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“Might Not Play Until March”: Dominic Thiem’s Father on Commencement of Australian Open 2021
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It’s been a while since the 2020 season has ended, but the precautionary measures still continue to overlook events for the next year. With the Australian Open being the first major of the season, there are uncertainties that still loom large over this year’s edition. Tennis ace Dominic Thiem’s father shares a similar feeling.
The coronavirus has certainly made matters difficult when it comes to ensuring basic functionality. There are mixed reactions to having the event conducted sooner, while there are some who want to postpone it further. Not so long ago, there were rumors with regard to conducting the qualifiers in other cities like Doha, Dubai, or Singapore.
With things remaining unsure with regard to the opening day of the Australian Open, Wolfgang Thiem (Dominic Thiem’s father) spoke on this matter.
A general view of Melbourne Park during day five of the 2019 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 18, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
Dominic Thiem’s father: No play until March?
Wolfgang said, “My last piece of information is that Australia will start in the first week of February and entry should take place on January 8th. But there are also rumors that you might not play at all, play in March, etc. By the end of this week, reliable information from Australia should finally be on the table. Then you know when to start and it is easier to plan. But I wouldn’t be surprised if that was called off completely or wasn’t played until March.”
According to Wolfgang, the Australian Government has done a fair job in keeping the numbers low as far as the cases are concerned. He also felt that players not being able to practice during the quarantine period can have a negative effect. He said, “They also have so few cases. If you let all the athletes in now, the whole thing could collapse again. That would not be acceptable for the athletes, it would not be feasible. You have to be able to train despite the quarantine.”
(Quotes have been translated)
Also Read: “Could Have Won or Lost All Three”: Wolfgang Confident Dominic Thiem is Close to Finished Package
The date decided on by the officials for the Australian Open is February 8. With a fair amount of agitation going on, fans are eager for things to be finalized in order to witness a successful Australian Open 2021.
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Microsoft Sells the Cloud at Goldman Sachs Event
Bob Muglia's talk at a Goldman Sachs technology event on Tuesday was chock full of forward-looking statements.
Muglia, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business, answered questions from a Goldman Sachs software analyst and the audience, mostly about Microsoft's cloud computing and virtualization business plans. The Q&A talk, which took place at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, stepped over the sort of hard numbers beloved by the number-crunching crowd.
Instead, Muglia laid out Microsoft's broad vision for emerging technology trends in the next few years. Along the way, Muglia managed to work in a few digs against Microsoft's competitors.
For instance, Muglia had no kind words for Oracle, calling it the "back to the future" company. Oracle is highly vertical and limits customer choice, he said.
"Some things Oracle is doing, I just shake my head at," Muglia said. "I just don't know what they are doing with SPARC." Muglia described the SPARC processor technology, which Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems this year, as "a dying architecture."
"It's fine if they want to go off and spend a lot of money on doing it," Muglia said. "We'll just continue to sell x86 systems to our customers."
Microsoft, in contrast to Oracle, has taken a more horizontal route, he said. Oracle's approach provides an opportunity for Microsoft to strengthen its partnerships, such as with HP and Dell.
Growth areas for Microsoft over the next three years will include its Windows Server and SQL Server products, Muglia explained. He added that Microsoft's management products (such as System Center) are growing strongly. Moreover, security products (such as Microsoft's Forefront suite) are becoming substantive revenue generators.
Microsoft changed its price structure to move customers toward buying more premium products, and that change has driven revenue for the company, Muglia said. Enterprise and datacenter products have grown "north of 20 percent" since the price changes were made, he added.
Microsoft is also looking for a rebound in Windows desktop sales as companies upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7. Muglia said Microsoft expects to see that happen "over the next three years."
Muglia stressed the advantages of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform during the talk. However, he cautioned that it represents a long-term prospect for the company. Cloud computing will not be a revenue driver for Microsoft over the next three years, he said.
The important aspect about the cloud, from Microsoft's perspective, is that it will transform "the way applications are built over the next five to ten years" and "create a new model for the way hardware is built," Muglia said. Applications should always be available and be capable of scaling upward to meet an organization's needs. Microsoft is aiming to help companies transition to the cloud and it will reduce some costs along the way, such as reducing the operator-to-server ratio. Systems need to run continuously and deal with failures, and that's what the cloud does, Muglia explained.
When pressed on the question of profit margins from cloud computing, Muglia said that Microsoft would be able to extract profits by providing value-added services. Windows Azure is a platform-as-a-service play, he said. It's a step above cloud computing leader Amazon.com's EC2 offering, he suggested.
"Amazon, in contrast, really provides a raw virtual machine and it's roll-your-own after that," Muglia said.
Lastly, Muglia answered a lot of questions about desktop virtualization, or the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) server computing model. He was very clear that companies should not engage in desktop virtualization to save money. Instead, the principal benefits of VDI include security and control, Muglia said.
Additionally, few companies currently use VDI. Muglia said that about 1 percent of desktop virtualization is happening in the enterprise.
Muglia slammed virtualization leader VMware for suggesting that VDI saves organizations money. He said that studies do not back up such claims. There are some hardware savings, but the costs associated with managing desktops for users is the same, he said. VDI entails higher power costs as servers are built out in datacenters. Muglia also dismissed the idea of VDI for mobile use.
"The other point I'll continue to make is you don't use VDI for portables. So, for mobile workers, VDI is not a viable solution," Muglia said.
Muglia also claimed that in side-to-side comparisons between Microsoft's Hyper-V and virtualization offerings from VMware that Microsoft has a "90 percent win rate." Microsoft, although behind VMware, has a "substantial advantage" in the small-to-medium business segment, he asserted.
An audio recording of Muglia's talk can be accessed here, and a transcript (Word document) can be downloaded too.
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THE JERMA RIVER CANYON
The Jerma River canyon is situated in southeastern Serbia, on the territory of the municipality of Pirot, Caribrod and Babušnica. The Jerma River, which is 72 km long, connects two countries – Serbia and Bulgaria. It springs in Serbia, near the Vlasina Lake, it passes through Bulgaria, and near the village Petaćinci it flows back to Serbia. Jerma created vivid canyons and gorges with steep cliffs. In Bulgaria, it is the impressive Trnsko gorge, and in Serbia it is one of the most vivid canyons – the Jerma River canyon. Next to the exit of the village Sukovo, Jerma flows into the Nišava River.
Owing to the accessibility and isolation of the terrain until the 1970s, the nature of the Jerma River canyon had been hidden for a long time, and today it has mostly remained preserved in terms of its original beauty. The road built in the 1970s was replaced by a narrow railroad where the train “Ćira” transported ore from the former mine “Jerma” in the village Rakita next to the village Sukovo.
For the purposes of preservation and protection, in 2014 this unique combination of valleys and limestone canyons was declared to be a category I area under protection, of international and national significance, as the Special Nature Reserve „Jerma”.
The Jerma River made its way through Greben and the Vlaška Planina and it created a majestic canyon. The canyon comprises two gorges – the Vlaško and Odorovačko gorge which were named after the nearby villages – Vlasi and Trnski Odorovci. The steep cliffs, which make the greatest impression on most visitors, are 300-400m high and 10 - 30 m wide.
In SNR “Jerma” and its surroundings, there are several mountains which surround the Jerma river and its tributaries with their huge peaks.
The Greben Planina with a limestone range and the highest peak – “Bežanište” (1338m above sea level) is on the right bank of the Jerma River. The narrow, rocky ridge, with its spiky tips, hides a natural phenomenon – rocky towers similar to the ones found in the Devil’s Town.
The Vlaška Planina, with limestone boulders, magical beech forests and villages on plateaus, is located on the left bank. The highest peaks of the mountain are actually “dents”, and that is how the name “Panica” – meaning bowl (1443m above sea level) was derived.
A few kilometers from the canyon, the Ruj Mountain and its peak are located (1706m above sea level), and a rocky hill Asenovo kale (1033 m above sea level). At the foot of the hill Asenovo kale, on the river Blatašnica, “Cedilka” is located, which is one of the narrowest canyons in Serbia, the rocky sides of which nearly touch each other, being 1.5m from one another.
The mostly forested mountain Ruj stretches between the villages Rakita in Serbia and Ezdimirci in Bulgaria. Its highest parts and peaks are pastures and lookout points. The village Rakita, once known for its high quality brown coal and the mine “Jerma”, is now a synonym for the struggle to preserve rivers and the nature.
On the mountain slopes of SNR “Jerma”, there are numerous karst relief forms, caves and pits. The cave Vetrena dupka and the Pešterica pit are of special significance. They are 2km far from the village Vlasi. The length of the cave channel is around 4,000m and it consists of a meander channel and a court where the stalactites and stalagmites are located. In one of the erosive dents, there is a siphon lake.
PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE
Cliffs of the Jerma River canyon are the habitat of numerous endemic, rare and endangered plant species:
887 plant taxons with the most significant endemic and relict species (the Pančic maple, the lilac and the Serbian bellflower)
relict, climatic and zonal forest communities.
The diversity of animal species is reflected in the existence of:
25 mammal species (bat, lynx, otter),
110 bird types, 98 of which are nesting birds (the golden eagle, the red-necked buzzard, the partridge, the Eurasia eagle-owl),
11 types of reptiles and amphibians (horned viper, the Aesculapian snake, the fire salamander),
nine types of fish (the Mediterranean barbell, the striped bleak),
181 types of butterflies (the swallowtail, the mourning cloak butterfly, the Duke of Burgundy butterfly) of national and international significance.
The only habitat of the plant species “the Southern maidenhair fern” – Adiantum capillus veneris – in Serbia is in the settlement of the Zvonačka Spa, around 6km from the Jerma River canyon. This decorative type of fern is a true natural rarity and it belongs to the category of utterly endangered species in Serbia. Although it is far from the Mediterranean area where it is widespread, the hot springs of Zvonačka Spa made favorable conditions for its survival. Its habitat is protected as the Special Nature Reserve “Venerina padina”.
The Vetrensko and Sukovsko Lakes are located near the Jerma River canyon.
The Vetrensko Lake is near the Zvonačka Spa, at the foot of the Asenovo kale hill. The lake belongs to a group of barrier lakes, created by the damming of the Vetrenska River (stream) which then flows out and into the Zvonačka River – the Blatašnica River. It is familiar only to true nature lovers.
The Sukovsko Lake is located in the village, approximately 15 km from the Jerma River canyon. The lake was created by damming of the Tivoj dol stream. It is 1km long, 300m wide, whereas the depth in certain parts reaches 15m. The lake is abundant with pike, carp and other fish types, and so it is convenient for fishing. The lake environment is convenient for walking, biking and resting in nature.
The relief diversity and specificity of the area affect the climate which is moderate to continental, which affects the great difference in climate phenomena, temperatures and atmospheric precipitation. During the hot summer months, the nights near the rivers and the mountains are often cold.
PROTECT THE NATURE
Nature was not inherited by us, but it was rather borrowed from the future generations, so we kindly ask you to respect the ecological principles and rules of behavior during your stay in nature and in protected nature areas.
This project was funded by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the Republic of Serbia
*The opinions and attitudes expressed in these publications are the exclusive responsibility of the author and his collaborators, and they do not necessarily represent the official position of the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
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DEPRESSION: WHAT ARE THE CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS
written by admin November 30, 2020
According to data from the planet Health Organization, depression is currently the second most serious unhealthiness within the world. This disease can affect anyone, irrespective of age, gender, education, and material status. A worrying phenomenon is the more frequent diagnosis of depression in children. It’s a significant disease that’s very difficult to treat, so it must not be taken lightly.
DEPRESSION: what’s IT?
Colloquially, depression could be a state of low mood, sadness, or depression, which are often easily overcome. There are many simple ways to try and do this – for instance, women go on a spree or have a “girl’s night,” and men most frequently “drown the bug” in alcohol. The presence of love or a gathering with friends who will support good advice and provide self-confidence is also soothing. We fall under such emotional “lows” several times a year, and fortunately, they need little to try to do with depression.
Real depression is defined in psychiatry as “a special reasonably mood and emotional disorder.” they need a destructive effect on someone’s personality and gradually limit his contacts with the environment, resulting in situations from which there’s no solution. The initial symptoms may vary from patient to patient, which is why it’s so difficult to acknowledge the disease. Depression also affects an intimate lifestyle, so for happy intimate life you can take cenforce 100 and cenforce 200 It seems that the road between despair and depression isn’t sharp, but specialists are perfectly able to distinguish these two states. First of all, but sadness and gloom, depression is amid a scarcity of interest, a loss of joy, and an absence of motivation to measure. An unfortunate person has concentration disorders – he lives in a motion picture, looks pessimistic at the planet, and paints the long run only in black colors. Incorporates a significantly lowered self-esteem, doesn’t like meeting people, has sleep disorders,
WHAT ARE the kinds OF DEPRESSION?
Other than depression, specialists, which supplies typical symptoms, distinguish several different kinds of this severe disease. These include, among others:
delusional depression, during which excessive pessimism and underestimation of self-worth end up in delusions. Any outside signals are treated as attacks on one’s person to humiliate, ridicule, use, or finally annihilate. It’s often in the middle of catastrophic thinking,
anxiety depression (agitated), within which the dominant feeling is severe anxiety and fear (e.g., hypochondria, related to the sensation of unjustified concern about one’s health and therefore the belief that he has contracted a significant illness),
depressive stupor (depression with inhibition), which brings the patient into a state of complete apathy. The unfortunate doesn’t eat, wash, undertake any activity, don’t establish contact with the environment, remain motionless in one position with the suffering expression on his face,
bipolar disorder (manic depressive illness) where periods of depression are alternated with episodes of euphoria (mania). The patient goes through extreme optimism and affirmation of life to extreme pessimism and thoughts about death,
post- schizophrenic depression that happens after paraphrenic schizophrenia. The patient has severe depressive symptoms, although schizophrenic symptoms are still present. Still, of milder intensity,
dysthymia (formerly depression, depressive neurosis, depressive mental disturbance, or chronic anxiety it) within which the patient is incredibly sad and suffering most of the day because he cannot address life. This condition is additionally called a chronically depressed mood.
Postpartum it, characterized by disturbed sleep and appetite, an absence of joy in communing with the baby, and a way of incompetence. These symptoms usually disappear a dozen days after childbirth (interestingly, postpartum depression may appear even several months after delivery), atypical it (atypical, masked), during which typical it features are reversed by 180 degrees that the patient has an increased appetite (even overeating) and is overactive.
Another variety of division is said to the seasonality of the disease – it’s then stated as fall and winter depression caused by the absence of sun and shorter daylight. Betting on the patients’ age, specialists also distinguish depression in adolescents, children, adult depression, and senile depression.
WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION?
The World Health Organization lists ten symptoms of it, of which the primary 3 are the most ones:
No joy
Lack of energy,
Negative self-esteem,
Feeling guilty,
Suicidal thoughts and behavior
Intellectual disability,
Activity disorder,
Appetite, and weight disturbances.
The disease is diagnosed if the patient develops a minimum of 4 symptoms, including two main ones, which persist continuously and last quite a fortnight. Additionally, people with it are characterized by inadequate facial expressions, a sad or tense countenance, monotonous voice, slow expression of thoughts, slower movements, and heaviness. it is expected in the course of headache, backache, abdominal pain, gastrointestinal pain, and obesity.
WHAT CAUSES DEPRESSION?
So far, it’s not been possible to define the causes of the disease development. Clinical studies have shown that depressive disorders often coexist with somatic diseases, like hypertension, diabetes, and neurological conditions. However, it’s not been established whether it may be a cause or a consequence of the disorders above (people with low mood and depressed mood have lowered immunity and are more likely to urge infections). Vidalista 20 and Kamagra Oral Jelly also treat your intimate life Depression could also be biologically determined (e.g., because of disturbances within the production of neurotransmitters like serotonin and noradrenaline, or could even be inherited) or psychologically (e.g., thanks to a highly stressful event like the death of a spouse, divorce, illness, etc.) it also can be triggered by the side effects of the medicine used and exposure to psychoactive substances.
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Abandonments from Above: Drone Photos of Spain’s Crumbling Architecture
Article by SA Rogers, filed under Abandoned Places in the Architecture category
For photographer Mark Redondo, the many abandoned developments littered throughout Spain aren’t just symbols of economic troubles, but a failure to learn from our mistakes. Even in the midst of a housing crisis, Spain has an incredible 3.4 million deserted houses, and many of them have stood empty since the collapse of the country’s real estate industry in 2007. Ten years ago, Redondo set out to photograph some of these crumbling structures from the ground; now, drone photography has now enabled him to capture their true scale, giving us a look at their hidden shapes, patterns and textures in a whole new way.
The series, entitled ‘Sand Castles (Part II),’ depicts these structures stark against the dry Spanish landscape, often only half-completed. The contrast between the abandoned developments and their natural surroundings is particularly striking. Redondo notes that while this colossal waste of resources was in the news for a while, the abandonments have since been largely forgotten. That doesn’t mean they’ve gone away.
“There is definitely an apocalyptic feeling to it, it is as if you are the last inhabitant in the world,” he says in an interview with the British Journal of Photography. “The sites are completely deserted and the locations are difficult to reach so, unless you are determined to go there, most people don’t ever see them. A lot of construction material, electric parts, sewage covers and copper has been stolen. There are rabbits everywhere.”
“It is important to understand that this is not an isolated problem; it is something that has happened systematically across Spain. We need to ask why this is still happening and how we are going to fix the problem.”
Redondo read news reports on abandonments and searched for updates to find the developments, and used Google Earth to identify the ones that look most dramatic by air. He used a DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone to take photos for the project, which won this year’s DJI Drone Photography award.
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The British Council
The British Council is an organisation and registered charity which works in over 100 countries to promote international educational and cultural engagement with the United Kingdom and the English language.
Cultural exchange and the sharing of creativity is central to the work of The British Council, which in its own words was established to encourage ‘a friendly knowledge and understanding’ between the rest of the world and the UK.
It has helped foster a number of creative and literary projects between the UK and other countries. These have included celebrations as part of the UK-India Year of Culture 2017 and the 10-day LGBT film festival fiveFilms4freedom. In 2015, a global programme ‘Shakespeare Lives’ was launched to celebrate the work and life of William Shakespeare 400 years after his death.
Customer service offices of The British Council are based in Bridgewater House on Whitworth Street in Manchester.
https://www.britishcouncil.org/
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George Podgorny, MD – Advocate And Architect of Emergency Medicine
December 1, 2013 by Brian J. Zink, M.D., ACEP News Contributing Writer
[sidebar]Dr. Podgorny (seventh from right) met annually with other ACEP Past Presidents, including the October meeting in Seattle.[/sidebar]
Life has sweet and sad moments, sometimes too closely juxtaposed. At the October 2013 ACEP Scientific Assembly meeting in Seattle, emergency physicians, residents, medical students, and long-time colleagues were pleased and intrigued to watch Dr. George Podgorny in the premiere of the EMRA Legacy Initiative 24/7/365 documentary, and then to hear him interviewed later that evening and in a panel discussion the following day. Many learned about the key role that Dr. Podgorny played in establishing emergency medicine as a legitimate US medical specialty through the creation of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM). At the time of the approval of ABEM by the American Board of Medical Specialties in 1979, Dr. Podgorny was clearly in the mix – serving as both President of ACEP and President of ABEM that year. He was integrally involved in the negotiations that created the approved “modified conjoint” ABEM board after the original ABEM proposal had been roundly defeated in an American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) House of Delegates vote in 1977. After ABEM was approved, Dr. Podgorny was the Chief Examiner for the first ABEM exam. He also became the head of the newly created Residency Review Committee and served in that capacity for six years. He tirelessly surveyed and approved residencies, helping to ensure the quality of new emergency medicine residency programs.
Unfortunately, after gracing us with his encyclopedic memory, wit, and insights at ACEP, Dr. Podgorny fell ill after his trip to Seattle and died in Winston Salem, N.C., on Nov. 5, 2013.
Dr. George Pogorny shown in an earlier era in his ACEP leadership.
George Podgorny was born in Iran, but his heritage was Czech and Armenian. His father taught physical education to the children of the Shah of Iran, and his mother wrote children’s books. It was decided that George would come to the United States after high school because the family felt that a U.S. university education would be superior. Dr. Podgorny left his family and came alone to Maryville College in Tennessee and decided to go into medicine. He became enamored with Wake Forest University School of Medicine (then the Bowman Gray Medical School) and its Baptist Hospital, was accepted there for medical school, and never left the region. Dr. Podgorny excelled as a medical student and was accepted in to the general surgery residency. As a surgery resident he spent a great deal of time in the emergency department, and was struck by the fact that the sickest patients were cared for by the least trained residents who were rarely supervised. He worked diligently to improve care in the emergency department even as a resident. DR. Podgorny then completed vascular surgery training and was in a cardiothoracic surgery training fellowship when he began to learn more about physicians who were practicing full time in emergency departments. He attended the 1970 ACEP meeting and met many of the early leaders. After this, he joined with a couple friends to work in the emergency department of Forsyth Hospital in Winston-Salem. He loved this work, and the possibility of being involved in a new specialty of medicine, and did not return to surgery.
As someone who was academically oriented and had seven years of residency training, Dr. Podgorny linked with the early ACEP leaders and began to push for formation and approval of a specialty board in emergency medicine. His background and connections in the surgical world helped to lend some credibility, and allowed him to battle the opposition that came from surgical fields. He came across as a unique individual, sporting a handlebar mustache, with an exotic sounding accent and an eloquent but raspy voice. People paid attention.
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Help Us Honor An EM Leader
At the 2013 ACEP annual meeting, George Podgorny was recognized for his leadership and generosity as EMF’s first Leadership Circle member after donating a $5,000 gift to the Emergency Medicine Foundation. In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial donation in Dr. Podgorny’s name to the Emergency Medicine Foundation at www.emfoundation.org. The family will be notified of any gifts received in his memory.
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One of his most important roles came at the “Workshop Conference on Education of the Physician in Emergency Medicine” in Chicago in 1973. He was an important, persuasive figure in a comprehensive gathering of medical leaders from government, the other medical specialties, and academia. The fate of the specialty hinged on the early leaders convincing others that the field was credible and that residency training and specialists in emergency medicine were just as important as in other medical fields. The outcome was favorable and Podgorny and other early leaders in emergency medicine then made a concerted push, against considerable odds, to get ABEM established over the next 6 years. He was a key negotiator in the process, particularly in the final compromise that allowed ABEM to be approved in 1979.
Dr. Podgorny continued to practice emergency medicine for many years in Greensboro, N.C., after his direct leadership in ACEP and ABEM ended. However, he was a constant presence at the annual Scientific Assembly and offered advice and counsel to the new leaders in emergency medicine. On a personal level, George loved his Persian heritage, and his home was lavishly decorated with Persian art and furniture. He was a widely read intellectual, and an astute scholar of the history of medicine. He also loved his adopted home state of North Carolina, and was a regular at the local barbeque restaurants.
Dr. Podgorny is one a handful of people who can be considered to have been truly essential to the formation of emergency medicine. Without his forceful, scholarly, and gracious diplomacy, some of the early deliberations of the future of the specialty could have gone the other way. His loss leaves us greatly saddened, but we can warmly reflect on how his determination, skill in negotiation, and perseverance made emergency medicine become a reality in the U.S. This is his tremendous legacy. We are grateful to have had the pleasure of seeing and hearing this senior icon of emergency medicine one last time at the ACEP Scientific Assembly 2013.
Dr. Zink is the author of “Anyone, Anything, Anytime: A History of Emergency Medicine.”
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Discus giants ready to unleash in Eugene – IAAF Diamond League
Gerd Kanter, winner of the discus at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene (© Kirby Lee)
The two farthest discus throwers of the past 15 years will head to Eugene on 30 May for the Prefontaine Classic, the third leg of the 2015 IAAF Diamond League series.
Between them, Estonia’s Gerd Kanter and Poland’s Piotr Malachowski have won four of the five Diamond Race titles since the IAAF Diamond League began in 2010.
Kanter owns three of the top five throws in history, his personal best of 73.38m putting him at third on the world all-time list. He has won medals at every global championships between 2005 and 2013, including gold medals at the 2008 Olympics and 2007 World Championships. He also owns the US all-comers’ record of 72.02m.
A former Pre Classic winner, Malachowski sits at fifth on the world all-time list with his Polish record of 71.84m. He has silver medals from the 2008 Olympics as well as the 2009 and 2013 World Championships.
The Kanter-Malachowski rivalry dates back to 2006, with Kanter leading 39-31. But since 2013, Malachowski owns a 15-5 advantage.
The elite field also includes Olympic silver medallist Ehsan Hadadi of Iran. The 2011 world bronze medallist also owns multiple gold medals from the Asian Games and Asian Championships.
Robert Urbanek took the bronze medal at the 2014 European Championships, finishing ahead of fellow Pole Malachowski. The 27-year-old’s PB is 66.93m.
Germany’s Martin Wierig just missed out on a medal at the 2013 World Championships by 17 centimetres, finishing fourth. The 2007 European under-23 champion has a personal best of 68.33m.
Cuba’s Jorge Fernandez has featured in the past three global championship finals. Last year at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, he extended his personal best to 66.50m.
Russia’s Viktor Butenko broke through in 2013 at the age of 20, taking the silver medal at the European Under-23 Championships, finishing eighth at the World Championships and setting a personal best of 65.97m.
Rounding out the field is Martin Kupper of Estonia. The 25-year-old owns the early 2015 world lead, having smashed his personal best with 66.67m to win the European Cup Winter Throwing last month.
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2015 IAAF Diamond League calendar
Doha, QAT – 15 May
Shanghai, CHN – 17 May
Eugene, USA – 30 May
Rome, ITA – 4 June
Birmingham, GBR – 7 June
Oslo, NOR – 11 June
New York, USA – 13 June
Paris, FRA – 4 July
Lausanne, SUI – 9 July
Monaco, MON – 17 July
London, GBR – 24-25 July
Stockholm, SWE – 30 July
Zurich, SUI – 3 September
Brussels, BEL – 11 September
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How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Inspired Marketing’s Changemakers
Her influence reached far more than just the social justice sector
RBG has shown us how one person can make a difference and an enduring societal impact. Getty Images
By Rebecca Batterman
On Friday evening, so many of us let out a collective gasp when hearing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing. As a marketer across innovation and media, a female and a current law student seeking an advanced law degree in intellectual property, RBG’s passing hit me in a unique way. I see her successes from a legal perspective and I also see her successes from a cultural perspective. In a country when Hollywood status can make you a political leader (Ronald Regan, Sonny Bono, Arnold Schwarzenegger and of course, Donald Trump), it’s rare to have a pop culture icon lauded for her legal work. Perhaps that’s what made the appeal of RBG so infectious. She was a different kind of icon. She was unlike anyone this country had seen before and her position as the “Notorious RBG” was just that.
At first blush, you may think of RBG’s impact as socially focused in the fields of equality and injustice. Which, of course, it was. Who hasn’t seen the meme calling out the right to sign a mortgage without a man, the right to have a bank account without a male co-signer, the right to have a job without being discriminated based on gender and the right for women to be pregnant, have kids and also work—all of which are our reality—thanks to RBG? But her impact reached far more than just the social justice sector. As marketers, we can see her impact woven throughout all we do and how we do it. Her influence on our industry holds great value.
Industry impact
When RBG entered law school in 1956, women made up 3% of the legal profession in the US. As Ginsburg shared in a 2016 opinion piece for The New York Times: “Today about half the nation’s law students and more than one-third of our federal judges are women. … Women hold more than 30 percent of law school deanships in the United States and serve as general counsel to 24 percent of Fortune 500 companies. In my long life, I have seen great changes.”
Taking a page from RBG’s book, how will you apply your creative and strategic marketing powers to represent brand innovation and influence?
At the same time RBG entered law school, the marketing/advertising industry was male dominated a la the Mad Men era. Women’s roles were limited to secretarial support. RBG’s work was dedicated to helping men understand that sexism hurts them too and that “women belong in all places where decisions are being made.” Given that women lead consumer purchasing decisions, having them at the table to develop consumer marketing seems obvious, but prior to RBG, was not the case.
As marketers, we are storytellers and our role is to tell stories that have happened, that are happening, but also tell stories of what can happen. We have the opportunities to craft a future and introduce new concepts, new norms to society. We have a significant role in creating new realities. A social responsibility exists that is not limited just to those that take an oath of office or who have committed their careers to law. As marketers, we also have an opportunity to use our voices for good, for impact, for change. RBG has shown us how one person can make a difference and an enduring societal impact.
Marketing creates culture, culture creates change, change creates new laws, which in turn creates new norms. It wasn’t long ago that marketing and media depicted couples, family and gender roles within a certain mold. Now, we frequently see commercials, ads and shows with interracial and same-sex couples and nonbinary individuals. As marketers, we can—and should—introduce innovation that can break barriers across product, messaging, content and engagement.
Rebecca Batterman
Rebecca Batterman is a strategy consultant, consumer marketing and IP expert.
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REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DEDROGODEPENDENCIAS
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The Revista Española de Drogodependencias sets out to ensure scientific dissemination of research works connected with alcoholism and other drug addictions, including non-toxic dependencies.
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Review. A written work for reviewing several primary articles already published. These reviews may simply be annotated bibliographies in the field of drug addictions, or critical and interpretative studies on works published in this field. They must be no longer than 6000 words for the main text, excluding abstract, tables and references. Review manuscripts must have the following parts in this order: 1. Introduction; 2. Methods; 3. Results; 4. Discussion and 5. References.
Original. A scientific work describing original results in the field of drug addictions, in such a way that the information enables other colleagues to assess the observations, repeat the experiments and assess whether the data justifies the author's conclusions. Logic, clarity and accuracy in their presentation are required. The maximum recommendable length should be 5000 words (excluding abstract, tables and references) containing the following sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Methods; 3. Results; 4. Discussion and 5. References.
Short paper. A brief written work with final or preliminary results on research works on drug addictions, not giving details on the experiments or doing so very briefly, and with the very briefest bibliographical citations. The maximum length should be 3500 words (excluding abstract, tables and references), with up to 10 bibliographic citations and 3 illustrations.
Legal section. Scientific work in the legal area describing original research results in the field of drug addictions. Logic, clarity and accuracy in the presentation are required. The maximum recommendable length should be 5000 words, excluding abstract, tables and references.
The RED also publishes invited editorials, clinical cases, opinion articles and book reviews.
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Except for express exceptions allowed by the editors, the works should never be over 6000 words. Publication priority will be granted to hitherto unpublished works which have not been submitted for consideration by any other graphic media, the author having to declare this when sending in the work. Authors must not submit articles that have been published elsewhere or are under consideration for publication elsewhere.
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Authors who are interested in contributing one of the invited types of article may make a proposal to the editorial secretary (via sec_red@aesed.com).
Each work must be sent by email to a sec_red@aesed.com on a computer support. The text will be PC-processed in Microsoft Word format.
The first page will have to include the work's title, in both Spanish and English, list of authors, affiliations and the full address of the author or authors (work centre, telephone number and electronic mail).
The second sheet should contain the abstract in Spanish and English, from 150 to 250 words long. This should be understandable without having to read the full work and should be accompanied by 3 to 6 keywords for indexes, also in both languages mentioned. The text of the article should start on the third page.
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If there is more than one author all of these must be stated, separated by a semi-colon (;) except for the last one, which shall be preceded by the conjunction 'and'.
E.g.: Megías Valenzuela, E.; Comas, D.; Elzo, J.; Megías, I.; Navarro, J.; Rodríguez, E. and Romaní, O. (2001). Valores sociales y drogas. Madrid: Fundación de Ayuda a la Drogadicción (FAD).
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Dairy Queen’s Miracle Treat Day is Thursday, Aug. 8. (Dan Ferguson photo)
Chill out with Dairy Queen to support BC Children’s Hospital on Aug. 8
Annual event set for Thursday, Aug. 8 across province
An annual summer cooling trend is set for next week, but there’s no need to consult your local weather forecast – it’s only Dairy Queen’s Miracle Treat Day that will be helping to chill B.C. residents.
This year’s Miracle Treat Day – an initiative now in its 17th year – is Thursday, Aug. 8 at Dairy Queen locations across the province.
On Treat Day, proceeds from the sale of Blizzards goes to support BC Children’s Hospital Foundation.
“Over 93,000 kids in BC receive care from BC Children’s Hospital each year, and the community donations we receive are critical to helping provide the best health care imaginable for these children,” says Maria Faccio, vice president of philanthropy at BC Children’s Hospital Foundation.
Last year, more than $460,000 was raised, and over the years, Dairy Queen has donated more than $7.1 million to the hospital.
For more, visit www.miracletreatday.ca
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Australia Immigration and Visa Requirements
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There are a number of visas available to gain entry into Australia, which one you apply for will obviously depend on your individual circumstances.
Permanent residency visas include skilled worker visa, partner visa, investor visa, business talent visa, business innovation and investment visas just to name a few. An exhaustive list of your options can be found on the Australian Government website.
Shipping Your Items to Australia
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Absolute prohibition means you cannot import that item under any circumstances, restriction items will require written permission for importation.
You can find a complete list of restricted and prohibited imports on the Australian Border Government website, here are a few examples:
Dangerous Dog Breeds – Dogo Argentino, Fila Brasileiro, Japanese Tosa, Pit Bull Terrier, Presa Canario
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It is hard to say where the BEST place to live in Australia is, however there will always be a best for YOUR circumstances. We have done a quick round up of the most popular destinations for moving to Australia from the UK and why they would be beneficial. But of course, we do recommend you do research yourself to find out which city most suits your personality and living requirements.
Melbourne is the hip and individual second city of Australia, widely known for its flourishing food, arts and culture scene. If you are a fan of partying, you will find that some of Australia’s best nightlife is in Melbourne, as well of a vast range of music festivals, performing arts events and of course – some of the best dining establishments. The Economist quite often rates Melbourne as the most liveable city in the WORLD, so we’d be very surprised if you had a bad time. Although Melbourne has four distinct seasons, it is quite well known to also experience all “four seasons in a day,” so be prepared!
Sydney, New South
Wales We are sure you were already expecting this one, but Sydney is here with good reason. For many people, Sydney is the first city that many people think of when they hear ‘Australia,’ thanks to its iconic landmarks and golden beaches. Sydney really is world-famous. With close to five million residents, the vibrant metropolitan is Australia’s most populated city, favoured by natives, expats and young travellers alike. The city is bustling for the most part, but there are a lot of quieter and more tranquil neighbourhoods for those looking to wind down.
Brisbane is a quirky and eccentric cosmopolitan city and it is bursting at the seams with diversity, whether this is of its residents, culture, arts communities and even its social scenes. The city is a notable business hub in Australia, with a number of industries such as I.T, finance and the public sector exceeding all expectations. If you are moving to Brisbane with children, good new… the city takes the education of its youth extremely seriously, so you will find a plethora of nationally and internationally acclaimed schools within the city.
If you are looking a city that offers a strong economy and high employment rates, look no further than Adelaide, South Australia. The city is flourishing with career and educational successes, but they still know how to have fun in Adelaide. The city is diverse and celebrates uniqueness, with its residents coming from all cultures, all walks of life, all ethnicities and each is welcomed with open arms. Adelaide appreciates art in all forms, festivals and a good bit of entertainment.
The Gold Coast appeals to everybody of ALL ages, so it has grown to be a popular city of choice amongst families. The Gold Coast boasts approximately 43 miles of beaches and thanks to its very mild climate, almost every day is the perfect beach day! There are a number of national parks and wildlife sanctuary’s if you like to be with nature, but if you are more of a thrill seeker, there is no shortage of theme parks and water parks in the Gold Coast. Even though the Gold Coast is well-known for its chilled vibe, the nightlife scene is certainly a lively one…
Getting to know Australia
When people think of the Australian climate, most people just imagine HOT, HOT, HOT, but this is not always the case. Due to the sheer size of Australia, the vast country experiences a number of varied climates across the lands.
The northern states and cities of Australia have a more tropical climate and it sees hot and humid summers with generally mild winters and usually dry. Whereas southern Australia is has slightly moderate summers (albeit a lot warmer than our summer in the UK) and mild winters that can get fairly rainy. When you are relocating to Australia it is also worth remembering that UK and Australia’s seasons are opposites, so it’s likely you’ll be having a BBQ on Christmas Day instead of a big old roast.
Australia is world-renowned for its astounding attractions, whether this is a natural wonder or an internationally recognised architectural structure. The list of attractions and things to do in Australia is expansive, so we have picked out a few of our MUST SEE’s for anybody immigrating to or travelling Australia.
We couldn’t have a list of the best Australian attractions without the Great Barrier Reef. We would be lying if we left it out! The Great Barrier Reef could well be regarded as the best destination in the world for lovers of the ‘big blue,’ with over 2900 coral reefs and innumerable islands. You can explore the reef on a boat cruise but we think the best way is scuba diving, especially if you want to catch a good view of the fascinating sea creatures that lurk around the reef.
Uluru, formerly known as Ayres Rock, is one of the most instantly recognisable Australian landmarks. The vibrant red sandstone formation is one of Australia’s top tourist attractions but with good reason. Uluru is a sacred site to Anangu, a local Aboriginal tribe, situated in the heart of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. The best way to appreciate and learn about the sacred rocks is through a tour around the park with an Aboriginal guide or ranger.
Daintree National Park
Daintree National Park is a world heritage site that is one of the oldest ecosystems on earth. The area is property of the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginees and it is believed that many of its features and landmarks hold great spiritual significance. There is two main sections within the park; Mossman Gorge and Cape Tribulation. Mossman Gorge covers an amazing 56,500 hectares of rainforests, woodlands and mountains, and Cape Tribulation consists of 17,000 hectares of more beach and costal scenes.
Sydney Harbour and Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is an iconic Australian attraction, and usually one of the first things people think of when they hear the word ‘Australia.’ Known to people all around the globe, the instantly recognisable architectural structure is definitely worth a visit, you can take a tour of its cinema, theatres, studios or concert hall. Two birds with one stone, while you are in the area we absolutely recommend that you spend an afternoon strolling the Sydney Harbour. You can explore the harbour on foot, although boat is becoming a much more popular option. You can enjoy stunning scenery at every turn of the head and appreciate a frontal view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Starting in Torquay, Victoria, stretching all the way down to Allansford, the Great Ocean Road is 151 miles of stunning coastal drives and some of the most beautiful scenery in Australia, including the infamous Twelve Apostles – limestone formations that climb out of the ocean. Other sightseeing spots along the mammoth drive include Loch Ard Gorge, London Bridge and the Arch.
Technically, there is no official language in Australia, but the de facto national language has long been regarded as English. Like in most other English speaking countries, Australian English differs in grammar, spelling, accents and lexicon.
The 2016 census found that 70% of the Australian population spoke only English within the home. Following this, the next most popular languages spoken within the home include Mandarin at 2.5%, Arabic at 1.4% and Cantonese and Vietnamese, both at 1.2%.
At the point of first European contact, there was believed to be approximately 500 aboriginal languages spoken in Australia, however the majority of these are now extinct. Roughly 50,000 people speak an indigenous language as their mother tongue.
Australian education consists of five sectors; early childhood education, primary education, secondary education, tertiary education and adult education.
Early childhood education, or preschool, is not compulsory in Australia and therefore it is fairly unregulated. Preschools are ran by territory governments for the most part, except in Victoria and New South Wales, where it is generally operated by local councils and private organisations. Preschool is available from the ages of 3 to 5, and although attendance is an average 85.7%, the most commonly attended year is the year before the child is due to join primary education, to get them used to the system.
Primary and secondary education IS compulsory in Australia, although the ages your child will attend from and until will vary depending on the state you relocated to, this could be from 5 or 6 until 15 or 17.
60% of Australian students are education within a government school and the remaining 40% attend either an independent or catholic institution. There is a small handful of Australian students that are legally home-schooled, although this does only tend to be in extreme rural areas where it is often too hard to travel to the nearest school.
Tertiary education is also known as higher education, which is not compulsory. Further education in Australia means attending a university or technical college to study a diploma, degree or to gain a qualification in further skills, trades or training.
Australia has 43 universities, of which 40 are public universities, two international universities and one private university. There are several notable and prestigious universities located in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane and the largest Australian university is Monash University in Melbourne – 75,000 pupils and five campuses.
Property prices in Australia
It is fairly well known all around the world that house prices in Australia can get reach pretty high figures, similar to cost of purchasing a home on London. Only in Australia, the average wages are considerably higher than those of the UK so you might not find it too hard to get onto the property ladder.
Every state is different when it comes to the cost of property, but so is every individual city within the state. Some cities are more in demand than others which sees a hike in property prices. Below we have listed the most popular state within each Australian state and its average property price:
Sydney, New South Wales – AU$852,000 = £504,431
Melbourne, Victoria – AU$641,000 = £379,507
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory – AU$595,000 = £352,273
Perth, Western Australia – AU$490,000 = £290,107
Brisbane, Queensland – AU$486,000 = £287,739
Adelaide, South Australia – AU$425,000 = £251,624
Hobart, Tasmania – AU$345,000 = £204,259
(ALL EXCHANGE RATES CALCULATED IN OCTOBER 2017)
Cost of renting in Australia
We have provided a rundown of what kind of properties you can get for your money when renting in Australia. The most expensive city to live in is Sydney, but similarly to London, you will find higher wages there to compensate for this. Since Melbourne is regularly declared the most liveable city in the world, we have used this wonderful city as an example.
85 m2 Furnished Accommodation in Expensive Area – AU$2,846 (per month) = £1,685
85 m2 Furnished Accommodation in Normal Area – AU $2,003 (per month) = £1,186
45 m2 Furnished Studio in Expensive Area – AU $1,963 (per month) = £1,162
45 m2 Furnished Studio in Normal Area – AU $1,452 (per month) = £860
Utilities; Heating, Electricity, Gas for 2 in 85 m2 Flat – AU $338 (per month) = £200
8 mbps Internet – AU $59(per month) = £35
The official currency and legal tender of Australia is the Australian dollar. In 2016, the Australian dollar was the fifth most traded currency in the world, at 6.9% of the daily share.
The high interest rates in Australia, a stable economy and the freedom of the foreign exchange market are just some of the reasons why the Australian dollar is popular with currency traders.
The Australian Dollar is pegged against the US Dollar at US $0.78 = AU $1 and GBP £0.58= AU $1. You might be wondering ‘what is the cost of everyday items in Australia?’ Are essentials expensive?
Here is the cost of some basic and everyday items in Melbourne:
1 Litre of Whole Fat Milk – AU $1.29 = £0.76
Bread for Two People for One Day – AU $2.29 = £1.36
12 Large Eggs – AU $6 = £3.55
500g of Chicken Breast – AU $5.88 = £3.48
500g of Local Cheese – AU $8 = £4.74
1kg of Potatoes – AU $3.28 = £1.94
1kg of Tomatoes – AU $4.72 = £2.79
4 Rolls of Toilet Paper – AU $2.90 = £1.72
50ml Roll-On Deodorant – AU $5.04 = £2.98
One Box of 32 Tampons – AU $7 = £4.14
One Tube of Toothpaste – AU $3.66 = £2.17
If you are moving from the UK to Australia, you will be pleased to know that depending on which state you relocate to, you might just get one or two more bank holidays than you do in England. If you tally up the regional and national public holidays, there are 29 in total. Only six of these are nationwide.
National Public Holidays:
1 st January – New Year’s Days
26 th January – Australia Day
The Friday before Easter Sunday – Good Friday
The Monday after Easter Sunday – Easter Monday
25 th April – Anzac Day
25 th December – Christmas Day
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1) “From My Life”
Bedřich Smetana wrote his “autobiography in tones” while afflicted with serious illness – in this context, he passes his life in review in his quasi-symphonic String Quartet in E minor.
The death of his beloved sister Fanny prompted Felix Mendelssohn to write one of his most famous works, the String Quartet, op. 80. In it we hear rebellion, despair, and inner turmoil – tragically, it was to be the composer’s final work.
In contrast, the old master Haydn appears to have been spared any major life adversity, his works practically sparkling with humor and energy. In the “Fifths” Quartet, he draws inspiration from his travels in England, which is particularly apparent in the central fifth motif – the chimes of London’s famed Big Ben.
Joseph Haydn: String quartet in D minor op.76/2 "Fiths"
Felix Mendelssohn: String quartet No.6 in F minor, Op.80
Bedrich Smetana: String quartet No. 1 in E minor, „From my life“
2) „Folklore“
Many composers were influenced time and again by the love of their homeland, from the varied and ravishing sound worlds of the Norwegian Romanticist Edvard Grieg to the explosive rhythms and frenetic energy of the Argentinian Ginastera. Joseph Haydn also drew on the sounds of folk music, as can be clearly heard in his “Fifths” Quartet: with temperament and verve, he creates a stirring connection with the Hungarian origins of Count Erdödy, who commissioned the work.
Joseph Haydn: String quartet in D minor op.76/2, "Fiths"
Alberto Ginastera: String quartet No.2, op.26
Edvard Grieg: String quartet No.1 in G minor, op. 27
3) “Prohibited Music”
The unthinkable crimes of the Nazi regime included the stigmatization and persecution of great artists. Composers like Erwin Schulhoff and Pavel Haas died in Nazi concentration camps; the music of Felix Mendelssohn, too, was considered “degenerate” due to his Jewish ancestry.
Erwin Schulhoff: „5 pieces for String Quartet“
Pavel Haas: String quartet No. 3, Op.15
Felix Mendelssohn: String quartet No.6 in F minor, op. 80
4) “Classical”
The centerpiece of this program is Franz Schubert’s String Quartet in G major, one of the most important works of the genre. It is combined with the rousing energy of the D-major Quartet, op. 20, no. 4 by Joseph Haydn and the humorous Five Pieces by Erwin Schulhoff – who, with his varied oeuvre, has long been considered one of the classic composers of modernism.
J. Haydn: String quartet in D Major, Op. 20/4
E. Schulhoff: „5 pieces for String quartet“
F. Schubert: String quartet No.15 in G Major, D887
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Felix Mendelssohn: String quartet in F minor, op. 80
Franz Schubert: String quintet in C major, D956
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Joseph Haydn: String quartet in D major, Op. 20/4
Erwin Schulhoff: „5 pieces for for String quartet“
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet quintet in B minor, Op.115
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Joseph Haydn: String quartet in D mino op.76/2, „Fiths“
Robert Schumann Piano quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 OR
Johannes Brahms: Piano quintet in F minor, op.34
1) “Through the ages”
Few composers underwent such a remarkable development as Franz Schubert. In this program, his first and final string quartets are presented alongside each other: a balancing act between elegant simplicity and extreme emotionality. The Munich-born composer Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle is also keen to experiment, exploring new sound worlds in his string quartets.
Franz Schubert: String quartet No.1 "in mixed keys"
Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle (*1957): String quartet No.1
Franz Schubert: String quartet No.15 in G-Major, D887
2) “Revolutionary”
Always revolutionary and ahead of his time – one of the most characteristic features of the great Ludwig van Beethoven is his irrepressible urge to innovate. This reveals itself in his early and late works in completely different ways, which becomes clear when they are directly compared – from youthful freshness to sublime lyricism, the variety in Beethoven’s music leaves no room for doubt about his genius.
The works by Beethoven are contrasted with the “Attacca” String Quartet by up-and-coming composer Gerald Resch, which the Aris Quartet will be premiering at the Musikverein Wien in 2020.
Ludwig van Beethoven: String quartet No.1 in F major, Op. 18/1
Gerald Resch (*1975): „Attacca“ for String quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven: String quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127
Felix Mendelssohn: String quartet in E- flat minor, op. 44/1
Schumann: String quartet op. 41/1
Schubert String quintet in C major D956
Joseph Haydn: String quaret in D Major, Op. 20/4
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Intersecting Indigenous, Black, and Refugee Lives: A Coalition-Building Conversation
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This coalition building action is born out of a desire to create a more just and equitable world and in direct response to the urgent need for historically undervalued and marginalized communities to deepen their understanding of ONE ANOTHER. You are invited to one of many conversations where we explore the intersecting histories, struggles, experiences, and strategies of Indigenous, Black, and immigrant/refugee lives within our own community through the LENS OF ART.
By naming one’s reality, listening with radical empathy, humanizing the struggles of our neighbors (however distant), and finding common ground, WE CATALYZE CHANGE.
ARTogether is excited to host our first panel with an amazing panel of speakers, facilitated by Patricia Rojas-Zambrano, as we explore topics such as: equity; sense of belonging to a community; multicultural spaces; the role of art / the artist during such times. After hearing from our speakers the audience will be able to ask specific questions to deepen their understanding.
Facilitator: Patricia Rojas-Zambrano is a psychotherapist, activist, artist, and educator. She completed a B.S in Psychology at Universidad de Los Andes in her native Colombia where she worked in community-based programs. Upon relocating to the US to complete graduate studies at CIIS (EXA, 02), she focused her practice towards community mental health settings that serve immigrant and refugee communities. In her clinical practice she has specialized in the treatment of trauma using both Expressive arts and somatic approaches including focusing, movement-based, and mindfulness approaches such as Hakomi. She is the co-founder and Director of Wellness in Action at the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants, a community-based training program for unserved and underserved communities and mental health practitioners of color. Ancestral knowledge, relational wisdom and embodied practices are central to this work. Her passion for education inspired her to pursue doctoral studies in Multicultural and International Education with a special emphasis on decolonizing methodologies and critical pedagogy, which is currently underway at the University of San Francisco. Patricia is also a book artist and painter. Her explorations in this field began with her love of books and her desire to process her everyday life through the arts. She has been dancing and swimming from a young age, and loves urban walks around her Berkeley neighborhoods.
Panelist: Rhatura is a mystic, sage, healer, activist, youth worker, and creative genius with a touch of East Coast and soulful swagger. Rha has been working with youth for over 20 years as a summer school instructor, after school teacher, camp counselor and after school program director at various non-profits serving Oakland communities. In the realms of spirituality and art, Rha is a Jack of all trades who reads tarot, concocts elixirs and cordials, creates spell candles, prescribes crystal remedies, designs sigils, and explores healing with sound, hands and crystals. He is a painter, poet, beat maker, t-shirt designer, jewelry maker, illustrator, writer, actor, crafter and freelance graphic designer. The light of his soul serves as a beacon and his manifestations radiate love, wisdom, spirituality and dope vibes.
Panelist: Rulan Tangen is the founder and Artistic Director of DANCING EARTH CREATIONS (DE) since 2004. After years of teaching dance workshops to reservation youth, she strove to create hope and opportunity for aspiring performers, theater artists and technicians, who also serve as culture carriers, art educators, and leaders. Dancing Earth has thus inspired a new generation of Indigenous performers to express their culture in vital contemporary and experimental forms. Her work values movement as an expression of plurality of indigenous worldview, dance as functional ritual for transformation and healing, and the energetic connection with all forms of life on earth. Her professional experience spans international ballet, modern dance, opera, circus, film and television production. Her vision for Dancing Earth is recognized through honors for the company which include the first dance fellowship for Artistic Innovation by the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation which supported the making of “Walking At The Edge Of Water”, the Costo Medal for Education, Research and Service from UC Riverside, and as Dance Magazine’s pick as one of “25 To Watch,” the New Mexico School for the Arts‘ Community Arts Leadership award, the 2015 Arts & Social Change Award from Arts and Healing Network, and was honored as a top ten finalist across all disciplines for the Nathan Cummings Fellowship for Social Change. “To dance is to live, to live is to dance.”
Panelist: Shawn Sockie Chizito was born and raised in Uganda and lived in Kenya for close to 4 years as a refugee after fleeing his home country. In June 2018, Sockie moved to America and has lived in Oakland since. He has worked with a number of nonprofits both in Uganda and Kenya, mostly focused on the marginalized members of society. Sockie currently works as a clerk at a grocery store and is going to school to be a registered nurse.
Panelist: Rhummanee Hang is a second generation Khmai American, performance artist, and educator who was born and raised in Oakland, CA. She has used art as education since she was 13, honing her dance, theatre, and spoken word skills as a member of performance and dance companies in Oakland and Sacramento. Rhummanee has had many years of experience in racial equity work, culturally specific programming, youth development, and Southeast Asian anti-deportation organizing and has worked with organizations like World Trust Educational Services, Banteay Srei, and the Center for Empowering Refugees & Immigrants. She has earned a Bachelors Degree in Sociology at UC Davis and a Masters Degree in International & Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco. Rhummanee is an Aquarian dragon, crafter, and most importantly, Mommy to the amazing toddler, Noreak!
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Asset Owners Moves
Indira Vergis
Why NPS needs a permanent chief investment officer
Korea's National Pension Service has posted a good set of annual results in 2017, despite losing a string of senior investment executives. Its luck could run out this year.
The merry-go-round of top executives at South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) continues unabated. Impressively, it doesn’t seem to have dented the financial performance of the world’s third-largest public pension fund.
At least, not so far.
In the latest change-of-guard to the acting chief investment officer (CIO) role, Cho In-sik stepped down in July following an internal audit of the pension fund's support for a controversial merger between two Samsung affiliates in 2015.
Lee Soo-cheol then became NPS’s acting CIO, in addition to his role as head of investment strategy. He is the organisation’s second acting CIO in 12 months, following the resignation of CIO Kang Myoung-wook in July 2017. Meanwhile, the year-old search for a permanent CIO continues.
The lack of a long-term temporary leader, let alone a permanent one, is not conducive to continuity in investment policy. But the impact of this instability has been muted to date. NPS’s results for 2017 were very robust; it produced a 7.2% investment return for the year, fuelled by the soaring value of its domestic and global shareholdings as stock markets boomed.
Equities accounted for 38.6% of NPS’s portfolio at the end of December 2017, with its overseas shares generating an annual return of around 26% and domestic shares adding about 11%.
Other asset classes did less well for NPS last year. Alternatives, which accounted for 10.5% of its investment portfolio, returned 4.53%, while domestic and global fixed income yielded returns of just 0.51% and 0.14%, respectively. The Korean fund has 51% of its assets in fixed income instruments.
To some degree, the absence of any negative fallout from the revolving door at the top of the organisation is not that surprising. The NPS is administered and managed by Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare, and appointees to the role are often political in nature. The pension fund has numerous divisional heads underneath the CIO too, who do have to be more specialist in nature.
But in other respects that is mainly down to good fortune; NPS’s CIO-less vigour in 2017 was likely down to plain luck as global stock markets rallied, as much as anything else. 2018 is turning out to be an altogether different ball game, with international trade frictions escalating, global economic growth becoming less synchronised and Western monetary policy slowly being tightened.
That in turn is worrying equity markets. The S&P 500, which tracks the US’s largest listed companies, is up 5.4% so far this year, but that compares to the 17.4% return recorded across 2017. China’s Shanghai Composite Index, which tracks the Shanghai Stock Exchange, has fallen 13.11% over the same period, while the Korea Composite Stock Price Index is down 7.1%.
It is also reflected in NPS’s performance so far this year. Its portfolio of domestic equities fell 1.18% from January to the end of May, while global equities rose by 1.66%. Alternatives gained 2.17% while domestic and global fixed income offered year to date returns of just 0.45% and 0.3%, respectively.
Add into the picture NPS’s dismissal of its domestic equities head (and installation of another acting chief), and it looks increasingly unlikely that the asset class will offer the pension fund anything like the sizzling returns it supplied last year.
TRUE TEST
The coming months will show how well the organisation can ride out the increased market volatility and any unexpected disruptions without an investment chief overseeing its portfolio.
Currently, the Ministry of Health and Welfare leads the 20-member fund management committee (FMC) that makes important decisions regarding NPS’s investment management. The fund itself is entrusted with the administration and management of its assets (including making tactical asset allocations, investment execution, market monitoring and portfolio management).
The FMC’s decisions have to pass through a few layers of government before being approved. It’s a process that seems to have worked under normal market conditions, but it risks being overly bureaucratic when market conditions swing and the fund needs to respond with sizeable asset shifts.
The ministry’s committee is also in charge of setting out the NPS’s medium-term asset allocation strategy and its annual investment plan. For the 2017-2022 period it has set an annual return target of 5.1% based on its expectations of real economic growth and inflation. The target portfolio at the end of this period is to have about 45% in equities, 45% in fixed income and 10% in alternatives.
Based on its last known weightings that suggests the fund needs to plough more assets into stocks in the next few years, while cutting back on its fixed income holdings.
While the NPS investment team is believed to operate with a high degree of independence and look to a CIO only for overall guidance, a more permanent CIO can monitor market developments closely and implement such strategic shifts at the right time. A politically minded FMC is likely to be much slower to react to fast-moving market events.
Having a CIO on a more lasting basis could also help the pension fund continue to improve its due diligence and risk-management processes, something former CIO Cho had said was a priority.
JEONJU JUJU
Complicating the hiring process is the 2017 relocation of NPS’s investment headquarters to Jeonju, a province more than two hours away by road from Seoul (and 1-1/2 hours by train).
The shift has not gone down well with investment specialists and has led to a steady drawdown of portfolio managers across departments, according to senior executives at fund managers and peer pension funds in Korea who have previously spoken to AsianInvestor on condition of anonymity.
In short, the fund has so far struggled to find enough suitable candidates with the specialist investment skills required in Jeonju.
The Korean fund continues to issue job notices on its website, calling for applications from candidates with expertise in private equity, real estate and infrastructure, as it continues to diversify away from low-yielding fixed income. But with an acting global alternatives head, it’s possible that the best and brightest applicants will be put off from applying as they wonder about the staying power of their prospective bosses and, consequently, investment decisions.
With global markets turning more volatile, NPS looks increasingly in need of a permanent CIO – one who isn’t just parachuted in by government but has the right investment credentials to successfully navigate the growing uncertainty and attract qualified executives to help NPS invest its swelling chest of retirement savings.
2018 could make that need abundantly clear.
Ernest Chan and Richard Morrow contributed to this story.
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Charles Batte was born in Kamwokya, one of the most impoverished slums in Uganda. He grew up in an environment characterised by lack of opportunity, poverty, crime, drugs and poor health service delivery. This early experience inculcated in him a spirit of social responsibility that has been responsible for his work towards sustainable development. Founder of the global award winning health initiative Family Health Centre, he is a magna summa laude graduate of Human Medicine and Surgery from Makerere University. Charles’s social entrepreneurial journey spans 8 years. Having established Empower Community farm to combat malnutrition and promote sustainable agricultural methods in Katiiti Village. He also founded Tree Adoption Uganda – a social enterprise working to demystify the linkages between climate change and health. For his work he won the 2012 World Merit Global Ambassador for Social Entrepreneurship award travelling to over 20 countries on 5 continents to inspire and work with youths, in 2013 he was named Global Laureate Fellow by the International Youth Foundation. In 2014 he was a finalist in the HRH the Prince of Wales award for sustainable living entrepreneurs. In 2015 he was named Dalai Lama Fellow for social entrepreneurs, winner at the US Department of Sate – Global Innovation through Science and technology (GIST) competition at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit – Nairobi organized and attended by President Obama of the USA, winner of the United Nation’s Framework on Climate change Conference (UNFCC)Youth video Award and the CommonWealth Youth Bright Ideas competition. He has recently been invited to give key note speeches at the World Forestry Congress by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and at the youth event during the CommonWealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta. He is currently a World Merit expert for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 3 – Health and wellbeing mentoring youth from all around the world working is the health sector.
Stephen Bauer serves as Public Allies’ Chief of Staff where he works with the national network to operationalize the strategic vision of the organization to create a more just and equitable society and the diverse leadership to sustain it. Prior to this role, Bauer served as Director of Strategic Initiatives where he managed a diverse portfolio of work including new site expansion, the National Leadership Institute, national recruitment efforts, and work to increase academic pathways for our Allies. Prior to coming to Public Allies, Stephen was the Director of National Partnerships and External Relations at The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance where, most notably, he launched a national coalition in partnership with Public Allies focused on increasing pathways and support for next generation nonprofit leaders. Stephen was selected as an Independent Sector NGen Fellow (2013-14), a National Human Service Assembly Civic Sector Leadership Fellow (2010-11), and holds a certification in Nonprofit Management and a master’s degree in College Student Personnel from Western Illinois University.
Kelvin Cheung can be described as a force of positive disruption – meaning that he constantly believes things can be better in function or design, and that’s why he is passionate about social innovation, youth entrepreneurship and societal transformation. Kelvin achieves this through his work at the GoodLab, Hong Kong’s social innovation consultancy and co-working space. Along with directors Ada Wong JP, Francis Ngai, KK Tse and Patrick Cheung, they work with governments, businesses and NGOs on creating programs and partnerships for societal change. He also heads up UnLtd HK, a foundation that provides funding and on-going mentorship for early stage social innovators here in Hong Kong. Based on the model of UnLtd UK, which has supported 13,000 innovators, UnLtd HK identifies, selects, and mentors social innovators to help make their idea into a reality. UnLtd Hong Kong currently supports 18 entrepreneurs. Previous to this career in Hong Kong, Kelvin honed his social entrepreneurial experience in London. After his studies there in International Development, Kelvin founded FoodCycle, an award winning charity based in the UK that builds communities by combining volunteers, surplus food and a spare kitchen space to create nutritious meals for those at risk of food poverty and social isolation. Set up in 2008, FoodCycle is now in 24 locations across the country and has a network of over 1,200 volunteers. Before FoodCycle, he worked at MyBnk, a youth financial education charity based in London run by Lily Lapenna, an Ashoka fellow. Kelvin is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and also sat on the food advisory board for the Mayor of London. Kelvin has been a cyclist for half of his life. He rides on the road, in the forests and also has been an indoor cycling instructor for the past 10 years, something he still does on the side. He’s biked from Vancouver to Toronto for charity when he was 18, and continues to balance in cycling into his weekly life, which provides him the energy and reflection time needed for the rest of his work. He’s married, with no pets, and 6 bikes.
Maria Choi leads up fundraising & partnerships at Code.org, a non-profit with a mission to bring free computer science education to all students, with a focus on increasing participation among females and underrepresented students of color. Previously, Maria worked for brands like Sesame Workshop, NFL, and UNICEF. Her other passion is volunteering for Nomi Network, a social enterprise dedicated to creating jobs for survivors of human and sex trafficking.
David Olawuyi Fakunle is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2013 David received a pre-doctoral fellowship with the Drug Dependence Epidemiology Training Program, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, becoming the program’s first Black male pre-doctoral fellow. At Johns Hopkins, David focuses his research on sociodemographic associations with stressors within the built environment such as tobacco outlet density and e-cigarette availability, the manifestations of institutional racism in society, and the utilization of arts and culture to promote equity and social justice. In 2016, David began a year-long fellowship with the Baltimore City Health Department working in Community Engagement and Policy. He received his B.A. in Psychology and Criminology & Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2009. In addition to his academic, research and professional endeavors, David has been a performing artist, including vocal/theater performance, African storytelling, and African drumming, for over 20 years. He is the co-founder and primary facilitator of DiscoverME/RecoverME, an intervention program that utilizes the African oral tradition to aid in recovery from societal traumas.
Ligia Guallpa, the daughter of a former day laborer and garment worker, is the Executive Director of Workers Justice Project (WJP), a community-based building, workers’ rights organization that is winning better working conditions for low-wage immigrant workers. At WJP, Ms. Guallpa has spearheaded efforts to ensure safe and dignified jobs for NYC’s 2,000 day laborers, construction workers, and domestic workers. Through her leadership, WJP played a key role in the creation of a new union, Laborers’ Local 10, built an alternative economic model to transform the conditions for female day laborers in the house cleaning industry, and enforced higher wages and safety standards in the post Hurricane Sandy reconstruction. Ms. Guallpa’s work has been covered on Univision and in publications like The Nation, New York Daily News, and The New York Times.
Stephen Hanmer is Director of Education & Permanency Support for SCO Family of Services, one of the largest non-governmental providers of social services in New York City. Stephen previously led UNICEF’s global initiatives with legislative branches of government and religious communities, including the development of global guidance for over 160 country offices. Before that, Stephen served as child protection advisor for the International Rescue Committee’s programs in Burundi, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Lebanon, Liberia, State of Palestine, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania. Stephen also worked for national and international NGOs in programs for vulnerable and at-risk children in the United States, Pakistan, India, and Brazil. Stephen graduated from Yale University with a degree in History and received his Law and Social Work degrees from Columbia University.
Michael E. Hill of Washington, DC is the President & Chief Executive Officer of Youth For Understanding USA, assuming the position in June 2013. Since his appointment, Hill has ushered in a new vision for YFU, dramatically expanding and diversifying programs, relocating the organization’s national headquarters to a new state-of-the-art complex in Washington, DC; and co-leading a historic civil rights trip to Cuba with the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC, at the invitation of Mariela Castro, two weeks before diplomatic relations were restored between the US and the island nation. He has provided an important advocacy voice in his role as a member of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for International Exchange and has served as a panelist and speaker on issues surrounding international education and exchange. Prior to joining YFU, he served as Senior Vice President of External Affairs for United Cerebral Palsy. In that role, he led international public education, fundraising, communications, marketing and branding efforts for one for the world’s largest health care charities. He led national development, communications and volunteer efforts for Washington National Cathedral as Executive Director for External Relations and held a similar role at The Washington Ballet. Hill directed a $125 million effort to expand the historic Arena Stage, securing the largest single gift ever made to a theater in the United States, and served as Executive Director of St. Bonaventure University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, where he oversaw the construction of a new museum complex, the renovation of a historic theater, the addition of an artist residency center and the quadrupling of programming at the multi-venue arts complex. Starting his career as a journalist, he served as a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Fellow and as a Staff Correspondent for the Courier-Observer. He holds a BA in journalism from St. Bonaventure and an MA in arts and cultural management from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Hill is an international educator and founding faculty member of the Master of Arts Management program at George Mason University, where in 2011, he was named faculty member of the year. He has also given lectures on the non-profit sector to groups from France and China in his work with GMU and as a visiting lecturer for Georgetown University. In 2012, he was selected as one 12 American Express NGen Leadership Fellows in the United States. He is a member of St. Bonaventure University’s Board of Trustees and serves on the Board of Directors of the Sitar Arts Center, which advances the critical life skills of underserved children and youth and prepares them for achievement in the 21st century through visual, performing, and digital arts education in a nurturing community.
Katrina S. Huffman has been serving the nonprofit community for over two decades. A youth advocate at heart, she is on a mission to invest in and grow nonprofit organizations that provide transformative programs to the neediest youth in NYC. In her role as the Senior Director of Programs & People, Katrina has tripled Youth INC’s program offerings since 2012 and is currently working alongside he Executive Director to build a thriving, collaborative, learning organization that attracts and retains top talent. Katrina earned a Master of Public Administration from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is an ordained minister residing in Rockland County, NY. Her young adult daughter, Glory, is a musician attending college in the Midwest.
Emmanuel Imah is a social innovator and nonprofit professional with many years of experience in the nonprofit, government, and technology sectors. He currently manages the national alumni program of Upwardly Global, a national non-profit organization that helps work-authorized, skilled immigrants rebuild their professional careers in the U.S. His responsibilities include developing a sustainable program and engaging 3500+ members of the Upwardly Global alumni community across the country. In this role, he works with, among other groups, a 25-member Alumni Advisory Council of high-skilled and experienced immigrant and refugee professionals in US companies to conceptualize and execute programs that promote a United States where skilled immigrants are seamlessly integrated into the professional workforce and the fabric of American life, and are recognized for the value they add to both. Emmanuel joined Upwardly Global in 2011 to oversee the volunteer and corporate relations services in the Bay Area. He managed and grew relationships with dozens of Fortune 1000 corporate partners while recruiting and empowering 800+ champions of immigrant integration in the workplace as Upwardly Global ambassadors in these corporations. Prior to joining Upwardly Global, he worked extensively on social mobilization in rural areas of Nigeria, championing social change programs and managing community economic development projects. He also worked with economically-vulnerable populations in the San Francisco Bay Area in workforce development and energy efficiency programs. Emmanuel holds an MBA from the University of Nigeria, an undergraduate degree in Public Relations & Advertising, and earned a certificate in renewable energy from Skyline College.
Jil Littlejohn was born and raised in inner-city Atlanta, Georgia and has a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Webster University and a Bachelors of Arts in Intercultural Studies for Business from Wofford College (2001) with studies at the Universidad de Sevilla in Seville, Spain. Jil is fluent in Spanish and studied Japanese. She served as the Executive Director/CEO for the YWCA of Greenville for nearly 4 years. She has been an Urban Leaguer for the past 10 years serving as Young Professionals Chapter President, NULYP Southern Region Vice President, and NULYP Treasurer. She currently serves at the first female President & CEO of the Urban League of the Upstate. The Urban League of the Upstate is a $2 million dollar organization with over 20 staff and contractors spanning across 10 counties. Her role allows her to combine her passion for people and community into a job she loves! On January 20, 2009, she was elected to serve on Greenville City Council. In the summer of 2011 she was re-elected to a full four year term. She is the youngest member on council and one of two minorities. Jil has been recognized by as a Women Making History Honoree, Greenville Magazine Top 50 Influential People, Ebony Magazine Top Young Leader under 30, Greenville Chamber of Commerce Young Professional of the Year Finalist, Greenville Link Magazine’s Top 50, and Greenville’s Best & Brightest under 35. Jil has participated in Leadership South Carolina, Diversity Leadership Academy, Leadership Greenville, Leadership Spartanburg, Connections: Women’s Leadership Program, and the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University. Jil is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and actively involved with numerous nonprofits. She is also the founder of the Talented Tenth Greenville Leadership Conference.
Jenny Oby holds a B.S. (Ed.) in Secondary English Education with a major in British literature and a double minor in history and philosophy, as well as an M.A. (Ed.) in counseling. Jenny has dedicated her life to education in the capacity of teacher and counselor, and most recently, as founder/director of the social enterprise arm of Great Hearts Academies, a not-for-profit charter school management organization with a network of classical liberal arts academies in the greater Phoenix (Arizona) area. In addition to her work in education, Jenny is a copywriter and consultant, specializing in helping non-profits create effective websites and content marketing to spread their mission and message. A keen reader and historian, Jenny spends much of her personal time researching historical curiosities of her native Maine. Her first book, a history of Maine’s Lakewood Theatre, is due to be released in June, 2017.
Elena Pak became chief development officer at Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) in 2015. Elena is responsible for the strategic direction and implementation of the national fund development effort for the entire Girl Scout Movement under the umbrella of GSUSA’s $1B ToGetHerThere campaign, the largest fundraising campaign for girls in history. In partnership with the Office of Philanthropy team, she leads GSUSA’s fundraising activities through major gifts, planned giving, direct mail, and corporate partnerships. Before joining GSUSA, Elena was senior vice president of resource development at United Way of New York City, where she was responsible for the corporate citizenship program, workplace giving, major gifts, donor engagement, and affinity groups. Prior to United Way, Elena held several executive positions at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank in foreign affairs. She represented the council in New York City and oversaw board relations and individual and corporate membership programs. In 2009 and 2010, Elena served as the director for the Atlantic Council’s energy and economic forum in the greater Black Sea-Caspian region; between 2006 and 2010, she also worked as the U.S. director of the British-North American Committee, a forum of business, labor, and academic leaders from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. Earlier in her career, Elena worked as a business development manager at Hyatt Regency Almaty, Kazakhstan, where she led a team of sales and marketing executives. Educated in the United States and Kazakhstan, Elena holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Turan University in Kazakhstan and a master’s degree in communication from Western Kentucky University.
Janera Solomon is the executive director of the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, a historic live arts venue in Pittsburgh now in its seventh year of presenting progressive, evocative new works in dance, music, film, education and cultural programming. Recognized for her transformative leadership and contributions to the revitalization of East Liberty, Janera managed the merger of the Kelly Strayhorn Theater and the Dance Alloy in 2011, while maintaining affordable dance instruction at The Alloy School and creating a series of diverse programs designed to inspire and engage a wide range of audiences. Janera has contributed significantly to the artistic development and career advancement of numerous dancers and choreographers supported by Kelly Strayhorn’s residency programs. An experienced curator, Janera worked with the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and developed the First Voice International Black Performing Arts Festival produced by the August Wilson Center for African American Culture in 2007. She has worked on a range of cultural projects including content development and programming for Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, project management for the August Wilson Center, branding at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and program planning for the National Museum for African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. Janera maintains volunteer board positions for several organizations. In 2014, she formed the August Wilson Center Recovery Committee. In a recent settlement, it was announced that the AWC will continue as a fully dedicated center for African-American culture in Pittsburgh. Janera was recently featured in Pittsburgh Magazine’s “50 Most Powerful People in Pittsburgh”.
Martin V. Torres guides the Latino Policy Forum’s legislative and administrative advocacy with a focus on early childhood education, immigrant integration, housing and state fiscal policy. In carrying out his responsibilities, Martin regularly convenes Latino service providers, civic leaders, and other stakeholders in order to develop and promote a common policy agenda that emphasizes responsive governance, equity of opportunity and investment and inclusive decision-making. Prior to his tenure at the Forum, Martin worked in Washington, D.C. at the Alliance for Excellent Education where he focused on secondary school reform at the federal level. He also worked at the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans through a 1-year fellowship with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. Martin holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign and a M.P.P. from the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. In recognition of his work in the field, Martin was selected as a member of the 2012 inaugural class of Edgar Fellows managed by the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs. He also serves as a member of the board of directors for Change Illinois.
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Aster Group delivers record results and commits to 1,000 homes a year
24 th SEPTEMBER 2018
Turnover tops £200m; pre-tax profit rises 12% to £50m
Completes 939 homes in 2017/18 and on track to deliver 1,000 in current year
Revenue boosted by increased number of shared ownership home sales
Housing association Aster Group has reported record results as it targets building 1,000 homes in its current financial year.
Revenues at the group, which owns and operates 30,000 homes with 90,000 customers, increased by 7% to £204.7m in the year to the end of March 2018.
During the same period, pre-tax profit increased by 12% to £49.7m. Aster operates a ‘not-for-dividend’ model, leveraging the £1.5bn of assets on its balance sheet and reinvesting profits to boost the scale of its development programme, upgrade existing stock and services and fund The Aster Foundation programme.
The group invested £180m in housing in 2017/18, completing 939 homes (2017: 829). It is on track to build at least 1,000 properties during this financial year as part of plans to deliver over 11,800 new homes in the next seven years, equating to a £2.1bn investment.
Aster’s results were boosted by its strategic focus on developing a range of tenure options and larger developments in response to the housing crisis. Sales from shared ownership – a key part of the group’s strategy – increased by £16m to £36.3m, with 357 homes of this tenure completed. The group’s commitment to shared ownership was underlined by the launch earlier this month of its second Another Way report, highlighting a lack of understanding among customers about the product.
Bjorn Howard, group CEO of Aster Group, said: “We have developed a focused strategy that prioritises building more homes across a range of tenures and on bigger developments as we play our role in tackling the UK’s housing crisis. This puts us in the best possible position to succeed as a business and was crucial to us enjoying a record financial year in 2017/18.
“We are proud to make profit as those funds are invested back into our business to deliver much-needed homes. It also enables us to fund The Aster Foundation, which is designed to have a positive impact on our customers’ lives.
“Looking ahead, we are confident of continuing this momentum and are committed to building more homes, creating a positive economic and social impact in the communities we serve. This means people have access to secure, high-quality affordable housing so they can lead independent lives. Increasing the number of shared ownership homes we build each year is a key part of this.”
During the past year Aster has boosted its development pipeline through joint ventures, investing in existing communities and extending its geographic footprint.
Its joint ventures with Galliford Try – delivered by its housebuilding arm, Linden Homes – are expected to deliver almost 900 homes over the next six years at Boorley Green in Hampshire and White Rock in Devon. Earlier this month, Aster announced it has formed another new joint venture with Galliford Try for the development of a 130-home scheme near Horsham in West Sussex. The group said it would continue to invest in these kinds of partnerships as part of its development programme.
Aster has also revealed through its land- and developer-led programme that it plans to build 400 new homes in Oxfordshire, 135 houses in Surrey and Sussex – its first forays into these counties – and 100 in Christchurch, Dorset.
Meanwhile, the business has continued to focus on enhancing its position as an employer of choice. This includes increasing diversity and its support of Vote 100, a campaign that marks the 100th anniversary of the first women in the UK being given the vote. Some 43% of Aster’s executive board and half of its leadership team are women.
It is also using internal initiatives to help employees at all levels fully understand and contribute to group strategy. Earlier this year, the group held its first ‘This is Aster’ event, bringing together more than 1,000 employees from across the business.
Bjorn Howard added: “Our vision is that everyone has a home, which is at the heart of our social purpose as a business. Central to this is ensuring that our people are engaged and invested in making a difference to the lives of those in the communities we serve.
“We believe passionately that investing in diversity in all its forms is crucial to building a modern housing association that plays an active part in helping the UK meet its housebuilding targets.”
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Here’s what happened when Nirvana once prank called Gene Simmons
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Every Halloween, Dabney House conducts the infamous " Millikan pumpkin-drop experiment " from the top of Millikan Library, the highest point on campus.
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Every October since 1974 the Taneytown Jaycees organize a Halloween event called " The Haunted Barn ".
Every Halloween Dewey enjoys pranking Huey, Louie and Donald but on one occasion this led to them being stranded near a haunted house.
Every year at Halloween, the co-hosts wear dozens of costumes and portray some of the most famous and infamous names in pop culture.
Every Halloween, she would traditionally let down her long silver hair, dress in a ghostly gown, and tell ghostly haunted tales spanning across the entire history of the city.
Every Halloween since 2003, Horrorcore artists worldwide get together online and release a free compilation titled " devilz nite ".
* Every October around Halloween, the LA Sports Arena is the site for Monster massive, a Halloween inspired rave, which is said to have held over 70, 000 people in 2008.
* Every episode makes reference to a young girl who has been in a coma since Halloween.
Every summer, it is turned into a major landing area for the hot air balloons that have taken off at the Quechee Balloon Festival, and every Halloween it is the Haunted Area for local youths sponsored by the Hartford Parks and Recreation Department.
Every Halloween, Muir students drop a giant pumpkin from the top of the tallest residence hall as part of the Halloween Carnival.
Every Halloween, the band is invited to participate in the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, to which it is particularly well suited thanks to its orange and black uniforms and colorful performance techniques.
Every year, Linus sits in a pumpkin patch on Halloween night waiting for the Great Pumpkin to appear.
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, American Anthem, Airport ' 77, When Every Day Was the Fourth of July, The Baby and Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers are a few other notable titles.
Every and Dabney
: Every hope of the existence of church and state, and of civilization itself, hangs upon our arduous effort to defeat the doctrine of Negro suffrage-Robert Dabney, a prominent 19th century Southern Presbyterian pastor
Every and House
::: Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States ; If he approves he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated ...
Every company must deliver an annual return to Companies House at least once every twelve months.
In his final months, Long followed up his earlier autobiography, " Every Man a King ", with a second book entitled My First Days in the White House, laying out his plans for the presidency after the election of 1936.
Every year the central business district ( with corners at the Municipal Building, Grand Street Fire House and Croton-Harmon High School ) is closed to automobile traffic for music, American food, local fund raisers, traveling, and local artists.
Every year The Chinati Foundation holds an Open House event where artists, collectors, and enthusiasts come from around the world to visit Marfa's art.
Every citizen who is thirty-five or older is eligible to be nominated for the presidency ; and must be nominated by either twenty or more representatives from Houses of the Oireachtas ( similar to America ’ s House of Representatives ) or four administrative counties.
# " Every Minute, Every Hour, Every Day "-James House
Every time he was called to speak by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Alan Haselhurst, he was referred to as ' Mr. John Sweeney ', although Swinney noticeably never corrected this.
Every Hash House employs its own set of trail marks and the names for these marks may vary widely, so newcomers or visitors will have the local markings explained to them before the run at a " Chalk Talk ".
Every Wednesday a general meeting of all Members of the Society resident in Malta takes place in the Society's Mother House.
Every two years the entire House of Representatives stands for election, whereas the Senate does so at four-year intervals concurrently with elections for governor.
The album produced several hit singles, including his first Top 5 single, " Every Light in the House ", his first Number One in "( This Ain't ) No Thinkin ' Thing ", and another Top 5 hit in " I Left Something Turned on at Home ".
had been a great success in the United States and the UK, outside of Germany Fallada faded into obscurity for decades, until American publisher Melville House Publishing reissued several Fallada titles, beginning in 2009 with Little Man, What Now ?, The Drinker, and Every Man Dies Alone.
Melville House licensed its edition and translation of Every Man Dies Alone to Penguin Classics in the UK, which published his last book as Alone in Berlin.
Every year, the houses competed for the House Shield ; points were awarded for all forms of competitions, from sword dancing to vaulting.
Every pupil in the school is a member of a House, with members of the same family always being in the same house.
Talbot House was styled as an " Every Man's Club ", where all soldiers were welcome, regardless of rank.
Every Tuesday evening from 7pm to 9pm, the Football Clubhouse in the Pike Field, Sallybrook, hosts The Glanmire House of Rock.
Every Dutch citizen who has reached the age of 18 is eligible to vote ( actief kiesrecht ) or to stand for election as a member of the House of Representatives ( passief kiesrecht ).
Every government department is subjected to questions in the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
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Every April, the Midway Society conducts an annual service commemorating the town's settlement.
Every 5 years, each Commission conducts a complete review of all constituencies in its part of the United Kingdom.
Every year the Washington State Department of Transportation ( WSDOT ) conducts a series of surveys on its highways in the state to measure traffic volume.
Every year the Alumni Cell conducts two major events :-
Every year, Wachusett conducts a school science fair.
Every year the musical festival traditionally conducts a continuous 2 week concert, called Musical Festival or “ Semanas Musicales ” this takes place at the end of January and the first week of February in the theatre.
Every year, CSI – TSEC conducts student activities including workshops, seminars, conferences, technical competitions, training programmes and industrial visits which keeping the students involved in extra – curricular activities along with their academic curriculum and giving them a platform to show case their talent and develop their skills.
Every year, MARS conducts an appropriate military and amateur radio cross-band exercise as an integral part of the annual Armed Forces Day.
Every spring semester, the nursing department conducts a disaster drill where the senior nursing majors have to diagnose a large group of patients.
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Council of Europe report: European countries must do more to prevent rendition flights
10 May 2006, 12:00am
Amnesty International (AI) welcomes the call from the European Union Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini for European governments to cooperate fully with the Council of Europe's investigation into 'extraordinary renditions' and secret detention centres. The Council of Europe's interim report makes clear that the response from some European countries has not been sufficient. The governments of both the UK and Romania, for example, have cited their confidence in assurances offered by the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.
Amnesty believes that such assurances cannot be regarded as adequate protection against abuse. Amnesty reiterates its call to the UK Government to launch an immediate, thorough and independent investigation into evidence that its territory has been used to assist in unlawfully transporting detainees to countries where they risk torture.
The Polish authorities must make the findings of their enquiry into the alleged existence of secret CIA detention centres available to the Council of Europe. The authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina must provide more information about how six Bosnians came to be abducted by American agents on Bosnian soil and taken to Guantánamo Bay. The report also casts doubt on the Italian Government's denial that it was informed about the operation in which at least 25 foreign agents abducted an Egyptian citizen in the middle of Milan. The Italian authorities clearly have more explaining to do.
As Dick Marty points out in the report, "the fact that detention and interrogation centres have been relocated to other countries is proof that the authorities are fully aware that the methods used are incompatible with the American legal system." Amnesty International strongly endorses his call that Europe must "clearly and unambiguously declare that it refuses outright to tolerate such doings in its territory, or anywhere else." Amnesty believes that European countries must do everything in their power to ensure that no further rendition flights take place. Given the serious allegations that have been raised by both Amnesty in the past and Mr Marty today, European governments must ask more detailed questions about the purposes of all such flights and about the identity and status of all passengers on board.
Amnesty has analysed the movements of 17 aircraft that have been identified with specific cases of rendition or with companies alleged to be supporting the logistics of the program. Mr Marty has identified 14 additional aircraft allegedly belonging to entities with direct or indirect links to the CIA and believed to have been used by the CIA to transport detainees. While the majority of these flights are unconnected with renditions, there is no secure mechanism by which European governments can guarantee that their airports and airspace are not being used to support and facilitate the multiple human rights violations encompassed by renditions, which often involve abduction, arbitrary arrest and unlawful transfer.
States have an absolute obligation not to transfer anyone to a country where they face a significant risk of torture. AI therefore recommends that, pending the outcome of the Council of Europe's investigations, the operators of all 31 planes identified by Mr Marty should be forced to provide detailed information every time they land at an airport in Europe or enter European airspace. This would include, at minimum, the full flight plan of the aircraft, including onward stops from Europe and full itinerary since leaving the US, and the full names and nationalities of all passengers on board, and the purposes of their travel. If any passengers are listed as prisoners or detainees, more detailed information would have to be provided. European governments should refuse access to airspace and airfields if such information is not forthcoming.
During the four years between September 2001 and September 2005, the 17 airplanes analysed by AI recorded 2,238 movements in 270 airports in 62 countries and territories, including more than 800 flights in and out of Europe and the CIS. Such planes have landed in Azerbaijan, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan.
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Green energy isn’t necessarily harmless. But new efforts are under way to site renewable energy projects and transmission lines outside unspoiled landscapes and wildlife habitat.
By Michelle Nijhuis
The strong winds in Laramie and throughout Wyoming make the state ideal for wind power development. Photo: Matt Slaby
To feel the power of the Wyoming wind, stand in the shadow of a 20-story-high wind turbine in the midst of the rolling sagebrush west of Laramie. Wind slices across the long, tapered blades and roars toward the southeast, cutting at bare faces and hands. Red-tailed hawks hunch atop utility poles, the snow-covered ground is marked with frozen ripples, and some trees have a noticeable and permanent lean. People, too, are accustomed to the gales: Wyomingites joke that if their famous wind ever stops, everyone in their sparsely populated state will fall over.
This turbine is one of nearly 800 built in Wyoming during the past dozen years, and together they produce a gigawatt of electricity—enough to power up to 325,000 households. Thanks to high electricity prices, the diminishing costs of wind power production, and rising demand for renewable energy in other states, interest in Wyoming’s wind has soared in the past two years, and at least 20 new wind farms are proposed for private and public lands in the state. On ridges and plains, meteorological towers topped with spinning anemometers poke into the sky, signs of wind farms on the way.
The Wyoming wind boom is good news for the global climate. But the production of any power—whether from coal, gas, wind, or sun—inevitably leaves a footprint. In Wyoming the roads, construction activity, networks of pipelines and transmission lines, and noise that accompany energy development are thought to threaten the greater sage-grouse along with the scores of other species that depend on sagebrush habitat. The situation, at first glance, looks like a painful choice between green energy and healthy sagebrush—between, in effect, polar bears and sage-grouse.
But science and smart planning may solve this dilemma. During the past three years a team convened by Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal has devised a plan designed to both protect key sage-grouse habitat and allow energy development. The approach is now spreading to other states, and conservationists hope it will minimize both current and future conflicts between clean power and wildlife. The federal government has agreed to give the strategy a chance: On March 5 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it would not immediately list the sage-grouse as an endangered species. In its decision, the agency praised the efforts of Wyoming and other states, noting that while the plan has yet to be fully implemented, “it provides excellent potential for meaningful conservation of sage-grouse.”
The wind farm outside Laramie is located in sage-grouse habitat, though not prime habitat. Here the sagebrush is short and widely spaced rather than the dense, waist-high stands the birds prefer. “There’s habitat, and then there’s habitat,” says Brian Rutledge, Audubon Wyoming’s director and a member of the governor’s sage-grouse team. Protecting both the bird and the climate, he explains, requires a fine-grained knowledge of what rare species need to survive. “This is our chance to do renewables right,” he says. “We can develop renewables in already disturbed landscapes—in hay meadows, wheat fields, old parking lots, old gas fields—and not in the last best habitats we have.”
The sagebrush steppe or, as some call it, the sagebrush sea is one of the grandest landscapes in North America. It covers about 100 million acres, stretching from southern Saskatchewan to southern Utah and southcentral Colorado. Deceptively simple on the surface, the sagebrush steppe is a diverse place, with an array of species adapted to the region’s harsh and varied climates. On a clear winter day, when the sky is bright blue and the snow-muffled silence seems endless, herds of deer and elk move through the sagebrush, at home in their winter habitat. In the spring, the landscape turns a gentle green, and with luck one can hear the pop of strutting male sage-grouse as they flap their wings, fan their feathers, and inflate their chests in hopes of attracting a hen.
The sage-grouse are aptly named, for they spend their entire lives in the sagebrush sea, using its shrubs as both food and refuge. When they congregate in winter—at times in groups as large as 100—the birds survive almost entirely on sage leaves. Sometimes they find shelter from the wind and extreme cold under the snow canopies formed by sagebrush branches. Later in the year they nest under the plant, and hide their newborn chicks in its shadows. Without sagebrush, in short, there are no sage-grouse.
The decline in the bird’s population during the past century—as much as 90 percent in some places—mirrors a decades-long erosion of its habitat, which many still consider a wasteland. In the 1950s and ’60s, when research suggested that sagebrush competed with grass, cattle ranchers eager to feed their herds tore up sagebrush by the acre—a practice that lingers today. Exotic grasses, especially cheatgrass, act as fuel for wildfires, and have increased the frequency of fires in some sagebrush regions as much as 20-fold in recent decades. West Nile virus has also taken a toll on the species. And once-large patches of sagebrush habitat are now heavily fragmented by roads, barbed-wire fences, coal mines, and gas fields.
In the 1990s and early 2000s several conservation groups repeatedly petitioned the Fish and Wildlife Service to list the sage-grouse as an endangered species. In 2005 the agency concluded that Endangered Species Act protection was not warranted. But three years later, following revelations that a top Interior Department official, Julie MacDonald, had manipulated the listing process for several species, it had to reconsider its decision.
Wyoming leaders feared that by adding an extra layer of permitting to oil and gas development, listing would hamstring the industry, which provides more than half of state revenues. “It would grind our economy to a halt,” says Ryan Lance, Governor Freudenthal’s deputy chief of staff. At the same time conservationists harbored their own worries that in the resolutely red state of Wyoming, a wide-ranging listing would provoke a backlash against both the sage-grouse and the Endangered Species Act—just as the northern spotted owl had in the Northwest—ultimately frustrating conservation and the restoration of privately owned habitat.
During the previous decade Wyoming and other states had encouraged local efforts to preserve sagebrush steppe habitat, but these projects were small and largely uncoordinated. In order to avoid an Endangered Species Act listing, Freudenthal knew, the state would have to come up with a better way.
In 2007 that demanding task fell to the unromantically named Governor’s Sage-Grouse Implementation Team, chaired by Bob Budd of Wyoming’s Wildlife and Natural Resource Trust. Budd had previously led the development of the state’s bighorn sheep conservation plan, which had identified key sheep habitat. He wondered if a similarly focused plan could work for the sage-grouse.
Brian Rutledge of Audubon Wyoming was also looking for a coordinated strategy for saving species. As a seasoned conservationist, Rutledge knows the costs of small, scattered battles. “We needed to figure out a way to do this at a bigger scale,” he says. Rutledge consulted David Naugle, a University of Montana wildlife professor who studies the needs of breeding sage-grouse. Naugle and Kevin Doherty, then one of Naugle’s Ph.D. students and now a senior ecologist for Audubon Wyoming, began to pinpoint what they called “core areas” for the species’ survival. “What we asked first was, ‘Where are our biggest, most intact landscapes with the biggest populations?’ ” Naugle says. “That’s the central underpinning of the core-area concept.”
Poring over decades of data on sage-grouse breeding collected by state wildlife officials, Doherty analyzed sage-grouse habitat use in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and neighboring states—the species’ eastern range. Within that sprawling space, he found, some parts are far more important than others. Setting aside a carefully selected 25 percent of the range, he estimated, would save more than three-quarters of the habitat of the known breeding sage-grouse population; protecting 60 percent would conserve the entire breeding sage-grouse population’s habitat.
Audubon Wyoming presented its maps to the Sage-Grouse Implementation Team’s state and federal agency officials, oil and gas industry representatives, and ranchers; a wind energy representative joined the group in 2009, after the industry had gained momentum in the state. The state wildlife agency and industry groups had come up with maps of sage-grouse habitat needs roughly similar to Audubon’s, and the task force members—somewhat to their surprise—found themselves in broad agreement on the core-area strategy. “The group was able to say, ‘Holy cow, it’s pretty obvious where the birds are,’” says Budd.
Then they began setting boundaries. Excluding places already overwhelmed with oil and gas development—because even large sage-grouse populations in those areas have little chance of long-term survival—they settled on 14 million acres. The area encompassed a little more than 20 percent of the state but included breeding habitat for 80 percent of Wyoming’s sage-grouse population. Taking into consideration research showing that the birds avoid juniper trees and drilling rigs in the winter, and that their cousins the prairie-chickens likely steer clear of wind turbines, the task force recommended that all “surface disturbance” in core areas—gas wells, wind turbines, roads, pipelines, even overhead transmission lines—be limited to a maximum of five percent of each square mile.
In August 2008 Freudenthal directed state agencies to manage core areas in their jurisdiction to protect sage-grouse, and in January 2010 the Bureau of Land Management issued a memo recommending restrictions for core habitat on its lands. Two months later the Fish and Wildlife Service added the bird to the roster of “candidate species” for potential future listing. For the team, the challenge is clear. The agency will revisit its decision each year, and if the bird’s numbers decline, the FWS will raise the urgency of listing it as an endangered species. “The agency has said that this bird deserves protection,” says Rutledge. “We’ve said we can provide that. Now’s the time to show we can do it.”
Can this path rescue the sage-grouse and the hundreds of other species that depend on the sagebrush steppe? “It’s innovative, and it’s probably the West’s best bet for saving sage-grouse,” says Sophie Osborn, a biologist for the Wyoming Outdoor Council, a longstanding state conservation group. “But there’s never a perfect strategy. There are always trade-offs.”
The Outdoor Council, among other conservation groups, is concerned that the restrictions are inadequate to prevent sage-grouse population declines. “We really need to have high levels of protection for these areas,” says Steve Holmer, senior policy adviser for the American Bird Conservancy, which supports listing the species. Holmer warns that ongoing energy development and grazing on these sites will continue to undermine the sage-grouse population.
Nor may the core areas be large or inclusive enough. Scientists know that individual sage-grouse travel among populations, but they don’t know how much movement is required to maintain genetic diversity. “If all we’ve done is create a bunch of isolated biological zoos, we’ll have screwed it up,” says Naugle. He endorses the core-area approach but acknowledges that it may have to be modified to include connecting and seasonal habitat not covered by the breeding-area data.
Some 28 million acres of Wyoming sage-grouse habitat lie outside the core areas, and state wildlife officials have recommended a limit of just three well pads or wind turbines per square mile for this less essential habitat. But Freudenthal’s executive order supported incentives for development there, as long as it’s managed to maintain the species. The specifics of those incentives remain open to debate.
The oil and gas industry has been largely supportive of the strategy, in part because it allows some development even in core areas. But the limitation of five percent disturbance per square mile effectively bans wind farms, since facilities with such widely spaced turbines are, in general, not economically feasible. While that still leaves 12 million acres potentially available for wind development, wind-energy companies and groups have been critical of the core-area restrictions.
One wind-industry concern is that many promisingly windy expanses outside the core areas are far from existing transmission lines, which are political poison. “Building a transmission line is a lot harder than building a wind farm,” says Jonathan Naughton of the University of Wyoming Wind Energy Research Center. Seven major transmission-line projects are now at various stages of development in Wyoming, and how the core-area strategy will affect their fate is far from certain.
Nonetheless, Wyoming’s plan is proving popular with its neighbors. Montana and Colorado have already emulated it for their smaller but still significant swaths of sage-grouse habitat, and Doherty is working with other states. (The policy isn’t being used for other species because it requires decades of data on breeding and other factors—information rarely available.) The Natural Resources Conservation Service, a unit of the USDA that partners with landowners to preserve resources on private land, has launched a program to reward property owners for improving habitat within core areas.
“The answer to energy development isn’t ‘No,’ but ‘Where?’ ”says Naugle. “Decision makers have to maintain bird populations, but they also have to meet domestic energy needs. What we’re trying to do, with the core-area idea, is give them a way to strike a balance.”
The tension between wildlife and wind energy won’t stop with sage-grouse. The United States still depends on coal for about half its energy supply, with wind and solar power contributing only two percent—far less than in some European countries, such as Spain, which now generates 17 percent of its energy with wind and sun. Many U.S. states have established standards for renewable-power generation, and utilities are striving to meet them with new wind and solar installations and even hybrid power plants that use renewables to decrease their consumption of fossil fuels. On the flip side, to meet 20 percent of our energy needs with wind power by, say, 2030, the Department of Energy estimates that the United States will need about 12 million acres of wind farms. That translates into 250,000 to 600,000 acres actually occupied with turbines.
Scientists at The Nature Conservancy are conducting a “human footprint analysis” of the lower 48 states. Joseph Kiesecker, the group’s lead scientist, aims to use the findings to guide most wind power and other energy development toward mined lands, agricultural lands, and other places with few benefits for wildlife. Such studies could eventually resolve ongoing controversies over solar development in Mojave Desert tortoise habitat, natural-gas drilling near Northeastern water supplies, and wind turbines proposed for bird and bat flyways across the country. “We have a real opportunity with renewable-energy development because the breadth of the resource is so wide and the amount we exploit is relatively small,” says Kiesecker. “We have a lot of flexibility in where we put it.”
When conservation strategies focus on the most valuable habitats, the bittersweet reality is that while they can protect large chunks of important habitat, they don’t set out to save everything. While this kind of triage is painful for champions of particular spots, its supporters say the large-scale rewards—for both local wildlife and, in the case of renewable energy, the global climate—far outweigh the costs. “We gave up two-thirds of the grouse habitat in state, and we took a lot of heat for that,” says Rutledge. “But we had to give up something to get what we got, and we got more in a year of negotiation than has been gained since 1954, when the birds were first recognized as in trouble. Would I have liked to protect them all? Absolutely. Can I accept what we did? Absolutely. We’re protecting 14 million acres of Wyoming.”
Michelle Nijhuis’s work appears in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009. She writes about science and the environment for High Country News, Smithsonian, and many other publications.
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Nissan threatens GM alliance with plans for new North American plant
Aug 25th 2006 at 12:24PM
No one knows what's going on with the discussions involving a potential alliance between General Motors and Nissan/ Renault because those talks have moved behind closed doors. News today that Nissan is considering building another manufacturing plant in North America in 2008 or 2009, however, has many wondering if the proposed fellowship is faltering.
One of the biggest advantages for Nissan of an alliance with GM would be the use of the latter's excess production capacity in North America. Building a new factory in either the U.S. or Mexico (Nissan already has two in each country) may preclude the need for such a partnership with GM.
Though Nissan product pipeline hasn't been gushing new models in a while, the company has eight new models on the way, three of which are slated for the U.S. They weren't mentioned, but we assume the trio includes the G35, Sentra and Altima. Exploratory talks between Nissan/Renault and General Motors are slated to end in mid-November and we'll find out whether this new plant will be built for sure this spring when Nissan releases its next mid-term business plan.
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Weedkiller cancer ruling: What do we know about glyphosate?
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A US jury has found that chemical giant Monsanto knew its Roundup weedkillers were dangerous.
A man who claimed herbicides containing glyphosate had caused his cancer is to receive $289m (£226m) in damages from the company, although it has vowed to appeal.
It's the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging a glyphosate link to cancer - but what is known about the chemical?
What did the ruling say?
Jurors in San Francisco found that the company's weedkillers contributed "substantially" to the terminal illness of groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson.
Mr Johnson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2014. His lawyers said he regularly used a form of RangerPro while working at a school in Benicia, California.
The ruling said the potential risks of the product were known by the scientific community and Monsanto failed to "adequately warn" of the danger.
Jurors found that the company had acted with "malice" and that it should have provided a label warning of the potential health hazard of its product.
image captionDewayne Johnson (R) hugged his lawyer after hearing the verdict
Mr Johnson's lawyer, Brent Wisner, said the jury's verdict showed the evidence against the product was "overwhelming", adding that it was just "the tip of the spear" of future legal cases.
Monsanto vice president Scott Partridge said "the jury got it wrong" and the company would appeal the verdict to "vigorously defend this product".
He said Roundup had been safe for more than four decades and more than 800 scientific studies showed the herbicide does not cause cancer.
He added: "It is completely and totally safe and the public should not be concerned about this verdict."
What is glyphosate?
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in many weedkillers, although the science about its safety is still far from conclusive.
Introduced by Monsanto in 1974, its patent expired in 2000 and now the chemical is sold by various manufacturers.
It is used in agriculture and forestry, for weeds in industrial areas, as well as on lawns and gardens.
Some countries and regions - such as Portugal, Italy and the Canadian city of Vancouver - have banned glyphosate use in public parks and gardens.
Its effect on plants is non-selective, meaning it will kill most of them when applied. Some crops, such as soybean, have been genetically modified to resist glyphosate.
Farmers spray it on fields before their crops emerge in spring, so the crops do not have to compete with weeds.
Some also use it as a pre-harvest treatment to dry out crops and make them easier to harvest. The UK Soil Association says such use is risky, as it can increase glyphosate residues in food, such as bread.
How widely is it used?
It is described as the world's most popular weedkiller. In the US, more than 750 products contain it.
Glyphosate use worldwide has risen almost 15-fold since 1996, when so-called "Roundup Ready" crops, genetically engineered to resist glyphosate, were introduced.
Roundup is one of the UK's most popular weedkiller brands, while glyphosate herbicides are the most widely used herbicide in UK agriculture.
According to a 2017 study of Government data by Oxford Economics, 5.4 million acres of farmland across Britain are treated with glyphosate annually.
image captionRoundup is a popular brand of weedkiller in the UK
In 2017 the European Union extended the licence for use of glyphosate for five years.
The UK was among the states in favour of glyphosate renewal. Germany and Poland were also among them - though they had previously abstained.
France and Belgium were among the states that voted against. Portugal abstained.
EU settles dispute over major weedkiller
French President Emmanuel Macron is trying to ban it despite the resistance of some French lawmakers.
Sri Lanka banned use of glyphosate in 2015 - though the tea industry opposes the ban.
Colombia stopped aerial spraying of glyphosate in 2015 - even though it had been used widely to kill illegal coca plants.
What is the research?
In 2015 the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the World Health Organization's cancer agency, concluded that it was "probably carcinogenic to humans".
But the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to insist that glyphosate is safe when used carefully.
In 2016, a joint report by the World Health Organiszation (WHO) and the UN said that, while there was "some evidence of a positive association between glyphosate exposure and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma" in some studies, the only large study of high quality found "no evidence of an association at any exposure level".
It concluded that glyphosate "is unlikely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans from exposure through the diet".
image captionFarmers are worried banning glyphosate could cost the economy millions
A 2016 study by Environmental Sciences Europe noted growing concern about intensive glyphosate use, because some plants have developed resistance to it - meaning that farmers tend to use even more of it.
Farmers warn that banning the chemical could cut crop yields by more than 10%, costing the economy hundreds of millions of pounds.
The European Commission says that the European Food Safety Authority, the European Chemicals Agency and other scientific bodies found no link to cancer in humans.
Emma Hockridge, head of policy at the Soil Association, said the "landmark" ruling in the US highlighted the problems caused by glyphosate.
She added: "It was disturbing in this case to hear that Monsanto had knowledge of the potentially harmful effects, but the court case also really highlights the problem with relying on chemical pesticides globally as so little is known about the long-term environmental and health impacts."
The UK Soil Association says glyphosate traces are regularly found in bread.
The villagers who fear herbicides
However, Joe Stanley, farming ambassador for the National Farmers' Union, said: "The decision of a lay jury in this poor chap's case doesn't alter the fact that all serious research proves glyphosate is safe."
Important to remember is that this was not a scientific decision or conclusion.
But the opinion of a jury of lay people.
If you asked a bunch of random people their views on climate change or vaccines their response may well be worriesome. https://t.co/ylVxSzPIcI
— James Wong (@Botanygeek) August 11, 2018
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The UK government said in a statement: "The government's priority is the protection of people and the environment. Decisions on the use of pesticides should be based on a careful scientific assessment of the risks.
"Once outside the EU, we will continue to make decisions on pesticides based on the best available science."
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Home » Fall Career Fair Goes Online With ‘Handshake”
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Fall Career Fair Goes Online With ‘Handshake”
by Iris Lu
September 20, 2020 Updated September 27, 2020 at 4:24 pm
Students logged into Handshake, Boston College’s new career management platform, on Thursday and searched for companies they were interested in and connected with recruiters as part of the annual fall career fair, which was held virtually this year.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the employment rate and the job market, college recruiters were not discouraged, according to Associate Vice President of the Career Center Joseph DuPont. One hundred and twenty companies, a slight decrease from last year’s 152, hosted virtual sessions on the platform.
“I think a lot of companies… [are] trying to… gauge what their hiring needs will be,” DuPont said. “So, I would think that the recruiting timelines this year will be a little bit more extended than they have in past years.”
Recruiters hosted one-on-one sessions and group sessions, with one to two representatives providing groups of around 50 students with a general overview of the company. The number of group sessions varied depending on the expected number of attendees of each company, according to DuPont.
Recruiters conducted 2,075 individual sessions and 290 group sessions in total. The recruiters were pleased by the result and turnover in general, DuPont said.
DuPont said that preparing for the new virtual landscape of the career fair was challenging, but it ultimately provided students with opportunities that were not available in other years.
“I think the biggest challenge for us and for employers is that move to a virtual format,” he said. “We did outreach to employers in different parts of the world that we couldn’t do before and employers get to visit different schools and they weren’t normally going to. So there are absolutely some challenges and then there are certainly good points too.”
Because of the new online format, students were able to view the company list in advance, RSVP for a group session with recruiters, or sign up for a 10 minute one-on-one session. By Wednesday afternoon, around 1,500 students had signed up for the fair on Handshake.
Keenan McAuliffe, MCAS ’22, attended the career fair in search of an internship in finance or education, and said the one-on-one sessions with employers were particularly helpful.
“I actually really enjoyed this year, a lot more than last year,” he said. “There wasn’t like a huge line behind me and so I think it was calmer and I didn’t feel like I was rushing at all, even though I had 10 minutes.
The new virtual format did limit the number of employees McAuliffe was able to obtain information from, though.
“The only problem that I have with it was I feel like I could go to so many more employers when it was in person,” he said. “The virtual group info sessions were taking up like 30 minutes of my time and sometimes I just want to grab some sort of info sheets, which I couldn’t really do.”
Students who are not in Boston this semester, including international students currently in their home countries, were also able to attend the career fair through Handshake, according to DuPont.
The Career Center also extended support to the class of 2020 and current students who are looking for summer internships or full-time jobs by strengthening the alumni network and building connections between alumni and current students. Through the Eagle Exchange program and the Career Center’s new program, “Bridges,” alumni can offer students the opportunity to do project-based work.
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Home » New material may improve packaged food shelf life
New material may improve packaged food shelf life
By Keith Nunes
ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Researchers from Texas A&M University have identified a new material they call “nano-bricks” that may improve the shelf life of packaged foods. The research findings were presented at the National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society that is taking place this week in Anaheim.
The researchers said the new material, which would be applied in the form of a coating, has the capability of slowing the loss of carbon dioxide from carbonated beverage packaging and extend the shelf life of military M.R.E.s (Meal, Ready to Eat).
The new film combines particles of montmorillonite clay, a soil ingredient used to make bricks, with a variety of polymer materials. The resulting film is about 70% clay and contains a small amount of polymer, making it more eco-friendly than current plastics, according to the researchers. The film is less than 100 nanometers thick — or thousands of times thinner than the width of a single human hair — and transparent to the naked eye.
“This is a new, ‘outside of the box’ technology that gives plastic the superior food preservation properties of glass,” said Jaime Grunlan, an associate professor in the department of mechanical engineering at Texas A&M, College Station, who reported on the research. “It will give consumers tastier, longer lasting foods and help boost the food packaging industry.”
When layered onto existing plastic packaging, the new material adds strength and provides an improved barrier to oxygen, he said. Dr. Grunlan demonstrated in lab studies that the film is 100 times less permeable to oxygen than existing silicon oxide coatings. This means that it’s also likely to be a better oxygen barrier than a metal coating, whose permeability is similar to that of silicon oxide.
Dr. Grunlan said when the material is viewed under an electron microscope it looks like bricks and mortar, which is why they are calling it “nano-bricks.”
“Others have added clay to polymer to reduce (gas) permeability, but they are thousands of times more permeable than our film,” Dr. Grunlan said. “We have the most organized structure — a nano-brick wall — which is the source of this exceptional barrier. This is truly the most oxygen impermeable film in existence.”
Dr. Grunlan is trying to improve the quality of the film to make it more appealing to packaging manufacturers, which includes making it more resistant to moisture. He envisions that manufacturers will dip plastics in the coating or spray the coating onto plastics. In the future, he hopes to develop nano-brick films that block sunlight and contain antimicrobial substances to enhance packaging performance.
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Arizona Agency Tries Out 'Facebook at Work'
Facebook at Work is in the pilot stage for the Arizona Department of Administration, and about 600 employees are using the platform. The program functions like regular Facebook, except employees use their work emails and all state government workers are already "friends."
Unlike personal Facebook, the platform is organized around groups, not a newsfeed. There are groups assigned to specific projects or teams, as well as more general groups for employee recognition and announcements. The platform also has a mobile app.
The state owns all of the data its employees put onto the platform, according to Reed, and the Department of Administration is downloading a copy of all posts and messages, including private and deleted ones, daily. It will have to maintain its stance on providing public records.
David Bodney, a media attorney at the Phoenix law firm Ballard Spahr, said the state will need to retain copies of the records created on Facebook at Work to comply with public records laws. It sounds like the state has assured that will happen, he said. "I think we can all applaud the government's desire to improve efficiency, and we respect its assurance that the use of Facebook at Work will be in full compliance with the public records law," Bodney said.
Using Facebook at Work shouldn't allow anyone to circumvent the public's right to inspect public records, he said. Similarly, if a member of the public requests "written communications" or emails, Bodney said he hopes those fulfilling the request will include Facebook at Work records in the response and not exclude them on a technicality. "The department can't use Facebook at Work as a means of depriving the public access to public records, whih these messages presumptively would be, as a matter of law. They really do need to take precautions to ensure that the records are preserved for public inspection," he said.
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Reasons Why You Might Have Swollen Vagina or Vulva
Written by Aly Semigran
Vaginal swelling can be, as expected, a rather unpleasant experience. After all, who wants to feel any irritation or discomfort down there? However, if you are experiencing vaginal swelling, there are various possible reasons as well as solutions.
Here are some of the things that may be causing you to have a swollen vagina or vulva, when it’s a problem, and what you can do about it.
After Sexual Intercourse
“Women may notice a slight swelling in the vulva or vaginal area after sex. This is usually nothing to worry about,” says Sara Twogood, MD, FACOG, an Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Southern California. “Sexual arousal causes increased blood flow to the genital area and may look like swelling.”
Sex is “like any other impact activity,” explains Kathryn Garren, WHNP-BC of Ideal Gynecology in Atlanta, Georgia, and if you “continuously impact an area, the area will begin to swell.” (This explains why you may also experience vaginal swelling after exercise, like bike riding, too.)
This can be especially prevalent during rough sex, which Twogood says “can cause swelling due to friction and the body’s response.” Swelling from sex, particularly that of a rougher nature, is usually nothing to worry about and typically only lasts a few hours. Twogood says, however, “if the irritation doesn’t resolve or there is associated bleeding then you may want to be examined.”
Vaginal swelling is incredibly common during pregnancy because of things like increased blood flow, hormones, the pressure placed on the pelvic area as the baby grows, and the general swelling that occurs in the body. “Most women notice this in their extremities (hands and feet), but it can be significant in the vulvar region as well,” Twogood says.
She also notes that pregnant women may notice what’s known as vulvar varicosities, “which are prominent blood vessels seen under the skin. These can make the vulva appear larger and heavier, just like swelling.”
Reactions to the Skin
“Allergic reactions cause an immune and inflammatory response that includes swelling, redness, or itching,” says Garren.
Another reaction, Twogood explains, is due to something called contact dermatitis, which is sometimes confused with an allergy. “Contact dermatitis is when a substance—laundry detergent, perfume, etc.—causes damage to the skin or exposed area itself.”
In order to avoid swelling from this, Garren suggests avoiding fragrances in your soaps, tampons, pads, and detergents whenever possible. “Also, it is important to wear cotton underwear that is not irritating to the skin,” she says.
Due to a Yeast Infection
The inflammation that occurs during a yeast infection can, in fact, cause mild swelling. This is because, Garren explains, “Anytime there is an infection (yeast, bacterial, or sexually transmitted), the body releases inflammatory markers that cause swelling in order to help rid the body of infection.”
Temporary swelling and irritation can also occur, unfairly enough, in certain vaginal topical treatments for yeast infections. This is “more common with the one and 3-day course [treatments],” Twogood says, adding, “ I usually recommend the seven days course for this reason.”
Garren notes that the swelling will go down as soon as the body is done fighting the infection. “Swelling should never last longer than seven days if treated correctly.”
Other Reasons You May Be Experiencing Swelling
“Infection, like cellulitis or an abscess, can cause swelling. This type of infection in the vulvar area is more common in immunocompromised women, such as those with HIV/AIDS and very poorly controlled diabetes,” explains Twogood.
Cysts may also be a cause for vulvar or vaginal swelling, the most common of which is known as the Bartholin gland cyst, which can also be an abscess, Twogood says.
“Vulvar or vaginal ulcers, from STIs, or even cancer or precancerous lesions can cause swelling,” she says, adding, “An open sore can increase the risk of infection, and it can be difficult to tell if the sore caused the infection or the infection caused the sore.”
So, in any of these cases—particularly if the swelling becomes noticeable or uncomfortable, or there is abnormal bleeding, skin changes, lumps, bumps, change in odor, and/or discharge—Garren says “it is best to see a provider to determine the source of swelling.”
How to Soothe Swelling
There are a number of ways you can help relieve swelling at home, including, Garren suggests, “applying cool ice packs to the area.”
If you’re having an allergic-type reaction, Twogood says “antihistamines, like Claritin and Benadryl, may help.” The same goes for applying a topical hydrocortisone cream, and “Ibuprofen can help with inflammation and pain.”
“Sitz baths can help with irritation and inflammation,” Twogood says. “However, topical treatments can sometimes irritate or temporarily hide the underlying cause, so if the symptoms are persistent or return despite home remedies, it’s a good idea to see a gynecologist for a diagnosis.”
In fact, it’s better to go see your healthcare provider when you’re having your symptoms, so you can be evaluated and get to the root cause of the swelling.
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Aly Semigran is a Philadelphia-based writer whose work has been featured in Well + Good, Amy Poehler's Smart Girls, Bustle, Refinery29, InStyle, and more. In addition to writing about women's health, she spends her free time with her dog at the park, going to the movies, swimming (weather permitting), and reading everything she can get her hands on.
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Indian railways’ agency lists bond on London Stock Exchange
LONDON: The Indian Railways' financing arm today listed..
LONDON: The Indian Railways' financing arm today listed its first green bond on the London Stock Exchange with an aim to finance infrastructure for dedicated freight corridors and passenger transport in India.
Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC) was set up in 1986 as the dedicated financing arm of the Indian Railways for mobilising funds from domestic and overseas Capital Markets.
The 10-year dated green bond raised $500 million with an annual yield of 3.835 per cent as it listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE)'s new International Securities Market (ISM).
The bond, the proceeds of which are aimed at financing or refinancing infrastructure for dedicated freight railway lines and public passenger transport in India, was more than three times oversubscribed as it received strong international investor support.
"Our debut green bond is a significant milestone for IRFC, supporting the company's ambitious infrastructure green projects which includes procurement of rolling stocks for electrifying rail tracks across India," said S K Pattanayak, the IRFC Managing Director.
"Not only was the bond three times oversubscribed but today we have also achieved our aim, through London, to increase our investor base across the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa)," he said.
The IRFC listing marks the sixth green bond transaction on LSE by an Indian issuer and fourth on the new ISM.
The bond is certified by Climate Bonds Initiative, an international, investor-focused not-for-profit, which helps build transparent assurance frameworks around green bond investment.
Sean Kidney, CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative, said: "Indian Railways is the third state-backed entity to seek global exposure by issuing a certified green bond and listing in London.
"This IRFC green bond and the previous issuance from the IREDA (Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency) and the PFC (Power Finance Corporation) are a sign of the enormous market opportunities for international investors in green energy, transport and infrastructure to meet India's intertwined climate, energy and development goals".
The LSE said the latest bond listing demonstrates Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2015 commitment to funding India's infrastructure and growth through the issuance of over 1 billion pound worth of Masala bonds.
"Today's green bond listing is a significant milestone for India and the IRFC, allowing the country to further tap a dynamic new international channel of finance for Indian infrastructure," said CEO of the London Stock Exchange plc Nikhil Rathi, who described Indian Railways as the "heartbeat of the Indian economy".
"It also re-enforces the progress being made in the Energy for Growth partnership established in April between the UK and India, strengthening London's position as India's closest and most valued funding partner.
"There is an undeniable shift in momentum in the green and sustainable financing across the globe. The London Stock Exchange Group is at the forefront of this green financing movement, developing innovative products and services in partnership with our customers," Rathi said.
The London Stock Exchange Group said it has been supporting investors and issuers in the transition to a low- carbon and sustainable economy for over a decade, developing innovative products and services in close collaboration with the market.
To date in 2017, there has been 64 per cent growth in the number of green bonds listed on the LSE compared to 2016 and a 65 per cent increase in money raised.
In the same period, 23 green bonds have been listed in London, raising $9.4 billion, compared to 14 green bonds which raised $5.7 billion in 2016.
In total, there are 61 green bonds listed in London that have raised over $20 billion in aggregate terms across seven currencies.
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Sanofi walks back after saying US would get vaccine first
Posted: May 14, 2020 / 05:34 AM CDT / Updated: May 14, 2020 / 09:22 AM CDT
FILE – In this Feb. 7, 2019 the logo of French drug maker Sanofi is pictured at the company’s headquarters, in Paris. French pharmaceutical group Sanofi ensured that it will make its COVID-19 vaccine, when ready, available in all countries, hours after the company’s CEO said the United States will get first access. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
PARIS (AP) — French pharmaceutical group Sanofi promised Thursday that it would make its COVID-19 vaccine, when ready, available in all countries, hours after the company’s CEO said the United States will get first access.
Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson’s comments that a vaccine would go first to the U.S. prompted an angry reaction from the French government.
“Equal access for all to the vaccine is not negotiable,” French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said in a tweet.
French President Emmanuel Macron was described by his office as also being “upset” by Hudson’s comments.
Macron is pushing for vaccines to be considered a “common good” for humanity that must not be subject to market pressures.
Philippe said he spoke to Serge Weinberg, chairman of the Sanofi board, about the vaccine and received “all the necessary assurances” that it would be distributed in France.
There will be a follow-up meeting with Sanofi officials at Macron’s office next week.
Hudson told the Bloomberg news agency that the U.S. government has the right to the largest pre-order of an eventual COVID-19 vaccine “because it’s invested in taking the risk.”
But Sanofi then walked back from that position in a statement Thursday that said “we have always been committed in these unprecedented circumstances to make our vaccine accessible to everyone.”
At the same time, Sanofi also appealed for the European Union to make it easier to get a vaccine to market.
The president of Sanofi France, Olivier Bogillot, told broadcaster France Info that the U.S. is accelerating regulatory requirements to develop and produce a vaccine.
“Europe needs to do the same thing,” he said.
Commission health spokesman Stefan De Keersmaecker said the EU’s executive arm is “fully engaged to (…) advance research on promising vaccines.”
“The vaccine against COVID-19 should be a global public good,” he said. “And its access should be equitable and universal.”
Sanofi said its cooperation with U.S. agency BARDA allows the company “to initiate production as early as possible.” The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has funded the development of the vaccine.
Sanofi pushed for “similar measures” from the EU.
“We are having very constructive conversations with the EU institutions and the French and German government among others,” it said.
Dozens of vaccine candidates in earlier stages of development are being pursued around the world, yet a vaccine is likely to be a year or more away.
AP reporters John Leicester and Samuel Petrequin contributed.
Follow AP news coverage of the coronavirus pandemic at https://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak.
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Ask Billboard: Britney Spears' '3' Decades of No. 1s
By Gary Trust
Ask Billboard is updated every Friday. As always, submit your questions about Billboard charts, sales and airplay, as well as general music musings, to askbb@billboard.com. Please include your first and last name, as well as your city, state and country, if outside the U.S.
BRITNEY SPEARS' '3' DECADES OF No. 1s
Hi Gary,
Does Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me" having reached the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 (Jan. 29) gain her entrance to the list of artists who've hit No. 1 in three decades?
How many artists have achieved that honor?
Roderic David
Hi Roderic,
As Billboard.com readers choose sides between Lady Gaga's just-released "Born This Way" and Spears' latest dance/pop smash, Spears is one of just seven artists to top the Hot 100 in three decades.
Here's the elite list:
'90s, '00s, '10s
Elton John (*Billboard includes Dionne (Warwick) & Friends' 1986 No. 1 "That's What Friends Are For" among John's solo chart history)
Additional acts belong in the discussion. The Beatles banked 18 of their record 20 No. 1s in the '60s and their last two leaders in 1970. George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, however, all topped the Hot 100 as solo acts in the '70s and '80s. Thus, while not under the same billing throughout, the three singers did score No. 1s in three decades if we combine their group and solo careers.
The same goes for the Supremes (12 No. 1s in the '60s) and Diana Ross solo (six in the '70s and '80s).
And, Cher charted three No. 1s in the '70s and one ("Believe") in the '90s. Adding Sonny & Cher's 1965 No. 1 "I Got You Babe," she also qualifies when mixing group and solo chart histories.
(Elvis Presley narrowly missed authoring a three-decade No. 1 stretch. "A Big Hunk O' Love" reigned in 1959 and six of his songs did so in the '60s. His last leader, "Suspicious Minds," topped the Nov. 1, 1969, Hot 100, thus leaving the King of Rock and Roll two months shy of a No. 1 streak spanning the '50s, '60s and '70s).
With the '10s still young, 10 other acts could join Spears and Usher in collecting No. 1s in each decade beginning with the '90s.
Janet Jackson and Madonna are both one 2011-19 leader away from admission to the excusive club, as the icons are the only artists with No. 1s in the '80s, '90s and '00s. (A No. 1 in the next nine years would also make either singer the first to command the list in four decades).
With Hot 100-topping titles in the '90s and '00s, Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, Destiny's Child (currently inactive), Diddy, Enrique Iglesias, Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez and Santana (plus Rob Thomas/matchbox twenty combined) could also each run their No. 1 streaks to three consecutive decades with a No. 1 anytime before the Hot 100 to be dated Jan. 4, 2020.
COUNTRY STRONG
Hey Gary!
In recent years, thanks in no small part to Taylor Swift, it seems that numerous country singles have registered high digital sales.
Could you please list the 10 most-downloaded country songs in the digital era?
Radin Amin
Kuching, Malaysia
Hi Radin,
Here is a ranking of the 10 top-selling country downloads, release to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Swift not only places four songs on the list, but she also stands as the top-selling digital artist in SoundScan history, with track sales of 33 million:
4,904,000, "Love Story," Taylor Swift
4,620,000, "Need You Now," Lady Antebellum
3,624,000, "You Belong With Me," Taylor Swift
3,158,000, "Before He Cheats," Carrie Underwood
3,145,000, "The Climb," Miley Cyrus (a No. 25 Country Songs hit in 2009, in addition to its Nos. 4 and 1 peaks, respectively, on the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary)
2,754,000, "Our Song," Taylor Swift
2,586,000, "Chicken Fried," Zac Brown Band
2,569,000, "Teardrops on My Guitar," Taylor Swift
2,519,000, "Life Is a Highway," Rascal Flatts
2,242,000, "What Hurts the Most," Rascal Flatts
Two of the artists above have made buzz-worthy headlines today.
Underwood has been banned by an Ottawa radio station following the trade of her husband, Mike Fisher, from the NHL's Ottawa Senators to the Nashville Predators; and, Cyrus will host "Saturday Night Live," which should make for a (pretty cool) "Miley Cyrus Show," March 5.
'IDOL' THOUGHTS
Last night (Feb. 10), "American Idol" wrapped its auditions phase and headed to Hollywood.
Per my goal of hoping to identify this year's eventual champion by the beginning of the season's first elimination episode, I pinpointed 34 hopefuls as potential victors since the series returned.
After the first round of cuts last night, exactly half - 17 - remain (pending those not shown last night) and just four were eliminated:
The next "American Idol"?
Casey Abrams
Naima Adedapo
Lauren Alaina (who followed her "duet" with Steven Tyler, below, with an equally strong version of "Unchained Melody" last night)
Jacee Badeaux
Jerome Bell
Rob Bolin
James Durbin
Aaron Gutierrez
Mark Gutierrez
Stefano Langone
Brett Loewenstern
Scott McCreery
Chelsee Oaks
Emily Anne Reed
Ashley Sullivan
Stormi Henley
Victoria Huggins
Travis Orlando
Sarah Sellers
As yet unknown
Janelle Arthur
Jovany Barreto
Emma Henry
Alyson Jados
Caleb Johnson
Corey Levoy
Paul McDonald
Matthew Nuss
John Wayne Schulz
Tiwan Strong
Brielle Von Hugel
To recap, 50% (17 of 34) of my potential picks for this year's future champion remain after the first episode of Hollywood week.
(Since we're competitive about such important matters, my girlfriend, Michelle, had more selectively chosen 20 possible winners. As of last night, 12 have advanced to the next round, a clearly more impressive 60% success rate.
And, of the other eight, none were shown to have been eliminated last night.
Hopefully publication of those results here counts as an early Valentine's Day present?)
Follow Billboard.com's complete coverage of the 10th season of "American Idol" and, as always, please feel free to share your opinions in the comments section below or by e-mailing askbb@billboard.com.
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Chelsea Handler Wants Ivanka Trump to Tell Her ‘F*cking A**hole’ Father He Should Support Abortion
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Dr. Susan Berry
Chelsea Handler has had enough of President Donald Trump’s pro-life policies and wants his daughter Ivanka to do something about it.
Handler hosted Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards and comedienne Sarah Silverman on her Netflix show to continue the “war on women” narrative and to challenge Ivanka Trump to change her father’s mind about what she believes women want.
“I know all women feel this way toward Ivanka right now, but I’m like, ‘You need to tell that f—ing asshole this is an unacceptable way to treat women,’” Handler said. “We’re moving backward.”
“So far, the White House has been a total zero on women and women’s health,” said Richards. “I think Ivanka’s job now is that she’s in charge of all women’s issues. This would be time to kind of step up.”
In April, Politico revealed that Ivanka Trump met in an “under-the-radar” meeting with Planned Parenthood president and CEO Cecile Richards to discuss possible “common ground” on the issue of abortion.
According to the news report, Ivanka Trump initiated the meeting:
The first daughter requested a sit-down with Cecile Richards, the head of Planned Parenthood and a vocal surrogate for Hillary Clinton on the 2016 campaign trail, to talk about an organization that is being targeted by Republicans seeking to defund it because it provides abortions, among other women’s health services like cancer screenings.
Their under-the-radar meeting — a rarity between a well-known Democratic activist and a close adviser to a Republican president — has not been previously reported.
The outreach, however, has “soured,” says Politico, since the president’s daughter took on an official position within Trump’s administration.
Handler asked Silverman if she thought Ivanka had any influence over her father.
“I’m so dead inside when it comes to all of this,” Silverman responded, adding that she direct-messaged the president’s daughter on Twitter.
“I was like, ‘This is your chance. You are writing your life story here,'” she said.
Handler added she knows what it’s like to have “an asshole “ father as well. However, she explained that she called her own father out her entire life, and wants to know why Ivanka isn’t taking the lead with Trump.
Planned Parenthood is closing clinics rapidly across the country due to reported financial difficulties, though its recently released annual report shows that, last year, the number of abortions, its taxpayer funding, and its profits all increased. At the same time, many of the non-abortion services Planned Parenthood says it provides have sharply decreased.
In March, the Trump administration informed Planned Parenthood the chain would have to quit performing abortions in order to keep its federal taxpayer funding.
Richards rejected the offer, stating that Planned Parenthood is “proud to provide abortion,” which it considers to be a “necessary service that’s as vital to our mission as birth control or cancer screenings.”
Planned Parenthood has been under investigation since the summer of 2015 after undercover journalists exposed an alleged fetal tissue operation. The allegations that Planned Parenthood sells the body parts of aborted babies for a profit led to multiple congressional investigations. Ultimately, the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Select Investigative Panel have referred Planned Parenthood Federation of America, several of the largest Planned Parenthood affiliates in the country, and three of their business associates in the fetal tissue procurement industry to the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.
A recent Marist poll found that 61 percent of Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortion, including 40 percent of those who say they are “pro-choice,” and 41 percent of Democrats.
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Kathryn Dunn Tenpas Thursday, September 24, 2020
With the recent passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and ensuing speculation over whether Republican senators will confirm the president’s nominee before the 2020 election, the role of the U.S. Senate has taken center stage. Such an imbroglio leaves the impression that the Senate plays a pivotal role in the appointments process, and while they most certainly pay attention to Supreme Court nominations, their broader role as a check on the president’s appointment power has diminished. Findings released in a new report, “The Replacements: Why and How “Acting” Officials are Making Senate Confirmation Obsolete,” reveal the Senate’s weakness as a check on the president’s appointment power. In short, the sheer number of federal vacancies in combination with a slew of “acting” officials in key positions have sidelined the Senate, raising important questions about government performance and our system of checks and balances.
Prepared in a collaboration between The Brookings Institution and the Partnership for Public Service, our report provides data showing that after nearly an entire first term in office, thirty-nine key positions across the fifteen departments were never filled, while 131 key positions are vacant. Take, for example, the Justice Department where a full 31% of the Senate-confirmed positions were continuously vacant, and over half (55%) were unfilled as of August 17, 2020. (See Table 1.) Even the savviest business consultant might not be able to help our government manage effectively amidst this massive leadership vacuum. Meanwhile, the institution that could do the most about this problem has mostly remained silent. One might think that a president’s failure to nominate qualified individuals for these key positions would draw the Senate’s attention, but it appears to be of little concern.
Table 1: Number of Senate-confirmed positions without a confirmed appointee in Cabinet-level departments as of Aug. 17, 2020
Number of Senate-confirmed positions Currently vacant positions Continuously vacant positions under Trump
No. % No. %
Agriculture 13 4 31% 1 8%
Commerce 21 9 43 1 5
Defense 59 21 36 0 N/A
Education 16 7 44 2 13
Energy 23 3 13 0 N/A
Health and Human Services 18 3 17 3 17
Homeland Security 17 11 65 2 12
Housing and Urban Development 13 2 15 1 8
Interior 18 5 28 2 11
Justice* 29 16 55 9 31
Labor 14 4 29 2 14
State** 59 24 41 7 12
Transportation 22 10 45 3 14
Treasury 26 9 35 5 19
Veterans Affairs 12 3 25 1 8
*Does not include United States attorneys and United States marshals **Does not include ambassadors Note: Data includes full-time, civilian positions that are Senate-confirmed.
Source: The Partnership for Public Service and The Washington Post
Beyond the sheer number of vacancies, the president has opted to designate “acting” officials across the federal government at a pace that far exceeds his predecessors. By definition, these temporary leaders lack the authority and prestige that a Senate confirmation confers. Even more egregiously, however, President Trump named an individual to a high-level, acting position after his nomination had been withdrawn (Anthony Tata, “the official performing the duties of Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy”). Similarly, President Trump designated Ken Cuccinelli as acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made it clear that he would not get confirmed. Rather than identifying qualified individuals who could withstand the scrutiny of the Senate, President Trump has sidelined the chamber’s role and placed loyalists in these critical positions. If these recent examples of blatant disregard for the role of the Senate did not set off alarm bells, it is not clear what will.
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Despite the Senate’s lack of concern, the report offers sensible recommendations that address the current imbalance, primarily amending the current law to remove ambiguities that enable presidents to circumvent the Senate. Such efforts are achievable, but only when senators agree on the necessity of fulfilling their constitutional role as a check on executive power.
A president’s repeated circumvention of the Senate confirmation process not only does lasting damage to the institution, but it has a profound effect on government performance. Temporary leadership by individuals not deemed suitable for formal nomination jeopardizes agency performance, inhibits long-term planning and damages morale. This study’s findings should be a wake-up call to the U.S. Senate to rise up and reassert their role in the presidential appointments process.
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Boeing has made significant progress with cleanup and restoration, and secured Santa Susana's bright future as open space habitat.
Boeing Santa Susana Restoration
The former Santa Susana Field Laboratory is a 2,850-acre site with a rich history. Virtually every major U.S. space program, from the first manned Mercury flights to the Apollo moon landings and Space Shuttle fleet, owes part of its success to the field lab in California’s Santa Susana Mountains. It was also the site of energy research and development for the U.S. government, including leading-edge nuclear, solar and sodium reactor technology.
Since acquiring its portion of the Simi Hills site from Rocketdyne in 1996, Boeing has made significant progress with cleanup and restoration. The company secured the future of nearly 2,400 acres as permanent open space habitat to benefit wildlife and the community, fulfilling a commitment made 10 years ago. The transformation of Santa Susana from field laboratory to open space is well underway, with native plants and animals reclaiming most of the previously developed areas of the property.
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Santa Susana has a storied past playing a lead role in the country’s space ambitions and providing a scenic backdrop for some Hollywood legends.
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Biofilters play a key role in treating stormwater at Santa Susana and Lower Duwamish Waterway sites.
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From cleanup crews to cougars and conservation groups, the Santa Susana site in Southern California buzzes with life every day.
Art Lenox leads key parts of Boeing’s remediation program at Santa Susana in Simi Valley, Calif., a site that was previously used for government rocket-engine testing and energy research.
A Natural Winner
March 20, 2013 in Environment
Boeing's stormwater management strategy for Santa Susana involves a biofilter, which uses natural processes to remove pollutants from stormwater runoff.
Santa Susana Field Laboratory History
The modern world has been substantially shaped by technological breakthroughs at the former Santa Susana Field Laboratory. A rocket engine testing and nuclear power research site used for federal government programs, the Simi Valley site was where thousands of workers tested rocket engines used to defend the country, land on the moon, and launch satellites for GPS and cell phones. It was also a test site for advanced energy research programs. After more than 50 years of operation, nuclear research ended in 1988 and rocket engine testing ceased in 2006.
Cleaning, Conserving and Restoring Boeing Santa Susana
The former Simi Hills field lab was a key proving ground for the U.S. space program rocket engines that propelled Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle astronauts into orbit, as well as a test site for commercialized nuclear power and nuclear energy research. These past operations, which occupied approximately one-fifth of the sprawling 2,850-acre site, have left residual chemical contamination in soil and groundwater.
Boeing and the other responsible parties, with oversight by regional and state environmental regulatory agencies, are conducting a thorough investigation in preparation for a comprehensive cleanup of the field lab. Over the years, numerous interim cleanup activities have addressed contamination in soil, groundwater and stormwater, furthering the progress toward restoration and preservation of this unique and valuable ecosystem.
Site Remediation Progress for Santa Susana's Future
Boeing Santa Susana’s environmental cleanup is well underway, with native plants and animals reclaiming much of the 2,850 acres in less than a decade since the Field Laboratory closed. By the nature of the U.S. government work done in the Simi Hills, the site was isolated from the growth and change of Southern California for more than half of a century. This allowed the Santa Susana Mountains to remain one of the most intact and vast natural areas amidst the urbanization of this immensely populated area.
The field lab continues to be a site of historic significance, with towering rocket engine test stands on NASA land and Native American artifacts throughout the property. Boeing secured a conservation easement that permanently preserves nearly 2,400 acres of the Boeing-owned land at Santa Susana, CA as open space habitat. This means that there will never be residential or agricultural development of the Simi Hills site. Boeing continues to work with a variety of educational and environmental organizations on research to promote new and innovative approaches to cleanup, remediation and restoration, along with enhancing knowledge of Santa Susana's ecology.
Around the Watering Hole
Touring Santa Susana Field Laboratory
Every year, thousands of residents visit the site to see the towering rocket engine test stands, study the rock formations, and catch a glimpses of the animals that appear to watch the visitors.
However, this year, due to COVID-19, public nature walks and bus tours have been put on hold. In the meantime, we will utilize virtual opportunities to share our site work and citizen scientist activities.
Where is the former Santa Susana Field Lab?
The 2,850-acre Santa Susana Field Laboratory straddles the remote Simi Hills at the border of Los Angeles and Ventura counties between Chatsworth and Simi Valley in the Santa Susana Mountains about 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles.
What's special about the site?
The Santa Susana Field Lab is located within a vital habitat linkage that connects the Santa Susana Mountains with the inland Sierra Madre Mountains to the Santa Monica Mountains to the Pacific Coast. It has many culturally-significant sites related to historic use by Native Americans, and a portion of the site is included in the National Register of Historic Places. The field lab was the proving ground for rocket engines that launched America into space and helped win the Cold War. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics identifies it as a historic aerospace site. It is a unique part of the cultural, environmental and technological fabric of Simi Valley, California and the United States.
What was the site used for?
The site was historically used to test rocket engines for NASA and the military, and to perform non-military nuclear energy research at Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC), for example, leading-edge nuclear power, solar and energy-efficiency technology development.
Who owns it?
The Santa Susana Field Lab’s 2,850 acres are divided into four administrative areas. Boeing acquired 2,398 acres from Rocketdyne in 1996 when it purchased Rockwell's aerospace and defense unit. The Department of Energy (DOE) owns several buildings on the 90 acres of Boeing property it leased and the U.S. Government owns 452 acres that are administered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
What does it look like today?
Santa Susana, CA is a vast hilltop natural area dominated by sandstone cliffs featuring oak woodlands, scrub and meadows, with valley and mountain vistas. Plant and animal species thrive at the Santa Susana Field Lab, including deer, bobcats, coyotes, cougars and raptors. A few decommissioned rocket engine test stands and other buildings still dot the landscape. Nearly 90% of historical buildings have been removed as operational activity at the Department of Energy's Energy Technology Engineering Center was phased out in 1988 and rocket engine testing ended in 2006. Environmental and community groups and universities use the land for environmental research, restoration and recreation. Boeing hosts frequent bus tours and guided hikes to share the Santa Susana’s historical significance and cleanup progress.
Is the site suitable for open-space habitat?
Yes. Santa Susana, CA – with its sandstone cliffs, oak woodlands, meadows, hills and streams – provides a rare and vital habitat and a crucial wildlife linkage in the Simi Valley area of Southern California. The site has a unique history of Native American use and aerospace technological achievements. Because the Simi Hills site has these characteristics, in 2017, the North American Land Trust recorded a conservation easement to permanently protect the land as open space habitat.
Boeing has partnered, and will continue to partner, with established organizations that share its open space vision. In addition, leading universities are engaged in environmental research at Boeing Santa Susana. The National Park Service is also studying the possibility of including the site in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area as part of its Rim of the Valley study.
What is the purpose of the conservation easement?
The conservation easement ensures the preservation and protection of the unique and critical Simi Hills habitat, cultural resources and open space within nearly 2,400 acres of land that Boeing owns at Santa Susana. It is a legally enforceable property restriction that forever prohibits development or use of the land for residential or agricultural purposes. The land’s future as open space habitat will preserve the land as a wildlife corridor, will benefit local plants and animals (many of which are protected) and will preserve the many cultural resources. The conservation easement memorializes Boeing’s commitment for more than ten years to preserve the Boeing-owned property at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory as open space to protect vital wildlife habitat and honor the land's Native American history.
Why did Boeing choose North American Land Trust to hold the conservation easement?
North American Land Trust (NALT) is a respected, longstanding, experienced land trust that has protected 120,000+ acres and completed over 500 projects in 20 states since 1992. For more information about NALT, visit their website here.
What is NALT's role as the conservation easement holder?
As the holder of the conservation easement, North American Land Trust (NALT) monitors activities at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory to ensure the prevention of development and preservation of natural and cultural resources. NALT also has the authority to enforce the land use restrictions in court.
How does the conservation easement affect the cleanup?
The conservation easement does not affect the responsibility of Boeing, the Department of Energy or NASA to fulfill their respective cleanup requirements. It ensures there is no confusion about the future use of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory property. Future land use is critical in determining the level of cleanup necessary to protect human health and the environment. The conservation easement legally secures the future of the Simi Valley site as open space habitat. It ensures that, regardless of zoning or the desires of any future land owner, the site will never be used for residential or agricultural purposes. We remain committed to completing a cleanup that fully protects human health and the environment, consistent with the future use of the Santa Susana, CA property as open space habitat.
How does the conservation easement affect the Environmental Impact Report (EIR)?
The conservation easement provides certainty that the only legally permitted future use of nearly 2,400 acres of the Santa Susana Field Lab, now and forever, is open space habitat. The Environmental Impact Report (EIR) should only consider cleanup scenarios consistent with that future use.
Can the conservation easement be cancelled?
The Santa Susana conservation easement is recorded in the Official Records of Ventura County and permanently "runs with the land," which means that it lasts and binds the Simi Valley property forever, regardless of who owns the property.
Who can enforce the Conservation Easement? What happens if the Land Trust / Attorney General fails to enforce?
Numerous parties have the right to enforce the provisions of the conservation easement recorded over Boeing Santa Susana. In addition to Boeing and the land trust easement holder (North American Land Trust) being able to enforce the restrictions on any current or future land owner or occupant of the Simi Hills property, the conservation easement also specifically provides that the California Attorney General and "any governmental authority with jurisdiction over the Property" are able to enforce the conservation easement. That would include not only the California Attorney General’s Charitable Trust Section, whose mission is to investigate and bring legal actions against charities that misuse charitable assets, but also agencies like DTSC, the LA Regional Water Quality Control Board, and Ventura County. As such, Boeing’s conservation easement is significantly stronger than other restrictive covenants or land use restrictions that the State of California enters into with landowners to restrict future property use at contaminated sites.
Is creation of a conservation easement a tactic to avoid site cleanup?
The Santa Susana Field Lab conservation easement clarifies the future land use so that appropriate cleanup decisions can proceed. We have publicly stated for over a decade that we will clean up and restrict Boeing Santa Susana to ensure it is preserved as open space to protect the important habitat, cultural and historical values in the Santa Susana Mountains. The conservation easement makes Boeing’s commitment legally binding. We hope the conservation easement will reassure the public, and all who are committed to the preservation of the invaluable natural and cultural resources at the field lab, of our commitment to completing a cleanup that fully protects human health and the environment for the site’s future as open space habitat.
Boeing's Santa Susana Environmental Remediation and Cleanup Plan
Where did the contamination come from?
The Santa Susana Field Laboratory was at the center of nuclear energy research efforts after World War II to progress space exploration and protect the United States during the Cold War. In connection with these operations, chemicals were used and released into the soil and groundwater.
What has Boeing done to clean up the site so far?
Boeing has conducted interim cleanup measures at Santa Susana while building the scientific basis for cleanup pending final regulatory approval. Boeing has removed or treated 45,000 cubic yards of soil; analyzed 38,000+ soil and groundwater samples; drilled 260 groundwater monitoring and extraction wells; and dismantled more than 300 structures. In addition, Boeing has:
Installed a state-of-the-art groundwater treatment system;
Built stormwater containment and filtration systems designed in consultation with a panel of stormwater experts to meet water quality standards that in many cases are stricter than drinking water standards (although there is no human water consumption)
Restored 900 acres of land.
What is the timeline for cleanup?
In 2007, Boeing, NASA and the DOE signed a comprehensive cleanup agreement (“2007 consent order”) with the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC). Boeing is committed to completing a cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory that is fully protective of both human health and the environment, consistent with the field lab’s future as open space habitat. Boeing continues to meet all of its obligations to implement the 2007 consent order. Here are key steps in the process:
The DTSC issues a certified, final site-wide Programmatic Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
DTSC approves the investigation reports previously submitted by Boeing
Boeing is preparing risk assessment reports for DTSC approval
When risk assessment is approved, Boeing will prepare a corrective measure study for DTSC approval
When corrective measure study is approved and finalized, DTSC will issue a statement of basis outlining the final cleanup plan
Boeing continues long-term groundwater cleanup and monitoring.
Boeing completes soil cleanup.
What happens after the cleanup?
Boeing secured a conservation easement that permanently preserves nearly 2,400 acres of Boeing-owned land at Santa Susana as open space habitat. After the cleanup, Santa Susana, CA will continue to be a place where Santa Susana mountain lions roam free, cultural artifacts remain undisturbed and oak woodlands have the opportunity to thrive.
Will the cleanup be enough?
Yes. We remain committed to a cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory that is fully protective of human health and the environment, consistent with the land’s future use as open space habitat. Our cleanup will protect everyone who visits Santa Susana for recreational purposes and our neighbors in the surrounding community, as well as preserve unique wildlife habitat and protect important Native American cultural resources.
Why does Boeing specifically exclude homegrown produce from its risk assessment? Does this mean that existing gardens at neighboring homes aren’t safe?
Boeing recorded a conservation easement that permanently preserves nearly 2,400 acres of Boeing-owned land at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory as open space habitat. This easement ensures there will never be residential or agricultural development of the Simi Hills site.
Based on extensive data collected over decades, there are no levels of contaminants from Santa Susana that would pose a risk for off-site gardens or for residents using those gardens now, and in the future. In an April 2013 letter to the Mayor of Simi Valley, the DTSC stated, "To date we have not found evidence of off-site contamination from SSFL that would pose a risk to human health or the environment."
Boeing submitted a report to DTSC that included an estimate for a lifetime cancer risk of one in three. What does that mean?
The reference in Boeing’s report submitted to DTSC that included an estimate for a lifetime Simi Valley cancer risk of one in three is a hypothetical risk prior to cleanup and is primarily attributable to naturally occurring arsenic. The hypothetical risk following cleanup at this location will be 1 in 1 million or less, a point clearly described in Boeing’s report. This calculation is just one among many that are considered in assessing the site and setting the ultimate cleanup level, and it is misleading to focus just on this calculation. The most important fact for the public to understand is that Boeing remains committed to completing a cleanup that is fully protective of both human health and the environment, consistent with the land’s future use as open space habitat.
With regard to the risk calculation referenced above, there are two critical points that must be understood to properly interpret this calculation and comprehend what it means, and what it doesn’t mean.
Assumption #1: The calculation assumes that no cleanup will ever be done. Fact: Boeing will perform a cleanup that is fully protective of human health and the environment, consistent with the land’s future use as open space habitat.
Assumption #2: The calculation assumes that a person will live on the site and consume produce from a backyard garden. Fact: No one will ever live on Boeing’s portion of Santa Susana in the Simi Hills. North American Land Trust holds a conservation easement that permanently preserves nearly 2,400 acres of Boeing-owned land at Santa Susana as open space habitat.
Is Boeing trying to avoid cleaning up to the agricultural standards for which the Santa Susana Field Laboratory is zoned?
Future land use at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory is controlled by the 2017 conservation easement, not zoning. Under the conservation easement, no agricultural use for human consumption will ever occur on the nearly 2,400 acres at Boeing Santa Susana.
Is it true that, even after cleanup, there will still be a remaining cancer risk for one out of five people?
Following the cleanup at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, contaminants from historic site operations that remain on Boeing’s property will be at or below levels that meet regulatory requirements and standards for property used as open space habitat.
Perchlorate in Groundwater
What is perchlorate?
The Environmental Protection Agency defines perchlorate as a chemical compound commonly used in solid rocket propellants, munitions, fireworks, vehicle airbags, matches, fertilizers and signal flares. It also occurs naturally in soil, particularly in arid regions like the southwestern United States found in the Santa Susana Mountains.
Was perchlorate used at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (Santa Susana)?
Yes. Perchlorate was used in solid rocket motor research in two locations onsite at the field lab; approximately 95% of the rocket engine testing performed at Santa Susana was on liquid-fueled rocket engines without perchlorate.
Where has perchlorate contamination been discovered at Santa Susana?
Perchlorate was discovered in soil and groundwater at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, consistent with the controlled areas where small rockets were previously tested and a former hazardous waste disposal site. Perchlorate related to activities at Santa Susana was not detected in any of the groundwater, surface water, sediment or soil samples collected at the Simi Valley site.
Has there been any perchlorate cleanup at Santa Susana?
A perchlorate remediation was performed between 2004 and 2007 at the field lab. Approximately 15,500 cubic yards of soil was excavated and treated onsite, using a treatment approach approved by California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board). Boeing is also pumping and treating groundwater from several areas onsite where groundwater was impacted by historical site operations, including where perchlorate is detected.
Is the perchlorate in Simi Valley groundwater related to historic Santa Susana operations?
No. There is no evidence that the perchlorate detected in Simi Valley wells is related to past operations at Santa Susana. This conclusion is based on a comprehensive study completed by the Army Corps of Engineers in 2007 and numerous other investigation reports and studies.
Was perchlorate detected in Dayton Canyon?
In the early 2000s, perchlorate was detected in surface soil at the site of the proposed Dayton Canyon development located in West Hills. Although perchlorate was not detected again in that location, an investigation was conducted in connection with DTSC and the Regional Board regarding the potential for perchlorate to move from Santa Susana to the Dayton Canyon development site. Hundreds of soil, sediment, groundwater and surface water samples were collected adjacent to the known use areas at Santa Susana, including drainage areas leading from Santa Susana to the Dayton Canyon site. No evidence of perchlorate was found in any of the offsite sample locations and DTSC released the area for residential development in 2008.
Radiation Levels at Santa Susana
Did the 2018 Woolsey Fire affect air quality beyond typical smoke associated with fires of this nature, specifically in releasing any radioactive material into the atmosphere?
No, the California wildfires did not affect air quality beyond typical smoke associated with fires of this nature. Data collected from Boeing air monitoring stations during the Simi Valley fire confirm that no man-made radionuclides were detected. The data, evaluated by an independent, State-certified laboratory, were consistent with any forest or brush fire where increased airborne particulate matter from smoke and fire is present. Only naturally-occurring radioactive material (NORM) was detected in the samples collected. The levels of NORM were well below regulatory standards for airborne radionuclides and well below general background levels in the United States, which are considered safe by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). See “Boeing’s Radiological Air Monitoring Data Associated with the Woolsey Fire” here.
Does the site have dangerous levels of radioactivity?
No, the Santa Susana Field Laboratory site does not have dangerous levels of radioactivity. The U.S. EPA completed a $42 million exhaustive radiological characterization survey of Area IV, the parcel of land where DOE operations took place and that is being cleaned up by DOE standards. The survey found that low levels of residual contamination from past civilian nuclear energy research affects approximately 40 acres of the 290 acres in Area IV. EPA’s measurements show that most of the radiation levels are lower than naturally occurring levels measured in nearby off-site locations. To read the EPA's study, visit EPA Radiological Characterization Study Results.
Did the EPA find extensive contamination, including over 400 radiation "hot spots" in Area IV?
The U.S. EPA conducted an exhaustive radiological characterization survey of Area IV between 2009 and 2012. The EPA described the survey as, “one of the most robust technical investigations ever undertaken for low-level radioactive contamination.” The results of the survey will help guide remediation efforts in Area IV.
According to the EPA:
“In general, EPA found elevated radiation levels in the areas where we expected to find them, isolated to a number of former process or disposal areas.”
“Level of radiation throughout most of the Area IV study area was lower than the offsite background locations.”
“This survey resulted in the discovery of several areas of elevated radiation levels, but none posed a health risk to personnel.”
As part of the survey, the EPA took 3,735 soil samples and conducted over 128,000 separate analyses. In summary, the radiation levels found were limited and localized to certain former process and disposal areas. These results are in line with what would be expected for a facility of this type, which operated for many decades. No (0%) samples exceed the EPA acceptable risk range for open space land use.
EPA Radiological Characterization Study Results fact sheet
People are concerned that radiation has moved off-site to the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, Santa Susana Knolls, Moorpark and beyond. How can you be certain this is not the case?
A 2007 study that compiled existing off-site data found no evidence of offsite radiological contamination. In an April 2013 letter to the Mayor of Simi Valley, the DTSC stated, “To date we have not found evidence of off-site contamination from SSFL that would pose a risk to human health or the environment.” in areas such as the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, Santa Susana Knolls, Moorpark and beyond. More recently, DTSC stated in the Biannual April 2018 public meeting that “DTSC has not found any evidence that contamination from [historical] operations at SSFL has posed or would pose a threat to human health or the environment outside the SSFL site boundaries.”
Have health studies concluded that there are higher cancer rates in San Fernando and Simi Valleys caused by radiation from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory?
No. Since 1990, numerous studies conducted by government agencies, university researchers and others have examined cancer rates in the communities surrounding Santa Susana. It is not unusual for multiple studies to be conducted and come to different conclusions, which is why one must look at all of them. Taken together, the studies do not support a link between incidences of cancer and past operations at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL).
The two most recent studies were performed by Professor Lewis Morgenstern of the University of Michigan and Professor Thomas Mack of the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.
A 2007 study by Professor Morgenstern concluded, “The results from this study suggest little or no association between residential distance from SSFL and the incidence of all cancers or the group of (radio-sensitive) malignancies thought to be affected by ionizing radiation. There was, however, a weak positive association during both follow-up periods between distance from SSFL and the group of (chemo-sensitive) malignancies thought to be affected by exposure to chemicals used at Rocketdyne.” The study further concluded, “Furthermore, we have no direct evidence that the associations we observed, even if they reflect real differences among the three regions, necessarily reflect the effects of environmental exposures originating at SSFL.”
A 2014 study by Professor Mack concluded, “No evidence of measurable offsite cancer causation occurring as a result of emissions from the SSFL was found. Further, no evidence of any cancer causation by any environmental factor was found.” Dr. Mack presented his findings at a DTSC public meeting in April 2014.
An overview of epidemiological and community health studies can be found here.
Is it true that 300 times permissible concentrations were released during the Sodium Reactor Experiment accident?
It is not true that 300 times permissible concentrations were released during the Sodium Reactor Experiment accident. Many people have made various statements about the 1959 Sodium Reactor Experiment incident using assumptions that are not supported by facts and data.
What we do know is the incident occurred at a time when the area around the Santa Susana Field Laboratory was still sparsely populated. Records were kept of the levels that were released and used to calculate potential exposure dose. The total radiation doses for the two month period following the SRE accident were 0.099 millirem for a hypothetical person at the Santa Susana site boundary, and 0.018 millirem for a hypothetical person at the location of the nearest resident in 1959 (1.33 miles away).
These doses are a fraction of the permissible exposure level in 1959, and today’s more restrictive federal limits, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Department of Energy exposure limits for nuclear facilities (100 millirem/year) and the U.S. EPA limit for airborne emissions (10 millirem/year). Nuclear energy operations at Santa Susana ended decades ago. The SRE accident has been the subject of extensive study and commentary. Here is some additional information about the incident:
Energy Technology Engineering Center website
Department of Energy SRE Workshop
Annual Site Environmental Reports, 1955-present
Were there any "secret releases of radiation" at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory?
No, there were no “secret releases of radiation” at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Radiation releases were monitored, measured and documented in compliance with federal regulations. The Santa Susana Field Laboratory continually monitored the site for potential releases and reported the results of its monitoring. The results of this sampling were documented in annual monitoring reports.
Copies of annual site environmental reports for Area IV of Santa Susana Field Laboratory from 1955 through 2014 are available on the Energy Technology Engineering Center website.
Were barrels of radioactive waste disposed at the burn pits in Area IV?
Barrels of sodium and other chemicals were part of hazardous waste disposal in the Simi Valley site’s Area IV Burn Pit during the 1950s, 60s and 70s in compliance with existing regulations at the time. Subsequent site investigations showed that the Area IV Burn Pit did become radiologically contaminated. It was cleaned up during the 1990s and released for unrestricted use (i.e. declared clean) in 1998 by the California Department of Health Services (now Department of Public Health).
Health Studies and Santa Susana
What were the results for the state study on Santa Susana Field Laboratory workers? Is it true that the studies found higher cancer rates?
There have been two worker health studies at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. A 1997-1999 study of Santa Susana Rocketdyne workers and simi valley cancer rates conducted by UCLA was extensively reviewed by a number of experts who questioned the study’s methodology. As a result, Boeing and the United Aerospace Workers Union (UAW) sponsored a second worker health study that was conducted by the International Epidemiology Institute and overseen by an independent Science Committee comprised of nationally renowned public health and epidemiological experts.
This study, which was completed in 2005 and updated in 2011, was peer reviewed and published in the Journal of Radiation Research. It stated, in reference to Simi Valley cancer rates, "The extended follow-up reinforces the findings in the previous study in failing to observe a detectable increase in cancer deaths associated with radiation, but strong conclusions still cannot be drawn because of small numbers and relatively low career doses.” The Science Committee likewise concluded that, “The Rocketdyne workforce had a much lower overall mortality than the rate observed in the California population. There is no evidence that working conditions caused increased mortality in the Rocketdyne workforce."
International Epidemiology Institute Worker Health Study Executive Summary
Information about UCLA Worker Health Study
Did a UCLA study find evidence of significant offsite exposures to hazardous chemicals and radioactivity from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory?
No. The authors of the UCLA study did not conduct any soil, air or other environmental testing that would provide information about hazardous chemicals and radioactivity from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory that exist today, either on or offsite. The study is primarily a review of limited, historical information. In addition, the study was not subject to peer review and several experts have questioned its methodology.
Comments from Boeing and other experts on the UCLA study can be found here.
One study that did involve actual sampling was the onsite radiological characterization survey of Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory that the U.S. EPA conducted between 2009 and 2012. The EPA described the survey as, "one of the most robust technical investigations ever undertaken for low-level radioactive contamination." In summary, the radiation levels found onsite were limited and localized to certain former process and disposal areas. These results are in line with what would be expected for a facility of this type, which operated for many decades.
Final EPA Radiological Characterization Reports
Dr. Morgenstern says his study found that cancer rates in the community are 60% higher within two miles of the site than farther away. What is your response?
Dr. Morgenstern's report states: “There is little or no association, for total cancers and radiosensitive cancers among adults.” For the few cancers for which higher rates were reported, the report concludes that "There is no direct evidence from this investigation, however, that these observed associations reflect the effects of environmental exposures originating at SSFL."
And in his April 2014 study of area cancer rates, Dr. Thomas Mack of USC Keck School of Medicine concluded: "no evidence of measurable offsite cancer causation occurring as a result of emissions from Santa Susana."
If there is no health impact, why did Rocketdyne/Boeing settle prior lawsuits?
Settlements of this nature are common and occur for a number of reasons unrelated to the merits of the claims being asserted. It is important to note that the overriding conclusion of numerous health studies is that people living near Santa Susana are not at increased risk for developing cancers as a result of past operations.
Santa Susana Stormwater Treatment and Permit Compliance
How stringent is Boeing's stormwater permit with the Regional Board?
The stormwater discharge limits for the Santa Susana site in the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit issued by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board) are some of the country’s most stringent limits. Although stormwater is not used as drinking water, the numeric limits in the site’s permit, in many cases, are lower than the levels that the state of California deems safe for people to drink.
What has Boeing done to comply with the NPDES permit?
Boeing has completed the following types of projects at Santa Susana to meet the strict limits in the site’s NPDES permit:
Designed and constructed two state-of-the-art storm water treatment systems that use processes and chemicals similar to those used by city and county municipalities to make clean drinking water;
Installed a biofilter that was recognized by the California Stormwater Quality Association as a creative solution; and
Removal of over 25,000 cubic yards of soil that may have been adversely affecting stormwater runoff.
Boeing works with an independent team of five internationally recognized experts who provide recommendations on how to best meet compliance objectives. Additional information on the Santa Susana Stormwater Expert Panel and their prior presentations is available here.
Over the past decade, Boeing has performed thousands of analyses on stormwater leaving the Santa Susana site to ensure compliance with the NPDES permit. Even with the permit’s stringent limits, Boeing has maintained over 97% compliance for stormwater leaving the site. The exceedances that have occurred are generally associated with metals and inorganics at naturally-occurring levels.
Should I be concerned if I’m exposed to stormwater from the Santa Susana Field Laboratory?
No. In response to concerns expressed by community members, Boeing prepared a Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA), an environmental risk assessment, under the direction of the Regional Board.
The HHRA evaluated potential exposure of individuals who may come into contact with stormwater from the Santa Susana Field Lab in drainage areas immediately downstream of the property boundary while hiking, rafting or other recreational uses. The report considered possible ways recreational users could have direct exposure to the surface water, such as incidental ingestion, skin contact and inhalation. The HHRA, which was reviewed and approved by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), concluded that:
Potential recreational exposures to Constituents of Potential Concern (COPCs) in surface water runoff exiting the Santa Susana site via Outfalls 001, 002, 008, 009, 011, 018, and 019 are below levels of concern as established by Cal-EPA and USEPA. This includes those COPCs that have had NPDES permit limit exceedances, such as lead and dioxins.
The final HHRA is located here.
Does the stormwater runoff from Santa Susana affect soil in my neighborhood?
No. People who live in the vicinity of the site are safe. Based on thousands of soil samples collected onsite and offsite, individuals who live near the site are not exposed to any ground contamination. The exceedances that have occurred over time in stormwater are generally caused by metals and inorganics in soil at naturally occurring levels.
Were stormwater treatment systems at Santa Susana damaged in the Woolsey Fire? If so, was surface water runoff contaminated and how long will it take to get treatment systems fixed?
Portions of our stormwater management and treatment systems were damaged in the Simi Valley fire, however, once it was safe for Boeing’s Santa Susana team to return to the site after the fire, the piping and most of the other components were fully restored to pre-fire capabilities. The majority of the repair work was completed by January 2019.
After the Woolsey fire, Boeing collected surface water samples in response to 10 qualifying rain events and submitted the data to the Regional Board as part of the regular quarterly reports in accordance with the NPDES permit.
While several exceedances were identified, additional laboratory analysis showed that only naturally occurring radionuclides were detected, and the Stormwater Expert Panel indicated that the other exceedances were likely the result of the wildfire and not from erosion of contaminated soil. The Expert Panel is still evaluating the data and will include findings on the cause of the exceedances in their 2019 Annual Report, which will be available here.
Is it true that the Regional Board waived fines against Boeing for stormwater permit exceedances this year? Why would they do this and what would the fines have been?
The California Water Code states that penalties do not apply when permit violations are caused by unanticipated, grave natural disasters like the Woolsey Fire. The Regional Board has determined that the exceedances detected at Santa Susana were due to the Woolsey Fire. The only penalties assessed against Boeing were for dioxin because they are excluded from the natural disaster exemption.
Why does water flow in Bell Canyon when there is no surface water leaving Santa Susana?
The Stormwater Expert Panel wrote a memorandum explaining why surface water doesn’t continually flow from the site into the Bell Canyon neighborhood. Flow in Bell Canyon in the dry season is from groundwater emerging in springs and through runoff from neighborhood activity. The spring water has been tested and there are no site-related ground contaminants present in the Bell Canyon drainage downstream of the Santa Susana Field Lab property boundary. There also has been extensive soil testing in drainages in Bell Canyon and there are no site-related ground contaminants in the drainages south of the Santa Susana property boundary.
Does stormwater from Santa Susana flow into Black Canyon and the Knolls neighborhood?
Surface water drainages from the Santa Susana site do not flow into Black Canyon or enter the Knolls neighborhood because of the area’s topography. In addition, water that flows from seeps to Black Canyon has been tested and there are no site-related contaminants present.
Santa Susana Stormwater Technical Library
View the Stormwater Fact Sheet
Stormwater at Santa Susana is regulated under a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit issued by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board. Under the current permit, several outfall locations require routine monitoring for various constituents. Boeing provides this library of technical documents about the site-wide stormwater management program as a public service on behalf of the Regional Board.
Human Health Risk Assessment for Surface Water Runoff
Boeing will conduct a Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA) of runoff from the former Santa Susana Field Laboratory property via the southern outfall locations. The HHRA will provide a quantitative evaluation of potential risks associated with exposure to discharges from the Santa Susana site, which are regulated by the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
Revised Human Health Assessment Work Plan
Final HHRA cover letter
Final HHRA
Interim Source Removal Action (ISRA)
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Top 10 Actresses who ruled the Bollywood
Posted on 16/06/2007 by BollywoodEntertainment.com.au
The Indian film industry has always produced male-oriented films barring a few exceptions. However, there were some female leads that always took the industry by storm by their great performance and stood high despite all odds. They had their own identity and never were a shadow of their male counterparts. We have listed the top 10 bollywood beauties that have left a great impression on the Indian audience.1. Nutan Behl
Born on 4 June, 1936, Nutan is one of the brightest gems of Indian Film Industry. The eldest daughter of Shobhana Samarth, Nutan Behl, is said to be by far the most attractive and sensitive actresses of Bollywood. She is one of the very few divas who have served the industry for almost five decades playing a variety of roles, starting as a child artist, to leading roles then character roles with great élan.
When Nutan was only 14, she starred in a film directed by her mother Shobhana appropriately titled “Hamari Beti”. That film marked her debut. 1951 set Nutan’s career on a roll with her being crowned the first Miss India and the release of “Hum Log” and “Nagina”. These films announced the arrival of Nutan on the stage of Bollywood.
Her first big break was “Seema” released in 1955, for which she won a Filmfare Award. She followed her success with a romantic comedy, “Paying Guest”, in which she co-starred with Dev Anand. In 1959 she starred in two hit films, “Anari” (with Raj Kapoor) and Bimal Roy’s Sujata (with Sunil Dutt). These movies showed that Nutan’s unique quality, which set her apart from her contemporaries, was that she was a thinking actress who tried to perceive the undeveloped motivations of her characters. Her expressions spoke more than her words.
Nutan’s pairing with Lata Mangeshkar worked wonders and the duo together gave a number of hits. The voice of Lata combined with the expressive emotions of Nutan proved to be a success story. Nutan was also quite daring for her times and she was one of the first actresses daring enough to wear a bikini, which she did in “Dilli Ka Thug”.
Nutan’s personal life had not been as bright as her career. She had an arranged marriage on October 11, 1959 with Lt. Commander Rajish Behl, a boy her mother had chosen for her. A son, Mohnish, was born to them in 1963. When Nutan found out that her mom had been misappropriating her earnings, she filed a Civil suit and broke off all relationship with her. The relationship with her mom remained strained until Nutan was diagnosed with cancer.
Nutan once again came to the limelight with the release of “Bandini” in 1963. Bandini is still remembered as one of the finest performances by an Indian actress. Throughout the 60’s Nutan gave great performances in films like Chhaila, Manzil, Surat aur Seerat, Dil Hi Toh Hai, Chaandi Ki Deewar, Khandaan, Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya, Milan, Bhai Behan etc. She won the Filmfare Best Actress Award for the fourth time for her performance in Milan.
She again gave award winning performances in “Saudagar” (1973) and “Mein Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki” (1978). She maintained her gracious and sensitive style when she started playing maternal roles in the 80’s. She starred next to Dilip Kumar in the box office hit “Karma” in 1986.
Nutan passed away on February 21, 1991 at the age of 54, but this star of Indian Film Industry will keep shining forever and showing the way for all talented newcomers in Bollywood.
2. Nargis
Nargis was a major Indian star during the ’40s and ’50s recognized for her charisma, tremendous dignity, great intelligence, and ability to play a variety of roles ranging from shy coquettes to westernized women. Nargis was born on June 1, 1929 as Fatima Rashid, the daughter of the Allahabad-based singer, Jaddanbai and Uttamchand Mohanchand. Nargis, her stage name, means “Narcissus”, the flower. She was always credited as Nargis in all of her films.
Nargis started her career as a child artist in “Talashe Haq”, she quickly progressed to playing lead roles and became the top actresses of her era. She made her debut as an actress in “Tamanna” released in 1942. She appeared in a number of movies after that the most popular being Humayun (1945), Nargis (1946), Mela (1948), Aag (1948), Barsaat (1949), Jogan (1950).
Nargis paired well with Raj Kapoor and together they developed both a personal and professional partnership and gave Hindi cinema some of its best classics. Their first was Aag release in 1948. Their first blockbuster an onscreen couple was the unforgettable “Barsaat” released in 1949. The famous hit song Pyaar Hua Iqrar Hua is still considered as one of the finest romantic songs ever. Barsaat was followed by another hit “Aawara” in 1951 and “Shree 420” in 1955. Both films still maintain top positions amongst Bollywood’s finest classics. A portion of their success could be attributed to their fame as real life couple. Their romantic entanglement provided fans with hours of gossipy entertainment as Kapoor was a married man.
Nargis’s best performance came with perhaps Indian cinema’s greatest work Mehboob Khan’s “Mother India”. The film was critically acclaimed and a box office wonder and it topped all charts. The film grossed over Rs. 40 million the highest for any Indian film at that time. The film is still respected by the audience and critics of all ages and generations. It was the first Indian film to be nominated for Oscars in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Nargis played the role of a mother who killed her rebellious son for the goodwill of the whole village thus becoming the ‘mother’ of the entire village. She also won the Filmfare Best Actress Award for that role.
One year later Nargis married her co-star of Mother India Sunil Dutt. The marriage seemed scandalous to many at the time, because Sunil had played her son in the movie.
After the marriage, Nargis retired from films to raise her children and to volunteer for charitable work, but she still remained active in the film industry using her friendship with Indira Gandhi to help lobby for better conditions for filmmakers. In 1980 she became a member of the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament).
Pancreatic cancer claimed Nargis on May 3, 1981, ironically the same year her son Sanjay Dutt made his Bollywood debut with Rocky. Nargis and her movies, (approximately 50) which spanned from 1935 through on to 1967, continue to be popular even now.
3. Madhubala
Who can forget the dove-eyed Madhubala who is the epitome of on-screen beauty and still the most beautiful actress Bollywood ever had. She had name and fame but not enough life. The actress died at a young age of 36!! She was born on 14/02/1933 and died on 23/02/1969 and in that period that she acted she did 70 films.
Her early life was full of struggles. Born to Atauallah Khan and Mumtaz Jehan Begum in a conservative family of Pathan Muslims, she started in a cow shed in Jogeshwari courtesy of a Bhaiya from UP. For her first role as a child star, she was paid 50 rupees and then 50 rupees more because the father said he has to accompany her and hence can not do a job.
After about five years of playing child roles, Devika Rani called for her to come for her film Jwar Bhata. She was rechristened to Madhubala. Madhubala got her first break in a lead role in Neel Kamal (1947). Her true success came with the movie Mahal (1949), which literally made her a superstar overnight. The list of movies to her credit is long, some of them being Sharabi (1964) Half Ticket (1962), Mughal-E-Azam (1960), Barsaat Ki Raat (1960), Jaali Note (1960), Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958), Howrah Bridge (1958), Phagun (1958), Mr. & Mrs. ‘55 (1955), Badal (1951), Neki Aur Badi (1949), Amar Prem (1948), Lal Dupatta (1948), Pujari (1946). Not many would know Madhubala had charged twice that was paid to Dilip Kumar for Mughal e Azam when the movie had gone on the floor.
She was romantically involved with a number of men. She worked with most of them and some of them were very respectable film personalities. Be it Latif, Mohan Sinha, Kamal Amrohi, Premnath, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Dilip Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Bhart Bhushan and finally Kishore Kumar. Men just fell for her beauty and charms. The list can go on and on.
To get Dilip interested in her she sent a red rose with a message. Dilip was impressed but got furious when he later came to know that she had done the same with Premnath not long ago and was going strong with him. He never forgave her for that. Never ever, not even when she was on her death bed. Kishore Kumar who was her last love and eventually her husband – married her despite her illness.
Her ailing heart was kept hidden from the industry. Often she would cough blood on the sets. Ultimately she died of her heart problem and Kishore Kumar took no time in forgetting her and remarrying.
4. Hema Malini
Hema Malini was born in the Tamil-speaking Chakravarthy household on October 16, 1948 in Ammankudi, Tamil Nadu. Her dad’s name is V.S.R. Chakravarthy and her mom, Jaya, was a film producer. She was enrolled in the Chennai-based Andhra Mahila Sabha. She was the second South Indian actress after Vyjayantimala to be a successful Bollywood star.
She performed as a dancer in the regional film “Pandava Vanavasam” in 1961. She wanted to start her acting career in 1964, but she was rejected by the Tamil director Shridhar on the grounds that she had no star appeal, but Hema did not give up and made her debut with a bang starring opposite to the legendary Raj Kapoor in “Sapnon ka Saudagar” in 1968. The film’s posters splashed her pictures with the catch phrase Dreamgirl. Though the film flopped, Hema the dream girl had arrived.
Her next films were “Waris” and “Jahan Pyar Mile”. The films failed but Hema survived with “Johnny Mera Naam” in 1970. Her next major success came with her famous double role in “Seeta aur Geeta” in 1972 where she starred next to Sanjeev Kumar and Dharmendra. It was her first successful project with Dharmendra, the couple went on to be one of the hottest on screen couple before they became real life partners when they tied the knot, but it was not an easy marriage. Dharmendra, who was already married to Prakash Kaur, and had two sons, Sunny and Bobby, could not marry Hema as Prakash refused to divorce him. According to the Hindu Marriage Act, a Hindu cannot marry a second time while the first wife is still alive. Dharmendra belongs to a Arya Samaj Hindu Punjabi Jatt family. On August 21, 1979, both Hema and Dharmendra converted to Islam, changed their names to Aisha Bi R. Chakravarty and Dilawar Khan Kewal Krishn respectively, and got married in accordance with Islamic rites.
Hema kept on starring in one hit after the other like Tere Mere Sapney, Gora aur Kaala, Garam Masala, Baabul ki Galiyan etc. “Sholay” released in 1975 gave her career a huge boost. Basanti became an icon in Indian Film Industry and her dance number Jab Tak Hai Jaan Mein Naachungi became one of the most loved dance numbers ever. The movie went on to become the single greatest hit of Bollywood completing its Golden Jubilee.
After Sholay, Hema gave other hits like Charas (1976), Chacha Bhatija (1977), The Burning Train (1980), Satte Pe Satta (1982) etc. With increasing age Hema shifted to playing character roles, but with same grace and style. She appeared in Jamai raja (1991), Hey Ram (2000), Baghban (2003), Veer-Zaara (2004), and Baabul (2006) in character roles, playing each one of the with immense élan.
Hema’s priorities have now shifted to politics. She is a member of the right-winged Bharatiya Janata Party, and a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
5. Rekha
Born in 1954 at Chennai, Rekha is considered to be the “Eternal Diva of Bollywood”. Being the daughter of the well known film superstar Gemini Ganeshan and actress Pushpavalli studio became her playground and she started nurturing her acting skills from a very young age. She started acting from as early as 1966 when she appeared as a child actor in the Telegu film “Rangula Ratnam”. Rekha made her debut as heroine in the successful Kannada film “Goadalli CID 999” with Dr. Rajkumar in 1969.
Her first Hindi release was “Sawan Bhado” in 1970 which was a major hit and made her a star overnight. During the period 1970-1973 she starred in movies like Ammakosam, Barkha Bahar, Rampur ka Lakshman. Gora aur Kala, Dharma etc. Dharma was a major hit and put Rekha in the limelight but the real big hit came with Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s “Namak Haram” in 1973 in which Rekha starred next to the Bollywood kings Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna.
Her pairing with Amitabh Bachchan has been most successful of all and together they gave great hits like Muqaddar ka Sikandar, Mr. Natwarlal, Silsila etc. Silsila with its controversial subject again made Rekha the center of attention. She was rumored to be Amitabh’s real life flame and the film gossip column may have contributed to her success.
She bagged the Nation Film Award for Best Actress in 1981 for her outstanding performance in the bollywood blockbuster “Umrao Jaan”. The movie was commercially successful and was critically acclaimed as well.
Rekha is known to have played a variety of roles from police officer in ‘Insaaf ka Taraazu’, a perfect housewife in ‘Biwi ho toh Aisi’ to sensuous Mansi in ‘Aastha’. Rekha can claim to have one of the widest varieties of roles under her belt and she played each and every one of them with natural perfection.
Recently Rekha’s Bollywood career has taken a backseat with her appearing in very few movies with short roles of a widowed mother (Krrish) or a glamorous stage singer (Parineeta). Rekha’s forthcoming films include Yaatra, Bajirao Mastani and the much awaited Krrish 2.
6. Madhuri Dixit (Nene)
Born on 15th May 1967, Madhuri Dixit is the Marlyn Monroe of Bollywood. This beauty of Bollywood is full of talent with great acting skills, charms and dancing abilities. She is considered to be one of the best Bollywood has ever seen. She has stolen the hearts of everyone of all ages Be it young college students or famous painters like M.F. Hussain her charm has enticed all.
She made her acting debut in “Abodh” in 1986. The film was a box-office disaster and failed miserably. The future looked dim for this diva when this was followed by other flops like Aawara Baap, Swati, Hifazat etc. The year 1988 was the turning point in her career when she was re-launched by Subhash Ghai in the legendary hit. This was followed by Dayavaan and Tezaab. She starred next to Vinod Khanna in the former and the dashing Anil Kapoor in the latter. Tezaab made her a dancing sensation in India and the Ek-Do-Teen girl with her sensational dance and sensuous facial expressions started a new cult in Bollywood.
“Dil” added another accomplishment to her list when her performance in the blockbuster movie won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. Again the movie was appreciated both by the fans and the critics for years to come and the film completed its Golden Jubilee.
Dil was followed by “100 Days” and “Saajan” in 1991 which were huge success at the box office and established Madhuri Dixit as the crown princess of Bollywood. Then came Indra Kumar’s “Beta” in 1992 which again was one of the biggest box office hits. The film won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. Her sensuous dance number in Dhak Dhak karne laga established her as the ‘Dhak Dhak’ girl who stole the hearts of millions.
Her famous item number ‘Choli ke Peeche’ in Khalnayak in 1993 placed her in the centre of a huge controversy and again brought her in the spotlight. She was nominated for the Filmfare Best Actress Award for the same movie. 1994 was perhaps the best year in the career of Madhuri with two of her biggest hits “Anjaam” and “Hum Aapke Hain Kaun” releasing that year. While her role in Anjaam, where she played a vengeful damsel, was greatly applauded by the critics, Hum Aapke Hain Kaun recorded the single greatest hit ever breaking the record of Sholay. The film won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award for the 3rd time.
Indra Kumar’s “Raja” (1995) was another one of her hits. Though the film had many flaws her role won the critics recognition. Unfortunately after that had been downhill for Madhuri with a series of flops like Prem Granth, Koyla, Mrityudand etc. Critics commented that it was time for Madhuri to pack her bags and leave the industry but then came her performances in Dil Toh Pagal Hai (1997) which once again who her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. She once again starred in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Devdas” in 2002. The film was commercially successful and she proved once again that she has neither lost her acting talents nor her dancing skills.
After her marriage in 1999 films have moved down the priority list for Madhuri and she is devoting more time to her personal life taking care of her two sons Arin and Ryan. She is though starring in a few films the most recent in line being ‘Aaja Nach Le’. Let us hope that we get to see more of this dashing diva of Bollywood.
7. Juhi Chawla
Innocent, sweet and bubbly Juhi Chawla was the first child born to Punjabi father Dr. S. Chawla and Gujarati mother, Mona. She has one brother named Sanjeev. She graduated from Sydenham College, Mumbai, Maharastra. She was crowned Miss India in 1984 and she won the best costume award in the Miss Universe contest that year.
From beauty contests, she moved into film – with her movie debut being “Sultanat” in 1986. The film was not a huge success at the box office. Her next project was the Kannada film “Permaloka” which was a superhit. Her next Bollywood appearance was the superhit film “Quayamat Se Quayamat Tak” where she starred next to Aamir Khan. The pair went on to be one of the most successful on screen couples industry has ever seen.
The next few films were not very successful for Juhi. Love Love Love, Goonj, Kaafila, Swarg all bombed at the box office, but Juhi Chawla hit the hotspot with Dharmesh Darshan’s “Lootere”. A song on the beach in just a plain white shirt was enough for her to be labeled hot.
Her second innings in Bollywood started with a series of hits starting with “Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman” in 1992 followed by “Bol Radha Bol” (1992) and “Lootere” in 1993. Next came Yash Raj’s “Darr” which was a blockbuster hit and one of the greatest hits of the 90’s. With this performance she was suddenly placed right at the top and became one of the toughest contenders for the no. 1 title. Darr was followed by another hit “Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke” for which she won the Filmfare Best Actress award.
Her pairing with Shahrukh has also been successful. Together they gave Bollywood hits like Ram Jaane, Yes Boss, Duplicate etc. Together they also started a film production firm Dreamz Unlimited. The first movie by the production house was “Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani” released in 2000. Her best performances between the period 1997 and 2002 included “Ishq” and “Arjun Pandit”.
Recent years have not been that successful for Juhi and her career seems to be on a low. Lately she starred in “My Brother Nikhil” in 2005 which was not commercially successful but critically acclaimed, “Bas Ek Pal” (2006), Salaam-e-Ishq (2007) etc. Her forthcoming releases include “Swami” and “Bhoothnath” both of which are set to be released in 2007.
Juhi is married to the famous industrialist Jai Mehta. She gave birth to her first child, a girl, on February 21, 2001. Her daughter’s name is Jhanvi. Chawla later gave birth to a son called Arjun.
8. Kajol Mukherjee (Devgan)
Acting runs in her blood and her natural bent for acting is well reflected in the ease with which she plays variety of roles. Yes, we are talking about Kajol, daughter of Tanuja and Shomu Mukherjee. Be it her maternal aunt Nutan Behl or her maternal grandmother Shobhna Samarth and maternal great grandmother Rattan Bai, they wee all yesteryears movie stars. Kajol’s younger sister Tanisha has also joined the industry and has films like ‘Niel and Nikki’, ‘Sarkar’, etc to her credit.
Kajol was born on 5th August 1974 in Mumbai and has a happy and comfortable childhood. She debuted with the film ‘Bekhudi’ in 1992 which was a box office disaster. The came her film ‘Baazigar’ with Shahrukh Khan and the industry started talking about this not-so-glamorous girl who seemed to have acting potentials. Her next flick ‘Udhar Ki Zindagi’ truly brought out her flair for acting. In 1998 she again had a hit with Shahrukh Khan in ‘Kara Arjun’.
Kajol was best paired on-screen with actor Shah Rukh Khan and both make a magical romantic pair. In fact, each of her five movies with him (Baazigar, Karan Arjun, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and Kabhi Khushie Kabhi Gham) have all gone on to become super-hits and blockbusters. She has appeared with her husband Ajay Devgan in movies like ‘Hulchul’, ‘Gundaraj’, ‘Raju Chacha’,,, ‘Ishq’ and ‘Pyar to Hona Hi Tha’ among which the last two were commercially successful.
In her short filmi career, Kajol has got rave reviews along with a lot of awards. The latter includes Filmfare Best Actress Award for ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ (1995), Filmfare Best Villain Award and Zee Cine Award Best Actor in a Negative Role for ‘Gupt‘ (1997), Filmfare Best Actress Award and Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Female for ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai ‘ (1998), Star Screen Award Best Actress for Dushman (1998), Filmfare Best Actress Award and Star Screen Award Best Actress for ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’ (2001), Zee Cine Special Award for Outstanding Performance- Female for ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’ (2001).
Her marriage to Ajay Devgan in February 24, 1999 was a quiet affair where only a few close friends and relatives were invited. The newly wed couple went on a two month honeymoon traveling the world visiting such places as Sydney & Cairo. The couple has carried off their marriage well and compliment each other perfectly as Kajol is known for a bubbly, cheerful and extrovert nature and Ajay is shy, serious and introvert. Post marriage Kajol has cut down the number of movies to spend more time with her family. She had a miscarriage but was blessed with a baby girl in 2003 whom she named Nyasa.
The films which were released after the marriage include ‘Raju Chacha’ (2000), ‘Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi’ (2001), Karan Johar’s ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham’ (2001) and ‘Kal Ho Na Ho’ (2003). She gave a brilliant performance in ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham’. After this movie, she stayed away from the film industry for a while. In 2006, she came back enacting the role of a blind Kashmiri girl with Aamir Khan in Kunal Kohli’s ‘Fanaa‘ which again showed that the journey is not over for this talented gem of Bollywood.
9. Rani Mukherjee
The Bong beauty Rani Mukherjee was born on 21st March 1978. Being the daughter of the famous director Ram Mukherjee and the cousin of one of the greatest actresses Kajol, the road ahead for Rani Mukherjee has been clear. She did a small cameo role in her father’s Bengali film “Biyer Phool” in 1992 at a very young age of 14.
She made her Bollywood debut when Salim Akthar came up with “Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat” in 1996. The film bombed at the box office and Rani’s career took a back seat with her devoting her attention back to completing her studies. She was back with a bang with “Ghulam” in 1998 where she starred opposite to Aamir Khan. Thought the film was very successful at the box office a few critics raised some questions on her acting skills and commented on her hoarse voice. Rani’s response was her brilliant performance in Karan Johar’s “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” where she played the hot and sexy Tina and won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award.
Again in 1998 she gave another brilliant performance in “Mehndi”. After a few flops like Hello Brother, Baadal, Bichhoo she once again came into the limelight with her controversial performance in “Hey Ram” (2000). The film itself was a centre of discussion with its controversial subject matter and her steamy kiss scene with Kamal Hasan just added spice to the discussion. The film though was India’s official entry for the Oscars.
Between 2000 and 2002 she did quite a few films like Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega, Nayak, Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, Mujhse Dosti Karoge etc. Some of them were commercially successful but none were huge box office hits. Her next big hit was “Saathiya” in 2002. She won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance and was nominated for Filmfare Best Actress Award for her role in that film. The film was also screened at the Casablanca Film Festival.
Again her career went through a quiet phase before the release of Yuva in 2004. The film was a huge box office hit and her role also won critically acclaimed. This was just the beginning, Rani’s career has been on a rise ever since. Yuva was followed by “Hum Tum” for which she won the Filmfare Best Actress Award and “Veer Zaara” which was another box office hit.
But the world had yet to see the best Rani had to offer which came with the release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Black” where her role as Michelle won her appreciation, fame and recognition all round. She won both the Filmfare Best Actress Award and the Critics Award that year for this role. The film was screened at the Casablanca Film Festival and The International Film Festival of India.
Black was followed by other hits like Bunty Aur Babli, Paheli and Mangal Panday The Rising in 2005. In 2006 Rani once again topped the charts with “Kabhi Alvida Na kehna” and Baabul. The most recent of Rani’s releases has been “Ta ra Rum Pum” where she stars next to Saif Ali Khan.
With Rani’s career at its peak Rani has a long list of movies queued up for release next in line being “Laaga Chunari Mein Daag” followed by “Saawariya”. With Rani giving one hit performance after the other one gets a feeling that this Bong beauty is just getting started and has a great career ahead of her!
10. Aishwarya Rai (Bachchan)
Born into a traditional South Indian family Aishwarya Rai popularly called as ‘Ash’ is one of Bollywood’s pre-eminent leading ladies. She started modeling at a very young age and appeared in a number of commercials but it was the Pepsi ad with Mahima Choudhary that really brought her into the limelight. In 1994 she was the runner-up to the Miss India contest and became a strong contender for the Miss World crown which she won.
Ash stormed into the Indian movie industry, where she has proven herself a brilliant & genuine actress. Her performance in “Iruvar” (1997) was critically acclaimed. She made her Bollywood debut with Rahul Rawail’s “Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya” (1997). Though the film was not commercially successful it won her the “Screen best female debutant award”. The South Indian movie “Jeans” was her first commercially successful film.
The year 1999 saw a steep rise in the career graph of Ash with her blockbuster hits “Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam” and “Taal”. Her performances in both the films were highly applauded and she won the “Filmfare Best Actress Award” for the former. These films answered the questions raised by critics on her acting talents and proved that she was not just looks and charms but a rare talent that could deliver emotions, dialogues and dance with great élan.
Between 2000 and 2001 she starred in a number of films like Josh, Dhai Akshar Prem Ke, Albela, Mohabbatein etc. and starred next to major actors like Shahrukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Govinda etc. In 2002 she landed a role in the lavishly produced “Devdas” next to Shahrukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit. The film was a major box-office hit. It won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award and also received international acclaim. The film was screened at the Cannes film festival. It was during that time that Ash signed a few Hollywood projects as well.
After that Rai stormed the international stage and claimed world wide recognition by being a regular at the Cannes film festival. She was a member of the jury in 2003. She was chosen as one of the World’s “100 Most Influential People” by the Time magazine in 2004. She was the subject of a 60 Minutes profile on January 2. A month later she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman. She was also featured on Oprah’s “Women Across the Globe” segment.
Ash’s first foreign film was “Pride and Prejudice” which was followed by the “Mistress of Spices” which though was not commercially successful earned the critics respects.
At the end of 2006 she starred in “Dhoom 2” which again brought her back to attention. She starred next to Hritik Roshan and Abhishek Bachchan. Her marriage to the latter was a grand affair in April 2007. With much media attention and hype, Aishwarya joined the famous Bachchan family post a traditional marriage.
Aishwarya Bachchan’s forthcoming releases include Jodha-Akbar, Sarkar 2 (in which she would be starring next to her husband), Raaste and Happy Birthday. She also has a long lineup of her Hollywood releases including movies like The Rebel, Chaos and Singularity in which she is starring with “The Mummy” fame Brandon Fraiser. Looks like the future is bright for the “Queen of Bollywood”.
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73 Responses to Top 10 Actresses who ruled the Bollywood
jill koose says:
i will go with four ladies
madhu balla
jayaprada
jisni holsee says:
i am here to cast my vote to
gosse tilkani says:
only madhuri dixit
geeta ray says:
i will go with madhu balla.
malik singhania says:
my voting list
zeshaan kini says:
sdskls says:
ashwariya
Well, Sridevi is being missed in that list. She is a legend. Who says that Juhi didn’t rule? You guys don’t have much knowledge. Juhi stormed the 90s and her name was always taken after Sridevi and Madhuri. I would say that Juhi is equal to Madhuri coz she is a very versatile actress. She is a legend in Bollywood just like her favourite actress, Sridevi!
where is Manisha koirala??? the queen of 90s.she was the most demended actress of that time..every big banner and big production house had roped her like mani ratnam,sanjay leela bhansali,subash ghai,vidhu vinod chopra,raj kumar santoshi.have u ever seen karishma and kajol been roped by these directors for thier flim.. defineatly not..even in lazza movie she was the lead actress..madhuri ,rekha mahima all were supporting actress.her outstanding movie Bombay was the famous that time time..so she is the best actress of 90s..kajol,karishma,tabbu all are bullshit..got support from family background..who had a link in flim industry.. manisha jindabad
Madhuri ruled from 1988 to 1997. she is the best ever. even after marriage she did pukar, lajja, devdas, aja nachle, humtumhare hai sanam. in 2002 again she was the number one actress per box office. No one got this after marriage and at the age of 35.
Rebeca says:
Madhuri Dixit is the best ever.
Madhuri Dixit is a unique combination of talent, beauty, grace, stardom and persona.
Madhuri status was a cult. There are many examples I will give just few.
**Pakistanis said “take Kashmir give us Madhuri”, even a Pakistani Government official said that jokingly in New Delhi, while his visit.
**There is a lake in uttaranchal which is popularly renamed as “Madhuri lake” by the locals. It happened after the shooting of a song of koyla took place there. For the shooting, there was Madhuri and srk both and srk was the number 1 hero at that time. Yet locals named it as “Madhuri lake”.
**In Jamshedpur there is a person who celebrates Madhuri’s birthday every year. Improtant local personals including government official come in the function. He performs “Madhuri puja”, gives flowers to her photos. Everyone eat sweet after the event. It made news even in BBC.
**”Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon”, made by smart film maker Ram Gopal Verma was a film made as a tribute to her.
**India’s most famous modern painter known as Picasso of India M. F. Hussain called her “the epitome of womanhood” and made a film with her as a tribute to her “Gajagamini”.
**Indian’s first star actor Ashok Kumar, who has seen all the great actresses said “Madhuri is the most complete Indian actress in 100 years of Indian cinema”.
**She was called the female amitabh bachchan after she made film hit with a new and ordinary actor.
**In 1995 actress Shabana Azmi told that Art film can only be revived by someone like Madhuri Dixit.
Madhuri Dixit is the ultimate superstar
wher is the most beautiful nd talented Manisha koirala!!!! Not fair
The dumbest list I have ever seen. Top 10 actresses without Sridevi? Have you gine NUTS? Sridevi is the best actress EVER. No other actress in the history of Indian cinema has even come distant close to her succcess.
SHAME ON YOU!
where is sridevi and meenakumari
this list should be remade
meenakumari
aishwarya rai.
this is the list
for being a venus of indian cinema
achieved lady amitabh title
always overshadows actors with her great comic timing even aamir and srk admits whenever they do comic scenes they think how juhi would have done it ? they looked lamb against her in many movies.
for being globally popular and first actress to be at Madam Tussade. proved her self with films like Hum dil de chuke sanam, Devdas and Kandukondain Kandukondain that she’s not cold or plastic
hats off to these ladies
Kesha says:
who is madhu BALLA??? Ridiculous. And some of u are so jealous of Aish
siddhart says:
There is only one answer SRIDEVI.
No other actress comes close to the kind of power Sridevi had at her peak.
Sridevi was the undisputed No 1 for more than ten years. NO OTHER actress has this distinction. Madhuri inherited Sridevi’s throne but could not hold on to it. Khalid Mohammad Editor of Filmfare in the 90s always asked her how she manged to rule for so long. Even the 2010 Zoom Bollywood Biographies on Sridevi introduced her as FIRST FEMALE SUPERSTAR and STILL NUMBER ONE. Do you see? That’s her aura.
Sridevi was far more versatile than any other actress. Only she could have done both a Sadma and a Chaalbaaz. That was her range. In fact Stardust openly said in one of their Power Lists that Madhuri ”tends to copy Sridevi a lot.” When Filmfare brought out their recent edition of 80 ICONIC PERFORMANCES OF BOLLYWOOD, Sridevi was the topmost among actresses for Chaalbaaz. High above every other heroine. That’s her talent.
Scripts were written keeping her in mind unlike any other actress of her time. Which other actress has a ‘Sadma’, ‘Nagina’, ‘Chandni’, ‘Chaalbaaz’, ‘Lamhe’, ‘Gumrah’, ‘Laadla’ or ‘Judaai’ to her credit? All these films revolved around Sridevi. She was the protagonist, not the male actor. Only she could demand a double role and get it. Only she could demand a price equal or even more than her hero and got it.
Look at all the epithets she earned. FEMALE AMITABH, ONE WOMAN INDUSTRY, LAST EMPRESS. Amitabh had to woo her to get her in Khuda Gawah. Even Steven Spielberg wanted her for Jurassic Park. Shekhar Kapur called her the best actress ever. Yash Chopra said ‘Madhuri and Juhi are good but Sridevi is a legend.’ Mahesh Bhatt has said ‘There are only two great actresses – Shabana and Sridevi.’ Sushmita Sen has said on record that when she joined the industry told her ‘That Sridevi was the only hero in Bollywwod. When she was in the film nobody asked who the hero was.’
Her Chandni brought back the trend of heroine oriented films. It brought back music and glamour. Her white Chandni Look became a rage all over India. No wonder everyone from Karisma to Juhi to Kajol to Manisha to Priety to Rani to Kareena to Manish Malhotra to Karan Johar worship the DEVI.
SRIDEVI will always be the BEST EVER. You cannot change history.
Rajesh Reddy says:
Hemamalini
theri is only sridevi is number one.
aoonish says:
madhuri sucks,sridevi rocks
V. INDERJITH says:
I cannot help , but ..I am attracted to all top ten of these actresses..who made Bollywood great. They set the class, pace and stage for the later arrivals and indeed I am swept off by their brilliant performance for decades. They still burn that light inside of me and they are infact super Heroines of the Bollywood World and the Silver screen.
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How to decode the vehicle identification number on your car
A common location for the VIN in newer vehicles. (Photo Credit: CC BY/Spencer Thomas/Flickr)
Do you know what that 17-digit number you can see in a variety of places on your vehicle means? That’s your car’s Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), and it is packed full of useful data. When you register your vehicle, buy insurance, take the car in for repairs or try to help police find your ride if it’s stolen, the VIN is incredibly useful.
The VIN’s three-part code
Whether it’s on the upper left side of your car’s dashboard, under the hood or in the driver’s doorjamb, the Vehicle Identification Number breaks down into three parts: the World Manufacturer Identifier, the Vehicle Descriptor Section and the Vehicle Identifier Section.
World Manufacturer Identifier
The World Manufacturer Identifier (WMI) is the first five characters of the VIN. The first character on the WMI represents the nation of origin, where the car was assembled. U.S.-assembled vehicles start with a 1, 4 or 5. Canadian-made cars start with a 2, Mexican-made with a 3, Japanese with a J, Korea with a K, England with an S and Germany with a W.
The second of the three WMI parts represents the vehicle manufacturer. Typically, it’s the first letter of the automaker’s name, such as A for Audi, B for BMW, etc.
Finally, position three of the WMI refers to the vehicle type or manufacturing division. It is typically a three-digit number, such as 1GC for Chevrolet trucks, 1G2 for Pontiac passenger cars, and so on.
Vehicle Descriptor Section
The second portion of the VIN is the Vehicle Descriptor Section (VDS). The first five positions refer to model, body type, restraint system, transmission and engine. The final part of the VDS is the “check” digit, which is used by the Department of Transportation to detect invalid VINs.
Vehicle Identifier Section
The third and final segment of the VIN is the Vehicle Identifier Section (VIS). The first VIS digit is the model year, where letters from B-X correspond to model years, beginning with 1981 (B) and going up to X for 2000. Model years beyond 2000 receive numbers, beginning with 1 for 2001. Curiously, I, O, Q, U and Z aren’t used in this position. Here’s an up-to-date list:
B=81, C=82, D=83, E=84, F=85, G=86, H=87, J=88, K=89, L=90, M=91, N=92, P=93, R=94, S=95, T=96, V=97, W=98, X=99, Y=00, 1=01, 2=02, 3=03, 4=04, 5=05, 6=06, 7=07, 8=08, 9=09, A=2010.
Next comes the manufacturing plant digit. Each automaker has its own set of plant codes, notes Edmunds. Then after that, the last six numbers in the VIN represent production sequence, which is the number given to a car on the assembly line.
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Champions of enterprise and innovation
Two Cardiff students are celebrating entrepreneurial success after being part of the winning team at the Welsh Innovation Centre for Enterprise's (ICE) 24 Hour Lock-In challenge.
Carey Wallace and Nia Wyn Rossiter worked in non-stop shifts over 24 hours to produce a business plan for a hypothetical start-up company. The winning team received £2500 towards launching their new business venture idea of a new mobile application offering TV viewers more information about the programme they are watching via their smart phone and other devices.
During the challenge, ICE mentors and supporting business partners were on hand to offer inspirational advice on the creative and business skills needed to achieve their goals in the form of hands-on support, seminars and talks.
Gareth Jones, Welsh ICE co-founder, said creativity and inspiration are at the heart of everything ICE does and that those behind the 24 Hour Lock-In were therefore delighted to see so many students and business experts share these sentiments in attending.
Gareth said: "These are the key characteristics of the 40-strong business start-up community Welsh ICE has created since opening last summer and is something we are dedicated to promoting as far and as wide as possible.
"Those involved in the competition were both surprised and delighted with not only the support this event received from the both the student and business community, but also with the calibre of business ideas that came out of the competition.
"Now all those who took part, especially the winners, will be supported by Welsh ICE in every way they can to make all these great business ideas reality wherever possible."
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City Council establishes blue ribbon commission to review Lee Park statue
Group to consider Confederate monuments, communicate with Charlottesville community
The statue of Robert E. Lee in Lee Park has come under fire recently, as many Charlottesville residents have expressed their discomfort with the monument.
By Sarah Yang
The Charlottesville City Council unanimously passed a resolution to create a Blue Ribbon Commission to review the city’s Confederate monuments.
The commission will be comprised of nine members chosen by the council. Applications will be accepted through May 27, and members will be appointed at a meeting June 6, Miriam Dickler, Charlottesville City Council director of communications, said.
The commission will meet to examine race and monuments in public spaces and communicate with the Charlottesville and Albemarle communities. However, the commission is advisory only, and the ultimate decision will be made by the City Council.
The commission’s work is scheduled to be completed by Nov. 30.
“Once they provide the midterm report by November 30, the council can either choose to say ‘thank you for your work,’ or they can ask the commission to continue serving in some capacity if they want further information,” Dickler said.
The commission will consider adding context to existing monuments and augmenting the slave auction block sign at Court Square, among other things.
One of the most controversial monuments is a statue of Robert E. Lee in Lee Park. Opponents of the statue, who are advocating it be taken down, argue it is offensive and disrespectful, while proponents argue the statue holds historical value.
The Virginia Flaggers is a group of Virginia residents who stand against “those that would desecrate our Confederate Monuments and memorials,” according to the group’s Facebook description. They previously held a rally April 18 to demand the city of Charlottesville keep the statue.
“By Virginia law, you cannot tear down the monument,” Virginia Flaggers member Barry Isenhour said. “You’re just talking about nothing because it’s illegal to tear down the monument.”
Isenhour questioned the purpose of establishing the Blue Ribbon Commission.
“I don’t know why there is a commission. What are they going to talk about?” Isenhour said. “It’s just a waste of taxpayers’ money, and worse, time.”
The Albemarle-Charlottesville NAACP did not respond to requests for comment.
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ANDERSON: Five takeaways from Virginia sports in the week of Dec. 7
(12/18/20 7:48pm)
It was a relatively empty week for Virginia Athletics as only three games were played. The football team lost to Virginia Tech Saturday, and women’s basketball continued its winless season with two losses, one against Clemson and the other against Florida State. With that being said, it was still an eventful few days news-wise. Let’s get into a few takeaways from the week of Dec. 7.
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2020/12/anderson-five-takeaways-from-virginia-sports-in-the-week-of-dec-7
ANDERSON: Five takeaways from Virginia sports for the week of Nov. 23
(12/03/20 2:05am)
Who is the real Virginia men’s basketball team?
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2020/12/anderson-five-takeaways-from-virginia-sports-for-the-week-of-nov-23
ANDERSON: Five takeaways from Virginia sports for the week of Nov. 9-16
Last week was a dramatic week of sports for Virginia Athletics, as many teams’ fall seasons came to an end while others’ continued amid unprecedented times. Women’s soccer was knocked out in the ACC semifinals, while the men’s side fought to live another day in the tournament. Football had a big win over Louisville over the weekend, and some swimmers set school records as well. Let’s look at a few takeaways from the week in Virginia sports.
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2020/11/anderson-five-takeaways-from-virginia-sports-for-the-week-of-nov-9-16
ANDERSON: Five takeaways from Virginia sports for the Oct. 30-Nov. 1 weekend
Many of Virginia’s teams finished the month of October on a promising note. Men’s soccer, women’s soccer and football all won, while cross-country finished its fall season with a strong showing. Field hockey and volleyball both lost, but the first winter sport to begin competition — swimming and diving — started off strong with a win. Here are a few takeaways from a relatively successful weekend for Virginia sports.
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2020/11/anderson-five-takeaways-from-virginia-sports-for-the-oct-30-nov-1-weekend
ANDERSON: Five takeaways from Virginia sports for the Oct. 23-25 weekend
It was not a good weekend for Virginia sports, as no team recorded a single win on Friday or Saturday. The volleyball and field hockey teams each lost a pair of matches, and football and men’s soccer continued their losing streaks Saturday. Let’s take a look at some of the ways teams can improve for their upcoming games.
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2020/10/anderson-five-takeaways-from-virginia-sports-for-the-oct-23-25-weekend
It was a mixed weekend for Virginia’s fall sports teams. Cross-country impressed at the Virginia/Panorama Farms Invitational, while football, volleyball and men’s soccer all lost their contests. Women’s soccer won its fourth straight game Thursday before falling Sunday. Let’s take a look at some interesting takeaways from just a few of the Virginia teams that were in action this weekend.
The Cross-Roads of Charlottesville
Whether it's grabbing a bite to eat at Miller's, catching some live music at the Charlottesville Pavilion or simply getting outside to enjoy the weather, the Downtown Mall is a staple of life for city residents and University students alike. The Mall adds a nostalgic taste to a city steeped in a history that includes Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe, not to mention the University itself.
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2010/11/the-cross-roads-of-charlottesville
Battleground: Charlottesville
Tomorrow, television political attack ads, signs and speculation will come to an end - at least until 2012.
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2010/11/battleground-charlottesville
La vida latina
Even when students come to the University and begin to regard Grounds as a kind of "home," many individuals - particularly those who have traveled across seas and country borders - are driven to do what they can to maintain strong ties and help their respective countries.
https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2010/09/la-vida-latina
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Gillian Goodwin
Patients really have been at the centre of everything we've ever done
I have worked at The Christie as a nurse for more than 34 years and have seen many changes along the way; not just the many patients and colleagues who have come and gone, but the changing fabric of the buildings and the ever advancing treatment technologies and nursing practices. What has not changed, however, is the Christie ethos of always putting patients at the centre of everything we do. I witnessed this myself as a Christie patient back in 1982 and realised that The Christie was where I wanted to launch my nursing career. So in September 1983 I arrived at the Christie as a newly qualified staff nurse and have been here ever since!
A significant change in the 2010s was the move towards paperless working. For nurses like me raised in a computer-free environment this proved to be a challenge. However, the introduction of patient electronic records has enabled massive improvements in the quality of the data and information recorded.
Nursing was by now branching out into all sorts of new areas giving nurses many different career opportunities. Nurses were skilled in areas that had been the sole domain of doctors back in the 1980s – minor surgical procedures, diagnostic techniques, advanced intravenous procedures and treatment deliveries, prescribing of medication to name a few. Nurse-led clinics and services were expanding and nursing students were now being educated to degree level. As a member (between 1979 and 1983) of one of the early cohorts of pre-registration degree programmes (when ‘degree nurses’ were held in suspicion and seen as a threat), I welcomed this shift.
By the 2010s I found myself working mainly in quality improvement and this provided some great opportunities for developing QI at The Christie. I worked jointly with colleagues to devise a framework for improving quality in ward areas and recognise excellence. We named the scheme The Christie CODE. We developed nursing standards in the fundamentals of care together with measures against which care quality could be determined. The development of an electronic tool allowed wards to enter measurement data and review status against the requirements of gold status accreditation.
I have witnessed all our in-patient wards achieve the standard necessary to be accredited by the Trust. While proud of their achievements, I am also very proud of the success of the scheme itself which is recognised across the trust as being reliable and robust.
So as the 2010s draw to a close how do I feel about all the changes? Was it better then or is it better now?
While I have fond memories of my early years as a nurse; nursing now provides many more opportunities for both personal and career development. The 80s represented a gentler time when patient care was less technical and nurses had more time to provide supportive care. We had time to talk to our patients without the pressure to get a dozen other jobs done!
Today patients benefit from all the regulations and new technologies that were absent in the 80s. They are now partners in their care and treatment, and there are systems in place that ensure it is delivered safely and to the highest standard. That’s not to say we didn’t give great care back in 1983 – we did the very best we could with the knowledge we had at the time and the patients were then, as now, at the centre of what we did.
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Russian blogger sentenced for “extremist” post
russian blogger arrested
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian man who described local police as “scum” in an Internet posting was given a suspended jail sentence on Monday for extremism, prompting bloggers to warn of a crackdown on free speech online.
Savva Terentiev, a 28-year-old musician from Syktyvkar, 1,515 kilometers (940 miles) north of Moscow, wrote in a blog last year that the police force should be cleaned up by ceremonially burning officers twice a day in a town square.
Convicted on charges of “inciting hatred or enmity,” Terentiev was given a one-year suspended term on Monday, Russian news agencies reported.
Free speech campaigners said the ruling could create a dangerous precedent for free speech on the Internet, a vibrant forum for political debate in a country where the mainstream traditional media is deferential to authority.
“This was an absolutely unjustified verdict,” Alexander Verkhovsky, director of the SOVA centre in Moscow, a non-governmental group that monitors extremism, told Reuters. “Savva for sure wrote a rude comment … but this verdict means it will be impossible to make rude comments about anybody.”
The verdict was discussed in Russian blogs on Monday. “I don’t know now if I should be writing here or not,” blogger Likershassi posted on one website.
“The fact that Terentiev got a conditional sentence is unimportant. What’s important is the precedent,” a blogger named Puffinus wrote.
Contacted by Reuters on Monday, Terentiev confirmed the sentence but said he was unable to make further comment.
The blog entry for which he was prosecuted has been removed from the Internet. Russia’s Kommersant newspaper quoted him as saying in the post: “Those who become cops are scum,” and calling for officers to be put on a bonfire.
After the prosecution was launched, Terentiev wrote an open letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev protesting his innocence.
“It is our duty to take responsibility for words on the Internet but … I did not call for the inflaming of social hatred towards the employees of the police department,” he wrote in the letter, posted at one of his sites.
Most Russians receive their news and information from television stations and newspapers controlled by the state or by businessmen with links to the Kremlin, with opposition voices confined largely to the Internet, talk radio and low-circulation publications.
Medvedev has said he views freedom of speech and a flourishing civil society as essential and that Russia should use a light touch when policing the Internet.
“Thank God we live in a free society,” Medvedev said last month in an interview with Reuters.
“It’s possible to go on to the Internet and get basically anything you want. In that regard, there are no problems of closed access to information in Russia today, there weren’t any yesterday and there won’t be any tomorrow,” he said.
The real reason why we yawn
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Irritable Heart: Fictional Dr. Foster and Actual Dr. Jacob M. Da Costa
Posted on: January 20th, 2016
Dr. Foster (played by Josh Radnor) must have found time to keep up with his medical journals and bulletins! Foster observes “cardiac palpitations” in Tom (Cameron Monaghan) and diagnoses him with “soldier’s heart,” a brand new diagnosis just identified by Philadelphia physician Jacob M. Da Costa.
In 1862, this would have been a very new diagnosis. It’s unsurprising that, later in the episode, Foster’s supervisor questions both the diagnosis and Foster’s treatment program. Only the most informed surgeons would have been aware of Da Costa’s work and the letter he sent to the Surgeon General’s office about the new, “peculiar functional disorder of the heart.”
Dr. Da Costa was a real physician working as an Acting Assistant Surgeon (essentially a civilian contract surgeon, Dr. Foster’s position) in Philadelphia. Over the course of the war, Da Costa studied over 300 soldiers who complained of chest pain, a very rapid pulse (one patient registered a pulse of 192 beats per minute!), irregular heartbeats, difficulty breathing, tunnel vision, fatigue and weakness, bad dreams, difficulty sleeping, headaches and more. Not every patient experienced all of these symptoms, but all irritable heart patients would present at least a rapid pulse, heart palpitations, and chest pain, often following some kind of digestive disturbance. Da Costa noted that nervous symptoms, like bad dreams or headaches, were characteristic but less universal than the cardiac symptoms.
Unlike Mercy Street’s Dr. Foster, Da Costa called this heart condition irritable heart– “soldier’s heart” is a more poetic phrase that hints at the emotional trauma that Tom suffered but that term did not come into use as a name for this condition until well after the Civil War. During the 1860s and 1870s, most physicians would have referred to the condition as either irritable heart or Da Costa’s Syndrome.
The show’s writers use irritable heart as a kind of shorthand for what we might today call post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). My research suggests that it is not entirely accurate to equate irritable heart with PTSD because PTSD is, like irritable heart, the discovery of physicians working at a specific moment in time with particular tools, techniques, and insights at their disposal. It’s easy to understand why Mercy Street’s writers made this connection. The symptoms for irritable heart sound a lot like a panic attack but, while Dr. Foster says that that the cardiac symptoms are “precipitated by battle trauma,” Da Costa was much less sure on this score. In his writing on the condition, men were as likely to come down with irritable heart after “digestive disturbances” (an attack of diarrhea) as they were when faced with excessive marching or the “excitement of battle.”
Nineteenth century physicians did not have a concept of psychological trauma the way that we do today. During the Civil War, few if any American physicians took a psychological view of either the “disturbed” or the sick. Freud hadn’t even begun his work on the subconscious when Da Costa was studying his patients in Pennsylvania. If irritable heart is not a Civil War era version of PTSD, we might call it a “conversion disorder,” where someone experiences physical pain as a result of psychological distress. Even this classification relies on advances in the fields of psychiatry and neurology advanced. While “the excitement of battle” might include emotions like fear, when Da Costa talked about nervous energy he meant the over-taxing of the nervous system, not the emotions of his patient.
This is not to say that Tom is emotionally or physically healthy. Without a doubt, the Civil War broke men; they suffered from severe physical deprivations, witnessed death on a scale previously unimaginable, and deeply missed their families and homes. Da Costa never doubted his patients’ pain or the reality of their suffering. However, he never assumed that men who suffered from irritable heart were, by definition, traumatized by their battlefield experience. A few years after the war, some military physicians, former Surgeon General Hammond among them, began to look into possible cardiac causes of insanity. Even when leading military doctors turned to the heart’s role in insanity, they stopped short of a kind of emotional explanation for what they observed.
Dr. Foster treats Tom by injecting him with morphine. Da Costa found that opiates could help patients by reducing their heart rate and easing their pain (perhaps not a huge surprise) but he was hesitant to use this treatment out of fear of turning the man into “an opium eater.” Instead, he suggested treating irritable heart patients with rest, light exercise, and tincture of aconite.
Ashley Bowen received her PhD candidate in American Studies at Brown University. Her dissertation is titled “‘All Broke Down:’ The Physiological, Psychological, and Social Origins of Civil War Trauma.” Prior to entering graduate school, she worked for a variety of museums and public health organizations.
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US animator, filmmaker Gene Deitch dies in Prague at 95
FILE - In this February 20, 2018 file photo the American director and animated film producer Gene Deitch poses for the photographer with his book of memories 'For the Love of Prague' in Prague, Czech Republic. Deitch, living in Prague with his Czech wife, animator and producer Zdenka Najmanova, has died at the age of 95 years. Deitch directed Czechoslovak-American animated film 'Munro' that won an Oscar for the Best Animated Short Film in 1961. (Vit Simanek/CTK via AP)
PRAGUE – Gene Deitch, an American Oscar-winning illustrator, animator, film director and producer has died. He was 95.
His Czech publisher, Petr Himmel, told The Associated Press Deitch died unexpectedly during the night from Thursday to Friday in his apartment in Prague’s Little Quarter neighborhood. No further details were given.
Deitch’s movie “Munro” won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1960. He was also nominated for the same award twice in 1964 for “Here’s Nudnik” and “How to Avoid Friendship.”
Earlier, he had created the “Tom Terrific” series, while the “Sidney’s Family Tree," which he co-produced was nominated for an Academy Award in 1958.
Born Aug. 8, 1924, in Chicago, Deitch arrived in Prague in 1959 intending to stay for 10 days, but fell in love with his future wife, Zdenka, and stayed in the Czechoslovakian capital.
Working from behind the Iron Curtain, he directed 13 episodes of “Tom and Jerry” and also some of the “Popeye the Sailor” series.
He captured life in communist Czechoslovakia and later in the Czech Republic after the 1989 anti-communist Velvet Revolution in his memoirs “For the Love of Prague.”
In 2004, he received the Winsor McCay Award for his lifelong contribution to animation.
Deitch is survived by his wife and by three sons from his first marriage, all of whom are cartoonists and illustrators.
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Following in her family’s footsteps: Capt. Cori Lee
Mishall Rehman March 8, 2016
It’s all in the family for Capt. Cori Lee. Listening to the stories of her grandfather, who was a navigator on the CC115 Buffalo, in her childhood, inspired her to one day join the military as well. Today, she’s followed in his footsteps and currently serves as an aerospace engineering officer at 19 Wing Comox.
Lee’s great grandfather and grandfather both served in the military, and her step-father is currently serving as a construction engineer. Growing up, she spent a lot of time around her grandfather and recalls the experiences he’d share with her.
“From an early age, I could see how passionate he was about his career and saw the same thing in my step-father later on in my childhood. I knew this would be a career where I could make meaningful contributions and gain unique experiences,” said Lee.
It seemed that Lee was answering the call of fate when she joined the military in 2008. Lee began her journey in the CAF by attending the Royal Military College.
“I enjoyed the physical and academic challenges during my time at the Royal Military College of Canada and found that RMC provided me with unique opportunities that I wouldn’t of had at any other University,” recalled Lee.
She fully became qualified in her trade as an aerospace engineering officer in August 2014, a trade she liked because of the variety of career options.
“For example, you can work at an operational squadron, an engineering or project cell, flight test engineering and the space program to name a few. The sky is literally the limit for this trade,” explained Lee.
While working in this trade at 442 Squadron, her primary role was the Deputy Squadron Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Officer and the Aircraft Maintenance Control Records Officer. She also served in the capacity of 442 Squadron Air Weapons and Explosives Safety Officer and Aviation Fluid Services Officer. Her tasks included managing and supervising the personnel and resources required to maintain aircrafts.
Currently, she is serving as 19 Wing Commander’s Executive Assistance.
One of the highlights of her time at the squadron have been the Search and Rescue Exercise followed by a Search and Rescue Mission Lee took part in.
“During the exercise and real search, it was extremely rewarding to be part of a highly professional team who were all focused and working towards the common goal of saving the lives of people who really needed our help,” noted Lee.
Being part of 442 Squadron is especially dear to the captain’s heart.
“The experiences I have gained at 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron have been extremely memorable. I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with some of the most skilled aircraft technicians in the country. 442 Sqn has always held a special place in my heart as this is the Sqn my grandfather retired from and I used to visit the Sqn as a little girl. There are still some IMP technicians who remember me when I was a child, and I find this very special,” said Lee.
Looking at her career so far, Lee has found joining the family business has been a rewarding choice for her.
“The Canadian Armed Forces provides amazing experiences and training that you simply would not get in any other profession. You will have a challenging and rewarding career while building friendships that will last a lifetime. Be prepared to work hard and go home every day with a strong sense of pride and accomplishment,” said Lee.
Mishall Rehman
Originally from Atlanta, GA, Mishall is a freelance journalist pursuing her passion for writing in her new homeland Canada. She currently lives in Trenton, ON with her husband.
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Coca-Cola to retire Tab, its first diet soda, as it trims its portfolio
Published Fri, Oct 16 202012:07 PM EDT Updated Fri, Oct 16 202011:32 PM EDT
Amelia Lucas
Tab, Coca-Cola's first diet soda, is among the drinks heading for retirement at the end of the year as the company trims its portfolio to focus on bigger brands and products with more growth potential.
Coke first introduced Tab in 1963, but its popularity faded after the company introduced Diet Coke.
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the company's plans to slim down its number of product offerings.
Cans of diet cola Tab brand soft drink produced by the Coca-Cola Company are displayed at a supermarket in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July 26, 2011.
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Coca-Cola said Friday that Tab, its first diet soda, is among the drinks headed for retirement as it trims its beverage portfolio.
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the beverage giant's transition to focusing on its bigger and more popular brands, like its namesake soda. Coke has also recently announced a restructuring plan that is meant to help it become more efficient and scale new products more quickly. The global pandemic led to a 33% decline in Coke's second-quarter earnings, but CEO James Quincey, who has led the company since 2017, has said it is trying to emerge from the crisis stronger than before.
Other drinks that will go out of production by the end of the year include Odwalla products, Zico coconut water, stevia-sweetened Coca-Cola Life and Diet Coke Feisty Cherry. Regional beverages like Northern Neck Ginger Ale and Delaware Punch are also slated to disappear.
"It's about continuing to follow the consumer and being very intentional in deciding which of our brands are most deserving of our investments and resources, and also taking the tough but important steps to identify those products that are losing relevance and therefore should exit the portfolio," Cath Coetzer, Coke's global head of innovation and marketing operations, said in a statement.
Coke first introduced Tab to consumers in 1963, aiming the zero-calorie drink at women. In the 1970s and 1980s, as Americans tried fad diets, the diet soda grew more popular but faded once Diet Coke was introduced in 1982. The company said that Tab has maintained a "small but loyal" number of fans in recent decades.
More than half a century after Tab's launch, Coke is betting on Diet Coke and Coke Zero Sugar to fulfill consumers' cravings for sugar-free, low calorie soda.
Coke is expected to report its third-quarter earnings on Thursday. Shares of the company, which has a market value of $216 billion, have fallen 9% so far this year.
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Cape Town Stadium soon DHL Stadium
Article by Coliseum, published November 4, 2020
Cape Town Stadium in South Africa will soon be called DHL Stadium after the German courier, parcel and express mail service acquired the naming rights of the facility. The stadium will be known as DHL Stadium from January 2021. The naming rights deal has been entered into for four years. The Cape... » Read more
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Because 'A World Without Insects Is Not Worth Living In,' Germany Announces Plan to Ban Glyphosate
"What we need is more humming and buzzing."
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Protesters hold balloons on January 20, 2018 in Berlin during a demonstration under the slogan "We are fed up" against agricultural politics and the use of glyphosate, dumping exports and for sustainable agriculture. (Photo: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images)
The German government announced Wednesday it had agreed on a plan to phase out the use of glyphosate—the key chemical in the weedkiller Roundup—with a total ban set to begin by the end of 2023.
"Way to go, Germany!" tweeted the U.S.-based advocacy group Organic Consumers Association.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet agreed to the plan Wednesday. The proposal, reported Bloomberg, also says that the "government intends to oppose any request for the E.U. to renew the license to produce the weedkiller, according to a release by the environment ministry."
The European Commission, the E.U.'s rules and regulations body, in 2017 renewed the license for glyphosate in the bloc through the end of 2022.
Germany's environment Minister, Svenja Schulze, framed the new move as necessary to protect biodiversity, and said that "a world without insects is not worth living in".
"What harms insects also harms people," Schulze said at a press conference. "What we need is more humming and buzzing."
Glyphosate is no longer exclusive to Monsanto's Roundup, as it "is now off-patent and marketed worldwide by dozens of other chemical groups including Dow Agrosciences and Germany's BASF," as Reuters noted.
That's despite the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer's 2015 designation of glyphosate as a "probable carcinogen," increasing concerns over its health effects, and mounting legal woes for Bayer, which acquired Monsanto last year, as multiple juries have found Roundup to have been a factor in plaintiffs' cancers.
Such concerns prompted Austria to become the first E.U. country to ban glyphosate, a step it took in July.
Erwin Preiner, a member of the Austrian parliament who worked on the ban, said at the time, "We want to be a role model for other countries in the E.U. and the world."
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Dalibor Rohac: To form a more perfect Union?
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Dalibor Rohac is a Research Fellow at the Legatum Institute
The Franco-German proposal for common economic policy in the Eurozone, presented today at the European summit in Brussels, can be seen as a case of political posturing directed at the German electorate, in order to provide an ex-post justification for the financial aid packages directed at Europe’s ailing periphery, which would be palatable to the domestic audience. If the proposal is meant seriously, however, it would probably represent the most radical change to the post-war European political and economic order.
The proposal includes a common EU retirement age of 67, harmonised corporate taxes, elimination of inflation-indexed wage agreements, and limits on deficits – coupled with tougher penalties for countries that breach the rules. While each of these individual proposals could be evaluated on its own merits – and clearly raising the retirement age and eliminating wage indexation are measures that would have a very solid economic justification – the underlying tone of this proposal is very disturbing.
If adopted, the plan would force Eurozone countries to amend their constitutions to forbid public deficits above a certain level. While an economist might sympathise with the intention to curb irresponsible public spending, this step would essentially mean the end of sovereign nation states in Europe. After all, the very purpose of setting up elected parliaments was to grant them sovereign powers to tax and to decide over public spending. The Franco-German proposal would constrain substantially that power, and would represent a decisive departure from the institutions of sovereign nation-states and representative democracy.
Again, there can be a legitimate discussion about whether such a move is warranted or not. It is certainly possible to imagine persuasive arguments for constitutional checks that would curb deficit spending. Nonetheless, such dramatic modifications to our present political and institutional order should not be a result of a proposal that has been drafted in secret, without any open public discussion, and which – if adopted – would probably be rushed frenziedly through national parliaments to prevent any such discussion.
While possibly signalling the end of the era of standard representative democracy in Europe, this move should not be surprising. It is only a logical extension of the project of a common European currency. In the past, there are not any examples of stable monetary unions that would have taken place without a political and fiscal union. The assumption made by many supporters of the Euro in the late 1990s – namely that it was possible to square a common currency and political and fiscal independence of individual nation states – was thus rather unrealistic to begin with. Clearly, there were many in Europe who hope that the Euro will serve as a motor for further political centralisation, and these people seem to occupy the high grounds in the present debt crisis.
So while the proposal is partly directed to appease German taxpayers, it is part of a much broader theme which we witness in European politics, motivated by the idea that “harmonisation” is always preferable to diversity and that institutional competition between different fiscal, regulatory, and monetary regimes is, in general, harmful. Obviously, nothing could be further from the truth. Europe’s economic growth cannot be sustained without a perpetual process of yardstick competition and institutional learning. For the sake of Europe’s future, it is necessary that the current movement towards an ever-closer Europe, and political centralisation at all cost, is reversed.
At this stage, there are two possible scenarios how the events in the Eurozone can play out. The Eurozone could be sustained in its present form, at the cost adopting an institutional package similar to today’s Franco-German proposal and massive, Europe-wide, fiscal transfers. Alternatively, we should brace for a disorderly unravelling of the Euro occurring at its periphery – potentially at very high social and economic costs. Needless to say, neither of these two paths is particularly appealing.
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Study finds wearables can accurately pinpoint heart problems
Stanford Researchers say the Apple Watch can identify atrial fibrillation
Mark Huffman Reporter
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Wearable technology can do more than just count your steps. A Stanford Medical School study found wearables can safely identify heart rate irregularities such as atrial fibrillation.
It should be pointed out that Apple was a major sponsor of the study. Apple produces a wearable product, the Apple Watch, which was used in the study.
The study involved more than 400,000 participants and was designed to find out if a mobile app that uses data from a heart-rate pulse sensor on the Apple Watch can identify atrial fibrillation. That’s an important consideration since the condition is often hard to detect.
One of the big concerns about the Apple Watch and other wearables is false alerts. The study found there were very few of them, with only 0.5 percent of participants being notified of an irregular pulse.
When researchers compared the irregular pulse-detection on the Apple Watch with simultaneous electrocardiography (ECG) patch recordings, the watch had a 71 percent positive predictive value.
Impressive accuracy
In 84 percent of the cases, study participants who got notifications of an irregular pulse were found to be suffering from atrial fibrillation.
“The results of the Apple Heart Study highlight the potential role that innovative digital technology can play in creating more predictive and preventive health care,” said Lloyd Minor, MD, Dean of the Stanford School of Medicine. “Atrial fibrillation is just the beginning, as this study opens the door to further research into wearable technologies and how they might be used to prevent disease before it strikes.”
The study did not include the use of the most recent Apple Watch, which features a built-in ECG. That device, released last September, also has a new accelerometer and gyroscope to detect hard falls. Upon its release, it earned a De Novo classification from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb says his agency worked with Apple to develop the new version of the device and said it “may help millions of users identify health concerns more quickly.”
Potential to do more
Wearables, often called fitness trackers, are worn on the wrist like a watch and count steps, monitor your heart rate, and track your sleep. But Gottlieb and others think they have the potential to do a lot more.
As wearables evolve, they may feature glucose monitoring for people with diabetes and detect ultraviolet light exposure.
“The performance and accuracy we observed in this study provides important information as we seek to understand the potential impact of wearable technology on the health system,” said Dr. Marco Perez, one of the Stanford researchers. “Further research will help people make more informed health decisions.”
Mark Huffman
Mark Huffman has been a consumer news reporter for ConsumerAffairs since 2004. He covers real estate, gas prices and the economy and has reported extensively on negative-option sales. He was previously an Associated Press reporter and editor in Washington, D.C., a correspondent for Westwoood One Radio Networks and Marketwatch.
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Film: No White Horses
Long ago in Hollywood, Technicolor costume epics were money in the bank and chicken on Sunday. Not that Gone With the Wind or The Adventures of Robin Hood are imitable, but that never stopped other directors from trying to imitate them. What’s more, they still do it, albeit in their own maladroit fashion. I doubt if many people under 30 know who Clark Gable and Errol Flynn were, but even in the dumbed-down world of postmodern mass culture, every young filmmaker remembers Titanic (the movie, not the ship). And for all their devotion to the here, now, and hip, quite a few of them like to take the Wayback Machine out for an occasional spin, so long as they don’t see anything too politically incorrect on the way back.
Shekhar Kapur’s remake of The Four Feathers is a regrettable case in point. A.E.W. Mason’s stiff-upper-lip swashbuckler, the story of young Harry Faversham (Heath Ledger), a British soldier accused of cowardice who redeems himself by stalwartly facing death in the Sudan, has been filmed six times. Unlike its predecessors, though, this version is the work of a director who is palpably uncomfortable with Mason’s Victorian values. To render them safe for consumption by the kind of people who don’t use the word “niggardly,” Kapur and screenwriters Michael Schiffer and
Hossein Amini have done a clumsy job of plastic surgery on Mason’s novel, inserting megadoses of moral equivalency wherever possible. I can’t remember the last time I saw anything so heavy-handed as the scene in which Kapur crosscuts between the British and their African enemies as they both pray before going into battle—I had to stop myself from yelling “Duh, we get it already!” at the screen.
Believe it or not, I have read a half-dozen reviews of The Four Feathers whose authors claim it is not a PC remake of the 1939 version. Says Roger Ebert, that infallible guide to conventional cinematic wisdom:
I do not require Kapur to be a revisionist anti-imperialist; it’s just that I don’t expect a director born in India to be quite so fond of the British Empire…. The characters are so feckless, the coincidences so blatant and the movie so innocent of any doubts about the White Man’s Burden that Kipling could have written it—although if he had, there would have been deeper psychology and better roles for the locals.
Not that I recommend it, but you really have to watch The Four Feathers, in which the British are made out to be arrogant, blundering believers in a Christianity less muscular than muscle-headed, to see how completely Ebert has missed Kapur’s point. And while it is well within the realm of possibility that the British were idiots, to portray them as such in a large-scale costume epic is a fatal dramatic miscalculation, if only because the scale of The Four Feathers is simply too large to make that kind of subtlety feasible. Some ambiguity is permissible in an epic (Rhett Butler is not exactly a gentleman), but if you’re not sure who the good guys were when the smoke finally clears, you won’t go home happy.
That isn’t the only thing wrong with The Four Feathers, though it’s the worst thing. “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” L.P. Hartley wrote in The Go-Between. Those differences are what make the historical movie so seductive a genre—but only if they go deeper than decor. The flashy cinematography of The Four Feathers, for instance, is not literally anachronistic (they weren’t making movies of any kind in 1875), but to see ultracontemporary visual grammar used to tell so traditional a story is to feel that the essence of the tale is being distorted, just as it is downright bizarre to see a thoroughly modern young actress like Kate Hudson all dressed up as a high-minded Victorian virgin. Cate Blanchett could have played the part of Ethne standing on her head—she’s a real actress, not a prefabricated star—but no sooner does Hudson open her mouth and start talking than the film’s illusion of reality, such as it is, vanishes up the spout.
Not entirely by chance, I went to see Ben-Hur the same weekend I saw The Four Feathers. I’m too young to have seen Ben-Hur in a theater—the sad truth is that I’d never seen it at all—and since it was being shown as part of a William Wyler retrospective at a Manhattan revival house, I thought it’d be worth finding out what I’d missed. I expected it to be corny but fun, and so I was astonished to discover that Ben-Hur is not only entirely serious but at times quite startlingly intense. The script is shapely and literate, the cast close to uniformly splendid (Charlton Heston was never better, which is saying something), and Miklós Rózsa’s magnificent score is one of the half-dozen best to grace an American movie.
Three and a half hours is a long time to sit in a lumpy seat, but Wyler paces each scene so cunningly as to make the film seem at least an hour shorter, whereas The Four Feathers feels a half-hour longer than it really is. Though the special effects are a bit creaky in spots, the outdoor sets make you feel as if you were standing in the middle of downtown Jerusalem or the Circus Maximus. I suspect I will never again think of the Via Dolorosa without imagining it pretty much the way it looks in Ben-Hur, accompanied by the grinding basso ostinato of Rózsa’s Double Indemnity-like music and climaxing in a Crucifixion so believable that you can feel the nails going in.
Even more to the point, Ben-Hur, unlike The Four Feathers, is sure of its own values: It doesn’t hesitate to present Christianity as superior to the spiritual nihilism of Rome. This self-confidence has everything to do with the film’s epic sweep. It’s no accident that in the climactic chariot race, Judah Ben-Hur’s horses are white and Messala’s black. That’s what makes it possible for us to tell the two men apart, both literally and metaphorically. One of the sleazier characters in Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past, my favorite film noir, remarks in passing that “a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.” As that unfortunate character learns a half-hour later, dames and rods go together like ham and eggs in film noir, but a morally ambivalent costume epic such as The Four Feathers is very much like a guy with a knitting needle. It’s not impossible, but there are easier ways to knit a sweater, and Ben-Hur is a better sweater to boot.
Speaking of sharp objects, I don’t want to sign off without saying a few encouraging words about Mark Romanek’s One Hour Photo, a thriller that did well at the box office but didn’t receive the critical attention it deserved. Robin Williams is unexpectedly fine as Sy Parrish, the creepily pitiful bad guy, while Romanek’s script and direction are several cuts above the Hollywood norm. He has something of M. Night Shyamalan’s uncanny knack for making the everyday world seem numinous—high praise indeed. Yes, One Hour Photo is slick, not to mention emotionally manipulative, but like Henry Bromell’s Panic (and unlike the overrated American Beauty, to which it has been inaptly compared), it is a small-scale genre film that has something intelligent, even thoughtful, to say about the coldness and alienation of postmodern American life. I didn’t expect it to be any good, but it beats The Four Feathers all hollow.
By Terry Teachout
Terry Teachout is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal, culture critic of Commentary, and the author of books on Louis Armstrong, H.L. Mencken, and George Banchine.
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Atlantis in the News ...
Santorini: The Mystery of the Ancient Volcano That May Have Inspired Atlantis The Atlantic - August 10, 2018
An olive branch that comes from the Greek island of Santorini, where a volcano erupted more than three millennia ago, spewing gas, ash, pumice, and boulders into the sky. Once depleted, the volcano collapsed in on itself. So violent was the eruption, some have speculated, that it ended the once prosperous Minoan civilization, instigated a volcanic winter as far away as China, and inspired the 12 plagues of Exodus as well as the myth of Atlantis - claims that are to varying degrees controversial. But nothing is as controversial, it turns out, as the debate over when the Santorini volcano actually erupted.
Prehistoric North Sea 'Atlantis' hit by 5m tsunami BBC - May 1, 2014, 2014
A prehistoric Atlantis in the North Sea may have been abandoned after being hit by a 5m tsunami 8,200 years ago. The wave was generated by a catastrophic subsea landslide off the coast of Norway. Analysis suggests the tsunami over-ran Doggerland, a low-lying landmass that has since vanished beneath the waves. The wave could have wiped out the last people to occupy this island.
Doggerland is a name given by archaeologists and geologists to a former landmass in the southern North Sea that connected the island of Great Britain to mainland Europe during and after the last Ice Age, surviving until about 6,500 or 6,200 BCE and then gradually being flooded by rising sea levels. Geological surveys have suggested that Doggerland was a large area of dry land that stretched from Britain's east coast across to the present coast of the Netherlands and the western coasts of Germany and Denmark. Doggerland was probably a rich habitat with human habitation in the Mesolithic period, although rising sea levels gradually reduced it to low-lying islands before its final abandonment, perhaps following a tsunami caused by the Storegga slide.
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Paul D. Cullen, Sr. serves as outside Litigation Counsel to the Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc. Mr. Cullen has represented the association and its members for thirty years in a variety of matters including numerous class-action suits in state and federal courts under the federal Truth-in-Leasing regulations and the U.S. Constitution. Mr. Cullen has successfully challenged the State of Alabama’s discriminatory marker fee on trucks under the Commerce Clause resulting in a recovery of over $70 million for motor carriers and their drivers. Mr. Cullen has also successfully challenged discriminatory enforcement practices against out-of-state drivers by the Tennessee Public Service Commission also under the Commerce Clause. He has been involved in numerous administrative and judicial proceedings challenging state and federal enforcement actions under the Administrative Procedures Act, the U.S. Constitution and 42 U.S. C. § 1983.
Mr. Cullen has also represented a diverse group of clients in the textile, consumer electronics, and semi-conductor industries in a broad range of international trade matters and antidumping proceedings. Early in his career, Mr. Cullen served as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice where he defended the United States and various federal departments, agencies and officials in numerous civil proceedings throughout the country. Mr. Cullen has extensive litigation experience in suits against federal and state agencies and officials in which injunctive relief, mandamus, and monetary damages have been obtained. He also filed the first major case for customs fraud under the False Claims Act on behalf of domestic textile producers.
Since entering the practice of law in 1965, Mr. Cullen has been substantially engaged as counsel in over 100 decisions published on Westlaw. Selected cases include:
Fred Weaver, Jr. and Owner–Operator Independent Drivers Assn., Inc., v. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, et al., 744 F.3d 142, 143-44 (D.C. Cir. 2014)
Owner-Operator Indep. Drivers Ass’n, Inc. v. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 656 F.3d 580 (7th Cir. 2011) (vacated final agency rule mandating use of electric-on-board records on commercial vehicles).
Owner-Operator Indep. Drivers Ass’n, Inc. v. Dunaski, 763 F. Supp.2d 1068 (D.Minn 2011) (awarded declaratory and injunctive relief against officers of the Minnesota State Patrol for violating 4th Amendment rights of professional drivers.
Owner-Operator Indep. Drivers Ass’n, Inc. v. New Prime, Inc., 192 F.3d 778 (8th Cir. 1999)(the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act created a private right of action permitting drivers to seek injunctive relief and damages for a motor carrier’s violation of Truth-in-Leasing regulations).
Owner-Operator Indep. Drivers Ass’n, Inc. v. New Prime, Inc.,398 F.3d 1067 (8th Cir. 2005)(the attorney fee provision of the ICCTA authorizes fee awards only for plaintiffs not prevailing defendants).
Am. Textile Mfrs. Inst., Inc. v. The Limited, Inc., 190 F.3d 729 (6th Cir. 1999)(False Claims Act not applicable to false customs declarations where no loss of duties shown).
Sizemore v. Owner-Operator Indep. Drivers Ass’n, Inc., 671 So. 2d 674 (Ala. Civ. App. 1995) (affirming trial court’s decision holding that Alabama’s marker fee was discriminatory under the Commerce Clause).
Matsushita Elec. Indus. Co., Ltd. v. U.S., 750 F.2d 927 (Fed. Cir. 1984)(affirming decision of the United States International Trade Commission denying petition to revoke antidumping duty order covering Color Television Receivers from Japan on grounds of changed circumstances).
Hodgson v. United Mine Workers of Am., 344 F. Supp. 17 (D.D.C. 1972) (election of W.A. “Tony” Boyle as President of the United Workers of America overturned for violations of the LMRDA).
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July 30, 1965 is a day that will go down as one of America's greatest days. After a truly bipartisan vote in both the House of Representatives and the US Senate, an amendment to the Social Security Act setting up our nations first public health insurance program passed and was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Thorny trade-offs in Trump administration’s Medicaid deal
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
Washington – The Trump administration has a Medicaid deal for states: more control over health care spending on certain low-income residents if they agree to a limit on how much the feds kick in.
It’s unclear how many states would be interested in such a trade-off under a complex Medicaid block grant proposal unveiled Thursday by Seema Verma, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The federal share of Medicaid is now open-ended, meaning that a state is at least partly protected from unpleasant surprises like a new, $300,000 prescription drug or an economic downturn that swells enrollment.
The deal is optional for states, and they’d have to apply for a federal waiver to get it. But takers would face the prospect of court battles.
Although the Medicaid law allows for state waivers to promote experimentation, advocates for low-income people say the administration is exceeding its legal authority because caps on federal spending would require congressional approval. Verma maintains that the plan does not cross any red lines by violating Medicaid’s spending formula.
The Trump administration is calling the proposal the Healthy Adult Opportunity. Outlined in a letter Thursday from Verma to state Medicaid directors, the deal would be restricted to able-bodied adults under 65. A state could not put nursing home residents, disabled people, pregnant women, or children into the new plan. The federal government would not limit its Medicaid contribution for these groups, considered the most sensitive.
“Our focus … is to change the whole paradigm and to reset the framework of how we’re working with states,” said Verma. “We are providing them this up front flexibility and the federal government is in the role of monitoring the program.”
In exchange for operating under a fixed federal allocation, states, among other things, would be able to:
– Limit what prescription drugs will be covered.
– Waive a current Medicaid benefit that allows a low-income person to get retroactive coverage for medical care going back three months.
– Use copays to steer Medicaid recipients to services that are deemed to have the highest value.
– Share in savings with the federal government.
One potential twist is whether GOP-led states that have refused the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion would be more receptive under the terms proposed by Verma. Oklahoma voters will get to decide on a Medicaid expansion ballot initiative this year, and Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt has expressed interest in a block grant.
Verma said the federal government would monitor a state’s performance, acting not only as a fiscal bean counter but also to protect Medicaid recipients.
“There would be very strong monitoring from the federal government,” she said. “If a state set up something that was onerous … that would be an impetus for the federal government to take action.”
Medicaid is a $600 billion federal-state program that covers about 70 million low-income people, from elderly nursing home residents to many newborns. President Barack Obama’s health care law gave states the option of expanding it. Most states have done so, covering millions more able-bodied adults. Polls show the program has widespread public support.
With President Donald Trump already getting poor marks from the public for his handling of health care, the Medicaid plan is likely to provide another set of election-year arguments for Democrats. It dovetails with Trump administration efforts to restrain spending on other programs that help the poor, including food stamps and housing assistance.
Early on as a presidential candidate Trump promised to protect Medicaid. “Every Republican wants to do a big number on Social Security, they want to do it on Medicare, they want to do it on Medicaid,” he said at a 2015 event in New Hampshire. “And we can’t do that.”
Medicaid promises faded away as Trump’s campaign advanced. Once elected, he sought deep cuts to the program as part of the failed GOP effort to repeal “Obamacare.” Trump’s budgets have continued to call for limits on the federal share of Medicaid.
“Capping federal funding weakens beneficiary protections, and it put beneficiaries, providers, and states at risk,” said Jessica Schubel, a health care policy analyst with the nonprofit Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which advocated on behalf of low-income people.
The professional group representing cancer doctors has also raised concerns. “Block grants could transform Medicaid from a safety net program, designed to meet basic health needs for low-income Americans, to a program with funding limits that drive care rationing for the most vulnerable,” Dr. Howard Burris, president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, said in a statement.
Potential lawsuits are another hurdle for the administration’s plan.
“It is virtually certain that any state that takes up the option will be walking into litigation,” said Cindy Mann, who ran Medicaid in the Obama administration. She’s now with the Manatt Health consultancy.
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HomeCerebrumHow Arts Training Improves Attention and Cognition
How Arts Training Improves Attention and Cognition
Sustained training in music, dance or other arts strengthens the brain’s attention system, which in turn may improve cognition more generally. Evidence for such cognitive “transfer” is accumulating.
Authors: Michael I. Posner, Ph.D., Brenda Patoine
If there were a surefire way to improve your brain, would you try it? Judging by the abundance of products, programs and pills that claim to offer “cognitive enhancement,” many people are lining up for just such quick brain fixes. Recent research offers a possibility with much better, science-based support: that focused training in any of the arts—such as music, dance or theater—strengthens the brain’s attention system, which in turn can improve cognition more generally. Furthermore, this strengthening likely helps explain the effects of arts training on the brain and cognitive performance that have been reported in several scientific studies, such as those presented in May 2009 at a neuroeducation summit at Johns Hopkins University (co-sponsored by the Dana Foundation).
We know that the brain has a system of neural pathways dedicated to attention. We know that training these attention networks improves general measures of intelligence. And we can be fairly sure that focusing our attention on learning and performing an art—if we practice frequently and are truly engaged—activates these same attention networks. We therefore would expect focused training in the arts to improve cognition generally.
Some may construe this argument as a bold associative leap, but it’s grounded in solid science. The linchpin in this equation is the attention system. Attention plays a crucial role in learning and memory, and its importance in cognitive performance is undisputed. If you really want to learn something, pay attention! We all know this intuitively, and plenty of strong scientific data back it up.
The idea that training in the arts improves cognition generally really is not so bold within the context of what we call activity-dependent plasticity, a basic tenet of brain function. It means that the brain changes in response to what you do. Put another way, behavior shapes and sculpts brain networks: What you do in your day-to-day life is reflected in the wiring patterns of your brain and the efficiency of your brain’s networks. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in your attention networks.1
For most of us, if we find an art that “works” for us—that incites our passion and engages us wholeheartedly—and we stick with it, we should notice improvements in other cognitive areas in which attention is important, such as learning and memory, as well as improving cognition in general.
Solid Data Begin to Emerge
If our hypothesis is true, why have scientists been unable to nail down a cause-and-effect relationship between arts education and cognition—for example, “[X] amount of training in art form [Y] leads to a [Z] percent increase in IQ scores”? Such a relationship is difficult to confirm scientifically because there are so many variables at work; scientists have only begun to look at this relationship in a systematic, rigorous fashion.
Early tests of the idea that the arts can boost brainpower focused on the so-called “Mozart effect.” A letter published in 1993 in the journal Nature held that college students exposed to classical music had improved spatial reasoning skills,2 which are important to success in math and science. This observation set off a wave of marketing hype that continues to this day. Despite numerous efforts, however, scientists have not reliably replicated the phenomenon. Nonetheless, these studies have involved only brief periods of exposure to music, rather than explicit musical training or practice.
More recent attempts to link arts training with general improvements in cognition have relied on a different approach. Researchers have focused on longer periods of engaged participation and practice in arts training rather than simple exposure to music. For example, in 2004, E. Glenn Schellenberg of the University of Toronto at Mississauga published results from a randomized, controlled study showing that the IQ scores of 72 children who were enrolled in a yearlong music training program increased significantly compared with 36 children who received no training and 36 children who took drama lessons. (The IQ scores of children taking drama lessons did not increase, but these children did improve more than the other groups on ratings of selected social skills.)3
In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience in March 2009, researchers Ellen Winner of Boston College, Gottfried Schlaug of Harvard University and their colleagues at McGill University used neuroimaging scans to examine brain changes in young children who underwent a four-year-long music training program, compared with a control group of children who did not receive music training.4 In the first round of testing, after 15 months, the researchers found structural changes in brain circuits involved in music processing in the children who received training. They did not find the same changes in the control group. The scientists also found improvements in musically relevant motor and auditory skills, a phenomenon called near transfer. In this case, the improvements did not transfer to measures of cognition less related to music—termed far transfer. We do not know why far transfer to IQ, for example was found in the Schellenberg study and not in this one.
Taken as a whole, the findings to date tell us that music training can indeed change brain circuitry and, in at least some circumstances, can improve general cognition. But they leave unsettled the question of under what circumstances training in one cognitive area reliably transfers to improvements in other cognitive skills. From our perspective, the key to transfer is diligence: Practicing for long periods of time and in an absorbed way can cause changes in more than the specific brain network related to the skill. Sustained focus can also produce stronger and more efficient attention networks, and these key networks in turn affect cognitive skills more generally.
Fig. 1. The practice of various art forms involves different sensory and motor areas in the brain. (Courtesy of M. Posner.)
Practicing a skill, either in the arts or in other areas, builds a rich repertoire of information related to the skill. Scientists conducting neuroimaging studies of many human tasks have identified networks of widely scattered neural structures that act together to perform a given skill, which may involve sensory, motor, attentional, emotional and language processes. The arts are no exception: Specific brain networks underlie specific art forms, as illustrated in Figure 1. As we practice a task, its underlying network becomes more efficient, and connections among brain areas that perform different aspects of the task become more tightly integrated.
This process is analogous to an orchestra playing a symphony. The music that results from the integration of orchestral sections is likely to sound more fluid the hundredth time they play a piece than the first time.
Training Attention Networks
A large body of scientific evidence shows that repeated activation of the brain’s attention networks increases their efficiency. Neuroimaging studies have also proved that the following specialized neural networks underlie various aspects of attention1 (see Figure 2):
the alerting network, which enables the brain to achieve and maintain an alert state;
the orienting network, which keeps the brain attuned to external events in our environment;
the executive attention network, which helps us control our emotions and choose among conflicting thoughts in order to focus on goals over long periods of time.
I have been particularly interested in the executive attention network. Executive attention skills, especially the abilities to control emotions and to focus thoughts (sometimes called cognitive control), are critical aspects of social and academic success throughout childhood. Empathy toward others, the ability to control reward-motivated impulses and even control of the propensity to cheat or lie have been linked scientifically to aspects of executive attention.5 Researchers also have shown that measures of this network’s efficiency are related to school performance.6
Fig. 2. Brain networks that underlie different aspects of attention include the alerting network, the orienting network and the executive attention network. Arts learning may contribute to improved cognition by improving the efficiency of the executive attention network. (Courtesy of M. Posner.)
Given the importance of the executive attention network, my colleagues and I wondered what might improve its efficiency. To find out, we adapted a series of exercises, originally designed to train monkeys for space travel, to investigate the effects of attention-training exercises in 4- to 6-year-old children. We randomly assigned the children to either a control condition (which involved watching and responding to interactive videos) or training on joystick-operated computer exercises designed to engage attention networks through motivation and reward (see the image at top right). After the children who did the computer exercises participated in five days of training for about 30 minutes per day, we placed noninvasive electrodes on the children’s scalp to look at their brain activity; we found evidence of increased efficiency in the executive attention network. The experimental group’s network performance, in contrast to the control group’s, resembled performance in adults. Importantly, this improvement transferred to higher scores on IQ tests designed for young children.
These data suggest that increasing the efficiency of the executive attention network also improves general cognition as measured by IQ.7 M. Rosario Rueda of the University of Granada, Spain, and colleagues subsequently replicated this key finding in an as yet unpublished study of Spanish children. Rueda found that attention training improved the children’s abilities to delay reward, and the improvements persisted for at least two months after training.
In recent years, various approaches to training children to pay attention have been carried out in many different settings. The results show that tasks specifically designed to exercise the underlying networks can indeed improve attention, and that this kind of training can translate to better general cognition. In one of the strongest studies to support this finding, measures of cognitive control significantly improved in preschoolers enrolled in a yearlong training program that incorporated different activities designed to sharpen executive functions.8 We expect that this training will positively affect the children’s future academic performance, but this remains to be shown.
For many children, interest in a particular art form leads to sustained attention when practicing that art form. Moreover, engaging in art often involves resolving conflicts among competing possible responses, such as when choosing the correct note to play at a given moment. The ability to resolve conflict among competing responses is also a crucial aspect of attention training. For example, if you are to respond to a target arrow by pressing a key in the direction in which the arrowhead points, the addition of surrounding arrows pointing in the opposite direction will increase your reaction time and activate parts of the executive attention network.8 We expect, therefore, that arts training should exercise the executive attention network and, therefore, also should improve cognition generally.
It seems unlikely that training in the arts will always improve general cognition, however, since so many factors are at play. No single art form is interesting to all people, and some people may never warm up to any type of art. Individual differences in relevant brain networks, which are probably genetically influenced to some degree, help explain this variability in both appreciation of and ability to create art. For example, one person may have an auditory system that easily discriminates between tones and a motor system optimized for fine finger control, which may predispose her to playing a musical instrument. Someone with agility, coordination and a good ability to imitate motions of others, on the other hand, might naturally gravitate toward dance or sports. These differences may also help explain why people are passionate about one type of art but not others.
The efficacy of arts training also depends on a child’s temperament or personality. For example, openness, which affects behavior, may be a prerequisite to effective training, and may in part be genetically derived. We have found, for instance, that a gene that regulates the transmission of the chemical dopamine from one brain cell to another appears to modulate children’s openness to parental influence. Our studies show that children with one form of this gene (the dopamine-4 receptor gene) show abnormally high sensation-seeking behavior if their parents show poor parenting skills, but not if their parents show good parenting skills.9,10
An increasing body of evidence indicates that the brain’s attention networks are also under some degree of genetic control. For example, certain genes seem to modulate an individual’s ability to perform attention-related tasks, such as quickly responding to a warning signal or shifting attention from one external event to another. These genetic influences underscore individual differences in responses to training, and they may explain contradictory results in scientific studies investigating the links between arts training and cognition.
Apart from these caveats, exposure to the “right” art form can fully engage children’s attention and can be highly rewarding for them. They may get so involved in learning the art that they lose track of time or even “lose themselves” while practicing it. I believe that few other school subjects can produce such strong and sustained attention that is at once rewarding and motivating. That is why arts training is particularly appealing as a potential means for improving cognition. Other engaging subjects might be useful as well, but the arts may be unique in that so many children have a strong interest in them.
With advances in neuroscience that are providing important new tools for studying cognition, it is important for researchers to work with educators to design and carry out studies that build upon the findings that arts training provides near-transfer effects, and determine whether this training also results in—and causes—far-transfer cognitive benefits. As we have seen, recent studies have transcended the failed paradigm of simply exposing people to the arts, and now concentrate on the effects of arts training over months and years. We need more studies like these to determine whether, beyond strong correlation, causation occurs. Arts training may influence cognition through other brain processes as well. Because arts training strengthens the brain network related to the art being practiced, other tasks that rely on the same brain circuitry or pieces of it presumably would be affected. For example, if music training influences the auditory system, we might also expect to see improvement in nonmusical tasks involving pitch In fact, Brian Wandell and his colleagues at Stanford University recently demonstrated that children who train in music or the visual arts showed improved phonological awareness, the ability to manipulate speech sounds, which is strongly tied to reading fluency. Moreover, the more music training they had, the better their reading fluency.11
In addition, parts of the music network lie adjacent to brain areas involved in processing numbers, which might explain anecdotal reports of improvements in mathematics after music training. For instance, Elizabeth Spelke of Harvard University has found that school-age children engaged in intensive music training had improved performance in abstract geometry tasks.12 Wandell and his team also reported preliminary data connecting experience in the visual arts with children’s math calculation abilities.13 Future studies will need to examine these possibilities in more detail.
Another interesting aspect of the performing arts is that artists often prepare for their work by consciously entering a state of mind that they believe will elevate their performance, for example, via deep breathing, picturing the moment or other meditative techniques. Yi-Yuan Tang, a visiting professor at the University of Oregon from Dalian Medical University in China, recently reported that some forms of meditation can produce changes in the connection between the brain and the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system and, after just a few days of training, can lead to improvements in the same aspects of executive attention that are trained by specifically exercising this network.14 This “attention state” also correlates with improved mood and resistance to stress. Our data suggest that meditation may contribute to generalized cognitive improvements in those who practice it.
The growing body of scientific work that suggests arts training can improve cognitive function—including our view, which identifies stronger attention networks as the mechanism—opens a new avenue of study for cognitive researchers. The new research findings also give parents and educators one more reason to encourage young people to find an art form they love and to pursue it with passion. Continuing research in this area can also help inform ongoing debates about the value of arts education, which has important policy implications given budgetary pressures to cut arts programs from school curricula.
From our perspective, it is increasingly clear that with enough focused attention, training in the arts likely yields cognitive benefits that go beyond “art for art’s sake.” Or, to put it another way, the art form that you truly love to learn may also lead to improvements in other brain functions.
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E. G. Schellenberg, “Music Lessons Enhance IQ,” Psychological Science 15 (2004): 511–514.
K. L. Hyde, J. Lerch, A. Norton, M. Forgeard, E. Winner, A. C. Evans, and G. Schlaug, “Musical Training Shapes Structural Brain Development,” Journal of Neuroscience 29 (2009): 3019–3025.
M. R. Rueda, M. I. Posner, and M. K. Rothbart, “Attentional Control and Self Regulation” in Handbook of Self Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications, ed. R. F. Baumeister and K. D. Vohs, 283–300 (New York: Guilford Press, 2004).
P. Checa, R. Rodriguez-Bailon, and M. R. Rueda, “Neurocognitive and Temperamental Systems of Early Self-Regulation and Early Adolescents’ Social and Academic Outcomes,” Mind Brain and Education 2 (2008): 177–187.
M. R. Rueda, M. K. Rothbart, B. D. McCandliss, L. Saccomanno, and M. I. Posner, “Training, Maturation and Genetic Influences on the Development of Executive Attention,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (2005): 4931–4936.
J. Fan, J.I. Flombaum, B.D. McCandliss, K.M. Thomas, and M.I. Posner, “Cognitive and Brain Consequences of Conflict,” Neuro Image 18 (2003): 42–57.
A. Diamond, S. Barnett, J. Thomas, and S. Munro, “Preschool Program Improves Cognitive Control,” Science 318 (2007): 1387–1388.
B. E. Sheese, M. Pascale, M. Voelker, M. K. Rothbart, and M. I. Posner, “Parenting Quality Interacts with Genetic Variation in Dopamine Receptor D4 to Influence Temperament in Early Childhood,” Development and Psychopathology 19, no. 4 (2007): 1039–1046.
G. A. Bryant and H. C. Barrett, “Recognizing Intentions in Infant-directed Speech: Evidence for Universals,” Psychological Science 18, no. 8 (2007): 746–751.
B. Wandell, R. Dougherty, M. Ben-Shachar, G. Deutsch, and J. Tsang, “Training in the Arts, Reading, and Brain Imaging,” Learning, Arts, and the Brain: The Dana Consortium Report 51-59.
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Y Tang, Y.Ma, Y Fan, H. Feng, J. Wang, S.Feng, Q.Lu, B. Hu, Y. Lin, J.Li, Y.Zhang, Y.Wang, L Zhou, and M. Fan, “Central and Autonomic Nervous System Interaction is Altered by Short Term Meditation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 106(2009): 8865–8870.
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St Patrick’s Cathedral is one of Dublin’s most popular attractions. Built between 1220 and 1260 the Cathedral is one of the few buildings left from the medieval city of Dublin. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, is one of around 700 burials on the site.
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral has been part of Ireland’s history for over 800 years and today is one of the most popular visitor attractions in Dublin. Built in honour of Ireland’s patron saint between 1220 and 1260, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral offers visitors a rich and compelling cultural experience and is one of the few buildings left from medieval Dublin. St Patrick baptised people here 1500 years ago.
It is the National Cathedral of the Church of Ireland and is the largest Cathedral in the country. Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels, was Dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in the 1700s and he is one of many burials on site. The phrase "to chance your arm" originates from a feud that played out within the walls of St Patrick's. The Cathedral is world famous for its choir, established in 1432, which still performs daily during school term. In recent years the Lady Chapel, dating from 1270, has been restored to its original glory. A new exhibition called Lives Remembered has opened which includes a specially commissioned tree sculpture and marks the centenary of World War 1. Guided tours of the Cathedral happen regularly throughout the day or a free app can be used for self-guide purpose.
Times of Services
Monday to Friday: 09:00 Sung Matins (school term only), 11:05: Holy Eucharist (Wed and Thurs only) 17:30: Choral evensong.
Saturday: 11:05 Holy Eucharist.
Sunday: 09:15 Holy Eucharist. 11:15 Choral Eucharist 15:15 Choral Evensong.
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St Patrick's Close, Dublin 8, A96 P599, Ireland
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The 25th Anniversary: The landmark celebration that changed everything
The Disneyland Paris 25th anniversary has come to an end. But what will be its lasting legacy on the resort? Let's take a look back at this exciting year.
From the moment that the 20th anniversary ended in September 2013 fans of Disneyland Paris turned their gaze towards April 2017 and the 25th anniversary of the resort. 25 is a landmark age, it marks a coming of age and a sort of maturing; this is certainly true for Disneyland Paris as the 25th anniversary saw multiple radical changes. For one, the Walt Disney Company completed their purchase of the resort and became full owners and operators of Disneyland Paris, but arguably during the anniversary year a large expansion to the Walt Disney Studios Park was announced. Whilst this expansion announcement was not directly linked to the 25th anniversary, it cannot be denied that it was impeccable timing and that, for once, the stars seemed to have aligned.
The 25th anniversary saw new experiences launch across the resort, but also some refreshments to things that we both know and love. As anniversaries go, it was a successful one for Paris with the parks being busy almost every day of the year and guests seemingly enjoying the festivities. Let’s take a whirlwind tour around the various elements of the 25th anniversary and see how they have impacted Disneyland Paris.
Project Sparkle
Starting with what is arguably one of the biggest processes of renewal ever undertaken at a Disney park, Project Sparkle recognised that all was not perfect in the resort and that serious work was needed to bring the park up to the Disney quality that guests expect. Yes there was, and still is, some short term pain; the year long closures of Big Thunder Mountain, Star Tours and Phantom Manor have indeed been felt, but this is all for the long term good. Each attraction that has been significantly refurbished has returned in pristine condition and have truly breathed new life into what were already firm favourites.
Whilst there has been issues, Big Thunder Mountain has especially suffered, each attraction has returned looking and feeling much, much fresher. Regular upkeep is, of course, needed here. The issues of neglect will not go away unless regular maintenance is carried out. Fortunately, we are now in an age where Disneyland Paris management know, understand, and are indeed passionate about the high quality and standards and so I am extremely confident that we will not go back to previous bad habits.
In 2019, Phantom Manor will reopen and from the very little that we currently know about this refurbishment it is sounding to be another success story.
It is not just attractions that have had a refresh, all across Disneyland Paris we are seeing effort being put into almost everything. New flooring has been laid in Fantasia Gardens, new toilets have been fitted across the resort, hotel refurbishment have been highly successful and food quality is on the up.
There’s a little way to go as of yet. But Disneyland Paris also recognise that the job is not done. We’re very much on a journey, and that is rather exciting.
Disney Illuminations
Approaching this new nighttime spectacular as a regular visitor may well change the ‘review’. Back in April 2017, I described Disney Illuminations as ‘good but not great’. I am still of this opinion, it’s a good show for those who do not know any better. The problem is that this show follows hot on the heels of Disney Dreams!, and unfortunately it is simply not as good. Dreams! had a lot of heart in it, the show pulled at emotional heartstrings like none other. Illuminations simply doesn’t. The show is indeed spectacular and visually impressive, but is it something I watch on each visit? Well, no. It has become a show that I do not mind skipping and a show that I’m quite happy to take in one final attraction and walk back to my hotel whilst the crowds are distracted.
There lies the problem, if it does not hold my attention then there must be something wrong with the show. Dreams! was a show that I watched countless times and never got bored.
Disney Illuminations will be staying for long after the 25th anniversary and so guests will be able to enjoy the nighttime spectacular for some time to come yet. If you don’t visit often, I can imagine that you absolutely love this show – and it is perfectly fine to do so – but I cannot love it the same way I have loved other nighttime shows in Disneyland Paris.
Star Tours: L’aventure continue
In March 2016 Star Tours closed for a year long refurbishment; it reopened in March 2017 as Star Tours: l’aventure continue. Was the refurbishment worth it and is the upgrade good? Yes, and yes.
Star Tours was always a fan favourite attraction in Disneyland Paris, but with only one destination, and so having the same experience each and every time, restricted its repeat value. Star Tours: l’aventure continue answered any concerns that we may have had. The attraction now has a ton of repeat value and is one of the most exciting attractions in the resort. Queue times have jumped from 5 minutes to 30+ minutes and each time that I now board the Starspeeder, I find myself sitting there high in anticipation and excitement as to where I could be going on this voyage.
In November 2017, Disneyland Paris updated the attraction to include a new scene from Star Wars: The Last Jedi as well as having the opportunity to take the attraction in English (as opposed to only being able to do it in French). This went to prove that Paris will be keeping up with its American counterparts and will be continuing to update the attraction regularly with new experiences. This is undoubtedly a highlight of the anniversary and its legacy.
Disney Stars on Parade
Disney Stars on Parade is still an outstanding parade with a brilliant soundtrack. When I think of this parade, my entire perception lies on two floats: the opening float which features a steampunk Mickey and Minnie, but also the wonderful and breathtaking Maleficent dragon float.
Its really difficult to compare this particular parade to the previous Disney Magic on Parade, they are very different beasts with this one being much more ‘spectacular’ but with less opportunities for parade performers to go off-piste and interact with guests. I have never been a person to watch the parade each and every day, I’ll try to do it once per trip but I’ll not worry if I happen to miss it. This parade falls nicely into my way of enjoying this piece of entertainment, I like watching it but I don’t go crazy for it. If I’m in the right place at the right time, I will not miss it but otherwise I’ll continue to do whatever it is I am doing.
This parade, again, will be staying for many more years yet, this is only a good thing. We have more time to enjoy these amazingly detailed floats and enjoy one of the best Disneyland Paris parade soundtracks to date.
Royal Castle Stage Shows: Happy Anniversary Disneyland Paris & Starlit Princess Waltz
Two new stage shows were introduced for the anniversary celebrations: Mickey presents Happy Anniversary Disneyland Paris and the Starlit Princess Waltz. Both shows hit the spot perfectly for their respective audiences.
Happy Anniversary Disneyland Paris is one of those shows that pleases both my character side and park fan side. I really have enjoyed hearing each land come to life and being matched with various characters. This is the kind of intensity of show that fits that particular stage, not too long but packed with a lot of different elements. This is a show that will be sorely missed.
The Starlit Princess Waltz was a show that I described last April as being the best princess show that we have seen in Disneyland Paris by quite some margin. Now, I would revise that statement as the Festival of Pirates and Princesses was something quite special. Nevertheless, the show remains something quite beautiful and enjoyable. The music is extremely enjoyable and the reveal of Aurora and Phillip makes a nice refreshing change to endless swirling. Again, this is a show that I feel will be missed – although I really do not think it will be long before we have another princess show gracing this particular stage.
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12th April: The Grand Celebration
The pinnacle of the 25th anniversary – and indeed one of the highlights of the park’s 25 years – was the Grand Celebration day on the 12th April 2017. Never before have we seen such a magical day with so many characters and unforgettable moments. The day will live long in the memory of people who were there, and the thousands of others who have watched the live stream.
Whilst it’s very unlikely we’ll see a celebration this large until the 50th anniversary, this particular day was a testament of the excellence of the Disneyland Paris entertainment teams and was a celebration fitting of the resort’s 25 glorious years.
Decorations and Characters
One of the big shames of the 25th anniversary was the distinct lack of Mickey Mouse meeting guests in his special outfit. However all the 25th anniversary costumes were spectacular and remain so to this day.
What is perhaps more bizarre are the anniversary decorations. I liked most of them last April (the big exception being the Town Square gazebo decoration), but throughout the year various elements have disappeared or not been regularly cleaned. The end of the anniversary now feels like a long time coming with the faded decorations. They looked understated and classy back in March 2017, but now it feels about time they sparkled away.
Having said that, for future celebrations, the 25th anniversary could be admired as a way to both celebrate something but also keep it classy and allow the park to show off its natural beauty.
The legacy of the 25th Anniversary and looking forward
The 25th anniversary is a large leap forward for Disneyland Paris. During the course of the past year a lot has been achieved. New shows and seasons have been warmly received, the park has received a large scale investment and new owners. It certainly seems like Disneyland Paris has grown confidence in itself as a destination for everybody. As the 25s have been removed from the resort, we can look back at this celebration with fondness and a real marker that this is the moment where everything changed.
How exciting the future will be!
When we enter a Disney park, we leave reality at the gate, we turn the turnstile and enter another world. A world where everything has a reason behind it, a world where yesterday is just as good (if not better) than today, and the promise of the future is bright. We immerse ourselves in this world for days at a time, but eventually we must leave and return home to that reality. Now, I run DLP Town Square to share my passion with the world.
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Saxondale
Hospital Name: Saxondale Hospital
Previous Names: Nottinghamshire County Asylum, Radcliffe War Hospital, Radcliffe Mental Hospital
Location: Henson Lane, Radcliffe on Trent, Nottinghamshire
Principal Architect: Edwin Purnell Hooley
Layout: Compact Arrow Plan
Status: Converted to housing
Opened: 29th July 1902
Closed: Christmas 1988
The new Nottinghamshire County Asylum was planned and developed to replace the existing structure at Sneinton, which was inconveniently placed to accommodate future developments, outmoded and becoming increasingly dilapidated. The new complex, located on farmland to the south of the Grantham road to the west of the town of Radcliffe on Trent, itself located 7 miles to the west of Nottingham.
The complex was designed by the architectural firm of Hooley and Sander of Nottingham to the complex arrow plan. Edgar Purnell Hooley was also the County Surveyor for Nottinghamshire the majority of whose experience was of road construction. His claim to fame had been the discovery and invention of the tar-macadam process, having patented it he set up the construction and building materials company ‘Tarmac’.
Hooley’s design consisted of a layout typical of asylums of the time with a range of male and female wards arranged en-echelon, enclosing male and female service areas to the centre and north. The services consisted of laundry and sewing room on the female side and maintenance, boiler house and workshop complexes on the male side divided by an administration block, visiting rooms, stores, kitchens, recreation hall and assistant medical officers residence running north to south. Opposite the administrative block stood the detached chapel with superintendent’s residence to its’ west. further to the west was sited the isolation hospital. The grounds were entered from Hensons Lane to the east and Grantham Road to the north where pairs of cottages served as gate lodges and homes for married attendants. Airing courts were provided within the grounds attached to each ward with an unusually complex shelter arrangement provided in each. The complex had capacity for over 450 inmates and the adjacent farm, formerly known as Radcliffe Lings was purchased to provide agricultural support for the estate.
The foundation was laid on 25th July 1899 by Lady Belper, whose husband was Chairman if the Notts County Council. The asylum was ready for use and opened in July 1902, with patients being transferred from the old asylum at Sneinton. Once this process was complete, the Sneinton site was permanently closed and all services operated from Radcliffe asylum.
Expansion of the site was already required by 1913 when new ward blocks were constructed on either side of the asylum accessed from the main corridor system. These blocks were similar in style and scale to those already built and continued the echelon arrangement.
World War I brought about the requirement to vacate a number of civilian asylums for military usage and initially Radcliffe Asylum was under Group 2 which had been formed from the asylums of Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire together with those of the East and West Ridings of Yorkshire, from which the Wadsley Park Asylum was to form the ‘vacating’ unit and the others would form receiving units, taking Wadsley’s inmates between them. As such the majority of the war passed with Radcliffe accommodating Wadsley inmates in addition to their own but all were vacated by the summer of 1918 ad it also became a war hospital and the inmates were again spread across the remaining receiving hospitals. The role of the asylum as the Notts County War Hospital was to be short lived with the cessation of hostilities and reverted to civilian use after August 1919.
In 1922 a dispute broke out between the management of what was now the Nottinghamshire County Mental Hospital and members of the nursing staff when the former insisted that the latter increase working hours to a 66 hour working week, sacking them when they refused to comply. The aggrieved staff and their supporters responded by barricading themselves into the wards with their patients in a siege which lasted four days until dismantled by police and bailiffs. During this time the nurse’s had continued their regular roles of caring for patients and working as normal. Although the siege was ultimately unsuccessful the story made national news and brought to the fore the issues for public discussion.
By the 1930’s further developments at the hospital led to the construction of villas in the grounds for chronic working patients each for 50 patients, the first two for female patients became ready in 1932, followed in 1937 by a male villa. Staff housing was constructed on the hospital drive and on Hensons Lane. Notts County Council also formed a committee for the development of a colony for the mentally defective at this time with a site purchased at Balderton, near Newark. The Balderton Colony was in the early stages of construction with the completion of a series of villa homes and a water tower alongside the existing mansion when World War II broke out and the premises were managed as a farm colony annexe providing food to Radcliffe mental hospital through the war.
The hospital passed to the National Health Service’s Sheffield Regional Health Board on it’s inception in 1948 and was the headquarters of the Nottingham no.4 Hospital Management Committee which also included Balderton. Under the NHS the hospital was renamed Saxondale Hospital and by 1951 had 1,200 inpatient beds. New developments during the 1950’s and 60’s new male and female detached villas in the grounds, xray and operating theatre facilities, occupational and industrial therapy services and the creation of a staff club, branch library. Balderton hospital was completed in 1957 and mentally handicapped patients relocated there from Saxondale and various other institutions. Saxondale’s functional areas were remodelled as the old laundry became a new stores department, the old one becoming a staff canteen. The former bakery was refurbished to form a conference centre and the old doctor’s residence now became the new hospital reception. Airing court fences and hedges were removed and the main gates and piers taken down.
With the reconfiguration and merger of the two mental health hospital management committees for Nottingham in 1970, Saxondale joined with Mapperley and Aston Hall, both former Nottingham City institutions, as well as The Coppice Hospital under the Trent Vale HMC. The services of Saxondale, Mapperley and The Coppice had last been managed together as long ago as 1855 when the union forming the committee for Sneinton Asylum split for the first time. The Trent Vale HMC was a short lived exercise and by 1974 reconfiguration of local authority boundaries wrought a similar effect on the health service. Saxondle wa slinked under the new Nottingham Health Authority along with a number of acute and specialist hospitals in the city area and beyond unde rthe new Trent Regional Health Authority.
The hospital was investigated during 1981 as part of an inquiry into untoward deaths and the following year was once again merged with Mapperley in 1982. Closure of Saxondale was announced in the autumn of 1983. This resulted from a number of factors including the location of the hospital and its comparable isolation, the development of outpatient services and community care, the gradual reduction of the long stay inpatient population and the creation of new facilities within the district general hospitals of the health authorities serving the area. Mapperley, being more conveniently located for the city and transport links, had spare capacity which could absorb some of Saxondale’s wards, services and patients and would therefore have a stay of execution. Services were then correspondingly reduced at Saxondale as new units in the Central Nottinghamshire, Nottingham and Bassetlaw DHA areas came into being and nurse training was transferred to the Queens Medical Centre and Mapperley sites. Once the last of the services vacated the complex in 1988 the hospital was finally closed after only 86 years of use, 4 years less than it’s predecessor at Sneinton asylum and one of the first large ‘water tower’ type hospitals in the Trent RHA to close.
After closure, the site was sold for a new housing development with conversion of some of the existing buildings. The main echelon wards including the 1913 additions survive as housing as do the respective airing court shelters and much of the ornamental tree planting. The administration block is now a restaurant and the chapel and former Superintendent’s residence also remain. Staff housing on the Hospital Drive, Hensons Lane and within the farm is now in private occupation as are the buildings at Home Farm.. The villas, isolation hospital, original AMO’s residence and other later additions have been demolished and their sites redeveloped by new residences. The estate on the hospital site is now known as Upper Saxondale.
The National Archives – Saxondale Hospital
Nottinghamshire County Council – Hospital Records
Nottingham Hospitals History – Saxondale Hospital 1902-1988
6 responses to “Saxondale”
Joy Doherty says:
3rd August 2016 at 10:12 pm
I was there in 1972
Aileen McGregor says:
So was I, Joy!
Tony Vines says:
A half great uncle of mine was removed to Saxondale during the First War when the asylum he was then living in near Northampton was requisitioned for war wounded patients. So that extends the geographical range of inmates moved there to Saxondale during those years from the area mentioned in the history. He suffered from epilepsy which may in itself have been regarded as a suitable illness for a patient to be sent to an asylum, although he may also have suffered other psychiatric damage because he suffered brutal beatings as a child by his father. His father was jailed for one such beating. Before being confined to an asylum he had lived in a workhouse but prior to that had lived a life of petty criminality, largely due to extreme poverty but also married and produced a large family before his confinement. He had some skills as a boot and shoe finisher.
He died in Saxondale of TB in 1917 which I believe was quite a common cause of death in asylums in those days.
Very interesting but rather sad history there Tony.
The one near Northampton would be St Crispin.
Yes, not an uncommon form of death unfortunately (both inside and outside asylums at the time) – many asylums built their own small sanatorium blocks to house TB patients, but in some cases their isolation from the rest of the population actually helped them avoid certain diseases.
Matt Hawksley says:
I have an old Notts Asylum uniform button found not far from the site. Interesting social history,
Nice – feel free to post a photo!
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2.6 Social determinants of adolescent health: economic factors
Global Adolescent Health
This course will explore the dynamic factors affecting the health and wellbeing of young people around the world, and how important it is for individuals, communities and nations that we improve the health and life chances of this important population group. With over 25% of the world’s population aged between 10 and 24 years, today’s generation of young people is the largest in human history. As the future leaders and drivers of growth, productivity and innovation, young people are our greatest assets, and investment in their health and wellbeing has social, economic and other benefits that continue across the lifespan and into the next generation. In this course we will adopt a life-course framework to take a holistic view of youth health and wellbeing. We will explore changing patterns of adolescent health and development, including why adolescence is starting earlier and ending later; how puberty and adolescent brain development may shape future health; and how what happens in adolescence can affect the start to life for the next generation. We’ll also look at the major health and social issues affecting young people and ways of addressing these through policy, practice and programming. COURSE FORMAT: This course comprises short video lectures and interviews, required and recommended readings, online discussion, quizzes and written assignments. There is no required text for this course and all readings are provided. DO I HAVE TO PAY FOR THIS COURSE? No- you may access 100% of material in this course for free. You are also welcome to do as much or as little of the course as you like, including all (or none!) of the assessment tasks- it all depends on your learning goals. The option to pay for this course is there for those who wish to receive a Course Certificate as evidence of completion (which does require you to attempt and successfully pass the assessment tasks). WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR? This course will be relevant for anyone with an interest in the health and wellbeing of young people. You do not need to be of any particular personal or professional background to benefit from this course, but having some basic undergraduate study experience will be helpful to your learning (particularly if in a health related field). WHAT IS THE MOST INTERESTING THING I'LL LEARN IF I TAKE THIS COURSE? You’ll learn how so much of what happens during adolescence can impact not only the future health of individuals, but the health of the next generation as well. You’ll develop a greater understanding of the key factors impacting upon youth health and learn how to be a better advocate for the health and wellbeing of young people. View the MOOC promotional video here: http://tinyurl.com/z5l4mod
Very informative course presenting a very many different guest speaker perspectives. Slides were very clear and easy to follow
Excellent course for those who have interest in the adolescent health. Everything has been so simplified. Highly recommended..
Week 2 - Introduction to adolescent health: developmental and ecological perspectives (Part II)
This week we return to our conceptual framework and unpack the key concepts of social determinants of health and risk and protective factors. We explore what these terms mean and how they influence and shape adolescent health and development. We also begin to apply this knowledge at a practical level in terms of the interventions and actions we can take to improve or maintain health and wellbeing during the adolescent and young adult years, or prevent problems from happening in the first place.
2.1 Revisiting the framework6:43
2.2 Risk and protective factors: concepts9:43
2.3 Risk and protective factors: implementation11:57
2.4 Risk and protective factors: peer relationships6:04
2.5 Risk and protective factors: families, education and communities8:10
2.6 Social determinants of adolescent health: economic factors8:16
2.7 Social determinants of adolescent health: human rights and gender13:58
2.8 Social determinants of adolescent health: population displacement8:42
2.9 Social determinants of adolescent health: advertising and marketing9:33
2.10 Socially disadvantaged adolescents5:27
Interview with Prof Craig Jeffrey (UK/Aus) 22:40
Interview with Prof Rima Afifi (Lebanon/USA) 22:47
Interview with Baroness Susan Greenfield (UK) 21:06
Professor Susan Sawyer
Chair of Adolescent Health
Professor George Patton
Professorial Fellow
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Let's turn now to focus on the social determinants of health with a focus beyond the immediacy of family and peers, to a set of more distal or structural social determinants of health. There are many of these that can be grouped in many different ways. I've arbitrarily grouped them into four key themes, with the next few lectures addressing each of these in turn. And, we'll focus on economic factors, human rights and gender, population displacement, and advertising and marketing. But, let's start by focusing on economic factors. We know that greater national wealth is strongly associated with better health outcomes in both sexes, with the exception of self-reported injuries, exposure to violence, and smoking. But, countries with a very low income have up to a 5 fold variation in, for example, male adolescent mortality, and a 10 fold variation in teenage birth rate, despite similar national wealth. And in the next few slides, I'll show these on a graph. This fact that this extent of variation suggests that cultural, religious or other social factors strongly moderate the effects of structural determinants, such as wealth. Let's look at this in more detail on this graph. This graph is taken from the second paper of the recent Lancet series on adolescent health led by Russell Viner and colleagues. And you can see on the horizontal axis is gross domestic product per person calibrated to a thousand US dollars. On the vertical axis is deaths per 100,000 population of 15 to 19 year olds. And as can be seen with this line that I've drawn here, which groups countries with the same, in this case, low gross domestic product. You can see there's more than a five fold difference in mortality, for the same level of GDP. Similarly, in the next graph, where again, we've plotted gross domestic product on the horizontal axis, and this time, births per 1,000 girls, ages 15 to 39 years on the vertical axis, which is grouping countries with the same level of GDP, we can see up to a tenfold difference, a highly dramatic difference in birth rate. What this means is that it's more than just the level of income that matters. Countries have political, economic and social systems that produce more or less income inequality. Those countries with greater income inequality have poorer health across all outcomes. Again, with the exceptions of reported injuries, exposure to violence and smoking rates. And the associations we see between national wealth, inequality and adolescent health probably relate both to cumulative effects that persist from earlier childhood, together with contemporary or pathway effects that take place during adolescence itself. Now we know that wealth generated by national economic development is highly beneficial for adolescents. But their health is vulnerable to income inequalities generated by development particularly where rapid urban development and urbanisation create large populations of deprived, marginalised and displaced young people. And particularly when unemployment is high. Employment is a mechanism through which young people share in the wealth of a society. Long-term unemployment or underemployment among young people carries a heavy price. Young people who struggle to find work often suffer permanent scarring of their future earning power with a potential for profound impacts on their health, especially on mental health, including suicide and violence related mortality. The particular challenge is that the young are especially hard hit when economic times are tough. For example, 15 to 24 year olds are nearly 3 times as likely to be unemployed than older adult workers. And while 15 to 24 year olds comprise 17% of the population, they constitute 40% of the unemployed. Now, the International Labor Organisation estimated the global unemployment rate among 15 to 24 year olds to be 12.6% in 2013, equating to 73 million young people jobless worldwide. This compares threefold higher to an estimated global unemployment rate at that time of 4.5%. However, interestingly, the World Economic Forum estimated much higher rates, suggesting that about 30% of the world's 15 to 24 year olds are not in school and not employed. There is less debate about where the highest rates of unemployment are, and this is namely in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe where youth unemployment rates have skyrocketed since 2008. For instance, in developed economies and the European Union, joblessness among young people has ballooned by nearly 25% in the past five years, reaching a devastating 18.1% overall. In the meantime, Europe is seeing a greater proportion of its youth being forced to take jobs they are overqualified for, or to take part time or temporary work. A phenomena that is seen the world over. Levels of informal employment among young people are soaring, and young people are finding it ever more difficult to find jobs that match their skills and education. Not only does this mean that society is missing out on new skills from highly qualified young people, but it also means that the overeducated young are preventing less qualified and less skilled young people from entering the workforce. In this graph, here, you can see that percent change in youth unemployment in European countries over really a very short period of time, 2008 to 2013. And as you can see, those highest increases in the rate of unemployment are in Greece, Spain and Portugal. Professor Sir Michael Marmot, professor of epidemiology and public health at University College London, is a global expert in inequalities in health and their causes. Most recently chairing a review on the social determinants of health in Europe, that was commissioned by the World Health Organisation. He used the most powerful of language by referring to the growing rates of youth unemployment in Europe as a public health emergency. But it is not just public health advocates who share this same view. Dr. Ken Henry is an economist and past Secretary of the Department of Treasury in Australia. He suggested that, young people that are not in the education system and who are denied work are deprived of the freedom to lead a life that they would otherwise choose. And he argued that this is a threat to their human rights.
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Amnesia Moon
By Jonathan Lethem
Read by Scott Sowers
Jonathan Lethem Recorded Books, Inc. 9780151000913
Often favorably compared to contemporaries Michael Chabon and Lev Grossman, New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Lethem won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In his post-apocalyptic novel Amnesia Moon, he introduces a young man named Chaos who can seemingly remake reality in his dreams. Setting off on a grand adventure, Chaos attempts to learn the secrets behind the world's destruction. "Lethem tempers a liberal dose of quirky surrealism with interesting, believable characterizations and a compelling, imaginative story line."-Booklist
“[Letham is] an author to be reckoned with…A social critic, a sardonic satirist like the Walker Percy of Love in the Ruins. But with Amnesia Moon, Lethem slips out of the shadow of his predecessors to deliver a droll, downbeat vision that is both original and persuasive.” —Newsweek
“At its heart, this novel remains a simple story—the search for identity, the search for family—but Lethem uses it successfully as a springboard for both a commentary on American culture and a convincing portrait of his main character.” —Publishers Weekly
“A hip, updated conflation of Harlan Ellison’s A Boy and His Dog and Jim Thompson’s The Alcoholics. Jonathan Lethem escorts us down an impossibly post-terminal Route 66, kicking and screaming and loving every minute of it.” —Barry Gifford, author of Wild at Heart
Author Bio: Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem is the author of a number of critically acclaimed novels, including The Fortress of Solitude and the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Motherless Brooklyn. Lethem’s stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and the New York Times, among others. He lives in New York City.
Category: Fiction/Science Fiction
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
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The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy
By J. M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz
Read by Sandra Burr and Jeff Cummings
J. M. Coetzee Brilliance Audio
A fascinating dialogue on the human desire to make up stories between Nobel Prize–winning author J. M. Coetzee and psychotherapist Arabella Kurtz The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with training in literary studies. Coetzee and Kurtz consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a fascination with narrative. Working alone, the writer is in control of the story he or she tells. The therapist, on the other hand, collaborates with the patient in telling the story that might reveal the “truth.” The authors discuss both individual psychology and the psychology of the group: the school classroom, the gang, the settler nation in which the brutal deeds of the ancestors must be accommodated into a national story. In a meeting of the minds that is illuminating, surprising, and thought provoking, Coetzee and Kurtz explore the human capacity for self-examination—our attempts to understand our own individual life stories as well as our part in the larger story through language.
A fascinating dialogue on the human desire to make up stories between Nobel Prize–winning author J. M. Coetzee and psychotherapist Arabella Kurtz
The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with training in literary studies. Coetzee and Kurtz consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a fascination with narrative. Working alone, the writer is in control of the story he or she tells. The therapist, on the other hand, collaborates with the patient in telling the story that might reveal the “truth.”
The authors discuss both individual psychology and the psychology of the group: the school classroom, the gang, the settler nation in which the brutal deeds of the ancestors must be accommodated into a national story. In a meeting of the minds that is illuminating, surprising, and thought provoking, Coetzee and Kurtz explore the human capacity for self-examination—our attempts to understand our own individual life stories as well as our part in the larger story through language.
“Coetzee’s writing is characteristically spare and penetrating…Kurtz proves both a lucid expositor and an evocative literary stylist, bringing psychoanalytic ideas and practices to life with rare precision and immediacy.” —Literary Review (London)
“It is the Man Booker Prize–winning novelist’s agenda that drives the absorbing discussions of this book. Kurtz’s pieces are replies to Coetzee’s questions, and as such are insightful for both disciplines.” —Independent (London)
“Coetzee and Kurtz range freely across space and time, from ancient spells of bewitchment to the ‘confessions’ of celebrities in magazines. Their arguments have a meditative quality, challenging, and helpfully open-ended.” —Newsweek (Europe)
Author Bio: J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, and The Childhood of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice.
Author Bio: Arabella Kurtz
Arabella Kurtz is a consultant clinical psychologist and is completing psychoanalytic psychotherapy training at the Tavistock Clinic in London. She has held various posts in the National Health Service adult and forensic mental health services and is currently a senior clinical tutor in the University of Leicester clinical psychology training course. Kurtz lives in England.
Category: Nonfiction/Self-Help
Publisher: Brilliance Audio Publisher: Brilliance Audio
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German Landesbanken
Lost a fortune, seeking a role
The seven German Landesbanken that survived the financial crisis are still a mess
Finance & economicsJan 10th 2015 edition
A BANK backed by authorities in Europe’s most solvent economy should hardly be considered risky. Yet it came as a surprise to many that HSH Nordbank, a lender majority-owned by two northern German states, even passed stress tests conducted by the European Central Bank in October 2014. The lender’s bosses say they were confident all along—but they prudently limited themselves to a single glass of champagne. The bank has become a locus for worries about the business model of these strange institutions at the heart of the German financial system, the seven Landesbanken.
Set up to support the post-war economy, Landesbanken are a decidedly statist element of Germany’s mixed economy. Owned by the federal states, sometimes in conjunction with local public savings banks, they pride themselves on lending to Germany’s famous Mittelstand industrial companies. Their core business is to provide wholesale loans and capital-market services but some run retail arms, too.
State politicians sit on the supervisory boards, enjoying playing the role of banker, supporting favoured projects and soft loans to companies that employ lots of voters. For decades, the Landesbanken paid their owners tidy dividends. This was hardly a remarkable achievement: the banks could fund themselves cheaply as few imagined that a lender backed by local governments could ever default. Germany’s private banks complained endlessly that the Landesbanken had an unfair competitive advantage.
But this hybrid public-private model, which relied on public largesse in days past, has fared disastrously since the financial crisis. In 2001, the European Commission deemed that unlimited guarantees from states to Landesbanken amounted to illegal state aid. The banks gorged themselves on a last helping of subsidised debt in 2005—just in time to become major holders of toxic American securities that crashed in 2008. The shiny foreign offices opened during the boom were shuttered as losses mounted.
The Landesbanken are still shaking off their hangovers. One bank, WestLB (serving the industrial state of North Rhine-Westphalia) had to be wound up. Another, Landesbank Berlin, was bought by its member savings banks and essentially shuttered. Despite the cull, the rest remain in bad health. BayernLB owns a well-regarded internet bank, but is among those tangled up in lawsuits from its expansionary phase. None is consistently near the 10-12% return on equity that would be attractive to private investors (see chart). Excluding the two minnows in the Saarland and the city of Bremen, only Helaba, serving the states of Hesse and Thuringia, has been stably in decent profit.
The worst off is HSH, 85% owned by the states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. It lost €800m ($950m) in 2013, the biggest in a string of red annual numbers. After the 2005 expiry of state guarantees, the bank was “everywhere, without being qualified to do so,” says Constantin von Oesterreich, its chief executive. The subprime junk it invested in prior to 2008 has been hived off into a restructuring unit—but the core business hit the rocks as well. Souring shipping loans—a staple for any bank based in Hamburg—cost the bank €185m, or 57% of its pre-tax profit, in the first nine months of the 2014 financial year.
Have the Landesbanken now found a stable business model? The reforms that led them into trouble are still biting. German’s public banks (including Landesbanken but also the savings banks) will see €175 billion in cheap, government-backed debt mature this year, according to Moody’s, a rating agency. As they refinance that at market rates, their cost advantage will disappear.
Perhaps even more so than at private banks, the fortunes of the Landesbanken seem at the mercy of public policy rather than their own actions. The amounts they have to pay for the remaining guarantees from their sponsor states can make all the difference between profits and yet more losses. HSH shells out €400m a year to its parent states for its guarantees, an arrangement it is lobbying to reform. Even its apparent profit for the first nine months of 2014 is a phantom, the result of arcane rebate arrangements on the guarantees.
A consolidation of the remaining Landesbanken could help but politics gets in the way. HSH, for example, must keep a second headquarters in Schleswig-Holstein’s capital. “Kiel is a lovely place to go sailing but has no business being a financial centre,” says Martin Hellmich of the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. Many observers think the rest should be merged into three big banks, or one. Given the miserable performance of the Landesbanken, even a unified one would struggle to prove its existence was worthwhile.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline "Lost a fortune, seeking a role"
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Business this week
Downward march
America's Federal Reserve responded to continuing signs of economic weakness with its eleventh interest-rate cut of the year. A reduction of a quarter-point brings rates down to 1.75%, the lowest for 40 years.
See article: Reasons to wait for a boom
The value of global merger and acquisition activity in 2001 was $1.6 trillion, half what it was worth the previous year, according to data from Dealogic. In 2000, the inflated value of high-tech shares fuelled many a deal that now looks unwise.
CSFB is to hand over some of the cash it had made from the dotcom boom. The investment bank has reportedly agreed to pay $100m to settle an investigation by America's regulators into claims that it had rigged initial public offerings of high-tech shares by allocating big tranches to favoured customers in return for a slice of the profits in the form of inflated commissions.
Zurich Financial Services reshuffled its top management yet again. Dinos Iordanou, who had been promoted to head of group operations last year and was tipped to take over the top job, left to run an insurance start-up. Perhaps as a result, Converium, a reinsurance business Zurich has spun off, made a quiet stockmarket debut.
The weak economy claimed more victims at American Express. It announced that up to 6,500 more jobs would go, on top of the 7,700 announced in the past 12 months, a total of 15% of its workforce.
Compaq's merger with Hewlett-Packard seemed doomed after the Packard foundation rejected the deal. Hewlett family members had already dismissed the merger; together they own 18% of the company. Compaq shares sank, but both it and HP optimistically insisted that the deal would succeed with the aid of institutional shareholders.
See article: Carly Fiorina of Hewlett-Packard
Telecom troubles
The global telecoms slump hit Eastern Europe. Telekomunikacja Polska announced that it would get rid of 12,000 employees next year, some 20% of its workforce. France Telecom, which acquired 35% of the former state monopoly from the Polish government last year, had said that job cuts would come but had agreed with powerful unions that it would wait four years.
Struggling British Telecom appointed Ben Verwaayen, a Dutchman from struggling Lucent Technologies, as its new chief executive, to replace Sir Peter Bonfield, who recently said he would depart from BT a year ahead of schedule.
Nokia provided some relief from the gloom surrounding high-tech companies. The Finnish mobile-phone behemoth announced that fourth-quarter profits were likely to be better than previously forecast after handsets sold in greater quantities than expected. But fourth-quarter profits will not match last year's; and its infrastructure business still languishes.
Consignia, once known as Britain's Post Office, may have to lay off some 30,000 workers over the next year and a half, twice previous estimates for redundancies needed to save costs as postal growth slips. Unions reacted to the state-owned company's announcement with outrage and threatened to strike.
Yahoo!, the world's biggest Internet portal, made an unsolicited offer of $436m for HotJobs, a careers website that was planning to merge with its rival, TMP Worldwide.
Corporate Japan suffered its biggest foreign intrusion with the purchase by Roche of a controlling interest in Chugai, a large drug company, for up to ¥198 billion ($1.59 billion). The Swiss drug firm assuaged Japanese sensitivities by dressing the deal up as an alliance with Roche as an invited partner.
Pfizer threatened to stop supplying France with new medicines in protest at the country's drug-pricing policies. It hopes competitors will join the struggle to squeeze extra cash from France's government; it would go to research and developing better cures, says Pfizer.
Merck shocked investors and sent its shares reeling with the news that profits would not grow in 2002. The American drug firm blamed the expiry of patents and slowing sales.
Fixing the car maker
Fiat unveiled plans for a restructuring that would see the loss of 6,000 jobs, the sale of non-core assets and the possible demise of up to 18 of its factories. The head of its car-making division, Roberto Testore, resigned.
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Five German banks felt the wrath of the European Commission. In its latest round of cartel-busting, the commission levied fines of euro101m ($90.4m) for fixing commissions on the exchange of the 12 euro-area currencies since 1997. Three banks said they would appeal.
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Leave a Comment / Earth secrets / By Jorjette C
It’s a common misconception that light always travels at a constant speed. Light slows down when it passes through solids, gases or liquids. A reader’s question about light speed!
Light zips through empty space at 300,000 kilometers per second — that’s 186,000 miles per second.
But light can only reach that speed in a vacuum — where there’s no matter, only emptiness. When light travels through matter such as water, air, or glass, it moves at a slower pace. In water, for example, it travels at three-quarters of its maximum speed.
Stephen Mill, of Centennial Colorado, writes, “It would seem that light would need to accelerate when it exits a medium. Does light accelerate, or does it remain at a reduced speed?”
Stephen, imagine you’re driving your car at 30 miles per hour and you want to get onto a highway going 60 miles per hour. You’d have to step on the accelerator and wait for a few seconds while your car sped up to the right speed. Light doesn’t behave like that. It does resume its speed when it moves from water, air or glass into a vacuum.
But — unlike you or me or your car or any of the matter all around us — light doesn’t have mass. If light did have mass, it would take time to accelerate from one speed to another. Since it doesn’t, light has the seemingly magical property of changing from one speed to another instantaneously.
Others notes:
The colors we see are a good example of light interacting with the atoms and molecules of a substance. If something looks red, that means that light of all colors except red are being absorbed by the atoms and molecules in the substance. Only red light is reflected. If the substance is a thin piece of plastic, and you are peering through it, then only red light will get through to you. The plastic’s atoms and molecules have been designed to not to absorb red light.
On the smallest level, this means that if the red light is absorbed by an atom or molecule in the red plastic, it is promptly spit back out — or re-emitted — by part of the atom or molecule. This process of being absorbed and then re-emitted is what slows the light down. It’s almost like passing a gallon of water down a line of people with buckets. First you dump the water into the first bucket, and then that person pours the water into the next person’s bucket, and he pours the water into the next bucket, and so on. No person or bucket moves, but the water is passed down the line — more slowly than if a single person ran the water to the finish line.
According to the Web site, “What is the Speed of Light?”, the speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792,458 m/s (meters per second), the speed of light in air is 299,702,547 m/s, the speed of light in water is 225,407,863 m/s and the speed of light in glass is 199,861,638 m/s. So, the speed of light in water is about three fourths of the speed of light in a vacuum.
Astrophysicist Virginia Trimble noted in a May 29, 2003 phone message that, “there are two different kinds of velocities – the phase velocity and the group velocity. And one goes down and the other goes up, so [that] their product is always C squared. But it’s the group velocity, the velocity at which the information is transferred that goes down when you enter a medium and comes back up again when you leave it. But forces and accelerations and energy, I think, are not the right way to think about the process.”
According to the Web site, “Demonstration of Group Velocity“, “The difference between group velocity and phase velocity can be quite difficult to grasp, but at the most basic descriptive level the difference is quite simple. The quantity we commonly refer to as the ‘speed-of-light’ is its phase velocity: the speed at which the wavefronts of a pure frequency tone travel. The group velocity is the speed at which pulses (or ‘wave packets’), that are made up of a range of spectral components, travel. The group velocity and phase velocity are the same in a vacuum, but in any other medium this is not, in general, the case.”
Jorjette C
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Why do so many Egyptian statues have broken noses?
The most common question that curator Edward Bleiberg fields from visitors to the Brooklyn Museum’s Egyptian art galleries is a straightforward but salient one: Why are the statues’ noses broken?
Bleiberg, who oversees the museum’s extensive holdings of Egyptian, Classical and ancient Near Eastern art, was surprised the first few times he heard this question. He had taken for granted that the sculptures were damaged; his training in Egyptology encouraged visualizing how a statue would look if it were still intact.
It might seem inevitable that after thousands of years, an ancient artifact would show wear and tear. But this simple observation led Bleiberg to uncover a widespread pattern of deliberate destruction, which pointed to a complex set of reasons why most works of Egyptian art came to be defaced in the first place.
The bust of an Egyptian official dating from the 4th century BC. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bleiberg’s research is now the basis of the poignant exhibition “Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt.” A selection of objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection will travel to the Pulitzer Arts Foundation later this month under the co-direction of the latter’s associate curator, Stephanie Weissberg. Pairing damaged statues and reliefs dating from the 25th century BC to the 1st century AD with intact counterparts, the show testifies to ancient Egyptian artifacts’ political and religious functions — and the entrenched culture of iconoclasm that led to their mutilation.
In our own era of reckoning with national monuments and other public displays of art, “Striking Power” adds a germane dimension to our understanding of one of the world’s oldest and longest-lasting civilizations, whose visual culture, for the most part, remained unchanged over millennia. This stylistic continuity reflects — and directly contributed to — the empire’s long stretches of stability. But invasions by outside forces, power struggles between dynastic rulers and other periods of upheaval left their scars.
“The consistency of the patterns where damage is found in sculpture suggests that it’s purposeful,” Bleiberg said, citing myriad political, religious, personal and criminal motivations for acts of vandalism. Discerning the difference between accidental damage and deliberate vandalism came down to recognizing such patterns. A protruding nose on a three-dimensional statue is easily broken, he conceded, but the plot thickens when flat reliefs also sport smashed noses.
Flat reliefs often feature damaged noses too, supporting the idea that the vandalism was targeted. Credit: Brooklyn Museum
The ancient Egyptians, it’s important to note, ascribed important powers to images of the human form. They believed that the essence of a deity could inhabit an image of that deity, or, in the case of mere mortals, part of that deceased human being’s soul could inhabit a statue inscribed for that particular person. These campaigns of vandalism were therefore intended to “deactivate an image’s strength,” as Bleiberg put it.
Tombs and temples were the repositories for most sculptures and reliefs that had a ritual purpose. “All of them have to do with the economy of offerings to the supernatural,” Bleiberg said. In a tomb, they served to “feed” the deceased person in the next world with gifts of food from this one. In temples, representations of gods are shown receiving offerings from representations of kings, or other elites able to commission a statue.
“Egyptian state religion,” Bleiberg explained, was seen as “an arrangement where kings on Earth provide for the deity, and in return, the deity takes care of Egypt.” Statues and reliefs were “a meeting point between the supernatural and this world,” he said, only inhabited, or “revivified,” when the ritual is performed. And acts of iconoclasm could disrupt that power.
“The damaged part of the body is no longer able to do its job,” Bleiberg explained. Without a nose, the statue-spirit ceases to breathe, so that the vandal is effectively “killing” it. To hammer the ears off a statue of a god would make it unable to hear a prayer. In statues intended to show human beings making offerings to gods, the left arm — most commonly used to make offerings — is cut off so the statue’s function can’t be performed (the right hand is often found axed in statues receiving offerings).
“In the Pharaonic period, there was a clear understanding of what sculpture was supposed to do,” Bleiberg said. Even if a petty tomb robber was mostly interested in stealing the precious objects, he was also concerned that the deceased person might take revenge if his rendered likeness wasn’t mutilated.
The prevalent practice of damaging images of the human form — and the anxiety surrounding the desecration — dates to the beginnings of Egyptian history. Intentionally damaged mummies from the prehistoric period, for example, speak to a “very basic cultural belief that damaging the image damages the person represented,” Bleiberg said. Likewise, how-to hieroglyphics provided instructions for warriors about to enter battle: Make a wax effigy of the enemy, then destroy it. Series of texts describe the anxiety of your own image becoming damaged, and pharaohs regularly issued decrees with terrible punishments for anyone who would dare threaten their likeness.
A statue from around 1353-1336 BC, showing part of a Queen’s face. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Indeed, “iconoclasm on a grand scale…was primarily political in motive,” Bleiberg writes in the exhibition catalog for “Striking Power.” Defacing statues aided ambitious rulers (and would-be rulers) with rewriting history to their advantage. Over the centuries, this erasure often occurred along gendered lines: The legacies of two powerful Egyptian queens whose authority and mystique fuel the cultural imagination — Hatshepsut and Nefertiti — were largely erased from visual culture.
“Hatshepsut’s reign presented a problem for the legitimacy of Thutmose III’s successor, and Thutmose solved this problem by virtually eliminating all imagistic and inscribed memory of Hatshepsut,” Bleiberg writes. Nefertiti’s husband Akhenaten brought a rare stylistic shift to Egyptian art in the Amarna period (ca. 1353-36 BC) during his religious revolution. The successive rebellions wrought by his son Tutankhamun and his ilk included restoring the longtime worship of the god Amun; “the destruction of Akhenaten’s monuments was therefore thorough and effective,” Bleiberg writes. Yet Nefertiti and her daughters also suffered; these acts of iconoclasm have obscured many details of her reign.
Ancient Egyptians took measures to safeguard their sculptures. Statues were placed in niches in tombs or temples to protect them on three sides. They would be secured behind a wall, their eyes lined up with two holes, before which a priest would make his offering. “They did what they could,” Bleiberg said. “It really didn’t work that well.”
A statue of the Egyptian queen Hatshepsut wearing a “khat” headdress. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Speaking to the futility of such measures, Bleiberg appraised the skill evidenced by the iconoclasts. “They were not vandals,” he clarified. “They were not recklessly and randomly striking out works of art.” In fact, the targeted precision of their chisels suggests that they were skilled laborers, trained and hired for this exact purpose. “Often in the Pharaonic period,” Bleiberg said, “it’s really only the name of the person who is targeted, in the inscription. This means that the person doing the damage could read!”
The understanding of these statues changed over time as cultural mores shifted. In the early Christian period in Egypt, between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, the indigenous gods inhabiting the sculptures were feared as pagan demons; to dismantle paganism, its ritual tools — especially statues making offerings — were attacked. After the Muslim invasion in the 7th century, scholars surmise, Egyptians had lost any fear of these ancient ritual objects. During this time, stone statues were regularly trimmed into rectangles and used as building blocks in construction projects.
“Ancient temples were somewhat seen as quarries,” Bleiberg said, noting that “when you walk around medieval Cairo, you can see a much more ancient Egyptian object built into a wall.”
Statue of pharaoh Senwosret III, who ruled in the 2nd century BC Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Such a practice seems especially outrageous to modern viewers, considering our appreciation of Egyptian artifacts as masterful works of fine art, but Bleiberg is quick to point out that “ancient Egyptians didn’t have a word for ‘art.’ They would have referred to these objects as ‘equipment.'” When we talk about these artifacts as works of art, he said, we de-contextualize them. Still, these ideas about the power of images are not peculiar to the ancient world, he observed, referring to our own age of questioning cultural patrimony and public monuments.
“Imagery in public space is a reflection of who has the power to tell the story of what happened and what should be remembered,” Bleiberg said. “We are witnessing the empowerment of many groups of people with different opinions of what the proper narrative is.” Perhaps we can learn from the pharaohs; how we choose to rewrite our national stories might just take a few acts of iconoclasm.
Written by Julia Wolkoff.
“Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt” is on at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St Louis, Missouri, from March 22 to Aug. 11, 2019.
CNN Editor’s Note – This article was published in partnership with Artsy, the global platform for discovering and collecting art. The original article can be seen here.
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Is American Horror Story: 1984 Already Connected to a Previous Season?
Plus, get a bloody sneak peek at what's to come
By Chris Harnick Sep 19, 2019 3:00 PMTags
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American Horror Story loves connecting its seasons and after just one episode, there's already one evident between American Horror Story: 1984 and a past season.
In the AHS: 1984 premiere, viewers met newcomer to the series Zach Villa as Richard Ramirez, also known as the "Night Stalker." Ramirez was a real serial killer, rapist and burglar who was active in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas from the summer of 1984 until 1985. In AHS: 1984, Brooke (Emma Roberts), encounters the Night Stalker in her apartment. The two struggled, but neighbors called the police and the assailant fled. Before he left, he promised to get Brooke. The assault prompts Brooke to go to Camp Redwood with her friends from aerobics, but she's not out of the woods with the Night Stalker just yet, he's after her.
So, what's the connection to seasons past?
American Horror Story previously showed the Night Stalker in American Horror Story: Hotel. His ghost was at Hotel Cortez along with other serial killers like John Wayne Gacy and Aileen Wuornos. Anthony Ruivivar played the character in season five of AHS. It's not the strongest connection, but it does place the character in both worlds.
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Ramirez isn't the only killer running around. John Carroll Lynch plays Mr. Jingles, an escaped killer who has it out for Leslie Grossman's character Margaret Booth. Viewers learned the two previously tangled and she lost an ear as a result.
The cast of AHS: 1984 also includes Cody Fern, Billie Lourd, Matthew Morrison, DeRon Horton, Angelica Ross and Gus Kenworthy.
American Horror Story: 1984 airs Wednesdays, 10 p.m. on FX.
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Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage Would Walk Through Fire and Ice Again After Winning Best Supporting Actor Emmy
Dinklage takes home his fourth win in this category for playing Tyrion Lannister
By Lauren Piester Sep 23, 2019 2:37 AMTags
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Peter Dinklage did it again.
Tyrion Lannister just took home yet another Emmy for best supporting actor in a drama for Game of Thrones, his fourth after being nominated every single season.
Dinklage started off his speech with an ever so confident, "I have no idea what I'm about to say, but here I go."
He said he counts himself so fortunate to be part of a community "that is nothing but all about tolerance and diversity, because in no other place would I be standing on a stage like this."
He looked back on the past 10 years and how he had no idea what he was getting himself into, but it turned out to be 10 years of the most "incredible, talented, funniest" [censored word]s he's ever known.
Dinklage acknowledged that sometimes, filming Game of Thrones was tough, but it was definitely worth it.
"We did nothing but sweat, we did nothing but laugh," he said. "Dave and Dan, we literally walked through fire and ice for you. Literally. And I would do it all again in a heartbeat."
The actor previously won in seasons one, five, and seven, and was joined in his category this season by two of his castmates, Alfie Allen and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, Sophie Turner, Gwendoline Christie, Maisie Williams, Lena Headey, and Carice Van Houten were also all nominated this year.
All the nominated cast members gathered on stage earlier in the night to thank the fans once again for watching. Dinklage is the first cast member to take home a win this season.
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Evwind, Other renewables, Wind Energy
100 GW Solar Photovoltaic, 282 GW Wind Energy Globally
An estimated 30 GW of solar PV capacity was connected to the grid globally in 2012; around the same level as 2011.
The countries that added the most PV power to their grids were Germany (7.6 GW), China (estimated between 3.5 and 4.5 GW) and Italy (3.3 GW). The United States added 3.2 GW in 2012. The EPIA said the overall 100 GW total could increase by one or two gigawatts by the time the final results for the year are published in May.
“No one would have predicted even 10 years ago that we would see more than 100 GW of solar photovoltaic capacity in the world by 2012,” said EPIA President Winfried Hoffmann. “Even in tough economic times and despite growing regulatory uncertainty, we have nearly managed to repeat the record year of 2011.”
Wind power also had an impressive year according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC); with 44.7 GW capacity installed.
Renewables are still powering along globally, even in the face of flip-flops on support and other financial, political and regulatory challenges in some nations.
According to the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), the world’s cumulative solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity capacity eclipsed 100 gigawatts by the end of last year.
This will generate as much electricity as sixteen 1GW coal power plants or nuclear reactors and avoid 53 million tonnes of carbon emissions annually.
The USA and China tied for the top spot in 2012 with approximately 13GW new capacity each. A rush in the USA due to the anticipated expiration of its Production Tax Credit at the end of December resulted in more than 8,000 MW installed in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Last year also saw sub-Saharan Africa’s first large commercial wind farm, a 52 MW project in Ethiopia. With construction having commenced on 500+ MW of wind power capacity in South Africa, the GWEC expects Africa to be a substantial new market.
According to the GWEC’s Global Wind Statistics 2012 report (PDF), Australia saw 358 MW of new wind power capacity added in 2012; for a cumulative total of 2,584 MW.
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Watch: Mark Wahlberg fights back against kidnappers in wild All the Money in the World trailer
Watch: Mark Wahlberg fights back against kidnappers in wild ‘All the Money in the World’ trailer
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One of the craziest kidnapping incidents in modern history is getting the big-screen treatment—and Mark Wahlberg is along for the ride.
In All the Money in the World, director Ridley Scott turns his eye on one of the richest men in the history of the world, J. Paul Getty (played by an unrecognizable Kevin Spacey), and the infamous 1973 kidnapping in Rome of his grandson, John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer), by an Italian organized crime group. It seems that, after taking on space in his last two films with Alien: Covenant and The Martian, Scott is ready for some real-world drama.
Wahlberg stars as one of Getty’s advisors, the aptly named Fletcher Chase, who is tasked with guiding Getty's estranged daughter-in-law, Gail Harris (Michelle Williams), through the kidnapping situation in an effort to get her son back.
Take a look at the wild trailer:
Despite being one of the richest men in the history of the world, Getty was known for being somewhat frugal with his money, and initially refused to pay the $17 million ransom the kidnappers demanded for his grandson.
The entire story became even more sensational when—real-life spoiler alert—the kidnappers chopped off one of Getty III’s ears and sent it to his family.
All the Money in the World hits theaters on December 8.
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Software Engineers Roundtable: What It’s Like Working at Extra Space Storage
About Extra Space Storage // December 31, 2020 // Extra Space Storage
Are you an aspiring software engineer looking for insight into your future career? Or maybe you’re established in your career but considering new opportunities. At Extra Space Storage, we believe the world is a better place when people love what they do. Redefining the storage industry is an ambitious goal, and that’s why we look for the best people and invest in cutting-edge technology.
In December 2020, Extra Space Storage hosted a virtual Software Engineers Roundtable. Nate Green, Director of Software Development, spoke with team members about their careers as software engineers and what life is like at Extra Space Storage. Participating in the discussion with Green were:
Carlos Perez, Software Engineer
Dakota Ruller, Software Engineer
Javier Nunez, Software Engineer
Matt Higbee, Software Engineer
Sterling May, Software Engineer
Below are video clips from the Software Engineers Roundtable, along with highlights from the discussion.
Q: What is it like day to day to be a Software Engineer?
Perez: We’re usually working on a specific task or a particular feature and have a lot of projects going on. We have the front end, the back end, and databases. I like to see how it all works together—all these things are connected. We support the Extra Space Storage website, where we have the information for all of our stores. It’s interesting to see how the data is pulled for all of these facilities from various sources and then presented in the way we want to the end user. If something is going on with the site, you have an idea of what’s going on or where the problem might be. I like solving issues and making things work—that’s something I like about the team and my role.
Nunez: I would say that my day-to-day is pretty mixed, and that’s good. I get to do things on different projects and talk to a bunch of different people. We gather web requirements from the Marketing team, so we have a lot of interaction with them. Then, we have to take those requirements and work our magic to show that on the website. That’s nice because not all software developers have the opportunity to see their products in a live environment. Also, we have a great team, and we all collaborate. This year, we have been on calls and meetings, pair programming (an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together), and just supporting each other to get the best for the team and the company.
Q: How did you get into software engineering?
Ruller: I got into web development about four years ago. I had always wanted to try it but just never had the opportunity to do so. I went to a boot camp and halfway through I got a job. At that point, I wasn’t really learning anything new. We were just working on projects. So I didn’t actually finish the boot camp, but I kept on teaching myself and still do today. That ultimately led me to Extra Space Storage, where I’ve utilized all the skills that I had been teaching myself. When I first came to the company, it was all C-Sharp. Then we switched to React, which is what I ultimately wanted to do. Like I said, I wanted to do something more and start a career. Everything I did led me to here, and now I’m in a great position.
May: I originally was going to school for music production engineering. My plan was to open up my own recording studio eventually, but the industry changed and that no longer was a viable option. So my next interest was with computers. I didn’t know which area of expertise I wanted to go into, so the first thing I did was play around with networking. I didn’t care that for that. Then I started thinking, well, I’m a creative guy and I like making music; what’s something in the computer industry that allows me to be creative? That led me to software development. I decided at that point I was going to school and ended up going to ITT Technical Institute. I got my first job with a small company, but it gave me a start in the web development world, and my career has grown to now being at Extra Space Storage.
Q: What are some good skills to learn to become a successful software engineer?
Higbee: I think the most important skill to know as a software engineer is knowing how to learn. You’re going to be tasked with challenges daily where there aren’t specific ways of getting it done. You have to find a possible solution, piece it together, and be creative. A lot of my time isn’t necessarily coding. I will think about a problem for literally hours and try to come up with what I think is a good solution. I will often pull other developers in, ask them what they think about the solution, and then go to work coding it. A large part of that is just knowing how to learn, be creative, and not give up when something isn’t working.
Perez: Finding a better way to do something and thinking ahead about performance and future changes is important. Your work has to be maintainable and easy for other developers to understand. You have to have passion for your work and not just do something because you have to but put all your effort into it. There are many factors to consider, and that’s the fun of it—improving every day.
Q: What kind of day-to-day interaction do you have as a software engineer?
Ruller: This year has been different and not as much interaction. As far as Extra Space Storage goes, there’s a lot of communication back and forth with Marketing. As a web developer for Extra Space Storage, they’re basically our customer. Then, obviously, there’s interaction with other developers. If you’re running into an issue, there’s communication there to reach out and help each other. We also interact with the Data Analytics team.
Higbee: I interact with our Business Analysts. They help me know what I need to be working on next and what potential roadblocks might be. I communicate with other developers on the team to help them when they need it or reach out to them and get their feedback to solve problems. I often speak with Project Managers as well. I also have interactions with our site reliability engineers. They do a great job collaborating on solutions to ensure a good website experience.
Q: What opportunities are there for growth in your field?
Nunez: One of the greatest things about Extra Space Storage is that there are many growth opportunities. We have a wide range of applications and technologies. You can be an expert on specific technologies, go the route of quality engineering, work on the site’s reliability side of things, or pursue management. There are a lot of opportunities for you to shine. I became a senior developer, and I wasn’t expecting it to be honest. It’s nice when others recognized the work that you do. I always say that when individual people grow, the whole team also grows.
May: I’ve worked at companies in the past where you get stonewalled into a position where there isn’t much growth unless a slot opens up for you to move up into a more senior position. At Extra Space Storage, it’s a lot different. They don’t have slotting in place for various roles. You can focus on yourself and your career growth and move up at the pace that you choose. I find that to be such a unique thing and one of my favorite things about working here.
Q: What are some projects you’ve worked on this year, and what’s been your favorite project since you’ve been at Extra Space Storage?
Ruller: One of the most significant projects that we worked on was a feature called Rapid Rental, which allows you to complete a rental on our website. We didn’t have that before, and COVID-19 pushed us to get it rolled out a lot sooner than planned. That was a huge project. There was a lot of learning and collaboration between developers on the web team and developers from multiple other teams as well. It was a lot of fun, and it has been nothing but successful for Extra Space Storage. Another favorite is a project that I recently worked on; I added a previous functionality to the Rapid Rental process. I learned a lot specifically on that project, especially about other pieces of Rapid Rental that I wasn’t able to touch when we initially built it out.
Perez: Seeing how the whole company had to adapt to one of the biggest challenges the modern society has ever faced with a worldwide pandemic and seeing how Extra Space Storage had to adapt by implementing Rapid Rental was amazing. Teams came together to make online leasing happen, and we got results. It was the highlight of this year, and it makes me feel proud of the team and the company.
Q: What do you like about Extra Space Storage, and how does it compare to other companies you’ve worked for in the past?
Higbee: I’ve been in this field for over seven years. Before that, I was involved in online marketing. During my time at other companies, some of the things that weren’t so optimal was how they treated their employees. If I compare that to Extra Space Storage, I feel like the company wants to invest in me. They want to keep me around, and I want to stick around. That’s the attitude at Extra Space Storage. They want people to stay and grow into other roles. Here, we even have various positions beyond just a senior developer. There are multiple tiers where you can stay a developer, and you don’t have to become a manager if you want to keep coding your whole career. Most other companies make you break into management, and some people just don’t want to do that. Here, we don’t feel that way. If you want to keep coding, do that. If you want to grow in other ways or move into leadership, then Extra Space Storage can help you do that as well. It’s more of an approach to what the developer wants to do and where their passion lies.
May: A lot of my previous roles have been very numbers-based. I was just filling the seat that they needed and could be replaced at any point. My situation was unique at my previous job because I had some medical issues that came up. They were not very understanding about any of it. They continued to have me working at the same pace and expecting the same amount of work and quality. At Extra Space Storage, I know if anything like that were to happen again, everybody on the team would not only be encouraging, but the business as a whole would be right there behind me, backing me up and supporting me. It’s just a good place to work. They make you feel like you’re part of the family.
Q: What advice would you give future Software Engineers who want to work at Extra Space Storage?
Perez: Do your work with passion. That comes naturally when you’ve got a good working environment and a good culture.
Ruller: Working at Extra Space Storage is unique and not like any other company that I’ve worked for before. They are super accommodating of anything you need. Everybody at Extra Space Storage is great—they really know how to pick and choose who they hire, which shows in the company’s culture. The second thing is, we are using a lot of cutting-edge technology. Whether you want to work on the front end or the back end, you’re going to enjoy what you’re working on. It’s refreshing.
Nunez: I have worked at other places where I had to work on old and poorly designed technology. At Extra Space Storage, you get to play with the new toys! Also, the work-life balance is unparalleled. It’s a lot of hard-working people who enjoy doing what they do and have a good personal life balance, and I appreciate that. My advice for people that want to work at Extra Space Storage is to go for it!
Higbee: My advice for working somewhere like Extra Space Storage is keeping in mind the values you have as a developer and those that correspond to where you want to be. There is also the work-life balance, which I appreciate. I can get into work, put a hard day in, be that resource for others, and grow personally, but when I’m done at the end of the day, I know I can relax and let things go.
May: I would agree that the work-life balance is awesome here. They want you to have time with your family and want you to separate work from home. One piece of advice if you were to interview at Extra Space Storage is to be yourself. Be who you really are in person because that’s what we’re looking for.
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"Ain't I A Voter?" Voting Rights for Women
By Dr. Wilma Rule and Steven Hill
A version of this article was published in Ms., September-October 1996
Seventy five years ago this year the 19th Amendment gave American women the right to vote. Three quarters of a century later, women remain -- by far -- the most underrepresented "minority" group in the United States. Women are the majority, comprising over fifty percent of the population, yet they make up only 11% of the U.S. House of Representatives and 8% of the U.S. Senate. In state and local legislatures, women average one out of every five legislators. According to United Nation reports, the Unite d States ranks 24th of 54 western democracies in terms of women's representation in national legislatures.
Something is woefully wrong. The Year of the Woman has come and gone, and women are only marginally closer toward a goal of political equality. What, if anything, can be done?
The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits gender discrimination in employment. But scant attention has been given to understanding why women are so vastly underrepresented, or to enacting a law comparable to the Civil Rights Act prohibiting gender discriminati on against women in elections. The 1965 Voting Rights Act, which was passed to prevent underrepresentation of racial minorities, has scarcely resolved the underrepresentation of women of color, though it has been successful in helping to elect men of colo r. In fact, three scholars, R. Darcy, Charles Hadley and Jason Kirksey, have demonstrated that the underrepresentation of blacks is largely an underrepresentation of black women. The story is likely the same for Latina women. In the U.S. House of Repres entatives, while Latino men lack about a fifth of the representation one would expect, given their share of the population, Latina women are underrepresented by 99 percent. African American women have only about one fourth the representation of black men . Contrary to popular perception, African American men are overrepresented in the U.S. House of Representatives, as are white men -- by 22% and 111% respectively, in terms of their share of the U.S. population.
The story is similar in state and local legislatures. In the fifty state senates -- prestigious legislative seats which are stepping stones to Congress -- Latino men outnumber Latina women by over 5 to 1; African American men outnumber African American w omen by 4.5 to 1; and white men outnumber white women by 5 to 1, for a total average ratio of 4.8 men to every women.
Electing more women to legislatures is not only a matter of fairness, wider representation and affirmative action. Practically speaking, the presence of women in legislatures makes a qualitative and quantitative difference in the types of legislation tha t are proposed and passed into law. In a study comparing legislation in major democracies, Dr. Arend Lijphart, professor of political science and president of the American Political Science Association, found that countries with proportional representati on -- which generally elect a much higher percentage of women than the U.S. -- have enacted more laws that benefit women and children. In the U.S., although outnumbered 9-1, Congresswomen have been successful in gaining legislation long overlooked by the ir male colleagues, including gender equity in education, child support legislation, and laws for prevention of violence against women. It was Congresswomen who ensured that the offensive behavior of U.S. Senators Bob Packwood (Republican, Oregon) and Br ock Adams (Democrat, Washington), as well as U.S. Supreme Court candidate Clarence Thomas, were not swept under the "good ol' boy" carpet.
There is something tangible and significant at stake in the gross underrepresentation of women. The common wisdom is that, regrettably, persistent cultural sexism causes this underrepresentation. While discriminatory attitudes certainly play a large ro le, their existence can not explain why different electoral systems used in the same national cultures produce significantly different results in the election of women. Research shows that the number one predictor of women's success in national legislati ve elections, when tested with other political and socio-economic variables, is the presence of proportional representation (PR) voting systems. In Australia, proportional representation multi-seat districts and U.S.-style single seat "winner take all" di stricts are used for electing different legislative bodies. In Germany's hybrid "mixed member" voting system, proportional multi-seat districts and "winner take all" single seat districts are used for electing representatives to the same legislative body . The results in the proportional balloting compared to winner take all is revealing: three times more women legislators were elected in Australia and Germany by PR in the 1987-1993 elections. Furthermore, countries that use PR exclusively elect many t imes more women to their legislatures compared to countries that use winner take all exclusively, with countries like Sweden (41%), Finland (39%), Norway (36%), Denamrk (33%), The Netherlands (29%) and South Africa (25%) leading the way.
Scholars documented in the 1980s that more American women were elected to state legislatures in those states which used multi-seat (also known as "at-large") districts, or a mixed system of multi-seat and single seat districts. In the early 1990s it was further documented that African American women were more likely to be elected in multi-seat districts than in single seat ones, as were white women. In the 1960s to 1980s, most states that switched to single seat districts from multi-seat ones experience d a decline in women legislators relative to the national average. Although local level research is sparse, this generalization seems to apply there as well.
What this adds up to is compelling evidence that single seat "winner take all" legislative districts discriminate against women. When a majority of votes is needed, even a small number of discriminatory voters can deny women candidates the margin they ne ed for election to a single seat. What's more, single seat "winner take all" districts have been the primary Voting Rights remedy used to correct for racial minority vote dilution, by drawing the districts in such a way as to optimize the vote of racial constituencies. No wonder then, that women of color are underrepresented compared to their male counterparts. Voting Rights remedies unintentionally favor the representation of men of color over that of minority and nonminority women.
The U.N. Beijing conference on women approved a platform plank urging all governments to "review the differential impact of electoral systems on the political representation of women in elected bodies and consider, where appropriate, the adjustment or ref orm of those systems." Knowing what we know today, a Senate Judiciary Committee considering the stark underrepresentation of women in the United States would have no choice but to find "winner take all" single seat districts as discriminatory against wo men. To implement the U.N. directive, election procedures would be needed which allow equal opportunity for women voters and candidates, as well as male minority voters and candidates. Surveying around the country and the world, it is rather obvious that there would be little choice but to recommend multi-seat districts and proportional voting methods for electing our representatives, such as the list system, preference voting (also known as the single transferable vote), and cumulative voting.
The latter, cumulative voting, which has been pushed to the public spotlight by its foremost proponent, law professor Lani Guinier, has been used successfully in the United States as a remedy in various local voting rights cases. It has resulted in women of all colors as well as men of color being elected.
The list system of proportional representation -- which is the most widely used voting system in democracies -- gives women and ethnic minorities fair representation in national legislatures. Representatives are elected from multi-seat districts in propor tion to the number of votes each party or slate receives. If there are ten legislative seats and a party or slate receives 30% of the popular vote, they receive thirty percent -- three -- of the seats. Political parties and organizations have an incenti ve to place women and ethnic minorities on their respective lists to broaden their appeal. Research shows that women gain greater representation when the party list is open, allowing voters to select particular candidates rather than the entire list. So uth Africa chose the multi-seat list system rather than winner take all single seat districts as the foundation of its multiracial democracy, because of its unique capacity to allow minority representation and majority rule.
Preference voting allows voters to rank candidates in their order of preference, 1,2,3,4, etc. It includes what is called a transferable ballot, so that if a voter's first choice doesn't win, their vote transfers to their second choice, third choice, and so on. This keeps constituencies from splitting their vote among several competing candidates, or having to settle for the "lesser of two evils." Preference voting also reduces the number of votes needed to win a seat compared to winner take all. This lower threshold opens up the races to women candidates and candidates representing racial or political minorities. Preference voting can be partisan or non-partisan, and is used in Ireland and Australia, in Cambridge, MA to elect the city council and s chool boards, and in New York City to elect community school boards. It has proven itself up to the challenge of electing women and ethnic minorities in fair and competitive elections without having to gerrymander district lines.
Implementation of any of these alternative voting systems at local, state and Congressional levels does not require any revisions to the U.S. Constitution. Changes in applicable local, state and -- for the U.S. House -- one federal law will do. Congressw oman Cynthia McKinney (Democrat, Georgia) has introduced a bill HR 2545 that will modify the 1967 federal law mandating single seat districts for the U.S. House so that states can elect their House delegations from multi-seat districts via proportional re presentation. Present at the press conference announcing this bill was executive director Jody Newman of the National Women's Political Caucus. The NWPC stated its support for the legislation, stating "research has suggested that systems of proportional representation result in greater numbers of elected women, and that greater numbers of women are elected in multi-member than single-member districts." If passed, Rep. McKinney's bill will allow states to give representation to racial minorities without having to resort to the pitfalls of race-conscious districting, which was declared unconstitutional by a recent Supreme Court ruling. At the same time, the bill will permit women to have electoral opportunities unknown to them under winner take all elec tions.
It is easy to envision that, without fundamental change to the winner take all voting system, seventy five years hence women in the United States will still languish on the political margins. It is time to fulfill the promise of both the 19th and the 14th Amendments, giving women equal rights for voting and election. The only way to do this, and be fair to majority and minority constituencies of all races, genders and political association, the evidence strongly suggests, is to abandon our archaic winner take all voting system, and convert to some variant of a proportional representation voting system.
Dr. Wilma Rule is adjunct professor at University of Nevada-Reno and co-editor with Dr. Joseph F. Zimmerman of United States Electoral Systems: Their Impact on Women and Minorities (Greenwood Press, 1992) and Electoral Systems in Comparative Perspective: Their Impact on Women and Minorities (Greenwood Press, 1994). Steven Hill is a journalist and the west coast coordinator of the Center for Voting and Democracy.
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Official US Trailer for Harrowing Czech WWII Film 'The Painted Bird'
by Alex Billington
"I want to go home!" IFC Films has debuted an official US trailer for the extra-bleak Czech war drama The Painted Bird, originally titled Nabarvené ptáce in Czechia. This originally premiered at both the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals last fall, and earned mixed reviews, praising the raw intensity of this harrowing war-is-hell feature. Written & directed by Czech filmmaker Václav Marhoul, and adapted from Jerzy Kosinski's novel of the same name, it's about a young Jewish boy wandering around Eastern Europe alone during WWII. The B&W 35mm film is described as an "evocation of wild, primitive Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War II." The Painted Bird is a dramatic story examining the immediate relationship between terror and cruelty on one side and innocence and love on the other. The film stars Petr Kotlár as The Boy, plus Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands, Lech Dyblik, Aleksey Kravchenko, Petr Vaněk, & Barry Pepper. This won't be for everyone, a bit too gloomy for these times.
Here's the official US trailer for Václav Marhoul's The Painted Bird, direct from IFC's YouTube:
You can still watch the first festival trailer for The Painted Bird here, or the other UK trailer here.
A young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters. Václav Marhoul has spent more than a decade writing, producing, directing The Painted Bird. He acquired rights to the novel in 2010, shortly after his 2008 feature Tobruk. First published in 1965, The Painted Bird is a notoriously tough read for the way it depicts the brutality and suffering that the boy experiences and witnesses as he wanders from village to village. Altered forever by his ordeal, he struggles for his soul and future after the war. The Painted Bird is both written and directed by Czech filmmaker Václav Marhoul, director of the films Smart Philip and Tobruk previously. Adapted from the late Polish writer Jerzy Kosinski's classic novel of the same name, published in 1965. This initially premiered at both the Venice Film Festival and Toronto Film Festival last fall. The film opens in cinemas in the UK starting March 27th. IFC Films will also release The Painted Bird in select US theaters April 17th.
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Cowboys’ Gregory suspended indefinitely in 4th ban from NFL
Dallas Cowboys defensive end Randy Gregory was suspended indefinitely Tuesday for violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy, the fourth time the troubled player has been banned by the league.
The suspension comes about seven months after Gregory was reinstated by Commissioner Roger Goodell following a lengthy process aimed at reviving his career. Gregory missed 30 of the 32 games over two seasons as a result of his first three suspensions.
Gregory had his best year in 2018, posting career highs with six sacks and 14 games. He was reinstated just before the start of training camp last year and was active for the season opener.
While suspensions in the most advanced stage of the league's substance-abuse policy are at least a year, it wasn't immediately clear how long the 26-year-old Gregory's latest ban would be.
His previous suspension was a yearlong ban, and Gregory waited several months beyond that to submit his case to Goodell in hopes of improving his chances. Several teammates wrote letters supporting Gregory's bid.
The Cowboys declined to comment on Gregory's latest suspension, and one of his representatives didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
As with the yearlong ban, Gregory won't be allowed to participate in the Cowboys' offseason program. He can only go to the team's practice facility to meet with the person in charge of his treatment.
Gregory slid to the Cowboys late in the second round of the 2015 draft after testing positive for marijuana at the NFL combine. The former Nebraska standout was considered one of the best pass rushers in his draft, and there was promise early with a strong rookie training camp.
After vowing to owner and general manager Jerry Jones that he could control his issues with marijuana, Gregory only made it through one season. He didn't have a sack as a rookie while missing four games with an ankle injury.
The first suspension, a four-game ban, was announced in February 2016, and he was away from the team during training camp while in rehab. A 10-game suspension came seven months later. Gregory remained with the team while missing those 14 games before playing in the final two games of the 2016 season.
Gregory's yearlong suspension was announced during Dallas' two-week break between the end of the 2016 regular season and a divisional playoff loss to Green Bay. He missed all of 2017.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — When Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers gets ready for his 15th season, he'll be working with a new coach and offensive coordinator.
Plus, for the first time in his career, he'll be directing a new offense.
At least there will be a constant for the 35-year-old quarterback: the return of Luke Getsy as quarterbacks coach.
A quality control coach in 2014 and 2015 and receivers coach in 2016 and 2017, Getsy spent last season as offensive coordinator and receivers coach at Mississippi State. His presence should ease the adjustments for the two-time MVP.
"You've got to earn people's trust, show them how much you care before they're going to care about you and want to do well for you," Getsy said on Monday as the team introduced the staff of new coach Matt LaFleur.
"I think that phase is probably going to just happen quicker, naturally, being here for four years and creating a relationship. That part of it makes the transition much easier.
"Installing a new offense and the new principles and all that stuff, we've got a lot of work to do. We're going to rely on the relationship as far as the mutual trust, respect we have for each other, but we've got a lot of work to do to get him to dive into this offense fully and being able to function at a high level."
LaFleur said that Getsy's history with the team was another reason for his hiring.
"Certainly, we're going to find the best quarterback coach that's out there," LaFleur said. "Some things that I really did like about Luke was the fact that he played quarterback in college. I reached out not only to Aaron, but a couple other guys with him being in the building before, just to find out what they thought of him as a man and as a coach, and everybody gave him a thumbs-up."
Rodgers' introduction into the new offense can't start until the beginning of the offseason program on April 1.
There's a lot for the new coaching staff to do before the players return in six weeks, including preparation for the scouting combine, which begins later this month.
LaFleur, Getsy and offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett all will have input in the quarterbacks room. Making sure they're delivering the same message to Rodgers and fellow quarterbacks DeShone Kizer and Tim Boyle will be key.
"We've got three quarterback guys that are going to be hitting him from all angles," LaFleur said. "I know that I need to be in that room as much as I possibly can because I am going to be the play-caller. I think that relationship between the play-caller and the quarterback is absolutely critical. I don't foresee ever missing a quarterback meeting."
Getsy arrives at the change with a unique perspective. He spent four seasons teaching former coach Mike McCarthy's playbook. Now, he's spent a few weeks learning LaFleur's playbook. Getsy said terminology will be the biggest change for Rodgers.
"It has the West Coast roots. The backbone is what he's comfortable," Getsy said. "The timing, the rhythm and all that stuff that he's really, really good at, I think that's all there.
"The principles are there. It's just speaking the language. That'll be the biggest thing — for everybody — because there's a lot of people in this building that have been here a while and have been ingrained in the previous terminology."
Notes: LaFleur finalized his staff on Monday by promoting Chris Gizzi to strength and conditioning coordinator and retaining Mark Lovat, Thadeus Jackson and Grant Thorne as assistants. Gizzi spent the past five seasons working under Lovat, who had been the coordinator since 2010. "That is a critical hire," LaFleur said. "You talk about the guys that are going to talk to the team the most, it's going to myself, it's going to be the special teams coordinator and it's going to be the strength coach. Those three positions are absolutely critical to our success moving forward."
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Xiaoyoukeng 小油坑
Xiaoyoukeng in Yangmingshan National Park is a large volcanic steam vent area with hiking trails, fumaroles, sulfur deposits, and natural hot springs. Even though the name means "small sulfur hole," it is perhaps the largest and most easily accessible volcanic steam vent area in Taiwan. One could say that it is the Yellowstone of Taiwan. It is a quiet a pleasant stop on the mountain and worth a visit on your trip to Yangmingshan.
The area known as Yangmingshan now was formed by volcanoes about 700,000 years ago, forming many mountains about 1000 meters or less in northwestern Taiwan. The park still features active volcanoes, vents, and hot springs.
The original name of the area was Caoshan (grass mountain 草山). During the Qing Dynasty, the area was used to harvest sulfur, and many of the hills were burned to help catch sulfur thieves.
In 1927 during the Japanese era, Yangmingshan was made as the first national park in Taiwan, then known as Datunshan National Park Association.
In 1950 after the ROC took Taiwan Chiang Kai-shek renamed the park after the philosopher Wang Yangming, and called the area Yangmingshan.
In 1985, after resolving many land disputes, Yangmingshan National Park was officially designated as a national park in the ROC era.
Xiaouyoukeng (literally "Small Oil Crater" gets its name because the there are two main sulfur vents on Yangmingshan, and it was thought to be the smaller one. The venting crater lies about 805 meters above sea level. A few kilometers under the ground, there is a leftover lava chamber from a previous eruption that heats up ground water and sends it spewing back to the surface.
It is a popular stop in Yangmingshan and has two parking lots and visitor's center. It is also one of the starting points for the Mt. Qixing Trail.
The visitor's center is open from 9 AM to 4:30 PM.
(parking 30 NT)
By Car/Scooter: From Taipei, take provincial highway 2A north to the Zhizihu Lookout. Keep right until you reach the turnoff the the Xiaoyoukeng parking lot on the right. Car parking is limited on weekends and the number of cars allowed up the mountain is also limited. There is also paid scooter parking.
By Bus: From Beitou MRT Station, Take Little Bus 9 (小9) to Xiaoyoukeng Station (小油坑).
Lengshuikeng 冷水坑
Lengshuikeng in Yangmingshan National Park is a small area with hiking trails, natural hot springs, waterfalls, and wildlife. Even though the name means "cold water hole," the water here is not cold, and there are plenty of hot springs around including a public hot spring bath house. It is a quiet a pleasant stop on the mountain and worth a visit on your trip to Yangmingshan.
Lengshuikeng (literally "cold water crater" gets its name because the hot spring waters here are only 40 degrees centigrade, the coldest hot spring waters on Yangmingshan. Lengshuikeng has the only sulfur deposit sediment layer in Taiwan. Nearby are many hot springs and vents.
It is a popular stop in Yangmingshan and has two parking lots and visitor's center.
By Car/Scooter: From Taipei, take provincial highway 2A north to Chungshan Hall, and take a right, then continue down the road up the mountain to the left until you reach Lengshuikeng.
By Bus: From Shilin MRT Station, take bus S15 to Lengshuikeng Service Station.
Wushanding Mud Volcanoes 烏山頂泥火山
Ever want to see an active volcano up close? You can at the mud Volcanos in Wushanding Nature Preserve, Yanchao District of Kaohsiung. These spew out mud all day, which piles up and then gets washed away by rain. It is a unique and beautiful geological oddity worth visiting. These are the largest and most concentrated mud volcanoes in Taiwan.
Geological History:
Wushanding Mud Volcanoes are part of a stretch of badlands that cover a large swath of southern Taiwan near the central mountain range in rural Tainan and Kaohsiung. Typical badlands are found in dryer climates, are composed of sedimentary rocks, typically have very little vegetation, and have deep valleys or ravines. The badlands in Taiwan are unique in that they are in a tropical rain forest. How is this possible?
The soil at Wushanding is composed of mudstone, sandstone, shale, and chalk. Because of high alkaline levels due to chalk in the soil, trees and grass cannot grow very well. The lack of vegetation as well as high rainfall gives way to quick eroding hills, or badlands. The local Rivers also helped to carve out the landscape and bare hills.
Due to vents in the earth's crust as well as deep pressures, water is pushed up to form these mud volcanoes. Nearby are also some natural gas vents, such as the ones at Guanziling Fire and Water Cave. The area around Yanchao is full of badlands and mud volcanoes, but the volcanoes at Wushanding are the most concentrated and pronounced in all of Taiwan.
Wushanding was declared a protected area in 1992.
Because of limited public transportation, normally there are not too many visitors but the weekends can be busy.
9 AM to 4:30 PM every day
Free! But you have to register in order to enter the park.
By Bus: From Eda World, take bus 7A to Kaohsiung Normal University. It is about a 20 minute walk from the university.
By Car/Scooter:
Take National Freeway 10 East out of Kaohsiung and get off at the Yanchao exit (or travel by scooter under the freeway). Then travel east on provincial highway 22 passed National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology. You will have to use google Maps to turn left onto a one lane country back road to find the mud volcanoes.
Please refer to the map below:
Lovers Lake 情人湖
Lovers Lake is a small lake a recreation area in Anle District of Keelung City. It has some easy trails, bridges, and a tower that looks over the area. The lake trails also connect to Dawulun Fort. Overall it is a nice scenic spot for a day trip in Northern Taiwan.
The name "Lovers Lake" comes from the fact that there are actually two lakes, one larger and one smaller, so they are a like a couple in love.
The sandstone that forms the area was created between 10 and 20 million years ago, and was pushed out of the sea along with northern Taiwan thousands of years ago.
In the past the area was run by a private company, which went out of business. Recently the Keelung City government has taken over control, and has installed a trail that circles the lake.
There is also a suspension bridge, windmill, and stone tower overlooking the lake.
Nearby you can hike to Dawulun Fort or Eagle Rock that provide great views of the north coast.
Currently the lake is popular with hikers and intagrammers, as well as wedding photographers. On the weekends it can get quite busy and parking can be hard to find.
By car/scooter: Take provincial highway northwest out of Keelung, and take a right on Jijin First Road toward Keelung Chang Kung Hospital. The Lover's lake parking lot is at the top of the hill before the road turns into one lane. There is limited parking, and you may have to park further away. The trail is not wheelchair or stroller friendly.
However there is always plenty of scooter parking.
By bus: Unfortunately there are no buses that directly get there, so you will have to walk from provincial highway 2, or take a taxi.
Bitou Cape 鼻頭角
Bitou Cape (aka Bitoujiao/Bítóujiǎo) is a scenic area of coastline in Ruifang District of New Taipei, along the northeast coast, with popular hiking trails, interesting geological formations, a refurbished tourist military complex. and steep sea cliffs. It is a beautiful area along the coast that you should be sure to not miss.
The sandstone that forms Bitou Cape was formed as sediment under the ocean millions of years ago and were then uplifted thanks to the collision of the Eurasian and Philippine plates. The rocks are mainly sedimentary and are part of the same formation that forms the special rock formations on the northern coast around Keelung. Because of this, there are many interesting eroded rock formations around the cape.
The name Bitou (鼻頭) means the tip of the nose in Chinese.
Bitoujiao Lighthouse was completed in 1897, built by the Japanese. Later it was repaired in WWII, and is still used today.
The ROC army/navy military base at Bitou Cape has been sitting dormant for over 20 years, and was finally opened to the public as a rainbow "pink" military base to attract tourists on May 1st, 2020.
The area is a popular weekend destination for many residents of Northern Taiwan.
By Car/Scooter: From Keelung, take provincial highway 2 east along the north coast until you reach the Bitou Fishing Harbor. There is limited parking near the harbor, and further free parking on the other side of the tunnel but it is a bit of a walk.
By Bus: From Keelung TRA Station, take Keelung Bus 791 east about two hours to Bitou cape.
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Heping Island Park 和平島海濱公園
Heping Island Park is a geo-park and water park on Heping Island, just outside of downtown Keelung. Here you can find many interesting rock formations in the sedimentary rock along the seashore. There are also salt water swimming pools, amazing places to go diving, a playground, hiking trails, and historical sights. Some would say this island is the world's best kept secret. It is definitely worth stopping here along Taiwan's northern coast.
Historical Background:
Heping Island was formed as sediment under the ocean millions of years ago and were then uplifted thanks to the collision of the Eurasian and Phillipine plates. The rocks have then been slowly eroded away by wind and water, creating odd shapes that you see today. You can see similar formations atYehliu Geopark.
Heping island is the closest island to the main island of Taiwan. It first part of Basay aborigine lands. Chinese fisherman first called the island Greater Keelung Island.
The island was first settled by the Spanish in 1626, as their first settlement in what became their rule of northern Taiwan until they were defeated by the Dutch and left Taiwan in 1642. On Heping Island they built Fort San Salvador (聖薩爾瓦多城), which was destroyed and abandoned by the Dutch in 1668. The ruins of the fort were not confirmed to be found on the island until excavations in 2019.
After the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, the island was renamed Sheliao Island (社寮島). After WWII, as part of the White Terror Movement, on March 8th, 1947 KMT soldiers kidnapped and shot some of about 30 civilians on the island that were suspected enemy conspirators, known as the Sheliao Incident "社寮事件." After this, the people on the island decided to change to island's name to "Peace Island" or Heping Island in Chinese, so that the KMT would stop harassing the local people and bring peace to the island.
The Island was under KMT military control until the 1970s, after which tourists were allowed to enter the island.
Now it is a popular daytime and weekend destination for many Taiwanese.
80 NT per person
During the summer (May to November) when the water is warm and calm for swimming and diving.
By Car/Scooter: Take provincial highway 2 north out of Keelung and take a left at Zhengbin Road. Cross the bridge over to the island and head to the park which is on the north side of the island. There is paid parking in front of the park.
By Bus: From Keelung, take Keeling Bus 101 to Heping Isand bus stop.
99 Peaks Forest Trail 九九峰森林步道
The 99 Peaks Trail (aka Jiujiufeng Forest Trail or 九十九峰) in Caotun Township of Nantou County is one of the most unique and beautiful places in Taiwan. It features extremely steep grassy hills that look like they are from a cartoon. This is due to the easily eroding sediment that they are made out of. Taiwan's torrential rains and earthquakes have sped up the erosion on these hills, making them especially steep and pointy, and creating what looks like 99 peaks on the horizon. From the trail one clearly see the jagged 99 peaks as well as beautiful views of Caotun and Nantou.
The 99 Peaks are built on the same sediment as Huoyanshan, with iron rich soil that was deposited and lifted up due to tectonic forces.
Discoloration due to laterization (leaching and oxidation due to heavy rain) of minerals in the sediment has made the rocks near the top of the mountain here orange-red.
Like Tianliao Moon World (田寮月世界) and Liji Badlands （利吉惡地）, 99 Peaks is considered a badland due to fast erosion.
99 Peaks, Huoyanshan (火炎山), and Shibaluohan Mountain (十八羅漢山) make up the three "Huoyanshan formations" in Taiwan.
The slopes here are very steep, and average from 60-80 degrees, making them impossible to cultivate. The entire mountain area is like a bunch of mini slot canyons.
At it's highest point, the 99 peaks are 779 meters above sea level, but were only 777 meters above sea level before the 921 earthquake.
After the 921 earthquake, much of the soil on the mountain eroded away due to shaking, and the hills were left bare. Shortly after, the area was declared a nature reserve. 21 years after the earthquake, the hills are now covered in grass and shrubs.
The trail doesn't go to the very top of the peaks, and if you venture further be careful because the cliffs are very steep on either side and erosion could happen at any time.
As of March 2020, Nantou County has purchased the land of 99 Peaks for 100 million NT, in hopes of cultivating it for tourism, such as hot air balloon rides. Let's hope it becomes a major tourist destination!
1 KM one way
About 1 hour total
About 200 meters of elevation gain.
By Car: Take National Freeway 6 toward Puli and get off at the east Caotun interchange. Then drive east on provincial highway 14 until you reach Jianxing Rad intersection on the other side of the river. Turn left and keep going until you reach the trail head.
By Scooter: Ride east on provincial highway 14 until you reach Jianxing Rad intersection on the other side of the river. Turn left and keep going until you reach the trail head.
By Bus: Take bus 6268A east out of Caotun and get off at Pinglin Station. From there it is about a 20 minute walk to the trailhead.
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UK’s Johnson urged to fix growing England exam chaos
by: PAN PYLAS, Associated Press
People take part in a protest in Westminster in London over the government’s handling of A-level results, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. Thousands of school-leaving children in Britain have been left distraught after finding out that they were handed lower-than-expected grades. The government is under growing pressure to address the question of how to fairly award students grades in the absence of actual exams. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced mounting calls Sunday to sort out a crisis over how crucial final grades are being awarded to high school students in England during the pandemic. Hundreds of students took to the streets of London to protest what they consider a grave injustice.
Gathering outside the Department for Education, the students vented frustration at a system that has already seen 40% of final-year A-level students receive lower grades than those predicted by their teachers. Since the grades are key markers to get into college, many students are clearly fearful the lower grades will jeopardize or limit their educational and vocational options.
Because English students couldn’t take their exams this summer as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of thousands of them have been assessed via a complicated “moderation” algorithm. Many students, parents and even some teachers say the algorithm is flawed.
A-level results, the exams for 18-year-olds on a handful of subjects taken just before getting into universities, were awarded Thursday. The more general GCSE results for 16-year-old students are due next Thursday.
Olivia Styles, 18, who ended up receiving lower grades than those projected by her teachers, burnt her results before the cheering crowd in central London even though her university plans had not been affected.
“By burning them, it’s sort of saying I don’t accept these results. These are not what I wanted, these are not what I deserved,” she said. “I want the results I’ve worked hard for over the past two years. I don’t want this piece of paper to define me as a person.”
The government has said the process was necessary to prevent “grade inflation” that it thinks would render the results worthless.
Critics say there are flaws in the methodology used, including a link with a school’s past performance, which has meant thousands of bright students were effectively penalized for being at a historically underperforming school.
In an attempt to douse concerns, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson indicated that students could use the highest result out of their teacher’s predicted grade, any trial exam they took before the pandemic, or sitting an actual exam in coming months. Williamson, who has also faced acute criticism for failing to get all schools back in June as originally planned, termed this a “triple lock process” that should give students “added security.”
However, on Saturday, England’s exam regulator Ofqual issued guidance that appeared to contradict Williamson, favoring teacher evaluations over trial exams, conflicts that would complicate any student’s appeal.
Hours later though, it announced a review on its own just-published appeals guidance. In a brief statement, it said the policy setting out the criteria for students to appeal their results was “being reviewed” by its board and that further information would be released “in due course.” No reason was provided for the sudden change.
Robert Halfon, a member of Johnson’s Conservative Party and chairman of parliament’s education committee, called the situation a “huge mess” that is “unacceptable.”
“Students and teachers are incredibly anxious — particularly the students who are worried about their future,” he told the BBC. “This has got to be sorted out.”
Keir Starmer, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, bemoaned weeks of “chaos, confusion and incompetence” from the Conservative government and Johnson, who is thought to be on holiday.
Starmer urged a return to teacher assessments for A-level results — as has occurred in Scotland — and demanded “urgent action to avoid the same injustice” in the coming week’s GCSE results.
“Boris Johnson has been invisible during this crisis,” Starmer said in a tweet. “He needs to take personal responsibility, and fix it.”
Britain has Europe’s highest confirmed death toll in the pandemic, at nearly 46,800 deaths. Since students in England normally leave for their summer vacations in late July, they have missed weeks more of scheduled school than American students during the pandemic.
The government has vowed that all schools in England will reopen in September.
Follow AP’s pandemic coverage at http://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak
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California DA says couple's abuse of 12 kids became torture
RIVERSIDE, CA (FOX 11 / AP) - They were starved and shackled to their beds, sometimes for months. They were beaten and choked. They were given scant medical care, often denied use of a toilet and allowed to shower but once a year. They lived mostly at night, out of sight of neighbors, and knew virtually nothing of the outside world.
And yet, some of the children of David and Louise Turpin hatched an escape plan.
It took two years to carry out but last weekend a 17-year-old girl and her sister climbed out of the window of their Southern California home. The other girl turned back out of fear but the teen persisted and called 911. That act of courage and desperation freed her 12 siblings from a house of horrors that shocked police, a prosecutor said Thursday in announcing criminal charges that could send the parents to prison for life.
Prosecutors laid out horrifying details of the allegations but didn't offer any theories about the motivation for what they called an escalating climate of brutality that began in Texas and ended in a small, close-knit desert town a couple of hours southeast of Los Angeles.
"The victimization appeared to intensify over time," Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said. "What started out as neglect became severe, pervasive, prolonged child abuse."
When sheriff's deputies arrived Sunday at the four-bedroom, three-bathroom house on a dead-end street in Perris, they were appalled. They found a 22-year-old chained to a bed and a house that reeked and contained human waste, indicating that the children were prevented from using the toilet, authorities said.
The oldest child, a 29-year-old woman, weighed only 82 pounds and a 12-year-old was the weight of a typical 7-year-old, Hestrin said.
David Turpin, 56, and Louise Turpin, 49, pleaded not guilty Thursday to multiple counts of torture, child abuse, dependent adult abuse and false imprisonment. David Turpin also pleaded not guilty to performing a lewd act on a child under age 14.
They were jailed on $12 million bail each.
Sharon Ontiveros, 63, stopped by the house with her 3-year old granddaughter, who left a stuffed animal with dozens of others on the front walkway.
"Sure, we're saying we should have known, but behind closed doors you don't know what's going on," she said.
As for the parents, she added: "They deserve no mercy whatsoever."
Prosecutors say the children range in age from 2 to 29. The torture and false imprisonment charges do not include the 2-year-old, who was not malnourished. All the children's names begin with the letter J, according to court documents that didn't provide their full names.
David Turpin had worked as an engineer for both Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Louise Turpin identified herself as a housewife in a 2011 bankruptcy filing.
The charges include allegations dating to 2010, when the couple moved to Riverside County from outside Fort Worth, Texas.
The abuse began in Texas with the children being tied to beds with ropes and then hog-tied, Hestrin said. When one child was able to wriggle free, the couple began restraining them with chains and padlocks - for up to months at a time, Hestrin said.
While the children were deprived of food, the Turpin parents ate well and even tormented the children by putting apple and pumpkin pies on the kitchen counter, but not letting them have any, Hestrin said.
Similarly, the children were not allowed to play with toys, though many were found throughout the house - in their original packaging.
"This is depraved conduct," Hestrin said. "It breaks our hearts."
David Turpin's father, James, the children's' grandfather, said from his home in Princeton, West Virginia, that he did not believe the reports about the abuse.
"I'm going to talk with the children, find out the real story on this as soon as I can get a call through to them," James Turpin told The Associated Press.
David Turpin's lawyer, Deputy Public Defender David Macher, had only begun to investigate the allegations but said the case was going to be a challenge.
"It's a very serious case," he said. "Our clients are presumed to be innocent, and that is a very important presumption."
The siblings, who were schooled at home, were rarely seen outside the house, though the parents posted photos of them smiling together at Disneyland and in Las Vegas, where the couple renewed their wedding vows.
In addition to raising them largely in isolation, the parents may have been able to hide the abuse by functioning while other families slept. The children were reared on the graveyard shift, with the family staying up all night and going to bed shortly before dawn, Hestrin said.
One of the only things the children were allowed to do was to write in their journals.
Investigators were combing through hundreds of journals found in the home, Hestrin said. They are expected to provide powerful evidence against the parents.
The Riverside University Health System Foundation announced a support fund for the 13 siblings rescued from the home. Organizers said 100 percent of funds will go to the siblings.
Click here for more information and to donate.
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UCLA QB Brehaut fractures ankle
BY foxsports • October 9, 2011
UCLA quarterback Richard Brehaut may be done for the season after fracturing his ankle in the second quarter against Washington State on Saturday night, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.
Brehaut was carried from the Rose Bowl field after being injured in a tackle at the end of a 5-yard run.
"It's tough," Brehaut said after X-rays in the locker room confirmed the fracture in his lower left leg. "I was kind of establishing myself as the quarterback and then for something like this to happen."
Brehaut, who earned the starting spot from Kevin Prince last month, said he will still target a return to the field this year.
"Hopefully, I can be back in time and can play again this season," he said. "I don't know exactly a timetable, but I'm hopeful that I can be back."
Prince replaced him Saturday night, leading the Bruins to two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to close out a 28-25 victory.
"Obviously, it's not as bad when Kevin steps up like he did and plays the way he did," Brehaut said.
Brehaut had passed for 907 yards and six touchdowns with no interceptions in four starts before Saturday's game.
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Music News Digest, June 5, 2019
Slaight Music Residents (L to R, top to bottom): Antonio Naranjo, Suad Bushnaq, Stephen Krecklo, Jason Couse, and songwriting duo Ashley Jane and Timon Wientzek.
Jun 05, 2019 by Kerry Doole Comments
The CFC/Slaight Music Residency Showcase takes place on June 10 at 7 p.m. at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. The invite-only industry event marks the end of the Canadian Film Centre's 2018 Slaight Music Residency and celebrates the talent and accomplishments of six Slaight Music Residents – Ashley Jane & Timon Wientzek, Antonio Naranjo, Jason Couse, Steve Krecklo, and Suad Bushnaq.
The evening includes the screening of five short demos featuring original music and the premiere of five short cinematic pieces featuring original scores and songs created by the residents, who will also contribute a musical performance. The program’s patron and Slaight Communications Inc. President & CEO, Gary Slaight, and CFC's Composer Chair, Lesley Barber, will present the residents with their CFC certificates of achievement at the event.
– The finalists for the 2019 SOCAN Songwriting Prize have been announced, and this year's nominated songs, released in 2018, span a wide range of genres, Winners of the Prize, and the equivalent Prix de la chanson SOCAN for francophone songwriters, are determined by fan voting. Each winner receives $10K, a Yamaha PSR-S975 keyboard and a $500 gift card from Long & McQuade.
Artists performing the nominated songs include Dilly Dally, Grandson, Kaytranada feat. Shay Lia, So Loki, Bad Child, Anemone, Just John + Dom Dias, Clairmont the Second, and MorMor. From now until June 17, music fans can vote for their favourite song from the nominees by visiting socansongwritingprize.ca. The winning songs will be announced the week of June 17.
– CARAS and Slaight Music have announced that submissions for the Allan Slaight Juno Master Class are officially open. Now in its fifth year, the program offers emerging artists opportunities to hone their craft and develop their music careers, including an intensive week of mentorship from music industry professionals and a trip to Saskatoon, SK to be a part of the 2020 Junos. The Allan Slaight Juno Master Class was created hand-in-hand with Canada's Music Incubator at Coalition Music. Each year three artists are selected, and they will be joined by 2019 CBC Music Searchlight winner, Shopé. Apply here until June 28.
– That Night at Massey Hall is a limited-edition new book set to celebrate and chronicle the history of the historic venue through the eyes and memories of fans and artists by gathering stories, photos and memorabilia. With a foreword written by Grammy award-winning musicologist Rob Bowman, the book will look to relive the great experiences of the past. Publisher David Binks is asking fans, artists and friends for accounts of their memories of seeing concerts, performing and working at the Hall. The resulting unique collection of personal stories, experiences, and original photos and memorabilia will tell the fascinating history of "The Old Lady of Shuter Street". Visit here to learn more about contributing.
– At a recent concert, Paul McCartney praised a version of Beatles song Blackbird that is sung in Mi'kmaq by Emma Stevens from the Eskasoni First Nation in Nova Scotia. A video of her version has gone viral, with 525K YouTube views. Source: Chronicle-Herald
– Toronto power popster Taylor Knox returns with his second full-length album, Here Tonight, on Friday (out on Cadence). It features production work from Rob Schnapf (Foo Fighters, Dilly Dally, Kurt Vile) and Josh Korody, while Peter Dreimanis from July Talk co-wrote and produced the track Everybody Knows.
– The Board of Directors of the Association of Country Music in Alberta (ACMA) has announced Laurie Brown as the new Executive Director of the ACMA. Brown brings 10 years of music industry experience to the position as the owner of Porch Swing Entertainment, an Alberta based artist management and consulting company.
– The Trews will perform the halftime show at the Hamilton Tiger-Cats season opener against the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The official CFL kick-off game is on June 13 at Tim Hortons Field. The gig is fitting in that some Trews members now live in the Hammer. The band is touring Canada over the summer in support of current album Civilianaires. Dates here.
– Submissions for the 2020 Canadian Folk Music Awards are open until June 28. Canadian artists who have released recordings between May 1, 2018, and June 28, 2019, are eligible to submit. The 15th edition of the CFMAs takes place April 3-4, 2020, in Charlottetown, PE.
– Adam Levine of Maroon 5 fame, and his wife, model Behati Prinsloo, recently sold their estate in Beverly Hills for US$45M. The Traditional-style two-story home, behind gates on more than an acre, was previously owned by Will & Grace creator Max Mutchnick and, before him, tennis star Pete Sampras. Built in 1933 and recently renovated, the house has over 10,000 square feet of living space, multiple wet bars, a screening room and a gym. Including the guest house, there are five bedrooms and 12 bathrooms. Source: LA Times' Hot Property
– Trombonist/composer/bandleader Audrey Ochoa won the 2018 Edmonton Music Prize (and $10K) for her second album, the trio recording Afterthought. This month she is playing jazz fests across Canada, beginning with the Vancouver International Jazz Festival on June 22, and closing at the Halifax Jazz Festival on July 13.
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Opinion: We cannot judge previous generations by our current standards
The Confederate Memorial monument, commonly referred to as, "Old Joe," pictured in 2017 in downtown Gainesville. - photo by David Barnes
As a lover of history, I'm appalled at the current move to destroy statues and monuments dedicated to American historical figures and renaming military bases. Renaming bases or destroying memorials does not change history but does offend many who have a personal connection to them.
As a Georgian, I have ancestors who have fought in every war since the French and Indian War of 1763, which makes me feel very connected to the history of the United States. Many of the Confederates who have statues were more than just Confederates. They served as leaders in the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War, they were senators, congressmen, governors and diplomats.
Many of these statues were erected to honor the loved ones who died from that area and not to glorify the Southern cause. Honoring our dead from any war should be the standard and should not demonized.
To long-term citizens of the Gainesville/Hall County area, Old Joe is more than just a statue to dead soldiers. During the horrific tornado of 1936, when everything around him was destroyed, Old Joe stood untouched and became a symbol of the fortitude of the people of Gainesville and their determination to rebuild the city better than before. I realize that newcomers to the area don't know our history and don't realize that to many a statue can mean more than what is readily apparent.
On renaming military bases, you are erasing names of places from which many of our family members were trained and deployed. These places meant something to them. Changing the names will make following their history difficult. Most people couldn't name which bases were named for Confederates without looking it up. Changing the names is absurd.
Our ancestors lived in a time that was very different from ours. Judging previous generations by today's standards is ludicrous. I wonder how future generations will judge us.
Susan Shockley
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Porth yr Ogof Caves
Brecon Beacons, Wales
A karstic geosite in Fforest Fawr Geopark & Brecon Beacons National Park
'Porth yr Ogof is arguably Wales' largest cave entrance.
Here the Afon Mellte embarks on a subterranean journey for the next 1/4 mile through the Carboniferous Limestone belt deep in the heart of the Fforest Fawr Geopark and Brecon Beacons National Park.'
From Alan Bowring
“Waterfall Country” is one of the most visited areas in the Brecon Beacons National Park. Here you’ll find a number of rivers draining the Old Red Sandstone hills further north flow south towards the Vale of Neath through steep wooded gorges cut into rocks of Carboniferous age. Just east of the village of Ystradfellte, one of these rivers, the Afon Mellte, flows into surface exposures of the southerly tilted Carboniferous Limestone and embarks on an underground journey at Church Sink.
From this site the riverbed is usually dry for half a mile downstream. However, in wetter weather, with the river in flood, large volumes of water flow south and enter the imposing entrance to a maze-like cave system created by the erosion and solution of Carboniferous Limestone. At 20m wide and 3 m high Porth yr Ogof is the largest cave entrance in Wales.
The river emerges 300m to the south at a resurgence popularly known as the Blue Pool. This site can be reached on foot by following the long-abandoned surface route of the river down-valley from the National Park Authority-managed car park and visitor facility at Cwm Porth.
Visitors can make their way carefully down from the car park to stand in the main cave entrance. This is the haunt of innumerable education and adventure groups set on exploring the cave passages beyond the huge bedding plane roofed entrance.
But beware! The further reaches of the cave are the preserve of experienced cavers only – its hazardous nature has given rise to a number of fatalities over the years so it’s wise to exercise great caution in this area. If you want to explore further, get in touch with one of the local adventure activities providers.
There are fourteen other known entrances to the Porth yr Ogof system, some of which are to be found in the long-dry gorge above the cave, now festooned with ferns and like much of the area protected as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The magical character of the area has also led to it being sought out as a film location - the BBC’s ‘Merlin’ TV series being a recent one.
The car park and toilets are open throughout the year and the warden’s hut and shop are staffed most days. Fforest Fawr Geopark has installed interpretive panels at this site.
At nearby Pontneddfechan is the Waterfalls Centre with interpretive displays on this locality and other geological and cultural attractions of the Geopark.
The Waterfalls Centre in Pontneddfechan makes a good start for any visit. Follow signs off the A465 ‘Heads of the Valleys Road’ for ‘Waterfalls Information Centre’ (OS grid ref SN 901076, postcode SA11 5NR). Continue towards Ystradfellte for the pay & display car park at Porth yr Ogof (OS grid ref SN 928124, postcode CF44 9JF) From Brecon, follow signs for ‘Ystradfellte’ off the A4059 road north of Penderyn.
Text courtesy of Alan Bowring, Fforest Fawr Geopark
Fforest Fawr Geopark
’Caves and Karst of the Brecon Beacons National Park’ is a 32 page field guide by Mike Simms and available from information centres for £3.50.
Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale Explorer map sheet OL12 ‘Brecon Beacons: west’
‘Fforest Fawr: exploring the landscape of a Global Geopark’ – a special 1:50,000 scale publication from the British Geological Survey for Fforest Fawr Geopark ISBN 978-075183784-1
Images (top to bottom) - All © Brecon Beacons National Park Authority:
The cave entrance
The river in flood
Blue Pool resurgence
Cavers at Porth Yr Ogof
Engraving of visitors from 1829
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Michael William (Mick) Storey, 1943 – 2002
Michael William "Mick" Storey, who died in his 60th year, was a geologist who spent his professional career within the oil industry. He obtained a degree in geology and chemistry at Nottingham University. After university, he went in 1967 to Libya as a well-site geologist for Core Laboratories. He then joined the Iraq Petroleum Company, being posted to Abu Dhabi where initially he continued well-site work in a group of young geologists of diverse backgrounds, tastes and interests, assembled by Dr H V Dunnington, the IPC Exploration Manager. Mick considered thesehis ‘formative years’ as a professional, which laid the real foundations for his industry career.
In 1976, after a period working for Cluff Oil, Mick joined Shell working subsequently in Qatar and Sarawak. In 1981, he returned to the UK for family reasons and somewhat reluctantly set up shop as an independent geologist (he disliked the term consultant) in Taunton, trading under the name of Quantock Geological Services. He was in fact the perfect consultant - knowledgeable, always honest in his opinions and completely dedicated to the task being undertaken for his client. He was also a teacher of note with a natural gift for imparting knowledge in his Production Geology courses. He presented these short courses for many companies in Australia, America, Europe, Asia and Africa – that both Shell and BP employed him regularly is a measure of his standing as a teacher.
Mick was a contributor to a number of commercial research projects on the petroleum potential of the Middle East based on the Middle East Archive at the University of Reading. These were produced by reanalysing a vast amount of basic data, particularly well-cuttings and thin sections. His main initial contribution in 1985 was fundamental to all the succeeding reports – he sat down and sorted out the stratigraphic nomenclature. In these pre- "sequence stratigraphy" days there was no common yardstick with which to tie the confusing stratigraphic schemes that each operator and country used, with the palaeontological control often poor (or controversial, or both).
He continued through all the projects to contribute to the stratigraphic and sedimentological sections. He also brought his considerable skills in production geology to the reports. He was still writing in the month before he died as the last report was completed. None of Mick’s work has ever been published but the companies that have purchased the reports know that he made an immense contribution to the understanding of the sedimentary geology, particularly the stratigraphy of Iraq and adjacent areas. His partners tried to persuade him to write a paper when he was first diagnosed with the cancer that killed him, but this was never completed.
Mick had many other interests beside geology: caving, motorcycles, travel, the history of the Middle East and adjacent areas, The Ussher Society (treasurer for 10 years), his wife Valerie and two children, Tim and Pippa. He will be missed by a wide range of people.
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Epsom Hospital
Elderly woman cut free after three-car smash
AN elderly lady had to be cut free from her vehicle following a three-car smash in Ewell on Wednesday afternoon.
The woman driver suffered a broken pelvis and bruising in the crash, which happened near the junction of Cheam Road and Nonsuch Court Avenue at about 3.15pm.
Surrey Police said the vehicles involved were a blue Ford Fiesta, a silver Mercedes A150 and a red Mazda RX8.
A firefighter from Epsom station confirmed they had to cut the roof off one of the cars to free the injured woman. She was taken to St. George’s Hospital, Tooting.
The drivers of the other two vehicles were treated for minor injuries, including whiplash, at Epsom Hospital and St Helier in Carshalton.
Police said the road remained closed until around 7pm.
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Chen wins fourth consecutive U.S. National title
By Paula Slater
2020 U.S. Nationals
Men’s Free Skate
Nathan Chen repeated as the national champion—his fourth consecutive title—in Greensboro, N.C., on Sunday after an exciting-filled event. Jason Brown maintained second to win the silver, while Tomoki Hiwatashi rose from fifth to claim the bronze.
Chen gave a near-solid performance in his engaging routine to music from Rocketman, opening with a solid quad flip-triple toe and quad Salchow. He put his foot down on a quad toe-Euler-triple Salchow, but was otherwise clean, producing a strong quad toe and four more triple jumps. The two-time world champion also displayed level 4 spins and footwork, all of which received high grades of execution (GOE), throughout to place first with 216.04 in the free skate and overall (330.17).
“I’m thrilled that I was able to stay on my feet for all of the jumps,” said the new consecutive and four-time a champion. “I was a little shaky here and there, but overall I was able to get through the program. I was pretty worried about stamina coming in here, so I’m glad I was able to get through. I was able to stay consistent throughout the week. The audience definitely helped me with that and I’m really happy to be where I am.”
“It’s a huge deal for me to take the next step to, not necessarily be one of these legends, but follow into their footsteps,” he said of joining the ranks of the likes of Dick Button, Brian Boitano and Scott Hamilton who have won four or more consecutive titles. “These guys have done amazing things, beyond what I have already accomplished. I have something to look forward to. It’s truly amazing to follow in their footsteps. These are all people I have looked up to in skating. They gave advice on mentally preparing and are instrumental in how I prepare for these competitions. They are legends, people who are untouchable. For figure skating’s future, it’s really inspirational. I am honored to be in this position.”
The three-time Grand Prix Final champion said he never thought he would be able to make it this far in his career.
“No one is perfect, even if you are undefeated for a long period of time, the next competition, you never know what is going to happen,” he noted. “If you keep focusing on the results, it will probably be the end of it, it is what it is. All of these guys work really hard and deserve to be number one every time they compete. If someone else wins, I need to work harder to win the next competition.”
The 20-year-old tries not to focus too much on the results or scores, feeling it’s not very healthy.
“When you start focusing on the other skaters, you start losing who you are on the ice,” observed Chen. “You just need to fall back on why you love skating and why you do this. You need to enjoy yourself on the ice. As much as things are not so great, at the end of the day, if you can remember why you love the sport so much, it makes it much easier.”
“There have been maybe one or two other Nationals where I was unprepared,” he added, “but I was able to make good use of the week that I had. I had a lot of experience over the past few years in competing in different situations, and still keep myself in a positive mindset and try to enjoy the experience as much as I can.”
Transition by transition, Brown delivered an emotional and mesmerizing performance to Schindler’s List which featured eight textbook triple jumps. The only error came wen he underrotated a quad toe attempt. All spins and footwork garnered a level 4 and all elements, except for the quad toe, were rewarded with very high GOES. The 2018 Four Continents bronze medalist easily finished second in the free skate and maintained second overall (292.88).
“I have been training really hard and consistently,” said the 25-year-old. “I was happy to get those two programs out this season. I think a lot of the training for me has been hit and miss. I deconstructed and tried new methods of training. I think that builds confidence, and sometimes it does the opposite and I don’t feel confident with what we have done. I am open to trying new things, but I also don’t know if I will be confident about it until that moment.’
The skater went back to Chicago and trained with Rohene Ward for a “little bit of an old training method,” then returned to Toronto. “It was a bit of a jump start for me, that we were able to mix the Toronto team’s way with the old methods. For me, it’s to get into my body and see the awareness. I always have that positive mindset of everything having something to gain and something to grow from, anything is possible.”
Brown worked hard the last 18th months after the 2018 US Championships and put himself “out there” to see what went wrong and how he could grow from that experience and build himself up.
“I think It’s probably the best skating that I have done,” he said. “I think I have a long way to go, as far as the technical aspect, but as far as feeling strong and confident, I felt things came together.”
Until recently, Brown didn’t feel he could take on Schindler’s List—that he might not be able to do it the justice that he felt it deserved.
“In history in general, I knew how much significance it has,” he said. “For me, trying to be mature enough to portray what I wanted to portray, it wasn’t until now. That speaks volumes of what this piece means to me. It’s about putting on this performance, making people remember, and at the same time, it’s a bit of a performance and a celebration and putting out heart and soul in this piece.”
Hiwatashi gave a dynamic and powerful routine to “Petrushka,” which featured a quad toe-triple toe, quad toe, and six triple jumps—all of which were solid. The 2019 World Junior champion displayed strong level 4 footwork throughout to finish third in the free skate and overall (183.87 / 278.08).
“I really just want to go out there and perform the best I can,” said the 20-year-old skater. “That is what I want to do. I really trust the decision on who they pick for Worlds and Four Continents and other competitions.”
“I really had to do well in the short program yesterday in order to get out of the habit of making excuses,” he offered. “For this long program, I performed almost the same, if not better, than the Grand Prixes. There is still a lot to work on, but I think I did what I can for today, and I am just really happy I got through it. I really wanted to protect my placement from last year, or even get better than it, so I think I was working the hardest in the rink, so I am really happy for what I did.”
Vincent Zhou landed a quad Salchow and eight triple jumps—including a triple Axel-triple toe, in his resounding performance to music from Cloud Atlas. The only error came when he put a foot down on the back end of a triple loop-double toe. All spins and footwork were graded a level 4 and the 2019 World bronze medalist finished fourth in the free skate and overall (180.41 / 275.23).
“I have more in my tank for the future, but for me, overcoming everything I have been through in the second half of last year…it means a lot to me,” said the 2019 Four Continents bronze medalist. “It is really special to be able to go out there and do that. For a long time, I have been saying we need to focus on good quality, but that doesn’t shine through until you do it in training and competition. For me, just doing one quad really allowed me to bring out so much more in the rest of my skating and focus on the optimal quality of that one quad and each subsequent element.”
This is only the second competition of the season for the 19-year-old who was off two months from the second half of October through Christmas. He also had a should subluxation two weeks prior to this event, as well as a wound on his ankle from skates that was holding him back in his jumps.
“Even with all that, and some personal struggles, I proved to myself that I am capable under the most unlikely circumstances,” said the 19-year-old. “I am a fighter and I can bring that with me into forward competitions. One week ago, I could hardly land a triple Axel, and only this week, I started landing quad Sal(chow)s in the my program, and to do that, it means so much to me.”
Andrew Torgashev gave skated an impressive routine to “E lucevan le stelle” from Tosca which featured a quad toe-double toe, four solid triple jumps, and strong level 4 footwork and spins. However, the 18-year-old underrotated and fell on his opening quad Salchow, fell on a triple Axel, and later stepped out of an underrotated quad toe. He finished fifth in the free skate and slipped to fifth overall (162.77 / 260.64).
“I think I did a good job of resetting myself,” said the 2019 CS Asian Open silver medalist. “I just put in the Sal(chow) one or two weeks ago, because I had noting to lose here. I wanted to show myself as a mature, senior skater. Putting that quad in the second half, that was a challenge. We learn from our mistakes, and the biggest takeaway I will have from this program, is to be able to make the mistake and be able to put it behind me right away and execute the next element. That is a huge positive for me.”
Aleksei Krasnozhan was determined and focused in his routine, which featured seven triple jumps, however, his opening quad loop was underrotated and he stepped out of and put a hand down on a triple Axel. The 19-year-old finished sixth in the free skate and overall (160.61 / 241.32).
“I did everything, there is no secrets to quads or anything, it’s all about doing it in training,” said the 2017 U.S. National junior champion. “I had a lot of traveling to get my green card, and I skipped a couple of months in the summer, then I was trying to get back in shape, get back in the running programs. Every year I have some excuse, but I am in the best shape of my life right now. Fit skinny, looking good as always, we will just build up on that. Before this season officially ends, before Worlds, I need my quads in there, so I can start a new season. It’s not about trying to learn new tricks, but make them part of my routine. I want to go home and train so I can come back stronger.”
Skating to music from The Last Emperor, Camden Pulkinen found himself hanging on to several jumps, but reeled out a solid quad toe, triple Axel, triple loop, and triple flip-double toe to finish seventh in the free skate and overall (156.89 / 236.08).
“It’s the first time I landed two quad toes clean at the same event,” noted the 19-year-old from Colorado Springs, Colo. “I accomplished one clean quad at Skate Canada, and this year has been a progression for me. I was extremely happy that I hit those quads in the short and free, and did two Axels in the long. I had a little mistake in the single Lutz, but I didn’t let it bother me, so I am pleased with that. I did not do a quad toe, but there is a deep knowledge that I could do one when the moment mattered. Just knowing that is something you don’t get in training, you only get in competition. So I am pleased with the quads and I am excited with next year to add even more.”
Dinh Tran pulled up from 11th to eighth overall (220.88) followed by Sean Rabbitt (213.46).
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The New Class War
Michael Lind
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In both Europe and North America, populist movements have shattered existing party systems and thrown governments into turmoil. The embattled establishment claims that these populist insurgencies seek to overthrow liberal democracy. The truth is no less alarming but is more complex. Western democracies are being torn apart by a new class war.
In this controversial and groun In both Europe and North America, populist movements have shattered existing party systems and thrown governments into turmoil. The embattled establishment claims that these populist insurgencies seek to overthrow liberal democracy. The truth is no less alarming but is more complex. Western democracies are being torn apart by a new class war.
In this controversial and groundbreaking new analysis, Michael Lind, one of America's leading thinkers debunks the idea that the insurgencies are primarily the result of bigotry, traces how the breakdown of mid-century class compromises between business and labor led to the conflict, and reveals the battle lines.
On one side is the managerial overclass - the university - credentialed elite that clusters in high-income hubs and dominates government, the economy and the culture. On the other side is the working class of the low-density heartlands - mostly, but not exclusively native and white.
The two classes clash over immigration, trade, the environment, and social values, and the managerial class has had the upper hand. As a result of the half-century decline of the institutions that once empowered the working class, power has shifted to the institutions the overclass controls: corporations, executive and judicial branches, universities, and the media.
THE CLASS WAR CAN RESOLVE IN ONE OF THREE WAYS:
* The triumph of the overclass, resulting in a high-tech caste system
* The empowerment of populist, resulting in no constructive reforms
* A class compromise that provides the working class with real power
Lind argues that Western democracies must incorporate working-class majorities of all races, ethnicities, and creeds into decision making in politics, the economy, and culture. Only this class compromise can avert a never-ending cycle of clashes between oligarchs and populists and save democracy.
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Feb 17, 2020 Matthew LaPine rated it it was ok
Lind's latest puts forth the theory that the way to end the current "class war" is to empower those who have become disempowered, through gaining them representation and membership that they had mid-20th-century but which they no longer enjoy. I agree. We have all experienced loss - offshoring, decline of manufacturing, union membership declines and more have led to a net transfer of power from the people to elites.
Along the way, Lind spews jargon and labels more than a person with the flu spews Lind's latest puts forth the theory that the way to end the current "class war" is to empower those who have become disempowered, through gaining them representation and membership that they had mid-20th-century but which they no longer enjoy. I agree. We have all experienced loss - offshoring, decline of manufacturing, union membership declines and more have led to a net transfer of power from the people to elites.
Along the way, Lind spews jargon and labels more than a person with the flu spews snot and phlegm. In the Introduction alone, we come across: nationalist populism, promarket neoliberal centrists, working-class populism, interclass compromises, pre-modern agrarian social structure, bourgeois capitalists, democratic pluralism, dominant elite, technocratic neoliberalism, global labor arbitrage, social elite, libertarian economics, managerial elite, disempowered natives, demagogic populists, dominant neoliberal establishments, elite-promulgated multiculturalism, populist rebels, managerial overclass, democratic pluralism, and more. And that's just the Introduction.
Seems there are valid points, and I respect them, but they are well obfuscated by jargon and a fair dose of self-righteousness.
May 28, 2017 Jim Robles rated it it was amazing
Five stars! I great explanation of our current divide (AKA class war). In my perpetual rant against (pardon the tautology) selfish Baby Boomers, for the rise of Trump, I have always been disturbed by the implication that human nature has changed: it does not. One thing this essay does is explain how Baby Boomers simply found ourselves in a situation that allowed us to achieve a more selfish result, even though we are not so different at the personal level. So much for the diagnosis. The prescrip Five stars! I great explanation of our current divide (AKA class war). In my perpetual rant against (pardon the tautology) selfish Baby Boomers, for the rise of Trump, I have always been disturbed by the implication that human nature has changed: it does not. One thing this essay does is explain how Baby Boomers simply found ourselves in a situation that allowed us to achieve a more selfish result, even though we are not so different at the personal level. So much for the diagnosis. The prescription does require that we share, and perhaps more than just a negative income tax.
"Managerial society works best when there are not only concessions to national working-class economic interests—the bribes to the “losers” of neoliberalism—but also genuine economic bargaining power and political power wielded by the many. Far from undermining managerial regimes, Burnham’s “juridical check” and Galbraith’s “countervailing power” make them more legitimate and sustainable" (p. 29).
The evaluation of the economic/military rise of China, does not give consideration to the very real possibility of an environmental implosion there.
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The Four American Narratives
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In this column, Mr. Brooks concludes: "The mercantilist model sees America as a new Rome, a mighty fortress in a dangerous world. The talented community sees America as a new Athens, a creative crossroads leading an open and fundamentally harmonious world. It’s an Exodus story for an information age."
"None of the dominant political ideologies of the West can explain the new class war, because all of them pretend that persisting social classes no longer exist in the West" (p. 1).
"Fortunately, there exists a body of thought that can explain the current upheavals in the West and the world very well. It is James Burnham’s theory of the managerial revolution, supplemented by the economic sociology of John Kenneth Galbraith" (p. 2).
"Following the Cold War, the global business revolution shattered these social compacts" (p. 3).
The Managerial Elite: Past and Present
"In other Western democracies as well, membership in the managerial class appears to be mostly hereditary, though partly open to talent from below" (p. 5).
National Industrial Consolidation
"All ofthis demonstrates that, in every modern economy, firms in Chandler’s “center” and Galbraith’s “planning system” that are characterized by increasing returns to scale tend to be both large and, if successful, long-lasting, compared to the smaller firms in Chandler’s “periphery” and Galbraith’s “market system,” in which size produces few or no competitive advantages" (p. 7).
National Political Settlements during the Cold War
"In the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain in Logan County, West Virginia, state officials used planes to bomb armed strikers from the air. . . . . In the ensuing Cold War, every major industrial democracy devised some kind of “settlement” or compromise among business and labor interests within the nation. . . . . The post-1945 settlements in the West and Japan demonstrate countervailing power and juridical defense in action. The result was the golden age of capitalism from the 1940s to the 1970s, combining high growth with a more equal distribution of its rewards than has ever existed before or since" (p. 8).
1921 was the year of the Tulsa Race Riots: it sounds like a heck of a year.
Multinational Corporate Consolidation
"By the early 2000s, within the high value-added, high technology, and/or strongly branded segments of world markets, which serve mainly the middle and upper income earners who control the bulk of the world’s purchasing power, a veritable “law” had come into play: a handful of giant firms, the “systems integrators,” occupied upwards of 50 per cent of the whole global market" (p. 9).
See Boeing and AirBus.
"China, India, Brazil, and other populous developing countries, however, were able to use control of corporate access to their large internal labor forces and consumer markets to pressure foreign capital into promoting projects of national industrial development, by means including local content requirements and technology transfer agreements" (p. 10).
The Economics of Global Arbitrage
"Perhaps the iconic product of the era of globalization is the Apple iPhone. According to Konstantine Kakaes in MIT’s Technology Review, producing every single component of the iPhone in the United States, in addition to assembling it in the United States, would at most add $100 to the cost of the device. But Apple’s profit margin would be much smaller than is the case with its present production of the iPhone in six factories using unfree, low-wage labor in China (plus a factory in Brazil, a concession to Brazilian import substitution policy)" (p. 11).
The Politics of Global Arbitrage
"The areas chosen for arbitrage and harmonization reflect the interests not of national working- class majorities but of the managerial elites that dominate western governments" (p. 12).
"Favorable laws and regulations that corporate lobbyists are unable to persuade national democratic legislatures to enact can be repackaged and hidden in harmonization agreements masked as “trade” treaties" (p. 13).
"On the contrary, in personal terms, today’s managerial elite is for the most part less bigoted and often quite philanthropic" (p. 13).
Globalization: Hobson’s Imperialism?
Immigrants and Oligarchs
"As we have seen, in the late twentieth century, Western managerial elites, by means of transnational corporations, were able to escape from their mid-twentieth-century social contract with national workers by offshoring production, or threatening to do so. Purely domestic companies, like hotels, restaurants, and construction companies, did not have this option. But they could benefit from immigration, because loose labor markets weaken the bargaining power of workers, just as tight labor markets weaken the bargaining power of employers (p. 16).
"The American media reflect the interests of managerial and professional elites in low-wage employees and cheap domestic servants, so the bad news was buried in mainstream reporting. “Immigrants Aren’t Taking Americans’ Jobs, New Study Finds,” declared the New York Times on September 21, 2016" (p. 16).
"Because Hobson envisioned something very similar to the post–Cold War pattern of offshoring, transnational production, and mass low-wage immigration in the age of railroads, steamships, and telegraphs, today’s pattern cannot be viewed as the predetermined result of new technologies like the Internet, global wireless telephony, and container ships. . . . . But between 1914 and 1989, a necessary but not sufficient condition for this kind of managerial globalism was lacking: great- power peace" (p. 18).
From Super-Imperialism to Bloc Wars
"In The Managerial Revolution, Burnham predicted the division of the postwar world among three “superstates” based on the United States, Germany, and Japan—inspiring Orwell’s Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia in his novel 1984" (p. 19).
"However, the rise of China is bringing that ephemeral moment to a close—and with it, almost certainly, an end to the present structure of global industry" (p. 19).
Populist Rebellions and Their Limitations
"If I am correct, the post–Cold War period has come to a close, and the industrial democracies of North America and Europe have entered a new and turbulent era. . . . . Following two decades of increasing consolidation of the power of the managerial class, the populist and nationalist wave on both sides of the Atlantic is a predictable rebellion by working-class outsiders against managerial-class insiders and their domestic allies, who are often recruited from native minorities or immigrant diasporas" (p. 20).
"When populist outsiders challenge oligarchic insiders, the oligarchs almost always win. How could they lose? They may not have numbers, but they control most of the wealth, expertise, and political influence and dominate the media, universities, and nonprofit sectors. Most populist waves break and disperse on the concrete seawalls of elite privilege" (p. 21).
Alternatives to Populism
"Neoliberalism plus, also called “inclusive capitalism,” is the preferred response of the transatlantic managerial class to the populist revolts in Europe and America. Essentially, neoliberalism plus is Reagan-Thatcher-Clinton-Blair neoliberalism with more subsidies to the “losers” of globalization" (p. 22).
"In other words, neoliberal economic strategy itself, because of its bias in favor of business models relying on cheap labor at home and abroad, tends to undermine the productivity growth needed to pay for the massive redistribution that, it is hoped, would align the interests of workers and managerial elites" (p. 23).
"Just as managerialism succeeded bourgeois capitalism and feudalism, so managerialism in an age of technological and economic stagnation might give way in turn to what Peter Frase in Four Futures: Life after Capitalism (Verso, 2016) has called “rentism”" (p. 24).
New Developmentalism
"Even before the election of Donald Trump, the United States was already acting as a declining post-hegemonic power with a reawakened sense of strategic economic nationalism" (p. 26).
"By default, then, the economic system in a world of multiple great-power blocs is likely to resemble that of the European colonial empires" (p. 27).
"There would need to be two strategies, one for traded-sector industries like manufacturing with potential foreign markets, and one for nontraded domestic industries that can only be performed in situ, like nursing care and other personal services" (p. 27).
Competition and Countervailing Power
"History demonstrates that ruling classes of any kind are reluctant to share power with the ruled unless they are afraid of the ruled or afraid of rival ruling classes" (p. 28).
See Machiavelli.
"The need to mobilize the population for war, or at least the need to obtain social peace in wartime, has been far more important as a source of democratizing reforms. From the Greek city-states to the Swiss cantons, citizen-soldiers have been able to use their contribution to defense to demand rights and representation. In the United States, the Emancipation Proclamation and the GI Bill were both wartime measures" (p. 28).
"In cold wars and trade wars, even if no blood is shed by the contenders, countries and blocs with empowered and patriotic workers are likely to do better than rival nations crippled by immiserated workforces and selfish, nepotistic, oligarchic elites" (p. 29). ...more
Feb 20, 2020 John Mayers rated it did not like it
I wanted to like this book I really did. I am like many looking for a way out of our current cultural divisions. This did not do that. Mr Lind filled the book with social jargon that not just clouded his argument but selectively demonized whole classes of people. His narrative is no better than the demonized language of Trump except Lind tries to sound intellectual. I got to chapter 4 and I am done.
Apr 19, 2020 Michael Owen rated it liked it
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This was a dense book that was difficult to follow as an audiobook. I did appreciate the main point of finding a middle path between demagogic populism and technocratic neo-liberalism, a new way to include representation of the vast middle/working class in democratic decision making.
I read this before coronaplague but his advice seems timely. Working people do not have a seat at the table when it comes to decision making. At the national level, decisions are being made by public health experts, This was a dense book that was difficult to follow as an audiobook. I did appreciate the main point of finding a middle path between demagogic populism and technocratic neo-liberalism, a new way to include representation of the vast middle/working class in democratic decision making.
I read this before coronaplague but his advice seems timely. Working people do not have a seat at the table when it comes to decision making. At the national level, decisions are being made by public health experts, business leaders ("managerial elite"), and politicians such as President Trump (the book's exemplar of demagogic populism).
Where does this leave the working class/middle class? The "cure" is being applied to these people but who will decide if the cure is worse than the disease? Technocrats can model the potential outcomes in terms of mortality and economic loss complete with calculations of Quality-Adjusted Life Years...but perhaps it would be better to have a larger pool of decision makers--including the workers being asked to sacrifice their livelihood--to balance the competing values of saving human lives and preventing economic loss. ...more
Sep 09, 2020 Barbara rated it it was amazing
This is a book I would like to award more than 5 stars. It shows the rationality among many populist voters and for that reason, is not a book for those stuck in a prejudice against them. However, if such readers think society is at danger from populist movements, Lind shows that this is unlikely. They are not able to develop strong organised movements that will do this. He is excellent on the economics and public welfare demands of unskilled migrants and on the way vast swathes of our populatio This is a book I would like to award more than 5 stars. It shows the rationality among many populist voters and for that reason, is not a book for those stuck in a prejudice against them. However, if such readers think society is at danger from populist movements, Lind shows that this is unlikely. They are not able to develop strong organised movements that will do this. He is excellent on the economics and public welfare demands of unskilled migrants and on the way vast swathes of our population are ridiculed and discounted by the overclass, technocratic elite that dominate most of our institutions, education, politics, society, economics. And the use of conspiracy theories round Russia and undue influences to further put people down. He argues for democratic pluralism, a model which I find plausible but difficult, but needed and rewarding. This is working with groups in society that have different needs and wants, that all should be counted and through hard work rather than hegemony, we work towards a solution of balance and real inclusion, not just 'gender and race' posited by the left. I found this very inspiring.
Aug 26, 2020 Nick Christofides rated it it was amazing
I really enjoyed this book and really helped me understand why we’re all so angry right now... well worth a read for anyone who thinks the worlds about to end, the boffins have it all under control... enough of the populist demagogues, down with the technocratic libertarians and up the democratic pluralists! I think...
Nov 21, 2020 S Ravishankar rated it it was amazing
Excellent analysis of changes in demographics, population movements in US and UK that all culminated in Brexit vote and Trump’s win in 2016. Also an attempt to forecast how things could turn out in future elections.
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Currently Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation in Washington, Michael Lind has been an editor or staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and The New Republic and writes frequently for The New York Times and the Financial Times. He is the author of more than a dozen books of history, political journalism, and fiction, including a poetry chapbook, Currently Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation in Washington, Michael Lind has been an editor or staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and The New Republic and writes frequently for The New York Times and the Financial Times. He is the author of more than a dozen books of history, political journalism, and fiction, including a poetry chapbook, When You Are Someone Else (Aralia Press, 2002), Bluebonnet Girl (Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2003), a children’s book in verse, which won an Oppenheimer Toy Prize for children’s literature, and a narrative poem, The Alamo (Replica Books, 1999), which the Los Angeles Times named as one of the best books of the year. His first collection of verse, Parallel Lives, was published by Etruscan Press in 2007. ...more
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The Scarborough & Whitby Railway is a disused railway from Scarborough to Whitby in North Yorkshire, England, the line followed a scenic route along the Yorkshire coast.
It fell victim to the Beeching Axe closing in 1965.
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As harbor seal populations recover along Canada’s west coast, it could send ripples throughout the ecosystem. Photo by John E Marriott/All Canada Photos/Corbis
Eating, and Being Eaten
Scientists are tagging both predator and prey to watch the food web in action.
by Larry Pynn
June 29, 2015 | 750 words, about 3 minutes
In the past, if marine scientists wanted to understand the diet of a predator, they caught it, sliced it open, and looked inside. Today, sophisticated tracking technology is allowing researchers unprecedented opportunities to study what the ocean’s hunters are eating—right down to the individual fish consumed.
For the first time, researchers working in the Strait of Georgia, which passes between Vancouver Island and Canada’s mainland, are employing monitoring devices to track not only predatory harbor seals, but also the juvenile coho salmon on which they feed. “I wanted to know if there was a feasible way to measure predation directly, without having to personally observe every predation event,” says Austen Thomas, a PhD student at the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre. “It’s a simple question that is actually very difficult to answer.”
By tracking both links of the food chain at the same time, the research should give a better understanding of predation levels, and help guide management of both species.
Harbor seals are ubiquitous on the British Columbia coast. With their big dewy eyes and glistening heads they are found in bays and inlets throughout BC’s more than 27,000 kilometers of shoreline.
It wasn’t always so. From 1879 to 1914 and 1962 to 1968, harbor seal populations were depleted due to commercial harvests for their pelts, according to the federal fisheries department. Bounties for predator control from 1914 to 1964 further suppressed populations.
Legislation in Canada and the United States in the early 1970s made it illegal to kill marine mammals without a permit, and, over time the species steadily recovered. Andrew Trites, director of UBC’s marine mammal research unit, says the number of seals in the Strait of Georgia has increased from as few as 2,000 to 40,000 today—the densest population in the world—raising questions about their impact on juvenile coho and chinook salmon.
The Vancouver-based Pacific Salmon Foundation has provided UBC with almost CAN $500,000 to find answers as part of a five-year project. The goal is to better understand predation, but also disease, food availability, and environmental conditions. Field work on the seal study began on two fronts in April and early May.
Young coho salmon swim in the Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada. Photo by Eiko Jones/Corbis
At the Big Qualicum Hatchery, scientists used hypodermic needles to inject 12- and 23-millimeter passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags—glass beads containing electronic microchips—into the body cavities of 40,000 juvenile coho salmon prior to their journey to the ocean. “They’re like barcodes or your social insurance number—every one is unique,” says Trites.
At the same time, researchers using nets and boats captured 20 seals, half of them at the mouth of the Big Qualicum River and the other half at nearby Denman and Hornby islands.
“We had no injuries, at least for the seals,” says Thomas. “Humans had lots of bangs and scrapes. This is not low-impact science.”
The team glued radio-frequency identification “beanies” to the seals’ heads—trackers designed to turn on when the seals lunge forward to capture a fish. Researchers also affixed packs onto the seals’ backs to measure location, depth, and acceleration in three dimensions. Then they set the seals free and waited.
If the seals swallow one of the tagged salmon, the unique identifying number is transmitted through a satellite network to researchers’ computers, giving a play-by-play of who is eating whom. The tags are safe to eat, and ultimately pass through the seals’ guts with no ill effects.
Since their introduction in the mid-1980s, PIT tags have been getting under the skin of a wide range of marine life—from fish to crustaceans, penguins to sea otters—measuring behavior such as growth, movement, and survival. They’re part of the revolutionary field of biologging that is pushing the boundaries of marine science by providing novel data from the depths of the oceans.
Before the seals’ beanies and packs fall off during the annual molt, around September, they create drag in the water and require the seals to burn more energy. Thomas isn’t worried. Research on a captive seal showed that within two days it had adjusted its hunting behavior to account for the electronics. “Seals are robust, adaptable animals,” he says. “They deal with periods of low food abundance. I have no doubt they are able to deal with the additional effort.”
Preliminary results show “reasonably large numbers” of tagged salmon being consumed. If the trend continues, there could be calls for a seal cull. “It could be used for that purpose,” Trites concedes. “It may also point out there are ways to mitigate the problem if you understand how it’s happening. But we can’t make any decisions without information.”
Larry Pynn is a veteran environmental journalist who has received some 30 awards for his newspaper and magazine writing, including eight Jack Webster Awards. He has written two nonfiction books (Last Stands and The Forgotten Trail), and is a member of The Explorers Club. He lives in Maple Bay, British Columbia, and loves all things ocean—be it seafood, kayaking, hiking a coastal trail, or trying his hand (feet?) at impromptu logrolling.
Cite this Article: Larry Pynn “Eating, and Being Eaten,” Hakai Magazine, Jun 29, 2015, accessed January 18th, 2021, https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/eating-and-being-eaten/.
Throwing Dead Fish for Fun and Ecological Profit
Chucking chum and coho carcasses into a salmon-spawning stream supports more than just an ecosystem.
Jun 1, 2017 | 1,700 words, about 8 minutes
Salmon Trees
A researcher’s discovery that trees and animals depend on salmon as much as people do has far-reaching implications for British Columbia’s forestry and fisheries policies.
Apr 22, 2015 | 4,100 words, about 20 minutes
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We are delighted to welcome Moray McConnachie as our new Executive Director of Operations from January 2021.
Moray joins us in this newly created role from Oxford Analytica where, since 2017, he has led all the operations of the global advisory firm and managed a wide set of functions including finance, human resources, legal and customer service.
Moray grew up in Lambeth and went to school in Southwark. He started his career in IT before moving to operations management where he has specialised in bringing people, processes and systems together to deliver measurable results. While at Oxford Analytica, he advised clients in all sectors including UN agencies, the World Bank and major international corporations.
"With health inequalities put centre stage by COVID-19, it is an immense privilege to be bringing my operations and management experience to a forward-looking, innovative organisation." - Moray McConnachie, Executive Director of Operations
In this new leadership post within our Executive Team, Moray will build on our work to create world-class systems and processes that support decision-making and measurement of results across the organisation. He will also lead the continued efforts to recruit and nurture exceptional talent to help us achieve the greatest possible impact on health.
“Growing up in Lambeth in the 1980s, I was acutely aware of inequalities which despite a wide range of interventions persist today” said Moray. “With health inequalities put centre stage by COVID-19, it is an immense privilege to be bringing my operations and management experience to a forward-looking, innovative organisation. The team have built strong operational foundations, and I look forward to partnering with them and all stakeholders in supporting the next stage of the mission to improve health locally and beyond.”
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Polyphenols are naturally formed by plants and are classed as a chemical substance. Plant polyphenols function in the same way as an antioxidant and as protection for the plants against, for example, fungi, bacteria, and other attackers that may damage the plant. The plant Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) originates from East Asia and, rich in these polyphenols, it is a healthy herb and a valuable source of resveratrol.
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St Albans movie maker to hit film festival circuit with new thriller
St Albans writer and director Shaun Robert Smith has teamed up with Craig Conway to bring out "The Myth of Hopelessness", a psychological thriller with Morjana Alaouri (pictured) - Credit: Photo supplied
When the red carpet is rolled out at international film festivals this year, a St Albans writer and director may well be making an appearance alongside established and budding stars.
St Albans writer and director Shaun Robert Smith has teamed up with Craig Conway to bring out "The Myth of Hopelessness", a psychological thriller - Credit: Photo supplied
Shaun Robert Smith and Craig Conway have produced an intense and dark psychological thriller The Myth of Hopelessness which, they hope, will be a hit on the festival circuit.
Originally trained as a prosthetics make-up artist, Shaun’s foray into film-making was fostered some years ago when he was producing cosmetic camouflage, wigs and costume design.
The combination of being a movie fanatic and having a love of creative writing encouraged him to shift gear and switch to writing and directing.
As Shaun, 37, explains: “The industry has changed so much, that it is easier for independent films now to raise money. But, it makes you work harder to put the money to the best possible use.”
'The Myth of Hopelessness' - Credit: Photo supplied
He has been involved in many independent productions over the past decade, including a film short listed for the London Short Film Festival, The Soldier, which he wrote and directed.
Myth is his debut feature film as a director and Craig’s first solely produced production - it apparently took just 52 hours to raise the £100,000 needed to make the film, which was shot in July last year.
It was developed, financed and shot within the space of 10 weeks.
Shaun said: “We pulled in some favours, and assembled one of the best teams. It was the most fun, making this film, but we knew what we were doing and that we had a great story, and had superb actors who have devoted themselves to their roles.”
He described it as a “unique, dark, intense British indie film. It looks stunning and the performances are truly amazing”.
Myth is based on a short story by Shaun, A Carer’s Tale, that focuses on his experiences caring for people with spinal cord injuries.
He explained: “The job is both physically and mentally demanding, with long hours and low pay.
“Carers are there as an extension of the client’s arms and legs; they are there for every call, any time of the day or night.”
The film, penned by both men, tells the story of a young woman, Evie (Morjana Alaoui), who escapes her past and absconds to England in search of a new life. She takes a job caring for a tetraplegic, acted by Mel Raido, but the burden of her job stirs up her past.
Shaun said: “I was a carer in Nottingham, and I went through a tonne of jobs when trying to get my film career going. Spinal cord injuries are incredibly frustrating for the person with the injuries, to have someone come into their house and do their personal care for them.
“For the film, I kind of took a few situations of various clients and a few of the stories I heard from other carers. These were brewing in my mind, and I decided this was the time to write a script.”
“Mel and Morjana are absolutely electric on screen. Both actors had to search the darkest depths to find their characters.”
Currently in post-production, Myth will be released later this year, and Shaun is keen for it to be screened locally at the Odyssey.
Shaun added: “We will hit the festival circuit, including Cannes and Toronto – we have a big list of festivals we will approach first, and then we will focus on distribution, for its release.”
As both men have a love of The Shining, they are hoping to “do something in conjunction with the Odyssey, as there is a lot of ‘Kubrick feel’ to it.”
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Each year over 3,500 patients take part in clinical research at your local hospitals and we aim for all of our patients to be offered the opportunity to participate.
In many cases doctors will tell patients about research but we also need patients to ask about it and to keep research at the top of the NHS agenda.
In a recent consumer poll, only 21% of patients and the public said that they would feel confident asking their doctor about research opportunities.
So, please ask the person treating you if there is a research study that might be right for you. Remember you don't necessarily have to be a patient to take part in a research study — you may just need to give a blood sample or fill out a simple questionnaire.
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The information is being taken from a variety of national registers that are publicly available. This means that it can include trials that may be run from other countries but which have part of the study taking place in the UK.
The UK Clinical Trials Gateway (UKCTG) has been established by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) on behalf of all the UK Health Departments and with the assistance of a number of clinical research charities, research professionals and patient representatives. It fulfils the government’s commitment in the Plan for Growth, published by HM Treasury in March 2011, that the government will open up information about clinical trials to enable the public to get involved and so that patients can find out about clinical trials that may be relevant to their condition.
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INVOLVE is a national advisory group that supports greater public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research. They offer a large range of information and supporting documents that explain patient and public involvement in detail.
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is a UK government body that coordinates and funds research for the National Health Service (England). The NIHR is committed to improving the health and wealth of the nation through research and involving patients in all aspects of its work.
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Visit the Clinical Research Network website to find out more on you can take part in Clinical Research. The site also has useful resources and further information on the following areas:
NIHR “Your records save lives” information document.
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527 Princess Avenue
527, Princess, London, City of, Ontario, N6B, Canada
Facade, 527 Princess Avenue, 2007
Southeast elevation, 527 Princess Avenue, 2007
1899/01/01 to 1900/01/01
527 Princess Avenue is on the south side of Princess Avenue, west of William Street in downtown London. The two-and-half-storey white-brick residence was constructed between 1899 and 1900.
The property was designated by the City of London in 1986 for its historical and architectural value under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act (By-law 2878-103). It is also located within the boundaries of the East Woodfield Heritage Conservation District designated under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act by the City of London in 1994.
527 Princess Avenue is associated with noted local portrait photographer, Frank Cooper, for whom it was built at the turn of the 20th century. It is one of London's finest examples of Late-Victorian domestic architecture.
Built between 1899 and 1900, its massing, elevation, irregular plan, front pediment gable and steeply-pitched roof are typical of the Queen Anne style. The corner tower with conical roof and finial and wrap-around veranda are also signatures of the Queen Anne residential style, as are the detailed elaborations in multiple materials present on the building's façade and elevations.
527 Princess Avenue is part of the East Woodfield Heritage Conservation District. The district was established in 1994 and was London's first Heritage Conservation District. It comprises approximately 170 buildings just north of downtown London. Many of the buildings in the area were originally intended for use by London's elite in the late 19th century.
Sources: City of London By-law No 2878-103; East Woodfield Heritage Conservation District Study, 1994.
Character defining elements that contribute to the heritage value of 527 Princess Avenue include its:
- building massing, elevation, and irregular plan
- white-brick construction
- front pediment gable
- cut-stone foundation, pillar supports and detailing around windows
- brick dentil moulding around windows and cornices
- wood columns, railings, spindles and decorative frieze
- steeply-pitched slate roof
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- wrap-around veranda and balcony
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Dubai Weather September Averages, Dubai
High Temperature 38°C 100°F
Sunshine Hours 10 hours
Sea Temperature 32°C 90°F
Dubai Weather for September 2020
September Averages
Mauritius 45229
Sicily 43591
What's the Weather like in Dubai in September
The hot and dry desert climate of Dubai is one of the top reasons why this Middle Eastern resort is one of the most popular holiday destinations with travelers. In fact, Dubai City is regarded as the 8th most visited city, and Dubai International Airport the 6th busiest airport in the world. But Dubai has much more than just sun, sea and surf.
Temperatures begin to drop in September, marking the end of the summer, but with highs of 38°C and lows of 26°C, Dubai is still a hotspot - literally. Like the summer months, there is practically no rainfall and the humidity finally begins to subside, visitors shouldn't find themselves too damp or uncomfortable.
The average temperature during September is still very hot at 33°C 4°C higher than October. The warm season in Dubai typically lasts from May 18th until September 25th, with an average daily high of 37°C and an average low of 31°C.
The highest temperature recorded in September in recent years was a blistering 45.1°C, while the lowest was only 16.5°C.
Average Sunshine Hours
Over the course of September the length of day is gradually decreasing. The shortest day of the month is September 30th with a total of 11:56 hours of daylight, whilst the longest day of the month is September 1st with 12:38 hours of daylight. The amount of sunshine hours are slowly decreasing too, but they are still the same compared to August at 10 hours.
The cloud cover in Dubai is generally low throughout the year. During September the median cloud cover is a clear 1% and does not vary substantially over the course of the month. As an example, on September 15th, the sky is clear or mostly clear 77% of the time and only partly cloudy 3% of the time. So you are pretty much guaranteed clear skies and very hot weather if you choose to stay in Dubai during September.
Precipitation at this time of year is also very rare. The wettest month of the year is usually February, which receives on average 40mm of rainfall throughout the month.
The humidity in September usually ranges from a comfortable 31% to a very humid 91% over the course of the month, rarely dropping below a dry 16% or reaching a very humid 100%.
The air is typically driest around September 12th, at which time the relative humidity drops below a comfortable 39% three days out of four. The humidity levels are predicted to be highest around September 30th, rising above a humid 82%, three days out of four.
Over the course of September, the dew point generally varies from a comfortable 15°C to a very oppressive 27°C, and rarely falls below 8°C or above 29°C.
September experiences typical wind speeds varying from just 1 m/s to 7 m/s, which is considered as a light to moderate breeze, rarely ever exceeding 8 m/s. The highest average wind speed of 4 m/s is expected to occur around September 1st, at which time the average daily maximum wind speed is a moderate 7 m/s.
On the other hand, the lowest average wind speed of 3 m/s occurs around September 30th, at which time the average daily maximum wind speed is 7 m/s. At this time of year in Dubai the wind is most often coming from the south 16% of the time and the west 15% of the time.
Average Sea Temperature
Sea temperatures at this time of year are also gradually starting to decrease from 33°C in August to 32°C in September. However, the temperature is still perfect for swimming and water sports such as windsurfing!
You can check the weather forecast here.
Dubai Hotels in September
Ramada Jumeirah
The 4* Ramada Jumeirah offers convenient and comfortable accommodation in the centre of Dubai for just £59 per night. The on-site Magnum Bar classes itself as the 'chicest lounge bar in Jumeirah' and serves exotic cocktails and light bites. For something a bit more reminiscent of home, the Scottish-themed bar, The Docks, serves up some of the best whiskies in Dubai.
Winchester Hotel Apartments
The Winchester Hotel Apartments are located down Kuwait Street in Al Mankhool Bur, Dubai. These deluxe apartments consist of fully furnished studios, luxury and deluxe bedrooms and even royal two bedroom apartments. Amenities include a flat screen LCD TV, cooking facilities, daily house keeping, a safe and air-conditioning.
London Crown Hotel
The London Crown Hotel is an affordable, modern hotel located in the Bur Dubai in city centre of Dubai. The hotel has an excellent location, situated just a two minute walk from the Burjuman Shopping Centre and the Dubai Metro Station.
Corp Executive Al Khoory Hotel
On the other hand, the Corp Executive Al Khoory Hotel is conveniently located in the centre of Dubai in Al Wasl Road and is just a 10-minute drive from the Dubai Mall and the Burj Khalifa. All rooms come with a flat-screen TV, minibar, ensuite bathroom and safety deposit box. Some rooms even come with an extended terrace overlooking the city centre.
Beaches in Dubai for September
Royal Island Beach Club Dubai
The Royal Island Beach Club Dubai is not free but it offers stunning surroundings an access the World Islands. Situated on the island of Lebanon, this beach club features private chalets, a restaurant, swimming pool and two luxurious beach areas to choose from.
For something a little bit different why not head to the Dubai Creek, which is large saltwater lake located in Dubai, which ends at the Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary. There are a number of traditional boat tours and water taxis that sail across the creek throughout the day.
Table-9
Table 9 is a unique restaurant located in the Hilton Dubai Creek, which has earned a reputation for its high-quality and original cuisine. Set up in 2011 by Gordon Ramsay's protégés, Nick Alvis and Scott Price, this restaurant has won several public and industry awards for its innovative approach to modern European cuisine.
Chi @ The Lodge
Chi @ The Lodge, situated at the Al Nasr Leisure-land is a renowned nightclub, popular with the younger generation. This club is known for pumping out the best tracks in funk, house and Hip-Hop and also organizes many themed nights throughout the week. Overall, the nightclub offers four large rooms, a semi outdoor dance area and a VIP room.
Ikandy Ultralounge
Ikandy Ultralounge is a super trendy poolside bar and club, located on the Sheikh Zayed Road. The bar is particularly renowned for its reflecting pink lights, which make white clothes glow in the dark!
Things to do in Dubai in September
Dubai is very proud of its nature and animal-based attractions are some of the most popular in all of Dubai, especially with families with young children. The Dubai Zoo is the oldest zoo within the Arabian Peninsula and houses many native Arabian animals such as the Arabian Wolf and Socotra Cormorants which visitors are unlikely to see anywhere else. The zoo is open daily between 10am - 6pm.
Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve
For something a bit different, visitors should check out the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve. Aiming to retain Dubai's natural desert habitat amongst the huge urban expansion in the cities, this reserve offers a glimpse into the historic Dubai and is a fantastic chance to see animals in their natural environment. Many tour operators, including Arabian Adventures, offer activities in the reserve such as camel trekking and falconry.
Local Dubai Tours
On the other hand why not go for a wild ride through the desert in a 4x4. Local Dubai Tours offers a number of excursions out into the desert, in a top-of-the-range, air conditioned vehicle accompanied by an English speaking tour guide. At the end of the day you can also enjoy a barbecue buffet dinner, accompanied by a traditional belly dancing performance.
Hop-On, Hop-Off Bus Tour
Many activities in Dubai can be rather expensive, however they don't always have to be! The Hop-On, Hop-Off bus tour offers a flexible way of sightseeing the city centre with more than 20 convenient stops, dropping you off at places such as the Dubai Museum, the Gold Souk and Jumeirah Beach Park. The ticket also includes a free walking tour, entrance to the Dubai Museum, Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum's House and the Arabian Dhow Cruise.
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How to Handle a Disaster, Not Just the PR Fallout
At some point you will need to focus on saving face, but your first and most important step is to save your company.
By Erik Sherman@ErikSherman
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There is no shortage of advice on how to step up your PR efforts to survive a disaster. That's important, of course, but the emphasis on preserving your public face misses something vital: If you don't fix the problem, you may not last long enough to live anything down.
Every single company will experience at least one disaster and, depending on your luck, perhaps many. If you need big examples, look no further than the automotive industry. Just as Toyota comes to grips, via a $1.2 billion settlement, with its problems with cars that accelerated when people didn't want them to, GM faces a gazillion malfunctioning ignition switches. Recalls are only on 1.62 million cars. So far.
The Definition of Disaster
Let's get the definition straight first. A disaster isn't just a problem. A disaster is something that can, or seems like it could, critically injure your company. For example, the bank balance is rapidly dwindling and the large deal you've been hoping for seems like it has about as much life as the Norwegian Blue parrot in the famous "Monty Python" skit. Disaster is the first time a privacy issue blew up in Facebook's face (before it learned though experience that not enough people would get angry to matter).
Or it could be when Hotmail--before being acquired by Microsoft--had a massive data loss a year after its launch, as described below by Scott Weiss, employee 13 at Hotmail and, these days, a partner at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. Roughly a quarter of all users lost all their data:
Understandably, they were pissed. CNET and ZDnet were both on the horn wanting to know what happened. Customer care was inundated with angry calls and (ironically) emails. We figured out how to restore a few thousand customers, but millions were completely unrecoverable. While the calls rolled in, we were trying to figure out how to fix things.
The exact nature of "bad" changes, but you know it when you've hit it. Or, as Weiss calls it, WFIO, which stands for "We're f****d, it's over." Pronounced wiff-ee-oh.
Some people are born to handle a crisis. Some learn how to. When you're an entrepreneur, you absolutely, positively must fall into one of those camps. Weiss has some great suggestions of how to get better at responding to a crisis. I'll add some of my own.
Realize it's really not that bad.
No, really, it's not that bad. One of the biggest problems in addressing a crisis is that you freeze because you're sure life is hopeless. Go through the mental exercise of asking yourself what is literally the worst that could happen. Company goes out of business? Really bad, but it could be a lot worse, presuming this isn't the sort of disaster accompanied by body bags or the sun turning supernova. Keep things in perspective and you're more likely to know a solution when you see it.
Get all the brains around the table.
Weiss says that the common reaction is to close ranks and not tell people what it going on. His point is to gather the "smartest people in the room and work through every angle." I'll go a step further: Get everyone in the room who might know something that could help. Don't assume that the very clever people at the top, who may have made the disaster possible in the first place, are the only ones to address it. Gather all the talent and brains and you may find someone has an operational fix, an effective shift in manufacturing processes, or an unrealized revenue source. Get help from the people who have the most to lose and gain.
Prioritize like mad.
In an emergency, you need to focus on what is most critical, then the next most important thing, and so on. It's triage in an emergency room. Stop the bleeding to stabilize someone and then layer on the other necessary treatments.
Lead like there's no tomorrow.
No matter how scared or freaked out you might be, it's time to step up and lead your team. Maybe you'll make the wrong decisions, but letting things follow their natural course is likely even more dangerous (assuming that you've got a clear view of exactly how bad things are). Take control and get people moving on what they need to do. If you panic, everyone else will and you're sunk.
Sounds completely crazy, doesn't it? If you're not some demented adrenaline junkie, how can you enjoy a disaster? It's not the danger that you should embrace, but the process of bringing things home safely. You need the calm spot from which you assess information, make decisions, and take action. It can be an amazing experience and will teach you more about leadership than you realized was possible to learn.
You can't outfox all disasters. There may be times that the best you can do is face defeat with as much composure and character as you can muster. But never give up until it is undeniable that you are at an end. It may be in the metaphorical last few minutes that you find a way through the mess and come out stronger than before.
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Linda Baddour
SAB Healthcare
Linda Baddour serves on Genstar’s Strategic Advisory Board and advises the firm in the area of healthcare.
Ms. Baddour is currently serving on the board of directors of Advarra, Signant Health and Waters Corporation (“Waters”). Waters is the world’s leading specialty measurement company focused on improving human health and well-being through the application of advanced analytical science technologies. With approximately 7,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 31 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, and with products available in more than 100 countries.
Ms. Baddour has over twenty years of experience in the Life Sciences industry. From June 2007 to October 2018, Ms. Baddour served as Executive Vice President and CFO of PRA Health Sciences (“PRA”). PRA is a global contract research organization and data science company serving the pharmaceutical and biotech industry for more than 40 years. PRA, formerly a Genstar portfolio company, grew from approximately 3000 employees to over 17,000 during her tenure with the company.
In addition to her eleven years at PRA, Ms. Baddour worked at Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc (“PPD”) from November 1995 to May 2007. She served as CFO at PPD from 2002 until her departure to join PRA. At PPD, she also managed the company’s M&A and information technology strategies. Prior to being named CFO at PPD, she was Treasurer and Chief Accounting Officer.
Ms. Baddour is also a certified public accountant.
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, MBA
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, BA
Advarra
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