ben Ali has governed as President since 1987 and has systematically diminished freedom of press and political pluralism while maintaining the charade of democratic elections.
In the September 2009 election his share of the vote fell to its lowest ever at, 89.4%, mainly because he allowed an opposition party on the ballot. If the opposition candidate had not been jailed during the run up to the election or had been allowed to give speeches or organize gatherings, it's possible he could have done even better than his 5% share, but that's just speculation! Pictures of the tour are here.
The Cruise from Hell - Part I
MSC - Mediterranean Shipping Company - is an Italian cruise line which operates about half-a-dozen vessels. Any country that has used up more than 60 governments since 1948 suggests that it might not be a paragon of organizational stability and, in hindsight, an Italian cruise ship was perhaps not our best choice. Even allowing for a bout of food poisoning following the first evening's dinner followed, of course, by 24 hours of Technicolor yawns, we have never been on a cruise before during which we actually lost weight! Yes, we both lost 3-1/2lbs - on a cruise ship. More of that anon.
The ship sailed on schedule, navigated its way through the Canale Della Giudecca past the island of Venice, across the lagoon and out into the Adriatic Sea. At sunrise next morning we were docked in the Adriatic port of Bari, on the eastern coast of southern Italy.
Bari has the unfortunate distinction of being the only city to suffer the effects of chemical warfare during WWII, unintended though it was. The Allies, fearful that Hitler might resort to chemical attacks as he was pushed to the wall, had stockpiled mustard gas on Bari dock - a highly classified strategy at the time. Bari was a key supply point for the Allies and, in a December 1943 air attack by the Germans, the stockpile was unwittingly bombed. Fatality estimates due to the gas vary from less than 70 people to more than 2,000, a confusion generated since neither the rescuers nor the medical teams had any idea what they were dealing with. Ignorance of the presence of mustard gas resulted in numerous otherwise avoidable casualties all muddled in with the conventional carnage wrought by the air attack. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the records destroyed and the incident remained a secret until 1959.
I did not visit the town, being too pre-occupied with puking and moaning and completely consumed with self-pity. Marian went ashore and took some snaps of the city.
A Mediterranean Quickie
I really need to do a better job in keeping this blog current. The previous post, made in April of this year, completed our 2009 Fall trip to England for our best ever pub crawl. Shamefully, this post is almost exactly one whole year after the event. However, with a few more paving stones on the road to Hell, here goes.
Suffering some serious boredom waiting for Thanksgiving to arrive, we cast about and found a nice little cruise that embarked in Venice, Italy and disgorged us, three weeks later, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We grabbed our bags and left.
A trio of tiresome flights and one day later we staggered out of Marco Polo Airport and took the bus to our hotel on the island of Venice. We had planned to take a night tour of Venice but it piddled down with rain all evening and we made do with a deplorably bad supper in a "genuine Italian family" restaurant next door to the hotel. We wondered if their family motto was "We may not be good, but we're not cheap".
Bright and early next morning we made a quick perambulation of the island trying to fill in gaps from an earlier visit. It was certainly interesting to see the city in the early morning and, although the weather was not too cooperative, the walk was refreshing. Snapshots here.
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September 21, 2009 - Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Like Idaho, Lincolnshire is renowned for potatoes. Lincoln, a cathedral city, is the county town of Lincolnshire and the city proper has a population of 86,000 or so. The earliest evidence of Lincoln are the 1st century BCE remains of round wooden dwellings from an Iron Age settlement discovered as recently as 1972. The Romans overran the area in 48 CE and built a fortress on a hill overlooking the natural lake formed by the River Witham In Viking times Lincoln was a trading center important enough to issue coins from its own mint and, over the next few centuries, Lincoln rose to significant national prominence. In 1068 William I (the Conqueror) built Lincoln Castle on the site of the former Roman settlement. Construction of the first Lincoln Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, was completed in 1092 but was built twice more within 100 years having been destroyed in a fire and later by an unusual earthquake in 1185. The central spire probably exceeded the height of the Great Pyramids of Egypt to rank as the tallest man-made structure in the world. By 1150, Lincoln was among the wealthiest towns in England. The basis of the economy was cloth and wool, exported to Flanders. Outside the precincts of cathedral and castle, the old quarter clustered around the Bailgate, and down Steep Hill to the High Bridge.
During the 14th century, the city's fortunes declined with the lower city being prone to flooding and suffering numerous plagues. When the cathedral's great spire rotted and collapsed in 1549 it was not replaced - a further symbol of Lincoln's decline.
Overall, our visit to Lincoln was a great treat and much enjoyed. See more pictures here.
September 20, 2009 - Snitterby, Lincolnshire
Next stop was a pub campsite in the tiny village of Snitterby in Lincolnshire, population about 200. Things did not work out quite as planned for the cook at the Royal Oak had vanished and there was no food to be had. Not to fear, we quickly un-stowed the bicycles and cycled to the next village, Waddingham, where the Marquis of Granby pub served up a spectacular lunch. Considering the two way cycle ride, we felt lunch was well earned.
After lunch, we checked out the rest of the village including Saint Nicholas Anglican parish church. Erected in 1780 on the site of an older structure, the church was rebuilt in 1866 and the tower was completed in 1894. The church seats around 180 - just about the entire population.
Sadly, even in a tiny community like Snitterby, war has taken its toll with the WWI Memorial noting eight residents who fell in the hostilities. A few pictures of this speck of England can be seen here.
September 19, 2009 - City of York, Yorkshire
Marian had never been to York before and my most recent visit was a school trip in 1953, so there was much to discover in this city of 137,000. York is a walled city, having more wall length than any other English city - almost 2-1/2 miles of walkable walls - stretching between many of the six bars, or gates that control access to the old city.
In recent decades, the economy of York has shifted away from reliance on candy companies such as Rowntree and Terry along with various railway-related industries, to one that provides services. The University has become a significant source of employment and tourism is a major contributor to city fortunes. Indeed, York was voted as European Tourism City of the Year by European Cities Marketing in June 2007 beating out 130 other European cities.
The city walls are punctuated by four main gatehouses, or 'bars', (Bootham Bar, Monk Bar, Walmgate Bar and Micklegate Bar) and two smaller gates, Fishergate and Victoria. In medieval times the bars were used to control traffic as well as extact tolls and provide defensive positions in times of war.
York has had a Christian presence since 300 CE. The first church on the site of the present Minster was a wooden structure built hurriedly in 627 to provide a place to baptize Edwin, King of Northumbria. Moves toward a more substantial building began in the 630s. A stone structure was completed in 637 by Oswald and was dedicated to Saint Peter. The present Minster was started in the 13th century. York is also renowned for an extraordinary number of pubs scattered throughout the old city and in the urban area around the city. Beware, there are LOTS of pictures to be seen Part I here and then Part II.
September 17, 2009 - Chester, Chesire
We had never been to Chester before and had no idea what to expect. It was the largest city we had been in for a while, with a population in the range of 77,000.
Chester is in the county of Cheshire and lies on the river Dee close to the border with Wales and was granted city status in 1541. Originally founded by the Romans in 79 CE as a fort called Deva Victrix, Chester was one of the last towns in England to fall to the Normans in the Norman conquest of England. Today, Chester is one of the best preserved walled cities in the British Isles with only a hundred yards or so of the wall missing.Chester played a significant part in the Industrial Revolution which began in the North West of England in the latter part of the 18th century. In 2007 the "Chester Renaissance", a 10-year plan to see Chester become a "must see European destination" was launched by Chester Council. With a price tag of $2 billion, it was put on hold in 2008 with the onslaught of the financial crisis. Even at this, there is a ton of stuff to see in this busy and pub littered town.
September 16, 2009 - Oswestry, Shropshire
Like Ludlow, Oswestry is in the county of Shropshire, again close to the Welsh border and is home to 50% more people than Ludlow with its population of 15,000. The area has been inhabited since at least 550 BCE and Old Oswestry is the site of an Iron Age fort.
An Anglo-Saxon king, Oswald, was alleged to have been killed and dismembered at this location and, as legend has it, one of his arms was carried to an ash tree by an eagle. Miracles were subsequently attributed to the tree and thus it is believed that the name derived from "Oswald's Tree". A likely story.
Since 1190 the town has held a market each Wednesday and, with an influx of Welsh farmers every week, the some town folk are bilingual. The town is also famous for its high number of public houses per head of population - about twice the national average. There are around 30 drinking houses in the town today, one for every five hundred men women and children. Check out some of these hostelries here.
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September 15, 2009 - Ludlow, Shropshire
With a population of around 10,000, the market town of Ludlow is in the county of Shropshire, close to the border where England meets Wales. Lying on a hill between the River Teme and the River Corve, Ludlow has a castle, a market place and extensive remnants of the earlier medieval walled town. During the Wars of the Roses, Richard, Duke of York, seized the castle and turned it into one of his main strongholds. Ludlow has close to 500 listed buildings including numerous medieval and Tudor-style half-timbered buildings. The town also sports several coaching inns, public houses and ale houses. These, in times of yore, were the root cause of court records related to alcohol-induced violence and a reputation for excess. The oldest surviving inn today is the 15th century Bull Hotel. More pictures of lovely Ludlow here.
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September 14, 2009 - Ledbury, Herefordshire
About 20 miles southeast of Leominster, still in Herefordshire, is Ledbury, another ancient market town noted in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Liedeberge. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the poetess who, among many others, penned "How do I love Thee, Let me count the ways", spent her childhood years at Hope End just outside of town. Although Ledbury is not much more than a one street town serving its 9000 population, it is a vividly engaging street with numerous and varied stores, lots of Georgian houses and an enviable Market House. Ledbury is also the venue for several annual poetry and music festivals and its Market Theater is a thriving enterprise near the town center, in Market Street. If England has a Smucker's Jam it might well be Robertson's Jams, for many years one of the largest employers in town. A sign of the times, Robertson's moved away in 2007 and the site now produces cider in a couple of 200,000 gallon tanks. Not too bad of a trade if you ask me. Pictures of this enjoyable town are here.
September 14, 2009 - Leominister, Herefordshire
Since we were in the mode for park visits, we went on into Wales and Snowdonia National Park after leaving the George Inn and its delicious home cooking. We had been to Snowdonia previously, back in the 50s, and felt it was time to recalibrate our perspective of the area. Additionally, our brand new son-in-law has a house in the hills with - drum-roll please - an internet connection! We found the house, broke in, gulped down a few hours of internet and promptly retired exhausted, to spend the night in the yard.
It was cold in Snowdonia and that too, was how it left us, little change from 50 years ago - just not our bag I guess. Thus, ea rly next morning found us on our way back to England, to the comfort of an old market town, Leominster - Ahh, traffic, crowds, noise, pollution - much more to our liking! Leomister (pronounced Lemsta), likely got its start around 660 CE when a monk, St. Edfrid, established a christian community by the river Lugg. In the 12th century, Henry II ordered a Benedictine monastery to be built of which the Priory Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, now the Leominster Parish church, is the sole survivor. The town was incorporated in 1554 and became an important center for the wool trade from the 13th to the 18th century. With its 11,000 population, Leominster is an aging market town, seemingly coasting into oblivion following its glory days as regional wool capital. The agrarian based economy now includes produce and livestock and the staging of cattle and sheep markets. The market is held each Friday and is centered on Corn Square. A colorful Leominster claim is that the last recorded use of the ducking stool occurred there. A (presumably wanton) lass, named Jenny Pipes was awarded the ride of her lifetime in 1809.
For more views of this tired town, click here.
September 13, 2009 - Gloucestershire and the Forest of Dean
The second largest Crown forest in England is the Forest of Dean in the county of Gloucestershire (pronounced Gloster-sheer), in the southwest of the country right next to Wales. Roughly bounded by the city of Gloucester (Gloster) to the east, the river Wye to the north and the west and the river Severn to the south, a large part of this 27,000 acres of mainly woodland was restricted to royal hunting prior to 1066 CE. Like the New Forest, we had never felt the urge to visit the Forest of Dean while we lived in England so this was our first experience. Again, like the New Forest, it did not trip our trigger and after a cursory drive through, we left and hunted down our next stopover. This turned out to be in a two pub hamlet with no discernible center - just two or three lanes off of the A38 road with a few scattered houses. Both the White Horse and the George Inn pubs are on the A38 but only the George had an accompanying campsite and thus became our home for a while.
The following day we embarked on what turned out to be a grueling bicycle ride and visited the village of Slimbridge and the town of Dursley. Pictures of this tawdry tale here.
September 11, 2009 - The old New Forest
Despite having lived in England for almost forty years, we had never visited the New Forest, a 141,000 acre park like area in the south of the country. "New", of course, is a relative term - this particular forest having been created as a royal forest in 1079 by William I - William the Conqueror - for private hunting use. Essentially, 20 plus small communities were deemed to be a single area exclusively for the kings pleasure with deer strictly off-limit for non-Royals. The actual territory, in reality, is too poor for viable farmland and comprises open foraging areas, heathland, bogs and some treed areas, with about 25 miles of coastline on the English Channel. It is contained within the counties of Hampshire and Wiltshire. Perhaps the most renowned and well loved feature of the New Forest is the presence of hundreds of ponies and donkeys living in the wild throughout the area. The New Forest Pony is one of the indigenous horse breeds of the British Isles and most of the Forest ponies are of this breed.
On a practical note, after William I commandeered the area, an accommodation was reached with the inhabitants giving them the right to graze horses and cattle, gather fuel wood, cut peat, quarry clay, and to turn out pigs in the fall to eat acorns. Cycling, hiking and camping are popular pursuits of the eight million or so visitors drawn to the area each year. Interesting as our visit may have been, we did not regret having stayed away for forty years.
Several small towns and villages exist in the forest, along with a few rural commercial enterprises making the total population to an astounding 38,000. In 2005 the forest was granted National Park status - the eighth in England - and is the country's only UNESCO natural World Heritage Site.
Our selected campsite was in the backyard of The Red Shoot Inn, located in the heart of the forest. The pub takes its name from Red Shoot Wood and had previously been a gas station and before that a private members club. The pub has been in operation since 1963. Click here for additional pictures.
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September 10, 2009 - Clifton Hampden
The village of Clifton Hampden, population a little over 600, is on the north bank of the River Thames west of central London by about 50 miles, in the county of Oxfordshire. It is in the parish of the Church of England church of St. Michael and All Angels, built circa 1180.
The Church of England Primary School, originally built as a Christian school in 1847 is across the lane from the church. The one room all-grades school was reorganized into a primary school in 1934. A number of cottages in the village hark back to the late 16th and early 17th centuries and, from the early part of the 14th century, there was a ferry across the Thames between Clifton Hampden and Long Wittenham, replaced by a six span brick bridge in 1867. The Barley Mow pub, where the campsite is located, is across the bridge, and is actually in Long Wittenham parish. Clifton Hampden, the Barley Mow and the Thames are featured in the 1899 Jerome K. Jerome book, Three Men in a Boat, which was later made into a movie.
There currently appear to be two pubs in Clifton Hampden - The Barley Mow, where we stayed, that claims to have originated in the 14th century from two old farm cottages and The Plough, which dates from around 1600, replete with timber beams, inglenook fireplaces and a thatched roof. As usual, more pictures of this exquisite little place await you here.
September 4, 2009 - Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
After a wild, wet and windy reception to England's shores we cowered in the Parkston RV Park near Harwich until the storm passed. The following day, although brighter, was cold and blustery but then, this is England! Harwich is on the east coast of England in a region known as East Anglia. The last ten years of our time in England was spent in East Anglia near the city of Bury St Edmunds in the county of Suffolk and this was to be our first wallow in nostalgia. We actually lived in the tiny hamlet of East Barton, population 20 or so, which was a mile or so south of Great Barton, population 2000, and east of Bury St Edmunds proper by four or five miles. We stopped by and looked at the old homestead on our way along memory lane. Way back in 633 CE, Sigebert, the king of the East Angles founded a monastery where Bury St Edmunds stands today. In 869 CE, the then king of the East Angles, a fellow named Edmund, was killed by the Danes during one of their forays into England. Thirty plus years later, in 903, King Edmund's remains were brought to the monastery for internment. By 925 CE, Edmund had been promoted to a Saint and a Martyr becoming quite well known and elevating the monastery to a pilgrim destination. The town of St Edmund's Bury developed in the midst of all this hype and later came to be known as Bury St Edmunds or locally, simply as Bury.
Fanciful folklore has it that the name came from the fact that St Edmunds was buried here but, more probably, the Bury in St Edmund's Bury was a variation of borough, bergh, burg or borg. Be that as it may, the phrase "I'm going to Bury St Edmunds" would often be rejoined by "Oh, I didn't even know he was dead!"
In 1020, after destroying the monastery and throwing the priests out, another Dane, Sweyn Forkbeard built a Benedictine abbey on the site, the ruins of which are a major claim to fame for Bury. The town is also known for the largest British owned brewery, Greene King, which also owns the Theatre Royal built in 1819, the sole surviving Regency theater in England. The largest building in the area is the British Sugar beet processing factory, built in 1925 northeast of the town. Bury mounts a large street market each Wednesday and Saturday. Other scintillating gems: Bury is home to England's oldest Boy Scout group, the 1st Bury St Edmunds. On May 3rd, 2007, the Bury town council election was won by the "Abolish Bury Town Council" party. Before it could abolish itself, the party lost its majority in a by-election the following month and, thus far, the Town Council still rules. See slide show here Part I and Part II.
September 2, 2009 - Getting to England...
Arrival in Amsterdam at 9:25 am was quickly followed by a hair raising ride in a 1981 VW camper van to Numansdorf, courtesy of our Dutch agent, Donna. Here we picked up Penny, installed the propane cylinders and set off to Willemstad and the Bovensluis campground.
Replete with groceries and more or less a nights sleep, we left the next day for Hoek van Holland to catch our ferry. Everything went like clockwork and by late afternoon we were at sea. About 10:00 pm we hove into Harwich, England, in a violent wind and rain storm and sploshed our way to the campsite for the night. A nice cup of tea and early to bed. See here for some views along the way.
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August 31, 2009 - One Wedding and a bunch of Pubs
Back from Europe on July 1st, we had a ton of "stuff" to accomplish before leaving for Europe again on August 31st. First up of course, were horrible housekeeping items such as finding flights and getting them booked, ditto for ferry rides back and forth across the North Sea, locating and booking a campsite near a railroad station within easy reach of London, booking train rides in and out of London for the wedding and finding a convenient hotel in the city to stay at during the festivities. Hooray for the internet - all the above chores were readily researched, booked and confirmed without our idle butts leaving our recliners except for the occasional cup of coffee. Fabulous! The rest of the summer fairly whizzed by. July 4th, a photography seminar weekend in Michigan, a great-grandson's first birthday, sundry marching band events, a greatly appreciated double 70th birthday bash for Marian and I and plenty of bike rides. Phew, were we ready for a break! What we got instead was another frenetic month revisiting old haunts and fresh pastures in good old England. Once again, the internet was instrumental in shaping our journey, this time through the discovery of a list of around 150 pubs scattered across England that either had, or were associated with, a close-by campsite. British pubs, more formally Public Houses, have been part of the fabric of life in England since Roman times and, although there are still around 53,000 in existence, they are closing down at the rate of 45 to 55 every week. It had been a lingering regret on our part to have largely ignored these treasures all the years we lived in England and here was a chance to make amends.
So, puddle jumper to Chicago, the pause that refreshes while waiting in O'Hare and then the big bird to Amsterdam. A nostalgic trip around the old country was underway...
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June 25, 2009 - Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
There were two reasons for stopping by Bergen op Zoom. First, was to see what kind of place had such a whimsical name and, second, there was a campsite just a short bicycle ride from town. The campsite turned out to be enjoyable and so, for that matter, did the city. We also became delighted to be back in the Netherlands and hadn't previously appreciated the general organized and well-manicured appearance presented by most of the country - highlighted by our irksome brush with Belgium.
Bergen op Zoom is in the south of the Netherlands and has a current population of around 65,000. After being granted city status in the 13th century, BoZ (Bergen on the Zoom river) developed into a significant fortress and one of the main armories and arsenals of the United Provinces of Holland. Its defensive properties were complemented by the surrounding marshes, the easily-flooded polders and the ability to be provisioned by sea unless the besieging army forces also blockaded its port. Having successfully withstood aggressive sieges by the Spanish in 1587 and 1622 it wasn't until 1747, after a 70 day siege that the city finally succumbed to the French. A trivial outcome of this event was the inclusion of the name Bergen op Zoom on one of the arches of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Click here for a slide show of this likable burg.
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June 22, 2009 - Tienen, Belgium
Thirty boneshaking miles north of Namur is the little town of Tienen, chosen for the day's lunch stop. Tienen is in the province of Brabant, in Flanders, the second of the three regions of Belgium. Like Namur, Tienen includes the consolidation of numerous smaller communes - this time only eight though - and boasts a total population around 32,000. It is near one of the Belgium internal linguistic borders and is Flemish speaking although, just 3 miles to the south, Belgians have French as their native language. The town initially developed around Sint Martin chapel, later to become Sint Martin church. Slowly the settlement migrated a little eastward around the, easier to defend, hill on which Sint Germanus was built. Some highlights of Tienen's turbulent history may excuse the drab nature of the city today. Always under threat of invasion due to its proximity to Liège, Tienen was granted municipal rights along with the right to build fortifications and completed its first wall around 1014. In 1489, Albert of Saxony seized the town on behalf of Emperor Maximilian of Austria. In 1507 the town was wrested from the Habsburgs by the locals. In 1568 it was unsuccessfully attacked by William of Orange who returned in 1572 and seized control for about a year before being ejected by the Spaniards. Numerous similar land grabs occurred during the next two centuries until, in 1789, the locals, under the leadership of brewer Jan Windelinck secured the town for about a year. The Austrians then regained control but were in turn defeated by the French, who seized the place in 1793 The French used a former convent as an ammunition depot, which unfortunately exploded in 1793, killing about 100 people and wrecking that neighborhood. Once again, the Austrians liberated (or re-occupied?) the town but were again routed a year later when the French returned. At this point the Austrians quit for good and went home. Nothing much happened after that until the Independence War in 1830 that finally produced the modern Belgium. Subsequent to this litany of destruction of course, the whole of Belgium was ground up twice more in each of the 20th century World Wars. In common with most of mainland Europe, histories such as these must profoundly influence a nation's appetite for involvement in further hostilities no matter where those hostilities might be or however justifiable. On the east side of Tienen stands the Tiense Suikerraffinaderij - Raffinerie Tirlemontoise, a huge sugar beet refinery that gives rise to the town being known as the Sugar Capital of Belgium. As might be expected there is a Sugar Museum in town which we were fortunately able to avoid. The German group Südzucker AG, the biggest sugar producer in Europe, has owned RT since 1989. Outside of this, there are a couple of notable churches and a town hall - Stadhuis - although the latter was completely obscured by scaffolding during our visit. More pictures here.
June 21, 2009 - Namur, Belgium
Continuing our trek north, we crossed into Belgium and stopped by Namur, a medium sized city of about 110,000 inhabitants, in the Walloon region. Overall, we were not favorably impressed by what we saw of Belgium on this route. The place had a grubby, unkempt aura and the roads were between bad and awful, some appearing not to have not been maintained since the Germans constructed them in WWII. Namur encompasses the confluence of the Sambre and Meuse rivers and is a conglomeration of 20 previously independent communes. The language spoken locally is French. The Celts first developed the area as a trading center and were, as usual, followed by the Romans. In the early Middle Ages the Merovingians built the first citadel on the rocky spit at the apex of the rivers confluence. In the 1640s, Namur was seized by the Spanish Netherlands and had its citadel reinforced. Louis XIV invaded in 1692, captured the town, made it part of France and had his renowned military engineer, the vaunted Vauban, rebuild the citadel. The rebuild was none too successful apparently, for just three short years later William III of Orange captured the place. And so it went.
Next up, in 1709, the Dutch found themselves in control until, in 1713, their "owners", the Spanish Netherlands ceded control to the Austrian House of Hapsburg who decided to leave the Dutch in charge anyway. For good measure, the citadel was rebuilt yet again. Confused yet? It only gets worse.
In 1794 the French returned and remained until 1815 when Napoleon was was defeated, at which point the Congress of Vienna incorporated what is now Belgium into the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Fifteen years later, Belgium broke from the Netherlands. In 1887 the citadel was rebuilt for the fourth time, this time being declared impregnable. Events proved otherwise however, for in 1914, after just three days of fighting, the citadel fell and the Germans held the town for the rest of WWI. WWII was no kinder, with the city being crushed in 1940 as it fell under Nazi occupation after which it was mangled again in 1944 in the Battle of the Bulge. Depressing, eh? Today, Namur is a workaday city producing machinery, leather goods, metals and porcelain with some barge traffic on the river. There is a (much needed) burst of excitement each September at the Combat de l'Échasse d'Or when two teams, in medieval dress, whack each other into oblivion while standing on stilts. Fortunately we missed this. For additional exciting pictures, click here.
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September 13, 2009 - Gloucestershire and the Fores...
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Greek bailout referendum could sink Eurozone
Posted byRussian_Village November 1, 2011 Leave a comment on Greek bailout referendum could sink Eurozone
The decision to call a referendum on Greece’s bailout has rocked markets around the world. But while the Greek PM seeks political support for the highly unpopular deal, critics argue he is putting both his country’s and Europe’s futures on the line.
A Greek deputy’s defection from the ruling party is only the latest consequence of Prime Minister George Papandreou’s decision to hold a surprise referendum on last week’s Greek bailout package.
Milena Apostolaki’s move, which leaves the governing socialist party with a slim two-seat majority, highlights the risky game Papandreou is playing with Greece’s financial future.
Struggling with rioters at home and growing dissent from within his own political party, Papandreou’s populist maneuver has cast a dark cloud over the eurozone’s future.
While the country is due to receive an 8 billion-euro tranche in mid-November, it is likely to run out by January, just in time for the referendum, leaving the government with no funds if there is a “no” vote, Reuters reports.
And while Greece is desperately in need of the 130 billion-euro lifeline and a 50-per cent write-down on its enormous debt (which would amount to an additional 100 billion euros), more austerity measures are a pill that many find too bitter to swallow.
This reality is reflected by recent opinion polls which show some 60 per cent of Greeks view the bailout in a negative light.
However, the majority also want to stay within the euro, an ambivalence which has created obvious frustration within the Greek government.
“I can no longer look at polls where the majority is against the agreement, the majority is against the program, but a majority is also in favor of staying in the euro,” Evangelos Venizelos, the Greek finance minister, said on Monday, as cited by The Telegraph.
And as the prime minister attempts to placate both members within his own party and the majority of Greek citizens who have baulked at a series of austerity measures, critics claim he is attempting to wriggle out of an agreement he would willingly have agreed to only a week ago.
The referendum has prompted France and Germany to announce that members of the International Monetary Fund and the eurozone will meet Wednesday to discuss new ways to implement the Greek rescue package, the Associated Press reports.
Talks will also be held with the Greek government in the run-up to the G-20 summit, which will be held in Cannes on Thursday and Friday.
As global stock markets dropped across the board and European stocks down fell by close to 3 per cent, fears continue to grow that Italy and Spain might be headed down the same path.
The move has reverberated so negatively throughout Europe that Alexander Stubb, the Finnish minister for European affairs and foreign trade, has gone so far as to call Greece’s future use of the euro into question.
“The situation is so tight that basically it would be a vote over their euro membership,” he said during an interview with Finnish broadcaster MTV3, as cited by Reuters News agency.
Beyond that, a “no” vote could easily result in Greece going bust.
The decision has also left G20 leaders with egg on their faces, as they prepare to meet in France later this week in an attempt to secure their own financial lifeline courtesy of the Chinese.
As many analysts and policy makers have recognized that a “no” vote on the referendum would spell the end of Papandreou, he has raised the ante by asking for a confidence vote in order to garner support for the remainder of his term, which is set to finish up in 2013.
However, others within the domestic political opposition are calling for snap elections, as many believe Papandreou has risked gambling away the country’s future for short-term political gains.
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Oakland police prepare for mass protest
Putin finds new owner for CSKA
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Russia: Syrian rebels made, used sarin nerve gas
Posted byRussian_Village July 11, 2013 Leave a comment on Russia: Syrian rebels made, used sarin nerve gas
UNITED NATIONSRussia’s U.N. ambassador said Tuesday that Russian experts determined that Syrian rebels made sarin nerve gas and used it in a deadly attack outside Aleppo in March.
International analysts say a chemical weapon attack occurred March 19 in the government-controlled Aleppo suburb of Khan al-Assal. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin blamed opposition fighters for the attack, which he said killed 26 people, including 16 military personnel, and injured 86 others. The rebels have blamed the government for the attack.
Syria rebels, regime blame each other for alleged chemical weapons use
Churkin told reporters after delivering an 80-page report to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that the Assad regime asked Russia, its closest ally, to investigate the attack after a U.N. team of chemical weapons experts was unable to enter the country in a dispute over the probe’s scope.
“It was established that on March 19, the rebels launched an unguided Bashar 3 projectile towards Khan al-Assal controlled by the government forces,” Churkin told reporters, adding that he intends to share the evidence with the U.S., U.K and France, who have alleged that the chemical weapons use is by the government forces.
The samples taken from the impact site of the gas-laden projectile were analyzed at a Russian laboratory certified by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Churkin said.
The ambassador said the results of the analysis indicate the Bashar 3 rocket “was not industrially manufactured and was filled with sarin.” He said the samples indicated the sarin and the projectile were produced in “cottage industry” conditions.
The absence of chemical stabilizers, which are needed for long-term storage and later use, indicated its “possibly recent production,” Churkin said.
“Therefore, there is every reason to believe that it was the armed opposition fighters who used the chemical weapons in Khan al-Assal,” Churkin said.
“According to information at our disposal,” he said, “the production of Bashar 3 unguided projectiles was started in February 2013 by the so-called Bashar al Nasser Brigade affiliated with the Free Syrian Army.”
“The Russian evidence was delivered, just as the U.N. chemical weapons team has been invited by the Syrian government to Damascus to negotiate their inspection,” reports CBS News’ Pamela Falk, who was at the U.N. for the Churkin comments, “putting a great deal of significance on the onsite work that the U.N. team must do.”
On Monday Syria invited Ake Sellstrom, head of the U.N. fact-finding mission on allegations of chemical weapons use in Syria, and U.N. disarmament chief Angela Kane to visit Damascus for foreign-minister level talks on conducting a probe of the Khan al-Assal attack. The Russian ambassador strongly backed the idea.
Britain, France and the United States have provided the secretary-general with information on other alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syria. Ban has repeatedly said he wants a broader investigation than just Khan al-Assal.
“We support a thorough investigation of all credible allegations,” Churkin said, but added that Russian experts were not convinced by the material provided to them by the U.K., U.S. and France.
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Update on people's struggle against South Korea's POSCO steel project
POSCO, a large corporation, wants to invest in the mining industry in Orissa (India) and build a steel plant, captive power station and port in Erasama block of Jagatsinghpur district – people’s protest intensifies.
Police at the 1st April, 2008 rally
A Note of POSCO Pratirodh Sangharsa Samiti ( PPSS), Jagatsinghpur, Odisha
A Brief Background:
On June 22 2005, Pohang Steel Company (POSCO), a large South Korean corporation, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Orissa in eastern India. This MOU outlined POSCO’s proposal to invest in the mining industry and build a steel plant, captive power station and port in Erasama block of Jagatsinghpur district.
For the last five years, people living in the villages of the proposed site under the banner of POSCO Pratirodh Sanghrsa Samiti (Anti-POSCO People’s Movement) have been relentlessly protesting against the land acquisition process. More than 4000 families totaling a population of 30,000 will be affected by the project. These include all those persons directly dependant on the betel vine cultivation, pisiculture, cashew nut cultivation, and fishing in the Jatadhari Muhana (estuary) where the port has been proposed.
Another 20,000 people from Erasama, Tirtol, and Kujang block will be affected if the port comes up at Jatadhari. Loss of self-sustained and thriving local economy, of livelihood and of an entire way of life is the major concern on which the local resistance to the project is based.
POSCO has applied for prospecting licenses and direct leases for mining. The license would allow the company to mine on 2,500 hectares in iron ore rich Khandadhar in Sundergarh district. These areas are currently covered with dense forest, which is home to a wide variety of wildlife and flora. The Indigenous communities living there are totally dependent on these forests for fuel, fodder, fruits and medicinal plants. The water springs that exist there provide water for drinking as well as irrigation. The proposed steel plant is predicted to have devastating impacts on the environment and ecology in the area. Furthermore, the mining will affect the Khandadhar waterfall – a famed tourist destination in the state.
The opposition to the plant and port site has rapidly built up. While there were mixed reactions initially, people of Dhinkia, Gadakujang and Nuagoan panchayats soon realized that they faced the threat of losing their land without gaining anything in return. The news of the MoU to be signed was already out in early April 2005. The MoU was signed in June and on July 11 of 2005, the three Panchayats Nuagoan, Gadakujang and Dhinkia came together and formed POSCO Pratirodah Sangram Samiti (PPSS) to oppose the project. Villagers across different party lines and ideology have converged to form the PPSS.
This lopsided, iniquitous, and environmentally destructive process of development has propelled the people to stand up against the state. The traditional modes of livelihood are seriously threatened. There are no appropriate alternatives in sight. It is at this juncture that PPSS gave expression to the common demand and will of the villagers.
Organizing the Struggle:
The Erasama constituency was a stronghold of the CPI in the post-independence period. Loknath Chaudhary, who was a member of parliament from this area in the 1970s and 1980s built local cadre in some pockets such as Dhinkia panchayat. He earned a great deal of goodwill in the area. He had a reputation for his integrity. The CPI thus has a strong base in the area.
Mr. Abhay Sahu, state secretary of the CPI was sent to the area in July 2005 to lead the anti-POSCO movement and mobilise the party cadres. According to Mr. Abhya Sahu, the CPI does not own the anti-POSCO movement, it merely provides the leadership. He sees it as a people’s struggle. The PPSS has 21 members in its executive committee who are chosen by the people.
Reactions to the Struggle:
POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) have peacefully protested for the last five years. They have struggled to protect their life and livelihood despite repression by the state machinery. PPSS activists are also facing intimidation and assault from hired goons of POSCO and members of the United Action Committee (UAC) a pro-POSCO outfit active in the area. On April 20, 2008, people under the banner of PPSS offered Shramadan (Voluntary labour ) by digging at the confluence of the river Jatadhari with the Bay of Bengal.
This was done to avoid the continuous water logging problem in their agricultural lands.On 21st April, 2010, when the villagers were returning after finishing the dredging work; they were attacked by a few pro-POSCO villagers in Govindpur village. Dula Mandal of PPSS was killed in the bomb attack. Another PPSS member, Dhruba Sahani was critically injured. The leader of PPSS did not allow people to retaliate. Instead, the attackers were held hostage for two days and then handed over to police unhurt.
Public Support.
The struggle of the PPSS has received legitimacy from the general public from across the state, from left parties in the state and social and political movements from the state and across the country. It has also received the support of various human and environmental rights groups across globe including South Korea.
The key strategies of protest used so far include:
* Sending memorandum to the authorities
* Picketing at POSCO’s local office
* Holding rallies and demonstrations
* Gheraoing the local MLA
* Blockading the area to prevent the entry of all government and POSCO officials
The most effective strategy to stall progress of the project has been the setting up of check-posts in the area by the local communities. These check-posts have restricted the movement of local officials and POSCO staff at the project site.
Now the struggle has reached the decisive stage since both the state and PPSS are determined to have their way.
Demands of PPSS:
1. The government puts a stop to such grave human rights violations in the proposed project area.
2. The government immediately withdraws its police force from the area.
3. The government ensures that POSCO immediately withdraws from the proposed project for the greater benefit of the state of Orissa, India.
4. The government comes up with planned and sustainable initiatives for social and environmental development in the area, such as the promotion of paddy cultivation, fishery related activities. These will help to ensure the future livelihoods of communities living there.
For more information about the people’s concerns about the project, please read the detailed note attached below.
Prashant Paikray
Spokesperson, POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS)
Women at the 1st April, 2008 Rally from Dhinkia to Balithutha
Official statistics indicate that only 438 acres of the 4000 acres required for the POSCO site is private land. The rest of the land required officially belongs to the government, and this has been recorded as “under forest” in official documentation. Government records do not show that the majority of this land has been under cultivation by the people living in these areas for generations .
The people of Jagatsinghpur are dependent upon the beetle, paddy and fish for their livelihoods. Around 30,000 families earn about Rs one lakh (approx $ 2000) yearly from these cultivations. There are approximately 5000 vines of beetle in the three panchayat areas, which are tended by about 10,000 cultivators. Many landless families depend on basket making, work as daily labourers on the betel vine farms or are engaged in pisiculture, mostly prawns.
In response to the claim of this land by POSCO, the local people have submitted applications for claims on titles repeatedly however regularization and settlement of the betel vine lands has not yet been initiated by the government. The Settlement record was prepared last in 1984.
POSCO began its operations in India by registering POSCO-India. The first attempt by the district administration to acquire land for the proposed plant and port was thwarted by strong local opposition, which began in early 2006 under the banner of ‘POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti’ (PPSS) (Anti-POSCO People’s Movement), based in Dhinkia village.
*** Scarcity of water for Irrigation
The volume of water required for the project is predicted to have a detrimental impact on water irrigation for the local population. According to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the Government of Orissa is to permit draw and use of water (near about 12 thousand to 15 thousand crore liters) from the Mahanadi barrage at Jobra and Naraj in Cuttack for construction and operation of the “Overall Project”.
Concerns have been repeatedly raised over the past two years by citizens of the area and technical experts that this would severely impact the drinking and agricultural water supply of Cuttack and neighboring four districts. These concerns have not been addressed by the government yet.
Destruction of the Environment
Threat to Gahirmala Marine Sanctuary
The proposed port to be built by POSCO at Jatadhari (Estuarine region of Ersamma) has also evoked environment concerns of damage to the coastline Conservationists. They have pointed out that any damage to the coastline by the construction of the port could pose a threat to the nesting habitat of the endangered Olive Ridley turtles. Especially at risk are the turtle-nesting beaches in the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary, where nearly 400,000 Olive Ridleys come to nest every year.
Jatadhari : the proposed port site
Environmental research has shown that the nesting turtles are already threatened by illegal mechanized fishing, rapid loss of nesting beaches due to casuarinas plantations and industrial pollution. The proposed POSCO port poses a fresh threat. The port if built would also directly displace the livelihoods of several fishing communities as the Jatadhari estuary serves as a spawning and breeding ground for several species of fish. The recent analysis report prepared by Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report of POSCO Captive port at Jatadhar Mohan Creek Paradeep Port points out that the “EIA report has completely missed out on addressing the issues of cumulative impact on people and habitat residing in the close vicinity as well as the land where the project is proposed”.
Implication of proposed mining in Khandadhar hills
Khandadhar waterfall at the mining site
The mining sites which have been proposed in the district of Keonjhar are also predicted to have detrimental impacts. Communities within these areas are already suffering under the social and environmental impacts of large-scale mining activity. Health problems are rampant in the region, particularly amongst the mine workers and their children. The poor health status of the mine workers and the increasing incidence of waterborne and respiratory diseases have been highlighted in a recent ‘State of the Environment’ report.
The Khandadhar hills where POSCO is being allotted the mines, spread over 6000 hectares, are covered with forests, inhabited by a wide variety of wildlife and as well as flora. The adivasi (Indigenous people) communities, which form 74% of the population in the surrounding area will be severely impacted by the proposed mining.
Ongoing Human Rights Violations
Over the past four years, there have been a number of allegations of government repression from the local community. Local anti-POSCO activists have stated that the Government has filed several false cases against them, and that POSCO has been working to suppress the movement. In October 2008, the leader of anti POSCO movement, Mr.Abhaya Sahoo was arrested and 32 “false cases” were charged against him. To date, the movement has been democratic and non-violent, however, a recently released video reflects that Mr. Abhaya is being kept against his will by the government. You can view this video online at the following link www.youtube.com/watch?v=px3d52vTEuM
For more information, you can visit the following links
http://stoposco.wordpress.com
http://www.freewebs.com/epgorissa/posco.htm
**** Update of the Struggle ****
On Aug 9, 2010 The Ministry of Environment & Forests constituted a four member Committee to investigate and ascertain status of implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 and Rehabilitation and Resettlement provisions in and around.
On September 21, 2010, the four member team headed by Meena Gupta visited the area to assess its compliance with the environmental protection act, coastal regulation zone act and other clearances granted to it. Besides, they also reviewed its compliance with statutory provisions, approvals, clearances and permissions under various statutes, rules and notifications.
On October 18th, 2010 the four-member committee comprising Meena Gupta, Urmila Pingle, Devendra Pandey and V Suresh submitted two different reports on POSCO’s proposal to set up an integrated steel plant and a captive port in Orissa. While Pingle, Pandey and Suresh submitted a joint report, Gupta gave a separate one.
Both the reports, however, agreed that provisions under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) need to be re-looked at by the Orissa government in a transparent and democratic way and ensure setting of individual and community rights as per the provisions of the Forest Rights Act and Rules made there in.
The matter will now be discussed by the Expert Appraisal committee on coastal regulation zone (CRZ) of the environment ministry on November 6 and 7.
The environmental committee felt that the final forest clearance of the ministry of environment and forests has overlooked serious violations of their own directions and the procedures prescribed by law.
The report submitted by the three members further felt that the ministry should not have granted environment clearances on the basis of rapid environmental impact assessment (EIA) for port which was based on one season data.
Contending that there have been many serious lapses and illegalities in the EIA process, the report said that the Environmental Clearance given by the MoEF for minor port and for the steel plant should be immediately revoked.
It felt that POSCO-India Pvt Ltd has not been able to address all the issues relating to CRZ notification. There are a number of serious lapses and violations, including suppression of facts. The environment clearance given should therefore be revoked forthwith.
However, Gupta differed on this, saying that the existing environment and CRZ clearances should continue and POSCO should be asked to carry out a comprehensive and integrated environment impact assessment which has not been done so far.
On November 2, 2010 the Forest Advisory Committee, a panel under the Union ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has recommended scrapping of forest clearance given to the project.
On November 10, 2010, The Ministry of Environment and Forest’ decision on POSCO’s forest land clearance has been deferred by 10 days. The expert appraisal committee on POSCO would meet again to review Environmental Impact Assessment report.
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Today I am taking the plunge and entering the blogosphere! It is a goal of mine for 2014 (not a New Year’s resolution, mind you, which I would be doomed to abandon) to be more proactive about my pattern business,
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