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Watch English Premier League – Cheap and Cheerful
The English Premier League, the most watched football league across Africa has come into contact with a broadcasting rights arrangement with Econet Media, owned by Zimbabwean telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa. The new deal will make games available on a free-to-air basis for fans across sub-Saharan Africa. Africa represents one of the fastest growing fan-bases for the Englishbased club competition, assisted by the success of players from the continent, such as Leicester City’s Algerian player, Riyad Mahrez, and Manchester City’s Ivorian midfielder, Yaya Toure. This move will certainly help to grow this audience, which was at 260 million last season.
The three-year agreement will initiate during the 2016-17 season and run through to 2019. Econet’s Kwesé Sports will air a live match every Saturday afternoon for subscriptionfree views in 50 African countries. The rights also give the channel access to screen shows and post-match highlights programming. “Premier League clubs enjoy passionate support across sub-Saharan Africa and these rights are important to ensuring that as many fans as possible can follow and enjoy our competition,” Richard Scudamore, the Executive Chairman of the Premier League, said in a statement.
Econet’s Kwese Sports will air a live match every Saturday afternoon for subscription-free views in 50 African countries. The rights also give the access to screen shows & post-match highlights programming.
Presently, South Africa’s pay- TV provider, Multichoice, owns the broadcasting rights for the league in Africa. It paid £296 ($428) million for the rights to broadcast the league for the 2016-19 seasons. And their offering through Supersport, the platform that shows the matches, costs a minimum subscription fee of $40 a month for a limited number of games every week, and can go up to as much as $100 for full access.
But the arrival of Kwesé TV, which launched only last December could start to challenge the near monopoly that Multichoice has relished in this space. And competing for the football audience across the continent is one way of trying to eat into the Naspers-owned company’s market share.
“We want to make this league available to fans across sub-Saharan Africa,” Joseph Hundah, the CEO of Econet media, said. “We hope to widen access to this property.”
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The Mexica Face.
Much has been written about the Aztecs. From the so-called "sources" and later the Creoles who have tried to validate their project of "neo colonial country", in a vague and remote indigenous origin. The Creoles handled the image of the Aztecs, as well as the Europeans have managed the image of the Greeks and Romans, as their most ancient and glorious ancestors.
Many lies have been written about the Aztecs. Whether to revile them and depict them as powerful wild demonic idolaters, who swam in bold rivers, from the sacrifice of thousands and thousands of human beings. And who were heroically defeated by a handful of spanish "soldiers", led by a valiant charismatic leader.
Or to depict them as an evolved culture, creators of all the Anahuac grandeur. Inventors of calendar, mathematics, language, architecture and engineering, as well as religion and social organization forms. Owners of the "red and black ink", creators of the Toltecáyotl.
Neither of the two versions is true. Must not base the decolonization of our nation and the search of our ancient root, in the last peoples which savagely arrived from the North, when there had already been centuries since the collapse of the Anahuac splendor. There cannot be pride over the people that exploited the Anahuac, the people who transgreded the Toltecáyotl. It is not a matter of taking a radical position for or against. It is in fact a matter of establishing the entire civilization dimension and potential of ancient history before the invasion, in order to actually revive our historical memory and dismantle colonizer myths and lies. We must realize that who created the "Aztec Empire" myth, were the colonizers, because in the end, a handful of their ancestors conquered and destroyed the "formidable Mexica power".
To maintain the myth of the alleged Aztec power and its inaccurate greatness, is to remain at the mercy of the conquerors cultural inheritors, who in this way prevents us from knowing at a greater depth the ancient civilization of which we are living part. 166
Of course, the Aztec formidable ability to break the depressive inertia of the Anahuac culture in the Postclassical must be recognized. Their great will power and temperance to overcome the hegemony consolidation challenges. Their ability to re-functionalize art is an undeniable proof of the reaches and talent that the Aztec culture had. These features and virtues cannot pass unnoticed, but we cannot vainly exalt the false and negative. We must analyze and understand the reasons why, a handful of criminals, could subjugate millions of native people. To know the truth will allow us to initiate the reevaluation path of our ancient civilization and end the colonization.
There are seven thousand three hundred years of human development, diverse cultures and periods of incredible splendor, that we must consider for structuring the ancient grandparents cultural and historical heritage and consequently behave as "the sons of the sons of them", facing the future.
"A deeper study of this society (Aztec) would show without a doubt, deep contradictions, which would in turn explain the internal tensions which it tried relieve, occasionally in a ritual way. And the origin of these contradictions needs to be looked for in the overlay and the mixture of different cultures -the Toltec, transmitted to sedentary inhabitants of the Valley, and of the nomadic tribes which formed part the Aztecs that contributed to shape the Mexican civilization, just as it was at the time of its discovery." (Jacques Soustelle. 1955)
The Aztec culture is then a mixture, sometimes harmonious and other discordant, of the ancient wisdom Toltec, full of spiritual and religious symbols, which at the time was in decadence, and the vigorous Aztec culture, heir of a strong material power will, to survive in a semiarid and rugged world. The nomad warriors under development and the sedentary peaceful peoples in decline. The mixture of mystical peoples and warrior peoples.
The Aztecs was a culture that could not conclude the syncretism and the mix between the two bequests that gave it life. In reality their time was very short (from 1325 with the founding of Tenochtitlan to 1521 167
with its fall only lasted 196 years) in relation to the seven and a half thousand years period lasted the Anahuac civilization, since the agriculture invention to the European invasion.
The Aztecs history can be divided into three very short periods. The first period occurred from their arrival, as nomadic barbarians, to the Anahuac Valley the 12th century and their power seizure with the Itzcóatl Tlatoani in 1424, where Tlacaelel begins his political career while still was very young. The second period covers the Tlacaelel as Cihuacoátl, influence and hegemony over several Tlatoanis (Itzcóatl, Moctezuma I (the elder), Axayacatl, Tízoc and Ahuizotl) until his death in 1480. The third period, from Tlacaelel death to the fall of Tenochtitlan.
The Aztecs did not have time to reconstitute the Tlacaelel ideology. In the last period, before the Spanish invasion, there was a stream of senior civil and religious leaders that proposed returning to an ideology and religion closer to the ancient Toltec. This situation further aggravated the conflict of the ruling class at the time of the arrival of Cortés, because the followers of the Tlacaelel thought wanted to exterminate the intruders and those who want to return to the Toltec ancient Quetzalcoatl doctrine, asked to receive Cortés as Quetzalcoatls Ambassador.
The truth is that the Aztecs lacked time to mature and polish their ideology and religion. In some fields, especially art, the Aztecs not only matched the skill of the ancient Toltecs, but as can be seen today, especially in the Aztec Hall of the National Anthropology and History Museum, in some cases they exceed the Toltec masters.
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Processing of Advanced Materials Group
Welcome to the page for Patrick Grant, Vesuvius Professor of Materials, and the Processing of Advanced Materials research group at Oxford University. Our research takes place at the interface between advanced materials and manufacturing. Particular applications include electrodes for energy storage and advanced metallic alloys for power generation.
Many of our research projects are concerned with solidification behaviour in complex alloys, and/or the use of liquid metal, ceramic or polymer droplet and powder sprays to create unusual materials. The group works closely with industry and other universities, and has many specialised synthesis and fabrication facilities.
The group is primarily based at Oxford University's Begbroke Science Park, approximately 5 miles north of Oxford. The Begbroke Science Park provides large-scale laboratories unavailable in Oxford - critical for manufacturing research at a meaningful scale - and the 350sqm Advanced Processing Laboratory is the hub for the group's research. Examples of our research, the group equipment and research outputs are described below. Please get in contact if you would like any further information.
Studying crystallization using X-ray radiography and machine learning. We describe an X-ray radiographic study of the crystallization behaviour of liquid alloys using X-ray radiography and machine learning in Science Advances. Working with colleagues from Andrew Zisserman's computer vision group in the Department of Engineering Science, we used machine learning techniques to teach a computer to automatically detect the nucleation of crystals in terra-bytes of X-ray radiographic videos obtained during solidification experiments at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). The quality of the videos combined with computer vision techniques allows the alloy composition at the point and instant of nucleation to be determined automatically, which in turn allows an estimate of the temperature and nucleation undercooling for every crystallization event. Studying thousands of nucleation events, we show how undercooling varies with solidification conditions, and explain how sudden bursts of crystallization are linked to the thermal-solute conditions in the liquid. Machine learning computer vision allowed enormous volumes of data that were unanalysable by hand to be converted robustly into distributions of nucleation undercoolings.
The group will lead the University's contribution to one of the UK's new Future Manufacturing Hubs, announced on Monday 5 December 2016 by the Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, Jo Johnson. The UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will invest £10M into the Manufacture using Advanced Powder Processes (MAPP) Hub, led by the University of Sheffield and also involving the universities of Oxford, Leeds, Manchester and Imperial College London; 17 industry partners; and six centres within the UK’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
MAPP will focus on developing new powder-based manufacturing processes that provide low energy, low cost and low waste manufacturing routes and products for UK industry, and will be part of the Sir Henry Royce Institute for Materials Research. The work in the Processing of Advanced Materials group will concern novel uses of field assisted sintering for controlling the microstructure of structural and functional materials.
Dr Fritsch field assisted sintering technique (FAST) apparatus was commissioned in December 2015. FAST is a powder consolidation process in which a pulsed direct current is passed through a green powder compact and/or a graphite die under vacuum and uniaxial pressure. Joule heating in the die and/or the compact (depending on die arrangement and materials used) reduces consolidation times from many hours to a few minutes. FAST is similar to the Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) process.
The FAST is being used to consolidate Fe, Cu and W based dispersion strengthened powders produced in-house for nuclear power applications. Consolidation investigations of various functional materials has also started, along with using the FAST to join materials.
In August 2015 we started working with our new North Star Imaging Imagix 150 kV microfocus X-ray tomography (XRT) unit. The XRT is being used to map and quantify the 3D distributions of any pores or voids in advanced alloys, to study the distribution of dielectric and magnetic micro-particles in 3D printed functional composites, and to investigate the internal structure of Li-ion battery and supercapacitor cells being manufactured in the group using layer-by-layer processing.
The XRT also complements our synchrotron X-ray research on the dynamics of solidification and the manipulation of cast microstructure, allowing some experimental debugging and prelimiinary data capture before transferring our solidification rigs to national synchrotron X-ray sources such as the Diamond Light Source.
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Materials for Fission and Fusion Power is research cluster based in the Department of Materials, spanning many research groups and research specialisms. It concerns an integrated research approach to understand, at the microstructural level, the key structural integrity issues that underpin development and application of alloys for high temperature and high neutron flux environments typical of next generation fission and fusion reactors.
Our role is to research the manufacture of oxide dispersion strengthened steels and copper alloys, and ultra-thick tungsten coatings for use in future fission and fusion power reactors. Key sponsors are the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE) and the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL).
The EPSRC Future Liquid Metal Engineering (LiME) Hub, involves the universities of Brunel, Oxford, Manchester and Leeds, and Imperial College London, along with industrial partners, to undertake a major programme of integrated research to reduce dependency on primary metals, increase recycling and boost the performance of castings.
Our work concerns real-time X-ray synchrotron imaging of solidification, quantification of important dynamic processes such as crystal nucleation, growth and fragmentation, together with detailed microstructural examination and numerical modelling. Our aim is to develop a new family of more tolerant alloy-process combinations.
Adaptive Tools for Electromagnetics and Materials Modelling to Bridge the Gap between Design and Manufacturing (AOTOMAT) .
The group is developing the new materials and manufacturing technology required for practical applications, including the manufacture of graded electrical and magnetic materials using new adaptations of 3D printing. In some arrangments, the structured materials - or meta-materials - produce unusual interactions with microwaves unavailable in conventional materials. We are also studying active meta-materials where their microwave response is controlled by an external stimulus.
The SuperGen Energy Storage Hub is a national collaboration funded by EPSRC for research on all types of storage technologies. Our work focuses on the manufacture of improved, structured electrodes for batteries and supercapacitors, particularly new approaches for structured electrodes.
We are researching new manufacturing-material combinations for grid-scale storage in EPSRC Grand Challenge: Energy Storage for Low Carbon Grids, led by Imperial College London. Both these projects form part of our contribution to The Energy Storage Research Network.
Oxford Energy provides more information on how our work links with Oxford University's wider energy research activities.
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A gallery of photos of the group, visitors and other activities:
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Research studentships
Research studentship opportunities in the group are given on the departmental website along with how to apply and closing dates for gathered field assessment of applications HERE
Funded post-doctoral research assistant jobs in the group are posted here as and when external funding is available - please check back later.
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Some recent journal publications:
Overcoming diffusion limitations in supercapacitors using layered electrodes, R. Drummond, C. Huang, P.S. Grant and S.R. Duncan, J. Power Sources, 433 (2019), 126579.
Single-operation, multi-phase additive manufacture of electrochemical double layer capacitor devices, L. Fieber, J.D. Evans, C. Huang and P.S. Grant, Additive Manufact., 28 (2019), 244-353.
The essential role of cavitation bubble fraction in controlling acoustic streaming: relevance to ultrasonic liquid metal processing, G.S.B. Lebon, I. Tzanakis, K. Pericleous, D. Eskin and P.S. Grant, Ultrasonics Sonochem., 55 (2019), 243-255.
Layer-by-layer printing of multi-layered heterostructures using Li4Ti5O12 and Si for high power Li-ion storage, S.H. Lee, C. Huang and P.S. Grant, Nano Energy, 61 (2019), 96-103.
Micro-scale graded electrodes for improved dynamic and cycling performance of Li-ion batteries, C. Cheng, R. Drummond, S.R. Duncan and P.S. Grant, J. Power Sources, 413 (2019), 59-67.
Spray printed and self-assembling Si-decorated carbon nanofibre high capacity Li ion battery electrodes, S.H. Lee, K. Li and P.S. Grant, ACS Appl. Mat. Interfaces, 11 (2019), 603-612.
3D-printed quarter wavelength phase plate for broadband microwave applications, Y. Wu, P.S. Grant and D. Isakov, Optics Express, 26 (2018), 29068-29073.
Spray printing and optimization of anodes and cathodes for high performance Li ion batteries, S.H. Lee, C. Huang, C. Johnston and P.S. Grant, Electrochimica Acta, 292 (2018), 546-557.
Coral-like directional porous lithium ion battery cathodes by ice templating, C. Huang and P.S. Grant, J. Mat. Chem. A, 6 (2018), 14689-14699.
Spray printing of self-assembled porous structures for high power battery electrodes, S-H.Lee, A. Mahadevegowda, C. Huang, J.D. Evans and P.S. Grant, J. Mat. Chem. A, 6 (2018), 13133-13141.
Modelling and neutron diffraction characterization of the interfacial bonding of spray formed dissimilar steels, T.L. Lee, J. Mi, S.B. Ren, J.F. Fan, S. Kabra, S.Y. Zhang and P.S. Grant, Acta Mat., 155 (2018), 318-330.
Microstructural and mechanical characterisation of Fe-14Cr-0.22Hf alloy fabricated by spark plasma sintering, M.A. Auger, Y. Huang, H. Zhang, C. Jones, Z. Hong, M.P. Moody, S.G. Roberts and P.S. Grant, J. Alloys Comp., 762 (2018), 678-687.
Multi-scale engineered Si-SiO2 nanocomposite electrodes for lithium ion batteries using layer-by-layer spray deposition, C. Huang, A. Kim, D.J. Chung, E. Park, N.P. Young, K. Jurkschat, H. Kim and P.S. Grant, ACS Appl. Mat. Interfaces, 10 (2018), 15624-15633.
Crystal nucleation in metallic alloys using X-ray radiography and machine learning, E. Liotti, C. Arteta, A. Zisserman, A. Lui, V. Lempitsky and P.S. Grant, Sci. Adv., 4 (2018), eaar4004.
Development of a novel melt spinning based processing route for oxide dispersion strengthened steels, Z. Hong, A. Morrison, H. Zhang, S.G. Roberts and P.S. Grant, Mat. Trans. A, 49 (2018), 604-612.
An in situ method to estimate the tip temperature and phase selection of secondary Fe-rich intermetallics using synchrotron X-ray radiography, S. Feng, E. Liotti, A. Lui, S. Kumar, A. Mahadevegowda, K.A.Q. O'Reilly and P.S. Grant, Scripta Mat., 149 (2018), 44-48.
High-frequency supercapacitors based on doped carbon nanotube arrays, Z. Han, C. Huang, S.S. Meysami, D. Piche, D.H. Seo, S. Pineda, A.T. Murdock, P.G. Bruce, P.S. Grant and N. Grobert, Carbon, 126 (2018), 305-312.
Fabrication of composite filaments with high dielectric permittivity for fused deposition 3D printing, Y. Wu, D. Isakov and P.S. Grant, Materials, 10 (2017), 1218.
The generalised Maxwell fish-eye lens as a beam splitter: a case study in realising all-dielectric devices from transformation electromagnetics, Q. Lei, R. Foster, P.S. Grant and C. Grovenor, IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Techn., 65 (2017), 4823-4835.
Vertically-aligned silicon carbide nanowires as visible-light-driven photocatalysts, J. Hong, S. S. Meysami, V. Babenko, C. Huang, S. Luanwuthi, J. Acapulco, P. Holdway, P.S. Grant and N. Grobert, Appl. Catalysis B: Environ., 218 (2017), 267-276.
A new approach to fabricate superconducting NbTi alloys, T. Mousavi, Z. Hong, A. Morrison, A. London, P.S. Grant, C.R.M. Grovenor and S. Speller, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 30 (2017), 094001 (11pp).
A split ring resonator dielectric probe for near-field dielectric imaging, D. Isakov, C.J. Stevens, F. Castles and P.S. Grant, Sci. Rep., 7 (2017), 2038-1-9.
A two layer electrode structure for improved Li ion diffusion and volumetric capacity in Li ion batteries, C. Huang, N.P. Young, J. Zhang, H.J. Snaith and P.S. Grant, Nano Energy, 31 (2017), 377-385.
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Other publications:
A white paper from 2016: UK research needs in grid scale energy storage technologies, N.P. Brandon et al.
A report from 2004: The Aircraft at End of Life Sector: a Preliminary Study, I. Towle, C. Johnston and P.S. Grant
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Professor Patrick Grant
Department of Materials, Oxford University
Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, UK
T: 44-1865-283763 or 283324
F: 44-1865-848785
patrick.grant@materials.ox.ac.uk
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Ink-Slinger Profiles: George W. French, Cartooning "Ads" Up
George Willard French was born in Buchanan, Michigan on November 6, 1883, according to this World War I and II draft cards. In the 1900 U.S. Federal Census, he was the second of three children born to Willard and Ella; they lived in Bertrand, Michigan. Nothing is known, at this time, about French's art training. He was a cartoonist with the Chicago American. The Elkhart Truth (Indiana) reprinted his Chicago American drawing of stage actor Richard Carle on January 20, 1909.
In 1910 French lived in Chicago, Illinois at 6555 South Park Avenue; he was married to Pauline and had two daughters aged three and 7 months. He was an artist for a newspaper. Around this time he did an illustration of the magician Thurston for the Chicago American. French took over Pete Llanuza's sports editorial panel on October 30, 1911 and changed it to a general humor panel with an occasional sports cartoon. The panel was titled Anxious Moments about half the time, while the rest used one-shot titles. The title was used occasionally in his editorial cartoons; he was "promoted" to editorial cartoonist of the Record-Herald on March 2, 1913.
The January 1913 issue of Popular Mechanics published a Cartoons ad which highlighted an article by French who gives "an explanation of the origin of his Anxious Moments cartoon series." The trade journal, Printers' Ink, published this item on May 31, 1917, "George W. French, formerly a cartoonist on the Chicago Record-Herald, has joined the Ostenrieder Advertising Corporation of Chicago."
French signed his World War I draft card on September 12, 1918. He lived at 7701 South Morgan Street in Chicago, and was a self-employed advertising designer, with an office at the Kimball Building in Chicago. His description was short height, medium build with gray eyes and gray-brown hair.
The 1920 census recorded the French family at the same address as his draft card. He was a commercial artist in the newspaper industry, and had a successful career in advertising. The trade journal, Printed Salesmanship, in its June 1929 issue, published his article, "Why Pillsbury Uses the Glorified Cartoon to Sell Pancake Flour". He explained why cartoons are an effective selling tool. The journal included this brief bio:
George W. French, the free-lance artist who created the "Ernest McGroucher" series for Pillsbury's pancake flour advertising, was a cartoonist on the staff of the Chicago Record-Herald prior to his entry into the commercial art field.
MagazineArt.org has one of his Pillsbury's Pancake Flour ads.
According to the 1930 census, French had remarried; her name was Hazel. It's not known what happened to his first wife. The family lived in Chicago at 440 Barry Avenue. He was a commercial artist. French signed his World War II draft card on April 27, 1942. His address was 415 Fullerton Parkway, Chicago. He was self-employed and worked at 75 East Wacker Drive in Chicago. Excerpts from the 1942 trade journal, Sales Management, article, "Alka-Seltzer's Glad Ad-Artist":
Thousands have chuckled over the doings and sayings of the big-headed little people in the Alka-Seltzer and One-a-Day Vitamins car card advertisements. Their creator, G.W. French, of Chicago, is just as colorful as they are, and he radiates the same cheerful optimism that characterizes them (except those among them who have not yet discovered the virtues of Alka-Seltzer).
Born on a Michigan farm, Artist French has never done any other work except drawing—first for newspapers, as a cartoonist, and later as an independent commercial artist. He started making the Alka-Seltzer drawings in 1934, adopting "large head, small body" figures, so that the "audience could see the facial expressions of the speaker." He writes the verses himself. The characters are everyday people in everyday situations.
Cartoonist French's philosophy is thus summed up in his own words: "I want my drawings to radiate happiness and to belittle distress. I want people to feel better just by reading them and looking at them…"
Samples of his Alka-Seltzer ads can be viewed at Lambiek.
French's death notice from the Chicago Tribune, June 30 1955, contributed by Cole Johnson:
George W. French, 71, of 415 Fullerton Pkwy, cartoonist and commercial artist, died yesterday at his home. Surviving are his widow Mae, two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Ford, and Mrs. Marjorie Ruud, three grandchildren, and a brother. The funeral will be held tomorrow in the chapel at 5501 N. Ashland Ave.
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A Load of Crap
Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole
Polar scientists reveal dramatic new evidence of climate change (BULLSHIT)
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. (First of all that is not what the evidence shows, and secondly there are navigational maps in Chinese Museums that plot courses across what is now called the "permanent Ice Pack")
The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer. (yet if you look at their graphs the melt is equivalent to last year, and there was ice there then.)
"From the viewpoint of science, the North Pole is just another point on the globe, but symbolically it is hugely important. There is supposed to be ice at the North Pole, not open water," said Mark Serreze of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado. (gee did Mark scold mother nature for Not doing what he demands? Even though this event has yet to happen)
If it happens, it raises the prospect of the Arctic nations being able to exploit the valuable oil and mineral deposits below these a bed which have until now been impossible to extract because of the thick sea ice above. (but my god that's planet rape! for OIL)
Seasoned polar scientists believe the chances of a totally ice free North Pole this summer are greater than 50:50 because the normally thick ice formed over many years at the Pole has been blown away and replaced by huge swathes of thinner ice formed over a single year. (Blown Away? by what? They also ignore the fact that over the past two years the North Pole has shifted 2 degrees. I work in the Aviation field and the had to update all the navigational maps. The last time the pole shifted the area known as the Sahara Desert was formed)
This one-year ice is highly vulnerable to melting during the summer months and satellite data coming in over recent weeks shows that the rate of melting is faster than last year, when there was an all-time record loss of summer sea ice at the Arctic. (that's not what the graph they include in this article shows)
"The issue is that, for the first time that I am aware of, the North Pole is covered with extensive first-year ice – ice that formed last autumn and winter. I'd say it's even-odds whether the North Pole melts out," said Dr Serreze. (Dr Serreze needs to study History better. What has occurred in his lifetime is minuscule in the grand scale of even human history, let alone Global History)
Each summer the sea ice melts before reforming again during the long Arctic winter but the loss of sea ice last year was so extensive that much of the Arctic Ocean became open water, with the water-ice boundary coming just 700 miles away from the North Pole. (and yet not a single coastal city was flooded. Amazing!)
This meant that about 70 per cent of the sea ice present this spring was single-year ice formed over last winter. Scientists predict that at least 70 per cent of this single-year ice – and perhaps all of it – will melt completely this summer, Dr Serreze said.
"Indeed, for the Arctic as a whole, the melt season started with even more thin ice than in 2007, hence concerns that we may even beat last year's sea-ice minimum. We'll see what happens, a great deal depends on the weather patterns in July and August," he said. (Gee no kidding)
Ron Lindsay, a polar scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle, agreed that much now depends on what happens to the Arctic weather in terms of wind patterns and hours of sunshine. "There's a good chance that it will all melt away at the North Pole, it's certainly feasible, but it's not guaranteed," Dr Lindsay said. (in other words they have NO CLUE)
The polar regions are experiencing the most dramatic increase in average temperatures due to global warming and scientists fear that as more sea ice is lost, the darker, open ocean will absorb more heat and raise local temperatures even further. Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University, who was one of the first civilian scientists to sail underneath the Arctic sea ice in a Royal Navy submarine, said that the conditions are ripe for an unprecedented melting of the ice at the North Pole. (They should have left him under the ice.)
"Last year we saw huge areas of the ocean open up, which has never been experienced before. (BULLSHIT) People are expecting this to continue this year and it is likely to extend over the North Pole. It is quite likely that the North Pole will be exposed this summer – it's not happened before," Professor Wadhams said. (NOT TRUE ACCORDING TO HISTORIC RECORD)
There are other indications that the Arctic sea ice is showing signs of breaking up. Scientists at the Nasa Goddard Space Flight Centre said that the North Water 'polynya' – an expanse of open water surrounded on all sides by ice – that normally forms near Alaska and Banks Island off the Canadian coast, is much larger than normal. Polynyas absorb heat from the sun and eat away at the edge of the sea ice.
Inuit natives living near Baffin Bay between Canada and Greenland are also reporting that the sea ice there is starting to break up much earlier than normal and that they have seen wide cracks appearing in the ice where it normally remains stable. Satellite measurements collected over nearly 30 years show a significant decline in the extent of the Arctic sea ice, which has become more rapid in recent years. (ooowww lets all panic)
This "News" article is nothing but innuendo and scare tactics trying to reinforce a fairy tale called Man Made Global Warming.
Heller quotes from the majority - opinion is linked in the next post
Opinion of the Court
In sum, we hold that the Districts ban on Handgun possession in the home violates the Second Amendment, as does its prohibition against rendering any lawful firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense. Assuming that Heller is not disqualified from the exercise of Second Amendment rights, the District must permit him to register his handgun and must issue him a license to carry it in the house.
We are aware of the problems of handgun violence, and we take seriously the concerns of many amici that believe that the prohibition of handgun ownership is a solution. The Constitution leaves the District of Columbia a variety of tools for combating that problem, including some measures regulating handguns, see supra at 54-55. and n. 26. But the enshrinement of the constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table. These include the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self defense in the home. Undoubtedly some think the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our Army is the pride of our Nation, where well trained Police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.
We affirm the Judgement of the Court of Appeals.
The opinion can be downloaded here.
Quotes from the opinion:
“Logic demands that there be a link between the stated purpose and the command.”
“We start therefore with a strong presumption that the Second Amendment right is exercised individually and belongs to all Americans.”
“the most natural reading of ‘keep Arms’ in the Second Amendment is to “have weapons.”
“The term was applied, then as now, to weapons that were not specifically designed for military use and were not employed in a military capacity.”
“Putting all of these textual elements together, we find that they guarantee the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.”
“Thus, we do not read the Second Amendment to protect the right of citizens to carry arms for any sort of confrontation, just as we do not read the First Amendment to protect the right of citizens to speak for any purpose.”
“The prefatory clause does not suggest that preserving the militia was the only reason Americans valued the ancient right; most undoubtedly thought it even more important for self-defense and hunting.”
“It was plainly the understanding in the post-Civil War Congress that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to use arms for self-defense.”
“Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.”
“Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”
“We also recognize another important limitation on the right to keep and carry arms. Miller said, as we have explained, that the sorts of weapons protected were those ‘in common use at the time.’ 307 U. S., at 179.”
“Whatever the reason, handguns are the most popular weapon chosen by Americans for self-defense in the home, and a complete prohibition of their use is invalid.”
“In sum, we hold that the District’s ban on handgun possession in the home violates the Second Amendment, as does its prohibition against rendering any lawful firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense. Assuming that Heller is not disqualified from the exercise of Second Amendment rights, the District must permit him to register his handgun and must issue him a license to carry it in the home.”
On the question of the Second Amendment’s application to the States: “23 With respect to Cruikshank’s continuing validity on incorporation, a question not presented by this case, we note that Cruikshank also said that the First Amendment did not apply against the States and did not engage in the sort of Fourteenth Amendment inquiry required by our later cases. Our later decisions in Presser v. Illinois, 116 U. S. 252, 265 (1886) and Miller v. Texas, 153 U. S. 535, 538 (1894), reaffirmed that the Second Amendment applies only to the Federal Government.”
Both Candidates Will do Nothing about This
Police Report: Mexican Army Members Busted for Home Invasion and Murder
The suspects may have been hired by drug cartels to perform home invasions and assassinations in the U.S.
View Police Documents:
Police reports show that three men arrested in a Phoenix home invasion and homicide Monday may have been active members of the Mexican Army.
While on the J.D. Hayworth show, Phoenix Law Enforcement Association President Mark Spencer said that the men involved were hired by drug cartels to perform home invasions and assassinations.
The Monday morning incident at 8329 W. Cypress St. resulted in the death of the homeowner. Between 50 and 100 rounds were fired at the house.
Spencer said a police officer told him that one of the men captured said they were completely prepared to ambush Phoenix police, but ran out of ammunition.
He added that all were all dressed in military tactical gear and were armed with AR-15 assault rifles. Three other men involved in the invasion escaped.
Click Here to listen to Mark Spencer's entire interview on the J.D. Hayworth show.
However, Phoenix Police have not confirmed the men were Mexican Army members.
Sgt. Joel Tranter said one suspect revealed that he had "prior military training," but "no credible evidence" that any of them were active in the military.
Click Here for more from Sgt. Tranter with KFYI reporter Bob Bennett.
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Sweet Dreams George
The Choice between two Non-Choices Pt.1
The Scam of all scams is being perpetrated on the American electorate. Now considering the American electorate that's not necessarily a hard thing to do. Out of a nation of roughly 300million, only at the best turnout 30-40 million vote.
This has caused over the past couple of decades a malaise to descend over those of us that do participate in the system. The few, the crazed, those of us that view politics as the only true sport. We work the polls we knock on doors we may even hold minor office in local government. We are the grunts.
Then there are the party Elites, the insiders that actually run for High office. Those inbred few that seem to be shoved down our throats as "THE Choice". Once in office they usually have to die to get them out, and this has even gone awry these days. If someone dies in office their wife or husband now slips in perpetuating this inbred line of miscreants that have no clue how to actually accomplish anything other than keep the money flowing to promote their own re-election. Only Those shepherded to this group are allowed to participate, and that is also guaranteed by the even smaller turnouts at off year elections.
Add to that the politicalization of the school system over the last 40yrs so that history is never taught, and if it is they look at the American past as a cesspool of slaveholders demanding their freedom. Not an accurate look at what this nation has accomplished, who accomplished it, and the ideals that drove them.
That is why we have as our choice, a lunatic who has been on a 20 year vendetta of attacking the constitutions first amendment representing one side, and an out and out Marxist running on the other. Now as far as I am concerned neither of these men are of a caliber to hold office as a dog catcher yet this is what the disgrace of the inbred two party system has lead us to as our choices. Do we elect the loon or the commie? That is this years election question.
Now the loon will continue to fight the war on terror but according to the Marxist that means that it's just a continuation of the Bush administration. On the other hand the Marxist will place a windfall profit tax on the oil companies which the loon points out is just a repeat of the Jimmy Carter Presidency. The difference between these two is said not be that different except for on the war. I disagree with that for a couple of reasons let me explain just some basics.
First off most of you balk at me calling the one candidate a Marxist. I ask why? Marxism is a viable economic philosophy that one third of the worlds population subscribe to. It doesn't matter to them that it has never achieved a prosperous society anywhere it has been practised. That fact also doesn't seem to deter the candidate either. He continues to preach the practices of this system every time he attempts a conversation on his economic plans.
Lets just look at the tax plans of the two. The Marxist says he will drop the Bush Tax Cuts and the Loon says he won't.
Basically what that means is:
a single person making $30,000 will pay $4,500 under the loon and $8,400 under the Marxist.
a single person making $75,000 will pay $18,750 under the loon and $23,250 under the Marxist. a married couple making $60,000 will pay $9,000 under the loon and $16,000 under the Marxist.
a married couple making $75,000 will pay $18,750 under the loon and $21,000 under the Marxist.
a married couple making $125,000 will pay $31,250 under the loon and $38,750 under the Marxist.
Capital Gains 15% to 28% Dividends 15% to 39.6% this effects Housing, and all IRAs and 401Ks. The death tax will also comeback which contrary to what you may have been told has the greatest impact on those that leave between $200,000 and $2,000,000 dollars to their families. How much is your Moms house worth? That should be your perspective.
That is a massive Tax increase on the middle class and a shutdown of the US investment economy. That is a loss of spending cash taken from the middle class. Add to that the inflation inflicted onto our economy from the doubling of the price of Gasoline and Natural Gas, and you get a meltdown of the US economy.
Urgent: House Democrats call for nationalization of refineries
In true Soviet Fashion or just like there favorite dictator Chavez, The Democrats response to the suggestion of drilling our own Oil, The Government should seize control of the nations refineries instead. But yeah they aren't Marxist.
Per Pergram-Capitol Hill
House Democrats responded to President's Bush's call for Congress to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling. This was at an on-camera press conference fed back live.
Among other things, the Democrats called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flow of the oil supply.
They also reasserted that the reason the Appropriations Committee markup (where the vote on the amendment to lift the ban) was cancelled so they could focus on preparing the supplemental Iraq spending bill for tomorrow.
At an off-camera briefing, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said the same. And a senior Republican House Appropriations Committee
Trollcast
Justice Scalia, writing in dissent, was blunt:
America is at war with radical Islamists. The enemy began by killing Americans and American allies abroad: 241 at the Marine barracks in Lebanon, 19 at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, 224 at our embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, and 17 on the USS Cole in Yemen. See National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 60–61, 70, 190 (2004). On September 11, 2001, the enemy brought the battle to American soil, killing 2,749 at the Twin Towers in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon in Washington, D. C., and 40 in Pennsylvania. See id., at 552, n. 9. It has threatened further attacks against our homeland; one need only walk about buttressed and barricaded Washington, or board a plane anywhere in the country, to know that the threat is a serious one. Our Armed Forces are now in the field against the enemy, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last week, 13 of our countrymen in arms were killed.
The game of bait-and-switch that today’s opinion plays upon the Nation’s Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.
He also noted: Justice Scalia notes in his dissent that the Court's decision is difficult to reconcile with American history as well as its own precedent:: "The category of prisoner comparable to these detainees are not the Eisentrager criminal defendants, but the more than 400,000 prisoners of war detained in the United States alone during World War II. Not a single one was accorded the right to have his detention validated by a habeas corpus action in federal court—and that despite the fact that they were present on U. S. soil."
Another Example that I am not alone in my opinion is here.
Opposing view: An inexplicable power grab
By Richard Samp
Throughout our nation's history, the courts have usually deferred to our elected branches of government — Congress and the president — on foreign affairs and national security issues. And with good reason. The courts simply lack the expertise and resources to justify second-guessing military experts on such issues.
In Thursday's sharply divided 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court decided to abandon that long history of deference. It decreed that henceforth, it will be the job of federal courts to decide on their own whether aliens captured on foreign battlefields are really "enemy combatants."
The court said the doctrine that it was upholding is enshrined in the Constitution, even though it candidly acknowledged that it could not cite a single prior case in which an American or English court had exercised such power in a case involving aliens held overseas.
There are a ton of examples of people that agree with my point of view.
In setting up the detention facility at Guantanamo, the Bush administration reasonably relied on the Court's decision in Johnson v. Eisentrager. In Eisentrager the Court held that nonresident enemy aliens have no right to seek relief in the federal courts in wartime. The Court does not expressly overrule Eisentrager in Boumediene, but Boumediene cannot fairly be reconciled with Eisentrager. The distinctions drawn by the majority between Eisentrager and Boumediene in part IV of Justice Kennedy's opinion are remarkably unpersuasive. The unpersuasiveness of this crucial part of the opinion shows the Court, rather than the Bush administration, to be acting arbitrarily.
Justice Kennedy concedes: "It is true that before today the Court has never held that noncitizens detained by our Government in territory over which another country maintains de jure sovereignty have any rights under our Constitution. But the case before us lacks any hisotorical parallel."
Boumediene works a vast expansion of the wartime power of the federal courts and, ultimately, of five members of the Supreme Court. By the same token, it contracts the power of the elected branches of government to provide for the common defense. With respect to the executive in particular, Hamilton's comments in Federalist 69 are suggestive in this context: "Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority." We will have occasion to regret the Court's handiwork in Boumediene for years to come.
An Asshole on the Court
President Kennedy
June 13, 2008; Page A14
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy isn't known for his judicial modesty. But for sheer willfulness, yesterday's 5-4 majority opinion in Boumediene v. Bush may earn him a historic place among the likes of Harry Blackmun. In a stroke, he and four other unelected Justices have declared their war-making supremacy over both Congress and the White House.
Boumediene concerns habeas corpus – the right of Americans to challenge detention by the government. Justice Kennedy has now extended that right to non-American enemy combatants captured abroad trying to kill Americans in the war on terror. We can say with confident horror that more Americans are likely to die as a result.
An Algerian native, Lakhdar Boumediene was detained by U.S. troops in Bosnia in January 2002 and is currently held at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. military heard the case for Boumediene's detention in 2004, and in the years since he has never appealed the finding that he is an enemy combatant, although he could under federal law. Instead, his lawyers asserted his "right" – as an alien held outside the United States – to a habeas hearing before a U.S. federal judge.
Justice Kennedy's opinion is remarkable in its sweeping disregard for the decisions of both political branches. In a pair of 2006 laws – the Detainee Treatment Act and the Military Commissions Act – Congress and the President had worked out painstaking and good-faith rules for handling enemy combatants during wartime. These rules came in response to previous Supreme Court decisions demanding such procedural care, and they are the most extensive ever granted to prisoners of war.
Yet as Justice Antonin Scalia notes in dissent, "Turns out" the same Justices "were just kidding." Mr. Kennedy now deems those efforts inadequate, based on only the most cursory analysis. As Chief Justice John Roberts makes clear in his dissent, the majority seems to dislike these procedures merely because a judge did not sanctify them. In their place, Justice Kennedy decrees that district court judges should derive their own ad hoc standards for judging habeas petitions. Make it up as you go!
Justice Kennedy declines even to consider what those standards should be, or how they would protect national security over classified information or the sources and methods that led to the detentions. Eventually, as the lower courts work their will amid endless litigation, perhaps President Kennedy will vouchsafe more details in some future case. In the meantime, the likelihood grows that our soldiers will prematurely release combatants who will kill more Americans.
To reach yesterday's decision, Justice Kennedy also had to dissemble about Justice Robert Jackson's famous 1950 decision in Johnson v. Eisentrager. In that case, German nationals had been tried and convicted by military commissions for providing aid to the Japanese after Germany's surrender in World War II. Justice Jackson ruled that non-Americans held in a prison in the American occupation zone in Germany did not warrant habeas corpus. But rather than overrule Eisentrager, Mr. Kennedy misinterprets it to pretend that it was based on mere "procedural" concerns. This is plainly dishonest.
By the logic of Boumediene, members of al Qaeda will now be able to challenge their status in court in a way that uniformed military officers of a legitimate army cannot. And Justice Scalia points out that this was not a right afforded even to the 400,000 prisoners of war detained on American soil during World War II. It is difficult to understand why any terrorist held anywhere in the world – whether at Camp Cropper in Iraq or Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan – won't now have the same right to have their appeals heard in an American court.
Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution contains the so-called Suspension Clause, which says: "The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." Justice Kennedy makes much of the fact that we are not currently under "invasion or rebellion." But he ignores that these exceptions don't include war abroad because the Framers never contemplated that a non-citizen, captured overseas and held outside the U.S., could claim the same right.
Justice Kennedy's opinion is full of self-applause about his defense of the "great Writ," and no doubt it will be widely praised as a triumph for civil liberties. But we hope it is not a tragedy for civil liberties in the long run. If there is another attack on U.S. soil – perhaps one enabled by a terrorist released under the Kennedy rules – the public demand for security will trample the Constitutional delicacies of Boumediene. Just last month, a former Gitmo detainee killed a group of Iraqi soldiers when he blew himself up in Mosul. And he was someone the military thought it was safe to release.
Justice Jackson once famously observed that the Constitution is "not a suicide pact." About Anthony Kennedy's Constitution, we're not so sure.
'Bush Lied'? I Guess Not
'Bush Lied'? If Only It Were That Simple.
By Fred Hiatt
Monday, June 9, 2008; Page A17
Search the Internet for "Bush Lied" products, and you will find sites that offer more than a thousand designs. The basic "Bush Lied, People Died" bumper sticker is only the beginning.
Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, set out to provide the official foundation for what has become not only a thriving business but, more important, an article of faith among millions of Americans. And in releasing a committee report Thursday, he claimed to have accomplished his mission, though he did not use the L-word.
"In making the case for war, the administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when it was unsubstantiated, contradicted or even nonexistent," he said.
There's no question that the administration, and particularly Vice President Cheney, spoke with too much certainty at times and failed to anticipate or prepare the American people for the enormous undertaking in Iraq.
But dive into Rockefeller's report, in search of where exactly President Bush lied about what his intelligence agencies were telling him about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, and you may be surprised by what you find.
On Iraq's nuclear weapons program? The president's statements "were generally substantiated by intelligence community estimates."
On biological weapons, production capability and those infamous mobile laboratories? The president's statements "were substantiated by intelligence information."
On chemical weapons, then? "Substantiated by intelligence information."
On weapons of mass destruction overall (a separate section of the intelligence committee report)? "Generally substantiated by intelligence information." Delivery vehicles such as ballistic missiles? "Generally substantiated by available intelligence." Unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to deliver WMDs? "Generally substantiated by intelligence information."
As you read through the report, you begin to think maybe you've mistakenly picked up the minority dissent. But, no, this is the Rockefeller indictment. So, you think, the smoking gun must appear in the section on Bush's claims about Saddam Hussein's alleged ties to terrorism.
But statements regarding Iraq's support for terrorist groups other than al-Qaeda "were substantiated by intelligence information." Statements that Iraq provided safe haven for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other terrorists with ties to al-Qaeda "were substantiated by the intelligence assessments," and statements regarding Iraq's contacts with al-Qaeda "were substantiated by intelligence information." The report is left to complain about "implications" and statements that "left the impression" that those contacts led to substantive Iraqi cooperation.
In the report's final section, the committee takes issue with Bush's statements about Saddam Hussein's intentions and what the future might have held. But was that really a question of misrepresenting intelligence, or was it a question of judgment that politicians are expected to make?
After all, it was not Bush, but Rockefeller, who said in October 2002: "There has been some debate over how 'imminent' a threat Iraq poses. I do believe Iraq poses an imminent threat. I also believe after September 11, that question is increasingly outdated. . . . To insist on further evidence could put some of our fellow Americans at risk. Can we afford to take that chance? I do not think we can."
Rockefeller was reminded of that statement by the committee's vice chairman, Sen. Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.), who with three other Republican senators filed a minority dissent that includes many other such statements from Democratic senators who had access to the intelligence reports that Bush read. The dissenters assert that they were cut out of the report's preparation, allowing for a great deal of skewing and partisanship, but that even so, "the reports essentially validate what we have been saying all along: that policymakers' statements were substantiated by the intelligence."
Why does it matter, at this late date? The Rockefeller report will not cause a spike in "Bush Lied" mug sales, and the Bond dissent will not lead anyone to scrape the "Bush Lied" bumper sticker off his or her car.
But the phony "Bush lied" story line distracts from the biggest prewar failure: the fact that so much of the intelligence upon which Bush and Rockefeller and everyone else relied turned out to be tragically, catastrophically wrong.
And it trivializes a double dilemma that President Bill Clinton faced before Bush and that President Obama or McCain may well face after: when to act on a threat in the inevitable absence of perfect intelligence and how to mobilize popular support for such action, if deemed essential for national security, in a democracy that will always, and rightly, be reluctant.
For the next president, it may be Iran's nuclear program, or al-Qaeda sanctuaries in Pakistan, or, more likely, some potential horror that today no one even imagines. When that time comes, there will be plenty of warnings to heed from the Iraq experience, without the need to fictionalize more.
Says it All
Journalists getting a Clue
In the following article "The Press" get a glimpse of the truth about themselves. Now mind you it doesn't mean anything as far as changing what they are, which is just cheap opinion givers, but it's a funny article at least to me.
Tom Brokaw one of the better opinion givers that has inhabited our TV screens over the years shows that what made him one of the better ones is that he has at least a piece of a conscience.
He actually recognized that his fellow "Journalists" ignored issues. Oh my god hold my breath, you mean the "news" should be about issues? Well that's just revolutionary.
If you ask a student why they are attending journalism school you almost universally get the same response with slight variations. "I want to make a difference" or "I want to change the world". That's all well and good except for the fact that it's NOT THEIR JOB.
A "Reporters" job is to report facts about a topic or event PERIOD. It is not what passes for News Reporting in today's world. In the book Bias by Bernard Goldberg he explains in great detail how the press distorts, leaves out facts, and shapes a story.
The press are an elitist pack of scum that believe they know better than everyone else, and shape their stories to present their point of view as the gospel according to "The Evening News".
The truth however is they are on par with addicts, philanderers and lawyers. If Read the following story I hope you enjoy it as I did. You will note though that the only reason they have even caught a glimpse of their reality is because they had turned skills of treachery against one that some of them adore.
Here are some excepts from the article:
Jun 8, 3:56 PM EDT
Clinton's exit a preoccupation for reporters
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Now that Hillary Clinton has ended her bid for the presidency, political journalists are suddenly deprived of one of their favorite stories: When is she going to drop out?
More time was spent talking about when Clinton might call it quits than about how the candidates might deal with the war in Iraq, the high price of gasoline, home foreclosures or the sputtering economy. Or about anything that presumptive Republican nominee John McCain said or did during April and May, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism's analysis of political coverage in newspapers, on Internet sites and on television news.
"It was inappropriate, for journalists especially, to try to cut the process short," NBC News' anchor emeritus, Tom Brokaw, told The Associated Press. "It was an appropriate issue for people to report on, in context, but there was an awful lot of commentary disguised as reporting that gave the impression that people were trying to shove her out of the race."
Brokaw's old-school attitude often put him at odds with Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann when he joined them for primary night coverage on MSNBC this year. One example was last Tuesday. Brokaw was talking about the contrasts between McCain and Obama when Olbermann interjected about "a third one trying to shoehorn her way" into the coverage.
"Well, I think that's unfair, Keith," Brokaw replied. "I don't think she shoehorned her way in. When you look at the states that she won and the popular vote that she piled up, and the number of delegates that she has on her side, she's got real bargaining power in all of this."
Brokaw called all the discussion about Clinton's exit a product of "too much time and too little imagination."
"I've always felt that it was not the job of reporters to be like `The Gong Show' and hoot candidates off the stage," said John Harris, editor in chief of the Politico Web site.
"You can't count people out before they're out," she said. "Let the process play out. There was an awful lot of not letting the process play out on its own merits but trying in some respects to influence the process."
It's a variation of a criticism faced by political journalists for a half-century now: too much emphasis on the horse race and not enough on issues. Coverage was issue-oriented at the start of this campaign, but degenerated into a lot of stories about process, said Bob Schieffer, host of CBS News' "Face the Nation."
The 103 stories on whether or not Clinton should get out were nearly matched by the 100 stories on Obama's remarks about bitter people turning to guns and religion, according to the PEJ's index. There were 243 stories about Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
A Must Read
Iran and the Problem of Evil
By MICHAEL LEDEEN
June 7, 2008; Page A11
Ever since World War II, we have been driven by a passionate desire to understand how mass genocide, terror states and global war came about – and how we can prevent them in the future.
Above all, we have sought answers to several basic questions: Why did the West fail to see the coming of the catastrophe? Why were there so few efforts to thwart the fascist tide, and why did virtually all Western leaders, and so many Western intellectuals, treat the fascists as if they were normal political leaders, instead of the virulent revolutionaries they really were? Why did the main designated victims – the Jews – similarly fail to recognize the magnitude of their impending doom? Why was resistance so rare?
Most eventually accepted a twofold "explanation": the uniqueness of the evil, and the lack of historical precedent for it. Italy and Germany were two of the most civilized and cultured nations in the world. It was difficult to appreciate that a great evil had become paramount in the countries that had produced Kant, Beethoven, Dante and Rossini.
How could Western leaders, let alone the victims, be blamed for failing to see something that was almost totally new – systematic mass murder on a vast scale, and a threat to civilization itself? Never before had there been such an organized campaign to destroy an entire "race," and it was therefore almost impossible to see it coming, or even to recognize it as it got under way.
The failure to understand what was happening took a well-known form: a systematic refusal to view our enemies plain. Hitler's rants, whether in "Mein Kampf" or at Nazi Party rallies, were often downplayed as "politics," a way of maintaining popular support. They were rarely taken seriously as solemn promises he fully intended to fulfill. Mussolini's call for the creation of a new Italian Empire, and his later alliance with Hitler, were often downplayed as mere bluster, or even excused on the grounds that, since other European countries had overseas territories, why not Italy?
Some scholars broadened the analysis to include other evil regimes, such as Stalin's Russia, which also systematically murdered millions of people and whose ambitions similarly threatened the West. Just as with fascism, most contemporaries found it nearly impossible to believe that the Gulag Archipelago was what it was. And just as with fascism, we studied it so that the next time we would see evil early enough to prevent it from threatening us again.
By now, there is very little we do not know about such regimes, and such movements. Some of our greatest scholars have described them, analyzed the reasons for their success, and chronicled the wars we fought to defeat them. Our understanding is considerable, as is the honesty and intensity of our desire that such things must be prevented.
Yet they are with us again, and we are acting as we did in the last century. The world is simmering in the familiar rhetoric and actions of movements and regimes – from Hezbollah and al Qaeda to the Iranian Khomeinists and the Saudi Wahhabis – who swear to destroy us and others like us. Like their 20th-century predecessors, they openly proclaim their intentions, and carry them out whenever and wherever they can. Like our own 20th-century predecessors, we rarely take them seriously or act accordingly. More often than not, we downplay the consequences of their words, as if they were some Islamic or Arab version of "politics," intended for internal consumption, and designed to accomplish domestic objectives.
Clearly, the explanations we gave for our failure to act in the last century were wrong. The rise of messianic mass movements is not new, and there is very little we do not know about them. Nor is there any excuse for us to be surprised at the success of evil leaders, even in countries with long histories and great cultural and political accomplishments. We know all about that. So we need to ask the old questions again. Why are we failing to see the mounting power of evil enemies? Why do we treat them as if they were normal political phenomena, as Western leaders do when they embrace negotiations as the best course of action?
No doubt there are many reasons. One is the deep-seated belief that all people are basically the same, and all are basically good. Most human history, above all the history of the last century, points in the opposite direction. But it is unpleasant to accept the fact that many people are evil, and entire cultures, even the finest, can fall prey to evil leaders and march in lockstep to their commands. Much of contemporary Western culture is deeply committed to a belief in the goodness of all mankind; we are reluctant to abandon that reassuring article of faith. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, we prefer to pursue the path of reasonableness, even with enemies whose thoroughly unreasonable fanaticism is manifest.
This is not merely a philosophical issue, for to accept the threat to us means – short of a policy of national suicide – acting against it. As it did in the 20th century, it means war. It means that, temporarily at least, we have to make sacrifices on many fronts: in the comforts of our lives, indeed in lives lost, in the domestic focus of our passions – careers derailed and personal freedoms subjected to unpleasant and even dangerous restrictions – and the diversion of wealth from self-satisfaction to the instruments of power. All of this is painful; even the contemplation of it hurts.
Then there is anti-Semitism. Old Jew-hating texts like "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," now in Farsi and Arabic, are proliferating throughout the Middle East. Calls for the destruction of the Jews appear regularly on Iranian, Egyptian, Saudi and Syrian television and are heard in European and American mosques. There is little if any condemnation from the West, and virtually no action against it, suggesting, at a minimum, a familiar Western indifference to the fate of the Jews.
Finally, there is the nature of our political system. None of the democracies adequately prepared for war before it was unleashed on them in the 1940s. None was prepared for the terror assault of the 21st century. The nature of Western politics makes it very difficult for national leaders – even those rare men and women who see what is happening and want to act – to take timely, prudent measures before war is upon them. Leaders like Winston Churchill are relegated to the opposition until the battle is unavoidable. Franklin Delano Roosevelt had to fight desperately to win Congressional approval for a national military draft a few months before Pearl Harbor.
Then, as now, the initiative lies with the enemies of the West. Even today, when we are engaged on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, there is little apparent recognition that we are under attack by a familiar sort of enemy, and great reluctance to act accordingly. This time, ignorance cannot be claimed as an excuse. If we are defeated, it will be because of failure of will, not lack of understanding. As, indeed, was almost the case with our near-defeat in the 1940s.
Mr. Ledeen, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author, most recently, of "The Iranian Time Bomb" (St. Martin's Press, 2007).
Finaly at least one thing I can agree with McCain on
McCain would like to see a man on Mars
Presumptive Republican White House nominee John McCain said Thursday he would like to see a manned mission to Mars as part of a "better set of priorities" for NASA that would better engage the public. (he should start by forbidding NASA personnel from leading Global Warming Propaganda campaigns, and concentrating on the space program. Mr Hansen)
At a townhall event in Florida, the Arizona senator was asked about funding for the US space agency's shuttle program, which is due to end in 2010.
He said he "would be willing to spend more taxpayers' dollars" to continue the program but argued that NASA must do a better job of inspiring the American public, as when it sent a man to the moon in 1969. (NASA has been the only dept of the Govt. that has produced any benefits for the American people. If McCain would really add his support and voice to it instead of trying to destroy the American Economy with Cap & Trade, or attacking the Constitution in the name of Campaign Finance Reform. It might get the funding it needs to continue advancing science and medicine to all of our benefits)
McCain said one of his favorite books as a child had been Ray Bradbury's 1950 novel "The Martian Chronicles," about humans colonizing the Red Planet.
"I am intrigued by a man on Mars and I think that it would excite the imagination of the American people if we can say, 'Hey, here's what it looks like," he said.
(the benefits we would gain from such a mission would create a boost in more areas of our lives than most people can ever understand)
"We know that now, and here's what may be there and let's all join in that project. I think Americans would be very willing to do that." (Then Back it, don't just pay lip service to it.)
The Benefits of the Space Program effect every aspect of our lives here is A PARTIAL LIST of some of the Space program benefits. If you have an hour or two read through it. If you have about 5 mins just scroll through this small sample of the inovations and benefits this program has brought us. As you do remember this is only a PARTIAL list.
The Shit's about to hit the Fan
Mofaz: Israel will attack Iran if it doesn't quit nuclear program
Israel will attack Iran if it doesn't abandon its nuclear program, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz was quoted Friday as saying.
Mofaz also said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "will disappear before Israel does," Yediot Ahronot reported. Ahmadinejad has called repeatedly for Israel's destruction.
Mofaz's spokeswoman did not immediately return a call seeking comment on the remarks, which were much more explicit than anything Olmert himself has said. Olmert has gone no further than hinting that Israel was prepared to use force against Iranian nuclear facilities, saying only Tuesday that "the Iranian threat must be stopped by all means. "
According to the report, Mofaz - a former chief of staff and defense minister - has concluded that international sanctions haven't curbed Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
"If Iran continues its nuclear arms program - we will attack it," Mofaz was quoted as saying. "The sanctions aren't effective. There will be no choice but to attack Iran to halt the Iranian nuclear program."
An Israeli military strike against Iran would have US backing, Mofaz said.
Mofaz's bellicose comments on Iran coincide with the launching of his campaign to replace Olmert as head of Kadima Party if a corruption probe pushes Olmert out of office. Mofaz is carving out a hawkish position, and earlier this week, spoke out against returning the Golan Heights, captured in the 1967 Mideast war, to Syria.
A recent poll of Kadima members showed Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni easily besting Mofaz in a party leadership race.
Ahhh Lets have a Pity Party
Obama quits Chicago church after long controversy
May 31 11:58 PM US/Eastern
By TOM RAUM
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) - Barack Obama said Saturday he has resigned his 20-year membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago "with some sadness" in the aftermath of inflammatory remarks by his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and more recent fiery remarks at the church by a visiting priest.
"This is not a decision I come to lightly ... and it is one I make with some sadness," Obama said at a news conference after campaign officials released a letter of resignation he sent to the church on Friday.
"I'm not denouncing the church and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church," he said, adding that the new pastor at Trinity and "the church have been suffering from the attention my campaign has focused on them."
In other words he can't stand the heat so he's getting out of the kitchen. But he still likes the kitchens food!
It's clear that now that I'm a candidate for president, every time something is said in the church by anyone associated with Trinity, including guest pastors, the remarks will imputed to me even if they totally conflict with my long-held views, statements and principles," he said.
Yeah guest pastors that as a State Gongressman you directed over $200,000 in earmarks to. I guess when it comes down to it you'll throw anyoner under the bus just like you did your Grand Mother
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The Gorsuch Confirmation, Polarization and the Hollowing of the American Middle Class
The tragedy of the Gorsuch nomination is not that he is a conservative, an “originalist” who believes in a literal interpretation of the Constitution, although that will certainly add to the polarization in American politics.
The bigger tragedy is that Republicans employed the “nuclear option.” Led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate voted along party lines to repeal a long-standing rule that required a 60-vote super-majority to confirm a Supreme Court nominee. The rule was designed to ensure that nominees to the highest court in the land have bi-partisan support between the two major political parties. Sadly, that has come to an end.
It is just the most recent example of how polarized and dysfunctional U.S politics has become. Why? Two reasons stand out:
Excessive money in politics, and
Economic stagnation and the hollowing of the American middle class.
A tsunami of money has flooded U.S. politics in recent years. It has been enabled by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens’ United ruling in 2010 that money is effectively the equivalent of free speech – and limits on political contributions are an unconstitutional infringement on that speech. Today, there is so much money in politics that it has created an oppositional culture in which negative advertising and attack ads, rather than constructive dialogue, are increasingly the norm.
At the same time, also in response to Citizens United, legions of corporate lobbyists are flooding Capitol Hill and executive agencies. Many are former elected and appointed officials “double dipping” on government pensions and benefits. In seeking to curry favor on issues such as tax and regulatory policy, they are promoting narrow interests frequently at odds with what is best for the country as a whole and the American middle class.
The rise of social media has added to the polarization, encouraging people to communicate almost exclusively with others who think as they do. The mainstream media continues to focus primarily on the back-and-forth of daily politics – largely ignoring the bigger picture – the reasons why politics in the U.S. have become so dysfunctional.
Meanwhile, on the economic front, growth has slowed, good paying middle class jobs are increasingly scarce, wages have stagnated for decades, and working people are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet.
What does all this portend? It is not just the economy that is bad shape; American democracy itself is in peril – and we, as citizens, need to take action.
Exactly what action to take is not entirely clear. It is not easy to take back a government that corporations have “Captured”, as Senator Sheldon Whitehouse put in his book of the same name. Nor is it easy to restore the economy so it works for everyone, not just corporate interests bent on paying as little as possible in taxes while promoting their narrow interests.
But how about this for a start – let’s vote out of office those who use social media to distract people’s attention while they advocate almost exclusively for more tax breaks for the rich, or others who absolutely refuse to engage in constructive, bi-partisan dialogue.
Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell – see you at election time.
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Home Our Diocese Diocese announces March 3 Mass to conclude the sesquicentennial celebration
Diocese announces March 3 Mass to conclude the sesquicentennial celebration
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Bishop Malooly blesses the host with Br. Ronald Giannone during Mass as part of the Diocese of Wilmington Sesquicentennial Historical Church celebration at Sacred Heart Oratory, Saturday, July 7, 2018. photo/Don Blake
The Catholic Diocese of Wilmington will conclude its year-long 150th anniversary celebration with a Mass at St. Elizabeth Church, 809 S. Broom Street in Wilmington, on Sunday, March 3, 2019 beginning at 3 p.m. The Diocese was established on March 3, 1868 by Blessed Pope Pius IX.
Bishop Malooly will be the principal celebrant and homilist of the concelebrated Mass. The Mass, which will fulfill the Sunday obligation, will feature a joint choir from Saint Elizabeth and the Cathedral of Saint Peter, and will be embellished with brass and timpani.
“It has been a 150th anniversary year to remember,” Bishop Malooly said. “We have celebrated our history with pilgrimages to historic holy places in Delaware, Maryland, France and Italy. We gathered to affirm and deepen our commitment to discipleship at Convocation 150. We published books, commissioned a play, and produced a custom rosary and an image of Our Lady of Wilmington, to name a few. It has been a busy year, and I thank everyone who celebrated with us.”
Priests, deacons, religious, the lay faithful, and the general public are invited to attend the Mass that will include the recognition of those who visited all of the nine churches in Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore that were designated as Official Sesquicentennial Pilgrimage Churches. Those churches are Saint Francis Xavier Shrine, “Old Bohemia”, Warwick, Maryland (1704); Saint Joseph Mission, Cordova, Maryland (1765); Saint Peter the Apostle, Queenstown, Maryland (1765); Saint Mary Star of the Sea, Golden Hill, Maryland (1767); Cathedral of Saint Peter, Wilmington, Delaware (1816); Saint Patrick, Pilottown, Maryland (1819); Saint Joseph on the Brandywine, Greenville, Delaware (1841); Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Wilmington, Delaware (1858); and Sacred Heart Oratory, Wilmington, Delaware (1874). These historic churches were open for additional touring and worship on the first Saturdays of the month during the 150th anniversary year.
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Russian military deployment to Iran ends abruptly
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The Russian deployment to Shahid Nojeh base in Hamadan in Iran has ended shortly after it began. The Russians have confirmed that all the Russian aircraft that were briefly stationed at the base have returned to Russia.
Officially the reason is that the mission the aircraft undertook is over. Unofficially the international media has seized on some words of Iranian Defence Minister Brigadier-General Hossein Dehghan spoken on Sunday as providing the explanation
“Russians are interested to show they are a superpower that can influence security trends. On the other hand, they are willing to show they have been influential in the Syrian operation to be able to negotiate with the US and secure their share of Syria’s political future. Of course, there is a kind of show-off and discourteousness in this regard.”
These words have been interpreted to mean that the Iranians were incensed by Russian bragging at the use by their aircraft of the Shahid Nojeh air base in Iran, which they found somehow “discourteous”.
That is extremely unlikely and in fact it makes no sense. The first media reports of Russian aircraft using the base did not come from Russia; they seem to have come from the Al-Masdar News agency in the Middle East. There have been some suggestions that Al-Masdar is an Israeli project. However it appears to be based in Lebanon and seems to take a pro-government line in the Syrian war. That suggests it obtained its information about the deployment from sources in Syria or Iran.
The Russians did inform the US of the deployment before it took place, as they are required by agreements they made with the US last autumn to do. It would in fact have been completely impossible to keep the deployment secret from the US given the sheer size of some of the aircraft involved (especially the TU22M3s) and the blanket US satellite surveillance of Iran which constantly takes place. In fact it took no time for satellite photos of the deployment to be made public, as they were bound to be.
The simple fact is that the deployment was bound to become public knowledge within hours of it taking place and it is absurd to think that the Iranians could have thought otherwise or could have seriously imagined that the Russians wouldn’t comment on it or would try to downplay it.
In fact Brigadier-General Dehghan’s words look like they are being misreported. They do not properly speaking read like a complaint about the Russians “showing off” about their deployment to the Shahid Nojeh base. Rather they read more like a complaint about the Russians’ habit of negotiating with the US in order to “secure their share of Syria political future”. The Iranians have made no secret about their unhappiness about the discussions the Russians continuously have with the US over Syria. Brigadier-General Dehghan’s comments simply appear to be a restatement of this.
Why then has the deployment ended so quickly? The short answer is we don’t know, just as (despite what the international media has been telling us) we don’t actually know that it was the Iranians who ended the deployment.
It could be that the decision to end the deployment was taken by the Russians. Despite what some have said use of the Shahid Nojeh base is not crucial to the Russian air campaign in Syria. TU22M3 bombers can reach anywhere in Syria with full loads flying from their bases in southern Russia.
The 4 SU34 fighter bombers that were briefly deployed to Shahid Nojeh base did benefit from the substantially shorter distance to their targets in Syria. However they could have been deployed even more effectively if they had been sent to the Russian base in Syria at Khmeimim, which if shortening flight times really was so important would have been the obvious thing to do.
It is possible that the Russians became concerned that what was intended primarily as a political statement of support for Iran was drawing a stronger international reaction than they might have anticipated. The US vigorously criticised the deployment, which cannot have come as a surprise to the Russians and which they must have anticipated.
However of more concern to the Russians may have been private criticism of the deployment coming from Israel and Saudi Arabia, two countries strongly hostile to Iran with which Russia is however anxious to maintain good relations.
The other possibility is that the decision to end the deployment was indeed taken by Iran. As I discussed previously, the Russian deployment to Shahid Nojeh base was not uncontroversial in Iran, with some criticism of the deployment being made in the Iranian parliament the Majlis.
It could be that this swayed the Iranian authorities into reversing their decision to grant the Russians use of the base. Or it could be that the Iranians are annoyed about private discussions between the US and the Russians that are underway, as Brigadier-General Dehghan’s words might suggest.
This episode does however underscore an important point: Russia and Iran are partners who are in the process of forging closer relations with each other, and they are working closely with each other in Syria. However they are not allies and their relationship is not trouble-free. On the contrary, as I have discussed previously, their relationship is historically complicated, and has been marked by long periods of outright hostility. This makes frictions and disagreements inevitable and it looks like we have just witnessed one.
This spat is unlikely however to result in any significant or long term cooling of relations. Despite Iranian resentment at Russia’s negotiating strategy in Syria the Iranians know perfectly well that without Russia’s help the Syrian government which Iran supports and in which it has invested so much would long since have fallen.
Indeed Iranian commentators and officials have actually said as much. With Iran’s relations with the US and the West still very fraught, it still makes sense for Iran to forge closer relations with Russia and the Eurasian powers, and there is no sign of any second thoughts in Tehran about that.
The Russians for their part still seem to be committed to forging a close relationship with Iran, which is obviously in their interest, and they too know that they need the help of Iran if they are to achieve their objectives in Syria.
If only for these reasons both the Iranians and the Russians have been careful to leave open the possibility of future Russian deployments to Shahid Nojeh base, and the Russians have even been hinting that they are in private talks with the Iranians for the use of other Iranian facilities for their Syrian campaign as well. It is not impossible that once this dispute (whatever its cause) has been smoothed over that we will be seeing Russian aircraft in Iran again.
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ICSS statement on Canadian Soccer League
Following media reports concerning the integrity of a national Canadian Soccer league known as the “Canadian soccer league” or CSL, the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) has released the following statement:
“The information uncovered within the media, which was written for law-enforcement and sport investigators, is the result of investigations undertaken by the International Centre for Sport Security and its partners and points to what are very serious possibilities of corruption within the Canadian soccer league.
“Whilst it is regrettable that this intelligence report has been made public, this apparent conspiracy has grave ramifications for organised sport and sport betting well beyond the mere cumulative size of the frauds.”
“As an independent, neutral and global body committed to safeguarding sport, the ICSS has been engaging for some time with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to share information, which involves serious allegations of wholesale match-fixing, betting fraud and quite possibly money laundering within the Canadian soccer league.
“ICSS’ Sport Integrity investigators have been monitoring the league for some time. According to information we have obtained through our network of sources, monitoring of matches and other intelligence gathering techniques including betting monitoring, in all likelihood the alleged corruption of the Canadian soccer league has been led by organised crime groups based in Europe involving a complex network of individuals within the league and most likely Asian-based illegal sport betting operators.
“The complexity and sheer number of people involved in these allegations once again underlines the very real and serious threat that organised crime now poses to sport.
“As an organisation firmly committed to supporting anti-corruption efforts in international sport, the ICSS has compiled and submitted a full report with all acquired intelligence to the appropriate national and international authorities, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian authorities, as well as INTERPOL, EUROPOL and FIFA.
“We stand by the contents and accuracy of the report and will continue our work collecting and distributing intelligence with relevant authorities to protect the integrity of sport.
“With the growing examples of match-fixing, betting fraud, money laundering and corporate corruption cases now affecting sports clubs around the world, the ICSS strongly supports any effort by governments and law enforcement agencies to eliminate corruption both on and off the field of play.
“At the ICSS, we also believe that all stakeholders now involved in the sports industry – particularly governments, law enforcement agencies, as well as sponsors and sport governing bodies – must take urgent and collective action to introduce strong international legislation that disrupts and dismantles organised crime and empowers proactive action by law enforcement.”
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Tanworth in Arden Warwickshire
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Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire
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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Tanworth in Arden like this:
TANWORTH, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in. Solihull district, Warwick. The village stands 4 miles NW of Henley-in-Arden, and 5 SW of Knowle r. station; and has a post-office under Birmingham. The parish is cut into 4 quarters, and comprises 9,400 acres. Rated property, £11,375. ...
Pop., 1,946. Houses, 440. Much of the land belongs to Earl Amherst and T. Burman, Esq. Umberslade is the seat of G. F. Muntz, Esq. A very large reservoir of the Birmingham and Stratford canal is here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £507.* Patron, Earl Amherst. The church is good. A section, with a pop. of 1,142, and bearing the name of Salters-street, was constituted a separate charge in 1843; and the living of it is a p. curacy, of the value of £150,* in the patronage of the Vicar. A tower was added to its church in 1861. There are two national schools, an endowed school with £8 a year, and charities £196.The sub-district contains three parishes and two hamlets. Pop., 3,029. Houses, 680.
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NTF Action Alerts and News
Statement on Proposals Seeking to Undermine Community Trust Policies
As the Steering Committee of the National Taskforce to End Sexual and Domestic Violence (NTF), comprising national leadership organizations advocating on behalf of sexual and domestic violence victims and women’s rights, we represent hundreds of organizations across the country dedicated to ensuring all survivors of violence receive the protections they deserve. For this reason, we write to express our deep concerns about the potential impact that proposals that seek to undermine community trust policies will have. Proposals that weaken community trust policies will be dangerous for victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and trafficking, and in particular, for immigrant victims, and communities at large.
Undermining policies that local jurisdictions have determined are constitutionally sound and appropriate for their respective communities decreases the ability of law enforcement agencies to respond to violent crimes and assist all victims of crime, U.S. Citizens and immigrants alike. As recognized in the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), law enforcement plays a critical role in our coordinated community response to domestic and sexual violence.
Perpetrators use fear of deportation as abuse. Local policies that minimize intertwining of local law enforcement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) help bring the most vulnerable victims out of the shadows by creating trust between law enforcement and the immigrant community, which in turn help protect entire communities.[1] Abusers and traffickers use the fear of deportation of their victims as a tool to silence and trap them. Not only are the individual victims harmed, but their fear of law enforcement leads many to abstain from reporting violent perpetrators or coming forward and, as a result, dangerous criminals are not identified and go unpunished.
Community trust policies are critical tools for increasing community safety. Laws that seek to intertwine the immigration and law enforcement systems will undermine the Congressional purpose of protections enacted under VAWA and will have the chilling effect of pushing immigrant victims into the shadows and allow criminals to walk on our streets. As VAWA recognizes, immigrant victims of violent crimes often do not contact law enforcement due to fear that they will be deported. According to a study conducted by the National Domestic Violence Hotline and the National Latin@ Network: Casa de Esperanza, 45% of the foreign-born callers expressed fear of calling and/or seeking help from the police or courts.[2] Furthermore, 12% of US-Born callers expressed fear of seeking help due to the current wave of anti-immigrant policies. Immigrants are already afraid of contacting the police and these policies to further intertwine immigration and law enforcement systems will only exacerbate this fear. The result is that perpetrators will be able to continue to harm others, both immigrant and U.S. Citizen victims alike.
Recent Immigration Executive Orders are Undermining Victim Protections in our Communities Since January, victim advocates are describing the immense fear expressed by immigrant victims and their reluctance to reach out for help from police. Advocates at domestic violence programs in jurisdictions with large undocumented populations are reporting a “large drop in the number of women coming in for services,” indicating victims are not pursuing criminal charges against abusers or moving into domestic violence shelters.[3] Advocacy programs are reporting significant increases in calls from immigrant victims, many of whom are seeking information on the advisability of working with law enforcement and prosecution given their fear of deportation in light of the Executive Orders. Other advocates are reporting a drop in the number of victims seeking accompaniment to work with police and seek protection orders. Thousands of victim advocates nationwide are reporting that they are uncertain how to best advise immigrant survivors about what will happen if they call the police or go to court.
Recent reports from law enforcement officials confirm this widespread fear and uncertainty. In Los Angeles, Police Chief Charlie Beck has reported that his city is already seeing evidence of this increased fear: Reports of sexual assault have dropped by 25 percent and domestic violence by 10 percent among the Latino population since the beginning of the year.[4] In Denver, Colorado, City Attorney Kristin Bronson reported that since the issuance of the interior enforcement Executive Order, four domestic-violence victims have declined to pursue charges against their abusers out of fear of deportation.[5] The Travis County, Texas District Attorney similarly reported that at least one domestic violence case there recently stalled because the victim declined to press charges out of fear of deportation.[6] When victims are afraid to come forward, abusers and perpetrators will be able to continue to harm victims with impunity and our entire communities are affected.
For these reasons, we urge you to affirm the intent and spirit of VAWA by supporting strong relationships between law enforcement and immigrant communities, which is critical for public safety in general, and particularly essential for domestic and sexual violence victims. Thank you very much for your efforts to protect and support immigrant of domestic violence and sexual assault.
For more information, please contact Grace Huang, Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence at ghuang@api-gbv.org, or Rosie Hidalgo, National Latin@ Network: Casa de Esperanza, at rhidalgo@casadeesperanza.org.
The National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence
[1] A study conducted by the University of Illinois- Chicago found that increased involvement of local police and immigration enforcement eroded trust between the police and immigrants, undocumented and documented. 45% of documented immigrants were less likely to report a crime while 70% of undocumented immigrants responded similarly. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/sanctuary-cities-public-safety-kate-steinle-san-francisco.
See also, http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/01/29/512002076/why-sanctuary-cities-are-safer.
[2] http://www.nationallatinonetwork.org/images/files/HotlineReport_2_2015_Final.pdf; http://nomore.org/nomas/ http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7112130?
[3] Tyler Kingkade, Trump Deportation Vow Is Scaring Domestic Abuse Victims From Coming Forward, Buzzfeed News (Mar. 16, 2017), http://bzfd.it/2nNRX9L.
[4]James Queally, Latinos are reporting fewer sexual assaults amid a climate of fear in immigrant communities, LAPD says, L.A. Times (Mar. 21, 2017), http://lat.ms/2nPwdva.
[5] Mark Joseph Stern, Bad for Undocumented Immigrants, a Gift to Domestic Abusers, Slate.com (Mar. 8, 2017), http://slate.me/2mZlJvS.
[6] Nora Caplan-Bricker, I Wish I’d Never Called the Police, Slate.com (Mar. 19, 2017), http://slate.me/2mYrYgC.
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A year rocked by corruption scandals
Posted 21 December 2016 Written by AFP
Category Corruption
2016 was the year of corruption, graft and political upheaval. In SA, President Jacob Zuma clings to power while working out how to avoid facing more than 700 charges of corruption. At SA Broadcasting Corporation, Eskom and other state-owned enterprises, the year was marked by a constant drip-feed of scandal and corruption. But SA is not alone. The presidents of South Korea and Brazil face impeachment proceedings as public outrage over corruption was found to have political consequences, reports AFP.
From the Panama Papers to the impeachments of the presidents of Brazil (Dilma Rousseff, pictured left) and South Korea, 2016 was a year marked by corruption scandals, and by rising public outrage over graft.
The question is, will that translate into a lasting demand for cleaner politics?
"A new phenomenon" is being seen, said Jose Ugaz, a Peruvian lawyer and the chairman of Transparency International, a Berlin-based anticorruption watchdog, who expressed cautious optimism.
"What we are facing today is very different to what we were facing 27 years ago", when Transparency International was founded.
"Around the world we are seeing this kind of corruption that affects the people — and we are seeing a mobilisation of the people against it," he said.
"I think it has been a difficult year — but at the same time it gives hope for the future."
The Panama Papers leak in April — an unprecedented data dump — triggered much of the outrage early in 2016.
Offshore companies used by many of the world’s famous, wealthy or powerful, or kin or aides close to them, were exposed.
Among them were the leaders, or relatives of the leaders, of Saudi Arabia, China, Malaysia, Syria, Pakistan, Argentina and Ukraine.
Also implicated was a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as current or former government officials in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East — more than 140 politicians and public officials in all.
The revelations forced Iceland’s prime minister to resign and embarrassed Britain’s then-prime minister David Cameron.
China, although in the midst of an anticorruption drive that has netted more than a million officials, suppressed the Panama Papers information relating to the family of President Xi Jinping in domestic media and online forums.
That bolstered suspicions among observers that relatives of the Communist Party elite remained untouchable in the crackdown on graft.
"There is a double standard," said Willy Lam, professor of politics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
"The publication of the Panama Papers reminds us of the rapid expansion and power of transparency," World Bank head Jim Yong Kim told a London anticorruption summit in May.
He urged more transparency, stressing that "corruption is, quite simply, stealing from the poor".
According to a recent estimate, between $1.5-trillion and $2-trillion is paid annually in bribes around the world.
Research also suggests that, if a country’s leaders are believed to be corrupt, ordinary citizens trend toward that path too.
Some heads of state have certainly paid a price for perceived corruption in office.
In Brazil, president Dilma Rousseff was impeached in August, just days after the Rio Olympics, following big street protests fuelled by the country’s deep recession.
Much of the outrage stemmed from a huge bribery-and-kickbacks scandal involving the state oil company Petrobras.
Rousseff was not impeached on the Petrobras allegations but rather on unrelated charges of cooking the government books.
But the Petrobras affair is wreaking havoc for her unpopular successor, Michel Temer. He has lost several ministers after they came under suspicion in the scandal and questions are emerging about whether he will be able to see through his term.
Impeachment also hit South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye in December.
She faces a parliamentary inquiry into accusations of colluding with a longtime friend, Choi Soon-Sil, to strongarm donations from large companies worth tens of millions of dollars for a couple of dubious foundations that Choi controlled and allegedly plundered.
The scandal ignited weekly mass demonstrations, some of which drew crowds of more than 1-million people.
Other leaders, though, are batting away graft allegations that piling up against them.
One such official is Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, whom the US alleges embezzled with his family and associates billions of dollars from a sovereign wealth fund.
Najib has shut down domestic investigations into the scandal, claiming a plot by enemies.
But tens of thousands of protestors have held demonstrations demanding his resignation.
SA’s Jacob Zuma, nicknamed the "Teflon president" for his survival of multiple scandals, is also seeking to see his mandate through to 2019 with the backing of the ANC, despite a court ruling he should face 783 counts of corruption.
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One of a series of posts about working at CBC Radio back in the day.
(Here’s some more).
Radio Master Control: “Joe, We Have a Problem” CBC VI July 28, 2012
Christmas nineteen eighty-eight I was assigned to work the evening shift in Radio Master Control (also called Radio MCR). I worked there solid for about six months.
It was prefaced by a week or two of training, which meant hanging out with other radio master techs such as Peter Chin, Gerry Samson, Ken Lumsden, Ron Grant, Jeanette Sipos, Ron Minhennit (sorry about any mispellings), and others. Those were the full timers, although there were others who were well enough trained to cover the odd shift.
What was Radio Master Control? It sounds kind of impressive. It looked kind of impressive, even back then, when it was run in part by computers using cassette tapes, technology dating back to the seventies, if not earlier. Radio Master Control in Toronto was the central hub. All CBC Radio shows coming out of Toronto passed through Radio Master. Many shows originating in the regions passed through Radio Master in Toronto, at least if they were national shows. So when you worked in Radio Master you had a fair amount of responsibility. Much of went on was automated, but the automation only worked if the radio master control tech set it up properly, and maintained it properly, and dealt with it properly when things went horribly wrong… which they always did, usually at least once a day.
People who have never worked in Radio MCR sometimes find it difficult to understand. When you walked by the place, which used to be located in the basement of the Jarvis Street facility, and later (until recently) the third floor of the Toronto Broadcast Centre, you would sometimes see technicians doing what appeared to be, well, nothing. In fact, they were only at rest if all their preparations were complete, if nobody in any studios or other master controls across the country were calling them, if everything was going to air properly. In a sense radio master control techs are like firefighters, waiting for something to go wrong. And every properly trained master control technician is poised to leap into action at the first instance of trouble.
Back when I started in the eighties, if a show wasn’t being broadcast live, odds were it was being played back off quarter inch tape. It was the job of the master control technician to put up the tape, check it for any issues, make sure the levels were good, that the first sounds on the tape were what they were supposed to be — in other words, that it was the right program.
I remember putting up the last ever tape for the show Eclectic Circus, hosted by Alan McPhee, and thinking, wow, I’m the last link in the chain of the last ever episode of this show, which I had enjoyed listening to when I was a kid sometimes.
But back to the beginning of this six month (or so) gig. It was my first week. New Year’s Eve. I was on the evening shift. Early in the shift I put up the tapes for a show called Two New Hours, which featured modern Canadian composers and was produced for many years by David Jaeger (until its cancellation in the spring of 2007, I believe). The show consisted of three separate one hour long reels of tape. I carefully put each of them up, checked their levels, checked the first words, and was not at all concerned about any of them.
Here’s how it worked. When the technician was recording the show in the studio he/she added what was called a “swap tone” to the end of the first and second hours. I can’t remember the exact details now but I believe the swap tone was something like 100 Hz at -6 DB. The idea was that the listeners at home were not supposed to be able to hear this swap tone — it was at the bottom edge of human hearing. It was there for the master control systems to detect and trigger a “swap” from one tape to the next (it was loud enough for me to hear it when I put the tapes up, but the swaps happened pretty quickly, so even if listeners could hear something, they wouldn’t hear it for long).
I was working with Peter Chin that night, who had kindly taken it upon himself to mentor me, and who remains a good friend to this day. About three hours later I was on a break in the technician’s lounge when Peter called me to tell me there was a major problem with the show.
“What’s the problem?” I asked. “It finished forty-five minutes early,” he told me.
I ran from the lounge on the first floor to MCR in the basement where Peter was trying to figure out what happened. It didn’t take long to sort out. When Radio MCR techs put up tapes they were supposed to check out a form that accompanied each tape with information about the program in question. I had done this, but had neglected an important part of the form: a comments section in which the producer David Jaeger had written something along the lines of: “There are low organ notes in this show. Please take this into consideration when playing back the show.” In other words, I was supposed to have programmed the MCR computer to severely limit the amount of time it could detect the swap tone, so that it would not confuse extremely low organ notes with the swap tone. Not having noticed the comment, I had not done this, so the computer detected the organ notes and swapped one of the tapes forty-five minutes early. This meant that the show finished forty-five minutes early, and there was nothing for us to do but play fill music for forty-five minutes on Radio Two. Because of the way programming is played back in Canada (time delayed so that all programming airs at the same time on the clock if not the same actual time) we were able to fix the show for Vancouver, but that was it.
The proverbial sh** hit the fan. The phone started ringing off the hook, people wanting to know what happened. I felt absolutely terrible for being responsible for basically forty-five minutes of incorrect programming from (almost) coast to coast.
The following week people in the Music Department wanted blood. One of the technical managers told me that they essentially wanted whoever was responsible fired. But this manager felt that if I wrote a nice letter of apology maybe that would smooth things over. So I did.
Many years later when I became a manager myself I was shown a filing cabinet containing personnel files for all radio technicians dating back many years. And lo and behold there was a file on me, which included that letter. Here is what I wrote:
I’m writing you regarding the incident concerning Two New Hours. I was the technician responsible for the disruption in the broadcast of that show.
For a number of reasons I am sorry for what occurred. I realize my mistake, which took place as a result of negligence, affected a lot of people. I’m aware of the amount of work and effort required to construct a show such as Two New Hours, and I can imagine the dismay all involved must have felt. I feel particularly bad for the Vancouver composer who almost missed hearing his work broadcast.
I have been reprimanded and questioned thoroughly as to why the incident occurred. Steps have been taken both departmentally and personally to ensure that it is not repeated. I make no excuses for my mistake. I do ask that you accept my apology.
Sincerely
Joe Mahoney
Man did I fall on my sword. But I was sincere.
Attached to the letter was a note that I had never seen, hand written by Kel Lack, my boss at the time, and addressed to Karen Keiser, who I believe was Head of Serious Music Programming at that time (a position that no longer exists). Kel had written:
Joe Mahoney is a new and very promising tech who needless to say was devastated by what happened with Two New Hours.
The tone of his note speaks for itself and I know he learned a good lesson. I propose to leave the matter there.
Once again our apologies.
A good guy, Kel. I never heard of any response from the Serious Music Department.
A couple of other notes about that infamous night. Once we knew what had happened, and that it had been my fault, my colleague Peter Chin said to me, “You need to bear down, Joe. You need to bear down.” I have no idea how many times he said it to me that night; it seems to me he said it at least a dozen times, but it may have been only twice. But the line came to live in infamy. Over the next twenty years we’ve laughed about it many times, and I do believe I’ve had occasion to repeat it back to him. “You need to bear down, Peter!” He professes not to even quite know what he meant by that.
Also, the Operations Manager on duty that night, Malcolm MacKinney, took pity on me. It was New Year’s Eve, after all. He gave me half a bottle of wine and took me across the street to the Hampton Court Hotel, where we rang the New Year in together, and I remember a parade of elderly women lining up to give me a peck on the cheek when the clock struck twelve.
I’ve made plenty of other mistakes in my career, but no other doozies quite like that that I can recall. A good thing, or it probably would have been a short career…
Keeble McFarlane
I remember well when Master Control was ushered into the digital age. It was governed by a rudimentary computer which the techs promptly dubbed FRED (F**king Ridiculous Electronic Device). At that time its job consisted mostly of routing feeds into the network and supplying programs from tape to the network. On the first Remembrance Day after it was installed, the network was carrying the usual ceremony from the National War memorial in Ottawa. At precisely eleven o’clock, the service went into the customary minute of silence. Well, nobody had told Fred about this, so he interpreted it as a program break and promptly called up the next scheduled show. Fortunately, the sharp-eared tech on duty spotted this and stopped the whole debacle quickly.
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Steven C. Baker
For more than 46 years, Steven C. Baker has been helping his clients create financial stability through life insurance, annuities, and long-term care insurance. He began his career with the New York Life Insurance Company August 4, 1969, and remains active in the business. He founded the Steven C. Baker and Associates in 1971, which later evolved into the Baker Financial Group.
Being successful while working with farmers in the farming community, Steve was invited to speak on several panels for the New York Life Insurance Company's Council meetings in New York City and Washington DC.
Steve is actively involved in the Upper Sandusky community, having served in numerous organizations and boards throughout his career. He was instrumental in organizing the Trinity United Church of Christ Endowment Fund, serving as the first President of the Endowment Committee.
In his free time, Steve enjoys working in his yard, gardening, traveling, and spending time with his wife, Carmen, their two children and spouses, Shannon (Mike) and Chad (Christina), and their four grandchildren, Anna, Luke, Lauren, and Caroline.
Past Positions and Awards
- Qualified for the NYLIC's Prestigious Councils since 1969
- Qualified and Life Member of the MDRT since 1976
- Agent of the Year in the Toledo General Office in 1980
- Guest Speaker for New York Life Insurance Company's Council Meetings
- Guest Speaker for the Ohio Northern University Class of Risk Management
- Past President of the Upper Sandusky Chamber of Commerce
- Past President of the Upper Sandusky Rotary Club
- Past President of the Blanchard Valley Chapter of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors
- Past V-President of the Upper Sandusky United Way Campaign
- Fairhaven Retirement Community Building Campaign Committee
- Trinity United Church of Christ Consistory Deacon and Elder
- President of the Trinity United Church of Christ Endowment Fund Committee
Chad S. Baker, CFP®, ChFC®
For 20 years, Chad has helped individuals and business owners define and achieve their financial objectives. Chad earned his undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University. He continued his education by earning his CFP® (Certified Financial Planner) and ChFC® (Chartered Financial Consultant) designations. In fact, Chad is the only CFP® professional with offices located in Wyandot County. He also holds the FINRA series 6, 63, 65 and 7 licenses.
Chad’s financial planning philosophy is that of building financial plans that stand the test of time through prudent strategies, sound recommendations, proper asset allocation and diversification. He believes that too often advisors confuse planning with just selling their clients products. A properly written financial plan adds clarity and purpose to the financial aspects of your life. Areas of focus need to include investing properly, asset protection, retirement income planning and estate planning.
Chad is deeply committed to his community having served on several community organizations and boards including the Upper Sandusky Chamber of Commerce, The Fairhaven Capital Campaign Committee, Rotary and Wyandot County Pheasants Forever. He also enjoys mentoring young advisors and has spoken numerous times to business classes at the Ohio Northern University on the topic of financial planning. In his free time Chad enjoys spending time with his wife Christina and their two children. He also enjoys the outdoors, hunting and coaching youth sports.
- Treasurer for Pheasants Forever
- Treasurer for Hannah's House Non-Profit
- Staff parish relations committee JSUMC
- Elected to 2011 New York Life Agents Advisory Council
- Life and Qualifying member of the MDRT (Million Dollar Round Table)
- MDRT Court of the table
- Consistently qualifying for New York Life Agents Advisory Council
- Fairhaven Community Capital Campaign Board Member
Martin A. Stansbery
Martin “Marty” joined Baker Financial Group in 2010. He was named New York Life rookie of the year in 2011 for the Columbus General Office. Marty has numerous ties to the business & agricultural community and currently holds a Series 6 license with FINRA.
Prior to joining Baker Financial Group Marty was a business owner in Upper Sandusky for more than 20 years. Marty is a member of the Upper Sandusky Rotary club and has served as its President. He is involved in BNI and an active supporter of events in the community. Marty is a member of the Columbus NAIFA chapter.
In his free time, Marty enjoys boating, working in the yard, and spending time with family and friends. Marty is married to Kellie, they have a son Alec. They attend Trinity Evangelical United Methodist Church in Upper Sandusky.
Katie Anderson
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Katie joined Baker Financial Group in 2016 as the Administrative Assistant. She holds an Associate’s degree in Office Information Technology from Marion Technical College. Katie also has attained her Life and Health License for the State of Ohio. Born and raised in the community of Upper Sandusky, Katie has created many relationships with businesses and the agriculture community.
Katie has previously been active in the community holding a three-year term on the Upper Sandusky Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. She currently holds a position with the Ambassador program for the Upper Sandusky Area Chamber of Commerce. Katie was previously involved with the local Relay for Life planning committee as the Marketing Lead.
In her free time, Katie enjoys spending time with her husband Josh and their two children, Caleb and Trenten. She also enjoys camping, sports and making cakes.
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Publications CGW 2018 Volume 41 Issue 1: (Edition 1 2018) Workstations Unplugged
Jon Peddie
Issue: Volume 41 Issue 1: (Edition 1 2018)
Workstations Unplugged
Not every user sees workstations the same way.
That is the conclusion of an Intel-commissioned blind survey conducted by a third-party research firm to gain new workstation insights. The survey elicited more than 2,500 responses from end users, IT decision-makers (ITDMs), and managers at major organizations across the top workstation verticals. The research firm performed qualitative interviews with 34 major companies representing key workstation segments: architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC); manufacturing; media and entertainment (M&E); health care; oil and gas; and financial services. Quantitative responses were received from 1,482 ITDMs and 1,046 business decision-makers (BDMs) – 2,528 in total. An impressive sampling, indeed.
Geographically, the responses broke down into 1,222 from North America, 695 from Europe, and 611 from Asia – a well-distributed geographic sampling. The usage across key verticals and workloads of the most frequently used applications were fairly evenly distributed – about 300 in each category – and twice that for manufacturing, resulting in a good distribution representing the industry as a whole.
Below we dig into key insights from the research.
What Is a Workstation?
The term “workstation” is commonly used in the industry, and most of the business decision-makers also use the term “high-performance computers,” which to them means a machine that can run multiple programs on multiple monitors.
The technical decision-makers tend to describe a workstation more in terms of solving their needs, pointing out that a workstation should have hyper-threading, multi-core, and an abundance of memory. Or in terms of specifics: Animators need dual--socket Intel Xeon processors operating at 3.5 ghz or higher, an Nvidia top-end add-in board (AIB), an SSD, and as much memory as you can afford – at least 128gb.
The Value of Application Certification
One of the distinguishing features of a workstation is the assurance that it will run the most frequently-used apps as they are designed, commonly referred to as “application certification.” During the development process, workstation suppliers work closely with independent software vendors (ISVs) to ensure that the application’s special features and functionality are fully supported. ISVs such as Autodesk, Bentley, Siemens, PTC, and others work with the AIB suppliers like AMD, Nvidia, and their partners.
ISV CERTIFICATION IS MORE CRITICAL TO TECHNICAL DECISION-MAKERS, AS THEY CONFIGURE AND REPAIR WORKSTATIONS. HOWEVER, CERTIFICATION IS MUCH LESS IMPORTANT IN CHINA THAN IN NORTH AMERICA.
They also work closely with CPU suppliers like Intel and AMD to fine-tune their software drivers for three operating systems (Windows, Linux, and MacOS), to make sure special features and functions in the applications fully exploit all the acceleration capabilities in the hardware, which are (hopefully) exposed through the driver.
In addition to three operating systems, there are three (or four) application program interface (API) standards that the workstation suppliers have to support: OpenGL being the most important and, in some cases, DirectX. Two new APIs, Vulkan and Metal, are also being added. Not all ISVs offer support for every combination, but nonetheless, that suggests there can be up to 12 combinations of OS and API that must be tested across at least a half-dozen AIBs. Additionally, there are a half-dozen CPUs, which expands the potential number of certifications to 432 possibilities. Obviously, they don’t test for these scenarios; however, testing for a dozen or two is not unusual.
With all that effort to ensure the maximum, most reliable performance, the surveyed end users don’t fully appreciate or understand the certification linkage and importance between the processors (CPU and/or AIB), software driver, API, OS, and application. And yet, if any one of those components in that chain fails, the system stops, and it burns time and money in debugging and repairing it.
The time and money aspect of production engineering design work is precisely the backbone of a workstation – rock-solid and “bulletproof,” as they say in the industry. So, given how important “fail-safe operation” is in a workstation, you’d think the users, especially at the level of those surveyed, would have a deeper understanding – if not appreciation – for its value. Nevertheless, it doesn’t appear to be part of the evaluation criteria by the managers on their purchasing checklist, and yet, it ranks number one in the decision tree chart on page 36. However, the real value is to professional IT managers, who get a guarantee that if they buy hardware that is certified with the application they are using, it will just work!
The value is in the enterprise-level support that the certification process provides the base, to ensure not only a good release, but also the ability to support it for multiple years. Nvidia, for example, actually tests a majority of the combinations and maintains builds/regression testing across multiple OSs, versions of OSs, and multiple versions of the ISV app. Furthermore, they’ll test and support multiple ISV apps running together on the same system. This cross-testing helps ensure the best supported workflow and not just the best supported app.
The Value of ECC
The highly dense, high-speed random--access memory (RAM) used in today’s modern computers is a miracle of technology, but it’s not foolproof. Those microscopic memory cells can miss a signal, get confused by cosmic rays, thrown off by temperature and/or voltage surges, and some say even misbehave if there’s a “bad moon out tonight.” All of these errors become more common as you increase the amount of memory in a system. Knowing the inherent fragility of RAM, circuit and system designers have developed schemes to catch, and sometimes correct, for such failures. Approaches have been developed to deal with unwanted bit-flips, including immunity-aware programming, RAM parity memory, and error-correcting code (ECC) memory.
ECC memory was introduced in the late ’70s and early ’80s. An ECC-capable memory controller can detect and correct errors of a single bit per 64-bit “word” (the unit of bus transfer), and detect – but not correct – errors of 2 bits per 64-bit word.
Technical decision-makers responding to the survey said they saw minor advantages to ECC overall but felt it was vital to CPU-heavy workloads.
Some respondents felt ECC was critical for AEC users performing rendering and senior designers/engineers in M&E, health care/biotech, and energy/oil and gas. Those who have used systems with and without ECC reported they consider the feature a critical factor for improved reliability and productivity. Others think it depends on the workload of the end user. When users move to an Intel Xeon processor-based workstation, they are assured they have ECC, which gives them the stability they demand for their systems.
ECC memory is one of the distinguishing features of a workstation and one of the elements that contributes to its nonstop reliable functionality. The survey indicated that efforts should be made to enable better understanding of the benefits of ECC and how it helps resolve a lot of the pain points users have identified.
Performance Attributes
Technical decision-makers and business decision-makers who responded to the survey are confused about which component contributes the most to great and/or poor performance. Keep in mind, they aren’t computer experts any more than they have to be to get their primary job done, so they can be excused if they don’t know where the bottlenecks are in a system. And keep in mind, those bottlenecks shift over time from memory, to software, to CPU, and so forth. This does, however, indicate that the sources of information that the technical and business decision-makers are using (magazines, Web pages, newsletters, user groups, and conferences) are not delivering sufficient information to them so they can make a more informed purchasing decision.
Based on the comments above about ECC and ISV certification, it seems clear that price is getting a major piece of mindshare in the decision process. That is almost a complete reversal from 10 and 20 years ago: In previous studies conducted by Jon Peddie Research (JPR) and others, price was never the primary decision factor; performance, reliability, vendor, and certification were always ahead of it. But with the expansion of the market to the entry level, price has crept up in importance. For the high-end users, though, it is still low on the list.
Running Multiple Workloads
The technical and business decision-makers who focused on the workstation insofar as it would be configured and certified to run their most critical workloads indicated that sufficient memory, followed by a high-end CPU and AIB, are top workstation purchase priorities. The number one item identified in the survey was a high-end, multi-core CPU processor for multi-tasking. Some respondents reported to have six to seven programs running at once, powering multiple workloads to boot.
For a group that wasn’t certain about what was the most critical part of the workstation, the technical decision-makers showed a surprising interest in overclocking and running multiple monitors – especially since overclocking can run counter to reliability, the hallmark of a workstation. The business decision-makers’ priorities were multiple screens, sufficient RAM, and certification for their specific software programs. The managers from AEC firms had a higher-than-average priority for multiple monitors and RAM, while the priorities from manufacturing decision-makers included overclocking and 3D capabilities. Meanwhile, the managers in the US and China placed a higher priority on CPUs and overclocking than the overall average.
DECISION TREE FOR TECHNICAL AND BUSINESS DECISION-MAKERS WHO RECOMMEND, APPROVE, OR ACTUALLY PURCHASE WORKSTATIONS.
At JPR, we think overclocking may be a false positive and doubt if overclocking is really understood. The most that a CPU or GPU can be overclocked is about 3 percent to 5 percent, but the impact on reliability due to heating is probably 25 percent or higher. Bottom line, the ROI on overclocking is terrible.
CPU and AIB: Function of the App
It’s probably not a surprise to learn that the respondents said the application determines how a processor impacts productivity – that the value of the CPU or AIB in a workstation depends greatly on the workloads and industry.
After I/O, memory and AIB rank high with AEC firms due to the large graphics files that are created and constantly updated. The newest-generation of high-end AIBs contain up to 24gb of high-speed local RAM (GDDR5). The main system can house up to 2tb of ECC RAM (DDR4). As astounding as those numbers sound, they aren’t there for show; high-end users need all the local storage they can get because the 3D models are getting larger every day. The dream of all designers is to have the entire model in RAM, so they can move through it as fast as possible.
The CPU is ranked at or near the top of the components for energy/oil and gas, health care/biotech, financial services, and M&E due to complex computations, rendering, and creating 3D digital files.
Geographically, China ranks the CPU as the most important component. In North America and Europe, the I/O and memory are most critical.
Workstations have a lot of demands on them, and they meet those demands, which is why they are so popular. A workstation has to have a crazy amount of high-speed I/O, inside and out. Outside there are features such as DisplayPort, external SATA, and USB-C. Inside, though, it has to have dozens of PCIe lines to support graphics AIBs (a high-end workstation can be equipped with up to four AIBs), high-speed SSD drives, Intel’s new high-speed Octane memory, specialized communications, and special I/O subsystems such as high-speed cameras. I/O is, and always has been, a moving target. The demands for more and faster I/O is one of the things that motivates a user to buy a new workstation.
The respondents to the survey indicated they were most interested in 4k and augmented reality for current workloads, and were testing virtual reality. M&E, manufacturing, and construction expressed the most interest in VR, followed by energy/oil and gas, and architecture firms, which stated they are testing VR (from qualitative interviews).
Technical decision-makers indicated more interest in VR than average, while business decision-makers expressed more interest in cloud rendering/processing.
Likewise, M&E, manufacturing, and construction firms stated they had more interest in VR than average, while AEC firms were more interested in cloud rendering/processing than average.
China and North America showed more interest in VR than average, while the US and China have a higher interest in 4k.
One of the misunderstandings the general press and others make is when they see the terms “VR” and “workstation” together; they think of a user wearing a head-mounted display (HMD). However, the major role for a workstation in VR is content creation as opposed to content enjoyment.
However, VR can be a partial supplement for a CAVE or can augment one. A CAVE, or Cave automatic virtual environment, is a virtual--reality system that uses projectors to display images on three or four walls and the floor.
By creating a VR walk-through of the proposed facility in the very early stages, manufacturers can engage with equipment suppliers and vendors, which allows them to better plan how operations will be conducted in the facility.
Workloads in the Cloud
According to the survey, there is a strong progression to the cloud. The respondents indicated they are actively moving both storage and computation to the cloud in the near term. Less-regulated firms in the US and UK will see the largest jump to the cloud, while firms already in the cloud have not seen a drop-off in workstation CPU needs.
THE FUTURE INTERESTS OF WORKSTATION USERS.
AEC, M&E, and manufacturing see more movement to the cloud in both areas than average, while finance and health care/biotech are more resistant to moving to the cloud. China expects computation to stay more local, while the US and UK are more open to the cloud.
The survey results correlated well with our findings for JPR’s CAD in the Cloud study (see “CAD in the Cloud,” CGW, July.August 2017).
There really isn’t one “CAD market,” there are several CAD markets. CAD is such a universal tool; it is used in dozens of other markets. CAD usage in one field can look quite different from CAD usage in another field. However, there are a couple of segments that dominate the use of CAD: AEC and manufacturing. Those two segments compose about 70 percent of the market, and for the purposes of analyzing the data, the rest is categorized as “other.”
Similar levels of current and planned implementation are seen across the main industry sectors. There are higher levels of ongoing evaluation in manufacturing and AEC than “other” sectors, of which almost half have not investigated CAD-in-the-cloud solutions at all.
CAD is not the only engineering application to move to the cloud: Finite--element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and subterranean geophysical exploration modeling are some other applications that need the distribution and storage capability of the cloud to allow secure collaboration worldwide. It’s a constant trade-off between local processing and storage, versus cloud storage and local processing, and cloud storage and processing. And even within a company, on a given project, all three arrangements will be employed. There is no single answer (one size does not fit all), and it’s the flexibility that remote computing and storage offer that has helped propel the productivity gains in the face of increases in dataset sizes.
Product Introductions and Buy Cycles
Generally speaking, the workstation suppliers are introducing new products every two years on average to keep up with expanding workloads and software upgrades. Survey respondents reported that they try to look at the workload software upgrade specifications a year before they buy and plan their refresh around those requirements.
Large companies are moving toward two-year leases to automatically stock the best workstations. For AEC firms with users not involved in rendering, workstations are replaced every three to four years. Manufacturing, M&E, and energy/oil and gas are refreshing faster than the average.
In the past, large organizations would use a purchasing agent or IT manager to choose which workstation would be given to the company’s engineers. These buyers’ motivations were different from engineering: IT was looking for stability and communally for ease of maintenance and support, while engineering was looking for maximum performance. Typically, the engineers needing maximum performance were the minority and didn’t have a voice in the decision process. Today, that’s totally reversed because large and small organizations have learned that with the demands of time to market, product differentiation, traceability, and quality control, it’s the engineers who need to be driving the selection of which type of workstation they use.
Germany and France’s refresh cycles are longer than the average. The US and UK have shorter refresh cycles than the average.
Refresh cycles also are different for every organization, usually driven by budget cycles, and many tiers are out of sync with the realities of the market. For years, accountants and financial planning departments didn’t factor in the upgrade schedules of ISVs and hardware suppliers, leaving their engineers with outdated workstations and applications. In the past few years, though, planning departments have learned to include a fudge factor in their budget to allow for surprises – the ISVs don’t always have predictable or reliable update schedules.
A general rule of thumb has been to plan for a refresh of hardware and update of software every two to three years; any longer than that and you find yourself behind the curve compared to competitors, and over time, it only gets worse. A workstation is a tool, and if you don’t have the right tools, you can’t do your job – it’s that simple (and your job is to stay on time in a project and at least even with, if not ahead, of the competition).
End-User Influence
The survey shows that end users are very involved in the workstation purchasing process. The respondents indicated that while IT can make workstation decisions, they almost never make those choices independently. The department manager and end users tell IT what software is being used and how many hours a day it will be under stress. Once IT figures out the workload and looks at the budget, they then buy the workstation.
The technical and business decision--makers more often look to outside consultants/VARs to help with selecting workstations, and less so their IT department, if they even have one.
North American firms are more inclined to use VARs, while China is significantly less inclined, according to the survey results. The US and UK give more autonomy to the line-of-business buyer, whereas China relies more on IT.
The Whole Picture
The key takeaway from this survey information is that workstations have a strong hold on power users and those who need uncompromised uptime and performance. The new multi-, multi-core processors now being placed in workstations – and, in some cases, two of them in a workstation – are mind-bogglingly powerful, and yet users still want more FLOPS, more memory, and more display resolution.
THE WORKLOAD, USER INPUT, AND LINE-OF-BUSINESS DEPARTMENT MANAGERS ARE KEY IN THE PURCHASE PROCESS.
The workstation users who responded to the Intel survey quantified their opinions with regard to several criteria concerning a workstation and its procurement, which is summarized in the table on this page.
Health/biotech/science, energy/oil and gas, and M&E are applications where users expressed the highest CPU needs, faster refreshes, and are current users of the Xeon processor. Manufacturing firms are attracted to fast refreshes (in part due to leases) and the need for ECC and multi-threading, and AEC firms give it the lowest priority with lesser CPU needs and slower refreshes.
Geographically, China ranks the CPU as the most important component, while in North America and Europe, I/O and memory are most critical.
In my book, “The History of Visual Magic in Computers,” I trace the introduction of the workstation to the IBM 1620, a small scientific computer designed to be used interactively by a single person sitting at the console. Introduced in 1959, it was the first integrated workstation – just not a graphics workstation.
Since then, workstations have become 10,000 times more powerful, 1,000 times smaller, and 1,000 times less expensive. Today, you can get a very powerful laptop workstation weighing less than four pounds for less than $2,000.
And the hunger for workstations continues. The market has grown from 50 units a year to over four million units a year, and even with a declining average selling price due to Moore’s law, the market has shown steady and robust growth in value.
COMPARISON OF APP NEEDS FOR VARIOUS WORKSTATION COMPONENTS.
All the things we enjoy today – air travel, fantastic movies and games, giant skyscrapers, clever consumer products, and even our clothes – are or have been designed on a workstation. To say we couldn’t live without workstations would be an understatement. But workstations are workhorses and not very sexy, so they don’t get headlines, tweets, or much Facebook time. If your car represented life, then workstations would be the pistons: You know they’re there, they do their job, but you don’t think about or talk much about them.
Today’s workstation ranges from devices as small as a couple packs of cigarettes to big boxes, and everything in between, including laptops.
The survey captured some of the ideas users have about workstations, and some of their attitudes with regard to buying one (or a hundred). And if it proved one thing, it is that opinions and needs vary geographically, by applications and industry, and, of course, budget. After all, there isn’t a workstation market, there are dozens of workstation markets.
Jon Peddie (jon@jonpeddie) is president of Jon Peddie Research, a Tiburon, CA-based consultancy specializing in graphics and multimedia that also publishes JPR’s “TechWatch.” In addition to following and reporting on workstations for the past 35-plus years, he is also the author of the recent book “Augmented Reality: Where We Will All Live.”
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This poem was written for MEND: A Poetry Marathon to advance the removal of the J. Marion Sims Monument at the S.C.Statehouse and read aloud at the monument on September 7, 2017.
Now wasn’t there some good?
– Bettina Judd, “After Memory,” Patient (2014)
“That a historical figure existed at a different time, with different norms, is not irrelevant. But it is only one consideration in the fraught and important question, as to who should loom over us on pedestals, enshrined in metal or stone.”
– Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 6 Sept 2017
“The first surgeon of the ages in ministry to women, treating alike empress and slave.”
– from the left panel of the Sims monument, SC Statehouse grounds
Because he was not, in fact, physician to empress and slave alike; because he used the bodies of black women and poor women to launch what would become a lucrative practice among wealthy women; because he would not have been physician to an empress in a mansion if he had not first experimented on enslaved women in a shed behind his house;
Because Anarcha and Lucy and Betsy are named as enslaved women in his autobiography but are never given voice;
Because he says of Betsy that “she willingly consented”;
Because he invented 71 instruments to aid in childbirth, yes, but because he started with a pewter spoon and a cobbler’s awl; because an awl is a long spike used for piercing leather; because this monument remembers the Sims position and the Sims speculum, but it does not remember the shoemaker’s tool that he used to pry the bones of a newborn African infants’ skulls into proper alignment; because the fatality rate for those operations was 100 percent;
Because he did not use anesthesia on black women; because he was sure they could endure the pain; because they thought blacks had a higher tolerance for pain; because the pain was so great, he asked other men to hold them down;
Because he asked his students to pull the buttocks apart so that he might see better;
Because he whitewashed his woodcuts of black women’s bodies when he moved to New York, so his patrons and students there would not know that he experimented on the bodies of enslaved women;
Because this monument was erected in May 1929 by the Women’s Auxilliary of the South Carolina Medical Association; because the most popular radio show in American in 1929 was Amos ‘n’ Andy; because Martin Luther King Jr. was born four months before in Georgia;
Because the elegant cement curve of the steps of the Sims monument, and the wall broken by the bust of J. Marion Sims so ironically echo the elegant curve of the African American History Monument across the South Carolina Statehouse grounds, a wall of images broken by the historical fissure of the Emancipation Proclamation;
Because the bronze bust of J. Marion Sims, his disembodied head and chest, suggests that this is a monument to reason and affection and not to the body, the disappeared and disappearing body, the disappeared, disavowed, but not disowned bodies of enslaved women;
Because the black women’s bodies erased by this monument are described in great detail in Sims’ biography as loathsome and disgusting;
Because he tells the story with such ease, because he stopped at the store and bought a spoon and then he stopped at his office and called out to his students, “Come, boys, go to the hospital with me,” because he then asked them to lay hold of her buttocks and pull them open; because he says Betsy “willingly consented”; because a jaunty “Come, boys, go with me” is the story of the invention of the speculum;
Because he performed clitoridectomies on women, because hysteria and improper sexual behavior were pathologized as gynecological illnesses;
Because consent no longer means the consent of your owner;
Because consent no longer means the consent of your husband;
Because the elliptical arch around this disembodied head suggests a cartouche, suggests the hieroglyphic oval enclosing a royal name; because the elliptical arch around this bronze bust suggests the halo arching over an image of a saint; because it suggests the clitoris under the hood;
Because when you stand in front of the bust of J. Marion Sims, he looks down on you, on us, looks down on this mixed crowd; because when you stand in front of the bust of J. Marion Sims, he can’t quite look you in the eye;
Because getting rid of a monument is not the same thing as erasing history; because the installation of a monument is not an accurate representation of history but an elevation of a particular representation, a particular representative, a particular reduction of history;
Because we should continue to teach the history of J. Marion Sims, his 71 instruments, his bent spoon, his shoemaker’s awl; because we should teach the names of Betsy, and Lucy, and Anarcha; because we should say the names;
Because even though some say the history of J. Marion Sims may be nuanced and complex, this monument is not.
[A note on the form: I had in mind the series of “because” clauses that often structure a formal resolution. This does not end, however, with “be it resolved,” since there is not yet resolution.]
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The Four Seasons was one of the most adored rock bands of the sixties with its charismatic partnership of four singers led by the infamous Frankie Valli, whose powerful falsetto took the world by storm. But like any chart sensations, they started from the bottom living a difficult life in New Jersey. Despite achieving the fame they so desperately yearned for as young musicians, with success brought a lot of struggles; the band members' relationships became frequently tested, particularly as both fans and producers became interested in bringing Frankie's voice out more and more. Meanwhile, they had their personal lives to worry about with family troubles and problems involving the Mob - but in the end, the successes of tunes such as 'Sherry', 'Big Girls Don't Cry' and 'Walk Like a Man' would make them the one of the most iconic acts of the decade.
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Video - Co-Stars Steve Schirripa, Joe Pantoliano And Tony Sirico Are Spotted At The Funeral Of James Gandolfini
Funeral-goers flock in their masses to pay tribute to the late 'Sopranos' star James Gandolfini at the Cathedral of St. John The Divine in New York City. Among them are his lifelong friends and co-stars including Steve Schirripa, Joe Pantoliano and Tony Sirico.
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Open Season 3 Trailer
There's only one day before Boog and Elliott should depart on their guys only trip, but there's one small problem Elliot can't go away and he's been putting off telling the news to his best buddy Boog. When Boog accidentally finds out that Elliot won't be accompanying him, he gets in a mood and decides to take the journey alone. Boog's lone adventure leads him to the circus where he runs into another bear called Doug who is a little scruffier than Boog but the two look incredibly similar. With Boog longing to belong and Doug wishing to be free, the two decide to switch places, but Doug forgets to tell Boog that this isn't a temporary proposal and the circus will be returning to Russia.
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas Review
You might be tempted to dismiss Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as a curiosity, an attempt to exploit the pockets of fame enjoyed by Hunter S. Thompson and director Terry Gilliam.
When I first saw the film in 1998, that's what I did.
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High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story Review
God forbid the marketing guy who decided to title this film Stuey (it has mercifully been changed), a biopic about legendary and tragic poker champ Stu Ungar.
Stu -- or Stuey, if you must -- won three World Series of Poker Championships, a feat which has not been equalled. Stu was also a hardcore drug addict and generally a lousy guy, virtually catatonic in the years leading up to his death. But he was a card player first, unmatched at reading his opponents and incredibly lucky at getting the cards he needed.
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Industry in Laurens is expanding
Wed, 03/01/2017 - 12:35pm Vic MacDonald
Hunter Industrial Park site will see growth by Fukoku
SC Department of Commerce
We at Fukoku America are proud to have been part of the Laurens County Industrial Community for the past 15 years. We have had a great relationship with the City and County of Laurens, as well as the State of South Carolina. With this expansion, we look forward to continuing our industrial partnership with the Laurens County business community for many years to come.” – Fukoku America Executive Vice President Masahiko Tsubota
Fukoku America expanding its Laurens County operations
Company investing $13.9 million in existing manufacturing plant
LAURENS – Fukoku America, a manufacturer of rubber and plastic automotive products is growing its operations in Laurens County.
The expansion is expected to bring $13.9 million in new investment and lead to the creation of 65 jobs.
Fukoku is the largest producer of wiper blade rubber in the world and is used in a variety of applications, from automobiles and trains to ships and aircraft. With an annual production of wiper blade rubbers exceeding 200 million, the company accounts for a large share of the domestic market and approximately 40 percent of the international market. Fukoku also develops seals for industrial applications, such as pneumatic tools and industrial machinery.
Located at 325 Hunter Industrial Park Road in Laurens, the company will be increasing its manufacturing capacity for producing constant-velocity joint (CVJ) boots and rack and pinion boots for the automotive industry. Hiring for the new positions has already begun, and interested applicants should apply online at SC Works.
“We at Fukoku America are proud to have been part of the Laurens County Industrial Community for the past 15 years. We have had a great relationship with the City and County of Laurens, as well as the State of South Carolina. With this expansion, we look forward to continuing our industrial partnership with the Laurens County business community for many years to come.” –Fukoku America Executive Vice President Masahiko Tsubota
“The fact that the partnership between Fukoku America and our great state continues to result in growth and success for both parties is something to be proud of. We’ve created one of the friendliest environments for business in the world, and we can’t wait to see what the future has in store for Fukoku America.” –Gov. Henry McMaster
“South Carolina has developed an international reputation as a manufacturing powerhouse, and this latest expansion by Fukoku is a further testament to it. I congratulate Fukoku on this tremendous commitment to Laurens County and our state as a whole, and we look forward to their continued success.” –Secretary of Commerce Bobby Hitt
“It is good to have a company to continue to invest in Laurens County. We welcome the investment and jobs.” –Laurens County Council Chairman Joe Wood
“I, along with city council, am extremely excited that Fukoku has decided to expand their operation in Hunter Industrial Park. This new expansion will provide great job opportunities for the residents of the City of Laurens and Laurens County. We look forward to continuing a long and prosperous relationship with Fukoku.” –City of Laurens Mayor John Stankus
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· Fukoku America expanding its Laurens County operations.
· $13.9 million investment to create 65 new jobs.
· Fukoku is the largest producer of wiper blade rubber in the world.
· Located at 325 Hunter Industrial Park Road in Laurens, the company will be increasing its manufacturing capacity.
· Hiring has already begun, and interested applicants should apply online at SC Works.
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Biden, Obama helped keep 'Bridge to Nowhere' alive
Joe Biden, Barack Obama voted to kill a Senate amendment diverting bridge funding
Both voted for final transportation bill that included the $223 million bridge earmark
Alaska's "Bridge to Nowhere" has been used by Dems to mock Gov. Sarah Palin
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By Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston
CNN Special Investigations Unit
DEWEY BEACH, Delaware (CNN) -- Although Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden routinely mocks his Republican counterpart, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, for her onetime support of the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," Biden and his running mate voted to keep the project alive twice.
Both Biden and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama voted to kill a Senate amendment that would have diverted federal funding for the bridge to repair a Louisiana span badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Senate records show.
And both voted for the final transportation bill that included the $223 million earmark for the Alaska project.
An amendment offered by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, would have stripped the money appropriated to connect the Alaskan coastal city of Ketchikan to its airport on sparsely populated Gravina Island and diverted the money to Louisiana.
But Biden andObama and 80 of their colleagues rejected the measure, an amendment to a massive 2005 transportation bill that funded thousands of projects across the country. Watch how Biden has blasted Palin »
"That is probably the most disturbing element of this and the campaigning on the Bridge to Nowhere," said Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation, a taxpayer watchdog group. "Because, yes, they had a chance to vote specifically against the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska to redirect the money to people, to bridges and infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Katrina going in to New Orleans, and they chose not to."
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The final version passed the Senate 93-1. Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has made his opposition to congressional "pork-barrel" spending a cornerstone of his campaign, did not vote on either the Coburn amendment or the final bill.
Palin, whom McCain chose as his running mate in August, has regaled crowds at the Republican convention and on the campaign trail with her declaration of "Thanks, but no thanks" for the bridge. But her conversion came after she became Alaska's governor in 2006 and after the bridge became a national symbol of congressional waste.
The record shows that she supported the bridge as a gubernatorial candidate, and Democrats have seized on the flip-flop, perhaps no one with as much relish as Biden.
"I got also a bridge I got to sell you here, and guess what, it's in Alaska, and it goes nowhere," Biden mocked Palin on the campaign trail last week in Maumee, Ohio. And in Canton, Ohio, he tied it to McCain.
"If you look at it John McCain's answers for the economy, and we're in such desperate shape, is the ultimate bridge to nowhere. It's nowhere," Biden said. "It takes you nowhere."
But while the applause line appealed to the Democratic faithful, it could come back to bite the Delaware senator.
This year, Delaware has requested 116 congressional earmarks through Biden, its longtime senator, at a cost to taxpayers of $342 million. In an appearance on CNN's "American Morning" with anchor John Roberts, Biden said that he had been open about those requests and that they all can be justified.
"Everyone has seen them, and we have no Lawrence Welk Museums and have no bridges to nowhere in Delaware. It's all straight up," Biden said.
Among his requests: $1 million for renovation of an opera house in Wilmington, another million for the construction of a children's museum and thousands of dollars for a water park renovation in Lewes.
"I think opera patrons generally can afford to -- you can raise money for an opera house; you can refurbish things a lot of different ways," Allison said.
"To have federal taxpaying dollars -- which is coming from people all over the country; low-income, middle-income people, as well as the wealthy -- to go to pay for the renovation of something that is really a luxury for Wilmington ... There are far more vital projects that anyone could think of that needs money. You got health care. You got education. You got all other types of things. Instead, we are redirecting money to refurbish an opera house in Wilmington or to build a children's museum."
And Biden's request includes a bridge that even the head of the Rehoboth Beach-Dewey Beach Chamber of Commerce says is not crucial at this juncture.
The Indian River Inlet Bridge is a vital link between two popular beachfront towns: Dewey and Bethany. Without it, the estimated 30,000 summer visitors would have to travel an additional 35 minutes to get to the towns.
"We need a new bridge, and we are fortunate to be at a place where it is finally going to happen," said Carol Everhart, the chief of the Chamber of Commerce.
The existing bridge has some erosion problems, and if it ever collapsed, Everhart said, it would cause an economic disaster in the community. But it's safe for now.
"The bridge, as it is, is perfectly safe," she said.
Still, Biden asked for $13 million to help shore up the existing bridge and begin construction of a new one. And that's what troubles the Sunlight Foundation's Allison.
"This bridge is not in any danger of collapse, and essentially what Sen. Biden is doing is saying, 'My state bridge gets the priority dollar even though it is not a priority project,' " Allison said.
He said the Department of Transportation, rather than U.S. senators, should be deciding which bridges get priority funding in the country. That way, the bridges in the U.S. that need immediate repair would be first in line for the dollars needed to do the work.
As he embarked on his presidential bid in 2007, Obama said he would no longer ask for earmark projects. McCain, who has been a longtime critic of the process, does not seek any for his home state of Arizona.
CNN asked Biden's campaign whether it could ask the senator about his earmark requests and his votes on the Bridge to Nowhere.
In response, a staffer e-mailed, "You've interviewed Gov. Palin re: her completely made up position on the Bridge to Nowhere right?"
CNN's Marcus Hooper contributed to this report.
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Kanu confident in Eagles.
Ex-super Eagles and Arsenal striker, Kanu Nwakwo has said that he is confident that the Eagles will advance from their group stage at the fast approaching Brazil 2014 World Cup
"Yes, I am confident, we are African champions, this is the right time, we won the African Cup of Nations in 2013 and now it is 2014," he said.
Super Eagles were drawn in Group F alongside with Argentina, Bosnia and Iran.
Kanu who has capped 86 times by Nigeria, is confident that African defending Champions will see off Bosnia and Iran in their first two games and then subsequently head into the final group game against Argentina without any pressure without entering the knock-out stages.
"We did it in 1994, we were African Champions and we passed the group Stage and I believe something is going to happen, if you look at our group it is one of the easiest groups and we are lucky to find ourself there"
"With all due respect to Iran and Bosnia, I believe we are going to win those games, Argentina is going to be tough one, but if we do win those games ( against Bosnia and Iran) of course we qualify and that is what we need."
"If we qualify for the knock-out stages, the whole country will be behind the team, the confidence will be there and we will grow from game to game and with that, we can go far," he said.
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Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season (Unabridged)
Written By: Jonathan Eig
Written By: Richard Allen
Length:12 hours and 6 min.
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Audiobook Summary:April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball. World War II had just ended. Democracy had triumphed. Now Americans were beginning to press for justice on the home front, and Robinson had a chance to lead the way. He was an unlikely hero. He had little experience in organized baseball. His swing was far from graceful. And he was assigned to play first base, a position he had never tried before that season. But the biggest concern was his temper. Robinson was an angry man who played an aggressive style of ball. In order to succeed, he would have to control himself in the face of what promised to be a brutal assault by opponents of integration. Drawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, Jonathan Eig presents a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integration's promise and helped launch the modern civil-rights era. Full of new details and thrilling action, Opening Day brings to life baseball's ultimate story.
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PROCESSIONS Edinburgh receives major funding awards
The City of Edinburgh Council has pledged support for PROCESSIONS Edinburgh.
Alongside the Scottish Government’s Centenary Fund, Event Scotland part of VisitScotland’s Events Directorate and Creative Scotland, the City of Edinburgh Council has partnered with Artichoke to support the mass participatory event on 10 June.
PROCESSIONS Edinburgh is one of four nationwide events taking place across the UK produced by leading arts charity Artichoke and commissioned by 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary. It will take place on Sunday 10th June in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast and London celebrating 100 years since the first British women got the vote.
Women and girls are invited to sign-up to take part at processions.co.uk. Participants will be given scarves to wear in either green, white or violet - the colours of the suffragettes – and will be choreographed so that together they appear as a vast river of colour flowing through the city centre. Many will carry artistic banners made in the lead-up to the event echoing the banners carried by the suffrage campaigners and representing what it means to be a woman in the 21st century.
Councillor Amy McNeese-Mechan, Vice Culture and Communities Convener at the City of Edinburgh Council, said: “On 10 June, thousands of women and girls will unite in Edinburgh to process, carry banners and fly the flag for women’s rights.
“Together, we will commemorate the incredible perseverance and bravery of those women who fought for the right to vote and marched through the city’s streets 100 years ago. It will be a chance for us to reflect on how far we’ve come and what’s still left to fight for, and I hope to see people of all ages from all walks of life and nationalities take part. The Council is so pleased to support such an inspiring event and I hope a key take away will be a renewed interest in registering to vote.
“You can just imagine how incredible it will be to see a flowing river of people in green, white and violet processing through Edinburgh and what an amazing atmosphere it will create. This is the type of event people will look back on with pride in the future and say, ‘I was there’.”
All four funding bodies in Scotland are producing their own banners to carry with them on the day. Using the toolkit downloadable from the website https://www.processions.co.uk/workshops/toolkits/ they are joining thousands of groups and individuals up-and-down the country who are creating a banner or pennant for the event. The toolkit has suggestions for making all kinds of banners that will take just 30 minutes or up to ten hours to make. It is simple to use and was designed by contemporary banner-maker Clare Hunter and inspired by a 1909 pamphlet written by suffragette artists Mary Lowndes.
Helen Marriage, Artistic Director and CEO or Artichoke said: “We are delighted that the four key statutory bodies in Scotland have chosen to fund this artwork and mark this historic anniversary when the first British women got the vote. We hope it will be the largest mass participation artwork made up of women ever seen in the UK. It will be a moment to celebrate what has been achieved for women as well as to recognise how far there is still to go.”
Equalities Secretary Angela Constance said: “The Scottish Government is delighted to support Processions which will raise awareness of the on-going issues of inequality experienced by women and girls today. This is part of the celebrations to mark the centenary of women’s suffrage and while we have come a long way since 1918, much still needs to be done if we are to eradicate gender inequality and create a fairer and more prosperous country. By supporting Processions we are making an important step towards securing that future.”
HOW TO TAKE PART:
1. Register at www.processions.co..uk to join one of the PROCESSIONS in Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff and London on Sunday 10 June 2018
2. Set up or join a public banner-making workshop
3. Create your own banner at home using the PROCESSIONS toolkit
4. Spread the word using #PROCESSIONS2018
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Smoke billows as fire engulfs the spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France April 15, 2019. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
Fire devastates Notre-Dame Cathedral, centuries-old Parisian landmark
By: Reuters
PARIS - 15 April 2019: Notre-Dame Cathedral went up in flames on Monday in a roaring blaze that devastated the Parisian landmark, a searing loss for the city and for France.
Flames that began in the early evening burst through the roof of the centuries-old cathedral and engulfed the spire, which collapsed, quickly followed by the entire roof.
A huge plume of smoke wafted across the city and ash fell over a large area. Parisians watched on, many of them lost for words.
"Like all our compatriots, I am sad this evening to see this part of all of us burn," President Emmanuel Macron tweeted.
"Basically the whole rooftop is gone. I see no hope for the building," said witness Jacek Poltorak, watching the fire from a fifth-floor balcony two blocks from the southern facade of the cathedral, one of France's most visited places.
Firefighters tried to contain the blaze with water hoses and cleared the area around Notre-Dame, which sits on an island in the River Seine and marks the very centre of Paris.
Buildings around were evacuated.
Nobody was injured, junior interior minister Laurent Nunez said at the scene, adding: "It's too early to determine the causes of the fire." France 2 television reported that police were treating it as an accident.
"Everything is collapsing," a police officer near the scene said as the entire roof of the cathedral continued to burn.
Macron cancelled an address to the nation that he had been due to give later on Monday evening. A presidential official said Macron was to go to the scene of the blaze.
The cathedral, which dates back to the 12th century, features in Victor Hugo's classic novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame". It is a UNESCO World Heritage site that attracts millions of tourists every year.
The Gothic cathedral is famed for its many carved stone gargoyles, stunning stained glass windows and the flying buttresses that hold up its walls.
"There are a lot of art works inside...it's a real tragedy," Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told reporters at the scene.
The cathedral was in the midst of renovations, with some sections under scaffolding and bronze statues were removed last week for works.
The wood and lead spire was built during a restoration in the mid-19th century, according to the cathedral's website.
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Rick McCosker to lead review into Australian team culture | Cricket Bats | Australia
Former batsman Rick McCosker will lead a review of issues relating to culture and governance of the men’s national team, and set out a charter for improved on-field behaviour, in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal during the Cape Town Test that has rocked Australian cricket.
McCosker, 71, played 25 Tests and 14 ODIs for Australia between 1975 and 1982, and is best-known for batting with a fractured jaw during the Centenary Test against England in 1977.
McCosker will be joined on the panel by two former players and two current players, whose identities are unknown at present. Peter Collins, director of the Centre for Ethical Leadership, will act as a “facilitator” for the process.
“Australian cricketers are role models for our young people and ambassadors for our country,” CA chairman David Peever said on Friday, while announcing the review. “Cricket fans and the Australian public rightly have high expectations regarding the standards of behaviour of our national teams.
“The independent review will provide an important foundation for ensuring these expectations are met. In addition, Cricket Australia will initiate a separate player (and former player) driven process to consider a “charter” that sets out standards of behaviour and expectations of Australian men’s teams. It is anticipated that this process will include assessments as to whether changes to codes and standards governing player conduct are required. The outcomes from this process will form reference points for the independent review.”
These measures are a result of the ball-tampering scandal that erupted on the third day of the Newlands Test against South Africa, when Cameron Bancroft was caught on camera rubbing the rough side of the ball with sandpaper. Steven Smith and Bancroft owned up to the offence at a press conference at the end of the third day’s play, and it later emerged that David Warner was also a key player in the plan to tamper with the ball.
After conducting an internal investigation into the incident, CA banned Smith and Warner from international and domestic cricket for 12 months, and Bancroft for nine. The board also banned Smith and Bancroft from holding leadership positions in Australian cricket for 12 months after the end of their bans, and Warner was banned from leadership for life.
All three players said they had accepted their bans and will not be challenging them.
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Criminal Justice Articles
There Is a Lot More to Police Work than Just Arrests Says Florida Sergeant
"Law enforcement is a team effort," says Sergeant Brenda Bowman Sizemore of the Havana Police Department in Havana, FL.
She has always enjoyed lots of support for her career, she adds. The first female sergeant in the history of her police department, Brenda is strongly involved in community awareness programs and is currently pursuing an MA in Criminal Justice at Keiser University, from which she will graduate in December.
"Law enforcement is like a big family," she says. "Everybody has a distinct role that they fulfill and everybody here has somebody to lean on."
Sergeant Sizemore didn't always want to be a police officer though. It was an interest that evolved naturally.
After having a daughter at the age of 15, Brenda spent 13 years running a cleaning service. Having to get a background check with a private investigator spurred her interest in private investigative work, but an internship later she realized that being a private investigator wasn't for her. A policeman friend, however, told her that she would make a good cop and encouraged her to pursue police work.
Brenda earned her AA and BA in Criminal Justice at Keiser University. She chose the school, she says, because of the small classes that allowed her to work around her cleaning schedule. She liked the close contact with instructors that knew her name. Going back to school after being out of the classroom for so long was definitely a transition, but the university helped her make the transition successfully. She says she was able to count on their support even when one of her children had an illness.
Sergeant Sizemore also recounts the fears she once had regarding presenting in court. A Keiser instructor made sure that she got over her fears by requiring her to present something to the class every day. Brenda admits that she didn't like it at the time, but she now appreciates his efforts when she has to speak to groups these days, which can be quite often.
Brenda started her law enforcement career as a reserve officer in Greensborough, FL. It was an all-volunteer force where officers had to purchase their own equipment, but she learned a lot under a knowledgeable female officer.
"There's a lot more to police work than just arrests," says Sergeant Sizemore. "It's about helping people and the community."
And help she does. When she's not completing paperwork or filing reports, Sergeant Sizemore is making community contacts. Her contributions to the community include working to raise alcohol, safety, and driver distraction awareness through local programs.
Ghost Out had local teens experience a simulated drunk driving car crash to bring home the message not to drink and drive. "Crash victims" were put on gurneys and in a hearse. Another program had drivers wear goggles that simulated one's vision after having a few drinks and go through an obstacle course. While at the time some thought they had driven just fine, the drivers were later surprised at the number of orange cones they had knocked over.
Brenda considers herself lucky to have always been able to count on the encouragement and support of her husband, children, the chief at Greensborough, the instructors at Keiser University, and her current police department.
For those who are considering a career in law enforcement, Sergeant Sizemore believes that "your education is what is going to set you apart. Law enforcement is getting more professional and they are looking for well educated people with specialized skills."
"Everybody has a different talent now and that's what makes a diverse police force so good," she says. "It's a team effort."
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The Week in Sex: Hyper-Texting Teens Who Use the "Gateway" Drug of Oral Sex; Sex Toy Beating/Sex Toy Drive-Thru and Celebrity Voices Supporting LGBT Teens
Sarah Forbes November 14, 2010
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In the past few weeks it seems like there has been an obsession with teen sexuality. From Gawker's coverage of studies linking oral sex as a "gateway" to other forms of penetrative sex to the study of this week, conducted by lead researcher Dr. Scott Frank focused on 4,200 students in 20 public schools in Cleveland, Ohio showing the correlation between hyper texting teens, that is over 120 texts per day, and an increased likelihood of sexual activity. It would seem like there is an epidemic of teen sex or is it really our preoccupation that teen sexuality exists in the first place?
Is the US sending mixed messages about its attitudes toward same sex relationships? While Argentina, the first country in Latin America to allows same sex marriage is celebrating the 500 marriages that have taken place since July 21st and Israel's Dancing With The Stars features a same sex couple, where does the US measure up? This past week the news has been filled with conversations about Hawaii's same sex civil unions and the ongoing legal cases that have been launched to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, "a 1996 law that prohibits the federal government from recognizing marriages of same sex couples." While these issues populate the news headlines in regards to same sex relationships, several celebrities such as Denise Richards, Gene Simmons, Dave Navarro have launched a new video PSA campaign to give LGBT teens hope. Even Cindy McCain speaks out in the PSA to call for an end of the bullying and confusing messaging, which falls in contrast to her husband's political positioning of being in favor of Don't Ask, Don't Tell as well as his opposition to gay marriage.
One of the key take aways of the campaign is in relationship to the mixed messages that are being sent to teens, with many messages being negative or unclear at best. While some might think expressions such as "that is so gay' are meaningless, this PSA highlights how phrases like this are a part of that larger problem of mixed messaging. How do we expect society and specifically LGBT teenagers to negotiate these ideas?
Sex toys: Instruments of pleasure, illegal contraband or tools of violence?
Alabama, the last state to maintain a ban on sex toys, is the location of a new drive-thru sex retailer known as Pleasure, owned by Sherri Williams. Currently customers are required to fill out a medial questionnaire to purchase an item that causes "stimulation of the human genitals." Currently, items of this type can only be used for "a bona fide medical, scientific, educational, legislative, judicial or law enforcement purpose." William has actively worked to see this ban overturned, bringing a case to the US Supreme Court in 2007, with negligible results.
While the population of Alabama is unable to freely purchase a sex toy, Carolee Bildstein of Gumee, Illinois has used a "rigid female device" as a weapon against a police officer who was required to escort her home to recover payment for an unpaid bill at Joe's Crab Shack. While it is reported that Bildstein was intoxicated at the time, she will be charged with one misdemeanor count of aggravated assault and theft of labor.
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To read more about our texting teens:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/09/texting-teens-sex-and-dru_n_780863.html
To read more about Argentina's same sex marriage celebration: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131131741or Israel's same sex dancing stars: http://www.theinsider.com/news/3375555_Same_sex_Israeli_couple_on_Dancing_with_Stars
or an update on the legal action in protection of same sex marriage rights: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/us/09marriage.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a22
To read more about the Alabama sex toy ban: http://blog.al.com/breaking/2010/11/alabama_sex_toy_drive-thru.html or the sex toy assult: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40136384/ns/local_news-chicago_il
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"I'm Raising Up a Parliament of Prophets"
Westley Roderick
I'm really encouraged by the Millennial voices God is raising up in this hour.
Westley Roderick gives us a zealous word I believe is straight from the heart of God:
We have been given and charged with the job of reconciliation. He said, "I am going to lead these people to go out into the darkness – into the very darkest of places – during the worst of the worst situations."
Are you called to the very darkest of places to bring God's Kingdom? If so, you've got to read this word by Westley and share it with all of your friends. Let's be zealous for the things of God...no matter what our age! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
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Westley Roderick, Fort Mill, SC
Several months ago, I was awakened in the very early morning by the voice of the Lord. I heard, "I'm raising up a parliament of prophets." Prior to this moment, I already knew that a grouping of owls is known as a parliament. I believe in this moment, it wasn't just that God was speaking to me about a collection of prophetic people, but that they would have characteristics similar to that of an owl.
The Lord said, "I am going to breathe upon these individuals in such a way that they will begin filling up My house with brothers and sisters." We have been given and charged with the job of reconciliation. He said, "I am going to lead these people to go out into the darkness – into the very darkest of places – during the worst of the worst situations."
The Lord was referring to a parliament because owls have an impeccable ability to see through the darkness and have highly developed hearing. It is said that owls have a 100% strike ratio while hunting under the cover of darkness. In addition to that, owls have an ability to turn their heads in a 270-degree view of their surroundings giving to a plane of sight.
All of these additional abilities that are proprietary to owls are what make this bird a great metaphor and symbol for the coming prophetic movement. This collection of prophetic people will have the counsel and the wisdom of the Lord on how to strike with accuracy and break the shackles of darkness.
Bring Them Back to the Nest
In correlation, the Lord is saying that in the next prophetic movement, "I am going to be raising up a movement of people that will be able to reach for those in the darkness and bring them back to the nest." God is going to breathe upon a group of prophetic voices whose sole purpose, calling, and gifting is the ability to go out into the darkest of places and bring people back to the nest. The nest is figurative of the Father's house.
The purpose of this movement is to bring souls back into the Father's house. There is an anointing and a covering to go into the dark places where people are afraid to go on a regular basis and rescue the lost. These prophetic people will have the ability to "see" with a wider peripheral vision than others. Their ability to see into the darkness will be nearly perfect, and it will give them a 100% strike ratio. That means that when they bring somebody into the Kingdom, there will not be a whole lot of lolly-gagging or frolicking around. The way they will operate, function and move about will be very precise, strategic and carried out with wisdom and stealth.
"This kingly anointing is going to bring healing and restoration to all people. God is going to speak to people through the voice of a father. He is going to begin raising up fathers who can raise up fathers."
In Matthew chapter 9, we see that Jesus was eating and drinking with the sinners and tax collectors. Many people came up to Him and said, "Why do you sit here and eat and drink with sinners and with the tax collectors?" And Jesus said, "I can tell you to go learn the meaning of the Scripture that I desire mercy and not sacrifice" (see Matthew 9:12-13). Jesus is right there in their midst. The Spirit of prophecy is the revelation of Jesus.
Therefore, the Father is raising up prophets who will abide in the darkness for the sake of bringing light. God Himself hides within a dark cloud. This new order of prophetic people is going to be there with peripheral vision and will be able to see wider and further into this darkness. They will be able to hear and know the Father's voice. That is a promise that we have from the Father: "My sheep will know My voice."
He said, "I am going to breathe upon people." We are going to see a marking of Joseph and a marking of Daniel upon a prophetic movement and the remnant of people.
The Marketplace Prophet
If you look at the life of Joseph, you see that his brothers traded him off into slavery. He was raised up with, lived amongst, and worked and operated for a Pharaoh and his people. Most prophetic voices in Scripture typically operated in the light of being a consultant to a king or to somebody in great power, authority and influence. Joseph had the ear of a Pharaoh. Some of us need to come into a place where we can begin to have the ear of a Pharaoh and where Pharaoh can learn he can trust us and, therefore, will listen to us.
Often people are so detoured by longing for their purpose and place within the Church body. They are looking for God to fulfill their calling or their passion only within the Church Body, and that is not where they are called. In that process, Scripture is misrepresented, causing a mindset of feeling betrayed by the Church and constantly battling with a constricting feeling inside those four walls.
Let's look at Joseph's response to the way he was treated. After years of struggle and pain he still says, "What you intended for evil, God has turned to good" (see Genesis 50:20). We often interpret this Scripture by saying, "What the enemy intended for evil, God will use for good." However, let's look at who betrayed Joseph and who he was actually speaking to in that moment. It was not the principalities and powers of darkness and it was not satan. It was, in fact, his own brothers who betrayed Joseph and it was his brothers he was speaking to when he said that. They became so jealous and so insecure of his gift that they tried to get rid of him. (Photo via Flickr)
Maybe you're feeling like you are having a hard time and struggling to find your groove in a church. Maybe God is not calling you to be a prophet or a prophetic voice inside a church, but rather He's calling you to be inside Pharaoh's camp. He's calling you out into the marketplace and in the wilderness place. Prophecy ultimately brings people in to reveal Jesus to them. Prophecy is meant to reveal the heart of God, to reveal the secrets of people's hearts, and to reconcile them back to Christ. It's meant to reveal Jesus, who died for them, so that He can have a relationship with them. This can be done inside the marketplace and the wilderness place.
The Joseph anointing is going to come upon a group of people and God is going to bless them the way He blessed Joseph. This isn't limited to just dream interpreters; Joseph also acted as a consultant. The Joseph anointing comes with a wealth and a power to create and build wealth. God wants to move on a people group that can operate as business consultants and speak to "Pharaoh" out there in society who needs that connection to God.
God wants to use many people as a bridge, but we are so busy trying to find and get hold of the microphone inside the church that we are not taking hold of the calling that God has given us outside of the church.
You're the Light of the World
This is why many people are feeling so uncomfortable inside the church when trying to function in their callings and giftings. They are meant to use their gifts, their talents, and their voices outside of the church so that they can begin to influence people for Jesus and reveal to them who Jesus is outside the church. Sometimes that's through acts of love and kindness, and other times it's demonstrating what Jesus did, and revealing the secrets of their hearts by using prophecy.
I am NOT saying that you don't need to be a part of a local church or Body. I am saying that maybe your gifting is not made to function inside the church and you are seeking a platform in a place where you are not meant to have a platform.
Many have not been experiencing the favor of God or man because they are not operating from the place they are supposed to be.
True marketplace ministry is where the Lord is speaking to you and giving you creative ideas and ways to create money and wealth. You have business influence and savvy that God uses to reveal who Jesus is on a greater scale and platform. When you begin to do that, you will start to see the favor of God and man upon your life.
The Set-Apart Prophet
The other prophetic anointing that we're going to see is the Daniel-like anointing. There are different lifestyles that are attributed to these individuals throughout their existence. When you look at the lifestyle of Daniel, he was another person who was working and operating in the presence of a king. King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream that no one but Daniel could understand and interpret. Daniel led a set-apart life that created greatness within him for a moment just like this. This is an example of the parliament of prophets that God is raising up. These people are going to operate in a realm of darkness that many people are afraid to go into.
We are going to see a select group of people, who have set themselves apart, and who are going to become like Daniels and Josephs. They realize that they've gone through the season of rejection and being outcasts, and they've been out in the wilderness and left to die for a set-apart reason – for a greater purpose and a greater glory.
God is raising up and blessing a group of people that are going to carry an anointing similar to Daniel. They are going to have the ear of kings like Nebuchadnezzar. God is going to give them the ear of these types of people so that they can speak wisdom into them and reveal the truth, and reveal the Father of life and Jesus to them.
You may find yourself in a place of pressure, like the lion's den. This is the place that God is using to build and establish you. Let the Lord be your rear guard. Do not bow to pressure and do not bow to Nebuchadnezzar.
"You're the light of the world, not the light of the Church."
God says, "I'll set My favor before you like a shield." Allow the favor of God to go before you like a shield and protect you so that He may rise up like a rear guard in your life and keep you from the lion's mouth.
You may find yourself in a very heated situation, but suddenly there's a fourth man in the fire. When you begin to think about it, God has your back no matter where you are. You are called to live a set-apart lifestyle and it's OK if everyone cannot understand it.
Some of you are called to live a set-apart lifestyle so that the Lord can work through you and with you. Some of you feel like Joseph. You ask yourself, "Why is the family of God rejecting me?" They're not rejecting you! This may not be the place for your ministry to be built and established. God wants to build and establish your ministry in a different spot, in a different place, because it serves a greater purpose than what you could ever imagine.
When you begin to step outside the four walls of the church, you will see the favor of God and the favor of man come upon your life and it will rest upon you, opening doors that you could never imagine.
The New Breed American Prophet
There is a new breed of prophets all over America. This breed will be called, "The American Prophet." He is going to give a voice to a remnant of people who are willing to see past the darkness, into the political realm, carrying the lovingkindness of God, which will lead to repentance and cause America to see her purpose, beauty, and everything that she has always been destined and called to be.
Isaiah 63:7a says, "I will forever tell of the lovingkindness of God" (emphasis added).
In this hour, God is speaking to America's beauty and destiny. God is saying to America right now: "No one compares to your beauty. You are beautiful. You have a purpose. You have a calling. You have a destiny. I am going to restore you. I am going to show you how beautiful you truly are I am going to set you on display. You are amazing. You are the apple of My eye."
There are sons and daughters being raised up in this hour who are called to speak to the destiny and to the beauty of America. They are a people who will operate as guardians for America in the prophetic realm, and they will see the what, when, how and where that the enemy is plotting. (Photo via Unsplash)
The Fatherly Prophet
The fourth emerging prophetic voice that I see God is breathing on is a kingly anointing. The kingly anointing is a representation of the Father in Heaven. This anointing will carry the voice of the Father, resemble the voice of the Father, and resonate like the voice of the Father in Heaven.
This kingly anointing is going to bring healing and restoration to all people. God is going to speak to people through the voice of a father. He is going to begin raising up fathers who can raise up fathers.
A father or king looks after the well-being and welfare of the people serving alongside him. He doesn't just seek his own will and glory. He looks to lift other people up because it's all about creating a legacy throughout the generations. A true father looks 20 and 40 years down the road.
God is raising up a prophetic company of people who are going to carry the heart of the Father, who will want to establish a generation of Kingdom dwellers. We need fathers who can speak, fathers who can love, and fathers who can come with power and presence and disrupt the lies of the enemy over the children of God. These fathers will be all about the legacy that they are creating in the name of God, 40 to 80 years down the road. God wants to breathe upon these people. God wants to raise up a generation of people who will become like the Father.
God will anoint their words that will carry so much weight and so much authority and cause them to go further than anyone else's words. God will put something new and something fresh upon their lips and vocal cords, where the frequency and the tone of their voice will carry a weight and a vibration that will literally shake the earth. God is raising these people up right now. (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
Director of the School of Supernatural Ministry
Email:�info@sunnydwes.com
Website:�www.sunnydwes.com
Westley Roderick�is the Director of the School of Supernatural Ministry and an Associate of Fresh Fire Ministries USA under Todd Bentley. Westley had a radical salvation that took place at the age of 19 after a prophetic experience. Immediately following his salvation Westley was placed into church leadership and was developed into a youth pastor, an assistant pastor, and itinerant minister. It was during that time that Westley had an encounter with the Lord Jesus commissioning him. In 2007 Westley left his position of Associate Pastor to become an intern for Todd Bentley in British Columbia, Canada and it was from that time on Westley began traveling and ministering alongside Todd. Since then Westley has become an associate traveling and ministering in his own meetings and crusades healing the sick through the ministry of Jesus and seeing lives being given to Jesus.
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School of the Prophets Graduation Celebration
Freedom and Fire
Secret Place Church
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What Is Heaven Planning for 2019?
by Dutch Sheets, Katie Souza, Johnny Enlow, Elizabeth Enlow and Lance Wallnau
Apostles, Prophets and the Coming Moves of God
by Dr. Bill Hamon
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Corporate entry CSIRO Division of Mechanical Engineering (1963 - 1981)
Highett, Victoria, Australia
Industrial or scientific research and Engineering Industry
Highett, Victoria
Established in 1963, in the place of the former Engineering Section, The Division of Mechanical Engineering was replaced in 1981, by the Division of Energy Technology.
1949 - 1955 CSIRO Central Experimental Workshops
1955 - 1963 CSIRO Engineering Section
1963 - 1981 CSIRO Division of Mechanical Engineering
1981 - 1990 CSIRO Division of Energy Technology
1990 - c. 1995 CSIRO Division of Coal and Energy Technology
c. 1995 - CSIRO Energy Technology
Controlling Corporate Bodies
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Commonwealth of Australia (1949 - )
Morse, Roger Neill (1914 - 2003)
Chief of the Division of Mechanical Engineering at CSIRO
Historical Directory of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, 1926-1976, CSIRO, Canberra, 1978, 101 pp. Details
Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_c.html. Details
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Private jet owner, two others, plead guilty in New York-to-Panama money laundering sting
Monday, January 25, 2016 at 2:28AM
Richard L. Cassin in Belize, James Robert Shipman, Kenneth Landgaard, Michael J. Dodd, Panama, money laundering
Three men who thought they were laundering $2.6 million from a penny stock fraud have pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn, New York.
Michael J. Dodd, 65, and James Robert Shipman, Jr., 64, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to launder money.
A third defendant, Kenneth Landgaard, 46, pleaded guilty to the same charge on January 15.
The three defendants were business partners. Dodd, a U.S. citizen who lived in Panama City and also used the name Michael Stanley, set up offshore foundations in Panama for clients and coordinated with Landgaard to move cash on private jets.
Landgaard, a U.S. citizen living in Alexandria, Minnesota, owns and operates Magjets Group, an aviation company based in Panama City.
Shipman lives in Hollywood, Florida.
Landgaard and Shipman were arrested after flying to an airport in New York on a private jet, where they took $2.2 million in cash from an undercover agent. They had agreed to launder the money through banks in Panama and Belize.
Dodd was arrested a few hours later at a Manhattan restaurant where he expected to meet with the undercover agent.
The undercover agent posed as a criminal stock promoter as part of an FBI sting operation, the DOJ said.
Before their arrests, the defendants had already laundered $400,000 in cash from the undercover agent.
The agent said he was a middleman "working with corrupt stock brokers who artificially inflated prices for worthless stocks in exchange for high commissions," the DOJ said.
Despite the backstory about dirty money from the penny stock fraud, Shipman, Langaard, and Dodd agreed to launder $2.6 million in exchange for a fee of 13 percent to 15 percent.
The FBI recorded them explaining in detail how to hide the money laundering operation from law enforcement authorities.
Dodd insisted that the undercover agent download and use encryption software for online chats and voice communications.
Landgaard required the undercover agent to deliver the money in expensive Louis Vuitton duffel bags. Shipman explained that "cops can’t get the authority to buy a Louis Vuitton bag, it’s too expensive ….”
Landgaard and Shipman also insisted that the undercover agent buy and use burner phones for all calls to them.
The investigation was a joint operation by the FBI and IRS. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations also had a role.
The defendants pleaded guilty before Judge John Gleeson at the United States Courthouse in Brooklyn.
The all face up to 20 years in prison. Sentencing dates haven't been set.
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Category Archives: journalism is dead
Your morning great big ball of stadium stupid
I’ve never actually heard of Pacific Standard magazine — apparently until recently it was called Miller-McCune, which I’ve also never heard of — but if this infographic is what it has to offer, then I hope I never heard of it again. Ostensibly an explanation of how to “help a Los Angeles [NFL] stadium buck the trend” of stadium projects, you know, sucking for the cities that build them, it ends up combining the interactivity of a bad Flash game with the informativeness of a USA Today charticle. Among the things readers will learn from PS:
On the “best to worst subsidies” graph (most of which consists of a graphic that looks to have been lifted from one of these), it says that “Public financing accounted for 50 percent of the new Lucas Oil Stadium [in Indianapolis], offset by taxes on hotels, rental cars, restaurants, and sales of Colts license plates.” Um, no.
The “Making It Work” chart, once you’ve scrolled over little gratuitous circles to see what the chart actually says, suggests “folding in concessions and entertainment” uses for a sports facility, pointing to the “apartments and office space” of Brooklyn’s Barclays Center as an example. Exempt that none of the apartments have broken ground yet, and the office tower was scrapped four years ago.
There’s a map of the U.S. with little colored markers indicating how much public funding various stadiums have received, which would be cute, except that tons of buildings are left out (where’s the Seattle Seahawks‘ stadium, for one?) and that the figures are drawn from some wildly inaccurate source (Citi Field, for example, is listed as 19% publicly funded, which really, not.)
On the marginally less stupid front, meanwhile, let’s turn to Bill Parker of DRays Bay, who has penned an essay about the Tampa Bay Rays‘ stadium campaign that, like Pacific Standard’s infographic, starts by acknowledging that stadium deals are almost always terrible for the public before asking, gee, can we get one of them here?
I think that on some level, by now, virtually every governor, city council and county board of commissioners recognizes that it’s a bad deal. Yet, they continue to happen because there’s the fear that the team will bolt to another location, and no politician wants to be the one who was stuck in office when the team left town (which is a bad thing for real-world reasons, too; the teams do provide jobs, even if it’s a low number for their revenue brackets, and tend to have pretty active local charity arms). It’s in everyone’s collective interest to simply agree to stop doing these deals, but individual actors (cities, in this case) often have their own reasons to ignore the common good and do it anyway.
And so this keeps happening. But can it happen in Tampa or St. Pete?
Parker actually kind of punts on whether he’s rooting for it to happen there (he says as a Minnesotan, he loves the Twins’ new ballpark, but hates its public subsidies), but the upshot of the article remains the same: Stadium deals are almost always ripoffs, but never mind that, what are the odds of this one going through? Which neatly achieves the goal of stadium seekers: shift the terms of the debate from “Should we build a stadium?” to “How should we build a stadium?” Because everyone agrees that whatever it costs, the Rays totally neeeeeeeeeeeed a new stadium. (Quiet, you.)
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Looking at NHRA’s 2017 Tax Return
NHRA Tax Return Shows Return to Profitability
By Jeff Burk
As regular readers of DRO are aware, for several years we have re-printed portions of the NHRA’s annual income tax returns along with some analysis of the numbers so that NHRA’s approximately 40,000 dues-paying members can have some idea where the “not for profit” tax exempt pseudo-sports entertainment company is spending its money and who is getting it.
The 2017 tax return is basically Peter Clifford’s report card for his two and a half year reign as the NHRA President that started in July of 2015 when he officially replaced Tom Compton. Based upon what Mr. Clifford accomplished in that relatively short period of time he probably would get an A as a grade.
The NHRA hasn’t had revenues of over $100,000,000 since 2011. In fact, the NHRA’s gross revenues for 2017 are $94.7 million, delivering a cash surplus of $850,000. Under Peter Clifford’s management the NHRA went from losing almost nine million dollars in revenue combined for the 2015 and 2016 seasons to positive cash flow in 2017, Peter Clifford’s last as the NHRA president and moving on as the first CEO of the NHRA.
Mr. Clifford accomplished that feat the old-fashioned way: he cut costs. In 2016 and again in 2017 he reduced yearly spending by approximately $5 million. That decrease in spending was brought about by reducing the staffing of both revenue and non-revenue generating divisions of the NHRA and even reducing the total salaries paid to NHRA’s management team by almost a half-million dollars from $4.8 million to $4.4 million even while adding at least two new hires to the management staff. Despite that total salaries paid for the company dropped from $25.1 million to 22.9 million.
Mr. Clifford didn’t accept the presidency until July of 2015 so he really couldn’t make any significant changes until 2016. The NHRA spent $5 million less ($98.7 million) in 2016 than it did in 2015 ($103+ million) and in 2017 total expenses for the year came in at $93.9 million.
In the 40+ page return there were a few interesting factoids that presented themselves.
1. NHRA membership continues to dwindle ($3.28 million in dues for 2016/$3.11 million in 2017). The NHRA as an automotive sanctioning body still has 40,000+ members and that number dwarfs any other sanctioning body members.
2. In 2017 event admission revenues were up slightly over the 2016 number.
3. In 2017 the NHRA spent $2 million less on advertising and promotion than in 2016.
4. Tom Compton got a $500,000 payday in addition to the $600,000 stipend he was given in 2016.
5. Of 11 members of the NHRA management team only Peter Clifford ($1,003,320) was paid more in 2017 than NHRA lawyer Linda Louie ($459,581).
page 2 of 2017 return
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TAQUERIA @ THE STABLES
El Sirenito
Blog Español
We are a proudly 100% Mexican cuisine, located in the heart of Georgetown. In the same way that this area has consistently proven its innovation and artistic movement, we want to bring this city a real taste of our culture, traditions and our way of seeing life.
We are a culture of continuous creators. We like to live socially with the joy and flavor of life on our tables.
We want to present Mexican cuisine as it is. Our culture is everywhere, especially at the dinner table, and always involves friends, family, business, music and romance.
We do not consider the authentic Mexican cuisine we serve here as just food, we consider it an art form. The traditional family recipes that we use are preserved in our kitchen as a bridge between our culture and our customers. The genuineness of our food works to remind us of the origin of our passions.
nuestras calaveras...
Jose Guadalupe Posada: (1852–1913) was a Mexican cartoonist ilustrator and artist whose work has influenced many Latin American artists and cartoonists because of its satirical acuteness and political engagement. The calaveras ( animated skeletons) however are just Posada's most familiar legacy for time has placed him as a central figure in Mexican art. His life and works have become the foundation of Mexican printmaking and have vitally contributed to the formation of contemporary Mexican art. His genius for inspired illustration of the people's themes continue to make him one of Mexico's most popular artists. The modest hardworking illustrator not only addressed the issues of a society in conflict prior to the revolution, he perpetuated the role of art as an outlet for protest within Mexican society. Posada in his day acted as bridge to the rediscovery of the lost native forms for the Mexican artists who immediately followed his work. The two most important Mexican muralists Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco both point to their admiration of Posada as guiding inspirations for their careers as artists who saw their mission as moving the people forward through accessible art forms. Posada was regarded as the voice of the common man and helped to solidify art as a means to communicate the public's unhappiness and skepticism of the government. He used the practice of caricaturizing figures as skeletons to serve as a sort of satirical obituary. While he lampooned people of all classes, it was his rendering of the aristocrats, whom Díaz held in such high regard, that remains the most popular of Posada's vast catalog work.
The spirit of posadas, as his distinctive black and white engraved images have become known, continue to express a deep commitment to our shared humanity, drawing its inspiration from the great drama of life itself and the final chapters we all share with each other.
Photo used under Creative Commons from DchicaDgrande
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UBS ‘rogue trader’ moved to Heathrow removal centre
September 13, 2018 Ghmatters Lifestyle, Local News 0
Kweku Adoboli, the former UBS banker jailed for the UK’s biggest ever fraud, was on Wednesday transported to a immigration removal centre near Heathrow airport as the government pushes ahead with his deportation despite appeals from 114 MPs and MSPs.
Adoboli, 38, who was found guilty in 2012 of fraud that lost his Swiss bank $2.3bn (£1.8bn), is being deportation to Ghana because he is not a British citizen despite living in the UK since the age of 12.
He was released from prison on probation in 2015 after serving half of a seven-year sentence. Last week he was detained at Dungavel immigration removal centre in Scotland. On Wednesday he was transported to Colnbrook immigration removal centre, close to Heathrow.
Campaigners fighting against Adoboli’s deportation said they understood the Home Office had booked a charter flight for deportation to Ghana on 18 September, and said Adoboli is “earmarked to be on this plane”.
A spokesperson for the Home Office declined to speak about Adoboli’s case, but said: “All foreign nationals who are given a custodial sentence will be considered for removal. Foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality by committing crimes in the UK should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them and we have removed more than 43,000 foreign offenders since 2010.”
Adoboli’s MP, Hannah Bardell, and 113 other MPs and MSPs have written to the prime minister and home secretary to demand they intervene to stop Adoboli’s deportation.
“If Mr Adoboli were deported, he will be removed from the country he has called home since the age of 12, taken away from the close relationships he has formed here and returned to a country he has not lived in from the age of four and lacks familiarity with,” Bardell said in the letter.
“The recent comment by former home secretary, Amber Rudd MP, that ‘the Home Office has become too concerned with policy and strategy and sometimes loses sight of the individual’ is apt in this case and we are sure no one in the cabinet wishes to have another ‘Windrush Generation’ scandal on their hands anytime soon.”
Adoboli appealed to Sajid Javid and Theresa May to “show some compassion” and intervene.
“I did four years in prison for a non-violent act,” he said in an interview with the Guardian from the detention centre. “I’ve served my time, but I’m being given an extra punishment – a banishment – and just because I didn’t get around to becoming a citizen. This punishment is so much worse than being in prison.”
Source: theguardian.com
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Tech CEO Allison Lami Sawyer Sees the Answer to Oil & Gas Leaks
Allison Lami Sawyer on the job as CEO of Rebellion Photonics
For the past seven years, Allison Lami Sawyer has been the CEO of Rebellion Photonics, which makes hyperspectral video cameras to detect leaks at oil and gas fields and refineries. Allison talked with us about how her role as CEO has evolved as Rebellion photonics has grown, how her physics and engineering background have been critical to her success as a tech CEO, and that "the hardest part of starting my own company was finding the starting line."
FAST FACTS ABOUT Allison
Where she’s from: Alabama
Grew up with: her mother
Education: Bachelor’s degree in applied physics from University of Colorado- Boulder; master's degree in nanoscale physics from the University of Leeds; an MBA from Rice University
Where she lives now: Houston, Texas
Now she’s: CEO of Rebellion Photonics
Tell us about yourself growing up!
In many ways I was essentially the same. I was a tomboy. I grew up in Alabama, single mom. My dad was an alcoholic and it got pretty bad. But then he did leave, and things got better. I was really quiet for a time. I went to middle school, and I think like most middle schoolers I felt completely isolated.
I went to a little school in Alabama where they didn’t teach evolution. The math teacher was openly sexist. It was tough. My mom sent me to camps, and I loved camp. Not normal camp, : math camp, and law camp, and space camp, and debate camp. Anatomy and physiology camp, one of my favorites. The summers were great. At 15 she let me backpack on my own in Europe, and that was really amazing. I would have an older friend in the beginning or I would live in dormitories with other girls and take classes, so I wasn’t completely on my own. My mom gave me a very long leash.
How did you end up going to boarding school at Choate?
By my freshman year I’d gotten totally sick of it. I’d tried everything I possibly could to fit in. I even made the cheerleading team, which was a huge deal in Alabama. I was miserable.
Remember before Google, there was Alta Vista? Alta Vista had a headline, “The Best Schools in America,” and it popped up on a list. Back in the day the top three were in New England. I just told my mom, “I did the application online.” I remember my mom saying, “Okay.” I found out later she had to dip into her retirement fund to pay for it, but she did.
It’s amazing how it’s the very littlest things, the quickest turn of your conversations, which guide your life.
In college you studied engineering physics. How did you pick engineering, and what exactly is that?
That’s just applied physics. You basically take every engineering class and every physics class. It was something like two of your whole four years. I loved it.
I didn’t know anything about engineers in Alabama. I never associated myself with being an engineer but when I was at Choate I was in AP calculus, did very well. Even then, although I was in honors math all the way through and did very well, I didn’t think I’d be an engineer. Senior spring, we were doing post-calculus, really neat linear algebra class, and [the teacher] asked the class, “What majors did you guys pick? Who’s going to be an engineer?” No one raised their hands, because Choate’s raising you to be a politician, or a businessman, or something like that. But afterward he took me aside and he said, “You’re stupid to not do engineering.” He actually called me stupid. He was a gruff man.
I looked back at the handbook and picked a major in engineering physics. It sounded cool, that’s about as much as I knew about it. And he was right; I loved it. I don’t know if I would have thought of it otherwise. It’s amazing how it’s the very littlest things, the quickest turn of your conversations, which guide your life.
You really just don’t associate yourself with some things. I don’t think that anyone ever suggested engineering to me. And I ended up getting a master’s in engineering, but it wasn’t something I had ever considered for even a moment before.
I wasn’t ready to say it out loud, but I already had a hope that maybe someday I would be an entrepreneur.
What did you do after college?
I got my master’s in nanoscale physics. I was going to do my PhD in astrophysics, but I wasn’t loving it. I get bored easily. But I didn’t want to go to work. I said, “No, I’ll get my MBA.” I wasn’t at a point where I was ready to say it out loud, but I already had a hope that maybe someday I would be an entrepreneur. I didn’t expect that it would work out. But I thought maybe, that it would super-cool, however unlikely.
I read that you were involved with a startup incubator also, when you were in business school.
I volunteered there. They’d have a lot of scientists come in needing help writing grants or putting together business plans. I generally helped then in that way. I wanted to find my own cofounder and start a business. I knew I wasn’t going invent my own technology because I’d gone out of the lab, but I thought I could help someone who had. I volunteered for a year-and-a-half with that in mind, and I did finally find a technology worth going after.
You did meet your business partner there. How did you join forces to start Rebellion Photonics?
I read [my partner’s] paper he’d published before I met him, so I was already very excited. It was a very technical paper. He was thinking more of, “What can he do for biology experiments?” because that’s how he got funded. The nice thing about having six years of physics is that you can read the paper and understand it and go, “Well, if you’re able to do a chemical imaging video of proteins on a microscope, you could also put a regular lens on it, essentially, and do it other places.” That ability to identify the chemical within a video is just very powerful. It’s very exciting.
When I met him he talked most of the time, I asked a few questions pertaining to the technology. He asked for me to help him write a grant, I said, “Yeah sure, no problem.” We met again a week or two later, and I did most of the talking this time. I laid out my vision for this technology, turning it into a company, becoming an optics powerhouse meeting these needs, and really solving some big real-world problems using this new genre of optics technology. We shook hands. That was the second time we ever met.
He seemed nice, he was nice, and we had a very clear vision that we both agreed on, and we talked about that. I think we both have very similar risk tolerances. We’d prefer to go big or go home. We have clearly defined roles. A lot of cofounders don’t have that. When the technology is really complicated you really do need a designated CTO, and that person is totally different than the CEO. Because they’re just different mindsets.
Can you tell us a little bit about how your role as CTO versus your partner's as CTO?
He would be like the head artist. His first thought’s not always going to be how profitable this will be, who’s going to pay for it, how many staff will we need, where it’ll be done. He’s more like, “Wouldn’t this be cool?” and then try it out. You don’t want to impede the artist. You give them a framework, and then you let them really go wild within that framework. But that’s different than the person steering the ship.
[The CEO] is always one person that’s a little isolated from everyone else that’s good at making tough calls on who to hire, who to lay off, which projects do we do? Once it gets to a certain size you occasionally have to fire customers, because they’re not good customers. They don’t pay on time, or it’s just not profitable enough to do that business. And then have someone who’s just not in the weeds. Being the CEO is very lonely. I don’t really notice it as much anymore, but it was hard in the beginning.
You can’t be the CEO of an incredibly technical company and not be technical, not for one second of one day.
Do you draw on your technical background as CEO?
You can’t be the CEO of an incredibly technical company and not be technical, not for one second of one day. I can’t imagine an engineer respectfully talking to a CEO who doesn’t have an engineering background. It would never happen. They wouldn’t respect you, and in a way you would not know how to respect them, because you wouldn’t know what they do. Am I in the lab ever? No, unless I’m just chatting and saying hi.
How long was it between when you and your partner decided to start a company together until you actually started selling your product to customers?
We started making money about six months later, but it was not our product. We applied for lots of government grants and competitions to get initial funding. Because we’d only had a proof of concept, not even a prototype. It was three-and-a-half years until full-scale installations, which is not abnormal for hardware. We did prototypes, and did testing before that. But it was three-and-a-half years until we had full-scale real sales, which is very fast for our industry.
How does your technology work?
The cameras are fully automated. What’s special about the technology, is there’s no one watching the screen. The camera automatically knows what it’s seeing, so it can alarm on its own, so it’ll alarm if there’s about to be an explosion.
It’s really transforming oil and gas. Before us, they just had the traditional detectors, which were a lot like smoke alarms in your home. There weren’t any other options. Maybe they’d get one or two high alarms a week. We come in, and it’s not unusual for us to turn on the camera and see a thousand high alarms in the first week. It’s really equivalent to turning on the lights all of a sudden and seeing all your demons. The install process is psychological.
I think many people underestimate how difficult true change is, change of thinking, change of how you do your operations, and change in taking responsibility.
What's psychological about installing your technology?
We try to prepare them for what they’re about to see. You go from knowing you have a few fires and trying to keep them controlled. You can’t see it; you can’t smell it. Then you turn on our cameras and you see everything leaking. You see the storage tanks leaking; you see the valves with the pinhole leaks, the compressors that are jammed. You see the tanks that should have water in them, but they have four feet of oil. For the first time they’re really seeing what’s going on at their site.
I think many people underestimate how difficult true change is, change of thinking, change of how you do your operations, and change in taking responsibility. There hasn’t been change like this in oil and gas above ground in our lifetimes.
Have you seen significant operational changes from your customers since you’ve been implementing your technology?
They can usually bring their leak rate down about 90 percent within the first quarter, which is unbelievable. We’re very visual creatures. If we see it, we generally believe it. Customers are biased for safety, and only safety. If you have an explosion on your site, that affects your stock price. It will actually dramatically affect the stock price. No explosions mean you don’t get in the news.
You’ve been running Rebellion Photonics for over seven years. What keeps you engaged with your work?
Every time the company grows my role changes. That always takes me a few months to get used to. Then in a year I have to change again. But these are good problems. I divide it into bad problems and good problems. Growth pains are good problems.
We now have 32 staff and interns, and I’m not involved in the nitty-gritty as much. I’ve gotten better at saying, “You know what, that’s not mine, you figure it out.”
And then what fills your time outside of work?
I’ll be running for State Representative for my district in Texas in 2018. I have more free time and the means, so I feel duty-bound to help. Rebellion’s been kind of in my comfort zone for a few years now. And this political run reminds me of the beginning, where I was completely out of my comfort zone. It’s interesting to be out of my depth again.
You’re in a group of women CEOs that you cofounded. How did that come about?
When I was doing a two-and-a-half million dollar raise, I probably had about a hundred meetings, which is normal. I only talked to one woman, and she wasn’t even a partner, she was a lower level. I only took the meeting because it was a woman. And after the meeting I was like, “Well, it won’t be a good fit, but I am so excited to meet you. We should be friends.”
She said, “All right. We should form a group,” so we did. It’s been going for two or three years. It’s a group for under-40 women either on the investor side or on the entrepreneur side, because you can’t really have one without the other on the big company side. We meet every month, and it’s one of my favorite things.
The hardest part of starting my own company was finding the starting line.
What advice would you give somebody who wants to start her own company?
The hardest part of starting my own company was finding the starting line. It took me a really, really, really, really long time to say out loud that I wanted to be an entrepreneur. And you have to say it out loud; you have to introduce yourself as someone who would like to be an entrepreneur. That’s really difficult, because people will say, “Well, of what? What’s your company?”
And you have to say, “Well, I haven’t figured it out yet. But this is my background, and this is what I’d be good at. I’m looking to start a company in this space. And I’m just gathering ideas and looking to meet people.” That’s hard, because we feel like we have to have it all ready, with a bow on top, totally prepared. You’ll never get anywhere as an entrepreneur if you’re waiting to have it all ready to go.
How did you picture adult life when you were growing up?
I was so miserable, I guess I assumed it would still be miserable. I had pretty low expectations. I thought maybe I’d be around in academia, with no friends, and maybe a dog.
I think my favorite part is just finding my tribe, because I just didn’t realize how lonely I was until I started hanging out with other female CEOs. It took a long time to find that. There are very few female CEOs. It just took a long time before I finally met likeminded people.
Girls Like You and Me is a 501c3 nonprofit organization.
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August – Company formed.
November – Performed No Exit at South Street Arts Centre, a sell-out production featuring advanced technology; six live production streams captured and relayed around the theatre simultaneously.
April – Took two productions to the heart of London, performing a new raucous and ridiculous musical comedy, C-Dub, and the poignant drama Love Remains at Leicester Square Theatre, playing to a sell-out West End audience.
November – Sell-out revival production of Love Remains, paired with the darkly comic Timothy, at South Hill Park Arts Centre.
April – Sell-out run of Patrick Marber’s contemporary classic Closer, again working at South Hill Park Arts Centre.
August – 72 performances at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, working with leading venue group C Venues. Montmorency, an ambitious and large-scale Victorian epic, Right Honourable Member, a brand new political satire, and The Three Faces of Doctor Crippen, the European premiere of the hit-US play.
October – Following the huge success of The Three Faces of Doctor Crippen, the show transferred to the Etcetera Theatre in London, headlining the London Horror Festival.
January – Returning to South Street Arts Centre to celebrate the company’s second anniversary with a site-specific production of Bea.
March – The beginning of a six-month partnership with Quite Nice Theatre.
April – FreeRange’s first outdoor production, The Hound of the Baskervilles at Reading Central Library Amphitheatre.
May – On tour with This Was Your Life, hitting Fringe festivals in Brighton and Stratford and winning two awards, taking the show’s total number of awards up to five.
August – A season of four productions at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, headlining the first theatre season at Just The Tonic.
July – A revival of our 2011 character, C-Dub, in a new musical comedy at Reading Fringe Festival; C-Dub: The Reunion Tour.
November – We celebrated five years of FreeRange!
January – A small-scale production, back at Reading’s South Street Arts Centre, of one of our all-time favourite plays, Mike Bartlett’s Cock.
July – We launched our first audiobook, an unabridged reading of Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles featuring original compositions, which is available here.
intimate, at times gut-wrenching... FreeRange go full pelt at the tough stuff...
...an exciting, fast paced production...expertly handled...The actors are superb...I was left longing for more...never a dull moment.
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Give Me My Remote > LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT season premiere
LAW & ORDER SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT: What You Missed on Your Summer Vacation
September 27, 2018 by Marisa Roffman
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LAW & ORDER SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT season 20 kicks off tonight!
Take a look at everything you missed this summer, including photos from tonight’s season premiere, an episode tease, and all the links you’ll need to catch up on what went down…
LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT -- "Man Up" Episode 2001 -- Pictured: (l-r) Philip Winchester as Peter Stone, Kurt Fuller as Jed Karey, Dylan Walsh as John Conway -- (Photo by: David Giesbrecht/NBC)
NBC’s description of the premiere: “Teenager Sam Conway (guest star Bryce Romero) shows evidence of rape but refuses to name his attacker. Meanwhile, Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Rollins (Kelli Giddish) confess to some major life changes. Also starring Ice T (Sgt. Fin Tutuola), Peter Scanavino (Det. Sonny Carisi) and Philip Winchester (ADA Peter Stone). Also guest starring Dylan Walsh (John Conway) and George Newbern (Dr. Al Pollack). In the conclusion to the season premiere, ADA Stone (Philip Winchester) blames himself for the shocking verdict in Sam’s case, and before Benson (Mariska Hargitay) can offer help, Sam (guest star Bryce Romero) makes a tragic decision. Also starring Ice T (Sgt. Fin Tutuola), Kelli Giddish (Det. Amanda Rollins) and Peter Scanavino (Det. Sonny Carisi). Also guest starring Dylan Walsh (John Conway), Sandrine Holt (Lisa Abernathy) and Sally Murphy (Molly Conway).”
And the links to catch up on:
NBC Orders LAW & ORDER: HATE CRIMES
LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT Season 20 Premiere: ‘Man Up’/’Man Down’ Photos
Dick Wolf on Expanding the LAW & ORDER Universe with L&O: HATE CRIMES
LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIM UNIT’s twentieth season kicks off tonight at 9/8c on NBC.
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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT: What You Need to Know About the Season Premiere
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LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT returns tonight!
If you’re anxiously anticipating the show’s return, check out some photos from tonight’s season premiere, and an episode tease…
LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT -- "Devil's Dissections" Episode 17002 -- Pictured: Mariska Hargitay as Sergeant Olivia Benson -- (Photo by: Michael Parmelee/NBC)
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September 28, 2016 April 21, 2017 cxadmin News archive
“Unprecedented project of academic exchanges and joint research”
Berlin/Tokyo, 28th September 2016. Today, the German-Japanese Energy Transition Council (GJETC) is holding its first meeting in Tokyo. In the next two days, renowned experts from both countries will engage in in-depth discussions on the core issues of the joint work. The GJETC complements a cooperation of the two nations on a political level through independent and scientific analyses. The aim is to find new, safer and more efficient ways to implement the energy transition.
Green light for the GJETC (from l. to r.): Mr. Yota Ono (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan), Prof. Dr. Peter Hennicke (Wuppertal Institute), Prof. Masakazu Toyoda (Institute of Energy Economics, Japan) and Dr. Hans Carl von Werthern (German Ambassador in Japan)
Germany and Japan face similar challenges in the development of their energy industries: Both highly industrialized countries are aiming to achieve a resource- and climate-friendly energy supply. At the same time, their aim is to promote the ecological modernization further while securing their international ability to compete. In order to meet these challenges, the GJETC was formed in 2016. The expert panel focuses on scientific stock and transformation analyses for both countries on systems, technologies and policies of the energy transition. As such it provides an important stimulus for politics and the economy.
Professor Dr Peter Hennicke, the German chairman of the GJETC and former president of the Wuppertal institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, expects the council’s work to be of great use to society: “With the GJETC Japan and Germany launch an unprecedented project of knowledge exchange and joint research on the energy transition. The mutual experience of good examples can enhance motivation and speed up the implementation processes.”
Renowned experts have been appointed to the committee. In the council, both countries are each represented by six energy experts and three associated members. Apart from organisational agreements on rules of procedure, the agenda in Tokyo contains first decisions on topics of a study program. The program thereby includes five core topics.
First, the energy transition is seen as the basis for a future industrial policy, including energy and resource efficiency. Second, the strategic goals and framework conditions of the energy transition, with regard to socio-cultural aspects are going to be dealt with. The third topic emphasizes the structuring of the energy market and sustainable electricity market design. In addition to that, the reallocation of roles and business segments between existing and new players in the energy system represent a further important core topic. Last but not least the focus of the fifth topic is the technical system developments and new technologies on the path to the energy transition.
Beside the scientific work, a regular exchange of views with players in politics and the economy is part of the council’s work. At so-called “Stakeholder Dialogues” council members will get together as a first step with representatives of international companies such as Daimler, Tepco or Enercon. Professor Masakazu Toyoda, the Japanese Chairman of the GJETC and the Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ), emphasized: “The goal of the council is to bring together the vision and the knowledge of experts from business and academia with scientific findings. For a successful energy transition, the vigorous actions of social players are essential.”
About the GJETC:
In its form, continuity and size, the GJETC is the first German-Japanese cooperation project on energy transition. It was founded in close collaboration of hennicke.consult, the Wuppertal Institute, ECOS Consult and the Institute of Energy Economics Japan (IEEJ) in spring 2016 with strong support by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (German Federal Environmental Foundation, DBU), the Stiftung Mercator Foundation, German Federal Foreign Office, Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and is also endorsed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). On the German side, the Wuppertal Institute and ECOS Consult support the council’s work as secretariats; on the Japanese side, the Institute of Energy Economics Japan (IEEJ) takes over this part. The council will convene biannually. The next council meetings will be held in Berlin on 23rd/24th January 2017 and in Tokyo on 4th/5th September 2017.
1st Council meeting of GJETC to take place in Tokyo on Sep 28/29
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Brett Murray / Hail to the Thief
Brett Murray
20 November - 08 January 2011
Traditional Weapon, 2010
Metal, gold and silver leaf
98.5 x 77 x 4cm
The Party vs. The People, 2010
Fuck All Politicians, 2010
Plastic, wood
The Struggle, 2010
Wood and wood veneer
152 x 113 x 2cm
The Wives: Mrs Amandla, 2010
Aluminium, paint, resin
President and Sons, 2010
4.5 x 99.5 x 4.5cm
Militant Youth, 2010
Plastic, wood, paint
Progress, 2010
129 x 99.5cm
Amandla, 2010
150 x 149 x 12cm
Cash is King, 2010
Chancellor House, 2010
Metal, gold and silver leaf, paint
One Party State, 2010
Julius on Horseback, 2010
Metal, paint, gold and silver leaf
Forward Comrades!, 2010
48 x 37.5cm
Hail to the Thief, 2010
Metal, gold leaf, resin, aluminium
Viva Viva, 2010
Umshini Wam (Diptych), 2010
Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas
86 x 63.5cm & 86 x 50.5cm
Long and Hard, 2010
Engraved plastic, paint, wood
The President, 2010
The Wives: Mrs Kickback, 2010
Portrait and Self-Portrait , 2010
Plastic and wood
23 x 24.5 x 3cm (each)
Legacy, 2010
119 x 66 x 8cm
207.5 x 207 x 11cm
The Wives: Mrs Comrade, 2010
Never a Dull Moment, 2010
Metal, paint, gold leaf
Tender, 2010
Plastic, wood, silver leaf
Freedom Charter: Peace and friendship, 2010
Wood, wood veneer
Freedom Charter: Work and Security, 2010
Chief, 2010
Metal, paint, aluminium, resin, gold leaf
He's Got Balls, 2010
The Wives: Mrs Viva-Viva, 2010
Hello and Goodbye, 2010
78.5 x 50cm
Myth, Cash, Cult (set of 3), 2010
50 x 27cm (each)
The Grave Turners (set of 5), 2010
Engraved plastic and paint
13.5 x 95.5cm (each)
Hold My Hand, I'm a Stranger in Paradise, 2010
Freedom Charter: Law, 2010
Glory, 2010
Killed Twice, 2010
Freedom Charter: Houses and Security, 2010
Morning Glory, 2010
Metal, silver and gold leaf, paint
78 x 154.5 x 5cm
Now Playing At a Town Hall Near You, 2010
Ubuntu, 2010
Metal, gold and silver leaf, resin, aluminium, paint
Tribal Elder, 2010
132.5 x 115.5 x 9.5cm
Crown Jewels, 2010
Metal, gold leaf
Corporate Identity, 2010
Brett Murray / Hail to the Thief - Installation View
Traditional Weapon
The Party vs. The People
Fuck All Politicians
The Wives: Mrs Amandla
President and Sons
Militant Youth
Amandla
Cash is King
Chancellor House
One Party State
Julius on Horseback
Forward Comrades!
Hail to the Thief
Viva Viva
Umshini Wam (Diptych)
Long and Hard
The Wives: Mrs Kickback
Portrait and Self-Portrait
The Wives: Mrs Comrade
Freedom Charter: Peace and friendship
Freedom Charter: Work and Security
He's Got Balls
The Wives: Mrs Viva-Viva
Myth, Cash, Cult (set of 3)
The Grave Turners (set of 5)
Hold My Hand, I'm a Stranger in Paradise
Freedom Charter: Law
Killed Twice
Freedom Charter: Houses and Security
Now Playing At a Town Hall Near You
Tribal Elder
Crown Jewels
Established Cape Town based artist Brett Murray returns with a new body of satirical work that continues his acerbic attacks on abuses of power, corruption and political dumbness. Whereas his last show, Crocodile Tears, sought to parody Mbeki’s still-born African Renaissance, Hail to the Thief uses the populist imagery and language currently in vogue with the present powers that be , to mock and goad. Murray’s bronzes, etchings, paintings and silk-screens form part of a vitriolic and succinct censure of bad governance and are his attempts to humorously expose the paucity of morals and greed within the ruling elite.
Brett Murray studied at the University of Cape Town where he was awarded his Master’s of Fine Arts degree in 1989. He has exhibited extensively in South Africa and abroad. From 1991 to 1994 he established the sculpture department at the University of Stellenbosch, where he curated the show Thirty Sculptors from the Western Cape in 1992. In 1995 he curated, with Kevin Brand, Scurvy, at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town. That year he co-curated Junge Kunst Aus Zud Afrika for the Hänel Gallery in Frankfurt, Germany.
His solo shows include: White Boy Sings the Blues at the Rembrandt Gallery in Johannesburg in 1996, I love Africa at the Bell-Roberts Gallery in Cape Town in 2000, Us and Them at the Axis Gallery in New York in 2003, Sleep Sleep and Crocodile Tears at the Goodman Galleries in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Murray was included on the Cuban Biennial of 1994, and subsequently his works were exhibited at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Germany. Brett was included on the group show, Springtime in Chile at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile. He was also part of the travelling show Liberated Voices, Contemporary Art From South Africa which opened at the Museum for African Art in New York in 1998. His work formed part of the shows Min(d)fields at the Kunsthaus in Baselland, Switzerland in 2004 and The Geopolitics of Animation at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo in Seville in Spain in 2007.
He won the Cape Town Urban Art competition in 1998 that resulted in the public work Africa, a 3.5 metre bronze sculpture, being erected in Cape Town’s city centre. He won, with Stefaans Samcuia, the commission to produce an 8 × 30 metre wall sculpture for the foyer of the Cape Town International Convention Centre in 2003. He was nominated as the Standard Bank Young Artist in 2002.
Murray’s work is housed in numerous South African and international collections including Iziko, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, Johannesburg Art Gallery; Durban Art Gallery Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, University of Cape Town, University of South Africa, Pretoria, Sandton Municipality, Johannesburg, BHP Billiton Collection, Johannesburg, MTN Collection, Johannesburg, Sasol Collection, Johannesburg, South African Breweries, Johannesburg, South African Broadcasting Corporation, Johannesburg, The South African Reserve Bank, Johannesburg, Vodacom Collection, Cape Town, Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, USA.
Murray is a full-time artist who works in Cape Town, South Africa, where he lives with his wife Sanell Aggenbach and their daughter Lola.
Brett Murray studied at the University of Cape Town where he was awarded his Master’s of Fine Arts degree in 1988 with distinction. The title of his dissertation is ‘A Group of Satirical Sculptures Examining Social and Political Paradoxes in the South African Context’. As an undergraduate he won Irma Stern Scholarships in both 1981 and 1982. He won the Simon Garson Prize for the most Promising student in 1982 and was awarded the Michaelis Prize in 1983. As a postgraduate student he received a Human Sciences Research Council bursary, a University of Cape Town Research Scholarship, the Jules Kramer Grant and an Irma Stern Scholarship.
He has exhibited extensively in South Africa and abroad. From 1991 to 1994 he established the sculpture department at the University of Stellenbosch, where he curated the show ‘Thirty Sculptors from the Western Cape’ in 1992. In 1995 he curated, with Kevin Brand, ‘Scurvy’, at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town. That year he co-curated ‘Junge Kunst Aus Zud Afrika’ for the Hänel Gallery in Frankfurt, Germany.
In 1999, Brett co-founded, with artists and cultural practitioners Lisa Brice, Kevin Brand, Bruce Gordon, Andrew Putter, Sue Williamson, Robert Weinek and Lizza Littlewort, ‘Public Eye’, a Section 27 company that manage and initiate art projects in the public arena with the aims to develop a greater profile for public art in Cape Town. They have initiated projects on Robben Island, worked with the cities health officials on aids awareness campaigns and initiated outdoor sculpture projects including ‘The Spier Sculpture Biennale’. He curated ‘Homeport’ in 2001 which saw 15 artists create site specific text based works in Cape Town’s waterfront precinct. Public Eye have interfaced with cultural funding bodies as consultants and hosted multi-media events across the city.
Murray was included on the Cuban Biennial of 1994, and subsequently his works where exhibited at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Germany. He was included on the group show, ‘Springtime in Chile’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile. He was also part of the travelling show ‘Liberated Voices, Contemporary Art From South Africa’ which opened at the Museum for African Art in New York in 1998. His work formed part of the shows ‘Min(d)fields’ at the Kunsthaus in Baselland, Switzerland in 2004 and ‘The Geopolitics of Animation‘ at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo in Seville in Spain in 2007. He won the Cape Town Urban Art competition in 1998 that resulted in the public work ‘Africa’, a 3.5 metre bronze sculpture, being erected in Cape Town’s city centre. He won, with Stefaans Samcuia, the commission to produce an 8 × 30 meter wall sculpture for the foyer of the Cape Town International Convention Centre in 2003. In 2007 he completed ‘Specimens’, a large wall sculpture for the University Of Cape Town’s medical school campus. In 2011 he produced the public artwork ‘Seeds’ for The University of Bloemfontein and in 2013 he was commissioned to produce the 7 meter bronze ‘Citizen’ for the Auto & General Park in Johannesburg.
His solo shows include: ‘White Boy Sings the Blues’ at the Rembrandt Gallery in Johannesburg in 1996, ‘I love Africa’ at the Bell-Roberts Gallery in Cape Town in 2000, ‘Us and Them’ at the Axis Gallery in New York in 2003 and ‘Sleep Sleep’ at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg in 2006. His solo show, ‘Crocodile Tears’, was held at both the Cape Town and Johannesburg branches of The Goodman Gallery in 2007 and 2009. His recent show, ‘Hail To The Thief’, was first held at the Goodman Gallery in Cape Town in 2010, and then at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg in 2012. He was nominated as the Standard Bank Young Artist of the year in 2002.
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Pharmacy and Biotech Industry
The pharmaceutical and biotech industry in Russia is undergoing a massive shift in its operating sys
tem. The industry is moving away from its “blockbuster drug” era towards a model that gives preference to personalized medicine. In the last 15 years, the Russian pharmaceutical and biotech industry has experienced stable growth and development. In the year 2007, the Russian pharmaceutical industry was one of the world’s best pharmaceutical industries.
As of 2007, the Russian pharmaceutical market got about 75% of its supplies from imports from countries such as Germany and France. The growth in the wholesale sector of the pharmaceutical industry has led to an increase in licensed medicines. In addition, several Russian pharmaceutical companies are collaborating with renowned foreign pharmaceutical companies.
The biotech companies of Russia are also keen on collaborating with biotechnology companies in foreign countries to develop vaccines, nano-biotechnology and agri-biotechnology.
The commercial drugs market alone comprises of about 50% the overall pharmaceutical market because of reasons such as demand for imported drugs and medicines, increasing spending power of people and an ageing population.
The government of Russia is doing its best to encourage foreign investment in the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical industry of Russia is set to see tremendous growth thanks to the government support. It has set up a commission to keep an eye on execution of foreign investment in this sector. The French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis is opening a production line of insulin pens in the Orel region. The Switzerland based pharmaceutical company Nycomed is making an investment of about 60 million Euros to set up a drug manufacturing unit in Russia.
The government levies heavy tax on foreign pharmaceutical products imported into Russia so that foreign pharmaceutical companies are encouraged to set up units and produce medicinal products in Russia. There has been a growth in the demand of imported drugs in Russia.
The Russian government is developing special bioregions that will offer special incentives to companies that set up units there. The biotech market of Russia has the potential to reach $50 billion by the year 2020. The biotechnology industry is being given top priority in the economic modernization plan of Russia. The government has launched a program called “Biotechnological Development in Russia in 2006-2015” with an aim to set up special economic zones and biotech parks. In addition, the government has developed programs for nano-technology, bio-safety, bio-security, bio-catalysis, systems biology and others.
The development of the Russian pharmaceutical industry is monitored by the Association of Russian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (APRM). It comprises of the top 16 Russian pharmaceutical companies that account for nearly 50% of the total pharmaceutical production in Russia.
The Russian pharmaceutical industry is set to see tremendous growth in the near future and thus, investing in it is a profitable venture.
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Israel: Stop Threatening Witness to Killings Forces Target Man Whose Cameras Recorded Deaths
Source: Human Rights Watch
Forces Target Man Whose Cameras Recorded Deaths
(Jerusalem) – Israeli security forces ordered a Palestinian man to take down security cameras that captured the shooting deaths of two Palestinian boys in May, Human Rights Watch and Defense for Children International – Palestine said today. Footage recorded by cameras on the man’s building prompted an international outcry over the killings.
Israeli military officers berated Fakher Zayed, 47, for sharing the security videos with human rights groups, claimed he had lied and fabricated evidence, and threatened to bring unspecified legal actions against him if he did not remove the security cameras, Zayed told Human Rights Watch and DCI-Palestine. A soldier threatened to “unleash dogs on my children,” he said.
“Israel should be investigating these deaths, but instead its forces seem intent on intimidating witnesses and ensuring future abuses won’t be caught on camera,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “The Israeli response to the killing of two boys looks more like an attempt to cover up than a serious investigation.”
Israeli forces shot and killed Nadim Nuwarah, 17, and Mohammed Salameh, 16, also known as Mohammed Abu Thaher, during a demonstration on May 15, 2014, when neither boy posed any threat. On May 19, Defense for Children International – Palestine published footage from Zayed’s security cameras on its website. The Israeli military spokesperson’s office initially claimed the video was “edited in a biased way,” but the full, unedited videos, which DCI-Palestine and the Israeli rights groups B’Tselem later made available to the media, also showed the boys posed no imminent threat to life.
Zayed and another witness who asked not to be identified out of fear for his security told Human Rights Watch and DCI-Palestine that at around 4:20 p.m. on June 17, four Israeli military vehicles with about two dozen soldiers came to Zayed’s carpentry shop, on the ground floor of his building in the West Bank Palestinian town of Beitunia, while he was out delivering wood to a customer. According to the other witness, an officer who identified himself as “Sabri” said that “if [Zayed] is not here in five minutes we are going to burn this carpentry shop down,” and ordered one of Zayed’s employees to call him. When Zayed arrived, Israeli forces confiscated his identification document, told him and his employees that he was not being arrested but taken for questioning, and drove him to the nearby Ofer military base.
Zayed said:
At Ofer I was taken into a room that had several captains. They told me that the video I gave to the press was fabricated, that everything I said and all my testimonies are a lie, that this is a serious violation of the law, and that I made the IDF look bad and caused a lot of problems. They told me the cameras need to be brought down within 24 hours. They were all speaking, and I had no chance to respond. There were so many threats. They said it as though they were going to turn the law against me. One of the captains told me: “We will crush you, according to the law.” There were many threats against my family. They told me that I was up against a very powerful force, and I am very small. One of them said, “We will squish you like a bug, you are nothing.” There were no direct violent threats, except when I left that room, one of the soldiers told me that they will unleash dogs on my children.
At 5:45 p.m., Israeli forces drove Zayed back to his building, he said.
Israeli forces had visited Zayed previously and confiscated the DVR equipment that records footage from Zayed’s security cameras as well as his computer. Soldiers and an officer first came to Zayed’s building on May 22, the same day CNN published its own video footage showing one of the Israeli border police firing toward the location where Nawareh was killed, and seconds later, a group of Palestinians carrying him towards an ambulance.
The officer commanding the Israeli forces who confiscated the recording material refused Zayed’s request to give him a receipt. The Israeli commander “Sabri” and border police returned to Zayed’s home at 8 a.m. on June 13 and asked again for the DVR equipment. “I said they’d already taken it, so they went around the entire neighborhood, the whole street, and took all the neighbors’ recording equipment too. They left nothing. I can’t record anything and neither can the others,” Zayed told Human Rights Watch.
Taken together, the military’s confiscation of equipment weeks after the killing and its refusal to provide receipts to owners, Israeli officials’ repeated public claims that video footage was doctored without providing any evidence, and military investigators’ alleged remarks while berating Zayed for recording the shootings, raise concerns that the military is not conducting a good faith investigation into the killings.
Another resident of the area interviewed separately, who asked that his name not be published out of fear for his security, told Human Rights Watch that Israeli forces called him at around 8 a.m. on June 13 and told him to open a shop he owns near Zayed’s building. He said:
There were a lot of soldiers and a few military vehicles. I opened the shop and they went in and took a computer and the DVR and told me they will return it to me, and then they left. The cameras are still there but they don’t work because they took the other equipment. They didn’t tell me what it was about or give me a receipt or invoice. They just grabbed the equipment, wrote something on it in Hebrew, took it, and moved on to the next neighbor – they were taking other people’s equipment too, saying they needed to check it.
“Israeli forces are threatening to treat Palestinians like criminals because they witnessed or recorded what appear to be war crimes committed by the Israeli military,” said Brad Parker, international advocacy officer and attorney at DCI-Palestine. “Instead of harassment and threats Israeli forces should focus on bringing to justice those responsible for killing two boys on May 15.”
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In the public health service, Health Service Executive (HSE) Areas provide ambulance services to transport people who are seriously ill to hospital, or between hospitals. Ambulance services are part of the emergency services and can be contacted by telephoning 999 or 112.
In the Dublin area, the Dublin Fire Brigade provides an emergency ambulance service for the greater Dublin area, while the HSE Eastern Area has its own ambulance service – the two are not integrated.
There is no absolute right to an ambulance service. Generally, ambulances are used when the emergency services are called. For non-emergencies, the use of an ambulance is usually a medical decision.
HSE Areas may use ambulances to bring patients to day hospitals, disability centres, clinics and dialysis units. Some Areas also arrange for transport to out-patient clinics and day centres. These ambulances or buses may be provided under contract to private transport operators.
Private and volunteer ambulance services
There are a number of private ambulance services, including air ambulance services, which are available on a commercial basis.
Volunteer ambulance services often provide cover at public events. Examples include the St John’s Ambulance Brigade of Ireland, the Order of Malta Ambulance Corps and the Irish Red Cross Society.
Charges for ambulance services
Unless you have a medical card, you may be charged for using an ambulance service. However, the position varies considerably from region to region. Charges may also be waived in certain cases (i.e., hardship).
On occasion, an HSE Area may assist with transport costs for a person who has to travel a long distance to a hospital. However, again, this situation varies considerably from one HSE Area to another and in many cases, is dependent on personal circumstances.
Private ambulance services are commercial, and you telephone them and pay for their services in the normal commercial manner.
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Home Analysis Back to the Legal Basics: A Note at the Anniversary of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
Back to the Legal Basics: A Note at the Anniversary of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
—Dr. P.Y. Lo, Barrister-at-law, Gilt Chambers, Hong Kong; Part-time tutor, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong
The Umbrella Movement erupted in Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic China (PRC), on 28 September 2014 when protestors began to occupy major thoroughfares in mainly three busy business and commercial districts in Hong Kong after the police failed to disperse them using CS gas and pepper spray. These unlawful occupations lasted for 79 days and came to an end with the removal of the last protestors by members of the police said to be assisting in the execution of several court orders made at the suit of private transportation businesses.[1]
The Umbrella Movement was the unintended culmination of a course of advocacy by various political factions in Hong Kong in 2014 to threaten to use civil disobedience tactics to force the Central Authorities of the PRC to grant at the next stage of the development of Hong Kong’s political system in 2017 a method of election of the Chief Executive that is “genuinely democratic universal suffrage” and the Central Authorities’ substantive rejection of such a demand by a Decision of the Standing Committee of National People’s Congress (SCNPC) adopted on 31 August 2014 (the 8.31 Decision).[2]
This Note marks the first anniversary of the Umbrella Movement by examining the substantive provisions of the 8.31 Decision as to how restrictive they are and whether they can or cannot be justified as “reasonable restrictions” of a Hong Kong SAR permanent resident’s rights to vote and to be elected, which are guaranteed under Article 26 of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong SAR.
Although the Hong Kong SAR Government’s proposal for amending the method of selecting the Chief Executive in 2017 by universal suffrage was rejected by the Legislative Council in farcical circumstances on 18 June 2015,[3] the first anniversary of the Umbrella Movement has presented an opportunity for all those concerned to re-focus on the debate about the direction of Hong Kong’s political system for the mid and long-term,[4] not only because the pre-existing electoral method for electing the Chief Executive (based upon an Election Committee composing of four sectors of a total of 1,200 persons elected to represent various sub-sectors in one of those sectors) will continue to be the electoral method for the Chief Executive election in 2017,[5] but also due to the legal bind and the political reality that any future move in developing the Chief Executive electoral method towards a method by universal suffrage will continue to have the 8.31 Decision as the starting point.[6]
I had earlier in this blog in February 2014 outlined the current electoral method for electing the Chief Executive and considered what the Basic Law of the Hong Kong SAR, particularly Article 45 thereof, envisages to be the electoral framework for returning the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR by universal suffrage.[7] More debates had followed, which led to the 8.31 Decision. The analysis I am going to embark on follows recent scholarship on how the SCNPC works in law-making and extends the coverage to decision-making said to be in accordance with law, which might not be normatively different.[8] The analysis is also necessary to enable the stakeholders (the Central Authorities included) to view the legal position dispassionately and take more rational positions in future negotiations, including revisiting the 8.31 Decision at appropriate time and circumstances.[9]
Before the analysis begins, some assumptions must be stated. Firstly, it is assumed that the SCNPC acts rationally and provides justifications for its decisions. Secondly, the SCNPC’s justifications are accessible and meant to genuinely represent its collective position. Thirdly, the SCNPC’s justifications for the relevant decisions must each pass muster in respecting the Hong Kong permanent resident’s right to vote and right to be elected. Fourthly, the examination for determining whether a relevant decision is or is not a “unreasonable restriction” to the Hong Kong SAR’s permanent resident’s right to vote and right to be elected implicates the application of the tool of proportionality analysis approximating that understood under Article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (of which the PRC is a signatory). Accordingly, a restriction would be tested as to whether it is “unreasonable” in this context by (i) asking whether the restriction pursues a legitimate societal aim; (ii) having identified that aim, asking whether the restriction is rationally connected with the accomplishing of that end; and (iii) where such rational connection is established, asking whether the means employed are proportionate or whether, on the contrary, they make excessive inroads into the protected right.[10]
The 8.31 Decision and its Explanations
Article II of the 8.31 Decision contains the provisions concerning the election of the Chief Executive in Hong Kong by universal suffrage that are the subject of the present objectively examination. During the Session of the SCNPC in August 2014, Mr. Li Fei, the Deputy Secretary General of the SCNPC, provided, at the request of the Chairmen’s Council of the SCNPC, explanations on the draft 8.31 Decision (the Explanations).[11] The Explanations will be taken as the justificatory statements of the SCNPC for adopting the provisions.
Article II(1): The Composition of the Nominating Committee
The first provision is Article II(1) of the 8.31 Decision. It provides that the nominating committee shall follow the current composition of the Election Committee for the Fourth Chief Executive and have 1,200 members from four major sectors in equal proportions, to be selected by the existing method provided for in Annex I to the Basic Law. Rules for the formation of the nominating committee should ensure the maximum extent of participation of the electorate and parity in such participation by individual members of the electorate.
Mr. Li Fei outlined three major considerations for Article II(1). The first was the legislative intent of “a broadly representative nominating committee” in Article 45(2) of the Basic Law. Mr. Li stated that “broadly representative” in the context of the nominating committee under Article 45(2) carries the same meaning as that in “a broadly representative Election Committee” under the current Annex I to the Basic Law. It was said that the earlier Decision of the SCNPC of 29 December 2007, which paved the way for implementing Chief Executive election by universal suffrage in 2017, had indicated this common theme. This statement in the Explanations, referring as it did to the legislative intent of a provision of the Basic Law, is a justificatory imposition, as opposed to a justificatory reason. Past experience of the SCNPC’s exercises of its power of interpretation of the Basic Law, which was vested with it by virtue of Article 158 of the Basic Law,[12] indicates that the SCNPC ascertained the meaning of the provision in question and may supplement the provision by first stating the legislative intent of that provision. Thus it appears that the SCNPC had sought to justify Article II(1) through a de facto interpretation of Article 45(2) of the Basic Law.
It is not uncommon for legislatures to enact laws or make resolutions based on a particular understanding of the constitutional instrument. A recent example is the enactment of “collective security” legislation by the Japanese Parliament on the basis of an understanding of the Constitution of Japan, Article 9 adopted by the Abe Government. What I consider troublesome is that both the Basic Law itself and its subsequent practice (including by the SCNPC itself) provide for the formal exercise of the power of interpretation of provisions of the Basic Law by the SCNPC, involving an express and specific procedure that includes consulting a Committee for the Basic Law established under the SCNPC.[13] While Mr. Li Fei mentioned in the Explanations that the responsible officials entrusted by the Chairmen’s Council of the SCNPC had listened to, among other categories of consultees, the views of the Hong Kong members of the Committee for the Basic Law after the Chairmen’s Council had decided on 18 August 2015 to include in the agenda of the August 2015 Session of the SCNPC the implementation of Chief Executive selection by universal suffrage in 2017 for the purpose of decision-making, this is no replacement of consulting the Committee for the Basic Law as a whole and on its own where an interpretation of a provision of the Basic Law were contemplated.[14]
A possible defence to not consulting the Committee for the Basic Law is that the SCNPC was engaging in August 2015 with decision-making pursuant to a procedure set up under its Interpretation of Article 7 of Annex I and Article III of Annex II to the Basic Law (which was adopted on 6 April 2004) and following the terms of its Decision of 29 December 2007 (which was said to have been adopted also pursuant to the same procedure) and that procedure does not require consultation of the Committee for the Basic Law.[15] This defence exposes the apparently inherent flaw that since the 2004 Interpretation was adopted under Article 158 of the Basic Law, its progeny should likewise be treated as subject to Article 158, including the requirement of consulting the Committee for the Basic Law.
While I feel that this argument appeals to logic and reason, and some readers may share my view, they should, however, note that I make no assumption at the outset that the SCNPC regards itself as bound by the path it has chosen on a prior occasion and would not make the rules up as it goes on discharging the business of the State of the day.
Can this operative part of the 8.31 Decision therefore be impugned?
Two points need to be made. The first is that there is no neutral dispute settlement mechanism between the Central Authorities and the Hong Kong SAR under the Basic Law; the SCNPC therefore can say what the Basic Law means through invoking Article 158 of the Basic Law and such an interpretation would have to be followed by the Hong Kong SAR courts.[16] The second is that the objection discussed above is more of a “manner and form” type of concern. To seek invalidate a decision of the standing body of the highest organ of state power on such a ground appears unrealistic, as the SCNPC can determinatively remedy the perceived “defect” if it thinks fit. It is more prudent therefore to examine the substance of this “interpretation” or statement of legislative intent.
Again, one faces the reality that legislative intent is essentially what the SCNPC says it is, unless one can attempt to contradict what has been said with Basic Law drafting history and the proceedings of the NPC back in 1990 when the Basic Law was enacted. A modest food for thought in this regard is that as a matter of substance, the election committee under the present Chief Executive electoral method and the nominating committee under a method for implementing Chief Executive election by universal suffrage are not comparable bodies in terms of purpose and function. The former nominates and elects the Chief Executive. The latter only nominates candidates for the over 3 million eligible voters in Hong Kong to exercise their universal suffrage franchise. Accordingly, the nomination committee’s function is not to determine the Chief Executive election but rather to preserve for the voting public a plurality and variety of choices. It is clearly possible to constitute a “broadly representative” nominating committee for the purpose of achieving this important function in a way otherwise than by reference to the sectorial makeup of the current election committee.
The second major consideration that Mr. Li Fei relied on in the Explanations for the draft Article II(1) of the 8.31 Decision was the experience of Chief Executive elections conducted with an election committee. Mr. Li suggested that the election committee achieved balanced participation of all sectors and was therefore in conformity with the actual situation of Hong Kong. He claimed that such balanced participation has continued to be an objective when it comes to nominating candidates for Chief Executive election by universal suffrage and a nominating committee in line with the formation of the Election Committee for the Fourth Chief Executive would achieve that objective and fend off various risks during the election of the Chief Executive by universal suffrage.
Whether this major consideration is legitimate or not and has rational connection with the draft Article II(1) or not depends on one’s appreciation of the sectorial composition of the current election committee composed of four sectors of equal proportions. A study conducted by Hong Kong scholars indicate the “gross and unjustified disparities in voting power” between voters in different subsectors, as well as the fact that over 90% of the eligible voters are left out of the process of the formation of the election committee. Thus it was contended that the election committee “is neither a microcosm of Hong Kong society nor representative of the views of the general electorate” and the system of its formation was “neither fair, nor open, nor democratic”.[17] On the other hand, Mainland scholars viewed positively the representation of the leaders of commerce, industry and finance in one of the four sector constituting one quarter of the members of the election committee and the representation of the professions in another of the four sectors, since these two sectors ensure that those who have made significant contribution to the capitalist economy of Hong Kong are appropriately represented, with their preferences likely to be conducive to the maintenance of stability and prosperity of Hong Kong.[18]
The third major consideration relied on by Mr. Li Fei in support of Article II(1) of the 8.31 Decision was the “relatively more views in the Hong Kong community that the composition of the nominating committee should be decided with reference to the existing method for forming the Election Committee”. This appears to be a preference based on an appreciation of public opinion and does not necessarily qualify as a major consideration, at least from the legal point of view.
Article II(2): Maximum Number of Nominated Candidates and Endorsement by More Than Half of Members of Nominating Committee
The other two restrictive requirements of the 8.31 Decision are in Article II(2). The first places a maximum limit on the number of candidates that the nominating committee may nominate. The second requires each such candidate to have the endorsement of more than half of the members of the nominating committee. Mr. Li Fei also explained why they were to be imposed.
As to placing a maximum limit on the number of candidates that the nominating committee may nominate, Mr. Li Fei began his explanation with the apparent acceptance that the Chief Executive election by universal suffrage should “ensure a truly competitive election and present voters with real choices”. But then he expressed concern over “problems such as complicated electoral procedures and high election costs caused by having too many candidates”, so that it was appropriate to place a numerical restriction on the total number of candidates that the nominating committee can nominate and having considered the experience of the previous Chief Executive elections (which were conducted with 2 to 3 candidates), the appropriate limit was thought to be 2 to 3 candidates and no more.
Assuming that ballot overcrowding is a legitimate concern, prescribing by law a maximum number of candidates on the ballot through limiting the numerical range of candidates the nominating committee is very likely to be treated objectively as too sweeping a means to address the issue. Overseas jurisdictions have many mechanisms to prevent overcrowded ballots. Some of those, such as a substantial filing fee or deposit, have already been introduced into Hong Kong. In practical terms, the costs and human efforts of running an election campaign in the whole of Hong Kong will be prohibitive to many. This places another limit to the number of “serious” contenders.
More importantly, since it is the nominating committee that decides on nomination of candidates, its rules of nomination (with regulatory provisions on how its members may support applicants for candidature and how the members may decide on nominations) would in their operation lead to a finite number of candidates that can be nominated by the nominating committee in practice, without there being an explicit numerical limitation on number of candidates in electoral law. Prescribing the numerical limitation is not only an unnecessary step but also can be regarded as circumscribing the proper province of the nominating committee.
Mr. Li Fei indicated that the proposal requiring a Chief Executive candidate to have the endorsement of more than half of the members of the nominating committee was based on three major rationales. The first major rationale was that the nominating committee, as the specialized institution for nomination under Article 45(2) of the Basic Law for a Chief Executive election by universal suffrage, must exercise the power to nominate Chief Executive candidates collectively. This proposition by itself does not invite controversy. Rather, it was Mr. Li’s assumption (as well as the SCNPC’s apparent thought) that that collective decision-making by an institution by “democratic procedures” means “majority rule”, irrespective of the function of that institution, that is constitutionally contentious.
Once again, it deserves reiteration that the function of the nominate committee is to nominate candidates for election by the electorate by universal suffrage; its function or purpose is not to determine the result of the Chief Executive election. Therefore, while collective decision-making of the nominating committee by democratic procedures to nominate candidates for the Chief Executive election by universal suffrage may necessarily require the applicants or contenders for nomination to obtain the support of a substantial number or proportion of members of the nominating committee, requiring an applicant or contender to obtain a simple majority support of the nominating committee runs exactly that risk of the nominating committee pre-determining the choices available to the electorate to such an extent that a “free choice of candidates” among the variety of alternatives is not possible or to have the effect of excluding popular contenders for nomination on an established ground of discrimination (such as political or other opinion). The European Court of Human Rights had indicated that “there can be no democracy without pluralism”. [19] The right to vote and the right to stand in elections for elections of Hong Kong SAR permanent residents can only be guaranteed if the Chief Executive election is one that presents a genuine choice.
Mr. Li’s second major rationale drew on the sectorial composition of the nominating committee and the principle of “balanced participation”. Here, it can be said that this is reliance on the same justificatory imposition, as the SCNPC had sought to pronounce legislative intention in respect of Article II(1) specifying for the sectorial composition of the nominating committee. And I shall not repeat my discussion on the use of legislative intention by the SCNPC in the 8.31 Decision. I would only add that the requirements in Article II(2) of the 8.31 Decision ought to be assessed in the light of the requirements under Article II(1) of the same. Given the composition of the nominating committee as required by Article II(1), the requirements in Article II(2) makes it even more unlikely that there will be a plurality of candidates of different political persuasions or “a free choice of candidates”, so that the right to vote of Hong Kong SAR permanent residents is not unreasonably restricted.
Mr. Li’s third and last major rationale for collective nomination by the nominating committee through a simple majority decision-making procedure relied on views received from the Hong Kong community, including those that called for a proportion to be specified. Such a rationale paid little regard to the principle of subsidiary implicit in the Basic Law’s underlying thought of “One Country, Two Systems” that enables and allows the Hong Kong community to discuss and come to a consensus on the proportion. It also failed to address the question that the views from Hong Kong implicated, namely what principles should inform the specification itself. As indicated above, the specification of the proportion must be consistent with the function of the nominating committee and takes meaningful account of the right of HKSAR permanent residents to stand for election without unreasonable restrictions. What Mr. Li had not relied on this connection was the experience of previous Chief Executive elections, where a much lower threshold was prescribed for nomination of candidates in those elections. By comparison, the requirement of endorsement of more than half of the members of the nominating committee would appear regressive.
I could have given Mr. Li Fei’s Explanations a more rigorous examination by way of proportionality analysis than the discussion above. Nonetheless, the irregularities, inadequacies and top-down nature of the 8.31 Decision are illustrated in some detail. Some of the restrictions can withstand the examination by the SCNPC not recognizing the essentially “divisive” precept of exercising a particular power only according to the law and procedure prescribed specifically to govern the exercise of that power.[20] Other restrictions are plainly more suspect. A starting point to re-visit the 8.31 Decision from the legal perspective may be the requirement in Article II(2) restricting the maximum number of candidates that the nominating committee may nominate. This may be a suggestion on the least significant of the restrictions. Yet it is a step that one can take on firm and sure ground.
Suggested Citation: P.Y. Lo, Back to the Legal Basics: A Note at the Anniversary of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, Int’l J. Const. L. Blog, Oct. 3, 2015, at: http://www.iconnectblog.com/2015/10/back-to-the-legal-basics-a-note-at-the-anniversary-of-the-hong-kong-umbrella-movement
[1] For scholarly discussions of the Umbrella Movement, see Johannes Chan, Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement (2014) 103(6) The Round Table: Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 571; Stephan Ortmann, The Umbrella Movement and Hong Kong’s Protracted Democratization Process (2015) 46(1) Asian Affairs 32; Michael Davis, The Basic Law, Universal Suffrage and the Rule of Law in Hong Kong (2015) 38 Hastings Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 275; and Jermain Tam, Political Decay in Hong Kong after the Occupy Central Movement (2015) 42(2) Asian Affairs: An American Review 99. There have also been many conferences, roundtables and seminars, both in Hong Kong and abroad, on various aspects concerning or arising out of the Umbrella Movement. For examples, a roundtable organized by the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China, Hong Kong Baptist University (19 March 2015), a conference held by the National University of Singapore’s Centre for Asian Legal Studies (14-15 May 2015), a seminar on “Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement and Beyond” at the East-West Center (28 July 2015), and the City University of Hong Kong’s School of Law’s Conference on the Occupy Central Movement and its Aftermaths (18-19 September 2015) (at: http://www.cityu.edu.hk/slw/OCM/bios.html).
[2] The text of the 8.31 Decision is accessible at: http://www.2017.gov.hk/filemanager/template/en/doc/20140831b.pdf.
[3] See Wall Street Journal blog, at: http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/06/18/why-did-pro-beijing-lawmakers-walk-out-of-the-hong-kong-vote/
[4] See Bloomberg Business, at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-27/occupy-hong-kong-anniversary-reignites-debate-on-city-s-election; and The Guardian, at: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/27/hong-kong-democracy-activists-ask-what-protest-achieved-umbrella.
[5] Article IV of the 8.31 Decision makes it clear that if no amendments to Annex I to the Basic Law to implement universal suffrage in the method of selection of the Chief Executive, the method of selection used in respect of the Chief Executive of the previous term would apply.
[6] The title of the 8.31 Decision says that it decides on “Issues Relating to the Selection of the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region by Universal Suffrage”. The preamble of the same states the views of the Session of the SCNPC that it “finds it necessary to make provisions on certain core issues concerning the method for selecting the Chief Executive by universal suffrage” and that in the light of the Chief Executive’s accountability to both the Hong Kong SAR and to the Central People’s Government, as well as his functions and duties, the method for selecting the Chief Executive by universal suffrage must provide “institutional safeguards” to ensure the upholding of “the principle that the Chief Executive has to be a person who loves the country and loves Hong Kong”. To complete the picture and seal the fate, Article III of the operative part of the Decision specifies that the bill on the amendments to Annex I to the Basic Law and the proposed amendments to such bill shall be introduced by the HKSAR Government to the Legislative Council in accordance with the Basic Law and the 8.31 Decision (i.e. “the provisions of this Decision”).
[7] See P.Y Lo, Squaring the “Universal Suffrage” Circle in Hong Kong’s Transition to Democracy under the Guidance of China, Int’l J. Const. L. Blog, Feb. 8, 2014, at: http://www.iconnectblog.com/2014/02/squaring-the-universal-suffrage-circle-in-hong-kongs-transition-to-democracy-under-the-guidance-of-china.
[8] See Yan Lin and Tom Ginsburg, Constitutional Interpretation in Lawmaking: China’s Invisible Constitutional Enforcement Mechanism? 63 Am. J. Comp. L. 467 (2015).
[9] For a discussion of some recent contacts between officials of the Central Authorities and some individuals who had opposed the Hong Kong SAR Government’s proposal for implementing Chief Executive election in 2017 by universal suffrage, see Suzanne Pepper, Beijing’s New Idea: A Loyal Opposition (14 September 2015) at: http://chinaelectionsblog.net/hkfocus/?p=1375.
[10] See R v Oakes (1986) 26 D.L.R. (4th) 200 (SCC); De Freitas v Ministry of Agriculture [1999] 1 A.C. 69 (PC); Kong Yunming v Director of Social Welfare (2013) 16 H.K.C.F.A.R. 950 (HKCFA).
[11] An English translation of the Explanations, prepared by the Hong Kong SAR Government, is at: http://www.2017.gov.hk/filemanager/template/en/doc/20140827a.pdf.
[12] See Basic Law of the Hong Kong SAR, Article 158, which I thoroughly discussed in P. Y. Lo, The Judicial Construction of Hong Kong’s Basic Law: Courts, Politics and Society in Hong Kong after 1997 (Hong Kong University Press, 2014) pp 371-441. It should be noted that Article 158(1), which vests the power of interpretation of the Basic Law with the SCNPC, mirrors Article 67(4) of the PRC Constitution, which vests the power of the interpretation of national laws with the SCNPC (and the Basic Law is a national law under the PRC’s hierarchy of laws). It should also be noted that the state system of the PRC (including the power of interpretation of laws by the standing body of its highest organ of state power) is based on the Stalinist concept of law, a principal feature of which is centralization and unification of power; see Sophia Woodman, Legislative Interpretation by China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee: A Power with Roots in the Stalinist Conception of Law, in Fu Hualing, Lison Harris and Simon Young (eds), Interpreting Hong Kong’s Basic Law: The Struggle for Coherence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) pp 229-241. William Partlett and Eric Ip’s forthcoming paper on The Death of Socialist Law? in the NYU J. I. L. P. will take this matter further.
[13] See Basic Law of the Hong Kong SAR, Article 158(4).
[14] Simon Young noted that the absence of the formal requirement to consult the Committee for Basic Law and considered that an anomaly since interpretations and amendments of the Basic Law require such consultations and the 8.31 Decision “necessarily involved an interpretation of Art 45”; see Simon Young, Rethinking the Process of Political Reform in Hong Kong (2015) 45 H. K. L. J. 381 at 386.
[15] Hong Kong politicians had sought to challenge the legality of the 8.31 Decision by suggesting that the step that the SCNPC was obliged on the occasion of the 8.31 Decision under the procedure prescribed under the 2004 Interpretation was the modest one of either approving or rejecting any need to amend the existing method of selection of the Chief Executive. Under the same procedure, the SCNPC had the power, at the final step, to approve the bill of amendment adopted in Hong Kong for amending the method of selection of the Chief Executive. An application seeking to challenge the 8.31 Decision indirectly in the Court of First Instance in Hong Kong was premised upon this argument; see Leung Lai Kwok Yvonne v Chief Secretary for Administration (HCAL 31/2015).
[16] Whether the Hong Kong SAR courts can hear and determine an application for declarations on the validity of the 8.31 Decision deserves a separate article. But it is very likely that, following the dismissal of the Yvonne Leung case (above) on 5 June 2015, the matter has become moot.
[17] See Yash Ghai’s summary of the findings in Simon Young and Richard Cullen, Electing Hong Kong’s Chief Executive (Hong Kong University Press, 2010) p ix. See also Simon Young, Hong Kong – universal suffrage, constitutional reform and occupy central protests [2015] Public Law 158, who made the point that from the 2012 Chief Executive election process, it can be seen that the over-representation of business and professional elites and pro-Beijing labour and political leaders enables easy manipulation of the will of the Election Committee by the Central Authorities.
[18] See, for example, the views of Professor Wang Zhenmin, the dean of the Law School of the Tsinghua University and a member of the Committee for the Basic Law, reported at: http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/29/wang-zhenmin-on-hong-kong-democracy-and-protecting-the-rich/.
[19] Socialist Party & Ors v Turkey (1998) 27 EHRR 51, para 41.
[20] The centralist and unifying mindset of the PRC Central Authorities of state power can once again be illustrated by the speech of Zhang Xiaoming, the Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong SAR, instructing the Hong Kong public on 12 September 2015 on the particular political system of the Hong Kong SAR. Mr. Zhang’s starting point was the specific constitutional position of the Chief Executive in the Basic Law. He then went on to refute any claim that the political system of Hong Kong SAR is that of the “separation of the three powers” and asserted that the Chief Executive has a “special legal status” transcending the executive authorities, the legislature and the judiciary of the Hong Kong SAR. This speech has led to the raising of eyebrows instead of nods, not least because, if read partially or improperly, it could be taken by either the uninformed or the keen competitor as evidence of the Central Authorities circumscribing Hong Kong’s Rule of Law in the common law tradition, with an independent judiciary administering justice free from any interference according to the law and its spirit, with no one or office above the law; see Suzanne Pepper, Beijing’s Learning Curve (21 September 2015) at: http://chinaelectionsblog.net/hkfocus/?p=1381 and Statement of the Hong Kong Bar Association on the Speech of Director Zhang Xiaoming at the Seminar held on 12 September 2015 marking the 25th Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (14 September 2015) at: http://www.hkba.org/whatsnew/press-release/20150914%20-%20Press%20Statement%20of%20HKBA%20-%20English.pdf.
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New and Emerging Theories of Intelligence
Originally prepared by: Kristin Garrigan and Jonathan Plucker (fall 2001)
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Outline (back to top)
Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Sternberg's Conceptions
Moral Intelligence
Introduction (back to outline)
You cannot pick up a magazine today without seeing an article regarding intelligence or intelligences. The study of intelligence has proved to be a continuously evolving, dynamic field, with the breadth of the field expanding rapidly over the past 25 - 30 years. Many individuals, such as Gardner, Naglieri, and Goleman, argue that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow, leading the way to an expanded view of what intelligence is and what constitutes an intelligence. Several of the new and emerging intelligences are noted in the following sections.
The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (back to outline)
In the early 1980s, Howard Gardner opened the window to multiple intelligences (MI), Prof. Gardner claimed that MI theory illuminates the fact that humans exist in a multitude of contexts and that these contexts both call for and nourish different arrays and assemblies of intelligence. Many psychologists have expounded on this notion and today the number of quantifiable intelligences extends beyond that of Gardner's initial seven multiple intelligences. MI Theory is discussed in greater depth in a separate Hot Topic.
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Robert J. Sternberg has devoted much of his career to the study of various conceptions of human intelligence. Starting with his Triarchic Theory of Human Intelligence (Sternberg, 1985), he has expanded on his view of human ability and success. Successful intelligence is defined as that set of mental abilities used to achieve one's goals in life, given a socio-cultural context, through adaptation to, selection of, and shaping of environments. Successful intelligence involves three aspects that are interrelated but largely distinct: analytical, creative, and practical thinking (Sternberg, 1998). Practical Intelligence is the ability to size up a situation well, to be able to determine how to achieve goals, to display awareness to the world around you, and to display interest in the world at large (Sternberg, 1990; Sternberg et al., 2000; Wagner, 2000). Prof. Sternberg is working on several projects that examine the interrelation of his various conceptions of ability in applied settings.
Moral Intelligence is the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. Broadly conceived, moral intelligence represents the ability to make sound decisions that benefit not only yourself, but others around you (Coles, 1997; Hass, 1998).
Interpersonal intelligence is the ability to understand other people: what motivates them, how they work, how to work cooperatively with them. Successful salespeople, politicians, teachers, clinicians, and religious leaders are all likely to be individuals with high degrees of interpersonal intelligence. At the same time, social intelligence probably draws on specific internal (Gardner would say intrapersonal) abilities. For example, in a recent study of incompetence, Kruger and Dunning (1999) found that incompetent people assessed themselves as being highly competent. This lack of ability to self-assess may be due to a combination of internal (poor metacognition) and external factors (poor ability to compare oneself to others). Social intelligence appears to be receiving the most attention in the management and organizational psychology literatures (e.g., Hough, 2001; Riggio, Murphy, & Pirozzolo, 2002).
Emotional intelligence, on the other hand, "is a type of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use the information to guide one's thinking and actions" (Mayer & Salovey, 1993, p. 433). According to Goleman (1995), "Emotional intelligence, the skills that help people harmonize, should become increasingly valued as a workplace asset in the years to come" (p. 160). EI may subsume Gardner's inter- and intrapersonal intelligences, and involves abilities that may be categorized into five domains (Salovey & Mayer, 1990):
Self-awareness: Observing yourself and recognizing a feeling as it happens.
Managing emotions: Handling feelings so that they are appropriate; realizing what is behind a feeling; finding ways to handle fears and anxieties, anger, and sadness.
Motivating oneself: Channeling emotions in the service of a goal; emotional self control; delaying gratification and stifling impulses.
Empathy: Sensitivity to others' feelings and concerns and taking their perspective; appreciating the differences in how people feel about things.
Handling relationships: Managing emotions in others; social competence and social skills.
Additional perspectives on EI are available in Bar-On and Parker (2000).
In this Hot Topic, we attempted to provide a brief overview of the major categories of new and emerging conceptions of intelligences. This list is not meant to be exhaustive, and we refer interested readers to the recent special issue of the journal, Roeper Review (April 2001), which addressed these and other new conceptions.
References (back to outline)
Bar-On, R., & Parker, J. D. A. (Eds.). (2000). The handbook of emotional intelligence: Theory, development, assessment, and application at home, school, and in the workplace. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Coles, R. (1997). The moral intelligence of children: How to raise a moral child. New York: NAL/Dutton.
Dweck, C. S., Chiu, C., & Hong, Y. (1995). Implicit theories and their role in judgments and reactions: A world from two perspectives. Psychological Inquiry, 6, 267-285.
Gardner, H. (1993). Multiple intelligences. New York: BasicBooks.
Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional intelligence. New York: Bantam Books.
Hass, A. (1998). Doing the right thing: Cultivating your moral intelligence. New York: Hardcover.
Hough, L. M. (2001). I/Owes its advances to personality. In B. W. Roberts & R. Hogan (Eds.), Personality psychology in the workplace. Decade of behavior (pp. 19-44). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Kruger, J., & Dunning, D. (1999). Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1121-1134.
Mayer, J. D. & Salovey, P. (1993). The intelligence of emotional intelligence. Intelligence, 17, 433-442.
Riggio, R. E., Murphy, S. E., & Pirozzolo, F. J. (Eds.). (2002). Multiple intelligences and leadership. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Salovey, P. & Mayer, J. D. (1990). Emotional intelligence. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 9, 185-211.
Sternberg, R. J. (1998). Principles of teaching for successful intelligence. Educational Psychologist, 33, 65-71.
Sternberg, R. J. (1990). Handbook of human intelligence. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Sternberg, R. J., Forsythe, G. B., Hedlund, J., Horvath, J. A., Wagner, R. K., Williams, W. M., Snook, S. A., & Grigorenko, E. L. (2000). Practical intelligence in everyday life. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Wagner, R. K. (2000). Practical intelligence. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Handbook of intelligence (pp. 380-395). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Prepared by Kristin Garrigan and Jonathan Plucker.
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MainAll NewsDefense/SecurityYassam officer murdered in terror attack to be honored
Yassam officer murdered in terror attack to be honored
Yossi Kirma, who was murdered in a shooting attack in Jerusalem two years ago, will receive medal of honor.
Ben Ariel, 26/10/18 04:37
Yossi Kirma
Idit Druyan
Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh has agreed to the request of Jerusalem District Commander Yoram Halevy and will award a medal of honor to Yossi Kirma, an officer in the Yassam Special Patrol Unit of the Israel Police who was murdered in a shooting attack in Jerusalem two years ago and prevented a much larger attack.
The police initially decided to grant Kirma the Police Commissioner’s citation, but following a protest by his father, it was decided to award him the medal of honor at a ceremony to take place in two weeks. Uzi Kirma, Yossi’s father, will receive the medal in his son’s name.
According to a report on Hadashot TV on Thursday, the bereaved father argued that it was inconceivable that the two fighters who eliminated the terrorist who murdered his son would receive the medal of honor while his son would receive a lower citation.
At the request of the Jerusalem District Commander, Yoram Halevy, the Commissioner agreed to change his initial decision and give the highest citation to the murdered officer.
The reason for the change in the decision was explained in that Kirma’s pursuit of the terrorist prevented a much larger attack. It was determined that Kirma’s actions caused the terrorist to fire at him, and the terrorist was forced to reveal his location, leading to his elimination.
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Closing the skills gap
(ISC)² study reveals global cybersecurity workforce shortage to reach 1.8 million as threats loom larger and stakes rise higher
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Adrian Davis, managing director, EMEA, (ISC)2
By Adrian Davis, Managing Director, EMEA, (ISC)2 Published July 24, 2017
The latest study from the Global Information Security Workforce Study (GISWS) calls for employers to look to new recruitment channels and consider workers with more diverse skillsets and non-technical backgrounds to attract and retain cybersecurity talent
Understanding the skills gap
As far as I can remember, cybersecurity has long faced a gap between the supply and demand of professionals, leaving businesses, and by extension all of us, vulnerable to cyberattacks.
Our research programme, the biennial Centre for Cyber Safety and Education’s Global Information Security Workforce Study (GISWS), has tracked the state of the workforce over the past 13 years. The most recent report – which surveyed over 19,000 professionals from the cybersecurity profession – revealed a widening chasm; a projected shortfall of 1.8 million cybersecurity workers worldwide by 2022, if current hiring trends continue. This is up 20% from the same figure projected in 2015’s report, with the issue directly leading to data breaches, and in turn impacting us as consumers.
In the Middle East & Africa alone, 67% of respondents this year indicated that they felt their departments consisted of too few information security workers; with reasons for the workforce shortage ranging from a lack of qualified personnel (40%), business conditions can’t support additional personnel (45%) and requirements not being understood by leadership (50%), to security workers being too difficult to retain (30%) and there being no clear information security career path (39%).
This month sees the third release of data from the Global Information Security Workforce Study 2017: Benchmarking Workforce Capacity and Response to Cyber Risk, which was conducted by Frost & Sullivan for the Centre for Cyber Safety and Education, with the support of (ISC)2, Booz Allen Hamilton and Alta Associates; offering up a deeper exploration of that growing cybersecurity skills gap and outlined recommendations to remedy this.
Globally, it was revealed that data exposure was the top concern for those study participants, regardless of their geographic location. There were however, some regional discrepancies when considering other top-of-mind threats. Data exfiltration was a top worry in North America and Asia Pacific (APAC), but in Latin America (LATAM) and Europe, it was ransomware that was top of mind. While in the Middle East & Africa, the broad act of hacking was identified as a primary concern, suggesting professionals here are affected by a broad set of motivations and outcomes instead.
This data clearly demonstrates that much work is yet to be done to secure businesses, government agencies and organisations of all sizes, and the critical importance of having a properly staffed, agile and reactive workforce.
Hiring on the rise
Globally, a third of hiring managers are planning to increase the size of their departments by 15% or more. But for the Middle East, Africa and APAC, lower rates of hiring will be expected, though one in four hiring managers in each of these regions still expected to see their departments grow by 15% or more.
Cyber security expo returns for a second year
ISC2 forms new EMEA advisory board
Globally, the most sought after positions were Operations & Security Management, with 62% of the workforce indicating that there are too few who occupy this position, followed by Incident & Threat Management and Forensics, at 58% globally. In fact, the latter position is in greater demand in LATAM (63%) and the Middle East & Africa (65%) than any other position.
Embracing a changing workforce
As the fastest growing demographic, millennials will be critical for filling the employment gap, but I believe existing attitudes must change if we are to entice valuable candidates. Recruiters are currently not hiring enough recent university graduates, instead opting for those with more prior experience – 93% of respondents indicated that this was an important factor when making their hiring decisions.
Yet, employers could be doing much more to attract and retain younger people. The study found that millennials value organisation training, as well as mentorship and leadership programmes. As a demographic that holds personal development in such high regard, businesses need to be catering to these needs to attract crucial young talent.
In addition to the widening skills gap, diversity within the workforce remains low. Our study also revealed that women form just 5% of the workforce in the Middle East and 9% in Africa; levels that have remained virtually unchanged since 2004.
There are also signs of a rampant gender pay gap, with male professionals more likely to earn more on average than their female counterparts. This is despite female cybersecurity professionals tending to be better educated, with a higher proportion of them occupying managerial positions. A workplace where women are both paid less and more likely to be subject to discrimination can make it harder to promote such a profession to women. The lack of women also creates a self-perpetuating cycle, with few established female role models to encourage the new generation.
But there are clear steps that can be taken to attract more women into cyber, and at the same time, address the growing need for more staff. Much like with millennials, employers need to create inclusive work places that support and value women, via sponsorship and mentorship programmes that tie to the success and satisfaction of women at all levels.
Equally as important, organisations must end pay inequity, and also draw from a wider set of backgrounds and degrees, including humanities and arts degrees, where there tend to be higher proportions of females – currently only 29% of respondents in the Middle East and Africa came from non-IT/Engineering backgrounds (among those who did not start in cybersecurity initially).
Fundamentally, this is no longer just an issue of increasing workforce diversity, but an issue of economic and national security. The cybersecurity skills gap is growing wider every time we survey our workforce, and governments across the world are recognising that cyberattacks are critical national vulnerabilities.
Attracting more millennials, women and those from more varied backgrounds into the industry would not only significantly help reduce this shortfall in skills, but by diversifying the workforce, will provide the necessary basis for a safer world, especially in today’s increasingly plugged-in society.
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Tag: Lisa Klein
S Word changes perceptions
Craig Miller in a shot from the documentary The S Word, which screened for the first time in Western Canada on March 22 in Winnipeg. (photo from MadPix, Inc.)
Jewish Child and Family Service of Winnipeg (JCFS) partnered with the Suicide Prevention Network and the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg’s Young Adult Division to show the documentary The S Word for the first time in Western Canada. The screening took place March 22 at the JCC Berney Theatre, and the event’s aim was to help put a stop to the silence surrounding the subject of suicide.
“Suicide is widespread and affects all age groups and communities,” said Carli Rossall, JCFS addictions and mental health caseworker. “There are many ‘S words’ that reinforce the behaviour around suicide, such as silence, stigma, shame and struggle. The hope is to turn this around into S words such as support, survival, sharing and solutions.”
Rossall has taken the lead in organizing this project, along with Cheryl Hirsh Katz, JCFS manager of adult services, and Shana Menkis, JCFS director of operations.
JCFS is a member of the Suicide Prevention Network, which is a group of agencies and individuals committed to enhancing the mental wellness and quality of life of people in Winnipeg, preventing suicides and supporting those bereaved by suicide.
“I think our goal with this [event] was to begin to create a safe space within the community where topics like suicide can be freely and openly discussed,” said Rossall. “Staying silent doesn’t make an issue cease to exist. Suicide is a reality in our community as it is in all communities. Healing requires openness, acceptance and dialogue. The more we talk about these things, the more fluency we develop when it comes to hard conversations, [and] the better equipped we all are to support one another.”
“Bringing this film to our city and specifically to this community,” Hirsh Katz added, “will hopefully give a voice to this problem and put a face to the solution.”
The S Word aims to open the conversation surrounding suicide. Its director, Lisa Klein, is a survivor of both her father’s and her brother’s suicides. In the film, she wanted to show the voices of those who survived suicide attempts, as well as others, to provide an honest portrayal of the thoughts and feelings surrounding suicide. She further wanted to provide positive messaging.
“It’s an outstanding collection of stories that, unlike other films on the same subject, shines a light on hope,” said Klein. “It talks about language, relationships, relapses in mental health, and about how recovery is rarely a straight trajectory. It’s very real and raw. I consider it to be one of the best mental health documentaries I’ve ever seen … unique in its approach to an otherwise familiar topic.
“We hear about suicide epidemics, about over- and under-medicating, about the bereaved when it comes to suicide in the community, but, rarely do we hear from survivors. Frankly, I don’t know if ‘survivor of suicide’ is a concept most people even know exists.”
Carli Rossall, Jewish Child and Family Service of Winnipeg addictions and mental health caseworker, at the information table on March 22. (photo from JCFS)
“Loss is never easy to talk about,” said Rossall. “But, when loss gets tied together with morality, as suicide often does, an added layer of stigma exists. Anything that challenges our definition of ‘right,’ ‘moral’ or ‘normal’ tends to make us uncomfortable – and it often makes people look to blame.
“Generally,” she said, “people who have thoughts of suicide suffer from intense psychological pain, where there is a feeling of hopelessness, isolation, and no alternative. The reasons for this can vary, from those experiencing mental health challenges or physical illness, to those who have experienced trauma, are struggling financially or have addictions. The rise in suicide rates may be due to life’s increasing pressures and complex circumstances.”
It was in her late teens that Klein lost her father and then, three months later, her brother, to suicide.
“It’s something that obviously is a huge part of my life, my existence, and it wasn’t something that right away I knew what I’d do with,” said Klein. “It affected me greatly. I really didn’t know who to talk to. That was a big part of why I did this film, because it’s so difficult to talk to people when you’ve lost people. They don’t know what to say to you.
“When I came out to L.A. and went to graduate school, I did a film prior to this one…. We started to do documentaries. We did one on bipolar personalities and, when we did that one, we had someone who was in the film who had lost their daughter to suicide. I thought, OK, I’ve dealt with this. And then, almost immediately, I realized that I actually hadn’t. I thought it was time to do something, because people weren’t, and aren’t, talking about it enough, not talking about it responsibly.”
As Klein began researching the topic, she found a large community of people dealing with suicide – so great a number that they were holding conventions in the United States about it. Klein found this resource helpful when it came to finding specific stories to include in her film.
While The S Word is not yet widely available, Klein has worked to get the message across through teachers, mental health professionals and survivors. And she created a toolkit that is on the movie’s website that anyone can access to find ways to bring the message to their communities.
“We’ve signed with an educational distributor and eventually it will be available – probably in the late fall…. We want to help open the conversation, for sure,” said Klein. “We want people to feel less alone, like they’re not the only ones going through this. And we want people to know that they can be there for somebody else, too. Also, to know that, if you, yourself, are struggling, there are people to talk to.
“A lot of times, what can really kill people, what can drive people to this is the silence or the hopeless feeling of being alone – feeling that they have nobody to talk to, and the stigma and shame keep people from talking about it.
“We see this also in the rape culture and the whole #MeToo movement,” she added. “People who were so afraid to talk are now coming forward. And it’s so important to be able to do this. We want to be part of that conversation.”
Klein invited everyone to visit the film’s website – theswordmovie.com – for more information and to watch the many interviews conducted with suicide survivors that did not make it into the film (click on the “#SWordStories” link). She further encouraged people to send in written stories about their own experiences to the website.
In Winnipeg, JCFS is ready to help anyone in need, via their active mental health services program for the Jewish community and counseling services that are open to the general public. In Vancouver, Jewish Family Services is also ready to help.
“Through these supports, there are opportunities for individuals and families to address their concerns, feelings related to suicide, and other issues on a proactive basis,” said JCFS’s Hirsh Katz. “There are also several other community-based agencies in Winnipeg that provide both crisis and non-crisis work with suicide. The Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention is a nationwide organization dedicated to offering support. Livingworks Education Inc. is a leading provider of suicide intervention training through various workshops – the training is focused on identifying, speaking and intervening with people who have thoughts of suicide, and it is invaluable for individuals ages 15 and over who want to help people be safer from suicide.”
Rebeca Kuropatwa is a Winnipeg freelance writer.
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Jim Thorpe Area School District » About Our District » About the Board
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The authority to establish, equip, furnish, operate and maintain the public schools of Jim Thorpe Area School District is vested in the Board of School Directors, which is a body corporate and is constituted and governed by Title 24 of the Pennsylvania Statutes, the Public School Code of 1949 as amended, and Article III of the Constitution and applicable federal and state laws and regulations.
The Board shall establish such schools as are required for the education of every person residing in Jim Thorpe Area School District between the ages of six (6) and twenty-one (21) years who may attend school; shall equip, furnish, operate, and maintain the schools; shall adopt and enforce rules and regulations for the management of school affairs and the conduct and deportment of employees and students; and shall levy and collect taxes as may be necessary, in addition to the annual state appropriation, for the exercise of aforesaid powers.
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The Board shall act as the general agent of the people of this district in the matter of public education. It shall establish educational goals for district students and govern a program of education designed to meet those goals. The Board shall be responsible for enforcing mandatory laws and regulations. The Board shall be the agent responsible for establishing, maintaining and evaluating the public education activities of this school district, in accordance with law.
The powers of the Board of School Directors are not vested in the individual Board member. No such individual is authorized to act on behalf of the Board to carry out any of the Board's statutorily authorized powers, except for those acts stated in law.
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SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR NOISE CANCELLATION IN ACTUAL ELECTROMAGNETIC ENVIRONMENT
By H. Orimoto and A. Ikuta
The observed phenomena in actual electromagnetic environment are inevitably contaminated by the background noise of arbitrary distribution type. Therefore, in order to evaluate the electromagnetic environment, it is necessary to establish some signal processing methods to remove the undesirable effects of the background noise. In this paper, we propose a noise cancellation method for estimating a specific signal with the existence of background noise of non-Gaussian distribution. By applying the well-known least mean squared method for the moment statistics with several orders, a practical method for estimating the specific signal is derived. The effectiveness of the proposed theoretical method is experimentally confirmed by applying it to an estimation problem in actual magnetic field environment.
H. Orimoto and A. Ikuta, "Signal Processing for Noise Cancellation in Actual Electromagnetic Environment," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 99, 307-322, 2009.
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METHOD OF MOMENTS ANALYSIS OF ELECTRICALLY LARGE THIN HEXAGONAL LOOP TRANSCEIVER ANTENNAS: NEAR- AND FAR-ZONE FIELDS
By C.-P. Lim, L.-W. Li, and M.-S. Leong
This paper presents a method of moments (MoM) analysis, obtains the non-uniform current distribution in closed form, and computes the resulted radiated patterns in both near and far zones, of regular hexagonal loop antennas with electrically large perimeter. An oblique incident field in its general form is considered in the formulation of the non-uniform current distributions. In the Galerkin's MoM analysis, the Fourier exponential series is considered as the full-domain basis function series. As a result, the current distributions along the hexagonal loops are expressed analytically in terms of the azimuth angle for various sizes of large loops. Finally, an alternative vector analysis of the electromagnetic (EM) fields radiated from thin hexagonal loop antennas of arbitrary length a is introduced. This method which employs the dyadic Green's function (DGF) in the derivation of the EM radiated fields makes the analysis general, compact and straightforward in both near- and far-zones. The EM radiated fields are expressed in terms of the vector wave eigenfunctions. Not only the exact solution of the EM fields in the near and far zones outside a are derived by use of the spherical Bessel and Hankel functions of the first kind respectively, but also the inner regions between √3a 2 and a are characterized by both the spherical Bessel and Hankel functions of the first kind. Validity of the numerical results is discussed and clarified.
C.-P. Lim, L.-W. Li, and M.-S. Leong, "Method of Moments Analysis of Electrically Large Thin Hexagonal Loop Transceiver Antennas: Near- and Far-Zone Fields," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 30, 251-271, 2001.
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You are here: Home › editing › Editing for the web: example 1
Editing for the web: example 1
By Jim Stovall on May 13, 2013 in editing
Let’s say you’ve decided that the web is a different medium than print (you’re right, it is!) and that you want to do more than simply shovel stories written for print onto your web site.
And let’s say the story below shows up on your computer screen:
UT Official Studies Impact of Rankings on Higher Education
KNOXVILLE –- Media rankings of colleges and university MBA programs matter to students, faculty, alumni and donors. They influence the way colleges and universities do their work. And, while some academics question the validity of rankings, most believe them to be correct.
Those are among the findings of a research study done by Nissa Dahlin-Brown, assistant director of the Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee. Dahlin-Brown has a doctorate in higher education administration and policy studies.
Dahlin-Brown’s study, “The Perceptual Impact of U.S. News & World Report Rankings on Eight Public MBA Programs,” was published in the June 2006 issue of the Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, a peer-reviewed, refereed, professional and scholarly journal published by Haworth Press.
U.S. News & World Report, which publishes a variety of college ranking lists, has published its rankings of the nation’s top 50 MBA programs since 1990. U.S. News officials said rankings are based on reputation (40 percent), placement success (35 percent) and student selectivity (25 percent).
“I set out to discover and describe the impact of the U.S. News & World Report rankings on ranked and unranked public MBA schools,” Dahlin-Brown said. She interviewed 45 faculty and administrators. Those officials represented eight unnamed colleges and universities — three in the Tier 1 (ranked 1-25), three in Tier 2 (ranked 26-50) and two unranked institutions.
Four themes emerged from the research, according to Dahlin-Brown.
First, rankings matter. “Rankings catch the attention of prospective students, parents, and employers,” she said. “Schools that rank well win praise from legislators, trustees, and alumni.”
Further, she noted in her published study: “Schools have found that when (MBA program’s) rankings rise, admission applications go up. If their ranking drops, many tell stories of decreased enrollments, angry alumni and students, lost funding, and more.”
Second, rankings impact policy and practice. Those interviewed said the desire to be a top-ranked MBA school had prompted their institutions to adopt some controversial practices. Those practices include doing away with undergraduate programs to provide more resources for MBA programs and beefing up career services and admissions offices to funneling more money into MBA programs.
Thirdly, rankings may be based more on appearance than substance
“Some of the people I interviewed complained that rankings weren’t statistically based,” Dahlin-Brown said, noting that literature on the topic has echoed that concern. Dahlin-Brown’s study quotes one person interviewed as saying, “I think these rankings, no matter how systematic they are, tend to be beauty contests.”
Finally, rankings are generally thought to be correct, i.e., top-ranked were the best.
Although most participants thought U.S. News’ top-ranked schools were the nation’s best, they said that’s partly because those schools have good overall reputations.
“Most participants agreed that the U.S. News ranking did not measure the academic excellence of the (MBA) schools they ranked,” the study states.
Dahlin-Brown’s study also notes that schools with MBA programs ranked 1-25 were more positive about the rankings than those ranked 26-50, or not ranked at all.
“College rankings have become a point of controversy in the higher education community,” she said. “While some think rankings are helpful to prospective students, others think the rankings are time-consuming endeavors that have little or no constructive value.”
The story deals with an interesting topic and has a lot of good information in it, but its writing style and structure are not suitable for the web. Our first job is to edit the story so that it is more web-friendly. That will involve the following:
Shortening the story. It’s now more than 500 words; our goal is to get it to 300 or fewer.
Making the writing more lively and direct.
Making the story more appropriate for text on the web with the use of links, lists, paragraph spacing.
Writing a short summary to go at the head of the story.
Writing a livelier headline.
OK, let’s take a look at an example of how this was done. This page will open in a new window. Resize both windows so you can look at the original version and the edited version at the same time.
Another passing: the NYT copy desk
Author: I didn’t want to resort to self-publishing, but it’s an exhilarating change
Pronoun, a new way to self-publish — maybe
FDR, the editor: A date which will live in infamy
Tennessee Journalism Series: Reporting: An Introduction
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World Doula Week!
by Kelli Blinn
World Doula Week kicks off today and more specifically, today is World Doula Day!
The purpose of World Doula Week (WDW) is to empower doulas all over the world to improve the physiological, social, emotional, and psychological health of women, newborns and families in birth and in the postpartum period. March 22nd was chosen because it is close to the spring equinox which represents the return of fertility in many cultures.
There's a LOT of information in this article from Midwifery Journal, but I found it to be super interesting. If you need some new reading material, check it out!
Labor Doulas, Postpartum Doulas, we're all in this for the same reasons: We care deeply about mamas and their babies and we want to see the best possible outcomes for each family. And the statistics are out there. In 2013 The Seacoast Doula Group sought to answer the question: “Is there evidence-based research backing the advantages of having a postpartum doula?” The following is taken directly from their site:
"Research by experts tells us what many have long suspected: that those new parents who have support and feel secure and cared for during this time are more successful in adapting than those who don’t. Studies have shown that cultures in which women are cared for by others for a defined period of days or weeks and are expected only to nurture themselves and their babies during that time have superior outcomes in postpartum adjustment (1-2). We know that women who experience support from their family members, care providers, counselors and peer groups have greater breastfeeding success (3-10), greater self-confidence (11-15), less postpartum depression (16-21) and a lower incidence of abuse than those who do not (22-24).
There is also evidence indicating that timely referrals to competent, appropriate professionals and support groups can have a significant positive outcome for the family (11, 18, 20, 21, 25). Parents benefit from education on what to expect from a newborn, baby-soothing skills, feeding, bonding and attachment and coping skills (3, 13, 26-30). Rather than being told to “help out”, partners and other family members benefit from concrete instruction and role modeling on how to support a woman during the weeks after birth. Research tells us that support for and from the partner can have a significant impact on their partner’s own experience as well as the emotional adjustment of the mother (3, 8, 17-21, 31-36). (References)"
It is my great privilege to get to serve families as a doula, its some of the best kind of work on the planet.
KELLI BLINN
doulakelliblinn@gmail.com
CHILDBIRTH EDUCATOR, LABOR DOULA, POSTPARTUM DOULA & LACTATION COUNSELOR
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News, August 15th →
DENVER (AP) – DJ LeMahieu had a career-best four hits, Jeff Francis pitched effectively into the sixth inning and the Colorado Rockies beat the Milwaukee Brewers 9-6 on Monday night. Dexter Fowler, Eric Young Jr., Tyler Colvin and Chris Nelson each had two hits of Colorado's 15 hits.
DENVER (AP) – The Colorado Avalanche have signed goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere (zhee-GEHR') to a one-year contract extension. The deal announced by the Avalanche on Monday will keep the Giguere with the team through the 2013-14 season.
DENVER (AP) – Colorado officials say they are still interested in holding the Olympics. Several members of the Denver Sports board traveled as spectators to this year's games in London to scope out the events. The U.S. Olympic Committee board is forming a committee that would look into bidding for the Olympics in 2024 and 2026, in part because going for the 2022 Games would be too difficult. The International Olympic Committee awarded the 1976 Winter Games to Denver, but the city later decided against hosting the event amid concerns over pollution and promoting too much growth.
TORONTO (AP) – The NHL Players' Association will present its vision for a new collective bargaining agreement to the NHL when labor talks resume today.
NHLPA executive director Don Fehr (FEER) says proposal will offer a “different kind of an approach” and an “alternate view.” The presentation will come a month after the NHL made its first proposal, which included a 20 percent reduction of players' share of revenues and limitations to free agency.
Commissioner Gary Bettman has already said the NHL is prepared to lock out its players if no deal is reached by the time the current deal expires on Sept. 15. Negotiations have been underway for seven weeks.
MLB-SCHEDULE
Yankees rip Rangers
UNDATED (AP) – The Giants go into the second game of the division-leaders showdown with Washington still atop the NL West. Unlike yesterday, they're just not alone.
A 14-2 pummeling by the Nationals last night was San Franciso's third loss in five games and dropped them into a first-place tie with the Dodgers. The Giants will try to regroup in game two of the series with the red-hot Nats tonight. Washington will start Jordan Zimmerman who leads the National League with a 2.35 ERA. San Francisco starts 12-7 Madison Bumgarner.
Meanwhile, the Dodgers continue their series in Pittsburgh. L.A.'s Chad Billingsley has won four in a row going into tonight's game and has a 6-1 lifetime mark against the Pirates. He'll square off against Kevin Correia (kohr-AY'-uh), who has won seven in a row.
There are eight night games in all on the National League schedule.
The best record in the American League is on the line when the Yankees and Rangers resume their series in New York tonight. The Yanks edged a half-game ahead of Texas after last night's win. AL West-leading Texas sends 13-game winner Matt Harrison to the mound against the Yankees' Hiroki Kuroda, who's coming off his first loss since June 19.
Seven games and counting. That's the length of Tampa Bay's current win streak which is the best in the big leagues right now. That's helped propel the Rays to the top of the American League wildcard race. Tampa Bay tries to make it eight straight and 11 wins in 13 games, in Seattle tonight.
First inning survival would seem to be the goal for Josh Beckett tonight. The Red Sox starter has a 10.42 ERA in the first this season, a big reason why he's only 5-9. He takes the mound against wildcard contender Baltimore tonight.
There are seven games under the lights in the American League.
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Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH Chapter 394
MENTAL HEALTH View Entire Chapter
394.47865 South Florida State Hospital; privatization.—
(1) The Department of Children and Families shall, through a request for proposals, privatize South Florida State Hospital. The department shall plan to begin implementation of this privatization initiative by July 1, 1998.
(a) Notwithstanding s. 287.057(13), the department may enter into agreements, not to exceed 20 years, with a private provider, a coalition of providers, or another agency to finance, design, and construct a treatment facility having up to 350 beds and to operate all aspects of daily operations within the facility. The department may subcontract any or all components of this procurement to a statutorily established state governmental entity that has successfully contracted with private companies for designing, financing, acquiring, leasing, constructing, and operating major privatized state facilities.
(b) The selected contractor is authorized to sponsor the issuance of tax-exempt bonds, certificates of participation, or other securities to finance the project, and the state is authorized to enter into a lease-purchase agreement for the treatment facility.
(2) The contractor shall operate South Florida State Hospital as a mental health treatment facility that serves voluntarily and involuntarily committed indigent adults who meet the criteria of part I of this chapter and who reside in the South Florida State Hospital service area.
(a) South Florida State Hospital shall remain a participant in the mental health disproportionate share program so long as the residents receive eligible services.
(b) The department and the contractor shall ensure that the treatment facility is operated as a part of a total continuum of care for persons who are mentally ill. The contractor shall have as its primary goal for the treatment facility to effectively treat and assist residents to return to the community as quickly as possible.
(3)(a) Current South Florida State Hospital employees who are affected by the privatization shall be given first preference for continued employment by the contractor. The department shall make reasonable efforts to find suitable job placements for employees who wish to remain within the state Career Service System.
(b) Any savings that result from the privatization of South Florida State Hospital shall be directed to the department’s service districts 9, 10, and 11 for the delivery of community mental health services.
History.—s. 14, ch. 97-260; s. 14, ch. 2001-278; s. 35, ch. 2002-207; s. 30, ch. 2010-151; s. 86, ch. 2014-19.
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Title XLIII
DOMESTIC RELATIONS Chapter 744
GUARDIANSHIP View Entire Chapter
F.S. 744.3025
744.3025 Claims of minors.—
(1)(a) The court may appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the minor’s interest before approving a settlement of the minor’s portion of the claim in a case in which a minor has a claim for personal injury, property damage, wrongful death, or other cause of action in which the gross settlement of the claim exceeds $15,000 if the court believes a guardian ad litem is necessary to protect the minor’s interest.
(b) Except as provided in paragraph (e), the court shall appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the minor’s interest before approving a settlement of the minor’s claim in a case in which the gross settlement involving a minor equals or exceeds $50,000.
(c) The appointment of the guardian ad litem must be without the necessity of bond or notice.
(d) The duty of the guardian ad litem is to protect the minor’s interests as described in the Florida Probate Rules.
(e) A court need not appoint a guardian ad litem for the minor if a guardian of the minor has previously been appointed and that guardian has no potential adverse interest to the minor.
(2) Unless waived, the court shall award reasonable fees and costs to the guardian ad litem to be paid out of the gross proceeds of the settlement.
(3) A settlement of a claim pursuant to this section is subject to the confidentiality provisions of this chapter.
History.—s. 4, ch. 2006-178; s. 5, ch. 2015-83.
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Review: Allegiant
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
Divergent #3
Published October 22nd, 2013 by Katherine Tegen Books
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she’s known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.
But Tris’s new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature—and of herself—while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love.
Allegiant is the conclusion to the Divergent Trilogy, a series of books that I that I was a huge fan of. As you can imagine, I've had Allegiant on my wishlist since before it even had a cover...or a title even. Why then, did I wait so long to finally get into it? Well to be honest, I feel like a part of me sort of fell out of love with the series. I'd adored Divergent when it came out and subsequently plowed through Insurgent which at the time I'd enjoyed almost as much as it's predecessor. As the weeks passed though, I remember thinking back to certain aspects of the story (and it's characters) and becoming frustrated or annoyed. So when Allegiant arrived late last year and I waited. While part of me hoped the series would go out with a bang and blow me away, another part worried that this might be one of those times where a reader and a series just don't see eye to eye anymore. In any case, I'm a huge mood reader and figured I might as well wait till the right mood strikes me...and recently, it did. I went in with what I hoped was a clear head - I'd avoided most reviews and chit-chat about it so I was completely unspoiled to the plot... and that ending...
Here's the scoop: Allegiant starts off right on the heels of the HUGE revelation dropped on us at the end of Insurgent. Since my favorite part of Insurgent was indeed that killer ending, I was pumped and eager to learn more details. Tris, Four and the rest of the 'Insurgence' decide that they need to explore outside of the society they once knew so they take off at once to see what the rest of the world holds and...hopefully, start anew. Only things outside the fence don't play out in a way that anyone expects. Soon, they uncover more secrets, deeper manipulations and higher stakes. As they struggle to understand the strange new world around them, war once again looms on the horizon. Our rebel group of heroes need to move fast in order to save the ones they love.
I'm sure you've all heard by now that Allegiant is told in dual perspectives, alternating between Tris and Four. I for one welcomed the change in format because Four or Tobias is probably my favorite character in the series and I was eager to get back inside his head. So at the start, things were looking good. Getting both Four and Tris' POV when they left the factions were both unique and engaging. Character-wise, I found that I enjoyed Tris more than I had in Insurgent. I felt that she was closer to the heroine I fell in love with in Divergent. She's grown a lot and I had a lot of respect for her newfound confidence. Similarly, Four was less rigid and both of them together seemed less stubborn and explosive. They weren't doing their annoying dance from Insurgent either - the one where they flip-flop between being at each other's throats or making out - so I was optimistic...
The problem? What I've talked about so far covers about the first hundred pages of Allegiant, and that's about where things started to go south for me - which is unfortunate, since the book is considerably longer than it's two predecessors (500+ pages). After the crew is out there in the world, well nothing really happens. There's no real exploring or discovering going on. The characters hunker down at the first place they get to. I was expecting a wild new world to discover but instead I got experiments labs and meetings. The big reveal from the end of Insurgent soon fizzled into nothing and after that it seemed like the plot was losing it's way, fumbling as it struggled to find some kind of direction. The pacing seemed slow and laboured - nothing at all like Divergent and Insurgent had been.
And so I started to lose interest. A lot of the little twists along the way felt pointless and could easily have been trimmed out of the story. The challenges our MC's and their little group faced seemed underwhelming and by the time we got to that ending that got everyone so riled up, I just didn't care like I apparently should have. It's more than that though: I don't even think that ending was necessary. Like at all. I accept that for author Veronica Roth, this is the ending she always envisioned for her series but to me it just came off as random and pointless. I'm not saying it shouldn't have happened, but it could have went down in a different and more significant way.
In the end, Allegiant was a letdown for despite my best efforts. I wouldn't go so far as saying it ruined the series but for me, the trilogy went downhill with every new book and the last one worst of all. I guess you could say that in the end, the series and I diverged from one another. All joking aside though, Allegiant just didn't live up to either of it's predecessors and that makes me sad. This series started out with promising but in the end it simply did not live up to it's full potential.
Labels: Allegiant, divergent, review, Veronica Roth
Ula (Blog of Erised) April 27, 2014 at 1:54 PM
I actually did a huge loud GASP as I peeked at the bottom for the number of stars. :D
I also liked Tris more than before, but Four much less so. He was so whiny! And the puppy love was pissing me off!
It was kind of passive, which surprised me, I expected more as well.
And OMG I agree, the ending WAS pointless! I felt absolutely nothing about it. AT ALL. I was so *meh* about it...
It was a let down after the first two, but I still gave it a 4. Maybe a 3 would be better but it still retained some of the uniqueness of the series.
Micheline D April 27, 2014 at 8:10 PM
haha, yeah I was majorly bummed by this one! It felt like a slap in the face considering what she'd built in Divergent...I don't know, I just couldn't get past it. Yeah Four wasn't half as engaging as he'd been previously. Everything just felt so lackluster and bleh compared to how the series started o_O I'm glad you were able to see more good in it though...I wish I could have too cause I had so much love for this series :( Like you said: I just expected (or hoped) for more.
Lee @ Rally the Readers April 27, 2014 at 5:02 PM
I was really curious to read your thoughts on this. Divergent and I didn't see eye to eye and I wasn't planning on continuing the series, and now I feel confident I made the right decision. I'm sorry this was such a disappointment, especially as a series finale!
hehe yeah I remember us chatting about it when you reviewed Divergent because even then I wondered about my love for the series. If I read the books for the first time today, I'm not sure I would have fell in love with them as much...but this was a huge letdown despite my apprehension. I'd still be curious to read your thoughts on the last two books...but I think you made the right call (as much as it pains me to say)
Alise April 28, 2014 at 8:04 PM
You know what's funny? How I know the crazy ending to this one but not the fact it was told in a dual POV. Would have preferred the other way around but I guess that's not how the internet works ;) "I guess you could say that in the end, the series and I diverged from one another." xD Laughed WAY too hard at that! Too bad about this one, although it is something I have seen a lot. The pacing sounds really slow, which is sad for the length :/ Ah, well. Great review, Micheline! :)
Micheline D April 29, 2014 at 12:33 PM
Well that sucks :( It totally should have been the other way around! LOL Yup in the end, I totally diverged from Divergent hahaha but yeah it was kind of a bummer - I wish the series could have ended on a high note. The pacing was the weirdest thing too, considering how action packed the first two books were o.O Thanks for stopping by Alise :-)
Aylee April 28, 2014 at 11:09 PM
It's interesting reading your review because it falls so much in line with my thoughts on the series, how I started off in love with the series and then slowly fell out of it. I'm still so bummed that Allegiant was such a flop. I feel like I FLEW through Divergent, whereas with Allegiant, the pacing was painfully slow (and now they're apparently planning to split the Allegiant movie into two?? Ugh, nooo). And the ending - what you said, basically. I don't have a problem that it happened, just in the way that it happened because there were MANY other plans they could have put into effect besides that one. So pointless, it was just frustrating. It sucks that the series couldn't have ended on a high note. But at least it hasn't made me change the way I feel about Divergent, which I still maintain is an excellent read. Anyways, really excellent review, Micheline!!
We usually are on the same wavelength with these kinds of things ;-) I'm seriously bummed that Allegiant was so lackluster compared to the previous two books. The pacing was killer slow and yeah I think splitting this one into two films can't be good. And YES: what you said about the ending. It's not that I'm mad it happened but it felt so completely pointless...like wtf?! Ugh, I'm wondering if the Four novellas are any good - might help soften the blog for Allegiant but I'm not sure I want to risk it at this point. Thanks hun xx
Harry Potter MotW #39
Review: Death Sworn
Stacking the Shelves *34*
ARC Review: A World Without Princes
Review: AtLA - The Search II
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Small-Business Partnerships to Be Priority of IRS Exams: Taxes
The Internal Revenue Service is shifting its small-business audit focus from corporations to various types of partnerships as those entities have grown more prevalent and complex, according to an agency official.
Examining the returns from partnerships and other so-called pass-throughs will be the “top priority” of the IRS’s Small Business/Self-Employed Division over the next year and beyond, said Faris Fink, the head of the office. As part of that shift, more and better training of IRS agents is needed, Fink said at the American Institute of CPAs National Tax Conference last week in Washington, Bloomberg BNA reported.
“The Service has for a long time focused its energy on corporations,” he said. “Frankly, we’re a little bit behind the curve in getting around to developing a partnership strategy.”
Pass-throughs, which include S corporations and sole proprietorships, are businesses that don’t pay income taxes directly. Instead, their income is passed through to their owners who pay taxes on it on their individual returns. Pass-throughs comprise almost 95 percent of all U.S. business entities, according to IRS statistics.
Between 2007 and 2011, the number of partnerships grew by 15.3 percent and now constitute a significant percentage of returns for both IRS’s small business division and the Large Business & International Division, Fink said.
Training Issue
For IRS employees, challenges they face due to a lack of experience and training in auditing these entities are accentuated by the complexity of modern partnership structures, he said. The IRS now sees partnerships with 82,000 partners and structures ranging from 125 to 182 tiers, Fink said.
“Frankly, our training was not geared for dealing with those types of large, complex partnerships,” he said. “Historically, we would think of a partnership of having, say, 10 partners” with a limited number of tiers.
The IRS also is aware that the way some large partnerships are organized is partly designed to make it tough for the agency to identify substantive transactions by the businesses, Fink said.
“We as an organization have recognized that this is something that we’ve got to be paying attention to, not just this year, but going forward,” he said.
The IRS increased training on partnership issues for field examiners and revenue agents during the last year, Fink said. Addressing tax preparers, he also said, “It’s going to be challenging for you, because you’re going to be interacting with some of those folks.”
In other comments at the conference, Fink said taxpayers and tax practitioners should be able to more easily access information from the IRS’s multiyear National Research Program. The program randomly selects a certain number of returns over several years to track new areas of taxpayer noncompliance and to develop better strategies for audits.
“We’re going to try to be a little more transparent as far as sharing information from the NRP,” he said. “For a while, organizationally, we’ve treated it pretty much as ‘top secret’ information and that we wouldn’t share it with anybody, as if we’d be giving away our trade secrets and we could always go out and say ‘we got you.’”
The new goal will be to make the information available so tax preparers “can be educated on the issues that we’re seeing and so that you can better educate your clients,” he said.
The availability of the information will depend on the progress of each individual research project, Fink said. The IRS is running simultaneous programs to examine returns with individual taxpayer, employment, fuel tax and corporate tax issues, he said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Lydia Beyoud in Washington at lbeyoud@bna.com
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Brett Ferguson at bferguson@bna.com
By Lydia Beyoud | November 12, 2013
October Small Business Optimism Takes a Tumble
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Mastercraft Collection: AGM-45 Shrike..
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Development of the AGM-45 Shrike traces back to 1963. During that time, experts at the Naval Weapons Center took a body of the AIM-7 Sparrow and a new seeker head to create a different anti-radiation missile. After a few re-fitting and perhaps sweat-breaking turns of a screw, the Shrike missile was created. It had a passive radar homing system that allows it to track the enemy�s radiation signals. Powered by a solid-fuel rocket, the AGM-45 stretches for 10 feet in length and 8 inches in diameter. The missile was officially introduced while being held by the A-4 Skyhawk and the A-6 Intruder. Its first combat was during the Vietnam War where it was used by the A-4. The following year, the US Air Force gave the F-105F and F-105G Wild Weasel SEAD aircraft the Shrike missile. Outside the US, the AGM Shrike was used by the Royal Air Force, though not as an official/regular weapon. The missile was only used during the 1982 Falklands War and the Operation Black Buck. The Israeli Air Force also used the AGM-45 extensively. This led to a new version of the missile that could be fired from the ground while being carried by an M4 Sherman chassis. This handcrafted model is painstakingly built from Philippine mahogany by our skilled craftsmen with a wealth of detail and makes a great gift for any veteran, aviation enthusiast or history buff.
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International Legends, Oliver Kahn – Germany
Posted on April 19th 2014 by GuestBlogger
So rare is it a goalkeeper can be considered a legend,
that to pass up on the chance to write about one was too good to resist.
There are plenty of Germans that could have been written about; Bierhoff, Hamann, Ballack, but I have opted for Oliver Kahn. Once considered as the world’s best goalkeeper, why not eh?
Initially called up as a late replacement for the 1994 World Cup, Kahn actually made his debut in June 1995 in a 2-1 win against Switzerland, two months after recovering from a cruciate ligament injury. A case of always the bridesmaid, never the bride continued, as for the 1996 European Championship and 1998 World Cup, Kahn was Andreas Kopke’s understudy.
However, on Kopke’s retirement, Kahn was to take over as German’s number One, and things got better from there for Oliver, as he took the captaincy from Oliver Bierhoff after the highly embarrassing European Championships in 2000.
Germany 1 England 5 – The 2002 Qualifiers
Munich, 2001, Germany were heavy favourites against a young England side. Having already won 1-0 in England earlier in the qualifying campaign, a thrashing was expected for the Three Lions. That was not to be the case though. A Michael Owen hat-trick, along with goals from Steven Gerrard and Emile Heskey condemned the Germans to a 5-1 defeat. It was arguably Kahn’s worst performance in a Germany shirt, and bought about fears of a repeat of the debacle of the previous year.
In spite of this, Kahn kept his place in the squad, and Germany eventually qualified via a play-off versus Ukraine. Later that year, Kahn received the prestigious IFFHS Goalkeeper of the Year for the second time in his career.
South Korea/Japan 2002 World Cup
Considering the route of qualification, and performances years previous, big things were not expected of Kahn and the German side. However, they were to reach the final, conceding only three goals along the way.
In the final, Kahn played with torn ligaments in one of his fingers, and was culpable for Ronaldo’s 67th minute winner. Fumbling Rivaldo’s effort right into the strikers path, Kahn’s fitness was called into question. Though he didn’t blame his misfortune on his injury, and won’t to this day.
Kahn received the Lev Yashin Goalkeeper of the Tournament, and became the first ‘keeper to win the Golden Ball for an individual performance. He also became the first German goalkeeper to keep 5 clean sheets in a World Cup tournament.
2004, the battle for number one
After another disappointing showing at a tournament (Germany were eliminated in the group stages once more), Kahn relinquished his captaincy and gave it to Michael Ballack. And a new captain also heralded a new boss, Jurgen Klinsmann taking the reins from Rudi Voller, and a new policy.
Klinsmann elected to rotate his starting ‘keeper between Kahn and Jens Lehmann – then of Arsenal, in a bid to discover who he would take into the 2006 World Cup as his main choice. On the 7th April 2006, Klinsmann publicly announced it would be Lehmann, not Kahn, who would indeed be first choice.
Germany 2006 World Cup – Kahn’s last hurrah
Going into the tournament, it was rumoured Kahn would retire, however, he elected instead to stay on as backup to Lehmann. Despite a somewhat acrimonious battle for the starting spot, Kahn accepted Klinsmann’s decision to choose Lehmann, and the two embraced and shared words of encouragement before the penalty shoot out versus Argentina. Kahn even came out and publicly praised Lehmann for his 2 crucial saves in the shoot out.
Germany were eliminated in the semi-final by eventual winners Italy, and in the third place play-off Kahn was to start in what was the last of his 86 caps for his country. He was also made captain in the absence due to injury of Michael Ballack. Were it not for a sensational performance by Bastian Schweinsteiger, Kahn would have taken all the plaudits for his own heroics between the sticks, keeping numerous Portuguese attempts out, most notably from Pauleta and Deco.
Kahn announced his retirement after the match against Portugal, and it bought a career spanning 12 years, and seven tournaments. It bought Kahn 86 caps, 49 as team captain, and numerous individual awards.
Although Kahn never won a competition, he was runner up once (2002 World Cup in Japan/South Korea) and third place once (2006 World Cup in Germany). It was to be the end of a sparkling career of one of the best goalkeepers of our generation, both on a club and international level, and he is arguably one of the best players to not receive an international honour.
International Legends, Zinedine Zidane – France
International Legends, David Beckham – England
Originally published at voomfootball.wordpress.com
Post written by Matthew Henderson, Twitter: @matt_hendo12
for Voom Football, Blog: Voom Football, Twitter: @Voomfootball
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Up From the Sea
Leza Lowitz
Up From the Sea A novel in verse about how one teen boy survives the March tsunami that devastates his coastal Japanese village On that fateful day Kai loses nearly everyone and everything he cares about in the
Title: Up From the Sea
Author: Leza Lowitz
A novel in verse about how one teen boy survives the March 2011 tsunami that devastates his coastal Japanese village On that fateful day, Kai loses nearly everyone and everything he cares about in the storm When he s offered a trip to New York to meet kids whose lives were changed by 9 11, Kai realizes he also has a chance to look for his estranged American father VisiA novel in verse about how one teen boy survives the March 2011 tsunami that devastates his coastal Japanese village On that fateful day, Kai loses nearly everyone and everything he cares about in the storm When he s offered a trip to New York to meet kids whose lives were changed by 9 11, Kai realizes he also has a chance to look for his estranged American father Visiting Ground Zero on its tenth anniversary, Kai learns that the only way to make something good come out of the disaster back home is to return there and help rebuild his town.Running through my ruined town,pack flapping like wingsagainst my back.Plowing through blocksstrewn with heaps ofrefrigeratorsblackboardsbicyclestaxisbustedpianosshelvesdesksstairsallmixedtogetherin a marshlandgrave.
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I’m grateful to have completed my reading goal of the year (100 books) with this heartrending novel-in-verse. Up From the Sea follows the life of how one teen boy survives the March 2011 tsunami that devastates his coastal Japanese village.“What could possibly hurt memore than this quakealready has?”On that fateful day, Kai loses nearly everyone and everything he cares about in the storm. When he’s offered a trip to New York to meet kids whose lives were changed by 9/11, Kai realizes he [...]
Kels says:
Such a quick read, but also an emotionally gripping and powerfully inspiring one as well. Books like this lingers on the edges of my heart and makes me immensely grateful for this little life of mine. Gifting it to my nieces.
Rashika (is tired) says:
(I still don't know what to rate the book but here is my review for it)Flipping throughthe pages. My heartracing, hoping Kai will survive.Hoping I will survive.Coping seems hard and Ihurt for Kai. Poor baby.Can I shelter him?Probably not.Pretty words thatpop off the page. Pages that flipby fast.Emotions that hurt.Characters that grow.Overall, my mind might notbe blown but my heart sure doeshurt.
On March 3, 2011, teen-aged Kai leaves for school after a fight with his single Japanese mother. He doesn't remember what he said to her. He doesn't even remember what language he was speaking -- Japanese, or English, the language spoken by his American father who now lives in New York. Whatever those words were, however, they were the last he'd ever speak to her. Later that day, an earthquake occurs. Within a matter of minutes, buildings are destroyed, and over 15,000 people are washed away in [...]
Stephanie (Reading is Better With Cupcakes) says:
Up From the Sea is about two very difficult topics from the worlds history. The first and the main one being the tsunami that hit Japan after a 9.0 earthquake struck. The second being 9/11 as it pertained to the Americans.Neither of these two topics is something easy to discuss, but Leza Lowitz does it beautifully.Up From the Sea is not written in the traditional sense. It is actually written in the form of poetry. If you are new to this idea, you may be a bit hesitant and find yourself wonderin [...]
Disclaimer: I received this book as part of an ARC giveaway at a local indie bookstore, although I didn't get around to reading it until after the book was officially released. This in no way affected my opinion of the book or the contents of this review.I really thought I would like this book. And I know that I start a lot of reviews by saying that, but I think I have adequate reason in this case. The book is written in verse, it features a biracial protagonist, it's mostly set in Japan, and it [...]
Leza Lowitz says:
#1 BUZZFEED pick YA NOVELS YOU NEED TO READ: buzzfeed/farrahpenn/yaDear Reader: I was in Tokyo when the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami struck at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011. Long-term residents like myself were used to quakes, but this one was different. The massive sharp thrust followed by a violent back-and-forth shaking grew in intensity with each second. I ran out of the building and watched a skyscraper sway, hoping it would not come down. Strangers huddled together as the pavement [...]
Holly (Holly Hearts Books) says:
"At 2:46 on Friday, March 11, 2016, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Tohoku region of Honshu, Japan. It was the strongest temblor ever to hit that quake-prone country, and the fourth largest in the world. It lasted six minutes. After the quake struck, a massive tsunami followed. Waves reaching up to 133 feet."11,106 aftershocksApproximately 15,889 deaths6,152 injured2,601 still missing127,290 buildings destroyedThis is Up From the Sea. We follow a young boy by the name of Kai living in a co [...]
I really liked this book because it shows how even if something bad happens everything will be ok. The main character Kai lost almost everything but in the end, he was fine.
Jaryon says:
Kai survived the March 11 Earthquake that had cause a Tsunami at his home in Japan. This is very emotional and is very good for young high school students, i would recommend ages 16 to 18, this a very good read even tho literature of the book is basic there is more to interpret and understand because it is written in poetry.
Kai is a typical boy living in the Tohoku region on the coast of Japan. Everything changes on the morning of March 11, 2011, when the earth begins to shake while he is at school. The loudspeakers announce that a tsunami is coming, and everyone runs to higher ground. Kai and his friends reach the bridge that is five blocks away, but the water is too high, too fast, and too strong. Kai wakes up all alone in the mud. His principal finds him and leads him to the junior high school where survivors ar [...]
Liane Wakabayashi says:
Inspired by a boy Leza Lowitz met in the Tohoku disaster zone following the March 11th Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, "Up from the Sea" is about a teenage boy, Kai, who loses all of his immediate family except for his father, an American whom he hasn't seen in many years owing to his parent's divorce. Written in verse, "Up from the Sea" is a spacious novel, with literally lots of white on every page that help young adult readers and adults too to better absorb and process the intensity of [...]
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Julie (Manga Maniac Cafe) says:
4 starsMoving story of a boy who survived the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011. The account of his fear during the quake and flight from the deadly ocean surge is suspenseful and very scary. I can't imagine experiencing it myself. His worries about the fate of his family is also very emotional. Kai has lost everything, and his helplessness and hopelessness resonate through the author's use of free verse. How can he go on, knowing that his mother, grandmother, and grandfather have all died [...]
Jacinta Hin says:
I love this book. I cried from beginning to end, touched by the heart-warming story and the beautiful writing. Having experienced the big Tohoku earthquake myself, in Tokyo, this book is close to home. My story is very different from the book's main character, but what we have in common is this: that day changed the course of our lives. Although Up From the Sea is perfect for the intended audience, I recommend it to all age groups. Through Kai's story, this book conveys what happened in Japan so [...]
This is a fictional novel in verse about the tsunami that hit coastal Japan in March of 2011 as told by a young teen named Kai. Kai is in school when the earthquake and the tsunami hit and the story that follows is about the loss of many loved ones and the road to recovery for both Kai and the town, both physically and mentally. It's a touching story. There's a connection made between the tragedy in Japan and the tragedy of September 11 in the U.S and the two certainly have some things in common [...]
"And the earth starts to shake"Heartbreaking and hopeful. Lowitz does an incredible job bringing the story of Kai, a teenage boy who survives the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devasted the Tohoku region of Honshu, Japan, to readers. Told in verse with vivid sensory details, Kai's fight for survival and for a path to overcome unimaginable loss is moving. The author's notes provide readers with important context. Highly recommended for MS readers.
Less than an hour read, this novel in verse is a gripping and emotional portrayal of what it's like to survive a natural disaster. Kai is a 17 year old boy who survives the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011 and the story, told from his POV, shows us how devastating it is to rebuild your life after you've lost everything you loved. Beautifully written.
Anna Sobczak says:
This book was absolutely beautiful in so many ways. I actually read this book in less than a hour because Kai captured me from the beginning and told such a wonderful story about hope,family,and perseverance in a poem-like way. I was so sad and shocked to see it end.
Chase Perry says:
Great book. It is a short easy read that is good for anyone.
“The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.”--Richard PriceInstead of focusing on the overwhelming statistics generated by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan—nearly 16,000 deaths and 3,000 people missing—the event becomes even more intense and compelling as author Leza Lowitz relates the story of one town and one boy and the resilience of many.The story begins on March 11 when Kai, a half Japanese, half American 17-year-old and his teachers and classmates expe [...]
Emily Bachaman says:
This book is a very quick read but it is a very powerful book. Up From the Sea comes across two topics. One if japan the 9.0 earthquake that this book is mostly about. Then about 9/11 for Americans. Both topics are very sensitive subjects to talk about of discuss to this day even though it was over 5 years ago for both of these tragedy incidents. But the author in this book does it so peacefully. This books main character is a 17 year old boy Kai and how he deals with joy, heartbreak and many mo [...]
This book was pretty good especially with being detailed and painting a good picture for the reader. This story takes place in Japan and is actually true, and it's about what I would call the biggest natural disaster other than hati. This story is about a child who has a love for soccer but grew up without a father and so he has to guide himself through life mostly on his own. I personally consider this book for anyone who doesn't like a full book its a lot more simple to read because its writte [...]
Alexcia Araujo says:
Up From the Sea by Leza Lowitz is a tear jerking story about a young boy by the name of Kai who lives in a small town in Japan with his small, seemingly happy family. Although when the disaster of a earthquake followed by a tsunami strikes, he is left with lots of questions and heartbreak. At least there is still hope out there for him though all of these traumatic times. I recommend this book ages from 14+ and for people who know what it is like to go through similar hardships.
Romuald Dzemo says:
What Happens when Everything Is Lost?I became a fan of Leza Lowitz when I first read her brilliant and gripping memoir, Here Comes the Sun a book that described her journey towards meaning and purpose. This time, she offers her readers an enjoyable literary treat in Up from the Sea, a lyrical tale about loss and resurrection, the story of a people ripped apart by the cruel blow of a powerful earthquake and an unforgiving tsunami, a story laced with timeless lessons on survival, resilience, and t [...]
Carl R. says:
Leza Lowitz's Up From The Sea is the first artistic response I've seen to the Fukushima Tsunami/Nuclear disaster of 2013, and it's a powerful, unique work. Unique, first of all, in that novels in verse are virtually unheard of, let alone carried off successfully. But unique, mostly, in that Lowitz makes this tale of a teen-ager, Kai, whose world is torn to bits by the horrendous event, serve as a metaphor for the trials of an entire society subjected to such cataclysmic devastation.Just an ordin [...]
Kathleen Burkinshaw says:
I won this arc of UP FROM THE SEA in the author's contest in late December. So glad I did! The lovely, heartfelt prose of this novel in verse had the rhythm of the ocean tide with the ups and downs of the main character--Kai’s emotions. The loss and the hope of finding someone and something that helps Kai to move forward kept me wanting to read more. (I am in the midst of my own edits and I didn’t originally want to read anything at the end of the day, but I could not put UP FROM THE SEA dow [...]
Up From The Sea is about a boy named Kai who lives in Japan with his mom. There was a tsunami there in 2011. It killed a lot of people including Kai’s mom. Kai has to stay in a shelter. He also tries to find his dad who isn’t in his life.I liked this book, and how it’s written in poetry. That makes it really interesting and different to read, it’s good. I think lots of other people would like it too, because of the interesting writing style. And it’s a good book overall. I also think p [...]
Just like 9/11 changed the U.S. forever, so does 3/11 for Japan. March 11, 2011 is when a 9.0 earthquake caused a massive tsunami that devastates Japan when it sweeps inland 5 miles and wipes out whole villages. Teen Kai is at school when it hits his small town and tries to beat the tsunami by racing to higher ground with his classmates.This is a novel-in-verse which serves as an excellent form for the fictional Kai to tell his story. The tsunami is described as a black monster which keeps tryin [...]
5th grade booktalk Kai has participated in earthquake drills since nursery school. You feel a quake – go under your desk, bring your knees to your chest, and cover your head. So when in math class,, at 2:46 pm just before the end of the school day, the earth starts to shake, Kai and his fellow students laugh, thinking they might get out of school early – even if it’s already close to the end of the day. But the shaking continues, getting stronger. The clock everyone had been staring at fli [...]
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Home NBA Draft 2017 NBA Draft Scouting 2017: Breaking Down Lonzo Ball
NBA Draft Scouting 2017: Breaking Down Lonzo Ball
by McGowan Mania 1:54 PM
Lonzo Ball, UCLA
After just one season of college basketball at UCLA, Lonzo Ball has already become a household name. He put together a marvelous season, led the Bruins back to the top of the Pac-12, and took home many honors. But, it was his father, and his often controversial comments really took the Ball name to the next level. Lavar Ball has been quoted saying he could beat Michael Jordan one-on-one, that Lonzo was already better than Steph Curry, and that he favored a 1 billion dollar shoe endorsement for his three sons. Pair that with the recent release of the "Zo2's", Lonzo's own personal shoe that has a hefty price tag of $495, and Lonzo already has made a name for himself before he even steps foot on an NBA court. But, just how good will he be at the next level? Will his game translate well to the more physical NBA? A deeper look into strengths and weaknesses may just give us the answer we're looking for.
Offense: One of the most impressive aspects of Lonzo Ball's offensive game is his breakneck speed. He is incredibly quick and agile and uses it to get easy transition opportunities. He is the fastest baseline-to-baseline prospect I've seen since John Wall back in 2010. UCLA head coach Steve Alford used that speed and quickness very well, letting Lonzo truly run crazy in those transition opportunities. With his pinpoint passing ability and lightning speed, Ball was highly successful. He is going to have to go up against quicker and bigger defenders in the NBA, but that strength of his game should still serve him very well moving forward. Lonzo also possesses extraordinary court vision and a wonderful feel for the game. Despite being just 19, Lonzo can recognize defenses and anticipate plays as well as a longtime NBA veteran, which makes him so dangerous when he chooses to attack. Occasionally he will try to sneak passes into tight windows which is where he gets in trouble, but overall, his turnover rate was very low for someone who averaged an NCAA-best 7.6 assists per game this past season. Outside of his speed, Ball's other physical gifts are also mind-boggling. At 6'6" with a 6'8" wingspan, Ball has ideal size for today's NBA which should enable him to be creative offensively in the NBA, such as using his size when attacking the rim or perhaps even posting up down low against mismatches. He is also an incredible athlete always able to create a highlight. He had more than just a few posterizing slams while at UCLA and while that shouldn't be something he relies on going forward it provides energy to the team and the fans, which should not be overlooked in the NBA. Yet, for all these positives, there is one glaring question mark for Lonzo offensively: his jump shot. His form is messy and unrefined, where he brings the ball back and essentially throws it at the rim. However, it is hard to say that this shooting form hasn't served him pretty well; he was a superb shooter in the high school ranks and shot 41 percent in his lone season with the Bruins. I assume whoever drafts him won't try and completely change it considering how much work it would take, but it will need some tweaks. It's a relatively slow release and it needs to be raised, or else longer defenders in the NBA are going to be able to get pieces of it. No matter what his form does look like going forward, he has to be less streaky. For all the times Lonzo took over games in '16-'17, there seemed just as many times he disappeared, or his shot was completely off. A lot of that has to do with mentality and preparation, so hopefully he'll have a good system of vets wherever he goes to help him out. Lonzo also has to improve at an area that not a lot of people seem to put enough emphasis on: the free throw line. He shot 67% from the stripe this past season, which is pretty poor for a guard playing at such a high level. Considering so much of his offensive game is blowing past defenders and getting to the rim and drawing contact, that is a very worrying stat for me.
Defense: People are quick to criticize Lonzo Ball on nearly everything, including defense, but I think he actually proved to be a pretty dang good defender while at UCLA. That size is where he is really going to have an advantage defensively. He'll be able to handle offensive players going hard to the rim and get in the way of shots with his long arms, while also disrupting passing lanes on the perimeter. He also has pretty good footwork and agility, which obviously plays such a huge role in on-ball defense. He does a good job having short, choppy feet and staying low to the ball and not reaching, which is something that always impressed me whenever I watched him play. He is good moving side-to-side as well as vertically, so there isn't any easy way to get around him, and he plays a pretty disciplined brand of defense. Ball is a pretty solid playmaker on that side of the ball, recording 1.8 steals per game this year. If he can keep that up, he'll really be able to create a lot of transition chances and fast-breaks where he can work some real magic. If there is one thing you can look for improvement on defensively, it is his focus. I mentioned something similar with Markelle Fultz in my scouting report on him, but Lonzo occasionally looses track of the ball and gets backdoor cut on often, or doesn't make the proper rotation that his team needs. The good news is that isn't the toughest thing to fix, and his natural physical tools are going to be able to overcome any of the mental errors he makes along the way. Defensive rebounding is a really underrated part of Lonzo's game. He had multiple double-digit rebound games while at UCLA and uses his lengthy frame to snatch up loose balls off the glass. I assume he'll be spending most of his time on the outside and leaking out for long outlets at the next level, but his ability to do work on the glass is still going to be an important thing to have in the future.
Verdict: So many people are split on just how good Lonzo Ball is going to be that I think he is a super intriguing prospect. He is as gifted and dynamic a player as I've seen coming from the college ranks in awhile, but there are clearly some major deficiencies in his game, and you never know how his father's comments could affect his reputation of perception. The general consensus around Lonzo is that he is going to be either a superstar or complete bust at the next level, but I disagree, I see him somewhere in between. With his court vision and ability to create, I don't think there is any doubt he'll be able to produce at a very quality level in the NBA. I see him being a quality starter for an NBA contender who can set up teammates all the time and give the fans plenty to enjoy. For a number of struggling NBA franchises just looking for any type of guard help, that will be more than enough.
Where He'll Go: No. 3 to the Los Angeles Lakers
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The Mary Rose - My 2nd Journey Back In Time
The other week I visited the new Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth. In my lifetime, I have visited three historic ships; HMS Victory, HMS Warrior and the Mary Rose. This would be my second visit to the Mary Rose. The first time I was just fourteen.
As I gazed around in awe at the beautiful wreck, I noted that the old girl's bones were looking a lot better since having been sprayed for so many years with the `Peg' solution, in order to halt her decay,
The hollow sound of my own footsteps on the wooden decking caught my attention, and it took me back to my first visit to see HMS Victory.
I had a very unusual experience when walking around that ship. I can only describe it as an overwhelming feeling of Déjà vu. It wasn't your usual run-of-the-mill Déjà vu though; I was able to guide my mother and father around the ship, knowing instinctively where everything was - the cabins, the galley, the gun decks, the stores, I knew where they were located. Almost thirty years later and I still wonder to this day, if I could have been experiencing past life memories.
Sceptics, psychologists and scientists etc., would say that I must have subconsciously picked up and stored this information from elsewhere; TV, books, school lessons etc., and I wouldn't rule it out but I can't help but doubt it. I went back to HMS Victory five years ago and was still able to find my way around almost instinctively.
My second experience with an equally fascinating and historic vessel, was to be the Mary Rose, in the purposely built museum. I had no feelings of Déjà vu or (possible) past-life flashbacks this time, but it did have quite a profound effect on me.
It's a strange feeling looking into the empty, bony, eye-sockets belonging to what was once a living, human being. Inside the museum there is an exhibit containing a wax work model of the man that this skull belonged to. The model was so eerily life-like that it gave me quite a startle when I first saw it. There stood the man, reconstructed by expert facial anthropologists and forensic artists with such incredible skill. He really was so incredibly life-like that I expected him to move at any second.
This unfortunate soul's remains were discovered underneath a gun carriage, where he was trapped - as the ship went down.
Next to him is his actual skeleton. It gave me a real sense of the reality of this man's existence and an uncomfortable, almost empathic, sense of his terrifying last moments as the ship began to sink.
The Mary Rose was a warship belonging to the English Tudor Navy of King Henry VIII.
She had served for 33 years, fighting in several wars against Brittany, France and Scotland.
Exact details of her last moments are sketchy but it is known that on 19th of July 1545, she was engaged in an attack against the French fleet.
The theory goes that the ship was actually undamaged. She is thought to have fired from one side and then turned very sharply to fire cannons from the other side. Well, she had an extra set of cannons installed on the lower deck near the water line. The combination of the combined weight of her massive crew and heavy cannons made her lean over too far, allowing the Solent to spill through the lower gun hatches.
In minutes she was sinking to the murky depths of the Solent, close to the Isle of Wight.
According to contemporary records, only 35 men survived the disaster. Henry VIII is said to have watched with horror, from his castle in Southsea, as the disaster unfolded. It is said that the cries of the trapped and drowning men and boys could be heard from the mainland.
Over four hundred years later, in 1971, she was discovered and in 1982, the Mary Rose Trust, managed to salvage her.
The Mary Rose captured both the imagination and the fascination of the public and historians, alike, throughout the world. It was a beautifully preserved time capsule; furnished like an Aladdin's cave, full of amazing Tudor artefacts.
For her time and throughout many decades the Mary Rose was one of the biggest ships in the English navy. An early example of purpose-built warship and the first to feature gun ports, through which poked heavy guns.
Over 26,000 artefacts were salvaged from the wreck and also the remains of 92 of the ship's crew.
The museum had reconstructions of some of the crew members. They really were a sight to behold.
Their remains showed that although quite well fed, they had been malnourished in childhood and many of them had rickets and scurvy, arthritis and of course, fractures from the toll of sea life and from violent battles.
The archer stood before me, peering over my head as if distracted by something out at sea. His mind could have been merely wondering though, about his loved ones back home.
To his left stands his skeleton - a somewhat ironic and uncomfortable out of body experience, brightly lit as if magical. I looked at the archer's face and then at the empty face of the skull, back and forth, comparing before finally settling on the reconstructed archer's face.
I don't know if it was just me, but it certainly served as a reminder of that skeleton beneath the skin, which we all possess. A memento mori, indeed.
I wanted to know more about `Archer'. What was his name?
But alas, this particular man was giving up no secrets, save for what he looked like.
His bones did reveal though that he had practised archery since being a small boy. His spine and shoulder bones indicated a lop-sided development significant to archers.
Anyway, I thought it best not to dwell on this poor man's fate; after all, I am of the opinion that reincarnation or at the very least, some form of afterlife, is a likely concept. So I moved on and soon became engrossed in the other, marvellous historic exhibits.
I would definitely recommend that you visit the Mary Rose Museum. Not only is it crammed packed with items from 16th century Tudor England, it is also housed in a magnificent building, fashioned in such a way reminiscent of a great ship itself. They've done an incredible job and it's worthy of our support.
Here is a link for the official Mary Rose website:-
http://www.maryrose.org/
All for now..
Matt Cage
Edgar Cayce & The Secret of the Sphinx
Many of you who are following this blog will no doubt already be aware of America's greatest seer, Edgar Cayce, but for those who don't know who he is..
`Cayce' is pronounced `Caysee'.
Edgar Cayce was born 1877 and died in 1945. He became known as the `Sleeping Prophet' for his ability to make predictions, diagnose illnesses and disease and suggest remedies and cures for them, with uncanny accuracy and with phenomenal success. It is claimed and well documented by historians and many reliable witnesses, that he could answer philosophical questions, explain the universe and the planets, the meaning of life and death, the afterlife and reincarnation, speak of Atlantis and many more incredible and fascinating subjects, scientific and metaphysical - all in a trance-like hypnotic state, in all, covering 10,000 different subjects and leaving 21,000 predictions.
A devout Christian, it troubled Cayce, at first, that he was a conduit for this mysterious voice, which later became known to him as `the source'. Over time, it became clear that the voice had only good intentions as it (is claimed), diagnosed and prescribed remedies for thousands of sick and diseased people; many of whom conventional medicine of the time, had failed them. It is reported that many of these diagnoses were performed with only the patient's name and or address, with stunning degrees of accuracy, verified by medical practitioners of that time, and many of the remedies have been proven accurate in more recent years.
This man had no knowledge of biology or medicines and often asked advice from a doctor, in order to understand many of the medical terminology in the readings. Prior to him developing this gift he had been an insurance salesman and a photographer. A cynic or hardened sceptic might wonder if Cayce benefited financially from his gift. It is documented that he asked for no fees but accepted donations. A shy man, uncomfortable with being the focus of attention it appears that Edgar Cayce's sole motivation was fuelled by his passion to serve God, and his desire to help people.
Many of Edgar Cayce's predictions have come true.
He predicted the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression.
He predicted the death of two presidents.
The rise and fall of Hitler
The Collapse of the Soviet Union
Blood as a diagnostic tool
There was a race of people called `The Essenes'
Pole shift. Yes, it's already begun if you look into it.
Okay, he got some wrong. The source' did say though (paraphrasing), that predictions of the future are changeable; the outcome depending on the actions of mankind. You can't argue with that, but you can find out more about his wrong predictions, here.
Here are more links for further investigation. I have included a link to the Sceptic's Dictionary's view of Edgar Cayce as they do their homework and are usually fair. Don't forget to research their claims though, as you would with anything. Read both sides to the story and then make your own mind up.
http://www.edgarcayce.org/edgar-cayce1.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce
http://www.edgarcayce.org/
http://skepdic.com/cayce.html
And of course we have to give the Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. a mention. This is the non-profit Association for Research & Enlightenment, founded in 1931 by Edgar Cayce himself. It's aims are:-
"to explore spirituality, holistic health, intuition, dream interpretation, psychic development, reincarnation, and ancient mysteries—all subjects that frequently came up in the more than 14,000 documented psychic readings given by Cayce"
Members of A.R.E. can access the entire set of 14,306 readings - including the ones in which he metioned the Sphinx and the Hall of Records.
The Hall Of Records
In 1932, Cayce gave a reading in which he spoke of three chambers spread throughout the world. One chamber is said to be in Egypt, underneath the Sphinx's paw, another somewhere on the Yucatan Peninsula and one on the lost continent of Atlantis.
This chamber is said to be the mythical `Hall of Records' - a library housing scrolls which, are claimed by Cayce to reveal the history of the lost continent of Atlantis and the missing history of the human race.
Cayce predicted that that three chambers would be discovered underneath the Sphinx’s paw, before the end of the 20th century.
Here are the details of the readings.
Give in detail what the sealed room contains
A record of Atlantis from the beginnings of those periods when the Spirit took form or began the encasements in that land, and the developments of the peoples throughout their sojourn, with the record of the first destruction and the changes that took place in the land...
This in position lies, as the sun rises from the waters, the line of the shadow (or light) falls between the paws of the Sphinx, that was later set as the sentinel or guard, and which may not be entered from the connecting chambers from the Sphinx's paw (right paw) until the TIME has been fulfilled when the changes must be active in this sphere of man's experience.
"Between, then, the Sphinx and the river.”
In which pyramid or temple are the records mentioned in the readings given through this channel on Atlantis, in April, 1932?
As given, that temple was destroyed at the time there was the last destruction in Atlantis.
Yet, as time draws nigh when changes are to come about, there may be the opening of those three places where the records are one, to those that are the initiates in the knowledge of the One God:
The temple by Iltar will then rise again. Also there will be the opening of the temple or hall of records in Egypt, and those records that were put into the heart of the Atlantean land may also be found there - that have been kept, for those that are of that group.
So what evidence is there to support these readings?
In the early 1970's, cavities were discovered by the Egyptians from Ain Shams University in Cairo and Stanford Research Institute, US, using ground-penetrating radar. Further cavities were discovered in 1977 by the SRI and funded by the US National Science Foundation.
The following website, although sceptical of Cayce's claims, presents details of all of the discoveries (several passages excavated) made in and around the Sphinx, in more recent years.
http://www.catchpenny.org/chamber.html
And that's unfortunately about it, so far.
Rumours and conspiracies can be found aplenty with claims of cover-ups and spin. There's also a rumour that a secret excavation is underway right now (June 2013):-
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread569896/pg1
You can't blame them for being guarded with their treasures/history, but the mystery continues to tantalize us with little clues from time to time and makes us yearn for answers.
So to conclude, Edgar Cayce said that the Hall of Records beneath the Great Sphinx would be discovered before the end of the 20th century. If those cavities discovered in the 70's are in fact the Hall of Records, then you have to say, he was right.
Denham Crow 2013
A North Lincolnshire Haunting
There is a small village in North Lincolnshire called `Flixborough'. Although it is a beautiful and quaint little village, sadly it is more memorable for a terrible disaster in 1974, when a chemical plant called `Nypro' exploded, killing 28 people and seriously injuring 36.
Just a few years before this terrible event, my uncle, a gamekeeper on a nearby warren there, had an experience which chilled him to his very bones.
Uncle Steve (now sadly passed) was a bold and fearless man and thought nothing of tracking armed poachers in the dead of night, through the inky darkness of the fir wood.
He used to laugh at the notion of ghosts, UFOs and tales of alien encounters. But the chilling experience he would have one day, would fuel a subsequent passion for the paranormal, which would stay with him for his entire life.
It had been snowing heavily, at least for a week before this day On December 27th, 1970. The snow was a few of inches deep and the only tracks being his, rabbits, and other creatures of the wild.
He noted in his diary that there was a very slight albeit cold wind, on that day, blowing towards him.
I can picture him, head covered by a trilby hat replete with a pheasant's feather, tipped downwards and revealing only his raven black beard. Oh yes, and he had a 12 bore shotgun under his arm.
It was different in those days.
And he was a gamekeeper. It has to be said though, that if this was today, and you chanced upon him whilst on a lone walk in the woods, you would be forgiven for walking the other way. You would have been wrong to have done that though. Although he was fearless and strong, he was a man of nature with a passion for all living things. He would have given you a firendly nod as he passed you by and if you had paused to make conversation, he would have welcomed it.
After arriving at the warren, Steve checked on the pheasants and then decided it was too bitter to hang about, and so decided to make his way back home again.
It was still light.
When turning to come home, he had planned to follow the road, towards the River Trent, But about 30 yards down, he felt an inexplicable urge to turn round and go back towards Flixborough and then turn on to `Wood Bottom' at an alternative spot. He always stressed, when telling this story, that `to this day' he had no idea why he changed his mind.
Close to this location and on his route, there is a concrete rail bridge, which is still stands and is in use, to this day. He had only walked a few yards, approaching the rail bridge, when he suddenly felt very uneasy and felt the hair on the back of his neck, stand up.
What happened next is documented in his diary. I have paraphrased it here but the details are accurate.
Steve was approaching the bridge, adjacent to the Nypro chemical plant, when he was suddenly pulled backwards by his coat with such incredible force that he was thrown to the ground! Thinking it was a poacher, he jumped to his feet and spun round with his 12 bore shotgun raised, ready to scare the attacker with it. But he was very surprised, not to mention a little unnerved, to see that there was no one there! No footprints in the snow apart from his own - and there was nowhere for anyone to hide.
Steve wasn't one to mince words and suffered fools rather poorly. His temper raised at this unwarranted attack by an unseen assailant, he swore at the empty space in front on him before turning around. He quickening his pace and continued under the bridge and eventually he arrived at the first track, before turning towards the river. All the time, he felt that "something was on me; following me; watching me".
A few minutes later and he was pulled over again. Once again he swung round, cursing loudly with gun ready but of course, once again there was nothing there, just the sense of something `very powerful and terrifying'. It felt almost like it was "breathing down my neck".
Once he got back onto his feet, he picked up his pace further; although resisting the urge to break into a run for fear of showing this invisible force, how fearful he was.
He continued a little further and for the third time, it pulled him backwards, throwing him into the snow and sending his gun and hat flying into the snow.
By this time he was done with any notion of fighting and picked up his hat and gun and broke into a sprint.
Still very shaken and out of breath, he staggered to his aunt’s house in the nearby village of Burton, where he was told that he was `white as sheet', and as though he had `seen a ghost!' Steve didn't drink alcohol but his aunt made him sit down and drink a glass of brandy, in hope it would calm his nerves. I remember her telling me that she had never seen him in such a state, with his hands shaking as he held the glass.
On the anniversary of the attack, for many years, Steve went back to the spot; taking a dog once; knowing that animals are sensitive to these things, but there was nothing but the tranquility and peace of a beautiful place.
What could it have been? A poltergiest? A demon? An alien? an inter-dimensional being? Why was it so aggressive to Steve? Was it a precursor; a warning of the terrible events to come in the Nypro disaster? Was it good? Or was it evil? Plenty would have an opinion on it but without further evidence or hard science, we will never know.
Flixborough does have quite a history though. Mentioned in the Domesday book as `Flichesburg' the parish was home to the discovery of an Anglo Saxon settlement by archaelogists during the late 80's and early 90's. These ancient places are frequently mentioned in folklore and in modern day accounts of paranormal events.
For those interested in more details about the Nypro Disaster, I can recommend no better place to visit and pay respect than the The Glebe Blog. This is first-hand accounts of being amongst the horror of that terrible day.
Matt Cage & Denham Crow - June 2013
All works copyright of Matt Cage & Denham Crow 2013, with exception of certain photos which are attributed to owners, below. (If it works right! Apologies if not.)
The First Moon Landing & Pogle's Wood (1969)
The First Moon Landing & Pogle's Wood (1969) by Ray Darcy
I was just six years old when the first man set foot on the Moon. I remember my mother pointing at the grainy image on the old black and white TV set, telling me `It's the Moon! Look - the spacemen are on the Moon!'
And the crackling static and an American voice, speaking every now and then. I'm sure that what they were saying would have been very informative.
Of course I was six years old and wasn't half as impressed as I would have been, if it had been `Pogles Wood' instead of this magnificent, historical event.
It wasn't until later that I became fascinated by space travel, sci-fi, space models, Dan Dare, Thunderbirds, Dr Who and PG Tips `cigarette cards' - `Race Into Space' (Google image search; lots of wonderful pictures of these cards here. Ah, nostalgia..
Over forty years on, I have travelled back in time using Youtube as my portal into the past, and have marvelled at the footage I'd only previously viewed through the old and bulbous, black and white cathode ray tube.
It's still black and white and perfect for reliving that moment.
I found a very good Youtube video on `Pogle's Wood', too, whilst on my travels.
Ah, a wonderful world created by Oliver Postgate. I don't know how many remember it, but Pogle's Wood was ever so slightly spooky and very other-wordly. The music is completely enchanting, too.
Many thanks to Youtube uploaders:-
Apollo 11 Moon Landing 1969 - beanz2u
Pogle's Wood - macbabb
The Importance Of Being Earnestly Sceptical
By Denham Crow
Before I begin my little talk on why I believe that any one who is interested in elements of the paranormal should also be a sceptic, I want to clear up a few misconceptions which some people have with the word `sceptic'.
Definition of sceptic according to Oxford English Dictionary:-
a person inclined to question or doubt accepted opinions.
Some people think that a sceptic automatically dismisses anything outside the realms of known science. Whilst there may be sceptics who do work in this fashion, a good sceptic does not dismiss an idea or suggestion without further thought or investigation.
Here at LightOfSirus, we believe that it is very important to investigate all claims of phenomena, as thoroughly as possible. Simply put, we believe that energy is wasted on believing in something which may not be real.
Although there are some things which cannot be proven or disproved such as the existence of God. We'll leave that subject for now, suffice it to say that many scientists are seriously considering the theory of Intelligent Design.
So how do you work out what is fact and what is fiction - at least in the media?
On the day before Halloween, October. 30th, 1938, actor, director, writer and producer Orson Welles created widespread panic when many of his radio listeners took his sombre news broadcast warning of an invasion from Mars, very, very seriously!
Of course, this was American actor, director, writer and producer, Orson Welle's delivering his adaptation of H.G. Well's `War Of The Worlds', live on radio. The widespread panic which ensued perhaps serves as a testament to his acting prowess. The trouble is though, it was a bit too realistic.
You can hear the original broadcast here:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6YNHq1qc44
You cannot blame a nation for its naivety during a time when the radio or newspapers were the only source of information available. If such a thing happened today, we would waste no time in turning on the TV or radio, logging into Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. and would soon, with a little common sense, be able to work out whether it was real or not.
But even then, it's not easy..
The Camera Never Lies
Oh but it does! Just the other year, using Photoshop, I created a photo of my brother holding a world record fish. I had superimposed his head to replace the original fisherman's head. My brother had the picture on the wall of his office and it fooled most people.
Similarly, I created this photo of a ghost in five minutes using an app for my phone:-
And yet still, I see newspaper reports on ghosts and suchlike, where if the journalist had researched the claims in more detail, online, someone will have given the game away somewhere, and they would have seen that the photo had been created with an app or in graphic manipulation programs such as Photoshop.
We are in search of the real but we are hindered by the proliferation of fakes, which only serves to muddy the waters. On the other hand, we cannot hate the fakes. After all, they often bring us relief from worrying current affairs.
The Cottingley Fairies
Two schoolgirl cousins, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths caused something of a stir in the 1920's, with the photographs they took of fairies which lived at the bottom of their garden.
They even had Sir Arthur Conan Doyle convinced of the photograph's authenticity.
Here's a link to look into this fascinating and charming tale, further:-
http://www.cottingleyconnect.org.uk/fairies.htm
It wasn't until the early 1980s that Elsie and Frances finally admitted that the photographs were faked using cardboard fairy cutouts they had cut from a popular children's book.
However, Frances still maintains that the fifth and final photograph was genuine and that the others had been faked because they had failed to capture any more and without evidence, no one would have believed them.
Fairies and Their Sun Bath, the fifth and final photograph.
What do we think? Well, we hope that the final photo is real. Who can blame us - fairies are nice, after all. Aren't they?
Perhaps the burdon of proof is on those who do not believe in them, to prove that they do not exist.
So, my final words on scepticism:-
It has become a bit of a cliche now but I can't resist it...
Keep an open mind but don't leave it so open that your brain falls out. :-)
Or more original, as I may have made it up (or heard it somewhere)...
Think outside the box - but don't lock yourself out of the box.
Rain In May and it's a bit cold right now..
Looking out at the bleak mid-winter. The heavy pitter-patter on the glass jolts me from my reverie, and I suddenly remember that we're half-way through May.
The radio's on and they're arguing about whether or not the weather patterns are due to us greedy humans and our insatiable energy (and essential survival) needs.
I'm sure I thought I heard them mention how it's not cow's farting, after all. That's good, then...although I'm sure I could still smell something...
This subject matter is often a favourite topic of conversation during our meetings. No, not cows farting - climate change, or whatever in-word is fashionable for it, these days.
You know how us Brits are famous for talking about the weather - there's so much weirdness going on that we should be positively beaming about it. But we're not. We've been stuck inside for too long, and it's starting to drag now.
And that thought gets you all maudlin; thinking about all of these `End Of The World' scenarios and remembering the special effects in that `2012' movie. Hmm, we're so glad that it didn't turn out like that!
Hmm....
And just at that moment, I noticed that the rain had stopped and a rainbow stretched across the grey angry sky. It should have had the words written within the colours:-
No Teletubbies.. well, you can't have everything!
`See - it's not all bad'.
Or `It probably won't happen - honest!'
Or `In every lifetime a little rain must fall'
Other weather related cliches are available.
I'll blog again one day soon when it's raining.
Peace & Light
Day Dee
(These views are mine and not necessarily shared by all at LOS).
Views expressed by a group member.
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Borneo is the largest island in the Malay Archipelago and consists of four distinct countries, Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan) in the south, Sarawak and Brunei to the West and Sabah (ex-British North Borneo) to the North. Administered by the Chartered Company until the outbreak of war in the East, Sabah was occupied by the Japanese and liberated by Allied Forces in 1945, its towns devastated by bombing and its agriculture, which consisted almost exclusively of rubber growing neglected. North Borneo was declared a British Colony on 15th July, 1946, when it began the long haul to rebuild its towns, rehabilitate its rubber and other small industries and exploit its large reserves of commercial timber. On 31st August, 1963, North Borneo was granted its independence and on 16th September, 1963, signed a declaration to be officially elected to become a state within Malaysia, to be known as Sabah.
Rubber first came to Sabah in 1900 and by 1940 it was estimated that there were 132,000 acres under rubber comprising 76,000 acres of estates of over 250 acres and 56,000 acres of smallholdings less than 3-1/2 percent of which was planted with high-yielding clones, all on estates. After the Japanese war, some 10,000 acres had either been cut out for food production or abandoned and the effective acreage was estimated in 1946 to be approximately 122,000 acres.
(Source: Sabah Rubber Fund Board Annual Report – 1968)
Types of Rubber
Crude rubber consists of all types of rubber which are still in its original form or not been processed or smoked, including field latex, unsmoked rubber sheets, cuplumps, scrap, crepes and coagulums.
Information in this page was last updated on 15 March, 2013.
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In the USA, it's Super Bowl Sunday...
…which means, let’s be honest, no one in North America is going to read this blog today. Overseas, we might get a few readers, but we figure the guy to the left, Harun, isn’t going to be one of them. We hope not, anyway.
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Yeah, we understand, a man has five children, he probably needs a few hours to relax. But not today. After all, we hear that harvesting season is coming.
We’re not watching the big game, either. Super Bowl overkill has dampened our enthusiasm to the point that we kinda don’t care. Instead, we’re pulling tax forms from all of the distributors of “Renee Harrell” books and stories: Amazon, SmashWords, Draft2Digital, Apple, Kobo, B&N, a few others, and, running the numbers just now, we realize that Renee Harrell made very little money in book sales and electronic downloads this year. Our other pen name saw a significant increase in royalties, thanks for asking, but this pseudonym is scrambling to make a buck.
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To make the sequel work, all we had to do was change the first story back.
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Delhi: The Good, The Bad and The Wildly Confusing
Posted by Shanna under India
I’ve heard travelers say that, when it comes to foreign experiences, there’s India, and then there’s the rest of the world. No place is this more true than in Delhi. 1 Our family has an apartment in Delhi, and the promise of both their company and free lodging kept us there for more than two weeks. In that time–longer by far than we’ve spent in any other place on our itinerary–we got to know at least three of Delhi’s multiple personalities. Allow me to introduce you to The Good, The Bad and The Wildly Confusing.
Delhi boasts both an incredible past and a wonderfully vibrant present. We had a great time touring its many attractions and fell particularly in love with the Red Fort, where a tour guide2 made the place come alive for us as he described the luxuries that existed within its thick, sandstone walls during the reign of the Mughal emperor who ruled from there. We also really enjoyed exploring Humayun’s tomb, an amazing example of Mughal architecture that looks a lot like the Taj Mahal’s little brother.
Another highlight was a visit to the sprawling, 2005-built Akshardam Temple. The fact that it felt a little like Disney World at times (never before have I seen a food court in a place of worship…) didn’t completely undermine its astonishingly intricate marble and sandstone carvings. A lot of the temple is still being constructed, so we were able to watch artisans as they created the marvels that, 500 years from now, someone will look at in wonderment and say “how did they make something like that way back then?”.
The evenings that we spent at an assortment of wedding and new year’s festivities demonstrated to us how incredibly alive and colorful Indian culture is. Old traditions and new mixed and thrived at these incredible events, where the outstanding food and the vibrating music served as constant reminders that this country really knows how to throw a party. Watching 20-somethings honor their religion and their family through age-old traditions and seeing grandparents on the dance floor, grooving to a techno remix of Om Shanti Om, I felt proud to be half-Indian. Sadly, my impressions of Delhi didn’t end there.
Right down the street from those luxurious parties, people live in slums, burning trash to stay warm as their children turn cartwheels in the crowded streets to try to earn a few rupees from spectators watching from the safety of their cars. While Delhi’s economy is growing, the gap between the rich and the poor seems terrifyingly wide. India has the largest population of child laborers in the world (estimated by human rights groups at an astounding 60 million), and this fact is dramatically illustrated throughout Delhi’s streets.
Speaking of streets, the traffic in Delhi is so bad that it’s almost comical. (We could laugh at the traffic delays because, given our blessedly easy lives at the moment, we rarely had to be anywhere at a certain time. I can’t imagine the stress that would accompany having to actually arrive someplace at a certain hour.) We had to allow 45 minutes to an hour to get anywhere by car. Happily, Delhi has a sparkling new subway system that will hopefully alleviate some of the strain on its roads.
For now, all of those cars, trucks, buses and auto-rickshaws are teaming up to create some wicked air pollution. I often felt like I was breathing in solid particles (probably because I was…) and, when I ran a white washcloth over my face at the end of the day, the cloth turned gray. What’s more, Delhi’s streets are littered with trash unlike any I’ve ever seen. Every corner seems to be growing its own landfill. The environmental situation is bad and getting worse, which leads me to…
The Wildly Confusing:
India has environmental laws, but they’re often not enforced. It has traffic laws (surely?), but the only traffic police I saw in Delhi were the ones helping to control the scene of an accident. It may even have anti-littering laws but, from the state of things, those would seem to be a waste of the paper on which they’re written. The lawyer in me mourned for the lack of law and order in Delhi. (That’s the lowercase “law and order”; I’m can almost guarantee that the TV show is regularly available on cable.) I polled the locals, i.e., my family members, on the cause of this sorry state of affairs. Many of them pointed the finger at corrupt government officials. The thinking seems to go like this: why bother following the law when it’s cheaper and easier just to bribe the government official tasked with enforcing it? It pained me.
Less painful but similarly bothersome were the gaggles of ogling young men that seemed to lurk around every corner. They rarely spoke, but they followed me, took pictures of me and stared so much that I bought sunglasses to avoid having to make eye contact with them. Even the “I’m going to really hurt you if you don’t stop staring at my wife” looks constantly given by the 6″4 Derek rarely seemed to phase them. I know that Delhi is not alone in this annoyance–friends living in the Middle East and Latin America complain of more of the same, and it’s certainly commonplace throughout India as a whole–but I was never able to figure out (1) why the men were staring and (2) why they weren’t embarrassed by their own behavior. 3
Although Delhi’s challenges made it somewhat more difficult to enjoy, enjoy it we did. The city has so much in store for travelers–from ancient ruins to modern dance clubs, from bustling markets to shiny new shopping malls–that it’s worth the effort it takes to uncover its gems.
I’ve always been confused about the difference between “Delhi” and “New Delhi.” From what I’ve read, it seems that “Delhi” encapsulates both “Old Delhi”–the capital of pre-British, Islamic India–and “New Delhi,” which was constructed by the Brits as their imperial capital. [↩]
In the past four months, we’ve learned that a good tour guide–generally hired at the location we’re touring and for that location alone; we fear the umbrella-led tour group–can really help us get the most out of the places we’re visiting. We always talk with the guide first to ensure that he or she speaks great English. And then we bargain. Hard. [↩]
India has been more focused lately on the harassment perpetuated there by some men. On New Year’s Eve, two California-based Indian women were attacked by a gaggle of men as they left a Bombay night club. A press photographer got it all on film, and the ugly scene has since been splashed across the front pages of India’s many newspapers. [↩]
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The Peterborough History Group is a small band of dedicated volunteers who are preserving the town’s history as well as running displays in the History Rooms / Print Shop, at 7-9 Jervois Street, along with display rooms in the YMCA building.
Brief History of Peterborough
Peterborough, (or Petersburg as it was known until 1918) was settled to service the agricultural and pastoral endeavours of the 1870s. A Mr William Heathersay was the first person to start a business venture up, when in 1878 he built a blacksmith shop. Several other ventures by other people soon followed. There are two theories as to how the town got its name. One is that it was named after Mr Peter Doecke, the original owner of the land on which the town was built. The other, that it was named after 'Peters Store', the first General Store in town. The Railways; an Industry which would provide the lifeblood of the town for the next 110 years officially arrived in the town January 17, 1881 when the line from Jamestown opened. The Terowie line opened shortly after and the line to Broken Hill was opened in 1887 thus ensuring the future of the town. This meant that Port Pirie, Port Augusta, Adelaide and the Silverton Mines were all connected by rail tracks that passed through Peterborough. The town would forge ahead in leaps and bounds with the railways playing a major part in the development of it. In 1927 the workforce of the Peterborough Division of the South Australian Railways was 1800 with two thirds of them living in the town. This was the era when the town experienced a boom in population and major building works. They included the Railway Roundhouse (largest in the southern hemisphere), Town Hall (largest in rural South Australia) and the imposing YMCA building. Peterborough played a major part in the movement of the troops during the Second World War with troop trains moving north, south, east and west. Unfortunately the railways has all but left the town but the assets and memories of that great steam era has been preserved at the Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre which is situated in the original railway workshops at the western end of the town. The local council has set aside money and utilised many Government Grants to improve the lifestyle and appearance of the town. As a result of this the town has won many awards in the statewide KESAB Tidy Towns Competition for its continued improvement and innovative approach.
History Walk
This walk should take approximately 80 minutes. It commences at the Visitor Information Centre and proceeds west along the Main Street towards the Town Hall. It will take in a host of historical buildings and sites in the vicinity of the Main Street. There will be an interpretive sign explaining the history of each particular site. The signs may in some cases be on the other side of the road to the site. Walk.pdf
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The history of estate taxes in America has been a long and winding road. Careful estate planning is still one of the most important ways to manage and protect your assets for your heirs.
The Stamp Act of 1797 was the first federal estate tax in the United States and was passed to help fund an undeclared war with France; it was repealed in 1802. The Revenue Act of 1862 reinstated the estate tax in order to fund the Civil War; it was abolished in 1870. To finance the Spanish American War, the War Revenue Act of 1898 was passed, and subsequently abolished in 1902. Due to the costs of World War I, the Revenue Act of 1916 reinstated an estate tax that, in some form or other, has been in effect ever since.
The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 gradually increased the federal estate tax exemption, until finally repealing the federal estate tax altogether for the 2010 tax year only. The Tax Relief Act of 2010 reinstated the federal estate tax with a $5 million exemption, indexing the exemption for inflation after 2011. The provisions of the Tax Relief Act of 2010 expired on December 31, 2012.
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 increased the federal estate tax rate from 35% to 40%, but left in place the higher exemption level, which reached $5.49 million in 2017 (up from $5.45 million in 2016); both provisions are now permanent. It also left in place the “portability” of any unused exemption between spouses.
The latest major piece of tax legislation is the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was signed into law on December 22, 2017. This Act doubled the federal estate tax exclusion to $11.18 million in 2018 (indexed annually for inflation) while retaining the 40% tax rate. The 2019 federal estate tax exclusion is $11.4 million. In 2026, the exclusion is scheduled to revert to its pre-2018 level.
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A baby bottle that measures volume in the three common systems of measurement: Imperial (U.K.), U.S. Customary, and metric.
Measurement is the estimation of the magnitude of some attribute of an object, such as its length or weight, relative to a standard unit of measurement. Measurement usually involves using a measuring instrument, such as a ruler or scale, which is calibrated to compare the object to some standard, such as a meter or a kilogram.
Metrology is the scientific study of measurement. In measurement theory, a measurement is an observation that reduces an uncertainty expressed as a quantity. As a verb, measurement is making such observations.[1] It includes the estimation of a physical quantity such as distance, energy, temperature, or time. It could also include such things as assessment of attitudes, values and perception in surveys or the testing of aptitudes of individuals.
The act of measuring often requires an instrument designed and calibrated for that purpose, such as a thermometer, speedometer, weighing scale, or voltmeter. Surveys and tests are also referred to as "measurement instruments" in such areas as academic testing, aptitude testing, and voter polls.
2 Accuracy and uncertainties in measurement
3 Standards
4 Units and systems
4.1 Imperial system
4.2 Metric system
4.3.1 Converting prefixes
4.4 Distance
4.5 Time
4.6 Mass
5 Difficulties
6 Definitions and theories
6.1 Classical definition
6.2 Representational theory
7 Miscellanea
Measurement is fundamental in science; it is one of the things that distinguish science from pseudoscience. It is easy to come up with a theory about nature, hard to come up with a scientific theory that predicts measurements with great accuracy. Measurement is also essential in industry, commerce, engineering, construction, manufacturing, pharmaceutical production, and electronics.
The word measurement comes from the Greek "metron," meaning limited proportion. This also has a common root with the word "moon" and "month" possibly since the moon and other astronomical objects were among the first measurement methods of time.
The history of measurements is a topic within the history of science and technology. The meter (or metre) was standardized as the unit for length after the French revolution, and has since been adopted throughout most of the world.
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of science.
Lord Kelvin
Accuracy and uncertainties in measurement
Measurements always have errors and therefore uncertainties. In fact, the reduction—not necessarily the elimination—of uncertainty is central to the concept of measurement. Measurement errors are often assumed to be normally distributed about the true value of the measured quantity. Under this assumption, every measurement has three components: the estimate, the error bound, and the probability that the actual magnitude lies within the error bound of the estimate. For example, a measurement of the length of a plank might result in a measurement of 2.53 meters plus or minus 0.01 meter, with a probability of 99 percent.
The initial state of uncertainty, prior to any observations, is necessary to assess when using statistical methods that rely on prior knowledge (Bayesian methods). This can be done with calibrated probability assessment.
In science, where accurate measurement is crucial, a measurement is understood to have three parts: first, the measurement itself, second, the margin of error, and third, the confidence level — that is, the probability that the actual property of the physical object is within the margin of error. For example, we might measure the length of an object as 2.34 meters plus or minus 0.01 meter, with a 95 percent level of confidence.
Laws to regulate measurement were originally developed to prevent fraud. However, units of measurement are now generally defined on a scientific basis, and are established by international treaties. In the United States, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a division of the United States Department of Commerce, regulate commercial measurements.
Units and systems
Main articles: Units of measurement and Systems of measurement
The definition or specification of precise standards of measurement involves two key features, which are evident in the International System of Units (SI). Specifically, in this system the definition of each of the base units refer to specific empirical conditions and, with the exception of the kilogram, also to other quantitative attributes. Each derived SI unit is defined purely in terms of a relationship involving it and other units; for example, the unit of velocity is measured in terms of length: 1 m/s (meter per second). Because derived units refer to base units, the specification of empirical conditions is an implied component of the definition of all units.
Imperial system
Before SI units were widely adopted around the world, the British systems of English units and later Imperial units were used in Britain, the Commonwealth and the United States. The system came to be known as U.S. customary units in the United States and is still in use there and in a few Caribbean countries. These various systems of measurement have at times been called foot-pound-second systems after the Imperial units for distance, weight and time. Many Imperial units remain in use in Britain despite the fact that it has officially switched to the SI system. Road signs are still in miles, yards, miles per hour, and so on, people tend to measure their own height in feet and inches and milk is sold in pints, to give just a few examples. Imperial units are used in many other places, for example, in many Commonwealth countries that are considered metricated, land area is measured in acres and floor space in square feet, particularly for commercial transactions (rather than government statistics). Similarly, the imperial gallon is used in many countries that are considered metricated at gas/petrol stations, an example being the United Arab Emirates.
Main article: Metric system
The metric system is a decimalized system of measurement based on the meter and the gram. It exists in several variations, with different choices of base units, though these do not affect its day-to-day use. Since the 1960s, the International System of Units (SI), explained further below, is the internationally recognized standard metric system. Metric units of mass, length, and electricity are widely used around the world for both everyday and scientific purposes.
The main advantage of the metric system is that it has a single base unit for each physical quantity. All other units are powers of ten or multiples of ten of this base unit. Unit conversions are always simple because they will be in the ratio of ten, one hundred, one thousand, etc. All lengths and distances, for example, are measured in meters, or thousandths of a meter (millimeters), or thousands of meters (kilometers), and so on. There is no profusion of different units with different conversion factors as in the Imperial system (e.g. inches, feet, yards, fathoms, rods). Multiples and submultiples are related to the fundamental unit by factors of powers of ten, so that one can convert by simply moving the decimal place: 1.234 meters is 1234 millimeters or 0.001234 kilometers. The use of fractions, such as two-fifths (2/5) of a meter, is not prohibited, but uncommon.
Main article: International System of Units
The International System of Units (abbreviated SI from the French language name Système International d'Unités) is the modern, revised form of the metric system. It is the world's most widely used system of units, both in everyday commerce and in science. The SI was developed in 1960 from the meter-kilogram-second (MKS) system, rather than the centimeter-gram-second (CGS) system, which, in turn, had many variants. At its development the SI also introduced several newly named units that were previously not a part of the metric system.
There are two types of SI units, base and derived units. Base units are the simple measurements for time, length, mass, temperature, amount of substance, electric current and light intensity. Derived units are made up of base units, for example, density is kg/m3.
Converting prefixes
The SI allows easy multiplication when switching among units having the same base but different prefixes. For example, (dec, deci = 10) (Cent, centi = 100) (kilo = 1000) To convert from meters to centimeters it is only necessary to multiply the number of meters by 100, since there are 100 centimeters in a meter. Inversely, to switch from centimeters to meters one multiplies the number of centimeters by .01.
A 2-meter carpenter's rule.
A ruler or rule is a tool used in, for example, geometry, technical drawing, engineering, and carpentry, to measure distances or to draw straight lines. Strictly speaking, the ruler is the instrument used to rule straight lines and the calibrated instrument used for determining length is called a measure, however common usage calls both instruments rulers and the special name straightedge is used for an unmarked rule. The use of the word measure, in the sense of a measuring instrument, survives in the phrase tape measure, an instrument that can be used to measure but cannot be used to draw straight lines. As can be seen in the photographs on this page, a two-meter carpenter's rule can be folded down to a length of only 20 centimeters, to easily fit in a pocket, and a five-meter long tape measure easily retracts to fit within a small housing.
Main article: Time
The most common devices for measuring the passage of time are the clock or watch. A chronometer is a timekeeping instrument precise enough to be used as a portable time standard. Historically, the invention of chronometers was a major advance in determining longitude and an aid in celestial navigation. The most accurate device for the measurement of time is the atomic clock.
Before the invention of the clock, people measured time using the hourglass, the sundial, and the water clock.
Main article: Weighing scale
Mass refers to the intrinsic property of all material objects to resist changes in their momentum. Weight, on the other hand, refers to the downward force produced when a mass is in a gravitational field. In free fall, objects lack weight but retain their mass. The Imperial units of mass include the ounce, pound, and ton. The metric units gram and kilogram are units of mass.
A unit for measuring weight or mass is called a weighing scale or, often, simply a scale. A spring scale measures force but not mass; a balance scale compares one mass against another, but requires a gravitational field to operate. The most accurate instrument for measuring weight or mass is the digital scale, which also requires a gravitational field, and would not work in free fall.
The measures used for economics are physical measures, nominal price value measures and fixed price value measures. These measures differ from one another by the variables they measure and by the variables excluded from measurements. The measurable variables in economics are quantity, quality and distribution. By excluding variables from measurement makes it possible to better focus the measurement on a given variable, yet, this means a narrower approach.
Since accurate measurement is essential in many fields, and since all measurements are necessarily approximations, a great deal of effort must be taken to make measurements as accurate as possible. For example, consider the problem of measuring the time it takes an object to fall a distance of one meter (39 in). Using physics, it can be shown that, in the gravitational field of the Earth, it should take any object about 0.45 seconds to fall one meter. However, the following are just some of the sources of error that arise. First, this computation used for the acceleration of gravity 9.8 meters per second per second (32.2 ft/s²). But this measurement is not exact, but only accurate to two significant digits. Also, the Earth's gravitational field varies slightly depending on height above sea level and other factors. Next, the computation of .45 seconds involved extracting a square root, a mathematical operation that required rounding off to some number of significant digits, in this case two significant digits.
So far, we have only considered scientific sources of error. In actual practice, dropping an object from a height of a meter stick and using a stopwatch to time its fall, we have other sources of error. First, and most common, is simple carelessness. Then there is the problem of determining the exact time at which the object is released and the exact time it hits the ground. There is also the problem that the measurement of the height and the measurement of the time both involve some error. Finally, there is the problem of air resistance.
Scientific measurements must be carried out with great care to eliminate as much error as possible, and to keep error estimates realistic.
Definitions and theories
Classical definition
In the classical definition, which is standard throughout the physical sciences, measurement is the determination or estimation of ratios of quantities. Quantity and measurement are mutually defined: quantitative attributes are those, which it is possible to measure, at least in principle. The classical concept of quantity can be traced back to John Wallis and Isaac Newton, and was foreshadowed in Euclid's Elements.[2]
Representational theory
In the representational theory, measurement is defined as "the correlation of numbers with entities that are not numbers." The strongest form of representational theory is also known as additive conjoint measurement. In this form of representational theory, numbers are assigned based on correspondences or similarities between the structure of number systems and the structure of qualitative systems. A property is quantitative if such structural similarities can be established. In weaker forms of representational theory, such as that implicit within the work of Stanley Smith Stevens, numbers need only be assigned according to a rule.
The concept of measurement is often misunderstood as merely the assignment of a value, but it is possible to assign a value in a way that is not a measurement in terms of the requirements of additive conjoint measurement. One may assign a value to a person's height, but unless it can be established that there is a correlation between measurements of height and empirical relations, it is not a measurement according to additive conjoint measurement theory. Likewise, computing and assigning arbitrary values, like the "book value" of an asset in accounting, is not a measurement because it does not satisfy the necessary criteria.
Measuring the ratios between physical quantities is an important sub-field of physics.
Some important physical quantities include:
Gravitational constant
Elementary charge (electric charge of electrons, protons, and other particles)
Fine-structure constant
Dimensionless number
International System of Units
Orders of magnitude
Systems of measurement
↑ Douglas W. Hubbard. 2007. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business. (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0470110126.)
↑ Euclid, Thomas Little Heath, and Dana Densmore. 2002. Euclid's Elements: All Thirteen Books Complete in One Volume: the Thomas L. Heath Translation. (Santa Fe, NM: Green Lion Press. ISBN 1888009195.)
Adams, Dany Spencer. 2003. Lab Math: A Handbook of Measurements, Calculations, and Other Quantitative Skills for Use at the Bench. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. ISBN 978-0879696344.
Bucher, Jay L. 2004. The Metrology Handbook. Milwaukee, WI: ASQ Quality Press. ISBN 978-0873896207.
Curtis, Mark A., and Francis T. Farago. 2007. Handbook of Dimensional Measurement, 4th ed. New York: Industrial Press. ISBN 978-0831132620.
Kimothi, Shri Krishna. 2002. The Uncertainty of Measurements: Physical and Chemical Metrology: Impact and Analysis. Milwaukee, WI: ASQ Press. ISBN 0873895355.
Mills, Ian. 1993. Quantities, Units, and Symbols in Physical Chemistry. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications. ISBN 0632035838.
Pedhazur, Elazar J., and Liora Pedhazur Schmelkin. 1991. Measurement, Design, and Analysis: An Integrated Approach. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 0805810633.
All links retrieved September 11, 2018.
Metric systems
International System of Units · centimetre-gram-second units · metre-tonne-second units · gravitational units
Natural units
Geometric unit systems · Planck units · Stoney units · "Schrödinger" units · Atomic units · Electronic units · Quantum electrodynamical units
Customary systems
Avoirdupois units · Troy units · Apothecaries' units · English units · Imperial units · US customary units · Danish units · Dutch units · Finnish units · French units · German units · Maltese units · Norwegian units · Scottish units · Spanish/Portuguese units · Swedish units · Polish units · Romanian units · Russian units · Tatar units · Hindu units · Pegu units · Chinese units · Japanese units · Taiwanese units
Ancient systems
Greek units · Roman units · Egyptian units · Hebrew units · Arabic units · Mesopotamian units · Persian units · Harappan units
Non-standard measurement units · Mesures usuelles
Measurement history
History of "Measurement"
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Chiefs defeat Colts to advance to AFC title game
By Herbie Teope
Published: Jan. 12, 2019 at 07:44 p.m.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2019 at 01:59 p.m.
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The streak is over -- the Chiefs have won a playoff game at home.
Kansas City defeated the Indianapolis Colts 31-13 on Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium to advance to the AFC Championship Game -- the first-ever played at their home. The Chiefs will host the winner of Sunday's Divisional Round game between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Chargers on Jan. 20 at 6:40 p.m. ET.
1. Ding, dong, the Witch is dead. OK, the Chiefs play on the Missouri side of Kansas City, not Kansas, but the Chiefs exorcised their personal demons of postseason history after entering Saturday's game 0-4 against the Colts. The Chiefs used a dominant first half to jump out to a 24-7 halftime lead by totaling 18 first downs compared to the Colts' four, 42 offensive plays compared to the Colts' 19 and outgained the Colts by a 274-91 margin. Andy Reid's offense went 3 of 4 on fourth-and-short opportunities, and two of the conversions eventually led to 10 first-half points. The Chiefs slowed down in the second half, but the first 30 minutes more than established the tone. And when the final second ticked off the clock, the full grasp of the Chiefs' victory could be found on the scoreboard and in all offensive and defensive statistical categories. The win also snapped a six-game home playoff losing streak for the Chiefs, with the last victory coming in the 1993 Wild Card Round against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Jan. 8, 1994.
2. A much-maligned Chiefs defense picked a good spot to be a reason K.C. has a shot at a trip to the Super Bowl. Defensive coordinator Bob Sutton's unit, which finished the regular season ranked 31st in the league, manhandled the Colts with three sacks and five quarterback hits and limited the Colts to 263 total net yards of offense. Outside linebacker Justin Houston paced the Chiefs with three sacks, two quarterback hits, two tackles for a loss and a fumble recovery. While the Colts got on the scoreboard early courtesy of a blocked punt recovered for a touchdown, the Chiefs shut down quarterback Andrew Luck and the league's seventh-best offense until surrendering a fourth-quarter score. The Colts entered the game as the top team in the league in third-down efficiency, converting 104 of 214 attempts for a 49 percent conversion rate. On the game, the Colts converted 0 of 9 third-down attempts, and went three-and-out on their opening four possessions. The Colts' running game, which pounded out 200 yards and a touchdown in the opening round of the postseason, found no sledding against the Chiefs and managed 87 yards. A lot of credit must go to Sutton for devising a scheme to confuse Luck and Co. Luck finished the game completing 19 of 36 passes for 203 yards and a touchdown for a 78.8 passer rating.
3. Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes showed why he is a frontrunner for the league's MVP, as he picked apart the Colts' Cover 2 defensive coverage by completing 27 of 41 passes for 278 yards and rushing for a touchdown. Mahomes also put his shortstop-like sidearm throws in the face of pressure on full display, connecting numerous times from different platforms with various receivers. Mahomes got a lot of help from his All-Pro teammates. Tight end Travis Kelce caught seven passes for 108 yards, while wide receiver Tyreek Hill hauled in eight catches for 72. The league's MVP award was voted on at the end of the regular season. But any doubt as to whether Mahomes should win it likely ended Saturday as the Chiefs simply don't enjoy a 12-4 season, clinch the top seed in the AFC and advance to the AFC Championship Game without him.
4. Perhaps a sign that Saturday would not be the Colts' day came from one of the more reliable kickers in the entire league. Adam Vinatieri, the NFL's all-time leading scorer, clanked a 23-yard attempt off the left upright in the closing seconds of the second quarter. The miss marked the first time in his accomplished 23-year career that he missed from 23 yards of closer, according to Pro Football Reference. To add misery to his day, Vinatieri then missed an extra point in the second half.
5. The Colts finished the regular season on a 9-1 run and turned in a dominant 21-7 win over the Houston Texans in the opening round of the playoffs, making them one of the more dangerous teams in the tournament. The Colts, however, ran into a buzzsaw on Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium, and the Chiefs proved to everyone around the NFL why they earned the No. 1 seed. Nevertheless, this Colts team proved they are for real under first-year head coach Frank Reich and should enter the offseason feeling good about the roster, which has a perfect blend of youth, including a pair of rookie All-Pros in linebacker Darius Leonard and guard Quenton Nelson, and proven veterans, which, of course, includes franchise quarterback Luck. Indianapolis has the tools to make another run at the playoffs in 2019 and beyond.
6. The last time Colts wide receiver T.Y. Hilton faced off against the Chiefs in the playoffs, he produced 13 catches for 224 yards and two touchdowns on 18 targets to help the Colts secure a 45-44 win and the second-largest comeback in NFL postseason history. The second time around for Hilton, though, wasn't so successful. Hilton, who played through an ankle injury down the stretch of the regular season, produced four catches for 60 yards and a touchdown against the Chiefs. But the score came late and he was targeted a total of 10 times, signaling he couldn't make the most of his opportunities. With the Colts now planning offseason vacations, Hilton has plenty of time to heal and be ready for the 2019 season.
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Home > St Laurent Studio > Orchestral > Klaus Tennstedt, Vol. V; Claudio Arrau (St Laurent Studio YSL T-663)
C1587. KLAUS TENNSTEDT Cond. Kiel Philharmonic: Symphony #5 in c (Beethoven), Live Performance, 20 March, 1980; KLAUS TENNSTEDT Cond. NDR S.O., w.CLAUDIO ARRAU: Concerto #2 in A (Liszt); Burlesque in d (Strauss), Live Performance, 9 May, 1977. (Canada) St Laurent Studio YSL T-663. Transfers by Yves St Laurent.
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"Claudio Arrau, one of the commanding piano titans of our time, enjoyed a career which spanned both ends of the twentieth century. He played his first recital in his native Chile in 1908, while his last concerts there took place in his ninth decade, in 1984. Arrau was one of the most prolifically recorded pianists of all time, with the lion's share of his discography dating from after World War Two, when his international reputation solidified."
- Jed Distler
"Arrau is the complete pianist. He can revel in the keyboard for its own pianistic sake, representing to us the instrument's range and power, but he can also go beyond piano playing as we are led by his art to the secret chambers of the creative imagination."
- Sir Neville Cardus, THE GUARDIAN
"Because he spent the beginning of his career in East Germany, Klaus Tennstedt was virtually unknown in the West until he was in his late 40s. But his international career took off after he left East Germany in 1971. From the time he made his first appearances in North America, with the Toronto and Boston Symphony orchestras in 1974, he was regarded as an uncommonly probing, expressive conductor of works from the mainstream Romantic repertory.
Mr. Tennstedt was born in Merseburg, Germany, on 6 June, 1926. When he was 15, he enrolled at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he studied violin, piano and music theory. He also studied in Dresden during World War II, and he told one interviewer that after the firebombing of Dresden in 1944, he was in the fire brigade and assigned to dig bodies out of the rubble.
In 1948 he was appointed concertmaster of the Halle Municipal Theater Orchestra, where his father was a violinist. Four years later he began conducting the orchestra, and he soon became its music director. In 1958, he became music director of the Dresden Opera and in 1962 he took over the Schwerin State Orchestra and the Schwerin State Theater. During the 1960s, Mr. Tennstedt had an active touring schedule in East Germany, and was a frequent guest of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Dresden Staatskapelle and the Berlin Radio Orchestra. He also performed in the Soviet Union and in Czechoslovakia. When preparing for a tour in 1971, Mr. Tennstedt found that his passport had been mistakenly stamped with an exit visa for the West. He left East Germany for Sweden, announced his intention not to return, and persuaded the East German Government to allow his wife to join him. In Sweden, he became the director of the Stora Theater in Goteborg and the conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm. In 1972, he became director of the Kiel Opera in West Germany.
Mr. Tennstedt's first break in North America occurred after the death of Karel Ancerl, the director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. When the orchestra's managing director, Walter Homburger, went to Europe in search of a replacement, he read some reviews of Mr. Tennstedt's work in Kiel. After hearing him conduct Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, he hired him for a series of Toronto concerts in May 1974. He made his Boston Symphony debut later that year [C1425].
Mr. Tennstedt became principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic in 1977, served as principal guest conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra from 1979 to 1982, and returned to the London Philharmonic as its music director from 1983 to 1987. After he relinquished the post, he became the orchestra's conductor laureate."
- Allan Kozinn, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 13 Jan., 1998
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The Sustainable Development Agenda
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a transformative plan for development that seeks to serve planet, people, prosperity, and partnerships between different sectors of society by implementing 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through its advocacy, MPV has been engaging Member States and sustainable development processes since 2015 to emphasize that the implementation of the SDGs should not be threatened by religious or cultural fundamentalisms, and to ensure that States respect, protect, and fulfill the human rights of all peoples’ as core to realizing the 2030 Agenda.
HLPF 2017 - Thematic Review
In July 2017, MPV participated in the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), a UN-mandated body that meets every year to oversee, follow up, and review member states’ progress in implementing 2030 Agenda. During one segment of the HLPF, MPV delivered a statement to states and civil society emphasizing that rising tides of extremism and fundamentalism pose a serious threat to the integrity of the 2030 Agenda. The statement can be found below.
Statement on role of Faith-based organizations in Sustainable Development.
HLPF 2017 - Voluntary National review
In July 2017, MPV collaborated with nationally based Malaysian civil society organizations to draft questions that were submitted to the government representative of Malaysia during its Voluntary National Review (VNR) presentation. Those questions can be found below; more information on the SDGs, HLPF, and country VNRs can be found here.
Questions to Malaysia during VNR at 2017 HLPF
In 2015, MPV organized an official side event during the Post-2015 Intergovernmental Negotiation Sessions. The event, entitled "Towards Inclusive Post-2015 Development: Defying Discriminatory Laws and Deconstructing Cultural Norms", fleshed out a comprehensive discourse to contextualize human rights within the Post-2015 Development Agenda, with particular emphasis on striking correlations between discriminatory laws, policies, and social practices on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) and detriment to economic development, especially in culturally and/or religiously conservative states.
Watch the video.
In 2014, MPV successfully contributed language to the 65th UN DPI/NGO Conference Outcome Document Declaration, promoting a new vision for the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda. MPV-UN Youth Representative Mahfuzul Islam read the statement in the Trusteeship Council Chamber.
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the L.R. Doty
Ship discovered almost 112 years after disappearing in Lake Michigan
By treasures | On 24/06/2010 | In Wreck Diving
By Meg Jones - Journal Sentinel
For almost 112 years, the steamship rested in ghostly silence at the bottom of Lake Michigan, unknown and unseen until a group of divers kicked their way down to the deck and solved a perplexing maritime mystery.
The deck houses were gone, the smokestack was tipped over and a wheelbarrow used to move cargo lay on the boat's surface.
Though the name couldn't be seen on the stern, the length of the vessel and unusual characteristics pointed to only one ship - the L.R. Doty.
Until last week, it was the largest wooden ship that had been unaccounted for in Lake Michigan.
The 291-foot-long L.R. Doty was carrying a cargo of corn when it sank during a ferocious storm on Oct. 25, 1898. All 17 people aboard and the ship's two cats, Dewey and Watson, were lost.
When a group of divers and maritime historians discovered the L.R. Doty's grave about 20 miles off Oak Creek in 320 feet of water, they found an intact ship sitting upright.
It was in remarkable condition considering it's been underwater for more than a century, courtesy of the frigid waters of the Great Lakes that act as a great preservative of wooden ships.
And the cargo, harvested from Illinois farms and destined for Ontario, Canada, is still in the hold, though it now has a layer of muck on top of it, said Brendon Baillod, a Great Lakes maritime historian who spearheaded the search.
"She vanished with no real explanation. She was a pretty new ship. We wanted to solve that mystery - why she disappeared in a Lake Michigan storm that she should have been able to handle," Baillod said Wednesday.
Built in 1893, the L.R. Doty was in the largest class of wooden vessels in existence on the Great Lakes at a time when the maritime highway was equivalent to today's interstate system. It was built with steel arches embedded in the hull, which provided extra stability, one reason its captain might have felt confident heading into bad weather.
Technical divers - breathing a special blend of mixed gas with equipment required to dive so far deep - shot video of the wreck site and snapped photos that give clues that could explain how and why the Doty sank in a storm so fierce it damaged part of the Milwaukee break wall and destroyed the boardwalk in Chicago.
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Robot Hall of Fame
February 20, 2011 – It’s been almost 20 years since the death of Isaac Asimov, and I still don’t have a robot butler. I mean, sure, the Japanese are doing freaky things with human analogues, Watson was on Jeopardy last week, and throw-away Happy Meal toys are light years ahead of my old Teddy Ruxpin, but I still don’t have a robot butler. If I did, I’d treat it like family, and we’d probably solve crimes together.
So until we can create meaningful relationships with artificially derived intelligences dressed in waistcoats and kravats, we’ve at least always got movies and television to satiate our desire for robots in our lives. I mean, I assume we all share that desire, at least. I’m not saying that, instead of counting sheep, you named famous robots to lull yourself to sleep like I did when I was a kid, but I am under the impression that it’s one of those self-evident truths that the U.S. Declaration of Independence is always declaring. You know, all men are created equal. All men have certain inalienable rights. All men dig robots. It’s that third one that always trips up those Middle Eastern countries.
That’s why I’m Caramel Cream Pepsi Jazzed that there exists on this disgustingly biological mud ball of ours a shiny, metallic Robot Hall of Fame. In fact, I’m not even sure I’m up to the task of writing about such a cool topic. Still (and my apologies), in 2003, the School of Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, established the Robot Hall of Fame to “honor” both fictional and actual robots, from the real-world Roomba to the much-cooler fake-world Lt. Cmdr. Data.
Unfortunately, the Robot Hall of Fame has more Robot and Fame than Hall to it, since it’s mostly virtual, with not much more than a sparse website and a few press releases staking claim to the idea. Hopefully, some rich and philanthropic visionary will one day eschew the boring tropes of human welfare and give the Robot Hall of Fame its own futuristic-looking building and its own generous budget to stuff that futuristic-looking building full of robots. If I ever get that wealthy, and if I have any money left over from purchasing the Elephant Man’s bones, then I’m on it.
Actually, the Robot Hall of Fame does have a small physical presence, and a pretty cool one at that. It’s just that, like this article, it’s not quite up to the awesomeness intrinsic in the idea of a Robot Hall of Fame. Nevertheless, close to awesome is still pretty awesome [Highlight. Copy. Open “Potential Epitaphs” Word doc. Paste. Save.].
You can find the physical portion of the Robot Hall of Fame just across the Ohio-Allegheny River junction from the downtown area of Pittsburgh in the four-floor Carnegie Science Museum. Like too many modern science centers, the building is more Beakman’s World than NOVA, being mostly filled with interactive children’s exhibits. They do have a pretty cool tourable submarine that is parked out behind it in the river and is included with the admission cost, though.
However, half of the second floor is dedicated to RoboWorld, a permanent exhibit on robotics. There you can see small, wheeled robots navigate an obstacle course, watch a giant robot arm shoot a basketball with flawless precision, and other probably cool things that I didn’t pay much attention to because...
In a row of alcoves along one wall of this exhibit stood three-dimensional reproductions of some of science fiction’s most famous movie and television robots, all standing there exactly like I imagine robots do when awaiting orders from their master. With the exception of maybe Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), they all seemed more-or-less full-scale.
And it was a party. In addition to Gort, there was Maria from Metropolis ( 1927), Robby the Robot, who actually has a film resume larger than most SAG members but who is most known from its role in Forbidden Planet (1956), Dewey from Silent Runnings (1972), HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), B-9 from the television series Lost in Space (1965-1968), and C-3PO and R2-D2 from the long-running soap opera Days of Our Lives (1965-present).
The facsimiles were extremely detailed, with everything from C-3PO’s bare midriff to HAL’s blue WordPerfect text screen and glowing orange eye painstakingly reproduced. They were also wired so that if the robot had light-up bits (such as Gort’s eye slit or B-9’s chest panel), they were lighted appropriately.
Each robot also had a placard that featured their name, the years of their respective roles, and a short generic bit of text about them. I say generic, but I did actually learn something from the Dewey placard. Turns out, the Huey, Dewey, and Louie robots from Silent Running were costumes worn by double amputees because they were the only ones who could fit in the squat shapes of the robot design. That’s now my permanent factoid for any awkward conversation lull that needs a “Did you know…” kick in the pants.
Not that it really matters when you’ve got a large Robby the Robot to stare at, but there was also a small display of vintage robot toys and an interesting interactive 15-foot-long electronic board that gave a genealogy of robots in human culture. In addition, the exhibit included some sort of cartridge-based machine for making virtual postcards themed according to the robot of your choice that you could then email to yourself as a souvenir, but some 10-year-old boy was hogging it and wouldn’t accept my dares to go tell HAL that the mission directives sucked or Gort how cool it was that the planet had enough nuclear bombs to not be a planet anymore.
And that’s pretty much it for the Robot Hall of Fame to date. You come in, walk past eight robots like a drill sergeant inspecting his troops, and then you fight ten-year-olds to email yourself a Maria-themed virtual postcard. One day I hope it’ll be a place where you need to take a week off work and stand in line for hours to get in, but until then it’s still a thrill-inducing sight for anybody who has ever tried to create a robot out of tin foil, soda cans, and cardboard shipping boxes. No, that statement doesn’t need a “when they were a kid.” Why would you say that?
And with this posted, it’s nap time for me. IG-88…Mechagodzilla…Johnny 5…Marvin the Paranoid Android…that scary chick from Superman III…Muffit...David Bowie…Dot Matrix…the carnival robot from the original Scooby Doo series…Bishop…the Iron Giant…Rosie the Maid…RoboCop…Small Wonder…Bubo the Owl…every Gobot…the bigfoot from that Six Million Dollar Man episode…Buffybot…Zebtron from The Secret City*…all those bikini girls that Dr. Goldfoot made…Twiki…Ultron…those MST3K puppets…Brainiac…Mr. Roboto…
*Wins the Obscure Award. Here, let me save you some Googling.
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Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)
Starring: A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, and Angus Scrimm
"Where do you think you're going boy? Death is no escape from me."
Of all the major horror franchises of the past 30 years, the Phantasm series has arguably had the most unique release pattern. Unlike its more famous contemporaries, which saw new entries on an almost yearly basis, Phantasm has had only 4 entries over a span of 19 years. The original arrived in 1979 and went on to become a cult classic. Nearly a decade later, the series was revived with Phantasm II, a more conventional and cinematic film than its predecessor. Five years later, Phantasm III continued the exploits of Reggie, Mike, and the Tall Man. Like the previous film, Phantasm III was a more straight-forward, conventional narrative that abandoned the psychological approach of the first film. Not unlike its predecessor, however, that film ended with a bit of a cliffhanger that would have to be resolved. Five years later, Phantasm IV: Oblivion attempted to do just this and also do what the three previous films hadn't done over the course of fifteen years: reveal the mysteries surrounding the Tall Man.
Set literally seconds after the end of Phantasm III, Oblivion finds Reggie at the mercy of the Tall Man, who ominously warns him to "take great care in how he plays" as "the end approaches." Meanwhile, after the last film's somewhat bewildering ending, Mike has somehow hit the road in search of the Tall Man's secrets. It soon becomes apparent that Mike isn't fully in control, however, as the Tall Man seems to be guiding Mike to the Funeral Mountains in Death Valley. Here, Mike will journey through time and dimensions to uncover some truths about the Tall Man. Reggie, on the other hand, is in the road in hot pursuit, where he once again encounters some minions of the Tall Man. Thus, the film is essentially split between the two characters' narratives before culminating in another bewildering encounter with the Tall Man.
After the middle two entries in the franchise showed a marked turn towards a more traditional and cinematic style, Phantasm IV returns the series to its psychological roots. Like the first film, everything here is very dream-like and illusory in its presentation. The narrative contains several flashbacks to the events in the first film, and even employs outtake footage from the original to propel the narrative forward. Perhaps the best way to describe Oblivion is to consider it a sort of requiem for the series, as it reflects back on the characters and the paths they took (and even reveals what might have been in a more perfect world). Along with these flashbacks comes some wonderfully gothic imagery, and the tone here is one of desolation and despair, which gives the proceedings a more palpable sense of impending doom. This is not to say that the film doesn't have its share of fun moments like the middle two films because there are still some fun scenes with Reggie. However, I'll put it this way: when you see Reggie opt to hit the road in search of Mike instead of hitting on an unsuspecting broad, you know the film means business (of course, you can hardly blame Reggie when fate intervenes and he crosses paths with his mystery woman a second time).
As someone who rarely cares when a major franchise shifts tones throughout the course of a series, the fact that Oblivion returns to the style of the first film isn't a huge deal because it works really well. In fact, the film does a good job in essentially blending the style of the first film with the style of the middle two, and it really makes for an extremely well done film. The aforementioned flashbacks are integrated seamlessly, and the scenes featuring a young Mike really brings an emotional core to the film. You really get the sense that this guy has been put through hell ever since the Tall Man has entered his life, and the juxtaposition between the somewhat jaded and embittered Mike with his younger, more innocent counterpart works well. Though I love the ancillary characters in the third film, I appreciate that Coscarelli sticks with Mike, Reggie, Jody, and the Tall Man for this entry, as it is essentially their story.
That said, as tightly focused and realized as Oblivion is, it opens a lot of doors that remain closed by the end of the film. While the ending certainly lends itself to one interpretation, it's still very ambiguous and would be a somewhat frustrating end to the series if Oblivion stands as the end. I'm not one to demand that the answers are spelled out for me on the screen, but the fourth film is another unresolved entry in the franchise. Furthermore, we finally get a glimpse of the Tall Man's past, but there are still more questions than answers there. I have no problem with that and wouldn't mind if he were always a mystery, but we still don't have a very good indication of what his intentions with Mike are at the end of the film.
Phantasm V is supposedly in production. If it is ever released, it will have been at least a decade since the release of Oblivion, which is keeping in line with the series staggered release pattern. Unfortunately, Phantasm V will most likely not be the Roger Avary-penned Phantasm's End, a script that was, by all accounts, epic. However, Coscarelli has been unable to afford the funding for such an ambitious project, so it is yet to be seen what form Phantasm V will take. Regardless, Oblivion's legacy could be affected because, like its predecessors, it keeps us hanging. However, unlike those films, it doesn't seem as self-contained, as if it almost needs another entry to finish what is begun here.
Oblivion could possibly benefit from what the fifth film does for the series. As of now, it's a well done film that feels incomplete or a setup for something that simply hasn't happened yet. For me personally, it ranks as the second best entry in the franchise behind the original. At any rate, since Phantasm is such an important horror franchise, no fan should go without seeing it, and that's the bottom line. The MGM DVD that's out there now features an adequate audio and video presentation with no extras; however, Anchor Bay is set to release a new DVD later this year that will no doubt be laden with extras. My advice to new viewers would be to run out and rent the MGM DVD now, and definitely pick up the Anchor Bay release later this year because Phantasm IV is a very strong entry in a strong series. Buy it!
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The Man Engine
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Karisma Kapoor, Bollywood actress and mother-of-two, credits yoga for helping her shed 24 kilos in nine months post pregnancy and says the traditional system of exercises can work wonders for children too."I think it is…
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February 8, 2019 Uncategorized No comments
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE WILBUR ROSS, A MAN OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY
One of President Donald Trump’s top aides suggested the shutdown gave furloughed workers free vacation time. And on Thursday, Democratic leaders pounced after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said he didn’t “really quite understand why unpaid federal workers are going to food banks.
When pressed further, Ross said the laid off workers could get bank loans based on receiving back pay once the freeze was over. The reality is, banks do not loan on future wages and have not done so since the 1980s.
The only source of loans for workers are “payday loan companies” that charge usurious rates between 300% and 1,200%.
This senile old man who made his billions liquidating, bankrupting and merging companies, earning himself hundred million dollar fees in the process, is a carrion sucking, scavenger.
As the government shutdown stretched into its 34th day and as roughly 800,000 federal workers were bracing for their second missed paycheck, the White House was facing an intensifying backlash over seemingly out-of-touch comments from Trump’s group of largely wealthy advisers.
The comments are also handing Democrats leverage as party leaders and Trump have failed to reach a compromise on the president’s demand for $5.7 billion in border wall funding.
Ross went on CNBC to minimize the shutdown’s toll on thousands of workers who live paycheck to paycheck.
“These are basically government-guaranteed loans because the government has committed, these folks will get back pay once this whole thing gets settled down,” Ross said. “So there is really not a good excuse why there really should be a liquidity crisis now.”
“Now true, the people might have to pay a little bit of interest, but the idea that it’s paycheck or zero is not a really valid idea,” he continued.
Federal employees have reported going to homeless shelters to find food for their families, but when asked on Thursday about the desperate measures, Ross replied: “Well, I know they are, and I don’t really quite understand why.” Ross argued with loans backed by the guaranteed back pay, federal workers should be able to find the money to carry them through the shutdown.
Regardless of the individual cost on federal employees, Ross said the shutdown won’t be too damaging for the country’s image or economy. “You’re talking about 800,000 workers and while I feel sorry for the individuals that have hardship cases, 800,000 workers, if they never got their pay — which is not the case, they will eventually get it, but if they never got it, you’re talking about a third of a percent on GDP so it’s not like it’s a gigantic number overall,” he said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quickly pounced on the comments, characterizing them as a “let-them-eat-cake attitude.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also drew parallels between Ross and Marie Antoinette, pointing out that Ross is a billionaire while many federal employees live paycheck to paycheck. “Those comments are appalling and reveal the administration’s callous indifference towards the federal workers it is treating as pawns,” Schumer said. “Secretary Ross, they just can’t call their stockbroker and ask them to sell some of their shares.”
Even Trump distanced himself from Ross’s comments, saying Thursday afternoon, “I haven’t heard the statement, but I do understand that perhaps he should’ve said it differently.” Still, Trump praised Ross’s performance and suggested the commerce secretary was merely implying mortgage lenders and grocers in the same communities as federal workers would help them “work along.”
Ross also tried to backpedal on his tone Thursday afternoon, telling Bloomberg TV that he and the rest of the administration are aware of the hardships federal workers face, and that he was merely trying to “make sure that they’re aware that there are possible other things that could help somewhat mitigate their problems.”
Other Trump officials have also received backlash for comments that seemed out of step with the thousands of federal workers who have burned through the savings.
Kevin Hassett, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, got flak earlier in the shutdown after appearing to compare the shutdown to free vacation time. Hassett said a huge share of government workers had been planning to take vacation days around the Christmas and New Year holidays, and thus wouldn’t have worked during parts of the shutdown anyway — but would get to keep their vacation days, leaving them “better off” because they’d be receiving back pay. Hassett later said his words were taken out of context. “Of course, nobody thinks that government workers are better off because of the furlough,” he told reporters last week. “It’s demoralizing and a tremendous waste of human capital.”
Lara Trump, an adviser and daughter-in-law to the president, was criticized earlier this week after saying the shutdown was necessary to get strong border security.
“Listen, this is, it’s not fair to you, and we all get that,” she told Bold TV when asked what she would say to furloughed workers. “But this is so much bigger than any one person.”
And Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, told reporters at the White House on Thursday that the shutdown was a “glitch” and that the economy would bounce back the “nanosecond” the government reopened. Kudlow also praised “essential” federal employees going without pay for “working for free” and “volunteering.”
When a reporter pressed Kudlow on his choice of the word “volunteering,” Kudlow snapped back, “You know what I’m saying.”
President Trump has also generated controversy by saying earlier this month that he “can relate” to government workers who are working without pay, but added without evidence that most federal employees support his fight for funding the border wall.
Federal workers are becoming increasingly frustrated with Washington’s standoff. A group of workers staged a sit-in outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office on Wednesday demanding an end to the shutdown. On Thursday, a report showed that the number of federal employees filing for unemployment more than doubled in the second week of January, and increased by more than 1,300 percent from the same period last year.
Some of the president’s allies have started privately worrying that the seemingly callous comments reinforce the perception that the president and his team of wealthy advisers are out of touch with the public.
“Although prioritizing things like a border wall may make sense in the abstract as a policy determination, it gives the impression of not caring about the day-to-day lives of those impacted by the shutdown,” a former senior White House official said.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association also took issue with Ross’s comments about their workers. Transportation Security Administration officers and air traffic controllers are working without pay, and many TSA officers are calling in sick in record numbers to find alternative ways to pay their bills.
Ross said he was concerned about the safety risks the shutdown has created, but put the responsibility on the employees themselves. “It’s kind of disappointing that the air traffic controllers are calling in sick in pretty large numbers,” he said.
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SDCC 13: Firefly Video Game Announcement
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GTA V Gameplay Trailer Arrives
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Adachi Wins National Award for Defense of Poor
Posted On December 6, 2012 Nor Cal News
SAN FRANCISCO — The National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA) has selected San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi as its 2012 Reginald Heber Smith Award winner.
“The Reggie” celebrates the outstanding achievements and dedicated services of an attorney for contributions made while employed by an organization providing civil legal services or indigent defense services.
Public Defender Jeff Adachi at the 2012 Justice Summit.
“In the quest to protect the rights of the poor and disenfranchised, Jeff Adachi’s work in public defense stands as a unique testament to the power of community engagement and the ability of a defender to act as a powerful agent of social change while still providing exemplary trial defense,” said NLADA President and CEO Jo-Ann Wallace. “Mr. Adachi continues to serve as an inspiration across the country to defenders striving to bring about effective representation for all people charged with offenses.”
Adachi, who is California’s only elected public defender, will accept the award Dec. 7 at NLADA’s 2012 Annual Conference in Chicago. The conference marks the beginning of a yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Gideon v. Wainwright. The landmark decision established that poor people accused of crimes are entitled to attorneys.
“It is a tremendous honor to receive an award from an organization committed to equal justice for the poor,” Adachi said. “The hard-working members of my staff share in this honor. They have built San Francisco Public Defender’s national reputation for providing extraordinary and successful legal advocacy on behalf of approximately 25,000 indigent people who are accused of crimes in San Francisco each year.”
NLADA officials noted that, since he was first elected in 2002, Adachi has turned the Public Defender’s Office into a top-notch criminal defense firm that boasts a 50 percent win rate of all cases taken to trial. Under his leadership, the office has developed an aggressive training program by which its 92 attorneys and 67 support staff keep their skills sharp and current. As a result, those who cannot afford an attorney are provided competent, vigorous legal representation.
“Jeff Adachi’s work embodies the concept of ‘speaking truth to power,’ remaining steadfast in his commitment and mission while utilizing innovative means to share the cold realities his clients face. In this way, Mr. Adachi’s work does not just alter the lives of persons with limited means in San Francisco, but fuels the move for equal justice across the nation,” Wallace said.
Wallace added that Adachi has significantly advanced the cause of equal justice for both individuals and communities outside the courtroom as well. In 1998, Adachi founded the Clean Slate program, a free service that offers people with old convictions a chance to clear their records, which has led thousands of people over the past decade to find vocational, educational and housing opportunities.
He has taken a holistic approach to reducing recidivism by providing a panoply of innovative programs to clients such as drug court, behavioral health court, a full-service juvenile division and on-site social workers. Adachi also co-founded the Reentry Council, which helps coordinate services and assistance to individuals recently released from prison.
In 2011, Adachi exposed violations of constitutional rights by police who were entering residential hotel rooms without warrants. The revelations resulted in an ongoing FBI investigation, dismissal of nearly 100 criminal cases, the dissolution of a troubled undercover unit, and nearly a dozen problem police officers being taken off the streets.
He has advocated reforming the Police Department’s crime lab, which came under fire in 2010 when a senior lab technician removed drugs from the lab for personal use.
Adachi has worked to educate the public on the importance of constitutional rights and the presumption of innocence. In 2009, he produced a television public service announcement, “Innocent Until Proven Guilty,” which takes aim at racial profiling while illustrating for viewers the presumption of innocence.
Adachi and his office have hosted the city’s annual Justice Summit for the past 10 years. The televised one-day event has served to educate the public on important developments in criminal and juvenile justice. Adachi also founded the MAGIC programs, which support youth and family agencies in the Bayview Hunters Point and Western Addition neighborhoods.
In 2009, Adachi successfully challenged budget cuts to his office by refusing to take on new cases, rallying the public in front of City Hall, writing numerous op-eds, and lobbying the mayor and the Board of Supervisors. Cuts to the office’s budget were eventually reversed.
NLADA officials also cited Adachi’s outspoken defense of civil rights for San Franciscans who do not have a strong voice in the public sphere. He has vigorously opposed unfair laws that criminalize homelessness and has successfully defended individuals who were barred from their neighborhoods due to being unfairly placed on gang injunction lists.
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Media ignore JFK's anti-communism
Our media remembered President Kennedy, but not what he stood for in global affairs and what made him a communist target.
On Friday, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings unveiled a monument inscribed with the last words of a speech that Kennedy never got to deliver to businessmen at the Dallas Trade Mart. The words included: "We in this country, in this generation, are – by destiny rather than choice – the watchmen on the walls of world freedom."
The speech was anti-communist and pro-freedom to its core. It would not be delivered by any liberal Democrat in this day and age.
Kennedy's prepared remarks said, "I realize that this Nation often tends to identify turning-points in world affairs with the major addresses which preceded them. But it was not the Monroe Doctrine that kept all Europe away from this hemisphere – it was the strength of the British fleet and the width of the Atlantic Ocean. It was not General Marshall's speech at Harvard which kept communism out of Western Europe – it was the strength and stability made possible by our military and economic assistance."
Our media did not remind the American people that Kennedy was an anti-communist determined to stop communism's advance around the world by making the U.S. into the strongest military power on earth. This was the main subject of the speech Kennedy never gave.
In his prepared remarks, he said the U.S. would not "watch the Communists conquer Laos by force, or intervene in the Congo, or swallow West Berlin, or maintain offensive missiles on Cuba. But while our goals were at least temporarily obtained in these and other instances, our successful defense of freedom was not due to the words we used, but to the strength we stood ready to use on behalf of the principles we stand ready to defend...."
Ominously, Kennedy, the victim of a communist assassin, spoke in the prepared remarks of "the guerrillas, saboteurs, insurgents and assassins who threaten freedom" in the world. It was a clear reference to Castro and communist efforts to take Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Much of the speech was about building up U.S. military strength, both conventional and nuclear forces. He said, "...the lessons of the last decade have taught us that freedom cannot be defended by strategic nuclear power alone. We have, therefore, in the last three years accelerated the development and deployment of tactical nuclear weapons, and increased by 60 percent the tactical nuclear forces deployed in Western Europe." Kennedy understood the nature of the Soviet threat to Europe.
He went on: "But American military might should not and need not stand alone against the ambitions of international communism. Our security and strength, in the last analysis, directly depend on the security and strength of others, and that is why our military and economic assistance plays such a key role in enabling those who live on the periphery of the Communist world to maintain their independence of choice. Our assistance to these nations can be painful, risky, and costly, as is true in Southeast Asia today. But we dare not weary of the task. For our assistance makes possible the stationing of 3.5 million allied troops along the Communist frontier at one-tenth the cost of maintaining a comparable number of American soldiers. A successful Communist breakthrough in these area, necessitating direct United States intervention, would cost us several times as much as our entire foreign aid program, and might cost us heavily in American lives as well."
The President explained that "About 70 percent of our military assistance goes to nine key countries located on or near the borders of the Communist-bloc – nine countries confronted directly or indirectly with the threat of Communistic aggression – Vietnam, Free China, Korea, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Greece, Turkey, and Iran. No one of these countries possesses on its own the resources to maintain the forces which our own Chiefs of Staff think needed in the common interest. Reducing our efforts to train, equip, and assist their armies can only encourage Communist penetration and require in time the increased overseas deployment of American combat forces."
But on Friday night's "NBC Nightly News," Kennedy's pro-military stance was completely ignored.
Curiously, anchor Brian Williams played a portion of a telephone call involving Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, who "feared a wider plot" in the murder of Kennedy. Johnson had said in the phone call, "What raced through my mind was if they had shot our president driving down there, who would they shoot next? And what, what was going on in Washington. And when would the missiles be coming?"
Who were "they?" Missiles from where? From the Soviet Union, of course. And "they" were the communists. Johnson knew the Soviets and their surrogates the Cubans were behind the assassination. For this reason, the foreign connections of Oswald were played down in the Warren Commission report. LBJ feared a world war.
Fifty years after communist Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy, our media still don't want to be explicit about the assassin, his motives, and his backers. After all, Castro, one of their favorites, is still helping run Cuba.
Perhaps the truth is too discomforting to Democrats. After all, Kennedy was one of the last liberal anti-communists. Reminding the public about Kennedy's commitment to freedom around the world might cause people to compare and contrast JFK's pro-freedom message to the actions of the current Democratic President Barack Obama, who, on the very day Kennedy was being remembered, was sending his Secretary of State to Geneva to make a deal with the anti-American terrorist regime in Iran.
Rather than build up U.S. nuclear forces, which are on the decline, Obama is seeking to allow most aspects of the Iranian nuclear program to proceed.
Can anyone imagine Obama saying "We dare not weary of the task" of defending freedom? On the contrary, America is on the decline, while our enemies and adversaries are on the march.
Kennedy's speech concluded, "We, in this country, in this generation, are – by destiny rather than by choice – the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of 'peace on earth, good will toward men.' That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: 'except the Lord keep the city, the watchmen waketh but in vain.'"
A reader responded to the posting of this speech on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website by commenting, "If you didn't know whose speech this was, you'd think it was written by Ronald Reagan. What Democrat politician would give such a speech today? If anyone gave that speech today, the left would label him a right-wing religious zealot and scream at him for not keeping the separation of church and state. Yet, the left still regards JFK as their ideal president. What must it be like to have such double standards coming from one brain?"
That is why the liberal media must constantly be challenged to tell the truth about JFK.
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Gay, nurture or nature?
Posted on June 28, 2013 by roxics
I don’t necessarily believe that all people who are gay were born gay.
Humanity is a spectrum and sexuality falls on that spectrum. You’ll hear people say (myself included) that sexuality is fluid. I very much believe that. We know that there is no gay gene. But there are epi-marks that act as switches on the genes to affect them. This happens in the womb. It’s one of the reasons why homosexuality hasn’t been weeded out by evolution. If it was purely genetic it could potentially be weeded out. But it’s not.
That said, we have to consider nature itself. Human beings have a strange way of classifying things. For some reason we tend to believe that when it comes to humans, nature is purely a physical thing with some mental side effects due to physical abnormalities in the brain. We rarely consider how humans think as also being natural. In fact we don’t like to think this way because it tends to undermine our concept of free will. We tend to hold this firm belief that we have absolute free will. Undercutting this belief is dangerous for us. If people don’t have free will then they really aren’t responsible for their actions right? That pretty much voids everything. Suddenly the murderer and rapist know not what they do. Suddenly the guy (or girl) who works hard to “make it” really didn’t do it out of self drive but instead because they had no other choice. All of our heros and villians are reduced to characters in a book playing out a predetermined storyline.
Then of course there is the fact that we feel we have fee will. Afterall we think about things and we act on some things and not on others. We change our minds about things. So we actively make choices. We must have free will right?
I’ve had discussions in the past with some enlightened folks about free will and our general conclusion was that free will really does not exist. Only the illusion of free will exists. I’m not entirely convinced of that. I think there is a bit of both going on here. I can’t explain how that works. It seems there would be a contradiction but I’m sure there is an explaination somewhere down the rabbit hole. Quantum physics seems like a contradiction of newtonian physics and yet it all seems to work.
So what does this have to do with homosexuality? The idea is simple, you have very little control over the world around you. Little control over who you are. You did not ask to be born. You had no control over who raised you, the color of your skin, your genetics, the country you were born into or the first language you spoke. What influenced you is also beyond your control. Why do certain songs resonate with you more than others? Why are you attracted to that person and not the other? Who are you really, do you even know? You think you know. You try to explain to yourself and others who you are. You grasp onto certain things that seem to be the most consistent. But you weren’t always who you are today and there is a good chance that who you are twenty years from now is not the same as today.
Human beings are fluid. We may have characteristics about ourselves that never seem to change, some of them don’t. But did you ever really have control over what those characteristics were to begin with? Why did you chose A instead of B. Maybe you reasoned it out and came to the conclusion that A was the better choice based on a number of factors. But even when you reasoned it out there were a number of other factors that came into play that you were completely unaware of. Influences and knowledge you gained throughout life that may have shaped you and been completely out of your control. For example, you may have chosen to read this article, but you can’t chose your first impression of it or the thoughts that might randomly pop in your head as you think it through.
Sexuality is just one of so many things in the spectrum of life. It doesn’t need to be a purely physical trait in order for it to be natrual. Blue may be your favorite color, but physically the human eye has more green receptors in it. By purely physical standards, everyone’s favorite color should be green. But it’s not. Other factors come into play. You could argue that someone’s favorite color is a choice. Favorite colors aren’t determined by genetics. But if they are more attracted to blue that is not simply a choice . They really are more attracted to blue. It may very well be that they are more attracted to blue for a number of reasons unknown to them. Various influences throughout their life. Maybe positive reinforcement of that color. Maybe it was the color of their favortire cartoon character as a child or the color of a car they thought was really cool when they were young. Who knows?
So we can’t dismiss homosexuality as purely a choice. People make the mistake of coming to that conclusion when they see people who have acted straight their whole lives suddenly “turn” gay in their twenties or thirties or forties. Maybe they were always gay and just didn’t want to come out about it due to fear. Maybe they didn’t fully understand it themselves until now. Maybe they really did turn gay as they got older due to hormonal changes or various other unknown influences. It would be hard to call that gay. That’s more bisexual. I think more people naturally fall on the bisexual side than strictly gay or straight. Even some people who call themselves gay or straight are really more bisexual or fluid if they were to examine themselves completely. They develop different attractions over time and perhaps even change their bias. Who knows why? Maybe part of it is choice, part society and part influences unknown. Does it really matter? All orientations are perfectly natural. Even switching it up over time is perfectly natural. But then, techincally speaking, all things are natural. Unless something is supernatural than it is part of the natural world.
I think that saying it’s a gay gene today or saying that people are born gay is really more of a social marketing piece. The latter is not entirely inaccurate, but doesn’t really go into detail. We use this marketing piece because it’s easy to use. In a fight for equal rights we can say that someone is born gay and it’s out of their control. People take that with weight. It’s easier than having to explain everything I said above. Especially when you face religious fanactics who are convinced that gay people are consciously making a choice to be gay. Well, the truth is, yeah a lot of them are. At least to the degree that they are choosing to live the gay lifestyle. But they aren’t choosing to be attracted to who they are attracted to.
There is no way to control or prevent this through culture or law without people suffering. Our goal as a would should be to reduce suffering and enhance freedom for everyone.
What we really should be saying is, who cares? What does it really matter if someone is gay and choses to live openly that way? If it makes them happy, let them be happy. It doesn’t matter what combination of things lead them to be that way.
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3 thoughts on “Gay, nurture or nature?”
Chris Schultz says:
Ultimately, there may be so many factors influencing one’s sexuality that we may never know all of them. The binary gay/straight classifications are probably over-simplifications of a much richer spectrum of sexuality. And I have no doubt that there are cultural and societal factors that influence the extent to which you recognise and respond to sexual urges that do not fit in with the general expectations of your surrounding society.
rushmorejudd says:
I don’t feel like I’ve chosen my sexual proclivities. What turns me on turns me on. Luckily for me, what turns me on mostly falls within the realm of what is considered normal heterosexual behavior. I don’t feel that I can choose to be turned on watching two guys get it on. It just doesn’t do it for me. Having said that I do believe we have free will and some alcoholics can avoid drink and some priests can avoid sex. Those aren’t easy choices for those people.
Our past society has created an environment where when considering all factors of life, many gays have chosen to keep their desires hidden and have pretended to be “normal.” This has not been a healthy approach in my opinion and I’m glad to see our society becoming more accepting of gays. Transparency, acceptance, self understanding. It’s time for new “norms” in our society.
philpalm says:
Right about rushmore’s example on alcoholics and priests. Human beings at times can will themselves to do actions contrary that would get them into trouble. But child molesters and sex offenders often lie about how they are willfully trying to avoid the actions that got them into trouble in the first place.
The summary:”What we really should be saying is, who cares? What does it really matter if someone is gay and choses to live openly that way? If it makes them happy, let them be happy. It doesn’t matter what combination of things lead them to be that way.” Basically we can legislate laws that prevent bigomy, child molesting, rape and domestic violence but we can’t really legislate to ban those who are gay or transgendered.
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The Liliuokalani reign (1891 - 1893) was short lived and ended with the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii by American forces. When imprisoned in Iolani Palace, the Queen called out to her fellow Christians of her tragic fate. Queen Liliuokalani is still loved by her people who continue to mourn the loss of their Queen and the Kingdom of Hawaii. Liliuokalani, the sister of King Kalakaua, took the oath of office and was proclaimed queen on Jan. 29, 1891, after the death of her brother. She was a brilliant woman, talented and dignified. Queen Liliuokalani's reign of less than two years was filled with trouble and after much despair, ended in failure when on July 4, 1894 the Republic of Hawaii was proclaimed. Liliuokalani was an author in English and Hawaiian and was the most accomplished musician and composer in her family. She composed over 600 songs, some of Hawaii's most inspiring musical works, among which is one of the most beautiful, yet saddest of all Hawaiian songs, Aloha Oe: Farewell to Thee. Even though it seems to have been written as a farewell song between two lovers, it is more poetically thought of as being written by the Queen as a lasting farewell to her reign and the end of the Kingdom of Hawaii as a sovereign and independent country. In addition to writing music, she played the piano. ukulele, guitar, zither and organ. With her training and education she understood ancient Hawaiian and Western music as well as any musician in her time. Queen Liliuokalani is still remembered and loved for all she did for the Hawaiian people.
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TNT Boys secures spot in the next round of ‘World’s Best’ battle
After a fiery performance of “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” in the battle rounds, the TNT Boys are definitely staying in “The World’s Best” as they once again put the audience and the judges in awe and secured a spot in the next round of the competition.
The trio of Mackie Empuerto, Keifer Sanchez, at Francis Concepcion’s performance garnered a total judges’ score of 97 and a standing ovation from the American and international judges, and in turn beat South Korea’s dance group Emotional Line that only got a score of 43. Their explosive performance was also an instant hit online as it garnered over 2.2 million views in just a day and ranked 3rd on YouTube’s trending videos.
American judges RuPaul, Faith Hill, and Drew Barrymore also failed to contain their excitement for the performance and shared how much they were impressed by the Pinoy trio.
“I love them! I already love them. I didn’t think I could love them anymore, but my goodness, every note – pitch perfect! You boys are fabulous,” said RuPaul.
“I think you’re the embodiment of what this show is about — it’s an all ages party. Everyone’s invited,” told Drew.
“I think we are all witnessing superstars. You have that kind of confidence that allows the audience to relax and enjoy your performance. I just feel the luckiest person in the world,” Faith added.
Aside from conquering the international scene, the TNT Boys also continue to get recognitions locally as they were recently named the Concert Performer of the Year by the National Customers’ Choice Annual Awards 2019, based on customers and business surveys conducted by the Consumer Eye Marketing and Research Council that honors outstanding companies, products, individuals, and service providers in the country.
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Pinnacle demonstrates its difference at event show
Following the launch of its new corporate identity and re-branding, Pinnacle Crew (formerly Pinnicle Solutions) will be at the Event Show (stand no: 527) to reinforce its position as a dynamic, major and well-established company in the crewing industry.
Visitors to Pinnacle Crew’s stand will be able to see how the re-branding reflects the company’s ability to change with the times, and to discuss how their specific requirements can be met.
As managing director, Heath Freeman explains:
“At Pinnacle we pride ourselves on being flexible. We are always looking for ways in which we can best fulfil our clients’ needs, and make changes that are beneficial to both parties.”
In this regard, Pinnacle claims it is the only crewing company that has carried out a customer perception survey. This showed that responding to changing needs and providing experienced crews were important factors to people when making the decision on which crewing company to appoint.
Adds Freeman:
“As well as our on-going training programme that ensures our crews provide a high calibre performance on site, we are also constantly looking at the company as a whole and at ways in which we can improve every facet of our operation. In this way we believe we can make a real difference to the industry.”
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Pinnacle Crew (formerly Pinnicle Solutions) was founded in 2001 by Heath Freeman and Mark Mower following several years experience in the live events industry. They saw a gap in the market for crew who could multi-task and bridge the gap between those crews who purely carry equipment, and technicians. This means that Pinnacle crew are more technically aware than many other crews in the industry. The company also puts a great emphasis on health and safety, ensuring that all their crew are fully trained and familiar with typical scenarios and equipment.
Pinnicle changes to Pinnacle to reach the top
Leading crewing company Pinnicle Solutions has undergone a major re-brand and name change with the aim of better communicating its core business.
Now known as Pinnacle Crew, the company has a new modernised logo that clarifies the brand and maintains its reputation as an up-to-date supplier of highly trained and qualified crew for the live events industry.
As managing director Heath Freeman explains:
“Crewing is our entire emphasis. We took a decision a long time ago to be solely a crewing company and to concentrate all our efforts in this particular field. This means we are not distracted from what is our true area of expertise, as has seemed to have happened with some of our competitors. We feel being a dedicated crewing company best serves the needs of our clients.”
The change of spelling from Pinnicle to Pinnacle is also part of the company’s intention to offer the best possible service to the industry. It enables easier Internet search for both existing and potential clients, and clearly communicates the company’s position as one of the top crewing operations in the industry.
The new Pinnacle web site may be found at www.pinnaclecrew.co.uk.
The company was founded in 2001 by Heath Freeman and Mark Mower following several years experience in the live events industry. They saw a gap in the market for crew who could multi-task and bridge the gap between those crews who purely carry equipment, and technicians. This means that Pinnacle crew are more technically aware than many other crews in the industry. The company also puts a great emphasis on health and safety, ensuring that all their crew are fully trained and familiar with typical scenarios and equipment.
Picture (above) shows Pinnacle managing director Heath Freeman (centre), financial director Mark Mower (right) and operations manager Mark Sly displaying the company’s new corporate image and logo during a recent sponsored cycle ride to Paris, which raised around £2,000 for the Foundations for the Study of Infant Deaths.
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The Fed Hits the Brakes: No Rate Hikes Projected in 2019
At its meeting on March 20, 2019, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) maintained the benchmark federal funds rate at the target range of 2.25% to 2.50% that was set in December 2018. This in itself was not surprising. But other communications signaled a definite hiatus in the Fed’s policy of raising interest rates and tightening the money supply.1
The FOMC has raised the funds rate nine times since December 2015, with four increases in 2018 alone. As recently as September 2018, the committee projected three more increases in 2019. That dropped to two projected increases at the December meeting. But the March projections suggest that there may be no rate increases in 2019 at all.2
The FOMC also indicated that it would slow its program of reducing excess reserves of Treasuries and other government securities that were built up during and after the recession in a policy known as quantitative easing. The reduction program will stop after September 2019 unless conditions change, reflecting the Fed’s belief that there is no need for further tightening of the money supply.3
The strongest communication to come out of the March meeting may be the unusually direct comments from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. “We don’t see data coming in that suggest we should move in either direction,” he said. “They suggest that we should remain patient and let the situation clarify itself over time....It may be some time before the outlook for jobs and inflation calls clearly for a change in policy.”4
Dual Mandate
Powell’s reference to jobs and inflation reflects the Federal Reserve’s dual mandate to foster maximum employment and price stability. The FOMC sets monetary policy in accordance with the mandate, using two primary tools: the federal funds rate and the monetary supply.
The federal funds rate is the interest rate at which banks lend funds to each other overnight to maintain legally required reserves. The funds rate serves as a benchmark for many short-term rates set by banks, including the prime rate, which in turn influences consumer rates such as auto loans and credit-card rates. It can also influence longer-term rates.
Theoretically, lowering interest rates and increasing the money supply will stimulate the economy, which is why the Fed took these measures during the recession and extended them through the long, slow recovery. (The federal funds rate was near zero for eight years, from December 2007 to December 2015.)
On the other hand, raising rates and tightening the money supply are intended to slow the economy, primarily to control inflation. In theory, a strong economy with low unemployment should put workers in a position to demand higher wages, and higher wages allow businesses to raise prices on their products, which allows them to expand and pay higher wages.
A moderate level of wage and price inflation is considered integral to a healthy economy, and the Fed has set a goal of 2% annual inflation as optimal for economic growth. However, despite a strong labor market, wages and the broader economy have not grown as quickly as expected, and inflation has generally remained below the 2% target. Thus, raising rates has been more of a preventive measure and return to historical norms than a response to an overheated economy or runaway inflation.
The shift from further rate increases suggests that the Fed believes there is little to fear regarding high inflation. In fact, Powell said that the greater danger is low global inflation, calling it “one of the major challenges of our time.”5 While the Fed has raised rates steadily over the last three years — providing flexibility to drop rates if necessary — central banks in other countries have been slow to act due to sluggish economies and low inflation. Some have kept their benchmark rates below 0%, creating a risk of asset “bubbles” and placing them in a difficult position in the event of an economic downturn.6
Market Reactions
The stock market rose moderately after the FOMC announcement, but stocks still closed with a small loss for the day. The market generally applauds lower interest rates, but investors continue to be jittery about the potential for global economic weakness. In the longer term, stable interest rates at current levels may be good for stocks, which began to rally on January 4, 2019 — when Powell first preached “patience” — and gained more than 15% through March 20.7
The reaction in the bond market was stronger. The prospect of lower rates for an extended period — along with the Fed's decision to keep more Treasuries in its portfolio — made current yields more appealing. Investors rushed to buy Treasury securities and other bonds, driving prices up and yields down. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.52%, the lowest level in 15 months and just seven basis points (0.07%) above the yield on the three-month T-bill — nearing a “yield curve inversion” considered by some economists to predict a recession. Two days later, on March 22, the curve inverted for the first time since 2007, with demand for longer-term bonds driven by soft global growth.8
Although pessimists have feared a new recession for years, Powell emphasized that the U.S. economy is “in a good place,” and the official FOMC policy statement pointed to “sustained expansion of economic activity” in its expectations for future economic direction.9–10 A potential pause in rate hikes this year does reflect some concern about economic growth, but it also suggests that the Fed believes the current level is a neutral rate where further movement up or down could have a negative effect. This is not necessarily cause for concern. It may just mean that the Fed is doing its job.
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1–3, 10) Federal Reserve, 2018–2019
4–5, 9) Bloomberg, March 20, 2019
6) The Wall Street Journal, March 21, 2019
7) The New York Times, January 4, 2019; March 20, 2019
8) MarketWatch, March 20 and 22, 2019
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"The Girl In The Spider's Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story"
Sneak Peek new footage, plus images from Columbia Pictures' upcoming crime thriller "The Girl in the Spider's Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story", directed by Fede Álvarez, as the sequel to "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2011), based on the novel by David Lagercrantz, starring Claire Foy ("The Crown"), Sverrir Gudnason, Sylvia Hoeks, Claes Bang, LaKeith Stanfield, Cameron Britton and Stephen Merchant, opening November 9, 2018:
"...computer hacker 'Lisbeth Salander' (Claire Foy) and journalist 'Mikael Blomkvist' (Sverrir Gudnason) find themselves caught in a web of spies, cyber criminals and corrupt government officials..."
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By admin on September 12, 2018 News
BY GRAHAM O’DWYER
On Monday September 3rd at about 3pm, Nike launched its campaign for the 30th anniversary of ‘Just Do It,’ the company’s slogan. The footwear and clothing company was founded back in 1964 and has been rolling with the ‘Just Do It’ slogan for the past 30 years. “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything,” reads the face of Nike’s 30th anniversary ‘Just Do It’ poster. The face of the campaign; former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
Kaepernick played in the National Football League until the 2017 season. He first became a household name among football fans when he helped lead the 49ers to the Super Bowl back in 2013. Kaepernick is now known by more than just football fans for his continued fight against social injustices in the United States.
Kaepernick is probably best known for being the first NFL player to take a knee during the national anthem in order to protest police brutality. His demonstration went on to start a movement within the league among other players to also kneel during the anthem.
Kaepernick did not start his protest by kneeling during the anthem though. Rather, he initially sat on the bench during the playing of the anthem back in a couple of 2016 preseason games. Eventually he decided to kneel instead of sitting to express more respect towards veterans and active duty members. U.S. Army veteran Nate Boyer was the one who was able to convince Kaepernick to kneel instead of sit during the anthem.
“After hours of careful consideration, and even a visit from Nate Boyer, a retired Green Beret and former NFL player, we came to the conclusion that we should kneel, rather than sit, the next day during the anthem as a peaceful protest,” said Eric Reid, Kaepernick’s ex-teammate, who regularly joined him in protest.
Kaepernick and the other players who joined him received positive response from some, but they also faced quite a bit of criticism from others. Kaepernick repeatedly heard criticism for his continued protest throughout the 2016/2017 season, as many viewed his movement as disrespectful to the country, flag, and, more specifically, to veterans and active duty members.
Currently Kaepernick is not playing professional football as no team decided to sign him last season. Another ongoing part of the story, because of teams refusing to sign the former starting quarterback, is the collusion case against the NFL. There is belief that teams will not sign Kaepernick due to the past protests and the fear that it might hurt the organizations image. This is still actively being investigated.
With Kaepernick not on a roster, he has been devoting his time to his movement and fight against social injustices and police brutality. That said, his name had not been in the headlines for a while. Kaepernick immediately reentered the spotlight on Monday when he announced on Twitter that he had partnered with Nike to promote the 30th anniversary of ‘Just Do It.’
On Tuesday, the day after the announcement of the campaign, Nike’s stock took a bit of a hit, initially dropping by about 3 percent. Nike’s stock has grown over 30 percent so far this year, so we will have to see how this setback affects the company down the road.
On Thursday, Nike aired the 30th anniversary commercial during the Philadelphia Eagles and Atlanta Falcons game, the opening game of the 2018/2019 NFL season. The commercial featured Kaepernick, of course, as well as other popular athletes, such as LeBron James, Serena Williams and Odell Beckham Jr. These athletes have been known to be vocal in regards to social issues and injustices.
Similar to Kaepernick’s kneeling protest, Nike’s campaign received both positive and negative reactions. A movement to boycott Nike was formed and some people began burning their Nike products and cutting out the company logo on their clothes.
Although Nike’s stock slipped at first, it has relatively stabilized over the past few days. Nike has also said that their online sales have gone up 31 percent since the company’s commercial aired on Thursday Night Football.
It will be something to keep an eye on in the coming weeks, seeing what direction the campaign moves next and how it affects the company as a whole over time.
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Women’s Work: How ‘Ernai’ Mistresses Bolster Fragile Masculinity
Not all extramarital relationships are about sex. Some Chinese men keep “ernai,” or financially dependent mistresses, for reasons as much emotional as they are physical.
Xiao Suowei
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Xiao Suowei is an associate professor of sociology at Beijing Normal University.
This article is the first in a two-part series on Chinese “ernai.”
It was a warm winter afternoon when I arrived at Ah-Fei’s door — to protect the identities of my research subjects, I’ve given them all pseudonyms — and I found her watching soap operas in her 70-square-meter suburban apartment. Her boyfriend, Ah-Dong, who helps manage a construction company in the southern city of Guangzhou where they live, had just left. He’d likely gone home to see his wife and family.
“We did nothing; we just chatted, and he cuddled me for a bit,” Ah-Fei said, before confiding in me that it had been a long time since they’d had sex. “He’s not in good shape. He can’t last more than a round or two, and he wants to save that for his wife.”
Ah-Fei isn’t a run-of-the-mill mistress or extramarital fling: She’s what’s known in China as an ernai, a colloquial term for a woman involved in a financially dependent relationship with a married man. While Chinese typically assume that the primary reason a man would have an ernai is for sex, many of these couples don’t have sex on a regular basis, and some don’t have it at all. Instead, men value ernai for their willingness to be feminine in a way calculated to meet the emotional needs of their “husbands” — which in turn generally vary according to class.
To better understand what lies behind this phenomenon, I interviewed 16 ernai or former ernai, as well as seven men involved in ernai relationships, in Guangzhou and the eastern city of Ningbo between 2005 and 2007. I found that keeping an ernai is less about sex and more about gender: Specifically, ernai help men reconstruct or perform masculinity by engaging in a variety of domestic, emotional, and symbolic activities. As part of this, the women involved are expected to put up with treatment that can range from emotionally taxing to abusive.
In the 40 years since China launched its market reforms, intimate and familial relationships have undergone a dramatic shift. During the Mao era, women were active outside the home and expected to take an equal role in the work of economic construction. However, the late 1970s and early ’80s saw a reemergence of conservative marital and gender norms, in which men’s main role was to work and earn money to feed their families, whereas the primary role of women was to look after the household.
The chasm between rich and poor has financially emasculated working- and lower middle-class men.
- Xiao Suowei, sociologist
At the same time, working- and lower middle-class urbanites have increasingly found themselves on the wrong side of an ever-widening wealth gap. In a country in which one’s masculinity is in no small part defined by one’s income, the chasm between rich and poor has financially emasculated working- and lower middle-class men. While men may once have compensated for this by expecting their wives to be submissive and care for them, this is increasingly infeasible in modern China, as women wield more economic power and have started expecting their husbands to contribute more to household chores.
At the time of my study, Ah-Cai was a 40-year-old salesman who worked for a state-owned company in the eastern province of Zhejiang. His job required him to work between 10 and 15 days a month in Guangzhou, time he spent living with his ernai, Ah-Run.
Although their apartment was on the shabby side, Ah-Run managed to keep it remarkably tidy. When Ah-Cai was in town, his 38-year-old ernai from the neighboring Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region prepared breakfast for him, cleaned his room, washed his clothes, and cooked his favorite dishes for dinner. Ah-Cai paid for her rent and covered her expenses during that time. He also sent her an additional 800 yuan ($100) every month.
Back home in Zhejiang, Ah-Cai was the one responsible for all the household chores. His wife was an accountant who earned about the same as him each month. When he was away on business, she had to juggle her professional duties with child care and housework, so when Ah-Cai got back, he took on the lion’s share of the cooking and cleaning. During his time with Ah-Run, on the other hand, he could sit back and enjoy her care.
There is a notable difference in the qualities lower-class men and their wealthier counterparts look for in an ernai. For working- or lower middle-class men like Ah-Cai, their primary concern is usually reclaiming their traditional dominant role in the family. Thus, their ernai typically focus on caring for their partner and offering them emotional comfort and support. By acting obedient and quietly providing gendered emotional labor, they help produce, consolidate, and enhance their men’s sense of self-worth and dignity, allowing their partners to feel like they’re providers again.
But while lower-class men generally see their ernai as a way of reconstructing their masculinity in the private realm, the wealthy and powerful look for something else out of their second wives: a trophy and visible symbol of their virility.
Businessmen’s ernai therefore don’t spend as much time on housework as their lower-class counterparts. Instead, their focus is on making their partner look as good as possible, in part by helping them gain face, validating their authority, and affirming their charm.
Attractive women are often regarded as the most valuable male trophies, especially among nouveau riche entrepreneurs and businessmen. Businessmen’s ernai must therefore work hard to project the image of a doting, attractive mate. When considering this, they typically receive far more money per month than working-class ernai. At the time of my study, a businessman’s ernai could earn anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 yuan a month, a not insignificant sum.
As part of their duties, they’re expected to escort their partners to social and networking events in nightclubs and other entertainment venues. One’s real wife is rarely welcome on such occasions, as they are seen as sexless killjoys, whereas other men in attendance deem the presence of ernai both proper and desirable. The abovementioned Ah-Fei, for example, once went with Ah-Dong to play mahjong with his friends every night for two straight weeks, staying up until around 5 a.m. every time to do so.
It’s common for ‘ernai’ of all kinds to experience verbal abuse from their partners.
Yet, once they return home, businessmen’s ernai are expected to be just as docile and submissive as their working-class counterparts. It’s common for ernai of all kinds to experience verbal abuse from their partners. Once, when Ah-Fei complained that Ah-Dong was not spending enough time with her, he responded by shouting at her. ‘‘You bitch!” he cried. “You’ve been f---ed by so many men! What, do you think you’re a virgin? How dare you complain about how I treat you!’’
His words hurt Ah-Fei, but she said nothing, rationalizing that he was stressed for work-related reasons and thus easily annoyed. More importantly, she knew that fighting back would only make things worse, and he might stop providing for her.
Like Ah-Fei, many ernai of wealthier men reported that their partners lost their tempers at them frequently once their extramarital relationship had stabilized. Some of them said they tried fighting back, but their lack of economic security made it difficult. Those who have done so successfully were usually locals with strong support networks. For example, local women will sometimes form support groups and help each other defend their economic and emotional interests.
Despite the abuse, some still see the arrangement as their best option. Ah-Run’s actual husband ran out on her, leaving her deeply in debt, and she said she enjoys the stability of her life with Ah-Cai. Taking care of Ah-Cai, who she saw as an ideal husband-figure compared with her actual spouse, made Ah-Run happy. It also let her fulfill her own fantasies of what a marriage should be like — one in which the man earns the money, and the woman can devote herself to taking care of her family.
In contemporary China, men from lower-class backgrounds experience class disadvantages through emasculation, both at home and in the workplace, and therefore look to perform traditionally masculine roles in their extramarital relationships. Economic elites, on the other hand, seek to use their economic power to cultivate a public image of themselves as virile and desirable. But in both cases, it’s the work of women — in this case, ernai — that enables men to perform their idealized gender and class roles.
Clarification: An earlier version of this article translated ‘ernai’ as ‘second wife.’ While accurate, this may give the impression that such relationships are legally sanctioned. The article has been updated to reflect that fact.
Editors: Cai Yiwen and Kilian O’Donnell.
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Where Is Ice Hockey Played the Most?
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While any country that can make a hall and keep it chilled technically qualifies for playing hockey in its purest form, which countries love the sport the most is still a matter of discussion. So, unlike trying to figure out who likes ice fishing, the Olympics, promotions like the Sportingbet promotion code 2019, or bird watching, we can use actual data to figure out where ice hockey is most popular.
You can find people playing ice hockey in Canada all year, every year. In fact, one could say that Canada is partially responsible for the sport we know and love today. If you take hockey sports from Europe and bring them into the winter-like setting, you get the first recorded indoor game of ice hockey in Montreal in 1875. The Canadians were quick to share their newfound sport with their southern neighbors and, in 1917, have founded the biggest league in the world – the National Hockey League.
The NHL is a big league that is played in North America, and Americans were quick to adopt the crazy physical and adrenaline-packed sport from their Canadian brethren. In fact, they were eager to take over, so the NHL now has 24 teams in the US, as opposed to 7 teams in Canada. Furthermore, while the league was founded in Quebec, its headquarters are now in New York City. Ice hockey is followed closely by more than 600,000 people.
One of the several amazing things about Russia is that ice hockey is the most popular sport there. The second most followed is soccer. You may be surprised, but Russia was among the first to promote and develop this sport. Whether it is today or its days as the Soviet Union, hockey has been and will most likely be a huge part of Russian sports culture. Furthermore, the popularity of the sport spread out to other eastern Slavic countries, like Belarus and the Czech Republic. They have even made Canadians sweat a few times when their national teams collided.
The Nordics
Like we’ve said before – any place that can maintain cold weather and has sports halls can produce amazing hockey players and fans. The Nordic countries are certainly not the exception to that rule, as hockey is really popular in Finland and Sweden most of all. The Finnish developed Liiga in 1975 and is, arguably, the strongest hockey league in entire Europe. The Swedes don’t fall far behind with their legendary team called Tre Kronor, or Three Crowns, which won several medals at the Winter Olympics and a few World Championships as well.
Not legitimately comparable to others on the list, but still strong enough to make the list all the same, Switzerland has been into hockey for over 100 years. They’ve had amazing wins and terrible losses, but have always kept close to the top. Unfortunately, they’ve won no gold medals or first prizes in the World Championships or the Winter Olympics, but they have proven their worth time and time again, standing their ground and not being afraid to challenge the best of the best – and the Swiss know it. It is for this reason that ice hockey is so closely followed in Switzerland.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a rare appearance in Maspeth August 24 to unveil a new fleet of green vehicles, part of the city’s ongoing effort to reduce carbon emissions by the year 2030.
The city has purchased four hybrid electric waste collection trucks, to be used by the Department of Sanitation (DSNY). The trucks will be put to use collecting garbage in Western Queens. The state-of-the-art trucks are the first of their kind to be used anywhere in the United States.
The city also unveiled a fleet of ten all-electric Mini Es vehicles, on loan from BMW, to be used by the Parks Department and the Street Conditions Observation Unit (SCOUT). SCOUT teams patrol the street looking for quality of life issues.
The cars, similar in design to the Mini Cooper, are powered by an 150-kilowatt electric motor and can travel up to 100 miles on a single charge. Still unavailable on the commercial market, they cars are part of a nationwide field test.
Bloomberg said the trucks and cars will help the city meet its PlaNYC goal of reducing the municipal government’s carbon emissions by 30 percent by the year 2017. The plan calls for the city to reduce its entire carbon emissions output by 30 percent by 2030.
City officials did not say by how much the city would reduce carbon emissions through the use of the green trucks and cars.
“Through PlaNYC, our vision for a greener, greater, New York, we’ve been dedicated to reducing pollution and improving the air quality in our City,” Bloomberg said in prepared remarks at the ceremony.
The mayor said while the city encourages residents to use public transportation, some trips will have to be made by car.
“So we want the vehicles driven in New York to be more energy efficient and use cleaner fuels,” Bloomberg said. “I am proud to say that city government is leading by example, with the help of good corporate citizens such as the BMW Group.”
DSNY Commissioner John Doherty said the hybrid-electric vehicles - three collection trucks and one rack truck - ensure New York remains a leader in green sanitation solutions.
“The DSNY is proud to be the first city in the country to use these state-of-the-art hybrid vehicles,” Doherty said. “New York’s Strongest can also be known as New York’s Cleanest.”
Each truck cost $500,000, about twice as much as the current trucks used by DSNY. But because the city and federal government split the cost for each truck, Bloomberg said, the city is actually paying as much for the new high-tech vehicles as for the standard models.
Jim O’Donnell, the president of BMW of North America, who appeared at the ceremony, declined to say how much the Mini Es cars cost.
O’Donnell said their price would go public once field tests are completed and the vehicle hits market.
“We are delighted to be collaborating with the City of New York to improve mobility in one of the world’s largest, most complex, and important cities,” O’Donnell said. “Mayor Bloomberg’s plan for a greener and more sustainable New York is an innovative and exciting initiative.”
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Art Immersion
So much great human history, emotion, and beauty has been distilled into painting and sculpture — but schools leave this mostly untapped. Most of us, indeed, have a hard time spending much time in an art gallery — we stare, we squint, at the works trying to somehow… somehow… experience them. Typically we fail, and move onto the next work.
There are worlds to be entered in works of art, but we feel shut off from them.
We make “engaging art” a regular part of the curriculum.
We do so, in large part, by employing a method of immersing ourselves in a painting or sculpture that’s explained in the book Touching the Art: A Guide to Enjoying Art at a Museum, by Luc Travers.
One of the pieces of art he uses in the book is Pygmalion, by Jean-Léon Gérôme. Here’s the full work:
The teacher puts out a piece of art for all to see. (Preferably, we’ll be able to do this with a projector, a large screen, and a darkened room.) The teacher then leads the students through the following steps:
Create your own title for the work (for example, using the painting above, “Guy kisses statue”). The purpose is to get them to try to make sense of the work as a whole.
Take turns listing off lots of details. (For example: “The statue is turning pink.” “There are freaky masks on the wall.” “There’s a fish at her feet.” “Hey — some angel is about to shoot him with an arrow!” and so on.) This helps the students focus on the dozens of details the artist put in.
See if you can agree on a basic story as to what’s basically going on. (For example: “The statue is so beautiful that it’s coming alive, and it’s kissing its sculptor, and this is all so wonderful that lightly-armed angels are joining in the party.”)
Imagine being one of the characters — imagine seeing what the character is seeing; imagine hearing what they’re hearing; imagine feeling in your fingers and arms and face and body what they’re feeling; imagine smelling and tasting what they’re smelling and tasting.
Now pretend to be that character — move your body so you’re in the same position as they are!
Imagine that each character has a thought bubble coming from their head. What does it say?
Imagine that this painting/sculpture is just one frame of a 60-second video. Imagine watching the previous 30 seconds — what happened? Now imagine watching the next 30 seconds. What happens?
Describe the specific situation the characters are in. (“She’s coming alive, and they’re falling in love.”)
Describe the general situation they’re in. (“Falling in love.”)
Call to mind a specific time in your life, if any, that you’ve been in the same general situation. What did you do? How did it compare to what they characters have done?
Finally, the actual information of the work of art — the artist, the real title, the real explanation — can be shared.
The goal:
Students regularly get out of themselves, and into a piece of art. There’s something joyous about falling into another world.
Students also develop a love of art, and want to create art themselves.
You might find an entire class peering attentively at a painting or statue, scratching their heads, arguing happily, and possibly contorting their bodies into silly positions!
You might also see a single small group of students doing this during their independent time, peering at a painting in an art book.
I’ve found that this method is wonderful for works of art that feature fairly realistic images of people. But lots of art doesn’t have that at all. What other methods can we use to engage other sorts of art?
Any recommendations for books that are full of representational paintings? (Preferably large ones.)
At what age should we introduce nudity? Is it wiser to hold it back until later, or to normalize it earlier?
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Cohen’s revelations get a mixed reaction at CPAC
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Mike Lindell, the founder of My Pillow, told the audience at CPAC on Thursday that President Donald Trump is "the greatest president in history." (Marco Torrez/TMN Intern)
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National Harbor, Md. — Jonathan Skee, a sophomore studying political science at Grove City College in western Pennsylvania, said he wasn’t that shocked by Michael Cohen’s testimony before a Congressional committee on Wednesday.
“I think we should set aside political biases and just hear from him and what he has to say,” Skee said. “[President Donald] Trump is the commander-in-chief and we should know about his past.”
Skee, 20, explained that he wasn’t surprised by any of Cohen’s testimony because everything was already known; this was just a repeat of information. (Much of what the president’s former longtime attorney and fixer said on Wednesday before the House Oversight and Reform Committee had been previously disclosed, but he actually made numerous new allegations about his former boss.) Skee said he wasn’t upset or shocked because he knew Trump “has a lot of character flaws” and “has a shady past.”
Skee came to CPAC 2019 with 39 other students from his college to immerse themselves in Republican politics.
“If he [Cohen] had a bit more evidence about the Russian collusion then I would have been surprised because I’m not that sold that actually happened, but it’s good that they’re investigating because we don’t want foreign governments intruding in our elections,” Skee said.
Dottie Hess, a “70-plus”-year-old retiree who lives in Alexandria, Va., said she has a friend with a Jewish surname who said he is somewhat ashamed of it because he told her that “ ‘Cohen makes all the New York Jews look bad.’ ”
Hess said she agreed with several other Republican members of Congress, including Rep. Carol Miller of West Virginia, that the time spent on Cohen’s testimony was not in the best interests of the American people and was a waste of time and taxpayer dollars.
In addition to his Wednesday testimony, Cohen appeared in closed-door hearings before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday and the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday. He is scheduled to return to Capitol Hill for more testimony before the latter committee next Wednesday.
Hess said she wants the names that are constantly being flashed in the news to go away. But even though she said she didn’t think the testimony was necessary, she did admit that she learned something from it.
“I didn’t know about the collusion with Russia,” Hess said. “That was the takeaway.”
Kerry Brown, 67, an attorney from St. Petersburg, Fla., dressed up as President Abraham Lincoln for CPAC 2019. Unlike Hess or Skee, Brown said he did not watch any of Cohen’s testimony. Brown said he tries to not pay too much attention to daily issues that are streamed across the media.
“I did not and will not” watch Cohen’s testimony, Brown said. “I try to stay away from the shifting sands of everyday headlines.”
Kerry Brown, an attorney from St. Petersburg, Fla., was dressed as President Abraham Lincoln on Thursday at CPAC in National Harbor, Md. (Marco Torrez/TMN Intern)
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3 Oct 2017 | General
The mudflow in the eastern part of Java Island, Indonesia, has got to be one of the strangest natural disasters ever recorded. The mudflow that occurred in 2006 was most likely a result of earthquakes rather than commercial drilling as earlier reported. The earthquake combined forces with unusual geologic formation awakening the mud from underground.
Initially, the probable cause was widely suspected to be triggered by gas drilling by a subsidiary of the EMP energy company. Java in Sidoarjo is located in one of the world’s sensitive geological areas. This is because of the active volcanoes that threatens 62% of Indonesia’s 250 million population. Therefore, the region is considered very unstable.
Since May 2006, the mud volcano has swallowed factories, rice paddles, houses, roads, etc. Over 40,000 residents were displaced and 15 people lost their lives. The eruption is still ongoing and unfortunately, studies predict that it may continue to do so for another two decades. Another study predicts that it could last to up to 87 years.
The mud, which is 144 million cubic meters, has been diverted to a river nearby. Some of it, however, covers an area estimated to be twice the size of the New York City Central Park. Despite the uncertainty of the exact trigger, the government pressured the Bakrie family, majority owners of the energy company, to contribute to the compensation and mitigation costs. These costs on average have totaled to $767 million, which has taken a great toll on the country’s economy.
Even if measures have been taken to manage it, geologists still fear the eruption of another mud volcano in the region. More data is needed for better research and planning. Until this natural disaster is fully understood, long-term programs in the country cannot be effectively carried out.
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