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Kamloops Thompson Cariboo
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100 Day Action Plan: Real consequences for breaking ethics laws
New Conservative government to bring real accountability and transparency to government
A new Conservative government will introduce legislation to attach stiff penalties for violating ethics laws and strengthen the powers of parliamentary watchdogs during its first 100 days, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer announced today.
Scheer said he will establish penalties for violations of the Conflict of Interest Act that do not currently carry penalties. The penalties will be proportional to the severity of the violation and the seniority of the offender and they will carry a maximum fine of $20,000. This includes the sections of the Act that deal with conflict of interest, preferential treatment, insider information, influence, accepting gifts and other violations.
“When you break ethics laws, as Justin Trudeau has done twice, there should be real consequences,” Scheer said. “As Prime Minister, I will make sure politicians who break the law to benefit themselves and their friends will pay a heavy price.”
When Finance Minister Bill Morneau failed to disclose his villa in France to the Ethics Commissioner, he was only forced to pay a fine of $200.
When Justin Trudeau was found guilty of violating the Conflict of Interest Act for accepting a free vacation to the Aga Khan’s private island and for interfering in the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, there were no penalties at all.
“Canadians expect accountability when their leaders violate the law and violate their trust and that’s what I will deliver,” Scheer said.
Currently, the maximum fine for breaching the Conflict of Interest Act is five hundred dollars, and only applies when public office holders fail to meet reporting requirements.
A new Conservative government will also restore accountability and transparency in government by:
Increasing oversight powers of the Ethics Commissioner and Lobbying Commissioner
Strengthening lobbying restrictions
Closing the loophole in the Conflict of Interest Act that allows the indirect holding of shares by Cabinet ministers
Introducing legislative reforms for whistleblowers
Scheer has already announced he will hold a judicial inquiry into the SNC-Lavalin scandal and pass the No More Cover Ups Act, which will prevent corrupt politicians from using Cabinet confidence to cover up their scandals.
“In 2015, Justin Trudeau promised he would be ethical and accountable. Every day since then, he has proven that he is not as advertised,” Scheer said. “Time and time again, he and his Ministers have abused the power of their office for their own personal gain. A Prime Minister who so willingly deceives and breaks the law simply cannot be entrusted with the duties and responsibilities of governing for Canada.”
On October 21, Canadians have a choice between Justin Trudeau who abuses his power, bends the law for his friends, attempts to silence his critics and destroys their reputations – and a Conservative government led by Andrew Scheer who will uphold the rule of law, respect our democratic institutions, and help all Canadians get ahead.
The Conflict of Interest Act was introduced by the previous Conservative government through the Federal Accountability Act, replacing the Conflict of Interest and Post-Employment Code for Public Office Holders.
Currently Canada’s Conflict of Interest Act “does not provide for any sanctions for breaches found following an examination by the conflict of interest and ethics commissioner.”
The only penalties the Ethics Commissioner has the power to impose under the Act are “administrative monetary penalties,” which only apply when public office holders fail to meet reporting requirements.
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Lots of Pictures, Lots of Fun
PAOLO MOSSETTI
Ever since the early 1940s, dramatic years of war and hunger, Eduardo Paolozzi had been collecting pages torn out of the magazines that were read by American GIs stationed in Britain. The generation of artists to which he would belong, together with Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake and David Hockney, would use the cuttings from those magazines to give voice to a true change of cultural paradigm: the Britain that had emerged from postwar poverty and embraced the consumerism of the United States. Borrowing images, photos and ideas from the colorful world of comic strips, print advertising, science-fiction books and TV celebrities, Paolozzi mixed together more or less conventional materials to democratize art and abolish the distinction—which in Britain was almost a matter of class—between “highbrow” and “lowbrow” culture: what could this have been, if not the first green shoots of British Pop Art? The second Adam who dominates Hamilton’s collage with a lollipop in his hand, Hockney’s dreamy and ethereal swimming pools: it was clearly a new modern utopia, if a bit schizoid at times, the one in which Paolozzi found himself deeply entangled. But it would be necessary to wait for Albion’s Pop Art to cross the Atlantic for it to be recognized as a true movement. There, awaiting Paolozzi and his ilk, would be Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg: the icons of the new international phenomenon. True giants. But Paolozzi would lead the way.
Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?, 1956. Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen.
Lots of Pictures—Lots of Fun is the title of the exhibition that the Berlinische Galerie is staging on the Italo-Scottish artist, who died in 2005 at the age of 81. It is the first to be devoted to him in the German capital for over three decades. The exhibition, which will run till May 28, concentrates on Paolozzi’s experimental research, from the forties to the seventies, bringing his most significant works together from private and public collections all over the world—with one part devoted to the graphic works produced during his extraordinarily productive stay in Berlin. The first section focuses on Paolozzi’s early works, the most prominent of which is I was a Rich Man’s Plaything, a collage he made at the age of 23 and considered a nascent form of Pop Art. The recurrent themes of that period were the use of loud colors and patterns and a fascination with cars, popular culture and absurdity. It is an incredibly varied body of work, ranging from reinforced concrete sculptures of a Brutalist stamp to monochromatic prints and advertising collages for magazines. Like his contemporaries Warhol and Rauschenberg, Eduardo Paolozzi was a multidisciplinary artist. His attempt to break with the past and utilize new materials is the theme of the second section of the exhibition. Here the artist seems to have wished to distance himself from the Pop Art of his youth, whether American or British. How come? Perhaps a return to the origins of the origins: with the intention of recovering not objects promoted by the mass media, but authentic expressions of popular culture. So what predominate in this section are fantasy, narration and humor; and the way in which the figures occupy space seems genuinely rigorous, sincere, less random than usual.
Eduardo Paolozzi. Lots of Pictures – Lots of Fun, Berlinische Galerie, Berlino, 2018
Daniel F. Herrmann, curator of the retrospective that the Whitechapel Gallery devoted to Paolozzi in 2017, explained: “Paolozzi was one of the most diverse, heterogeneous and versatile artists to emerge from post-war Britain. [He] works in different mediums and doesn’t let himself be pinned down to one particular category… He also has a certain uncompromising vision—he’s interested in particular themes and materialities but he doesn’t run after fashion.” Eduardo Paolozzi was born in 1924 in the suburbs of the Scottish capital Edinburgh, the son of Italian immigrants originally from Cassino. In 1940 Italy declared war on Great Britain and the conflict reached right into his home: he and his mother were interned for three months and his father, grandfather and uncle were deported to Canada, but the ship carrying them was torpedoed in the Atlantic by a German submarine and sunk. At the age of 19 he enrolled in the Edinburgh College of Art, but by 1944 he was in London, where he studied for three years before moving to Paris. Returning to London, he started a family. In the fifties he moved to Essex, and later took up a long series of teaching posts in Europe (Cologne, Berlin, Munich) and America (California). In 1968, just 44 years old, he was awarded a CBE by Queen Elizabeth. Fame and recognition had arrived at the prime of his life, and were never to leave him. He, however, continued to describe himself as “an old poor pro,” and would say yes to anything asked of him. Britain, though, took care of him, giving him innumerable commissions (his mosaics in Tottenham Court Road tube station should not be forgotten) and heaping honors on him. When Sir Eduardo Paolozzi died in London many thought that it was partly because he had been worn out by overwork. “Once interned as an enemy alien,” wrote the Guardian at the time, he “later turned the entire country into an open air gallery of his work.” And while Great Britain was his homeland, he had a particularly strong tie of affection with Germany: the six months he spent in Berlin between 1974 and 1975 are considered some of the most important and inspired in his career, and it is to this period that the third and last part of the exhibition is devoted.
Eduardo Paolozzi. Lots of Pictures—Lots of Fun
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
February 9-May 28, 2018
Eduardo Paolozzi. Lots of Pictures – Lots of Fun, Berlinische Galerie, Berlino, 2018.
Eduardo Paolozzi, Pop Art Redefined (Lots of Pictures – Lots of Fun), 1971. © Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, Licensed by/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018.
Eduardo Paolozzi, I was a Rich Man’s Plaything, 1947. © Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, Licensed by/VG VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018.
Eduardo Paolozzi, His Majesty the Wheel, 1958–1959. © Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, Licensed by/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018.
Eduardo Paolozzi, Parrot, 1964. © Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, Licensed by/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018.
Eduardo Paolozzi, As is When: Wittgenstein in New York, 1965. © Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, Licensed by/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018.
Eduardo Paolozzi, Bunk: Take Off, 1950−1972. © Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, Licensed by/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017.
Eduardo Paolozzi, Bunk: Evadne in Green Dimension, 1952−1972. © Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, Licensed by/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018.
Eduardo Paolozzi, Bunk: Vogue Gorilla with Miss Harper, 1950−1972. © Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, Licensed by/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018.
Eduardo Paolozzi, portrait. Photo: Ulrich Mack.
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Every candidate has a unique set of skills and abilities, but they can bring even more value to an organization with their personality, energy, and vision. At Legacy Executive Search Partners, we aim to identify these unique characteristics in each candidate, and understand how these attributes can provide a unique contribution to an organization. Our personal approach to executive search will provide a rewarding match for both candidate and organization for years to come.
Commissioner, Financial Services and Treasurer
Organization Name Town of Whitby
Industry Municipal Government
City Whitby
Province/State Ontario [ON]
Country Canada [CA]
Job ID TOW0920CFST
Organization Overview / Background
In Whitby, we are dedicated to our work, our community, and each other. We work hard, we have fun, and we celebrate our successes.
The Town of Whitby is a community in transformation that is located in the heart of Durham Region in the eastern Greater Toronto Area. Whitby is the second-largest municipality in the region and one of the fastest-growing communities in Canada. Located on Lake Ontario and only an hour east of Toronto, the population of Whitby is expected to grow from 140,000 to more than 200,000 by 2031. Whitby’s Official Plan has been updated to establish new directions for Whitby’s planned growth and development; the protection of our natural and built environments; urban design intensification; sustainability; community improvement; and new employment within this time frame.
The Town of Whitby combines a small-town atmosphere with the sophistication and amenities of a larger urban centre. Whitby boasts two beautiful heritage downtowns, one of the finest recreational harbours with an award-winning marina, year round sports and recreation activities, parks, trails, and a robust arts and culture scene, all of which are part of the extraordinary amenities that Whitby residents enjoy every day.
Whitby has an exciting and aspiring future, with a community that is welcoming, growing and transforming. On our team, you can expect to make a difference through your work and have a direct impact on shaping our growing community. Creating an inclusive environment where employees experience job satisfaction and have rewarding careers is important to us. We live our values and foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, respect and engagement where people enjoy coming to work.
We want to be the preferred employer for the most talented people who care about the Town of Whitby and are excited and proud to serve our vibrant community.
Position / Responsibilities
What You Will Get To Do
As a leader in the organization, the successful candidate will have a positive impact on our corporate culture by demonstrating the Town’s CARE core values (Collaborative, Accountable, Respectful, Engaged) through daily interactions with individuals at all levels of the organization, external contacts, and elected officials.
By effectively building positive rapport and relationships both internally and externally, the successful candidate will help us achieve our mission that together we deliver services that make a difference in our community.
Reporting to the CAO, the Commissioner, Financial Services and Treasurer is a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) at the Town and is the top level financial position responsible for all aspects of financial services including long range planning and investment, risk management, managing and running of all the finance and accounting activities of the Town, including budgeting (operating and capital), accounting, reporting and auditing, tax revenue and administration, risk, and procurement.
Contingent upon Council appointment, this role is also designated as Treasurer as outlined in the Municipal Act, 2001 (the “Act”) and, as outlined in section 286 of the Act is responsible for handling all of the financial affairs of the municipality on behalf of and in the manner directed by the council of the municipality, including:
collecting money payable to the municipality and issuing receipts for those payments;
depositing all money received on behalf of the municipality in a financial institution designated by the municipality;
paying all debts of the municipality and other expenditures authorized by the municipality;
maintaining accurate records and accounts of the financial affairs of the municipality;
providing the council with such information with respect to the financial affairs of the municipality as it requires or requests;
ensuring investments of the municipality are made in compliance with the regulations made under section 418, if applicable; and
complying with any requirements applicable to the treasurer under section 418.1. 2001, c. 25, s. 286 (1); 2017, c. 10, Sched. 1, s. 35.
This role is responsible for the development, administration and implementation of the financial strategy, policies, procedures, and programs designed to foster prudent and responsible use of taxpayer dollars. As the Commissioner, Financial Services and Treasurer, and a member of the SLT, the incumbent is a steward of the Town’s culture, policies, and procedures.
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This Senior Leadership position requires a strategist that is results-oriented, innovative, and analytical with a drive for change. You are a strong leader and have a keen understanding of the big picture, and the significant role financial services plays in enabling the organization to be successful. You like variety and you are flexible, which allows you to be nimble, anticipate problems, deal with pressures, and easily manage competing priorities.
You don’t shy away from complex problems and difficult decisions. You like to work with the facts, and have the ability to specify, strategize and define opportunities. You drive change and challenge the status quo with an organized and purposeful approach to situations and people. You are able to sustain creative efforts by assuring systems provide structure without limiting flexibility.
You are a servant leader. You seek to lead and have a positive impact on people, teams, and the organizational culture. You recognize that it is through people that business objectives are achieved, and you ensure your people are engaged, energized and well. Your genuine and sociable approach allows you to easily connect with people, supporting them with their career goals, and challenging them to tackle tough problems with your support.
You have a proven ability to communicate to stakeholders in a way that they understand. You know the value of collaboration and involving people in key decisions and changes. You have an inherent ability to recognize when you need to represent your function, and when you need to set aside functional goals and make a decision that moves the rest of the organization forward.
You focus on continuous improvement. You are open-minded, and always seek new ways to improve process. You encourage and work with your team to ensure a positive experience for internal and external customers.
What You Bring To Our Team
University degree (B.Sc. or B.A. in Accounting, Business Administration, Public Administration, or equivalent combination of education and progressively senior and responsible work experience.
Master’s in Business Administration (M.B.A.) or Master’s in Public Administration (M.P.A.) is considered an asset, or equivalent work experience.
Professional accounting designation (CA, CMA, CGA).
15+ years as a chief financial officer for a public sector organization, preferably municipal government.
Extensive experience and understanding of GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) and PSAB (Public Sector Accounting Board) accounting standards
In depth knowledge of risk management practices
Strong leadership and organizational skills
Process Improvement education/experience is an asset, e.g. Lean Green Belt
Proficient in the use of MS Office and financial management software
Excellent project management skills to ensure on time, on budget delivery of key corporate projects (e.g. ERP) and annual budgets and reporting deadlines.
Excellent knowledge of forecasting and data analysis methods
Possess a strong analytical and critical thinking skills
Excellent oral and written communication skills to effectively convey information and recommendations to SLT, Council, staff, and the public and ensure their understanding, agreement and/or approvals related to policies and procedures.
Salary: $157,328 to $185,092 per annum
A comprehensive benefits and pension program to ensure that your total compensation package addresses both your work and life needs.
Flexible work arrangements allowing you to manage your priorities and your time effectively.
An organization that invests in it’s culture and lives by its values, offering leadership development and opportunities to grow as a leader in the organization.
Search & Application Process
At the Town of Whitby, our values guide everything that we do. We celebrate our differences, which is why we are committed to building an inclusive and barrier-free environment for our team. If you need a specific accommodation during the recruitment process, please let us know, and we will be happy to provide. Any information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.
To express your interest in this key leadership opportunity please submit your resume and related information in confidence to whitbytreasurer@lesp.ca by Friday Oct 2nd, 2020.
We sincerely thank all candidates for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
The Town of Whitby is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and accessibility within the workplace where all employees feel valued, respected and supported. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (2005), upon request, accommodation will be provided by both Legacy Executive Search Partners and The Town of Whitby throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities.
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30 MILLION WORD GAP
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CONSEQUENCES OF LOW LITERACY
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LITERACY FOR LIFE CELEBRATION 2019
HOW TO GET YOUR CHILD TO LOVE READING
Our vision is to scale the Little by Little School Readiness Program nationally and make it available to those WIC centers across the country that have the capacity and affinity to implement the program. WIC serves almost 7,000,000 children nationwide, and we believe the Little by Little School Readiness Program can help prepare an entire generation to be more successful in school and in life. The neighborhood WIC site is one of the few places that young families visit regularly from birth to age 5. Therefore, families can benefit from school readiness interventions that begin long before school-age. With appropriate funding, the Little by Little Program is in a unique position to encourage early literacy behaviors in the home, thereby significantly improving the school readiness of children from low-income families.
About the Little by Little School Readiness Program
Administered by Heluna Health and funded by First 5 LA, the Little by Little School Readiness Program is an evidenced-based program that is designed to engage parents and create a stimulating home environment that fosters early literacy skills among low-income children. This parental engagement, in turn, significantly improves school readiness for underserved children, especially those living at or below the poverty level.
The program, which is administered at Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition sites, is part of a holistic approach to better serve low-income families by actively engaging parents and providing additional layers of parental education and support. During each visit, families receive high quality books and informational handouts that address child development milestones and that encourage family engagement in strengthening literacy practices within the home. By participating in the Little by Little Program, low-income children enter kindergarten more prepared to learn and thrive. Without the Little by Little Program intervention, many lower-income children will enter kindergarten performing well below their peers and will remain behind as they move through each grade, with little or no opportunity to catch up.
In terms of children’s neural development, the Little by Little Program engages families at the most critical period of their language development--between the ages of birth and age five. Research tells us that by age three, children in low-income families have heard up to 30 million fewer words than their more affluent peers (Hart & Risley, 1995). A family’s financial circumstances has a profound effect of how much language exposure a child has in their most formative years, with the effects of this 30-million-word gap persisting through the school years with respect to vocabulary and reading comprehension.
The Little by Little Program works to close this ‘word gap’ by helping families to increase the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children. The program teaches parents about the need to read to and with their child, engage their child early, and to also regularly have meaningful conversations and interactions that increase their child’s exposure to new words, reinforcing emerging vocabulary through talking, singing, playing and reading.
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culture, technology
Let the newspapers die
March 3, 2009 By Shawn
There’s no shortage of ideas for how the newspaper industry might save itself – by adopting new business models, distribution strategies, etc. The other day, my friend Ben suggested a new twist on subscriptions that would work something like cable television. Others hint that newspapers should push for mass adoption of the Kindle. Still others believe it might make sense to run newspapers as charitable trusts, and organize periodic pledge drives – like NPR.
In these strange and stressful times, people across the political spectrum seem resigned to the likely demise of some major banks and possibly the whole U.S. auto industry. Even my most liberal friends seem almost eager to see GM and Chrysler bite the big one. Yet they’re unwilling to accept a similar fate for the New York Times.
They may not have a choice of course. Michael Hirschorn suggested in the Atlantic Monthly that the Times could disappear by this summer (prompting this response from the Times).
I more or less share my friends’ sentiment. I’m an avid reader of the New York Times (online edition), and I’d miss it. On the other hand, I’ve never owned an American car, so I feel somewhat indifferent to the possibility of their extinction. In my mind, American car companies have made one bad business decision after another, failing to adequately respond to major shifts in the market. On top of that, their product actually harms the planet.
But is the newspaper industry really so different? Newspapers have made plenty of bad business decisions, and they haven’t adequately responded to major shifts in the market. Plus, ink, paper and all the driving involved in distribution take their own toll on the planet.
But the bigger question is, why do we need newspapers? And I’m not just talking about the physical offline versions. I mean why do we need the New York Times at all? Who needs their classifieds when you have Craigslist, Ebay, Amazon, Facebook, etc.? And there are plenty of other – and better – places to keep up on sports, finance, travel, food and entertainment.
That leaves general news of the nation and the world. Again though, would we really miss what the major newspapers provide? We shouldn’t equate newspapers with journalism.
After all, the major newspapers dropped the ball with respect to the current financial crisis. In hindsight, there are all kinds of questions they should have been asking. The alternative press and bloggers were arguably doing better at what the fourth estate is supposed to do, but the very existence of the newspapers casts a pretty long shadow over these guys.
The major newspapers failed during the Vietnam War to report on things like illegal bombing campaigns and widespread atrocities committed by U.S. soldiers, although there was ample evidence and no shortage of credible sources willing to come forward without anonymity. Again, the alternative press were the only ones willing to write about these things until the war was basically over and the tide of public opinion had completely shifted.
The major newspapers failed during the run-up to the Iraq war to question the motives or tactics of the Bush administration. And they neglected through the first four or five years of his presidency to adequately scrutinize anything his administration did – from suspensions of civil liberties and habeas corpus to rampant corruption and deceit.
The major newspapers failed for many years to lay out the straightforward scoop on climate change, opting instead for a misguided even-handedness. The perception of impartiality was more important to them than the truth.
In so many important cases, the major newspapers put their bottom line ahead of journalistic principles, unwilling to report anything that ran against the public opinion of the moment. This is why nine out of the ten most emailed New York Times articles on any given day are op-ed pieces. This is the most trustworthy section of the Times because it’s the most uncorruptable, the least subject to compromise.
In my view, the only newspapers that don’t have an obvious replacement are the small-town ones. Without small-town papers, where will people find out about the latest zoning ordinances and high-school wrestling results? But the potential demise of local news sources isn’t a tragedy. It’s a business opportunity. The Internet still needs to get a lot more local. And it will.
It’s OK to let the newspapers die.
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Ben Clemens says:
In general journalism is a lot like many other professions that are a lot less unique and valuable with the interweb than without it, and I am good with the transition (and the painful but necessary sucking-out-of money). And certainly there is nothing sacred about how journalism has been practiced; it’s a business like anything else. But the present circumstances are not like the car companies or banks, where the products are not selling because no one wants them; the journalism being produced today is extremely popular and the basis for a lot of the other content as commentary on the web. The fact that the web has no business model to pay for this content is a distorted situation; once the papers are dead (and all the local papers too, that’s for sure), people will eventually make new cheaper sites and publications to fill the void. In the mean time, much of the existing expertise and knowledge about how to gather and publish the same news that is immensely popular will be discarded, and that will be our loss.
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Nothing Sacred: from Carole Lombard to Jade Goody
I enjoyed the launch of the Fame Formula paperback at the Riverside Studios at Hammersmith on Wednesday night for many reasons: it’s a great venue, the people who came were interested and interesting, it was good to expound on the brilliance of publicist extraordinaire Russell Birdwell to an audience and it was marvellous to see one of the films he promoted, Nothing Sacred, on a big screen for the first time. And what a film it is!
It may have been made in 1937, but Nothing Sacred still resonates today, thanks to Ben Hecht’s razor sharp script and William Wellman’s ironic, deadpan direction. The film features a disgraced reporter who, desperate to make good with his editor after a series of exposed scams and fake news stories, discovers a girl who is dying of radium poisoning and decides to bring her to New York to be feted by the world.
It’s extraordinary how like the Jade Goody story the film is, but for the fact that Hazel Flagg, played by the luminous Carol Lombard, is not actually dying of cancer. From the ecstatic headlines reporting Hazel’s every move and utterance to the grand plans for a funeral to see her off in style – something she deserves because she is so “brave and vulnerable” – it skewers modern celebrity reporting perfectly.
Nothing Sacred turns the screw on the nature of celebrity ever tighter, right up until the end, despite being made 72 years ago. If you haven’t seen it, you really should. I’d even suggest it should be remade, but it would have to be done by someone with a sharp, satirical eye like Jason Reitman – this is not a film that deserves softening by Hollywood.
Next up on the promotional trail is my head-to-head debate with Max Clifford at the London College of Communication on Tuesday, May 5th at 6 p.m. discussing the toxic nature of modern celebrity. I’m not sure if there are any tickets left, but if you can’t make it, rest assured that the volatile results will be filmed for webcast and recorded for podcast.
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WASHINGTON (April 16, 2012) -- Following the approval of a new natural gas export facility in Louisiana by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) continued to express deep concern over the trend towards the wholesale export of America's natural gas. This export tax will increase electricity and heating prices for... Read More
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - April is the most popular month of the year for constituents to visit the nation’s Capital, and today, Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Malden) hosted nearly 200 residents of the 7th Congressional district at Capitol Hill. With families and groups representing such great cities and towns as Arlington, Framingham and Woburn,... Read More
Markey Calls for Congressional Hearing on Google Street View Privacy Breach
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and former chairman of the Communications, Technology and the Internet Subcommittee, released the following statement in response to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision and $25,000 fine in the Google Street View... Read More
BP Spill Commission Report Card Highlights Need for Markey Safety Legislation
Republicans in Congress Have Blocked Reforms WASHINGTON (April 17, 2012) -- Nearly two years after the start of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the independent BP Spill Commission today released a report card on the actions that have been taken -- and not taken -- to implement the Commission recommendations. The report card, which... Read More
Markey Statement on Google Street View Privacy Case
WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and former chairman of the Communications, Technology and the Internet Subcommittee, issued the following statement in response to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision and fine regarding Google's Street View privacy... Read More
Markey, Tierney Call for Local Public Meeting on Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant To Discuss Safety, Aging-Related Issues
Lawmakers called on NRC to not relicense Seabrook 20 years before current license expires WASHINGTON, D.C. – With recent inspections indicating possible long-term impacts to concrete degradation found in safety-related structures at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant, Congressmen Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), senior member of the House... Read More
Eshoo, Markey Commend FCC Collaboration to Combat Cell Phone Theft
Lawmakers partnered in inquiry last month to address problem of mobile device theft WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, and Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and former chairman of... Read More
Markey to Boehner, Upton, Stearns on DOE Clean Energy Report: HERE ARE THE JOBS
New Report Shows Success of Clean Energy Incentives; Republicans Protecting Oil Company Subsidies While Supporting Tax Increases on Wind Energy WASHINGTON (April 6, 2012) – Following the release of a report by the Department of Energy that shows a renewable energy incentive program created tens of thousands of jobs, Rep. Ed Markey... Read More
Markey Applauds Approval of New Test To Help Detect Alzheimer’s Disease
Lawmaker is House co-author of the law requiring development of national plan to treat, cure Alzheimer’s disease WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), co-chair of the Congressional Taskforce on Alzheimer’s Disease, released the following statement on the approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of... Read More
Markey Statement on FTC ‘Do Not Call’ Registry Penalties
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and former chairman of the Communications, Technology and the Internet Subcommittee, released the following statement after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its largest fine ever for two companies for unlawful calls to consumers... Read More
Markey Commemorates 5-Year Anniversary of Massachusetts v. EPA
Landmark Case -- Combined with Congressional Action -- Will Reduce U.S. Carbon Emissions WASHINGTON (April 1, 2012) – Tomorrow marks the five year anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts vs. EPA that gave the agency the authority to regulate heat-trapping emissions. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today said that this... Read More
Ranking Members Waxman and Markey Release GAO Report on Subsea Well Containment Capabilities After Deepwater Horizon
WASHINGTON, DC — Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Edward J. Markey released a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) evaluating the oil industry’s capabilities for containing subsea wells and the federal government’s oversight in the... Read More
Markey Statement on FDA Decision on Safety of BPA Food Packaging
Congressman last week petitioned FDA to ban BPA in many household products on grounds that manufacturers have already abandoned use of toxic chemical WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass), senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), released the... Read More
Markey, Holt, Owens Introduce Bill to Keep America’s Oil, Fuel in America
WASHINGTON (March 29, 2012) – Looking to stem the tide of America’s oil and fuels that are being sent abroad at a time of high gas prices and high domestic production, three House Democrats today introduced legislation that would end the exportation of oil extracted from taxpayer-owned lands, and the exportation of refined fuels like... Read More
Markey, Eshoo, Rogers Introduce Legislation to Improve Pediatric Medications
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In their ongoing effort to continue improvements to the safety and effectiveness of medications for children, Representatives Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) today introduced H.R. 4274, legislation to reauthorize the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA) and the... Read More
Markey to FDA: Finalize Long-Overdue Regulations on Triclosan
Canadian government designates harmful chemical as toxic to environment WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), today sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling on the... Read More
Markey: New Obama Carbon Pollution Standard Will Accelerate American Energy Innovation
WASHINGTON (March 27, 2012) – The Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency today released a carbon pollution standard that would require power plants to reduce heat-trapping emissions that are causing dangerous climate change. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the co-author of the only climate change bill to pass a chamber of the... Read More
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Lawmakers introduced Safe Cosmetics Act to protect consumers from harmful ingredients in personal care products, gives FDA ability to order recalls of dangerous products WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representatives Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), co-authors of H.R. 2359, the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011, released the... Read More
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Current: Stór Ceoil Mhaigh Eo
Stór Ceoil Mhaigh Eo
Over the past six months, Mayo artist David Munnelly has embarked on a rich and cultural journey to document some of the many characters involved in traditional Irish music and folklore across the County of Mayo, interviewing both established and new talent within the artform. Stór Ceoil Mhaigh Eo explores Ireland’s song, music and storytelling traditions which are arguably amongst its richest cultural resources. It comprises of 11 one-hour interviews by Munnelly who comments: ‘The landscape of traditions is changing - this includes the physical and linguistic landscape, in addition to the landscape of music, song and the imagination. Music and song are fundamental elements of folklore, just as folklore is a fundamental element of music and song.’ The interviews engage Mayo’s finest musicians discussing their influences, the changing world of Irish music and its legacy, along with how County Mayo has shaped their work. Featured artists include Diarmaid Gielty (Fiddle), Grainne Hambly (Harp), Joe Byrne (Flute), John Mc Namara (Singer/ Storyteller) and Mary Staunton (Accordian). The first of the recordings, featuring Joe Byrne will be released on Thursday, January 21st, 2021 at 8pm on the Linenhall’s Facebook Page and YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/LinenhallArtsCentreCastlebar/videos and will then be made available on a purpose-built website for archival purposes. A documentary film by filmmaker Michael McLoughlin will be released at the end of the project. Stór Ceoil Mhaigh Eo is supported by both Creative Ireland Mayo and the Linenhall Arts Centre and will be shared via the Linenhall Arts Centre social media pages over 11 weeks. ‘This is a crucial time to investigate and record the changing landscape of Irish traditional music as the past year has been unprecedented for artists across the globe. Despite the challenges, artists have continued to work, create and inspire us and David is capturing a period of time that will long be remembered in Mayo’s musical history, due to its impact on the artform,’ says Linenhall Arts Centre Director, Bernadette Greenan.
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New IVF approach could boost success rates for older women
Written by Honor Whiteman on August 12, 2015
The likelihood of conceiving through in vitro fertilization reduces dramatically once women reach their early 40s. Now, researchers believe they may have shed light on why this is – opening the door to more effective fertility treatment for older women.
Recent studies have shown women aged 38-39 have an IVF success rate of 23.6%, while those aged 44 and older have a success rate of only 1.3%.
Dr. Yanguang Wu, embryologist and associate scientist at the Centre for Human Reproduction in New York, NY, and colleagues publish their findings in the Journal of Endocrinology.
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a form of assisted reproductive technology (ART). First, fertility medication is administered to stimulate a woman’s egg, or oocyte, production. The eggs are then retrieved from the ovaries and combined with sperm in a laboratory dish for fertilization. The embryos are then transferred into the woman’s uterus.
It is well established that IVF is more likely to be successful for women under the age of 40. According to Dr. Wu and colleagues, recent studies have shown women aged 38-39 have an IVF success rate of 23.6%, while those aged 44 and older have a success rate of only 1.3%.
Previous research has shown that the quality of oocytes declines as a woman ages, reducing the likelihood of older women conceiving through IVF. However, the mechanisms behind this are unclear, which Dr. Wu puts down to lack of resources in clinical laboratories.
However, with the resources available at the Centre for Human Reproduction, the team was able to take a closer look at what drives reduced oocyte quality in older women.
Aging of the eggs’ environment is the problem, not aging of the eggs themselves
The researchers compared the reproductive tissue of egg donors aged 21-29, 30-37 and 43-47 years.
Compared with egg donors aged 21-29 and 30-37, those aged 43-47 had reduced growth and multiplication of granulosa cells – the cells that support the oocytes inside a woman’s ovary and aid their growth.
Further investigation revealed that the granulosa cells of the older women produced fewer cell receptors for follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), but produced more receptors for luteinizing hormone (LH) and progesterone.
According to the authors, these changes in hormone sensitivity mean older women are significantly more likely to experience early luteinization, which prevents the ovaries from maturing oocytes and preparing the womb for pregnancy.
The team explains that the process of luteinization normally happens after ovulation, in which increasing LH levels cause a fall in FSH levels and a rise in progesterone levels. However, if luteinization occurs prior to the oocyte leaving the ovary, the chance of conception is reduced.
Dr. Wu says these findings show that is it not the aging eggs themselves that are responsible for lower IVF success among older women, but the aging of the eggs’ environment that is to blame.
“The chances of reversing damage to an egg are practically zero and so these findings are exciting because it’s much more hopeful to therapeutically target the egg’s supporting environment,” adds Dr. Wu.
These results got the team thinking; could retrieving oocytes earlier in the IVF process – before premature luteinization – increase success?
Harvesting oocytes earlier resulted in better IVF success rates
At present, doctors performing IVF normally wait until oocyte follicles reach 19-21 mm before administering the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) to “ripen” the oocytes, preparing them for removal.
In this study, however, Dr. Wu and colleagues adopted an IVF approach in which they administered hCG when the oocyte follicles were 16 mm – at a point when the risk of early luteinization is lower – allowing them to retrieve the oocytes when they were more immature.
Comparing outcomes from conventional IVF with those of their new approach, the team found earlier retrieval of oocytes led to increased production of good quality embryos and higher success rates.
Dr. Wu told Medical News Today that the team is hopeful their findings will improve pregnancy success in older women receiving IVF:
“We do believe our study would benefit IVF outcome in older women because from our study, by retrieving oocytes earlier from smaller follicles, the negative effects of early luteinization were reduced, which results in a significant increase of oocyte/embryo quality and pregnancy rate.”
Dr. Wu added that the efficacy of the new IVF approach needs to be tested in larger studies, and the team also hopes to test whether it could improve IVF success rates in younger women.
Last month, MNT reported on a study that found many adolescents and young adults who are undergoing cancer therapy – which can negatively impact fertility – are unaware of their fertility preservation options.
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Design thinking at the U of M: organizing collaborations around social issues
“Design Thinking is the creative approach we’re using to explore new ways of working and collaborating at the University,” says Virajita Singh.
By Jennifer Gilhoi
The economics group at work.
What is academia’s role in solving the pressing issues society faces? Ask anyone at the University of Minnesota involved in the more than 300 University-driven centers, institutes, and programs with roots in research, education, and outreach, and they’ll attest to the benefits of their work.
The Northside Job Creation Team (NSJCT), for example, a program led by the Urban Research and Outreach Engagement Center (UROC) with the City of Minneapolis, has a goal of attracting 1,000 sustainable wage jobs to North Minneapolis by 2018. The Center for Transportation Studies’ Toward Zero Deaths partnership with the State of Minnesota and federal agencies has been working since 2003 to raise awareness of traffic safety issues, and reduce the number of deaths and injuries resulting from traffic accidents in Minnesota.
University groups are doing good work, according to Andrew Furco, associate vice president for the University’s Office of Public Engagement (OPE). But there’s a problem. “Interdisciplinary collaborations, and communication to the public regarding the outcome and impact of the work, could be improved.”
Design Thinking may be the answer. “Design Thinking is the creative approach we’re using to explore new ways of working and collaborating at the University,” says Virajita Singh. She teaches design thinking in the College of Design and is facilitating OPE’s three-part Design Thinking Series for the Issue Area Networks (IAN).
As defined by the Design Thinking @ College of Design website, “Design Thinking is an emerging field applying the tools and processes from the design disciplines (architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, graphic design, product design, apparel design and others) to complex, system-wide problems.” The issues or IAN the OPE series is currently investigating include the arts, diversity, sustainability, economic development, food, poverty, and transportation.
The OPE series “is organized around specific societal issues and brings individuals, units, departments, programs, and colleges at the University together around an issue area,” Singh continues. “These ‘hubs’ are intended to connect existing networks and community engaged work to accelerate on-the-ground impact.”
Singh says the OPE series uses a straightforward formula for Design Thinking: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. She believes these steps offer a common process for solving problems in new ways that can be applied in organizations, businesses, and institutions — regardless of product or service.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts began a Design Thinking process in August 2013, Singh says, to find new ways to enhance museum participants’ experiences. Information gathered has informed the redesign of spaces and launched new initiatives to engage audiences in various age groups.
In essence, Design Thinking, whether deployed at a museum or a university, assumes no one person has all of the answers. The process is collaborative in nature, and requires openness and leaving preconceived notions about solutions behind.
“It allows participants to give input in creative ways and contribute to the picture we’re creating together,” Signh says. “It also pushes creativity by introducing how to think like a designer and explore new levels of engagement to reach solutions.”
Design Thinking Series: overview
More than 75 attendees from various University groups have attended the first two sessions. Neither the public nor students are involved in the process — yet. The University wants to understand how these issues are being addressed internally before involving external groups.
The poverty group at work.
During the first OPE session, in December, interdisciplinary teams organized by nine focus group areas created prototypes of the existing collaborations across the University’s departments and groups. The economic development focus group, for example, termed its prototype “the current,” to evaluate how and why existing efforts toward economic development aren’t always well-understood by the public.
During the February sessions, teams began with their defined prototype, then visually mapped the groups and collaborations for each issue. The economic development team placed UROC, the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA), and the Center for Integrated Leadership (CIL) at the center of their map. These groups are viewed as “hubs” because they currently communicate and partner with the most groups in their focus area.
As the teams added other University groups to the map, and used arrows to further define connections between the hub and outer ring groups, opportunities for improvement became clear. In the economic development area, the team cited research groups like the Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) and theBusiness and Community Economic Development (BCED), as doing good work, but not being strongly connected to the whole.
Consensus in the group was that if research from groups like NRRI could be applied to more University initiatives, their work would have more widespread impact. In turn, if program needs, results, and community impact were directly fed back to the research group, that process would align research and initiatives, and translate into greater impact for communities.
During the final workshop in April, attendees will look at Design Thinking workshop outcomes from the two prior meetings and determine what changes will be made to existing systems at the University. These changes could occur in department organization, communication processes and tools, or partnerships. The recommendations will also include an implementation plan for the University and set clear ways to measure the University’s work in direct correlation to the IAN or societal issues.
Design Thinking Series: observations
Observations from the series to-date center around the realization that issues are more complex than their origin point. For example, the food focus group cited efforts to bring healthier food options to low-income urban areas. Programs exist to stock the shelves, but this food remains unused if residents lack the transportation, or funds for transportation, to get to the foodshelves.
Nonetheless, attendees of the February session were optimistic about discovering the power of interdisciplinary collaboration through Design Thinking. Merrie Benasutti, Associate Director, Student Initiatives at the Center for Integrative Leadership at the University, says that “To address global, complex challenges such as poverty, food security, etc., we will need to use multiple tools and resources to foster collective action across University schools and departments to fuel change. These complex problems are beyond the resources or knowledge of a single discipline or department to address.”
“The Design Thinking process,” she continues, “has offered us an opportunity to consider new ways to come together, build strategic relationships, reflect on issues, and design potential new structures and decision-making processes. These are all integrative leadership practices and leadership is fundamental to making progress on long-term, complex challenges.”
Increasing the U’s community impact
“As we implement the framework for an improved structure supporting issue-based solutions across the University based on the Design Thinking series, we’ll outline who should be involved and how it will work, including how to pool resources,” notes Furco.
Currently, pooling resources doesn’t happen to its full potential. University groups spend considerable time and effort competing for external support that feeds community-engaged work. Also, groups need to have more knowledge of each other’s efforts.
Last, groups are all doing community engaged work, but questioning where public engagement fits into the larger picture. Public engagement at the University is defined as a dialogue with the public that’s founded on vision, collaboration, and communication. Ultimately public engagement then informs the University’s community-engaged work.
Design Thinking, Furco adds, effectively combines the work of various University groups for greater impact on communities. The OPE series, he adds, “is not about starting something new. It’s about connecting existing University efforts for greater understanding of issues in the greater Twin Cities community, and expanding our collaborations to increase their impact on behalf of the community.”
This article is reprinted in partnership with The Line, an online chronicle of Twin Cities creativity in entrepreneurship, culture, retail, placemaking, the arts, and other elements of the new creative economy. Jennifer Gilhoi is a Twin Cities-based communications specialist and blogger at SparkTrack Consulting. She creates public relations and social media campaigns for clients in the architecture, design, retail, and fitness industries.
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Former Magi Fuchs enjoys success as college coach
Ex-MSU football player part of winning program in Buffalo
Robert Brewer
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The Buffalo Bulls of the Mid-American Conference currently boast a 4-0 record with an average margin of victory of over 26 points per contest. As it turns out, a former Minot Magician football player has been an integral part of the club’s success.
Scott Fuchs, a member of Minot High’s graduating class of 1989, is now in his second season as offensive line coach at the University of Buffalo. While Buffalo’s next contest against Ohio on Dec. 5 was canceled due to the pandemic, the Minot native remains confident his squad has given themselves an opportunity to compete for the MAC title later this month.
“It’s unfortunate, we really can’t do much about the situation since it is out of our control,” Fuchs tells the Minot Daily News. “The only thing we can do now is prepare for the next scheduled game against Akron on Dec. 12, and if all goes well, we expect to be playing for the conference championship in Detroit on the 18th.
As Fuchs, 49, hopes to guide his current team to a conference crown in the coming weeks, he recalls the humble beginnings of his gridiron journey back in Minot. After graduating from Edison Elementary, and then Jim Hill Middle School, Fuchs decided to play football for Minot High School. The eventual college coach admits he did not possess an early aptitude for the game he loves.
“I don’t think I was anything spectacular as a player, I just kind of kept at it because of my size. I feel like I developed physically a little later on in my career,” Fuchs adds. “At that time, I never thought in a million years I would end up coaching college football.”
Following his time at Minot High, which included a WDA championship in his junior season, Fuchs received offers to play at both North Dakota State, as well as the University of North Dakota. Thrilled at the opportunity to play for a national championship, the 6-foot-6 lineman chose to sign with the Bison. Eventually, the Minot High graduate got to realize his national title aspirations as NDSU went on to win the championship in 1990.
By his third year at North Dakota State, Fuchs says that was the point where he seriously decided to consider coaching football as a possible career. Not coming from a family where football was a huge influence, the ex-Bison guard says he looked at other career paths prior to focusing on his favorite sport. “I started college with an interest in architecture, but found out I didn’t like it, then I tried business and didn’t really like it either. Once I started studying physical education and social sciences, that is when it really clicked for me.”
Prior to reaching the Division I level, Fuchs reveals his coaching career included stops at Valley City, Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Minnesota Crookston, and Nebraska-Omaha. Once he began coaching Division I, Fuchs had five year stints at both NDSU and the University of Wyoming prior to landing his current role with the Bulls. Content with his role preparing players to do battle in the trenches, Fuchs says he has no desire to coach in any other capacity. “I don’t really want to become a coordinator or head coach at some point, coaching offensive lineman is what I do, and this is who I am,” the Bulls football mentor says.
Married to his wife of 15 years, Emily, the couple has three sons, Hank (15), Jack (13) and Gus (11). With all three boys having the requisite size to play offensive line like their father, Fuchs stresses the importance of having fun while his sons enjoy the small window of time available to play interscholastic sports.
“I have nothing but fond memories of high school because it is a crucial time to bond and create life long friendships,” the position coach continues. “I still have great memories of playing against Bishop Ryan because that was a big rivalry game for us back then. It really wasn’t about winning and losing, it was just a great experience playing under those Friday night lights and bonding as a team.”
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Glover returns to action in midst of whirlwind week
JOE MORELLI
June 24, 2009 Updated: Aug. 18, 2017 3:20 a.m.
CROMWELL -- It's been quite a 48-hour stretch for the latest U.S. Open champion, Lucas Glover.
He got to read David Letterman's Top 10 list. He got to spend a few minutes chatting on Live with Regis & Kelly. He even got to go where few spectators have gone before -- the 103rd floor of the Empire State Building. Then there were all of the radio-show interviews in between the stops.
"One of the greatest, but most tiring days of my life in New York City," Glover said. "I don't crave the attention I got yesterday, but it was there and it was really fun. I don't think I could do that every day."
Glover came up to Cromwell Tuesday night to keep his commitment to the Travelers Championship. It was on the range at TPC River Highlands where he got a lot of congratulatory handshakes and hugs from his fellow pros.
His wife, Jennifer, flew home to Greenville, S.C., with the U.S. Open trophy. Today, it is time for Lucas Glover to go back to work. He tees off on hole No. 1 at 1:03 p.m. with Vijay Singh and Chad Campbell.
"I've had a couple of guys who have been in my situation tell me through text messages and voice mails or even this morning (when he spoke to Zach Johnson, the 2007 Masters champion) that the best thing you can do right now is play, because that's the only sense of normalcy I'll have for a little while," Glover said.
Glover said he plans to honor his commitments to both the AT&T National and the John Deere Classic the next two weeks before going to the British Open -- a tournament he is now exempt for thanks to his U.S. Open victory.
"Just because I won a golf tournament doesn't change anything," Glover said. "I had commitments and I'm going to honor those."
Bob Mordecai is in his 50th year caddying at New Haven Country Club in Hamden. This is his fifth year caddying at the Travelers, doing so for New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick in the Travelers Celebrity Pro-Am on Wednesday.
"I kept it very professional," said Mordecai, a New York Giants fan. "There was very minimal talk from me and I think that's the best way to do it."
Belichick's son, Brian, along with actor Rob Morrow played with pro Billy Andrade.
"Andrade read most of the putts the same way I did, which made me feel good," Mordecai said. "Billy Andrade is one of the classier pros to be able to be in a celebrity pro-am with."
'HIGH EXPECTATIONS'
FOR BUTLER
Belichick has been impressed with second-round pick Darius Butler, the former cornerback from UConn.
"He's a great kid who continues to work at it," Belichick said. "If he continues to work at it, we have high expectations for him to be a good player for us. He comes from a solid background with Randy Edsall and that UConn program."
Butler became the first player in Big East Conference history to produce a touchdown on a kickoff return, interception, reception and rushing attempt in a career.
When asked why he keeps coming back to the Travelers, Belichick couldn't say enough good things about the event.
"I keep coming back because it's a great event," said Belichick, who made his eighth appearance. "It's such a strong event, I plan on keep coming back. It's nice to see the strong support by the fans."
Asked if the rain affected his golf game in the Pro-Am, he said, "Nothing affects my game. I can't recall what my score was but as a group we were 15-under. It was fun."
UCONN CONNECTIONS
Each year the Travelers Championship's Celebrity Pro-Am has drawn its share of celebrities from UConn and this year's event was no different with seven celebrities with UConn ties -- former men's basketball stars Scott Burrell, Ray Allen and Kevin Ollie, football coach Randy Edsall, former assistant coach and current Quinnipiac men's basketball coach Tom Moore, assistant women's basketball coach Chris Dailey and former women's basketball star Jennifer Rizzotti.
Edsall looks at the event as a way to give back to all the UConn fans.
"This is a great way for me to give back to charities and get among all our fans," Edsall said. "It's a great way to say thanks for all their support. It's fun.
"The rain didn't bother me. Our pro Chad Campbell really helped us on the course. I putted extremely well and my tee balls were straight. I shot in the low 80s."
Edsall plans to take some time off before the football season.
"The freshmen came in on Saturday for their summer classes and we'll have our overnight camps coming up," Edsall said. "The coaches will take some time off from July 2 to Aug. 6. It's good to get away and recharge your batteries."
Burrell made his first appearance in the Travelers' Pro-Am and plans on coming back.
"I had a great time," said Burrell, who embarked on a new career last winter as an assistant men's basketball coach at Quinnipiac. "This is such a big event in Connecticut and the crowds were great today. Believe me, you don't want to know what I shot. But our group overall was 6-under.
"Coaching basketball makes sense as the next step in my life. I love it and it keeps me busy. Time to get out there and start recruiting."
PESCI LOVES THE TRAVELERS
In addition to the celebrities mentioned above, others included film stars Joe Pesci, Aidan Quinn and Luke Wilson; stage actor and Yale School of Drama alumnus Jim Naughton; Los Angeles Dodgers legend Sandy Koufax; former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach; former Buffalo Bills and New England Patriots quarterback Doug Flutie; and former Boston Red Sox outfielder Dwight Evans.
"I love golfing in these kind of events, they're a lot of fun," Pesci said during his round. "This is a great course and the fans are always great and supportive."
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Just Who Would Buy Universal Music?
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Vivendi continues to look for a buyer for a portion of Universal Music. Though the process has been running officially since May 2018, the transaction (or transactions) may not close until 2020. In many instances, dragging out a sale could reflect badly, suggesting that the seller is struggling to find suitable buyers. But in the case of UMG it probably helps the case. A seller will always seek to maximise the sale price of a company, which means selling as close to the peak as possible. It is a delicate balance, sell too early and you reduce your potential earnings, sell too late and the price can go down as most buyers want a booming business, not a slowing business. In the case of UMG, with institutional investors looking for a way into the booming recorded music business, UMG is pretty much the only game in town for large scale, global institutional investors.
In this sellers’ market, banks have been falling over themselves to say just how valuable UMG could be, with valuations ranging from $22 billion to $33 billionand Vivendi even suggesting $40 billion. Meanwhile, recorded music revenues continue to grow — up 9.0% in 2017, and up 8.2% in 2018 according to MIDiA’s estimates. 2019 will likely be up a further 6%, all driven by streaming. With UMG’s market share (on a distribution base) relatively stable, the market growth thus increases UMG’s valuation. This in turn increases Vivendi’s perceived value, and that is the crux of the matter.
The role of Bolloré Group
Vivendi board member and major shareholder Vincent Bolloré was Vivendi chairman until April 2018, when he handed power to his son Yannick, one month before he was reportedly taken into police custody for questioning as part of an investigation into allegations of corrupt business practices in Africa. Bolloré senior remains the chairman and CEO of Bolloré Group, which retains major shareholdings in Vivendi. Bolloré Group’s Vivendi holdings will inherently be devalued by a sale of prize asset UMG, which is a key reason why only a portion of the music group is up for sale. But, even selling a portion of UMG will have a negative impact on Vivendi’s valuation and thus also on Bolloré Group’s holdings. So, the sale price needs to be high enough to ensure that Bolloré Group makes enough money from the sale to offset any fall in valuation. Hence, dragging out the sale while the streaming market continues to boom. All this also means the sale is of key benefit to Bolloré Group and other Vivendi investors. It is perhaps as welcome as a hole in the head to UMG. Little wonder that some are suggesting UMG is markedly less enthusiastic about this deal than Vivendi is.
All of which brings us onto which company could buy a share of UMG. These can be grouped into the four key segments shown in the chart above. Normally, higher risk buyers (i.e. those that could negatively impact UMG’s business by damaging relationships with partners etc.) would not be serious contenders but as this is a Vivendi / Bolloré Group driven process rather than a UMG driven one, the appetite for risk will be higher. This is because the primary focus is on near-term revenue generation rather than long-term strategic vision. Both are part of the mix, but the former trumps the latter. Nonetheless, the higher-risk strategic buyers are unlikely to be serious contenders. Allowing a tech major to own a share of UMG would create seismic ripples across the music business, as would a sale to Spotify.
So that leaves us with the lower-risk strategic buyers, and both categories of financial buyers. Let’s look at the financial buyers first. Private equity (PE) is one of the more likely segments. We only need to look back at WMG, which was bought by a group of investors including THL and Providence Equity before selling to Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries in 2011 for $3.3 billion. Private equity companies take many different forms these days, with a wider range of investment theses than was the case a decade ago. But the underlying principle remains selling for multiples of what was paid. Put crudely, buy and then flip. The WMG investors put in around half a billion into the company, but a six-fold increase is less likely for UMG, as the transaction is taking place in a bull market while WMG was bought by Providence and co in a bear market. Where the risk comes in for UMG is to whom the PE company/companies would sell to in the future. At that stage, one of the current high-risk strategic companies could become a potential buyer, which would be a future challenge for UMG. The other complication regarding PE companies is that many would want a controlling stake for an investment that could number in the tens of billions.
Institutional investors such as pension funds are the safest option, as they would be looking for long-term stakes in low-risk, high-yield companies to add to their long-term investment portfolios. This would also enable Vivendi to divide and rule, distributing share ownership across a mix of funds, thus not ceding as much block voting power as it would with PE companies.
The last group of potential buyers is also the most interesting: lower risk strategic. These are mainly holding companies that are building portfolios of related companies. Liberty Media is one of the key options, with holdings in Live Nation, Saavn, SiriusXM, Pandora, Formula 1 Racing and MLB team Atlanta Braves. Not only would UMG fill a gap in that portfolio, Liberty has gone on record stating it would be interested in buying into UMG.
Access Industries is the one that really catches the eye though. Alongside WMG, the Access portfolio includes Perform, Deezer and First Access Entertainment. On the surface Access might appear to be a problematic buyer as it owns WMG. But compared to many other potential investors, it is clearly committed to music and media, and is likely to have a strategic vision that is more aligned with UMG’s than many other potential suitors.
There is of course the possibility of being blocked by regulators on anti-competitive grounds. However, at year end 2017 WMG had an 18% market share, while UMG had 29.7% (both on a distribution basis). If Access acquired 25% of UMG, respective market shares would change to 25.4% for WMG and UMG for 22.2% (still slightly ahead of Sony on 22.1%). It would mean that the market would actually be less consolidated as the market share of the leading label (WMG) would be smaller than UMG’s current market leading share. While the likes of IMPALA would have a lot to say about such a deal, there is nonetheless a glimmer of regulatory hope for Access. Especially when you consider the continued growth of independents and Artists Direct. All of which point to a market that is becoming less, not more, consolidated.
Whatever the final outcome, Bolloré Group and Vivendi are currently in the driving seat, but they should not take too much time. 2019 will likely see a streaming growth slowdown in big developed streaming markets such as the US and UK, and it is not yet clear whether later stage major markets Germany and Japan will grow quick enough to offset that slowdown in 2019. So now is the time to act.
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Most Read: Contributor South Africa, September 2020
South Africa: Annexes To The Revised Bangui Agreement Come Into Force – 14 November 2020
by Stephen Hollis , Dakalo Luvhimbi and Lebohang Mosala
Adams & Adams
While the revised Bangui Agreement is yet to come into force, pending the ratification by the OAPI member states, OAPI has advised that certain annexes to the revised Agreement will come into force with effect from 14 November 2020. These Annexes are, Annex VI on Geographical indications; Annex VII on Literary and Artistic property, Annex VIII on Protection against unfair competition and Annex X-Plant varieties
This is a note to highlight the main changes that will be brought about by the Annexes to the revised Agreement.
Annex VI – GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS
This Annex contains provisions regarding the protection of Geographical Indications. A number of additions, amendments and removals are being introduced. We have highlighted some of the more pertinent amendments below.
A notable change is the amendment of the period within which to oppose a registration of a geographical indication. The previous Annex allowed for a period of six months from the date of publication of the registration. The Annex to the revised Agreement only makes allowance for a three month period from the date of publication of the registration.
The addition of Article 17 to the Annex of the revised Agreement sets out that protection of a geographical indication, once registered, is conferred for an unlimited duration.
The Annex to the revised Agreement further makes provision for quality control of the products offered for sale or exploited under a registered geographical indication and that the prohibition from using the geographical indication shall be determined by regulations issued by the Ministry responsible in the Member State concerned.
Finally, the Annex to the revised Agreement repeals Annex VI of the Bangui Agreement Act of February 24, 1999.
Annex VII – LITERARY AND ARTISTIC PROPERTY
This Annex contains provisions regarding copyright protection. The general rule, as expressed in the current and the revised Agreement is that the author of the work that is subject to copyright protection, enjoys the exclusive right to exploit the work in any form and to obtain monetary advantage from the work. However, this right is subject to certain exceptions and limitations, which permit the use; reproduction; performance; translation; adaptation and performance of a work, without the consent of the author or payment of remuneration. The revised Agreement introduces additional and new exceptions and limitations, including, the performance of a work within a family circle without a financial benefit; parody, pastiche or caricature of a copyright protected work; the reproduction and distribution of a literary work to grant access to visually impaired persons and others.
Another notable change is the reduction of the term of copyright protection from 70 years to 50 years (typically calculated from the death of the author, depending on the nature of the work concerned).
Annex VIII – PROTECTION AGAINST UNFAIR COMPETITION
Both the current and the revised Agreements entitle any person who has suffered damages or is liable to suffer damages to institute proceedings before the competent court of any member state, for an injunction and damages.
The revised Agreement goes further to provide guidance to the courts, on the factors that should be considered in determining the damages that have been suffered by or that are owed to the aggrieved party. These factors include, loss of profit suffered by the injured party; profits made by the wrongful party and the moral prejudice suffered by the aggrieved party.
Annex X – PLANT VARIETIES
This Annex contains provisions regarding the protection of Plant Varieties.
The Annex sets out the provisions relating to joint ownership of a plant variety certificate, specifically that each owner of the certificate would be allowed to exploit the plant variety certificate to their own benefit and grant a non-exclusive license to a third party, on their own, subject to the equitable compensation to the other joint owner. Should it not be possible to reach an amicable agreement on compensation, a competent court order would make the determination.
The Annex revised the time period within which priority documents and relevant accompanying documents (in the case of a priority application) are required to be submitted, from 4 months to 6 months of the filing of the application.
Where a person who is not entitled to a plant variety certificate files for an application thereof, a person who is entitled to such a plant variety certificate may approach the Organization to claim ownership of the certificate, within three months as from publication of that application.
The Annex also sets out specifications allowing the customs department at borders, at the written request of any party, and under certain specifications set out in the Annex, to retain any goods which the party may deem to be infringing. Provision is also made for customs authorities to, ex officio, withold goods when they have presumptive evidence that the goods infringe the rights of a certificate holder.
The Annex to the revised Agreement X repeals Annex X of the Bangui Agreement Act of 24 February 1999.
Stephen Hollis
Dakalo Luvhimbi
Lebohang Mosala
South Africa Intellectual Property Copyright
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SUBJECT: From molecules to computer technology: Memorial University researchers receive Canada Foundation for Innovation funding
DATE: June 27
New infrastructure, funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), will make it possible for Memorial University researchers to look more closely at molecules than ever before, help develop new strategies for dealing with cancer and go beyond the microchip. Over $820,000 was awarded for three projects which will have far-reaching benefits for Canadians.
Dr. Travis Fridgen of the Department of Chemistry has received $547,630 in funding from CFI for new equipment aimed at fundamental studies of weak interactions between neutral and electrically-charged molecules and the structures that result from these interactions. This fundamental research has the potential to aid researchers who are trying to further understand Alzheimer’s disease and those studying self-assembling molecules for drug delivery and perhaps other areas in medical research such as diagnosis. The infrastructure will also enable researchers in areas such as health, synthetic chemistry and drug design.
Data storage has become an essential part of product development in almost all industries relying on advanced technology. The transfer, display and storage of information of any type, using devices based on semiconductors, fibre optics or magnetic materials, all increasingly rely on developments in thin (nano) film technology. Drs. Martin Plumer and John Whitehead, Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, were awarded $156,711 for a project where computer algorithms that model the devices and materials used in magnetic thin (nano) film technology will be developed.
High performance computing is an enabling and indispensable requirement for many of Memorial’s strategic research activities. These include studies of the genetics, lifecycles and population dynamics of fish species along Newfoundland's coastline, fluid dynamic studies to determine how structures respond to different water flow regimes thereby helping to reduce oil exploration costs as well as improving the stability and safety of offshore drilling platforms, and analyses of clinical data to improve cancer detection, diagnosis, treatment and prevention strategies. Dr. David Pike, along with Drs. Serpil Kocabiyik and Paul Peng of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, was awarded $116,456 for equipment which will allow computational tasks that require substantial amounts of memory.
“These awards represent a significant boost to the research capacities of Memorial University of Newfoundland,” said Dr. Eliot Phillipson, president and CEO of the CFI. “Today’s announcement exemplifies what the CFI is all about: providing institutions with the means to attract and retain the world-class researchers that this country needs to remain at the forefront in terms of both quality of life and economic competitiveness.”
“Sophisticated technologies enabling the investigation of important but complex problems, including those at the molecular level, have never been more advanced,” said Dr. Christopher Loomis, vice-president (research). “Funding from the CFI is helping to put those technologies into the hands of some of our brightest researchers and their students. It is these kinds of investments that are reshaping the future of this province and this country.”
The CFI announced today a total of $20.5 million in new funds to support 132 researchers at 33 institutions across Canada. These funds were awarded under the CFI’s Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF), a program designed to reflect Canada’s fast-evolving research environment. The LOF was designed to give Canadian universities the added flexibility they need to both attract and retain the world’s finest researchers at a time of intense international competition for leading faculty.
The CFI’s Board of Directors approved this investment under two funds: $17 million under the LOF, and $3.5 million under the Infrastructure Operating Fund, an accompanying program which assists universities with the incremental operating and maintenance costs associated with new infrastructure projects.
A complete list of LOF projects, by university, can be found at www.innovation.ca.
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For more information, contact Deborah Inkpen, Communication Co-ordinator (research), Memorial University, at 737-4073, inkpend@mun.ca or Angus McKinnon, co-ordinator, Media Relations, Canada Foundation for Innovation, (613) 996-3160.
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Sir Lucian Grainge: After Tencent deal ‘our strategic vision remains the same’
By Tim Ingham
Universal Music Group CEO and Chairman, Sir Lucian Grainge (credit: UMG)
Earlier today (December 31), the biggest music biz news story of the year broke: a Consortium led by China’s Tencent Holdings has inked an agreement to purchase a 10% stake in Universal Music Group for over $3bn.
Two other key elements of the deal: (i) the Consortium can, over the next 12 months, buy a further 10% stake; and (ii) majority-owned subsidiary, Tencent Music Entertainment, is also in separate discussions to acquire a minority stake in Universal’s operations in Greater China.
Now, thanks to a press release issued by Universal parent Vivendi, further details have come to light – not least this fact: “The Vivendi Supervisory Board was informed on Monday, December 23, 2019, that negotiations were beginning concerning the potential sale of an additional minority share for a price which would at least be identical.”
In other words, it sounds like additional potential buyers of minority stakes in UMG are still in the game and may yet acquire further pieces of the company.
MBW has just obtained a statement from UMG boss Sir Lucian Grainge (pictured) , sent to Universal’s global workforce in the past couple of hours, addressing today’s news.
You can read it in full below.
I wanted to write you directly to highlight today’s announcement from Vivendi of a successful investment in Universal Music Group by a consortium led by Tencent.
Details are included in the below press release, but they are essentially in line with Vivendi’s prior statements on this matter: the consortium of investors will purchase 10% of the share capital of UMG with UMG’s full enterprise value set at €30 billion. Vivendi also announced that the Tencent-led consortium has the option to acquire up to an additional 10% of UMG’s shares by January 15, 2021, as well as a second agreement that allows Tencent Music Entertainment to acquire a minority of a UMG subsidiary company that includes our operations in Greater China.
With the exception of additional resources to further advance our strategy, everything else will remain the same: our strategic vision; our company, label and business unit names; our locations; and of course, our outstanding people.
This is an exciting development reflecting a strong validation of our business strategy, our incredible team and your excellent work. It also reflects our shared optimism about UMG’s continued role as the driving force in our industry and how focused we are on the future.
I will continue to keep you appraised of any further developments. In the meantime, thank you again for all you do.
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Places You Can Tour Wine Country Close to Home
Posted on 08/17/2020 | About North America, Anywhere
There may be more places than you think.
California's legendary wine regions and famous wineries have the weather, the scenery, the lifestyle, and of course, the wines, that put them at the top of global wine travel lists.
But as we are planning our first post-COVID trips, wine lovers should expand their lists of wine tour regions close to home to get our fix of wine tastings, vineyard strolling, and re-stocking our cellars with one-of-a-kind vintages.
Vastly different landscapes throughout America's states and Canada's provinces have resulted in some surprising wine regions with thriving scenes and award-winning wines.
If you love discovering new wine, pack your bags for these US and Canadian wine regions, and remember to leave plenty of space in your luggage for bottles of the delicious new wines you're sure to discover!
By Lynn Elmhirst, Producer/Host BestTrip.TV
The very first vineyard in North America… was in Texas. Franciscan priests in the mid-1600's toiled to grow the continent's first vines and produce its first wines in mission outposts. European immigrants brought more grapevine cuttings to continue expanding the region's wine through the 19th century. Prohibition wiped out all of America's wine production in the '20's, but Texas has reclaimed its historic wine roots – literally.
These days, the Longhorn State boasts 8 AVA's (American Viticultural Areas) producing wine from grapes that thrive in the state's unique climate and soil. The Texas Hill country AVA is the 2nd largest in America, 9 million acres in the heart of Texas north of San Antonio and west of Austin. The vast wine region is home to a range of one-of-a-kind microclimates that produce cool climate wines to Bordeaux and Italian varietals.
Idaho's Snake River Valley
Move over, potatoes. Idaho's most famous crop has competition. Idaho lies to the west of the Continental Divide of the Rocky Mountains. The terrain, explored by Lewis and Clark and a central feature of the Oregon Trail, these days is home to a fruitful wine industry you'll want to explore too.
You may think of Idaho as a very new wine region, but in fact, it dates back to the mid-19th century. The first grapes in the Pacific Northwest were planted in Idaho by French and German immigrants. Prohibition in the 20's took out this wine region, too, but grapes are back again in Idaho. The Snake River Valley became the state's first AVA, and now covers 8000 square miles at latitudes similar to other global wine-growing regions, with a unique combination of seasonal temperatures, rainfall, and soil not only rivaling other wine regions, but even giving Idaho wines an edge in quality.
Idaho now has more than 50 wineries producing cool climate wines, especially whites like Riesling, Chardonnay and Gewurtztraminer, and more recently, reds like fan favorite Cabernet Sauvignon.
(Shore Lodge, McCall, Idaho)
This newcomer on the global wine scene has been a quick learner. Washington State is already America's 2nd largest wine producer. Its wines win acclaim and awards that rank Washington as one of the world's top wine regions.
Wine has a pedigree in the state. In 1825 the Hudson's Bay Company planted the area's first wine grapes at Fort Vancouver.
The last decade or so has seen a resurgence of wine-making in Washington. Now, over 55,000 acres are devoted to vineyards. The viticulture trend is growing fast, drawing wine-makers from Europe and New World wine regions to the state's unique terroir and conditions for producing premium white and red wines.
Washington's young and internationally-influenced wine culture exhibits some of the latest trends in wine-making that visiting oenophiles will love. Hand-crafting, sustainability, as well as organic and biodynamic wines make visits to this Pacific North West wine region so unique.
Shea Wine Cellars, Oregon/ Carolyn Wells Kramer
It's America's 3rd largest wine grape producing state. Oregon has over 700 wineries growing 72 grape varietals in a thousand vineyards. In spite of that scale, Oregon's famous for its small-batch wineries and artisan wines. Most Oregon wineries produce fewer than 5000 cases a year of an incredible range of wines from Riesling to Viogniers, Pinot noir to Syrah, with sparkling, rose, and dessert wines to tempt your palate.
For wine-loving visitors to Oregon, that means two things. In winery tasting rooms, you'll have the chance to taste small-batch vintages that will never see wide release on store shelves in your home town. And hands-on, artisan vintners love to share their passion for wine, their vines, and wine-making styles with visitors to wine estates.
(Above and Top Images Courtesy Wines of British Columbia)
North of the border, British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley is the 2nd largest-producing wine region in Canada, with over 150 wineries and nearly 10,000 acres of vines. The valley stretches 155 miles from Lake Okanagan, south along the Okanagan River into Washington State (where it’s spelled differently: Okonogan) into the Columbia River, itself a growing and renowned wine region on both its Washington State and Oregon banks.
The Columbia and Cascade Mountains shield the region from Pacific and Arctic moisture, and the Okanagan’s desert-like conditions result in slow-ripening, smaller fruit with concentrated flavors. There’s still a variety of landscapes, growing both red and white varietals, from its signature Merlot, to Cab Sauv, Riesling, Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris, as well as Chardonnay.
Michigan is the 5th largest wine-producing state in the US, producing nearly 3 million gallons of wine a year. The unique, Great-Lakes microclimate that makes Michigan a famous cherry producer also nurtures acclaimed wines. Most of the state's wine grapes are grown within 25 scenic miles of Lake Michigan, benefitting from 'lake effect' moderation of both winter and summer climate.
There are over 100 wineries in Michigan, and 150 tasting rooms where visitors can sample and buy the wide range of Michigan wines from red, white, dry, sweet, even ice wine, sparkling wine, and wines made from its famous cherry crop. Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail in the north-west part of the state is considered one of the best in the country.
(Toronto in the distance on the shores of Lake Ontario. Photo: Wine Country Ontario)
Many people outside Canada think it’s too cold, and don’t think to add the country to their list of wine touring regions. If this is you, think again.
One Canadian wine sweeps global wine competitions by taking full advantage of those famous Canadian winters.
The granddaddy of Canadian wine regions is the Niagara Peninsula. Ontario is the country’s top wine province, with over 130 wineries and nearly 20,000 acres of vineyards that take advantage of the Great Lakes’ moderating effect on the weather to grow grapes, especially cool-climate Riesling, Pinot Noir, and Chardonnay, for wine.
Ice wine is Canada’s award-winning claim to fame in the international wine circle. More ice wine (originally white, but now, red, too) is produced in the Niagara Peninsula than anywhere else in the world.
The silky, sweet dessert and cheese wine has become virtually synonymous with the Niagara region, where consistently reliable cold winter temperatures allow vintners to harvest grapes after they have frozen on the vine. Freezing concentrates the juice, resulting in higher levels of sugar and an unmistakable wine. This may be the only place in the world whose annual wine harvest celebration, the Ice Wine Festival, takes place mid-winter!
As the name suggests, the wine region shares one of North America’s biggest tourist attractions, Niagara Falls, that straddles the US/Canadian border. And the Niagara Escarpment, a 650 mile-long limestone ridge that runs from upstate New York through the region, has a big influence on its wine.
Only an hour and a half’s drive from the big-city attractions of Toronto, the Niagara region also boasts a world-renowned theater scene, and the epically-charming historic town (and wine micro-region) of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
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Police Blotter: Police save lives with Narcan
LIFE SAVED WITH NARCAN, 10:08 a.m. Feb. 1. Flemington Police Sgt. William Soriano and Patrolman Frank Emanuele responded to the Hunter Hills Apartment Complex for a 911 report of a possible overdose of a 27-year-old male. The officers found the victim unresponsive, police said. Emanuele administered Naloxone (Narcan) to the victim and revived him. The Flemington-Raritan Rescue Squad and Hunterdon Medical Center Paramedics transported the victim to Hunterdon Medical Center for further treatment.
LIFE SAVED WITH NARCAN, 12:30 a.m. Jan. 31, Piscataway Police Officers Marc Portnoy and Jason Merrill responded to a township residence on a report of a possible overdose. The victim, a 31-year-old man, was located in his residence barely breathing, police said. The officers administered one dose of Nasal Narcan (Naloxone) to the man. In minutes, the man regained consciousness and was transported to a hospital for treatment. This is the first time the department was able to save a life using Narcan. Piscataway officers were trained as part of a program instituted by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. The program was instituted in many counties in New Jersey in response to the growing heroin epidemic, police said. Chief of Police Richard Ivone, who strongly supports the new program, said, “Our police department is always striving to utilize any and all new resources that are available and can contribute to the saving of lives.”
ATTEMPTED THEFT AND FRAUD, 10:30 a.m. Jan. 31. Someone attempted to pick up a pre-ordered Mac Book, valued at $1,300, from Best Buy that had been purchased using the victim’s stolen identity. After being asked a series of questions by the sales associate, the person fled the store without the Mac Book.
THEFT, between 4:45 and 7:30 p.m. Jan 30. An iPhone, valued at $400, was taken from a victim’s seat inside the Bridgewater Dine-in Movie theater at the Bridgewater Commons mall. The victim left her phone in a cup holder, left the theater, came back and it was missing, police said.
POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHRENALIA AND POSSESSION OF DRUGS, Jan. 13. A 17-year-old Bound Brook juvenile was detained after he entered the Somerset County Courthouse in Somerville to meet with his probation officer. As he passed his property through the X-ray screening device, a sheriff’s officer saw on the monitor what appeared to be a pipe in his backpack. Further inquiry by the officer into the contents of the bag led the finding of controlled dangerous substance paraphernalia and suspected marijuana in the backpack. The juvenile was detained and his parents were contacted, police said. The officer charged the juvenile with possession of controlled dangerous substance paraphernalia and possession of controlled dangerous substance.
CARELESS DRIVING AND MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT WITH INJURY, 1 p.m. Jan. 29. A 2011 Honda Accord, driven by Megan Danyus, 39, of Clinton Township, turned left from Route 633 onto Route 626. The vehicle then struck a 2008 Toyota Prius, driven by Kerry McTiernan, 65, also of Clinton Township, that was traveling east on Route 626. The crash caused McTiernan’s vehicle to travel off of the roadway and up an embankment. McTiernan suffered minor injuries and vehicle had to be towed from the scene, police said. Danyus was charged with careless driving.
POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA, 11:05 p.m. Jan. 31. Patrolman Umair Latif stopped a 1998 Honda Civic, driven by Jenian Gonzalez-Rodriguez, 25, of Philadelphia, on Route 31 South near Route 513 for multiple equipment violations, police said. Latif smelled marijuana inside the vehicle and found that passenger Kevin Slocum Jr., 27, also of Philadelphia, was in possession of a partially smoked marijuana cigarette, a container of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Latif charged Slocum with possession of under 50 grams of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and being under the influence of a controlled dangerous substance. Gonzalez-Rodriguez was charged with maintenance of lamps and given warnings for maintenance of exhaust, obstructed view and a cracked windshield.
OUTSTANDING WARRANT, 9:30 a.m. Feb. 3. Officers arrested Michael Calvario, 38, of Shohola, Pennsylvania, for an outstanding warrant out of Franklin Township for $290. Calvario posted bail and was released. He was charged with having unclear plates and failure to remove snow from vehicle, police said.
Source: Central Jersey police departments
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A few of us attended a special event near the United Nations this afternoon called, "Stand Up for Dignity: Human Rights and Spiritual Rights", sponsored by Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, International Day of Yoga Committee, International Federation of Women in Legal Careers and the Values Caucus at the United Nations, all in honor of International Day for Human Rights, which ended the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Gun Violence. Thus this time period covered a huge array of connected and overlapping issues.
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For me, spirituality is the spirit behind such work that declares and celebrates the supreme value of life - the sense of the rights of life as the central value of human society - of life on this earth. I believe that feeling, that inner feeling is a spiritual feeling, and even a spiritual experience, because it is probably tied to your own inner feeling of spirit and it's intrinsic and primary value above everything else on earth.
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States Must Play Catch-up on Health Overhaul
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November 13, 2012 Traci Miller
Obama win means healthcare reform will move ahead.
From article posted on Bloomberg Press -November 7, 2012
President Barack Obama’s re-election means his overhaul of the U.S. health-care system, opposed by most Republicans, will move ahead in all 50 states, with or without the cooperation of their governors.
State officials who held off implementing some aspects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act now face pressure to make decisions almost immediately. They have nine days to advise the federal government how they plan to manage state-run exchanges created by the law to provide medical coverage to the uninsured, or face a de facto U.S. takeover of their insurance markets.
With Republican candidate Mitt Romney promising to repeal the law, all but 13 governors had taken a wait-and-see approach. Now those that “thumbed their nose” at the president must quickly reassess, said Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, a Republican who said he will submit a plan for his state’s exchange by the Nov. 16 deadline.
“The message to governors is the verdict is now in,” said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a consumer advocacy group that backs the law. “The Affordable Care Act is moving forward. Either they help cooperate with its implementation, or people in their state could be left out in the cold.”
In addition to playing catch up with Obama, states would also need to keep pace with hospitals and insurance companies. Hospital chains like HCA Holdings Inc. and insurers including UnitedHealth Group Inc., the biggest private provider of health benefits, have spent millions on technology, marketing and plan development to prepare for the new business.
“Our priority for the organization is to get the organization ready to both comply with and play in target markets from an exchange standpoint,” David C. Cordani, chief executive officer of Bloomfield, Connecticut-based Cigna Corp., told analysts on a Nov. 1 conference call. “But we’re keenly focused on the amount of moving parts that exist within the regulatory environment and within the state and federal environment over the next two to three quarters.”
Thirty-four states have accepted at least two grants from the federal government to start planning an exchange, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That puts about 20 states in a position to build an exchange or partner with the federal government on one, in addition to the 13, plus the District of Columbia, who have already said they’ll run their own.
‘Few Steps’
The rest “have either explicitly said ‘no’ or have taken so few steps that you can’t really see them shifting quickly enough to play an active role,” said Alan Weil, executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy, which assists states implementing the health law, in an interview.
Governors who don’t meet the Obama administration’s deadline will see the federal government set up exchanges in their states that will decide which insurers can sell plans to their citizens. The federal exchange will also control enrollment of low-income people into state Medicaid programs.
“We still haven’t seen proposed regulations in a couple of critical areas,” said Alissa Fox, senior vice president for lobbying and policy development at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association in Washington, a trade group for 38 state Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance companies.
“What the states have to do and what the plans have to do, in designing and having products ready to market, a huge undertaking has to happen,” she said.
Obama’s victory over Romney removes most of the remaining uncertainty about the 2010 Affordable Care Act that lingered since the law largely survived a challenge before the Supreme Court in June. Obama will enjoy a Senate that’s still controlled by his Democratic Party, meaning any legislation attack on the law passed by the Republican-led House will die in the other chamber, as it has for the past two years.
“There’s not anything really different for us from yesterday,” Mark Bertolini, chief executive officer at Aetna Inc., the third biggest U.S. health plan by enrollment, said in a telephone interview. “That makes the game plan we’ve been executing against one we can stick with.”
With the threat of repeal gone, Obama may be more willing to grant states greater flexibility, or even delay some of the law’s provisions to ensure it can be implemented successfully, said Paul Keckley, executive director of Deloitte LLP’s Center for Health Solutions research group in Washington.
The administration may consider giving governors more time to set up exchanges, Keckley said. Or it may be willing to accept a more lenient definition of exchanges to get their systems up and running. In the end, Keckley expects few states to cede the new insurance markets to the federal government.
‘Backstop’ Plan
“The federal government doesn’t want to run the exchange,” Keckley said in a telephone interview. “The federally run exchange was always meant as a backstop. To set up and run that federal exchange, they would have to go through the usual appropriations process in Congress. That’s a whole new battle, and I don’t think anyone in the administration is interested in that.”
The election was close, which shows there is a sharp divide over the health-care overhaul, said Alan Miller, founder and chief executive officer of Universal Health Services Inc., a King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based hospital-management company that operates more than 100 acute, behavioral health and ambulatory facilities.
“It’s going to be very contentious and confusing for a long time,” Miller said in an interview.
One potential area of compromise: the administration hasn’t said what benefits health plans will have to cover, instead allowing states to set a benchmark based on small-business plans already available to their residents. Obama could give states more leeway to define benefits, or cite the continuing process as a reason to delay the exchanges, Keckley said.
The health law isn’t entirely clear of potential changes. Obama and Congress face a combination of tax increases, spending cuts and a federal debt-limit that will require negotiated legislation.
It will be difficult for the president to keep the health law out of those discussions, said Mike Tuffin, an APCO Worldwide managing director who used to be a vice president at America’s Health Insurance Plans, the industry’s main lobbying group in Washington.
‘Eternal Hope’
“That law has so many tentacles, in terms of spending and the revenue side, that it is by default going to be impacted by a deficit reduction deal,” Tuffin said in a phone interview. “If the Obama administration is saying everything is on the table, everything can’t mean everything except the Affordable Care Act. It’s just too big.”
Provisions of the law that could be scaled back in a budget deal include subsidies for insurance plans bought in the exchanges. Currently, families earning as much as four times the poverty level, or $92,200 for a family of four, are eligible for subsidized plans.
In addition, insurers and state insurance commissioners are already lobbying the administration and Congress to widen the range of premiums that people in the exchanges can pay. The law currently limits premiums for older adults to three times the premium paid by young people. Insurers say the maximum ratio should be 5-to-1, so that policies for young people aren’t so expensive that they stay out of the market.
“It’s possible — hope springs eternal — that they could come together,” said Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger, a Republican. With Obama’s final term assured, “there’s no percentage in trying to thwart everything the president wants to do. We’ll have some deadlines looming and people will be more engaged in seeing what some of the law’s benefits are.”
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Rock fall at Grand Canyon reveals ancient animal footprints
by: FELICIA FONSECA, Associated Press
Posted: Aug 24, 2020 / 08:13 PM CDT / Updated: Aug 25, 2020 / 01:23 PM CDT
This undated photo provided by Grand Canyon National Park shows park employees Klara Widrig, left, and Anne Miller examining a rock that revealed fossilized footprints at the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. Some researchers have estimated the footprints are 313 million years old, among the earliest found at the Grand Canyon. (Grand Canyon National Park via AP)
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — It’s something like a modern-day chuckwalla, strolling in sand dunes on an island in what now is the Grand Canyon region.
That’s how Steve Rowland, professor emeritus of geology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and his fellow researchers interpret fossil footprints that were revealed in a rock fall near a popular Grand Canyon hiking trail. They estimate the tracks are 313 million years old, give or take a half-million years.
At that age, they’d be among the oldest tracks of animals that lay eggs with a protective hard or leathery shell and the earliest evidence of vertebrate animals walking distinctively in sand dunes, Rowland, Mario Caputo and Zachary Jensen wrote in a research paper published this month.
“I think our interpretations will hold up very well,” Rowland said Monday.
Not everyone is convinced the footprints were created by a single, four-legged animal that has a lateral-sequence walk, where the legs on one side of the body move in succession, followed by the legs on the other side. Or, that the footprints mark the point in evolution where animals were able to lay eggs with protective shells outside water.
Still, the paper raises interesting questions, said Mark Nebel, the paleontology program manager at the Grand Canyon.
“Some of the conclusions likely are going to be controversial,” he said. ”There’s a lot of disagreement in the scientific community about interpreting tracks, interpreting the age of rocks, especially interpreting what kind of animal made these tracks.”
Rowland first heard about the footprints from a Norwegian geology professor, Allan Krill, who was hiking at the Grand Canyon in 2016 with his students and sent Rowland a photo.
Rowland made out claw marks common among reptiles in the 28 footprints, which he said help tease out the scarce skeletal record. Some of the earliest bones of similar animals that lay eggs outside the water were found in Nova Scotia around the same time the creatures would have been in what’s now northern Arizona, Rowland said.
Similar tracks elsewhere largely are found in coal beds, not sand dunes, he said.
“You could always learn more, and we certainly would like to find more tracks of those same animals,” he said.
The rock fell from the Manakacha Formation, made up of sandstone, limestone and mudstone that points to it being a onetime coastal plain when Arizona was near the western edge of the super continent, Pangaea. Dinosaurs weren’t around yet.
Officials at the Grand Canyon are trying to determine what to do with the rock. It weighs hundreds of pounds and is in plain view along the Bright Angel Trail. Another part of the rock also has footprints but wasn’t studied extensively.
The Grand Canyon has talked about creating a trail-side display or flying the rock out and into a museum, which would be costlier, Nebel said.
“A lot of people walk by it and never see it,” he said. “Scientists, we have trained eyes. Now that they know something’s there, it will draw more interest.”
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Home Health & Fitness News COVID-19: NCDC reports 1,244 new infections as total now 101, 331
A passenger's body temperature is being tested at the gate of entry upon arrival at the Murtala International Airport in Lagos, on March 2, 2020. - Nigeria is monitoring 58 people who had contact with an Italian man infected with the new coronavirus, the health minister said Monday, as officials scrambled to stop the disease spreading. Africa's most populous country on Friday confirmed the first case of the virus in sub-Saharan Africa after the patient was diagnosed in the economic hub Lagos. (Photo by BENSON IBEABUCHI / AFP) (Photo by BENSON IBEABUCHI/AFP via Getty Images)
By Abujah Racheal
Abuja, Jan. 12, 2021 The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 1,244 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 101,331.
The NCDC disclosed this on its official website late Monday.
The agency also confirmed additional three coronavirus-related deaths in the country in the past 24 hours.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that last week the country recorded more than 9,800 cases within seven days, thus surpassing its earlier weekly record of COVID-19 infections.
Available data shows that between Jan. 3 and 9, the country recorded 9,833 cases, a sharp increase from the 5,681 cases recorded in the previous week of Dec. 27, 2020, and Jan. 2, 2021.
The public health agency said the new infections were reported from across 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
It disclosed that Lagos state, the epicentre of the virus in country, recorded the highest number of confirmed cases with 774 new infections, taking the total number of cases in the state to 36,875.
The health agency added that Lagos, FCT and Plateau recorded the highest number of COVID-19 infections with 774, 125 and 102 cases respectively.
Ohers states with new infections were Anambra-47, Ondo-46, Rivers-27, Edo-18, Kaduna-16, Ogun-16, Gombe-16, Bauchi-11, Kano-11, Nasarawa-10, Akwa Ibom-seven, Sokoto-seven, Borno-five, Ekiti-four, and Zamfara-two.
NCDC also announced the discharge of 461 patients from isolation centres across the country.
“Our discharges today include 144 community recoveries in Lagos State managed in line with guidelines,” it said, adding that it had conducted at least 1,033,858 tests since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was announced in the country.
According to it, a multi-sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) activated at Level 3, is coordinating response activities nationwide.
The agency issued a public health advisory to alert Nigerians that non-adherence to public health and social measures was undermining its response efforts aimed at limiting the continued spread of the virus.
“The average number of daily confirmed cases recorded in the first week of January 2021, was higher than the cumulative cases recorded the last week of December 2020.
“Following the festive season, and in view of the increase in the number of confirmed cases in Nigeria, the NCDC and partners, with leadership from the Federal Ministry of Health and the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 are putting in place measures to strengthen the public health agency’s response to the pandemic,” it said.
According to it, while Nigerians may be tired of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact, the virus is taking advantage of the fatigue, complacency, gaining momentum, and taking advantage of lapses in the adherence to recommended safety protocols.
To prevent the further spread of COVID-19, the NCDC said, ”Nigerians are reminded to wear a face mask properly, wash hands with soap, and maintain physical distance from others.
“This is not the time to let down our guard. The virus that causes COVID-19 never went away and is still very much with us, as evidenced by the rising cases in Nigeria and globally.”
The NCDC noted that COVID-19 could affect all age groups with severe outcomes in the elderly (50 years and above), and in persons with co-morbidities such as hypertension, diabetes, cancer etc.
“Recently there has been increased infection among the younger age groups.
“Therefore, NCDC urges all persons to take responsibility and adhere to the non-pharmaceutical interventions (regular hand washing, maintaining physical distance, and proper use of face mask,” it explained.
It said it would continue to work with other agencies under the leadership of the Federal Ministry of Health to spear-head public health response to the disease.
It added that it would continue to play a key role in the multi-sectoral response to the disease, within the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 (PTF-COVID-19), established by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Given the sustained increase in cases, the agency said it would also continue to work closely with state governments, provide support through the deployment of Rapid Response Teams, provide laboratory and medical supplies as well as carry out other response activities.
“We urge state governments to take greater ownership of their response, maintain their COVID-19 surveillance structures, laboratory diagnosis and testing.
“Unless states actively test, they will not know their disease burden, putting local communities at greater risk of adverse outcomes, if the virus is not detected and impacts vulnerable populations.
“NCDC has significantly scaled-up the national testing capacity by expanding the number of laboratories for COVID-19 testing across states.
“Testing remains one of the best tools we have in our fight against COVID-19, as it enables prompt clinical management and helps in preventing further transmission.
“The cumulative number of samples tested in the country has increased significantly, and some states have sustained their higher levels of testing.
“Although the country has yet to meet its total testing capacity, this remains a major priority for the response.
“Sample collection sites have also been established in many Local Government Areas, making public health testing more easily accessible.
“Testing in public laboratories remains free of charge (unless for travel purposes in private laboratories, where pricing structures vary,” it explained.
The NCDC charged healthcare professionals to maintain a high index of suspicion, especially when treating patients with breathing difficulties and also present with symptoms common to COVID-19.
It urged Nigerians to adhere to the recommended public health and social measures recommended by public health authorities and to avoid all non-essential travel within and outside Nigeria to reduce the risk of transmission.
“The virus that causes COVID-19 is more likely to spread in mass gatherings, especially in confined spaces with poor ventilation.
“It is advised that people avoid mass gatherings during this time, and if necessary meet outdoors and adhere to physical distancing and other public health measures.
“All these measures are critical in order to sustain the gains made since the onset of the pandemic.
“We also strongly advise business owners, employees and religious leaders to institute the strict enforcement and adherence to public measures, which include the wearing of face masks, ensuring the availability of handwashing facilities or providing hand sanitizers.
The NCDC said it remain grateful to all frontline health workers, state public health teams, stakeholders, and partners who have continued to work extremely hard since the beginning of the pandemic supporting the response efforts.
“We are all eager to get back to the normalcy in our lives, so the continued response and end to the outbreak starts and ends with all of us.
“We remain committed to protecting the health of all Nigerians,” it added.
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Announcing a unique New Lion Brewery/British Sea Power collaboration
Totnes’ Sea Change Festival will not only feature dozens of bands, but also a unique beer, one that celebrates a little-known story from the town’s history. British Sea Power, one of the featured bands at the August Bank Holiday weekend festival of films, literature and music, have teamed up with award-winning Totnes-based craft brewery, New Lion Brewery, to create British Sea Power IPA. It’s a beer that celebrates not just the festival, but a remarkable tale from the town’s past, a story of ‘Totnes Sea Power’.
The band are based in Brighton, and are renowned for their live performances, the unusual lyrical content of their songs and the adventurous choice of locations for some of their gigs. Their music has won them some remarkable admirers – including Lou Reed, David Bowie and London’s National Maritime Museum. Indeed, their fanbase now includes Doctor Who, Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes (the actors Peter Capaldi, Daniel Radcliffe and Benedict Cumberbatch have all declared allegiance). The band’s live career has seen them play atop the Great Wall of China, at the CERN atom-research labs, aboard the Cutty Sark and beside the diplodocus skeleton at London’s Natural History Museum. And Sea Change sees them topping all of that … by coming to Totnes, and having a beer launched in their honour.
Prior to World War Two, Totnes didn’t have a shipbuilding industry. When the war began, the town’s Reeves Timber Yard became home to a remarkable story. A Mr. H. Darney came to Totnes from Curtis and Co. shipbuilders in Looe, Cornwall, and set about assembling a team of around 600 men, women and teenagers with no previous shipbuilding experience who, over the next 5 years, built 23 wooden minesweepers, ships that went on to clear mines across the seas of Europe, saving thousands of lives and even to be among the first boats to land on D-Day. Much of the wood they used came from Dartington Hall Sawmills, and 400 tons of stone was laid down to reclaim what had been the town dump to prevent the new workshops from sinking. Ann Monroe of New Lion Brewery says:
“In making a beer for British Sea Power, we wanted to celebrate Totnes Sea Power. We were unaware of this remarkable story of how our community came together, learned new skills, and exported something positive to the world. We wanted to honour this part of our community’s history, and to share a story that many younger people may not be aware of”.
Just 500 bottles of the limited-edition, individually-numbered beer will be available during the Sea Change weekend, initially at the British Sea Power show, and then afterwards from New Lion Brewery and Drift Record Shop. British Sea Power will be taking another 500 bottles to sell on tour with them, quite possibly the ultimate piece of limited band memorabilia. Head brewer Mat Henney says:
“We say on the label that it is ‘Packed with ‘C’ Power’, because this is a big IPA, hopped with four hops that all start with the letter C: Centennial, Columbus, Chinook and Cascade. They give this beer a beautiful aroma which jumps out of the bottle”.
It’s not the first time that the band have worked with a local brewery. For example, they previously collaborated with the Dent Brewery in Yorkshire to create ‘British Ale Power’. The band’s singer, Yan, says:
“We were all thrilled when New Lion asked about producing a BSP beer. It’s always nice to have a beer and even better to have your own beer…Many thanks! Our band are somewhat known for our big stage bears, so it’s nice to be moving into another animal realm, moving on up to the New Lion enclosure. Now we’re looking forward to Sea Change Festival in Totnes and having a few glasses of British Sea Power IPA while we’re there. Cheers!”
Details of a launch event will be announced nearer the time on both the New Lion Brewery and British Sea Power websites. New Lion Brewery are also creating a Sea Change version of their best-selling Pandit pale ale, which will be available through the same outlets.
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Difference between revisions of "Christianity"
From New Message from God Wiki
The New Message honors Christianity as a true religious path sourced in the revelations of Jesus. In the New Message, God confirms that Jesus was a key messenger sent into the world to bring an ethical and spiritual framework to humanity and to unite people across religious and tribal affiliations. It says he was the second to last Messenger to be sent from God (the last being Muhammad).
The New Message honors Christianity as a true religious path sourced in the revelations of Jesus. In the New Message, God confirms that Jesus was a key messenger sent into the world to bring an ethical and spiritual framework to humanity and to unite people across religious and tribal affiliations. It says he was the second to last Messenger to be sent from God (the last being [[Muhammad]]).
The New Message speaks on the purpose of Jesus' revelation, which was to teach humanity about the plan the plan of God and the reality of [[Knowledge]], yet reveals that his life was cut short and his mission in the world was not completed.
The New Message speaks on the purpose of Jesus' revelation, which was to teach humanity about the plan the plan of God and the reality of Knowledge, yet reveals that his life was cut short and his mission in the world was not completed.
The original spiritual preparation taught by Jesus has, over millenia, been clouded and obscured, coopted and institutionalized, such that it can be difficult to find the truth path to God originally contained in Jesus' revelation without a skilled spiritual guide. The New Message says that in all the world's major religions, true practitioners can few and far between and that those seeking the Steps to Knowledge in these traditions must seek to find them.
1 Short Quotes
2 Long Quotes
3 Christianity in Antiquity
4 Christianity and the Greater Community
"Jesus’ life has been inflated and deified, but it is still not understood." [1]
"The religions that have been established in [the name of Christ] must receive the Grace that illuminated his life and that transformed his activity." [1]
Long Quotes
“Christianity and all the other major religions have fostered a bridge between cultures and between races. These are not simply religions of one tribe or one group. They are religions for all of humanity. This is not to say that everyone can adhere to them, follow them or receive them, but they bridge the normal boundaries that seem to separate people and cast them apart. The religion of forgiveness, the religion of reunion with the Divine, the religion of human development, the religion of compassion—all of these tremendous movements in the evolution of religion in the world were fostered by the establishment of the world’s religions, which have brought the world to its present state.” [2]
“Religion must serve the world in its current state of evolution. The world’s major religions have all evolved the race towards a greater interaction between different peoples. This is especially true of Christianity, which has spanned your globe and now connects people who may otherwise have no association with one another. Now they have a common faith. Now they have common rituals and common observances. This is a remarkable accomplishment in a world that is still deeply mired in tribal identities.” [2]
“It is a remarkable achievement that Christianity is present in the world and that it is accepted by millions of people in different countries, from different cultures and backgrounds. This is a religion for international civilization, as is true of many of the other religious movements that were initiated in the world and that have advanced into a more modern age.” [2]
“In many instances, the spread of Christianity was destructive and immoral. However, it was following an evolutionary track. It had to happen. Just as the world is now preparing to emerge into the Greater Community, nations in centuries past were destined to interact with each other, to confront each other, to dominate each other and to spread their cultures around the world.” [2]
"[Christ's] demonstration, then, though greatly misunderstood and misappropriated, remains today as a symbol of the emergence of Knowledge within the individual. Though Jesus has been idealized, though his life has been made to be unique and un-matched by any other life, though he has been placed on a pedestal above and beyond every other person, in truth, his life represents the emergence of Knowledge within the individual. This emergence is possible for you." [1]
"The Mass of Christ is a celebration of Divine relationship. Christ is the person united with the Divine. Christ is the individual united with the Unseen Ones, who are the Angelic Forces of the Divine. This is the meaning of the Mass of Christ—Christmas. It is not the glorification of an individual. It is the recognition of real relationship—the relationship of the person with Knowledge within themselves, their relationship and intrinsic bond to the Unseen Ones, their duty to humanity and their affinity with life. This is the celebration of relationship. This is the meaning of Christhood. This is the Mass of Christ." [1]
"When you are in doubt, when you are uncertain and when the way becomes inexplicable and indecipherable, you will remember him because he kept traveling, and he met and found his destination. And you will thank him because he left a legacy for you through his demonstration and through his sacrifice and difficulty. He has kept Knowledge alive in the world, as have many others, for he was not alone, and his contribution has been kept alive in the minds and hearts of many." [1]
"Certainly, there will be much resistance to these words, to this understanding. People will react. They will reject it. They will complain. They will accuse it of being false. They will say it comes from demons. They will say it is deceptive. They will project all of their fears upon it. They will project all of their confusion upon it. They will project their desire for separation upon it. They will defend their ideas. They will defend their beliefs. They will defend their traditions. They will be indignant. They will be outraged. They will call God’s Messenger a devil. They will say he is the Antichrist. They will say that he is the Dark Lord. They will say all kinds of ridiculous things, afraid, unable to respond. And it is their ambivalence regarding God that is the core problem." [3]
"Many in your world follow the Christian faith. We think this is admirable though it is certainly not the only approach to the fundamental questions of spiritual identity and purpose in life. The visitors will utilize the fundamental idea of allegiance to a single leader in order to generate allegiance to their cause. Within the context of this religion, the identification with Jesus the Christ will be greatly utilized." [4]
Christianity in Antiquity
"At the time Christianity was introduced, it was revolutionary. Its emphasis was to spread its message amoungst nations and amongst different peoples. It was not only meant for one group or one locale. It was not only meant for one tribe or one nation. Its emphasis was to bridge the gaps between different cultures and different nations, to bond pepole together through a higher association in life and to create a greater foundation for recognition, communication and cooperation. Humanity has been struggling with this challenge ever since, but much progress has been made." [2]
"Consider the story of Jesus. Yes, he gained great attention, but who were his true allies? Who remained true to him throughout his career? Who put themselves at risk to be his representatives and his witnesses? The ambitious? The self-seeking? Those who were immersed in their spiritual pride, who claimed unique and special powers and gifts for themselves? No, they were nowhere to be found. But they arose after Jesus’ death to claim that they were his representatives." [5]
Christianity and the Greater Community
"Christianity is a religion for humanity with a human god and a human emphasis. It cannot account for life in the Greater Community. In order for this to happen, its theology will have to change and expand. Its idea of the Divine will have to change and expand. Its notion of God's involvement in the world will have to grow enormously. Its teachings will have to be separated from the folklore of the past. Its theology and application will have to change and adapt. If it cannot do this, it will die. No matter how virulent its defenders will be and no matter how strong its seeming resurgence, it will be overtaken by the reality of a changing world." [2]
"Though Jesus has established a foundation here, even Christianity must now evolve to meet a whole new set of circumstances… An old Christianity cannot meet a new set of circumstances. It must be a new Christianity, a Christianity that is renewing itself continuously.” [2]
"Even Christianity must now evolve to meet a whole new set of circumstances. Resistance to Greater Community awareness in the world today is primarily centered in the world’s religions. These are religions for man. They are human religions with a human god and a human emphasis. They do not account for life in the Greater Community. Yet the reality of life in the Greater Community will challenge their precepts and will challenge the institutions that have been built upon these precepts." [2]
"An old Christianity cannot meet a new set of circumstances. It must be a new Christianity, a Christianity that is renewing itself continuously— just as within the life and scope of a person’s experience, an old orientation cannot meet a new problem, an old belief cannot meet a new set of circumstances and an old identity cannot interact with a new identity." [2]
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 The Meaning of Christmas (Dec. 23, 1994)
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Greater Community Spirituality
↑ What Is Creation? (Feb. 4, 2007)
↑ The Allies of Humanity, Book One, Fourth Briefing, p. 55
↑ Discerning False Messengers (March 21, 2000)
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The Super-Connected Classroom: Experiments in Ingenuity From the Ground Up
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Philissa Cramer
When Chris Lehmann, principal of the technology-rich Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, wanted to give teachers feedback on their lessons last year, he turned to his iPad. Lehmann wanted to deliver comments to teachers faster than typing them into Microsoft Word documents would allow. So he started entering compliments, critiques, and notes into teachers’ personal Google spreadsheets as he observed them, triggering instant alerts in their email inboxes.
“It led to wonderful dialogue and it was a way to give feedback in a timely fashion in a way that […] didn’t just stick in a file cabinet somewhere,” Lehmann said.
Lehmann’s experience reflects an explosion in on-the-ground education technology ingenuity, even though federal investments in innovation haven’t produced earth-shattering results. An increasingly crowded field of options presented by private companies, nonprofit organizations, and even teachers and principals themselves are reshaping instruction, assessment, and teacher evaluations—and the very experiences of teaching and learning.
In the past, teachers who thought up new and improved ways to deliver instruction could just run with their ideas—largely because teachers operated alone, isolated inside their classrooms. Now, they’re getting connected as districts and administrators seek to replicate successful strategies on a larger scale.
That’s the driving theory behind New York City’s two-year-old “Innovation Zone,” which encompasses a wide range of programs that aim to upend traditional modes of schooling. The School of One’s personalized learning program, which many viewed as a standout among winners of the federal innovation competition, was the zone’s early hallmark—but now its 160 schools are characterized more by the way they are using technology to reorganize the school day, change the way teachers are deployed, and shift financial resources to support new priorities. The zone’s personnel are in place, to some extent, to facilitate principals’ dreams.
Two New York City principals—Alisa Berger of the NYCiSchool and Sarah Scrogin of East Bronx Academy of the Future—who have been part of the zone since its launch last year convened a monthly meeting where principals can discuss the challenges and opportunities of reimagining their schedules, instructional approaches, and uses of technology. At a recent meeting, principals weighed how they might take advantage of a new state regulation that relaxes “seat-time” requirements for students who take classes conducted partially online. Some of them bubbled enthusiastically about the opportunity presented by the new regulation, tugging along others who were more apprehensive about changing the way they had always assigned credits.
Berger and Scrogin have also pioneered another innovation: using Skype to share teachers between their schools. Last year, an East Bronx Academy teacher led an Advanced Placement English class for students at both schools, with iSchool students in Lower Manhattan tuning in online. Other city schools plan to launch similar arrangements this fall, and while the number of schools participating is likely to be a tiny fraction of the schools in the city, schooling-by-Skype already is unsettling longstanding geographic and socioeconomic fault lines. The arrangement also is allowing principals to augment their course offerings at a time when many schools are being forced to cut back.
Somewhat counter-intuitively, budget cuts could speed the adoption of other new technologies, including one that could allow Lehmann to take his entire observation process online.
At least one of several new teacher observation iPad apps, PD 360, includes videos of excellent teaching that principals can show to teachers who fall short. Yvette Allen, principal of In-Tech Academy in the Bronx, said recently that she is eager to see whether she could use PD 360 videos to replace some of the off-campus training sessions to which she sends teachers. If the quality is good, she said, she could cut down both on the costs of the training sessions and on how much she spends to pay substitutes when her teachers are out of the building.
For now, Lehmann still must use Philadelphia’s unwieldy form when he conducts annual observations for evaluation purposes. But that could change as the market for apps such as PD 360 expands along with states’ commitment to common standards and toughening teacher evaluation rules.
Some New York City principals report they’ve already loaded another observation program, TeachScape, onto their iPads for the new school year in an effort to conduct higher quality evaluations.
TeachScape is one of several technology projects that have received support from the NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit group that raises funds for education entrepreneurs. (NewSchools’ founder, Kim Smith, and former communications director, Julie Peterson, authored the recent study criticizing federal innovation efforts.) Many groups offer funding for education technology projects, but NewSchools is the highest-profile.
Some of NewSchools’ recent investments underscore the reality that new technologies have only begun to sate a thirst for collaboration among teachers and principals. The group has given grants to BetterLesson, a social-networking site for teachers looking to share classroom materials, and Wireless Generation, a NewsCorp-owned company that is teaming up with the Gates Foundation to produce a suite of collaboration tools that the two groups are billing as “a huge app store—just for teachers.”
In a landscape that’s teeming with shiny new solutions to ancient problems, the users will ultimately decide which technology tools gain widespread adoption. And educators are discerning customers.
“At the end of the day it’s a tool,” Lehman said about iPads, but he could have been referring to any number of technologies that are poised to reshape the classroom. “How you use the tool becomes really important. […] Where this stuff makes us stronger and better and achieve our mission of taking care of kids, it’s awesome.”
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You are here: Home / News / Celebrities urged to stop drinking
Celebrities urged to stop drinking
State health authorities have enlisted the aid of well-known Norwegians to reduce alcohol consumption, by urging them to abstain from any wine, beer or liquor over a two-week period. Among those signing up are skiing star Vibeke Skofterud and the new head of the state police system, Øystein Mæland.
“It’s been easy to get those we asked to go along, because they think it’s necessary to reflect on the relation we have to alcohol,” state health director Bjørn Inge Larsen told newspaper Dagsavisen. He hopes it will all lead to a reversal of what he thinks may be a long-lasting and damaging change in the patterns of Norwegian alcohol consumption.
Discouraging drinking
State authorities in Norway have a long tradition of discouraging drinking, by restricting access to beer, wine and liquor and making it expensive through the imposition of punitive taxes. Drinking patterns started to change several years ago, when consumption of liquor declined while wine-drinking increased.
Now it’s fairly common for Norwegians, many of whom drank alcohol only on weekends and then often to excess, to have a glass or two of wine every day as they adopted more continental habits. Some have even come to believe that it’s healthy to drink wine on a daily basis.
That makes Larsen shudder. “There is no evidence that drinking less but more often offers a health advantage,” he claims. He’s clearly worried that overall alcohol consumption in Norway has increased 40 percent in the past 15 years, according to new statistics from the health ministry.
‘White weeks’
The new campaign basically urges what the Norwegians call hvite uker, literally “white weeks,” but used in this context as alcohol-free. The celebrities will abstain, then urge others to do the same, in a sort of national relay.
“We can’t hope that folks will stop drinking entirely,” Larsen said. The best he’s hoping for, he said, is that people will become more aware of how much they drink and that the increase in how much Norwegians drink will stagnate.
State police director Mæland noted that his colleagues see the effects of alcohol consumption on a daily basis. “We experience the worst consequences of over-consumption,” he told Dagsavisen. “That’s why we’re glad to take part in the campaign.”
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Home > Information management > Legislation and regulations > Public Records Act > The public records system
The public records system
As the national archive for England, Wales and the United Kingdom, The National Archives houses records from across the UK central government and, in smaller numbers, from the central courts.
The Public Records Act 1958 places responsibility for the management of public records on departments. Each appoints a departmental record officer who is responsible for the care of all its records (including electronic records). The departmental record officer’s work on public records is carried out under the guidance and supervision of The National Archives through the staff of the information management department. Staff of this department work with departmental record officers, and their staff, to select records for permanent preservation at The National Archives, to create finding aids to the records, and to ensure that the records are prepared and transferred to the correct archival standard. The information management department advises other government departments on good record keeping, and promotes the effective and efficient management of records across government.
Selection of public records takes place in two stages. The first, when the records have passed out of active use, usually takes place five years after a record has been created. At this point, records which are obviously worthless are destroyed, and those which have been identified as valuable for future administrative need, or future research are kept for further review at a later date. This process, known as second review takes place when the record is 15 to 25 years old. The lapse of time gives perspective to the judgment of which of these records are worthy of permanent preservation.
The Public Records Act also provides for the deposit of records in places other than The National Archives, at the discretion of the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Examples of such records include records of certain courts, and semi-independent local bodies which are of local interest, films and sound recordings, and certain records of the national museums and galleries.
Separate national record offices exist for Scotland and Northern Ireland. The National Archives of Scotland (formerly the Scottish Record Office) holds records of departments which are wholly or mainly concerned with Scottish affairs, the Scottish courts and of private individuals and organisations. The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) was established in 1923 as the archive for the province, and contains records of the Northern Ireland courts and departments, local government records, and some private and business records.
Until January 2005, access to public records was governed by the Public Records Act 1958, and the Public Records Act 1967. The Freedom Of Information (FOI) Act came fully into force in January 2005 and replaced those parts of the Public Records Act which related to access to records.
When are records made available to the public?
Since the FOI Act came fully into force, members of the public can ask to see information held by public authorities as soon as it has been created. The Act gives people two new rights of access:
the right to be told whether the information is held by the public authority
the right to be provided with the information
These new access rights may only be overridden by exemptions in the Act.
The FOI access regime replaces that of the Public Records Act, which was commonly referred to as the ’30 year rule’. Under this Act, records were opened on 1 January, 30 years after the date of the last paper or entry in a record, plus one extra year, to ensure that all papers on the file were at least 30 years old. Thus records bearing a last date of 1973 were released into the public domain on 1 January 2004. This process was known as the New Year’s Openings.
Some records used to be closed for periods longer than 30 years. There were various reasons for this extended closure. Some records contain distressing personal information about people and events. Others include information whose release could damage national security or international relations, or the information may have been supplied subject to certain confidential undertakings. The release of other types of information may be barred under legislation. Records that were closed for extended periods for reasons like this before the FOI Act came into force in January 2005, remain closed only where an exemption in the FOI Act applies.
Are records not held by The National Archives available?
FOI has not directly altered the way in which records are selected for permanent preservation or for alternative disposal. Most records are still transferred to The National Archives or other Places of Deposit after the second review process, that is, after they are 15 years old. Most of the records transferred after January 2005 are open; those which are closed have only been closed under an exemption in the FOI Act.
Under FOI, the public have a right of access to information in public records before they are transferred. Members of the public should simply ask the public authority which currently holds the information for access to it.
Some records are ‘retained’ by government departments. Retention means that a department requests the right to keep back from transfer a record that is over 30 years old. The approval to retain is given by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and normally lasts for five years, after which time a new request must be made. It is usually granted on the basis of a continuing administrative need by the department, for example, maps and plans of mineworkings which are still with the Coal Authority.
Who agrees what should be retained?
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has to approve all applications to retain a record after the usual 20 year period defined in the Public Records Act. Departmental record officers make such requests, which are assessed in the first instance by members of The National Archives’ information management department. The requests are then considered by the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives, which is chaired by the Master of the Rolls, and composed of MPs, academics, researchers and archivists. The Advisory Council scrutinises the applications, and those it agrees with are passed to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport for final approval.
How can I find out if I can see a record?
Details of the closure status of individual records is usually given in the class list and finding aids for that particular record in our catalogue, Discovery. If you want to see information in a closed record, you can submit an FOI request asking for the record to be reviewed. We will re-examine the record in the light of FOI, and if no exemptions apply, the record will be opened. Find more details on how to make an FOI request to The National Archives.
How can I find out more information?
Details of the closure status of individual records is usually given in the class list and finding aids for that particular record. Contact The National Archives for advice on how to contact departmental record officers of government departments, or of how to apply for undertakings to see certain record classes.
You can also contact The National Archives for advice on how to contact departmental record officers of government departments.
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July 12, 2012 - Terry McCormick
Holmes says hits caused him to see sky as green
Priest Holmes was one of the NFL's most dominant running backs approximately a decade ago.
Now the former Baltimore Raven and Kansas City Chief says he would often get up from bone-jarring hits he suffered and see the sky as a color other than blue - sometimes, green, orange or red ... even clear-looking after one jolt.
"This color obviously isn't going to be blue. It can be a color that can be orange. It can be red. The sky could turn green," Holmes told FoxSports.com. "There's even an episode where you see a clear light, like light at the end of the tunnel."
Now, years after his career ended, the former running back says he suffers from migraine headaches and other woes that he believes are concussion-related, stemming from the hits he took playing pro football. Holmes said he won't necessarily encourage his own sons to follow in his footsteps and play the game.
“I always let them know, this isn’t a have-to,” he said. “Believe me, there’s other avenues you can choose in life.”
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Terry McCormick covers the Titans for TitanInsider.com
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Condom clears man with HIV
6 Oct, 2005 03:53 AM 3 minutes to read
Justin Dalley who, according to the judge, met his legal duty to try to avoid transmitting the virus. Picture / Herald on Sunday
By: Helen Tunnah
A court ruling that a Lower Hutt man who used a condom was not legally obliged to tell a woman he was HIV-positive has been hailed as a win for safe sex and for keeping the state out of the bedroom.
Justin Dalley, 36, had protected sex with the woman and was yesterday found not guilty of criminal nuisance in a reserved decision handed down by Wellington District Court Judge Susan Thomas.
Mr Dalley had been found guilty this year of a similar charge - but for having unprotected sex with another sexual partner who he also did not tell he was HIV-positive.
The Aids Foundation and a support group for HIV-positive people, Body Positive, welcomed the decision yesterday as common sense.
Both said it provided a clear distinction in law between protected and unprotected sex.
Aids Foundation chief executive Rachael Le Mesurier said the precedent-setting case had established clear guidelines.
"Anyone who is HIV positive who has unprotected sex (and does not disclose their status) will be liable for criminal nuisance.
"Using a condom is a reasonable precaution where there has not been disclosure."
Auckland University law professor Paul Rishworth said the judgment balanced the right of a person to know a sexual partner's HIV status with legal obligations to take "reasonable" precautions not to endanger a person's health.
Mr Dalley had faced two charges of criminal nuisance, for having unprotected oral sex and protected vaginal sex with a woman he had met over the internet and did not tell about his HIV status.
Judge Thomas said Mr Dalley had met his legal duty to take "reasonable precautions" to avoid transmitting the virus.
He had done this by using a condom, and by not ejaculating during oral sex.
Judge Thomas said the evidence of health experts was that the use of a condom was sufficient to prevent the transmission of HIV.
While people might expect a sexual partner to disclose his or her HIV status, there was no obligation under law - except where it endangered a partner.
Mr Dalley's lawyer, Ian Hay, said his client was pleased with the outcome and pleased the cases were over.
"It's a big relief. It has been a very difficult time for him."
Professor Rishworth said there was one school of thought that a person should disclose his or her HIV status and had a moral duty to do so.
But the court had determined that using a condom, which was mostly effective and where the risk of transmission was small, met the requirement to take precautions without having to tell a partner.
"It's a supportable position," he said.
Body Positive chairman Bruce Kilmister said he was delighted with the not guilty verdict.
"We've lived in a state of confusion."
The ruling confirmed it was every single person's responsibility to take care when having sex.
He said the decision was also a victory for safe sex campaigners, who believed the use of condoms was more sensible than relying on people to disclose their sexual history or HIV status.
"It's a very good decision to keep the state out of the bedroom. Condoms work and they are the best course of action for everybody.
"At least 30 per cent of people living with HIV don't know their status."
- additional reporting NZPA
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Systems Analysis Programs for Hands-on Integrated Reliability Evaluations (SAPHIRE) Version 8: Overview and Summary (NUREG/CR-7039, Volume 1)
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Manuscript Completed: March 2011
Date Published: June 2011
C.L. Smith, S.T. Wood
Idaho National Laboratory
Battelle Energy Alliance
D. O'Neal, NRC Project Manager
NRC Job Code N6423
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
The Systems Analysis Programs for Hands-on Integrated Reliability Evaluations (SAPHIRE) is a software application developed for performing a complete probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) using a personal computer (PC) running the Microsoft Windows operating system. SAPHIRE Version 8 is funded by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and developed by the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). INL's primary role in this project is that of software developer and tester. However, INL also plays an important role in technology transfer by interfacing and supporting SAPHIRE users, who constitute a wide range of PRA practitioners from the NRC, national laboratories, the private sector, and foreign countries.
SAPHIRE can be used to model a complex system's response to initiating events and quantify associated consequential outcome frequencies (or probabilities). Specifically, for nuclear power plant applications, SAPHIRE 8 can identify important contributors to core damage (Level 1 PRA) and containment failure during a severe accident which leads to releases (Level 2 PRA). It can be used for a PRA where the reactor is at full power, low power, or at shutdown conditions. Furthermore, it can be used to analyze both internal and external initiating events and has special features for managing models such as flooding and fire. It can also be used in a limited manner to quantify risk, using PRA techniques, in terms of release consequences to the public and environment (Level 3 PRA).
In SAPHIRE 8, the act of creating a model has been separated from the analysis of that model in order to improve the quality of both the model (e.g., by avoiding inadvertent changes) and the analysis. Consequently, in SAPHIRE 8, the analysis of models is performed by using what are called Workspaces. Currently, there are Workspaces for three types of analyses: (1) the NRC's Accident Sequence Precursor program, where the workspace is called "Events and Condition Assessment (ECA);" (2) the NRC's Significance Determination Process (SDP); and (3) the General Analysis (GA) workspace. Workspaces are independent of each other and modifications or calculations made within one workspace will not affect another. In addition, each workspace has a user interface and reports tailored for their intended uses.
This report provides an overview of the functions and features available in SAPHIRE 8 and presents general instructions for using the software. Since SAPHIRE 8 expands upon Version 7, new and improved features will be discussed.
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Tigers veterans playing their part
Tony Webeck
Fri 21 Mar 2014, 06:30 AM
Nothing quite captures the imagination of the rugby league public like a young fullback with fast feet who makes opposition teams look silly.
Nothing, that is, except an even younger halfback who still takes directions at home from mum while at the same time guides an NRL team around the paddock with a mix of smarts, speed and a dash of showmanship.
That the Wests Tigers have both currently in their squad is the source of much excitement among fans and grandiose statements from the media but that's not to say James Tedesco and Luke Brooks already have the run of the joint.
There are some old blokes at the Tigers who with their starts to 2014 appear to have tapped into the fountain of youth. Whether it's Robbie Farah carving sides apart through the middle of the ruck, Braith Anasta's cool head and measured kicking game or 32-year-old Pat Richards' booming 70-metre drop-outs, the veterans have still got some tricks of their own, on and off the field.
"The old blokes are the guns actually!" says Cory Paterson of the table tennis games that help to fill in time during trips away.
"There's a little bit of trash talk over table tennis on away games but not too much. We play a bit of cards and things like that and we're all competitive blokes, whether it's cards, table tennis, games of touch, we're all trying to win."
At 26 years of age Paterson is not yet ready to join the ranks of the 'old blokes' but in terms of first grade experience he has a seven-year head start on 19-year-old Brooks and 21-year-old Tedesco.
Having started his career at Newcastle in 2007, Paterson spent two years at North Queensland before linking with Hull KR in the English Super League last year and has seen plenty of talented youngsters come and go.
What impresses him most about the current crop of Tiger cubs – that also includes 20-year-old David Nofoaluma and 19-year-old Mitchell Moses, among others – is the respect they show for their more experienced teammates and a willingness to learn.
"The kids here are good, they've got a lot of respect and they just want to learn and get better, and that's a massive thing for them to have," said Paterson. "There are a few old heads here that everyone respects and listen to and the young guys definitely do respect them.
"In saying that, we don't want to take their instinctive play away from them; if they see something we want them to play and [against the Titans], Brooksy and 'Teddy' just played what they saw and it's exciting for the club to have those blokes just playing what they see and playing footy.
"If it doesn't come off then it doesn't come off but we're all playing for each other."
While the young Tigers stars are doing their growing up very much in the public eye, Paterson insists it was a year spent in England that has allowed him to mature and come back to the NRL a more complete player and person.
When he signed with Hull KR midway through 2012 Paterson intimated that he and wife Sarah and young son Jax may make a permanent home in the United Kingdom but 12 months later he was able to secure a release in order to return to Australia.
"To be honest, going to England was probably the best thing for me and my career," said the three-time Indigenous All Stars representative. "I was a bit stale here and it was good to go over there and start something different, experience a different culture and country but the NRL is where I want to be and I'm happy to be back and contributing to this team.
"[The hard part] was just the distance from family and things that I was comfortable with. But I think that was also a good thing on the other hand because my family and I had to learn to adjust and live out of our comfort zone and that made us closer as a family."
While the likes of Brooks and Tedesco may be the players young Tigers fans are now emulating in the backyard, they haven't quite managed to steal away the affections of Paterson's now three-year-old son Jax.
"He enjoys it and he's starting to realise what's going on now, that Dad plays footy and he'll sit there and watch," said Paterson, who insists daddy is Jax's favourite player. "That's the big thing for me. We had an ordinary game [in Round 1] but I come home and my family's there and my three-year-old doesn't judge me.
"That's one of the good things about having a young family, he doesn't care whether I won or lost, he's just going to ask to kick the footy tomorrow, so that's good fun."
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This dataset provides quarterly personal income estimates for State of Iowa produced by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis . Data includes the following estimates: personal income, per capita personal income, proprietors' income, farm proprietors' income, compensation of employees and private nonfarm earnings, compensation, and wages and salaries for wholesale trade. Personal income, proprietors' income, and farm proprietors' income available beginning 1997; per capita personal income available beginning 2010; and all other data beginning 1998. Personal income is defined as the sum of wages and salaries, supplements to wages and salaries, proprietors’ income, dividends, interest, and rent, and personal current transfer receipts, less contributions for government social insurance. Personal income for Iowa is the income received by, or on behalf of all persons residing in Iowa, regardless of the duration of residence, except for foreign nationals employed by their home governments in Iowa. Per capita personal income is personal income divided by the Census Bureau’s midquarter population estimates. Proprietors' income is the current-production income (including income in kind) of sole proprietorships, partnerships, and tax-exempt cooperatives. Corporate directors' fees are included in proprietors' income. Proprietors' income includes the interest income received by financial partnerships and the net rental real estate income of those partnerships primarily engaged in the real estate business. Farm proprietors’ income as measured for personal income reflects returns from current production; it does not measure current cash flows. Sales out of inventories are included in current gross farm income, but they are excluded from net farm income because they represent income from a previous year’s production. Compensation to employees is the total remuneration, both monetary and in kind, payable by employers to employees in return for their work during the period. It consists of wages and salaries and of supplements to wages and salaries. Compensation is presented on an accrual basis - that is, it reflects compensation liabilities incurred by the employer in a given period regardless of when the compensation is actually received by the employee. Private nonfarm earnings is the sum of wages and salaries, supplements to wages and salaries, and nonfarm proprietors' income, excluding farm and government. Private nonfarm wages and salaries is wages and salaries excluding farm and government. Wages and salaries is the remuneration receivable by employees (including corporate officers) from employers for the provision of labor services. It includes commissions, tips, and bonuses; employee gains from exercising stock options; and pay-in-kind. Judicial fees paid to jurors and witnesses are classified as wages and salaries. Wages and salaries are measured before deductions, such as social security contributions, union dues, and voluntary employee contributions to defined contribution pension plans. More terms and definitions are available on https://apps.bea.gov/regional/definitions/.
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Griffin gains independence, realizes dreams
When Becky Berger's son Griffin turned 18-years-old, she made a vow that Griffin would be living on his own by age 23, working in the community, and making friends.
Griffin was diagnosed with autism at the age of 2. Becky said her son, who is mostly non-verbal, was becoming increasingly dependent on her for his daily needs. She became determined as her son reached adulthood that he would reach his full potential.
"I made the pledge to give Griffin the tools and skills to successfully live in his own home, with support, by age 23," she said, adding that she is thankful for the dedicated professionals and aides who have worked intensively with her son to help him gain independence.
Becky said Griffin, now 20, has already succeeded beyond her wildest dreams. A transition student in the Hillsboro School District, Griffin recently started his first paid job at Metro West Ambulance. He works about 15 hours per week as part of a group of employees known as Vehicle Service Technicians. Griffin's primary job is to assemble and inventory different medical kits that Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) put in ambulances.
Nicholas Von Pless, supported employment manager with Community Access Services, said the close-knit team, including Griffin's instructional assistant Pam McCann, his speech pathologist Britteny Asher, and his family, conducted a career exploration through Vocational Rehabilitation.
Nicholas said during those team meetings, he noticed Griffin liked to work on colorful mosaics.
"He was very precise about what colors should go where and in what order," he said. "So we started looking at possible jobs that would fit his interests and skills."
John Walker with Community Access Services helped develop the job for Griffin by following up on a lead from one of Griffin's skills trainers, who suggested Metro West Ambulance as a possibility. Metro West Ambulance provides advanced life support and medical transportation services in Columbia, Washington, Clackamas, and Multnomah counties.
Manager Melissa Zimmer said Griffin's work putting together the ambulance medical kits helps to ensure that EMTs have more time to focus on other daily tasks.
"I love having Griffin here," she said. "He's very detail-oriented and he has a high degree of accuracy."
Nicholas and Pam both have supported Griffin as he became familiar with his job tasks. Nicholas, John and Pam individually photographed and catalogued every single item that needs to go into various medical kits. Griffin uses his speech communication device to help organize his work. He uses the speech device in the community, and his own voice when he feels comfortable.
Pam, Griffin's transition teacher, has been providing job coaching for the short-term.
"When he first came to us, it was like the whole world was just what was right in front of him," Pam said. "The world is starting to open up for him. He has an incredible team surrounding him. It makes a huge difference."
Nicholas said he has been doing supported employment for many years, and he said the Employment First initiative has made a big difference in bringing educators, providers, VR counselors and case managers together. Griffin's team also includes VR counselor Karen Burch and his personal assistant (PA) with the brokerage Self-Determination Resources Inc.
"There has been a huge shift and a lot of excitement that the state is supporting transition to work," Nicholas said. "We are seeing early engagement from the schools. Instead of feeling like you are out there alone trying to find your client a job, now there is this whole team working together."
Pam said after a few months on the job, Griffin now does most of the work on his own.
Griffin's mother Becky has started a nonprofit, called Griffin's Place. Her hope is to provide individuals and their families with resources and information, classes and hands-on experiences to enable people with I/DD to be included, engaged and successful in all aspects of their lives.
Among Griffin's other recent successes:
He now attends social activities with friends in the community, takes classes at the local community college, and is learning to read.
He cooks all his own meals and can order a variety of menu items using his communication device at local restaurants.
He cares and cleans up after himself; does laundry, is learning to vacuum, grocery shops with a visual shopping list, checks out books from the library and hosts social activities.
He loves to watch Blazer games with his family, enjoys bike riding, strength training at the gym, and swimming.
He is learning to text critical information and can use his debit card to pay for items on his own.
He uses public transportation, with support.
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What ties the songs together is their theme. "I had this vision that the album was going to be called ‘Love' and I was going to talk about love and share love in one way or another," Mraz says. "I thought it was going to be easy because everything I write comes from a place of love, whether it's a new understanding of it, or a retelling of it, or a reawakening to it. But the more I looked at the subject, the more I realized that love almost can't be defined and who am I to define it anyway? So I went on a journey to try to define the word and be an expression of it in the world."
One of the modern era's most gifted pop troubadours, Jason Mraz's extraordinary musical journey has taken him from coffee houses to stadiums all over the world, with two Grammy Awards and six nominations already to his credit. His third studio album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. was an indelible global blockbuster, earning gold, platinum and multi-platinum certifications in 21 countries around the world. The album's lead single, "I'm Yours" was ASCAP's 2010 'Song of the Year' and also holds the record for being the longest-running song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Muhammad Iqbal Gujjar
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Muhammad Iqbal Gujjar is a Pakistani Politician who is serving as a member of the Provincial Assembly while being attached to Pakistan Muslim League N for a long time. He is an ex-Minister for Revenue, Minister for irrigation & Power and Minister for Information. This article contains all the information about him including Muhammad Iqbal Gujjar Biography.
Name: Muhammad Iqbal Gujjar
In Urdu: محمد اقبال گجر
Famous As: Politician
Nationality: Pakistani
Residence: Lahore
Education: Bachelors
Alma Mater: Government College, Sheikhupura
Date: 6th July 1943
Place: Gurdaspur, India
Spouse: Married
Children: Ahsan Iqbal
Parents: Chaudhary Sultan Ahmed
Political Party: Pakistan Muslim League N
Serve As: MPA
Time Period : 2018-present
Old Political Affiliations: Pakistan Muslim League N
Member of the provincial Assembly
Constituency: PP-63 (Gujranwala-XIII)
Assumed office: 2018-present
Dates: 29 May 2013 – 31 May 2018
Prime Minister: Shahid Khaqan Abbasi / Nawaz Sharif
Muhammad Iqbal Gujjar Biography
Iqbal Gujjar hails from Lahore is a Pakistani Politician who is currently functioning as a member of the Provincial Assembly after winning Pakistan General Elections while being attached to Pakistan Muslim League N and has returned to the Assembly for the eight-time. He has previously served as a Provincial Minister of Punjab for Food while one of his son Ahsan Iqbal is likewise a politician who has worked as a District Council.
Iqbal Gujjar age
He was born on 6 July 1943 in Gurdaspur, India. Later the family migrated to Pakistan. Currently, he resides in Lahore and Gujranwala with his family from where he also contests the elections.
Education of Iqbal
He holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts that he attained from Government College, Sheikhupura.
He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly for the first time in 1885 Pakistan General Elections from the Constituency PP-137 (Gujranwala) as an independent candidate and gave defeat to his competitive. After taking an oath he was made the Provincial Minister of Punjab for Revenue, Relief and Consolidations till the completion of his tenure.
After completing his tenure he again ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly in 1888 Pakistan General Elections from the Constituency PP-85 (Gujranwala) as an independent candidate and defeated his opponent. He was appointed Provincial Minister of Punjab for Information.
He was re chosen as a member of the Provincial Assembly in 1990 Pakistan General Elections from the Constituency PP-85 (Gujranwala) while being attached to Islami Jamhoori Ittehad and functioned as a Provincial Minister of Punjab for Agriculture.
After completing the tenure he left the party and joined Pakistan Muslim League N. He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly in 1993 General Elections from the Constituency PP-85 (Gujranwala) and got the victory. He served till 1997 when the tenure ends.
In 1997 Pakistan General Elections he again got a chance to serve the nation as a member of the Provincial Assembly from the Constituency PP-85 (Gujranwala). He was made the Provincial Minister of Punjab for Irrigation and Power.
In 2002 Pakistan General Elections he became a member of Pakistan Muslim League Q and ran for the same seat from the Constituency PP-98 (Gujranwala-VIII) and defeated his opponent. He worked as a Provincial Minister of Punjab for Food till 2006 and later appointed as Provincial Minister of Punjab for Health till 2008.
After losing 2008 Pakistan General Elections he again joins Pakistan Muslim League N and elected as a member of the Provincial Assembly in 2013 Pakistan General Elections from the Constituency PP-98 (Gujranwala-VIII) and served as MPA till 2018.
He is re chosen as a member of the Provincial Assembly in 2018 Pakistan General Elections from the Constituency PP-63 (Gujranwala-XIII). After the victory he was nominated for the office of Speaker of the Provincial Assembly but unfortunately, he lost it.
His social media accounts incorporate
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Hotplates Case Study
What changes in the work situation might account for the increase in productivity and the decrease in controllable rejects? Changes in the redesign and distribution of workflow and increase in work responsibility of the employees accounted for both an increase in productivity and the resultant decrease in controllable defects. This redesign looked at the way the hotplate was being constructed, and then allowed workers to assemble a unit of the product instead of a simple part again and again. The workers then felt more empowered, that they had ownership in the final product, and were more likely to take responsibility for appropriate and expert construction. By giving the employees more responsibility, they then were also more accountable and felt more pride in their work.
Gaining ownership and more pride in the work was also the result of a change in psychology for the employee and managers. The…… [Read More]
Stack, L. (2010). Empowered Employees are More Productive. Linkage.com. Retrieved from:
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Stevenson, W.J. (2011). Making Hotplates Case Study. In Operations Management, 11th ed. New
Management Case Study Scenario- We Are an
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Management Case Study
Scenario- We are an event management company. Our team has been asked to plan an event for 200 people in an outdoor "green" space. The event includes workshops, breakout meetings, breakfast and lunch.
Overall Task- Since the event has been requested in a "green" or outdoor space, the first consideration will be the venue and time of year. If the event is in a reasonable season (Mid-late Spring through Early -- Fall), it is likely we can find a venue that can accomplish this. The major consideration will be weather, specifically wind and rain, and proximity to back-up shelters if the need arises. The venue should include tents to cover areas for eating, and potentially meeting. Open air venues can also be problematical due to temperature fluctuations -- it is either too hot or too cold, and it is sometimes difficult to find a medium ground. In…… [Read More]
Garage Chemistry and Do-It-Yourself Science
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) Hydrochloric acid, formic acid, nitric acid, hexanes, and toluene are all available in ACS grade through Carolina, which, with a bit of imagination, could turn into some spectacular experiments. (Toluene is, of course, a component in the production of TNT -- talk about an exothermic reaction.)
Laboratory equipment is also widely available. A simple search of the popular site Shopwiki.com reveals hundreds of beakers, pipettes, test tubes, alcohol burners, syringes, etc. More advanced items are also available, such as hot plates which automatically stir the contents of a flask placed on them, and a wealth of thermodynamic devices for pressure, temperature, and volume control.
Perhaps the best route for a truly interested young chemist to take is to begin with the CHEM 3000, working through its experiments and gaining insight, then proceed to a regime of self-education using the internet and libraries, and supplementing the capabilities of the CHEM…… [Read More]
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ELL Curriculum Implementing a Unit
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Alignment Procedure
As Popham (2006) makes clear, choosing the best instruments for program is reliant on how well the instrument is aligned with the goals of the program and the school. To achieve this objective I recommend instituting a task forced charged with the responsibility of working with teachers to develop a set of both short-term and long-term goals.
In regard to alignment with long-term goals, our program evaluation designers and analysts need to be fully aware that their objectives must be fully attainable, fully supportive of national standards objectives, and consistent with the long-term objectives of the teachers and the school. Goal-setting by faculty does not mean that they can do whatever they want to do. The leaders of this evaluation process must remember that in the end they have the responsibility for ensuring that all objectives are consistent, and for approving their subordinates' objectives. This means being…… [Read More]
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Activity Plan Guidelines This Activity
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Students will learn to categorize information and to evaluate differences and similarities. They will also learn to grasp abstract concepts, like the fact that solids can be things like ice but also books and pencils.
Bunsen burner or small stove top, to boil an ice cube is required. Boiling the ice can be performed in the classroom, or in the faculty lounge kitchen, or in the home economics or Chemistry classroom, if there is a stove or hot plate present on the premises. A TV monitor is needed if the teacher elects to show a film. If students must 'move' from the classroom, the 'treasure hunt' for objects can take place on the way back, provided that students return the materials they find to their original owners! Some supervision will be required of the treasure hunt, naturally, to make sure that things do not go 'out of control'…… [Read More]
Combining Science and Art to
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Discuss collection. The final activity involving Drippy ends up with him falling on a stream and then into a river, which carries him back to the ocean and this will happen all over again in a process termed collection. It is important to add that some of the rain will fall on land and become ground water - the water that people, animals, and plants use.
1. Copy of Drippy the aindrop.
2. Copy of precipitation poster.
Source: Adapted from First-School.ws Preschool Activities and Crafts (2011) at http://www.first-school.ws/activities/science/drippy.htm
The combination of art and science has been shown to be a proven way of engaging young learners' reasoning abilities, to identify spatial relationships and in constructing new concepts (Fernandez & obinson, 2006). The lesson plan set forth in Table 1 above is sufficiently flexible to tailor the content to age-appropriate levels for 4- to 6-year-olds in a preschool setting. The…… [Read More]
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Punishment Western Society Has Developed
I maintain that all living things share an understanding that actions have consequence. I believe that even complex underlying psychological and sociological issues can be circumvented by directly addressing such most fundamental knowledge.
As for deterrence, I believe that the retributive system can in itself serve as a future deterrent, even if it does not do so intentionally. As mentioned, Kant held that any criminal activity is not only a crime against society, but a crime against the criminal him- or herself, since the criminal will suffer for these crimes, even as the victims of the crimes have suffered. Hence, there are no beneficiaries in the system and he deterrent is the threat of punishment itself.
As for rehabilitation programs, these have been notoriously ineffective, regardless of millions upon billions of dollars spent on the research and implementation involved. Even research into the underlying issues surrounding criminal activity has not…… [Read More]
Kennedy v State
Kennedy v State of Georgia
Read and brief the case of Kennedy v. State, 323 S.E. 2D 169 (Ga. App. 1984). Your case brief should follow the format below:
Title of the selected case
172 Ga. App. 336
S.E.2d. 169 (1984)
Facts: Summary of the events, court timeline, evidence, and so forth
Appellant Henry Xavier Kennedy appeals the guilty verdict in a jury trial for the crime of first degree arson in the September 23, 1981 fire which leveled his log cabin. He claims that the jury charges, or sometimes called instructions to the jury by the judge, were erroneous in several different ways and that there was not enough evidence to convict him of the charge.
Kennedy's building business was slow, and he had two mortgages on the cabin which was the building in question. He had renewed an insurance policy on the building…… [Read More]
Clandestine Drug Laboratories and the Fire Service
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Clandestine Drug Labs and the Fire Service
hat are the risks and inherent dangers when firefighters are facing a blaze that resulted from a meth lab? hat should firefighters do when they suspect a fire has been caused by the existence of a meth lab? Are clandestine meth labs more prevalent then they were a few years ago? These questions and others will be addressed in this paper.
hat States' Firefighters have the biggest Threats from Meth Labs?
According to the U.S. Department of Justice (and the Drug Enforcement Agency) the states with the most meth labs (as of 2011) are Missouri (2,684 busts in 2011), Indiana (1,364 busts in 2011), Kentucky (with 1,084 busts) and Tennessee (1,130 busted meth labs). Other states that have a great deal of meth lab activity include Oklahoma (916), Michigan (365 labs busted), Mississippi (269 labs shut down) and Iowa (380 labs busted) (DOJ,…… [Read More]
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Religion and Symbology
Space and Things: Incarnating the Sacred
When faced with the term "religion," it is more common than not that a person would associate the word with some kind of symbol. Christianity, for example, is associated with the cross, Judaism with the Star of David, and so on. Festivals also play an important part in making religion real to its adherents. Many Christians, for example, celebrate Easter as the victory of Christ over death. There are also many, many Catholic festivals that celebrate various events in the Christian tradition. Buddhism also includes many different festivals, including the Plowing Festival and the Festival of the Tooth. These, as well as traditional ceremonies and festivals, are often extremely colorful. Symbols are also often made into material objects such as jewelry that the adherent can wear to demonstrate his or her affiliation to a certain religion. And example of this includes medallions, such as…… [Read More]
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Economic and Environmental Benefits of
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Cost and CO2 reduction analysis were performed using local data available from both commercial and professional bodies. A majority of current thermal rating programs require the equipment to be tested in accordance to a standard test under specified testing conditions. This approach provides reliable data because it is possible to replicate such tests within an accepted uncertainty band. There are, however, some rating programs which combine a standard test and a calculation procedure to produce a performance rating. Such is the case for the energy guide label for electric and gas hot water heaters. A similar method has been developed to provide a practical rating system with the goal of presenting an easily understood comparison between SDHW systems and conventional hot water systems. Note that the performance any individual commercial enterprise will experience may differ due to location and hot water usage.
The thermal performance rating is based on the…… [Read More]
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Solar Thermal Systems According to
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In this regard, some exceptions have been given to the insurance companies while the other companies should follow these principles.
In the year 2005, the commercial sector of the United Kingdom spent $16,500 million for fossil fuels of 350,000 GWh. On the other hand, researchers have reported that a decline of energy consumption has been observed in the tertiary sector of the United Kingdom (Probst & oecker, 2011, pg 109-124).
Hot water consumption
Probst (2011) stated that hot water is consumed around three percent in industries and fifteen percent I the fossil energy. This shows that a total of 22,000GWh of hot water is consumed each year.
The high and low temperature hot water from the hot water boilers is used in a number of things such as apace heating, washing and in some industrial processes. The direct and straight use of hot water is in washing. Modern hot water…… [Read More]
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Hydrothermal Vents Life in the
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These worms play an integral part of the community. They do not have any digestive capacities, as they lack mouths and digestive systems. ather, they absorb the nutrient-rich waste products of the bacteria through their epidermal layers. They use hemoglobin produced inside their bodies to combine hydrogen sulfide, which is a necessity of many of the bacteria living in and around the vents. The worms transfer this hydrogen sulfide to the bacteria upon contact, and in return, the absorb the nutrients being produced by the bacteria. Additionally, one study examining vents off the coast of South Africa also found the presence of a new species of nematode, known as Halicephalobus mephisto (Borgonie et al., 2011). There are also a number of annelids as well as typical crustaceans, like snails, crabs, and shrimp are often common (Edmonds et al., 2003). There are also species of fish and octopi that form some…… [Read More]
Borgonie, G., Garcia-Moyano, a., Litthauer, D., Bester, a., van Heerden, E., Moller, C., Erasmus, M., & Onstott, T.C. (2011).Nematoda from the terrestrial deep subsurface of South Africa. Nature, 474(June). 79-88. Doi: 10.1038/nature09974
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Posco Originally Called Pohang Iron
The crisis compelled the company to accept the government's offer of privatization and so, in 2001, POCO became a privatized company.
Enduring several scandals and plunges, POCO also managed to lift itself up and continue through its challenges through the late 1990s and into the millennium. Its success came about by eliminating ventures in other fields and investing only in projects that were in line with its objectives as well as by merging subsidiaries. In 1999, therefore, it merged Pohang teel Industries and Pohang Coated teel into Pohang teel Co. As well as starting three machinery units in the POCO Machinery Company. A few years earlier too (in 1994), its first two subsidiaries were created - POTEEL and POTGRADE.
In order to cut prices and make their organization more lean and effective, they also formed partnerships with former competitors such as with Nippon teel and China's Baoshan Iron & teel…… [Read More]
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Landforms Barrier Island Beaches Generally Develop Where
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Barrier island beaches generally develop where:
a The coast is composed of hard rock b the nearby land has a rugged topography of hills and mountains c the sea floor deepens rapidly offshore d The sea floor remains shallow for a long distance offshore
During storms in winter:
a There is a higher percentage of fine-grained sand on beaches
b More erosion occurs in bays than on headlands
c Beaches are eroded d Beaches are built up e Offshore sand bars are destroyed
Along the Midocean ridge
a earthquakes occur b sea floor spreading occurs c volcanism occurs d all the above occur
Where would you find examples of barrier island coasts?
a Oregon
b California
c British Columbia and Alaska
d Texas and the Gulf Coast
e Hawaii
Which of the following boundaries characterize the San Andreas Fault?
a Spreading
b Convergent
c Transform
d None of the…… [Read More]
Rocks That Exhibit Ductile Strain Were Probably
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Rocks That Exhibit Ductile Strain Were Probably Deformed
Choose one answer.
at the surface of the earth.
when they were cold.
when the stress was applied very rapidly.
at a depth within Earth at elevated temperatures.
If rocks exhibit ductile behavior when exposed to compressive stress, they generally will form
normal faults.
folds.
reverse faults.
Which of the following types of strain does not result in permanent deformation?
elastic strain
plastic strain
brittle strain
Faults are geologic structures that result from which type of strain?
a. brittle strain
b. ductile strain
c. elastic strain
In the Lesson 4 Topic 2 video, "Measuring Earthquake Intensity and Magnitude," you were able to see that the rupture from the 1906 earthquake traveled from mile marker 80 to mile marker 100 in 10 seconds. At…… [Read More]
Challenges of Opening NYC Restaurant
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NYC African Restaurants
African Restaurants
African Restaurants in NYC
The restaurant's soft industrial lighting makes the chrome gleam. A soft and expansive backdrop of blue gives the space a cool and slightly futuristic industrial like a hip loft in the future. Exposed brick walls are tinged in a blue sheen and the distressed wood chairs and tables have been stained steel gray and have marble table tops. In three weeks, Cisse Elhadji, the owner of Ponty Bistro in Midtown, will open his new restaurant La Terengea. Located at 144 West 139th St., the restaurant us nestled in between the Hudson and Harlem rivers a few blocks west of the City College of New York. The location of the restaurant is quite lucrative given its relative proximity to both Central Park as well as Yankee Stadium.
Though Elhadji has succeeded once with an African restaurant, La Teregenga is still a gamble.…… [Read More]
Rock Cycle Most Processes on
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Both, ironically, are forms of pressure that also cause heat and changes. Water for instance, is so abundant on earth that it drives much of weathering and erosion. Precipitation, acidic soil water and groundwater dissolve mineral and rocks; serpentinization from heated seawater causes destruction of volcanic rock or changes in other seabed rocks; and the presence of water and carbon dioxide change rock as well. This is the manner in which the carbon and water cycle continually interact to change rock.
Plate tectonics, on the other hand, show that there are large scale motions within the earth that move, converge, and drive materials from deep inside the earth towards the surface and vice versa. Zones within the 8 or 9 major plates (subduction zones) form slabs of crust that become embedded and then if pressured enough with heat and more pressure, contribute to the evolution of rock. In addition, one…… [Read More]
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Ethical to Raise Animals for
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Arguments For: In response to those allegations, Bill Mattos, the president of the California Poultry Federation, said that he had invited California Senate representatives to visit poultry farms -- and to see for themselves that allegations of inhumane treatment are not true -- but his offer was declined (Fitzenberger). "To me, it's propaganda disguised as research," Mattos said in response to the report the California state Senate Office of Research produced.
Essayist Bart Gruzalski (Ethics and Animals, p. 253) writes that "the use of animals for food can be justified on utilitarian grounds even if we take into account only the pleasures and pains of the animals involved." Gruzalski quotes pig farmer James Cargile, who buys "several pigs" every year "from a neighboring hog farm"; Cargile raises them "to slaughter for food" but sees no meanness because the pigs "are given lots of room and food, everything a pig…… [Read More]
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African estaurant evival
New York is home to people from all over the world, and it is well-known that they often bring with them cuisine from their homelands. Foodies descend on food courts in subterranean malls in Queens, ussian bakeries in Brooklyn, and ethnic food trucks pretty much anywhere throughout the five boroughs. For being a cosmopolitan city with such cosmopolitan tastes, surprisingly little attention is paid to the diversity of African food. The continent of Africa is rich in food tradition and, increasingly, we are seeing these traditions manifest throughout New York. This trend is occurring in many places, in particular Manhattan and Brooklyn. In fact, several openings over the past few years have dramatically altered the African dining scene, and this development is very much worthy of coverage. This citywide exposure to the African food trend makes it an excellent topic heading into the summer eating season.
There…… [Read More]
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Spiropoulos, R. (2014, June 28). Dining African: 3 Restaurant Biz Success Stories Savor N.Y. African Restaurant Week. Retrieved from blackenterprise.com: http://www.blackenterprise.com/lifestyle/new-york-african-restaurant-week-wraps-in-style/
Law Enforcement Policies and Procedures
Hot Pursuit Policy
The hot pursuit policy to be used by this department will follow the definition established by the Model Policy published by the International Association of Chiefs of Police for vehicular pursuits which defines hot pursuit as: "An active attempt by an officer in an authorized emergency vehicle to apprehend fleeing suspects who are attempting to avoid apprehension through evasive tactics" (quoted in Kenney & McNamara, 1999 at p. 158). The steps to be followed pursuant to this definition and policy are as follows.
1. The use of hot pursuit in this jurisdiction will be authorized when the apprehending officer has reason to believe that the suspect(s) involved represent a danger to the public irrespective of the seriousness of the originating offense involved. This approach is congruent with the findings of a Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of large law enforcement agencies (e.g., those with more than 100…… [Read More]
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Crime Mapping in the Data
nstead, the three features that should be used to identify other key cases are the car, the initial approach of the assailant asking for change or information, and the basic physical characteristics including white skin, brown hair, blue eyes, and weight around 160 lbs.
The other cases in this pattern are record numbers 9-14, 16, 19, and 22. Each of these cases involved a blue Taurus station wagon with Arizona plates, and each incident began with the assailant asking for change or information. All of these incidents also include a description of a white male weighing around 160 lbs. with brown hair, and all but #11 include a description of blue eyes. Record #12 makes note of the license plate, and several of the incidents clustered around the same dates include mention of a moustache. Other reports of clean shaving or a shadow (numbers 9 and…… [Read More]
In the data on sexual assaults from January through May of 2000, a clear series pattern emerges involving a single assailant driving a blue Ford Taurus station wagon with Arizona. The identical descriptions of the car for all of these incidents, including two matching identifications of the vehicles year, was the detail that drew my eye to the pattern initially, and the pattern's classification as a series is evident from the several months over which these assaults occurred.
The primary case is record #14; it has the most complete information regarding the assault and the assailant, including the license plate number of the car. Only one other record involving a blue Taurus included the license plate number, which was a match, confirming that these attacks were made by the same person. Facial hair descriptions varied slightly, but the ease with which this feature can be altered or even faked should in no way discount the single-assailant assumption. Instead, the three features that should be used to identify other key cases are the car, the initial approach of the assailant asking for change or information, and the basic physical characteristics including white skin, brown hair, blue eyes, and weight around 160 lbs.
The other cases in this pattern are record numbers 9-14, 16, 19, and 22. Each of these cases involved a blue Taurus station wagon with Arizona plates, and each incident began with the assailant asking for change or information. All of these incidents also include a description of a white male weighing around 160 lbs. with brown hair, and all but #11 include a description of blue eyes. Record #12 makes note of the license plate, and several of the incidents clustered around the same dates include mention of a moustache. Other reports of clean shaving or a shadow (numbers 9 and 10) occurred far enough off for facial hair to have changed.
Hardship Letter - Nutritional Analysis
Subject should also increase fat intake to better balance his diet.
Subject's fiber consumption was so far in excess of DV that negative digestive consequences cannot be ruled out.
Salt intake was more than the DV, but could be easily corrected with some minor dietary changes.
The Food Standards Agency has developed the Eat Well Plate as an easy to follow nutritional guideline.
The Eat Well Plate is a visual display and quick reference for consumers to better balance their diets in compliance with the DV's. Analysis revealed a shortfall in fruits and vegetables as well as bread, rice and pasta - the two largest sections of the plate. Subjects fat consumptions were well below the DV's, but per the Eat Well Plate are the smallest category recommended.
ecommendations for Subject's improved nutritional balance would include increased caloric intake, weighted heavily in the fruits and vegetables, breads, rice and pasta…… [Read More]
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Ethnic and Minority Relations 1960s
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Wearin' of the Green
An Irish-American's Journey
Margaret-Mary clutched her daughter's tiny hand. Watched with pride as the five-year-old waved the little Irish Flag in her other hand. It was a cold, blustery day, but then it always was on St. Patrick's Day. Yet as Margaret-Mary braved the wind and the crowds, she didn't feel the least bit cold. Never did, but especially not today. It wasn't just that today she was sharing a special moment -- a communion if you will -- with all her Irish brothers and sisters the world over. No, it was more than that. This was a day long looked forward to, a day that had demanded special preparations like getting up at five in the morning, wrapping Colleen in the embracing warmth of a sweater of real Irish wool -- green of course --and rushing off into the frigid pre-dawn to wait for the…… [Read More]
Field Grade Officers and Achievement of Organizational Results
ILE L100
I was pretty enthusiastic when I returned to the 56th ACT having been ordered to assume responsibility as the deputy brigade commander (DCO). I felt proud and lucky. I had held the proud and shinny image of the 56th ACT in my head for the last two years. When I returned, there had been some significant changes. It has not been long since I returned, and with the division commander losing confidence in the ability of COL Timmons to be an effective commander of the brigade, I now command the 56th ACT. On my mind always was how I was going to restore the image of the 56th. I know it will be hard and challenging, but one thing I am sure of is that it can be done. I have had vast experience in the brigade. Drawing from this experience and the CGSOC L100'S themes - notably…… [Read More]
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English System of Measurement Is
(Source: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newtongrav.html).
Assignment 2-1 -- a- Radiation may be considered information from space; different types of information from different sources. These are: 1) Light as a wave and particle, 2) Electromagnetism, 3) Cosmic Rays and 4) Ultraviolet radiation.
Part 2-1-B- Light may be measured by telescopes; other space radiation by radio waves; x-ray machines may absorb cosmic and x-ray energy.
Part 2-1-C- Stars and Planets emit electromagnetic; Sun emits UV, Electromagnetic and light; light intensity, etc. Measuring radiation from objects tells us numerous things; age of object, comparative data between object, distance, intensity, level of danger, potential changes within object over time.
Part 2-1-D- Spectrographs, radio frequency detectors, x-ray machines.
Part 2-2-a -- an atom is the smallest unit of matter; ions are types of atoms in which the protons and electrons (parts of the atomic structure) are not equal. Ions can exist independently in solution, while atoms may or…… [Read More]
Block for Instructions Issue Facing a Local
Block for Instructions
Issue facing a local community:
Limitations on soda consumption in New York City
One of the most divisive local issues in America does not pertain to gun control or education but revolves around that quintessentially all-American beverage -- the soft drink. New York City Mayor Bloomberg recently proposed limiting the sizes of "large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts, in the most ambitious effort by the Bloomberg administration to combat rising obesity" (Grynbaum 2012). While New York City's obesity rates are not as alarmingly high as elsewhere in the nation, they are still high enough to cause concern, specifically within demographics such as children, minorities, and the poor. Sodas have been the target of anti-obesity activists because of their minimal nutritional value and high caloric content. Under the proposal, sales of sweetened drinks larger than 16 fluid ounces would be prohibited…… [Read More]
DeNoon, Daniel. (2005). Drink more diet soda, gain more weight? Web MD. Retrieved:
http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20050613/drink-more-diet-soda-gain-more-weight
Gross, Samantha. (2012). N.Y. mayor wants to limit soda drinks to 16 ounces. Philly.com.
Retrieved: http://articles.philly.com/2012-06-01/news/31960343_1_sugary-drinks-diet-soda-health-commissioner-thomas-farley
Management Behavior the Management Re
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Now that InterClean has created a new product outlook, part of its restructuring should involve a creating a reformed performance review system that truly rewards top employees.
Describe the types of management action that align with employment laws and those that do not.
The InterClean Corporation is attempting to reformulate its product package and sales approach in light of its upcoming merger, which will require a new organizational structure and likely a different type of employee profile. As its employees are hired 'at will' the company is free to let go any employees it chooses, within the parameters of staff contracts. However, keeping a watch over employees by surreptitiously observing their conversations is unacceptable. Hiring and firing must be based upon merit, as demonstrated in documented performance reviews and seniority. Also, firings should not seem biased against entire demographic groups of workers such as the non-white or female, or be…… [Read More]
Red Sea Spreading Seafloor the
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Hamilton explains that while Continental Lithosphere is as much as 93 miles thick, the "Oceanic Lithosphere" is much thinner - up to perhaps six miles. Indeed, the oceanic crust makes up only 0.099% of earth's mass, according to Hamilton. Oceanic lithosphere is a product of the volcanic magma that pushes up to force tectonic plates aside. As new oceanic lithosphere is actually formed the heat that comes up with the magma "escapes the interior as this new lithosphere emerges from below" in the Red Sea and elsewhere where there are tectonic plates spreading.
As the lithosphere cools, it contracts and then "moves away from the ridge, traveling across the seafloor to subduction zones." This process is technically called "seafloor spreading." After the lithosphere has been on the Red Sea floor for a while, it thickens up, Hamilton writes, and as it becomes even denser than the mantle just below…… [Read More]
Coleman, Robert G. (1993). Geologic Evolution of the Red Sea. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Shell and Heat Tube Exchangers
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(Wolverine Tube Heat Transfer Data ook, 2009)
asic components of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers include the following basic components although there is a plethora of existing specific features used in design of the Shell and Heat Tube Exchanger. The components specifically are:
(1) Tubes -- "...the basic component of the shell and tube exchanger, providing the heat transfer surface between one fluid flowing inside the tube and the other fluid flowing across the outside of the tubes. The tubes may be seamless or welded and most commonly made of copper or steel alloys. Other alloys of nickel, titanium, or aluminum may also be required for specific applications. The tubes may be either bare or with extended or enhanced surfaces on the outside." (Wolverine Tube Heat Transfer Data ook. 2009) Corrugated tubes have been more recently developed and is stated to have heat transfer enhancement both inside and out as…… [Read More]
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Ethics and Morality the Art
5. Eating food that falls on ones shirt - if a person is in public, they should use a napkin to remove the food off of their shirt and have a waiter dispose of it (Dining Etiquette, n.d.).
If one is at a meal or at a business acquaintance's residence, and have just been dished up a serving of appetizing stuffed mushrooms and they are allergic to them, they should politely refuse them if they would seriously be harmed. The hard fast rule is as far as feasible. One should not make a commotion and embarrass anyone. If one suffers from food reaction or has a particular partiality, they should tell the host when they agree to the invite. At a buffet or great assembly it is very easy to pass up getting food that one doesn't consume. However, in a number of circumstances it would be extremely uncomfortable if…… [Read More]
Business Dining Skills for Job Seekers. (2010). Retrieved October 14, 2010, from World ClassBusiness Etiquette Web site: http://www.etiquetteoutreach.com/business-dining-etiquette-tips/
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Diathermy Uses Benefits and Risks as One
Diathermy: Uses, Benefits, And isks
As one of the oldest treatment modalites, the therapeutic effects of heat have been experienced for several hundred years. In order to use heat in the treatment of deep muscle injury, diathermy treatment is the therapy of choice. Diathermy uses high-frequency electrical currents to heat deep muscular tissues. This heating results in pain relief, increased blood flow, and increased flexibility. esearch has demonstrated evidence both for and against the effectiveness of diathermy treatment. Attention must be given, however, to risk factors predisposing some patients to serious adverse effects due to diathermy treatment.
Diathermy: Uses, benefits, and risks
Diathermy refers to the use of high-frequency electrical currents to heat deep muscular tissues. This heat increases the flow of blood to the area, which in turn, speeds up recovery. The term diathermy is a derivative of the Greek words therma, meaning heat, and dia, meaning through. Therefore,…… [Read More]
Frick, L. (2001). Diathermy. Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine. http://www.findarticles.com/g2603/0003/2603000326/p1/article.jhtml .
Peres, S., Draper, D., Knight, K., Ricard, M. (2002). Pulsed shortwave diathermy and prolonged long-duration stretching increase dorsiflexion range of motion more than identical stretching without diathermy. Journal of Athletic Training, 37(1), 43-50.
Draper, D., Miner, L., Knight, K., Ricard, M. (2002). The carry-over effects of diathermy and stretching in developing hamstring flexibility. Journal of Athletic Training, 37(1), 37-42.
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East Africa's Great Rift Valley
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Article weaknesses: On page two the authors write, "hat else can we say about the Ethiopian and Kenya Rifts? Quite a lot actually." This is very sophomoric narrative for scientists to be putting forth. Using a cliche like that tends to lessen the value of the science. It takes the authors quite a long time to get to one of the most interesting points of the article. That is, the rifting is important in terms of understanding human evolution. It seems like that fact could have been placed at or near the front of the article. There are many "hominid fossil finds" in the rift, which means that the evolution of humans can be traced by scientists because the evolution of the rift itself is giving clues to human evolution.
The weakness here is because the authors waited until the last page to present something about humans that is far…… [Read More]
Wood, James, and Guth, Alex. (2007). East Africa's Great Rift Valley: A Complex Rift System
Geology.com. Retrieved July 14, 2012, from http://geology.com/articles/east-africa-rift.shtml .
Geothermal Energy the Earth Formed Approximately 4 5
Words: 944 Length: 3 Pages Document Type: Term Paper Paper #: 29253476
The earth formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. Our planet's geothermal heat originates from the energetic remnants of that coalescence. Over time, the interior of the earth "became differentiated into several distinct compositional zones: a large, iron rich core; a thick surrounding mantle; and at the surface, a thin, low density crust." (Montgomery 10). This fact contributed to a number of important attributes of the earth, including the formation of the atmosphere -- which came into existence thanks to gases escaping from the hot interior.
Despite the fact that the earth has been gradually cooling for the past 4 billion years, "The earth still retains enough internal heat to drive large-scale mountain-building processes, to produce volcanic eruptions, to make continents mobile, and indirectly to trigger earthquakes." (Montgomery 10).
A cross-section of the earth would reveal that it is surrounded by a thin outer crust that is about 10…… [Read More]
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Graphic Art it Is Possible
The codes appeared on the screen and were read by trained typographers. In 1970, the Merganthaler Linotype VIP became the first phototypesetter to incorporate a minicomputer with programmable software that could be used to process raw text within the output machine (Barlow & Eccles, 1992).
The graphic artist and designer had been losing some of their credibility in relationship to the fine artists up to the 1970s, because typesetting became a mechanical process that required technical training rather than artistic talent. Yet illustrators continued to be considered artists. However, several graphic designers proved such beliefs biased and irrelevant. Starting in the 1950s, Alan Fletcher used pop art, humor and bold and colorful works to develop new works of art. David Carson, a typographer and graphic designer, established his expertise in the 1980s for experimental typeface design. Completely developing his own approach, he established new rules of design and typography and…… [Read More]
Barlow, G., & Eccles, S. (1992) Typesetting and composition. Great Britain: Heron Press.
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Naegleria Fowleri Causes Symptoms Diagnosis
2004). In those cases, there was very early diagnosis and administration of intravenous and intrathecal or intraventricular amphotericin B. with intensive supportive care (2004). One survivor received miconazole intravenously and intrathecally and rifampicin orally (2004). Other treatment options include the drugs rifampicin and micoazole.
Khan (2008) notes that the mortality rate for PAM is 95%. Again, one of the major obstacles to effective treatment is the rapid progression of the disease. Another obstacle is the paucity of drugs that have the ability to cross the blood-brain barrier (Schuster & Visvesvara 2004; Khan 2008). Nevertheless, there have been documented recoveries from PAM (Seidel 1982; Wang 1993; Khan 2008). Early recognition and treatment of the disease appear to be the chief elements in successful outcomes (2008). At the time of Khan's (2008) writing, the drug of choice for treatment of human cases was amphotericin B. In conjunction with rifampin as well as…… [Read More]
Embrey, Martha., Hunter, Paul., Chalmers, Rachel., Sellwood, Jane., Wyn-Jones, Peter., & Percival, Steven. (2004). Microbiology of waterborne diseases:
microbiological aspects and risks. Academic Press; 1st edition.
Jarillo-Luna, a., Moreno-Fierros, L., Campos-Rodriguez, R., Rodriguez-Monroy, M.A.,
Lara-Padilla, E., & Rojas-Hernandez, Saul. (2008). Intranasal immunization with Naegleria fowleri lysates and Cry1Ac metaplasia in the olfactory epithelium and inceases IgA secretion. Parasite immunology,30(1), p. 31-38.
HSMS Gap analysis Hazard identification and Risk assessments
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HSMS Gap Analysis and Hazard Identification Risk Assessments
Description of APM Terminals
Review of the Health and Safety Management System
Physical Hazards
Health and Welfare Hazards
Physical Hazard -- Working at Height - Scaffolding
Health & Welfare Hazard -- Noise
Action Plan 1 - Management System
Action Plan 2 -- Hazards and Risks
Barbour Checklist: BS OHSAS 18001 Audit Checklist
Occupational health and safety management has numerous benefits for business, not only an employer's duty of care, a legal and moral obligation but also critical part of business equal in importance to other business functions like finance, marketing and production. When health and safety is embedded as part of business, results would be, good company image and reputation, better employee motivation and morale, improved efficiency and ultimately increased profitability.
The implementation of a sound health, safety and environment (HSE)…… [Read More]
Edible Insects What's for Dinner
These insects run through the markets of Thailand, South Africa and South Korea offered separately as crunchy snacks to locals and bold travelers. They are highly rich in protein and may be considered as a good food supplement to boost energy. In case you can't make up your mind, a "bug-pack" may be suggested consisting of all edible insects you can munch on while appreciating great views and nature tripping. Larvae and Caterpillars of these insects were also considered as a rare delicacy, either as soup or added flavor to paste.
3. Hornets
Farmed by an old Japanese lady in Kyushu Island, the Giant Japanese Hornet is used to make honey. This is a completely incredible honey - literally! The Giant Japanese Hornet is the largest species of wasp in the world, and it contains special enzymes in its body which are reputed to increase strength and energy levels. Giant…… [Read More]
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Igneous Rock Is One of the Three
Igneous rock is one of the three main types of rock formations making up the earth's crust. It is formed primarily through the cooling and subsequent solidification of magma or lava. Igneous rock may also form without any crystallization -- below the surface as intrusive rocks or above as extrusive. It is best to think of igneous rock as being formed with heat -- one or more of three processes: temperature increases, decreases in pressure, or changes in composition. There are a number of types of igneous rocks; at least 700 have been cataloged, with most being formed deep within the earth's crust.
To describe the events that take place to move igneous rock from deep within the earth's core to the surface requires an understanding of the rock cycle. This is a concept that describes how rocks move and evolve into other types of rock or onto the surface…… [Read More]
Arborite Case Study the Need to Increase
Arborite Case Study
The need to increase profits and revenues has forced many establishments to evaluate and redefine the way they carry out strategies within the organization and the manner in which they deal with external factors affecting the company. The rationale being that an organization needs to constantly grow and evolve if it has to be competitive in a constantly changing market. Leaders and managers who head organizations should have the vision to realize the changes required and implement these changes in an appropriate and timely fashion.
Nutter of Arborite is faced with difficult choices. He has to decide among these choices in order to generate a positive return on assets from two manufacturing factories in Canada. There is a demand for the product -- high pressure laminates (HPL) in the market. There are three major companies that control the market. Arborite has 34% of the total Canadian market.…… [Read More]
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Restaurant Menu Design and Content
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Tom's Urban menu communicates the concept of an upbeat, casual, social venue with an urban flair.
The language is informal and trendy. The word "urban" appears more than once.
About a hundred different items are on the menu.
The menu is extensive, focused on pub grub, with a tremendous amount of variety including pizza, burgers, and "urban street tacos." Influences are from different cuisines of the world. Both lunch and dinner offer small plates for sharing, to emphasize the social concept of the restaurant.
There are several sections including sliders, sandwiches, grilled meats, full plate entrees, salads, and the tacos.
Prices range from $6 to $26 depending on the item.
f. The graphics and font that are used signal upbeat, trendy, and casual ambiance.
g. The menu is a digital copy.
I would expect the concept of this food service operation to be pub grub with a focus on social…… [Read More]
Business Workplace Continuity and Contingency
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Threats due to weather include floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and blizzards. Planning for weather events should be very realistic in nature. Major weather events usually occur in 25, 50 and 100-year cycles. Disease outbreaks are also a big threat. A potential flu pandemic could be detrimental to many businesses. For example, the bird flu pandemic scenarios that are floating around are being modeled on the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. That global outbreak killed 500,000 people in the United States and more than 20 million people worldwide. Since that time there have been two other smaller scale flu pandemics, each that killed hundreds of thousands of people. The flu is just one disease that can cause a business disaster situation around the world (Business Continuity during a Disaster, 2008).
ecent years have also shown that terrorism threats are a real possibility that needs to be considered. Terrorism is a great…… [Read More]
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What You Will Need for Toast
A toaster
Butter (if desired)
Other toppings (e.g. jam, preserves, etc.)
A knife (to spread butter, jam, etc.)
A plate to hold the completed toast
Place needed supplies close to the toaster
Place a slice of bread in each slot of the toaster.
Most toasters will have two slots
Turn the dial/indicator on the toaster to indicate how dark/cooked you want the bread to be based on your preference
Push the tab down to make the bread lower into the toaster. This will turn on the toaster.
Keep an eye on the toaster. If the bread reaches your desired level of being cooked, you can generally cancel the toaster's pre-set level. Otherwise, the toast will pop up when it is done.
Check the bread to make sure that it is sufficiently cooked through and to the desired temperature and color
Carefully remove the toast…… [Read More]
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2016, from http://www.jamieshomecookingskills.com/recipe.php?title=how-to-make-toast
Traditional Se Asian Bamboo Flutes
Words: 28549 Length: 95 Pages Document Type: Dissertation Paper #: 64807002
Some Chinese researchers assert that Chinese flutes may have evolved from of Indian provenance.
In fact, the kind of side-blon, or transverse, flutes musicians play in Southeast Asia have also been discovered in Africa, India, Saudi Arabia, and Central Asia, as ell as throughout the Europe of the Roman Empire. This suggests that rather than originating in China or even in India, the transverse flute might have been adopted through the trade route of the Silk Road to Asia. In addition to these transverse flutes, Southeast Asians possessed the kind of long vertical flutes; similar to those found in Central Asia and Middle East.
A considerable amount of similarities exist beteen the vertical flutes of Southeast Asia and flutes from Muslim countries. This type of flute possibly came from Persians during the ninth century; during the religious migration to SEA. Likeise, the nose-blon flute culture, common to a number of…… [Read More]
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Imitation of E B White Value
Thus, the garden may have produced only $2 but it was certainly valuable.
But the vines of lines are still wrapped tight around the fast food drive through lanes, making me convinced that this, too, must have some kind of value. Certainly, it is not valuable in terms of money -- although food producers make some of the highest profits because they can sell a meal that cost them $1 to make for $10. The value is, likely not in the taste either, as such food is generally pleasing but not delectable. Thus, the value must be in the convenience, in the knowing that there will be no dirty dishes, no complaining family members, no hours or minutes over a hot stove or a hot pot in the middle of an even hotter summer day. Perhaps value is as subjective as interests, hobbies, and personalities. Perhaps nothing can really be…… [Read More]
Criminal Identification Procedures
The dawn of the twenty-first century has become the era of George Orwell's "1984." Technology that was found only in science fiction a few decades ago, is part of today's standards and procedures.
The world today is filled with cameras that can film an individual wherever he goes, his cell phone signal can pinpoint his location, and even one glance can reveal his true identity (Shenk 2003). Iris-recognition technology, soon to be common in places such as airports, offices, and banks, will simply scan an individual's eyes to reveal his idenity (Shenk 2003). Many feel that in this post-9/11 landscape, there is a serious need for these high-tech tools to help detect money laundering, encrypted e-mails, bio-weapons, and suitcase nukes (Shenk 2003).
Poseidon, a new electronic surveillance system, is a network of cameras that feeds a computer programmed to use a set of complex mathematical algorithms to…… [Read More]
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Food History in France
Food History of French Cuisine
What is the geographical location of France and why would it have an affect on the French cuisine? (i.e., what is the weather condition in France and does that play an affect as to why they eat the foods they eat and what foods do they eat mostly?).
The geographic location of France makes it an ideal place for agriculture that can affect cuisine. Why? Because France's climate is mild, and the growing season is long. That means farmers can grow more food throughout the year, and that means that more fresh food is available for cooking and eating all year round. It doesn't often get too cold in France, and in the summer it can get quite warm, which helps food ripen and mature.
The countryside is also fairly level and has good soil, and that helps create a good growing situation, too.…… [Read More]
Fromkin, David. "Once upon a Time in France." New Criterion Mar. 2001: 72.
Hartman, Dr. Paul V. "Historical Origins of French Cuisine." Personal Web Page. 1996. 14 Oct. 2005.
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Hydrothermal Vents A New Way
2005). The rules for deep-sea life are different than those for terrestrial species. Stratification plays an important role in species classification in vent environments. As the chimney grows in height the environment changes.
Tarasov and associates believe that deep-sea vents have a longer evolutionary history then shallow vents found closer to the surface. This is an important factor in understanding how hydrothermal vents are connected to early life on planet earth. Deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities represent a different phenomenon than shallow water vents. The chemical processes that take place in the deep-sea vent communities are very different from those in shallow areas. Shallow vent species receive light from the sun and more closely resemble terrestrial life forms. However, this is not so with deep-sea forms. Hydrothermal plumes are a rising column of hot water that can have sharp definitions in microhabitats. Similar species found inside the plume and outside of…… [Read More]
DeChaine, E. And Cavanaugh, C. 2006. Presence of post larval alvinocaridid shrimps over south-west Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents, with comparisons of the pelagic biomass at different vent sites Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 86 (1): 125-128.
Govenar, B., Le Bris, N., and Gollner, S. 2005. Epifaunal community structure associated with Riftia pachyptila aggregations in chemically different hydrothermal vent habitats. Marine Ecology Progress Series,. 305: 67-77.
Jeng, M., Ng, K., and Ng, P. 2004. Feeding behaviour: Hydrothermal vent crabs feast on sea 'snow' Nature. December 2004. 432 (7020): 969.
Kelley, D., Karson, J., and Blackman, D. 2001. An off-axis hydrothermal vent field near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 30 degree N. Nature. July 12, 2001. 412 (6843): 145-149.
Tale From Childhood
The blazing sun and the freezing water balloons invigorate us and stimulate our appetites. One breaks against my sunburned skin and I howl with laughter at the same time as I hurl one at my best friend. We're soaked, all of us. This is the best birthday party I've ever had. I feel popular, surrounded by so many kids from school. Soon my father emerges from the house carrying a platter full of hotdogs and burgers, and the twelve of us kids squeal. In spite of being soaking wet, we run up to all 6' 4" of my dad and practically knock him and our lunches over. Luckily, his sense of humor is as reliable as his barbequing and the hotdogs survive. He places them gently on the grill, one at a time, and heads back to the house to grab some more food. On the way…… [Read More]
Theory of Constraint
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There is a church that I attend that holds dinners during the holidays. The church prepares some of the food itself and people bring some food as well in a potluck fashion. The dinner is free to all participants and you do not necessarily have to bring anything. From the time the guests start arriving, there is about an hour until the dinner is actually served. Although this time can be used for conversation, some of the food gets cold. Therefore, it would be better to eat first while the food is still hot and have time for conversation after the big dinner.
Throughput in this example could be thought of as the dinner itself. There are many processes that must be completed before a plate can be served and the ultimate goal, or throughput, could be represented by the completed dinner plate. The inventory would be all the…… [Read More]
The water from my hometown in the Greater Cincinnati region is produced by the Miller Treatment Plant, which takes surface water from the Ohio River and is responsible for providing almost all of the region’s drinking water.
Water is first tested before entering the treatment plant and the region has a number of alerts in place to allow it to proactively monitor the water situation. For example, there is a detection system used on the Ohio River that “warns treatment plants downstream about spills so that measures can be taken before the spill reaches water intakes” (GCWW, 2017). Since the Ohio River is susceptible to contamination, it is important that these detection systems be in place to avoid any problems in the treatment process.
To protect drinking water, the Greater Cincinnati Waterworks (GCWW) can turn off the intake and water in storage while pollution dissipates and passes in the…… [Read More]
Lithium Transition Metal Oxides as
Words: 7179 Length: 20 Pages Document Type: Article Review Paper #: 32701294
The energy it stores (?180 Wh kg?1) at an average voltage of 3.8 V is only a factor of 5 higher than that stored by the much older lead -- acid batteries. This may seem poor in the light of Moore's law in electronics (according to which memory capacity doubles every 18 months), but it still took a revolution in materials science to achieve it. Billions of lithium-ion cells are produced for portable electronics, but this is not sustainable as cobalt must be obtained from natural resources (it makes up 20 parts per million of Earth's crust). (Armand & Tarascon, 2008, p. 653).
Fu investigated the lithium-ion conductivities of glasses and glass-ceramics in the LI2O-AlO3-TiO2P2O5 system. Fu's samples revealed high conductivity, albeit when Abrahams and Hadzifejzovic similarly investigated the LI2O-AlO3-TiO2P2O5 glass and glass-ceramic systems, their findings revealed "a maximum room temperature conductivity of 3.98 x 10-6 S/cm in their crystallized…… [Read More]
Armand, M & Tarascon, J.M. (2008). Building better batteries. Nature. Volume 451. Retrieved
April 17, 2010 from http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/kjemi/MENA5020/h08/undervisningsmaterial
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Battery power. (2010). Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Retrieved April 17. 2010 from http://www.rsc.org/Education/EiC/issues/2008Mar/BatteryPower.asp
Cross-Cultural Experience the Japanese and
Holding my arms across my chest and pretending to shiver, she quickly nodded her head and retrieved a space heater. She "explained" to me that when I went to sleep, I had to turn it off. We were getting quite good with our nonverbal communication!
The next morning was very cold! The heater had been off for hours, and there was no hot bath. When my breakfast arrived -- cold rice, topped with a raw egg and fish with its head still on -- my grimace made the woman wrinkle her brow in concern. I apologized and took some of the rice with a smile and a "thank you" in Japanese (a couple of the words I knew.) stayed at the inn for a few days, and it became easier as we shared some words and became more comfortable with each other's actions. I know that she probably found many…… [Read More]
Longstanding Tradition of Hindu and
Maharshtrian cuisine comprises of hot, aromatic meat and fish curries and subtle flavoring of vegetarian cuisine. Peanuts and cashew nuts are widely used in vegetables and the main cooking medium is peanut oil. Another feature is the use of a deep purple berry with a sweet and sour taste, otherwise called kokum, in sol kadhi, an appetizer-digestive, which is served chilled. Non-vegetarian and vegetarian dishes are served with boiled rice or rotis made from rice flour. Dessert is commonly comprises rotis (a type of bread) stuffed with a sweet mixture of jaggery and gram flour.
Goan cuisine boasts of delicacies like tangy pork 'vindaloo', spicy 'sorpotel' and the popular fish curry with rice. Most of their meals are accompanied with local wine or local liqueur, 'Feni'. Meals are simple but most are also chili hot, spicy and pungent. The basic components include rice, fish and coconut and delicacies made from…… [Read More]
Audretsch, D.B. And Meyer, N.S. " Religion, Culture and Entrepreneurship in India." Indiana
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Round School vs A Regular
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Students in these kinds of schools do not attend school longer, but they do not have a summer break that is longer than any of the other breaks that they take during the school year.
esearch done by McMillen (2001) indicated that there were 106 schools in the state of North Carolina that operated on the year-round school calendar for third through eighth grades during the 1997-1998 school year. McMillen (2001) then conducted an analysis of the academic achievements of these students and compared them to the academic achievements of students in the same grades that attended schools where the traditional calendar was still used.
Data for the study came from a database of statewide testing in which 95% of the public schools in the state participate. In order to determine the academic achievements of the students, McMillen (2001) looked at achievement test scores and demographic information that was collected…… [Read More]
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Marketing Plan Sweet Treats Coffee
3 Competition
As stated before, the competition in the coffee shops industry has increased drastically during the past recent years. In 2003, the industry had registered total sales of over $6 billion (Ferguson, 2004). The top five competitors of Sweettreats would be: Starbucks, Nestle, McDonald's, Dunkin and Gloria Jean's.
Gloria Jean's is among the leaders of the industry and they basically address their products to the young population. The corporation is based in Australia but present in numerous countries of the globe through franchise contracts (Official Website of Gloria Jean's, 2008).
Dunkin Donuts is a U.S. based company, namely headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts. In 2006, they registered annual revenue of over $4 billion. They address all types of consumers and sell a wide palette of coffee-based beverages and foods (Official Website of Dunkin Donuts, 2008).
Starbucks is the undisputed leader of the industry and in 2006 they registered annual revenues…… [Read More]
Dawidowska, K., April 1, 2002, Coffee Overload. Agree that coffee from gourmet coffee shops is too expensive - Almost 3 in 4 coffee shops patrons 72%, American Demographics
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Fisenko, a. And Associates, 2006, How to Start a Successful Coffee Shop, a Coffee-Espresso Drive-Thru or a Coffee/Espresso Cart, Espresso Business, http://www.espressobusiness.com/last accessed on February 29, 2008
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel the Road
If feminism is about civil rights, human rights, children's rights and the search for peace, then it is clear that a substantial amount of the descriptive narrative in the Road is clearly anti-feminine. This has nothing to do with gender rights, and everything to do with the rights of all humans to live in dignity and be allowed "...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The nights, McCarthy writes on page 129, were "...blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it. Like a dawn before battle." The feminist world is not a cold world at all and children are sheltered from suffering; death is not supposed to come to young and middle aged people and mornings are not silent. Mornings are supposed to be filled with the joyful sound of songbirds and the happy shrieks of children, and there is…… [Read More]
Flack, Jessica. "Conflict and Creativity." Santa Fe Institute. Retrieved June 7, 2007, from Oprah's Book Club, http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/road/future/road_future_main.jhtml.
McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Vintage International, 2006.
Richards, Amy. "What is Feminism?" The University of Oklahoma. Retrieved June 7, 2007, at http://www.ou.edu/womensoc/feminismwomanism.htm.
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INTERVIEW: Kiki Smith - 'When I was young, being marginalized gave me energy'
Read our interview with the German-born American artist featured in the new book Great Women Artists
The German-born American artist Kiki Smith is known for her anatomical-based works that address the human condition in relation to nature. Having begun to gain critical recognition in the 1980s in the aftermath of the second-wave feminist movement in New York, Smith forged a unique figurative path in the midst of an abstract-dominated era.
Prompted by the AIDS epidemic, in which she was personally affected by the loss of friends and family members, Smith focused her earlier works on organs and cellular forms, which gave her a deep understanding of the internal body. Breaking away from her abject and bodily work in recent years, Smith has drawn on her interests in Norse mythology, folk art and fairy tales, and medieval signs and symbols in her sculptures and tapestries. Smith’s woven pieces are devised by collaging lifesize cartoons from her drawings and prints, to which she adds glimmers of gold leaf to emphasize their enchanted qualities. Typical of her recent explorations, Spinners connects transient natural forms with themes of life, death and resurrection. Here, the artist who's featured in our new book Great Women Artists, tells us about the positives and negatives of being a woman artist, what being a great artist means to her and why young women artists should just kick out the jams!
Spinners (Moths and Spiders Webs, 2014 - Kiki Smith
What does it mean to you to be featured in Great Women Artists? I am very honored to be in the company of other women artists.
Can you describe one artwork or series from your oeuvre that you feel was pivotal in your career? I wouldn't use the word "pivotal," but one piece that I am happy has had a public reception is the sculpture Lilith.
How has being a woman affected your career? It is hard to say. Being a woman could have affected my career positively at times and negatively at others. When I was young being marginalized gave me energy. I needed to make my experience evident. There was so little representation addressing the depth of women's experience that it was an enormous open garden. That women and others have been excluded from cultural representation only hurts the society as a whole. It coincides with the disregard we have for people and nature and is indicative of why we find the world in the state it is.
Lilith, 1994 - Kiki Smith
What makes a great artist? I think what is perceived as a great artist is subject to cultural change. But, certainly great artists that I admire belong to their time while resonating beyond the specifics of their personality and time. They have a vision that is at once singular and at the same time open to others; they enrich our lives.
Which other great woman artists inspire you and why? I have found many women artists inspiring, but, particularly, Nancy Spero's work has been inspiring for me over a great many years. She was enormously creative and inventive in her use of language, paper, and printmaking. And her content is encompassing and profound. She was a radical artist. And her work still remains radical.
How has the art world’s relationship to women artists changed since you began your career? How could it still improve? In many ways things have changed radically yet stayed the same. While there are many more women artists apparent in the art world and culture than when I was young, there is still a very low representation of women in museums, and that is something that could change enormously. In the past ten years we've seen much more recognition for women's societal contributions yet this is still not reflected in the collections of our museums and cultural institutions. It seems the world needs to be continually reminded that all women are contributing to cultural life. We are the largest part of the population though still we're undervalued.
Sungrazer VI, 2019 - Kiki Smith
What advice would you give to emerging female artists entering the art world? I would tell anyone to work hard, follow themselves, and live in your community. Don't be stopped by your own preconceived notions of your life or by others. And kick out the jams.
Great Women Artists
The most extensive fully illustrated book of women artists ever published, Great Women Artists reflects an era where art made by women is more prominent than ever. In museums, galleries, and the art market, previously overlooked female artists, past and present, are now gaining recognition and value. Featuring more than 400 artists from more than 50 countries and spanning 500 years of creativity, each artist is represented here by a key artwork and short text. This essential volume reveals a parallel yet equally engaging history of art for an age that champions a greater diversity of voices. Order your copy of Great Women Artists here.
Kiki Smith will be the subject of exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford and La Monnaie de Paris in October. Pace Gallery presents works at its booths at Frieze Art Fair and FIAC in Paris.
Great Women Artists Phaidon Editors
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Five centuries of fascinating female creativity presented in more than 400 compelling artworks and one comprehensive volume
The most extensive fully illustrated book of women artists ever published, Great Women Artists reflects an era where art made by women is more prominent than ever. In museums, galleries, and the art market, previously overlooked female artists, past and present, are now gaining recognition and value. Featuring more than 400 artists from more than 50 countries and spanning 500 years of creativity, each artist is represented here by a key artwork and short text. This essential volume reveals a parallel yet equally engaging history of art for an age that champions a greater diversity of voices.
"Real changes are upon us, and today one can reel off the names of a number of first-rate women artists. Nevertheless, women are just getting started."—The New Yorker
Size: 290 x 250 mm (11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in)
Illustrations: 450 illustrations
Introductory essay by Rebecca Morrill
Artist texts by James Cahill, Louisa Elderton, Elizabeth Fullerton, Orit Gat, Ferren Gipson, PL Henderson, Katy Hessel, Catalina Imizcoz, Louisa Lee, Henry Little, Helen Luckett, Kathleen Madden, Henry Martin, Tom Melick, Rebecca Morrill, Yates Norton, Cleo Roberts, Matthew Price, Gabrielle Schwartz, Robert Shane, Mitch Speed, David Trigg, Ellen Mara De Wachter
"The headline grabber of 2019 was Phaidon's Great Women Artists."—British VOGUE online
"Interview believes every damn day is worthy of celebrating great women, and Great Women Artists makes it easy... If only all our college art history textbooks were this much fun."—Interview Magazine Online
"Phaidon are helping to redress the balance with this encyclopaedic volume that examines 500 years of great art by great women artists... no self respecting art lover should be without a copy."—Culture Whisper
"...A wide-ranging collection of exceptional work by women."—O, The Oprah Magazine
"An epic survey."—Harper's Bazaar
"There is a wonderful discovery aspect to this book... This book not only celebrates women artists, but also demonstrates their resilience and unmatched talent through history."—Kering Americas president Laurent Ciaquin
"Handsome... A beautiful, richly illustrated volume... A valuable resource for students of art and art history as well as curious general readers... The artists included represent a wide chronological and geographic range [...] the list is impressive... [with many] dynamic and unexpected juxtapositions produced by the book's alphabetical organisation... The texts on each artist are astute and thoughtful. Formal analyses are intertwined with introductions to key art-historical, social and political themes. The offers a panoramic sweep... Its diverse line-up is organised alphabetically rather than chronologically so that lesser-known artists rub shoulders with established superstars."—Jo Applin, Reader in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Times Literary Supplement
"The book we have been waiting for... Women artists put firmly on the map... Every now and then a book comes out that can change lives. If a survey like this had appeared when I was a student at the Slade, the struggle to make headway as a female artist would have seemed less daunting. We'd have had role models and names with which to counter the assertion that there had never been any significant women artists. And the recent explosion of female talent celebrated in this book might have happened a generation earlier. Phaidon's latest offering is a revelation... This impressive survey spans 500 years... It's incredibly hard to distill a life's work into a few hundred words, but these 23 writers do an excellent job of summarising the salient points... The burgeoning numbers of women now making and exhibiting work is reflected in this selection. Most impressive is the quality and diversity of work... This inspiring book is not just a celebration of women's creativity, it is symptomatic of a sea change... Things they are a-changing - at last. And if anyone has the temerity ever again to claim there have been no great women artists, you will be able to use this timely tome to knock the idea on its head, once and for all."—Sarah Kent, TheArtsDesk.com
"Women who have been airbrushed out of art history... are enjoying a renaissance, while contemporary female artists are starting to benefit from re-evaluations."—The Sunday Times
"Female artists have been neglected for so long that their work - even if it was painted 70 years ago - feels new and cutting edge. For collectors, it has the irresistible allure of discovery."—The New York Times
"It's good to see the auction houses finally giving more women a chance. For money is a powerful symbol of cultural worth."—The Economist
"Until very recently... the idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited asa possility. Yet, they have - and continue to do so - often against tremendous odds."—Frieze Magazine
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In Search of Walid Masoud
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Author, Roger M. A. Allen, Translator, Adnan Haydar, Translator Syracuse University Press $26.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-8156-0646-8
The Journals of Sarab Affan
First Well: A Bethlehem Boyhood
In this fiercely partisan jigsaw puzzle of a novel, published in 1978 and translated here for the first time, Jabra explores the Arab intellectual's response to the turmoil in the Middle East in the postcolonial era. The novel begins with the disappearance of writer and activist Walid Masoud. When his deserted car is discovered in the desert in Syria, Masoud's friends, rivals and his many lovers are inspired to reminisce about his commitment to his people. A Christian Palestinian educated for the priesthood in Italy in the '30s and '40s, Walid renounces that life to return to Palestine in the mid-1940s. After the Israelis (called ""Zionists"" by the author) win the 1948 war, establishing Israel and dispossessing thousands of Palestinians who fled their villages, Walid goes to Baghdad and becomes a successful financier. He also pursues a career as a political intellectual through his writing. In the 1967 war, Walid is taken captive by the Israeli Security Service, who torture him, then expel him from Israel. This experience strengthens his loyalty to the fedayeen--the Palestinian guerrilla force--but when his son joins the fedayeen, the son is killed in a clash with Israeli troops. These events are played out against the background of the upper-class intellectual scene in Baghdad. Many affecting passages are narrated by Walid's lovers, like Maryam, a seductive professor and writer. Jabra's characters, like Simone de Beauvoir's set in Paris, or New York intellectuals of the 1950s, thrive on brilliant rationalizations of their own narcissism, while the humanism they affect is doomed to political impotence. Several events represented here are at odds with historical facts, but the author's passion for his homeland is clear. (Sept.)
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Few Americans say their house of worship is open, but a quarter say their faith has grown amid pandemic
By Claire Gecewicz
A religious leader greets parishioners arriving for Easter worship in Florida. In order to observe social distancing guidelines, members of the congregation met in the parking lot and watched a Facebook Live streaming of the service taking place inside the church. (Joe Raedle via Getty Images)
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has transformed virtually every aspect of public life in America, also has touched a very intimate part of Americans’ lives: their religious faith and worship habits.
Some Americans say their religious faith has strengthened as a result of the outbreak, even as the vast majority of U.S. churchgoers report that their congregations have closed regular worship services to the public, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Americans in historically black Protestant churches and those who describe themselves as very religious are particularly likely to say their faith has strengthened.
One-quarter of U.S. adults overall (24%) say their faith has become stronger because of the coronavirus pandemic, while just 2% say their faith has become weaker. The majority say their faith hasn’t changed much (47%) or that the question isn’t applicable because they were not religious to begin with (26%).
To find out how U.S. adults’ religious faith may be changing and how houses of worship are adapting amid the coronavirus outbreak, we surveyed 10,139 U.S. adults from April 20 to 26, 2020, the most recent survey in the Center’s nearly yearlong Election News Pathways project.
All respondents to the survey are part of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. For more, see the ATP’s methodology.
Here are the questions used for this report, along with responses, and its methodology.
Opinions on this question vary based on respondents’ religious affiliation and how religious they are. Christians are more likely than other religious groups in this analysis to say their faith has grown stronger as a result of the pandemic, a feeling that is reported by 56% of Protestants in the historically black tradition, as well as by four-in-ten evangelicals (42%) and roughly one-quarter of Catholics (27%) and mainline Protestants (22%).
Jews, on the other hand, are more likely to say their faith hasn’t changed much (69%) or that the question isn’t applicable to them because they are not religious (22%) than they are to say their faith has grown stronger during the outbreak (7%). Among the religiously unaffiliated – those who say their religion is atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” – roughly a quarter say their faith hasn’t changed much (26%), while the majority say they were not religious to begin with (65%).
The most religious Americans – those who frequently pray and attend services (at least in typical times), and who rate religion as very important to them – are far more likely than others to say their faith has grown stronger as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. In other words, the self-reported strengthening of religious faith has been most pronounced within a segment of the public that was already quite religious to begin with.
For example, 46% of U.S. adults who said last year that they attend religious services at least once or twice a month say their faith has strengthened, compared with one-quarter (26%) of those who attend services just a few times a year and 11% of those who seldom or never attend. But even among people who are not very religious, very few say their faith has weakened. Rather, most say that their level of faith hasn’t changed much or that the question isn’t applicable to them because they don’t consider themselves to be religious.
There also are differences on this question by race and ethnicity, gender and age. Larger shares of black Americans than whites or Hispanics say their faith has grown stronger as a result of the coronavirus outbreak; women and older adults are more likely to say this than men and younger adults. (To analyze these questions further, visit the Election News Pathways data tool.)
Majorities of church attenders say their congregation has closed its doors to the public and put its services online
It remains to be seen whether the strengthened faith that some Americans are experiencing will translate into greater service attendance, since most houses of worship are closed due to nationwide social distancing recommendations. Indeed, among U.S. adults who say they typically attend religious services at least once or twice a month, just 3% say their congregation is still holding in-person services. The vast majority (91%) say their congregation has closed its religious services to the public, and 5% say they do not know what their congregation has done.
If one looks not just at regular attenders but at all U.S. adults, still only 3% say people are still gathering in person for religious services at their congregation or the place of worship where they go most often. Roughly half say their house of worship has closed its religious services to the public, and 45% say they don’t attend services or don’t know what their house of worship has done.
Vast majorities of churchgoing Christians, those who attend worship services at least once a month, report that their congregation has been closed, including nine-in-ten or more among evangelical Protestants (92%), Catholics (94%) and mainline Protestants (96%). A somewhat smaller majority of those in the historically black Protestant tradition say their church has closed due to the outbreak (79%).
Very few adherents of any Christian tradition say that people are still gathering in person at their houses of worship. This ranges from 1% of Catholics to 7% of Protestants who belong to historically black churches. Although they are included in the full sample, non-Christian religious groups are not analyzed separately due to sample size limitations.
Congregants may not be physically sitting in the pews each Sunday, but their house of worship is most likely streaming or recording its services so that people can access them virtually. Among U.S. adults who report attending religious services at least monthly, 82% say that the place of worship they most often attend is streaming or recording its services so that people can watch them online or on TV. About one-in-eight (12%) say their primary place of worship has not done this, while the remainder say they don’t know (5%).
More than eight-in-ten churchgoing Christians say their primary church offers streaming or recorded services online or on TV, including roughly nine-in-ten evangelical (92%) and mainline Protestants (86%) who say this. Most Catholics (79%) and Protestants in the historically black tradition (73%) also say their churches are making
religious services available remotely.
A Pew Research Center survey conducted last month found that 57% of adults who attend religious services at least monthly said they have watched religious services online or on TV because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Note: Here are the questions used for this report, along with responses, and its methodology.
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)Religious AffiliationReligious Beliefs and PracticesRestrictions on Religion
Claire Gecewicz is a research associate focusing on religion research at Pew Research Center.
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The site of a tiltyard at Whitehall Palace, constructed in the early 1530s. A tiltyard was where jousting events took place and, like at Whitehall Palace, a viewing gallery was often built. Henry VIII was a champion tilter or jouster and tilting yards were built at most of the important Royal palaces. The tiltyard at Whitehall measured about 145 by 25 metres
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The site of a tiltyard at Whitehall Palace, constructed in the early 1530s. A tiltyard was where jousting events took place and, like at Whitehall Palace, a viewing gallery was often built. Henry VIII was a champion tilter or jouster and tilting yards were built at most of the important Royal palaces. The tiltyard at Whitehall measured about 145 by 25 metres. (3)
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(3) Simon Thurley 1993 The royal palaces of Tudor England : architecture and court life
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Jane Eyre first edition set to realise $78,000 at Bonhams
Bonhams has announced that it will sell a rare first edition of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre as part of its June 19 auction of Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Documents in London.
The bicentenary of Bronte's birth in 2016 should ensure that the value of her finest works continues to rise
The edition at Bonhams is particularly sought after due to its remarkably original state, being untrimmed in the publisher's boards and marked with the original price of 31/6 in pencil. It is expected to sell for £30,000-50,000 ($47,000-78,000).
"The value lies in this being the first edition of one of the most enduring classics of English literature," Bonhams' Luke Batterham told Keighley News.
"This particular copy is in wonderfully authentic condition. It is not elaborately rebound in calf or the more usual publishers' cloth binding, but still untrimmed in rather drab cloth-backed grey boards - presumably the cheapest way to buy it at the time of publication and a rare survivor as such."
The initial 500-strong run of Bronte's 1847 masterwork quickly sold out, according to the Parsonage Museum's Ann Dinsdale, who added to the publication: "Prices seem to be rising and it is the bicentenary of Charlotte's birth in 2016, so they are likely to continue to rise."
The auction follows the £92,450 ($141,361) sale of a miniscule poem written by the young Charlotte Bronte at Bonhams in April.
In July 2012, another first edition of Jane Eyre sold for £67,250 ($105,739) at Sotheby's.
Paul Fraser Collectibles specialises in sourcing the finest literary collectibles and rare books for sale. This superb copy of Virginia Woolf's Orlando is a limited edition, signed by the author.
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IN AUSTRALIAN CINEMAS APRIL 21
TOOTHLESS PICTURES
The conception for Pawno had lingered for years until fruition. The setting and structure for the film was influenced by films including Clerks, Smoke, Coffee and Cigarettes and Everynight, Everynight. Eventually, pen was put to paper after I worked with Paul Ireland and John Brumpton on a theatre production. I took around 50 pages of the script to Paul and on an afternoon in a café in St.Kilda, Toothless Pictures was born.
Over the next two years we developed the script together, working out of the café and Paul’s kitchen. During this time we also began the exhaustive task of raising funds necessary to make the film, as we didn’t fit into any criteria of funding through the usual bodies. We laughed, shared frustrations and were inspired whilst riding all the bumps together along the way before principal photography commenced in late November of 2014.
Toothless took possession of a shop for six months amongst the chaos and beauty of Barkly Street. The premises formed our production offices, costume, make –up and catering. In the front we built the Pawnbrokers that is used in filming, sourcing everything wherever possible and constructed it for the purposes of filming, although many passerby’s thought us open for business.
The partnership and idea formed in a café in St.Kilda years earlier had attracted a brilliant cast and crew that endeared them to the locals of Footscray and the suburb to all of us. It really is a special part of Melbourne for its melting pot of people, language, food and colour. As a resident of the suburb myself, I have a pride that it’s essence is captured on film for it is changing rapidly and a part of what we created is in itself a little time capsule.
We had always wanted to create a work that was real Characters that afforded themselves to be broken and healed at the same time, vulnerable and closed. I was inspired in writing by people I knew and some I just made up. Working with Paul as a director allowed actors the opportunity to inject their own nuances whilst maintaining a film that is truly an ensemble.
Pawno is unlike many Australian films in that it is a true example of cultural diversity on screen without kangaroos, beach or desert. It is Australia as I see it, walking down the street, albeit with a heightened sense of story. People overseas in the festivals we have played from the Baltic States in Eastern Europe to the bustle of Singapore have observed as much and come question time are intrigued by the characters on screen, the world in Australia we are set in and the story of how Paul and I created the film itself.
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Path Of Exile 2
Path of Exile 2 announced, but it's not a separate game
By Andy Chalk 15 November 2019
Path of Exile 2 features a new 7-act story and overhauls many of its core systems, but all your old stuff will carry over.
Path of Exile 2 was announced today at ExileCon, the big show that's taking place at this very moment in Auckland, New Zealand. Despite the title, it's not actually a separate new game, but rather an expansion that also completely overhauls the base game in the process.
Path of Exile 2 will add a new seven-act story that takes place 20 years after the end of the current game. It will overhaul many of the game's core systems and rework the mechanics of each of the game's seven character classes. It's also getting a major visual rework with physics-based rendering. For example, arrows will bounce off of some surfaces and stick into others depending on what they're made of.
Path of Exile 2 characters will use the same "class archetypes" as those of the original game, but you'll have to create a new one in order to play the new story. PoE2 characters can select from 19 new Ascendancy Classes that differ from the old ones, which will still be available in the original Path of Exile campaign. Fortunately, all your cosmetics will carry over, as it all exists within a single ecosystem.
Path of Exile 2 is still a long way off: Grinding Gear Games said it won't likely even begin beta testing until very late in 2020. For the more immediate future, Path of Exile expansions will continue to release on their regular three-month schedule, with content that will be available in both Path of Exile 1 and 2 campaigns.
Our man Steven is on the scene in New Zealand and will have a far more in-depth report on what's coming soon. In the meantime, you can find out more at pathofexile.com, and check out the vastly improved Path of Exile 2 engine in action in the 14-minute gameplay video below.
Andy Chalk
Andy covers the day-to-day happenings in the big, wide world of PC gaming—the stuff we call "news." In his off hours, he wishes he had time to play the 80-hour RPGs and immersive sims he used to love so much.
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Washington Trust Provides $30 Million to Benchmark for Popular New Pond Village Community in Walpole
By: Benchmark
New Pond Village Continuing Care Retirement Community in Walpole, MA
WALPOLE, Mass. - June 26, 2019 - PRLog -- Washington Trust's Commercial Banking Group recently provided $30 million to Benchmark Senior Living for the refinancing of its New Pond Village (https://newpondvillage.benchmarkseniorliving.com/?utm_source=press-release&utm_medium=press-release&utm_campaign=comm-npv-press-release-washington-trust-jun19) continuing care community in Walpole, Massachusetts. The community, which sits on 19.4 acres just 19 miles south of Boston, last year celebrated the completion of an $8 million renovation and the opening of its Mind & Memory™ neighborhood, becoming the first community in Walpole to offer support for those with Alzheimer's or other cognitive impairment. Additional upgrades included new dining and common areas on the lower level. In 2018, Wicked Local bestowed a Reader's Choice Award upon New Pond Village citing it the "best retirement living residence" in the region.
"Benchmark and New Pond Village are gratified by the investment Washington Trust has made in this lovely community," says Sarah Laffey, Benchmark's Chief Investment Officer. "Walpole families have experienced the human connection and compassionate care that our associates have provided to residents and families over the years, and this investment can help assure them that New Pond Village will be here for generations to come."
With 167 independent living units, New Pond Village offers homes for active seniors who are looking to socialize, stay active and who no longer want the worry of owning a home. The independent living units comprise 57 one-bedroom and 110 two-bedroom apartments. The community also offers 17 assisted living units where residents receive assistance with the activities of daily living, such as dressing, bathing and taking medications.
"Washington Trust is appreciative to again have the opportunity to partner with Benchmark on this beautifully renovated community in Walpole," says Scott McCaughey, Vice President of Commercial Banking. "The newly renovated common areas and apartments offer the state-of-the art amenities important to the residents living in this wonderful community".
Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Benchmark (https://www.benchmarkseniorliving.com/?utm_source=press-r...) is a human connection company and leading provider of senior housing in the Northeast with 6,400 associates and 58 communities. Founded in 1997 by Tom Grape, Benchmark offers independent living, assisted living, Alzheimer's care and continuing care retirement communities across eight states.
Washington Trust's Commercial Banking Group provides multi-million financing to leading businesses, manufacturers, hospitals, and educational institutions throughout the Northeast. The Group offers a full line of commercial and industrial lending services, including business lines of credit, term loans, international banking services, as well as comprehensive cash management services and bank-at-work conveniences. Washington Trust's team of experienced professionals are dedicated to providing customized, comprehensive financing and personalized services. For more information, contact Scott McCaughey (https://www.washtrust.com/Commercial-Banking/Meet-Our-Tea...), Vice President, Commercial Lending, at 401-654-4872, or samccaughey@washtrust.com.
ABOUT WASHINGTON TRUST®
Founded in 1800, Washington Trust (https://www.washtrust.com/) is the oldest community bank in the nation and one of the Northeast's premier financial services companies. Washington Trust offers a full range of financial services, including commercial banking (https://www.washtrust.com/Commercial-Banking/Commercial-Banking-Overview), mortgage banking (https://www.washtrust.com/Personal-Banking/Mortgages), personal banking (https://www.washtrust.com/Personal-Banking/Personal-Banking-Overview) and wealth management and trust services (http://washtrustwealth.com/) through its offices located in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The Washington Trust Company is a subsidiary of Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc. (http://www.snl.com/irweblinkx/corporateprofile.aspx?iid=100491) Additional information on Washington Trust and its subsidiaries can be found at https://www.washtrust.com/.
ABOUT BENCHMARK
Established in 1997 and based in Waltham, Mass., Benchmark operates 58 communities and is the leading provider of senior living in the Northeast. Founder, Chairman and CEO Tom Grape has led Benchmark and its 6,400 associates to achieve $2.5 billion in company value and $500 million in annual revenue. Among numerous workplace awards, the organization in 2019 was selected for the second consecutive year as a Great Place to Work. In 2018, it was selected by Fortune magazine for its inaugural Best Workplaces for Aging Services list, taking the number 16 spot on the list of top 40 aging services companies and ranking third among companies with more than 40 communities. Benchmark is one of only six companies named to The Boston Globe Top Places to Work list every year of the 11 years it has been published. And it has been consistently recognized by Boston Business Journal, Hartford Courant and Hartford Business Journal as a top workplace, and by the Boston Business Journal, Providence Business News and Hartford Business Journal as one of the healthiest employers. Click here for more information. (https://www.benchmarkseniorliving.com/?utm_source=press-release&utm_medium=press-release&utm_campaign=bsl-corp-press-release-npv-washington-trust-jun19)
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$8.25 million Boost for Promising, Early-stage Life Science Companies: BioCrossroads Forms Indiana Seed Fund II
BioCrossroads
INDIANAPOLIS, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BioCrossroads announced today the formation of the Indiana Seed Fund II (the Fund), an early-stage capital fund focused on identifying, creating and developing the next generation of Indiana-based life sciences companies. The $8.25 million fund is a follow-on to the Indiana Seed Fund I, a $6 million fund that is now fully committed in a portfolio of 12 Indiana life sciences companies.
Managed by BioCrossroads, the Indiana Seed Fund II is a result of a unique public-private collaboration of corporate, university and philanthropic investors including BC Initiative (BioCrossroads' for-profit / investment entity), Eli Lilly and Company, the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation, Inc., Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation, Purdue University, the University of Notre Dame, and WellPoint.
"The fact that this impressive group of institutional investors has come together to form a new Indiana Seed Fund is a terrific testament to the strength of our life sciences sector," said David L. Johnson, president and CEO of BioCrossroads. "Thanks to these stakeholders, we're now in position to invest in some of the most promising start-up companies we can find to advance this sector's next round of success."
The Fund will invest an average of $500,000 in early-stage biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostic, ag-biotech and health information technology products and platforms, continuing BioCrossroads' focus on promising companies formed around innovative ideas. Managed by BioCrossroads' experienced professional team, the Fund has an investment committee comprised of individuals with start-up management and life sciences investment experience, bringing years of collective knowledge to Indiana life sciences companies.
"This is outstanding news for the Indiana life sciences community," said Darren Carroll, vice president of Corporate Business Development for Eli Lilly and Company and member of the Indiana Seed Fund II Investment Committee. "In a time of continuing difficulties in the financing market, this group was able to raise a follow-on fund that is larger and has more diverse investors than its predecessor. We're looking forward to the next generation of groundbreaking ideas and entrepreneurs."
The Fund will seek to invest in early stage life sciences companies progressing towards defined milestones to secure a Series A financing, strategic partnership or co-development agreement. Companies must illustrate proven management teams, owned or licensed technology, intellectual property, and a demonstrable and validated market need.
"There are so many important discoveries and ideas in science that simply will not make it to market without this type of capital -- a critical component to help Indiana companies move their technologies forward," added Nora Doherty, vice president-Finance of BioCrossroads and managing director of the Fund.
Indiana's life sciences sector has received national recognition as a life sciences center. In June 2009, The Economist said, "Though every state wants to be a hub in the life sciences, Indiana actually is one..." In August 2011, a Wall Street Journal article called Indianapolis a hotbed of activity for the life sciences, citing the state's 825 life sciences companies and 8,800 new jobs.
About BioCrossroads
BioCrossroads (www.biocrossroads.com) is Indiana's initiative to grow, advance and invest in the life sciences, a public-private collaboration that supports the region's existing research and corporate strengths while encouraging new business development. BioCrossroads provides money and support to life sciences businesses, launches new life sciences enterprises (Indiana Health Information Exchange, Fairbanks Institute for Healthy Communities, BioCrossroadsLINX, OrthoWorx and Datalys Center), expands collaboration and partnerships among Indiana's life science institutions, promotes science education and markets Indiana's life sciences industry.
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Qualcomm Atheros Launches 802.11ac Networking Platform to Drive Gigabit Wireless in the Home and Enterprise
Reference Platform to Accelerate Mainstream Adoption of Dual-band, Dual-concurrent Wi-Fi Access Points, Routers and Gateways with Next-generation Performance
Jun 5, 2012TAIPEI, Taiwan
Qualcomm Atheros Inc., the networking and connectivity subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), today at COMPUTEX TAIPEI announced the new QCA9005AP 802.11ac reference design for wireless routers, gateways and enterprise access points. Using an on-board processor and power efficient radio architecture, the 802.11ac platform can accelerate mainstream adoption of Gigabit wireless products for home and business networks. The new reference platform features the QCA9558 dual-band, 3-stream 802.11n system-on-chip (SoC), the QCA9880 3-stream 802.11ac radio solution, and the AR8327 Gigabit Ethernet switch.
Qualcomm Atheros’ entire family of 802.11ac solutions—from networking to mobile and computing—was designed with on-board processors and hardware acceleration to offload Wi-Fi processing from the host CPU. This architectural advantage enables highly efficient Gigabit wireless performance without the use of costly, power-hungry, Gigabit-class processors. By pairing the QCA9880 802.11ac radio with the QCA9558 802.11n SoC, networking OEMs can build cost-effective and power-efficient 802.11ac-enabled products that are capable of aggregate PHY rates of up to 1.7 Gbps. This dual-band platform will help drive the market transition to the latest Wi-Fi technology and enable customers to deliver home routers, carrier gateways and enterprise access points (APs) in time for the first wave of 802.11ac certification, which the Wi-Fi Alliance has scheduled for the first quarter of 2013.
As Wi-Fi is increasingly used to stream data-intensive content such as videos, movies, gaming and music, Qualcomm Atheros’ 802.11ac solutions enable the most seamless HD video-grade performance across crowded, busy networks. The forthcoming 802.11ac standard operates in the 5 GHz band to ensure smooth, interference-free media transfers. Qualcomm Atheros’ new QCA9005AP platform ensures backward compatibility with virtually all legacy Wi-Fi devices in the home by offering dual-band connectivity in both the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands.
“Earlier this year, Qualcomm Atheros led the 802.11ac transition with the industry’s first 802.11ac multi-connectivity chip for mobile devices. We are now driving the propagation of mainstream Gigabit networking solutions with a new, highly efficient, dual-band 802.11ac platform,” said Dan Rabinovitsj, senior vice president and general manager, networking business unit, Qualcomm Atheros. “With this flexible and efficient networking platform, Qualcomm Atheros is delivering solutions for the entire ecosystem of networked devices and ensuring a smooth migration to Gigabit-capable Wi-Fi.”
Qualcomm Atheros’ highly integrated 802.11ac solutions are sampling now to customers in North America, Europe, China, Korea and Japan, and they are expected to ship in volume the second half of 2012. For more information, please visit Qualcomm Atheros’ COMPUTEX exhibit at the Grand Hyatt, Residence II in Taipei, Taiwan, June 5-9, 2012.
About Qualcomm Atheros
Qualcomm Atheros Inc., the networking and connectivity subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, is a leading provider of wireless and wired technologies for the mobile, networking, computing and consumer electronics markets. The organization is focused on inventing technologies that connect and empower people in ways that are elegant and accessible to all. With its broad connectivity portfolio, Qualcomm Atheros provides its global customer base with high-performance, end-to-end solutions, featuring Wi-Fi®, GNSS Location, Bluetooth®, Ethernet, HomePlug® powerline and passive optical networking (PON) technologies. Qualcomm Atheros leverages its substantial expertise in RF, signal processing, software and networking to deliver highly integrated, low-power, system-level solutions that enable customers to create high-performance, differentiated products. For more information, go to www.qca.qualcomm.com.
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Qualcomm Atheros is a trademark of Qualcomm Atheros Inc. Qualcomm is a trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated. Wi-Fi is a registered trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. Bluetooth is a registered trademark of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. HomePlug is a registered trademark of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance. All other trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners.
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Anthony Steven Evers (; born November 5, 1951) is an American politician and educator serving as the 26th and current Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin since 2009. Evers is the Democratic nominee for Governor of Wisconsin in the 2018 gubernatorial election.
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Our members of The National Guard will be on hand to support local first responders, ensure Kenoshans are able to assemble safely, and to protect critical infrastructure as necessary.
– Tony Evers
Found on CNN 12 days ago US News
You cannot have a Bill of Rights for the police and then have a Bill of Rights for the people.
Found on FOX News 12 days ago U.S.
If we're going to get this virus under control, then wearing a mask is the absolute least we need you to do, it isn't safe. This virus is real, and it's devastating our communities.
Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News
I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing. I am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together, do you really feel safer under President Trump ?
Now we have no plan and no protections for the people of Wisconsin, when you have more people in a small space -- I don't care if it's bars, restaurants or your home -- you're going to be able to spread the virus. And so now, today, thanks to the Republican legislators who convinced four Supreme Court justices to not look at the law but look at their political careers I guess -- it's a bad day for Wisconsin.
In order for us to get to a place that's maybe less restrictive in the state, our public health systems are going to have to look different. We are going to need more testing.
Found on CNN 9 months ago Health News
Everyone should have access to quality, affordable healthcare, and that includes reproductive healthcare, politicians shouldn't be in the business of interfering with decisions made between patients and their healthcare providers.
The bottom line is they've shrunk their expectations. That's what they're communicating now.
Found on CNN 1 year ago Technology
The present contract deals with a situation that no longer exists so it's our goal to make sure that the taxpayers are protected and environmental standards are protected, and we believe that we need to take a look at that contract.
Found on Reuters 1 year ago Business
It is now abundantly clear that the lame-duck session was nothing more than an illegal power grab intended to override the will of the people.
Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News
The legislature overplayed its hand by using an unlawful process to accumulate more power for itself and override the will of the people.
Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics
There is simply not ample evidence to support the president's contention that there exists a national security crisis at our Southwestern border, therefore, there is no justification for the ongoing presence of Wisconsin National Guard personnel at the border.
Yes, we have a 3 percent unemployment rate, but we also have 800,000 families that are struggling just to put food on the table. ... We have a long way to go.
From what I heard today... it looks like they're going to focus on the generation 6 technology, they made commitments and we're going to make sure they live up to them.
All issues are on the table, i'm not making any promises one way or the other, but we're looking at all issues, all options at the table. I need to stand up for the people of Wisconsin. There's 2.6 million people that voted in this last election, and they expect me to do that. So I'm going to, we're going to pursue this.
Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics
All issues are on the table, i'm not making any promises one way or the other, but we're looking at all issues, all options at the table. I need to stand up for the people of Democratic Wisconsin. There's 2.6 million people that voted in this last election, and they expect me to do that. So I'm going to, we're going to pursue this.
Wisconsin has never seen anything like this, power-hungry politicians rushed through sweeping changes to our laws to expand their own power and override the will of the people of Wisconsin who asked for change on November 6th.
This is rancor and politics as usual, it flies in the face of democratic institutions and the checks and balances that are intended to prevent power-hungry politicians from clinging to control when they do not get their way.
Much of what we did over the last eight years is work with the Legislature.
That dissatisfaction is the same dissatisfaction that we are finding with people around Scott Walker not investing in education, not caring about our natural resources, i am offering them a positive vision for the future.
People across the state of Wisconsin just want a governor that is going to have their best interests, i think that is what it comes down to. You don't have to burn down the room with some fiery speech to be a good governor.
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Investment Back to Basics Special (Principal and Interest) (New Customer) (LVR < 90%)
Monthly Repayment Schedule
Investment Back to Basics Special (Principal and Interest) (New Customer) from Suncorp Bank
Borrow amount
Repayment frequency
Number of repayments
Total interest paid
Results are estimates only. Please allow for slight rounding differences.
1 Feb 2021 $673.57 $747.50 $1,421.07 $299,326.43
2 Mar 2021 $675.25 $745.82 $1,421.07 $298,651.18
3 Apr 2021 $676.93 $744.14 $1,421.07 $297,974.25
4 May 2021 $678.62 $742.45 $1,421.07 $297,295.63
5 Jun 2021 $680.31 $740.76 $1,421.07 $296,615.32
6 Jul 2021 $682.00 $739.07 $1,421.07 $295,933.32
7 Aug 2021 $683.70 $737.37 $1,421.07 $295,249.62
8 Sep 2021 $685.41 $735.66 $1,421.07 $294,564.21
9 Oct 2021 $687.11 $733.96 $1,421.07 $293,877.10
10 Nov 2021 $688.83 $732.24 $1,421.07 $293,188.27
11 Dec 2021 $690.54 $730.53 $1,421.07 $292,497.73
2021 Total $7,502.27 $8,129.5 $15,631.77
12 Jan 2022 $692.26 $728.81 $1,421.07 $291,805.47
13 Feb 2022 $693.99 $727.08 $1,421.07 $291,111.48
14 Mar 2022 $695.72 $725.35 $1,421.07 $290,415.76
15 Apr 2022 $697.45 $723.62 $1,421.07 $289,718.31
16 May 2022 $699.19 $721.88 $1,421.07 $289,019.12
17 Jun 2022 $700.93 $720.14 $1,421.07 $288,318.19
18 Jul 2022 $702.68 $718.39 $1,421.07 $287,615.51
19 Aug 2022 $704.43 $716.64 $1,421.07 $286,911.08
20 Sep 2022 $706.18 $714.89 $1,421.07 $286,204.90
21 Oct 2022 $707.94 $713.13 $1,421.07 $285,496.96
2022 Total $8,421.96 $8,630.88 $17,052.84
2028 Total $10,074.61 $6,978.23 $17,052.84
100 May 2029 $861.75 $559.32 $1,421.07 $223,616.26
101 Jun 2029 $863.89 $557.18 $1,421.07 $222,752.37
102 Jul 2029 $866.05 $555.02 $1,421.07 $221,886.32
103 Aug 2029 $868.20 $552.87 $1,421.07 $221,018.12
104 Sep 2029 $870.37 $550.70 $1,421.07 $220,147.75
105 Oct 2029 $872.54 $548.53 $1,421.07 $219,275.21
106 Nov 2029 $874.71 $546.36 $1,421.07 $218,400.50
107 Dec 2029 $876.89 $544.18 $1,421.07 $217,523.61
108 Jan 2030 $879.07 $542.00 $1,421.07 $216,644.54
109 Feb 2030 $881.26 $539.81 $1,421.07 $215,763.28
110 Mar 2030 $883.46 $537.61 $1,421.07 $214,879.82
111 Apr 2030 $885.66 $535.41 $1,421.07 $213,994.16
2030 Total $10,694.64 $6,358.2 $17,052.84
2032 Total $11,352.84 $5,700 $17,052.84
2033 Total $11,697 $5,355.84 $17,052.84
160 May 2034 $1,000.52 $420.55 $1,421.07 $167,782.49
161 Jun 2034 $1,003.01 $418.06 $1,421.07 $166,779.48
162 Jul 2034 $1,005.51 $415.56 $1,421.07 $165,773.97
163 Aug 2034 $1,008.02 $413.05 $1,421.07 $164,765.95
164 Sep 2034 $1,010.53 $410.54 $1,421.07 $163,755.42
165 Oct 2034 $1,013.05 $408.02 $1,421.07 $162,742.37
166 Nov 2034 $1,015.57 $405.50 $1,421.07 $161,726.80
167 Dec 2034 $1,018.10 $402.97 $1,421.07 $160,708.70
168 Jan 2035 $1,020.64 $400.43 $1,421.07 $159,688.06
169 Feb 2035 $1,023.18 $397.89 $1,421.07 $158,664.88
170 Mar 2035 $1,025.73 $395.34 $1,421.07 $157,639.15
171 Apr 2035 $1,028.29 $392.78 $1,421.07 $156,610.86
2035 Total $12,416.9 $4,635.94 $17,052.84
223 Aug 2039 $1,170.35 $250.72 $1,421.07 $99,455.05
224 Sep 2039 $1,173.26 $247.81 $1,421.07 $98,281.79
225 Oct 2039 $1,176.18 $244.89 $1,421.07 $97,105.61
226 Nov 2039 $1,179.12 $241.95 $1,421.07 $95,926.49
227 Dec 2039 $1,182.05 $239.02 $1,421.07 $94,744.44
228 Jan 2040 $1,185.00 $236.07 $1,421.07 $93,559.44
229 Feb 2040 $1,187.95 $233.12 $1,421.07 $92,371.49
230 Mar 2040 $1,190.91 $230.16 $1,421.07 $91,180.58
231 Apr 2040 $1,193.88 $227.19 $1,421.07 $89,986.70
232 May 2040 $1,196.85 $224.22 $1,421.07 $88,789.85
233 Jun 2040 $1,199.84 $221.23 $1,421.07 $87,590.01
234 Jul 2040 $1,202.82 $218.25 $1,421.07 $86,387.19
272 Sep 2043 $1,322.12 $98.95 $1,421.07 $38,389.25
273 Oct 2043 $1,325.42 $95.65 $1,421.07 $37,063.83
274 Nov 2043 $1,328.72 $92.35 $1,421.07 $35,735.11
275 Dec 2043 $1,332.03 $89.04 $1,421.07 $34,403.08
276 Jan 2044 $1,335.35 $85.72 $1,421.07 $33,067.73
277 Feb 2044 $1,338.68 $82.39 $1,421.07 $31,729.05
278 Mar 2044 $1,342.01 $79.06 $1,421.07 $30,387.04
279 Apr 2044 $1,345.36 $75.71 $1,421.07 $29,041.68
280 May 2044 $1,348.71 $72.36 $1,421.07 $27,692.97
281 Jun 2044 $1,352.07 $69.00 $1,421.07 $26,340.90
282 Jul 2044 $1,355.44 $65.63 $1,421.07 $24,985.46
283 Aug 2044 $1,358.81 $62.26 $1,421.07 $23,626.65
2044 Total $16,245.63 $807.21 $17,052.84
293 Jun 2045 $1,393.05 $28.02 $1,421.07 $9,850.89
294 Jul 2045 $1,396.52 $24.55 $1,421.07 $8,454.37
295 Aug 2045 $1,400.00 $21.07 $1,421.07 $7,054.37
296 Sep 2045 $1,403.49 $17.58 $1,421.07 $5,650.88
297 Oct 2045 $1,406.99 $14.08 $1,421.07 $4,243.89
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Anonymous hackers shut down KKK website: 'Their form of beliefs is monolithic and evil'
Image from an 'Anonymous' video (YouTube)
Hackers associated with the Anonymous collective shut down the official Ku Klux Klan website to combat the group's "blunt racism."
The hacker collective has been targeting the white supremacist group for months with coordinated attacks against its online promotional activities, reported Digital Trends.
"We believe in free speech but their form of beliefs is monolithic and evil,” one of the hackers said. “We stand for constitutional rights, but they want anyone who is not Caucasian removed from earth, so we targeted the KKK official website to show love for our boots on the ground and to send a message that all forms of corruption will be fought. We are not fascist but we certainly do not agree with the KKK movement. They are the fascists and they are the racists.”
Groups such as Anonymous, Ghost Squad and BinarySec have launched distributed denial-of-service attacks against the KKK and revealed some of its members online in the past year.
Some of those hackers have also been waging an online campaign against Islamic State militants.
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How California's megachurches changed Christian culture
Jesus in the clouds (Shutterstock)
The popular view of California is of a liberal, godless region, a land of possibilities that is open to experimentation in all things. As novelist Wallace Stegner wrote in 1967, the California motto is:
“Why not? It might work.”
This is true even in an otherwise conventional field as religion, with perhaps the most illustrative example being that of the state’s megachurches.
Indeed, California has more megachurches than any other state: There are over 200 Protestant, theologically conservative churches with at least 2,000 weekly attenders. And while most are in major metropolitan areas, megachurches can be seen in the Inland Empire and the Central Valley, on up through Sacramento and as far north as Redding.
In my multiple research projects conducted over the last 25 years, I have seen that California megachurches have played a significant role in how millions of people – Christian or not – understand Christianity.
Adapting church to culture
Large churches have been around since the industrialization and urbanization of the U.S. in the 19th century. But it was only in the the mid-20th century that megachurches became a phenomenon.
Beyond their large size, which can range from the threshold 2,000 regular weekly attenders up to 25,000 to 50,000 attenders at U.S. megachurches, it is the number of different activities, outreach programs and suburban locations that characterize these churches. In my view, the most important characteristic of megachurches is their ability to “appropriate” elements from the larger culture, be it popular music, performances or even dress styles.
While they are found in major cities across the U.S. and globally, it is in California that megachurches led the way in merging larger cultural trends into people’s religious lives. Two important examples illustrate their impact.
The first is the Crystal Cathedral. Founded in 1955, this church became famous for its weekly television show, “The Hour of Power” and glitzy holiday productions at Christmas and Easter.
Televising the morning service from the Crystal Cathedral both extended the reach of the church and allowed people to enjoy Sunday worship service from the comfort of their living rooms. The holiday productions, complete with performances from live animals and actors, were aimed at bringing people into the church to see, hear and experience biblical stories.
For example, the Christmas story from the New Testament Gospels was reenacted in the main sanctuary of the church with Jesus, Mary and Joseph in the stable, along with the wise men, angels, and even camels and donkeys. The Easter story was similarly reenacted with a depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus, Roman soldiers, weeping followers and an empty tomb.
However, perhaps more important than those costume dramas, was founding pastor Robert Schuller’s idea to use a local drive-in movie theater for Sunday services. Motivated at least in part by the lack of availability of other venues, Schuller turned the necessity of meeting in a drive-in theater into a cultural adaptation.
In the post-World War II jobs and housing boom, Schuller capitalized on a Southern Californian’s dependence on and familiarity with the automobile. People could come to church and never have to leave their car. Thus, partly out of necessity, partly out of vision, Schuller combined the car culture of Southern California and the more casual vibe of the region, by linking church with what people did in their everyday lives.
Informal attire and music
The second example is Calvary Chapel, best known in evangelical Christian circles as the epicenter of the emerging Christian youth culture in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Calvary Chapel was founded by pastor Chuck Smith in 1965 with 25 members in the Orange County city of Costa Mesa. Exhibiting a similar vision as Schuller, Smith created a church that embraced the surrounding culture by accepting young hippies and surfers into its fold.
People came to church wearing jeans, shorts, T-shirts, beach slippers and even barefoot. There was no need to “dress up.” Once there, they heard a traditional, “Bible-based” sermon from Chuck Smith.
But what really differentiated Calvary Chapel was its inclusion of music that sounded just like the popular rock and folk music of the day.
Calvary Chapel became a hub of activity for young people in the “Jesus Movement,” that combined a conservative evangelical Christianity with the look of the countercultural hippie style. Calvary Chapel sponsored concerts of “Jesus music” which was essentially folk and rock music with Christian lyrics.
These concerts attracted scores of young people. Rather than Sunday services being characterized by organ and choir music, guitars and folksy music with Christian lyrics became the norm.
Calvary Chapel institutionalized and popularized the music through the creation of the Maranatha Music, a record label that soon gained immense popularity. Along with other Christian music labels that followed, this music reached a much larger population of evangelical Christians than any concert or church worship service could. Indeed the music proved to be so popular, that it quickly moved beyond the Calvary Chapel and the Jesus People, replacing more traditional “organ and choir” music in most evangelical and charismatic churches.
Ultimately, this music found its way into the Protestant mainline and Catholic worship services, transforming the way that Christians in these other traditions experienced Sunday worship services.
Today there is a worldwide association of over 1,700 Calvary Chapel congregations, all traceable to the Orange County origins.
California soul
Current iterations of California megachurches, such as Mosaic and Oasis in Los Angeles, C3 (now VIVE Church) in the Bay Area, among others, follow a similar script and arguably build on elements of California culture: the promise of a comfortable experience in church, the opportunity to feel good about oneself, and participation in a community of like-minded people that doesn’t require any deeper commitments unless one so desires.
Across the country, the broader impact of the California churches can be seen in the different ways that megachurches, such as City Church in Seattle, which caters to young Christian hipsters, or the more family-oriented programming at Willow Creek in Chicago, have adapted their purpose and programming to specific cultural currents in order to create their own unique identity – an approach pioneered in California.
By Richard Flory, Senior Director of Research and Evaluation, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Fox News panel explodes into screeching when guest explains immigration to US is actually at lowest point in 46 years
Martin Cizmar
A Fox News panel explodes over immigration statistics/Screenshot
A panel on Jesse Watters' Saturday afternoon show exploded after a guest explained that immigration to the U.S. is actually at the lowest it's been in the last 46 years.
Guest Cathy Areu of Catalina Magazine shared the statistic, which contradicts the Republican narrative that the country is facing a crisis which needs to be fixed with a wall and by separating migrant children from their parents and locking them in cages inside abandoned Walmarts.
"The economy in Mexico is better than ever," Areu said. "The economy here is not better than it's been—it's been a worse problem in the past, this is not the worst it's been."
Another guest continued to screech the words "modern day slavery!" over her.
Host Jesse Watters refused to believe that the statistics showing that there is no crisis and that immigration is down because fewer people want to come here.
"I don't think that's a good argument, that it's not the worst that it's been," he said. "Don't you think the rest of our country should be as secure as our airports?"
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U.S. demands regular review of China trade reform
US President Donald Trump (R) and China's Xi Jinping (L-center) and their delegations met at the conclusion of the G20 summit for their key trade talks (AFP Photo/SAUL LOEB)
The United States is pushing for regular reviews of China’s progress on pledged trade reforms as a condition for a trade deal - and could again resort to tariffs if it deems Beijing has violated the agreement, according to sources briefed on negotiations to end the trade war between the two nations.
A continuing threat of tariffs hanging over commerce between the world’s two largest economies would mean a deal would not end the risk of investing in businesses or assets that have been impacted by the trade war.
“The threat of tariffs is not going away, even if there is a deal,” said one of three sources briefed on the talks who spoke with Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Chinese negotiators were not keen on the idea of regular compliance checks, the source said, but the U.S. proposal “didn’t derail negotiations.”
A Chinese source said the United States wants “periodic assessments” but it’s not yet clear how often.
“It looks like humiliation,” the source said. “But perhaps the two sides could find a way to save face for the Chinese government.”
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed import tariffs on Chinese goods to put pressure on Beijing to meet a long list of demands that would rewrite the terms of trade between the two countries.
The demands include changes to China’s policies on intellectual property protection, technology transfers, industrial subsidies and other trade barriers.
An enforcement and verification process is unusual for trade deals and is akin to the process around punitive economic sanctions such as those imposed on North Korea and Iran.
Disputes over trade are more typically dealt with through courts, the World Trade Organization (WTO) or through arbitration panels and other dispute settlement mechanisms built into trade agreements.
Trump’s team has criticized the WTO for failing to hold China accountable for not executing on promised market reforms. The U.S. has also criticized the WTO’s dispute settlement process and is seeking reforms at the organization.
Regular reviews would be one potential solution to address a demand from U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer for ongoing verification of any trade pact between the two countries, three sources familiar with the talks told Reuters. The threat of tariffs would be used to keep reform on track, the sources said.
Lighthizer is leading negotiations with China. A USTR spokesman declined to comment on the possibility of regular assessments.
The idea of quarterly reviews of quarterly reviews was part of a U.S. negotiating document leaked after talks in May 2018, before the United States had slapped its first round of duties on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods.
The renewed focus on regular reviews in current negotiations - this time carrying the threat of tariffs - underscores the growing distrust between the two countries.
The extra scrutiny is needed and should be based on clear benchmarks - with consequence for failing to meet them, said Erin Ennis, Senior Vice President of the U.S.-China Business Council, a trade group representing American companies doing business in China.
“It needs to be tied to removing or reducing the tariffs,” Ennis said. “If China can show compliance through a process like this, it would also be a trust-building measure for both sides.”
Trump’s administration has accused China of repeatedly failing to follow through on previous pledges to implement reforms sought by the United States.
Washington often cites as an example the difficulties still faced by foreign payment card operators in entering China’s market despite a 2012 WTO ruling that Beijing was discriminating against them.
A separate industry source said it is likely that different agreement on separate issues - forced technology transfer, intellectual property, changes to China’s legal system - would require separate verification processes, all of which will need to be hammered out by negotiators.
“The challenge of verification and enforcement stems from the fact that China has made promises it hasn’t kept,” the source said.
Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to a 90-day truce in the trade war in December to give their teams time to negotiate a deal. Nearly 50 days later, there is little sign that China will make the concessions the U.S. is seeking.
Lighthizer saw no progress on structural issues at three days of mid-level talks in Beijing last week, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said on Tuesday.
China’s Vice Premier and lead negotiator Liu He is due to visit Washington for the next round of talks with Lighthizer and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin at the end of the month.
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Ineffective immunization: Vaccine storage too often fails to meet standards
Carmen Heredia Rodriguez Kaiser Health News
By correcting one potential error, the Ventura County (Calif.) Health Care Agency accidentally made another — and jeopardized vaccines given to thousands of people in the process.
In October 2017, county health officials, concerned that vaccines were getting too warm while being transported to clinics, changed their protocol. But a routine audit in November found that the ice packs they were using may have frozen some of the medicines and lowered their effectiveness. The agency then offered to reimmunize everyone who had received a vaccine that was delivered in faulty packaging.
“There’s no way to tell whether or not they were ineffective,” said Jason Arimura, director of pharmacy services for Ventura County Medical Center. Out of an abundance of caution, “we just notified everyone.”
The number of patients affected: 23,000.
Ventura County is far from the only case of vaccines feared to be ineffective reaching patients. In the past 13 months alone, 117 children received possibly compromised vaccines against polio, meningococcal disease and the human papillomavirus at an Indian Health Service clinic in Oklahoma City because of improper refrigeration. Similar issues with temperature control prompted a health clinic in Indianapolis to send letters offering to revaccinate 1,600 people last January, according to local news reports.
On Feb. 1, Kentucky officials announced that potentially ineffective and contaminated vaccines were administered at multiple businesses across Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. The statement did not disclose how many people were affected.
The federal government sets standards on the storage of vaccines. However, not all health care providers are accountable under those guidelines.
The Vaccines for Children (VFC) program, which offers these drugs at no cost for kids from low-income families, requires clinics, doctors and other providers to undergo annual audits and use top-grade equipment, such as continuous temperature-monitoring devices. It also requires that problems be reported to federal authorities.
More than 44,000 doctors participate in the program and provide vaccines to 90 percent of the children in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But medical facilities outside of the program — like many pharmacies and internists with private practices who are treating adults or children not in the VFC program — have no comparable federal oversight. In fact, storing vaccines and reporting cases of patients receiving ineffective drugs is largely up to their discretion. The vaccines involved in the Ventura County recall were not part of the Vaccines for Children program.
Experts said most hospitals, clinics and doctors are vigilant in properly storing their vaccines. And research suggests that compromised vaccines given to patients are not harmful.
L.J Tan, chief strategy officer for the nonprofit vaccination advocacy group Immunization Action Coalition, said the nation’s vaccine stock is likely one of “the safest in the world.”
But improperly handling these medications means wasting expensive drugs, and using compromised vaccines “could create a pocket of underimmunized individuals,” said Dr. Julie Boom, a pediatrician and director of the immunization project at Texas Children’s Hospital. “And we don’t want that to happen.”
In Ventura County, the temperature problems affected vaccines for flu, tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough and hepatitis B. County health officials told patients who had received tuberculosis testing and some who had received penicillin to treat syphilis that their medicines also may have been compromised.
Through January, approximately 1,200 have come back to be revaccinated, Arimura said. Revaccinating all 23,000 people would cost $1.3 million, he added.
Vaccines are extremely sensitive to temperature fluctuations. In some cases, exposing a vaccine to the wrong environment once can effectively kill live viruses and harm proteins in the vaccines, said Tan. Generally, temperature problems occur during transportation of medicines.
Without proper monitoring, it is nearly impossible to tell whether vaccines have been exposed to extreme temperatures, said Boom.
A 2012 report by the inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services found that, in a two-week period, three-quarters of the 45 health care providers who were sampled — all of which participated in the Vaccines for Children program — exposed their vaccines to improper temperatures for at least five cumulative hours.
A separate study by researchers at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published in 2015 found that 23 percent of the vaccination errors reported to the federal surveillance system from 2000 to 2013 involved improper storage or the use of expired vaccines.
Since these reports, the CDC put in place additional requirements for the children’s program, including recording the minimum and maximum temperature of the vaccine storage unit daily.
Dr. Paul Hunter, associate professor of family medicine and community health at the University of Wisconsin, said the federal oversight is “very good.”
“In the big picture, they do it very consistently,” he said.
For doctors and clinics outside the federal surveillance system, financial concerns often force them to take special care with vaccines and similar medicines. One vaccine dose can cost hundreds of dollars.
Sanford Health, a South Dakota-based health care system with operations across the Midwest, is working to make the federal requirements the standard for vaccines among its health care providers. The system started Vax Champ, a six-month training program for nurses to learn how to store and handle vaccines. The program requires participants to periodically take photos of their vaccine stocks and send in a list of all their inventory for review.
Funding for the program came from the vaccine manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur.
Andrea Polkinghorn, immunization strategy leader for Sanford Health, said vaccine storage systems vary widely among providers. Purchasing pharmaceutical-grade storage equipment is costly, she said, and providers are in different phases of the upgrade.
“But when you compare that to the projected loss of vaccines,” Polkinghorn said, “the end is worth the means.”
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GCF, partners announce Rapid Response Fund
Mar 24, 2020 at 12:37 PM Mar 24, 2020 at 12:37 PM
GALESBURG — Galesburg Community Foundation, in partnership with The Twomey Foundation, the G.L. Vitale Family Foundation, the McClean Family Endowment Fund, the Warren County United Way and the United Way of Knox County, have committed $145,000 to establish a Rapid Response Fund to support local nonprofits directly responding to emergencies or disasters impacting the communities and people of Knox and Warren counties. Specifically, at this time, the fund can be used to directly support local nonprofit organizations on the front lines dealing with COVID-19. Grants from the fund will be made in collaboration with public health and safety response efforts, in the event they are needed.
Joshua Gibb, president and CEO of GCF, said, “We certainly encourage you to continue giving directly to the nonprofits who serve our region during this time. Additionally, it is extremely important that our region has one place to give to when it comes to emergencies impacting our area. The Rapid Response Fund provides support to nonprofits directly responding to emergencies or disasters impacting the communities and people of Knox and Warren counties.”
Donations of any size may be made to the Rapid Response Fund online at www.YourGCF.org/MakeAGift and search for "Rapid Response," or via check written to Galesburg Community Foundation with "Rapid Response Fund" noted in the memo.
GCF will administer grants from the Rapid Response Fund in collaboration with public health and safety response efforts. Priority will be given to local nonprofit organizations providing front line services due to an emergency situation such as COVID-19 and to local nonprofit organizations providing basic services to communities that were already vulnerable before the emergency or that are disproportionately affected by the emergency. Funds will be granted on a rolling basis during times of need, allowing for necessary resources to be available in the most responsive manner possible. For more information about the Rapid Response Fund, visit www.YourGCF.org/RapidResponse.
“Thanks to local philanthropy, together we can help ensure that our nonprofits can continue providing critical services, especially now in response to COVID-19, and going forward. The Rapid Response Fund will help ensure we can provide support to our front line nonprofits when they need it most,” Gibb said.
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Annie Jean Easley: Engineer, mathematician, and rocket scientist
Let’s start off Women’s History Month by talking about Annie Jean Easley. Annie was a mathematician, engineer, and NASA rocket scientist in the 60s. As you might imagine, that didn’t come easy.
Annie was born into deeply segregated Alabama prior to the Civil Rights movement. As an African-American, she was required to take literacy tests and pay money in order to vote – despite being a college graduate and valedictorian of her high school. Undeterred by this, not only did she cast her vote, but she spent much of her time helping others pass the literacy test so they could too.
“If I can’t work with you, I will work around you.”
After moving to Cleveland with her husband and finding that the nursing program she’d wanted to enter had shut down, she applied on a lark to NACA (the predecessor to NASA). She worked there for many years as a human computer, while simultaneously pursuing a degree in mathematics. She moved on to doing Symbolic Optimal Assembly Programming (SOAP) on punch card machines (IBM 650s and 740s), and then many years of FORTRAN programming.
She had to fight every step along the way. When she received her degree after many years of concurrently working at NASA, the management required she get more training before promoting her (a requirement not made of new hires). When NASA refused to help pay her tuition (although they did for others), she paid it herself. When they refused to give her paid leave to finish her degree, she took unpaid leave. And after a 34 year career without promotions, she didn’t look back on her time with bitterness – she was happy to have contributed to the advancement of humanity and the sciences. Of the endless series of microaggressions she suffered, she later said:
When people have their biases and prejudices, yes, I am aware. My head is not in the sand. But my thing is, if I can’t work with you, I will work around you. I was not about to be so discouraged that I’d walk away. That may be a solution for some people, but it’s not mine.
“You can do anything you want to, but you have to work at it.”
Her research on energy usage was used in the Centaur rockets, which laid the foundation for all rocket projects to come thereafter — as well as technologies like hybrid car batteries.
She continued pushing herself and trying new things even into her later years – learning to snowboard at age 68. When talking about her late-life achievements, she simply remarked:
You’re never too old, and if you want to, as my mother said, you can do anything you want to, but you have to work at it.
Sources: On Heroes, Wikipedia
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Back to the Sixties With Robyn Hitchcock, Joe Boyd
Photo © 2011 by Mark Rifkin / www.twi-ny.com
“I’ve been havin’ a sweet dream,” Robyn Hitchcock sang, strumming a guitar and lying flat on his back, as if in a delighted trance. The British singer-songwriter was performing the Lovin’ Spoonful’s 1966 single “Daydream” on March 11th, at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City, right after the American producer Joe Boyd told a long and winding story about hanging out at the old Night Owl Café (“right down the street”), seeing a 16-year-old Stevie Winwood singing Leadbelly songs in England, stealing donuts from doorsteps in Toronto and trying to create a New York folk-rock supergroup – which ultimately became the Spoonful.
It was the stuff of dreams, based in fact, rendered by two men steeped in the adventure and happenstance of the 1960s: Boyd as a primary mover and eyewitness; Hitchcock as a living soundtrack. The two were on a short U.S. tour, alternating chatter and song in a kind of psychedelic talk show. Combining free association with formal reading from his incisive 2007 memoir, White Bicycles, Boyd reminisced about his time and record-making with Pink Floyd, the late Nick Drake, Fairport Convention and the Incredible String Band, among others. There were tales of Bob Dylan (singing “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” at a party in a Boston apartment in 1963); the Butterfield Blues Band (Boyd suggested adding guitarist Mike Bloomfield to the lineup); the ISB (the night Boyd inadvertently introduced them to Scientology) and the Floyd’s star-crossed founding guitarist Syd Barrett (before he flew off the rails).
Hitchcock illustrated the action with hymns from that history, including Dylan’s “All I Really Want to Do,” “Reynardine” from Fairport’s electric-folk milestone Liege and Lief and “The Yellow Snake” from the 1968 ISB double album, The Wee Tam and the Big Huge. “Joe is Frankenstein,” Hitchcock remarked early in the evening, referring to Boyd’s presence and effect at the creation of the Sixties counter-culture. “I am one of his monsters.” But Hitchcock, wearing a William Morris floral-patterned shirt and red-lensed spectacles, rendered the music with a spare, moving authority, tracing the roots of his own long pursuit of transformation through song. His version of Drake’s “River Man” was accurate without mimicry: at once gorgeous and spooky, like that era as we know it now, with all of its glories and dead ends.
There was an unavoidable melancholy at the end of the night – the sense that nothing has come, so far, to fully replace the hole left by those events and memories. But Hitchcock picked the right tune to punctuate Boyd’s flashbacks on Barrett, when the Floyd guitarist was of sound mind and provocative ambition: the boy-ish cheer of “Bike,” from the Floyd’s 1967 debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. “I know a room full of musical tunes/Some rhyme/Some ching/Most of them are clockwork/Let’s go into the other room and make them work,” Hitchcock sang in the last verse – a beautiful idea that never gets old.
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Berry Gordy’s Personal Piano Highlights ‘Motown Mansion’ Auction
Over 600 original pressing 45’s from the famed record label’s catalog
Berry Gordy Jr.'s personal piano and over 600 45's from the famed record label's catalog are up for auction in a massive "Motown Mansion" estate sale.
Raymond Boyd/Getty Images, Walter McBride/WireImage
Berry Gordy Jr.’s personal piano, Motown Records ephemera and over 600 original 45’s from the famed record label’s catalog are up for auction as part of a massive estate sale of Detroit’s famed “Motown Mansion.”
Countless Sixties-era home furnishings – including Gordy’s desk, an inscribed goblet from Jermaine Jackson’s 1973 wedding, “vintage boomerangs,” unseen home movies and slide and a “Motown Collection Barometer” – are also available as part of the Aaron’s Estate Sale auction, which takes place from October 12th to the 14th.
“This home is an important part of the fabric of the City of Detroit, and the sale will allow Motown fans from Detroit to Dubai to add a permanent piece to their own collection,” said Cynthia F. Reaves, current owner of the Motown Mansion.
“The scope of the collection includes small items as well as impressive collection pieces. I wanted to make this an event that is available to the entire community and at the same time, celebrate the history of what Berry Gordy did for Motown.”
Gordy purchased the mansion in 1967 and continued to own the home even after moving to Los Angeles in the early Seventies. Gordy sold the home in 2002, but the “Motown Mansion” preserved the record exec’s style and décor.
Smokey Robinson was among the Motown artists that played the estate sale’s most notable item – Gordy’s Steinway piano – when they visited Gordy’s home. Diana Ross and the Jackson 5 also frequently graced the home.
Motown artists like the Four Tops’ Duke Fakir, Kim Weston, the Vandellas and more will also be on hand to autograph items from the estate sale this weekend.
In This Article: Berry Gordy, Berry Gordy Jr., Motown Records
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Bruce Springsteen Talks ‘Letter to You,’ Christmas Albums on ‘Fallon’
“It’s gonna be amazing to play in front of an audience. It’s been a long time for us,” singer says of playing SNL this weekend
Ahead of the E Street Band’s return to Saturday Night Live this weekend, Bruce Springsteen visited the Tonight Show Thursday to talk about Letter to You, the song that changed his life, his teenaged gigs, and why he’s never made a Christmas album.
“I always liked music where the singer sounded happy and sad simultaneously,” Springsteen said of his new album. “Those are kind of songs that I like, that I think hit the deepest — if you’re lucky enough to write one or a small group of them — and Letter to You kind of strikes that balance. It’s a record I’m really proud of.”
Springsteen then reminisced about taking the stage as a 15-year-old — “At the Elks Club in Freehold,” he said — and how he recently revisited that venue. “They redesigned the inside of it so it wasn’t recognizable at this point,” Springsteen said, “You played on Sunday, 35 cents to get in, it was a room about this size, and the band would set up in a circle… I got up and sang ‘Twist and Shout,’ and I’ve been singing it ever since.”
On the 45th anniversary of the Boss’ cover of “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” Jimmy Fallon asked whether Springsteen ever considered recording a full-fledged Christmas album.
“We did some big Christmas shows in Asbury Park for a while, and I tried to piece together something from those shows, but we’d have to go in the studio,” Springsteen said. “The thing is you only really want to do it around Christmastime, but you don’t want to do it then either because it’s around Christmastime, you don’t feel like working. And Christmastime goes away, then you got to do it in the summertime when you just don’t feel like it, so we haven’t gotten around to it. Maybe one of these days.”
Springsteen also talked about how eager he is to play, finally, in front of a live audience for this weekend’s episode of SNL. “It’s gonna be amazing to play in front of an audience,” Springsteen said. “It’s been a long time for us.”
In This Article: Bruce Springsteen, Christmas, Christmas album, The Tonight Show
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Why do men sit on subways with their legs splayed like Suzanne Somers' in a Thighmaster ad? Is their precious package more important than our comfort?
By Charles Taylor
September 23, 2002 11:44PM (UTC)
What's the most telling sign of men's fantasies about their penis size? Is it the bulbous packages regularly sported by the models in underwear ads? Or those ridiculous smiling portraits of male camaraderie that appear as if some company had decided to hold a board meeting in their skivvies? ("How's the yield on that mutual fund, Ted? By the way, bulge looks great.") Is it the infomercial with Ron Jeremy selling penis enlargement pills? (A celebrity endorsement somewhat akin to Star Jones for Häagen-Dazs.)
No. The truest sign of how men imagine their girth is the way they sit on public transportation. Ladies (or polite gentlemen, for that matter), has this ever happened to you? You manage to find a seat on a crowded subway or bus, only to find that the man next to you is sitting with his legs splayed open, oblivious to how much he's crowding you, his two lower limbs forming a gaping V as if they were ready to sport a sign saying "Welcome to Peterborough."
Just a few weeks ago, on a Greyhound from New York to Boston, I spent the entire four-and-a-half hour ride next to a guy who sat with his knees like Suzanne Somers in the "before" position on the Thighmaster ads. Every time I'm squeezed next to a guy like that, I have an urge I haven't yet given in to -- to lean over and ask, "What's the matter? It's so huge you need to air it out?"
Before I try to explain the predominance of male public splay-leggedness by attributing it to plain old bad manners, I'd like to at least consider the possibility that some buried incident in the past may be to blame. Perhaps those formative years of shopping in the boy's department at Sears have led many men to continue to believe that every piece of their apparel is still labeled "Husky." Perhaps it's the same impulse that leads many of us to switch from briefs to boxers; those stories about warmth resulting in reduced sperm production kick in and we succumb to the desperate fear that the derrick isn't properly ventilated and the oil is about to give out.
But truth be told, I think the reason is a lot simpler: not just bad manners but bad grooming. Gentlemen, let's face it: If, before you slip on the Hanes or the Calvins (in whatever cut brings a flutter to your putter) your meat and twos do not look as freshly dusted as a piece of pastry dough liberally sprinkled with flour before kneading, you're letting yourself in for trouble down the line. In only a few short hours, you'll find yourself talking to a colleague, waiting for a train, standing in line at the deli, and realize that a ball adjustment is in order. And then what do you do? Be blatant and dig away at your crotch like Dr. Leakey discovering a lost tribe? Do you casually grab the side of your trousers and pull the material out hoping to jar something loose? Or do you, perhaps, flex your legs up and down hoping to convince everyone around you that you're recovering from a running injury?
To each his own method of rectifying that particular sticky situation. But the one thing you should never, never do is take it out on your fellow transit passengers by crowding your legs over into their personal space. Hell yes, I know it's more comfortable to sit like that. And in a sparsely populated train, there's nothing wrong with it. But when there are people beside you, you're being a pushy, vulgar pain in the ass. You're saying, "My dick is more important than your comfort." And unless you're the reincarnation of John Holmes, something tells me the need isn't that pressing.
Women are raised with the admonition that they must sit with their knees together to be ladylike. Maybe, taking the opposite tack, men feel compelled to demonstrate their masculinity by keeping their knees at the same distance from one another as a bad boob job ("Have you two met?")
About a year ago, I came across some old cartoons that used to be displayed in New York City subway cars in the '40s demonstrating the polite way to conduct yourself while riding: Don't block the door, give up your seat to the elderly or infirm, and so on. I can't remember if there was actually one informing men to keep Little Elvis in his own private Graceland -- and given the more demure tenor of the times, I rather doubt it. But isn't it time for a revival of this lesson in public transit manners? It's not just enough to keep your pecker in your pocket, boys. You have to keep from looking like it's ready to sail forth from that slingshot in your lap.
Charles Taylor is a columnist for the Newark Star-Ledger.
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Trump's last-minute "Middle East arms bonanza" continues with $290M sale to Saudi regime
Lame-duck Trump regime rearms Saudi monarchy and other autocratic pals: $4B to Kuwait, $169M to Egypt, $65M to UAE
By Kenny Stancil
December 31, 2020 10:00AM (UTC)
President Donald Trump; Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)
This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely.
Despite opposition from the public and some members of Congress, the Trump administration in its waning days is rushing through weapons sales to a handful of Middle East nations with records of human rights abuses, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, whose U.S.-backed blockades and airstrikes have exacerbated civilian suffering and death in Yemen's ongoing civil war.
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday announced a flurry of deals, including $290 million in Boeing-made, precision-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia, $65 million in drones and fighter jets to the UAE, $169 million in military equipment to Egypt and $4 billion in helicopters to Kuwait.
"President Trump's lame duck Middle East arms bonanza continues," said William Hartung, director of the arms and security program at the Center of International Policy. "Selling more bombs to Saudi Arabia, given its history of indiscriminate airstrikes that have killed thousands of civilians in Yemen, should be a non-starter."
While the actions of Saudi Arabia and the UAE have come under increased scrutiny as a result of the Saudi-led assault on Yemen, Hartung also encouraged Congress and the incoming Biden administration to "review the sale of equipment to Egypt in light of its brutal and counterproductive counter-terror campaign in the Sinai, which has involved severe human rights abuses, the killing of innocent civilians, and the driving of thousands of families from their homes."
As The Guardian reported Wednesday, President-elect Joe Biden's transition team has complained that "it is not being properly briefed by the Pentagon on ongoing military operations, as is customary for an incoming administration in the weeks preceding inauguration, on January 20."
In an effort to impede the transfer of at least some weapons, the New York Center for Foreign Policy Affairs is reportedly planning to file a lawsuit Wednesday against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over the proposed deal with the UAE.
The filing will claim that the Trump administration has failed to meet the legal requirements of the Arms Export Control Act. For the deal to proceed, there must be "a full rationale for the sale and a consideration of the impact on U.S. security and world peace," The New Arab reported Wednesday. "The lawsuit also cites the UAE's actions in the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen."
Although the U.S. Senate in early December failed to block President Trump's $23 billion weapons deal with the UAE, "the lawsuit calls for an injunction to stop the sale," The Guardian reported.
The Trump administration has attempted to justify selling arms to the UAE, The Guardian noted, by claiming that the weapons allow the Emirates "to deter increasing Iranian aggressive behavior and threats."
According to a press release issued Tuesday by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the arms deal with Saudi Arabia "will support U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives by helping to improve the security of a friendly country that continues to be an important force for political stability and economic growth in the Middle East."
Critics of the weapons sales, however, say the deals will worsen human rights violations and destabilize the region.
As The Hill reported, "Tuesday's notice kicks off a 30-day clock during which lawmakers can block the sale if they choose to."
"If Congress can't block it," Hartung said, "the Biden administration should do so when it takes office."
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Ruth Hubbard and the evolution of biology
By Beryl Lieff Benderly Oct. 5, 2016 , 2:00 PM
There’s a joke among journalists that winning a Pulitzer Prize predicts the first line of your obituary. Being the first woman to attain tenure in biology at Harvard University is a similar kind of billboard accomplishment, so it’s no surprise that when the holder of that distinction, Ruth Hubbard, died on 1 September at the age of 92, The Boston Globe led its article with that fact.
Much more than this bureaucratic milestone makes Hubbard’s a notable scientific life, however. Her professional career as a consequential researcher, teacher, writer, and thinker spanned a period of drastic change for women in academe, from the days when women—no matter how brilliant, well-trained, and productive—overwhelmingly got only adjunct or temporary positions to now, when many are tenured faculty members or top-level administrators, despite a gender gap that still persists. Hubbard not only lived that transition; she helped make it happen with pathbreaking analyses of gender’s biological underpinnings and how it influences who does science, what science they do, what questions they ask, how they conceptualize what they find, and what difference this makes. “No one,” said prominent geneticist Richard Lewontin, “has been a more influential critic of the biological theory of women’s inequality than Ruth Hubbard.”
A second look at Darwin
I first encountered Hubbard’s work in the mid-1980s, when I was doing research for my own book about gender. To understand Hubbard’s influence, one must appreciate the thinking of those days. At that time, for example, scientists were seriously considering how human evolution could explain why boys on average did better than girls on the SAT math test. In 1983, after all, boys scoring in the top 0.01% on that test outnumbered similarly high-scoring girls 13-to-1.
Today, the idea that biology could be the sole cause of the math score gap is a whole lot less persuasive. By 2005, about one in three scorers in the top 0.01% was a girl. But the reigning theory back in the 1980s held that Neolithic hunters on the prehistoric African savanna—all males, naturally—had evolved brains that produce better spatial abilities than had the female gatherers. The argument went that the ability to fell animals with stone-tipped weapons translated, millennia later, into more correct answers on multiple-choice questions about equations. In this analysis, traditional gender roles and expectations reflected innate abilities rather than influenced behaviors and choices.
This is the ideological milieu that Hubbard walked into when she began exploring the scientific literature on gender about a decade before I did, her interest piqued by the then-burgeoning women’s movement. As part of her effort, she revisited Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species, which she had last studied while a student. As she recalled in a 2007 interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), her rereading showed her “the effect of political and social theory on the science that gets done” and how scientists “read [humans’] social arrangements onto the world of animals and plants.” This convinced her, she wrote in her 1982 essay “Have Only Men Evolved?,” that “we need to rethink our evolutionary history” because until then “women [had] not figured in the paradigm of evolution.”
She also expressed her then-provocative conclusions in other places, including a 1990 essay with the revealing title “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature.’” The fact that “people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments,” makes teasing apart the effects of nature and nurture very problematic, she wrote there. Generalizing about group differences supposedly related to sex, “such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women” (or, presumably, better at math), “obscure[s] the diversity among women and among men” and the fact that there is great overlap in “all traits except those directly involved with procreation.”
It’s hard to overstate how radical such insights were in their time, especially coming from someone with such serious scientific credentials. But Hubbard had an outsider’s perspective that seems to have prepared her to look deeply and skeptically at the scientific culture where she had spent her entire adult life. Arriving in the United States as a teenager in 1938 after fleeing the Nazi annexation of her native Austria with her Jewish family, the Vienna-born Hubbard (nee Hoffmann) “always felt like a foreigner in the United States,” her son told The Boston Globe.
Nonetheless, she thrived in the new country. As a student, she had initially considered following her parents, both physicians, into medicine, but she opted instead for biological research. Working in George Wald’s lab as “the best graduate student [he] ever had,” as he had described her to The Globe, she earned her Ph.D. (issued by Radcliffe College, then Harvard’s women’s division) in 1950 and in 1958 became his second wife. In 1967 she shared the prestigious Paul Karrer Gold Medal with Wald for their work on the physiology and chemistry of sight (for which he won the Nobel Prize that same year).
During her early decades in research, before the women’s movement had emerged, she was “perfectly comfortable in [science’s] internalist paradigm, where you ask a question and … if you’re lucky you find an answer and that brings up the next question and so on … and you don’t really look very far to left and right as to why some questions are more important than other questions,” she told the CBC. But eventually, the changing consciousness about women’s role in society at large made it “imperative not to close my eyes to the fact that science is part of the social structure.” The movement “really challenged me to think about not how we thought about vision [but about] how we thought about women’s biology, how we thought about evolution.” She noticed that “for social reasons … the big questions have been asked by men, and so they ask certain kinds of questions,” resulting in many answers that “didn’t really correspond to the experiences of women.”
She also “suddenly became aware,” she continues in the interview, that “I was a research associate and lecturer, whereas the men who were my contemporaries either were on the ladder or had already got professorships. How come?”
It was not until she was almost 50, in 1974, that Harvard took what she termed in her 1990 book The Politics of Women's Biology “an unusual step,” moving her and a few others from the “typical women's ghetto” of at-will “research associate and lecturer” jobs to the tenured ranks. By that time, the issue encapsulated in that book title was also absorbing her scholarly attention. A series of pioneering articles, books, and classes that followed did much to demolish the longstanding intellectual foundations of women’s marginalization and assumed inferiority and led, in a sense, to the academic world we know today.
Rebooting “computers”
In an agreeable coincidence, a new book published in the month of Hubbard’s death offers another fascinating view into the attitudes and opportunities that ruled science in Hubbard’s early years. In Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, Margot Lee Shetterly presents the surprising and little-known history of the African-American “computers,” or female mathematicians, who played a pivotal role in some of this country’s signal technological achievements. (Last year, one of these remarkable women was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.) Hired to do on paper the complex calculations that undergirded the work of NASA and its bureaucratic predecessors, these women displayed technical prowess that violated not only the gender stereotypes that Hubbard attacked, but also the era’s racial stereotypes as well.
During World War II, labor markets tightened drastically as millions of men took up arms. Recruiters desperate for workers able to do essential technical tasks on the country’s aviation and weapons programs had to seek talent where they could find it, which forced them to ignore prevalent notions about gender and race. They turned to female math majors, including those whose degrees came from that segregation era’s black colleges. This history, Shetterly writes, provides a “doorway to the story of all the … women, black and white, whose contributions have been overlooked. By recognizing the full complement of extraordinary ordinary women who have contributed to the success of NASA, we can change our understanding of their abilities from the exception to the rule. Their goal wasn’t to stand out because of their difference, but to fit in because of their talent.”
That pretty much describes Hubbard’s goal, too: to have women and the scientific work they do become—and be recognized as—normal components of the research enterprise. We’re not entirely there yet, but thanks to her work and that of others, women scientists are immeasurably closer to that goal.
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Students, seen here protesting in July, have been at the forefront of the opposition against President Daniel Ortega.
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Universities ‘held hostage’ in Nicaragua’s political crisis
By Lizzie Wade Dec. 18, 2018 , 4:00 PM
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Molecular biologist Jorge Huete-Pérez, a professor at Central American University (UCA) in Managua, is one of many Nicaraguan academics whose life and work have been upended by an escalating political crisis. A longtime critic of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Huete-Pérez was inspired in April when demonstrations against a proposed cut to social security evolved into a new movement against Ortega’s stranglehold on political power and his brutal repression of dissent. He felt a responsibility to support the students on the movement’s front lines and joined their protests many times.
But on 14 October, about 2 weeks after the government outlawed political demonstrations, Huete-Pérez flinched. “I was about to open the [car] door to get out and join” another protest, he recalls, when police began to beat and arrest demonstrators close by. He slammed the door and sped away. “I literally felt like I was running for my life,” he says. “I had not been that scared in a long time.”
Many others, too, have recently stayed home in the face of an intensifying crackdown by Ortega, a leader of the Sandinista movement that overthrew a dictator in 1979. Ortega has become increasingly autocratic since beginning his second stint as president in 2007. More than 300 protesters have been killed and at least as many have been arrested, according to Amnesty International; some have been charged with terrorism. Tens of thousands more have gone into exile. Just last week, police raided offices of an independent newspaper and several nongovernmental organizations, including a leading human rights group.
The repression has struck particularly hard at Nicaragua’s universities, where firings, arrests, and attacks on students have brought higher education and research to a virtual standstill. “It all started with university students, so universities have been the target of repression,” says Huete-Pérez, who spoke at a 13 December meeting at UCA to discuss the crisis. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights now considers students one of the most imperiled groups in the country. “The university system is being held hostage,” says María Luisa Acosta, a human rights lawyer and president of the Nicaraguan Academy of Sciences (ACN) in Managua, which organized last week’s meeting. (Acosta went into exile in June after being threatened by paramilitary forces.)
Critics say state universities have been co-opted by the government, especially the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) in Managua, which fired more than 40 professors and expelled nearly 100 students who had demonstrated or expressed support for the movement. “We were fired because we spoke out against the silence and complicity that allowed the universities to permit students to be killed, repressed, and detained,” says sociologist Freddy Quezada, another speaker at the meeting, who lost his job in July. (UNAN did not respond to Science’s interview requests.)
The crisis is also disrupting collaborations with foreign scientists. Huete-Pérez’s department had to suspend the Nicaraguan Biotechnology Conference, which UCA organized every 2 years with scientists from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other U.S. universities. Evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer of the University of Konstanz in Germany isn’t sure whether he can continue his studies of fish evolution in Nicaragua’s crater lakes this winter; Gerald Urquhart, a tropical ecologist at Michigan State University in East Lansing who has worked in Nicaragua for decades, has postponed fieldwork indefinitely and canceled his study abroad program in Nicaragua. “I am saddened by the limitations this places on my relationship with Nicaraguan colleagues,” he says.
UCA, a private Jesuit university, is one of Nicaragua’s last remaining bastions of free speech. In addition to publicly supporting the student movement, “they opened their doors to thousands of demonstrators” after the government fired on a protest in May, killing at least 17, says Carlos Tünnermann Bernheim, a former minister of education and UNAN rector. But teaching has been disrupted, as at most universities. “It’s not safe enough to bring students to campus,” Huete-Pérez says. He and others are holding classes online, but it’s not the same, he says: “I teach biochemisty and biotechnology. You need a lab for that.”
Now, UCA faces a more direct threat. The Nicaraguan legislature is considering a bill that would end the state funding the university receives under a law that designates its work as public service. “It’s a direct aggression,” says Josefina Vijil, a UCA education scientist and a member of ACN’s leadership. Much of UCA’s public funding goes to scholarships, “so if they do this, the ones who suffer are the students,” Tünnermann Bernheim says.
Vijil especially worries about lasting psychological trauma to the researchers and students who lived through the crisis. Still, she and other participants in the UCA meeting spent time brainstorming for the day when students are back in classrooms, and made tentative plans for writing a book about university autonomy. “We need to start imagining—and articulating—the country we want in 50 years,” Vijil says.
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Opinion of the Advocate General of the CJEU – automatic links can constitute a communication to the public
Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst (VG Bild-Kunst) is a copyright collecting society for the visual arts in Germany. Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) operates the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB), a digital culture and knowledge library, which networks German cultural and scientific institutions.
On an authorised basis, the DDB website contains thumbnail image links to digitised content stored on the internet portals of participating institutions. When a user clicks on a search result, they are redirected to the page on DDB’s site for the object, which contains an enlarged version of the image. When that image is clicked or the magnifying function is used, an enlarged version of the thumbnail is displayed in a lightbox. A ‘Display object on original site’ button contains a direct link to the website of the institution providing the object, either by a simple link to its home page, or by a deep link to the page for the object.
VG Bild-Kunst licences its catalogue of thumbnail works to SPK with the condition that SPK applies effective technological measures against the framing by third-parties of the thumbnails of the protected works or subject matter displayed on the DDB website. SPK’s position in the proceedings is that such a contractual restriction is unreasonable, and the licence should be granted without the requirement for technological measures. The case referred to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling turned on whether the embedding of a work which is available, with the consent of the rightsholder, on a website like the DDB’s, in the website of a third-party by way of framing constitutes a communication to the public of that work within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Directive 2001/29/EC (the InfoSoc Directive), where it circumvents protection measures against framing taken by the rightsholder or imposed by them on a licensee. If it does, the rights of the members of VG Bild-Kunst are affected allowing them to lawfully request that the obligation to implement technological measures against framing be included in the licence agreement with SPK.
What did the AG decide?
In an opinion by Advocate General Szpunar, the AG has sought to clarify the CJEU’s case law on linking by proposing an adaptive reading of it, in line with the CJEU’s more recent case law. Drawing a distinction between ‘clickable’ links and ‘automatic’ links (automatic links – normally used to embed graphics and audio-visual files – being ones that automatically display the resource to which the link leads on the webpage containing that link, without the need for the user to take any action), the AG decided that where automatic links embedded in a web page lead to works protected by copyright, there is, from both a technical and a functional point of view, an act of communication of the work in question to a public, which was not taken into account by the copyright holder when the work was initially made available. Since automatic linking requires the authorisation of the copyright holder, technological protection measures would be eligible for legal protection against circumvention. On the other hand, embedding by means of clickable links using the framing technique does not require the authorisation of the copyright holder as it is not a communication to a ‘new’ public.
Furthermore, technological protection measures against the embedding in a webpage of copyright protected works freely available to the public with the authorisation of the copyright holder on other websites, where those works are embedded in such a way that they are automatically displayed on that webpage as soon as it is opened, without any further action on the part of the user, would constitute effective protection measures within the meaning of Article 6 of the InfoSoc Directive.
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Notes from St. Petersburg: the Don Cesar and Wharf Dining
Written by Scott Joseph on 16 August 2013 on 16 August 2013 . TPL_WARP_MODIFIED 18 April 2015 . Hits: 11729
Because I have a condominium at my disposal in Cape Canaveral, that’s where I usually head when I want to have a quiet weekend outside of Orlando without getting on a plane. But recently I went to the other coast instead and spent some time in St. Petersburg. It had been more than nine years since I last overnighted there, so I enjoyed the chance to spend some more time, and what a great time it was.
I stayed at the Loews Don Cesar, the big pink landmark that has been a standout on the Gulf of Mexico for decades.
The hotel is nice, though its sheer age keeps it from being classified as elegant anymore (I can’t throw stones at that particular glass house). But I was surprised more by the lack of guest relations training that many of the staff showed. Many of them didn’t seem to like what they were doing, and those who at least put on a front didn’t go any further to enhance the experience.
For example, when we accidentally left a set of car keys at the poolside bar, the bartender just put them aside the cash register even though we had signed the bar tab to our room number. Wouldn’t it have been more guest friendly to call our room to let us know where the keys were rather than having us run all over looking for where we’d left them (which is what we did)?
On another occasion when we paid by cash, the bartender rounded up the change he gave back to us, keeping 49 cents for himself. A pittance, really, but I see that as tantamount to stealing nonetheless.
And while sitting out in a beach chaise as the afternoon waned, a young man picking up umbrellas and beach chairs was tossing tables from about 10 feet way into a pile just a few feet from where we sat. Not very conducive to a relaxing afternoon (and we’d paid dearly for the privilege to sit on a chaise). When I asked if he was trying to tell us we should leave he just grunted and said, “You don’t have to.”
But then there was the fellow who had set us up with a couple of kayaks for a morning paddle and who, after we had gone off shore a ways, enjoying the dolphins that were swimming around us, came out on his jet ski to make sure we were OK. It was nice of him to do, and I chose not to see it as concern for a couple of old guys.
I had been to the Don Cesar’s Maritana Grille several years ago when I was doing the State Fare column for Florida magazine. And, frankly, I wasn’t all that thrilled with it, and I was even less thrilled with the pricing. Only one entree on the current menu is under $30 (it’s $29) and everything else is way above.
So for our meals we ventured off the hotel grounds. The first night we went to downtown St. Pete, which is a little like Church Street in Orlando in terms of its surfeit of young people and drinking establishments. We chose an Italian restaurant called BellaBrava, on Beach Drive. It had a nice upscale and modern feel, and we really liked the server, who was also the bartender. She was friendly and more than accommodating, granting our requests for tastes of the wines we were considering and giving honest -- sometimes brutally so -- assessments of some of the dishes we were considering.
Unfortunately the food wasn’t as good as the service. Rick had something called the rigatoni crostata, whose most distinct feature was that it was served beneath a dome of puffed crust of bread that looked for all the world like Tropicana Field. Beneath it was an unappealing blend of sausage, red and yellow peppers and cheeses in a tomato sauce that was underseasoned. not bad, just bland.
The same with my Pasta Brava, penne pasta with wood-grilled chicken, ham, peas and mushrooms in a cream sauce. You’d think with all that good stuff there’d be some wonderfulness in the mouth, but nothing.
The next morning we had a serviceable breakfast at Sea Horse restaurant on Pass-a-Grille. Nice omelet served by a laconic young woman. I also liked the eggs over hash, one of my favorite breakfast combos.
Driving back to the Don Cesar we spotted a place called Wharf, the only description for which could be a dive. We made a note to try it that evening and we loved it.
We sat at a railing overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway and watched the boats go by. Just after we had placed our order, a young couple passed by on their way out and the woman leaned over and said, “You should get the lobster roll. I’m from Boston and I know lobster rolls.” I thanked her but decided to stay with my original order of grilled mahi mahi. And it was a very nice piece of fish with a pleasant smoky flavor note. We also loved the crab cake appetizer and the rouxy cup of gumbo with hunky bits of sausage.
We liked it so much that we went back the next day for lunch, a rare thing for me to do when I’m traveling, but we were about to drive back to Orlando and we wanted the comfort of the Wharf’s downscale atmosphere and view of the river.
And this time I had the lobster roll, and the woman from Boston knew of which she spoke. It was a delicious lobster salad served in a buttery toasted white bread slice. Perfect. So was the soft-shell crab, delicately breaded and fries just so.
The only negative of Wharf was the over-pumped juke box from the bar. It really didn’t need to be that loud, and I think the people in what must be expensive houses across the water would agree.
By the way, the room at the Don Cesar was quite nice, tastefully decorated and blissfully quiet, which helps to make up for shortchanging bartenders.
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Home Faculty & Research Faculty Directory Faculty Computer Science Aylin Caliskan
Aylin Caliskan
SEH 4590 | Office Hours: by appointment
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Aylin Caliskan is an assistant professor of computer science at The George Washington University. Her research interests include the emerging science of bias in machine learning, fairness in artificial intelligence, data privacy, and security. Her work aims to characterize and quantify aspects of natural and artificial intelligence using a multitude of machine learning and language processing techniques. In her recent publication in Science, she demonstrated how semantics derived from language corpora contain human-like biases. Prior to that, she developed novel privacy attacks to de-anonymize programmers using code stylometry. Her presentations on both de-anonymization and bias in machine learning are the recipients of best talk awards. Her work on semi-automated anonymization of writing style furthermore received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium Best Paper Award. Her research has received extensive press coverage across the globe. Aylin holds a PhD in Computer Science from Drexel University and a Master of Science in Robotics from the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining the faculty at The George Washington University, she was a postdoctoral researcher and a fellow at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy.
Ph.D., Computer Science, Drexel University
M.S., Robotics, University of Pennsylvania
Bias and fairness in machine learning
Aylin Caliskan, Joanna J. Bryson, and Arvind Narayanan. Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases. Science 2017
Aylin Caliskan-Islam, Richard Harang, Andrew Liu, Arvind Narayanan, Clare Voss, Fabian Yamaguchi, and Rachel Greenstadt. De-anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry. 24th Usenix Security Symposium (Usenix 2015)
Aylin Caliskan, Fabian Yamaguchi, Edwin Dauber, Richard Harang, Konrad Rieck, Rachel Greenstadt, and Arvind Narayanan. When Coding Style Survives Compilation: De-anonymizing Programmers from Executable Binaries. The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2018)
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Husky Basketball
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Washington had UCLA in its grasp, and then let go, in Pac-12 opener
Jan. 2, 2020 at 10:39 pm Updated Jan. 3, 2020 at 10:53 am
Washington’s Jaden McDaniels (0) reacts after being called for a foul against UCLA’s Jaime Jaquez Jr., left, in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) WAET103 WAET103 (Elaine Thompson / The Associated Press)
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Almost 10 thousand people stuffed in an arena. An alley-oop and-one in the final minutes of the game.
A second-half comeback, an All-American performance from their best player, a late go-ahead three-pointer, and yet the most memorable sound from the Huskies’ Pac-12 opener was…
Thursday night at Hec-Ed, an epic showdown ended in a biting letdown. The near sold-out crowd used every inch of its collective larynx, but left with nothing to celebrate.
Everything was in place for the Huskies to start league play in the most emphatic of fashions. But like so many possessions Thursday, they let it slip away.
UCLA’s 66-64 win over Washington was a study in one team savoring opportunities and the other one squandering them. The Bruins weren’t the more talented team in the building, but they were the more tenacious and disciplined one.
After outrebounding Washington 38-27 and staving off UW run after UW run, UCLA was victorious while the Huskies were vexed. How did they let this happen?
“We’ve got a good team, we’ve got high-quality players, but we’re making some mistakes that are costing us games and we gotta be able to fix that,” Huskies coach Mike Hopkins said. “That’s three close games now — last year we were winning the close ones, this year we’re struggling.”
The Bruins (8-6, 1-0 in conference) didn’t really have any impressive wins coming into this game. The Huskies, meanwhile, had beaten sixth-ranked Baylor while hanging tight with top-ranked Gonzaga and Houston.
But none of that matters when you give up 22 offensive rebounds, which were twice as many as the Huskies managed. And it really doesn’t matter when you only get 14 minutes out of your second-leading scorer.
That’s all freshman Jaden McDaniels was able to give Washington (10-4, 0-1) Thursday night. He picked up his third personal foul late in the first half, got hit with a technical foul immediately afterward, then fouled out in transition with 16:10 left in the game. It deprived UW, which trailed by eight at halftime, of a consistent second scorer — yet the Huskies almost came back anyway.
Led by freshman center Isaiah Stewart, who finished with 24 points, 11 rebounds and five blocks, Washington took the lead less than six minutes into the second half thanks to a 13-4 run. They would spend the rest of the half trading leads with with UCLA, as neither team led by more than three after that point.
Perhaps most would expect such a back-and-forth in a conference opener. But the Huskies were irked they had to come back at all.
“It goes back to slow starts. We had this problem earlier in the year,” Stewart said. “We looked like our legs were stuck in sand.”
But the Huskies kept answering. They looked destined for a win when Nahziah Carter threw down an alley-oop off a pass from Quade Green with 2:56 remaining, which gave the Huskies a two-point lead after Carter made the ensuing free throw. They looked even more destined after Carter drilled a three-pointer to put Washington up 64-63 with 24 seconds left.
But then UCLA’s Jake Kyman, who had made four three-pointers all season coming into the game, drilled his seventh three to give the Bruins the lead for good. Somehow, the Huskies let the guy who’d been killing them all night get a wide-open look.
After the game, Hopkins emphasized the idea that “champions respond.” His team will try to fix what went wrong in practice and come out better.
But gone is the chance to open conference play with flair. Now the Huskies must rebound, something they couldn’t do it all Thursday.
Matt Calkins: mcalkins@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @matt_calkins. Matt Calkins joined The Seattle Times in August 2015 as a sports columnist after three years at the San Diego Union Tribune. Never afraid to take a stand or go off the beaten path, Matt enjoys writing about the human condition every bit as much as walk-offs or buzzer-beaters. His mom reads the comments so take it easy on him.
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ABA Honors Sheppard Mullin Partner Dan Brown With Prestigious 2015 ABA Pro Bono Publico Award
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP announced today that Daniel L. Brown will receive the American Bar Association’s 2015 Pro Bono Publico Award, which honors those who have enhanced the human dignity of others by improving or delivering volunteer legal services to our nation's poor and disadvantaged. A partner in Sheppard Mullin’s Business Trial practice group, Brown is also chair of the firm’s pro bono committee.
The ABA’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service presents five awards, annually, to individual lawyers and legal institutions that have demonstrated outstanding commitment to the poor and disadvantaged. Brown, one of two individual attorneys being honored this year, will receive the award at the ABA’s Annual Meeting in Chicago on August 1.
“Dan has a deep, enthusiastic and contagious passion for pro bono work, which has impacted Sheppard Mullin in very positive ways, both in our New York office and nationally across the firm. His commitment to the firm and our pro bono program through his diligent efforts as chair have certainly made our firm better, and more importantly Dan’s litigation successes on behalf of the disability community in New York City have significantly bettered the lives of countless thousands,” said Guy N. Halgren, Sheppard Mullin chairman.
Brown is being honored for his outstanding pro bono accomplishments, but most notably for the remarkable contributions he has made to New York’s disability community litigating cases with Disability Rights Advocates that have achieved historic results on behalf of hundreds of thousands of individuals with disabilities. In 2014, Brown received Disability Rights Advocates’ New York Impact Litigation Award in recognition of his life changing litigation on behalf of people with disabilities.
Brown’s recent pro bono highlights include Brooklyn Center for the Disabled, et al. v. Bloomberg, a landmark trial victory that led to a settlement with the City of New York agreeing to implement the most comprehensive disaster plan ever established in the country aimed at improving the lives and safety of nearly 900,000 New Yorkers with disabilities and Taxis for AllCampaign v. Taxi & Limousine Commission, which resulted in a historic settlement that will make the New York taxi fleet the most accessible in the country. Brown’s victories are already having an impact across the country, serving as precedent setting blueprints and inspiration for comparable changes in other major cities. Brown also handles and/or supervises many of the firm’s asylum cases and encourages other attorneys to take on these cases, which resulted in the firm receiving the 2011 Marvin Frankel award from Human Rights First for "extraordinary commitment to pro bono service."
As Sheppard Mullin’s pro bono chair, Brown is forcefully leading a firm-wide initiative to rejuvenate and extend the role of pro bono within the firm. His strategic and comprehensive initiative includes an office-by-office, top-to-bottom focus on increasing pro bono participation and the firm’s relationships with the legal services and pro bono communities. As a result of Brown’s push to recognize and emphasize pro bono, associate pro bono hours are treated the same as billable hours, pro bono is part of the associate development plans, and pro bono factors in the annual partner compensation review process.
“It is truly humbling to receive this recognition from the ABA,” said Brown. “It’s a privilege and honor to represent my pro bono clients, and pro bono work has been so rewarding for me professionally and personally. I want to thank Sheppard Mullin for its support and commitment to community service, and encourage all attorneys to experience the many rewards that pro bono provides.”
Daniel L. Brown
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Mums more important than social media influencers for advice, claims survey
Brits are shunning the internet and turning to mum for life lessons and advice on beauty, fashion and relationships, according to a new survey carried out ahead of Mother’s Day a week on Sunday (March 31st, 2019).
Researchers who carried out a detailed study found our mums are still the number one influencer despite the proliferation of sources available on the internet.
The report also revealed 41 per cent of adults under the age of 45 believe children are more likely to get advice from their mum, compared to 28 per cent who chose bloggers and influencers.
The trend emerged following research carried out among 2,000 adults which also revealed many are taking on life mottos passed down by mum.
Carried out by centre:mk, one of the UK’s top 10 shopping centres, the poll marks the launch of its ‘Life Lessons From Mum’ campaign www.centremk.com ahead of Mother’s Day.
The most common life lessons are ‘believe in yourself’, ‘there is no such word as can’t’ and ‘treat others as you would like to be treated’. Beauty tips such as ‘moisturise daily’ and ‘always take your make-up off before bed’ also made the list.
‘Always wear sunscreen’, ‘embrace your shape’ and ‘never give up’ are also frequently passed on.
The study also found six in ten adults pass their mother’s advice onto their own children. Kim Priest of centre:mk said: “It’s fantastic to see that mums are holding strong as our No.1 influencer.
‘’Handed down from generations of mothers, these life lessons still appear as enduring and relevant as ever.”
It also emerged while most of mum’s advice is valued, 43 per cent of female respondents said that ‘let the man pay on the first date’ is the tip they consider to be the most old fashioned.
More than two thirds declared ongoing gratitude for their mother’s advice throughout their lives.
The OnePoll survey also revealed the mother/daughter advisory role is reciprocal, with two in five of female respondents stating that fashion and beauty advice between mother and daughter is a two-way street.
Mums confirmed children’s advice is frequently offered up for computer skills, as well as broader life lessons advice prompting them “to treat themselves” and “try new things”.
Kim Priest added: ‘’Ahead of Mother’s Day, we are delighted to celebrate life lessons from mums encompassing self-belief, life skills, and fashion and beauty tips.
‘’We are confident mums’ life lessons will continue to be passed down for years to come.”
Centre:mk is an official patron of the British Fashion Council, in recognition of its mix of cutting-edge fashion and beauty brands and its commitment to investing in driving and supporting the UK’s pioneering fashion and beauty industries.
MUMS’ LIFE LESSONS:
Always try your best (36 per cent)
Treat others as you would like to be treated (31 per cent)
If you don’t ask, you don’t get (26 per cent)
Don’t worry about what others think (25 per cent)
There’s no such word as ‘can’t’ (23 per cent)
Never give up (22 per cent)
Believe in yourself (22 per cent)
Do what makes you happy (21 per cent)
It’s what’s inside that counts (20 per cent)
MUMS’ FASHION AND BEAUTY TIPS:
Drink lots of water (36 per cent)
Beauty comes from within (36 per cent)
Wear what you feel comfortable in (31 per cent)
Always wear sunscreen (25 per cent)
Moisturise daily (23 per cent)
Invest in a good bra (22 per cent)
Always take your make-up off before bed (20 per cent)
Don’t compare your style to others (20 per cent)
Embrace your shape (19 per cent)
Mar 20, 2019 Chris Price
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Jacqui von Voss Holistic Health Opens in Chestertown
Jacqueline von Voss, L.Ac., M.Ac., Dipl.Ac., RYT, a nationally board-certified acupuncturist, CranioSacral therapist and registered yoga instructor, has opened Jacqui von Voss Holistic Health at AquaFit in Chestertown. Her private holistic healthcare practice specializes in Japanese and Traditional Chinese styles of acupuncture, meridian therapy, CranioSacral therapy, Somato-emotional release and yoga.
The holistic body-based therapies that von Voss offers can address stress reduction, resolving emotional/psychological issues or trauma, pain relief and management, OB/GYN conditions and women’s health issues.
von Voss previously founded Relaxupuncture in Philadelphia, PA, and Relax-u-puncture in Cambridge, MA, prior to relocating to Chestertown. Her experience has centered around integrative pain management.
She comments, “The therapeutic combination of acupuncture and CranioSacral therapy can be used to effectively relieve a variety of symptoms and conditions, as well as to preserve health and increase well-being. The sense of inner peace, calm and deep relaxation that can be elicited through treatment can powerfully affect our physical, mental and emotional health.”
von Voss collaborates with other wellness practitioners and physicians in delivering integrative care to her patients in order to maximize the benefits to her patients. She adds, “The people of the Eastern Shore are very supportive. I enjoy being back in a smaller community where I have a greater opportunity to serve as an educational resource for those interested in improving their health and preventing illness through natural, holistic health care and lifestyle practices.”
In addition to being a graduate of Washington College in Chestertown, von Voss holds a master’s degree in Traditional Chinese and Japanese Styles of Acupuncture from the New England School of Acupuncture in Newton, MA. She also is a Diplomat in Acupuncture through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine; is certified in Biodynamic CranioSacral Therapy by the New England School of Acupuncture, and has completed additional CranioSacral training through the Upledger Institute in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. von Voss was also a clinical research assistant/coordinator at Harvard Medical School Osher Institute for a clinical trial studying the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating diabetic neuropathy.
von Voss, who has been studying yoga since 1994, is also a registered yoga teacher through the Yoga Alliance and offers both private and group yoga instruction.
Jacqui von Voss Holistic Health is located at Aquafit, 818 High Street, Suite 4, in Chestertown, MD. For further information, contact Jacqui at 410.200.0678 or visit www.vonvossholistichealth.com.
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According to the Corporation for National and Community Service, MLK Service Day serves as one of our nation’s biggest coordinated one day service opportunities each year. The national MLK Day of Service is part of President Obama's United We Serve initiative which calls on all Americans to participate in our nation's recovery and renewal by serving in local communities.
Mayor Ollie Tylerand her staff will serve alongside Centenary students, faculty, staff, and community volunteers to continue the tradition of city leadership and local government to participate during this important day of service.
Registration is free with breakfast, lunch, and transportation provided. Check-in begins at 7:30 a.m. in Kilpatrick Auditorium and participants will be returned to campus at noon for lunch.
MLK Convocation with Guest Speaker Rev. Jay Augustine
Tuesday, January 20, 11 a.m., Whited Room in Bynum Commons
Rev. Jay Augustine currently serves as the senior pastor of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is an adjunct faculty member at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Most recently, Rev. Augustine is the author of the book, The Keys Are Being Passed: Race, Law, and Religion & the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. The book marks the 50th Anniversary of the American Civil Rights Movement while also focusing on key issues such as voting rights, environmental justice, and education reform. More information on Augustine can be found here. A brief video of him summarizing his latest book can be found here.
Dream Week Movie Night: Take Me to the River
Wednesday, January 21, 7:30pm, Robinson Film Center
Take Me to the River (2014) is a documentary chronicling the evolution of soul music in the heart of one of America's most iconic southern cities, Memphis, Tennessee. The film follows the recording of an album that brought together musical legends from the well-known Stax recording company with rising musical stars of today. The film is both inter-generational and inter-racial as it brought award-winning Memphis and Mississippi Delta musicians together in a way that was unique and unprecedented. More information about the film can be found here as well as here, or you can watch the trailer. Tickets to the film will be free to all Centenary students with student ID.
MLK Convocation with alumnus Dr. Jason Maggio
Thursday, January 22, 11 a.m., Whited Room of Bynum Commons
Dr. Jason Maggio graduated from Centenary College in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in health and exercise science. He later earned his doctorate at Parker University in Dallas in chiropractic care. While at Centenary, Maggio was a member of the basketball team and was also involved in other aspects of campus life. Throughout his career, Maggio has served his community both locally and globally in many ways. His healthcare center, All the Way Health, is one of the largest natural healthcare centers in the state of Louisiana. He leads a local weekly radio show on 96.5 KVKI educating members of the community on health care and health related issues. He has served as a member on the U.S. Olympic Wellness Advisory Council and most recently as a Wellness Physician to the U.S. Olympic Team during the 2012 London Olympic games.
Dream Week Theatre Performance of "Crowns" produced by the Mahogany Ensemble Theatre
Friday, January 23, 7:30 p.m., Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
“Crowns” is a spirit-filled tribute to the faith and fashion of African American women and their church hats. This popular musical peers into the lives of women as it celebrates family, faith, love, loss, and finding one's true identity.
The Mahogany Ensemble Theatre Company is an award-winning community theatre company founded and led by Centenary double-alumna (bachelor's in speech, master's in education administration), Mrs. Angelique Feaster Evans.
4th Annual MLK Youth Oratory Contest
Saturday, January 24, 1 p.m., Marjorie Lyons Playhouse
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What’s on TV tonight, March 26
Arts & Entertainment // Entertainment
David Wiegand March 25, 2015
Photo: Andy Kropa / Andy Kropa / Invision
If you think March Madness is all about basketball, you’re only partially right. It’s also about how the networks aren’t going to rush high-impact new shows or episodes on the air, especially as the NCAA competition gets tighter.
With the regional semifinals scheduled for tonight on CBS, the most important other TV news of the day is that it’s the 10th season spring premiere of the Fox stalwart “Bones,” at 8 p.m.
“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” welcomes Alan Cumming, above, Ludacris and Carey Mulligan, on NBC at 11:35 p.m.
For complete TV listings, go to www.sfgate.com/TV.
— David Wiegand
E-mail: dwiegand@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @WaitWhat_TV
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David Wiegand is an assistant managing editor and TV critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. A native of Rochester, N.Y., he holds a bachelor's degree in English and a master's in journalism from American University in Washington, D.C.
He joined The Chronicle in 1992 as a copy editor with the arts section and became entertainment editor in 1995 and executive features editor in 2006. He took on the job of television critic in 2010, writing regular TV reviews and columns not only for The Chronicle but for other papers in the Hearst chain.
Before The Chronicle, he was managing editor of Dole Newspapers in Somerville, Mass., and editor of the Amesbury (Mass.) News.
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Mark Mothersbaugh to Score ‘Thor: Ragnarok’
Posted on Monday, August 22nd, 2016 by Jacob Hall
Marvel Studios has had a music problem for nearly a decade now. Say what you will about Warner Bros.’ recent wave of DC movies (I’ve certainly said my fair share), but at least Hans Zimmer’s Man of Steel score is an instantly identifiable piece of music that captures its lead character. For all of their various charms, the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been grossly lacking in strong scores. Other than Tony Stark liking AC/DC and some occasionally stirring melodies in the Captain America movies, the heroes of the MCU have been deprived of music that matches their heroic actions.
And it’s starting to look like Marvel Studios is starting to do something about it. First, Michael Giacchino was hired to compose the score for the upcoming Doctor Strange, a promising sign for a movie that begs to have a unique score. Now, a new report claims that Mark Mothersbaugh will be lending his distinctive sound to Thor: Ragnarok.
The news comes to us via The Wrap and it hasn’t been officially announced yet. So you know: grain of salt for the time being and such. While this sounds out of left field, just about everything about Thor: Ragnarok has sounded out of left field. The Thor movies are commonly considered to be weaker elements in the MCU (although I have a soft spot for the preposterous and chaotic Thor: The Dark World), so why not hire Taika Waititi, the brilliant director of What We Do in the Shadows and Hunt For the Wilderpeople, to make the third one? Why not make it an intergalactic “road trip” movie with the Odinson teaming up with the Hulk? Why not design a title treatment that looks like it belongs on an old arcade game cabinet? And while you’re making plans, why not bring in the former lead singer of Devo to score the film? Everything about Thor: Ragnarok sounds refreshingly weird.
Although he was the original frontman for the rock band Devo, Mothersbaugh has been writing scores for film and television since the late ’80s. His movie music tends toward the odd and the whimsical – he’s the soundtrack to the early films of Wes Anderson and animated shows like Rugrats. Recent credits include The Last Man on Earth, Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday, The LEGO Movie, and 21 Jump Street. He’s not the guy you hire to turn in a generic superhero movie score.
While he’s certainly an unexpected choice, the thought of Mothersbaugh contributing music to a movie where a Norse god and a giant green rage monster battle their way across a cosmic adventure sounds divine. It suggests a Marvel movie that is prepared to embrace the true weirdness of the comic book Marvel universe. It’s the kind of hiring that suggests that the hiring of Jeff Goldblum to play this guy isn’t a fluke. Thor: Ragnarok could be gloriously weird.
We’ll find out for sure when the film opens on November 3, 2017.
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Human Spaceflights
Museums Make Final Pitches for Retired Space Shuttles
By Robert Z. Pearlman 29 March 2011
The Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Illinois has proposed a glass pavilion to display a suspended space shuttle orbiter.
(Image: © Adler)
With only two weeks remaining before NASA announces where its space shuttles will be retired for public display, museums nationwide are putting forth their final pitches as to why they should be bestowed an orbiter.
Museums in New York and Chicago recently revealed new concepts for their planned exhibits while in Seattle, officials are raising their profile by literally raising the walls for a space shuttle-sized gallery.
Elsewhere, astronauts, elected officials and others with a vested interest in where the shuttles are going are making their voices heard.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, whose responsibility it is to make the final decision, told Congress earlier this month that he's had a team evaluating potential homes for the shuttles Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour as well as the prototype Enterprise. [Photos: Shuttle Discovery's Final Mission]
"I have asked that team to bring that to a head... so that I can announce a decision on the 30th anniversary of the flight of STS-1, Columbia, [on] April 12th," Bolden told the House of Representatives' Committee on Appropriations.
NASA Headquarters has confirmed that an event of some type will be held on April 12, but the specific details as to how the announcement will unfold are still being decided.
Twenty-nine organizations expressed interest in displaying an orbiter in response to the space agency's first request for proposals in 2008. Since then, eight have dropped out, leaving 21 museums, science centers and visitor centers vying for a retired shuttle.
The windy city beneath its wings
Approximately half of the nearly two dozen shuttle suitors have released designs for how they would display a retired orbiter. [Gallery: How to display a retired space shuttle]
Only the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, which currently houses the prototype Enterprise at its Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., has its display ready. Promised Discovery since 2008, the Smithsonian plans to wheel out Enterprise and wheel in its flown-in-space orbiter counterpart.
For the others, if they are chosen to receive Atlantis or Endeavour (or the soon-to-be-displaced Enterprise) they'll need to make room, literally. Most have proposed erecting a new building or hangar to fulfill NASA's requirement that the shuttle be displayed indoors.
The latest to reveal their idea for how they would house a shuttle has been the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Ill.
Described as an "inspirational rendering" rather than being the final design, the Adler's proposed state-of-the-art glass pavilion is shown in an artist's concept as suspending the shuttle well above visitor's heads.
"In one direction, the shuttle would be framed looking out over Lake Michigan, and in the other direction, it would face Chicago's beautiful skyline," Adler president Paul H. Knappenberger Jr. said in a statement.
New York City’s Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum's revised concept art surrounds the space shuttle with platforms and exhibits. (Image credit: Intrepid)
Big Apple's shuttle bid
The Adler isn't the only museum that has plans for a glass home for its shuttle.
The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, which itself is a converted aircraft carrier that once recovered Mercury and Gemini capsules post-splashdown, was one of the first to release its designs for how to house an orbiter. Located in New York City, the Intrepid recently revised its conceptual artwork for a glass-walled hangar to be located alongside the pier where it is berthed.
The Intrepid's new designs now call for the shuttle's cargo bay doors to be open and for spacesuit-clad astronauts to be working with a satellite held by the orbiter's robotic arm.
Like the Adler, the Intrepid stresses that their idea is just a concept for now and is subject to change. But not all the museums competing with them are waiting for a shuttle to arrive to start building.
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, OH has been refining its design for a new hangar since before NASA announced it was seeking proposals. Recently, the Boeing Company announced it was donating $5 million for construction of the facility.
And in Seattle, Wash., the first wall of a new Space Shuttle Gallery has already been erected adjacent to the Museum of Flight. The 15,500 square-foot building is scheduled to be completed this fall, well ahead of when the first orbiters are expected to be ready for delivery.
Speaking of space shuttles
While a picture (or space shuttle display concept) may be worth a thousand words, those seeking to back favorite shuttle venues have been espousing that much and more.
From New York to Dayton, Chicago to Seattle, newspaper editorial columns have been filled by those explaining why a shuttle should come to their city.
In many cases, those making the argument have been the area's elected officials.
In Texas, where Space Center Houston is competing for a shuttle to display for Johnson Space Center, a delegation including Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has been reaching out to President Obama and others to make the case to "bring the shuttle home" to Houston.
"Recent reports indicate that the City of Houston is at or near the bottom of a short list... to host a public display of the space shuttle orbiter," reads the delegation's letter to the White House, as it appeared in the Houston Chronicle. "We respectfully submit that denying ... Johnson Space Center and the City of Houston the honor of displaying an orbiter would ... create a blemish on its significance to the legacy of NASA as it closes this chapter in its history."
Continue reading at collectSPACE.com to learn where Endeavour’s final pilot, the commander of the final space shuttle mission, and NASA’s Administrator personally feel the space shuttles should be displayed.
You can follow collectSPACE on Twitter @collectSPACE and editor Robert Pearlman @robertpearlman. Copyright 2011 collectSPACE.com. All rights reserved.
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Is Demography Really Destiny?
Heidi Beirich
As the country rapidly diversifies, our history reveals two different paths Americans have taken in reaction to demographic change — one filled with hate, and one with hope.
One of the main reasons for the rise of Donald Trump, the electoral success of his bigotry and our country’s rising white supremacy is this: Trump has activated a growing fear in many white Americans who view their power as threatened by our country’s rapidly changing demographics. He is taking advantage of their rage against change. Trump tests us nearly daily with his racism, nativism and hateful policies. And as we explore in this issue of the Intelligence Report, the surge in white supremacy and hate-driven domestic terrorism is slowing our progress toward a vibrant, multicultural democracy.
The American population is moving toward a minority-majority future, a shift the Census Bureau predicts will occur sometime in the 2040s. Nativists, racists and our president are taking advantage of the browning of America, contrasting it with nostalgia for a perceived better, whiter past, and using that idea to activate citizens into white nationalist thinking.
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This political path is not without historical precedent. Our country has been here before.
In the early 1900s, as German, Irish, Italian and Eastern European immigrants fled their countries for our shores, Americans turned on their new neighbors. And that immigration was accompanied by the migration of black people to the North, all of which roused the Ku Klux Klan from its post-Civil War slumber. The reinvigorated Klan warned that the nation was in great danger, describing immigrants as invaders practicing dangerous “foreign” religions, namely Catholicism and Judaism. The Klan’s message of white supremacy and Protestant Christianity was a winning one, and by 1924, the KKK had nearly four million members.
Politicians at all levels joined the Klan’s ranks, President Woodrow Wilson praised the group, Jim Crow flourished and with support from unabashed white supremacists, our nation passed despicable policies to stop demographic change in its tracks.
Most noxious was the Immigration Act of 1924, which cut immigrants sharply and restricted them mostly to northern Europeans. When President Calvin Coolidge signed the bill into law, the Klan cheered its protection of America’s “purity.”
It took more than 40 years for that racist immigration policy to come to an end. Finally, in 1965, a new immigration bill inspired by the civil rights movement was passed.
But there is another, more hopeful American story about immigration.
In the 1980s, California faced a new demographic shift. As the Latinx population grew, white voters upset by these changes reacted in much the same way anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim Trump voters do today. Californians elected rabidly anti-immigrant Pete Wilson as governor in 1990. He railed against immigrants, who he painted with a large brush as being costly and criminal. He also vocally supported the punishing anti-immigrant Proposition 187, which passed by a wide majority in 1994. White Californians voted in huge numbers for the bill.
But a handful of years later, by the end of the 1990s, as California was approaching a minority-majority population, nativism dissipated. In 1999, Prop 187 died in the courts when Gov. Gray Davis refused to defend it. Since then, Californians have moved away from anti-immigrant politicking and the GOP has paid a steep price for its anti-immigrant past. Today, California is one of America’s most prosperous and diverse states.
Californians didn’t wait half a century to make a change — they forced out hate in just half a decade.
These two scenarios, America in the 1920s and California more recently, show that demography is not necessarily a white nationalist destiny, driven by forces beyond our control.
Is our future to be marked by rising white nationalism and its sidekicks, domestic terrorism and racist policies? Or can we build a peaceful, robust and multicultural democracy? Our country has reacted to demographic changes in different ways in the past, and it’s up to us to determine what our future holds.
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Trademarks and Service Marks
This act established the Uniform Limited Partnership Act of 2008 (the Act of 2008), which provides the organization and governing provisions for a domestic (California) limited partnership (LP) and foreign (out–of–state or out–of–country) LP. LPs filed prior to January 1, 2008 will continue to be governed under the Uniform Limited Partnership Act and the California Revised Limited Partnership Act, unless the LP elects to be governed by the new act or until January 1, 2010 when the Act of 2008 will govern all LPs. The Act of 2008 can be found in the California Corporations Code commencing with § 15900.
Chapter 343 (SB 144 Negrete, Mcleod, Cox, Harman, Kehoe and Machado)
This act requires a nonprofit public benefit corporation that is created by an elected legislative body to furnish an additional copy of the articles of incorporation to the Secretary of State at the time of filing, and requires the Secretary of State to forward the additional copy to the Controller. This act also affects Special Filings.
Chapter 80 (SB 414 Corbett)
This act provides that the total aggregate limit of liability under the policy or policies of insurance or the amount of security for limited liability partnerships providing accountancy or legal services with 5 or fewer licensees shall be not less than $1,000,000 and for partnerships with more than 5 licensees, shall be an additional $100,000 for each additional licensee up to the $5,000,000 or $7,500,000 maximum, respectively.
Chapter 101 (SB 998 Cox)
This act makes three significant changes to the filing requirements for corporations: (1) when designating an individual as agent for service of process for a corporation, the street address of the designated agent must be provided. A post office box address is no longer acceptable; (2) all domestic (California) stock and foreign (out–of–state or out–of–country) corporations must provide their mailing address on the Statement of Information, if the mailing address is different from the street address of the corporation’s principal executive office; and (3) all California nonprofit corporations must provide their mailing address on the Statement of Information, if the mailing address is different from the street address of the corporation’s principal office in California or if the corporation has no principal office address in this state.
This act requires a notary public to respond within 15 business days from the receipt of a request by a member of the public for a line item from the notary public’s journal. The notary public is required to provide either a photostatic copy of the line item representing the requested transaction or acknowledge that no such line item exists. In a disciplinary proceeding for noncompliance with this provision, a notary public may defend their delayed action on the basis of unavoidable, exigent business or personal circumstances.
Chapter 399 (AB 886 Runner)
This act includes several provisions affecting notaries public:
Under the new act, "personally known" as a basis for the notary taking an acknowledgment and executing a jurat is no longer allowed. No acknowledgment may be taken or jurat executed on personal knowledge alone. Violation subjects a notary to a civil penalty of up to $10,000 in an administrative action brought by the Secretary of State or a public prosecutor.
The certificate of acknowledgment now is executed under penalty of perjury. A notary who willfully states as true any material fact known to be false can be subject to a civil penalty of up to $10,000.
A notary public applicant must submit a photograph of their person to the Secretary of State along with the application.
The notary public journal must contain a notation that the identity of the person making an acknowledgment, or taking an oath or affirmation is based on "satisfactory evidence" and not "personal knowledge."
A power of attorney document is added to the list of documents that requires a thumbprint.
When requested by a peace officer investigating a criminal offense, a notary must surrender their journal immediately or as soon as possible if the journal is not present. The peace officer must have probable cause to believe that the journal contains evidence of a criminal offense. The peace officer who seizes a journal must notify the Secretary of State within 24 hours or as soon as possible of the name of the notary public whose journal was seized.
Willful failure to notify the Secretary of State of a change of address is punishable as an infraction by a fine of up to $500, willful failure to notify the Secretary of State of a name change is punishable as an infraction by a fine of up to $500, willful failure of a notary to provide a peace officer with a journal when requested is punishable by a civil penalty of up to $2,500, and a notary who fails to obtain a thumbprint as required by Government Code § 8206 is subject to a civil penalty up to $2,500.
Willful failure to report the theft or loss of a journal is grounds for revocation or suspension of a notary commission. New grounds for denial of an application or revocation or suspension have been added for crimes connected to notarial acts: making a false writing, fraud relating to a deed of trust, improper notarial acts, unlawfully acting as a notary, filing false or forged documents, forgery, embezzlement, and falsely obtaining personal information. Also, willful failure to provide access to a journal when requested by a peace officer is grounds for revocation or suspension.
This act requires an agency or entity formed pursuant to a joint powers agreement to furnish an additional copy of the notice of joint powers agreement or notice of amendment to the Secretary of State, and requires the Secretary of State to forward the additional copy of the notice to the Controller. This act also affects Business Entities.
Chapter 711 (AB 1484 Krekorian)
This act establishes the Model State Trademark Law. This act adopts the classification of goods and services used by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and allows a single application to include multiple classifications of goods or services; requires the applicant to state a declaration of accuracy that no other person previously has registered a confusingly similar mark in California. A willful inaccurate statement will be subject to a civil penalty of up to $10,000 to be enforced by a public prosecutor; reduces the duration of new California registrations from ten to five years; and requires the applicant to state whether the applicant previously sought to register the mark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and, if registration was refused, to disclose the reasons why it was refused at the federal level.
Chapter 627 (AB 1168 Jones)
This act requires social security numbers to be truncated on specified filings, requires creation of a copy of the filing with the truncated social security number as a public record, and permits only the public record version of the filing to be available for inspection, copying, or public disclosure except by subpoena or court order. This act also requires each filing office to post a notice on its website informing filers not to include social security numbers in any portion of their filings, and permits a person that identifies a filing containing an unredacted social security number to require the filing office to redact the social security number and create a public record version of the filing. The act permits the Secretary of State to make forms available for filing in the formats described in Commercial Code § 9521 with the box for inclusion of the social security number blacked out.
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First Listen: Billy Ocean's timely return has a plea to "Find Love"
(August 5, 2020) Some of us still think of Billy Ocean as the smoothy dressed, suave-singing R&B and pop man of the 80s, when he had a string of hits that put him repeatedly at the top of the charts. We definitely don't think of him as the elder statesman, soul surivor that he is today at age 70. Fortunately, Ocean isn't stuck in the past, but continues to move his craft forward, as is evidenced in his much anticipated (and COVID-delayed) upcoming album, One World, due on September 4.
In his second advance single from the album, Ocean confidently delivers a song that speaks to the issues of the day. "We Gotta Find Love" was written with and produced by the legendary Barry Eastmond, who was a collaborator for many of Ocean's biggest hits, and it gives an upbeat message of unity in a time when it seems that unity is in short supply.
Billy says of the song, “It’s encouraging to see the response of the younger generation of all denominations, all over the world, looking for a better future. I look forward to the day when we realise ‘there’s no difference between us, when we take away things that divide and abuse us.’”
The song and the singer both sound terrific, and it is great to hear Billy Ocean again. Check out "We Gotta Find Love" below and tell us what you think.
Billy Ocean - "We Gotta Find Love"
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By KATHERINE KERSTEN
November 16, 2013 — 4:21pm
In terms of race and ethnicity, the Twin Cities region is one of the most rapidly diversifying metro areas in the nation. For 15 years, Hispanic, black and Asian residents — now almost a quarter of the population — have been flooding into the suburbs.
This is the American dream in action: people eager for a better life start in the cities, work hard and save, then find a house and yard to call their own. But an elite group of unelected officials — the Metropolitan Council, our regional government — wants to replace this dream with its own top-down vision.
The council was founded in the 1960s to oversee efficient regional use of sewers and roads. But under Gov. Mark Dayton, it is taking on a grandiose social mission. It plans to use “Thrive MSP 2040” — its 30-year development plan for the seven-county region, due out in early 2014 — to remake neighborhoods and impose planners’ vision of the ideal mix of race, ethnicity and income on every municipality.
It laid the foundation with its “Fair Housing and Equity Assessment,” a draft of which was released in June and which analyzed every census tract in the metro area to identify “Racially Concentrated Areas of Poverty” and “Opportunity Clusters.” High-opportunity areas are essentially those with high-performing schools and low crime rates.
Using these data, the council will lay out what the region’s 187 municipalities must do to disperse poverty.
As yet, the council has provided few details. But the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development — the source of the $5 million planning grant the council used to fund its racial mapping — has made the project’s transformational nature clear. According to HUD, the mapping is intended to identify suburban land use and zoning practices that allegedly deny opportunity and create “barriers” for low-income and minority people. Regional plans, declares HUD, must ensure that suburbs change those practices to meet ratios consistent with racial and income quotas.
A look out east may signal what’s on the horizon. Westchester County is New York’s fourth most racially diverse. Nevertheless, HUD is requiring it to build 750 new units of low-income housing, with thousands more to follow. Most must be in neighborhoods that are less than 3 percent African-American and 7 percent Hispanic.
Repeated reviews of Westchester’s 853 zoning districts have found no evidence of discriminatory zoning or land use. But HUD claims that racial or ethnic clustering in a municipality is, in and of itself, a violation of fair housing. It insists that typical zoning limits on the density, size, height or type of buildings are impermissible “restrictive practices,” and has ordered the county to sue its municipalities.
For HUD, it’s “not about 750 units,” Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino has said, “it’s about changing the world.”
“If HUD can define what constitutes exclusionary practices, then local zoning as it is known today disappears,” he wrote in the Wall Street Journal. “Apartments, high rises or whatever else the federal government or a developer wants can be built on any block in America.”
Here in Minnesota, we can expect the Met Council’s housing and transit plans to reinforce its crusade to compel “economic integration.” Its “Transit-Oriented Development Strategic Action Plan,” released in June, strongly suggests that cities that want transportation money will have to meet “social equity” goals, including low-income housing and likely the zoning and other land-use regulation changes required to accommodate it.
Helping low-income and minority residents achieve success should be one of our most important goals. Yet the council’s approach is almost certain to fail.
Why? Its own race-and-income assessment provides a clue. It ranked neighborhoods on the five factors it considers the most important contributors to poverty: access to jobs; safe streets; good schools; social services and basic amenities, and distance from environmental hazards. Yet the analysis revealed that, overall, residents of “racially concentrated areas of poverty” actually have better access to jobs, services and amenities than do residents of “opportunity clusters.” How can we explain this?
The council’s ideology blinds it to a primary cause of entrenched poverty, which it never considers: self-destructive behavior. In Hennepin County, for example, the out-of-wedlock birthrate for U.S.-born blacks is 84 percent, while the white rate is 18 percent. Until we tackle barriers to opportunity like this, we will fail to make the progress against poverty we all desire.
Katherine Kersten is a senior fellow at the Center of the American Experiment. The views expressed here are her own. She is at kakersten@gmail.com.
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That's one type of health — physical. When it comes to mental and emotional health, older adults in the United States are showing resilience and persevering despite struggles with loneliness and isolation, the latest self-reported results in an ongoing study suggest.
The latest data from the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project, conducted by the social research organization NORC at the University of Chicago, is part of a longer-term study designed to track the physical and emotional well-being of older Americans over time.
Only 9% of older adults reported having "fair or poor overall mental health" during the pandemic, similar to their previous answers and an indication of what the study calls "some signs of resilience." Nevertheless, the study found that general happiness has declined. About half as many older adults now report they are very happy or extremely happy, and an increasing number report occasional feelings of depression or isolation.
"It should sensitize everyone to the reality of isolation's impact but also the reality that people are resilient — and maybe even more so older adults than younger adults," said Louise Hawkley, principal research scientist at NORC and the lead researcher on the study.
"This isn't their first show. They've been through things already. They know how to handle stress," Hawkley said. "This is something we can learn from them — that there is survival."
The information comes from 1,284 respondents between the ages of 55 and 99, interviewed in September and October — all of them participants in a longer-term study that also collected data in person in 2015-2016. The survey's margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Other interesting findings from the responses:
—About one-fifth of older adults in the study said they'd had no in-person contact with family and friends outside their own households during the pandemic.
—At the same time, at least half of older adults "have not reduced their frequency of in-person contact with friends and family not living with them" since the pandemic began.
—Where in-person interaction faded, the study showed that electronic communication stepped in — but, perhaps unexpectedly in this demographic, the use of phone conversations (32%) lagged behind messaging (37%) and video calls (42%).
Taken together, the responses form what Hawkley calls a portrait of a demographic that crosses generations, is persevering under challenging circumstances and — pivotally — whose members need more engagement about isolation and emotional health even after the pandemic wanes.
"There's a lot we don't appreciate about how well people do cope with age," said Hawkley, who specializes in researching loneliness and social isolation in older adults. She said arrangements are being made to obtain physical data from the participants as soon as the pandemic ebbs.
"We're learning painfully how real a risk social isolation is to our mental health," she said. "And I think we need to learn how it affects physical health."
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Health of Hmong community focus of conference
Nathan Vine
Central Wisconsin Sunday
STEVENS POINT – Thai Vue said that it's time for the second phase of life for the Hmong people in the United States, and that means a focus on living healthier.
State representatives for the Hmong met in Stevens Point for the 2014 Wisconsin Hmong Conference on Friday and Saturday in Stevens Point. Hosted by the Wisconsin United Coalition of Mutual Assistance Associations, the theme of this year's event was "the health and well-being of the Hmong community."
Attendees at the conference took part in presentations on health care, women's health, suicide, domestic violence and sexual assault. Vendors, exhibits, traditional Hmong dancing and showings of "Finding the Middle Way," a documentary on Hmong in central Wisconsin made with the help of Stevens Point community and UWSP staff members, also were part of the event.
Vue is executive director for the WUCMAA, an umbrella organization for the 12 Hmong nonprofit service organizations in the state. Vue said the older generation of Hmong face a number of health problems, from heart disease to stroke to kidney failure. He attributes those problems in part to lifestyle choices made by many Hmong after they moved to the United States, and that now is the time to begin correcting them.
"We've had excess in alcohol and tobacco. We've had poor diets and people not get enough exercise as they get older. I think there has been the model of what not to do, and now it's time to make changes," Vue said. "We want to set an example so that our younger generation is able to go on and live a healthy life."
The Hmong were recruited by the United States during the Vietnam War as guerrilla soldiers to fight the North Vietnamese. After the U.S. withdrew from the Vietnam in 1975, Hmong refugees began immigrating to America. Wisconsin has the third-largest Hmong population in the country, with about 49,000 people, after Minnesota and California.
Col. Ly Teng, a Hmong veteran of the Vietnam War and a prominent leader in the Hmong community, spoke Saturday about the importance of maintaining good mental health. Teng said he appreciated the people who attended the conference, and that its message must now extend to the entire Hmong community.
"The people who aren't here, those are the people who need to hear these things. They need to understand these issues, and what help there is for them," Teng said.
One of those working to promote the idea of health in the Hmong community is Dr. Kevin Thao. Originally from Wausau, Thao returned to the city in July to take a position as a family physician with Aspirus after graduating and completing his residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Along with treating Hmong community members, Thao is developing the Wausau Area Hmong Community Health Improvement Process, a project that will look at Hmong health issues and promote healthy living.
"With the older generation that I see, it's about getting them to trust American medicine and getting that preventative care before they become ill, and I think that's becoming easier as they see more Hmong doctors in the community," Thao said. "The younger generation is a bit more assimilated, but I think it's important that we stress that they need to keep healthy habits throughout their lives."
Nathan Vine can be reached at 715-345-2252. Find him on Twitter as @SPJNathanVine.
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The 16 Best Places to Live in the United States
August 24th, 2015 | Stevens News & Events.
There are times in our lives when we need a change of scenery. Whether you’re a retiree, seeking a vacation getaway home, or just lucky enough to be in a position to move to a city of your choosing, you may be wondering what parts of the country offer the best living situations.
There are many factors to consider when thinking about this kind of move: climate, recreation and entertainment, just to name a few. The editors at Outside magazine have compiled a list of the 16 best places to live in the U.S., as ranked by their readers. Many of these locations will appeal particularly to those who love the outdoors, but even if that’s not your forte, the article highlights some great sources of entertainment in these destinations as well.
16. Lake Placid, New York
Home of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympic Games, this is the perfect place for athletes of all types. With a population of only 2,500, you won’t have to wait long for a tour of the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center or to use any of the town’s winding bike trails.
15. Bar Harbor, Maine
More than two million visitors travel to Acadia National Park each summer. The year-round population here is only 2,600, making it a quiet retreat for most of the year. The outdoor lover has 127 miles of hiking trails and the largest mountain peak on the Atlantic seaboard in Cadillac Mountain. You can also enjoy the marvelous seafood Maine is known for at the Thirsty Whale Tavern.
14. Rochester, Minnesota
After being devastated by flood in 1978, the resulting flood control project led to a very unique design for this town. An 85-mile paved system of trails spans out from the world famous Mayo Clinic to various lakes, concert venues, restaurants, and bars.
13. Annapolis, Maryland
A seafarer’s dream. Each Wednesday during the summertime, hundreds of boats are drawn to the harbor to witness the weekly sailboat race. If you’re more akin to dry land, you can always watch the runners take on a three-mile trail to the old Navy radio towers at Greenbury Point.
12. Spearfish, South Dakota
A town with an Old West vibe in which bikes are preferred to horses. Three popular races take place in the town annually: the Dakota Five-O, 28 Below Fat Bike Race and the Gold Rush Gravel Grinder for those looking for a nice jaunt.
11. Middlebury, Vermont
This quaint college town, nestled in the hills of Vermont, is the perfect relocation spot for those looking for a great home value. Three-bedroom homes start at under $300,000 and jobs are plentiful.
10. Boone, North Carolina
According to local trail builder Mike Thomas, this town has a saying, “our life is your vacation.” This must be attributed to the abundance of outdoor activities and attractions tucked into this small town in the southern Appalachians. Some of which include: Wilson’s Creek, Linville Gorge, Beech Mountain and a portion of the Appalachian Trail to name only a few.
9. Pagosa Springs, Colorado
The springs that this town is named for are the deepest in the world and attract more than half a million annual visitors. Still, the resident population is just 1,700 and the town has a very rural feel.
8. Beaufort, South Carolina
If number 13 on this list was a seafarer’s dream, then Beaufort is a fisherman’s paradise. The town has an abundance of seafood and access to water sports, seeing that half of the surrounding county is water.
7. Flagstaff, Arizona
Forget what you’ve heard about the deserts of Arizona. At an elevation of 7,000 feet, this forest oasis is prized by runners for its miles of mountain trails. There’s skiing access just outside of town and the Grand Canyon is under 100 miles away.
6. Athens, Georgia
The city has recently undergone a transformation to become a hub of world-class restaurants. With its tradition of southern cuisine and a new-age farm-to-plate emphasis, Athens may be the tastiest place in Georgia.
5. Glenwood Springs, Colorado
The Colorado and Roaring Fork rivers meet here, creating a perfect spot to ride class III rapids through a 1,700-foot canyon. This town also boasts reputable hot springs, which have attracted tourists for more than a century.
4. Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Hometown of Justin Vernon, whose famous band, Bon Iver, won the Best New Artist Grammy in 2012. With acts like the National and Sufjan Stevens, Vernon’s Eaux Claire fest is turning up the volume on the music scene in this town.
3. Iowa City, Iowa
This bike-crazy town has a pedestrian mall that can stand up to Pearl Street. Bikers have literally tens of thousands of miles of unpaved road to traverse at their leisure, as there is almost no traffic once you leave the tarmac. The Trans-Iowa gravel grinder climbs 10,000 feet over 320 miles.
2. Port Angeles, Washington
Citizens of Port Angeles love their town and it’s easy to see why. Like many of the towns on this list, the outdoor scene is incredible, with 5,000-foot peaks and a 600,000-acre national forest. This town has a very blue collar feel with thriving lumber, boating and commercial fishing industries.
1. Chattanooga, Tennessee
The outdoor appeal of Chattanooga is well known and documented. The Tennessee River wraps around the city and offers class V and VI rapids. What’s new is the high-tech, Silicon Valley feel that has come over the city as of late. Residents have access to the Gig, a one gigabyte-per-second, fiber-optic, tax-payer owned Internet service that is available to all at a reasonable price.
If you’re looking to relocate and you find that one of these cities piques your interest, remember that Stevens Worldwide Van Lines is a leader in the moving & storage industry. We have more than 110 years of experience with state-to-state moves, so if you need information on our services, call (877) 490-0713. You can also visit our website and fill out our online form for a free quote.
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How to fix a Flint neighborhood? 'Come at it from all sides'
Urban Renaissance Center executive director Rev. Robert McCathern. (Photo courtesy of Derrick Poe)
A music production studio, boxing lessons, employment programs, and health and wellness projects – just some of the elements it takes to reinvigorate a community.
It's the work of the Urban Renaissance Center in Flint, Michigan, a nonprofit restoring life to Civic Park, a predominantly black neighborhood that has faced severe blight because of unemployment, depopulation and street violence.
"When areas have been abandoned and underserved for so many years, there's no way a single approach will make a lasting difference, so we come at it from all sides," said Rev. Robert McCathern, the center's executive director and a leading force for change in the community.
McCathern's first tour through Flint in 2001 fueled his passion and purpose. He'd accepted an invitation to be an interim pastor at a church there in 2001, and a young guide was showing him around town.
"The whole tour was about who had died where from gun violence," McCathern said. "He said, 'My uncle died on this corner, my best friend died there.' It was totally normal for people to have five, six or seven people close to them having died from violence."
Civic Park, which encompasses about three-quarters of a square mile with fewer than 3,000 residents, was built by General Motors in 1919 to house the influx of workers drawn to the area by automotive and industrial jobs. As factory jobs disappeared, the neighborhood spiraled from prosperity to poverty.
Later in 2001, McCathern went on to start his own church, Joy Tabernacle, and immediately got to work creating opportunities in the community. Urban Renaissance Center, a ministry project of Joy Tabernacle, was incorporated as a nonprofit in 2016, though its work began when the church formed.
"Coming to Flint and watching kids have no jobs, no opportunities, I could not live with that," said McCathern, 65. "We work with some families three or four generations removed from having a job."
The center has demolished more than 300 dilapidated homes since 2014, nearly a third of the total housing stock. The work was done in part by the center's social enterprise and building trades programs, which last year provided job training to 42 people.
Another project is Clean & Green, a landscaping program that trains and employs grounds workers and is coordinated by Nikita Johnson. He met McCathern in 2011 at age 22 just after his release from jail for running a chop shop, where stolen vehicles are dismantled for parts.
"Pastor asked me what I was doing with myself, and I told him I was looking for some positive direction," said Johnson, who started by volunteering at the center and then learned handyman and groundskeeping skills.
"It's a lot more than just a workplace," Johnson said. "Every morning the group spends at least an hour getting to know each other and expressing our problems. Everyone helps everyone."
Johnson now has a side business repairing cars and enjoys playing the role of big brother to new Clean & Green participants.
Urban Renaissance also serves about 100 people a month through its health programs, which include wellness events and primary care referrals.
Well before Flint's water crisis in 2014, when residents were exposed to elevated levels of lead in drinking water, the minority community already distrusted health care providers, a situation the crisis magnified, McCathern said. The center developed an infrastructure to get clean water to people, which it has since used for food delivery and health services.
This summer, the center opened two creative programs for youth – a recording production studio and a boxing program run by world champion and hometown hero Claressa Shields.
Its various programs are funded by donations and grants, particularly from the Ruth Mott Foundation in Flint. It also recently received a $100,000 investment from the American Heart Association's Social Impact Fund.
"So many of our health issues are related to social factors, which is why our approach is holistic," McCathern said. "To make a healthy person, their whole environment should be healthy."
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The L-1 visa enables a U.S. employer to transfer an executive or manager from one of its affiliated foreign offices to one of its offices in the United States. This classification also enables a foreign company which does not yet have an affiliated U.S. office to send an executive or manager or specialized knowledge worker to the United States with the purpose of establishing one.
To qualify for L-1 classification in this category, the employer must:
-Have a qualifying relationship with a foreign company (parent company, branch, subsidiary, or affiliate, collectively referred to as qualifying organizations); and
- Currently be, or will be, doing business as an employer in the United States and in at least one other country directly or through a qualifying organization for the duration of the beneficiary’s stay in the United States as an L-1. While the business must be viable, there is no requirement that it be engaged in international trade.
- Doing business means the regular, systematic, and continuous provision of goods and/or services by a qualifying organization and does not include the mere presence of an agent or office of the qualifying organization in the United States and abroad.
To qualify, the named employee must also:
-Generally have been working for a qualifying organization abroad for one continuous year within the three years immediately preceding his or her admission to the United States; and
-Be seeking to enter the United States to provide service in an executive or managerial capacity for a branch of the same employer or one of its qualifying organizations.
-Executive capacity generally refers to the employee’s ability to make decisions of wide latitude without much oversight.
Managerial capacity generally refers to the ability of the employee to supervise and control the work of professional employees and to manage the organization, or a department, subdivision, function, or component of the organization. It may also refer to the employee’s ability to manage an essential function of the organization at a high level, without direct supervision of others.
For foreign employers seeking to send an employee to the United States as an executive or manager to establish a new office, the employer must also show that:
-The employer has secured sufficient physical premises to house the new office;
-The employee has been employed as an executive or manager for one continuous year in the three years preceding the filing of the petition; and
-The intended U.S. office will support an executive or managerial position within one year of the approval of the petition.
Qualified employees entering the United States to establish a new office will be allowed a maximum initial stay of one year. All other qualified employees will be allowed a maximum initial stay of three years. For all L-1A employees, requests for extension of stay may be granted in increments of up to an additional two years, until the employee has reached the maximum limit of seven years.
The transferring employee may be accompanied or followed by his or her spouse and unmarried children who are under 21 years of age. Such family members may seek admission in L-2 nonimmigrant classification and, if approved, generally will be granted the same period of stay as the employee. Spouses of L-1 workers may apply for work authorization after the primary L1 visa holder is approved.
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Home > Festivals > Justin Timberlake and Jay Z to headline Wireless Festival
Justin Timberlake and Jay Z to headline Wireless Festival
July 9, 2020 February 19, 2013 by Summer Festival Guide
Superstar Justin Timberlake is confirmed to headline Wireless Festival on Friday 12 July, this will be his only UK festival performance of 2013, Snoop Dogg, Trey Songz, John Legend, Miguel and very special guest Frank Ocean also join the bill. Music megastar Jay Z has confirmed his only European performance of 2013 at Wireless Festival on Saturday July 13. Emeli Sande, Rita Ora, Kendrick Lamar, Miguel, DJ Fresh/Live will also appear along with Calvin Harris who is confirmed as special guest. Tickets for Wireless Festival go on sale Friday 22 February at 9am, available at www.wirelessfestival.co.uk
Justin Timberlake is a true musical icon. As a solo artist, he released two chart-topping and influential, groundbreaking albums that both reached multi-platinum status in many countries across the world. His debut album ‘Justified’ has sold in excess of seven million copies and included epic hit singles such as ‘Cry Me A River’ and ‘Like I Love You’. His follow-up album, ‘FutureSex/LoveSounds,’ sold over 10 million copies worldwide, was met with equal acclaim and produced the massive singles ‘SexyBack’ and ‘My Love’. After a break from music Justin recently thrilled fans with the surprise release of a brand new single, ‘Suit & Tie.’ The track reached number one on the iTunes charts in 31 countries and broke radio airplay records in the U.S. An eagerly anticipated brand new album ‘The 20/20 Experience’ will be out on March 18.
Very special guest Frank Ocean will be making his Wireless Festival debut this year. Before the release of his first album ‘nostalgia, ULTRA’ in 2011 Ocean made a name for himself by penning tracks for the likes of Justin Bieber and Beyonce. His Sophomore album ‘channel ORANGE’ was released last year to both critical and popular acclaim, he recently scored a standing ovation at the 2013 Grammy Awards when the album was awarded best urban contemporary album.
Snoop Dogg makes a welcome return to the Wireless Festival stage this year after a rapturously received set in 2010. Having sold over 30 million albums world wide Snoop Dogg has become a true music legend. His quadruple platinum debut album, 1993’s ‘Doggystyle’, stormed the charts, selling more than 4 million copies and became a seminal moment in the evolution of gansta rap. A brand new album, ‘Reincarnated’ will be released later this year.
Trey Songz, who is responsible for hits including ‘Already Taken’, ‘Bottoms Up’, ‘Neighbors Know My Name’ and ‘Say Aah’, will be bringing his unique soulful swagger to Wireless Festival fans. He has sold 14 million albums and singles worldwide, and received numerous Grammy nominations. His latest album ‘Chapter V’ was released last year. Nine-time Grammy Award winner John Legend, who has sold over seven million albums worldwide, hits Wireless Festival for the first time this year. He topped the US Billboard R&B album chart with his 2004 debut 'Get Lifted', a fete he repeated with follow-up's 'Once Again' and 'Evolver' in 2006 and 2008 respectively. In 2010, Legend teamed up with The Roots for the critically-acclaimed, award-winning collaborative album 'Wake Up'. His new album, ‘Love In The Future’ Is out this year. Man of the moment Miguel who was recently awarded a Grammy for his US hit single ‘Adorn’ also joins the bill, he will appear Friday 12th July and Saturday 13th July.
Chart-topping, multiplatinum producer Calvin Harris makes a welcome return to the Wireless Festival joining headliner JAY Z on Saturday 13 July as very special guest. Undoubtedly one of the biggest names in dance music today, he broke chart records earlier this year by becoming the first UK act to achieve seven top ten singles all from the same album, which included two number ones. He’s collaborated with the likes of Rihanna, Florence and The Machine, Ne-Yo and Tinie Tempah, and was recently nominated for Best Male Artist at the BRIT awards 2013.
Scottish singer songwriter Emeli Sande, one of Britain’s brightest music stars, will be making her first ever Wireless Festival appearance this year. Her debut album 'Our Version Of Events' was the top selling album of 2012 in the UK and included epic songs such as ‘Next To Me’ and ‘Read All About It’. After an electrifying performance at last years Wireless Festival, Rita Ora is confirmed to return. Since the release of her debut single ‘Hot Right Now’ from her #1 certified platinum album ‘Ora’ she has been an unstoppable presence in the UK Charts. Hotly tipped Kendrick Lamar, whose recent album ‘Good Kid, M.A.A.D City’ received worldwide acclaim, also joins Saturday’s bill. DJ Fresh will also be performing, the Drum & Bass/Dubstep producer and DJ has had several #1 singles, the most recent being ‘Hot Right Now’ featuring Rita Ora.
Entering its ninth consecutive year Wireless Festival promoter Steve Homer from Live Nation is looking forward to another sensational year. He said, “Wireless Festival has gone from strength to strength since its inception in 2005, we’re incredibly excited to take it to its new home, London’s iconic Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, and are delighted to secure Justin Timberlake and welcome back JAY Z. Securing these two artists – JAY Z for his only European performance of 2013 and Justin Timberlake for his only UK festival appearance this year – cements our reputation as a world class player on the festival circuit.”
Dennis Hone, Chief Executive of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, said: "We are delighted to welcome world class artists like JAY Z and Justin Timberlake to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. This summer we are hosting a summer series of events and concerts, including the fantastic Wireless Festival. We are on track to deliver a great summer, a top visitor destination and a great legacy for east London."
Boris Johnson said: 'This is a stellar line up of stars that is set to bring the house down this summer at Queen Elizabeth Park London. It proves that our fantastic Olympic park is now a destination of choice for world class musical events.'
Wireless Festival is the UK’s number one urban/ pop festival and the destination of the summer. A dazzling open-air live music experience It offers a chance to experience the excitement of watching the best in popular music in one of London’s most iconic sites – Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. With many more acts and details still to be unveiled, Wireless Festival 2013 is set to be the biggest and best event on the summer’s musical calendar.
Ticketing Information:
Tickets go on sale Friday 22 February at 9am and are priced at £57.50 plus booking fee.
Two day tickets are priced at £110 plus booking fee
Tickets available at www.wirelessfestival.co.uk
Categories Festivals, Wireless Festival Tags calvin harris, DJ Fresh, Emeli Sandé, Frank Ocean, Jay-Z, John Legend, Justin Timberlake, Kendrick Lamar, Miguel, Rita Ora, Snoop Dogg, Trey Songz, Wireless Festival Post navigation
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Neal S. Manne
University of Texas (B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1976)
University of Texas School of Law (J.D., with high honors, 1980)
Fraternities: Phi Beta Kappa, Friars, University Scholar, Order of the Coif, Chancellors
Law Clerk to The Honorable William A. Norris, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1980-81
Neal Manne, a Managing Partner of Susman Godfrey, is one of the premier trial lawyers in America. When Lawdragon identified 41 lawyers around the country as “Lawdragon Legends,” it featured Manne on its cover and said,
“He’s the olive in the cocktail, the Frank Sinatra of the
Rat Pack. Which is to say, he’s supremely that guy – the
politico, legal genius and community activist without
whom there’s only a bunch of separate voices.”
National Acclaim
Lawdragon’s founder called Manne a “brilliant and incisive advocate as well as a leader in the profession.” In 2017, when Lawdragon named Susman Godfrey as “America’s Leading Trial Firm” and “the nation’s most elite litigation firm,” it described Manne as “the emotional core of the firm.”
Texas Lawyer (ALM) named Manne the “Attorney of the Year” in Texas in 2017. For four consecutive years The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White Inc.) named Manne the “Lawyer of the Year” in Houston in a major practice area: Antitrust 2019 and 2017, and Bet-The-Company Litigation in 2018 and 2016.
Chambers USA, which surveys clients and other lawyers, ranks Manne as one of the nation’s best commercial litigators:
“The ‘wonderful’ Neal Manne serves as a managing partner of the firm. He is regularly called on to represent clients from across the country in trial. He enjoys a ‘great reputation.’ (Chambers 2018). Manne is “a remarkably bright and analytical lawyer” who is “widely recognized as ‘an exceptional trial lawyer’ . . . in business-critical disputes, including antitrust and commercial litigation.” (Chambers 2020). “The ‘excellent’ Neal Manne is ‘incredibly smart, thoughtful and very strategic.’” (Chambers 2016). “Clients consider the ‘passionate and thoughtful’ Neal Manne ‘one of the finest commercial litigators around’ due to his ‘astute, incisive and nimble mind,’ and his ‘rare gift of penetrating dense rhetoric and complex facts’ to get quickly to the heart of the matter.” (Chambers 2006). “Manne has a ‘wonderful reputation’ among clients and peers, who commend ‘his ability to understand the central weakness or strength of the case and convey his judgment with analysis that is appropriately detailed and dispassionate and which carries no more certainty than is warranted by the facts.’” (Chambers 2012).
Manne is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the most prestigious organization of trial lawyers. In 2017 and 2018, the College highlighted Manne’s pro bono work, writing that “his stellar example of furthering the administration of justice and ensuring access to justice for all, regardless of ability to pay, makes all Fellows of the College proud.”
Landmark Victories
Manne has an extraordinarily broad and diverse litigation practice, having tried dozens of cases around the country.
Antitrust litigation has been a specialty of Manne and his firm for decades. He has handled cases in a wide range of industries for both plaintiffs and defendants. The Best Lawyers in America named Manne the Antitrust Lawyer of the Year in Houston in both 2019 and 2017.
Energy Litigation
Energy litigation takes Manne to the courthouse often. He currently handles a large docket of cases for Chevron, including dozens of coastal land loss cases in Louisiana, and global climate change cases in numerous states. Manne handles major litigation for Vitol in California, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
Manne is one of very few lawyers to win constitutional cases at trial. Manne tried a case in San Juan, Puerto Rico challenging the constitutionality of an onerous transfer tax. The federal district judge struck down the statute as unconstitutional, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit unanimously affirmed. Manne won a landmark ruling in federal court in Houston , affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, that the system of cash bail used in Harris County, Texas, violated the constitutional rights of thousands of misdemeanor arrestees. Manne tried a case in Austin challenging the constitutionality of Texas statutes prohibiting public companies from selling liquor. The federal district judge agreed that the statutes were unconstitutional.
Manne handles complex tort cases for both plaintiffs and defendants. He helped devise the first mass subrogation claim, which allowed Susman Godfrey to make large recoveries for hundreds of health care plans in national class action litigation involving products as diverse as Vioxx, silicone breast implants and diet drugs. Manne was lead counsel for defendants in the Rio Piedras Explosion Litigation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, directing the efforts of seven law firms in the defense of more than 500 consolidated lawsuits. He has been Walmart’s national trial counsel on dozens of high-exposure tort cases involving serious injuries or death.
Manne handles class actions for plaintiffs and defendants throughout the country. He was national trial counsel for Walmart in the largest wage & hour class actions in the country, trying cases from California to Pennsylvania. He tried an antitrust class action for more than 4 months in Alaska for a class of salmon fishermen. In Kentucky, for Rawlings Group, he won the first employment class action ever tried to a jury verdict. He has resolved class actions for Chevron, ACE Insurance, Ltd., and many other companies.
Complex Insurance Coverage Disputes
Manne has represented plaintiffs and defendants in complex insurance coverage disputes, across the country and even internationally. For Equitas, he handled matters involving coverage for environmental clean-up and asbestos liability. For ACE Insurance Ltd., Manne handled not only insurance matters relating to D&O coverage and product liability coverage, but also matters involving antitrust, aviation, and securities fraud claims. Manne represented Texas Brine Company in insurance coverage litigation arising from an enormous sinkhole in Louisiana. He also has handled complex insurance coverage litigation for Walmart.
Executive Compensation Disputes
When CEO’s and other top corporate executives are fired by their companies, they often call on Manne to represent them in breach of contract litigation. Most such cases settle before trial, but when they don’t Manne has never lost. He’s won trials for Brian Hughes, Paul Beck and Ray Weems against Cambrian Capital Partners; for Dan Pena against Great Western Resources; for Jonathan Carroll against Enserch; and for David Siegel against Budget Group.
Manne handles intellectual property litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants. He defended Dealix on patent infringement claims by Autobytel and won large recoveries for SuperSpeed Software in separate patent infringement cases against Oracle and IBM. Manne defended Walmart at trial on claims of misappropriation of trade secrets brought by a former vendor. The 8th Circuit affirmed the federal district court’s judgment in favor of Walmart on the majority of the trade secret claims. The award to the former vendor was smaller than its own attorney’s fees, and the vendor went bankrupt.
11th Hour Dependability
As a true trial specialist, Manne often is hired to take over a case from another law firm when trial is imminent:
CBRE hired Manne to take over a long-running construction dispute as trial neared.
Walmart brought Manne in to take over a variety of cases as trial approached, including IP disputes, employment class actions, and products liability cases.
Modern art icon Robert Rauschenberg hired Manne after dozens of his paintings were seized from a museum to satisfy a default judgment. Manne won an injunction ordering the return of the art. When Manne eventually resolved the underlying dispute, a grateful Rauschenberg gave Manne’s law firm two of his paintings as a bonus.
Lloyds, on behalf of the London insurance market, hired Manne to take over and resolve four pollution clean-up coverage cases, some of them pending for many years.
Aetna hired Manne just before trial in an eight-year-old pollution coverage dispute.
The Torrington Company hired Manne only months before trial to defend it in a helicopter crash case that had been pending for seven years.
Precision Airmotives hired Manne just before trial in an airplane crash case.
Investment banker Frank Benevento hired Manne and his partner Steve Susman a few months before trial to take over his long-running case against RJR Nabisco. They won a large jury verdict for Benevento in federal court in New York.
A group of Michigan plaintiffs had been in litigation against CENTRA, their family trucking empire, for nearly eight years when they hired Manne and Susman a few weeks before trial. After an eleven-week jury trial in Michigan, plaintiffs recovered an enormous settlement.
Pro Bono Service to the Community
Manne takes seriously the legal profession’s mandate that lawyers provide free legal services to the needy. His fast-paced trial practice and his work as a Managing Partner of Susman Godfrey has not stopped him from serving the community and the legal profession. In 2018, the National Law Journal (ALM) profiled Manne’s pro bono work, which landed Susman Godfrey on its “Pro Bono Hot List.” In 2017, the American College of Trial Lawyers praised Manne’s “incredibly wide range of pro bono cases.” The ADL honored Manne with its 2011 “Jurisprudence Award,” given for “commitment to equality, justice, fairness, and community service.”
In recognition of Manne’s “lifetime of volunteer service to the community,” the Houston Bar Association Auxiliary selected Manne as the 2003 recipient of the Leon Jaworski Award. In 1996, he was named the “Distinguished Alumnus for Community Service” by The University of Texas School of Law. Manne’s pro bono legal work on behalf of women’s rights led the National Women’s Political Caucus to honor Manne (along with then-Vice President Al Gore) as the national “Good Guy of the Year” in 1994. The Houston Press followed suit, calling Manne “Good Guy Lawyer of the Year” in Houston, and Planned Parenthood gave him its Public Service Award.
On a pro bono basis, Manne has represented:
a class of indigent individuals held in jail because they could not afford cash bail,
a refugee resettlement agency successfully opposing the State of Texas’ effort to block Syrian refugees,
an indigent woman facing the loss of her home,
a religious organization,
women’s health clinics targeted by violent protesters,
a charitable trust,
two different exonerated death row inmates,
Houston’s public access television station,
Muslim jail inmates seeking accommodation of their religion’s dietary restrictions,
the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts,
the Texas Defender Service, and
world-renowned artist James Turrell.
In these and other pro bono cases, Manne has donated more than $2 million of his time to people and organizations who would not otherwise have had high quality legal services. Click here to read about some of Manne’s noteworthy pro bono cases.
Associate Editor, Texas Law Review, 1979-80
Chief Counsel and Staff Director, U. S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice, 1985-86
Chief of Staff, U. S. Senator Arlen Specter, 1987-88
Commissioner, Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (appointed by Governor Ann Richards) 1992-93
Member, Harris County-Houston Sports Authority (appointed by Mayor Bill White), 2005-06
“Good Guy of the Year” (co-honoree with then-Vice President Gore), National Women’s Political Caucus (1994)
Profiled in “45 Under 45,” The American Lawyer’s profile of the 45 best young lawyers in America (1995, ALM)
University of Texas School of Law “Distinguished Alumnus of the Year for Community Service”(1996)
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
Included on Lawdragon’s list of The 500 Best Lawyers in America in every year since 2010, and named a “Lawdragon Legend” in 2016
Houston Bar Association Auxiliary’s Leon Jaworski Award for “a lifetime of volunteer service to the community” (2003)
ADL Jurisprudence Award for “commitment to equality, justice, fairness and community service” (2011)
Ranked as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in America by Benchmark Litigation (2020)
Ranked as one of the best attorneys in the state of Texas in Law & Politics magazine’s “Texas Super Lawyers” (Thomson Reuters) (2003-2020)
Named one of the best 20 commercial litigation attorneys in Texas in multiple editions of Chambers USA Awards for Excellence client guides (based on survey of clients and other lawyers)
Repeatedly named as one of the “Bet-the-Company” litigators in Texas by “The Best Lawyers in America” (Woodard White Inc.). The 2016 and 2018 editions named Manne “Lawyer of the Year” for “Bet-the-Company Litigation” in Houston. The 2017 and 2019 editions named Manne “Lawyer of the Year” for Antitrust Litigation in Houston
Board of Directors: The University of Texas School of Law Foundation, Houston Bar Foundation (Vice Chair), Texas Law Review Association (President), The Houston Zoo, Houston Food Bank, Texas Freedom Network, Texas Appleseed Foundation, Texas Defender Service (Chair), University of Texas Foundation, Women’s Advocacy Project, Center for AIDS (Chair), Houston Area Women’s Center, People for the American Way, Annie’s List, Houston Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston Arboretum and Nature Center, Anti-Defamation League, Planned Parenthood Federation of America Action Fund, University of Texas Development Board Executive Committee, University of Texas Chancellor’s Council Executive Committee, Grand Teton National Park Foundation
Manne has served on numerous boards of directors, both within the legal profession and in the community at large. He was the founding Chair of the Board of Houston’s Center for AIDS, Vice Chair of the Houston Bar Foundation, President of the Texas Law Review Association, Commissioner (appointed by Governor Ann Richards) of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, member (appointed by Mayor Bill White) of the Harris County Houston Sports Authority, and a member of the boards of directors of many organizations, including The University of Texas School of Law Foundation, The Houston Zoo, the Houston Area Women’s Center, People for the American Way, Annie’s List, the Anti-Defamation League, the University of Texas Foundation, the Houston Food Bank, the University of Texas Development Board Executive Committee, Texas Defender Service, the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Action Fund, the Houston Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the University of Texas System’s Chancellor’s Council Executive Committee, Congregation Beth Israel, Texas Appleseed Foundation, the Women’s Advocacy Project, the Texas Freedom Network, and the Grand Teton National Park Foundation.
District of Columbia Bar
State Bar of Arkansas
Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
Fellow, Houston Bar Foundation
Texas Law Review Association
Elected member, American Board of Trial Advocates
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Seth Ard
New York Office Phone: (212) 471-8354 Email Download vCard Print Bio to PDF
Michigan State University, first in class, highest honors (B.A., Philosophy & French Literature, 1997)
Northwestern University (M.A., A.B.D., Philosophy, 2003)
Harvard Law School, magna cum laude (J.D. 2007)
Law Clerk to the Honorable Shira A. Scheindlin, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2008-2009
Law Clerk to the Honorable Rosemary S. Pooler, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2007-2008
Seth Ard, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s New York office and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, has secured substantial litigation victories for both plaintiffs and defendants. For plaintiffs, Ard was co-lead counsel for a certified class of insurance policy owners, helping them achieve what the Court in the Southern District of New York described as “the best settlement pound for pound for the class that I’ve ever seen.” For defendants, Ard has obtained take-nothing judgments for NASDAQ and Dorfman Pacific in contract and intellectual property actions seeking tens of millions of dollars. In both 2019 and 2020, Mr. Ard was named one of the country’s Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers by Lawdragon.
Before joining the firm, Mr. Ard clerked for the Honorable Shira A. Scheindlin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and for the Honorable Rosemary S. Pooler of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Ard graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and completed his undergraduate work first in his class with a perfect GPA from Michigan State University, with dual degrees in philosophy and French literature. For the past three years, Ard has been recognized as a “Rising Star” in New York by Super Lawyers magazine.
Recognized on Lawdragon 500’s 2019 list of the country’s Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers (2019, 2020)
2013-2015 listings of Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” in New York (Law & Politics Magazine, Thomson Reuters)
Teaching and Research Assistant for Professor Arthur Miller (Harvard Law School)
Teaching Assistant for Professor Jon Hanson (Harvard Law School)
Editorial Board, Harvard Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Law Review
In re LIBOR-Based Financial Instruments Litigation (SDNY)
Ongoing. Along with Bill Carmody, Marc Seltzer, and Arun Subramanian, Ard serves as co-lead counsel for the class of over-the-counter purchasers of LIBOR-based instruments, directly representing Yale University and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore as named plaintiffs. We reached a $120 million settlement with Barclays, and pursue claims against the rest of the 16 LIBOR panel banks.
In re Municipal Derivatives Litigation (SDNY)
Ongoing. Along with Bill Carmody and Marc Seltzer, Ard serves as co-lead counsel to a class of municipalities suing 10 large banks and broker for rigging municipal auctions. On behalf of the class and class counsel, Ard argued final approval and fee application motions approving cash settlements in excess of $100 million, as well as several key discovery motions against defendants and the DOJ that paved the way for those settlements.
Fleisher et al. v. Phoenix Life Insurance Company (SDNY)
September 2015. Along with Steven Sklaver and Frances Lewis, Ard served as class counsel in a seminal action challenging 2 cost of insurance increases by Pheonix. After winning class certification and defeating two motions for class decertification and a motion for summary judgment, the case settled the day of the final Pretrial Conference in a settlement valued by the Court at over $140 million. Judge Colleen McMahon praised Susman Godfrey’s settlement of the case as “an excellent, excellent result for the class,” which “may be the best settlement pound for pound for the class that I’ve ever seen.”
Globus Medical v. Bonutti Skeletal (EDPA)
March 2015. Along with Jacob Buchdahl and Arun Subramanian, Ard represents defendant Bonutti Skeletal in patent litigation brought by Globus Medical. Ard successfully argued a partial motion to dismiss the patent complaint, defeating claims of indirect infringement, vicarious liability and punitive damages.
Sentius v. Microsoft (NDCA)
February 2015. Along with Max Tribble and Vineet Bhatia, Ard represented plaintiff Sentius in a patent infringement suit against Microsoft. A few weeks before trial, Ard successfully argued a Daubert motion that sought to exclude plaintiff’s survey expert. The case settled on highly favorable terms within 24 hours of that motion being denied. Previously, Ard had successfully argued an early summary judgment motion and supplemental claim construction, both of which would have gutted plaintiff’s claims.
Jefferies v. NASDAQ Arbitration (New York)
January 2013. Jefferies & Co. v. NASDAQ. – Along with Steve Susman and Steve Morrissey, Ard represented NASDAQ and its affiliate IDCG in an arbitration in New York. The plaintiff, Jefferies & Co., sought tens of millions of dollars in damages based on a claim that it was fraudulently induced to clear interest rate swaps through the IDCG clearinghouse. After a one week arbitration trial in the fall of 2012, at which Ard put on NASDAQ’s expert and crossed Jefferies’ expert, the Panel issued a decision in January 2013 denying all of Jefferies’ claims and awarding no damages. The arbitrators were former Judge Layn Phillips, Judge Vaughn R. Walker, and Judge Abraham D. Sofaer.
GMA v. Dorfman Pacific (SDNY)
November 2012. Along with Bill Carmody and Jacob Buchdahl, Ard obtained a complete defense victory on summary judgment in a trademark infringement dispute before Judge Forrest in SDNY. We were hired after the close of discovery and after our client had suffered significant discovery sanctions that threatened to undermine its defense. We were able to overturn those sanctions, reopen discovery and obtain key admissions during a deposition of Plaintiff’s CEO, and win on summary judgment (without argument and based on briefing done by Ard).
Washington Mutual Bankruptcy (Bkrtcy. Del.)
February 2012. Along with Parker Folse, Edgar Sargent, and Justin Nelson, Ard represented the Official Committee of Equity Holders in Washington Mutual, Inc. at two trials contesting $7 billion reorganization plans that would have wiped out shareholders stemming from the largest bank failure in American financial history. Both plans were supported by the debtor and all major creditors. After the first trial, at which Ard put on the Equity Committee’s expert and crossed the debtor’s expert, the Judge denied the plan of reorganization. The debtors and creditors negotiated a new reorganization plan that again would have wiped out shareholders. After the second trial, at which Ard put on the Equity Committee’s expert, crossed the debtor’s expert, and conducted a full-day cross examination of hedge fund Appaloosa Management that held over $1 billion in creditor claims and that was accused of insider trading, the Court again denied the plan of reorganization, finding that the Equity Committee stated a viable claim of insider trading against the hedge funds. The Equity Committee then negotiated with the debtor and certain key creditors a resolution that provided shareholders with 95 percent of the post-bankruptcy WaMu plus other assets in a package worth hundreds of millions of dollars – an outstanding result especially given that when we were appointed counsel, the debtor tried to disband the equity committee on the ground that equity was “hopelessly out of the money” without any chance of recovery.
Lincoln Life v. LPC Holdings (Supreme Court Onandaga, New York)
2011. Along with Steven Sklaver and Arun Subramanian, Ard represented an insurance trust in STOLI litigation against an insurance company seeking to rescind a life insurance policy with a face value of $20 million. After Ard argued and won a hotly contested motion to compel in which the Court threatened to revoke the pro hoc license of opposing counsel, Lincoln settled the case on very favorable terms.
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THE DESIGN FILES + LAMINEX DESIGN AWARDS
The Design Files + Laminex Design Awards is an awards program designed to acknowledge the designers, architects and makers who contribute to Australia’s vibrant creative community.
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From established to emerging creatives, home studios to globally recognised design firms, these awards bring together the very best in Australian design and creativity.
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Rachel Nolan
Rachel Nolan is a principal of Kennedy Nolan, established with Patrick Kennedy in Melbourne in 1999. Kennedy Nolan is an architecture practice which has established a strong reputation for making architecture with a distinct approach to built form and highly considered interiors, and has been recognised by numerous design awards.
Paul Bangay is widely regarded as the foremost garden designer in Australia today, having completed an extensive list of private and public commissions across the world. In 2001, Paul was awarded the Centenary Medal for his contribution to public design projects, and in 2018, he received a Medal of the Order of Australia for service to landscape architecture. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Horticulture) from the University of Melbourne.
Khai Liew
Khai Liew is a multi-disciplinary design practice based in Adelaide. The practice comprises a design studio and workshop, where highly-skilled craftspeople produce one-off design commissions, small-run furniture editions, and complete interiors. Khai himself is an expert in Australian historical decorative arts. His designs have been exhibited at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and Design Museum, as well as Triennale De Milano.
Chelsea Hing is recognised as one of the go-to designers for residential interiors in Australia. Celebrated for her fearless eye for colour, her interiors result in soulful and expressive spaces, full of personality. Her work is published widely, and has been recognised in various awards programs.
John Wardle
John Wardle is a celebrated Australian architect with an international reputation. His process builds upon ideas that evolve from a site’s topography, landscape, history and context.
Elisa Carmichael
Elisa is a Ngugi woman from Quandamooka Country (Moreton Island/Moorgumpin and Stradbroke Island/Minjerribah, Queensland). Her practice honours her cultural heritage by incorporating materials collected from Country, utilising traditional techniques and expressing contemporary adaptations through the mediums of painting, weaving and textiles. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Queensland College of Art and a Masters of Fine Art from the Queensland University of Technology.
Nick Garnham
Nick Garnham is the owner and co-founder of Australian furniture label, Jardan. Established in 1987 alongside his brother, the company has grown from humble beginnings to over 130 staff today. Every Jardan piece is crafted to order in Melbourne, with care and precision, by hand.
Miriam Fanning
Miriam Fanning is the founder and principal of Melbourne-based, multi-disciplinary practice, Mim Design. With over 20 year experience as an interior designer, Miriam has built a strong reputation in the design industry. She has been involved in many types of design projects, ranging from residential through to hospitality, hotel, and large-scale retail.
Karen Alcock
Karen Alcock established MAArchitects in 2008 after 10 years working as a director of Neometro Architects. Karen is passionate about the importance of architecture in creating liveable spaces that people want to live, work and play in.
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Bruce Rowe
Bruce Rowe is an artist, architect and designer living and working in Melbourne, Australia. He is the creative director of Anchor Ceramics and Bruce Rowe Studio. Working across disciplines, he conducts visual research and experiments with the materiality of clay to develop and expand what is possible in the ceramics process.
William Dangar
William Dangar is one of Australia’s preeminent landscape designers. With a career spanning 25 years, he has designed and built some of the country’s most iconic residential landscapes. In addition to his Sydney-based design practice, Dangar Barin Smith, William is also creative director of Robert Plumb.
Sophie Gannon
Sophie Gannon is the founder and director of Sophie Gannon Gallery, founded in 2007. Since 2016, Sophie has been commissioning and showing original Australian design pieces, alongside Australian art, presenting an annual showcase of bespoke furniture and object design called ‘Designwork’. Sophie also sits on the board of the Robin Boyd Foundation.
Jeremy McLeod
Melbourne architect Jeremy McLeod is the founder and director of Breathe Architecture – a practice with a reputation for delivering high quality, sustainable design. Jeremy is also the founder of the Nightingale Housing model facilitating the delivery of architect-led housing that is financially, socially and environmentally sustainable.
Volker Haug
German-born lighting designer Volker Haug established his Australian design and manufacturing practice over a decade ago. Based on the principles of longevity and quality, each design is individually made to order and assembled by hand in the studio’s Melbourne workshop.
Jeremy Wortsman
Jeremy Wortsman is the founder and director of creative services agency, The Jacky Winter Group, its associated gallery space Lamington Drive, and guesthouse and artist residency, Jacky Winter Gardens. He is also the host of the Melbourne chapter of Creative Mornings, and a founding member of The Contemplary.
Kate Stokes
Kate Stokes is a Melbourne-based furniture and lighting designer who works closely with local craftspeople and manufacturers to create playful products with depth of character. Born and raised in Western Australia, Kate studied Industrial Design at Curtin University of Technology. After moving to Melbourne, she established her own furniture and lighting design brand, Coco Flip, in 2010.
Juliette Arent
Juliette Arent is a principal and co-founder of Sydney-based interior design studio Arent&Pyke. Since its inception 2007, Arent&Pyke has grown into an award-winning design practice with a distinctive style and approach to living in the home. Juliette holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture) from UNSW, and an Advanced Diploma in Interior Design.
Georgina Reid
Georgina Reid is the editor and creative director of The Planthunter online magazine, and she has a background in landscape design, horticulture, and journalism. Georgina also contributes to a range of design publications, including The Design Files where she is a columnist. Her first book, The Planthunter: Truth, Beauty, Chaos and Plants, was published in 2018 by Thames & Hudson.
Karina Seljak
Karina Seljak is the co-founder and director of Seljak Brand – a label producing blankets made using offcuts from the factory floor of Australia’s oldest woollen mill in Tasmania. The label’s circular model diverts waste from landfill, as well as providing a collection service for used blankets. Seljak Brand won The Design Files + Laminex Design Award for Sustainable Design in 2019.
Megan Morton
Megan Morton is a celebrated stylist and award-winning author. She has been called on to style, design and work her `house whispering’ magic for celebrities, magazines and her next-door neighbours. Megan’s work has been featured on the covers of several glossies, including Elle Decoration UK, Vanity Fair, Vogue Living and Inside Out.
Cassie Byrnes
Cassie Byrnes is a surface pattern designer, and the owner/textile designer of Melbourne-made label, Variety Hour. Since graduating from RMIT University in 2014 with a BA in Textile Design, Cassie has collaborated with brands from Anthropologie to Google, Häagen-Dazs, Microsoft and Penguin. Most recently, Cassie collaborated with Nike one an exclusive clothing collection for the 2020 Australian Open.
Amanda Henderson
Amanda Henderson launched her event design and visual merchandising business, Gloss Creative, 19 years ago. What ensued has been a stellar career of incredible large-scale event design and visual merchandising concepts, including a spectacular recreation of Versailles inside a racing marquee, collaborating with artist Bill Henson, and even making it rain on a fashion runway.
Luciana Wallis
Luciana Wallis is a textile designer and product developer with over 13 years experience in the Australian textile design industry. She is design manager at Warwick Fabrics, working with printers, dyers, weavers and suppliers worldwide to create distinctive textile collections.
Simone LeAmon
Simone LeAmon has established a career as one of Australia’s foremost design professionals. Elevating the importance of design and creativity, and the work of the creative communities we live in, she has been working internationally for more than two decades as an artist, industrial designer, design curator, writer, industry consultant and university lecturer. Simone was appointed the inaugural Hugh Williamson Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2015.
Amanda Dziedzic
Amanda Dziedzic is a Melbourne-based glass blower, designer and maker, and the co-founder of Hot Haus – Melbourne’s newest glassblowing studio in Heidelberg West. Amanda is not only a judge of this year’s handcrafted category, she’s also the creator of Awards’ stunning glass trophies, which are back again by popular demand for 2020!
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Neo-Expressionism
Neo-Expressionism - History and Concepts
Started: Late 1970s
Ended: Early 1990s
Beginnings of Neo-Expressionism
Origins in Germany
Neo-Expressionism arrived in Germany with great controversy when Georg Baselitz opened an exhibition in West Berlin in 1963. The contents of the show were quickly confiscated by the State Attorney on the grounds of indecency; one painting portrayed a figure masturbating, while another depicted a male figure with an erection. His later exhibitions wouldn't attract such extreme reactions, but the iconography of giant, primitive "heroes," and the use of expressionistic figuration in his early pictures, soon drew notice in an art world that seemed to be moving away from such imagery, and even painting in general, judged by the popularity of Pop art, Fluxus, and Minimalism.
By the late 1970s, Baselitz was at the head of a loose-knit group of German artists known as Neue Wilden (the 'New Fauves'). Associated with the label were artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Markus Lupertz, Eugen Schonebeck, and A.R. Penck. Taking as their inspiration the early Expressionist works of George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Edvard Munch, the action paintings of Willem de Kooning, and the late quasi-abstract figurative paintings of Pablo Picasso, they together found a new vitality in figurative painting.
Precursors in USA
This period ushered in a revival of painting in the United States, as well. For many, it was considered liberating to create art in this traditional manner, combining abstract and figurative forms, and drawing on a range of earlier styles. An important precursor in the United States was Philip Guston, originally an Abstract Expressionist, who returned to figurative work in the late 1960s in a bold and raw expressive style. Guston was particularly influential; in the late 1960s, he had become disenchanted with abstract painting and developed a style shaped in part by cartoons, and in part by social realism. Historians have also pointed to the paintings of Leon Golub (e.g. his Vietnam series from 1973) as a precursor to the Neo-Expressionists. Golub addressed the socio-political upheavals in America in a similarly emotional and brutish style.
As the movement expanded globally, a wide range of artists were associated with the stylistic shift. Some older artists such as Francis Bacon were claimed as predecessors, while others associated with American trends of the 1970s, such as "New Image Painting," were also linked to Neo-Expressionism.
Neo-Expressionism: Concepts, Styles, and Trends
Since the advent of Abstract Expressionism, painting had become increasingly less focused on subject matter and more concerned with form. Pop art had re-introduced a concern with subject matter of a particular kind, but Neo-Expressionism inaugurated a return to romantic subjects. Some drew on myth and history, while others on primitivism and natural imagery. The first use of the term Neo-Expressionism is undocumented; however, by 1982 it was being widely used to describe new German and Italian art, also happening to be a testament to the end of United States domination of the postwar art world.
Neo-Expressionism in Germany
Baselitz moved to West Berlin from East Germany in 1956. Though he had been a rebellious student in East Germany, Baselitz culled his subject matter from his East German roots. The historian and art critic Edward Lucie-Smith notes that Expressionism became the official style of East Germany after WWII because of the hostility shown by the Nazis to the original German Expressionists. Both Baselitiz and A.R. Penck, who also hailed from East Germany, were simultaneously pioneers and rogues within the movement. Both explored the "how" of painting rather than the "why," in method rather than content. Penck created a language of graphic signs that looked back to Picasso and forward to such Graffiti and Street artists as Keith Haring. In 1967, Baselitz started painting his figures upside down, more to point out how the painting was done rather than what it meant (at least in any detailed way). Other members of the Neo-Expressionist group used their work to examine Germany and the problems of its recent history. For these artists, the return to Expressionism was part of a more general shift in society towards addressing the country's troubled modern history. In connecting with a style that pre-dated World War II, Georg Baselitz and Markus Lupertz seemed to be trying to overcome, at least to some extent, the legacy of the Nazis. However, the principle example (and achievement) of transcending the Nazi years would be the work of Anselm Kiefer. Some German Neo-Expressionist art was also openly political as in the work of Jorg Immendorf who turned his attention to the problems of a divided Germany.
Neo-Expressionism in Italy
The Italian version of Neo-Expressionism is often referred to as the Trans-Avantgarde, a term invented in 1979 by the Italian critic Achille Bonito Olivia. The idea, according to Bonito, was to escape the sparseness of the Arte Povera movement in Italy. There is a strong element of parody, which can be seen in the "mock-heroic" work of Sandro Chia, for example. Francesco Clemente, is originally Italian, but left the country to divide his time between India and New York, and absorbing specific stylistic influences from those settings. The most traditionally Expressionistic of the group (and closest to the Germans in style) is Enzo Cucchi. Finally, the work of Mimmo Paladino is described as more individual and more Italian, with works alluding to ancient Italian sources.
Neo-Expressionism in the USA
By the early 1980s, American artists entered the Neo-Expressionist arena. The artists usually associated with American Neo-Expressionism are the group of New York-based artists that includes Eric Fischl, who emphasized human psychology, and Julian Schnabel, who summoned historical imagery to create highly personal works. Sometimes associated with Neo-Expressionism was the arrival of graffiti art in the galleries. This was particularly significant in New York, where Jean-Michel Basquiat became known for his aggressive brush strokes, broad splatters of paint and emotionally-charged subject matter. In many respects, Basquiat - alongside Julian Schnabel - became the poster child for the Neo-Expressionist movement of the 1980s: a self-styled primitive who was eagerly welcomed by the decadent and upscale art world.
The 1980s was a time of great affluence and unabashed consumerism, when the New York art market grew exponentially and the selling prices for contemporary art reached seemingly absurd heights. Rather than reject this environment of commodification, or isolate themselves from the art world, as had many Abstract Expressionists, Basquiat and Schnabel embraced the glitter and the noise fully.
Later Developments - After Neo-Expressionism
Neo-Expressionism dominated the art market in Europe and the United States until the mid-1980s. However, there is some debate about the ways in which the later developments of Neo-Expressionism played themselves out. Some think that through the artwork of Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente, and others, Neo-Expressionism had become synonymous with the more conservative trends in the art of the 1980s rather than with the avant-garde. Even though many of the movement's artists incorporated political and cultural content, few were interested in the leftist politics associated with a contemporary trend, critical Postmodernism. They did not feel obliged to glorify the world or "tamper with reality," as Clemente once put it, but simply to work with form and depict the world as it existed, in all its harshness and ugliness. This led to vibrant discussions on the value and purpose of painting, in which Neo-Expressionism was often held up as an example of all that was wrong with the medium.
Nevertheless, this criticism did little to dampen the style's success, and its decline was a result of the movement's over-production and the collapse of the market at the end of the 1980s. Artists, critics, and the art market -- all intent on making money and/or reputations -- conspired to hasten its end. Scholars have not yet sorted out the exact placement of Neo-Expressionism in the art historical narrative. Some see the movement as a kind of late manifestation of modernism, while others see it as the end of modernism. Theorists Arthur Danto and Frederic Jameson place it within the context of postmodernism with its self-aware, surface-oriented banality and use of pastiche. And there are others who emphasize Neo-Expressionism's role in the transition from modernism to postmodernism, pointing to the two major artists whose work persisted through the collapse of the 1980s art bubble: Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter. Both were able to simultaneously sustain multiple styles, including the traditional application of paint, even if in tongue-in-cheek and thus more conceptually based manner. In any case, enthusiasm for Neo-Expressionism was being steadily subsumed by emerging discussions of, for example, the need for the inclusion of more female artists as well as new directions in appropriation.
Georg Baselitz is a twentieth century German painter and sculptor, and was an originator of the Neo-Expressionist group "Neue Wilden," which focused on subject-based painting and the importance of color. Much of Baselitz's work is noted for its provocative subject matter, often sexual or overtly dark in nature.
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American painter who rose to fame in the 1980s, and was the first African-American artist to gain international acclaim. His emotionally-charged paintings gave rise to graffiti art and the Neo-Expressionist movement, and are still considered among the most avant-garde artworks of the late twentieth century.
Initially associated with the New York School of abstract art, Guston famously abandoned pure abstraction in the 1950s and turned to figurative art and quasi-abstract cartoon imagery. His later work, for which he is best known, was a major influence on the development of Neo-Expressionism in the U.S.
Julian Schnabel is an American painter, interior decorator and filmmaker. In addition to being a major figure in the Neo-Expressionist movement, he is most well-known as the director of such films as Basquiat and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Eric Fischl is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, who was a seminal figure of the late twentieth-century Neo-Expressionist movement. From his colorful portraits to his iconic suburban interiors and beach scenes, Fischl's work deals largely with themes of the body, sexuality, and modern American society.
Francesco Clemente
Francesco Clemente is an Italian painter commonly associated with the Neo-Expressionist movement, otherwise known as Italian Transavantguardia. Much of his work fuses sexuality with an emotional rawness and brutality. Clemente's paintings also contain visual elements of Surrealism.
Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor, and was a pioneer of the late-twentieth-century movement Neo-Expressionism. Kiefer's mixed-media art typically incorporates straw, clay, lead and shellac, in addition to traditional paint and canvas. The themes of his work often focus on the atrocities of the Holocaust, as well as the occult, cosmos, and mythology.
David Salle is a contemporary American artist whose work uses imagery from the world of advertising and consumerism. He deals with voyeurism, sex, and the gaze in works that often allow for multiple interpretations.
Expressionism is a broad term for a host of movements in early twentieth-century Germany and beyond, from Die Brücke (1905) and Der Blaue Reiter (1911) to the early Neue Sachlichkeit painters in the 1920s and '30s. Many Expressionists used vivid colors and abstracted forms to create spiritually or psychologically intense works, while others focused on depictions of war, alienation, and the modern city.
A tendency among New York painters of the late 1940s and '50s, all of whom were committed to an expressive art of profound emotion and universal themes. The movement embraced the gestural abstraction of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, and the color field painting of Mark Rothko and others. It blended elements of Surrealism and abstract art in an effort to create a new style fitted to the postwar mood of anxiety and trauma.
School of London
The School of London was a post-war group of painters who rejected the avant-garde trends of the time and helped reinvigorate figurative art.
Important Art and Artists of Neo-Expressionism
Content compiled and written by Justin Wolf
"Neo-Expressionism Movement Overview and Analysis". [Internet]. . TheArtStory.org
First published on 21 Oct 2014. Updated and modified regularly
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The Boys Who Would Be Bieber
No challenger has credibly threatened Justin's teen-pop reign—but why?
Reuters / Ronan Parke on Facebook / codysimpson.com / greyson-official.com
At the start of this month, England crowned a new Justin Bieber.
Twelve-year-old Ronan Parke—cherubic, bangs side-swept, missing canine tooth giving him a slight Alfred E. Newman-esque air of mischief, with a precociously soulful singing voice—was runner-up on the latest season of Britain's Got Talent. Long before he even had a chance to lose, however, the UK press had elected him heir apparent to Bieber's throne.
The quest for the boy who will overthrow the Canadian pop wunderkind is not a phenomenon exclusive to the British media or music industry. Parke descends from a long line of "next Biebers."
The first of these was Australian singer-songwriter Cody Simpson—"Queensland's Justin Bieber"—age 14. Like the best Biebers, he has the haircut, plays an instrument (Justin plays four), and launched his career by singing pop covers on YouTube. His acoustic version of Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River," could bring Vin Diesel to tears. He was discovered by Shawn Campbell, a producer who has worked with Jay-Z and R&B singer Ciara, and early last year signed a four-album deal with Atlantic Records.
Greyson Chance, 13, made his first televised appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show after a video of him performing a melismatic cover of Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" at his sixth-grade talent show in Edmond, Oklahoma surfaced on YouTube last year. During the Ellen taping, he received a call from Mother Monster herself, who had some characteristically inspirational advice: "Everyone loves you so much," she said. "Just keep following your dreams and work really hard, and stay away from girls and be focused." Chance became the first artist signed to DeGeneres's label, Eleveneleven, a subsidiary of Geffen/Universal.
And then there's Jackson Guthy. At 15, he's a little over the Bieber hill – but don't count him out just yet. The Los Angeles-born singer is also a DeGeneres favorite; he performed his single, "L-O-V-I-N-G" on her show in April.
Honorable mention goes to Jamie Laou and Matty B. The former is an impertinent Australian high school senior with no musical ability who gained traction at the end of last year for his uncanny resemblance to Bieber. "i read EVERY LETTER, wear every item," reads his bio on Twitter, where he is more popular than his country's Prime Minister. The latter, a rapping 8-year-old with the musical prolificacy of Lil Wayne, is both the youngest and most disturbing wannabieber, the obvious product of determined stage parents with a production budget and a dream.
Girls can be Biebers, too. Teen YouTube sensations Charice Pempengco and Rebecca Black – whose video for "Friday" reached 100,000 YouTube views before Bieber's "Baby" did–have both been angling for portions of the boy star's audience.
Beyond the hairstyle (which its progenitor has already moved past), viral celebrity, heartthrob-ish first names, and lovelorn musical subject matter, these Bieber successors have one thing in common: They have yet to succeed on a grand scale. That is, none have come close to the youth-culture stranglehold the original enjoys.
In the '90s, pop acts had analogues whose sales rivaled that of their alpha versions. The Backstreet Boys gave rise to a decreasingly popular profusion of boy band alternates: *NSYNC, 98 Degrees, O-Town, LFO, et. al. Without Britney Spears, there would be no Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, and Mandy Moore, who are all still hanging in there.
By contrast, Bieber is singular, a one-boy hegemon. Greyson Chance's biggest hit to date has been "Waiting Outside the Lines," which never entered the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Cody Simpson hasn't even made it at home—his biggest hit, "iYiYi," peaked at 19 on Australia's ARIA singles chart. Jackson Guthy's Ellen performance currently sits below 50,000 YouTube views. You might own a pet that's more famous.
Regardless, it seems as though the music industry and press will not stop until Bieber is replaced—or, at least, credibly rivaled. By his devoted audience's decree, like Highlander, thus far, there can be only one.
"It's so sad that [people] just want to dethrone the person that's on top and find someone else. I mean, it happens all the time," says Seventeen magazine Entertainment Director Carissa Rosenberg Tozzi. "There is always someone new. It could happen in a year. It could happen in six months. It could happen in three years."
Tozzi also says that boy bands had it easier by offering fans a range of members from which to choose a favorite. "It has a different kind of appeal," she says. "It's harder for a boy as a solo artist–you really have to fall in love with him."
Therein lies the challenge. No amount of promotion from a record company, reality show, or Ellen DeGeneres can force a young person to fall for someone. It's the media equivalent of their parents suggesting who they should date. Beyond his clear talent as a performer, the ownership Bieber's fans feel over the singer is key to his peerless, pervasive appeal.
Much of that comes from the early bond he formed with his fans through social media, long before traditional media took notice.
"He was really a pioneer with Twitter," Tozzi says. "He was direct messaging his fans right off the bat and I think that he made every one of them really feel special. It was not so much of a generality, like, 'Oh, I love my fans so much,'—he literally took the time to respond directly to them."
Bieber's tour photographer Robert Caplin, who spent six months following the singer backstage, in the studio, and on his tour bus, where he awoke to piercing screams in a different city every morning, concurs.
"He has a genuine drive for success that most teenagers his age lack," he says. "Justin and his team worked very hard to build a following. He doesn't have to rely upon a label to market him. He can just do it himself on Twitter. That's pretty amazing."
Ultimately, finding someone who can live up to the "New Bieber" title in a meaningful way may just take time.
"There's the sort of 'Puff The Magic Dragon' thing where the kids will grow out of him, and then they'll be embarrassed," Paul Carr, a social media expert and columnist for TechCrunch, says. "It's like that thing you see with social networks like Bebo or MySpace and stuff that were very popular with one generation, but the moment they grew up, the thing just died. So you might see that the first generation will grow up, and the next one wants their own Justin Bieber.
"He's got a challenging few years ahead," Carr says. "I wouldn't want to be him."
More on Justin Bieber from The Atlantic:
Why Justin Bieber Lost the Grammy
Is 'Swag' Here to Stay?
Jason Richards is a writer from Toronto who has contributed to New York Magazine, Gawker, and RollingStone.com.
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Missing 15 Minutes: A Life In Radio
I was thinking recently of the process through which I came to have such a diverging set of intense fascinations. You know what it's like: you have a coffee in one hand, your eyes on the horizon and start thinking through the past. I realised (and not for the first time) the importance for me of ten years I spent producing a weekly radio programme, and how this led to a broadening and deepening of my interests. So here, a little personal history. (It's a blog after all; I'm allowed.)
In 1985 I had already worked as a DJ and announcer for several years at the college radio station CHRW in London, Ontario, Canada. If you look today you will find a station in that city with the same call letters. But the frequency has changed, the people have changed and the philosophy has been fundamentally altered.
Those who were able to listen to independent and community radio in North America from the sixties through the eighties will know what a vital time it was for artistic and political expression on the airwaves. That all died with the commodification of "indie" music in the nineties. Once "alternative" became just another marketing category, the death knell had sounded. College and community stations hooked their wagon to the commercial train, sold their soul and sat back to collect the rewards... which of course never came. Mass Corporate Copyright Moguls take, take, take and take again, but never give back anything but bribes. (And a bribe is not a gift; a bribe is a debt.)
But I didn't know anything about the upcoming expiry date way back in 1985. All I knew was the growing boredom of a typical DJ routine. So, to make a change, on 3 June 1985 I debuted a specialty show by the name of Missing 15 Minutes. This was an hour-long forum for whatever thematic concerns might come my way. At first it was largely devoted to music, featuring a different recording act each week. Sometimes I did interviews with the musicians themselves, as they passed through Ontario on tour. I talked with The Pixies, Simple Minds, Modern English, OMD, Icicle Works and others... often before their big "break". I distinctly remember telling a member of The Pixies, who then had only one (stupendous) EP released upon the world, that they would soon be the biggest band in America. They laughed.
Musically you could expect me to play "popular" (they weren't then) artists like Echo and the Bunnymen, Julian Cope, Joy Division, Gary Numan and Kate Bush (OK, she was already huge). But I soon realised that interviewing bands meant only that I was an unpaid marketing flunkie. I was not struck by the mystery of being in the presence of a star. The decisive moment came when I had the choice of private tea with Kate Bush or staying at home to study for an exam. I chose the exam. So I stopped chatting up stars and turned to more elusive fare: Durutti Column, Philip Glass, Wim Mertens, :zoviet-france: and The Hafler Trio. Serial music, ambient, industrial and noise artists muddled the mix alongside more pure pop offerings.
I wondered what the listeners thought, or even if I had listeners. It turned out that I did. Maybe they were few in number, but they seemed dedicated. Years later I'd run into someone who recognised my voice and would say something like "that show you did on Cocteau Twins changed my life". This was always nice to hear. Music can change a life; I know that. Never underestimate the power of pop. (Read Jon Savage, Paul Morley, Greil Marcus and Bill Drummond if you don't believe me.)
There were other sources for fans of creative music -- one or two late-night shows on the national radio network CBC catered to this audience. But these programmes were generally too pompous and inaccurate to be taken seriously. On the upside they introduced a lot of people to some great artists; on the down-side they scrambled histories, repeated lies and invented mythologies whole cloth. (Cocteau Twins being a good example, actually.)
Despite the great need for intelligent shows about intelligent music, my own programme slowly turned away from music as its primary focus. Instead of biographical details and discographies, Missing 15 Minutes was now more likely to feature a dramatic or fictional reading. There was a strong science-fiction component, with works by P.K. Dick, John Shirley, William Gibson, Hilary Bailey, Andrew Travers, John Sladek, Michael Moorcock, Thomas Disch (recently passed on in tragic circumstances) and others playing a large role. Also included were "slipstream" writers like Italo Calvino, Pynchon, Anais Nin, Baudelaire, D.M. Thomas, Marguerite Duras, Steve Erickson and Borges.
The stage was set in the second episode with a work by J.G. Ballard, soon to become a recurring favourite. But it was not for some time that an entire programme was dedicated to a reading of "Crash"... long before the film adaptation.
These writers were almost unknown on the airwaves in the years 1985-1995. (I am inclined to say "completely unknown" but I do know of a series of Ballard adaptations.) Looking back at this list I imagine some of these writers have not been heard on radio subsequently. I mean, Andrew Travers? Who the heck is he? Find Science Against Man edited by Anthony Cheetham and be prepared to have your mind blown wide open.
Obscurity aside, I think the biggest achievement in this catalogue was the erasure of genre boundaries that came from jamming such diverse authors side by side. I have always believed that "science-fiction" (bad term) is a superset of literature and not the other way around. This programme did not set out to prove that theory (it didn't set out to do anything, having no explicit agenda) but through accretion over time and force of will, demonstrated this principle better than any alternative praxis could.
Eventually "theory" itself began to make itself known in a more deliberate way. Readings from Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Albert Camus and Roland Barthes made way for excerpts from papers by Derrida and Baudrillard. I spoke on "The Problem of Building Socialist Cities" from a USSR publication I found in a library sale. Guests read from Welsh mythology and were interviewed about the journalism of disaster coverage.
My interest in pure sonic activities led to the broadcast of film audio tracks divorced from their visuals. These I later called "kinoscapes", to differentiate them from the musical cues commonly known as soundtracks. Popular favourites in this regard included THX 1138, The Prisoner, The Manchurian Candidate and Catch-22. You'd be surprised: some films are improved by turning off the visuals.
Or maybe this was just part of a process of refusal the show encompassed.
Politics too came to the fore. A potent entry on the Kent State massacre might have had the distancing effect of history to soften the impact (I don't think so... I was pretty worked up), but "IraqUsa", a collage of noise, industrial music and contemporary broadcasts (sampled off TV and radio) held no prisoners in January 1991. I played this as a symphony from the eight-track recording studio instead of the normal control room. All live, all unrehearsed, an eight-pronged octopus of media mayhem, with me barely in control.
My interest in radio itself as a medium led to alliances in the field of radio art. The Radio Possibilities Week event of 1991 turned the community station inside out in an attempt to discover what made it tick. Performers from across North America descended on the city for a series of art events. After this it seemed all barriers would break down. Extended programmes on nonsense and Alice In Wonderland were juxtaposed against a reading of "On An(archy) and Schizoanalysis" by Rolando Perez and the music of psychiatric inmate Adolf Wölfli. Special episodes on encryption and gravity were followed by those on China and hypnotism. It seemed like this was the only "reasonable" response to a world turning itself inside out: contort this medium likewise.
Back to Dada it seemed.
I thought of quiting several times, the work of the show being done, my energies spent. But the greatest refusal was a refusal to stop after so many years. An eight-part series on the New World Order established where I stood on the issues of the day. Just as seven shows on the group Wire made clear my musical allegiance (it's so obvious).
But though it was always about me, it was never only about me. My friends and fellow collaborators brought in Elliott Carter, Don Marquis, Donald Barthelme, John Zorn and more... influences I was feeling second-hand but which they could express directly. It was odd listening to someone else at the microphone during that designated hour... like I was on both sides of the radio signal. The effect would transfix me. Shot by both sides.
After this almost anything could happen: Aircraft Injuries, Fakes, a show for artist Greg Curnoe, an election programme, David Cronenberg, Isak Dinesen, Bill Clinton, Virtual Reality. In a Pythonesque turn Greenaway's film "Prospero's Books" of the play "The Tempest" was interpreted through the book of the film by presenting the radio programme of the book. If only we'd had a film crew in the studio! But some circles are better left broken.
Some weeks I spent a dozen hours researching and preparing for sixty minutes of air time. (Actually it was more like 45 minutes once one subtracted out the sponsorships and titles -- missing 15 minutes indeed!) Other times I winged it based on a few photocopied sheets and a handful of records. Or even just one record.
The final programme, on 20 September 1993, revisited Borges (appropriately enough). Following this I was issued a trespass order forbidding me from broadcasting, the result of a long dispute between the station manager and the most politically active volunteers, all of whom gave their time to honest forms of creative expression, without expectation of anything except being treated decently.
Radio is always about power. M15M was an attempt to decentre that power by putting forces of randomness and chance at the helm and then setting the accelerator to "full speed ahead!" Power does not like that, so eventually something had to give.
This would be the easy narrative arc, but in fact my show was never directly threatened. It was a matter of me being unwilling to sit by and watch others get shafted. I had grown through the years of radio activity into the sort of person that couldn't allow that to happen. The programme created the necessary conditions for its own extinguishing.
At least three dozen of the best and brightest were shown the streets. But, being a creative and adaptable lot, many of us liked what we saw there. Theatre companies were founded, performance groups spawned and an international music festival was birthed. I went on to help found the first community Internet station in Canada. And so on and so forth... death led to rebirth as it always does.
I learned a lot from that. I learned my life from that. Four-hundred and three hours over ten years. That's something to be thankful for.
So thanks to Chris Keep, Allan Bernardi, Len Temple, Gord Zelinski, Jeff Culbert, Mark Harrower, Herb Bayley, Tim McLaughlin, Antoine Moonen, Chris Cole, Katherine Hajer, Arun Konanur, Susan Birkwood, David Freeman, Al Ross and so many others I can't remember right now.
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I was delighted to read this account of M15M. While its messy and unfortunate demise must cloud the memory of the show, it really shouldn't overshadow its dazzling achievement. Week after week, it afforded not only a great mix of voice, music, and text, but, what is more rare, an opportunity to rethink the very bounds of radio. I certainly had never really thought of radio as an artistic medium in its own right before becoming involved, in whatever peripheral and occasional way, in the show, but I did after.
Looking back now, in the latter days of the first decade of the twenty-first century, thinking about M15M prompts one to reflect on the demise of terrestrial radio, of what is lost when we no longer bend over tuners to pick up the signal of an underpowered college radio station, with the static interference seeming as much a part of the program as the program itself.
But instead, I'll close with my fondest memory of the show. Having been asked to co-host a show on cyberpunk, that heady mix of science fiction and film noir that gave us both William Gibson and the term cyberspace, I brought in Mirrorshades, a collection of short stories edited by Bruce Sterling that helped eastablish the genre in the late-eighties.
I don't remember which short story it was that I was reading but something there struck me as just so funny, so absurd, so strikingly original, that I laughed till the tears came to my eyes. That hasn't happened much since, but then we haven't a show quite like this since either.
Thanks for this, Robin!
Thank you Chris for that lovely appreciation.
I continue with radiophonic explorations, even if only occasionally. My last art performance involved flesh inductance and radio feedback... I think the time is right to look back on radio at the moment of its death, to see how it has shaped us and our world.
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Writing Action Adventure Fiction And Systems Thinking With Nick Thacker
July 27, 2020 by Joanna Penn 1 Comment
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The life of a full-time independent author involves wearing many hats. You have to balance your time between learning your craft and pleasing readers with great books, as well as publishing, book marketing, and building a business that will support you for the long-term.
In today's interview, Nick Thacker talks about the key aspects of action-adventure thrillers as well as how he runs his publishing company and thoughts on pricing, email list building, and creating systems to avoid overwhelm.
In the intro, The Hotsheet reports on the All about Audio conference, publishers start Storyglass, a new podcasting business [The Bookseller], The New York Times acquires a podcast production company [The Verge]; and Amazon Ad reports now incorporate page reads.
In the futurist segment, GPT3 takes natural language generation to a new level — what does this mean for writers? [Towards Data Science; Wired; The Independent] and more at TheCreativePenn.com/future. I also recommend The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly and his blog post, 1000 True Fans, and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari.
Today's show is sponsored by IngramSpark, who I use to print and distribute my print-on-demand books to 39,000 retailers including independent bookstores, schools and universities, libraries and more. It's your content – do more with it through IngramSpark.com.
Nick Thacker is the USA Today bestselling author of action-adventure thrillers. His non-fiction books for authors include Platform Mastery and BookBub Mastery.
You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.
What draws readers to action-adventure novels?
The renaissance of action-adventure
Nick’s current indie publishing model and how it has changed over time
Co-writing with other authors
On different pricing models and why testing matters
Signing a trad publishing deal and what that means for Nick’s career
Building a large email list
Systems that underpin success
You can find Nick Thacker at NickThacker.com and on Twitter @NickThacker
Transcript of Interview with Nick Thacker
Joanna: Nick Thacker is the ‘USA Today' bestselling author of action-adventure thrillers. His nonfiction books for authors include Platform Mastery and BookBub Mastery.
Welcome, Nick.
Nick: Thank you. It's good to be here, it's good to be talking to you again.
Joanna: It's great to have you on the show.
First up, tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing?
Nick: I was late to get to writing. I grew up reading a lot and never really liked writing. And so when I finally decided to write a book, I think it was 2014, Long story short, I wrote a book because my grandfather had passed away and I wanted to give a gift to my dad that Christmas of a book that I'd written.
And so, you know, I like most of us, I thought, ‘Well, how hard can this be? This seems pretty simple. Just write a book and publish it and we're good to go.' And, of course, I was super naive and very wrong about how easy it was. But it was a fun process. I really enjoyed it. And in writing that first book, I had other ideas for books. And so I continued doing it until I realized that the indie publishing community and people like you that I was starting to latch onto and read about had figured out a way to actually make some money in this whole thing.
I did some of that stuff and tried to make my way at it. And gosh, lo and behold, here we are 20 something books later, and it seems to be working out okay.
Joanna: You're being very humble there. It worked out very well. I believe you have left your job, haven't you?
You are a full-time writer now?
Nick: I am a full-time writer. I'm sitting in my basement bunker right now staring at my computer screen where I do all my writing.
Joanna: And we will come back to some of your publishing stuff in a bit.
You recently ran a great online summit for action-adventure writers, and I was on a couple of panels and it was really fun. You really did a great job in this time of craziness, and you sat across the whole thing, which was a long session. And you write action-adventure thrillers obviously, and you listen to a whole load of people.
What were the key aspects that kept coming up over again that function as top tips?
Nick: Thanks for saying that about the summit. I can only take a little bit of the credit for doing some of the tech stuff, but that was all Dave Wood, a friend of mine, a friend of yours. That was his idea to do this.
It was just really cool to sit in and talk to people whose books I've read over the years and not connected with, or people like you whose books I've read and know a little more about. But these people have never talked about the craft of adventure writing before. At least not in a large combined session like that.
A lot of people these days are talking about marketing, which is obviously important, but that was one of the key things Dave wanted to do, was, ‘What is it about action writing that makes it adventure writing or action-adventure writing?'
It seems like what I was picking up on most was that people go to these types of books and movies for the ability to not quite go to a completely fantastical world, this isn't fantasy adventure, but to go into a different place of the world that they know, I guess.
We got into a long discussion in one of the sessions that I was on about how to write different settings that you may not have been to before.
And I was on a panel with Joe Nassisse and he and I went back and forth about how accurate we need to be with details and things like that. And it just seems like a lot of readers are going to our work, books like these, because they want to escape to another place that they may not have been or somewhere that they've been but have not discovered enough.
Being able to escape into a world that we believe exists already in some senses.
Joanna: I agree with you. I was thinking about it then from a reader perspective. The reason I write the books I do, and I presume you do too, is because these are the books we like to read.
When I was an IT consultant and miserable in my job, every lunchtime, I would go to the bookstore and I would buy another thriller. James Rollins who obviously you know, and Clive Cussler, people whose writing, as you say, is set in our world but it is an action-adventure version of our world.
I love the Lara Croft movies and ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith' and kick-ass female protagonists and James Bond. So these are the types of things that are thrillers, but also have that adventure aspect that I think takes people out of their day to day life. So as you say it's taking you to another ‘place' but it's not space or anything like that. It really is set on earth.
Do you get that sense from your readers that that setting and place and adventure is why they're coming to you?
Nick: I do. I've got a few beta team readers, beta readers on my street team is what I call it, who actually will do some of the research for me. And, of course, it's unprovoked. I'm not asking them to do free work but they love doing that research.
They love sending me, ‘Hey, you know, you wrote this, it's set in Switzerland. I've been to Grindelwald, it's a really beautiful town, you know, maybe put the shop on this side of the street instead of this because I've been there.'
I love that kind of stuff because that saves me the time of having to research something else, but it's those little details that I think really capture the realism of a setting. We're writing fiction obviously, but since it is set in a world that people know, it's important to get that stuff right.
I've got another a reader who has been to all of the places in Alaska where I set my main character's cabin. And so I described that area a lot. Of course, I've never been there and so I tried to choose a place that was off the beaten path, so it wouldn't have been highly visited, so people can call me out on things that are wrong about it.
But he's come through more than once, ‘Hey, you got a car chase scene in this book on this highway, there are cliffs actually on the other side, so if he's going south it would be on the left.' And so things like that are just really helpful for me.
But just to rewind and answer your question, from my perspective as an author, when I started writing this stuff and really nailed down my brand, what I wanted to do… I have what I call a formula and I'm putting finger quotes because I know formula is a bad word to a lot of writers.
My formula, if you will, is essentially taking some prototypical technology and giving it to a really bad person or organization and then dropping the whole thing or the lair, whatever it's called, into an exotic location and the good guys have to go find the bad guys.
And that's really it. All of my books are essentially that. I try to put in the history, some of the cyber tech thriller type stuff, the elements of those books that I know like Dan Brown's, and Clive Cussler, and as you've mentioned, James Rollins. And so it's that combination of it all, but the setting is really key. I try to put the book somewhere that I've never been or that I would want to go, that I think my readers would also enjoy experiencing.
Joanna: That's the difference between us. I tend to go and visit and research. That's part of what I love about my job, is actually doing the research.
Nick: Absolutely. I love the research and by visiting. That's definitely on the docket for my future plans. I would love to be able to afford to do that with all of my settings. But when you put things like Antarctica…
Joanna: I haven't been there to be fair.
Nick: It's a little trickier to get there, but, yeah, of course, it's not hard to go to Switzerland, it's not hard to go… I put one in Philadelphia. Obviously, these are places that are certainly within reach.
Joanna: And it's interesting. So you use the technology angle and I use the historical/religious object as a MacGuffin.
There was a discussion on the MacGuffin, wasn't there?
The thing the goodies and the baddies are trying to get and destroy and all of this type of thing. So I love that.
I wanted to ask you, action-adventure often feels like an older genre, like a lot of old white guys, you know, Clive Cussler, bless him now dead obviously, but Wilbur Smith. Movies like ‘Indiana Jones,' there was a whole panel on, ‘Indiana Jones' which is what? I want to say 35 years old. Something like that for maybe like still in our lifetime but really old.
I just saw that National Treasure 3 is in the works and I feel like ‘National Treasure 3' is another brand that brings back action-adventure. And there are lots of newer younger writers now in the genre, certainly within KU as well. So do you think there is a change?
Do you think there's a renaissance in action-adventure?
Nick: Gosh, I hope so. This is actually a question I was going to ask you if we were on a panel together because I think you are a modern master of this exact genre that we're talking about. I hope to be that for some readers.
But I think the problem really isn't that it's old. I think it's just not well defined by the stores or the booksellers or anyone who's putting this stuff in front of readers. I think it's just not well defined enough. What I mean is if you go to the BookBub's or the different book sites that are giving away or selling or discounting books, they've got categories for action-adventure. And Amazon's the same way. They've got categories for action-adventure, but they're not quite this exactly. Do you know what I mean?
Our books are certainly in those categories, but then if you look up action-adventure, you'll come across Harry Potter, which is, I guess can be described as action-adventure but it's not quite what we're talking about, right?
And so there's this sort of disconnect I think between what we're talking about, this archeological, historical-based action-adventure thriller. That doesn't fit into a name and into a title, so they have to just call it action-adventure.
Then we get lumped in with all these other books that like ‘Star Wars' or something else that may be action-adventure-y, but not really exactly that. So I think there's definitely, I hope, a renaissance coming of people finding that they'd love this sort of stuff.
But I think the big problem right now is it's just hard to find. It's too hard to find. It's not impossible. I love reading Dan Brown's books. Those are just about always categorized in thriller or even mystery. There's not really an action-adventure genre that I can go search and, of course, you can't go to Barnes & Noble now. I think there's just a missing category here that we're all writing books in.
Joanna: It's so funny because over the last decade or something since I've been putting mine out and my ARKANE series, it really is so difficult because on the one hand, sometimes I think they have aspects of what you might call supernatural but it doesn't have vampires in and stuff like that. It's got a sort of a religious angle but it's not Christian. It's got mystery but it's not like a whodunnit.
And so I totally agree with you. I've also been with the horror genre at times and I keep coming back to thrillers. I feel happiest at the ITW ThrillerFest and I know that is my true home. But it's funny because I've been put on panels at ThrillerFest with…and I'll be sitting next to someone who writes about the fairies. And I'm like, ‘This is the wrong panel for me.'
Nick: I know. That's exactly right. Of course, these are all thrillers. And, on a side note, I don't know that anybody has ever defined thriller the same way as anyone else. That's such a broad descriptor, right? It's just such a vague almost definition. I think it comes down to a pacing, tone, more than it does actual content. Or one way to put it may be the difference between mystery and thriller is that in a thriller, we know who the bad guy is upfront, whereas a mystery, we're trying to figure it out.
But even then, that's like there are too many books that don't fit that perfect description so that I can't just use that as a broad-brush just to say, ‘This is what thriller is.'
So you're exactly right. Like those fey novels that can certainly be thrillers, but they're probably also fantasy, which isn't something that you and I are writing. And there's this broad category called thrillers that we're probably mostly in, but there's just this lack of… I can't really drill down into… I want to find Joanna Penn books or J. F. Penn's books, I want to find my books, I want to find David Wood, I want to find all of us in one category in Amazon. That just doesn't exist yet?
Joanna: Hopefully, other people will join us.
Nick: Hope so.
Joanna: I mean there are people who are doing this and we'll just have to make it. I think that's the plan. But if people listening are thinking, ‘That sounds like a terrible genre to write in because there's no way that you fit.' No.
It's a brilliant genre to write it in.
Nick: Exactly. It is because the other side of the coin is we can advertise in all of those genres we've talked about. Somebody who loves historical fiction will most likely like our books as well. It's not going to be set somewhere in a previous time necessarily, but I think there are enough elements of history that people will enjoy mine or enough elements of, like you said, supernatural that they'll enjoy yours.
Joanna: Definitely. Right. Well, let's move into the publishing side.
You mentioned there that you nailed down your brand, which many authors my ears pricked up. I'm like, ‘What?' That sounds like the Holy grail. I did go to your first book and it did say published in 2014, but maybe that was a rerelease. But you have several series, you have several co-writers.
What does your indie publishing model look like now and how has it changed over time?
Nick: I will say this, I have a 100-year plan. And that sounds like crazy and insane and it's impossible to actually nail that down, which is all true. But basically that just is what the legacy is that I want to leave.
Let me back up a little bit. My brand has sort of shifted a little bit over the years and as I've learned more about who I am as a writer and what I want to do. But all of that comes down to where I want to be in 10 or 15 years, or like I said 100 years.
I think one of the things that makes my brand, I don't want to say flexible, but in some sense it's… I'd said this, ‘Hey, my formula is this and that's how I write my books.' But I always thought of my brand, Nick Thacker, as an author, is someone who is an entertainer first.
I want to put books in front of people that are fun to read. And I hopefully can get people to think a little bit, or that there's history or there's a puzzle to solve, that kind of stuff, it's engaging. So when I say that is my brand, then all of a sudden it's very broad. I can do just about anything and kind of I'll say, ‘Oh, this fits my brand.' There's always room to improve.
Joanna: Both of us started out with one novel and then maybe we decided we're going to write in a series, so we write some more in a series. But when I had to look at your website, which is actually great, it's pared-down compared to someone like me. I just have way too much stuff on my websites, but your model now seems to be co-writing. Are you now managing other writers? Because a lot of successful indies are moving that way.
Are you going to publish other people? Or are you still focusing primarily on your own books?
Nick: I do a lot of co-writing. I also still focus on my own solo books. And the reason for that was, essentially, I reached a ceiling very quickly of how many books I could write and write them well per year. And I wanted to do more and I just simply couldn't if I wanted to maintain the quality.
I'm just not a fast writer, or fast enough I think. And so co-writing was the answer to that. I could work with people that I enjoyed working with, we could put our heads together on something that we both wanted to see happen, we both wanted to see come into the world.
And at the time, I was starting to do all this, I had a slightly larger platform than they did. And so it was a good marriage because they would help me write faster, I would help them with the marketing, and we tried to split the workload as much as possible 50/50, so things were fair and all that.
And that's worked really well. Working with other people has been great. Not all of the books have been instant bestsellers, of course. But as we go, just like everything else in indie publishing, it's iterative. We're just trying to figure out what we want to do differently next time to make things better.
‘Do we want a rapid release or do we want to release them as we write them?' That kind of thing. But it's been working really well generally so far because it's allowed me to, like I said, broaden my brand to now I'm able to entertain more because I have more products out essentially.
Joanna: I know I have done that several times, but I've not found it to take so well. And you've started these other series with co-writers, so it's just something I'm really interested in. But I wanted to ask about pricing, because you price your eBooks high. So your eBooks are at $6.99, but you're also in KU.
I wondered if you could explain your pricing model and whether you think it works for wide authors like me.
Nick: I'm probably not the best person to ask because I've never really been wide. I mean I say never really because I've had one or two books that I've tested, but I've never just totally gone wide. So I don't have the experience that someone like you has in being wide and being able to really know what price does.
That said, the reason I chose $6.99 was, from the beginning…and admittedly, this was just part of my naivety in the whole thing. I didn't really know what I was doing, I think most of us don't when we get started and there's nothing wrong with that. I didn't know what I was doing, and so I never really wanted to come across as an indie author.
At the time and there was that kind of taboo around it. And you know more than anyone because you were doing this before I was. And so there was definitely that stigma of, ‘Well, this isn't a real book, this is a self-published book,' which somehow means it's worthless or valued less.
I didn't want that classification on my books. I wanted to be seen as a James Rollins or a Clive Cussler, all the people we've talked about.
Those eBooks were always priced absurdly high, like $14.99 for pieces of digital bits, right? There's literally no reason it should be that high unless you're in the business of printing on dead trees, which traditional publishers are. They don't want to sell books, they want to sell paper.
If you price the book that high, you're basically telling all your readers to go buy the paperback book. Well, the point is all of these books were priced a lot higher than mine and so I thought, ‘Well, hey, if I can seem like a deal compared to those guys, maybe people will buy my books.'
That's worked well since then. But I do have books that are priced a lot higher than most other indie authors. And as things are sort of shifting, the landscape shifts to where more readers are totally fine buying a book published by… It doesn't matter who it's published by. They'll read anything that looks good.
I might start testing lower prices just to see if I can now compete better with some of the indies in my genre since I've got a little bit more of a track record now.
Long story short, I test all the time with this stuff. I don't really do much with prices these days but I have, in the past, tested, you know, 2.99, $4.99, $5.99 just to see if there's a better… ‘Is this selling better, worse? Am I making more money?'
And then I will say, this is sort of just a little tidbit that I told other authors before. I believe when you're getting started and you're trying to get your name out there, I think it's more valuable to worry about obscurity. You're fighting obscurity rather than making money. Meaning you just need to get your books into people's hands or in front of their faces. So give them away if you need to or put them for 99 cents.
And then once you've developed a good amount of readers… I have 70,000 people on a mailing list and so I know that I can launch a book at just about any price and some people will buy it. And so I can start to make calculations based on it. I know estimates of how much I'll make.
When we get started we don't know that stuff. We don't have that list and so we're fighting the obscurity. So I'm at a point now in my career where I'm not really worried as much about the obscurity. Yes, of course, I'll always want to find new readers and get my books in front of more people, but this is my career. So at some point, I had to flip between, ‘Okay, well now I gotta start making money with this stuff.'
So pricing the book high is like a psychological trigger for getting people to realize, ‘Well, hey, if I'm in Kindle Unlimited I can get the book for free or equivalent, essentially free. And it's $6.99, so I guess I'll just get it in Kindle Unlimited.'
And, of course, we get paid for the page reads of that. So that's worked really well too. Being in KU pricing the book for non-KU people $6.99 seems to be a good match, I guess a good equation for me right now. All that said, who knows, 100-year plan, things are going to change.
Joanna: Maybe this is just a sort of UK perspective because I've been in this for so long. For me, no big traditionally published authors are in KU. So to me, the banner of KU separates us from traditionally published authors. Again, that might change. Publishers might start putting big-name authors into KU. But it's interesting that you think it's pricing that separates it, which is just a different angle that I hadn't really considered. And again, people listening, now I'm wide and I'm committed to that and you're in KU.
And the point is everyone gets to choose so neither of us is saying either way is better. It's just you choose your route. So I think that's important.
You've signed a deal with a traditional publisher, Bookouture, which actually a UK imprint.
Why take the hybrid approach, and how are you going to combine the traditional deal with indie work?
Nick: I took that deal because it made sense for my career. It was moving closer to the mountain, and the mountain for me is, ‘Entertain more and produce more.' This was another way to do that. It was just another avenue to get out there more.
So this is finding readers and, hopefully, the sales will go well. But it's about trying something different, trying something new. I never set out to say, ‘I'm going to only self-publish.'
It was very clear, once I started making money at this, that I could make more money self-publishing then if I were to try to start over and get a traditional deal that maybe gave me $5,000 upfront and paid me some pennies on the dollar after that. That wouldn't make sense for me.
The Bookouture deal is structured differently than like a traditional deal with an upfront advance and all this kind of stuff. It made sense for me to say, ‘Sure. Let's give it three books and see what happens.'
Worst case, I have three more books out there and if they're not selling well at some point they'll revert back to me and I can self publish them and that's great. But even then, I don't think that would be a waste of my time. I think it's just a really fun way to explore new avenues. And that's the keyword for me, right? It's fun.
I do the co-writing with people I think it's fun to work with. I wouldn't do co-writing with people who I don't have fun working with. Sometimes you don't know upfront, right? It could be miserable the whole time, but we build in ways to get out of those deals. But with the Bookouture thing, they're fun. They're great people. It's really enjoyable to work with them, and they seem to really know what they're doing. And so I'm like, ‘Hey, this is a great way for me to reach people I might not be able to reach.'
Joanna: Are you going to do them within your main series or completely separate?
Nick: They asked for a completely separate series.
Joanna: That's good.
Nick: They want something to do. And that was the way I was leaning anyway was I've got Harvey Bennett and he's mine. So far haven't let anyone… I said let as if I'm a better writer than anyone. I'm not. I haven't worked with a co-writer on a main Harvey Bennett series novel yet. So that's my solo line. I don't know if it always will be, but we'll see.
I'm writing book 10 right now. And so I knew that that was going to be… I'm not going to do a Harvey Bennett book with them anyway. But then they came back and just asked, ‘We want somebody brand new. We like Harvey Bennett…' That was actually how they found me, they read ‘The Enigma Strain' and decided, ‘Hey, let's ask this guy if he wants to work with us.'
And so, yeah, they asked for a new… What is it? I'm trying to think of the way they pitched it. It was like… They used some… Oh, Jack Reacher. They were like, ‘Hey, we want kind of a Jack Reacher type.' I'm like, ‘Yeah, of course. You're right. Do I have to name him Jack also? Jack Ryan.'
Joanna: Or, do you have to change your name to Mark Dawson?!
Nick: Exactly. Right. Precisely. It was pretty funny. It was like, ‘Okay, I know exactly what they're asking for. They want a Jack Reacher type person to go solve crimes.'
Joanna: They want vigilante justice basically, which does have a really good, clear subcategory.
Nick: Yes. And that was the other thing too, is they took out some of the action-adventure aspects, which I'm okay with because this, again, is a new sort of a new avenue for me. I've done a little bit of crime, I've done a little bit of just general espionage type thriller, and so this kind of falls more into those categories. But I haven't really explored that a lot. I've always stuck to action-adventure with puzzles to solve and things like that.
And so anyway, long story short, it's going to be a fun project. I just turned in the first book and they came back. They had two editors look at it and gave me a lot of really, really great feedback.
Joanna: We'll look forward to seeing how that goes. I want to circle back to marketing because one of your throwaway comments was, ‘My list is 70,000 people, my email list.' And I know the whole audience was like, ‘What? How do you do that?'
How did you build that big email list?
Nick: The majority of that list was initially built through Facebook Ads. This was 4, 5 years ago when I started doing that. Like you said, 2014 was when that book was published, so it was right around that time.
I came at this whole thing from a marketing background, not from a literary background. And so I knew from day one, mailing list, I need people on a list because if I can own that list, I can email them whenever I want. If Facebook goes down someday or Amazon decides to kick me off, I could still have that list that I can market to.
From day one, I was very, very avid about building people on a list.
I released my first book that's exclusive to Amazon and that was also the freebie that I gave away to sign up for my mailing list. Only had one book, but I gave it away. Like I said, I was fighting obscurity at the time. And I also ran a bunch of Facebook ads. You can still do it. It still works really well, it's just more expensive now.
But I was somewhere in the realm of about a quarter per subscriber, about 25 cents per subscriber. Now I think it's like 25 cents a click and maybe one out of four or five of those will end up on my list. So it's basically quadrupled in price but it still works, the tactic.
Then when I came up with my second book, I had two books and I gave both of them away as freebies and then same thing with my third book The Enigma Strain. Those became my freebies. And to this day, if you go to my website and sign up, you'll see you get three full-length thrillers just for signing up.
So I guess that my strategy was a combination of paying for people to sign up to my mailing list through Facebook Ads and then just giving away the farm, just giving it all away and saying, ‘Hey, sign up, you'll get all this stuff for free.' I guess at the time they didn't realize that those were the only books I had so they got those for free and then they were on my mailing list.
That was basically it. I know that sounds very simplified and oversimplified and potentially it is. But truthfully that's really it, that it was just giving away a lot of stuff and just being very, very open to adding value in any way I could and just trying to get in front of people.
And then the mailing list was always the call to action, no matter what I did early on. ‘I'd rather have you get on my mailing list than buy a book,' was sort of my mindset because I knew that if I got you on my mailing list, there was a great chance if you stayed there, that I could sell you a book later, and then again, and again, and again.
Joanna: Absolutely. And I guess we'd say that spending money on building your list can be hard when you're just starting out, and you are obviously investing in marketing really early on. And I guess I'd encourage people, if you have more books, it can be a more profitable thing at the beginning. I don't want to encourage people who only have one book to necessarily spend a lot of money on ads, but because as you say, things have really changed.
I still grow my list with Facebook Ads as well for both fiction and nonfiction. So I think they're really useful.
Nick: I think so too. And like I said, all this is sort of tongue-in-cheek because I didn't know what I was doing back then. You're exactly right.
If you are just getting started, I don't think it's probably wise to spend a bunch of money trying to learn Facebook Ads because there's not really a good enough way to measure it because you don't have enough books out. And you're just going to be throwing good money after bad.
That said, if you do have kind of a knack for marketing and you enjoy that sort of thing and you have some money to blow, yeah, sure, you can build a list that way. I'm not saying to go buy a list, right? We're not saying that. Don't do that, that's bad.
Joanna: Absolutely. So we're running out of time, but I did also want to ask you, in your nonfiction book Platform Mastery, you say, ‘Having systems is the fastest way to reach success.' So you've talked there a bit about your ad building, you talked about your ‘formula' for writing.
Are there any other systems that you have in place either for writing or marketing that underpin your success?
Nick: That's a great question. I do. I try to build systems around anything that I do more than once. Again, that sounds a little tongue-in-cheek, but really it comes down to… There was a book… I'm trying to see if I have it here. I think the guy that wrote the ‘Dilbert' comic strip, if you're familiar with that?
Joanna: Scott Adams.
Nick: Scott Adams. He wrote a book called How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big, I think was the title.
Joanna: I've read that too.
Nick: It's a great book. In that book, he gave the idea that goals are for losers. And what it really comes down to is that, ‘You can set a goal and that's great. Fine. But if you don't have a system in place to achieve that goal, you're basically living in a state of perpetual failure,' I think is what he says.
I love that because he's a little hardcore about it. But when it comes down to, essentially for me is if I have a goal of writing six books a year, that's great. But there's really nothing underneath that goal that can hold it up. And so he's arguing to put a system in place to do that.
All that comes down to is, ‘If I can have a system of writing every day…' Right now in my life, I've got a five and a three-year-old. So my goal is actually a system to write a certain amount of words a week instead of per day.
Because if I had a goal of writing per day and that just doesn't happen, then I feel like I failed. So a system for me would be figure out how to write X amount of words a week or a month or whatever, or figure out how to find three new potential co-writing authors in a month. Or whatever I think the goal needs to be, I build a system for that goal.
Joanna: I think that's right. I think so often we just kind of scattergun with what we do. It's like, ‘Oh, this is good, I'll go do that.'
I'm sure some people listening have gone, ‘Oh, right. Quick. I must do Facebook Ads to build my list.' But I think the answer here is the planning. It's almost like you're taking a step back and like you said, you have this 100-year plan.
Does that mean you're evaluating these systems and what your goals are against that plan and saying, ‘No, that's too short term, I'm not going to do that'?
Nick: Yes. So within that plan, obviously it's not everything is measured against a 100 years later but the big things are. And then what I've basically done is said, ‘100 years just means the future. That's just generally, ‘Here's the legacy I want to leave.'
But then breaking that down, the 10-year plan might include something like, ‘Well, hey, I actually want to have… I want to write a movie or I want to do something with video games. How do I do that? How do I get to that more? What's the system I need to put in place now so that I've got a network where I can start doing that in 5 years when I want to start on that route, start down that path?'
When I measure what I want to do today against a plan that I have for the future, it's exactly what you said. It's a system that I can put in place now and say, ‘Well, does this really move me toward that eventual goal?' Or, ‘Can I see a way that this can move me toward that, or is this really moving me further away and I need to sort of refocus on either the system I'm building now or the thing I want to do now, or adjust the plan for 10 years from now?'
Joanna: But let's tell people where they can find you and your books and everything you do online.
Nick: Well, as you mentioned, my website is pretty much fiction only, slowly changing… The problem is that I know how to build websites. And so when I have an idea, instead of putting it on my own website at nickthacker.com, I'll go build a completely different website for it. So like my indie author mastery, the two books you mentioned, those are at indiemastery.com.
Joanna: I've been through that phase as well.
Nick: I know. Part of it, it's a fresh new start every time. I don't know.
Anyway, the main place to find me is at nickthacker.com. You can send me an email there, sign up for my mailing list, you'll get three free books, remember? And send me an email if you want to connect and that just at nick@nickthacker.com, very easy.
I am on Facebook, Twitter, all that stuff but I tend to use my email and personal online website platform, whatever you want to call it as my home base.
Joanna: Right. Well, thanks so much for your time, Nick. That was brilliant.
Nick: Well, thanks for having me. It's always a pleasure and I hope to do it again soon.
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J.C. Pater says
This is the second time in less than a month when I read a comment about white male protagonists dominating the action-adventure genre. Is this because we are sticking to this model and afraid of trying something new? Or because white males are the majority of action-adventure readers and identify with this type of a protagonist? A lot of good advice in this interview, although building that email list is still tricky. Yes, self-publishing is 25% writing and 75% marketing which is definitely less fun than writing, although unavoidable.
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Home Football After missing playoffs, Dylan Moses ‘ready to get started’ in 2018
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After missing playoffs, Dylan Moses ‘ready to get started’ in 2018
Cecil Hurt
Last December, Alabama freshman linebacker Dylan Moses was making a move up the Crimson Tide depth chart at just the right time, playing his best football as postseason play approached with other UA linebackers sidelined by injury.
Then, on December 17, as Alabama was preparing for its College Football Playoff semifinal against Clemson, Moses made one wrong step — and his freshman season was over.
“It was a broken foot,” the 6-foot-3, 240-pound sophomore said at Alabama’s recent media day. “I tried to come back in time for the Georgia game. It was just too soon.”
Moses was able to come back in time for spring practice and was a standout. He was the leading tackler (10) in the A-Day Game. Going into the season, he and junior Mack Wilson are expected to be the twin anchors of Alabama’s inside linebacking group.
“Missing the playoff games was hard,” Moses said. “All through the offseason, it’s been a motivating factor for me. I’m ready to be back on the field.”
Alabama fans are ready to see him. Those who follow recruiting closely have been aware of Moses since he was an eighth-grader at University Lab School in Baton Rouge. His recruitment, which included offers from LSU and Alabama before he even reached high school, was national news, the subject of a feature in ESPN The Magazine. Moses had close family ties to LSU but with the departure of Les Miles and Moses’ transfer to IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, Nick Saban — who had never relented in the recruitment — was able to land the commitment.
Even now, Moses retains his Louisiana ties. Like the rest of the players on the Alabama defense, Moses has a new position coach, but one with whom he formed an immediate bond.
“Coach Pete (Golding) is doing a great job with us,” Moses said. “He came from Texas-San Antonio, but he’s actually from Louisiana. He’s from Hammond, I’m from Baton Rouge, so we have a lot in common. So that’s been good.”
All the national predictions are starting to come true for Moses, though. He’s a projected starter and is starting to make national watch lists. He declined to speculate about NFL possibilities in the 2020 Draft, focusing instead on his current role at Alabama.
“It feels like a dream come true,” he said. “I’m finally over the adjustment from last year. I’ve overcome adversity. It’s kind of overwhelming, really. But I’m ready to get started.”
Reach Cecil Hurt at cecil@tuscaloosanews.com or 205-722-0225.
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August 11, 2013 By caadmin
Mohammed Ahmed
Moscow – A number of Canadian athletes recorded strong performances on the first day of competition at the 2013 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championship in Athletics. Today’s Canadian highlights in Moscow, Russia include a best ever finish by a Canadian at the World Championships by St. Catharines, Ont., Mohammed Ahmed. Damian Warner of London, Ont., performed well in the first five of ten events in the decathlon to sit in fourth place while Aaron Brown of Toronto, Ont., and Gavin Smellie of Etobicoke, Ont., advanced to the semi-finals of the 100-metres.
Mohammed Ahmed recorded the best ever finish by a Canadian at the World Championships in the men’s 10000-metres with his ninth place finish in 27:35.76. “I was up there, top five for the last couple of laps, I don’t even know how I got up there. I was just trying to stay up there with those guys. It was great to run that fast with that kind of surging at a championship.” Ahmed credits his mindset and focus on the strong result, “I came in here thinking I was world class, that everybody is beatable.”
Cam Levins of Black Creek, B.C., placed 14th in the men’s 10000-metres final in 27:47.89. “I’m not really in the shape I needed to be, wasn’t as ready to go as I need to be. I’m going to have to go back, have a good Fall and see what happens next year.” Levins adds, “I moved this year, had an illness issue for awhile, got married. A lot of distractions took me away from training, I need to be better next year.” He will race again on Tuesday in the 5000-metres.
In the decathlon Damian Warner’s first day of competition featured a clocking of 10.43 (922pts) in the 100-metres, 7.39-metres in the long jump (908pts), 14.23-metres in the shot put (742pts), 2.05-metres in the high jump (850pts), and 48.41 seconds in the 400-metres (889pts). “Okay result going into tomorrow, I was expecting to be a few more spots ahead and have a few more points. But I’m still in contention, come out tomorrow and fire on all cylinders.” He will complete day two of the decathlon tomorrow with the 110-metre hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1500-metres.
In the heats of the men’s 100-metres Aaron Brown placed second in heat 5 in 10.15 seconds to auto-qualify for tomorrow’s semi-finals. “The first round is always the hardest, I wanted to get the jitters out and the rust off. I felt like I did that. Moving forward I’m confident I can drop my time and get into the final.” Brown adds, “I’ve had a long year (NCAA season) but I’m not one to use excuses, everyone has their own story. I’m going to leave it all on the track tomorrow.”
Gavin Smellie also auto-qualified for the semis by finishing third in heat number 2 in 10.30 seconds. “I’m really happy I was able to come out and qualify for the next round, being top three, that was the most important part. My experience at previous Worlds has taught me to come out, not get distracted, not get star-struck and just execute.
Sam Effah raced to a time of 10.21 in a very fast heat to place fifth. “I went out there and did the best I can today. Hopefully it was enough to get through on time. I wanted to put a really good effort in.” Effah did not advance to the semi-finals.
In the women’s marathon Lanni Marchant of London, Ont., placed 44th in a time of 3:01:54. Krista Duchene of Brantford, Ont., dropped out after the 10-kilometre marker. Duchene on her race, “At 13km I went for my fluid bottle and just literally collapsed. I mean like 50 percent of the field didn’t finish so when I found that out I felt a little better about it.” Conditions weren’t ideal as the mid afternoon sun was hot and temperatures soared. Duchene adds, “2 p.m. in August for a marathon is a little ridiculous, but I hate to use the weather as an excuse. My faith is strong, I’m humbled but will learn from this.”
Overall 25 women did not finish the grueling race. Marchant hung in tough and put her best effort forward for a strong finish. At 30-kilometres she was 15th with a time of 1:49:43. “My calf went, my shins were tingling, I didn’t even realize it until my leg gave out at about 20km. I was thinking, I’m feeling fantastic, this is going to be my race; then we went around one of those bends and it just gave out.” Marchant adds, “The last 8km I walked most of it, it’s frustrating but I wanted to finish. Was hoping the cramping would go away, that just didn’t happen.”
Alicia Brown of Ottawa, Ont., finished fifth in heat 3 of the women’s 400-metres. “I just didn’t feel right coming out of the blocks, I tried to pick it up from there, didn’t execute. My objective was to get into the semis, knew I had to run close to my personal best to get there.” Brown will now turn her focus to the 4×400-metres later this week, “I am looking forward to the 4×400-metres to redeem myself.”
Anthony Romaniw of Hamilton, Ont., was sixth in heat six of the first round of the 800-metres in 1:47.98 and did not advance to the semis. “It didn’t go well, but good to get this experience. I was trying to feel out when the right time was to go, just wasn’t there today. It happens. All in all not upset with my season, I’ll get over this race, get back to Guelph; work even harder.”
In men’s pole vault qualifying Shawnacy Barber of Toronto, Ont., finished 16th in Group A with a mark of 5.40-metres. “It’s been a great experience to jump with all these guys, very inspirational. I just wanted to compete well, give it my all. Didn’t come in with any expectations, I’m going to stay positive.” Barber adds, “My season isn’t over, still have Pan American Juniors (end of August) and Jeux de la Francophonie (beginning of September).”
Christabel Nettey of Surrey, B.C., recorded a best jump of 6.47-metres in Group B of women’s long jump qualifying, she does not advance to the final. “I thought I was going to do a lot better, I felt great, my preparation was really good. I guess it just wasn’t my day. I have so much more to learn and so much more to give. It was a great learning experience.”
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Lake Palace Udaipur
Location Amidst Lake Pichola, on Jag Niwas Island, Udaipur
Best Time to visit Between the months of October and March
Popular as the City of Lakes, Udaipur is one of the top tourist destinations of Rajasthan. The city boasts of several attractions that are evidence of a number of historical happenings of bygone era. One of the most important places of interest to visit in Udaipur is Lake Palace; listed among the most iconic and striking palaces of the state.
The palace is eye-catching, put-up amidst the Lake Pichola, which is one of the largest and oldest lakes of Udaipur. To reach the palace one needs to take a boat, always available near the lake. Moreover, now the Lake Palace has been transformed into a luxurious hotel that is counted among the most romantic hotels in India. The palace hotel marks a great combination of old regal charm and modern comforts. The awe-inspiring view of Lake Pichola and magnificent Aravalli hills add on to the beauty of Lake Palace.
History and Legend
Lake palace in Udaipur was constructed under the supervision of Maharana Jagat Singh II who was the 62nd ruler of the dynasty of Mewar. Settled amidst the Lake, the palace was like a pleasure spot for him.
Formerly, the palace was popular as Jag Niwas, named after the Maharana’s name. History of the palace is related to the time when Jagat Singh II used to spend leisure time on the Lake Palace of Jag Mandir. Later, he built his own palace on the Lake Pichola. The palace was one among the other four spectacular islands on the lake namely Mohan Mandir, Arsivilas and Jag Mandir. It took three years to build this palace from 1743-1746.
Later in 1963, the palace was altered into a luxurious and romantic hotel by Maharana Bhagwat Singh. In 1971, Lake Palace hotel was tied with chains of Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces in order to maintain the royal tradition of hospitality.
Lake Palace, Udaipur is a masterpiece of brilliant architecture that showcases striking white marble building with notable courtyards, terraces, gardens and fountains. The conversion from palace to hotel was originally commissioned by Bhagwat Singh and was designed under the direction of an American artist, Didi contractor.
Now transformed into a luxury hotel, the palace has various rooms that are notified as Ajjan Niwas, Phool Mahal, Dhola Mahal, Khush Mahal and Bada Mahal. All the rooms are exquisitely designed with crystal artworks and stained glass works. There are also wonderful paintings which date back to the ancient era.
The Lake Palace hotel, Udaipur
Lake Palace hotel in Udaipur is one of the romantic hotels in the world. Being under the chain-line of Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, the palace hotel offers you world class amenities. The luxury hotel boasts of elegant interiors, spacious rooms and en-suite spacious washrooms alluring a lot of Indian as well as International visitors.
The supreme palace hotel has everything that any luxury traveler would want. There are total 66 rooms and 17 suites from where guests can enjoy impressive views of Lake Pichola and imposing Aravalli hills.
The rooms here fall in five categories namely Palace rooms, Luxury rooms, Royal suites, Grand Royal suites and Grand Presidential suites. Like the luxury rooms, the palace hotel has also taken good care in dining options for its guests. You can relish the flavors of Indian, Asian, Western and Contemporary cuisines.
Forts and Palaces Tour
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"We're looking forward to it" - Micky ahead of Walsall game
We spoke to Micky Mellon ahead of our first round Carabao Cup tie with Walsall
"We'll pick the best team that we think can get us a win. When we're playing at home so we've got to win, that's what we've installed in the players since I've been here.
"It's great competition and it gives us an opportunity to keep moving the club forward.
"We know it's going to be a tough game and we're looking forward to it. Back here under the lights with that atmosphere and who wouldn't want to play on that pitch?
Micky was asked about the prospect of going up against former Tranmere players Andy Cook and Josh Ginnelly.
"Two lads that gave us great service and I think that's now seven or eight lads that we've had, since I've been here, that are playing in League One now.
"It shows that we're doing the right things in training and improving them as players so they're good signs.
"We're obviously disappointed that they're not still playing for us but that's the nature of football. We'll keep producing good players and moving forward as a club".
Tranmere Rovers vs Walsall on 14 Aug 18
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Yukon Adventures in Northern Canada
A classic Yukon wilderness scene, with mother moose and two calves plus a red canoe. Peter Mather
Indigenous Culture, Aurora Borealis, Wildlife and Colorful Frontier History
By Alison Gardner, Editor, Travel with a Challenge
Yukon Territory, commonly called the Yukon, is the smallest and westernmost of Canada’s three northern territories. It borders Alaska, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, as well as boasting a small Arctic Ocean coast line. However, it is still a substantial chunk of real estate. Total population of the territory is just under 36,000, with 25,000 of those people living in the capital city, Whitehorse. You can travel quite a distance without encountering another vehicle or human! Most of the Yukon has a subarctic climate with cold winters and warm summers.
The Yukon is proud host to many impressive natural features, like Mount Logan (19,551 ft/5,959 m) which is the highest mountain in Canada and the second highest on the North American continent, and the Yukon River which travels from the mountains of northern British Columbia, through the Yukon and Alaska. It has been the water highway of its long-settled First Nations (native) people for thousands of years as well as for early European arrivals starting in the 1800s. Quite surprisingly, it is the third longest river in North America. Today, with a fine network of roads (including the famed Alaska Highway built in 1942) and excellent daily air service to the Yukon and within the Yukon, the river is of more recreational and tourist interest.
Map courtesy of Travel Yukon.
First Nations native culture is an important, authentic part of Yukon life, and of great interest to visitors from around the world. In early July, the annual Adaka Cultural Festival is a weeklong celebration of indigenous culture on the Whitehorse waterfront with music, dance, storytelling, arts and crafts in abundance. To the east of Whitehorse, Carcross is another center of aboriginal culture, arts and crafts, well worth a visit. For a complete list of Yukon First Nations festivals and gatherings, click here, and for attractions and experiences, click here.
Dakka’ Kwa’an Dancers offer traditional dances and music in Carcross. Gov’t of Yukon/Derek Crowe
As humans migrated across the Bering Strait and into North America, evidence suggests that fully domesticated dogs accompanied them as far back as 15,000 years ago. Dog sledding was once a critical form of transportation in the North, including winter mail delivery by early European settlers. However, today’s visitors may enjoy dog sledding for the pure delight of it especially rewarding on a multi-generational winter holiday. There are a number of expert tour operators that offer day and multi-day dog sledding options, as well as other winter sport activities like snowshoeing and cross-country skiing.
Dog sledding on Annie Lake, Yukon. Gov’t of Yukon/Cathie Archbould
Aurora Borealis Viewing
The Yukon is one of the most accessible destinations to witness spectacular Aurora Borealis displays from late August to mid April. Like much in nature, their appearance is not predictable so be sure to allow several days of your winter vacation to sample the best of the best. Here is a list of Yukon operators and accommodations where Aurora expertise abounds. I stayed at the highly recommendable Northern Lights Resort & Spa, on a picturesque country property outside Whitehorse where I learned that the owners have designed an original package that offers nighttime dog sledding from the doorstep of your chalet to chase the Northern Lights while traveling through a magical winter wonderland. Or you may choose to stay cosy in your chalet or the resort lounge, with each one having huge picture windows facing north to capture the spectacle of Nature.
Aurora Borealis visits Yukon skies from late August to mid April. Northern Lights Resort & Spa/Wolfgang Bublitz
Recreational Vehicles (RVs) are a Popular Choice
Though on a map the Yukon may appear small compared to its nearest neighbors, Alaska, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, the road distances between towns are long and serviced campsites are few. Especially among retired travelers with a more relaxed holiday timeline during summer and fall months, either bringing their own RV or flying into the Yukon and picking up an RV rental is a terrific option for leisurely exploration.
An RV picnic stop in Kluane National Park. Gov’t of Yukon/Derek Crowe
On the Water and in the Wilderness
Much of the Yukon is made up of lakes, rivers and wetlands that attract a vast array of birds and large mammals. However, it often takes time and patience to spot them in the landscape that is their home. Getting quietly onto the water by canoe or kayak is magical and a relaxing way to do your wildlife spotting in a variety of geographically spectacular settings. Rentals or wilderness guided tours are available, although many people on a driving holiday from the south bring their own watercraft. Guided horseback riding tours into the mountainous areas also provide a way to be one with the scenery and wildlife, perhaps hoping you will spot that grizzly mother and cubs with a little distance across a field of fireweed.
Grizzly mother and two cubs graze in the Spring sunshine. Gov’t of Yukon
With not enough time to drive 1.5 hours out of Dawson City to reach the international hiking and camping mecca of Tombstone Territorial Park, I opted for a flightseeing tour with Great River Air. Admittedly, the four-seat bush plane was a pretty noisy option compared to a kayak, canoe or even a horse, but the geological formations viewed from the air certainly gave me a taste of why this 2,200 sq km park is such a coveted camping and RV destination intersected by the Dempster Highway.
Early morning canoeing and kayaking on Yukon River near Whitehorse. Gov’t of Yukon/Derek Crowe
Dawson City, Historic Treasure
On the banks of the Yukon River, Dawson City is inseparately linked with the brief but lucrative Klondike Gold Rush (1896 to 1899), but it lives on, frozen in time, in charming historic splendor, including Diamond Tooth Gerties’ excellent cabaret show with energetic singing and dancing harking back to Gold Rush days. It is a must-visit in which everywhere and everything is a photo op! With a distance north of Whitehorse by road covering 333 miles/538 km, and plenty of scenic lookouts to stop for along the way, the drive is about five hours. Or there are one-hour daily flights between Dawson City and Whitehorse which was my transportation of choice. With a permanent population of 1,375, it hardly qualifies as a town never mind a city, but its presence is so much larger than life.
Dawson City’s architecture is colorful and mostly historic, a pleasure to stroll its wood sidewalks and stay in classic hotels. Alison Gardner
Still Searching for Gold
Gold panning is still a curiosity if not a driven passion for many locals and visitors to the Yukon … sort of like fishing in a quiet stream with your thoughts wandering around your head. However, it does reap rewards if you know where to go, how to do it and what to spot in your pan which can be anything from dust to nuggets. There are annual Gold Panning Championships each July in Dawson City with categories for all ages and abilities.
Gold Panning is contagious at Gold Bottom Creek near Dawson City. Gov’t of Yukon/J Kennedy
Craft Beer Brewing is a Fine Art
I was surprised to discover world-class expertise in the field of craft brewing, having presumed that brand name beer would be imported from the south and drunk without much discernment. Wrong! My education began when I visited 23-year-old Yukon Brewery to tour their brewing facilities and taste a flight of six of their 12 different year round and seasonal brews. It was a tough choice, but finally I settled on Lead Dog Olde English Ale. Later in my visit, I spent time at a newer craft brewery, Winterlong Brewing Company started in 2015, experiencing the same local enthusiasm for their seven distinct beer and stout offerings, with a great tasting room and brewing facility.
Local craft beers are tops with locals and visitors alike, including Yukon Brewing’s Lead Dog Olde English Ale. Alison Gardner
Adventurous Train Ride
Straddling Alaska and the Yukon, The White Pass & Yukon Route travels 67.5 miles from Skagway, Alaska to Carcross, Yukon along the same route that many Klondike Gold Rush adventurers traversed in 1898. Now this historic day rail journey is popular as an excursion with cruise ship passengers while docked at Skagway. However, doing the whole round trip is not necessary. The season only runs from early May to late September.
The historic White Pass & Yukon Train introduces visitors to Gold Rush history from 1897. Alison Gardner
I rode these historic rails on a three-hour segment between Fraser and Carcross with an informative strolling stop around the historic town of Bennett and a lunch served on board. Today beautifully maintained by Parks Canada, the townsite was originally established as the gathering place of frantic gold miners as they prepared to strike out for the gold fields using the steep and treacherous Chilkoot Trail over a mountain pass. Hardy hikers today even have the opportunity to replicate the miners’ struggle over the Chilkoot Trail, but not while carrying the heavy gear that early miners were required to bring over the Pass in all weather.
With horseback riding, enjoy amazing vistas and wildlife encounters. Gov’t of Yukon/J Kennedy
Follow Up FactsFor information on all Yukon visitor options, see Travel Yukon website, https://www.travelyukon.com/.
Author tested accommodations around Whitehorse:
Hidden Valley B&B, https://www.yukonbedandbreakfast.com/, slightly out of town, an historic family home on 55 acres where every guest room is uniquely decorated and a sumptuous breakfast in the elegant dining room is an event in itself. Equally sumptuous dinners may be ordered by request.
Northern Lights Resort & Spa, http://northernlightsyukon.com, offers custom-built luxury log chalets in a country setting, hosted by a German Canadian husband and wife team who truly understand hospitality. Allow plenty of time for included breakfasts and good conversation with a great view that sometimes includes surprise animal visitors passing through.
On the Whitehorse waterfront, Edgewater Hotel, http://www.edgewaterhotelwhitehorse.com/, historic but rooms fully modernized, with a strong focus on local First Nations art. Great central walking distance for many festivals and special events along the shores of the Yukon River.
Author tested accommodation in Dawson City:
Aurora Inn Hotel, http://aurorainn.ca/, blends into the historic streetscape of the “city” while offering fully modern facilities in rooms and public areas. The owners are helpful and knowledgeable about all that is happening year round, including Aurora Borealis packages.
A river tour perspective aboard a classic Yukon paddlewheeler is a great way to learn the history of the region. Alison Gardner
Alison Gardner is a travel journalist, magazine editor, guidebook author, and consultant. She specializes in researching alternative vacations throughout the world, suitable for people over 50 and for women travelers of all ages. She is also the publisher and editor of Travel with a Challenge web magazine. Email: alison@travelwithachallenge.com.
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Reference Panel for Green Investment Fund Appointed
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The Treasury has appointed Rachel Brown, John Chandler, Karen Silk and David Woods as Reference Panel members for the Green Investment Fund.
The Government is establishing the Green Investment Fund to support the transition towards a net-zero-emissions economy by 2050. The Fund will receive a $100m capital injection from the Government to make investments that both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide a financial return.
The Reference Panel will provide an expert sounding board for the Treasury as it plans the establishment and launch of the Fund. This will complement the Treasury-lead cross-government agency working group that was established earlier this year. The Panel is expected to play an important role in shaping a credible and effective Green Investment Fund by giving the Treasury advice of the highest standard. Each of the members appointed bring valuable experience and professional acumen to undertake this work. Their work together has already started and is expected to run through to September.
The Green Investment Fund is being established a result of the Confidence and Supply Agreement between Labour and the Green Party. Budget 2018 set aside $100 million of new capital funding for the Fund.
The Green Investment Fund is part of a wider suite of Government work on transitioning towards a net-zero-emissions economy, including the Zero Carbon Act, reviewing the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme and establishing the Independent Climate Change Commission.
Reference Panel member profiles
Rachel Brown ONZM was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2018 for years of service to sustainable business. She is the founder and chief executive of the Sustainable Business Network (SBN). Her work focuses on the methods and means of advancing the value of sustainability across New Zealand. The SBN team work on a number of projects including Smart Transport, Procurement, Leadership training, Circular Economy, Water Restoration (Million Metres Streams), Good Food Nation - and emerging projects in tourism. All have a strong focus on communicating the value and benefit of reshaping profit.
John Chandler founded niche merchant bank JC Capital in 2009 after a career at ANZ that included Head of Capital Solutions and Director Leasing and Structured Asset Finance. He is a specialist in structuring, negotiating and leading complex funding transactions, including the development of innovative and novel solutions. John has industry experience in banking, funding for agriculture, irrigation, transport, commercial property, power generation and other infrastructure. Clients and employers include a wide range of borrowing entities, lenders, fund managers and other investors.
Karen Silk is currently General Manager of Commercial, Corporate and Institutional at Westpac New Zealand. She is responsible for leading the development and delivery of Banking Services to New Zealand Businesses, and also holds responsibility for the Westpac Life and BT NZ Funds Management businesses. Earlier in her career Karen led the Westpac agribusiness team for four years. Karen was Chair of the joint Sustainable Business Council and BusinessNZ Climate Leadership Initiative in 2015 and was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Sustainable Business Council in 2017.
David Woods is an experienced general manager and director with a long international career in the finance and investment sector. David is currently a Director of Ngai Tahu’s Whai Rawa Fund Ltd, a trustee of The Gift Trust. He is also Chair of the Impact Enterprise Fund, a tie-up between Akina Foundation, New Ground Capital and Impact Ventures, which gives him specific insights into the challenges of balancing financial and non-financial objectives. In addition, David is leading the establishment of the NZ Impact Investment Advisory Board. He sits on three overseas microfinance company boards for the Aga Khan Foundation as an independent director. Prior to emigrating to New Zealand in 2016, David was Managing Director of Oikocredit International, a microcredit fund with total consolidated assets of $1.2 billion which supports financial inclusion, agriculture and renewable energy in the developing world.
Bryan McDaniel | Principal Communications Advisor
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120 Million Readers Helped Yearly
Animals Animal Rights
What's Wrong With Fish Farms?
Doris Lin
Doris Lin an animal rights attorney and the Director of Legal and Government Affairs for the Animal Protection League of New Jersey.
Naki Kouyioumtzis/Design Pics/Axiom Photographic Agency/Getty
There are plenty of things wrong with fish farming, but let's start with the fact that we now know without a doubt that fish are sentient beings. That alone makes fish farming a bad idea. In an article published on May 15, 2016, in the New York Times, author of "What a Fish Knows" Jonathon Balcome writes about the intelligence and sentience of fish. From an animal rights standpoint, that's a pretty good reason to criticize fish farms.
Setting aside for the moment that fish farms are inherently wrong because they kill fish, let's look at what the industry is really about. While some believe that fish farming is the solution to overfishing, they do not take into account the inherent inefficiency of animal agriculture. Just as it takes 12 pounds of grain to produce a pound of beef, it takes 70 wild-caught feeder fish to produce one salmon on a fish farm. Time magazine reports that it takes 4.5 kg of ocean-caught fish to produce 1 kg of fishmeal that is fed to a fish on a fish farm.
Floating Pig Farms
Regarding fish farms, Daniel Pauly, professor of fisheries at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver states, "They're like floating pig farms . . . They consume a tremendous amount of highly concentrated protein pellets and they make a terrific mess." Rosamond L. Naylor, an agricultural economist at Stanford's Center for Environmental Science and Policy explains about aquaculture, “We are not taking strain off wild fisheries. We are adding to it.”
Vegetarian Fish
Some people are catching on, and recommending that consumers choose farmed fish who are mostly vegetarian, to avoid the inefficiency of feeding wild-caught fish to farmed fish. Scientists are even trying to develop (mostly) vegetarian food pellets to feed to carnivorous fish on fish farms. However, eating vegetarian farmed fish looks environmentally acceptable only when compared to eating carnivorous farmed fish. There is still the inherent inefficiency of feeding soy, corn or other plant foods to animals, instead of using that plant protein to feed people directly. There is still the matter of fish having feelings, emotions and intelligence once thought to be only the province of land animals. Some experts posit that fish feel pain and if that's true, vegetarian fish are just as capable of feeling pain as carnivorous fish.
Waste, Disease, and GMOs
In June 2016, an episode on The Dr. Oz Show dealt with genetically modified salmon. Although the FDA approves it, Dr. Oz and his experts believe there is reason for concern. "Many retailers are refusing to sell genetically modified farmed salmon," Oz said. Regardless of whether the farmed fish are eating fish or grain, there is still a variety of environmental problems because the fish are raised in confinement systems that allow waste and water to flow in and out with the oceans and rivers in which they are located. While fish farms cause many of the same problems as factory farms on land – waste, pesticides, antibiotics, parasites, and disease – the issues are magnified because of the immediate contamination of the surrounding ocean water.
There is also the problem of farmed fish escaping into the wild when nets fail. Some of these farmed fish are genetically modified, which forces us to ask what happens when they escape and either compete with or interbreed with wild populations.
Eating land animals also causes problems for marine life. Vast amounts of wild-caught fish are being fed to livestock on land, mostly pigs and chickens, in order to produce meat and eggs for human consumption. Runoff and waste from factory farms kill fish and other marine life and contaminate our drinking water.
Because fish are sentient, they have a right to be free from human use and exploitation. From an environmental standpoint, the best way to protect fish, marine ecosystems and all ecosystems is to go vegan.
Farmed Salmon vs Wild Salmon: Which Is Best?
The Top 10 Animal Rights Issues
What's Wrong with Eating Pork?
What's Wrong with Grass-Fed Beef?
Responses to Top Arguments Against Animal Rights
What Are Feedlot Beef, Organic Beef, and Grass-Fed Beef?
Brief History of Cod Fishing
The Rise in Aquaculture
Problems Inherent to Aquaculture
The Environment and Free-Range, Organic, and Local Meat
What's Wrong With Aquariums?
Top 6 Environmental Issues
What's Wrong with Chicken?
Comparing and Contrasting the Animal Rights and Environmental Movements
How the Sixth Mass Extinction Affects the U.S. Economy
The Pros and Cons of GMOs
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