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Joshua’s History Corner
Everything you wanted to know about history
By Joshua on Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Hades, the ruthless God of the underworld, was so feared no one would speak of his name. His myth showed how Ancient Greeks viewed death. No matter how good you were, you went to the underworld. For the Greeks, it was heaven, hell, and limbo combined. The majority of souls would wander aimlessly into a grey space, but this was only the first level of Hades, Asphodel. The second level was where the really bad people went where those who disrespected Gods went. It was known as Tartarus, where eternal torment of suffering took place, and where a river of flames streamed through. The third level was for the few fortunate souls who were mostly famous and glorified, it was a paradise.
In the myth, Persephanie was picking flowers in a field, when the ground began cracking open she fell in. It was Hades who had abducted her to the underworld to be his wife. However; she was not forgotten. Her mother was Demeter, Goddess of harvest and agriculture. She could tear the earth in half if she wanted to. Demeter went looking for her daughter everywhere, but as she was gone she had forgotten about giving fertility to the world, so everything began getting withered and cold. It was actually believed that the cycle of seasons broke when she was on her search for her
daughter. The Gods then demanded Hades to return Persephanie to the world, but he had a trick in mind. Hades offered her a pomegranate, she excepted without knowing that if she ate the fruit from the underworld, she would immediately become part of it.
Persephanie now had to stay in the underground for three months in every year, one year for each seed she ate, and the rest of the year she was aloud to stay with her mother on the world. When she was in the underworld for three months, it would be winter, and the rest of the time when she would be with her mother it would be spring or summer.
Deities of Mount Olympus
The Twelve Labors of Hercules
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Two states is no solution
There is now widespread recognition that it would be the height of recklessness for Israel to surrender land in the strategic hills of Judea and Samaria.
By DANI DAYAN
Construction in West Bank settlement of Efrat, April 29, 2014.
(photo credit: TOVAH LAZAROFF)
With the IDF reserve units returning to their families and routine everyday life, it appears that Operation Protective Edge’s military component has been completed. Time will tell how much safety has been achieved for the residents of Israel’s south from the incessant rockets and the menacing tunnels.
But to Israel’s decision makers, the fact that the summer of 2014 found more Israelis in bomb shelters than at the beaches may have more consequential, regional consequences. The coastal plain – Israel’s business and cultural center– has not been this vulnerable since the 1967 Six Day War.
As Israeli troops swept through the Gaza terror infrastructure, a political tidal wave was washing over two decades of obsessive tunnel vision focusing on the so-called two-state solution.
As the war progressed, the vulnerability of cities like Modi’in and Kfar Saba (which straddle the “Green Line”) to tunnels and rocket attacks became frighteningly clear. The fact that Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the greater Tel Aviv area (hosting 70 percent of the Israeli population and economic output) would have just 15 seconds to find shelter only exposed the impossibility of Israel giving away Judea and Samaria.
One rocket from Gaza closed down Israel’s international airport, and terrorist tunnels caused fear across the country that armed Hamas death squads could appear anywhere in Israel without warning. Furthermore one can see the skyscrapers of Tel Aviv from the hills of Samaria, so if Hamas gained control of the area, they would only need a few close-range mortars to create havoc.
Hawkish statements from across the political spectrum flooded in both in Israel and abroad from even the most ardent believers in the two-state paradigm, suggesting that Hamas had proven that it was no longer a solution.
The most significant statement was made by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu himself at his July 11 press conference, where he all but acknowledged that the creation of an independent Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria was impossible. Jeffrey Goldberg reported that Netanyahu did not merely “renounce his rhetorical support for a two-state solution. He simply described such a [Palestinian] state as an impossibility.”
A concurrent analysis in Tablet Magazine concluded that Judea and Samaria will similarly pass to Israeli sovereignty “without fanfare, de facto rather than de jure, at some moment in the not-too-distant future when the foreign ministries of the West are locked in crisis session over Iraq or Syria. And it will happen with the tacit support of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.”
Professor Shlomo Avineri, one of Israel’s greatest proponents of two states, declared in a recent op-ed: “Those of us who supported Oslo – and who still think it was the right step – must recognize that salvation won’t come from the Palestinians. They’re genuinely uninterested in a solution of two states for two peoples because they’re unwilling to grant legitimacy to the Jewish right of self-determination.”
Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar (the No. 2 in Likud and potential heir to Netanyahu), went one further when he came out strongly against the creation of a Palestinian state as matter of policy. At the same time UK Prime Minister David Cameron also came to the conclusion that the two-state solution is increasingly an impossibility. In the aftermath of FAA’s ban on flights to Israel, Professor Alan Dershowitz complained that the Hamas attack may well have ended any real prospect of a two-state solution.
The most telling accord was the admission to the BBC by former Israeli president Shimon Peres – one of Israel’s most outspoken proponents of Israel’s surrendering land – that, “I find it difficult to explain today withdrawal from Gaza or justify future withdrawal from the West Bank.”
Even more startling than Peres’s admission were the remarks of all-but-announced US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who in her attempt to solidify support among the Jewish and pro-Israel individuals in the Democratic Party stridently championed Israel’s right to defend itself by explaining, “So what I tell people is, yeah, if I were the prime minister of Israel, you’re damn right I would expect to have control over security [on the West Bank].”
The remarks of Clinton, Peres, Netanyahu and the others indicate that Israel’s need to retain control of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) has become, at last, a mainstream position. There is now widespread recognition that it would be the height of recklessness for Israel to surrender land in the strategic hills of Judea and Samaria that would ultimately end up in the control of an ideological “Hamas” – either by ballot or bullet.
The author is chief foreign envoy of YESHA Council, which represents the 375,000 Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria.
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The Cable Factory is the largest cultural centre in Finland. It houses 3 museums, 10 galleries, dance theatres, art schools, artists, bands and companies. Unique spaces are also available for rent on a short-term basis to stage concerts, exhibitions, festivals and fairs. Around 900 people work at the Cable Factory on a daily basis, and each year nearly 340,000 people attend special events.
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Tallberginkatu 1, 00180 Helsinki
- An open cultural hub
The Cable Factory encompasses five hectares of culture! Covering a total area of 56,000 square metres, the Cable Factory is the biggest and most diverse cultural centre in Finland. The Cable Factory houses 3 museums, 10 galleries, dance theaters, art schools, artists, bands and companies active in the creative industries.
Once an industrial complex producing cables, the centre now offers things to see, do and experience every day of the week for culturally inspired people of all ages. The Cable Factory offers 3 different event spaces, sauna and 3 meeting rooms for rent on a short-term basis. They are used for fairs, festivals, concerts and exhibitions all year round.
The Cable Factory is administered by the property management company Kiinteistö Oy Kaapelitalo, which is owned by the City of Helsinki. The company is responsible for renovating and renting the former industrial buildings for the needs of the arts, culture and handicrafts. From the beginning of 2008 the company has also administered the historic power plant area in Suvilahti. In the end of 2019 Kiinteistö Oy Kaapelitalo acquired the former headquarters and pharmaceutical factory of Orion located on Nilsiänkatu 10 in Vallila.
Kiinteistö Oy Kaapelitalo has over 300 long-term tenants and numerous subtenants at Cable Factory. The aim is to find tenants who could support not only the development of the cultural centers in general but also each other’s activities. The income is comprised almost entirely of rents without any public subsidies.
The cultural centre will be renewed with the completion of the Dance House Helsinki in 2021. Follow the progress of the building site and related arrangements at tanssintalorakentuu.fi.
Kiinteistö Oy Kaapelitalo is a member of Trans Europe Halles (www.teh.net), a European network of independent cultural centers, with over 70 members all over Europe.
Photo: Kuvio Oy / Martin Sommerschield
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The Liberation of Jerusalem
In 1992, we were privileged to have Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek address our Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem Rally in Dallas, Texas. Teddy Kollek was the Mayor of Jerusalem at the time of the liberation of the Holy City in 1967 and for many years after. The following excerpts are taken from his remarks that evening:
I think I have been the most lucky person in the world by becoming the Mayor of Jerusalem. There are more important jobs. But there are no more interesting or meaningful jobs than being the Mayor of Jerusalem. Besides everything else, you know, there are the deadly sins. I regard as the most deadly sin the sin of boredom—and that you never commit in Jerusalem! I did the best I can do. And that lets me fall asleep quietly in the night and not worry too much. Another day will come. Sometimes it starts at 4:00 in the morning. And sometimes it goes on until midnight.
But they are all days full of interests, full of worries, full of pleasures, and some full of achievement. I had the greatest chance any human being could have—to try to rebuild Jerusalem. There is no greater task in the world. No more important one than to rebuild the Holy City. It was a badly neglected city. When the United Nations decided in November 1947 to create a Jewish state and an Arab state, we were not very happy. Here was a Jewish state with an internationalized Jerusalem that didn’t belong to anybody—who will take care of it? It was really Jerusalem that meant something more than the Jewish state.
For Jerusalem, we had prayed all our lives, all generations. The Bible mentions Jerusalem over 500 times, always in connection with Jewish names and Jewish prophets and Jewish kings. And we wanted at that time to solve the greatest human problem that was still left. There were tens of thousands of people, the remnants of the six million who had died, wandering around Europe and couldn’t go anywhere. And Palestine was still under British rule and the British didn’t allow anybody to come in. And if we could get that state of ours, as small as it would be, it could solve the misery of people who suffered more than anybody could even think or imagine.
So we agreed to a very small Israel, to Jerusalem being internationalized and not belonging to us because we thought this would give us that state and that possibility to help these tens of thousands of people who still had nowhere to go. The Arabs didn’t accept it. The decision of the United Nations was that on the 15th of May a state of Israel should be declared. We were warned not to do it. We were all together 600,000 people. We had no army. This was our chance in history. Either we would win or we would go under.
Our Prime Minister then, Mr. David Ben-Gurion decided, “This is it. We have to do it, and we will succeed!” And the state of Israel was declared and on the same day, all of the Arab armies attacked us. I happened to be one of the lucky ones who was in that hall where the declaration of the creation of the state was read out by Mr. Ben-Gurion. A cruel war started. Out of 600,000 people, we lost 11,000—a very high percentage. But the state of Israel lived, and we were able to take in all those remnants who were wandering around. They wanted to come to Jerusalem because the name Israel was a new name, a new idea they hadn’t yet absorbed. But Jerusalem belonged to us only half because it was divided where the army stood. In this way it remained for 19 years.
In 1967, all the Arab countries thought they could liquidate us and finally get rid of this foreign body in the Middle East…have only Arab-Islamic countries there. When the Egyptians lost in Sinai they thought they might get relief by [having the Jordanian Army] attacking us in Jerusalem. The attack started in the middle of the morning when all the children were in school. But the end was they were driven out and left Jerusalem and the West Bank and went across the Jordan to the other side. Jerusalem was united. I had been elected Mayor a little over a year earlier. And I suddenly found a task before me that was incredible. All these great holy places, these great historical places…we found this all in the worst of disrepair. We couldn’t live in the city and carry the responsibility for it and not have it in the best of shape.
The United States hasn’t yet recognized Jerusalem as the capital. (EDITOR’S NOTE: To our shame, more than 20 years after Mayor Kollek said this, we still have not taken this important step.) Most of the other countries haven’t. But the country and its people choose its own capital city. Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish people for 3,000 years. No country has ever made its capital in Jerusalem with the exception of us. We were not there all the time. We were there for a couple of hundred years and away again and again there for a couple hundred years. But whenever we were there or we weren’t there, this was our capital. For this we prayed. Every day, several times Jerusalem is mentioned in our prayers.
When we prayed for Jerusalem, and Jews prayed for Jerusalem over the centuries, we prayed for the rebuilding of the Temple. When the crusaders came, they destroyed the mosques. When the Muslims came back, they destroyed the churches. Here was the [Dome of the Rock] where Muslims had prayed for 1,300 years, and we decided to leave the temple and the Temple Mount in the hands of the Muslims—not forever, but for the day when the Messiah would come. Then He will decide to whom this belongs. It is beyond the capacity of city administrations or normal governments to make such decisions. Meanwhile we try to do what we can to run a just city.
I am a mayor now for 27 years. I walk through the city day and night alone. I have never had a guard. I never carried arms. I live in a little apartment that belonged to us before I became a Mayor. I have no policeman outside. My telephone number is in the book and people can call me up and say the sewage is running over! It is a good city—a hospitable city. I urge all of you who haven’t been there to come and visit us. Look at it. Spend some time there. It’s a very pleasant city and easy to visit.
Teddy Kollek was born in Hungary in 1911. He was named in honor of Zionist leader Theodor Herzl. His family moved back to Israel not long before the start of the Second World War. During the war, he worked for the Jewish Agency attempting to help Jewish people escape the death camps. He was an integral part of the administration of Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion. He was first elected Mayor of Jerusalem in 1965 and was reelected five times, serving six terms in all. He is credited with making Jerusalem into a modern city. He personally raised funds for many cultural museums and projects, including the Jerusalem Zoo. The first two elephants brought there were named Teddy and Tamar in honor of Kollek and his wife. Kollek was referred to by one biographer as “the greatest builder of Jerusalem since Herod.” Kollek died in 2007 and was buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
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GAMALIEL III.:
By: Solomon Schechter, Wilhelm Bacher
Son of Judah I., who before his death appointed him his successor as nasi (Ket. 103a). Scarcely anything has been handed down concerning his deeds or concerning the whole period of his activity (within the first third of the third century). The revision of the Mishnah, begun by his father, was without doubt concluded under him. Three sayings of Gamaliel III. are incorporated in the Mishnah (Abot ii. 2-4). The first deals with the study of the Torah and with devoting oneself to the general welfare of the public. The second warns against the selfishness of the Roman rulers: "Beware of the government, because rulers attach a man to themselves for their own interests; they seem to be friends when it is to their advantage, but they abandon him when he is in need." The third saying recommends submission to the will of God: "Make His will thy will, so that He may make thy will like His own; make thy will of no account beside His, so that He may make the will of others of no account before thine." The Tosefta contains but one saying of Gamaliel (Soṭah vi. 8), a paraphrase of Num. xi. 22, in which Moses complains of the unreasonableness of the people's wishes; a baraita (Men. 84b) contains a halakic exegesis of Gamaliel. Hoshaiah asks Gamaliel's son, Judah II., concerning a halakic opinion of his father's (Yer. Ber. 60d). Johanan tells of a question which Gamaliel III. answered for him (Ḥul. 106a). Samuel, the Babylonian amora, tells of differences of opinion between Gamaliel and other scholars (Niddah 63b; B. B. 139b; Yer. B. B. 10d).
Grätz, Gesch. 3d ed., iv. 211;
Weiss, Dor, iii. 42;
Halevy, Dorot ha-Rishonim, ii. 20 et seq.;
Bacher, Ag. Tan. ii. 554.
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Chalmers M. Roberts Personal Papers
Papers 1948-1975 (#200). Journalist. Chief diplomatic correspondent, Washington Post (1949-1971). Research materials, writings, notes, memorandums, subject files. See also Oral History Interviews.
Dean Rusk Personal Papers
Papers 1961-63. Diplomat, government official. Secretary of State (1961-69). Copies of appointment books.
Department of Defense Cuban Missile Crisis Briefing Materials
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
A subfile of the Presidential Papers of John F. Kennedy constituting the working files of McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. It is the primary foreign policy file of the Kennedy White House and consists of the following series: Countries, Regional Security Files, Trips and Conferences, Departments and Agencies, Subjects, Meetings and Memorandums, and staff files of Chester V. Clifton, Carl Kaysen, William H. Brubeck, Ralph Dungan, McGeorge Bundy, Robert W. Komer, Henry Kissinger, Charles Johnson, and Bromley K. Smith.
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Roger Hilsman Personal Papers
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United States Department of Commerce Records
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Dedicated to Lord Shiva, Pashupatinath is one of the four most important religious sites in Asia for devotees of Shiva. Built in the 5th century and later renovated by Malla kings, the site itself is said to have existed from the beginning of the millennium when a Shiva lingam was discovered here.
The largest temple complex in Nepal, it stretches on both sides of the Bagmati River which is considered holy by Hindus. The main pagoda style temple has a gilded roof, four sides covered in silver, and exquisite wood carvings. Temples dedicated to several other Hindu and Buddhist deities surround the the temple of Pashupatinath.Devotees at the evening Aarati by the Bagmati River at Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Cremation of Hindus take place on raised platforms along the river. Only Hindus are allowed thro
The largest temple complex in Nepal, it stretches on both sides of the Bagmati River which is considered holy by Hindus. The main pagoda style temple has a gilded roof, four sides covered in silver, and exquisite wood carvings. Temples dedicated to several other Hindu and Buddhist deities surround the the temple of Pashupatinath.
Cremation of Hindus take place on raised platforms along the river. Only Hindus are allowed through the gates of the main temple. The inner sanctum has a Shiva lingam and facing the temple sits the largest statue of Nandi the bull, the vehicle of Shiva. There are hundreds of Shiva lingamswithin the compound. The big Maha Shivaratri festival in spring attracts hundreds of thousands of devotees from within Nepal and from India. Further east before the Bagmati reaches Pashupati is the temple of Guheshwori dedicated to Shiva’s consort Sati Devi.
Visit Pashupatinath for an unmatched mix of religious, cultural and spiritual experiences. Located 3 km northwest of Kathmandu on the banks of the Bagmati River, the temple area also includes Deupatan, Jaya Bageshori, Gaurighat (Holy Bath), Kutumbahal, Gaushala, Pingalasthan and Sleshmantak forest. There are around 492 temples, 15 Shivalayas (shrines of Lord Shiva) and 12 Jyotirlinga (phallic shrines) to explore.
Pashupatinath Temple is one of the seven UNESCO Cultural Heritage Sites of the Kathmandu Valley. It is also a cremation site where the last rites of Hindus are performed. The rituals of cremation is not for the faint hearted; still visitors are seen watching curiously from across the river from the hillside. Visit Pashupatinath Temple for an out-of-this-world experience.
ugh the gates of the main temple. The inner sanctum has a Shiva lingam and facing the temple sits the largest statue of Nandi the bull, the vehicle of Shiva. There are hundreds of Shiva lingamswithin the compound. The big Maha Shivaratri festival in spring attracts hundreds of thousands of devotees from within Nepal and from India. Further east before the Bagmati reaches Pashupati is the temple of Guheshwori dedicated to Shiva’s consort Sati Devi.
Visit Pashupatinath for an unmatched mix of religious, cultural and spiritual experiences. Located 3 km northwest of Kathmandu on the banks of the Bagmati River, the temple area also includes Deupatan, Jaya Bageshori, Gaurighat (Holy Bath), Kutumbahal, Gaushala, Pingalasthan and Sleshmantak forest. There are around 492 temples, 15 Shivalayas (shrines of Lord Shiva) and 12 Jyotirlinga (phallic shrines) to explore.Devotees bathing by the Bagmati River on the banks of the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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About Artist Shuho Koiwai
Shuho Koiwai was born on March 26, 1916, in Ibaragi Prefecture in Japan. He became a student of Buzan Kimura at the age of 17, when specialized in the use of rock paint orIwaenogu (from rock crushed into fine powder). He studied Buddhist art and specialized in "Kacho" - that of flowers and birds.
During World War II, he served in China as a medical corpsman during which time he found ample free time to continue his studies in art. Upon his return to Japan, he found out that his master had died and then he became a disciple of Gakuryo Nakamura, a leading authority and master of Nihonga - the traditional Japanese paintings.
He was honored when he was selected as one of the 22 disciples of Master Nakamura who was commissioned to do the Hekiga (wall mural) of Osaka's Shitennoji Temple founded by Prince Shotoku during the early 7th century . The theme of the mural is "Life story of Buddha."
At age of 29, he won "inten" (Japan Fine Arts Exhibition) Award, a most prestigious fine art exhibit in Japan. Soon thereafter, he went on to collect a number of his nation's top awards.
1in 1964, his paintings were exhibited in Kansas City and at Salt Lake City. His love for Maui began when he first stopped over for a visit and befriended Rev. Gensho Hara. He gave many free demonstrations at Maui Community College, Hale Makua, Lahaina Jodo Mission, and a number of private organizations.
Mr. Koiwai also promoted Japanese paintings among all the people of Japan. particularly those of Nagano Prefecture where he lived for a long time.
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Kindred Biosciences Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing Agreement with Vaxart
May 20, 2020 /in Frontpage, Investor, News /by Katja Buhrer
San Francisco, California (May 20, 2020) – Kindred Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: KIN), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel biologics, today announced it has entered into an agreement with Vaxart, Inc. (Nasdaq: VXRT) for the manufacture of Vaxart’s oral vaccine candidate for COVID-19.
“We are proud to be contributing toward the effort to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. We look forward to working with Vaxart to bring this innovative technology to patients as quickly as possible,” said KindredBio’s Chief Executive Officer, Richard Chin, M.D. “This marks an important step in the development of our contract manufacturing business, which has the potential to help fund our promising pipeline.”
Under the terms of the agreement, KindredBio will provide manufacturing services from its state-of-the-art biological development and cGMP manufacturing facility in Burlingame, CA. There, KindredBio will produce the candidate vaccine bulk drug substance under Good Manufacturing Practices, and provide it to Vaxart to be formulated into a vaccine tablet to be taken by mouth instead of by needle injection. KindredBio will manufacture the vaccine for clinical trials beginning in the second half of 2020.
“We are pleased to be partnering with Kindred Biosciences in the development of our oral COVID-19 vaccine candidate,” said Vaxart’s Chief Executive Officer, Wouter Latour, M.D. “We believe our novel approach utilizing a room temperature-stable tablet offers important logistical advantages in widespread oral vaccination, and that KindredBio with its state-of-the-art manufacturing plants is an ideal partner to realize our vision.”
KindredBio’s core expertise includes protein engineering, cell line development, master cell banking, process development, assay development, stability testing, and cGMP clinical and commercial manufacturing from 50 litres to 2,000 litres. The biologics team comprises experts in product development, manufacturing, quality control and quality assurance personnel, and is supported by a strong project management organization.
KindredBio’s contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) activities are managed by a wholly owned subsidiary, Centaur Biopharmaceutical Services.
Kindred Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative biologics focused on saving and improving the lives of pets. Its mission is to bring to pets the same kinds of safe and effective medicines that human family members enjoy. The company’s strategy is to identify targets that have already demonstrated safety and efficacy in humans and to develop therapeutics based on these validated targets for dogs and cats. KindredBio has a deep pipeline of novel biologics in development across many therapeutic classes, alongside state-of-the-art biologics manufacturing capabilities and a broad intellectual property portfolio.
For more information, please visit: www.kindredbio.com
About Vaxart
Vaxart is a clinical-stage biotechnology company and its oral recombinant vaccine candidate is based on its proprietary VAAST™ platform. Vaxart’s vaccines are administered using a convenient room temperature-stable tablet, rather than by injection.
For more information, please visit www.vaxart.com.
These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations. These statements are not promises or guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks include, but are not limited to, the following: our limited operating history and expectations of losses for the foreseeable future; the absence of significant revenue from our products and our product candidates for the foreseeable future; the likelihood that our revenue will vary from quarter to quarter; our potential inability to obtain any necessary additional financing; our substantial dependence on the success of our products and our lead product candidates which may not be successfully commercialized even if they are approved for marketing; the effect of competition; our potential inability to obtain regulatory approval for our existing or future product candidates; our dependence on third parties to conduct some of our development activities; our dependence upon third-party manufacturers for supplies of our products and our product candidates and the potential inability of these manufacturers to deliver a sufficient amount of supplies on a timely basis; the uncertain effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, results of operations and financial condition; uncertainties regarding the outcomes of trials regarding our product candidates; our potential failure to attract and retain senior management and key scientific personnel; uncertainty about our ability to enter into satisfactory agreements with third-party licensees of our biologic products or to develop a satisfactory sales organization for our equine small molecule products; our significant costs of operating as a public company; potential cyber-attacks on our information technology systems or on our third-party providers’ information technology systems, which could disrupt our operations; our potential inability to repay the secured indebtedness that we have incurred from third-party lenders, and the restrictions on our business activities that are contained in our loan agreement with these lenders; the risk that our 2020 strategic realignment plan will result in unanticipated costs or revenue shortfalls; uncertainty about the amount of royalties that we will receive from the sale of Mirataz® to Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC; our potential inability to obtain and maintain patent protection and other intellectual property protection for our products and our product candidates; potential claims by third parties alleging our infringement of their patents and other intellectual property rights; our potential failure to comply with regulatory requirements, which are subject to change on an ongoing basis; the potential volatility of our stock price; and the significant control over our business by our principal stockholders and management.
The results stated in this press release have not been reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration or the United States Department of Agriculture Center for Veterinary Biologics, as applicable.
For investor inquiries:
Katja Buhrer
Katja.buhrer@kindredbio.com
For CDMO services:
Jeremy Vrchota
jeremy.vrchota@kindredbio.com
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Event: Kindred Biosciences to Present at Stifel 2020 Virtual Jaws & Paws Conference
May 13, 2020 /in Events /by Katja Buhrer
Presentation time: 12:05 p.m. ET
Company Attendee: CEO Richard Chin
Webcast URL: Click here
For more information about this event, please see the press release.
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Kindred Biosciences to Present at Stifel 2020 Virtual Jaws & Paws Conference
San Francisco, California (May 13, 2020) – Kindred Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: KIN), a biopharmaceutical company focused on saving and improving the lives of pets, will present at the Stifel 2020 Virtual Jaws & Paws Conference on May 27.
Dr. Richard Chin, Chief Executive Officer, will present via webcast at 12.05pm ET and be available for virtual one-on-one meetings. During this time, investors will have the opportunity to discuss recent developments, study results from key therapeutic programs in development, and upcoming milestones.
An archived version of the above webcast will be available for 30 days on the KindredBio website.
For more information, visit: www.kindredbio.com
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Kindred Biosciences Announces First Quarter 2020 Financial Results
May 7, 2020 /in Frontpage, Investor, News /by Katja Buhrer
San Francisco, California (May 7, 2020) – Kindred Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: KIN), a biopharmaceutical company focused on saving and improving the lives of pets, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2020 and provided updates on its programs. For the first quarter 2020, KindredBio reported net product revenues of $0.6 million and a net loss of $22.8 million, or $0.58 per share, which includes non-recurring charges of $5.1 million.
“We are very pleased with the recent close of the $43 million Mirataz transaction. We look forward to continuing to build value in our promising pipeline,” said KindredBio’s Chief Executive Officer, Richard Chin, M.D. “With the positive results from the IL-4/13 SINK pilot study we now have eight positive pilot studies in a row, which is a remarkable achievement, and speaks to the quality of our development capabilities.”
Biologics Candidates
The scale up process for KIND-016, a fully caninized, high-affinity monoclonal antibody targeting interleukin (IL)-31 for the treatment of atopic dermatitis in dogs, is proceeding as planned and the pivotal study remains on track to start in the second half of 2020.
On March 24, 2020 KindredBio announced positive results from the pilot field efficacy study of its canine IL-4/13 SINK molecule, a canine fusion protein targeting IL-4 and IL-13 for the treatment of atopic dermatitis in dogs. A higher treatment success rate was observed in the KIND-025 group over the placebo group from week 1 through week 4. Positive efficacy signals were also detected with other endpoints including 20mm or higher reduction from baseline in PVAS score.
On December 16, 2019, KindredBio unveiled positive results from its randomized, placebo-controlled laboratory pilot study of KIND-032, a fully caninized monoclonal antibody targeting IL-4R for the treatment of atopic dermatitis in dogs. A second pilot study to further assess efficacy and dosing is planned for mid-2020. The IL-4 pathway is a key driver of the inflammation that underlies atopic dermatitis. KIND-032 binds to the IL-4 receptor on the surface of immune cells. The KIND-032 program is advancing ahead of schedule and is being prioritized ahead of IL-4/13 SINK.
Pivotal studies for KIND-030, a monoclonal antibody targeting canine parvovirus, are expected to be completed in 2020 and the approval timeline is on track.
The pivotal efficacy study for KindredBio’s feline recombinant erythropoietin was initiated in the fourth quarter. Due to COVID-19, a number of veterinary clinics are not conducting clinical trials currently. KindredBio is actively implementing practices consistent with guidance provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic to minimize the impact on timelines. An update will be provided with the second quarter results.
The pilot field effectiveness study for KindredBio’s anti-TNF antibody for canine inflammatory bowel disease is underway. Due to COVID-19, a number of veterinary clinics are not conducting clinical trials currently, and completion is now expected to extend beyond the first half of 2020. KindredBio is actively implementing practices consistent with guidance provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on studies conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic to minimize the impact on timelines. An update will be provided with the second quarter results.
Mirataz
KindredBio recorded Mirataz® (mirtazapine transdermal ointment) net product revenues of $0.6 million in the first quarter, reflecting limited distributor stocking during the Mirataz sale negotiation. Sales of Mirataz from distributors to veterinary clinics reached a record $1.6 million in the quarter, underscoring continued growth in customer adoption. On April 15, 2020 KindredBio completed the sale of Mirataz to Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC for an upfront payment of $43 million, and royalties on worldwide sales. Dechra plans to launch Mirataz in the UK and the European Union, and intends to conduct the necessary regulatory activities to achieve approvals in other key international markets. Royalties on future global sales of Mirataz by Dechra will be recorded by KindredBio as revenue.
KindredBio Equine
Pending the strategic evaluation of the future direction of the equine franchise, development of all candidates has been put on hold.
On November 25, 2019, KindredBio announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Zimeta for the control of pyrexia in horses. KindredBio recorded net product revenues of $7,000 in the first three months of the year, reflecting expected limited activity during the winter months and a downturn in equine transportation as a result of COVID-19. An application for Zimeta was made in Canada in November, with anticipated approval in the second quarter of 2020.
First Quarter 2020 Financial Results
For the quarter ended March 31, 2020, KindredBio reported a net loss of $22.8 million or $0.58 per share, as compared to a net loss of $16.1 million or $0.42 per share, for the same period in 2019.
The Company recorded $0.6 million in net product revenues for Mirataz for the quarter ended March 31, 2020, compared to $0.5 million for the same period in 2019. Net product revenues for Zimeta IV were $7,000 in the first quarter. Zimeta IV became commercially available in December 2019.
The cost of product sales totaled $82,000 in the first quarter of 2020, compared to $92,000 in the same period in 2019, resulting in a gross margin of 86% and 82%, respectively. The Company recorded a $3.5 million inventory write-off on Mirataz, due to the transition to Dechra brand labelling.
Research and development expenses for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 were $8.9 million, compared to $7.2 million for the same period in 2019. The $1.7 million increase was primarily due to the inclusion of expenses from the Kansas facility as it began to manufacture clinical trial material. Prior to the first quarter, construction and commissioning expenditures associated with the Kansas facility had been categorized as general and administrative expenses. Stock based compensation expense for the first quarter of 2020 was $0.6 million, as compared to $0.4 million for the same period in 2019.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for the 2020 and 2019 first quarters were $8.9 million and $9.9 million, respectively. The $1.0 million year-over-year decrease was mainly due to the recategorization of Kansas plant expenditures as research and development expenses, offset by higher legal fees. Stock based compensation expense was $1.5 million for the 2020 first quarter, versus $1.4 million in the year-ago period.
The Company recorded a restructuring charge of $1.7 million in the first quarter of 2020 as a result of the strategic realignment and associated workforce reduction communicated in the fourth quarter 2019 results.
As of March 31, 2020, KindredBio had $54.6 million in cash, cash equivalents and investments, compared with $73.5 million as of December 31, 2019. Net cash used in operating activities for the first quarter of 2020 was approximately $17.1 million, reflecting a full organizational structure. The Company also invested approximately $1.4 million in capital expenditures for the purchase of associated lab and manufacturing equipment for the Kansas facility.
On April 15, 2020, KindredBio completed the sale of Mirataz to Dechra Pharmaceuticals for an upfront payment of $43 million, of which 10% shall be held in escrow for up to 18 months post closing.
With respect to spending in 2020, the Company remains focused on advancing its core biologics pipeline and programs, including the commencement of multiple pivotal studies. KindredBio anticipates operating expenses of between $57 million and $59 million, excluding the impact of stock-based compensation expense and the impact of acquisitions, if any. The 2020 operating expense includes the beforementioned one-time restructuring charge and first quarter expenditures that reflect a full organizational structure. KindredBio also plans to invest $3.0 million to $4.0 million in capital expenditures on lab and manufacturing equipment for its biologics programs in 2020. KindredBio believes its existing cash, cash equivalents, investments, proceeds from the Mirataz sale, revenues from anticipated partnerships, and additional drawdown of $30 million from its debt facility, which is contingent on the achievement of certain milestones, will be sufficient to fund the current operating plan through 2022.
KindredBio will host a conference call and webcast today at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time/1:30 p.m. Pacific time. Interested parties may access the call by dialing toll-free (855) 433-0927 from the US, or (484) 756-4262 internationally, and using conference ID 4476025. The call will be webcast live here, with a replay available at that link for 30 days.
ZimetaTM (dipyrone injection) should not be used more frequently than every 12 hours. For use in horses only. Do not use in horses with a hypersensitivity to dipyrone, horses intended for human consumption or any food producing animals, including lactating dairy animals. Not for use in humans, avoid contact with skin and keep out of reach of children. Take care to avoid accidental self-injection and use routine precautions when handling and using loaded syringes. Prior to use, horses should undergo a thorough history and physical examination by a veterinarian. Monitor for signs of abnormal bleeding and use caution in horses at risk for hemorrhage. Concurrent use with other NSAIDs, corticosteroids and drugs associated with kidney toxicity, should be avoided. As a class, NSAIDs may be associated with gastrointestinal, kidney, and liver toxicity. The most common adverse reactions observed during clinical trials were elevated glucose conversion enzymes, decreased blood protein, and gastric ulcers. Please see the full Prescribing Information.
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Homestories on progress3D counterpart to graphene discovered [UPDATE]
3D counterpart to graphene discovered [UPDATE]
Promises faster transistors and more compact hard drives
A topological Dirac semi-metal state is realized at the critical point in the phase transition from a normal insulator to a topological insulator. The + and – signs denote the even and odd parity of the energy bands. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)
DOE Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers have discovered that sodium bismuthide can exist as a form of matter called a “three-dimensional topological Dirac semi-metal” (3DTDS).
“A 3DTDS is a natural three-dimensional counterpart to graphene with similar or even better electron mobility and velocity,” says Yulin Chen, a physicist with Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS) when he initiated the study that led to this discovery, and now with the University of Oxford.
Graphene and topological insulators (such as those in 3DTDS) are both crystalline materials that are electrically insulating inside but conducting on the surface, allowing them to function as transistors and other electronic devices.**
Graphene is an atomic-scale honeycomb lattice made of carbon atoms (credit: Wikimedia Commons)
While sodium bismuthide (Na3Bi) is too unstable to be used in devices without proper packaging, it triggers the exploration for the development of other 3DTDS materials more suitable for everyday devices, a search that is already underway.
Sodium bismuthide can also be used to demonstrate potential applications of 3DTDS systems, which offer distinct advantages over 2D (planar) graphene.
“A 3DTDS system could provide a significant improvement in efficiency in many applications over [2D] graphene because of its 3D volume,” Chen says. “Also, preparing large-size atomically thin single-domain graphene films is still a challenge. It could be easier to fabricate graphene-type devices for a wider range of applications from 3DTDS systems.”
In addition, Chen says, a 3DTDS system also opens the door to other novel physical properties that can be a boon for future electronic technologies. Future 3DTDS systems can also serve as an ideal platform for applications in spintronics.
The discovery was made at the Advanced Light Source (ALS), a DOE national user facility housed at Berkeley Lab.
This research was supported by the DOE Office of Science and by the National Science Foundation of China.
** Graphene and topological insulators both feature 2D Dirac fermions (fermions that aren’t their own antiparticle), which give rise to extraordinary and highly desirable physical properties.
UPDATE 1/20/2014: “sodium bismuthate” (from Berkeley Lab materials) corrected to “sodium bismuthide” per Chen
Abstract of Science paper
Three-dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetals (TDSs) represent a novel state of quantum matter that can be viewed as “3D graphene”. In contrast to two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions in graphene or on the surface of 3D topological insulators, TDSs possess 3D Dirac fermions in the bulk. By investigating the electronic structure of Na3Bi with angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we discovered 3D Dirac fermions with linear dispersions along all momentum directions. Furthermore, we demonstrated the robustness of 3D Dirac fermions in Na3Bi against in situ surface doping. Our results establish Na3Bi as a model system of 3D TDSs, which can serve as an ideal platform for the systematic study of quantum phase transitions between rich topological quantum states.
Z. K. Liu et al., Discovery of a Three-Dimensional Topological Dirac Semimetal, Na3Bi. Science, 2014, DOI: 10.1126/science.1245085
Z. K. Liu et al., Discovery of a Three-dimensional Topological Dirac Semimetal, Na3Bi, arXiv, 2013, arxiv.org/abs/1310.0391
Natural 3D Counterpart to Graphene Discovered
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Centre for War and Diplomacy
Lancaster University and RAF Museum announce fully-funded PhD
© Photo courtesy of the RAF Museum
The RAF Museum and the Centre of War and Diplomacy at Lancaster University have joined forces to offer a new PhD.
They are currently inviting applications for a fully funded PhD to research, write, and complete a dissertation on the project ‘The Europeanisation of British Defence Procurement in the Cold War: The RAF and the Panavia Tornado’.
Funding for the project has come from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership
In making use of the RAF Museum’s collections, as well as national, specialised, and business archives, the student will also have the fascinating and challenging opportunity to explore Britain’s political, economic, and strategic rationale and role in the multinational European co-operation, which produced the Panavio Tornado multirole combat aircraft.
The student must have an excellent background in History (ideally at both undergraduate and postgraduate level) and a good understanding of Military, International, and/or Economic/Business History.
They will work within the University’s History Department and the RAF Museum and will become a full member of Lancaster University’s Centre for War and Diplomacy, supervised by Lancaster University’s Dr Marco Wyss and Dr Thomas Mills together with Dr Harry Raffal from the RAF Museum.
Dr Wyss said: “The Centre for War and Diplomacy is delighted to work with such a prestigious museum as that of the Royal Air Force.
“Moreover, the Panavia Tornado is a fascinating case study to assess the political, economic, and strategic rationales in British defence procurement.”
For further details of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership please visit the jobs.ac.uk website.
The Centre for War and Diplomacy is delighted to work with such a prestigious museum as that of the Royal Air Force.
Dr Marco Wyss
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Jimmy Kimmel Live celebrates 2000th show
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Jimmy Kimmel Live celebrated its 2000th show on Monday night, away from the recent hive of activity at NBC.
The show, which premiered on ABC in January 2003, marked the anniversary with singer/songwriter Josh Groban stopping by to sing a special song to salute this milestone.
.@JoshGroban surprised Jimmy with a very special (yet slightly inaccurate) song for our 2000th show last night… http://t.co/Rv8oYYAVTu
— Jimmy Kimmel Live (@JimmyKimmelLive) February 25, 2014
Also, the guests for the annual “Jimmy Kimmel Live: After The Oscars” special show have been announced this week.
The special programme, which airs live directly after the 86th Academy Awards this Sunday (2nd March), will feature the following guests according to The Los Angeles Times:
Ellen DeGeneres (host of the Oscars ceremony), Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Martin Scorsese, Chris Hemsworth, Liam Hemsworth, Christoph Waltz, Ben Kingsley, Mandy Patinkin, Abbie Cornish, Barkhad Abdi, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Seth Rogen, Morgan Freeman, Andy Garcia, Adam Driver, Queen Latifah, Gary Oldman and Anjelica Huston.
The Los Angeles Times – “‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ announces post-Oscars show lineup”
Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy Kimmel Live - Roundups
Seth Meyers makes his Late Night debut on NBC
The Graham Norton Show – April 2014
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Increased denial rates for H-1B visas under Trump’s administration
Home > H-1B Visa > Increased denial rates for H-1B visas under Trump’s administration
After the U.S. announced the review of the citizenship of the various people living in the nation in November 2018, many tech workers became worried. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (‘the USCIS’) has declined to facilitate the renewal of many H-1B visas. Lack of authentication of the visa means that for the next one hundred and eighty days, many families risk being termed as illegal immigrants with a possibility of being forced to leave the country.
The notice is a severe blow to many tech workers that have completed their studies in the U.S. and started working through the H-1B program. Usually they landed jobs with IT outsourcing firms as quality assurance analysts, or software engineers. H-1B visas that are usually set aside for specialty professions.
Although many families have lived in the US for a long time and many of their achievements have not changed including skills, educational background, among others, techies see a denied renewal of H-1B visas more and more, with the excuse that their professions are no longer considered a specialty. We have seen a hardened stance since the start of Trump’s administration, when it also became harder for tech companies to hire H-1B workers due to President Trump’s “America First” agenda.
Many H-1B’s visas rejected
The new policies that have been implemented by Trump’s administration have worked against the expectations of many U.S. tech workers. Many of them have had their visas rejected. The H-1B program had facilitated various foreigners to be employed by US companies to work temporarily. The process is carried out primarily to jobs that require specialized theoretical and practical applications.
The positions are usually reserved for people with at least a bachelor’s degree in their area of specialty. They may also be considered when they have equivalent training in specific fields. Employers who are not able to find Americans with such qualifications are allowed to outsource foreign-based employees. The government reserves around 65,000 of such visas and 20,000 of them are reserved for individuals who get a master’s degree or higher while in the US. The US has a higher demand for tech skills.
H-1B rejections more than doubled
As a result, H-1B visas are very competitive and in high demand. There were approximately 419,000 petitions that were filed for continuing and new permits in 2018. Based on the research carried out, the rate of decline for registration in both classes has skyrocketed intensely.
The National Foundation for American Policy conducted an analysis and determined that there was an increase in the rate of decline of registering specialty professions to extend their visas in the country from 4 percent in 2016 to around 12% in 2018. This rate of decline went higher to 18 percent in the first quarter of 2019.
For the new employment, the USCIS has turned down more than double on the number of petitions that have been brought forward. The organization declined 10 percent in 2016 and 2018; it dropped to 24 percent. The decline rate was 32 percent in the first quarter of 2019. The denial rates have been increasing despite the decreasing applications during President Trump’s administration.
Expert Stuart Anderson wondered how such vast rates of decline would be taking place albeit the lack of legal or legislation to inform the agencies on declining the applications. Stuart was a former staffer on the Senate Immigration Committee. He is the current Executive Director of the National Foundation for American Policy.
Buy American, Hire American
Trump administration has just decided to execute the changes through the use of executive powers. In his campaigns, Trump had promised to overhaul the H-1B visa program that attracted more foreign workers with less pay at the expense of the local workers. The President assented to an executive under the banner “Buy American, Hire American” within the first few months in office. The measure was meant to prioritize visas for the most skilled and highest paid workers.
As a result of the President ‘s executive order, the USCIS sought to review the third party outsourcing firms to reassess if certain types of educational experiences and jobs were really a specialty or not. The agency also had, in 2017, demanded that the officers involved in the evaluation processes not to comply with the previous decisions that were used to assess the conditions of extending someone’s visa. The dynamics ultimately reversed the policies that existed in the earlier administrations.
Tech companies hire less foreign specialists
The decline of applications has been on the increase as a result of these changes, especially for top H-1B employers. The changes have also affected giant employers such as Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, among others. They have also affected the renowned outsourcing firms such as cognizant and Infosys.
The execution of the present changes does not mean that the existing regulations and order were in any way flawed. Lawmakers and companies have been fighting for various amendments in the immigration system even before Trump took over power. The large outsourcing firms such as Infosys and Tata Consultants dominated the draw who much determined the people to get visas or not.
They consequently had many applications with the USCIS. They had a great share of the approvals. The employers were paying fewer wages than expected for the same level of work. Some companies such as Disney were forced to lay-off American workers and trained the foreign ones. This kind of social crisis has been one of the motivating factors to have the policies on immigration changed.
Less H-1B
The contention of some firms receiving significant shares in the approvals of H-1B has declined and shifted into new concerns. For example, in 2018, Amazon was considered as having received the most significant consents for new visas. Its denial rates were also meagre. In the first quarter of 2019, however, the denial rates rose to at least 50 percent. To Trump’s administration, this signifies a great success. The argument is that more people who have degrees in American society can get awarded the H-1B visas instead.
USCIS has made various reforms that aim to assist the President in achieving his legacy on the “Buy American and Hiring American” executive order. According to them, this tends to protect American workers. The efficiency and integrity of the immigration processes, increase in the confidence of eligibility are some of the benefits of the new policies. Additionally, the new measures are aimed at minimizing some of the unwarranted petitions.
Any petitioner, and not the government, should be able to demonstrate his or her eligibility to get the immigration benefits that are legally provided.
About LCR Capital Partners
Founded by first-generation U.S. immigrants who met at and graduated from Harvard Business School in 1997, LCR Capital Partners is a global private investment firm that deploys growth capital in signature real estate and hospitality projects as well as the well-established U.S. franchise industry.
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Home > What is sms and does my phone or tablet need it?
What is sms and does my phone or tablet need it?
Home > FAQs > PC+ Life FAQs > What is sms?
If you’re one of the 91 percent of adults in the U.S. who owns a cell phone, chances are you use SMS. If you’re a teenager, chances are you use it more. SMS, or Short Message Service, is the technical term for text messaging, the most widely used data application in the world. SMS users can send messages between cell phones or from a computer to a cell phone. SMS was first conceptualized in the 1980s and in the last 10 years has become an important medium in both personal and business communication. Text messaging standards were initially adopted into the GSM protocol and later made available on a wide range of networks, including 3G networks.
SMS is made possible by the robust cell phone infrastructure made up of cell towers and satellites. These remote hubs create control channels. When you send a text message, it travels on one of these control channels to the corresponding tower, which routes it to the corresponding control channel of the receiver. SMS messages can fit up to 160 characters in a single message, but modern services can automatically split up longer messages in order to send the complete text.
SMS is great for communicating short comments that do not require an entire phone conversation. Cell phone users can now send multimedia content through SMS, including pictures and videos. In the business world, SMS has become a popular direct-marketing tactic. Businesses can send short messages, which are sometimes accompanied by Web links, directly to target customers’ mobile phones. SMS is the new standard for fast text communication.
Cell phone plans include options for different text messaging amounts. If you are like many Americans who view texting as the most efficient form of communication, you will likely want an unlimited SMS plan to avoid incurring expensive per-text charges.
How does SMS work?
One of the most popular forms of communication, SMS, or Short Message Service, has revolutionized the way we communicate quick messages in both the business world and our personal lives. Today, anyone with a cell phone can send messages for instant delivery to other mobile devices. We take this modern technology for granted, but the complex infrastructure of cell towers and satellites transmits the millions of text messages Americans send every day.
You may not always be on your phone, but it is constantly sending and receiving information over control channels. These pathways between cell phone and cell towers exchange packets of data and establish an ongoing connection. Control channels also serve as the highway for SMS messages. These messages travel from cell phones to towers, which route them to the correct control channel in a matter seconds. Each packet of data contains the message, a time stamp, the format and the destination phone number.
From a user’s perspective, an SMS message travels from one phone to another instantly and we usually don’t think twice about how it got there. Millions of consumers around the world own a smartphones or a tablet and most of them use SMS messaging to make plans, check-in or communicate with others.
What is the difference between SMS and MMS?
Text messaging, also called SMS messaging, is the preferred form of communication for millions of cell phone users. SMS messaging enables users to send text across cell networks instantly, but MMS messaging has provided a way to send multimedia content, including pictures, sound clips, videos and text.
SMS, or Short Message Service, was the initial app developed to send text between cell phones. SMS messages travel on control channels between cell phones and cell towers for delivery within seconds. Users are limited to 160 characters per SMS message, but most services can automatically break up longer messages into the appropriate amounts of texts. Widespread cell phone use led to a boom in SMS messaging in the early 2000s and new technology has taken this popular form of communication a step further.
MMS, or Multimedia Messaging Service, is the next generation of text messaging. The process of sending an MMS message is the same as an SMS text, but once it gets to the cell tower, the message center sends it via the Internet to the recipient’s carrier. The recipient message center then determines whether the recipient’s handset is capable of receiving MMS messages. If so, it sends a URL to the phone as a text message and the phone translates the content. MMS is a more complicated system, but it still delivers messages in seconds.
Does my phone or tablet need SMS?
Cell phone plan providers offer a number of various features and data plans to enhance your mobile experience. Some cell phone users overlook the importance of that most popular mobile app in history: SMS, or Short Message Service. Better known as text messaging, SMS enables cell phone users to send messages of up to 160 characters between devices in seconds. This function is perfect for communicating plans or short thoughts that don’t require a phone call. SMS has become the preferable form of communication for many users in both their professional and personal lives.
SMS can extend to web applications and enhance the overall computing experience with mobile communication.
Almost all mobile phones come equipped with SMS capabilities, but now tablets are starting to get into the act. Some tablet providers offer data plans that include SMS coverage. If not, a number of apps can enable SMS communication between tablets and other mobile devices. If you need SMS to connect with your kids, co-workers or significant other, a tablet is a viable option. Otherwise, make sure your mobile device has SMS, and buy a bundle that works for you. When considering what kind of SMS plan you need, overestimate how much you use it. Try SMS and you might be hooked.
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Virtual Jehovah by Zach Smith
Posted on 31 Mar 2018 AuthorThe LibrarianLeave a comment
For Redeye the weekends were reserved for video games. His consul of choice was the obscure Nintendo Virtual Boy, an early red on black monochromatic experiment in 3D gaming, which looked like a red turn of the century peepshow box. Redeye was one of the few dedicated players.
Today he planned on doing nothing but playing. It was a gray and dizzily day outside so he wouldn’t feel too bad for having “wasted” his time. For nourishment he had a large glass of tomato juice with everything you could imagine inside it: limes, beer, vodka, cheese, olives, tabasco, a dash of extra virgin olive oil, ice, etc. The straw was cut at a 30 degree angle leaving a sharp point with which he could spear the cheese and what not out of the drink, without pulling his head out of the Virtual Boy.
He put in his ear buds and selected “the Grand Playlist” of his 500 most played songs on his iPod and set it to shuffle. After playing for 5 minutes, and in a brief lull in the music Redeye heard his doorbell ring. Visitors were unusual, and whenever the doorbell rang it spooked him a little bit.
When a cop walks up to a stopped car, almost all the time nothing unusual happens, however there is always the possibility that the person in the car is unstable and armed. Redeye always approached his door skeptically in the same manor. He kept his drink with him. It may not have been a formidable weapon, but in a pinch he could throw it into the would be assailants face, and the tabasco and tomato juice would at the very least be a distraction. This time however it was the people knocking on the door, who would have something to fear.
“Good morning, we have a tract here we would like you to have.”
There were myriad ways that Redeye could have handled the Jehovah’s Witnesses. He could have politely said: “I’m not interested” or he could have closed the door in their faces. He could have cursed at them and threatened legal or bodily harm to the proselytizers. However Redeye was a friendlier sort and took the small pamphlet they were offering and thanked the men. It was at this point he noticed that the gray and drizzly day had now turned into an all-out rainy day, and the two men, were getting rather wet. Neither of them carried umbrellas, but their faith in Jehovah (whoever that might be) was keeping their souls warm and dry. Redeye was no more interested in their souls than he was in his own, but he was interested in their corporeal beings and what those might be going through in the cold and rainy morning.
“Would you like to come in?” asked Redeye, “Wait for the weather to improve?”
The man looked at the rain, almost as if he was noticing it for the first time, and then looked at his companion who gave a kind of confused look regarding the unexpected offer. He shrugged his shoulders and said.
“Sure, that would be great.”
The two men walked into Redeye’s house.
“I’m Dave by the way, this is Andrew”
“Nice to meet you fella’s, you can call me Redeye.”
“Interesting name,” said Dave. “How did you get it? Are you a pilot?”
“No, not exactly,” said Redeye.
“It’s unusual to be invited into someone’s house,” said Dave.
“Even by our own members,” Andrew added.
Redeye Chuckled.
“Do you have a rule about going into a house or not?”
“Were generally not supposed to,” said Dave. “If we’re invited though, and the person doesn’t look to be, you know, too hostile, we’ll accept. But again, it’s very unusual.”
“You’re all human beings. I couldn’t very well keep you out in the rain.”
“It’s nothing, have a seat, can I get you guys a drink, coffee? Beer?”
“I’m sorry, we don’t drink,” said Dave.
“I might have some water around here somewhere, if that interests you?”
“We can drink water.”
“What is that you’re drinking?” asked Andrew.
“Its tomato juice, with a bunch of things in it, olives, cheese, stuff like that. I’d let you try it but there’s… let’s say, extra ingredients in it. If you’d like I can make you one without the hard stuff.”
“You know what,” said Andrew. “That sounds awful, but I think I’d have to try it.”
“Good man,” said Redeye. “How about you Dave?”
He looked at the drink for a second, and gave kind of a mischievous smile. “Sure I’ll tie one on, but I would like to see you make it.”
“I’m not going to put alcohol in it and not tell you, what kind of guy do you think I am?”
“I wouldn’t expect that,” said Dave. “But I may want to make one for my wife.”
“Sure,” said Redeye. “Come into the kitchen I’ll show you.”
Dave’s eye caught the unusual red box sitting on the kitchen table as he walked in, but then looked away as though it were something he was not supposed to see. Redeye pulled out the myriad ingredients, washed off the celery, cubed the cheese.
“You remember all that or should I write it down for you?” asked Redeye, when the drink was complete.
“I think I got it.”
“Cheers,” said Redeye as they all sat down in the living room.
The two men each took a sip, and Redeye watched them expectantly. They nodded their heads.
“That’s pretty good right there,” said Dave.
“Better than I expected,” said Andrew.
“Good,” said Redeye. Then leaning back in his chair, in a more relaxed position, he changed the subject and said. “I should be honest with you; I’m not really interested in joining your religion or anything. I think I should just be upfront with you guys on that note.”
“It’s not so much our religion, but the final destination of your soul,” said Andrew.
“Were not here to get new members, though that would be nice,” said Dave. “But it’s more about helping other people get to Christ and get to heaven. Are you close with God Redeye?”
“I am not?”
“You’re not, well do you belong to any church?” asked Dave.
“No, I am a devout Atheist.”
“Surely you must believe in something,” said Andrew. “Or else, why would you have let us into your house on a gray and rainy day.”
“Oh I believe in some things,” said Redeye. “I let you in because small acts of kindness can go far in this world, never mind what happens in the next, if there is one at all, of course we have no proof.”
“But we do have proof,” said Andrew.
“Oh, do you?” asked Redeye skeptically.
“We do,” said Dave as he pulled out something from the large pocket of his blazer. “It’s in this book.”
He handed the book over to Redeye.
Redeye accepted the book; however he did one peculiar thing. He grabbed an unused napkin in order to take the book without actually touching it.
Dave looked at him suspiciously.
“I never touch bibles, or other religious texts, kind of a phobia with me.”
“The word isn’t something to fear.”
“Okay, phobia might not be the right word, it’s like we are of two different worlds, the bible and myself you know, and I feel that I would be soiling the text if I were to touch it, and/or vice versa.”
“But it won’t soil you,” said Dave.
“Yes, if anything it will be a purification,” added Andrew.
“I suppose you’re right,” said Redeye. “I can touch it, I just prefer not to, but if I had to go to court I wouldn’t make a fuss over the swearing in or anything.”
“We don’t do that.” said Dave.
“Don’t do what?”
“We don’t swear, it’s against our religion.”
At that moment, as though it were preordained, Andrew sneezed.
“God bless you,” said Redeye, without even noticing.
“Oh no, no, no, no, no, no!” said Andrew.
“I’m sorry?” said Redeye.
The statement was half an apology, half a question, and half a request for elaboration in the face of honest confusion.
“We don’t use those words when people sneeze.”
“Why? It’s just a thing,” said Redeye.
“It’s not just a thing,” said Andrew, surprisingly (at least to Redeye) pissed off.
Redeye turned to Dave, looked him in the eye, and said “I guess we all have our little strange behaviors,” he lifted up the bible still in the napkin to emphasis.
Dave smiled. “Well played,” he said. Then he turned to Andrew and gave him a look, which seemed to calm him down.
As if in apology, trying to erase the tiny episode that had occurred, Andrew began to make a most unusual analogy. “So you won’t touch a bible, is that correct?” he asked.
“Right,” said Redeye. “I’ll hold it with some kind of cloth or napkin or something, to keep the two entities respectfully separated, of course I’m not in situations where I have to do this often.”
“But you are touching that Bible now,” said Andrew.
“It’s in a napkin.”
“I know that,” said Andrew. “But it’s like… well it’s like if you put a condom on before you have sex, you can’t honestly say that you didn’t have sex because you were wearing a condom.”
“I’m sorry?” asked Redeye.
Not in a million years would he expect to hear those words come out of a proselytizer’s mouth.
“I’m sorry too,” said Andrew. “But I honestly can’t think of any other good analogy.”
Redeye looked off to some empty space on the wall for a moment.
“At the moment, neither can I,” said Redeye. He took a deep breath and continued. “So what you’re saying, in let’s say less specific terms, is that I’m already touching the Bible so why don’t I just take it directly into my hand?”
“Yes, thank you, that’s correct,” said Andrew.
“Well I could go on and on about STDs or something, but how about I just humor you and touch it, just this once.”
With the hand holding the napkin wrapped Bible (the edition known as “The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures,” which was the preferred bible for the Jehovah’s Witnesses) Redeye opened the book to a random page, and slightly wincing placed his finger on a passage.
He did not catch on fire, and neither did the book. He did not feel the slightest bit different, until he read the passage he had landed on out loud.
“‘I rejoiced when they said to me, “let us go to the house of Jehovah.”’ Wow that’s a little spooky isn’t it?”
Dave looked to Andrew, very surprised.
“Who’s talking here?” asked Redeye. “Who’s this ‘I’?”
Dave cleared his throat. “That would be David,” he said.
“Well how about that,” said Redeye smiling.
The other two laughed, but kind of suspiciously.
“I want you to keep that book, and read it,” said Dave.
Redeye closed the book, still holding it in the napkin and tried to hand it back to Dave. “It’s a nice gift,” he said. “But honestly I don’t think I’m going to.”
“Seriously you should read it,” Dave insisted. “I want you to have it. Read it, it will change your life.”
“Okay, I’ll make a deal with you, if you’re interested, hang on,” said Redeye. He left and went to get something in another room, he came back holding a CD in a jewel case. “I’ll read this Bible, every word of it, all the way through, I’ll even touch it when I do so, even though I don’t like to do that. But in exchange, I want you to listen to this album.”
Redeye passed the CD over to Dave, he took it suspiciously, looked at the cover of it, and said: “Oh my good god!” and then dropped it face down on the floor.
This is not exactly a common phrase uttered by the Jehovah’s Witnesses either. They took the use of the lords name (in vain or otherwise, be it God or Jehovah) very seriously, hence their apprehension to the phrase “god bless you” in response to a sneeze.
Andrew leaned down to pick up the case.
“Don’t look at the front of it,” said Dave. “You don’t want to see it, trust me.”
He of course was right, but a simple album cover producing such an unexpected reaction was a curiosity to say the least. In the end Andrew contented himself to just read the song list off the back of the album, and as he read his eyes grew wider, almost to the point of jumping out of his skull.
The album that Redeye had casually handed over to them was called “Dawn of the Black Hearts” by the notorious Norwegian Black Metal band Mayhem. The album was technically a bootleg, a fan recorded album never “officially” released by the band. However “Dawn of the Black Hearts” is considered a quintessential part of Mayhem’s discography, because it is the only known album by the band to feature Dead on vocals and Euronomous on guitar, both of whom were iconic in the band and both of whom also happened to die shortly after the albums unofficial release. Euronomous was killed by the bands then base player Varg Virkerness (one of the only murders in modern Norwegian crime history), and Dead committed suicide. The album is one of the most distributed bootlegs of all time.
The song titles that Andrew had found so surprising consisted of gory shock-horror titles like: “Deathcrush,” “Necrolust,” and “Chainsaw Gutsfuck,” (the lyrics of which are even more horrific then their titles may otherwise suggest) and darker malevolent song titles such as: “Freezing Moon,” “Funeral Fog,” and “Buried by Time and Dust.”
Song titles and background stories are one thing, but what made this album so infamous was the cover, a picture that evoked such a verbal reaction from the well-guarded tongue of a Jehovah’s Witness. The album cover is a picture of the singer, just after he killed himself with a shotgun to the head, and of course not censored or covered up in any form, no black line across the mortal wound that is usually present in such pictures.
“I could never listen to such a thing,” said Dave. His eyes closed, rubbing the bridge of his nose trying to get the image out of his mind.
“I mean what I say,” said Redeye. “I will read every word of your Bible, I will read it and touch it at the same time, but we need a quid pro quo, a this for that. I will do that for you, if you will do this for me.”
Redeye picked up the album and held it out toward Dave, spine forward (there was nothing all to offensive on the spine itself). Dave recoiled when he saw the album again.
“How could someone who was nice enough to let us into their house on a rainy Saturday morning, and make us fancy drinks, have something like that in his collection?”
“I have a broad knowledge and interest in all parts of the complete human experience.”
“Then why the aversion to religion? Why will you not read the Bible?”
“I will, I will read your Bible, but you must offer something in return.”
“We are trying to save your soul,” said Andrew. “That is our purpose.”
“And I am trying to broaden your mind, which at heart you are trying to do to me too.”
There was a brief time where no one said anything, and at the end Redeye got up as if to show the men out of his house, as it had stopped raining at that point. However instead of going to the door, he went into the kitchen and picked up his Virtual Boy, and brought it back into the living room.
“Well,” said Redeye. “If you will not listen to the album I was willing to give you, I have one more thing to offer. I will read your Bible, but in return, you will look into my red box.”
Dave and Andrew stared at the Virtual Boy, its demonic red plastic casing and soft black rubber. The device looked like something right out of revelations, a technological contraption of the devil that would steal their souls out through their own eyes. But what was in the box? Redeye had shown them a horrendous album, blatantly displaying what it was, but the red box was more mysterious, it showed nothing on the outside, and only their minds, molded by their church and the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, saw that it may be something more then what it seemed. They looked between Redeye and his red box, back and forth deciding whether or not to look inside, and wondering what could possibly be therein.
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Archive -Sept 2014
Nikola Tesla: F. . .
Nikola Tesla: Future man ?
Nikola Tesla was not just an unparalled scientific genius, but possessed extraordinary capacities and capabilities that paint him as the prototype of future man. This article is an adaptation of a paper written by R Chandrasekhar of the University of Western Australia
“Were we to seize and eliminate from our industrial world the results of Mr. Tesla’s work, the wheels of industry would cease to turn, our electric cars and trains would stop, our towns would be dark, our mills would be dead and idle. Yes, so far reaching is his work that it has become the warp and woof of industry. The name of Tesla …marks an epoch in the advance of electrical science. From that work has sprung a revolution,”
-B. A. Behrend,engineer and colleague of Tesla.
The world today is rediscovering Nikola Tesla, one of the most prolific scientific inventors of our time. Like Leonardo Da Vinci, Tesla, with his highly developed inner and higher senses, was truly ahead of his time. His mission in life, as a scientist of the highest order, was to open a new cosmic window, advancing our sciences into futuristic new dimensions. Tesla’s energy science was to introduce technologies that worked in harmony with nature, without harming the environment. Unfortunately, like many visionaries, Tesla died impoverished and unsung, even as many won Nobel prizes on discoveries that he had contributed largely to.
Tesla invented and created the polyphase alternating current energy transmission, the system of motors and generators that powers the world. He also invented apparatus for radio transmission based on the use of resonance and a kind of spread-technique. Among the more than 700 of Tesla’s other inventions/patents are the rotating magnetic field principle, induction motor, wireless communication, fluorescent lights, and use of high frequency (h.f.) currents in medicine and remote control. He also invented the radio (not Marconi).
But Tesla is extraordinary for more than just his scientific genius. He possessed some truly marvellous capacities and capabilities that in some areas are unmatched in the history of mankind. And the question that springs before us is, could he be what the rest of us are evolving into? Could Tesla be an early harbinger of future man?
In many ways, Tesla was different. He had an extremely acute sense of hearing and sight; a
visualisation so vivid as to mimic reality; some eccentricities of habit and behaviour; and the capacity to dream of inventions that were inconceivable in his time. He also was given to visions, flashes of light and other phenomena which today would have marked him as a psychic of rare proportions. For instance, at the time of his mother’s death he had the following vision:
“During the whole night every fibre in my brain was strained in expectancy, but nothing happened until early in the morning, when I fell in a sleep, or perhaps a swoon, and saw a cloud carrying angelic figures of marvellous beauty, one of whom gazed upon me lovingly, and gradually assumed the features of my mother.
“The appearance slowly floated across the room and vanished, and I was awakened by an indescribably sweet song of many voices. In that instant a certitude, which no words can express, came upon me that my mother had just died. And that was true.”
Tesla’s hearing was unusually sharp. At the age of 25, he suffered what was termed by his doctors a “nervous breakdown” for want of a better term. While he was ill, Tesla’s pulse varied from a few beats to 260 beats per minute, and all the tissues of his body quivered and twitched. During the period he was ill, Tesla had the following extraordinary aural experiences:
1. He could hear the sound of a watch ticking three rooms away;
2. A fly landing on a table in his room caused a dull thud in his ear;
3. A carriage passing several kilometres distant caused his whole body to shake;
4. He could not endure the vibration in his chair caused by a train whistle 32 kilometres away;
5. Rubber cushions had to be placed under his bed so that he could rest undisturbed by the vibrations of sounds around him; and
6. In the dark, like a bat, he could sense an object at a distance of about four metres by a peculiar creepy sensation on the forehead.
Even when Tesla was past 40, and conducting research into lightning in the Colorado mountains, in the USA, he could hear thunderclaps 880 kilometres away, whereas his assistants, at half his age, could only hear them up to 240 kilometres away.
Of visions and lights
Even more amazing was his envisioning capacity. He says, “In my boyhood I suffered from a peculiar affliction due to the appearance of images, often accompanied by strong flashes of light, which marred the sight of real objects and interfered with my thought and action. They were pictures of things and scenes which I had really seen, never of those I imagined. When a word was spoken to me the image of the object it designated would present itself vividly to my vision and sometimes I was quite unable to distinguish whether what I saw was tangible or not. This caused me great discomfort and anxiety…
“Then I instinctively commenced to make excursions beyond the limits of the small world of which I had knowledge, and I saw new scenes. These were at first very blurred and indistinct, and would flit away when I tried to concentrate my attention upon them, but by and by I succeeded in fixing them; they gained in strength and distinctness and finally assumed the concreteness of real things. I soon discovered that my best comfort was attained if I simply went on in my vision farther and farther, getting new impressions all the time, and so I began to travel –of course, in my mind. Every night (and sometimes during the day), when alone, I would start on my journeys – see new places, cities and countries – live there, meet people, and make friendships and acquaintances and, however unbelievable, it is a fact that they were just as clear to me as those in actual life and not a bit less intense in their manifestations.”
This capacity to see in his mind’s eye what is not actually present in the real world, is best illustrated in his discovery of the AC motor.
In 1875, at the age of 19, Tesla enrolled at the Polytechnic Institute at Graz in Austria to study electrical engineering. In his second year there, his professor demonstrated a direct current (DC) motor for the first time. Tesla was impressed but objected to the sparking that he saw taking place at the commutator. His professor replied that the sparking was inevitable, being inherent in the design of the machine. Tesla was unconvinced, and felt that there must be some way to circumvent the use of commutators, even though his professor did not agree with him. Here is how he put it: “When I undertook the task it was not with a resolve such as men often make. With me it was a sacred vow, a question of life and death. I knew that I would perish if I failed. Now I felt that the battle was won. Back in the deep recesses of the brain was the solution, but I could not yet give it outward.”
After six years of intensive thought, Tesla did finally get the revelation that revolutionised our world: the AC induction motor and, concomitantly, the AC generator. It occurred in Budapest during a walk in the late afternoon that he took with a friend in February 1882. The full flavour of the revelation that dawned on him is best conveyed by his own words:
“One afternoon, which is ever present in my recollection, I was enjoying a walk with my friend in the City Park and reciting poetry. At that age I knew entire books by heart, word for word. One of these was Goethe’s Faust. The sun was just setting and reminded me of the glorious passage:
The glow retreats, done is the day of toil;
It yonder hastes, new fields of life exploring;
Ah, that no wing can lift me from the soil
Upon its track to follow, follow soaring!
“As I uttered these inspiring words the idea came like a flash of lightning, and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams shown six years later in my address before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and my companion understood them perfectly. The images I saw were wonderfully sharp and clear and had the solidity of metal and stone, so much so that I told him: “See my motor here; watch me reverse it.” I cannot begin to describe my emotions. Pygmalion seeing his statue come to life could not have been more deeply moved. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally, I would have given for that one which I had wrested from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.”
Tesla used his unique powers of visualization to conduct his experiments in the most amazing manner.
“I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements, and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance. There is no difference whatever, the results are the same. In this way I am able to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form this final product of my brain. Invariably my device works as I conceived that it should, and the experiment comes out exactly as I planned it. In 20 years there has not been a single exception. Why should it be otherwise? Engineering, electrical and mechanical, is positive in results. There is scarcely a subject that cannot be mathematically treated and the effects calculated or the results determined beforehand from the available theoretical and practical data. The carrying out into practice of a crude idea as is being generally done is, I hold, nothing but a waste of energy, money and time.”
Thus, Tesla produced his inventions without drawings or blueprints. Instead, he conducted all the preliminary work for the machines he built entirely in his mind. It is only after he had satisfactorily concluded those mental experiments that he proceeded with physical fabrication of the devices.
It is a curious fact that once Tesla started an experiment, say switching on a motor and keeping it running for several days, he could devote his mind to other tasks while the running motor experiment carried along on its own, without conscious intervention from him, until he decided to switch the motor off and examine the wear and tear.
Here are some more characteristics that make Tesla seem more superhuman than human:
1. During his first year at the Polytechnic at Graz, he “regularly started [his] work at three o’clock
in the morning and continued until 11 at night, no Sundays or holidays excepted”.
2. Tesla excelled at languages and knew English, French, German, Italian and the Slavic dialects.
3. He had a prodigious memory and could store entire logarithmic tables in his mind.
4. At the age of 59, when he slipped on icy ground, he righted himself like a cat while in the air and landed on his feet.
5. At 63, his body shape and weight had remained unchanged for 35 years.
6. He was attracted to gambling but gave it up when admonished by his parents. He not only “conquered [his] passion then and there … [but also] …tore it from [his] heart so as not to leave even a trace of desire”.
7. He took up smoking, but on realising that it would ruin his health, he gave it up permanently.
8. When Tesla discovered that the innocent cup of coffee he consumed every morning could precipitate heart trouble, he discontinued it by strenuous will.
He saw his conquest of bad habits in a different light from most people. He said:
“In this way I checked and bridled other habits and passions and have not only preserved my life but derived an immense amount of satisfaction from what most men would consider privation and sacrifice.”
Although Tesla did not accept his many gifts as spiritual, he had a strange experience with a pigeon. He was tremendously fond of pigeons and used to feed and look after them. There was one particular pigeon who he said he loved just exactly as if she were a woman.
He recalled that one night, as he was lying on his bed in the dark, this pigeon flew in through the open window, as if to deliver a message. He looked at her and realised that she had come to tell him she was dying. As he looked at her, Tesla said, “there came a light from her eyes – two powerful beams of light”. He reaffirmed, “Yes, it was a real light, a powerful, dazzling, blinding light, a light more intense than I had ever produced by the most powerful lamps in my laboratory”. When that pigeon died, Tesla “knew” that his life’s work was finished.
Tesla was also a man of high integrity and moral ethics. A humanist he desired to use his mind for the freedom of all mankind from the thralldom of matter using his magical inventions. He also was not money minded, which perhaps explains why others made millions on his inventions while he himself died virtually penniless.
Was Tesla a man from our future who had torn the veil of time to visit us and give us a glimpse of the future capabilities of humankind?
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Soprano Limerick doctor returns to stage with new album
Fintan Walsh
Consultant, academic and soprano Dr Mary Ryan with her children, Micheal, Una and Sean
AN INSPIRATIONAL doctor, academic and soprano will release an album for the first time in 10 years, with proceeds going to the Irish Heart Foundation in order to provide defibrillator training to volunteers.
Dr Mary Ryan, consultant endocrinologist at Barrington’s Hospital and senior lecturer at University of Limerick, will release her CD The Next Chapter, at the Abbey Court, Nenagh, on April 12.
Signified in the title, Dr Ryan’s album marks a new chapter in her life, following the sudden death of her husband Eamon Prendiville in 2013.
“I had the privilege of working near home and got a consultants post in Barrington’s, and a senior lecturer post at UL. We then bought a beautiful home, and life looked like it was finally beginning to take shape. Alas, that was not to be as my husband died, one year after we moved into our new home.
“The reason why I called it The Next Chapter because, like everyone, we all go through different things in life and you have to try and get on and do your best. Unfortunately, you either die or you move on and do the next chapter. That’s what I have decided to do, and thankfully I have had the ability to do that, because not everybody is given the ability to do it. And I have received great support from family, friends and patients, and I am lucky in that regard.”
The title song is sung by one of her twin sons, Micheal, 13.
After the launch, she will also perform at UL, where she will be joined by groups such as Amadeus, In Tune For Life, Silvermines Folk Choir, and the Lissenhall Musical Group.
Raising funds for the Irish Heart Foundation, she said that she “admires greatly the work they do in preventing heart disease.
“In an environment where services are being cut the role of defibrillators in saving lives is paramount and to date has saved multilple lives. However, there is no point having defibrillators in the community unless people are trained on how to use them and this is where the IHF play a vital role as they train all volunteers.”
Dr Ryan has three children, twins Micheal and Sean, 13, and Una, 10.
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mcdonofrio@lohud.com
The Rockland county executive is the target of a lawsuit for allegedly maligning the reputation of the would-be buyer of the Summit Park Hospital and Nursing Care Center.
Shalom Braunstein filed the defamation lawsuit against Ed Day on Oct. 11 in state Supreme Court in New City. Braunstein, the owner of Sympaticare, pulled out of a $32 million deal to take over the county owned facility in Ramapo last year citing breaches of contract.
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In court papers, Braunstein said the company had “available resources to close” the deal by the end of 2015, but the county allegedly failed to take multiple steps to legally transfer Summit Park to Braunstein.
County Attorney Thomas Humbach said telling the truth does not leave someone vulnerable to defamation.
"Mr. Day was well aware of the facts, and ... Mr. Braunstein did not in fact have access to the funds to purchase the hospital at any time," Humbach said.
When Braunstein refused to proceed with the sale in September 2015, he alleges in court papers that Day “repeatedly attacked” him, “casting aspersions upon his competence, honesty, professionalism and integrity.”
Braunstein alleges Day’s attacks continued for months. On Feb. 16, Day allegedly commented in an article on lohud that Braunstein “screwed our residents." And later, Braunstein alleges Day falsely told the news media that the Braunstein “did not have the money” and failed to get the licensing to buy Summit Park.
Michael Sussman, the lawyer representing Braunstein, said "public officials have to be accountable for their behavior as well as their statements."
Sussman added that Day and the county have used Braunstein as a "whipping boy, a scapegoat for the county’s financial problems and the callous closing of a basic institution in the county, which served a vulnerable population.”
Day has requested that the county represent him in the lawsuit, Humbach said. But because Day is personally being sued and potentially not in his capacity as the county executive, the county may not be responsible for representing him.
Humbach said he is currently reviewing the lawsuit to determine how to proceed.
Monetary damages are not specified in the lawsuit.
The county aimed to sell Summit Park by the conclusion of 2015, with the goal of ridding the county budget of losses of $800,000 a month in operating costs.
Soon after the deal between Braunstein and the county collapsed in September 2015, a second offer from Braunstein was rejected by the county's local development corporation.
The county determined another buyer was not able to get all necessary approvals before the end of that year, and Summit Park's hospital and nursing home closed. More than 400 union workers lost their jobs.
Earlier this month, the county held an auction to sell off medical equipment at the Summit Park facility, including X-ray machines and automatic towel folders.
SUMMIT PARK: Sold! Auction offers medical equipment
In March, Braunstein also sued the county to claw back his $5.9 million deposit and other damages involved with the doomed deal.
That led to a countersuit in April, in which the county claimed it was owed $12 million for what it cost to run the facility for the remainder of 2015, and more than $4 million in additional fees.
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U.S. Sanctions Iraq-Based Company Affiliated With IRGC
13 Jun 2019, 04:16 GMT+10
The United States has sanctioned an Iraqi company that it said had helped Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) evade sanctions by smuggling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons.
In a June 11 statement, the U.S. Treasury Department said the penalties target the South Wealth Resources Company in Baghdad and two executives, who the statement said helped facilitate weapons shipments and the company's financial operations.
The treasury said that the company and the two men -- Makki Kazim 'Abd Al Hamid Al Asadi and Muhammed Hussein Salih Al Hasani -- are linked to the IRGC's elite Quds Force.
'Treasury is taking action to shut down Iranian weapons smuggling networks that have been used to arm regional proxies of the IRGC Quds Force in Iraq, while personally enriching regime insiders,' Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was quoted as saying in the statement.
'The Iraqi financial sector and the broader international financial system must harden their defenses against the continued deceptive tactics emanating from Tehran in order to avoid complicity in the IRGC's ongoing sanctions evasion schemes and other malign activities,' Mnuchin added.
There was no immediate reaction from Iraq or Iran.
In an unprecedented move in April, the U.S. designated the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization.
The new sanctions were announced as Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Tehran in an effort to help ease tensions between Washington and Tehran.
Based on reporting by AP and Reuters
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» About Us » The Team » Prof. J. A. Kanis
Prof. J. A. Kanis
Professor Emeritus in Human Metabolism at the University of Sheffield and President Emeritus of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), UK;
Expert in disorders of skeletal metabolism including osteoporosis, Paget’s disease of bone, hyperparathyroidism, renal osteodystrophy and neoplasia affecting the skeleton; authored 1,000+ scientific papers, chapters and books on bone disease and metabolism;
National and international contributions to practice guideline development, health technology assessment, epidemiology and health economics;
Founding member of the International Osteoporosis Foundation; Founding member of the British Menopause Society; Former WHO Advisor on Osteoporosis.
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1988 Jan 22 Fr
Interview for L’Express magazine
Jerome Dumoulin and Elie Marcuse, L’Express
1430. MT’s next appointment was at 1620.
Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), European Union Budget, Agriculture, European Union Single Market, Economic, monetary & political union, Transport, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Defence (arms control), Defence (general), Monetary policy, General Elections, Economy (general discussions), Labour Party & socialism, Conservatism, European Union (general), Foreign policy (general discussions), Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (Asia), Trade
Jerome Dumoulin and Elie Marcuse, L'Express
Prime Minister, may we ask you: Frenchmen feel great admiration for you and still there is a paradox: lots of them feel that you are, to some extent, anti-French.
Does this surprise you?
Yes, it does. I see no reason to think that I am anti-French in any way and I cannot think why they do.
I suppose this is mainly the result of that long European fight that has been going on for many years to clear the European budget, in which you have taken such a prominent role.
I am sure that had France been in the same position, French politicians would have taken exactly the same course of action as I did and even after that long fight, we are still the second-largest net contributor to the Community funds. [end p1]
Are you optimistic about the future and the next European summit?
I think the next European summit will be difficult. I think we were getting on quite well at Copenhagen because we were actually tackling some of the problems of surpluses - surplus foods - in particular wheat and oil seeds, but we were not able to complete it.
I think it will be a tragedy if we slip backwards from the position we had reached, but nevertheless, I recognise it is not going to be an easy summit. As a matter of fact, I think perhaps France and we are closer on our agricultural policy than in fact France and Germany are in reality, because Germany has a particular problem with farms; they are small farms and often part-time farms, but I think France and we are closer. But it is not going to be easy, but it can be possible at Brussels to reach agreement.
There is one thing that your French admirers are, may I say, disappointed about. They have seen what we call a lot of so-called “European initiatives”. We have had Mr. Genscher, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Colombo, Mr. Mitterrand. Are we going to see a “Thatcher initiative” on Europe? [end p2]
But, in fact, when we were President of the Community, it was we who gave the great push to completing the internal market, because we think that is absolutely vital.
One of the main things of setting up the Community was the aspect of a genuine single market so that we could have as large a mass market of people, as large a market of people as the United States. But there are still a lot of barriers and it is taking a long time to get those down and we were trying genuinely by practical means to reduce those so that we had the original aspiration of those who came together on the Treaty of Rome fulfilled. It is not yet completely fulfilled, but we hope it will be by 1992.
Are you optimistic about it?
Yes. We are going steadily, but I hope it will be complete by 1992.
Do you envisage that Europe could have a common currency? [end p3]
I am just thinking! You said “initiative”. You know, President Mitterrand and myself possibly took the most historic initiative after the Treaty of Rome, which of course is the Channel Tunnel. This is going to make an enormous difference and it requires, if I might say, quite one's customary persistence and dedication and firmness to go through with it, and now that should be complete at the same time as the single market in 1992, so it is going to be quite a great year. Quite a year - the two things!
Prime Minister, if we switch to East-West relations for a while, you have always been very frank about what you think of the Soviet system. How come you have become of the great admirers of Mr. Gorbachev, despite the fact that nothing much has changed till now inside the Soviet Union proper with the Soviet attitudes abroad and should the West, in your view, set a time-table for reforms and changes in the Soviet Union?
If you are trying to change attitudes from one of central control right over to much more personal involvement and responsibility, it is going to take a considerable time.
Changing attitudes is the most difficult thing in politics. The problems emerge first and the benefits much later. I think [end p4] it would be very unwise to set a time-table for those changes in the Soviet Union, but I think the most difficult times will be the early years and the more beneficial later.
When the Soviet Foreign Minister was in Bonn a few days ago, he confirmed the Soviet determination to go for a third zero option that would mean in effect denuclearisation of the European central front.
What is your reaction to this proposal and do you feel Bonn can resist such a proposal?
Bonn can resist, Bonn must resist. The answer is “No!”.
Mr. Gorbachev knows my views.
The Soviet Union is still trying to sever Western Europe from the United States. The Soviet Union is very much aware that they have enormous superiority over the West in both conventional forces and in chemical weapons. It is therefore obvious why they are trying to go for a third nuclear option, because it weakens the West and relatively strengthens the Warsaw Pact countries. The West must see that and the Warsaw Pact countries must not succeed in that objective.
The next disarmament following the fifty percent reduction of strategic missiles between the Soviet Union and the United States must be reduction in conventional forces - enormous reduction on [end p5] the part of the Soviet Union - because we could not possibly come up to the level which they have attained, and also recognition that they not only have an enormous stockpile of chemical weapons, but they are modernised chemical weapons and it is always a mystery to me why people do not pay a great deal of attention to that because it is a quite devastating superiority that the Soviet Union has.
Prime Minister, you have been the first Western leader to call publicly for a NATO summit before President Reagan goes to Moscow for a fourth American-Soviet summit.
Do you expect that this NATO summit should concentrate on the issues of conventional negotiations, reductions? Do you expect that we might have a communique at the end of the summit that will set priorities for the Western Alliance?
I think it is quite possible, but I think that Western Europe and those present at the summit will appreciate the point which I have just made, that in order to be secure and have a sound defence, you must never let the defence of the two groups get out of balance. In other words, it must always be effective. That is why you must not go next for a further nuclear reduction in Europe - you must go for conventional reduction on the part of the Soviet Union and chemical. It is the same point and I think it is important that we all get together and make that point. [end p6]
We and France have a particular interest that our own independent nuclear deterrents should not be included and it has been agreed so far that they are not.
Do you expect, Prime Minister, a new Soviet offensive on that particular side? Do you expect the Soviets to come up again with new pressures to get British and French nuclear forces includedd?
I recognise that the Soviet Union would still like to do two things:
First, separate America from Western Europe; and
Secondly, try to drive wedges between some of the countries in Western Europe whose interests might not be wholly the same.
Both of those things we should be aware of. Both of those things must be resisted.
Our defence lies not in any kind of rightness of our cause. Our defence lies in having an effective deterrent to anyone who may think of attacking us and do not forget, if you look at the whole balance between the Warsaw Pact and NATO, there is only one piece of land that is liable to invasion: that is not the Soviet Union or Warsaw Pact - we are not likely ever to cross the NATO line; we are not that kind of people; we have made that perfectly clear, we are [end p7] defensive - so it is not the Warsaw Pact countries, it is not the United States; it is Western Europe that has this particular vulnerability. That is why we have to watch every step on disarmament to see that our defence remains effective.
Until conventional reductions are not completed on a massive scale on the Soviet side, are you in favour of modernising your ground-based tactical nuclear weapons in Europe and eventually press for modernisation of remaining NATO nuclear forces in Europe?
My task as a head of government and as a member of an alliance is to see that our weapons are modernised and up-to-date and an effective deterrent. We do not have an effective defence if our weapons are not modern. We do not have an effective defence if those weapons and our position does not take into account what is happening in Warsaw Pact countries and does not take into account their enormously effective air defence and things like anti - submarine warfare.
So our task as separate heads of government and as members of an alliance is to modernise where it is necessary to modernise to keep an effective defence. That means modernising the intermediate nuclear weapons, the short-range nuclear weapons, just as much as it means modernising our tanks and our aircraft and our anti-aircraft equipment and our anti-submarine equipment. [end p8]
I never understand why people separate these things out. Our job is to keep an effective defence and to take whatever steps are necessary to do that.
And this should be, Prime Minister, a central point in the next NATO summit?
It is a central point to anyone who discharges his capability of looking after the defence of his own country, and you cannot do it alone, so you have to do it together, so it is quite central in the Alliance.
In your coming talks with President Mitterrand, are you going to raise the possibility that Britain and France could now - it would look logical to lots of people - harmonise their position against the coming Soviet peace offensive, because Britain and France are the only countries with nuclear weapons?
Our positions with regard to nuclear weapons - our own independent nuclear weapons - are agreed; to use a more sophisticated word “harmonised”. We are agreed. We are not [end p9] involved in these. They are our own last resort. Ours actually are also seconded to NATO because we are integrated, and we are agreed they are outside these negotiations and in that respect Britain and France, as well as our interest in common with others, have this separate extra interest which we share.
I am thinking back … you remember the historic days when Churchill offered France political union … there was a time in the Sixties until 1971 when Ted Heath had discussions with President Pompidou on pooling nuclear resources. Do you feel that there might come a time when both countries can think together about putting their potential together in some sort of way?
I think there are two things here.
The first thing is that the shield and defence of Western Europe is NATO. For that to be effective, it is vital that American forces stay in Europe.
Within the NATO structure, there can be many bilateral relations, but within the NATO structure, so France and we have a particular interest in the independent nuclear deterrent.
It is quite on the cards to cooperate in other ways as well; to look sometimes to see if we can cooperate on modernising weapons. It is possible to cooperate in exercises and so on, but all within the framework of NATO. [end p10]
But, Prime Minister, if you were convinced that Franco-German or, eventually Franco-British sub-structures as you called them once, would have the effect of bringing France closer to NATO military organisation and to NATO military planning, would you approve of them?
Not merely would I approve of it, I think it is the right way to go.
France, for her own reasons, has opted out of the military structure and is not integrated into the military structure of NATO, but it nevertheless makes sense for her frequently to choose to exercise her own forces in relation to NATO, to choose to do that, without necessarily joining NATO, because the defence of France is tied up with the defence of NATO and France is a full political member of NATO, of the Western Alliance.
So it is quite possible not to be fully militarily integrated into NATO, but choose nevertheless to practise exercises, because supposing anything were in danger of happening, France naturally would wish to exercise pretty far up on the German front, because that is her frontier as well as ours, as well as the United States, and you would expect that it would be part of the defence of France that as we would need to reinforce if there were a period of crisis, that it would be quite reasonable to expect that we should exercise [end p11] reinforcements through French ports. This does not have to be done only through France coming back into NATO militarily, but by France choosing to exercise her forces and make use of her facilities in that way, because it is in the interests of France to do so, and so you nevertheless honour France's particular view on not being militarily integrated but equally, she recognises that closer cooperation is in the interests of NATO and France and therefore chooses to do it that way.
I believe, Prime Minister, that today President Mitterrand and Chancellor Kohl are setting up this Franco-German defence council which still has to be ratified by both parliaments.
Do you see this development as something positive for NATO and for Europe?
I understand that France and Germany will always have a special desire - a deepest desire - for reconciliation and that this will have to be rejuvenated obviously from time to time and that I understand.
I would be worried if I thought it were going to be done disregarding the structure of NATO. It must be done in such a way that it reinforces the strength of NATO, which is our ultimate defence. It can be done in that way. I hope it will be done in that way. [end p12]
If I may just ask a silly question!
Oh dear, that is a warning isn't it! I shall look at this one very carefully! It might be silly! It might be very subtle! Come on, what is it?
A French general recently, talking about the Franco-German Brigade, said: “Well, we should ask Mrs. Thatcher if she would agree to a Franco-British Brigade!” What would your reaction be if the question were put to you?
I should ask why. “What are you hoping to do with a Franco-British Brigade that you cannot do by exercising with NATO forces of which we are a part?”
I do not believe in having things for show. I believe in having things for a practical purpose and why does one need a Franco-German [sic] Brigade?
Look! One-third of our armed forces - one-third of our army is on the front line in Germany. Not way back - front line and nearly half of the tactical air force is there, because that is where the frontier of freedom is and it is NATO, so let no-one ever [end p13] doubt the United Kingdom's commitment to the mainland of Europe, because as I say, it is our front line as well. That is why we put them there. I do not talk about this brigade or that brigade. I talk about holding that line together with allies who are staunch.
Do you feel optimistic about the plan that seemed to be agreed by the British and French Defence Ministers last December about a jointly developed air-launched missile?
We continue to have a look at this possibility. It is not fully agreed. We are exploring the possibility.
I think it is part of what you were asking earlier. The treaty on intermediate nuclear weapons refers to land-based weapons only. You are still able to modernise your air-launched weapons and your sea-launched intermediate weapons, both of them, and what you really are asking is the possibilities of cooperation &dubellip; they are called SMART weapons. I always hope to goodness they are as smart as they are made out to be! And of course, one looks at that and also looks to see if we can cooperate on that.
One also looks to see if either of us could profit from cooperating with the United States together on that, because one is anxious to get something that is effective and something which has the lowest unit cost, because that releases more money for other things in defence and it is our task to get maximum value for money. [end p14]
It could possibly be a trilateral agreement in that case?
It would be a possibility as far as I am concerned, yes.
On a different angle, but talking about the same defence issues, do you favour some sort of agreement covering coordination of patrols by French and British nuclear submarines?
I am sorry, I have just had a message I had forgotten. Can I just read it out?
France and Germany did a joint exercise. It was called “Cheeky Sparrow”. When Britain and Germany did a joint exercise, it was called “Lionheart!” (laughter) What is your question?
The question is: do you favour some sort of agreement covering coordination of patrols by French and British nuclear submarines that would not involve changes in targetting? [end p15]
Anything that we have of that nature or any discussions that we have really must remain under cover; they must remain secret, but do not forget that our nuclear deterrent is also seconded to NATO and we can withdraw it at any time for our own purpose, for obvious reasons, so I also always have to take into account our duties to NATO, because that in the end is our shield.
We were struck by what you said recently about EMS, because after all, a lot of people I think even here in England thought that maybe Great Britain would join EMS.
Your arguments against it remain very strong, to the point where I wonder if you think that France being in it is suffering from it?
No. That is a judgement for France to make.
We, I think, have a different position. One watches, for example, the price of oil every day because we are still affected, our currency. It is not because we are British we are affected by it, it is because we have oil interests so we are affected by it and we cannot divorce ourselves from that. It is a fact of life. [end p16]
It also is a fact of life that sterling is still also held quite extensively as a reserve currency and therefore, having two currencies like that in the EMS would be different from having one very big one like the deutschmark, so it would in fact change it.
I think that so far we have been right to be in the European Monetary System but not in the exchange rate mechanism. If that ever changes, then we obviously will have a look at it, but you know, it will be a jolly sight easier for the world and for exchange rates when everyone puts their own house in order and everyone has similar fiscal and monetary policies; when everyone runs their own finances in a sound way, which is partly saying the same thing and, when you get freedom of capital movement about Europe and when you get absence of exchange control.
Well now, we have freedom of capital movement, we have absence of exchange control. We do look at keeping our monetary and fiscal policies going in the same direction and I do like to keep freedom of our monetary policy, because sometimes we go up and sometimes we go down. If you have got to pour money in to keep yourself down, you know full well that that gives you problems with inflation.
So until each country really does put its own house in order and has the same sort of ideas, you are going to get variation in exchange rates and you will for other reasons, but there is no way in which you can sort of fix them all disregarding the underlying positions and expect it to hold, because life is not like that, [end p17] and you have to watch, as you know, with both the dollar and other currencies.
So far, we belong to the EMS but not to the exchange rate mechanism, and I think it has been better for the exchange rate mechanism that it is so and us.
You mentioned the dollar. It seems that the Central Bank interventions did not do much to help to stabilise the dollar, so do you think the American currency will find its so-called “just price” in the near future?
Central Bank interventions can never overcome the market. They can from time to time have an effect perhaps on a particular set of movements, but they cannot overcome the fundamental underlying nature of the market which is related to deeper things.,
They can have a temporary effect; they can sometimes ensure a softer landing than otherwise you would have got, but this is why I said no international agreement on exchange rates will hold until you have got your underlying house in order and operate pretty much in similar beliefs as to the way in which to run your economy.
Do you expect, Prime Minister, that this year being a presidential campaign year in America and in France, this is not going to help very much is it? [end p18]
I do not see, if I might say so, why in a presidential year in either the States or in France, you should run your economy in any way other than soundly. I have never changed my economic policy in election year. It has been my pride that I have not. The economic policy is sound and we do not go unsound in election years.
I think most financial experts tend to think that “presidential years” as they are called are not very good years for putting your house in order.
Yes, some commentators do tend to think that, but I hope that we have been one country which has said a fundamentally right policy is to put your house in order, a fundamentally right policy is to be consistent, and it is in the long run fundamentally right to think that people will understand that and believe it to be right, and have some healthy contempt for others who underestimate the fundamental shrewdness and wisdom of the electorate.
Prime Minister, you have been quite successful here and I remember you said you put an end to the so-called socialist era in this country. [end p19]
I will not say I have put an end to it. I would not be so arrogant.
I hope that by the time that our policies have been tried and tested for rather longer than at present people will realise they are fundamentally in tune with the British character and that they have produced far better results in material terms, but quite apart from that, they are fundamentally much better because they rely on the personal responsibility, the personal involvement and the initiative and enterprise of our people, and their conscientiousness and that in the end is much better than relying on central control and dirigism - direction. It is a word that has passed into our language.
You were talking about evolution, and we were struck by a recent MORI poll that you certainly saw that seems to indicate that 58&pcnt; of Britons favour fully integrated arms service to defend Europe, 51&pcnt; want a European passport, 64&pcnt; advocate the unification of Europe. How do you interpret such signals that were totally unthinkable ten years ago?
But you know, just be careful how you interpret polls when they are asking complicated questions like that. [end p20]
If you are really going to interpret public opinion, you really have to get down not by asking so much questions like that but rather deeper questions, making sure that they fully appreciate the meaning.
It does obviously, in general, make sense to have a passport that takes you easily all over Europe. It is not so much European passport, it is that each of us is accepted and we have it in common form as being a passport that will get you over Europe. That does make sense and I think people accept that.
Integrated force: the great thing about this country is that everyone wants and knows that we need NATO and that is never in doubt. It comes up in every election, because we reckon that our opponents' policy in practice undermines NATO and people know and realise that to be safe and to stop war, to deter war, you have to be strong. I think they realise that it is not armaments that lead to war; it is strength that leads to peace, and so they understand all this and expect us to work within NATO.
After all, they expect us to spend quite a lot on defence, they expect us to work within NATO. They know that weapons are highly sophisticated and that if any war ever started there would not be time to get new weapons in, so they expect us to be strong enough to deter war.
So yes, they expect us now we are in the Common Market to be able to travel more freely about Europe and expect as a matter of fact to have more freedom than we have. They expect you to be able [end p21] to sell insurance anywhere over Europe on the same terms; for your qualifications to be interchangeable, but to come up to a standard - you have got to be interchangeable. People are quite keen these days on coming up to standards. Not to make things easier, but to make things come up to standards. That is part of Europe, of course it is: that your goods go, that your services go, that your qualifications go, that you can travel more freely over Europe, and you have your defensive shield.
So in general, I would expect that.
This has happened while you were in power and while you are in fact one of the forces behind this European process.
But I am a firmly committed European, originally for political reasons. Any of my generation should be. That the way to stop any Third World War starting is to get your daily lives bound up together, to get to know one another, to have such a degree of cooperation that there never could be any thought of falling apart.
It is the practical aspects of friendship. You start it off by saying: “We must have a great friendship!” Then, you get the practical aspects. That in fact is the outward and visible sign of the friendship. Now, never get worried if in a family you have [end p22] little quarrels - what family does not? But all of this, again, is part of our overall strategy, but a strategy does not really work until it is accepted by people, until it becomes practical in daily lives.
So people do want to travel more freely over borders and yet they would be the first to know that there must be some border checks to apprehend criminals, drugs, rabies, safety, health, bacteria, illness, etc.
That does not surprise me at all. It is part of one's grand design. Also, I think it has been very noticeable in the last year. I think there is a feeling that the world is much more a global village now so that the degree of cooperation is much greater. Not rose-tinted spectacle cooperation, but very realistic cooperation, because that is the sort that lasts, where you really do thrash out what is in your interest and what in mine, but you are never taken for a ride. You are wary the whole time. I think there is that much realisation.
I think it is partly East-West, Mr. Gorbachev, and the fact of the Ronald ReaganPresident and Mr. Gorbachev together and that we, right in Europe, are perhaps among the first to see of the possibilities and make the contacts.
Then, through television, they saw the problems in Africa. We see much more about China. Somehow, the world has got a bit smaller and the realisation dawned that it is a bit smaller and that [end p23] is good. But you do not take anything for granted. At this stage, you have to be very careful that every step you take is a forward step and does not compromise in any way your practical love of liberty and justice and the need to defend that.
You are always very frank about the central role of the US in world politics and in relationship with Europe.
Are you afraid a leadership problem might arise in the US next year?
No, I do not think so. The United States is a remarkable country.
If you think about it, perhaps it is not quite so surprising why. First, there is its fantastic geography, which is quite different from ours. Second, and perhaps much more important than that, people went to the United States. They were self-selected. they went because they wanted freedom and opportunity. They found, some of them, they did not get that at home years ago, so they went there. They were prepared to be self-reliant; they knew it would be hard; they knew they had to make their own way; they knew they had to build their own lives; they knew they had to play a part in defending their own families; they knew that they would have to fight any criminal elements that they saw. They have this self-reliance. They have this enterprise. That is why it is such a [end p24] strong country economically; because they still first and foremost look to themselves for their own prosperity, their standard of living, their effort. They knew that if they were to survive they had a duty to their neighbour and they had to stick together to fight against the elements or those who would attack them, and that gives them a self-selected self-reliant inherent strength, and it is interesting if you look at their constitutional structure which actually is one of the greatest written expressions of liberty, what they did - having had experience perhaps of older European governments where they were not always allowed the freedom they wished as we developed it of course - they built into their constitution a series of checks and balances which made jolly certain that government could not have too much power. Sometimes it makes them difficult for them, and what it means is you have this tremendous enterprising strength, community spirit, sense of duty and understanding of the nature of liberty. You know, it is at the base of that great big Statue of Liberty: “Give me your huddled masses yearning to be free!” and so it is a remarkable country.
I think so much of the great philosophy and the religion came from Europe or the association of Europe with the Middle East, so many of those fundamental ideas, the intellectual ideas, the philosophy also from Athens, the law from Rome. We all contributed to it. Napoleon is noted for his battles; his fantastic contribution to administration goes far too little remarked outside France. So many of the ideas, so many of the scientific things came [end p25] in Europe as well, but this fantastic self-reliant, self-selected, pioneering spirit - “we go for opportunity” - still characterises America … it is a European country the other side of the Atlantic, so of course we stand together.
If you look at it, it is not America and Britain; it is a similar country right round the Atlantic Basin, so of course we stand together.
Well, Prime Minister, I think you have answered more than we hoped. Not more than we hoped. You have given us plenty to think about and to write about.
I think the other thing that you really must get hold of is that just because you are very friendly with one nation that does not mean that you cannot be friendly with another. If my friends have powerful friends, that is to my advantage as well, so the fact that you are friendly with someone does not exclude friendship with another and that is why it just enlarges your area of friendship, it enlarges your area of influence, it enlarges your area of understanding.
The other great thing which I simply must say to you is this:
The United States does think globally, because she has become a melting-pot with all the world's people, so she does think globally. We, by virtue of our history, from the first Elizabethan [end p26] times people took our beliefs to other countries, they went to be traders first, discover other countries, we had a great empire. France had an empire.
Other countries went out in Europe - Spain, Portugal.
We have a natural thing among European countries and we must never underestimate its importance: we think globally. We have contacts in Africa so we never forget Africa. We have contacts in South East Asia - France, ourselves and, of course, we have contacts on the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand. France has contacts. We, by history, think globally. Do not unthink globally! Go on thinking globally!
Where we have not yet had friendships you try to cement them, although to me Russia is basically a European nation. So think globally and extend it. Do not get jealous of other people's friendships. Friendship is a web across the world. It is a network.
We have this thing. We think globally. Very important.
It is really the Europe the other side of the Atlantic and Europe here. I mean, they are just a start. Because of that, we have contacts with Africa and because of the Mediterranean bases we automatically have contacts with the Middle East and because our religious history is there.
India we know, and if you think of some of the big countries of the world, in a way they were put together by influence, by a period of our history. If you forget about it being called an empire and say our history was interwoven. It is this part that [end p27] you have people in power who do think globally backed up by countries whose history is such that they think globally and they have relatives across the world. Just use this for the benefit of the future of the world.
Precisely. Don't you think that one of our common problems today is that because of history Japan has difficulty thinking globally, though its economy is global of course in a way for investments?
Japan has now, I think thanks to Mr. Nakasone greatly, started to think globally.
I think we were one of the first countries to recognise Japan in the early 1920s and its very significant contribution.
It is strange actually, if you think about it, you would expect maritime nations, all of them, to have used the seas as a highway of the world. We did. So did Portugal. France did, Spain did, but Japan did not somehow. I do not know why, but she did not, so you say: “Look! You are a maritime country!” but she did not. Perhaps to some extent she had a different culture.
But our maritime nations used the seas as a highway, as the roads of the world, but Japan did not. We were going right round there, as you know. The ships went all the way round and not always on the sort of trade we would be proud of now! But it is [end p28] just something that Japan did not use to be outward-looking, but nevertheless some people went to Japan and to some extent it was a closed society. And do not forget, when you went to China too, it was very much a closed society, so it was a totally different culture.
They started off by being very inward-looking and we started off by being outward-looking, but I think Mr. Nakasone really did wonders for Japan in getting her to think globally. Of course, trade has made her think globally, but as I said to Japan - we had a luncheon here the other day; we have a UK-Japanese group - in Elizabethan times, our mariners went out. Britain was not large enough to contain their spirit. They went out looking for new lands. So did the Portuguese, great navigators. They went out looking for trade. They found it. This outward-looking, “let us go out, let us see what is beyond!” brought back to our country an enormous variety of products, things we had never seen before.
The empire followed the flag as it so often does. All my life and all my grandparents’ lives we were used to having things coming in from all over the world and you sold things out and you did not look at things and say: “Oh, that comes from a long way away. We will not buy it. We will see if we can make it ourselves!” The thing was: “Ah! Can we afford to buy it? Yes! Let us buy it!” We were used to variety.
So we became world traders by instinct, by practice, and it was using the seas as the highways of the world - “Let us go out and see!” and so we have never had this thing that they have in Japan: [end p29] they see it; sometimes their instinct, I think, is not: “Do we like it? Can we buy it?” but “Can we make it ourselves? Do not buy it! Just see if we can make it!” So it is a fundamentally different culture.
I think that too will not be everlasting, but I do say to them: “You expect to sell things to us with open trade, with open barriers, but you really must run things; if you expect to sell things to others, you must expect others to sell things to you and not put up all kinds of little barriers that we know about. We recognise them. We know exactly what you are up to!” But now, Mr. Nakasone is breaking that down, but you see, changing an attitude is a long business.
You have problems in world population; you have population problems in countries. Some countries, as they raise their standard of living have to run fast to keep up where they are because the population growth is so great. Changing that is an attitude and changing attitude takes a long time, but you know, really, when you think of the technology we have now to get new views more easily into other people and to get the reason for them more readily accepted, again, it is another reason why the world is becoming a smaller global village, but this maritime thing, the West used as Caeser's highways, it did not necessarily happen in the Far East. It is fascinating, but it did not. I do not know why. [end p30]
If you look at the things in China, they got dynamite first, fireworks, they got the compass first, they got the basis of the turbine first, and India got the concept of the nought first, but really it was not until the science developed in Europe that they started to turn science to the use of ordinary people.
All right, it is a different culture. It may be that their culture was suitable for them and they kept their standards and their particular culture and we started to go out and are different, but the two worlds are meeting now, but do not ever forget that we - many countries in Europe - by their character went out; they naturally think globally - so do the peoples in the United States. They have this passionate love of liberty which they learned from Europe but which they did not always get and so we have this common interest, but that is not the boundary of our interest.
You look in Latin America. The Spanish, the Portuguese and the British capital so often helped to open up. We helped Simon Bolivar. So this remarkable European people. But then, you see, this remarkable Chinese people had a culture when we really were still in wide and fantastic, artistic culture, beautiful things. When those tombs were opened up, breathtaking! You can see some of their shapes - we had a Chinese exhibition here when the tombs were opened up - you looked at them as if they were modern, but they were thousands of years old and exquisite simple shapes which you would now call modern. Their lovely art, their economy, did not clutter things, beautiful, so we each had our own and it is all quite global now. [end p31]
“Global” is the key word.
Global, yes. One world.
Thank you very much, Prime Minister!
Oh dear, that extended the interview quite a long time!
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Say hello to Merge ICT Group
Finally, after many long days and sleepless nights, it is with great pleasure that we introduce Merge ICT Group.
Finally, after many long days and sleepless nights, it is with great pleasure that we release to the digital world our brand new and very shiny website. When you get a moment please do take a look around. We hope the site tells our story the way it’s intended – one of clarity, simplicity, accountability and connectedness. We will continue to invest and develop the site as things progress to ensure we communicate and support both potential and existing customers of Merge ICT in the most efficient and engaging way possible. If you have any ideas or requests that might improve the user experience we would love to hear from you, so please feel free to shoot us an email with your thoughts.
The launch of our website also marks the official launch of the business itself, a business that has been established to better meet the needs of the rapidly evolving Australian business landscape in the office technology supply and support space by focusing on customer service, advocating positive market change and driving environmental awareness. We have operated under contract for other businesses over the years and felt that we could do it better on our own. So here we are, and we’re excited!
"So, in a nutshell, we offer small business account management with virtually zero red tape, backed by big business support networks."
Our structure has been built from the ground up, designed to offer customers the best of both worlds. Being a small business, we are able to operate with a very personalised approach and remain flexible and agile. When it comes to product support, we have negotiated strategic partnerships with manufacturers of the products included in our solutions, who (via our own support line) provide ongoing service. So, in a nutshell, we offer small business account management with virtually zero red tape, backed by big business support networks.
We specialise in three key areas of office technology:
We work with our customers to build a solution to fit their unique business needs, with the goal of reducing costs and improving security and workflows. Our solutions deliver the latest and greatest technology that is environmentally friendly, reliable and easy to use.
"We work with our customers to build a solution to fit their unique business needs, with the goal of reducing costs and improving security and workflows."
Our hardware range includes desktop single-function and multifunction printers, A3 colour photocopiers and multifunction devices, light production printers and document scanners. All hardware is monitored remotely to minimise downtime and ensure timely supply of consumables, so our customers can focus on their business without worrying every time the copier runs out of toner!
Print Management & Document Workflow Automation
Our print management and workflow solutions accelerate and future-proof business processes by automating manual tasks, turbo-charging document processes and workflows, and securely storing documents for easy retrieval later. There are too many software solutions from multiple manufacturers to list, but we have the luxury to pick and choose to achieve whatever is needed for each unique business.
This is the area that really gets us excited. Split into two components, video conferencing and phone systems, each can be implemented individually, or ideally implemented together to deliver the ultimate UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) solution for Australian businesses.
Our business phone systems are powered by Fonality, a US based VoIP developer. We chose to partner with Fonality as when we saw (and now use) their supremely powerful and feature-rich technology, 24/7 support and very cool, very easy-to-use and very enjoyable desktop HUD (Heads Up Display), it was love at first sight. With built-in presence, chat, video calling and optional mobile app and call centre features, things that were usually not attainable in the SME space now are. Deployed correctly, this solution will get any business communicating and working better, while still saving money along the way.
Our video conferencing solutions are powered by Zoom, also a US-based and market leading company. This cloud-based video conferencing system is so incredibly easy to use, insanely reliable and highly scalable. We can offer basic users a free account, and for advanced users we can tailor a higher spec solution that might include functionality such as SIP Room Connectors, Zoom Rooms for Conference Rooms, Zoom Webinars, mobile screen sharing, touch screen displays and HD video and audio hardware along with other cool bits and pieces to form a comprehensive and interactive board room solution that people actually want to use. Further, with full tablet and smartphone support including in-call screen sharing, you can collaborate with ease no matter where you are.
To top it all off, we have our very own in-house finance department standing by and ready to help customers get the tech they need now to improve their business and become more efficient and profitable.
Last but most certainly not least, we would like to recognise our association with Carbon Neutral, one that were are very proud of. Carbon Neutral are an Australian-based carbon solutions provider, through whom, on behalf of each and every customer, we plant trees for every new transaction made with Merge ICT Group. The number of trees planted depends on the type and number of products or licences provisioned. The fight against climate change is something that we are very passionate about and we plan to continually increase our commitment in line with the growth of our business, using it as a vehicle to drive change and make a difference.
"We plant trees for every new transaction made with Merge ICT Group."
It goes without saying that all of us at Merge ICT are extremely proud of the business we have built and what we have achieved to date. We cannot wait to help more Australian businesses utilise technology to progress and change for the better, and deliver on their hunger for a more personalised service. It is important to us that we contribute to the betterment of people’s lives and to the establishment of a cleaner, safer and healthier world for future generations.
The Team @ Merge ICT
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The typical University of Georgia full-time MBA class is approximately 74 percent male and 26 percent female. About 19 percent are of international status. On average, students are 26-years old when they begin the program and have about 3.5 years of professional experience. The average GMAT and GPA earned by full-time students is 663 and 3.51, respectively. The average GRE is 314. Admitted international students usually score above 104 on the TOEFL.
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Tsarnaev Brothers: What to Know About the Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects
By Jessica Huseman
The city of Boston is still on lockdown as police hunt for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston bombings shown in a white hat in FBI photos. The first suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a shootout with police early this morning.
According to Gawker, the brothers fled Chechnya due to the conflict in the early 90s and lived in Kazakhstan as refugees before immigrating to the United States.
After immigrating, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seemed to live a normal life as a well-assimilated high school student. He graduated from the Cambridge Ringe & Latin School in 2011 – the same prestigious high school attended by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. He was one of a few students to receive a $2,500 scholarship from the city of Cambridge, and was a high-school wrestler named “Student Athlete of the Month” in February 2011 by his high school. He is listed as a registered student at UMass-Dartmouth, but it is unclear if he actually attended. The school is closed today due to the association.
A high school classmate said he was shocked by the events, and described him as a “normal American kid” in an interview with CBS. Classmates interviewed by Buzzfeed expressed similar sentiments:
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"It's such a huge shock," Mazur said. "He was such a sweet sort of quiet guy."
Another student described him as "always friendly and welcoming,” and said he “always felt comfortable hanging out with him."
His father, who lives in Russia, spoke to the AP this morning and described his son as a "true angel." The uncle of the suspects, Ruslan Tsarni, said repeatedly in interviews this morning that he does not believe this and that it is "crazy."
His profile on VK, a Russian social media network, indicates that he was living in Boston. He lists his worldview as "Islam" and his priorities as "career and money." The profile appears legitimate but has not been verified. It was created before March of 2012, and indicates that he last logged on last night on a mobile device.
A Twitter account created only two hours ago under his name is widely believed to be fake. The Boston police began relaying messages from this fake Twitter account over the scanner before it became obvious the account was fake, as it responded to a tweet from the Boston PD with a death threat:
The now deceased suspect – called "suspect 1" by police – Tamerlan was arrested in 2009 on domestic abuse charges after allegedly assaulting his girlfriend. A YouTube channel that appears to belong to him lists a deleted category named "terrorists."
He was an amateur boxer, and won Rocky Marciano Trophy for as New England Golden Gloves heavyweight champion in 2010. He described himself as "very religious" in a boxing-related blog titled "Will Box for Passport."
"…Tamerlan says he could be selected for the US Olympic team and be naturalized American,” the post reads. "Unless his native Chechnya becomes independent, Tamerlan says he would rather compete for the United States than for Russia."
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Cast and creative
1 December 2012 - 2 March 2013
Privates on Parade
By Peter Nicholls
Music by Denis King
Noël Coward Theatre
Cast includes: Simon Russell Beale
"Come see the privates on parade
You’ll say how proudly they’re displayed"
Private Steven Flowers is posted to the Song and Dance Unit in South East Asia where serving under the flamboyant Captain Terri Dennis he discovers it takes more than just a uniform to become a man.
Simon Russell Beale played the cross-dressing Captain Dennis whose performances of Marlene Dietrich, Vera Lynn and Carmen Miranda form the centrepiece of Peter Nichols’ award-winning comedy set against the murderous backdrop of the Malaysian campaign at the end of the Second World War.
Privates on Parade 1 December 2012 - 2 March 2013
In order of speaking
Joseph Timms - Private Steve Flowers
John Marquez - Corporal Len Bonny
Simon Russell Beale - Captain Dennis
Sam Swainsbury - Flight–Sergeant Kevin Cartwright
Harry Hepple - Lance Corporal Charles Bishop
Brodie Ross - Leading Aircraftman Eric Young-Love
Sophiya Haque - Sylvia Morgan
Davina Perera - Understudy Sylvia Morgan
Mark Lewis Jones - Sergeant Major Reg Drummond
Angus Wright - Major Giles Flack
Sadao Ueda - Cheng
Chris Chan - Lee
Amanda Gordon - Private Smith
Christopher Leveaux - Understudy Flowers, Cartwright, Young–Love
Darren Machin - Understudy Bonny, Drummond, Flack
Adam Price - Understudy Dennis, Bishop
Joseph Timms
Private Steve Flowers
Training: RADA.
Theatre includes: The Taming of the Shrew, Bedlam and Henry IV Parts l & ll (Globe), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Southwark Playhouse), Richard II (Donmar Warehouse) and Twelfth Night (NT).
Television includes: Doctors and Casualty.
John Marquez
Corporal Len Bonny
Theatre includes: Ding Dong the Wicked (Court), The Taming of the Shrew (RSC), House of Games, Chain Play II and The Hypochondriac (Almeida), Dark Side of Buffoon (Lyric, Hammersmith), A Flea in Her Ear (Old Vic), The Anniversary (Garrick), Baby Doll, Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads, The Emperor Jones and Market Boy (NT), Boeing-Boeing (Playhouse, Liverpool), Mother Teresa Is Dead, Local and Identical Twins (Royal Court), Tales from Tennessee, The Good Soul of Szechuan and Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic), Ragtime (Regent’s Park Open Air) and Snow Bull (Hampstead).
Television includes: Doc Martin, Hotel Babylon, Suburban Shootout, Ronni Ancona & Co, The Blair Project, EastEnders and Man and Mouse.
Captain Dennis
Simon Russell Beale is an Associate Artist of the RSC and National Theatre.
Theatre includes: The Seagull and The Tempest (RSC), Hamlet, Humble Boy (also West End), Jumpers (also West End and Broadway), Much Ado About Nothing, Major Barbara, London Assurance, Collaborators and Timon of Athens (NT), Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night (Donmar Warehouse and Brooklyn Academy, New York). Simon also starred in Monty Python’s Spamalot (New York and London), The Winter’s Tale and The Cherry Orchard (Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, European tour and Old Vic) and Deathtrap (Noël Coward).
Film includes: The Deep Blue Sea and My Week with Marilyn.
Television includes: Henry IV Parts I & II, A Dance to the Music of Time, two series of Spooks, two series of Sacred Music and a series entitled Symphony (for BBC TV).
Other work includes: Alice in Wonderland ballet (Royal Opera House), BBC Proms narration, The Stravinsky Promenade (1996) and Ivan the Terrible (2003).
Sam Swainsbury
Flight–Sergeant Kevin Cartwright
Training: Sam trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (Laurence Olivier Bursary winner).
Theatre includes: Privates on Parade (Michael Grandage Company), The Taming of the Shrew (RSC), When Did You Last See My Mother? (Trafalgar Studios), The Comedy of Errors, Richard III and The Merchant of Venice (Ian Charleson Award Commendation), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Propeller – World Tour), Hay Fever (Rose, Kingston), A Day at the Racists (Finborough), The Rivals (Southwark Playhouse), Burial at Thebes (Nottingham Playhouse and Barbican), Hysteria (Birmingham Rep) and Slope (The Tramway, Glasgow).
Film includes: Thor 2: The Dark World and shorts: Babel, House of Knives and Jacob.
Television includes: Call the Midwife, Doctors, Harley Street and Jekyll.
Harry Hepple
Lance Corporal Charles Bishop
Theatre includes: Ragtime (Regent’s Park Open Air), Pippin (Menier Chocolate Factory), Hot Mess (Arcola/Latitude), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Donmar Warehouse), Guys and Dolls (Cambridge Arts), Jump (Newcastle Live), Been So Long (Young Vic), Burnt By the Sun (NT), I Caught Crabs in Walberswick (Bush/UK tour/Edinburgh Festival), Exposure (Islington Arts Factory), Alaska (Royal Court) and 2nd May 1997 (nabokov).
Television includes: Hustle, Doctors, Misfits and Inspector George Gently.
Radio includes: Choice of Straws and Once More with Feeling.
Brodie Ross
Leading Aircraftman Eric Young-Love
Training: Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Theatre includes: Filumena (Almeida), Othello and An Enemy of the People (Crucible, Sheffield) and Charley’s Aunt (Royal Exchange, Manchester).
Film includes: Gambit.
Television includes: Silk and Lewis.
Sophiya Haque
Sylvia Morgan
The role of Sylvia Morgan in this production was created by Sophiya Haque who passed away tragically young only a few weeks after the opening. The company dedicated the remaining performances of the show to her memory
Theatre includes: Wah! Wah! Girls (Sadler’s Wells/TRSE/Kneehigh), The Vagina Monologues (Southbank Centre), Gandhi and Coconuts (Arcola), Britain’s Got Bhangra (Rifco Arts), The Far Pavilions (Shaftesbury) and Bombay Dreams (Apollo, Victoria).
Film includes: Jadoo (2012), 14 Days with Victor, Wanted, The Rising, Sandhya, Santosham, Indian, Han Maine Bhi Pyar Kiyam, Snip!, Har Dil Jo Pyaar Karega, Alaipayuthey (Waves) and Khoobsurat.
Television includes: House of Anubis (season 2), Coronation Street (regular, 2008-09), Fairytales, Brilliant, Bollywood Star, Big Bad World (series 2) and Sophiya’s Choice.
Recordings include: Bombay Dreams (original cast), album by Akasa and Sophiya, and singles ‘One Night in My Life’, ‘Kama Sutra’ and ‘Right Inside Your Love’ with Tori Amos.
Davina Perera
Understudy Sylvia Morgan
Training: Royal Academy of Music, London.
Theatre includes: Wah! Wah! Girls (Sadler’s Wells at the Peacock), Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic), Wuthering Heights (Lyric, Hammersmith), Bombay Dreams (Apollo, Victoria), Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Britain’s Got Bhangra and Beauty and the Beast (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), BGB Remixed, Remastered (Hackney Empire), Primary Voices (Diorama) and Peter Pan (Theatre Royal, Brighton).
Sergeant Major Reg Drummond
Theatre includes: The Man Who Had All the Luck (Donmar Warehouse), Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Winter’s Tale and The Maid’s Tragedy (Globe), The Snow Palace (Sphinx Theatre Company), Cardiff East, Volpone and Under Milk Wood (NT), Pioneers in Ingoldstadt (Gate), The Caretaker and No More Sitting on the Old School Bench (Cardiff), A Winter’s Tale (Complicite), Morte D’Arthur (Lyric, Hammersmith), Hansel and Gretel and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (Derby Playhouse), The Corn Is Green (Theatr Clwyd), The Tempest, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merchant of Venice and Richard III (RSC).
Film includes: Robin Hood Adventure, Caught in the Act, The Other Boleyn Girl, Daddy’s Girl, Troy, Master and Commander, Solomon and Gaenor, Paper Mask and The Shell Seekers.
Television includes: Stella, Game of Thrones, The Baker Boys, Being Human 3, Silent Witness, Bouquet of Barbed Wire, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Merlin, Crash, Law and Order, Zig Zag Love, The Commander, The Cockle Farmer, Torchwood, 55 Degrees North, Murder Prevention, Murphy’s Law and Spooks.
Angus Wright
Major Giles Flack
Theatre includes: The Master and Margarita (Complicite), The Cat in the Hat (NT, Young Vic and Théâtre des Abbesses), Mrs Affleck, War Horse, St Joan, The Seagull, A Dream Play, Stuff Happens, Measure for Measure and Three Sisters (NT), The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet and The Theban Plays (RSC), Wastwater (Royal Court), Design for Living (Old Vic) and Twelfth Night (Globe).
Film includes: Maleficent, Closed, Private Peaceful, The Iron Lady, The Bank Job, Kingdom of Heaven, Nicholas Nickleby, Dr Sleep, Charlotte Gray, Labyrinth, Affair of the Necklace, Bridget Jones’s Diary, RKO 281 and Cutthroat Island.
Television includes: Being Human,
The Sarah Jane Adventures, Above Suspicion, The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall, Waking the Dead, Hotel Babylon, Casanova, Winter Solstice, Cambridge Spies and The Way We
Live Now.
Radio includes: The Secret Pilgrim, Plenty and Precious.
Sadao Ueda
Theatre includes: The Flies (Exchange Theatre), Twin Stars, Inugami, Nine Dragon Drums and Peace Pagoda (Yellow Earth Theatre Company) and Red Oleander (Camden People’s Theatre).
Film includes: Gambit, Ambleton Delight and Speed Racer.
Radio includes: After the Quake.
Chris Chan
Training: Michael Armstrong and the London Repertory Company and the NYT.
Theatre includes: There’s Only One Wayne Lee, Magical Chairs (Southwark and Beijing Experimental Theatre, Beijing), Fast Food for Thought (C Venues, Edinburgh Fringe), All in the Timing, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Pippin, Between Mouthfuls and Assassins (OFS, Oxford).
Film includes: Krish & Lee, Flight of the Pompadour, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, 47 Ronin and Chatroom.
Television includes: Bankers, Coming of Age and Sherlock.
Amanda Gordon
Private Smith
Theatre includes: The Wind in the Willows (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Chichester Festival Theatre), Bus Stop, Nana, Kiss Me, Kate, Privates on Parade, Dr Anhelus, Trelawny of the ‘Wells’ and My Fair Lady (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Jemima Puddleduck and Friends (Unicorn), Fucking Charlie (Tristan Bates), Robinson Crusoe (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds), Bombay Dreams (RUG), The Country Wife (Watford Palace), The Jungle Book (Chester Gateway), One Dance Will Do (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), Cinderella (Greenwich) and The Demon Headmaster (UK tour).
Film includes: All the Children Are Sleeping.
Television includes: :The Bill, Casualty, Doctors, EastEnders, The Bench, The Harringham Harker, Bad Girls and Guru’s Guide to Study Skills.
Radio includes: Telling the Sea, King Street Junior Revisited, Life Is a Dream, The Moon is Mine, Station Road, As I Lay Dying, Anne of Green Gables, The Valley of Fear, Courtin’ Miss Lucie and Commonwealth Short Stories.
Understudy Flowers, Cartwright, Young–Love
Training: Christopher has just graduated from Arts Educational School, London. Theatre whilst training includes: The Producers, Bat Boy the Musical and Tom in Citizenship.
Theatre includes: Privates on Parade (Michael Grandage Company).
Film includes: The Wicker Tree and Love Me Till Monday.
Television includes: When Boris Met Dave, Dark Matters, 1066 and The Forgotten Fallen.
Darren Machin
Understudy Bonny, Drummond, Flack
Training: Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
Theatre includes: My Fair Lady, Henceforward, Privates on Parade and Trelawny of the ‘Wells’ (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Run for Your Wife (Aldwych, Duchess and Far East tour for Derek Nimmo), Murdered to Death (UK tour), Stand by Your Man (UK tour), A Chorus of Disapproval (Wolsey, Ipswich), While the Sun Shines and Wait Until Dark (Keswick), Crime Season (Basingstoke), Barefoot in the Park, A Night in Provence, It Runs in the Family, Out of Order, That Old Feeling, Worm’s Eye View, Touch and Go and You’re Only Young Twice (Mill at Sonning), The Hollow, Witness for the Prosecution, Girls’ Night Out and Straight and Narrow (Palace, Westcliff) and Knock Down Ginger (Warehouse, Croydon).
Television includes: New Tricks, Ashes to Ashes, Silent Witness, Public Eye, Crimewatch Solved, Herald of Free Enterprise, Faith, The Bill, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, Family Affairs and
Hale & Pace.
Understudy Dennis, Bishop
Training: Central School of Speech and Drama.
Theatre includes: Hairspray (Shaftesbury), The Merry Widow and The Ghosts of Ruddigore (Opera Della Luna), Neil Bartlett’s Oliver Twist, The Ghosts of Scrooge and Blood Brothers (Manchester Library Theatre), Make Some Noise and One Step Beyond (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Notre Dame (Lillian Baylis Studio), The Boys From Syracuse (Sheffield Crucible), The Red Balloon (Bristol Old Vic), Guys and Dolls and Fat Pig (world premiere, Leicester Haymarket), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Babes in Arms and The Winter’sTale (Regent’s Park Open Air), Much Ado About Nothing (Hampstead), The Dark Side (UK tour, Bill Kenwright Ltd) and A Hole in the Fence (UK premiere, White Bear).
Film includes: Young Soul Rebels.
Television includes: EastEnders, May to December, Coppers, Grange Hill, Just Good Friends, The Cuckoo Sister, Family Affairs and Executive Stress.
Other work includes: Royal Variety Performance, Laurence Olivier Awards and commercials, voiceovers, corporate films and pantomimes across the UK.
Peter Nichols - Author
Denis King - Music
Michael Grandage - Director
Christopher Oram - Set & Costume Designer
Paule Constable - Lighting Designer
Ben Wright - Choreographer
Jae Alexander - Musical Director
Nick Lidster - Sound Designer
Terry Jardine - Sound Designer
Toby Whale - Casting Director
Richard Mawbey - Hair & Make–Up Designer
Penny Dyer - Voice & Dialect Coach
Natasha Ward - Costume Supervisor
Johan Persson - Production Photographer
Peter Nichols
Peter was born in Bristol in 1927. After National Service in India, Malaya and Hong Kong, he was an actor in repertory theatre and television for five years and then a teacher in London schools. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He and his wife, to whom he has been married since 1960, now live in Oxford.
Plays include: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, The National Health, Forget-Me-Not Lane, The Freeway, Chez Nous, Privates on Parade, Born in the Gardens, Passion Play, Poppy, Blue Murder, So Long Life, A Piece of My Mind and Lingua Franca. Awards include four Evening Standard, two Society of West End Theatres, one Ivor Novello and one Tony.
Directing includes: Born in the Gardens, Blue Murder, A Piece of My Mind and The National Health (Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis).
Film and television include: The Gorge, Inspector Morse, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, National Health and Privates on Parade.
Radio includes: Something in the Air and Jam Yesterday.
Other work includes: Feeling You’re Behind (memoir).
Denis King
Born in Hornchurch, Essex, Denis’s musical career began aged six as a banjolele-playing singer at children’s matinees and, at 13, with his two older brothers, Mike and Tony, he formed the successful pop group The King Brothers. With the disbanding of the group in 1970 he studied orchestration at the Guildhall School of Music and got his break in television writing the theme for Black Beauty (Ivor Novello Award).
Television includes: Lovejoy, We’ll Meet Again, Dick Turpin and over 200 other theme tunes.
Performing credits include: Re:Joyce with Maureen Lipman and Beauty and the Beards with Dick Vosburgh.
Stage musicals include: the 1977 RSC’s original production of Privates on Parade (Ivor Novello Award), A Saint She Ain’t, Stepping Out – The Musical, Bashville, Valentine’s Day, Worzel Gummidge, Lost Empires, The Wind in the Willows, Treasure Island, Baby on Board, That Old Feeling, Whenever, Orvin – Champion of Champions and Awaking Beauty.
Michael Grandage
Michael is Artistic Director of the Michael Grandage Company. He was Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse (2002–2012) and Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres (2000–05).
Work at the Donmar includes: Richard II, Luise Miller, King Lear, Red (also Broadway and LA), Hamlet (also Elsinore and New York), Ivanov, Twelfth Night, The Chalk Garden, Don Juan in Soho, Frost/Nixon (also Gielgud, New York and USA tour), Othello, The Wild Duck, Guys and Dolls, Grand Hotel, After Miss Julie, Caligula, Merrily We Roll Along and Passion Play.
Work at Sheffield Theatres includes: Don Carlos (also transferred to the Gielgud).
Opera includes: The Marriage of Figaro and Billy Budd (Glyndebourne), Don Giovanni (Metropolitan Opera) and Madame Butterfly (Houston).
Awards include: Tony, Olivier, Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle, TMA, South Bank and Drama Desk Awards.
Michael has also been awarded Honorary Doctorates by both Sheffield University and Sheffield Hallam University and is President of Central School of Speech and Drama. He was appointed CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2011. His book A Decade at the Donmar was published in 2012 by Constable and Robinson.
Christopher Oram
Theatre includes: Evita (West End and Broadway), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, King Lear (UK tour and New York), Red (also Broadway and Los Angeles), Passion, A Streetcar Named Desire, Parade (also Los Angeles), Hamlet (also Elsinore and Broadway), Madame de Sade, Twelfth Night and Ivanov (Donmar West End), Frost/Nixon (also Broadway and UK tour), Othello and Guys and Dolls (Donmar Warehouse), Company, Don Carlos, Suddenly Last Summer, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Don Juan, The Tempest, Edward II, Richard III and As You Like It (Crucible, Sheffield), Danton’s Death, Stuff Happens, Power, The Marriage Play, Finding the Sun and Summerfolk (NT) and King Lear/The Seagull (RSC).
Paule Constable
Theatre includes: This House, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Danton’s Death, Phèdre, Death and the King’s Horseman, War Horse (also Broadway and Toronto), Waves, St Joan and His Dark Materials (NT), As You Like It, The Prince of Homburg, The Seagull and Tales from Ovid (RSC), Clybourne Park (also West End), The Weir and Krapp’s Last Tape (Royal Court), Love Never Dies, Oliver! and Evita (West End), Dancing at Lughnasa and Moon for the Misbegotten (Old Vic), Les Misérables (25th anniversary tour), Ivanov (Donmar West End season) and Luise Miller, The Chalk Garden, The Cut and Othello (Donmar Warehouse). Paule is the recipient of Tony and Olivier Awards.
Opera includes: Doctor Dee (Manchester International Festival), Carmen, Faust, Rigoletto, The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute and Macbeth (Royal Opera House), Cunning Little Vixen, The Marriage of Figaro, Der Meistersinger, Billy Budd, Rusalka and St Matthew Passion (Glyndebourne) and Don Giovanni and Anna Bolena (Metropolitan Opera).
Dance includes: Sleeping Beauty, Play Without Words and Dorian Gray (Matthew Bourne), Naked (Ballet Boys) and Seven Deadly Sins (Royal Ballet).
Ben is an independent choreographer working in contemporary dance, opera and theatre. In 2008 he launched his own company, bgroup, creating The Diminishing Present, About Around, The Lessening of Difference and Just As We Are for the ensemble. The company premiere of Spectrum, commissioned by The Royal Opera House, will take place in spring 2014.
Choreography includes: Privates on Parade (MGC), The Perfect American (ENO), The Marriage of Figaro and Knight Crew (Glyndebourne Opera), Shuffle (Verve Dance Company), Don Giovanni (Metropolitan Opera), Betrothal in a Monastery (Opera-Comique, Paris), Small Acts, The Ghost Spot and A Summoning (Skanes Dance Theatre, Sweden), Cunning Little Vixen and Rigoletto (Grange Park Opera), Twelfth Night (Donmar West End), Tobias and the Angel and The Red and Brown Water (Young Vic).
Directing includes: The Walk from the Garden (Salisbury International Festival), An Audience with Adrienne and A Night at the Opera (Bayerische Staatsoper Festival).
Future engagements include: directing and choreographing The Feeling of Going for Skanes Dance Theatre/Malmo Opera set to a fully orchestrated version of Scandinavian pop legend Jonsi’s album Go.
Jae Alexander
Theatre includes: South Pacific (Barbican); West End: Fiddler on the Roof (Savoy), Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly), Grand Hotel (Donmar Warehouse),Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Dominion), Oliver! (London Palladium), Crazy for You (Prince Edward), The Hunting of the Snark (Prince Edward), Cats (New London), Follies (Shaftesbury), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Savoy) and West Side Story (Her Majesty’s). Regional: Me and My Girl (Crucible, Sheffield), Tell Me on a Sunday (UK tour), Shylock, Company, Cole and The Rocky Horror Show (Manchester Library), Grease, The Pajama Game, West Side Story and Fat Pig (Haymarket, Leicester), Gypsy (Crucible, Sheffield), The Card (Watermill, Newbury) and Putting it Together (Oxford).
Television includes: Codi’r To, Peter Karrie Unmasked, Mardi Gras, The Magic of the Musicals and The Gershwin Centennial Concert. Jae has also conducted many Royal Variety Performances with West End musicals.
Jae is very busy on the concert platform, conducting many classical spectaculars around the country, including The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee at the Royal Albert Hall.
Nick Lidster
for Autograph
Nick is a senior member of the Autograph design team.
Theatre includes: Les Misérables (UK tour and Berlin), Martin Guerre, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Sinatra (UK tours), Miss Saigon (UK tours and Japan), Simply Heavenly (Young Vic and Trafalgar Studios), Nicholas Nickleby and Tonight At 8.30 (Chichester Festival Theatre), On the Town (ENO), Sweeney Todd (Royal Opera House), Mother Courage (RNT), Jekyll & Hyde (Brazil), Alice in Wonderland (Derngate, Northampton), Legally Blonde (UK tour), Finding Neverland (Leicester Curve), Ragtime and A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre). In The West End: Beautiful and Damned, Sinatra, Imagine This and Lend Me a Tenor. For The Donmar Warehouse: Pacific Overtures, Parade, Passion and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Concerts and galas include: Hey, Mr Producer! – Cameron Mackintosh’s 30th Anniversary Royal Gala, two seasons of Divas at the Donmar, concert version of Les Misérables (UK and Scandinavian tour) and The Laurence Olivier Awards.
Opera includes: Kismet and Candide (ENO).
Terry Jardine
Terry Jardine joined Autograph Sound as a designer in 1989 and was appointed group managing director
Theatre includes: Les Misérables (worldwide), Cats (UK tour, Zurich, Antwerp and European tour), The Music Man, Man of La Mancha and The Pyjama Game (Canada), The Card (UK tour and Moscow), Candide (Copenhagen), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (RSC, Stratford and Sadler’s Wells), Avenue Q (tour), Spamalot (tour), Sinatra (tour), Follies and On Your Toes (Royal Festival Hall) and Finding Neverland (Leicester Curve). West End: Peter Pan, The Pirates of Penzance, She Loves Me, Romance Romance, Fame, Crazy for You, The Pyjama Game, Stepping Out, The Secret Garden, Guys and Dolls, Sinatra and Cinderella (Old Vic), Imagine This, Lend Me a Tenor, Spamalot, Grand Hotel, Parade, Passion and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Donmar Warehouse).
Opera includes: Béatrice et Bénédict (Canadian Opera Company, Toronto) and Candide (English National Opera).
Toby Whale
Theatre includes: over 50 productions for the National Theatre, including The History Boys (also Broadway), On the Shore of the Wide World, Burn Chatroom Citizenship, Southwark Fair, Pillars of the Community, The Overwhelming, Stuff Happens, The Permanent Way, Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads and The Pillowman. Other theatre includes: over 40 productions for the Royal Court, Out of Joint, the Almeida, the Old Vic and the West End, and Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Country Wife, Edward II, Don Juan and Richard III for Michael Grandage at Sheffield Theatres.
Film includes: Belle, Fast Girls, Ashes, The Dark Knight Rises, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Pope Joan, Poppy Shakespeare, Mr Nobody, French Film, The History Boys, Ashes & Sand, Wondrous Oblivion, Before You Go and East Is East.
Television includes: The Politician's Husband, The Best of Men, Silk, We'll Take Manhattan, Ashes to Ashes, Doc Martin, Mutual Friends, True Dare Kiss, George Gently, Gavin & Stacey.
Richard Mawbey
Hair & Make–Up Designer
Richard has enjoyed a great career in hair, make-up and wigs and he owns Wig Specialities in London.
Theatre includes: Merrily We Roll Along, Hot House (Jamie Lloyd’s Trafalgar Transformed), Privates on Parade (Michael Grandage Company), Evita, La Cage aux Folles and Priscilla Queen of the Desert (New York), South Pacific, All New People, Top Hat, Hairspray, Passion, Legally Blonde, End of the Rainbow, Piaf, Sweet Charity, Zorro, Evita, Frost/Nixon, Guys and Dolls, The Producers, Starlight Express, Thoroughly Modern Millie and the Donmar Warehouse’s West End season (London), and White Christmas, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, We Will Rock You, Nine to Five and Little Britain Live (nationwide productions).
Film includes: The Ghost Writer, Titanic, It’s De-Lovely, Star Wars, Wilde, Mask of Zorro, The Pianist, Disney’s Santa Clause, One Hundred and One Dalmatians and Richard Harris as Dumbledore in Harry Potter.
Television includes: Little Britain, House of Saddam, Catherine Tate, French and Saunders, Poirot, Miss Marple and Larkrise to Candleford.
Penny Dyer
Voice & Dialect Coach
Theatre includes: For MGC: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Peter and Alice and Privates on Parade.
Other theatre includes: The Commitments (Palace), This House and Blood and Gifts (NT), Circle Mirror Transformation, The Low Road, Choir Boy, In Basildon, The Faith Machine, Chicken Soup with Barley and The Pride (Royal Court), Sweet Bird of Youth, Hedda Gabler and Speed-the-Plow (Old Vic), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (West End/VFT), The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales), Julius Caesar (RSC), Posh and Clybourne Park (Royal Court/West End), Roots, The Promise, Making Noise Quietly, Salt, Root and Roe, Inadmissible Evidence, Anna Christie, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Passion, A Streetcar Named Desire, Parade, Piaf and Frost/Nixon (Donmar Warehouse), Legally Blonde (Savoy) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Broadway).
Film includes: Philomena, Sunshine on Leith, Woody Allen Project, The Double, Kill Your Darlings, Naomi Watts in Diana, My Week with Marilyn, Tamara Drewe, Nowhere Boy, The Damned United, The Queen, Frost/Nixon, Dirty Pretty Things and Elizabeth.
Television includes: Tommy, The Great Train Robbery, The Girl, Mrs Biggs, The Slap, Downton Abbey, Fantabuloso and The Deal.
Natasha Ward
Costume Supervisor
Theatre includes: Privates on Parade (Michael Grandage Company), Bracken Moor and Paper Dolls (Tricycle), Richard II and The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse), A View From the Bridge (Duke of York’s), Carrie’s War (Sadler’s Wells) and Twelfth Night (Riverside Studios).
As Assistant Costume Supervisor: War Horse (UK Tour), Sweet Charity (Menier Chocolate Factory/Theatre Royal Haymarket), Evita (European Tour), La Cage Aux Folles (Broadway) and Carrie’s War (Apollo).
As Costume Designer: The Time of Your Life (Finborough), Rue Magique (King’s Head) and The Living Unknown Soldier (Arcola).
Natasha was the Assistant Costume Buyer at the National Theatre from May 2010 to June 2011.
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On International Workers' Day, Gaza's workers live in 'disastrous' conditions
May 2, 2016 at 1:44 pm | Published in: Middle East, News, Palestine, Videos & Photo Stories
The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) called on Sunday for the Palestinian Authority (PA) to be responsible for workers in Gaza. The federation noted that workers in the besieged enclave live in "disastrous" conditions, MEMO's correspondent has reported.
During a protest organised to mark Workers' Day in Gaza, the PGFTU also warned of a "humanitarian explosion" should the international community not put pressure on the Israeli occupation to lift the ten-year-old siege on the Palestinian territory. The workers renewed their call for the Palestinian Legislative Council to approve a minimum wage in response to the poor economic situation. They also called on the Egyptian government to open the Rafah Crossing for the movement of people and goods.
The workers' situation, they insisted, would be helped by Palestinian political unity and by UNRWA bearing its responsibilities. They urged the UN agency not to cancel its urgent assistance programmes.
According to the PGFTU, unemployment in Gaza has reached 60 per cent, with 70 per cent of the population living in poverty. In 2011, the federation pointed out, no more than 50,000 people were unemployed; last year, it said, was the worst so far for Palestinian workers in Gaza.
The PGFTU noted that up to 80 per cent of Gaza's factories have stopped working due to the Israeli siege. Around 70,000 workers in the construction sector have lost work due to the Israeli ban on cement imports. The federation blamed the Palestinian officials in Gaza and the occupied West Bank for the workers' suffering and accused them of overlooking their dire living conditions.
Images by MEMO Photographer Mohammed Asad.
Palestinian construction workers [File photo]
One charity director said that 30 to 40 per cent of its Palestinian employees are now being refused travel permits”, individuals “who have been getting permits regularly, as recently as last year.” [File photo]
80% of Gaza’s factories have stopped working due to the Israeli siege, with around 70,000 workers in the construction sector without work due to the Israeli ban on cement imports [File photo]
File photo of a Palestinian construction worker
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"When you consider what we’ve got to do with prison reform, plus dealing with the Medicaid situation, when you take those two big agencies together that’s 60 percent of the General Fund budget," he said. "There’s not enough in savings to get everyone up to level funding."
Clouse did express support for a bill to allow Alabamians to vote on establishing a lottery, an often-discussed method of solving state budget woes. The Republican version of the legislation, sponsored by Rep. Alan Harper, R-Northport and Sen. Jim McClendon, R-Springville, would leave it to the Legislature to decide how to administration a lottery and distribute its proceeds.
Establishing a lottery has long been a goal of Democrats, but Rep. Merika Coleman-Evans, D-Pleasant Grove, called the Republican proposal a "blank check."
"It doesn't say where the money is going to," she said, expressing support for a bill sponsored by House Minority Leader Craig Ford, D-Gadsden, that would use lottery proceeds to fund scholarships.
Acting Finance Director Bill Newton, who crafts Gov. Robert Bentley’s budget proposal, expressed broad agreement with the LFO’s numbers Tuesday morning. The governor will give his State of the State address tonight at 6:30 p.m. Newton is expected to give details of the governor’s budget proposal Wednesday.
Newton’s presentation included a copy of Alabama’s first state budget in 1819, which estimated spending at around $32,000 and revenues at $22,000.
“Alabama has a long history of budget challenges,” he said.
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"These guys stood strong. They could've folded a little bit when the lead went to 11 points, but we stayed with the plan," Carver coach James "J.J." Jackson said. "At halftime we went in, everybody was very vocal. Everybody said what they needed to say as far as what we needed to do, the kids took it in, the kids went out and executed. We got some big shots from some big players, and the rest of those guys did their job."
Adversity was the theme for Carver's postseason. It started with Jackson getting sick and missing the regional tournament. Jackson returned for the state semifinals, but then devastation hit. Marlon Davidson's mother passed away on Monday, leaving the Wolverines with heavy hearts and without their post player and football star.
"We just had to bring it all in together. We had so much on our backs, and we took it out in the state finals," senior Joseph Strugg said, who finished the game with 11 rebounds and two blocks.
Maybe it was the weight of what they had been through that held the Wolverines back early. Carver trailed by 11 with less than 2 minutes to go in the third quarter. But no one blinked.
"I had to step up for the other guys. They weren't on, so I had to step up and do what I had to do," junior guard Antonio Nelson said. "Fourth quarter, the ball's supposed to be in my hands at that point and time. So I had to just step up and make plays."
Nelson scored 10 of his 16 points in less than a 2-minute span early in the fourth quarter, sparking a run that gave the Wolverines a lead for the first time since the opening minutes.
And then down the stretch, they leaned on the man that got them there. Brandon Austin shot 8-for-8 from the free-throw line in the final 4 minutes to help seal the game.
"I walked over there to the sideline. I saw coach, my team, they were getting down, and I said I have to put them on my back and take them where they needed to be," Austin said. "Me not scoring last year in the semifinal game, it was tough on me. It was a lot on my shoulders. I had to tell my team that we were going to do it. Fourth quarter will be mine."
Austin finished the game with 20 points and five steals, capping off his career with a second championship. Darian Adams had 10 points and hit the final two free throws of the game that would end up being the difference.
Jackson said Austin — an Alabama signee — carried the load early in the year and allowed the other players to grow, knowing Carver would need them when it mattered most. On Saturday, it was all worth it.
"There's not anything else I'd rather have as senior, going into my senior year leaving as a state champion," Austin said.
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Born in the City of Dallas, TX and raised in the city of Grand Prairie, TX where he graduated from South Grand Prairie HS in 2002.
Jeffery went on to attend Sam Houston State University in Huntsville TX, where he was heavily involved on campus in organizations such as Black Student Alliance, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. As well as being involved and holding leadership positions in Program Council, National Association of Black Accountants, Inc. and The Talented Tenth, Inc.
After graduating from Sam Houston State University in 2006, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Radio and Television, he moved back home but something was pushing him to make a move away. In the year of 2008, he made the hard choice to move to Houston, TX. After starting a master’s program at the University of Houston he decided to peruse a career in teaching. He also decided to pursue a better relationship with Christ. He decided to join faiths with The Fountain of Praise Church in Houston, TX. At TFOP he is active in different ministries that include: Praise Productions, New Members Orientation, Yielded (Young Adult Ministry), as well as the Hospitality Ministry where he serves as 12:30 Head Greeter and Assistant Leader overall for the Greeters. Professionally, Jeffery is a teacher at YES Prep: North Forest where he is a 6th Grade Leadership teacher and a coach for various sports.
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Xavier is a co-educational Jesuit, Catholic university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The school is the sixth-oldest Catholic and fourth-oldest Jesuit university in the United States. Xavier has an undergraduate enrollment of 4,485 students and graduate enrollment of 2,165. Xavier is primarily an undergraduate, liberal arts institution.
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Xavier University was the first Catholic institution of higher learning in the Northwest Territory and is the fourth oldest Jesuit University and the sixth oldest Catholic university in the United States. The school was founded in 1831 as a men's college in downtown Cincinnati next to St. Francis Xavier Church on Sycamore Street.
98% of Xavier graduates are employed, enrolled in a full-time graduate program or volunteering within 6 months of graduation.
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Construction of Additional Classrooms for Loyola English Medium School Khunti, Jharkhand - India
Project location: INDIA, Khunti, Jharkhand
Beneficiary: Ranchi Jesuits
Jharkhand ("the Land of Forests") has an area of 79.710 km2 (of which 31% is covered with hills and forests), 24 Districts, 260 blocks, 32.620 villages and 32,96 million inhabitants (according to the last 2011 census). Despite the state is the second leading producer of mineral wealth (iron ore, coal, copper ore, mica, bauxite, uranium, etc.) and despite forest resources, more than 50% of overall population is below poverty line; Tribals (Adivasi) are 28% of total population, Dalit (Scheduled caste) are 12%; each Tribal group has a specific identity and specific customs and traditions. What they have in common is the special bond with the land in which they live in symbiosis and from which they derive what is necessary to survive. Tribals have a deeply spiritual view of life; for them "walking is dancing, talking is singing."
Many tribal groups are sensitive to ecological degradation caused by modernization; both commercial forestry and intensive farming have destroyed forests, source of their life. Tribals identity and survival are severely at risk, as their rights are not safeguarded. More than 90% Dalit and Adivasi are below poverty line. Only 40 % of villages are electrified, and only 8.484 are connected by roads.
There are 8 Blocks in Khunti District and 64.2% of total surface is covered by the forest. 76.15% of total area is populated by Schedule Tribes (Adivasis).
Most of villages in Khunti District are situated in the rural and forest covered hilly areas and there is lack of basic infrastructures like roads. All the villages are divided into big and small hamlets where people are residing. The major inhabitants of the region are Munda tribals; they normally are in possession of some agricultural, waste and pastoral land; overall ownership of land is less than 2 acres per house hold; soil is also not fertile because of hilly and rocky track; therefore, with the best harvest, which is solely dependent on monsoon rain, the best of families can afford to have food grain for about 5 to 6 months. Families generally grow paddy, maize, pulses and vegetables.
Munda tribals are facing social vulnerability and disintegration: having house hold food security is the prime economic need in the area, in particular during September and October; malnutrition and malaria are serious threats. People's life span is 50 years, with high child death cases. The need for investment on human resources is enormous; school is one of the key institutions which is open for all people irrespective of all caste and religious barriers, trying to shape the future of new generations; but, the area being surrounded by hills and forest, there are not many facilities for education; there are not enough government schools. Children very often have to help their parents in their work in the fields or look after their younger brothers and sisters; poverty and hunger are other main reasons for parents not sending their children to school. Total literacy rate of Jharkhand is 67%, but in Khunti District it is 64% (75% male, 53% female); in the project area it is even lower, estimated to 25%. In other schools currently run by Ranchi Jesuits, most of the students are the first generation who's attending classes.
The number of school drop outs is also increasing; in fact, due to lack of facilities, students are not able to manage their studies; they can then be attracted by criminal activities or frustration can lead them to alcohol-addiction. Another serious problem in the area is migration of young people, girls in particular, to cities, as house hold workers; they are then virtually lost to their families and tribe. Only very few of them manage to come back and often are unwed mothers or AIDS carriers.
Only investment on human resources can hope to bring long term, positive change and improvement. So education is a priority for Ranchi Jesuits.
In order to improve children education, Ranchi Jesuits' Province is running various accessible schools.
In particular, an English Medium School is run in Khunti since April 2014, to improve children's education in English and, consequently, their living, formation and working possibilities. English Medium Schools are expensive compared to Hindi vernacular schools, but they offer better facilities and higher quality, therefore parents prefer English Medium Schools, if they can afford for them.
The number of students currently attending this school is 148; staff consists of 7 teachers and 2 non teaching staff members. First classes started in 2014. Children attend classes from 9.00 am to 3.00 pm; they do not get meals in the school as Government does not give mid-day facilities to private schools such as Khunti English Medium School. Maximum distance from students' homes is currently 5 km; parents make arrangements to bring their children to school by walking or by bicycle or by rickshaws. The majority of students are Christians, but 40% are non-Christians. The school is not a boarding school but in some years time a building could be necessary for students coming from faraway villages.
The Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation has awarded a grant for this project. The following are the activities forseen:
A building built and equipped with 5 classrooms for 50 medium students/classroom, with toilet block and staircase included
Access to medium education in English enabled to overall 400 tribal students in Khunti by 2019, when the 5 new classrooms will be fully used
Qualified educational space and scope provided to tribals and to those belonging to the most deprived sections of society.
400 tribal students enabled to develop positive attitudes and integrate values of service and commitment towards the nation and humanity at large.
Young talents discovered and enabled to shape their destiny.
400 tribal students accompanied in their intellectual, physical, emotional and spiritual quest.
400 tribal students supported in their confidence and courage towards adequate and reasonable freedom.
Ranchi Jesuits
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Understanding the mechanism for generating electric current without energy consumption at room temperature
(Nanowerk News) A group of researchers in Japan and China identified the requirements for the development of new types of extremely low power consumption electric devices by studying Cr-doped (Sb,Bi)2Te3 thin films. This study has been reported in Nature Communications ("Carrier-mediated ferromagnetism in the magnetic topological insulator Cr-doped (Sb,Bi)2Te3").
At extremely low temperatures, an electric current flows around the edge of the film without energy loss, and under no external magnetic field. This attractive phenomenon is due to the material's ferromagnetic properties; however, so far, it has been unclear how the material gains this property. For the first time, researchers have revealed the mechanism by which this occurs. “Hopefully, this achievement will lead to the creation of novel materials that operate at room temperature in the future,” said Akio Kimura, a professor at Hiroshima University and a member of the research group.
Ferromagnetism mediated by Sb or Te atoms. (Image: Hiroshima University)
Their achievement can be traced back to the discovery of the quantum Hall effect in the 1980’s, where an electric current flows along an edge (or interface) without energy loss. However, this requires both a large external magnetic field and an extremely low temperature. This is why practical applications have not been possible. Researchers believed that this problem could be overcome with new materials called topological insulators that have ferromagnetic properties such as those found in Cr-doped (Sb,Bi)2Te3.
A topological insulator, predicted in 2005 and first observed in 2007, is neither a metal nor an insulator, and has exotic properties. For example, an electric current is generated only at the surface or the edge of the material, while no electric current is generated inside it. It looks as if only the surface or the edge of the material has metallic properties, while on the inside it is an insulator.
At extremely low temperatures, a thin film made of Cr-doped (Sb,Bi)2Te3 shows a peculiar phenomenon. As the film itself is ferromagnetic, an electric current is spontaneously generated without an external magnetic field and electric current flows only around the edge of the film without energy loss. However, it was previously unknown as to why Cr-doped (Sb,Bi)2Te3 had such ferromagnetic properties that allowed it to generate electric current.
“That’s why we selected the material as the object of our study,” said Professor Kimura.
Because Cr is a magnetic element, a Cr atom is equivalent to an atomic-sized magnet. The N-S orientations of such atomic-sized magnets tend to be aligned in parallel by the interactions between the Cr atoms. When the N-S orientations of Cr atoms in Cr-doped (Sb,Bi)2Te3 are aligned in parallel, the material exhibits ferromagnetism. However, the interatomic distances between the Cr atoms in the material are, in fact, too long to interact sufficiently to make the material ferromagnetic.
The group found that the non-magnetic element atoms, such as the Sb and Te atoms, mediate the magnetic interactions between Cr atoms and serve as the glue to fix the N-S orientations of Cr atoms that face one direction. In addition, the group expects that its finding will provide a way to increase the critical temperature for relevant device applications.
The experiments for this research were mainly conducted at SPring-8. “We would not have achieved perfect results without the facilities and the staff there. They devoted themselves to detecting the extremely subtle magnetism that the atoms of non-magnetic elements exhibit with extremely high precision. I greatly appreciate their efforts,” Kimura said.
Source: Hiroshima University
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19-year old IAF cadet and flight instructor die in light plane crash
By Jay Jackson, Myanmar Sun
Two Israel Air Force personnel have been killed in a light plane crash in Southern Israel.
The crash took place on Tuesday.
The Israel Air Force said a flight instructor, aged 42, and a teenage training cadet were the only two on board, and both died.
TEL AVIV, Israel - Two Israel Air Force personnel have been killed in a light plane crash in Southern Israel.
The Israel Air Force said a flight instructor, aged 42, and a teenage training cadet were the only two on board, and both died in the crash.
Bereaved families were notified, after which the IAF on Wednesday named those who died as IAF Flight Instructor, Major (Res.) Itay Zaiden, 42, from Kibbutz Shoval, and IAF Flight Course cadet, Corporal Lihoo Benbassa, 19, from the city of Rishon LeZion.
"The IAF expresses its heartfelt condolences to the families and will continue to support them. May their memory be a blessing," the IAF said in a statement released Wednesday.
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Shooting deaths rattle small, tight-knit US Hmong community
by: JANIE HAR, Associated Press
Posted: Nov 19, 2019 / 12:11 AM CST / Updated: Nov 19, 2019 / 07:32 PM CST
Police and emergency personnel are on the scene of a shooting at a backyard party, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019, in southeast Fresno, Calif. Multiple people were shot and at least four of them were killed Sunday at a party in Fresno when suspects sneaked into the backyard and fired into the crowd, police said. (Larry Valenzuela//The Fresno Bee via AP)
Fresno has been the heart of California’s Hmong community for decades, drawing refugees from war-torn Southeast Asia who built a tight-knit population in the farm town. Now, they’re reeling from the shooting deaths of four Hmong American men at a weekend party.
The central California city has the nation’s second-largest concentration of the ethnic minority group from East and Southeast Asia — about 34,000 people — and is home to a festive weeklong Hmong New Year’s party that draws tens of thousands of Hmong from around the country every year.
“Obviously, everyone’s in shock,” said Steve Ly, the first Hmong elected mayor in the country in the city of Elk Grove. “Fresno is the old stomping grounds for many of us who are spread all over the state.”
Police have not determined a motive, and no suspects were identified in Sunday’s shooting that killed four and wounded six others. The gunmen targeted the house where some 16 men had gathered outside to watch football on television, police said. Women and children were inside the house and were not hurt.
The dead include Xy Lee, a Hmong singer and musician whose videos on YouTube have been viewed millions of times. Also killed were Phia Vang, 31; Kou Xiong, 38; and Kalaxang Thao, 40, all of Fresno.
Three others remained hospitalized in serious condition, hospital officials said.
Fresno police say they formed an Asian gang taskforce and were worried about possible retaliatory violence leading up to the Hmong New Year’s celebration. But friends and family say the victims had no such ties and are sensitive to the shootings being dismissed as gang-related or promoting stereotypes.
“We don’t want this to be a stain on the people,” said Bobby Bliatout, 42, the child of Hmong refugees who is now campaigning for the seat of U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes.
Hmong fought for the United States during the Vietnam War. Recruited by the CIA in Laos to fend off communist forces, they guided U.S. bombing missions and rescued downed American pilots, often at risk to their own lives.
After the war, Hmong refugees moved to Minnesota, California and Wisconsin. In California, they settled in the Central Valley, where sponsors hoped they could find work given their agricultural background.
There are about 300,000 Hmong in the U.S. — California has the most of any state, while Minneapolis-St. Paul in Minnesota has the most of any metro area. About 72,000 Hmong live in the Twin Cities, about 34,000 in Fresno and about 31,000 in Sacramento, according to a 2017 Pew Research Center report.
“They’re a very humble and respectful community, and it’s a tragic situation to experience,” said Miguel Arias, a Fresno city councilman. “They literally ran away from a war-torn country and sought refuge here, and for them to experience the same tragedy they ran from is heartbreaking.”
Arias was an aide in Congress in the 2000s when he was tasked with helping relocate a last wave of Hmong refugees from Thailand. He worked with the elders, who serve as the community’s spiritual and cultural leaders and who fought in the Vietnam War.
The Hmong community in Fresno has flourished, Arias said, with children growing up to be doctors, lawyers, teachers and elected leaders. The community has done better than other ethnic groups in graduating from high school and avoiding gangs, he said.
Hmong Americans struggle with poverty more so than most other Asian American ethnic groups, said Karthick Ramakrishnan, associate dean of the University of California, Riverside, School of Public Policy. But the community also has a strong sense of solidarity and high rates of political participation, he said.
“This shooting, this killing, is having reverberations not only in Fresno or in the Central Valley, but throughout the country. It is a significant population,” he said.
Paula Yang, a community advocate who is serving as a family spokeswoman for two of the four victims, said the deaths are devastating.
“I can’t get over what happened. These are innocent people who wanted to do better,” Yang said.
She was among the initial wave of refugees who came to the country as a young child in 1976.
Yang said her father had served with the famous Hmong general Vang Pao and that when the general told him to move to the Central Valley, the family left Orange County for Merced, 60 miles (96 kilometers) north of Fresno. They tended a strawberry farm, she said.
“We live like sheep herders. You go from one town to the next, and everybody sticks together,” Yang said.
Fresno, which has about 525,000 people, is only 5% Hmong but has numerous markets, retail stores and other businesses catering to the broader Hmong community in the region.
And every year, tens of thousands of Hmong flock to Fresno for the annual New Year’s celebration from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1. They wear traditional dress bursting with colors and dance and sing. They have soccer and volleyball tournaments and a beauty pageant.
Arias, the councilman, said it appears no group of Americans can escape the terror of mass shootings.
“The sad irony of this tragedy is they were doing the most American of traditions: Watching a Sunday night football game over a barbecue,” he said.
Har reported from San Francisco.
Chicago, Illinois (NBC) (01/19/21)-- A California man who told police that the coronavirus pandemic left him afraid to fly has been arrested on charges that he hid in a secured area at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport for three months.
Aditya Singh, 36, is charged with felony criminal trespass to a restricted area of an airport and misdemeanor theft after he was arrested Saturday. At a court hearing on Sunday, a judge ruled that the Orange, California, man could be released if he paid $1,000, but said that Singh was prohibited from setting foot in the airport.
Washington State (NBC) (01/19/21)-- Aiming to boost the slow pace of administering Covid-19 vaccinations, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Monday that the state has turned to Starbucks for help streamlining logistics and setting a new goal to dole out 45,000 doses a day.
Starbucks has assigned 11 employees with expertise in labor and deployment, operations, and research and development to work full time on vaccine distribution in its home state, the company said, adding that the number of employees could change.
Washington D.C. (AP) (01/19/21)-- President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. without legal status, a massive reversal from the Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies.
The legislation puts Biden on track to deliver on a major campaign promise important to Latino voters and other immigrant communities after four years of President Donald Trump’s restrictive policies and mass deportations. It provides one of the fastest pathways to citizenship for those living without legal status of any measure in recent years, but it fails to include the traditional trade-off of enhanced border security favored by many Republicans, making passage in a narrowly divided Congress in doubt.
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Jersey wineries impress at the American Wine Revolution
Nicholas Polanin
The wine revolution has begun all across America!
When the world thinks about American wine, it’s firmly located on the West Coast, but the truth is that wine is produced in all 50 states. But even as you read that, how many of you are aware of the diversity and excellent quality of wine grapes grown and wines produced right here in New Jersey, which is home to 48 wineries as of 2017?
Over 800 wines were tasted last month by the critics at JamesSuckling.com, a website which focuses on the great wine regions of the world including Italy, Bordeaux, Champagne, Australia, New Zealand, California, Chile, and Argentina. Held at Barboursville Winery in Virginia, the tasting offered a comprehensive look at winemaking across the United States.
Bottles were sampled from wineries in 14 different states. In an effort to shine light on emerging quality producers across the country, wineries from the established industries of California, Oregon, and Washington were not included. New Jersey wineries impressed.
Beneduce Vineyards
Leading the way for New Jersey were two red wines from Beneduce Vineyards in Pittstown, whose 2015 Pinot Noir earned a 93 point score, placing it in the top three percent of all wines tasted. Beneduce also scored 92 points for “Blue 2,” the winery’s signature red wine made from the Blaufränkisch grape. Ten separate New Jersey wineries that were sampled in the tasting each earned at least one 90-point score.
Mike Beneduce, owner-winemaker at Beneduce Vineyards sees the results as a potential signpost, directing serious wine enthusiasts to the doors of quality producers in New Jersey. “It's exciting to see that the major publications are starting to pay attention to our corner of the wine world," said Beneduce. “Passionate producers in emerging regions are crafting some really interesting wines, and I think wine lovers owe it to themselves to spend some time exploring these lesser-known areas. I hope these scores give them a reason to start with ours.”
In 2000, the Beneduce family purchased a 51-acre farm in Pittstown to supply their retail garden center, Great Swamp Greenhouses in Gillette. Since then, they’ve planted over 20 acres of grapevines on a sunny hillside at the top of the property and transformed a large storage barn into a spectacular 7,000 square-foot winery.
Working Dog Winery
Working Dog Winery in Robbinsville joined Beneduce Vineyards as the two New Jersey wineries to score 90 points or better with each of their four wines submitted. Another relatively young winery, Working Dog, began in 2001 as a “wouldn’t it be great” kind of conversation among friends that quickly turned obsession into passion into a thriving business.
“We started with three acres of Cabernet Franc and Chardonnay. The more we planted, and the more wine we made, the more we came to realize that our terroir... that combination of soil, climate, topography... is capable of producing outstanding fruit. And our idea about making our own wines has taken on a life of its own, quickly changing from hobby to passion to obsession,” it said on their website.
The massive tasting was branded by the Suckling team as the “American Wine Revolution.” On the impetus to undertake such an endeavor, contributing editor Stuart Pigott wrote, “The idea of American wine from places other than the west coast is entirely new and exciting. It illustrates America’s pioneering spirit as well as the trend for authentic food and gastronomic experiences from heirloom vegetables to craft beer. American wine is unique and now part of the American psyche for food and wine. We focused on non-West Coast wineries and rated wines from 14 different states from Colorado to New York.”
Green Ribbon Schools
The U.S. Department of Education’s Green Ribbon Schools (ED-GRS) recognizes public and private K-12 schools, districts and Institutions of Higher Education that reduce environmental impact and costs, improve the health and wellness of schools, students, and staff; and provide environmental education, among many other attributes.
The New Jersey Department of Education, New Jersey Audubon, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, New Jersey School Boards Association, and the New Jersey Association of School Administrators are the primary leadership organizations in the state that are implementing the Green Ribbon Schools program. The core committee also acts as the Nomination Committee to identify up to five schools that the NJ Department of Education will then nominate to the US Education Department to receive the award and recognition.
The Green Ribbon Schools program recognizes schools taking a comprehensive approach to greening their school. A comprehensive approach incorporates environmental learning with improving environmental and health impacts. Becoming a U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon School is a three-step process: a Letter of Intent, submitting a completed application, and then, if selected, the nominee is review by the US Department of Education.
The current deadline for state applications is December 14 with awards announced in May of 2019. Program details and nomination forms are available online at njaudubon.org/green-ribbon-schools/ and alsoat www2.ed.gov/programs/green-ribbon-schools/eligibility.html.
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US Navy Launches T-AKE-10
1 March 2010 (Last Updated March 1st, 2010 18:30)
The US Navy has christened and launched the tenth Lewis and Clark Class dry cargo / ammunition ship USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE-10) at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego. The ship was named in honour of Dr Charles Drew, who developed techniques for blood storage and applied
The US Navy has christened and launched the tenth Lewis and Clark Class dry cargo / ammunition ship USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE-10) at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego.
The ship was named in honour of Dr Charles Drew, who developed techniques for blood storage and applied his knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks during World War II, consequently saving thousands of lives worldwide.
The US Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) received the ninth dry cargo ship of the class, USNS Matthew Perry (T-AKE 9), on 24 February 2010 after completing a series of tests and trials from August 2009.
Perry will operate in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean and is expected to conduct missions for MSC at the end of 2010 while Drew is scheduled to be delivered to the MSC fleet in 2011.
The Lewis and Clark Class dry cargo ships enable naval forces to stay at sea, on station and combat ready, for extended periods of time.
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What is the federal government doing to combat human trafficking?
Although the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has long enforced criminal laws against involuntary servitude and slavery, the enactment of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) (Pub. L. 106-386) was a turning point.
The TVPA enhanced the federal government’s response to trafficking in the U.S. by—
Affording increased protections and resources for victims.
Creating new crime types and enhancing penalties when prosecuting human trafficking offenders.
Expanding the U.S. Government's international activities to prevent vulnerable populations from being trafficked.
In committing the United States to being a leader in the global movement against human trafficking, federal agencies developed a plan to strengthen services for victims of human trafficking. Coordination, Collaboration, Capacity: Federal Strategic Action Plan on Services for Victims of Human Trafficking, 2013-2017 builds on the progress that our nation has made in combating human trafficking through government action and partnerships with allied professionals, survivors, and concerned citizens.
The purpose of the Plan is to describe the steps that federal agencies will take to ensure that all victims of human trafficking in the United States are identified and have access to the services they need to recover and rebuild their lives. The Plan focuses on providing and coordinating support for victims, and it aligns with all other federal efforts to eliminate human trafficking and prevent further victimization.
Learn more about federal anti-human trafficking initiatives.
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Home » Research News (General) » New technology to manipulate cells could help treat Parkinson’s, arthritis, other diseases
New technology to manipulate cells could help treat Parkinson’s, arthritis, other diseases
A study published in Nature Communications announces a groundbreaking advancement which could potentially help patients requiring stem cell therapies for spinal cord injuries, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritic joints or any other condition requiring tissue regeneration.
Living organisms’ cells use a remarkable signaling machinery that has the capacity to switch signals on and off to activate complex processes. Until now, building artificial materials to replicate this dynamic capacity has been almost impossible.
The study reports the development of the first-ever synthetic material that has the capability to trigger reversibly this type of dynamic signaling. The platform could both lead to materials that manage stem cells for more effective regenerative therapies, and also allow scientists to study and develop new ways to control the fate of cells and their functions. One potential use of the new technology could help cure Parkinson’s disease. The patient’s own skin cells could be converted to stem cells using existing techniques. The new technology could help expand the newly converted stem cells in vitro, then signal them to differentiate into dopamine-producing neurons, which could then be transplanted back to the patient.
In the future, it may be possible to perform the process in vivo, using stem cells encapsulated in the new material injected directly into a targeted location. The patient would then receive soluble molecules to proliferate and differentiate the transplanted cells.
Paper: „New technology to manipulate cells could help treat Parkinson’s, arthritis, other diseases: DNA strands in materials act like traffic signals to start, stop cell activity or regenerate tissue“
Reprinted from materials provided by Northwestern University.
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New aspirin stomach-friendly
New aspirin is more stomach friendly than before.
Many at risk for stomach damage
Millions of people are taking aspirin on a daily basis, largely because the drug has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. But for all its benefits, aspirin can also damage the lining of the gastrointestinal tract.
Many people also take anti-inflammatory drugs called cox-2 inhibitors for arthritis. Cox-2 inhibitors can exacerbate stomach damage caused by regular aspirin.
Forty to 50 percent of patients with rheumatoid or osteoarthritis are also at risk for cardiovascular disease, says Stefano Fiorucci, lead author of a study appearing in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and professor of gastroenterology at the University of Perugia in Italy. Millions of people are exposed simultaneously to cox-2 inhibitors plus aspirin, which significantly increases the risk [of stomach damage].
Adds Dr Brett Bernstein, director of ambulatory services in the division of digestive disease at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, Many people now are on both aspirin and anti-inflammatories or cox-2 inhibitors, which are good for arthritis conditions but don't have a cardiac benefit.
Aspirin, stomach cancer link checked out
To see if the new aspirin could prevent stomach damage from cox-2 inhibitors, Fiorucci and his colleagues recruited 32 healthy volunteers. Half received the new drug, called NCX-4016, plus the cox-2 inhibitor celecoxib, sold under the brand name Celebrex. The other half got regular aspirin (100 milligrams) along with celecoxib.
The situation we were trying to simulate was a patient with rheumatoid arthritis who had cardiovascular risk factors and was taking cox-2 inhibitors, Fiorucci explains.
At the end of the trial, participants in the regular aspirin group suffered about twice the level of stomach damage as volunteers in the NCX-4016 group. In other words, NCX-4016 could represent a safer alternative to regular aspirin for patients who are also taking cox-2 inhibitors.
How it differs from the old version
The new aspirin differs from the old version in that it releases nitric oxide, which works to increase blood flow into different parts of the body. One reason traditional aspirin may cause damage to the stomach is that it may decrease blood flow to the lining of the stomach, Bernstein explains. As a result, substances that normally protect it can't get to it, he says. Nitric oxide opens up the blood flow, and therefore could protect the lining.
This is the third or fourth study to look at the effects of NCX-4016 in humans, says Fiorucci, who was involved in some of those studies. NCX-4016 is now in phase 2 studies in Europe.
Most of the phase 2 trials will be finished one year from now, and the company which is actually marketing it is looking for some strategic alliance with some giant to move in phase 3, Fiorucci says. It's on the way. It's not very close to the market, likely two to three years. Phase 3 is the final phase of a trial that tests the safety and efficacy of a product on a large pool of patients. - (HealthDayNews)
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The 75th anniversary of VJ Day – 15th August 2020
While VE Day (Victory in Europe) marked the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, many thousands of Armed Forces personnel were still engaged in bitter fighting in the Far East. Victory over Japan came at a heavy price, and Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) marks the day Japan surrendered on August 15th 1945, which in effect ended the Second World War.
As was the case for VE Day 75 and Armed Forces Day this year, the coronavirus pandemic has led to the cancellation of local and national events that would have been planned to mark the 75th anniversary of VJ Day.
At Neath Port Talbot Council we wanted to help remember and mark this important anniversary digitally.
A special message from Neath Port Talbot’s Armed Forces Champion, Councillor Chris James
In 2013, NPT Council and a number of partners signed our Armed Forces Covenant with the aim of supporting the armed forces community in the Neath Port Talbot area.
All other local authorities in Wales signed up to the Covenant and each authority has an Armed Forces Champion, which is a role undertaken by an elected member. The purpose of the Champion is to promote and champion the interests and needs of the armed forces community locally and act as single point of contact.
Neath Port Talbot’s Armed Forces Champion is Councillor Chris James. Councillor James joined the Royal Navy in 1990. While working in Naval Operations he served in both the Sierra Leone and Afghanistan conflicts before leaving in 2005 after being injured in service.
On behalf of Neath Port Talbot Council, Councillor Chris James has recorded this message to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VJ Day; the day which effectively ended World War II.
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Last Post and Lowering of the Standard Ceremony
We are once again humbled to be able to share with you Mr Barry Woodley’s recording of the Last Post and Lowering of the Standard Ceremony filmed at his own home in Port Talbot.
Barry is an active member of the Port Talbot Branch of The Royal British Legion, where he is honoured to be their Standard Bearer. He is also the Standard Bearer for the South Wales and South West Branch of the Type 42 Destroyer Association. As part of this organisation he represents 6 of the 7 frontline ships he served on in his 27 years in the Royal Navy, from joining at 16, to later achieving the rank of Chief Petty Officer.
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Thermal Utilization Factor
It is obvious, the neutrons that escape the resonance absorption and remain in the core will be thermalized. In thermal reactors these neutrons continue to diffuse throughout the reactor, until they are absorbed. But there is many materials in the reactor core, in which these neutrons may be absorbed. The thermal utilization factor, f, is the fraction of the thermal neutrons that are absorbed in the nuclear fuel, in all isotopes of the nuclear fuel. It describes how effectively (how well are utilized) are thermal neutrons absorbed in the fuel.
The value of the thermal utilization factor is given by the ratio of the number of thermal neutrons absorbed in the fuel (all nuclides) to the number of thermal neutrons absorbed in all the material that makes up the core.
f ~ 0.70
From definition, this factor will always be less than one, because there will be always some of the thermal neutrons absorbed in non-fuel materials (usually referred to as a parasitic absorption). For homogenous reactor cores, this factor can be calculated in terms of macroscopic cross-sections by the following equation:
where Σa is the macroscopic absorption cross section, which is the sum of the capture cross section and the fission cross section, Σa = Σc + Σf. The superscripts U, M, P, CR, B, BA and O, refer to uranium fuel, moderator, poisons, control rods, boric acid, burnable absorbers and others, respectively. It is obvious, that the presence control rods, boric acid or poisons causes a decrease in the neutron utilization, which, in turn, causes a decrease of multiplication factor.
Neutron Life Cycle
In heterogeneous reactor core the calculation is more complicated. The thermal utilization factor must be expressed in terms of reaction rates as a consequence self-shielding effects. In short, the neutron flux is not constant due to the heterogeneous geometry of the unit cell. The flux will be different in the fuel cell than in the moderator cell due to the high absorption cross-sections of fuel nuclei. Moreover, the atomic number densities and volumes of fuel, moderator and poisons will be different due to the heterogeneous geometry of the unit cell. Therefore the neutron utilization factor for heterogeneous reactor cores must be calculated in terms of reaction rates and volumes, for example, by the following equation:
In heterogeneous reactors there is usually some difference between the neutron flux in the moderator and the neutron flux in the fuel. This difference is caused by the high absorption in the fuel and the ratio of thermal neutron flux in the moderator to that in the fuel is known as the thermal disadvantage factor defined as:
The thermal utilization factor is for heterogeneous reactor cores about 0.5 – 0.8, but it depends strongly on the reactor type.
Main operational changes, that affect this factor:
This factor is the key factor, that the reactor operator has the greatest control over. Control rods insertion/withdrawal and to borate/boron dilution from the moderator are operations, which influences precisely the thermal utilization factor. For example, control rods insertion causes an addition of new absorbing material into the core and this causes a decrease in thermal utilization factor.
The thermal utilization factor slightly changes with the fuel burnup. The fresh fuel at the beginning of the cycle comprises only the absorption by the 235U. As the amount of 239Pu and other higher transuranic elements increases because of the radiative capture of neutron by the 238U in the core, it is necessary to consider the change of fuel composition in determining the value of f at different times of the fuel cycle.
In general, the thermal utilization factor decreases in time as the total content of fissile isotopes decreases and the total content of neutron poisons (fission products with high absorption cross-sections) increases. But in the power reactors, in which the criticality must be maintained for long period (e.g. 12-month or up to 24-month) without refueling, the thermal utilization factor may not decrease. Such the decrease would imply inevitable reactor shutdown. The continuous decrease in ΣaU must be offset by the continuous decrease in ΣaB, which means the concentration of boric acid (in case of PWRs) must be continuously decreased as the fuel loses its reactivity (kinf). For reactors, in which the chemical shim can not be used, the excess of reactivity is compensated by compensating rods.
On the other hand, there is the fuel breeding, which plays very important role in the compensation of decreasing 235U content.
Chain of the transuranic elements.
Boron letdown curve (chemical shim) and boron 10 depletion during a 12-month fuel cycle.
Nuclear Fuel Breeding
All commercial light water reactors contains both fissile and fertile materials. For example, most PWRs use low enriched uranium fuel with enrichment of 235U up to 5%. Therefore more than 95% of content of fresh fuel is fertile isotope 238U. During fuel burnup the fertile materials (conversion of 238U to fissile 239Pu known as fuel breeding) partially replace fissile 235U, thus permitting the power reactor to operate longer before the amount of fissile material decreases to the point where reactor criticality is no longer manageable.
The fuel breeding in the fuel cycle of all commercial light water reactors plays a significant role. In recent years, the commercial power industry has been emphasizing high-burnup fuels (up to 60 – 70 GWd/tU), which are typically enriched to higher percentages of 235U (up to 5%). As burnup increases, a higher percentage of the total power produced in a reactor is due to the fuel bred inside the reactor.
At a burnup of 30 GWd/tU (gigawatt-days per metric ton of uranium), about 30% of the total energy released comes from bred plutonium. At 40 GWd/tU, that percentage increases to about forty percent. This corresponds to a breeding ratio for these reactors of about 0.4 to 0.5. That means, about half of the fissile fuel in these reactors is bred there. This effect extends the cycle length for such fuels to sometimes nearly twice what it would be otherwise. MOX fuel has a smaller breeding effect than 235U fuel and is thus more challenging and slightly less economic to use due to a quicker drop off in reactivity through cycle life.
Plutonium 239 breeding
Neutron capture may also be used to create fissile 239Pu from 238U, which is the dominant constituent of naturally occurring uranium (99.28%). Absorption of a neutron in the 238U nucleus yields 239U. The half-life of 239U is approximately 23.5 minutes. 239U decays (negative beta decay) to 239Np (neptunium), whose half-life is 2.36 days. 239Np decays (negative beta decay) to 239Pu.
The thermal utilization factor is dependent also on the moderator-to-fuel ratio – NM / NF. With the change of the moderator-to-fuel ratio changes also the absorption by hydrogen atoms in the reactor core and simply changes probability of absorption by fuel atoms.
Much more important, however, is the reactor design, which determines the moderator-to-fuel ratio. Most of light water reactors are designed as so called undermoderated with the slightly harder neutron flux spectrum (the moderation is slightly insufficient) than in an optimum case.
Nuclear and Reactor Physics:
J. R. Lamarsh, Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Theory, 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA (1983).
J. R. Lamarsh, A. J. Baratta, Introduction to Nuclear Engineering, 3d ed., Prentice-Hall, 2001, ISBN: 0-201-82498-1.
W. M. Stacey, Nuclear Reactor Physics, John Wiley & Sons, 2001, ISBN: 0- 471-39127-1.
Glasstone, Sesonske. Nuclear Reactor Engineering: Reactor Systems Engineering, Springer; 4th edition, 1994, ISBN: 978-0412985317
W.S.C. Williams. Nuclear and Particle Physics. Clarendon Press; 1 edition, 1991, ISBN: 978-0198520467
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Robert Reed Burn, Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Operation, 1988.
U.S. Department of Energy, Nuclear Physics and Reactor Theory. DOE Fundamentals Handbook, Volume 1 and 2. January 1993.
Advanced Reactor Physics:
K. O. Ott, W. A. Bezella, Introductory Nuclear Reactor Statics, American Nuclear Society, Revised edition (1989), 1989, ISBN: 0-894-48033-2.
K. O. Ott, R. J. Neuhold, Introductory Nuclear Reactor Dynamics, American Nuclear Society, 1985, ISBN: 0-894-48029-4.
D. L. Hetrick, Dynamics of Nuclear Reactors, American Nuclear Society, 1993, ISBN: 0-894-48453-2.
E. E. Lewis, W. F. Miller, Computational Methods of Neutron Transport, American Nuclear Society, 1993, ISBN: 0-894-48452-4.
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A look at the fundraising gulf between Cuomo and his challengers in the governor's race
By Zack Fink New York State
PUBLISHED 11:42 PM ET Jul. 16, 2018 PUBLISHED July 16, 2018 @11:42 PM
Andrew Cuomo is continuing to rake in big money for his reelection bid. The incumbent two-term governor raised $6 million over the last six months and spent about $5 million of that, leaving a total of $31.1 million in cash on hand with less than four months before Election Day.
More clarity on @andrewcuomo fundraising totals...57% of the total donations came from individuals making contributions of $250 or less. What we have not seen is how much of the total $6 Million haul comes from small donors.
— Zack Fink (@ZackFinkNews) July 16, 2018
In contrast, Cuomo's Democratic primary opponent, Cynthia Nixon, continues to fall behind. As of June 15, Nixon had raised $1.1 million. Since then, she has raised an additional $500,000 and now currently has $655,000 cash on hand.
Supporters of Nixon point out that 97 percent of that total came from more than 10,000 people in donations of $200 or less.
Last week, associates of Cuomo were convicted in a bid-rigging scheme stemming from Cuomo's economic development projects. Some of those convicted were major Cuomo donors, and the governor was asked what he plans to do with the money:
"We segregated the money that they gave when we first heard about it, and we will talk to the Southern District. I want to make sure we get their input on what to do with the funding," Cuomo said Friday. "But we have it segregated."
Federal prosecutors don’t give such guidance. But former federal prosecutors can — just return the money @andrewcuomo https://t.co/PT7wT5sVFm
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) July 14, 2018
Republican candidate for governor, Marc Molinaro, who reported raising $1 million this period, was also critical of Cuomo for not returning what he called tainted money.
"It's obscene to think anyone could honestly raise that kind of money. And quite frankly, the fact that the governor needs a federal investigator to tell him the difference between right and wrong and actually return the dollars he has gotten through criminal activity speaks volumes about who he is and about how disconnected her is from average New Yorkers," the Republicans said.
Supporters of Nixon said they saw a significant uptick in fundraising following Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's surprise primary victory over incumbent congressman and party boss Joe Crowley on June 26. While a financial advantage can make all the difference in a race, some believe Ocasio Cortez was able to prove that money doesn't always win.
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Ben WagerBass
Ben Wager is a 2009 graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, where his roles included: Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Enrico in Anna Bolena, the title role in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Sparafucile in Rigoletto, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and Padre Guardiano in La forza del destino.
This season, Mr. Wager returns to Dallas Opera, singing Zuniga and covering Escamillo in Carmen. He also joins Odyssey Opera as Calchas in La belle Hélène, and Opera Delaware for their festival, singing the Commentator in Scalia/Ginsburg, the Warden in Dead Man Walking, and the Usher in Trial by Jury. Last season he joined UrbanArias as Edwin Cheney in Daron Hagen’s Shining Brow, and returned to his alma matter, the Academy of Vocal Arts, to sing Wotan in their production of Das Rheingold. Next season includes a return to Opera Philadelphia as Farfarello in Love for Three Oranges.
The 2016-2017 season featured a return to the Lyric Opera of Kansas City for performances of the Police Sergeant in Pirates of Penzance, a return to the Deutsche Oper Berlin in a variety of roles, as well as a solo recital with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. He also appeared with Baltimore Concert Opera as Blitch in Susanna, and Opera Delaware for the Petite Messe Solennelle.
Other notable recent engagements include Il Re in Aida with Dallas Opera, the Hotel Manager in Powder Her Face and the Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte with Opera Company of Philadelphia, Count Rodolfo in La sonnambula with Washington Concert Opera, the title role in Don Giovanni with Kentucky Opera, appearances at Minnesota Opera as General Audebert in the world premiere of Silent Night, and Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Nourabad in Les pêcheurs de perles with Opera Cleveland, and Los Angeles Opera as Julian Pinelli in Die Gezeichneten
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OHCHR > English > Human Rights - New York > Stories > UN chief calls on Iran, Saudi Arabia to avoid further exacerbating tensions after executions
UN chief calls on Iran, Saudi Arabia to avoid further exacerbating tensions after executions
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has phoned the Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia and Iran to urge both countries to avoid actions that could further exacerbate tensions after the recent Saudi executions, the attack on the Saudi embassy in Iran, and the rupture in diplomatic ties.
In his call to Saudi Foreign Minister Abel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir today, Mr. Ban reiterated his views on capital punishment, which he strongly opposes, and his disappointment at the execution of Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, whose case he raised with the Saudi authorities several times.
He also reiterated that the attack on the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, Iran’s capital, was deplorable, but added that the announcement of a break in Saudi diplomatic relations with Iran was deeply worrying. Regarding Yemen, he urged Saudi Arabia to renew its commitment to a ceasefire.
Speaking to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif yesterday, Mr. Ban recalled his earlier statement voicing dismay at Saturday’s execution of Sheikh al-Nimr and 46 other prisoners by Saudi Arabia, as well as his condemnation of the attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran, and he urged the Minister to take the necessary measures to protect diplomatic facilities.
He urged both Ministers to avoid any actions that could further exacerbate the situation between two countries and in the region as a whole, stressing the importance of continued constructive engagement by them in the interest of the region and beyond.
In a statement by his spokesman on Saturday, Mr. Ban said Sheik al-Nimr and a number of the others executed “had been convicted following trials that raised serious concerns over the nature of the charges and the fairness of the process.”
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein yesterday stressed the strict requirements for carrying out the death sentence in those countries that still permitted it, including only for the most serious crimes, with a fair trial, full transparency, and the exclusion of confessions obtained under torture, when application of the death penalty is “unconscionable.”
“Generally, I remain very concerned over whether strict due process guarantees, including the right to an effective defence, were met in all cases,” he said, urging the Saudi Government to impose a moratorium on all executions and to work with the UN and other partners on alternative strategies to combat terrorism.
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You are here: Home / News / Call for refugee referendum turns nasty
Call for refugee referendum turns nasty
The Progress Party’s call for a referendum on whether Norway should accept an extra 8,000 refugees over the next three years set off a new debate that turned nasty on Friday. Trond Giske, deputy leader of the Labour Party, told his counterpart from the Progress Party to “act like a man,” adding that the only right thing for the Progress Party to do would be to withdraw from the government.
“Just say ‘we don’t agree’ (with the refugee deal hammered out by the Progress Party’s government partner, the Conservatives, along with Labour and four other parties this week), that ‘we can’t administer such a policy,'” Giske told Per Sandberg, the outspoken deputy leader of the Progress Party who earlier in the week threatened that the party would indeed leave the government if ordered to take in thousands more refugees from Syria.
‘Declaration of war’
Giske said that asking the public to vote on the issue was equal to “a declaration of war” against the Progress Party’s own government partner. Prime Minister and Conservatives leader Erna Solberg has said “we can live with” the refugee agreement. Sandberg clearly doesn’t agree.
Giske’s attack on state broadcaster NRK’s debate program Politisk kvarter infuriated Sandberg, who responded by calling Giske “direkte frekk” (roughly the equivalent of “downright shameless”), live on national radio. “You’ve been a government minister yourself, you’ve sat in a government,” Sandberg fumed. “You should know how the system works.” He claimed an agreement negotiated by the Parliament doesn’t necessarily influence a government: “This is an agreement made in Parliament, and has nothing to do with the government.”
Sandberg also had to tolerate a verbal bashing from Audun Lysbakken, head of the Socialist Left party (SV), which also refused to back the agreement on refugees but for reasons entirely different from the Progress Party’s. SV wanted Norway to take in more refugees, not less, and at least 10,000. Lysbakken claimed the Progress Party’s call for a referendum was not serious, but rather “a cry for attention.” He added that “if you really think that 8,000 poor refugees from Syria will lead to the end of Norwaym then the only honest thing to do is pull out of the government,” Lysbakken said.
Referendum ‘a sign of panic’
It’s unusual for politicians to defer to voters through a referendum, which is widely viewed as them shirking their responsibility instead of letting the people decide. They have been used more frequently at the local government level, though, often at the initiation of the Progress Party.
There’s little if any support for a referendum on the refugee issue in parliament. “I think it’s sad that they (the Progress Party) want to have a referendum on whether we should help some of the most vulnerable people in the world,” Knut Arild Hareide, leader of the Christian Democrats, which generally supports the government. He told NRK that he thought the referendum proposal was a sign of “panic” from the Progress Party’s side.
Meanwhile, the European chief of the United Nations’ refugee program said Norway should be proud of its offer to take in 8,000 additional Syrian refugees, claiming it was in line with the country’s “humanitarian tradition.” Vincent Cochetel told NRK that he hopes Norway’s hospitality will be contagious, so that other European nations will do the same. To date, Germany and Sweden have admitted the most refugees, with Sweden’s contribution the greatest relative to its own population.
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Club hoppin’
Four of UNR’s coolest clubs
By Casey O'Lear
They always tell you that the best way to make friends in college is to join clubs and organizations based on your interests. And every university has sororities, fraternities, multicultural clubs and mathletes. But only at the University of Nevada, Reno will you find Burners wielding flaming fans out on the Quad every Friday night and flesh-eating zombies lying in wait outside of Cain Hall to take down unsuspecting human soldiers. Here is a rundown of just a few of the unique and interesting clubs and organizations UNR offers its students:
Humans vs. Zombies
A human and a zombie sit next to each other in Math 120. During class, they are civil, but once they hit the doors, the human has to run for his life lest he become assimilated into the growing army of zombies that threatens to take over the university campus. Humans vs. Zombies—one of UNR’s newest clubs—organizes a campus-wide games that last for two to three weeks at a time. The games start with one zombie intent on infecting the other players by tagging them one-by-one. The human army aims to take down the zombies with Nerf guns and sock grenades in an ongoing battle that spans the entire campus, except in academic buildings and residence halls, and does not come to a halt until one side has taken down the other.
Fire Spinning
Considering the integration of Burning Man culture in everyday Reno life, it was only a matter of time before the university gained a fire-spinning club — which it did about two years ago. No experience is necessary for club members, as more experienced fire-spinners are willing to teach newcomers all their best tricks, including juggling, hula-hooping, poi-spinning and using rope darts. The group meets weekly in the Quad on campus to put on a flaming display to attract new members. After a few practices, the members plan to put on formal performances on campus and around town.
FemSex
While technically a club, FemSex was offered as a class for the first time during the spring 2012 and will be offered as a class again this fall. The concept for FemSex was inspired by a similar student-facilitated group offered at the University of California, Berkeley. With its focus on female sexuality, the FemSex group hopes to build a strong network of women within the university and its surrounding community. The club covers all topics regarding women’s issues, sex and health, but its purpose is greater than simply gathering college-aged women to have discussions. The club aims to help women explore and learn about their bodies and sexuality, but it also aims to facilitate social change in the community.
Indulge your inner fantasy fanatic and work on your roleplaying skills in Dragon Club, UNR’s one and only club centered on tabletop roleplaying games (like Dungeons & Dragons, for example). The group specializes in so many different games—from Warhammer to World of Darkness—and has so many members that there is a game available for you to join nearly every day of the week. The club welcomes expert players and novices alike, and its members will gladly help walk you through a myriad of fantastic lands as your Goliath Barbarian smashes everything in its path.
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Migrants Suffering From Gangrene, Scabies at Calais Camps
By Felicity Capon On 8/7/15 at 1:06 PM EDT
Gangrene, scabies, severe diarrhoea and breathing difficulties are affecting migrants, including children, who are camped out in squalid living conditions in Calais, according to charities working in the area.
Pregnant women and unaccompanied children are also becoming an increasingly common sight at the makeshift camp known as 'The Jungle' where many of the migrants live.
Leigh Daynes, Executive Director of the health charity Doctors of the World UK, which provides humanitarian support in Calais, has visited the camp several times so far this year. He told Newsweek of his "complete shock" at meeting a group of 10-year-old boys from Syria, living in a ditch and suffering from scabies— a contagious skin condition caused by tiny mites that burrow into the skin. He says his colleagues have also come across cases of gangrene, breathing difficulties and severe cases of diarrhoea.
"It's absolutely diabolical," Daynes tells Newsweek. "I asked the Syrian boys I met to show me where they lived. It was raining, and we slipped down to the bottom of a muddy ditch, where they were living in a wooden shack held together with bits of tarpaulin, and inside were old blankets, and basic bedding. It was filthy. These boys were riddled with scabies," he says.
"Volunteer nurses are doing basic treatment, but it is difficult to keep clean in these conditions, and most of the people living there lack adequate access to water and nutritious food," he continues.
A volunteer doctor for the charity, Andy Young, who arrived in Calais this week, says he was shocked by the conditions he witnessed. "I was surprised at how unwell such a young group people are, and that they are subject to such extremely poor conditions," he says. He told Newsweek that the clinic has treated people suffering from pneumonia, skin conditions caused by malnourishment and people with long term medical conditions like HIV and tuberculosis. Young also says they've helped children who have suffered bruises and broken bones as a result of attempting to play in the camps that have no safe, designated play areas.
There are around 5,000 migrants at Calais, hoping to cross the Eurotunnel to reach the UK in search of a better life. Many are fleeing civil war in Syria, or unrest, instability and persecution in countries like Eritrea and Afghanistan.
Doctors of the World, the only medical charity working to offer healthcare to the migrants in Calais, says the area is on "the cusp of a major humanitarian crisis" and accuses EU governments of refusing to deal with the problem.
The charity deploys mobile clinics to provide medical consultations, counselling and psychological support services.The charity reports that it treats around 90 people a day although with only 20 staff, the majority of whom are volunteers, they are unable to help all the people who require care.
Daynes explains that chronic conditions like asthma and epilepsy are also going untreated, while many other people have injuries sustained from traffickers' weapons or even police batons, and others are suffering from psychological trauma due to the appalling journeys they have undergone in order to reach Calais. He describes conditions as a "mental pressure cooker."
"Part of the reason it is so shocking is that our governments are so paralysed," he continues. "The answer is a political one, in the hands of our elected leaders who need to get a grip."
Maya Konforti, a volunteer for the French humanitarian organisation L'Auberge des Migrants, says scabies has been a problem seen in the refugee population in Calais since last year. Furunculosis, large boils on the skin, is also fairly common, Konforti says, describing the condition as "very painful." She claims that the French government's day centre in Calais, the Jules Ferry Centre, has just one nurse.
She has also noticed more pregnant women and unaccompanied children at the camp. "Many children don't leave [their country] alone, but they arrive alone," she says. "Maybe their big brother got stopped by the police, or the mother died," she says, explaining that there are quite a few boys in the Jungle between the ages of nine to 12, without their mothers. Recently Konforti came across four Eritrean boys aged 14. "They stick together because each one has lost the person that accompanied them. But they still manage to keep a smile on their face," she says.
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By Anna Kuchment On 10/29/00 at 7:00 PM EST
Lately, Scott Halford, a corporate lecturer from Denver who travels more than 100,000 miles a year, has been wowing his fellow fliers. "They just think I'm Mr. Magic," he says via mobile phone from Baltimore, on his way to the airport. Two months ago Halford, 40, began logging on to the travel Web site Trip.com from his Web-enabled mobile phone. The site, which links to an FAA database, gives up-to-the-minute info on a flight's precise location, as well as its estimated arrival or departure time. In many cases, Halford finds out about flight delays before the airport-gate attendants. "I had somebody buy me a beer in Washington, D.C., one time because I was able to give them information that was 45 minutes different than what the airline was giving," he said. But Halford also sees other benefits in the features. "I'm able to make some real plans, like changing flights or making phone calls from the business lounge, and not sit there on my tuchis for an hour and a half," he says. "It's given me the freedom to make decisions."
After a summer that gave us record airport delays, a new crop of wireless services is helping passengers take control of their schedules. "The travel arena is one of the first areas where wireless is really starting to make a difference," says David Eastman, vice president for wireless business at the Internet consulting company Agency.com. Earlier this month Travelocity became one of the first sites to allow travelers to book flights via Web-enabled mobile phones and PDAs. Biztravel.com, a popular booking site for business travelers, lets users reserve hotel rooms and rental cars. Most sites also offer automatic notification, via mobile phone, PDA or pager, if a flight is delayed or if there is a gate change.
Many more services are on the way. Within the next five years a technology called Bluetooth, which allows electronic devices to communicate wirelessly, will enable airline computers to automatically check in customers by reading their identity off their mobile phone or PDA--no more waiting in line at the gate. Global Positioning System chips embedded into mobile phones will enable location-specific information to be delivered to one's mobile--like the best restaurants, shops and hotels in a specific area. The wireless devices themselves will also improve. "Some of the advancements you'll see will be larger screens, color displays, more functionality and a user experience that is closer to the PC-based Web experience," says Henry Harteveldt, senior analyst at Forrester Research. The gadgets will also become smarter. Palm and Motorola are among the companies that have teamed up to create a mobile phone-handheld computer hybrid.
But that's several years away. First, Americans have to embrace wireless technology on a much wider scale. By the end of this year, only 8 percent of mobile phones in the United States will have Internet access; of those, just 2 percent will be subscribed to the Internet, according to Forrester. Harteveldt believes mobile commerce won't take root in the United States for another three or four years.
That shouldn't stop users from experimenting with what's already out there. The first step is choosing a wireless Internet provider. Most wireless-ready sites are accessible from most mobile phones. But in cases where a travel company has not negotiated a deal with a particular phone company, a customer may have to type in a cumbersome URL in order to view the site. AT&T PocketNet offers direct links to Travelocity, Expedia and Trip.com from one of its main menus. Nextel Online features links to Travelocity and Expedia. As for PDAs, the Internet-service providers Omnisky, GoAmerica and Palm.net offer unlimited access to wireless-ready sites at reasonable prices. AT&T's basic service is free for voice subscribers. For about $15 per month, users can have access to any wireless-ready site. Verizon Mobile Web includes 100 e-mail alerts in its basic $6.95 monthly wireless Internet rate.
For fans like Halford, the fees are well worth it. "I love it because it's fun to be able to stand there in front of a ticket agent and have them tell you one thing, and then show them another thing and they are just flabbergasted," he says. It certainly beats watching the CNN Airport Network.
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Countershaded Ibex are almost invisible in the Israeli desert.
Lizard fish (to the right of the green rock), Big Island of Hawaii
Camouflage is any natural or artificial means by which an organism is disguised such as to remain difficult to detect in the surrounding environment. Examples include a tiger’s stripes and the battledress of a modern soldier. A cuttlefish can not only rapidly change its colors, color patterns, and color intensity to blend with its background, but this cephalopod can even change skin texture to match its habitat, better concealing itself as its moves among the various sandy areas, corals, and rocks of its marine environment.
Cryptic coloration is a type of camouflage whereby organisms in nature are difficult to spot visually against its surrounding background due to particular hues, lightness, and/or color patterns blending with the environment. Examples of such protective coloration include a brown praying mantid looking like a twig on a plant or the countershading of a fish, whereby the darker shades on the dorsal surface make the fish more difficult to detect from above and the lighter ventral shades make it more difficult to spot from below.
Harmony in nature is seen the matching of the prey camouflage to its main predators and the predator camouflage to its main prey. Scientists generally attribute this to coevolution of the sensory abilities of animals for whom it is beneficial to be able to detect the camouflaged animal, and the cryptic characteristics of the concealing species. For humans, camouflage also adds to the wonder of nature, such as the image of a cephalopod changing colors, patterns, and textures as it moves along the ocean floor, or the changes in the color of an arctic fox with the seasons, or the sudden realization that an animal is in the environment, virtually unseen.
1 Natural camouflage
1.1 Cryptic coloration
1.2 Mimicry
2 Artificial camouflage
Natural camouflage
In nature, there is a very common tendency for animals to blend into their environment or conceal their shape. This assists prey animals to avoid predators and for predators to be able to sneak up on prey.
Crab with algae all over its body at Moss Beach, California
Some cryptic animals also simulate natural movement, such as that of a leaf moving in the wind. This is called procryptic behavior or habit. Other animals attach or attract natural materials to their body for concealment.
A few animals have chromatic response, changing color in changing environments, either seasonally (ermine, snowshoe hare) or far more rapidly with chromatophores in their integument (chameleon, the cephalopod family). With the exception of nautilus, cephalopods have special skin cells called chromatophores that very rapidly change color and are used for camouflage (and communication). Chromatophores contain yellow, orange, red, brown, or black pigments; most species have three of these colors, while some have two or four. Other color-changing cells are reflective iridophores, and leucophores (white) (Meyers 2006). Cuttlefish are known as "chameleons of the sea" for their ability to change skin color and patterns, although the cuttlefish color changes are actually much faster and more intricate than that of the chameleon, changing as they swim over different surfaces.
Octopuses and cuttlefish are also noted for the ability to change the texture of their skin to match their environment, such as having bumpy projections when over a coral reef or smooth skin when over sand. The mantle of the mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) can take on the spiky appearance of seaweed, or the scraggly, bumpy texture of a rock, among other disguises.
Some animals, notably in aquatic environments, also take steps to camouflage the odors they create that may attract predators. The large cloud of thick blackish ink ejected by an octopus when a predator attacks not only hides the animal, but also helps dull the smell.
Some herd animals adopt a similar pattern to make it difficult to distinguish a single animal. Examples include stripes on zebras and the reflective scales on fish. The stripes of a zebra are felt to accomplish camouflage in several ways (HSW 2007). First, the vertical striping helps the zebra hide in grass. While seeming absurd at first glance considering that grass is neither white nor black, it is supposed to be effective against the zebra's main predator, the lion, which is colorblind. Theoretically, a zebra standing still in tall grass may not be noticed at all by a lion. Additionally, since zebras are herd animals, the stripes may help to confuse predators—a number of zebras standing or moving close blend together, making it more difficult for the lion to pick out any single zebra to attack (HSW 2007). A herd of zebras scattering to avoid a predator may also represent to that predator a confused mass of vertical stripes traveling in multiple directions making it difficult for the predator to track an individual visually as it separates from its herdmates.
Countershading (or obliterative camouflage) is the use of different colors on the upper and lower surfaces, graduating from a light belly to a darker back. It is common in aquatic and terrestrial environments. This commonality is sometimes called Thayer's law, after Abbott H. Thayer who published a paper on the form in 1896.
Camouflage is a type of crypsis, which is the ability of an organism to avoid observation in general, and includes not only camouflage, but also nocturnality, subterranean lifestyle, and transparency (Zuanon and Sazima 2006). The word crypsis also is used in the context of eggs (Nguyen et al. 2007), and pheromone production (Raffa et al. 2007). Cryptic animals include the tawny frogmouth (feather patterning resembles bark), the tuatara (hides in burrows all day; nocturnal), some jellyfish (transparent), and the flounder (covers itself in sediment).
Cryptic coloration
Fish blending with Fire corals at Fuji
Cryptic coloration is that type of camouflage whereby creatures are difficult to spot visually against their background due to use of particular colors or color patterns. This is the most common form of camouflage, found to some extent in the majority of species. (Exceptions include large herbivores without natural enemies; brilliantly-colored birds, which rely on flight to escape predators; and venomous or poisonous animals, which advertise with bright colors.)
The simplest way is for an animal to be of a color similar to its surroundings. Examples include the "earth tones" of deer, squirrels, or moles (to match trees or dirt), or the combination of blue skin and white underbelly of sharks via countershading (which makes them difficult to detect from both above and below). More complex patterns can be seen in animals such as flounder, moths, and frogs, among many others. Some forms of camouflage use contrasting shades to break up the visual outline, as on a gull or zebra.
The type of camouflage a species will develop depends on several factors:
The environment in which it lives. This is usually the most important factor.
The physiology and behavior of an animal. Animals with fur need different camouflage than those with feathers or scales. Likewise, animals that live in groups use different camouflage techniques than those that are solitary.
If the animal is preyed upon, then the behavior or characteristics of its predator may correlate with the type of camouflage. For example, if the major predators have achromatic vision, then matching the color of the surroundings is not essential to the organism.
Animals produce colors in two ways:
Biochromes are natural microscopic pigments that absorb certain wavelengths of light and reflect others, creating a visible color that is targeted towards its primary predator.
Microscopic physical structures may act like prisms to reflect and scatter light to produce a color that is different from the skin, such as the translucent fur of the polar bear, which actually has black skin.
A mackerel tabby cat blending with its (autumn) environment.
In some species, the camouflage coloration can change over time. This can be in response to the changing of the seasons, or it can be in response to more rapid environmental changes. For example, the arctic fox has a white coat in winter and a brown coat in summer. Mammals and birds require a new fur coat and new set of feathers respectively. Cuttlefish have deeper-level pigment cells, called chromatophores, that they can control and change almost instantaneously as they swim over different marine backgrounds. Some animals, such as certain fish species or the nudibranch, can actually change their skin coloration by changing their diet. The most well-known terrestrial creature that changes color is the chameleon; however, it usually does not do so for camouflage purposes, but instead as a product of its mood.
Beyond colors, skin patterns are often helpful in camouflage as well. This can be seen in common domestic pets such as tabby cats, but striping overall in other animals such as tigers and zebras help them blend into their environment, the jungle and the grasslands respectively. The latter two provide an interesting example, as one's initial impression might be that their coloration does not match their surroundings at all, but tigers' prey are usually color blind to a certain extent such that they cannot tell the difference between orange and green, and zebras' main predators, lions, are color blind. Among birds, the white "chinstraps" of Canada geese make a flock in tall grass appear more like sticks and less like birds' heads.
A typical viceroy, Limenitis archippus, which is a mimic of the monarch butterfly (below) where their ranges overlap
Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus
Mimicry describes a situation where one organism, the mimic, shares a similar appearance as another organism, the model. The model is usually another species, or less commonly, the mimic's own species, including automimicry, where one part of the body bears superficial similarity to another. An example of mimicry is the Indonesian mimic octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus, which has the uncanny ability to mimic several other sea creatures, including sea snakes, lionfish, flatfish, brittle stars, giant crabs, sea shells, stingrays, jellyfish, sea anemones, and mantis shrimp.
The distinction between camouflage and mimicry is arbitrarily defined in that mimicry requires that the "model" be another organism, rather than the surroundings. The arbitrary nature of this distinction between the two phenomena can be seen by noting that animals which resemble twigs, bark, leaves, or flowers are often classified as camouflaged (a plant does constitute the "surroundings"), but sometimes are classified as mimics (a plant is also an organism). (Either way, the animal is considered cryptic.)
Though mimicry is most obvious to humans in visual mimics, they may also use olfactory (smell) or auditory signals, and more than one type of signal may be employed (Wickler 1968). Mimicry may involve morphology, behavior, and other properties. In any case, the signal always functions to deceive the receiver by providing misleading information.
Mimics may have multiple models during different stages of their life cycle, or they may be polymorphic, with different individuals imitating different models. Models themselves may have more than one mimic, though frequency dependent selection favors mimicry where models outnumber hosts. Models tend to be relatively closely related organisms (Campbell 1996), but mimicry of vastly different species is also known. Most known mimics are insects (Wickler 1968), though other mimics including mammals are known.
Artificial camouflage
Camouflage has been used by humans in military situations and in hunting.
Camouflage was not in wide use in warfare in the Western civilization. Indeed, nineteenth century armies tended to use bright colors and bold, impressive designs. These were intended to daunt the enemy, attract recruits, foster unit cohesion, or allow easier identification of units in the fog of war.
A modern example of military camouflage. Pictured is a US Marine wearing desert MARPAT camouflage.
Smaller, irregular units of scouts in the 18th century were among the first to adopt colors in drab shades of brown and green. Major armies retained their bold colors until convinced otherwise. The British in India in 1857 were forced by casualties to dye their red tunics to neutral tones, initially a muddy tan called khaki (from the Urdu word for “dusty”). White tropical uniforms were dyed by the simple expedient of soaking them in tea. This was only a temporary measure. It became standard in Indian service in the 1880s, but it was not until the Second Boer War that, in 1902, the uniforms of the entire British army were standardized on this dun tone for battledress. Other armies, such as the United States, Russia, Italy, and Germany followed suit either with khaki, or with other colors more suitable for their environments.
Camouflage netting, natural materials, disruptive color patterns, and paint with special infrared, thermal, and radar qualities have also been used on military vehicles, ships, aircraft, installations, and buildings.
Camouflage is used by hunters as well, wearing designs and colors designed to make them more difficult to spot by their quarry.
Behrens, R. R. 2002. False Colors: Art, Design and Modern Camouflage. Bobolink Books. ISBN 0971324409.
Behrens, R. R. 2009. Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art, Architecture and Camouflage. Dysart, Iowa: Bobolink Books. ISBN 9780971324466; ISBN 0971324468.
Campbell, N. A. 1996. Biology, 4th edition. New York: Benjamin Cummings. ISBN 0805319573.
Goodden, H. 2007. Camouflage and Art: Design for Deception in World War 2. Unicorn Press. ISBN 9780906290873.
Harris, T. 2007. How animal camouflage works. How Stuff Works. Retrieved November 13, 2007.
How Stuff Works (HSW). 2007. How do a zebra's stripes act as camouflage? How Stuff Works. Retrieved November 13, 2006.
Meyers, N. 2006. Tales from the cryptic: The common Atlantic octopus. Southeastern Regional Taxonomic Center. Retrieved July 27, 2006.
Newark, T. 2007. Camouflage. Thames and Hudson, and Imperial War Museum. ISBN 9780500513477.
Nguyen, L. P., et al. 2007. Using digital photographs to evaluate the effectiveness of plover egg crypsis. Journal of Wildlife Management 71(6): 2084-2089.
Raffa, K. R. et al. 2007. Can chemical communication be cryptic? Adaptations by herbivores to natural enemies exploiting prey semiochemistry. Oecologia 153(4): 1009-1019.
Warner, E. L. 1919. “The Science of Marine Camouflage Design.” Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society 14(5): 215-219.
Warner, E. L. 1919. “Fooling the Iron Fish: The Inside Story of Marine Camouflage.” Everybody’s Magazine (November 1919): 102-109.
Wickler, W. 1968. Mimicry in Plants and Animals. New York: McGraw-Hill, New York.
Zuanon, J., and I. Sazima. 2006. The almost invisible league: crypsis and association between minute fishes and shrimps as a possible defense against visually hunting predators. Neotropical Ichthyology 2006(2): 219-214.
Camouflage history
Crypsis history
Mimic_Octopus history
History of "Camouflage"
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A political cartoon of Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln, 1865, entitled "The Rail Splitter At Work Repairing the Union."
Reconstruction is the name of the historical period following the American Civil War during which the U.S. government attempted to resolve the divisions of the war, rebuild the southern economy, and integrate former slaves into the political and social life of the country. With the end of the war and the collapse of the Confederacy in 1865, Southern states which had borne the brunt of the war were in ruins. Slavery was abolished as war measure first among states in rebellion by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and later by the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1865. Reconstruction addressed the return of the Southern states that had seceded, the status of ex-Confederate leaders, and the Constitutional and legal status of the African-American Freedmen.
Reconstruction is generally dated from 1865 to 1877, but some historians include a phase of Presidential Reconstruction from 1863 to 1866 during which Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson advanced policies designed to restore U.S. sovereignty over rebellious states. Their moderate programs were opposed by the Radical Republicans, a political faction that gained power after the 1866 elections and began Radical Reconstruction, from 1866-1873, emphasizing civil rights and voting rights for the Freedmen. Violent controversy arose when a Republican coalition of freedmen, northern reformers, and white southern supporters of Reconstruction assumed control of most of the southern states. In the so-called Redemption, 1873-1877, white supremacist Southerners defeated the Republicans and took control of each southern state, marking the end of Reconstruction and the federal attempt to integrate freedmen into the political, economic, and social system of the American South.
1 Policy issues
2 Presidential Reconstruction, 1863-66
2.1 Lincoln's plan
3 Johnson's presidential reconstruction: 1865–66
3.1 Black codes
3.2 Johnson breaks with Radical Republicans
3.3 Constitutional amendments and black officeholders
4 Radical reconstruction: 1866–73
4.1 Military reconstruction
4.2 Public schools
4.3 Railroad subsidies and payoffs
4.4 Conservative reaction and creation of the Ku Klux Klan
5 Redemption 1873-77
5.1 Republicans split nationally: Election of 1872
5.2 Democrats try a "New Departure"
5.3 Panic of 1873 weakens GOP
5.4 1876 election and era of segregation
6 Legacy and historiography
President Lincoln's objectives in war, first to preserve the Union and later to eradicate slavery, which he saw as a stain on the nation's ideals, were also the guiding principles of Lincoln's Reconstruction policies. Reconstruction following Lincoln's assassination followed a more radical path. The goal of integrating former slaves into the mainstream of southern life, while well-intentioned, foundered because of coercive military means, pervasive racial prejudices, and political corruption. The faith-driven abolitionist movement also abandoned the cause of social justice for freed slaves, engendering a harsh racial caste system in the American South that would endure until the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Following the surrender of Confederate forces at Appomattox, Virginia, in April 1865, Republican leaders agreed that slavery and the slave power had to be permanently destroyed, and that all forms of Confederate nationalism had to be suppressed. Moderates sought to accomplish this through gradualist approaches, including the partial enfranchisement of freedmen and lenient reinstatement of citizenship rights of former Confederates.
Map of the states and territories of the United States as it was from October 1864 to 1865.
Radicals said that the ex-Confederates could not be trusted. Conservatives (including most white Southerners, Northern Democrats, and some Northern Republicans) opposed black voting. Lincoln took a middle position that would allow some black men to vote, especially army veterans. Lincoln proposed giving the vote to "the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks."[1]
The assassination of President Lincoln, the leader of the moderate Republicans, and the election of 1866 decisively changed the balance of power, giving the Radicals control of Congress and enough votes to overcome the vetoes of President Andrew Johnson, who had assumed office. Johnson was a Tennessee senator who opposed secession yet was a defender of slavery and thus played an anomalous role during Reconstruction. In 1864, while military governor of Tennessee, Johnson supported black enfranchisement, saying, "The better class of [freedmen] will go to work and sustain themselves, and that class ought to be allowed to vote, on the ground that a loyal negro is more worthy than a disloyal white man." As President in 1865, Johnson wrote to the governor of Mississippi, recommending, "If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution in English and write their names, and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, and pay taxes thereon, you would completely disarm the adversary [Radicals in Congress], and set an example the other states will follow."[2]
Congress impeached Johnson over his dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. He was acquitted in the Senate by one vote, but he remained almost powerless regarding Reconstruction policy. Radicals used the Army to take over the South and give the vote to black men, and they took the vote away from an estimated 10,000 or 15,000 white men who had been Confederate officials or senior officers. Thaddeus Stevens proposed, unsuccessfully, that all ex-Confederates lose the vote for five years. The compromise that was reached disenfranchised many ex-Confederate civil and military leaders; no one knew how many temporarily lost the vote, but one estimate was 10,000 to 15,000.[3]
Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts and Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, leaders of the Radical Republicans, were initially hesitant to enfranchise the largely illiterate ex-slave population. However, Sumner and Stevens finally decided it was necessary for blacks to vote for their own protection; for the protection of white Unionists (scalawags); and for the peace of the country.[4]
The Radicals passed laws allowing all male freedmen to vote, and in 1867, black men voted for the first time. Over the course of Reconstruction, more than 1,500 African Americans held public office in the South. The question of women's suffrage was also debated but was rejected.
The South's postwar white leaders renounced secession and slavery, but they were angered in 1867, when their state governments were ousted by federal military forces and replaced by Republican lawmakers elected by blacks, southern supporters of Reconstruction (Scalawags), and northern Republican Carpetbaggers.
Presidential Reconstruction, 1863-66
Lincoln's plan
Planning for Reconstruction began as early as 1861, at the onset of secession, with little premonition in the administration of what would prove to be the extent or duration of the Civil War. By 1863, the Union had won some strategic victories, notably by retaking the Mississippi and occupying territories in the Deep South, and Lincoln proposed certain tactical steps of restoration. Motivated by a desire to build a strong Republican Party in the South, by signs of southern disaffection with the war, and by eagerness to end the bitterness engendered by war, on December 8, 1863, he issued a proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction for those areas of the Confederacy occupied by Union armies. The so-called Ten Percent Plan offered pardon, with certain exceptions, to any Confederate who would swear to support the Constitution and the Union. Once a group in any state equal in number to one tenth of that state's total vote in the presidential election of 1860 took the prescribed oath and organized a government that abolished slavery, he would grant that government executive recognition.
Lincoln's 1863 plan aroused the sharp opposition of the radicals in Congress, who believed it would simply restore to power the old planter aristocracy. In July 1864, radical Republicans passed the Wade-Davis Bill, which required 50 percent of a state's male voters to take an "Ironclad Oath" that they had never voluntarily supported the Confederacy. Lincoln's veto kept the Wade-Davis Bill from becoming law, the Radicals lost momentum, and he implemented his own plan. By the end of the war it had been adopted in Union-controlled territory in Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Virginia. Congress, however, refused to seat the senators and representatives elected from those states, and by the time of Lincoln's assassination the President and Congress were at a stalemate.[5]
Observers at the time of the Wade-Davis bill—and historians since—agree that probably no state would have qualified, leaving them under military control indefinitely. By vetoing the bill, Lincoln blocked the Radicals from a dominant role in government, though they rose to power again in 1866. Historian William Gienapp explains Lincoln's veto:[6]
Lincoln, in contrast, shrank from inaugurating a fundamental upheaval in southern society and mores, and by stressing future over past loyalty, he was willing to allow recanting Rebels to dominate the new southern governments. Moreover, Lincoln believed that the best strategy was to introduce black suffrage in the South by degrees in order to accustom southern whites to blacks voting. How far he was willing to go in extending rights to former slaves remained unclear, but his gradualist approach to social change remained intact, just as when he had tried to get the border states in 1862 to adopt gradual emancipation. Finally, the radicals and Lincoln held quite different views of the relationship of Reconstruction to the war effort. By erecting impossibly high standards that no Southern state could meet, the Wade–Davis bill sought to postpone Reconstruction until the war was over. For Lincoln, in contrast, a lenient program of Reconstruction would encourage Southern whites to abandon the Confederacy and thus was integral to his strategy for winning the war.
On March 4, 1865, Lincoln delivered his Second Inaugural Address, reaffirming his generous stance toward the reunification of Confederate states: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
On April 11, 1865, Lincoln delivered his last public address, in which he continued to uphold a lenient reconstruction policy. Insisting as well that there be new rights for the Freedmen, he created the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands in January 1865, known as the Freedmen's Bureau. In one experiment in the Sea Islands of South Carolina, Freedmen were allowed to farm plantations seized by the Army, although they never received ownership.[7]
Johnson's presidential reconstruction: 1865–66
Northern anger over the assassination of Lincoln and the immense human cost of the war led to demands for harsh, punitive policies toward the defeated South. Vice President Andrew Johnson had taken a hard line and spoken of hanging rebel Confederates, but when he succeeded Lincoln as President he took a much softer approach, pardoning many Confederate leaders and allowing ex-Confederates to maintain their control of Southern state governments, Southern lands, and, informally, even many former slaves.[8] Confederate President Jefferson Davis was held in prison for two years, but not the other Confederate leaders were imprisoned and there were no treason trials. Only one person—Captain Henry Wirz, the commandant of the infamous prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia—was executed for war crimes.
a Harper's Magazine political cartoon alleging Klan and White League opposition to Reconstruction
The Johnson government quickly enacted "black codes," giving freedmen more rights than free blacks had before the war, but still limited, second-class civil rights, and no voting rights. Southern plantation owners feared extensive black vagrancy would mean loss of the essential labor force, and many Southern whites rejected the notion of equality with Southern blacks. Two states had full fledged Black Codes—Mississippi and South Carolina. Among other provisions, they stringently limited blacks' ability to control their own employment.[9]
In response to the Black codes, which outraged northern opinion, and worrisome signs of Southern recalcitrance, Radical Republicans blocked the readmission of former Confederate states to the Congress in fall 1865. Congress also renewed the Freedman's Bureau,[10] but Johnson vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau Bill in February 1866. Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, leader of the moderate Republicans, then proposed the first Civil Rights Law. The abolition of slavery was empty, he said, if "laws are to be enacted and enforced depriving persons of African descent of privileges which are essential to freemen…. A law that does not allow a colored person to go from one county to another, and one that does not allow him to hold property, to teach, to preach, are certainly laws in violation of the rights of a freeman…. The purpose of this bill is to destroy all these discriminations."[11]
According to the bill:
All persons born in the United States … are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery … shall have the same right in every State … to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, and penalties and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Congress quickly passed the Civil Rights bill; the Senate on February 2, voted 33–12; the House on March 13, voted 111–38.
Johnson breaks with Radical Republicans
Although strongly urged by moderates in Congress to sign the Civil Rights bill, Johnson broke decisively with them by vetoing it on March 27. His veto message objected to the measure because it conferred citizenship on the Freedmen at a time when eleven out of thirty-six states were unrepresented and attempted to establish by Federal law "a perfect equality of the white and black races in every State of the Union." Johnson said it was an invasion by Federal authority of the rights of the States, had no warrant in the Constitution, was contrary to all precedents, and was a "stride toward centralization and the concentration of all legislative power in the national government."[12]
The debate over reconstruction and the Freedman's Bureau was nationwide, as seen in this 1866 Pennsylvania election poster. The racist imagery shows Bureau money lavished on lazy freedmen at the expense of white workers.
The Democratic Party, proclaiming itself the party of white men, north and south, supported Johnson.[13] However, the Republicans in Congress overrode his veto (the Senate by the close vote of 33:15, the House by 122:41) and the Civil Rights bill became law. Congress also passed the Freedmen's Bureau Bill over Johnson's veto.
Constitutional amendments and black officeholders
Three new Constitutional amendments were adopted in succession following the conclusion of the Civil War. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and was ratified in 1865. The Fourteenth Amendment was designed to put the key provisions of the Civil Rights Act into the Constitution, but it went much further. It extended citizenship to everyone born in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction (excepting visitors and Native Americans on reservations), penalized states that did not give the vote to Freedmen, and most importantly, created new federal civil rights that could be protected by federal courts. It also guaranteed the Federal war debt (and promised the Confederate debt would never be paid by the federal treasury). Johnson used his influence to block the amendment in the states, since three-fourths of the states were required for ratification, although the amendment was soon ratified.
The Fifteenth Amendment passed in 1870, decreeing that the right to vote could not be denied because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The amendment did not declare suffrage an unconditional right and only prohibited specific types of discrimination, while specific electoral policies were determined within each state. Notably, the Fifteenth Amendment did not enfranchise women.
Radical reconstruction: 1866–73
The moderate effort to compromise with Johnson had failed, and a political fight broke out between the Republicans (both Radical and moderate) on one side, and Johnson and his allies in the Democratic party in the North, and the conservatives (who used different names) in each southern state on the other side.
Following the election of 1866, Republicans took control of all Southern state governorships and state legislatures, leading to the election of numerous African-Americans to state and national offices, as well as to the installation of African-Americans into other positions of power.
Military reconstruction
The South remained defiant in adapting to social changes, and a pervasive insurgency emerged in many regions against free blacks and Union supporters (and in a few cases, Union veterans). As retribution against the violence, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act.
The first Reconstruction Act placed ten former Confederate states under military control, grouping them into five military districts:[14]
First Military District: Virginia, under General John Schofield
Second Military District: The Carolinas, under General Daniel Sickles
Third Military District: Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, under General John Pope
Fourth Military District: Arkansas and Mississippi, under General Edward Ord
Fifth Military District: Texas and Louisiana, under Generals Philip Sheridan and Winfield Scott Hancock
Tennessee was not made part of a military district, and therefore federal controls did not apply.
The ten Southern state governments were re-constituted under the direct control of the United States Army. There was little or no fighting, but rather a state of martial law in which the military closely supervised local government and elections, and protected office holders from violence.[15] Blacks were enrolled as voters, while former Confederate leaders were excluded. In some cases whites were rejected or refused to register while blacks were significantly overrepresented as a percent of all voters.
All Southern states were readmitted to the Union by the end of 1870, the last being Georgia. All but 500 top Confederate leaders were pardoned when President Grant signed the Amnesty Act of 1872.
As modernizers, the Republicans believed that education was a long-term solution to the poverty and the social disorder of the South. They accordingly created a system of public schools, which were segregated by race everywhere except New Orleans. Most blacks approved the segregated schools because they provided jobs for black teachers and kept their children in a safer learning environment. Teachers were poorly paid, and their pay was often in arrears.[16] Conservatives contended the rural schools were too expensive and unnecessary for a region where the vast majority of people were cotton or tobacco farmers. One historian found that the schools were not very effective because of "poverty, the inability of the states to collect taxes, and inefficiency and corruption in many places prevented successful operation of the schools."[17]
Numerous private academies and colleges for Freedmen were also established by northern missionaries. Every state created state colleges for Freedmen, and in 1890, after Reconstruction ended, black state colleges started receiving federal funds as land grant schools because many fair-minded Democrats supported the liberal education of both races.[18]
Railroad subsidies and payoffs
Every Southern state subsidized railroads, which modernizers felt could haul the region out of isolation and poverty. Despite corruption, in which millions of dollars in bonds and subsidies were fraudulently pocketed, and higher taxes across the South to pay off the railroad bonds and the school costs,[19] thousands of miles of lines were built as the Southern system expanded from 11,000 miles (17,700 km) in 1870 to 29,000 miles (46,700 km) in 1890. Although the lines were owned and directed overwhelmingly by Northerners, railroads helped create a mechanically skilled group of craftsmen and indeed broke the isolation of much of the region. Passengers were few, however, and apart from hauling the cotton crop when it was harvested, the effects of corruption, according to one businessman, "was to drive capital from the State, paralyze industry, and demoralize labor."[20]
The new spending on schools and especially on railroad subsidies, combined with fraudulent spending and collapsing state credit caused by huge deficits, forced the states to dramatically increase tax rates—up to ten times higher—despite the poverty of the region. Angry taxpayers revolted, and the conservatives shifted their focus away from race to taxes.[21]
Conservative reaction and creation of the Ku Klux Klan
The white Southerners who lost power reformed themselves into "Conservative" parties that battled the Republicans. The party names varied, but by the late 1870s, they effectively joined the Democrats. Writing in 1907, historian Walter Lynwood Fleming describes mounting anger of Southern whites, noting that "the Negro troops, even at their best, were everywhere considered offensive by the native whites…. The Negro soldier, impudent by reason of his new freedom, his new uniform, and his new gun, was more than Southern temper could tranquilly bear, and race conflicts were frequent."
A cartoon threatening that the KKK would lynch carpetbaggers, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Independent Monitor, 1868.
Reaction by conservatives included the formation of violent secret societies, especially the Ku Klux Klan. Founded by six educated, middle-class Confederate veterans at the end of the American Civil War on December 24, 1865, the original Ku Klux Klan sought to limit the political and social advancement of the freed slaves, specifically to curb black education, economic advancement, voting rights, and the right to bear arms.[22] However, although the Klan's focus was mainly African Americans, Southern Republicans also became the target of vicious intimidation tactics.
The Klan soon spread into nearly every southern state, launching a reign of terror against Republican leaders, both black and white. The Klan soon began breaking up black prayer meetings and invading black homes at night to steal firearms. Violence occurred in cities and in the countryside between white former Confederates, Republicans, African-Americans, representatives of the federal government, and Republican-organized and armed Loyal Leagues.
A political cartoon depicting the KKK and the Democratic Party as continuations of the Confederacy.
Klan intimidation was often targeted at schoolteachers and operatives of the federal Freedmen's Bureau, many of whom had before the war been abolitionists or active in the underground railroad. Many white southerners believed that blacks were voting for the Republican Party only because they had been hoodwinked by the Loyal Leagues. Black members of the Loyal Leagues were also the frequent targets of Klan raids. Klansmen killed more than 150 African Americans in a single county in Florida, and hundreds more in other counties.[23]
Although Klan public statements affirmed that the Klan was a peaceful organization, a federal grand jury in 1869 determined that the Klan was a "terrorist organization," and hundreds of indictments for crimes of violence and terrorism were issued. Klan members were prosecuted, and many fled jurisdiction, particularly in South Carolina.[24]
Many non-Klan members found the Klan's uniform to be a convenient way to hide their identities when carrying out acts of violence. However, it was also convenient for the higher levels of the organization to disclaim responsibility for such acts, and the secretive, decentralized nature of the Klan made membership difficult to prove. According to historian Eric Foner, in many ways the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party, the planter class, and those who desired the restoration of white supremacy.[25]
By 1868, only two years after the Klan's creation, its activity was already beginning to decrease[26] and many influential southern Democrats were beginning to see it as a liability, an excuse for the federal government to retain its power over the South. It was effectively dismantled by President Grant's passage and enforcement of the Force Acts of 1870 and 1871, only to be reestablished in 1915.
Redemption 1873-77
Republicans split nationally: Election of 1872
As early as 1868, Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, a leading Radical during the war, concluded:
Congress was right in not limiting, by its reconstruction acts, the right of suffrage to whites; but wrong in the exclusion from suffrage of certain classes of citizens and all unable to take its prescribed retrospective oath, and wrong also in the establishment of despotic military governments for the States and in authorizing military commissions for the trial of civilians in time of peace. There should have been as little military government as possible; no military commissions; no classes excluded from suffrage; and no oath except one of faithful obedience and support to the Constitution and laws, and of sincere attachment to the constitutional Government of the United States.[27]
In the South, political–racial tensions built up inside the Republican party. In 1868, Georgia Democrats, with support from some Republicans, expelled all 28 black Republican members (arguing blacks were eligible to vote but not to hold office). In several states the more conservative southern white supporters of Reconstruction, knows as scalawags, fought for control with the more radical northern white carpetbaggers and usually lost. Thus, in Mississippi, the conservative faction led by scalawag James Lusk Alcorn was decisively defeated by the radical faction led by carpetbagger Adelbert Ames. The party lost support steadily as many scalawags left it; few new recruits were acquired. Meanwhile, the Freedmen were demanding a much bigger share of the offices and patronage, thus squeezing out their carpetbagger allies.[28] Finally some of the more prosperous Freedmen were joining the Democrats, angered at the failure of the Republicans to help them acquire land.[29] Although some Marxist historians, especially W.E.B. Du Bois, looked for and celebrated a cross-racial coalition of poor whites and poor blacks, such coalition rarely formed. Congressman Lynch explains that,
While the colored men did not look with favor upon a political alliance with the poor whites, it must be admitted that, with very few exceptions, that class of whites did not seek, and did not seem to desire such an alliance.
Lynch explains that poor whites resented the job competition from Freedmen. Furthermore, the poor whites
…with a few exceptions, were less efficient, less capable, and knew less about matters of state and governmental administration than many of the ex-slaves. …As a rule, therefore, the whites that came into the leadership of the Republican party between 1872 and 1875 were representatives of the most substantial families of the land.[30]
Thus, the poor whites became Democrats and bitterly opposed the black Republicans.
Democrats try a "New Departure"
By 1870, the Democratic–Conservative leadership across the South decided it had to end its opposition to Reconstruction as well as to black suffrage in order to survive and move on to new issues. The Grant administration had proven by its crackdown on the Ku Klux Klan that it would use as much federal power as necessary to suppress open anti-black violence. The Democrats in the North concurred. They wanted to fight the GOP on economic grounds rather than race. The New Departure offered the chance for a clean slate without having to refight the Civil War every election. Furthermore, many wealthy landowners thought they could control part of the newly enfranchised black electorate to their own advantage.
Not all Democrats agreed; a hard core element wanted to resist Reconstruction at all costs. Eventually, a group called "Redeemers" took control of the party in the states.[31] They formed coalitions with conservative Republicans, including scalawags and carpetbaggers, emphasizing the need for economic modernization. Railroad building was seen as a panacea since northern capital was needed. The new tactics were a success in Virginia, where William Mahone built a winning coalition. In Tennessee, the Redeemers formed a coalition with Republican governor DeWitt Senter. Across the South, Democrats switched from the race issue to taxes and corruption, charging that Republican governments were corrupt and inefficient, as taxes began squeezing cash-poor farmers who rarely saw $20 in currency a year but had to pay taxes in currency or lose their farm.
By 1872, President Grant had also alienated large numbers of leading Republicans, including many Radicals by the wanton corruption of his administration and his use of federal soldiers to prop up Radical state regimes in the South. The opponents, called "Liberal Republicans," included Republican founders who expressed dismay that the party had succumbed to corruption. Leaders of the new party included editors of some of the nation's most powerful newspapers. Charles Sumner, embittered by the corruption of the Grant administration, joined the new party, which nominated editor Horace Greeley. The badly disorganized Democratic party also supported Greeley.
Grant made up for the defections by new gains among Union veterans, as well as strong support from the "Stalwart" faction of his party (which depended on his patronage), and the Southern Republican parties. Grant won a smashing landslide, as the Liberal Republican party vanished and many former supporters—even ex-abolitionists—abandoned the cause of Reconstruction.[32]
In North Carolina, Republican Governor William Woods Holden used state troops against the Klan, but the prisoners were released by federal judges. Holden became the first governor in American history to be impeached and removed from office. Republican political disputes in Georgia split the party and enabled the Redeemers to take over.[33] Violence was a factor in neutralizing Republican leaders in the Deep South, with its larger black Republican population. In the North, a live-and-let-live attitude made elections more like a sporting contest. But in the Deep South, it affected the lives of the citizens. As an Alabama scalawag explained, "Our contest here is for life, for the right to earn our bread … for a decent and respectful consideration as human beings and members of society."[34]
Panic of 1873 weakens GOP
The Panic of 1873 hit the Southern economy hard and disillusioned many Republicans who had gambled that railroads would pull the South out of its poverty. The price of cotton fell by half; many small landowners, local merchants and cotton factors (wholesalers) went bankrupt. Sharecropping, for both black and white farmers, became more common as a way to spread the risk of owning land. The old abolitionist element in the North was aging away, or had lost interest, and was not replenished. Many carpetbaggers returned to the North or joined the Redeemers. Blacks had an increased voice in the Republican Party, but across the South it was divided by internal bickering and was rapidly losing its cohesion. Many local black leaders started emphasizing individual economic progress in cooperation with white elites, rather than racial political progress in opposition to them, a conservative attitude that foreshadowed Booker T. Washington.[35]
Nationally, President Grant took the blame for the depression; the Republican Party lost 96 seats in all parts of the country in the 1874 elections. The Bourbon Democrats took control of the House and were confident of electing Samuel J. Tilden president in 1876. President Grant was not running for re-election and across the South states fell to the Redeemers, with only four in Republican hands in 1873, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina; Arkansas then fell in 1874. Political violence was endemic in Louisiana, but efforts to seize the state government were repulsed by federal troops who entered the state legislature and hauled away several Democratic legislators.
The violation of tradition embarrassed Grant, and some of his cabinet recommended against further intervention.[36] By now, all Democrats and most northern Republicans agreed that Confederate nationalism and slavery were dead—the war goals were achieved—and further federal military interference was an undemocratic violation of historic Republican values. The victory of Rutherford Hayes in the hotly contested Ohio gubernatorial election of 1875 indicated his "let alone" policy toward the South would become Republican policy, as indeed happened when he won the 1876 GOP nomination for president. The last explosion of violence came in Mississippi's 1875 election, in which Democratic rifle clubs, operating in the open and without disguise, threatened or shot enough Republicans to decide the election for the Redeemers. Republican Governor Adelbert Ames asked Grant for federal troops to fight back; Grant refused, saying public opinion was "tired out" of the perpetual troubles in the South. Ames fled the state as the Democrats took over Mississippi.[37]
1876 election and era of segregation
Reconstruction continued in South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida until 1877. After Hayes won the disputed election of 1876, the Compromise of 1877 was reached whereby the white South agreed to accept Hayes's victory if he withdrew the last Federal troops.
The end of Reconstruction marked the beginning of a period, 1877–1900, that saw the steady reduction of many civil and political rights for African-Americans, and ushered in the nadir of American race relations. The process varied by states and towns. In Virginia, the Redeemers gerrymandered cities to minimize Republican seats; reduced the number of polling places in black precincts; made local officials appointees of the state legislature; and did not allow the vote to felons or to people who failed to pay their annual poll tax.
Much of the Reconstruction civil rights legislation was overturned by the United States Supreme Court. Most notably, the court held in the Civil Rights Cases (1883), that the 14th amendment only gave Congress the power to outlaw public, rather than private, discrimination. In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) the court went even further, announcing that state-mandated segregation was legal as long as the law provided for "separate but equal" facilities.
In the decades that followed, blacks suffered increasing hardships as legal protections eroded and racist Jim Crow laws and institutions marginalized blacks.
Legacy and historiography
Interpretations of Reconstruction have varied widely, yet nearly all historians have concluded that the federal effort to resolve the divisions of war and the social integration of freedmen was a failure.[38] In the 1865-75 period, many saw ex-Confederates as traitors and Johnson their ally, who threatened to undo the Union's Constitutional achievements. In the 1870s and 1880s it was widely argued that Johnson and his allies were not traitors, but rather blundered badly in rejecting the 14th Amendment and setting the stage for Radical Reconstruction.[39]
Among black scholars, Booker T. Washington, who grew up in West Virginia during Reconstruction, concluded that, "the Reconstruction experiment in racial democracy failed because it began at the wrong end, emphasizing political means and civil rights acts rather than economic means and self-determination."[40] His solution was to concentrate on building the economic infrastructure of the black community.
In the 1930s, revisionist disciples of historian Charles A. Beard focused on economics, downplaying politics and constitutional issues. They argued that the Radical rhetoric of equal rights was mostly a smokescreen hiding the true motivation of Reconstruction's real backers. While conceding that a few men like Stevens and Sumner were thoroughly idealistic, Howard Beale argued Reconstruction was primarily a successful attempt by financiers, railroad builders, and industrialists in the Northeast, using the Republican Party, to control the national government for its own selfish economic ends. Those ends were to continue the wartime high protective tariff and the new network of national banks, and to guarantee a "sound" currency. To succeed, the business class had to remove the old ruling agrarian class of Southern planters and Midwestern farmers. This it did through Reconstruction, which made the South Republican. However, historians in the 1950s and 1960s refuted Beale's economic causation by demonstrating that Northern businessmen were widely divergent on monetary or tariff policy, and seldom paid attention to Reconstruction issues.[41]
In the 1960s, neoabolitionist historians emerged, led by John Hope Franklin, Kenneth Stampp, and Eric Foner. Strongly aligned with the Civil Rights Movement, they found a great deal to praise in Radical Reconstruction. Foner, the primary advocate of this view, argued that it was never truly completed, and that a Second Reconstruction was needed in the late twentieth century to complete the goal of full equality for African-Americans. The neoabolitionists followed the revisionists in minimizing the corruption and waste created by Republican state governments, instead emphasizing that poor treatment of Freedmen was a worse scandal and a grave corruption of America's republican ideals. They argued that the real tragedy of Reconstruction was not that it failed because blacks were incapable of governing, but that it failed because the civil rights and equalities granted during this period were but a passing, temporary development. These rights were suspended in the South from the 1880s through 1964, but were restored by the Civil Rights Movement that is sometimes referred to as the "Second Reconstruction."
More recent scholarship has encouraged greater attention to race, religion, and issues of gender while at the same time pushing the "end" of Reconstruction to the end of the nineteenth century, while monographs by other historians have offered new views of the southern "Lost Cause."
↑ William Gienapp, Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America (2002, ISBN 9780195150995).
↑ John Hope Franklin, Reconstruction after the Civil War (University of Chicago Press, 1961, ISBN 0226260798), 42.
↑ Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New York: Harper & Row 1988, ISBN 9780060158514), 273-6.
↑ J. G. Randall and David Herbert Donald, The Civil War and Reconstruction (Lexington, MA: Heath 1969), 581.
↑ William Harris, The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979, ISBN 9780807103661).
↑ William Gienapp, Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America (2002), 167.
↑ Rose, 1967.
↑ Trefousse (1989).
↑ Oberholtzer 1: 128–9.
↑ Donald (2001), 527.
↑ Rhodes, History 6: 65-66.
↑ Rhodes, History 6: 68.
↑ Foner (1988), 6.
↑ Foner (1988).
↑ Foner, 365–8.
↑ Franklin, 139.
↑ Lynch (1913).
↑ Franklin, 141-48; Summers (1984).
↑ Franklin, 147–8.
↑ Foner, 415–16.
↑ Horn (1939), 9.
↑ Michael Newton, The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1872).
↑ Allen W. Trelease, White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction (Louisiana State University Press, 1995).
↑ Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 (HarperCollins, 1989), 426.
↑ Horn (1939), 375.
↑ J. W. Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase (1874).
↑ Foner, 537-41.
↑ Foner, 374-5.
↑ Perman (1984).
↑ McPherson (1975).
↑ Foner.
↑ Foner, 443.
↑ Fletcher M. Green, "Walter Lynwood Fleming: Historian of Reconstruction," The Journal of Southern History 2 (4) (Nov, 1936): 497-521.
↑ Louis R. Harlan, Booker T. Washington in Perspective (1988).
↑ Foner 1982; Montgomery, vii–ix.
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Mandalay Bay Resort Releases Security Video of Shooter
Veröffentlicht von Taralynn March 28, 2018 Kategorie(n): Latest News
In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Las Vegas last year, many have questioned the security measures of the Mandalay Bay hotel. On October 1st, Stephen Paddock opened fire on a country music festival from his hotel room. Paddock killed 58 people before turning his gun on himself. A security officer at the hotel was also shot while investigating the noise on Paddock’s floor.
Since the tragedy, critics have questioned MGM Resorts, who own the Mandalay Bay. According to them, MGM should have investigated Paddock when he brought more and more luggage to his room. Mr Paddock checked into the hotel on 25 September with only a laptop case. Over the course of his stay, he appears to have moved 24 guns and ammunition into his room. MGM Resorts have been criticised for not taking note of the luggage being moved in.
Mandalay Bay Claims
According to the operator, the security videos prove that Paddock was behaving ‘normally.’ At the time, he was a high-stakes video poker player and a regular at the resort. However, almost an hour’s worth of security footage proves that he was moving a suspicious amount of luggage into the room. The operator claims that they ‘could not reasonably foresee’ that he would carry out his plans.
This is not the first time the casino operator has shared information about the shooting. Almost 30 days after the tragedy, they revealed a recording taken by the security officer, who went to investigate a blocked door on Paddock’s floor. This revealed that the door had been barricaded on the floor leading to a staircase. It was then that the security officer, Jesus Campos, reported shots being fired. He would have to go around reach Paddock’s door. Campos was shot in the leg before other security officers could arrive on the scene.
Aftermath of Mandalay Bay Shooting
Investigators have yet to find a motive for the shooting, which has been frustrating the families of those killed or injured in the tragedy. Despite this, all resorts in Las Vegas have now taken steps to prevent similar shootings. These include stricter checks, tighter security measures and other pre-emptive security solutions. However, these are no guarantee that similar events will take place.
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Author: Michelle Slimko
The 5th International RASopathies Symposium: When Development and Cancer Intersect, held July 28-30, brought together experts, patients, and families who are all connected by a series of rare disorders.
Caused by mutations in the RASA-MAPK pathway, RASopathies is one of the largest groups of malformation syndromes, affecting about 1:1000. It includes NF1, Legius syndrome, Noonan syndrome, cardio-facio-cutaneous syndrome, Noonan syndrome with multiple lentigines, and Costello syndrome.
Scientists, researchers, and health professionals attend the symposium to present current findings in their area of expertise. Non-scientists, like the families and patients, can also attend sessions to learn more about their disorder, find out about the latest treatments, ask questions, provide input, and most importantly, collaborate. This is especially important for the rare disease community as the RAS pathway community is fairly small.
In the spirit of the meeting, the Neurofibromatosis Network hosted a lunch session for families during this symposium. Michelle Slimko gave a presentation on what the NF Network is doing on a national basis as an introduction to the attendees.
“Overall, we have over 40 participants representing the Florida and other states like Georgia and Tennessee,” Slimko said. “We had a panel of experts that include Dr. Brigette Widemann, our NF patient advocate, Beverly Oberlander, and Genetic Counselor Alicia Gomes and Dr. Ashley Cannon, both from the University of Alabama.”
Slimko left the symposium with several observations.
No one likes to feel alone. The NF Network provides resources, information, and education about how to get connected and get involved so you don’t feel alone.
Some NF patients may have learning disabilities that continue into adulthood. It’s important to think about how to address this in teaching and patient materials. We cannot forget the importance of this for adults with NF as well. We need to educate health professionals and clinics by reminding them that NF patients eventually age and need support in the years after many clinics and pediatricians stop extending care.
There several powerful resources on the Internet. The NF Network’s Inspire site offers online discussions with over 20,000 participants. The NF Network website also provides a wealth of information for various audiences, and links to social media sites like Twitter and Facebook can be found on the site as well.
There is such value in connecting scientists, health professionals, and researchers with actual patients and families. Through these connections, patient feedback can be taken into consideration and help experts as they address real world issues patients and families experience. This is where the magic happens. Meetings like this grow a network, feed a community, break down walls, and drive collaboration. These are all important elements not only for the NF community, but also the rare disease community as a whole. This is a great model of how to make those connections work in sync!
There is still work to do. Here are some things to think about going forward.
Rare disease patients need communication and materials they can use and understand. This helps reduce confusion, can provide overall clarity about their own understanding of what is taking place and what is available to share with their doctors.
Events like this benefit the experts too. I spoke to a researcher during lunch. He told me, “This is my first meeting and it’s good to be here because at least my research is actually useful.” The researcher had never attended this conference and didn’t know the role his research played. We need to continue connecting this important work to researchers so they can apply and appreciate their work to the patients they are helping, even more important for rare disease patients! I told him, “Thank you for what you are doing. This is so critical because you are one of not many scientists working in this field. Your work gives this community hope and a future.”
Involving family and others is invaluable. I asked my children to help set up and register new participants. It’s important to teach our next generation about the importance of volunteering, helping others, and giving back.
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Castilian and Spanish – Synonyms?
Jan 16, 2016 · 2 min
When does a language stop being a set of dialects and become a language?
The question is: When does a language stop being a set of dialects and become a language? This is not an easy question to answer, and a perfect case in point is the Spanish language.
Many people from non-Spanish speaking cultures would probably be unaware of this, but historically, this Romance language has been plagued by antagonisms and infighting which started on the Iberian Peninsula and eventually found its way into the former Spanish colonies; and it’s here where the presence of other indigenous languages added to the linguistic confusion.
Just consider the juxtaposition of the terms Castilian and Spanish – for some they’re markedly different, while for others they’re synonyms
When speaking from an historical perspective, the rise of Castile following unification at the end of the 15th century as both the socially and politically dominant part of Spain, had an enormous effect on the Spanish language. The Castilian dialect became the national standard, while other dialects such as Andalusian were scorned and ridiculed, certainly within the Peninsula.
The attempts to Castilianize the speech of colonists and Peninsulas alike met with mixed results. In the Americas, regions which were under immediate control of Spanish authorities were thoroughly instilled with the Castilian dialect, whereas regions where the colonial yoke remained loose maintained traits from other non-Castilian dialects. And, to complicate matters further in the Americas, the presence and use of indigenous languages by large portions of the population diluted the ‘real’ Spanish language being overseen by the Castilian overlords.
Touchy Subject!
Even to this very day, both within and outside Spain, any reference to Castilian as a synonym for Spanish can create heated arguments.
In the Americas during the 19th century, nation builders struggled to choose one over the other, arguing over which language gave them greater distance from what was a perceived negativity of association with their former colonial masters.
The renowned Mexican writer Octavio Paz stated that he considered himself a citizen of the Spanish language, and that’s why he was bothered to hear speak of the Castilian language. He said: ‘I am not one of them; I am a Mexican and as such I speak Spanish, not Castilian.’
Experienced translators of the Spanish language will obviously be aware of the difference between Castilian and Spanish. Another good reason why clients should always choose a human translator over a machine translation!
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Blood test detects Alzheimer's years before symptoms
Author: Ingrid Torjesen
A simple blood test reliably detects signs of brain damage in people on the path to developing Alzheimer's disease - even before they show signs of confusion and memory loss, according to a study* published in Nature Medicine.
The test detects neurofilament light chain, a structural protein that forms part of the internal skeleton of neurons. When brain neurons are damaged or dying, the protein leaks out into the cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord and from there, into the bloodstream.
Finding high levels of the protein in a person's cerebrospinal fluid has been shown to provide strong evidence that some of their brain cells have been damaged. But obtaining cerebrospinal fluid requires a spinal tap, which many people are reluctant to undergo.
US and German researchers studied whether levels of the protein in blood also reflect neurological damage. They accessed data on families with rare genetic variants that cause Alzheimer's at a young age - typically in a person's 50s, 40s or even 30s - who form part of the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Network (DIAN). A parent with such a mutation has a 50% chance of passing the genetic error to a child, and any child who inherits a variant is all but guaranteed to develop symptoms of dementia near the same age as his or her parent.
The researchers studied more than 400 people participating in the DIAN study, 247 who carry an early-onset genetic variant and 162 of their unaffected relatives. Each participant had previously visited a DIAN clinic to give blood, undergo brain scans and complete cognitive tests. Roughly half had been evaluated more than once, typically about two to three years apart.
In those with the faulty gene variant, protein levels were higher at baseline and rose over time. In contrast, protein levels were low and largely steady in people with the healthy form of the gene. This difference was detectable 16 years before cognitive symptoms were expected to arise.
To find out whether protein blood levels could be used to predict cognitive decline, the researchers collected data on 39 people with disease-causing variants when they returned to the clinic an average of two years after their last visit. The participants underwent brain scans and two cognitive tests: the Mini-Mental State Exam and the Logical Memory test. The researchers found that people whose blood protein levels had previously risen rapidly were most likely to show signs of brain atrophy and diminished cognitive abilities when they revisited the clinic.
Mathias Jucker, a professor of cellular neurology at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Tübingen, said "It will be important to confirm our findings in late-onset Alzheimer´s disease and to define the time period over which neurofilament changes have to be assessed for optimal clinical predictability."
All kinds of neurological damage can cause the neurofilament light protein to spill out of neurons and into blood. Protein levels are high in people with Lewy body dementia and Huntington's disease; they rise dramatically in people with multiple sclerosis during a flare-up and in football players immediately after a blow to the head.
As a result, the researchers said the technique could be applied to quickly and inexpensively identify brain damage in people with not just Alzheimer's disease but other neurodegenerative conditions such as multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury or stroke.
"This is something that would be easy to incorporate into a screening test in a neurology clinic," said Brian Gordon, an assistant professor of radiology at Washington University's Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and an author on the study. "We validated it in people with Alzheimer's disease because we know their brains undergo lots of neurodegeneration, but this marker isn't specific for Alzheimer's. High levels could be a sign of many different neurological diseases and injuries."
*Preische O, Schultz SA, Apel A, et al. Serum neurofilament dynamics predicts neurodegeneration and clinical progression in presymptomatic Alzheimer’s disease. Nature Medicine (2019), 21 January 2019, doi: 10.1038/s41591-018-0304-3
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Ukraine in a European context
All in all, the fall of an unpopular, corrupt and ineffective government in Ukraine initiated by pro-EU demonstrators has not helped strengthen European values overall or slowed the decline in the popularity of the EU in the continent as a whole.
Paul Lewis
As citizens of the European Union prepare to elect a new parliament, they do so in a context marked by the onset of major instabilities in Ukraine and what is described as the most serious European crisis since the collapse of Soviet communism.
At an EU conference held in Vilnius in November Ukrainian President Yanukovych refused to sign the Association Agreement originally initialled in July 2012, and sparked off a wave of protests by demonstrators eager to promote a European affiliation and fearful of closer Russian ties. Their aspiration for stronger EU links and commitment to 'European' values only intensified as the authorities responded with rapidly increasing violence which resulted in the death in February of what came to be known as the Heavenly Hundred.
The fall of the government and the disappearance of the president from the scene was followed by demands for independence from Crimea and its annexation by Russia on March 21. This was followed by intensified activity on the part of pro-Russian groups, further signs of Russian aggression and continuing threats to the security of the east of the country, with a referendum on independence for the 'People's Republic of Donetsk' scheduled for May 11. Attempts to stabilise and de-escalate the situation, like the Geneva agreement reached between the US, Russia, EU and Ukraine on April 17, brought no concrete results. In what is a diverse, if not neatly divided Ukraine, the attachment to the west and desire for greater affiliation with the EU that contributed to sparking off the sequence of events is clearly not shared by all Ukrainians. In an extensively reported and widely debated sequence of events, this rapid escalation of events brought Europe and the west to the brink of what many have seen as a new Cold War.
In marked contrast, too, to the sentiments of many Ukrainians, particularly those in the west of the country, a large number of EU citizens feel increasingly alienated from 'Brussels' and the institutions of the Union.
A decline of trust in the EU
Euroscepticism and dissatisfaction with the EU is a major feature of the current pre-election mood. Since the onset of the economic crisis in 2008 there has been a steady and pronounced decline of trust in the European Parliament of around 30 percent through to 2012, significantly more than the growth of mistrust in national parliaments. A Gallup poll in January 2014 showed a further decline in EU approval ratings that is only likely to fuel the already strong showing of anti-EU parties and enhance their performance in the EP elections.
Recent polls, indeed, show that the number of deputies not affiliated to any European parliamentary group is likely to grow more than any other – and this group includes major far-right groups like the Dutch Freedom Party, Hungarian Jobbik and French National Front, the last of which is likely to increase its representation significantly if current projections are confirmed. The Greek Golden Dawn party is also likely to gain seats this time, all of which means that the far-right will probably win enough seats to form a new parliamentary group (Pollwatch 16 April 2014).
Arguably, the actions of the EU itself with regard to Ukraine have not been that positive, either. Against a background of some ambiguity concerning the background and the actions of the protestors themselves, it has also been asked why the EU accorded legitimacy to the new government so quickly in February when one of its first acts was to nullify the agreement recently negotiated with the participation of key EU representatives, which was intended to prevent civil war and provide the framework for a peaceful transition.
This raised just one question-mark over the 'competence and morality' of the EU and its policy-makers. The EU has been charged with being unequally committed to the Eastern Partnership, as clear differences of national interest between key players like Germany, France and the United Kingdom (not to mention smaller countries closer to the action, like Hungary and Slovakia) emerge when sanctions against Russia are on the agenda.
In line with previously expressed views, in The Washington Post (5 March 2014) Henry Kissinger pointed to the 'bureaucratic dilatoriness ' of the EU and the subordination of the strategic element to domestic politics which helped turn 'a negotiation into a crisis'. Even the influential European Voice (27 February 2014) suggested that while the EU states are much more democratic than either Ukraine or Russia, elections to the European Parliament itself have not always lived up the standards it espouses. As the crisis continued amidst growing signs of Russian aggression and incursions on Ukrainian territory, new signs of division emerged between different sectors of the EU that seemed further to undermine its effectiveness as a whole. Where, asked Carnegie Moscow Centre director Dmitri Trenin in The Observer (20 April 2014), were the signs of proper European leadership – and how long could it continue to outsource its foreign policy to the US?
None of this has had much influence on the EP election campaign, with the exception of some of the countries more closely involved with Ukrainian developments. The robust position of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the active stance taken by Foreign Minister Sikorski during the crisis has helped strengthen support for the ruling Civic Platform – and contributed to the improving prospects of the EPP group as a whole in the new European Parliament.
Volen Siderov, leader of the Bulgarian ultra-right party ATAKA, speaks in the Parliament. Demotix/Cylon 6. All rights reserved.In Bulgaria the electorate is divided over the fate of Ukraine and is caught between EU demands for sanctions to be imposed on Russia and domestic sympathies for its bigger Slavic brother, which also supplies the great bulk of its energy supplies. The balance of power in the Bulgarian parliament is, moreover, held by the extreme nationalist Ataka party, which has threatened to withdraw its support for the government if it endorses further sanctions. The EP elections are regarded as a key test for government survival.
Awareness of the mixed success of EU policy towards Ukraine and the weakness of EU's response to the crisis does not of course, mean that the actions of the former Ukrainian leadership or those of Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin, should be condoned. The original demonstrations against the rejection by Yanukovych of the EU agreement soon turned into a massive protest against the spectacular corruption of the Ukrainian political elite and its poor record in government. The extreme violence used against the protesters further undermined the legitimacy of the incumbent authorities.
Russia too has clearly been in breach of the Budapest Memorandum, which guaranteed Ukraine's sovereignty as it gave up the nuclear weapons it had inherited from the Soviet period and to which Russia was a signatory in 1994. There may well be significant support for Putin's actions amongst the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine, but that hardly excuses the aggressive stance taken against a neighbouring state and the blatant pursuit of what is perceived to be Russia's national interest.
Ambiguities in the position of the EU and what precisely it can offer to its eastern neighbour in the absence of any promise of membership in the foreseeable future, the way it has pursued the Eastern Partnership, as well as the confused nature of its relationship with Russia which is a valued economic partner as well as problematic political neighbour, all contribute to the strengthening of the Russian position but do nothing to justify it.
As former EP President Pat Cox points out, Russian actions violate the fundamental values of the Council of Europe and breach OSCE principles on territorial integrity. These were basic issues of state sovereignty which had been thought to be settled after the wars of the twentieth century.
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first enunciation, Francis Fukuyama's argument for 'The End of History' still fails to offer a convincing way of describing the real world of politics. In the context of the Ukrainian crisis, as Cox notes, history has come up and bitten us again. Conceived in the heyday of Gorbachev's 'new thinking' and his drive to reform the Soviet Union (in a conversation recorded for an Open University course Fukuyama said that the main idea for the original lecture and article occurred to him during the Communist Party conference that opened in June 1988), his thesis was that the world was witnessing 'the universalisation of western liberal democracy as the final form of human government'.
This might have had some purchase on that unique and dramatically short period of change in Soviet Russia but seems to have little relevance to Putin's rule. Putin's famous pronouncement that the collapse of the Soviet Union was 'the greatest catastrophe of the twentieth century' hardly means that he intends to reassemble the territory of the former Soviet Union wherever possible – but in the context of the current Ukrainian crisis it is one interpretation that comes to mind.
But there is one sense in which at least parts of the idea of the 'universalisation of western liberal democracy' have particular relevance to the countries of the former Soviet Union. Gorbachev's reforms were halted by the August 1991 coup of communist hard-liners, which was then followed by Yeltsin's suspension and later banning of the communist party throughout Russia.
With the elimination of the core of the system the Soviet Union itself soon collapsed. In the absence of anything like autonomous state structures what was left was the economy, and the opening up of the former Soviet space to global capitalism provided possibilities of quite different forms of governance. If not liberal democracy, there was the clear prospect of another variant of liberalism. Rather than the universalisation of liberal democracy, it is the globalisation of economic neo-liberalism that has been the most common feature of the post-communist world (although, fortunately, liberal democracy has not been absent either – most obviously, it should be noted, in the post-communist states that have become members of the EU).
The economic devastation that accompanied this process has been particularly severe in Ukraine, with income per capita falling by nearly 60 percent between 1990 and 2000. At the end of 2013 it was still more than 20 percent below the 1990 level, a pertinent contrast with Russia where income by this stage was 20 percent above the level of 1990. EU assistance did little to improve this situation, as domestic conditions and problems of corruption meant that Ukraine received no more than one third of the funds earmarked for it.
All in all, EU funds contributed the equivalent of just 0.1 percent of Ukraine's national budget. It is not difficult to imagine the impact these developments have had on political attitudes. A major part of this process, too, has been the privatisation of state assets, the emergence of spectacular levels of inequality and the formation of a small group of powerful oligarchs.
Such people lie at the heart of the Ukrainian political system in the same way they do in several other post-Soviet states. This has been just as true following the departure of Yanukovych and the formation of a new government, whose political base lay more in the west of the country. In the east it was natural, James Meek reported in The London Review of Books (20 March 2014), for the new Kiev government to seek the support of local oligarchs and appoint them to key leadership positions in cities like Donetsk and Dnepropetrovsk.
Another Cold War?
But if this unappealing outcome of the introduction of neo-liberalism to the lands of the former Soviet Union, even when accompanied by regular elections, does not look like liberal democracy in any normal sense, neither does it provide the conditions for a return to Cold War relations as they prevailed in this part of Europe after World War Two.
An important part of the Cold War system was ideological competition and a radical incompatibility of systemic values between East and West. Quite clearly, private property and personal wealth are no longer an anathema in either Ukraine or Russia, even if their distribution is highly skewed. Their elites and ruling groups enthusiastically participate in transnational economic ventures, make use of lucrative opportunities wherever they present themselves, and consume the same goods and services as the rich in western countries.
Whereas the Cold War implied a major standoff between the two camps and limited, closely controlled, interactions, there are now extensive structures that underpin highly developed forms of global integration which, further, make the imposition of economic sanctions on Russia a realistic way of reinforcing western displeasure at current Russian actions.
The apparent intensification of power politics in terms of the vigorous pursuit of national or state interests by greater or lesser powers, combined with heightened military tension, is something else – even if it is reminiscent of the superpower rivalry of the Cold War period. The role of NATO is of key importance here, particularly in view of the questionable response of the EU in this context. With clear evidence of Russian aggression and the infringement of Ukrainian sovereignty it was a natural response for NATO, as a defensive alliance, to adopt a more active posture and, for example, to reinforce the presence of American forces in Poland and the Baltic states (which actually share a border with Ukraine). As was evident on many occasions during the Cold War period, however, the development of effective defence could mean taking up forward positions that the antagonistic power might well perceive as aggressive, which might or might not be the case.
NATO is, too, essentially the same organisation it has been since its establishment in the early post-WW2 years, whereas the former Warsaw Pact was dissolved in the early 1990s. The sensitivity of post-communist Russia to the role and actions of NATO is a factor that can be significantly underestimated in the present crisis, and may be associated with Russian feelings of historic vulnerability on its western border and fears of alien encirclement (although this is a view firmly dismissed by others who point out that Russia has tolerated NATO members like Poland and Estonia on its doorstep since 1999 and that it is the advance of democracy and the rule of law in Ukraine that is really perceived as threatening).
During the early stages of the first President Bush's presidency there was an understanding that democratisation in East-Central Europe would not involve the expansion of NATO. This changed during the 1990s for a number of reasons, not least because some of the newly democratised Central European countries were committed less to membership of the EU than to integration more generally with 'Euratlantic structures', meaning, of course, NATO as well.
West European failures to guarantee their security during the 1930s were not forgotten, and the EU could not promise this kind of protection either then or now. There was some sensitivity on the part of US administrations to this factor. The formation of the G8 under Clinton with Russian participation in the original grouping was intended to signal Russian integration in the international community as a quid pro quo for the expansion of NATO into the former Soviet Eastern Europe. Few, if any, were able to remember this as the western powers decided not to participate in the G8 Sochi summit as one of their first sanctions following the Russian annexation of Crimea. Views also changed during the G.W. Bush presidency. In the spring of 2008 Bush controversially changed the agenda and designated Ukraine and Georgia as potential NATO members, which opened a direct path to the unequal and short-lived war between Russia and Georgia later that year.
There are signs that the Bush view continues to prevail during the present crisis, and on April 1 the foreign ministers of the NATO countries confirmed that the alliance would continue to expand despite Russian protests although Ukraine, unlike Georgia, was not explicitly mentioned.
The message, however, was clear and, following NATO's suspension of cooperative activities with Russia, the charge that it was returning to the rhetoric of the Cold War was not without substance. Underlying this, too, may be domestic US dissatisfaction with President Obama and the desire to return to more robust US leadership in the international arena that is harboured in some quarters, not least the defence lobby.
In this context the current western response has tended to emphasise the role of NATO and the US in the crisis in relation to that of the EU, which has shown signs of hesitation and division in its attitudes both to Ukraine and Russia. But in some ways this only mirrors the position of the EU overall, and reflects the strains and weaknesses that contribute to the emergence of such a negative mood among much of the electorate for the new European Parliament.
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Chicago Father Pfleger steps aside over allegation of abuse more than 40 years ago
Carol Zimmermann January 6, 2021
Father Michael Pfleger (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic)
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Father Michael Pfleger, a popular Chicago priest and outspoken advocate against gun violence, gangs, poverty and racism, has stepped aside from his ministry after the Chicago Archdiocese said it received an allegation that the priest had sexually abused a minor more than 40 years ago.
Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich announced the move in a Jan. 5 letter to Father Pfleger’s parishioners at St. Sabina and members of the parish school, St. Sabina Academy, asking for prayers, patience and privacy for their senior pastor at this time. The 71-year-old priest has led the historically African American parish since 1981.
“In keeping with our child protection policies, I have asked Father Pfleger to step aside from ministry following receipt by the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Child Abuse Investigations and Review of an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor more than 40 years ago,” the cardinal wrote.
“Allegations are claims that have not been proven as true or false. Therefore, guilt or innocence should not be assumed,” he added.
The cardinal said that priest will live away from the parish while the allegation is investigated, and the pastor, Father Thulani Magwaza will serve as temporary parish administrator.
In a Jan. 6 post on Facebook, Father Pfleger said he couldn’t “possibly respond to the hundreds of texts, emails and calls that I have received from all across the nation since yesterday.”
“I am devastated, hurt and yes angry, but I am first, a person of faith,” he wrote, urging people to trust God and to keep him and the parish of St. Sabina in their prayers. He said he had been asked by the diocese not to speak out at this time and added that he is “blessed with good leadership and amazing members, whom I love.”
“Pray also for the person, my life is more than a 40-year-old accusation, and on that and my faith I will stand,” he wrote.
Over the years, Father Pfleger has made national headlines for his crusades against violence on television and for a successful campaign that stopped the placement of billboards with alcohol and tobacco ads in Black neighborhoods. In 2002, he received the first Egan Social Justice Award by DePaul University’s Egan Urban Center. The award is named for the late Msgr. John J. Egan, a Chicago priest who was active for decades in many U.S. social justice movements.
In his letter to St. Sabina parishioners, Cardinal Cupich said that in adherence with the archdiocesan child protection policies, the allegation against Father Pfleger had been reported to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and the Cook County State’s Attorney. The person making the allegation has been offered the services of the archdiocesan Victim Assistance Ministry and the archdiocese has begun its investigation.
No charges have been filed.
“In the days and weeks ahead, members of the archdiocese’s Office for the Protection of Children and Youth will be available to answer any questions you may have and provide you with support during this challenging time,” the cardinal wrote.
“Please know that you are in my prayers. We will do our best to keep you informed of developments as they occur,” he said.
A statement issued Jan. 5 by the cabinet of St. Sabina’s said they believe the allegations against their senior pastor “are unfounded” and they said they “boldly stand behind the integrity, passion, work and ministry” of Father Pfleger.
The parishioners wrote that although the archdiocesan “process and protocol” has to be followed and they will fully cooperate with it, they said they believe their priest “will be fully exonerated from all accusations” and they will “stand with him during this process as he has stood with victims of injustice.”
They also wrote that they will “continue to uplift his work and the life he has committed to serving others. We will fight for the legacy of the work done by Rev. Michael Pfleger.”
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Easterly vs Sachs
William Easterly and Jeff Sachs make a living by disagreeing with each other, though it seems that there is actually quite a bit of common ground. The Los Angeles Times has a head-to-head (free registration required). So far, Easterly is beating Sachs in the readers’ poll 2:1.
Here are the money points:
William Easterly:
The end of poverty will come as a result of homegrown political and economic reforms (which are already happening in many poor countries), not through outside aid. The biggest hope for the world’s poor nations is not Bono, it is the citizens of poor nations themselves.
Jeff Sachs:
Instead of pointing to failures, we need to amplify the successes — including the green revolution, the global eradication of smallpox, the spread of literacy and, now, the promise of the Millennium Villages.
My views, for what they are worth, are as follows:
Easterly is right to challenge central planning – there are no examples in which it has worked.
Sachs is right that aid can, and does, work. Saying – as Easterly does – that we know that aid doesn’t work from the fact that Africans are still poor is like
saying that modern medicine is ineffective as people still get sick.
Though central plans are not the answer, there is too little coordination – we could do better if we reduced duplication & contradiction, learned more from success, and maximised synergies between interventions.
Sachs’s villages will prove nothing, even if they are successful. They simply cannot be scaled. Easterly’s label of "Potemkin villages" is on the mark.
Easterly is right to complain about the corrosive impact of corruption. But very little of the corruption in developing countries is fuelled by aid – most of it flows from the private sector (for example, in kickbacks for oil contracts). We all want more private sector involvement in developing countries; but Easterly is kidding himself if he thinks this will be less corrupt than aid.
Aid agencies are "devising specific, definable tasks that could actually help people and for which the public could hold them accountable" as Easterly thinks they should, and using the money for medicines, clean water, bed nets, text books, and improving the environment for business. But there is too little aid money to do enough of this. Three million people die each year of vaccine-preventable diseases alone. That is why the agencies also have to run a "glitzy but unrealistic campaign to end world poverty".
Sachs may well be right that "An African green revolution, health revolution and connectivity revolution are all within reach." Now that would be something.
7 thoughts on “Easterly vs Sachs”
Pablo May 9, 2006 at 8:51 am
"Which op-ed on foreign aid put you in a headlock?"… terrible title for the poll. I’m sure some reader’s will misunderstand the question. It might mean (1) confuse you the most, (2) made you think the most, (3) you agree with the most, (4) you disagree with the most etc……..
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Jim May 9, 2006 at 12:17 pm
"Sachs’s villages will prove nothing, even if they are successful. They simply cannot be scaled. "That’s certainly the key issue. Sachs et al seem to think they can be scaled. What do you think the main obstacle would be – no money, no coordination, no monitoring, no TV cameras?
Owen May 9, 2006 at 2:58 pm
I was persuaded by Celina Schocken, a colleague at the Center for Global Development. When Jeff Sachs presented the Millennium Villages idea at CGD, Celina said this:
I worked for you for two years in Rwanda and my question is about scalability and how these are going to be scaled up. When I was in Rwanda recently I spoke to a number of ministers who said, “Well, you know we’re sending agricultural extension agents to Bugasera. We’re sending health workers to Bugasera. This is a real priority of President Kagame. And I’m sure that it’s a priority in all of the countries where you’re working that they really want to make these villages work. And I think there’s a huge value to what you’re doing and you going and meeting with the President and really telling them that you want this village to work and I—I guess I think that that might be worth probably more than $70.00 a year, in addition the value of your going there, and all of these experts coming in and this entrepreneurship that you’re creating. How are you going to scale that? Because I would suggest that it’s going to be very difficult to do beyond one or two villages in each country.
I think that is exactly the right question.
luis enrique May 10, 2006 at 5:36 am
I’ve always been rather baffled by Easterly, because it seems to me that his strongest arguments do not require him to also argue that "aid is no use" and when he does, he flounders (as I think that debate linked to by Jim at word is weapon illustrates)
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Contemporary Security Studies (4th edn)
10.1093/hepl/9780198708315.001.0001
Contemporary Security Studies provides an introduction to Security Studies. It features a wide breadth and depth of coverage of the different theoretical approaches to the ... More
Contemporary Security Studies provides an introduction to Security Studies. It features a wide breadth and depth of coverage of the different theoretical approaches to the study of security and the ever-evolving range of issues that dominate the security agenda in the twenty-first century. In addition to covering a large range of topical security issues, from terrorism and inter-state armed conflict to cyber-security, health, and transnational crime, the fourth edition features a new chapter on postcolonialism and expanded coverage of Critical Security Studies. Throughout, readers are encouraged to question their own preconceptions and assumptions, and to use their own judgement to critically evaluate key approaches and ideas. To help them achieve this, each chapter is punctuated with helpful learning features including ‘key ideas’, ‘think points’ and case studies, demonstrating the real world applications and implications of the theory.Less
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Contemporary Security Studies provides an introduction to Security Studies. It features a wide breadth and depth of coverage of the different theoretical approaches to the study of security and the ever-evolving range of issues that dominate the security agenda in the twenty-first century. In addition to covering a large range of topical security issues, from terrorism and inter-state armed conflict to cyber-security, health, and transnational crime, the fifth edition features updated coverage of the on-going Syrian crisis, the deepening crisis effecting Liberal Internationalism and, while early in his term of office, President Trump’s stamp on international security. Throughout, readers are encouraged to question their own preconceptions and assumptions, and to use their own judgement to critically evaluate key approaches and ideas. To help them achieve this, each chapter is punctuated with helpful learning features including ‘key ideas’, ‘think points’ and case studies, demonstrating the real world applications and implications of the theory.Less
Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches (7th edn)
Robert Jackson, Georg Sørensen, and Jørgen Møller
Introduction to International Relations provides a concise introduction to the principal international relations theories, and explores how theory can be used to analyse ... More
Introduction to International Relations provides a concise introduction to the principal international relations theories, and explores how theory can be used to analyse contemporary issues. Readers are introduced to the most important theories, encompassing both classical and contemporary approaches and debates. Throughout the text, the chapters encourage readers to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the theories presented, and the major points of contention between them. In so doing, the text helps the reader to build a clear understanding of how major theoretical debates link up with each other, and how the structure of the discipline of international relations is established. The book places a strong emphasis throughout on the relationship between theory and practice, carefully explaining how theories organize and shape our view of the world. It also shows how a historical perspective can often refine theories and provide a frame of reference for contemporary problems of international relations. Topics include realism, liberalism, International Society, International Political Economy, social constructivism, post-positivism in international relations, and foreign policy. Each chapter ends by discussing how different theories have attempted to integrate or combine international and domestic factors in their explanatory frameworks. The final chapter is dedicated to key global issues and how theory can be used as a tool to analyse and interpret these issues. The text is accompanied by online resources, which include: short case studies, review questions, annotated web links, and a flashcard glossary.Less
Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies (5th edn)
John Baylis, James J. Wirtz, and Colin S. Gray (eds)
Strategy in the Contemporary World presents an introduction to the role of military power in today's world. This edition explores both the enduring and historical issues which ... More
Strategy in the Contemporary World presents an introduction to the role of military power in today's world. This edition explores both the enduring and historical issues which have shaped the study of strategy and the contemporary issues that dominate today's headlines. The new edition has been updated to reflect the changing structure of global politics and rapid technological developments, with the inclusion of four new chapters on the history of the practice of strategy, geopolitics and grand strategy, strategy and defence planning, and the theory and practice of continental warfare. These address issues such as the history of warfare from the Ancient Greek to Napoleonic eras; the relationship between strategy and operational issues; and the theory-practice relationship, via four case studies. Chapters presents readers with a diversity of perspectives and voices, and in each a debate box is employed to explore the opposing arguments around key controversies.Less
Strategy in the Contemporary World (6th edn)
John Baylis, James Wirtz, and Colin Gray (eds)
Strategy in the Contemporary World provides a critical overview of both enduring and contemporary issues that dominate strategy. This text explores key debates and alternative ... More
Strategy in the Contemporary World provides a critical overview of both enduring and contemporary issues that dominate strategy. This text explores key debates and alternative perspectives, considers key controversies and presents opposing arguments, helping readers to build critical thinking skills and reflect upon a wide range of perspectives. The new edition has been updated to incorporate the latest developments in the field of strategic studies. A new chapter on ‘The West and the Rest’ examines the limitations and problems strategic studies face when dealing with security challenges in the global South, stressing the importance of diversity in the field and the important contributions the non-Western world has made to international relations theories and concepts. Another chapter on ‘Geography and Strategy’ focuses on important developments in air power, maritime strategy and the rapid expansion of space and cyberwar.Less
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PLAN is a Multitype Library Cooperative (MLC), serving the sixteen-county region comprising the Florida Panhandle. Our members include academic, public, specialized, and school libraries. PLAN is governed by a Board of Directors composed of member library directors elected by the general membership.
PLAN is a vital and innovative library network that enables its members to deliver the highest quality services and programs to their communities throughout the Florida Panhandle. It provides a collaborative platform for members to share information, resources, and expertise. PLAN members are engaged, active participants and contributors. PLAN works with other organizations and cooperatives to share resources and to ensure that all Floridians have access to the information and resources they need.
PLAN, a membership network of libraries and other information organizations, collaborates with many partners to provide leadership, to improve access to information, and to enable its members to address the region’s needs for education, economic development and improved quality of life.
What is a Multitype Library Cooperative?
Florida’s five Multitype Library Cooperatives (MLCs), are authorized by Florida Statutes, Chapter 257.41 (1) which states that libraries that are under separate governances may establish non-profit library cooperatives. PLAN was established in 1991 and is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Florida’s five MLCs include:
Panhandle Library Access Network (PLAN)
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Florida Statutes regarding Multitype Library Cooperatives:
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257.42 Grants
Why MLCs Matter:
Libraries need close, in-region support. And, no single library can provide everything its users need. Florida’s MLCs were formed to address these needs by providing an organization for libraries in a geographic region to share materials through interlibrary loan, provide cost-efficient library staff training, achieve economies of scale when purchasing library resources, benefit from partnering with nearby libraries of all types, and have access to greater collection resources. Through membership in Florida’s MLCs, even the smallest libraries have greatly increased resources and opportunities.
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DOOR FIRM THERMA-TRU SEEKING COURT ORDER
HOUSTON - Maumee, Ohio-based composite door maker Therma-Tru Corp., which recently won a favorable appeals court ruling on its patent infringement lawsuit against Peachtree Doors Inc., said it will seek a court order to stop production of Peachtree's Newport-brand door. The dispute centers on both firms' stainable doors that have a compression molded skin made of sheet molding compound and are stamped to look like wood grain. At the Builders' Show in Houston, Therma-Tru distributed a news release on the latest court ruling.
Therma-Tru originally sued Peachtree in U.S. District Court in Detroit in 1989, and, in 1991, a jury found that Peachtree's Newport door infringed on the patent for Therma-Tru's Fiber-Classic door. But the judge set aside the jury's verdict and ruled against Therma-Tru. Stephen Bores, Therma-Tru president and chief operating officer, said both companies appealed the case.
On Jan. 4, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington affirmed the jury's ruling that Peachtree infringed on Therma-Tru's 1984 patent. Peachtree has filed a motion asking the appeals court to reconsider its decision.
Therma-Tru said the case now returns to U.S. District Court in Detroit for a hearing to stop Peachtree from making the door and to determine damages.
A Peachtree official had no comment. Peachtree still makes the door. It has plants in Norcross and Gainesville, Ga.
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Watch the First 12 Minutes of Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
Jordan Biazzo Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Thanks to IGN, the first twelve minutes of the upcoming Final Fantasy XV film, Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV, has been released. The footage shows the opening scenes of the movie where we see some of the main characters; King Regis of Lucis played by Sean Bean and a member of the Kingsglaive, Nyx, who is played by Aaron Paul.
The animated film stars some big names such as the aforementioned Sean Bean and Aaron Paul, while also bringing over Game of Thrones star Lena Heady (Cersei). The movie is about King Regis, who oversees the land of Lucis, commands his army of soldiers to protect the kingdom from the Niflheim empire’s plans to steal the sacred crystal which gives Lucis its magic and power.
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV will appear in select theaters on August 19, 2016, and will be available to digitally download on August 30. The Blu-ray and DVD will be available in retail starting October 4. In recent Final Fantasy news, Square Enix has officially announced that the highly anticipated Final Fantasy XV will be delayed two months resulting in a new November 29 release date.
Are you excited for Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV?
Tags: Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy XV, Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV, Sony, Square Enix
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Multi-Award Nominee: Woody Bear (and co!)
The team at Pleasurewood Hills have been recognised on a national level for their efforts at the park during the recent Coronavirus lockdown and beyond.
The park has been shortlisted in six categories in the "UK Theme Park Awards", hosted by the popular UK Theme Parks website.
With nominations in a number of categories, the staff at Pleasurewood Hills are keen to receive backing from fans of the park. Alongside nods for their current efforts, the park has also been nominated in the "Best Lockdown Activity" category for their recent online Woody Bear Dance Parties.
Pleasurewood Hills Marketing and Sales Manager, Andrew Fuller, said of the nominations;
“This is a fantastic achievement for the park, to be recognised for the hard work from the team and the guest experience. The competition is tough, as Pleasurewood Hills is up against the likes of Alton Towers, Drayton Manor, Legoland and Blackpool Pleasure Beach."
Voting is now open, so cast your vote today: www.themeparks-uk.com/vote
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Mike Collier
Collier, the 2018 Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of Texas, was the party's 2014 nominee for state comptroller. He worked for 20 years as a top executive at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, an international accounting firm, and then became chief financial officer of a Texas oil company.
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"Earlier this year, Dan Patrick and Republican leadership snatched millions of dollars in benefits from retired teachers."
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Opponent Glenn Hegar expressed pride in legislated cuts to public school funding.
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"Glenn Hegar promised to eliminate the property tax."
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League of their own
Polly Coufos, in STM EntertainmentNews Corp Australia
September 11, 2009 10:00PM
WA NewsEntertainment
SINCE forming in early 2007, things have been moving very fast for Perth band Harlequin League.
Within months they had taken out the Next Big Thing band comp, joining such illustrious company as John Butler and Snowman, and had been added to the 2008 Big Day Out bill.
The young rockers could have been forgiven for thinking it all seemed too easy. But if the quick rise gave them stars in their eyes, they appear to have kept their feet on the ground. They recorded an EP, We Used to Be Gods, Now We’re So Plain, in Melbourne and a second, I Don’t Do Friends, in Perth before getting down to the serious business of readying their debut album for release.
The band’s leader, Seb Astone, says the four members, all still in their early 20s, had agreed they would record the album in their home city with Andy Lawson of the famed Debaser production house.
The first taste of the album, lead single Won’t Change the World, was added to their Myspace page this week.
“It was a good experience going over and recording in the east,” Abstone says, “but considering where production is heading it made sense to record in Perth. Andy has a good head for songwriting as well and we thought we’d do it in the comfort of our home surrounds.”
The plan is to record the album on a song by song basis. It’s envisaged further tracks will be recorded in the next month or two, with the bulk of the work to be undertaken in January. The unrushed schedule allows for consideration of previously recorded material and new songs.
By Astone’s calculations, the band have written between 40 and 50 songs in their almost three-year existence.
“We are pretty prolific,” he says. “Not everything is necessarily good, but we can really pump out a lot of songs. The arduous process of getting the songs together is a little nerve-racking, as opposed to the live thing, which we aren’t that nervous about anymore.”
While working on their album, Harlequin League will be taking a break from the stage. The exceptions to this self-imposed exile are for the launch of Won’t Change the World and their participation in the massive One Movement For Music festival next month. Astone is excited about the prospect of playing on such a massive stage – one where they’ll be performing to thousands of music fans and also hundreds of music industry insiders from around the world.
“Any chance to play on a large bill like that you grab,” he says.
And what do Harlequin League hope will come from their involvement in One Movement? “At the moment we are pretty stoically independent, I guess, but you can’t close yourself off to any opportunities that might come,” Astone says. “We would love it if some opportunities came along through the festival but it’s best not to focus on that.
“If you are putting yourself out there and playing on a regular basis, people will become aware of you. I think it’s all about having the best songs, anyway.”
Harlequin League play One Movement For Music Festival on Oct 18. For more information, visitwww.onemovementmusic.com.au.Won’t Change the World will be launched on September 19 at Amplifier, Perth, 8pm. Tickets $15.60 from Moshtix, Mills, Planet, Star Perth and Heatseeker.
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Sackett: Sacketts 8
by Louis LAmour
New Mass Market
Publisher Comments
In Sackett, Louis L’Amour introduces readers to a wandering man with a desire to settle down and build a good life.
Hard circumstances have made William Tell Sackett a drifter, but now he hungers for a place he can’t name yet knows he has to find. South of the Tetons he comes upon a ghost of a trail that leads him through a keyhole pass into a lonely, alien, yet beautiful valley—a valley that holds a fortune in gold.
Then he finds an even greater treasure: beautiful Ange Kerry, a courageous and resourceful woman. Yet the harsh ways it takes to preserve his claim and his life could be the one thing that drives Ange away forever.
Louis L'Amour's classic novels of the West make for perfect Father's Day gifts
In Sackett, Louis L'Amour introduces readers to a wandering man with a desire to settle down and build a good life.
Hard circumstances have made William Tell Sackett a drifter, but now he hungers for a place he can't name yet knows he has to find. South of the Tetons he comes upon a ghost of a trail that leads him through a keyhole pass into a lonely, alien, yet beautiful valley--a valley that holds a fortune in gold.
William Tell Sackett had followed a different path from his younger brothers, but his name, like theirs, was spoken with respect and just a little fear. Where Orrin had brought law and order from New Mexico to the plains of Montana, backed up by the gunfighting talents of his brother Tye, Tell Sackett's destiny drew him to Texas after he had to kill a man. There, in the high, lonesome country, he came upon a vein of pure gold. All he'd wanted was enough to buy a ranch, but he soon learned that gold had ways of its own with men.
Louis LAmour is undoubtedly the bestselling frontier novelist of all time. He is the only American-born author in history to receive both the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold Medal in honor of his life's work. He has published ninety novels; twenty-seven short-story collections; two works of nonfiction; a memoir, Education of a Wandering Man; and a volume of poetry, Smoke from This Altar. There are more than 300 million copies of his books in print worldwide.
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Power to Change signs up to become Living Wage Funder
The charitable trust will offer top-ups to ensure all grants cover the Real Living Wage, and help community businesses to become Living Wage Employers.
Power to Change, the charitable trust which supports community businesses across England, has today been recognised as a Living Wage Funder by the Living Wage Foundation. Already an accredited Living Wage Employer, the trust now wants to go a step further and support its grantees to work towards ending low pay by joining the Living Wage Foundation’s Funder programme.
Power to Change joins 52 Living Wage Funders including People’s Health Trust, National Lottery Community Fund, Lloyds Bank Foundation and Comic Relief. From now on, Power to Change will uplift any grants that cover salaries to the real Living Wage Rates set by the Living Wage Foundation (£9.30 outside of London, £10.75 in London), in order to ensure those salaries are paid a wage that reflects the rising cost of living.
The trust will also work with the Living Wage Foundation and partners at Locality, Plunkett, Cooperatives UK and the School for Social Entrepreneurs to create the first toolkits specifically to help businesses and charities in the social sector overcome challenges to implementing the Living Wage.
Vidhya Alakeson, Power to Change Chief Executive, said: “Community businesses are doing invaluable work to help tackle some of the country’s biggest challenges, working from the bottom up. By becoming a Living Wage Funder, we are seizing the opportunity to support as many of this country’s 9,000 community businesses as possible to improve the pay of their staff and work towards becoming accredited Living Wage Employers. With 33,600 people employed by community businesses, this can make a difference to a lot of people’s lives, enhancing the positive impact of community businesses on local people and place.”
Katherine Chapman, Director of the Living Wage Foundation, said: “We are delighted to recognise Power to Change as a Living Wage Funder. They’ve shown true leadership and a commitment to tackle the corrosive effects low pay has on individuals, businesses and communities. Those in the voluntary and community sectors work hard every day to tackle societal challenges and poverty; it’s only right that they are afforded at least a Living Wage. We hope to see many more funders and corporates follow the lead of Power to Change and the other Living Wage Funders.”
Several community businesses across England are already Living Wage accredited. Stretford Public Hall, a multipurpose venue on the outskirts of Manchester, is one of them. Kate McGeevor, Centre Manager, said: “We are really pleased to have recently become an accredited Living Wage Employer. We had always tried to pay all employees the Real Living Wage but the accreditation process helped to formalise this and commits us to annual reviews of salaries. We felt it was important to ensure we are always paying everyone a fair salary that reflects the increasing cost of living.”
Anji Barker, who runs community hub Newbiggin House in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, added: “As a charity we believe that the current minimum wage does not allow people to live an abundant life. We became a Living Wage Employer working towards a fairer and les exploitative system of financial inclusion. We don’t want to be guilty of paying our valuable community members a wage that we don’t believe is liveable on.”
Any community businesses who would like to speak to Power to Change about the living wage can contact matt.fazal@powertochange.org.uk
About Power to Change
Power to Change is the independent trust that supports community businesses in England.
Community businesses are locally rooted, community-led, trade for community benefit and make life better for local people. The sector owns assets worth £890m, and comprises 9,000 community businesses across England who employ 33,600 people. (Source: Community Business Market 2019)
From pubs to libraries; shops to bakeries; swimming pools to solar farms; community businesses are creating great products and services, providing employment and training and transforming lives. Power to Change received its endowment from the National Lottery Community Fund in 2015.
www.powertochange.org.uk @peoplesbiz
For more information please contact: Alex Valk 07384 812777 alexandra.valk@powertochange.org.uk
About The National Lottery Community Fund
We are the largest community funder in the UK – we’re proud to award money raised by National Lottery players to communities across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Since June 2004, we have made over 200,000 grants and awarded over £9 billion to projects that have benefited millions of people.
We are passionate about funding great ideas that matter to communities and make a difference to people’s lives. At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when people are in the lead, communities thrive. Thanks to the support of National Lottery players, our funding is open to everyone. We’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of local groups right up to UK-wide charities, enabling people and communities to bring their ambitions to life.
About the real Living Wage
The real Living Wage is the only rate calculated according to what people need to make ends meet. It provides a voluntary benchmark for employers that choose to take a stand by ensuring their staff earn a wage that meets the costs and pressures they face in their everyday lives.
The UK Living Wage is currently £9.30 per hour. There is a separate London Living Wage rate of £10.75 per hour to reflect the higher costs of transport, childcare and housing in the capital. These figures are calculated annually by the Resolution Foundation and overseen by the Living Wage Commission, based on the best available evidence on living standards in London and the UK.
The Living Wage Foundation is the organisation at the heart of the movement of businesses, organisations and individuals who campaign for the simple idea that a hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay. The Living Wage Foundation receives guidance and advice from the Living Wage Advisory Council. The Foundation is supported by our principal partners: Aviva; IKEA; Joseph Rowntree Foundation; KPMG; Linklaters; Nationwide; Nestle; Resolution Foundation; Oxfam; Trust for London; People’s Health Trust; and Queen Mary University of London.
What about the Government’s national living wage?
In July 2015 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that the UK Government would introduce a compulsory ‘national living wage’. This new government rate is a new minimum wage rate for staff over 25 years old. It was introduced in April 2016 and the rate is £8.21 per hour as of April 2019. The rate is different to the Living Wage rates calculated by the Living Wage Foundation. The government rate is based on median earnings while the Living Wage Foundation rates are calculated according to the cost of living in London and the UK.
Living Wage Funders
Living Wage Funders are funders or grant-makers who champion the Living Wage by enabling and supporting their grantees to pay the real Living Wage both in posts they fund and throughout their organisation.
In 2017 the Living Wage Foundation carried out research into the extent of low pay in the charity sector and, in consultation with the sector, developed an action plan to tackle it. It found that we needed funders, government commissioners and charities to work together to challenge the race to the bottom and pay staff delivering vital services fairly.
The network of 53 Living Wage Funders working to end low pay in the third sector includes National Lottery Community Fund, Comic Relief, Barrow Cadbury Trust, Lloyds Bank Foundation, People’s Health Trust and Croydon Council.
https://www.livingwage.org.uk/how-become-living-wage-funder
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Heidi Roy of the Cariboo Jade Shop in Cache Creek with the boulder that was stolen from outside their shop on Dec. 19. The rock has been recovered intact, but with a few battle scars. (Photo credit: Submitted)
Jade boulder recovered intact after daring theft in Cache Creek
Suspects have been identified and police say investigation is ongoing
Barbara Roden
Ashcroft RCMP have recovered a jade boulder weighing more than 2,850 pounds that was stolen from outside the Cariboo Jade Shop in Cache Creek on Dec. 19.
“The jade boulder was recovered intact,” says Sgt. Darren Angman, CO of the Ashcroft detachment. “We have identified suspects, and the investigation is still ongoing.”
Angman says that no arrests have been made and that the investigation is ongoing, as police are still trying to tie the theft to the suspects.
Heidi Roy, whose family owns the Jade Shop and whose father Ben installed the boulder outside the shop in 1985, is thrilled that it has been recovered.
“We are so happy to have it back in one piece, although with a few scars from its adventure,” she tells the Journal. “Thank you to all of you who have been keeping an eye out and sending in tips, as well as kind words of sympathy and encouragement received from across the country.
“It is clear that this stone meant a lot to many more people than we realized.”
Two Ashcroft residents who were returning from Kamloops spotted a pickup truck towing a flat-deck trailer with an excavator on it leaving the Jade Shop parking lot at 11:55 p.m. on Dec. 19. They saw the boulder on the flat-deck and pursued the truck, which was heading east on Highway 1 toward Kamloops. They called 9-1-1 to report the incident, but turned around after a man thought to be associated with the theft threw a boulder at them near the Ghost of Walhachin pullout east of Cache Creek.
Jarrett Fitzpatrick, who was driving the vehicle, says that although the damage to his vehicle “sucked”, he would do it again to try to catch the thieves. He wants to give a big thanks to Bill Elliott and the Cariboo Jade Shop, who contacted him to say that they would pay his deductible for the repairs.
“The fact that I was going to have to pay my deductible really sucked right before Christmas (what a way to end the worst year ever lol),” he wrote in a message to the Ashcroft Journal. “However Bill and the Jade Shop have stepped up and phoned me to let me know that they will be covering it for me.
“To some people it might not seem like much but to someone like me it is so appreciated.”
Police have now determined that at 9:45 p.m. on Dec. 19 the pickup truck, trailer, and excavator were at a hotel parking lot next door to the Jade Shop. At approximately 11:05 p.m. a man was seen walking to the truck, which then drove to the Jade Shop, where the excavator was used to lift the jade boulder onto the trailer.
The suspect vehicle was later seen turning around on the Deadman-Vidette Road, approximately 32 kilometres off Highway 1 west of Savona. Kamloops RCMP later found the trailer abandoned in that area, but the excavator and boulder were gone. On Monday, Dec. 21 Chase RCMP located an abandoned truck matching the pickup truck used in the theft.
The boulder has been a much-loved and -photographed attraction in Cache Creek since it was installed outside the Jade Shop. Despite its size, its commercial value is minimal, as it is composed of low-quality jade. Roy, however, says that it is of great historic and sentimental value to Cache Creek.
“I’m seeing comments from all over the province and the world from people who took a picture of the rock, saying how much it meant to them,” she said, shortly after the boulder was stolen.”To us it’s priceless.”
Police are asking for the public’s assistance with the investigation. Anyone with information about the incident, who was in the area at the time, or who has dash cam footage is asked to contact the Ashcroft RCMP at (250) 453-2216. If you wish to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
editorial@accjournal.ca
The jade boulder stolen from outside the Cariboo Jade Shop in Cache Creek on Dec. 19, pictured in May 2020. (Photo credit: Barbara Roden)
GALLERY: British Columbians celebrate triumphs during a trying year
Regional District of Nanaimo forms fire services advisory committee
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Pelican Products Answers The Mail Call. Welcomes Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey
Torrance, CA · April 13, 2009
Pelican™ Products, the global leader in the design and manufacture of advanced lighting systems and virtually indestructible cases, recently welcomed the host of History Channel’s popular show Mail Call and upcoming show Lock and Load – Gunnery Sergeant (Gunny), R. Lee Ermey.
Pelican’s CEO, Lyndon Faulkner arranged to take Gunny on a guided tour of Pelican’s 120,000 square foot facility to visit with employees. At the end of the tour, Faulkner presented Gunny with two Pelican long cases emblazoned with the “Gunny Approved” logo.
Probably best known for his role as the menacing “Drill Instructor Hartmann” in Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam Conflict saga Full Metal Jacket, Mr. Ermey is an avid competitive shooter and uses Pelican long cases to protect his weapons while travelling.
About Mail Call
Retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey takes viewers' questions concerning military hardware and technology, then consults with experts to answer them. Topics covered to date include gas masks, Gatling guns, night vision equipment, and samurai swords.
About R. Lee Ermey
R. Lee Ermey is a Golden Globe nominee and Boston Society of Film Critics Award Winner for Best Supporting Actor in director Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket and after more than 25 years in the business, is one of the most successful and talented actors in film and television today. Ermey served 11 years active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps and rose to the rank of staff NCO. He served two years as a drill instructor and a tour of duty in Viet Nam and was medically retired in 1971. His post military career saw him utilizing his G.I. Bill benefits to enroll at the University of Manila in the Philippines to study drama. At that time, Francis Ford Coppola was filming Apocalypse Now in the area and cast Ermey in a featured role. He has since gone on to star or appear in approximately sixty films. You can find his website at www.rleeermey.com.
Pelican Products, Inc. is a portfolio company of Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm based in New York and San Francisco.
Pelican Products, Inc. is the global leader in the design and manufacture of high performance protective cases, temperature controlled packaging solutions, advanced portable lighting systems and rugged gear for professionals and outdoor enthusiasts. Their products are used by professionals in the most demanding markets including fire safety, law enforcement, defense / military, aerospace, entertainment, industrial and in numerous outdoor markets. Pelican™ products are designed and built to last a lifetime. The company operates in 26 countries, with 24 international sales offices and seven manufacturing facilities around the globe. In Europe, the company does business under the name Peli Products, S.L.U. For more information, visit www.pelican.com or www.behrmancap.com.
All trademarks and logos displayed herein are registered and unregistered trademarks of Pelican Products, Inc.
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Maureen Gaffney
Your One Wild and Precious Life
A unique whole-life plan for navigating these ever-changing times and living a happy, productive and successful life
Centennials. Millennials. Gen X'ers. Baby boomers. Traditionalists. We are in an era that loves a label at a time when how we actually live has never been more fluid.
Unlike previous generations, we no longer expect to leave education forever in our early twenties; to be ready for the mortgage and 2.4 children by the time we hit thirty; to remain in one career till retirement; to give up on love or adventure or intellectual challenge as we age. It's exciting, liberating . . . and also, unsettling.
Drawing on fascinating psychological research on how we are affected by these ever-shifting goalposts The Complete Life is a radical new perspective on making the best of our lives. Distinguished psychologist Maureen Gaffney applies a unique full life approach to navigating these complicated times. In The Complete Life she:
- explores how our past, present and future are inextricably linked and how they influence each other in surprising and complex ways;
- explains what motivates us to grow and develop and be at our best at every age and stage;
- suggests how we can sustain our most important relationships and also manage the key elements of our lives - learning, working, mental and physical wellbeing - in every decade.
The Complete Life is full of lively examples and concrete strategies. It is an inspirational, timely and essential manual for 21st-century living by the renowned author of the Number One bestseller, Flourishing.
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Leading psychologist Dr Maureen Gaffney combines work in academia with a busy international consultancy business. She also serves on the executive committee of the Women's Leadership Board at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Her last book, Flourishing, was a Number One bestseller in Ireland and has sold over 70,000 copies. She is also a columnist, broadcaster and speaker.
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Abortion foe from Auburn to challenge Susan Collins
Linda Wooten, a former Republican state committee member, is entering the U.S. Senate race as "the only pro-life candidate."
By Steve CollinsSun Journal
AUBURN — Vowing to protect gun rights and oppose abortion, an Auburn independent announced this week that she is going to run for the U.S. Senate seat held for the past 24 years by Republican Susan Collins.
Linda Wooten, independent U.S. Senate candidate from Auburn Provided
Linda Wooten, a former state GOP committee member from Androscoggin County, said there “has to be a voice for unborn children” so she’s gathering signatures to secure a spot on the Nov. 3 ballot as “the only pro-life candidate” in the race.
“There’s no need for any Maine voter to yet again plug his/her nose and vote for the ‘lesser of two evils’ like before,” Wooten wrote on social media, insisting that voters “deserve to know we now have a better candidate for that important seat in the U.S. Senate.”
“We need choices,” she said Friday.
Collins doesn’t have a challenger within the Republican Party, but four Democrats are vying to take her on, including state House Speaker Sara Gideon, and at least two other independents have already declared their intention to run.
Wooten, 60, is handing out slips of paper with her contact information that ask voters, “Sick of Collins? Scared of Gideon?”
Since the Senate race outcome will be decided by ranked-choice voting, votes for Wooten wouldn’t necessarily wind up hurting Collins if the incumbent gets support in second or third round counts from voters whose first pick winds up with too little to have a chance.
Wooten said, though, that she’s not sure how ranked-choice voting will play into the race. She said she’s running to win.
“It’s a tall order,” she said, but not impossible.
Collins, first elected in 1996, is widely considered one of the most vulnerable incumbents this year, with most election experts rating Maine a toss-up as candidates head toward a general election that’s already one of the most costly and vicious in the state’s history.
Collins has long supported abortion rights, to the dismay of voters who want to outlaw the procedure.
For Wooten, it’s a moral issue because, she said, “babies are being dismembered while they’re alive in the womb.”
The other independents in the race are Tiffany Bond, a lawyer from Portland, and Danielle VanHelsing, a trans rights activist from Sangerville. Bond was on the ballot in 2018 in Maine’s 2nd District congressional race, where she got 6% of the vote in the first round to place third in a four-way contest.
For independents to win a spot on the general election ballot, they need to gather 4,000 signatures by June 1, no easy task. Wooten said she’s holding meet-and-greet sessions to get signatures, and she plans to solicit more at big events such as gun shows.
“I think I’ll make it on the ballot,” she said.
In addition to Gideon, Democrats seeking their party’s backing in a June 9 primary are Betsy Sweet, a Hallowell activist; Bre Kidman, a Saco lawyer; and Ross LaJeunesse, a former Google executive from Biddeford.
There is also a Maine Green Independent contender, Lisa Savage of Solon.
Though there are a lot of contenders, Wooten said, all the rest “want to do something about the gun rights issue and they are all pro-choice.” She said she’s the only one firmly committed to defending gun rights and opposing abortion.
Wooten grew up in Portland, earned an associate’s degree, and has worked in a variety of positions, including toll collector on the Maine Turnpike, vocational director and property management.
While often working two jobs to get by, she raised three children as a single parent before marrying Lawrence Wooten, a musician who died last summer.
Wooten said she’s been mulling a possible campaign for a few years but decided to take the plunge only last month.
She said former Republican presidential candidate and ex-U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, a libertarian, caught her attention and got her seriously interested in politics. Though raised in a Democratic family, she said she switched to the GOP so she could vote for Paul.
Wooten said she got so involved that she wound up on the Maine Republican Party’s platform committee and served from 2012 to 2014 on the GOP state committee as one of Androscoggin County’s representatives.
At a minimum, Wooten said, her candidacy will get people talking about important issues that are too often neglected.
Governor, attorney general urge caution on changes to 1980 state-tribal agreement
Report questions effectiveness of Maine tax incentive programs
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RABBI IDAN SCHER
E-TALMUD
The Sustaining Power of Our Memories
Yizkor Sermon, Pesach 2019
Today and yesterday, the last days of Pesach, commemorate the splitting of the Sea of Reeds and the Children of Israel crossing on dry land.
We are told that as the Jewish people were getting ready to leave Egypt, Moses, the leader of the people, was busy with one important task. He needed to fulfill a promise made to Joseph hundreds of years earlier. Joseph the second youngest of the sons of Jacob who was sold into slavery to Egypt by his brothers rose to become the viceroy of Egypt his brothers promise that when the time of their exodus came they or their offspring would take his remains with them and make sure he was buried in the and of Israel.
Moses was busy collecting the remains of Joseph to fulfill the promise years earlier.
Joseph’s directive is interesting. It is not surprising that Joseph would want to be buried in the Land of Israel, not in Egypt. He could, however, have asked to be taken to be buried there immediately after his death, as Jacob did. Joseph certainly had the political clout to o. He chose, however, to do something different.
He asked brothers to make a promise binding for the future. he question is why?
Perhaps Joseph in his wisdom realized that this way he would be able to give the children of Israel strength to not despair. Joseph was communicating a message to the next generations of our nation still in Egypt: “Do you know how confident I am that this is just a temporary situation and redemption will come? I am willing to bet my burial in the Land of Israel on it. This message of absolute confidence would sustain the people throughout their time of suffering and persecution.
But there is more. If Joseph would have immediately been buried in Israel then the memory of Joseph and what he represented, a deeply connected and principled Jew who stood out as the greatest of leaders in a foreign country compromising his identity, would have faded quite quick of sight out of mind. He insisted on staying in Egypt, even after his death. This way, his memory stayed with the Children of Israel. This memory would be a source of strength during their years in Egypt would guide them would sustain them.
Because that is what memories have the power to do times in an even more powerful way than anything we may do in real time.
Memories of our history, of those that came before us, they occupy a most significant role in our faith.
Memories have the power to guide and sustain us.
As Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks shares: If you examine carefully the walls of Jerusalem, you will see a curious phenomenon. Jerusalem was destroyed many times. But each time, its walls were rebuilt from the stones of the ruins of the earlier walls. Out of the ruins of the past, Jerusalem has been rebuilt out of the fragments of the memories of the past, the Jewish people have been reborn.
In a matter of a few days Yom HaShoah will be upon us and we will remember the Holocaust and all of those that perished. Those memories- will sustain us as we live for what they died .
One of the greatest Chassidic masters of pre-war Poland was Rabbi Klonimus Kalman Shapira (1889-1943), the Master of Piaseczno. In his Polish city of Piaseczno he founded one of the largest Jewish schools in Poland. He ran a school with thousands of children’ father, mother, and best friend. In 1940, Rabbi Klonimus Kalman was deported with his family by the Germans to the Warsaw ghetto. There he wrote a precious book called "The Holy Fire", Eish Kodesh, which recounted the teachings he gave in the darkness of the ghetto. He buried the book in a milk barrel underground the ghetto. In 1943 he was shot near Lublin. His entire family was exterminated. After the war, his manuscript was discovered by a construction worker in Warsaw and was given to the Warsaw Jewish community. In 1957, someone finally realized what it was; it was sent and published in Israel in 1961.
The famous Jewish composer Shlomo Carlebach related this story:
When the book Eish Kodesh came out after the war was over, I couldn’t believe its beauty, it so pierced my heart. I asked everyone, “Where are those children? The precious children who heard these teachings every week in Warsaw? I would love to meet even one of them.” I was told that nobody survived.
But one day, a few years ago, I was walking down Rechov Yarcon, a street near the beach of Tel Aviv. There I saw a man with a hunched back; he looked so broken and crushed. His face was beautiful, so handsome, but his body was misshapen. He was sweeping the streets. I had a feeling this person was special and so I said, “Shalom, peace unto you.”
He replied to me in the heaviest Polish accent “Alaichem shalom.” I asked if he was from Poland. And he said, “Yes I’m from Piaseczno.” I couldn’t believe it—Piaseczno. I asked if he had ever seen Rabbi Klonimus Kalman, the Master of Piaseczno. He said to me, “What do you mean, have I seen him? I was a student in his school from the age of five until I was eleven. When I was eleven, I was sent to Auschwitz. I was so strong they thought I was seventeen. I was whipped and hit and kicked and never healed- that is why I look the way I do now. I have nobody in the world. I’m all alone. My entire family was murdered.” And he kept on sweeping the streets of Tel Aviv.
I said, “My sweetest friend, my whole life I’ve been waiting to see you, a person who saw the Master of Piaseczno, a person who was one of his children. Please, share with me one of his teachings.”
The man glared at me. “Do you think you can be in Auschwitz for three years and still remember any teachings?!”
“Yes, I’m sure of it,” I said. “Rabbi Shapira’s teachings—they pierce your heart?”
The man went to the water fountain to wash his hands. He fixed his shirt, put on his jacket, and then said to me one more time, “Do you really want to hear it?”
I nodded in the affirmative and so he began. “I want you to know that there never was such a Shabbat as this one in our childhood town of Piaseczno. We danced, hundreds of us, as our Rebbe led us in a song to greet the holy Shabbat. At the Shabbat meal Rabbi Shapira taught between every course. After every teaching this is what the master would say: “Children, remember! The greatest thing in the world is to do somebody else a favor.” And he repeated this line over and over again.
The man sighed. “You know, my parents were gone, my entire family, no one exists anymore. I was in Auschwitz all alone and I wanted to take my life. I remember deciding I was going to run to the electrified fence and at the last moment I could hear my master say, “Kinderlach, children…do somebody else a favor. Do somebody a favor.’”
The man looked directly at me and said: “Do you know how many favors you can do in Auschwitz at night? People are lying in indescribable pain, and nobody even has any strength to listen to their stories anymore. I would walk from one person to the other and ask, ‘Why are you crying?’ and they would tell me about their children, their wives, the people they’d never see again. I would hold their hands and cry with them. Then I would walk to the next person. I hope it gave them strength, I know that is where I found the strength to continue for another day.
The man continued: After the war I made it to Tel Aviv. I had no one in my life. Most people were afraid to approach me because of the way I look. And there were times that I just wanted to give up. I would go down to the beach and I would take off my shoes. I would step into the sea and I would slowly walk. I would go up to my nose in the ocean, ready to drown, but in those moments I couldn’t help but hear my Rebbe’s voice saying, ‘The greatest thing in the world is to do somebody else a favor. Remember, my precious children, the greatest thing in the world is to do somebody else a favor.’”
The man stared at me again for a long time and said, “You know how many favors you can do on the streets of the world?”
And he kept on sweeping the street.
Memories guide us and memories sustain us Yizkor. It is our opportunity to keep those memories alive make sure they stay with us and never fade. Memories of our loved ones and what they lived for. We ensure these memories live on inside of us as they give us strength in every area of our lives.
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born on 9/6/1934 in Detroit, MI, United States
died on 21/1/1984 in Wayne, MI, United States
Links www.jackiewilson.net (English)
Biography Discography Songs Biography Discography Songs
Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984) was an American soul singer and performer. A tenor with a four-octave vocal range, he was nicknamed "Mr. Excitement", and was important in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. He was considered a master showman, and one of the most dynamic and influential singers and performers in R&B and rock 'n' roll history.[1][2] Gaining fame in his early years as a member of the R&B vocal group Billy Ward and his Dominoes, he went solo in 1957 and recorded over 50 hit singles that spanned R&B, pop, soul, doo-wop and easy listening. This included 16 R&B Top 10 hits, including six R&B number ones. On the Billboard Hot 100, he scored 14 Top 20 Pop hits, six of which made it into the Pop Top 10. Wilson was one of the most influential artists of his generation.
A two-time Grammy Hall of Fame Inductee, Wilson was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.[3] In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Jackie Wilson #69 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[4]
Early years and career
Jack Leroy Wilson Jr. was born on June 9, 1934, in Detroit, Michigan, the only son of singer-songwriter, Jack Leroy Wilson, Sr. (1903–1983) and Eliza Mae Wilson (1907–1984), as she lost two previous children. Eliza Mae was born on the Billups-Whitfield Place in Columbus, Mississippi. Her parents were Tom and Virginia Ransom. Jackie often visited his family in Columbus and was greatly influenced by the choir at Billups Chapel. Growing up in the rough Detroit area of Highland Park, Wilson joined a gang called the Shakers and often got himself in trouble. Wilson's alcoholic father was frequently absent and usually out of work. Wilson began singing at an early age, accompanying his mother, once a choir singer, to church. In his early teens Jackie joined a quartet, the Ever Ready Gospel Singers, which became a popular feature of churches in the area. Jackie was not very religious, but he enjoyed singing; the money he and his group earned from performing was usually spent on cheap wine, which Wilson began drinking at age nine.[5] Jack Sr. and Eliza separated shortly after Jackie turned nine.
Wilson dropped out of high school at the age of 15, having already been sentenced to detention in the Lansing Corrections system for juveniles twice. During his second stint in detention, he learned to box and began competing around the Detroit amateur circuit at the age of 16. His record in the Golden Gloves was 2 and 8. After his mother forced him to quit boxing, Wilson married Freda Hood and became a father at 17. It is estimated that Wilson fathered at least 10 other children prior to getting married, and that he was forced to marry Hood by her father. He gave up boxing for music, first working at Lee's Sensation club as a solo singer,[6] then forming a group called the Falcons (The same Falcons Wilson Pickett was later a part of), that included cousin Levi Stubbs, who later went on to lead the Four Tops (two more of Wilson's cousins, Hubert Johnson and Levi's brother Joe, later became members of the Contours). The other members joined Hank Ballard as part of the Midnighters.[7] including Alonzo Tucker and Billy Davis, who would work with Wilson several years later as a solo artist. Tucker and Wilson collaborated as songwriters on a few songs Wilson recorded.
Wilson was soon discovered by talent agent Johnny Otis, who assigned him to join a group called the Thrillers. That group would later be known as the Royals (who would later evolve into R&B group, the Midnighters, but Wilson wasn not part of the group when it changed its name and signed with King Records). LaVern Baker, Little Willie John, Johnnie Ray and Della Reese were acts managed by Al Green (not to be confused with R&B singer Al Green, nor Albert "Al" Green of the now defunct National Records). Al Green owned two music publishing companies, Pearl Music and Merrimac Music, and Detroit's Flame Show Bar where Wilson met Baker.
After recording his first version of "Danny Boy" and a few other tracks on Dizzy Gillespie's record label Dee Gee Records under the name Sonny Wilson (his nickname), Wilson was eventually hired by Billy Ward in 1953 to join a group Ward formed in 1950 called the Dominoes, after Wilson's successful audition to replace the immensely popular Clyde McPhatter, who left the Dominoes and formed his own group, the Drifters.[8] Wilson almost blew his chance that day, showing up calling himself "Shit" Wilson and bragging about being a better singer than McPhatter.[9]
Billy Ward felt a stage name would fit the Dominoes' image, hence Jackie Wilson. Prior to leaving the Dominoes, McPhatter coached Wilson on the sound Billy Ward wanted for his group, influencing Wilson's singing style and stage presence. "I learned a lot from Clyde, that high-pitched choke he used and other things...Clyde McPhatter was my man. Clyde and Billy Ward."[6] 1940s blues singer Roy Brown was also a major influence on him, and Wilson grew up listening to the Mills Brothers, the Ink Spots, Louis Jordan and Al Jolson.
Wilson was the group's lead singer for three years, but the Dominoes lost some of their stride with the departure of McPhatter. They were able to make appearances riding on the strength of the group's earlier hits, until 1956 when the Dominoes recorded Wilson with an unlikely interpretation of the pop hit "St. Therese of the Roses", giving the Dominoes another brief moment in the spotlight (Their only other post-McPhatter/Wilson successes were "Stardust", released July 15, 1957, and "Deep Purple", released October 7, 1957.[10]) In 1957 Wilson set out to begin a solo career, leaving the Dominoes and collaborating with cousin Levi and got work at Detroit's Flame Show Bar. Later, Al Green worked out a deal with Decca Records, and Wilson was signed to their subsidiary label, Brunswick.
Solo stardom
Shortly after Wilson signed a solo contract with Brunswick, Green suddenly died. Green's business partner, Nat Tarnopol, took over as Wilson's manager (and later rose to president of Brunswick). Wilson's first single was released, "Reet Petite" (from his first album He's So Fine), which became a modest R&B success (and many years later, an international smash hit). The song was written by Berry Gordy Jr. (another former boxer who was also born in Detroit)[11], who co-wrote it with partner Roquel "Billy" Davis (who also went by the pseudonym Tyran Carlo) and Gordy's sister Gwendolyn. The trio composed and produced six further singles for Wilson, which included "To Be Loved", "I'm Wanderin'", "We Have Love", "That's Why (I Love You So)", "I'll Be Satisfied" and his late-1958 signature song, "Lonely Teardrops", which peaked at No. 7 on the pop charts, No. 1 on the R&B charts in the U.S., and established him as an R&B superstar known for his extraordinary, operatic multi-octave vocal range.[12] "Lonely Teardrops" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA.[13]
Due to his fervor when performing, with his dynamic dance moves, singing and impeccable dress, he was soon christened "Mr. Excitement", a title he would keep for the remainder of his career. His stagecraft in his live shows inspired James Brown, Michael Jackson[14] and Elvis Presley, as well as a host of other artists that followed. Presley was so impressed with Wilson that he made it a point to meet him, and the two instantly became good friends. In a photo of the two posing together, Presley's caption in the autograph reads "You got you a friend for life." Wilson was sometimes called "The Black Elvis".[15] Reportedly, when asked about this Presley said, "I guess that makes me the white Jackie Wilson." Wilson also said he was influenced by Presley too, saying "A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis."[16]
Wilson's powerful, electrifying live performances rarely failed to bring audiences to a state of frenzy.[17] His live performances consisted of knee-drops,[18][19] splits, spins, back-flips,[20][21] one-footed across-the-floor slides, removing his tie and jacket and throwing them off the stage, and lot of basic boxing steps (advance and retreat shuffling).[22]
Wilson was also a regular on TV, making regular appearances on such shows as The Ed Sullivan Show, American Bandstand, Shindig!, Shivaree and Hullabaloo. His only movie appearance was in the rock and roll film Go, Johnny, Go!, where he performed his 1959 hit song "You Better Know It".[23]
In 1958, Davis and Gordy left Wilson and Brunswick after royalty disputes escalated between them and Nat Tarnopol. Davis soon became a successful staff songwriter and producer for Chess Records, while Gordy borrowed $800 from his family and used money he earned from royalties writing for Wilson to start his own recording studio, Hitsville USA, the foundation of Motown Records in his native Detroit. Meanwhile, convinced that Wilson could venture out of R&B and rock and roll, Tarnopol had the singer record operatic ballads and easy listening material, pairing him with Decca Records' veteran arranger Dick Jacobs.
Wilson scored hits as he entered the 1960s with the No. 15 "Doggin' Around", the No. 1 pop ballad "Night", another million-seller,[24] and "Baby Workout", another Top 10 hit (No. 5), which he composed with Midnighters member Alonzo Tucker. His songwriting alliance with Tucker also turned out other songs, including "No Pity (In The Naked City)" and "I'm So Lonely." Top 10 hits continued with "Alone At Last" (No. 8 in 1960) and "My Empty Arms" (No. 9 in 1961).
Also in 1961, Wilson recorded a tribute album to Al Jolson, Nowstalgia ... You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet, which included the only album liner notes he ever wrote: "... to the greatest entertainer of this or any other era ... I guess I have just about every recording he's ever made, and I rarely missed listening to him on the radio ... During the three years I've been making records, I've had the ambition to do an album of songs, which, to me, represent the great Jolson heritage ... This is simply my humble tribute to the one man I admire most in this business ... to keep the heritage of Jolson alive."[25][26] The album was a commercial failure.
Following the success of "Baby Workout", Wilson experienced a lull in his career between 1964 and 1966 as Tarnopol and Brunswick Records released a succession of unsuccessful albums and singles. Despite the lack of sales success, he still made artistic gains as he recorded an album with Count Basie, as well as a series of duets with rhythm and blues artist LaVern Baker and gospel singer Linda Hopkins.
In 1966, he scored the first of two big comeback singles with established Chicago soul producer Carl Davis with "Whispers (Gettin' Louder)" and "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher", a No. 6 pop hit in 1967, which became one of his final hits. This was followed by "I Get the Sweetest Feeling", which, despite its modest initial chart success in the US (Billboard Pop #34), has since become one of his biggest international chart successes, becoming a Top 10 hit in the UK twice, in 1972 and in 1987, and a Top 20 hit in the Dutch Top 40, and has spawned numerous cover versions by other artists such as Edwin Starr, Will Young, Erma Franklin (Aretha Franklin's sister) and Liz McClarnon.
A key to his musical rebirth was that Davis insisted that Wilson no longer record with Brunswick's musicians in New York; instead, he would record with legendary Detroit musicians normally employed by Motown Records and also Davis' own Chicago-based session players. The Detroit musicians, known as the Funk Brothers, participated on Wilson's recordings due to their respect for Davis and Wilson.
By 1975, Wilson and the Chi-Lites were the only significant artists left on Brunswick's roster. Wilson had continued to record singles that found success on the R&B chart, but found no significant pop chart success. His final hit, "You Got Me Walkin'", written by Eugene Record of the Chi-Lites, was released in 1972 with the Chi-Lites backing him on vocals and instruments.
On September 29, 1975, Wilson was one of the featured acts in Dick Clark's Good Ol' Rock and Roll Revue, hosted by the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He was in the middle of singing "Lonely Teardrops" when he suffered a heart attack. When he collapsed on stage, audience members initially thought it was part of the act.[27] Clark sensed something was wrong, then ordered the musicians to stop the music. Cornell Gunter of the Coasters, who was backstage, noticed Wilson was not breathing. Gunter was able to resuscitate him and Wilson was then rushed to a nearby hospital.[9]
Medical personnel worked to stabilize his vital signs, but the lack of oxygen to his brain caused him to slip into a coma. He briefly recovered in early 1976, and was even able to take a few wobbly steps[28] but slipped back into a semi-comatose state. He was deemed conscious but incapacitated in early June 1976, unable to speak but aware of his surroundings. He was a resident of the Medford Leas Retirement Center in Medford, New Jersey, when he was admitted into Memorial Hospital of Burlington County in Mount Holly, New Jersey, due to having trouble taking nourishment, according to Wilson's attorney John Mulkerin.[29]
Jackie Wilson died on January 21, 1984, at age 49 from complications of pneumonia. He was initially buried in an unmarked grave at Westlawn Cemetery near Detroit.[30] In 1987, a fundraiser by a Detroit radio station collected enough money to purchase a headstone.[9]
Wilson's personal life was laced with tragedy. In 1960 in New Orleans, he was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer when fans tried to climb on stage. He assaulted a policeman who had shoved one of the fans. Wilson had a reputation for being short-tempered.[6]
On February 15, 1961, in Manhattan, Wilson was injured in a shooting. It is said the real story behind this incident is that one of his girlfriends, Juanita Jones, shot and wounded him in a jealous rage when he returned to his Manhattan apartment with another woman, fashion model Harlean Harris, an ex-girlfriend of Sam Cooke's. Wilson's management supposedly concocted a story to protect Wilson's reputation; that Jones was an obsessed fan who had threatened to shoot herself, and that Wilson's intervention resulted in him being shot.[31] Wilson was shot in the stomach: The bullet would result in the loss of a kidney, and lodged too close to his spine to be operated on.[5] In early 1975, during an interview with author Arnold Shaw, Wilson maintained it actually was a zealous fan whom he did not know that shot him. "We also had some trouble in 1961. That was when some crazy chick took a shot at me and nearly put me away for good..."[32] The story of the zealous fan was accepted, and no charges were brought against Jones.
A month and a half later after the shooting incident, Jackie Wilson was discharged from the hospital. At the time Wilson had declared annual earnings of $263,000, while the average salary a man earned then was just $5,000 a year. But he discovered that, despite being at the peak of success, he was broke. Around this time the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seized Wilson's Detroit family home. Tarnopol and his accountants were supposed to take care of such matters. Wilson made arrangements with the IRS to make restitution on the unpaid taxes; he also re-purchased the family home at auction.[5] Nat Tarnopol had taken advantage of Wilson's naïveté, mismanaging his money since becoming his manager. Tarnopol also had power-of-attorney over Wilson's finances, giving him complete control over Wilson's money. Wilson was a rather trusting soul, trusting people he should not have like Tarnopol and some of Wilson's other managers.[23]
Tarnopol and 18 other Brunswick executives were indicted on federal charges of mail fraud and tax evasion stemming from bribery and payola scandals in 1975. Also in the indictment was the charge that Tarnopol owed at least $1 million in royalties to Wilson. In 1976 Tarnopol and the others were found guilty; an appeals court overturned their conviction 18 months later. Although the conviction was overturned, judges went into detail, outlining that Tarnopol and Brunswick Records did defraud their artists of royalties, and that they were satisfied that there was sufficient evidence for Wilson to file a lawsuit. However, a trial to sue Tarnopol for royalties never took place, as Wilson lay in a nursing home semi-comatose. Tarnopol never paid Wilson monies he had coming to him, and Wilson died riddled with debt to the IRS and Brunswick Records.[33]
One of the highlights of the federal tax fraud trial of Tarnopol and the other Brunswick executives came when Eugene Record of the Chi-Lites testified that he had been assaulted during a contract negotiation at Brunswick's New York office. Record stated that he asked Tarnopol for advanced money on a recording in 1972 when an associate of Tarnopol's, whom Record identified as Johnny Roberts, asked Tarnopol "should I twist his nose off?" Before any answer came, Record said Roberts "suddenly began to twist my nose, and when I pushed his arm away he punched me in the face, knocking my glasses off." A similar story concerns Wilson, who reportedly was hung out of Tarnopol's office window by his feet when Wilson asked about money, according to Chuck Barksdale of The Dells.[34]
In March 1967, Wilson and friend/drummer Jimmy Smith were arrested in South Carolina on "morals charges"; the two were entertaining two 24-year-old white women in their motel room.[9]
Freda Hood, Wilson's first wife, with whom he had four children, divorced him in 1965 after 14 years of marriage as she was frustrated with his notorious womanizing. Although the divorce was amicable, Freda would regret her decision.[5] His 16-year-old son, Jackie Jr, was shot and killed on a neighbor's porch near their Detroit home in 1970. The death of Jackie Jr. devastated Wilson. He sank into a period of depression, and for the next couple of years remained mostly a recluse. More tragedy hit when two of Wilson's daughters died at a young age.[35] His daughter Sandra died in 1977 at the age of 24 of an apparent heart attack. Jacqueline Wilson was killed in 1988 in a drug-related incident in Highland Park, Michigan.[36]
Wilson's second marriage was to model Harlean Harris in 1967 with whom he had three children, but they too separated in 1970. Wilson later met and lived with Lynn Guidry, a woman who would have two children with him. There was also a woman named Joyce McCrae, a fan who tried to take the role of Wilson's caregiver while he was in the nursing home.[37] He was with Guidry, who was under the impression that she was his legal wife, until his heart attack in 1975. However, as he and Harris never officially divorced, Harris took the role of Wilson's caregiver for the singer's remaining nine years.
Wilson converted to Judaism as an adult.[38]
Tributes and legacy
On August 17, 2013 in Cleveland, Ohio, Jackie Wilson was inducted into the Official R&B Music Hall of Fame.
In 1985, the Commodores recorded "Nightshift" in memory of Wilson and soul singer Marvin Gaye, who had both died in 1984. Reaching No. 1 R&B and No. 3 pop in the U.S., and topping the Dutch singles chart, it was the group's biggest hit after the departure of Lionel Richie.
Van Morrison recorded a tribute song called "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)" on his 1972 album Saint Dominic's Preview. This was later covered by Dexys Midnight Runners. When the track was performed on the British TV show Top of the Pops, a picture of darts player Jocky Wilson was used instead. This has often been speculated to be a mistake but Dexys frontman Kevin Rowland stated that it was a deliberate joke by the band.
Michael Jackson honored Jackie Wilson at the 1984 Grammy Awards Jackson dedicated his Album of the Year Grammy for Thriller to Wilson, saying, "In the entertainment business, there are leaders and there are followers. And I just want to say that I think Jackie Wilson was a wonderful entertainer...Jackie, where you are I want to say I love you and thank you so much."[39]
Until Jackson's comments, Wilson's recording legacy had been dormant for almost a decade. Tarnopol owned Wilson's recordings due to Brunswick's separation from MCA, but the label had closed down, essentially deleting Wilson's considerable recorded legacy. When Jackson praised Wilson at the Grammys, interest in the legendary singer stirred, and Tarnopol released the first Wilson album (a two-record compilation) in almost nine years through Epic Records, Jackson's label at the time. Through Tarnopol's son, Wilson's music has become more available.
In the VH-1 5-part television special, Say It Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America, fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Smokey Robinson and Bobby Womack both paid tribute to Wilson. Smokey explained that "Jackie Wilson was the most dynamic singer and performer that I think I've ever seen. Bobby added "He was the real Elvis Presley, as far as I'm concerned...and Elvis took a lot from him too."[40]
In his autobiography To Be Loved (named for one of the hit tunes he wrote for Wilson) Motown founder Berry Gordy stated that Wilson was "The greatest singer I've ever heard. The epitome of natural greatness. Unfortunately for some, he set the standard I'd be looking for in singers forever".[41]
Wilson is mentioned in the song "Gone But Not Forgotten" sung by artist TQ, which is a song dedicated to the memory of famous musicians who have died. The lyric goes "..and Jackie, will you teach me how to glide across the stage?"
Wilson scored a posthumous hit when "Reet Petite" reached number one in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Netherlands in 1986. This success was likely due in part to a new animated video made for the song, featuring a clay model of Wilson, that became popular on television. The following year he hit the UK charts again with "I Get the Sweetest Feeling" (No. 3), and "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" (No. 15).
Rita Coolidge covered "Higher and Higher" in 1977; her version reached No. 2 on the US pop charts, earning a gold record.
In 1999, Wilson's original version of "Higher and Higher" and "Lonely Teardrops" were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame; both are on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Wilson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987;[42] that same year, he was portrayed in the Ritchie Valens biopic La Bamba by Howard Huntsberry.
Wilson is referenced in the 1986 song "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A." by John Mellencamp.
Wilson and "Lonely Teardrops" are referenced in the 1993 song "Jupiter and Teardrop" by Grant Lee Buffalo on their debut album Fuzzy.
In 1988, his version of "To Be Loved" was featured in the film Coming to America, when Akeem and Lisa were falling in love. Akeem (Eddie Murphy) later came back home singing the song loudly, waking up and infuriating his neighbors.
In 1989, "Higher and Higher" was featured in the film Ghostbusters II, the soundtrack album of which featured a cover version of the song by Howard Huntsberry. "Higher and Higher" was also featured in Eddie Murphy's 2007 movie "Norbit."
In 1992, Wilson was portrayed in the ABC miniseries by Grady Harrell in The Jacksons: An American Dream.
In 1994, Monkee Peter Tork recorded a bluegrass-rock cover of "Higher and Higher" on his first solo album Stranger Things Have Happened. Tork regularly performs the song in concert.
On November 18, 2011, the Black Ensemble Theater of Chicago produced a musical about Wilson's life.
In 2014, artist Hozier released a song titled "Jackie and Wilson", a play on Wilson's name. The song includes the lyrics "We'll name our children Jackie and Wilson and raise them on rhythm and blues."[43]
The Jackie Wilson Hologram Tour 2018 announced by Hologram USA on Billboard:[44]
The singer behind ‘Higher and Higher’ and other hits joins the growing Hologram USA roster.
Add another name to the growing list of artist recreations by Hologram USA: Jackie Wilson. The R&B legend will star in a full stage show with a tour launching in 2018, co-produced by FilmOn TV Networks and distributed online by FilmOn.com. Nicknamed Mr. Excitement, Wilson was a dynamic entertainer whose mesmerizing dance moves and pioneering crossover success influenced a host of future stars including Michael Jackson. In fact, after Thriller won the Grammy for album of the year in 1984, Jackson dedicated his award to Wilson.
Between 1958 and 1970, Wilson charted 16 top 10 R&B hits and six top 10 pop hits. He topped the R&B singles chart six times, starting with 1958's "Lonely Teardrops" (No. 7 on pop). The Detroit native's additional No. 1's included "You Better Know It," "Doggin’ Around," "A Woman, a Lover, a Friend," "Baby Workout" and radio perennial "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher." Wilson, inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, slipped into a coma after collapsing onstage in 1975. He died in 1984.
In a statement announcing Hologram USA's latest artist recreation, CEO Alki David said, "Everything you expect from an exciting ‘rock star’ stage show was invented by Jackie Wilson: the leaps, spins and back-flips, not to mention his amazing four-octave range." David's partners in mounting the new show are Plateau Music Nashville CEO Tony Mantor, who is the Artist Manager for Bobby Brooks Wilson (son of Jackie) and the Heirs of Jackie Wilson.
A ceremony was held on Saturday, August 20, 2016 at WHPR TV & Radio. At the ceremony, Cottage Grove Street officially became Jackie Wilson Lane.[45]
1957 "Reet Petite" 62 - 6 10
"To Be Loved" 22 7 23 64
1958 "We Have Love" 93 - - -
"Lonely Teardrops" 7 1 - 53
1959 "That's Why (I Love You So)" 13 2 - -
"I'll Be Satisfied" 20 6 - -
"You Better Know It" 37 1 - -
"Talk That Talk" 34 3 - -
1960 "A Woman, a Lover, a Friend" 15 1 - 30
"Night" 4 3 - 19
"Alone at Last" 8 20 50 11
"Doggin' Around" 15 1 - 76
"Am I the Man" 32 10 - -
"(You Were Made For) All My Love" 12 - 33 30
1961 "My Empty Arms" 9 25 - -
"The Tear of the Year" 44 10 - -
"I'm Comin' on Back to You" 19 9 - -
1963 "Baby Workout" 5 1 - 66
1966 "Whispers (Gettin' Louder)" 11 5 - -
1967 "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" 6 1 - 24
1968 "I Get the Sweetest Feeling" 34 12 9 -
1969 "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher"
(UK re-release) - - 11 -
1970 "(I Can Feel These Vibrations) This Love is For Real" 56 9 - -
1975 "I Get the Sweetest Feeling" /
"(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher"
1986 "Reet Petite"
(UK re-release) - - 1 20
1987 "I Get the Sweetest Feeling"
(UK re-release) - - 3 -
(UK second re-release) - - 15 -
Hit albums
US Pop
US R&B
1963 Baby Workout 36 -
Merry Christmas from Jackie Wilson 6 -
1966 Whispers - 15
1967 Higher and Higher - 28
1968 Manufacturers of Soul - 18
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The 1991 Nissan Sentra Is Finally Going Out of Production
Gone too soon, we say. Gone too soon.
Nissan Mexico
Remember the 1991 Nissan Sentra, the basis for the outstanding B13 Sentra SE-R? Man, that was such a great car. But sadly, it appears that Nissan has finally decided to cancel the B13 Sentra. [Update: See below]
Don't worry, though. The current Sentra isn't going anywhere. But as The Truth About Cars reports, you will no longer be able to buy a 25-year-old Sentra brand new anymore. And it's all because of the meddling government.
Yes, despite the U.S.-spec Sentra ending production in 1994, Nissan continued to sell the B13 Sentra as the Tsuru in Mexico where it's still popular today. Considering it has a base price of around $7000, that's unsurprising. It's also relatively reliable, and is easy to maintain. But Mexico recently passed new safety regulations, and without airbags or anti-lock brakes, those requirements spell doom for the Nissan Tsuru.
So farewell, B13 Nissan Sentra. You had a good 25-year run, and we will always remember you fondly. When you get to where you're going, say hello to the original Volkswagen Beetle for us!
Update: This post was originally published on August 17th, 2016. Today, Nissan officially confirmed its plans to cancel stop production of the Tsuru. It also announced it will build a limited run of 1000 "special commemorative" Tsurus but did not clarify what will make them special.
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Biography of the Famous Intellectual Brice Augustin Sinsin |
Tag: undeniable leadership
Biography of the Famous Intellectual Brice Augustin Sinsin
Engaging with the international diaspora implies also helping the diaspora to better know the people that they left behind in their home country. It also implies assisting those in the country of residence of the diaspora to value, celebrate and cherish the good achievements of their peers who are succeeding. When it comes to the contemporary African intellectuals, scientists, leaders, developers, managers, reformers, and educators, one name has been locally and internationally leading the list: Prof Brice Augustin Sinsin.
His sense of teamwork, franchise, and reputation allowed him to extensively build a strong network of collaborators across the globe from Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, China, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Iran, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Central Africa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, etc. He has supervised more than 50 Ph.D. Students in Africa, Europe, America, Asia, etc. Prof Brice Sinsin is the Director of the “Laboratory of Applied Ecology”.Brice Augustin Sinsin was born in 1959, a year before the independence of his native country, Benin Republic (West Africa). Despite the challenges surrounding his childhood, Brice Sinsin worked very hard until he earned a Ph.D. with distinction in Agronomy at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) in 1993. Having overcome every challenge on his way, Prof Brice Sinsin is today internationally applauded not only for his scientific achievements but also for his management and leadership ability that has been best known after he became the Rector/Chancellor of the University of Abomey Calavi (UAC), the biggest university (consisting of more than 100,000 students) of Benin. During his tenure at the head of UAC, Prof Sinsin won several awards including the “Best Manager of the Year in Science and Education” in 2013 from the International Socrates Committee in Europe. In less than 4 years, his undeniable leadership and reforms brought more than a dozen international prizes and awards to UAC.
A few days ago, the Biography of Prof Brice Sinsin was published. The 18 chapters of that book revealed the true facets and secrets of his masterful journey. Indeed, Brice Sinsin is a Beninese, a beloved father, a tireless leader, a rigorous developer, a generous educator, an undeniable reformer, and a proven scientist that has braved everything in his life, from childhood to the top of modern science where the sweat of his brow raised him to an internationally acclaimed reputation. Forerunner of a new approach to science policy for the emergence and development of nations, Prof Brice Sinsin is a model that all generations are invited to imitate and seek to surpass. His biography explains how this Beninese works on the basis of principles and passions that hide the code of his success that many seek to emulate without wanting to pay the price. In the 300 page biography, Prof Sinsin also proposes strategies to reform the African democracy and constitutions to suit the needs of the African people, learn from traditional leadership systems in Africa, make African countries more national and patriotic, reform politics in Africa and better train the African diplomats. The author ended the biography with a critical conclusion and a fervent prayer. To learn more about this biography, please visit www.BriceSinsin.com. To get your copy of the biography, please click here:
This biography was written by Dr. Roland Holou (www.RolandHolou.com), a scientist, a businessman, a published author, and an international consultant. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Agronomy and his Master of Science Degree in Agricultural Engineering at the University of Abomey Calavi in Benin. He has a Ph.D. in Plant, Insect and Microbial Sciences at the University of Missouri (USA) where he graduated as the Doctoral Marshal (first of his class). Roland Holou is the Founder and CEO of DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com), the premier global diaspora engagement network platform that connects the international diasporas to each other and to opportunities anywhere.
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James v. City of Albany
In Fraud Warning
19-2452-cv
James v. City of Albany, et al
FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
SUMMARY ORDER
RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY
ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE
OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT'S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A
SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE
FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION "SUMMARY ORDER"). A
PARTY CITING A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED
BY COUNSEL.
At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in
the City of New York, on the 13th day of January, two thousand twenty-one.
PRESENT: GUIDO CALABRESI,
REENA RAGGI,
DENNY CHIN,
Circuit Judges.
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STEVEN JAMES,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
-v- 19-2452-cv
CITY OF ALBANY, JASON R. VOGEL,
DETECTIVE,
Defendants-Appellees. ∗
The Clerk of the Court is respectfully directed to amend the official caption to conform
to the above.
FOR PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT: Steven James, pro se, Dannemora, New York.
FOR DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES: Abigail W. Rehfuss, The Rehfuss Law Firm,
P.C., Latham, New York.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of
New York (D'Agostino, J.).
UPON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED,
ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.
Plaintiff-appellant Steven James, pro se, appeals the district court's
judgment entered July 30, 2019 in favor of defendants-appellees the City of Albany and
Albany Police Department Detective Jason Vogel ("defendants"), and dismissing James's
claims. James alleged that defendants had, among other things, subjected him to false
arrest, malicious prosecution, and deprivation of a fair trial. 1 The district court held a
two-day trial, and, after James rested, the district court granted defendants' Federal
Rule of Civil Procedure 50(a) motion for judgment as a matter of law. Ruling from the
bench, the district court concluded as a matter of law that James failed to show that
defendants (1) deprived him of his liberty, (2) lacked probable cause to arrest him, or
(3) fabricated evidence. We assume the parties' familiarity with the underlying facts,
procedural history of the case, and issues on appeal.
1 James also claimed below that defendants violated his due process rights and subjected
him to cruel and unusual punishment, but he did not raise these claims on appeal, and so we do
not address them. See LoSacco v. City of Middletown,
71 F.3d 88
, 92-93 (2d Cir. 1995).
We review the grant of a Rule 50(a) motion de novo, applying the same
standard as the district court. Velez v. City of New York,
, 134 (2d Cir. 2013).
"Rule 50(a) permits a district court to enter judgment as a matter of law against a party
on an issue where there is no legally sufficient evidentiary basis for a reasonable jury to
find for that party on that issue." Cobb v. Pozzi,
, 101 (2d Cir. 2004) (internal
quotation marks omitted).
We have reviewed the record and relevant case law, and substantially for
the reasons set forth by the district court in its ruling from the bench, we conclude that
the district court correctly granted defendants' motion for judgment as a matter of law.
As the district court found, James was already incarcerated (on unrelated charges)
when he was arrested and prosecuted by defendants. Thus, absent more, he could not
show that the challenged arrest and prosecution caused a loss of liberty. See Singer v.
Fulton Cty. Sheriff,
63 F.3d 110
, 116 (2d Cir.1995) (plaintiff must "show some deprivation
of liberty consistent with the concept of 'seizure'"). Moreover, and in any event, the
district court properly concluded as a matter of law that defendants had probable cause
to arrest James because his DNA matched blood taken from the victim's car and he was
approximately the same height as the assailant. See United States v. Fisher,
375 (2d Cir. 1983). The district court also correctly concluded that James failed to
establish that defendants lacked probable cause to prosecute him, as he was (1) indicted
by a grand jury and (2) did not present any evidence that his indictment was procured
by fraud or any other bad-faith conduct. See Savino v. City of New York,
, 72-
73 (2d Cir. 2003).
* * *
We have considered James's remaining arguments and conclude they are
without merit. Accordingly, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.
FOR THE COURT:
Catherine O'Hagan Wolfe, Clerk
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Alaundria Logan is the daughter of Wanda Milow and Leeandrew Logan and is a native of Earle Arkansas. She is currently a senior at Philander Smith College and is expected to graduate in May of 2021. She has hopes of becoming one of the most influential social workers there is by diving deep into the lives of others. Being a small town girl has humbled her into the individual she is today. It has also pushed her younger siblings to chase their dreams. Alaundria is known for her bubbly personality and kind heart. She lives by the quote, “Being determined shall get you there.”
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MLA Williams praises fiscal responsibility of provincial budget
Olivia Condon
Dan Williams, Peace River's UCP MLA.
With the release of Alberta’s provincial budget last week, Peace River’s UCP MLA Dan Williams said there are a few keys things his constituents should take away from it.
“We introduced a budget that is exactly what we campaigned on: responsible spending within our means,” Williams said Thursday, Oct. 24 the day the budget was released publicly. “We will continue to have world class health care, education and other social services going on to the next generation and even further.”
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Williams said the biggest single increase to funding comes from health care, which will see $210 million go towards various programs over the next four years. Nearly half of that funding, $100 million, going towards mental health resources.
“I’m constantly working with the ministry of health to see what ways we can make sure those are working best for rural northern Albertans who suffer acutely from mental health because of geography,” Williams said. “Particularly for those most vulnerable those from our First Nations communities who live in remote areas, who need access to mental health (services) as well.”
In the budget, the UCP will be maintaining current levels of funding for education across the province, despite thousands of new students entering the system this school year.
“Let me be clear: this budget does not cut any funding to education. We’re in a spot where we’re spending more per capita than comparable other provinces for education,” he said. “We want to be able to get the best world-class education here but we want to make sure those resources are going to the schools and into those classrooms where children need it so that means we’re going to have to find efficiencies in it.”
The Alberta Teachers Association (ATA) released a statement arguing by not adding anything to the budget for education, students, parents and teachers across the province will be put in a tight spot.
“This budget is, yet again, asking teachers to do more with less. The student population is expected to grow by 15,000 students, and school boards will not receive any more money to support them.”
“The government is playing a shell game in order to trick us into thinking enrolment growth is being funded, but at the end of the day, school boards have less funding per student, which means larger classes, fewer supports for students and programming cuts,” Schilling said.
When it comes to the economy, Williams said the government’s approach is “cautious but optimistic.”
“Albertans know we’re in a tough spot and they understand that it’s going to be difficult to get through this time of frustration with the way that we see the federal government treating Alberta over the last four years,” he said. “Alberta wants to do business here where they see the job creation tax cut as the most attractive jurisdiction in Canada and perhaps one of the most attractive in North America to do business, to set up and to responsibly develop our resources in rural, particularly northern Alberta.”
A Calgary economist is arguing the provincial government is introducing a tax increase equivalent to a 0.3 per cent provincial sales tax with the release ofAlberta’s 2019 budget.
A tax bracket and credit freeze announced by the province leads to a depreciation of tax credits and subtle push into a higher tax bracket, according to University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe. When he crunched the numbers, he found the pause on indexation will result in higher taxes for many Albertans.
“One can estimate how much of an effect this will have on overall personal income tax payments by Albertans, say by 2021 after some of these changes are fully phased in. I estimate the average cost is about $150 per family or a little over $300 million in total for the entire provincial budget,” said Tombe.
Tombe said the freeze will lead to “bracket creep,” which pushes people into a higher tax bracket even though their standard of living remains unchanged. This, ultimately, means individual taxpayers receive a tax increase.
When Canadians file their 2020 income taxes, Albertans will earn $19,369 tax free — the same basic personal amount as in 2019. Since 2001, that amount has risen with inflation, so taxpayers aren’t penalized for earning more as costs go up.
“For a sense of scale, the education tax credit removal and de-indexing of the tax system, approximately $311 million per year, is equivalent to about a 0.3 per cent sales tax. So if we were to raise the GST from 5 to 5.3 per cent it would generate for Alberta an equivalent amount of revenue,” said Tombe.
Note: some are claiming that there are no tax increases. That is incorrect. De-indexing and removing some credits will increase income tax payments: roughly ~$330m in additional revenue (govt estimate is 311m) per year. That comes from taxpayers. What else shall we call it?
— Trevor Tombe (@trevortombe) October 27, 2019
Since the budget’s release, government spokespeople have maintained the stance that there is no income tax increase. Shortly after the release, government spokesman Harrison Fleming said Albertans won’t be paying more in taxes.
“Income taxes have not been increased,” he said in an emailed statement last week. “If you earn the same amount of money next year, you will pay no extra income tax.”
When asked about the disparity between the government’s message and Tombe’s findings, Jerrica Goodwin, press secretary for the Ministry of Finance, sent a similar statement via email Sunday.
“Income taxes have not been increased. If you earn the same amount this year, you will pay the same amount in income tax as you did last year. Albertans will continue to pay far lower taxes overall than people living in other provinces. Albertans’ tax-free income is nearly 20 per cent greater than that of the next highest province, Saskatchewan, which employs a similar system.”
Tombe said he isn’t arguing that the province’s tax rates aren’t low since they’re the lowest in the country. But he wasn’t expecting the de-indexing of tax credits and brackets with this budget.
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The impact this has on taxpayers is vastly different depending on how many tax credits a person claims. However, Tombe suggests the biggest impact will be felt by families with incomes between $60,000 to $80,000.
“Tax increases do decrease the deficit,” said Tombe. “This additional $300 million due to the changes in tax credits will shrink the deficit by that amount. The increase has a purpose and will mean that as a province we accumulate less debt. But we should recognize it is a change that exists and it does have a burden on families which might be worth paying to achieve the goal of a balanced budget.”
In 2019, Alberta had the highest personal amount tax-free. Saskatchewan residents are next, with a $16,065 personal amount, and Nova Scotia has the lowest threshold at $8,481.
However, some provinces with lower personal amounts pay lower tax rates on those earnings. British Columbians in the lowest tax bracket pay about five per cent on their earnings.
In 2019, Albertans who earn below $131,220 pay 10 per cent income tax. Earners in the highest income bracket pay 15 per cent on their earnings.
— With files from Janet French, Edmonton Journal
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The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses (CFIB) praised the budget and its economic outlook, saying the government is “finally getting Alberta on more responsible and sustainable fiscal path.”
“(This) budget delivers tough, but much needed medicine,” Richard Truscott, CFIB VP of Alberta and B.C. said. “Our province faces an incredibly difficult fiscal situation that was created by years of unsustainable government spending. Thankfully, the new government has accepted it cannot spend in such a reckless manner.”
Truscott added: “There needs to be a long-term plan in place to make sure future growth in the operating budget is affordable, sustainable, and will deliver the desired results. It may also be time to take a serious look at a legislated limit on annual increases in overall operating spending.”
Overall, Williams said the UCP government has been true to their word to cut spending in this budget.
“We were looking at a three per cent spending decrease over this four-year plan. Three cents on the dollar. I believe this is a thoughtful way about going forward to make sure that we’re spending within our means.”
“This is the first budget to my knowledge, in 25 years in Alberta, to have a decrease in spending,” Williams said. “Now we have had a problem and it has not been a revenue problem it’s been a spending problem in this province and we saw its apex. Peak spending irresponsibility happened under the NDP we’re intent to get that under control and make sure that Albertan’s have a happy opportunity in the future to look forward to.”
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What environmental event of the 1930s worsened the great depression
What were some of the causes and effects of increased discrimination during the Great Depression?
List three causes and three effects of increased discrimination during the Great Depression. Causes: Competition for jobs, legal systems ignored civil rights for non-whites and individual racism. Effects: Deportations, lynchings and high African American unemployment. … To find adventures/jobs or simply run away.
How did people escape the realities of the Great Depression?
Many people during the Great Depression found escape by getting into their cars and driving. Sometimes they had no idea where they would end up or where they wanted to go—they just got into their cars and drove.
What did World War I veterans do to try to get their service bonuses early and how did the public react to it?
In 1932, a group of WWI veterans in Portland, Ore., rallied the Bonus Army to Washington to lobby for early payment of their promised bonuses. They set up camp along the Anacostia River that May. It’s a form of protest that echoes throughout American history. …
What happened to millions of American families as the Depression worsened?
The Rise of Hoovervilles
As the Depression worsened and millions of urban and rural families lost their jobs and depleted their savings, they also lost their homes. Desperate for shelter, homeless citizens built shantytowns in and around cities across the nation.
What factors led to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s?
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes (wind erosion) caused the phenomenon.
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How did President Hoover hope to end the Depression and its hardship?
Congress pushed for a more direct government response to the hardship. In 1930–1931, it attempted to pass a $60 million bill to provide relief to drought victims by allowing them access to food, fertilizer, and animal feed. Hoover stood fast in his refusal to provide food, resisting any element of direct relief.
How did people live during the Depression?
The average American family lived by the Depression-era motto: “Use it up, wear it out, make do or do without.” Many tried to keep up appearances and carry on with life as close to normal as possible while they adapted to new economic circumstances. Households embraced a new level of frugality in daily life.
How did people eat during the Great Depression?
On radio and in women’s magazines, home economists taught women how to stretch their food budget with casseroles and meals like creamed chipped beef on toast or waffles. Chili, macaroni and cheese, soups, and creamed chicken on biscuits were popular meals.
What was invented during the Great Depression?
Yet even during the Depression, many new foods were invented or introduced including: Spam. Kraft macaroni and cheese. Toll House chocolate chip cookies.
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Bonus Army, gathering of probably 10,000 to 25,000 World War I veterans (estimates vary widely) who, with their wives and children, converged on Washington, D.C., in 1932, demanding immediate bonus payment for wartime services to alleviate the economic hardship of the Great Depression.
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The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – made up of 17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, together with their families and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C. in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service certificates.
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It was not the outcome that James' older sister, Rebecca Case, hoped for.
Despite taking energy healing courses, seeking help from a psychic and even going to Hutsey's home to talk with him, Case finds herself struggling to find solace.
Case describes her brother as being sweet, kind and like a big kid.
The last thing that Howard said to his sister was "I love you," she said, but she regrets not spending more time with him before the incident.
"I'm so thankful for that, but it will never be enough for me," Case said.
She moved out of her mom's house a week before Thanksgiving last year and blames herself for her brother's death. Case said that if she had still been living with her mom, she could have convinced Howard to stay home that night.
"It just kills me because I go play these things back in my head like, 'Why didn't I do this' or 'Why didn't I do that,'" Case said, "and there's nothing I can do to bring him back."
Washoe County Sheriff's Office public information officer, Sarah Johns, said that the case was closed and determined to be a justifiable murder as a result of self-defense.
"[The WCSO is] closing this case as justifiable homicide as Jacob was in fear James would catch him and stab him after he ran from the initial incident," said WCSO Gordon Koski, who was assigned as the case agent, in a 2020 police statement.
Koski said that a pair of brass knuckles and a knife were found in Howard's pocket.
"I don't think that anyone is ever going to change the justice system," Case said, "I hope it makes people aware of the possibilities in life. Anyone like [James] could have their life taken away at any moment and nothing could be done about it."
Hutsey was unavailable for comment. He was booked into the Washoe County Jail on Aug. 24 for a battery with a deadly weapon charge. The weapon in question is a vehicle.
Michelle Bays, public information officer for the Washoe County District Attorney's Office, said that Hutsey is scheduled for sentencing on Jan. 12.
What happened one year ago?
James Howard and his brother, David Howard, and their girlfriends went out to confront Hutsey at his home late at night on Nov. 28. David Howard wanted his younger brother there as backup for a fight, according to Audrey Baker, Howard's girlfriend and witness to the incident.
David Howard’s girlfriend, Sydnee Hutsey, was Jacob’s estranged wife, according to her statement to investigators.
In Koski's report, which includes witness interviews, photos of the crime scene and a report from the Washoe County Medical Examiner's Office, Hutsey stabbed David Howard once in the back and fled.
James Howard then chased after Hutsey, according to the report, and Hutsey stabbed Howard once in the chest.
Koski's report states that this account is from Hutsey's point of view and that no other witnesses saw the stabbing. According to Koski, the evidence at the scene supported Hutsey's claim.
After Howard collapsed, he turned onto his back and began gasping for air.
“I was doing my best to stop the bleeding, but it wasn’t enough,” Baker said. She had to put all of her weight on his chest in an attempt to stop the bleeding.
The brothers were taken to Renown, where David Howard received surgery, but his brother died.
Baker also struggles to cope with the trauma. She held him as he bled out in her arms, telling him how much she loved him.
Baker has since graduated from high school, received her driving permit and has plans to save money for college to pursue a career as an EMT. But she said she still struggles every day.
She also got a tattoo of a flower on her arm, which represents the month in which her boyfriend was born.
"I know that [James] would be proud of me. That's what keeps me going," Baker said.
Kristin Oh is a public safety reporter for the Reno Gazette Journal. She can be reached at koh@rgj.com or at 775-420-1285. Please help support her work by subscribing.
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POLICE MISUSE OF POWER TO HARASS CITIZENS MUST STOP
By Thomas P. Giuffra
Police officers are given extraordinary powers in our society. They are charged with enforcing the law, carrying deadly weapons, and depriving citizens of their liberty. While many officers honor this sacred trust, others do not. Much attention lately has been focused of the use of deadly force. There has been little attention devoted to police misuse of their right to charge and detain citizens on trumped up or simply bogus charges.
A recent event in Long Island demonstrates the misuse of the right to charge and detain a citizen by utilizing pretext. On June 12, 2020, at a peaceful civil rights protest, a protestor, Terrel Tuosto, was manhandled and arrested by the police and charged with disorderly conduct. Why was he deprived of his liberty, charged with a crime and treated in a completely unnecessary and very rough manner? Because he bumped into a police officer.
Now to be charged with a crime for something like this seems crazy. But what is more shocking is the way the events unraveled, all of which were caught on camera. Mr. Tuosto was peacefully exercising his constitutional right to protest. In a classic set up, an officer walking in front of him intentionally stopped short and caused Mr. Tuosto to bump into him. This was obviously a set up to give the police the pretext to manhandle and arrest a peaceful protestor and that is exactly what occurred. It is shocking for many that the police would so callously deprive a citizen of their liberty for such nonsense, but that is exactly what happened.
Unfortunately, despite being innocent of anything other than exercising his constitutional rights, Mr. Tuosto will now have to deal with the headache of defending himself against this bogus charge. This will require him to go to court, hire a lawyer and be completely inconvenienced clearing his name. It is very likely that the District Attorney would decline to prosecute. But the police will have succeeded in “sending a message” to him, by manhandling him, handcuffing him and throwing him in a jail cell and running him through the indignity of being processed as a criminal when he was innocent.
Sadly, when asked by CNN whether he believes extreme force was used by his officers, Nassau County Police Commissioner Ryder said his officers "have acted extremely professional and this is evident by the peaceful outcomes of these protests." Change can never occur unless the rank and file officers are made aware that their bosses will no longer tolerate abuse of their authority. Without this, there will be no change. The video depicting the arrest appears in the following link.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/us/nassau-county-police-officers-shove-black-protester/index.html
As attorneys, we have seen abuses of police authority many times. We represented a man from Brooklyn, who spent close to two years in jail due to police abuse of their right to charge citizens with a crime.
The night prior to our client’s arrest, a person had been assaulted with a 2x4. The following day, our client was sitting in front of his home enjoying nice weather. Unbeknownst to him, a police detective was cruising the neighborhood with a witness to the assault. The police officer “pointed out” our client and basically told the witness to identify our client as the assailant. Our client was charged with several violent felonies and was facing a lot of jail time. He was unable to make bail and remained in Riker’s Island until his trial. The District Attorney wanted him to take a plea to a charge which would have put him in jail for several years. Our client refused to take a plea because he was innocent.
At his trial, the witness said that our client was not the person who assaulted the victim and that he only identified him as the perpetrator because the police officer said he was. Our client was immediately freed, and the charges dropped based on this testimony. Our client had lost almost two years of his life in jail for something he did not do.
We pursued a claim for false arrest and wrongful imprisonment on his behalf and were able to obtain a sizeable recovery for him. However, the officer who was responsible for his incarceration had no consequences because of his behavior. That is part of the problem, if police officers can feel empowered to misuse their authority at the expense of their fellow citizens without consequence, there is the very real fear that some bad officers will abuse this power. There needs to be consequences that impact the individual officers if they misuse their power and they must suffer the consequences professionally. This change must come from the top.
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Open Journal of Modern Linguistics > Vol.3 No.4, December 2013
Spelling Accuracy of Consonants in Arabic among Negev Bedouin Students ()
Alon Fragman
Middle Eastern Studies Department, Ben Gurion University, Be’er Sheva, Israel.
DOI: 10.4236/ojml.2013.34042 PDF HTML 3,006 Downloads 4,774 Views Citations
This study explored spelling development of the written form of Arabic among native Bedouin Arabic (BA) speakers in second, fourth, and sixth grades (N = 347) from two recognized authorities in south Israel. Specifically, this study focused on guttural ( ), uvular-velar (/q/ and ), emphatic ( , , and ), and dental (/t/) consonants. Three tasks were constructed for this study: real word dictation, pseudo-word dictation, and real word recognition. The results for the real word task, pseudo-word task, and the word recognition task indicated significant improvement in spelling accuracy of the consonants targeted among fourth graders, however there was no additional improvement among the students in the sixth grade. It was also found that with emphatic phonemes accuracy is significantly lower than with all other phonemic groups at all elementary grades. In addition, gender differences were observed with significantly higher scores for girls in all grades targeted for all tasks. Pedagogical implications of these findings are discussed.
Negev Bedouin; Spelling Accuracy; Gender Differences; Consonants
Fragman, A. (2013). Spelling Accuracy of Consonants in Arabic among Negev Bedouin Students. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 3, 330-336. doi: 10.4236/ojml.2013.34042.
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Local govt meeting was a success - Zuma
Cape Town - President Jacob Zuma has described his recent meeting with mayors and municipal managers from all 283 municipalities in the country as a success.
"We had fruitful discussions and the meeting was a success. The outcomes of the meeting were that government should do everything possible to address the major challenges facing local government," Zuma said on Thursday.
He was responding to questions raised by political parties in the National Assembly.
The President said the meeting resolved that government would capacitate municipalities and strengthen intergovernmental relations in order to improve the delivery of services to the people.
"We also resolved that we will improve the governance, financial and administrative capacities in some municipalities as well as root out corruption and address the political problems that are causing great delays in service delivery."
Furthermore, the meeting agreed that there was a need for municipalities to prioritise skills development, and the recruitment of accountants and other skilled personnel to ensure efficiency.
It is apparent that at some municipalities, the lack of service delivery and mismanagement of resources was a result of poor or unavailable skills," the President said.
The Local Government Indaba on the State of Local Government, which was held a day after the Khayelitsha meeting, resolved to develop a Turn-around Strategy for Local Government, which will be ready in the next few months.
The strategy is aimed at explaining in detail how government plans to change the state of local government in a manner that will ensure that local government functions efficiently and effectively in delivering services.
This strategy is also designed to provide solutions on how the lack of service delivery in municipalities could be turned around for the benefit of the people.
Zuma said they had asked the other two spheres of government to provide all the necessary support to municipalities in order to make sure that local government functions better.
In addition, provincial and national departments as well as other state organs that owe money to municipalities have been encouraged to pay what is owed as soon as it is possible.
"We have made a call to all municipalities to focus on their mandate of serving our people with dedication, humility and honesty because we believe that better functioning municipalities will play a meaningful role in ensuring that our dream of a better life for all is achieved."
Zuma said the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Sicelo Shiceka will monitor progress in this regard and report back on a quarterly basis.
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Expect Cesar Hernandez to be a reliable fantasy starter the rest of the season. His 369.86 projected fantasy points puts him at #15 behind Rougned Odor and ahead of Kolten Wong. He has averaged 2.48 fantasy points in his past 161 games, which is slightly less than our projected per game average. He is projected to average 2.7 fantasy points. His rank based on avg proj (#32) is worse than his rank based on total fantasy points. He is slightly underrated if you compare his ownership based rank with his projection rank. At 62%, he is the #16 most highly owned second baseman. Cesar Hernandez is expected to come up short of last season's #8 fantasy position rank.
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2020 CLE 58 233 35 66 3 20 24 57 0 0 .283 .355 .407
2019 PHI 161 612 77 171 14 71 45 100 9 2 .279 .332 .408
2018 PHI 161 605 91 153 15 60 95 155 19 6 .252 .356 .362
2017 PHI 128 511 85 150 9 34 61 104 15 5 .293 .372 .420
2016 PHI 155 547 67 161 6 39 66 116 17 13 .294 .371 .393
2015 PHI 127 405 57 110 1 35 40 86 19 5 .271 .339 .348
2014 PHI 66 114 13 27 1 4 9 33 1 1 .236 .290 .280
2013 PHI 34 121 17 35 0 10 9 26 0 3 .289 .343 .330
2012 PHI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
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2020 CLE 20 0 95 0 1 2 0 3
2019 PHI 31 3 250 4 0 6 4 9
2018 PHI 15 3 219 3 1 4 4 12
2016 PHI 14 11 215 2 5 2 4 6
2014 PHI 2 0 32 1 1 0 1 1
2012 PHI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Late Inning Pressure 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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with 0 outs 55 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
with 1 out 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leading Off 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1st Inning 57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>= 7th Inning 55 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Extra Innings 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pinch Hitter 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Lineup Slot 1 43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lineup Slot 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Day 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Night 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
August 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
September 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Post All-Star 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Grass 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Home 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Away 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Playing 2B 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Busch Stadium 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Guaranteed Rate Field 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Great American Ball Park 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Progressive Field 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kauffman Stadium 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Target Field 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wrigley Field 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
PNC Park 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Comerica Park 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
vs. Chi-A 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
vs. Det. 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
vs. K.C. 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
vs. Milw. 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
vs. Minn. 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
vs. Chi-N 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
vs. Cin. 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
vs. Pitt. 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
vs. St.L. 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
SLG%
YTD OBP%
07/24 vs W2-0 4 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .250 .500 .250
07/25 vs L3-2 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .250 .375 .300
07/30 @ W2-0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .304 .348 .345
07/31 @ L4-1 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .333 .370 .364
08/06 vs W13-0 4 3 2 1 0 0 3 1 2 0 0 0 .319 .383 .365
08/14 @ W10-5 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .274 .342 .323
08/21 vs L10-5 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .263 .354 .315
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Workshop of the world
By Sandy George2012-11-02T19:20:00+00:00
Renowned for its facilities, locations and film-making skill, New Zealand is a major international draw. And its inward investment success is benefiting local production. Sandy George reports
Compact and picturesque, New Zealand has been renowned for Hollywood-standard skills since Peter Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Just ask James Cameron, who has bought land in the country and will reportedly make parts of his Avatar sequels there. Indeed, ask any number of the film-makers who have discovered the quality available in the territory: from local director Andrew Adamson, who returned home to direct Mr Pip and Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away after making the first two films in the Shrek and Narnia franchises; to producer Robert Tapert, currently shooting a remake of The Evil Dead in the territory; to UK director Peter Webber, who made war drama Emperor there. A Toronto gala selection this year, the film is set in Tokyo in 1945 but shot almost entirely in New Zealand.
“We had a fabulous experience,” says Emperor’s producer, Gary Foster. “We secured a first-rate crew. The government organisations supported our efforts and helped us when needed. We found most of the materials we required in the country, even some US military vehicles, though we did import some Japanese materials for authenticity purposes.”
New Zealand’s Large Budget Screen Production Grant and the favourable exchange rate helped to attract the film, as did New Zealand’s landscape, fine craftspeople and a building in Wellington that could double as US General Douglas MacArthur’s Tokyo headquarters.
Positive year
According to Statistics New Zealand, the film business is booming. Revenue from 35 local and international features was about $575m (nz$700m) in 2011, the highest for at least four years. Across film and TV, revenue was $2.5bn (nz$3bn), of which $318m (nz$387m) came from North America, a 30% increase on 2010. Half of that was investment in production and the rest was split evenly between the provision of post and production services, and sales and royalties.
“We had a very positive year,” says Film New Zealand chief executive Gisella Carr. “The Hobbit was on an Olympic scale and the decision to make it a trilogy means more filming.”
While locations can be a draw, skills and costs are major factors. A 15% production or post grant is available providing New Zealand expenditure reaches $12.3m (nz$15m) and $2.5m (nz$3m) respectively - some bundling is permitted. If expenditure tops $165m (nz$200m), a further $8m (nz$9.75m) is on offer.
“It is never going to be easy to attract productions to Australia and New Zealand, but I wouldn’t say it’s a struggle either,” says Cameron Harland, chief executive of Park Road Post (PRP).
‘Films have to cost less to compete internationally’
Graeme Mason, New Zealand Film Commission
The company, and associated outfits WETA Digital and WETA Workshop, all of which are at least partly owned by Peter Jackson, are irresistible to some US producers. Broadly speaking, Harland says he expects equal amounts of revenue to come from two or three big US films, one or two films by Jackson, and many more local films annually. Film New Zealand and PRP have a joint presence in Los Angeles, headed by representative Vicki Jackways.
Big-budget production can soak up personnel but it has also increased the skills on which local films can draw. “You have the big end [offshore films] - though that’s a Wellington perspective because that’s where Peter Jackson is based - and the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) supporting a good variety of experienced and new film-makers, genre films, festival films and those with mainstream intentions,” says producer Dave Gibson, whose comedy horror Fresh Meat, starring Temuera Morrison as a cannibal, has just opened locally. “There can always be more happening but it is a nice mix.” Gibson is developing frat film The Graduation, the first New Zealand-South Korea co-production with producer Lee Choon-yun and assisted by Kevin Chang.
NZFC chief executive Graeme Mason points to a rise in co-productions as local producers become more internationally minded. NZFC has an annual budget of $16.4m (nz$20m) and Mason says the agency funded more films in 2011 and 2012 than at any time in its history. This was due partly to many low-budget pictures being pushed through the system to develop new talent and encourage entrepreneurialism.
“We have put a lot of pressure on budgets,” says Mason. Films now in post, including Shopping, Mt Zion and The Weight Of Elephants, are all being made for $2m-$2.5m, whereas they might have cost up to $5m two years ago. “Our goal is to keep volume up. We are not doing it to drive down prices. Films have to cost less to compete internationally and we need a certain volume to keep the industry going.”
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The Art of Toy Story 4 by Josh Cooley
With a story that's spanned more than 20 years, the adventures of Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the gang have captured the hearts of millions. The Art of Toy Story 4 invites readers to explore the next installment of Pixar's beloved franchise through never-before-seen concept art, character studies, process animation, storyboards, colorscripts, and more.
Featuring exclusive interviews with the production team on the making of the film and insights into their creative vision, The Art of Toy Story 4 reveals the vivid imagination that brought this story to life.
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Josh Cooley joined Pixar Animation Studios in May 2003 and has since worked as a story artist on the Academy Award (R)-winning films The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and Up, and Golden Globe (R)-winning Cars, and served as the story supervisor on Academy Award (R)-winning Inside Out. He made his directorial debut with "Riley's First Date," and is currently directing Disney Pixar's feature film, Toy Story 4.
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Opinion: What Happened At Chick-fil-A, Did They Sell Out or Cave In?
By Grace Saldana Nov 26, 2019 Verified Research
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Chick-fil-A, a privately-owned business revered by Christians for sticking to its guns on supporting Biblical values, made the controversial decision to no longer work with organizations that openly do the same regarding same-sex relationships.
In a controversial statement, they recently announced the end of two multi-year charitable partnerships with prominent Christian non-profits including The Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. The public statement released by Executive Director of the Chick-fil-A Foundation, Rodney Bullard, revealed plans to minimize partnerships and “deepen” their giving to two organizations that serve two core problems facing American children in need: education and homelessness. Chick-fil-A has clarified that they will continue to partner with the following non-profits: Junior Achievement USA (which has no religious affiliation) and Covenant House International.
Evidently, their continuing partner Covenant House International is a faith-based nonprofit, however, because they are partially publicly funded by HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development), they take a less traditional approach to the LGBTQ community. Since they are not a 100% private non-profit, they do not take an open stance on same-sex marriage one way or the other. Furthermore, Covenant House actively partners with True Colors United to provide a multi-phase, 8-week LGBTQ inclusivity training to all their representatives. This training teaches a variety of inclusion techniques to make homeless LGBTQ youth feel more comfortable by encouraging the use gender pronouns, providing safe spaces, etc.
Whereas, the Salvation Army stays consistent with their faith as their stance against same-sex marriage is well-known. The Salvation Army released a response that expressed their disappointment and urged the public to “seek the truth” before jumping to conclusions about their support for the LGBTQ community. According to the page dedicated to the LGBT community on The Salvation Army’s website, they clarify that although they disagree with the lifestyle of LGBTQ individuals, they will not discriminate against any person in need as they, “embrace people regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity”.
The Fellowship of Christian Athlete’s Statement of Faith directly states their views align with the Biblical definition of marriage between one man and one woman. They have not yet responded to the restaurant’s decision to discontinue the partnership.
Chick-fil-A’s willingness to work with faith-based organizations who do not take a hardline stance on the subject like Covenant House International, but not with The Salvation Army who does take a hardline stance, could suggest that they are discriminating against working with Bible-based non-profits.
What remains unclear is what exactly prompted this sudden change in a long-held religious influence on their business decisions.
While the obvious incident we could point at is the backlash they received when they opened their first international location last month in London where they were staunchly rejected for their beliefs on traditional marriage. According to the BBC, the shopping center where the restaurant is located will not renew their lease past 6 months – forcing Chick-fil-A to either relocate or close completely.
However, this is not the first time they have been rejected. In fact, in recent years they have been banned from several airports, cities, and schools here in the U.S.
Regardless (and likely because of) of all the criticism they’ve endured, Chick-fil-A has become somewhat of a trendsetter being one of the few widely successful Christian businesses. It closes on Sunday in honor of the Biblical idea of resting on the Sabbath. It has become an icon in pop culture, featured on Christian rap song “Closed on Sunday” from Kanye West’s “Jesus is King” album. In 2012, former governor Mike Huckabee even announced “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” to be on August 1st as a day for loyal customers to rally to the restaurant in support of their values. Social media absolutely loves Chick-fil-A meme culture. Now in 2019, the family who owns Chick-fil-A is considered one of the 15 wealthiest family dynasties according to a report.
So, considering their wild success as a private Christian company that has more than 2,000 locations, the question still begs – why this decision now?
There could be a couple of reasons to speculate. Perhaps they see it as a business decision since their religious background is impeding successful expansion into Europe. Or perhaps Chick-fil-A feels bullied into it by those who oppose therefore they are attempting to please the masses. Most importantly, it’s unclear what kind of precedent this will set for the customers who go there to support their religious integrity, and for prominent Christian businesses like In-N-Out, Forever21 and Hobby Lobby who also openly support the Bible. Will others follow suit? Will Christians be expected to suppress their 1st Amendment rights? If a powerful, wealthy company like Chick-fil-A, the champion of Christian values in the U.S., can be intimidated by those who have a difference of opinion, then freedom of religion and freedom of speech have a questionable future in the message this sends to everyone who disagrees.
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The Hottest Games for Nintendo Switch
By John Breaux | April 13, 2018
The Nintendo Switch is one of the most innovative gaming products ever released, and is definitely the best console from Nintendo to date. Never before have you been able to start up a video game on your home TV, then have the ability to take it with you on the go and play pretty much anywhere. Thanks to its versatile design, the Nintendo Switch is the ultimate gaming console for those wanting to truly get the best experience whether at home or on the go. So, why not play the best games for it? Here are the titles you have to check out.
The award-winning open-world game is now available on the Nintendo Switch, which means you can take your creative talents on the go. Minecraft is an awesome game that allows the player to construct, create, or destroy different buildings structured out of pixelated 3D cubes. Players can also engage in mini-games set inside the Minecraft universe, including Battle, which will pit you against other players. You can also play with friends, using the extremely simple local network setup, and explore the world of Minecraft with some company. $29.99
Kirby Star Allies by Bago Games via CC 2.0
A nice addition to the classic Kirby series, this game resembles Smash Bros, and allows for solo play with AI players, or co-op. The game mainly comprises of side scrolling, with a heavy action element that will give you the chance to choose between a variety of abilities to defeat your enemies. The game has been developed to take advantage of the Switch’s graphics, with the game remastered for high definition. This is one game you won’t want to put down after picking up. $59.99
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Skyrim features a massive open world set in a time complete with dragons, magic, combat, and fantasy. Previously released on the other major gaming consoles, this game has won numerous awards for being one of the most outstanding RPG’s ever created. This is the best bet in terms of games jam packed with content for the Switch, as Skyrim is loaded with a grand total of 244 quests for players to complete. Several DLC’s will also come standard with purchase of the game, including several new lands you can journey to and explore. One of the coolest parts about Skyrim on the Switch is the intuitive controls that will have you feel as if you were really raising your shield to fight or casting a fire spell against your enemies. $59.99
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This is the biggest 3D Mario adventure ever released, which takes beloved character all over the globe on a brand new set of adventuress. Mario has moved out of the Mushroom Kingdom, which gives the game a fresh new feel to a classic series, all the while retaining that signature nostalgia. Players will still see ground pounds and green pipes with the chomping vines, but now you’ll be able to enjoy it with the absolutely gorgeous HD graphics and its fun and intuitive controls.$59.99
The latest entry in one of Nintendo’s most esteemed fantasy franchise, Breath of the Wild brings back the Zelda we know and love, and builds upon it in the best way, taking concepts from other open-world RPGs. The game is light on the lengthy tutorials and text boxes, and heavy on allowing the player to experience its content in the way they choose. The graphics are impeccable whether on your TV or on the go. $59.99
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Jacoby and Chapman Win Marine Corps Historic Half
Brenda Barrera May 20, 2012 at 4:41pm
By Brenda Barrera
For the Washington Running Report
There was much to celebrate at this year’s fifth anniversary of the Marine Corps Marathon Historic Half held in Fredericksburg, VA on May 20, 2012. The event has grown every year and had close to 6,000 finishers, compared to 3,800 from the inaugural 2008 event. For starters, it was a commanding victory for hometown favorite Bert Jacoby who came to the starting line with one goal: to win. And that he did in 1:11:33, almost three minutes ahead of defending champion Wyatt Boyd, from Washington, DC, who finished in 1:14:27. Brandon Dick, 25, from Fredericksburg took the final podium spot with his 1:15:36 finish.
What a far cry from Jacoby’s 2011 race experience when he was the very last person to cross the start line and he raised money for charity for each person he passed.
“This time I was focused,” smiled Jacoby. “Time did not matter; it was all about place.” He stayed at the finish area with his mother who used her iPhone and the MCM Runner Tracking options to follow his sister, Anne. She completed the race in 1:35:27.
Next up for the Jacoby is a move to Charlottesville for graduate school at the end of the summer. “I’m looking forward to training with the group out of Ragged Mountain Running.”
Courtney Chapman, 28, is juggling a heavy load at medical school in Norfolk, VA and yet still able to improve her race times. Chapman is best described as a tough competitor with a wide smile that is easy to spot whether she is clipping along at a fast pace or flying up a hill. And fly she did at the famous hospital hill on her way to a 1:21:56 victory. That is a big leap from her 2010 MCM Historic Half race when she posted a 1:31:10 finish.
Arlington’s Katherine Marden, 31, fresh off last weekend’s Ragnar Relay Cape Cod (“I had the longest leg”) finished in 1:26:44. She was followed by Marine Capt. Erin Demchko, 27, from Dumfries, VA who was pleased with her 1:29:02 finish.
“The hill wasn’t as bad as the hype,” said Demchko, “I had a riot and got a PR!”
Top masters division finishers were Lt. Col. Thomas Blackwell, 41, of Vienna, VA in 1:19:58 and Alexandria’s Stefani Watterson, 42, of Alexandria, VA who crossed the line in 1:33:41.
Mike Collotta, 58, (left) from Washington, DC has been running races for more than two decades and still finding interesting events like this one. “I especially liked the historical parts of the course,” said the DC Road Runners member. “The Marines provided extra inspiration.”
Deanna Cabrey, running for Team Fisher House, was pleased with her finish of 1:41:43. “I surpassed my goal of running a 7:45-8:10 pace,” said the 20-year-old college student. Cabrey started supporting the Fisher House when she was just ten and began giving 10% of her allowance to the charity.
Wedding bells will be ringing soon for John Swift and Sarah Longava (right) from Bristow, VA who crossed the finish line together just under two hours. Swift presented her with an engagement ring. And she said, “Yes!”
NBC’s “Biggest Loser” is a reality show about overweight contestants trying to lose weight and also adopt a healthy lifestyle. It has inspired not only contestants and viewers, but also First Lady Michelle Obama.
A highlight for many runners was to share the field with two familiar faces from the hit show. Contestant Lauren Lee, 27, from Poolesville MD, (right) sporting her yellow “Biggest Loser” tank top finished in 2:14:33 and the TV show’s host, Alison Sweeney, wearing bib#1,not only had duties firing the starting pistol but jumped in and ran 2:05:30.
“The show really makes you believe in the human spirit and overcoming whatever your obstacles,” said Sweeney who looked unfazed and fresh after the uphill finish. “I never would have dreamed of doing this [half marathon] before the Biggest Loser,” smiled the host. As with many finishers she was pleased that she had beaten her projected time.
New Course Records Set in Semper Fred 5K
Kenyan Reuben Mwei, 26, living in Lithia Springs, GA is planning on racing the MCM 10K this fall and wanted to check out the “Marine Corps” experience. Not familiar with the course, Mwei picked a good competitor to tuck behind, defending champion Jordan Zwick.
“I was off my goal of 14 minutes,” said Mwei, an Academic All-American at Adams State. He crossed the finish line in 15:27, beating the 2010 course record of 15:59. Arlington’s Zwick, 25, was anxious to stretch out his legs having driven 11 hours from Rochester, NY the night prior. He finished with an impressive 15:36. Stephen Harrison, 23, from Fredericksburg was third in 16:19.
Reigning women’s champion Molly Roohi should probably listen to her coach, or maybe not. The advice for this day was not to race but Roohi did it anyway. It paid off as she clocked 19:03, setting a new course record (old course record 19:37 from 2009) and knocking 38 seconds off her 2011 time. Masters standouts Michelle Dolby, 44, from Fredericksburg finished next in 20:57 and Alexandria’s Kristin McCann, 40, took third place in 21:49.
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Cohen Didn’t Get the Civility Memo
RUSH: In the meantime, Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen Tuesday night went to the floor of the House of Representatives to denounce Republicans and compare them to Nazis, and the media marvels at his courage for not backing down; just as they marvel at Sheriff Dipstick’s courage for not backing down from his inane comments. Here from Tuesday night on Capitol Hill, Steve Cohen (Democrat-Tennessee).
COHEN: (banging on podium) They don’t like the truth so they summarily dismiss it. They say it’s a government takeover of healthcare. A big lie just like Goebbels. You say it enough and you repeat the lie, repeat the lie, repeat the lie until eventually people believe it. Like blood libel, that’s the same kind of thing. The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it, and you have the Holocaust. You tell a lie over and over again.
RUSH: Last night, Anderson Cooper 15, he interviewed Steve Cohen (Democrat-Tennessee). Anderson Cooper said, ‘Representative Cohen, how can you think that it’s appropriate for a member of Congress on the floor of the House to compare the statements made by Republicans about health care to lies about Jews told by Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis? How is that appropriate?’
COHEN: I don’t think Republicans are Nazis. But they use the same means that Goebbels used, which was to have a short, concise idea and repeat it over and over and over again.
COOPER: But you’re essentially comparing them to Nazis.
COHEN: No, I don’t think I was. Goebbels was the master of political propaganda, and as evil a man as he was, he was the master of this, and when people use it — and use lies over and over and over again — whether it’s killing Grandma, whether it’s government takeover of health care, or — or any of those things, somebody has to stand up and stay, ‘Hey, wait a minute.’
RUSH: It’s parallel universe, alternative universe time. (sigh) We could point out countless Democrats who have perfected Goebbels. Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton could probably teach a course. Harry Reid. By the way, Representative Cohen, I would like you to go back and look at a recent cover story in Newsweek written by Evan Thomas entitled, ‘The Case for Killing Granny.’ We have raised fears that this is what Obamacare will do. You have a media maven who has written in defense of the concept. It’s at Newsweek magazine, Congressman Cohen: ‘The Case for Killing Granny,’ in support of Obamacare. Congressman, you are standing in quicksand when you try to defend your party and your president on this.
The vast majority of the American people do not want Obamacare precisely because it is a government takeover of one-sixth of the US economy. It is, by design, intended to eliminate the private sector health insurance industry, not just a couple of companies — and your own media, with story after story after story defending every aspect of Obamacare, all the way to include a Newsweek story: ‘The Case for Killing Granny.’ You should look it up, Congressman, before you trudge back to the floor of the House to double down on it and to get more praise for sticking to your guns by a corrupt media with no moral compass whatsoever. Now, Anderson Cooper 15 CNN last night said to Steve Cohen, ‘You wrote, and I quote, ‘Reckless and hateful speech often has a terrible human cost. If the horrific events in Arizona are not enough to modulate our public discourse, it is likely there will be more violence and more deaths.’ Do you really think your comments advance civility in the public discourse, Congressman Cohen?’
COHEN: I think telling lies is uncivil, and I think s-somebody needs to stand up to the lies that are being told. And the fact is, they were similar to what Goebbels said: ‘Keep it short, keep it simple, keep it over and over, and people will believe it,’ and that’s what they’ve done.
RUSH: You know, Congressman, it’s really pathetic. The American people are not the victims of propaganda on the right here. The American people who oppose this know it. They know what’s in it. They’ve either read Obamacare, or they have talked to people who have read Obamacare. They’re not a bunch of mind-numbed robots that have been given propaganda talking points. It is not conservative media where you will hear identical words and phrases repeated by hundreds of different people, as we will hear on the left. If there were propaganda talking points in American media, it’s to be found on your side of the aisle, Congressman.
Again, you know, I can defend my side of the aisle all I want. We’re rooted in truth, and we are rooted in principle. A majority of the American people are not wrong, and they are not of their opinion because they have been propagandized. In fact, Congressman Cohen, the American people have resisted the Democrat Party propaganda on Obamacare and have seen the truth. They have read it! We didn’t wait for the bill to be passed to find out what’s in it. We knew what was in it before it was voted on. That is why, Congressman, a majority, vast majority of the American people oppose it.
‘I think telling lies is uncivil, and I think somebody needs to stand up to the lies that are being told.’ That’s exactly what we are doing. I’m not gonna compare you to Goebbels, propaganda is propaganda, but I do think that you need to go back and take a look Newsweek, ‘The Case for Killing Granny.’ You need to look at how many Democrats voted for the repeal in the House. It was three. And lest we forgot, Congressman Cohen, not one Democrat ran for reelection on Obamacare. Congressman, who has been more demonized in America recently than the Tea Party and the Tea Party’s leaders?
If you’re gonna make a comparison with Nazi Germany, isn’t it clear who the new Jews are? It sure as hell isn’t the Democrats. Who are the new Jews, Congressman Cohen? It’s not the Democrats. It’s the Tea Party. Tea Party. By the way, Congressman, is it okay to use ‘Holocaust’ in this context, in this debate? Blood libel? It’s a fascinating thing. This issue is causing these people to make abject fools of themselves. Which I happen to love. There’s one more Steven Cohen sound bite. Anderson Cooper said, ‘It’s actually not the first time you’ve used this kind of rhetoric. In April of last year, during a radio interview, you kind of likened the Tea Party to the KKK. Isn’t that another example of kind of reckless speech, Congressman Cohen?’
COHEN: The Tea Party did arise kind of like the Klan did after the Civil War. There were people who were out of power, they wanted their power back. The Klan after the Civil War was upset that African-Americans had been given the right to vote, and many of them were in office and they didn’t like it and they wanted to form — get back their own government. They wanted to take back their government. I was among the Tea Party people up here on the health care debate. I walked among ’em. I saw ’em. I saw a very angry crowd. I saw pictures of President Obama as Hitler, and I found that reprehensible.
RUSH: Yeah, those signs are created by people like you. Those ‘Obama Hitler’ pictures were created by leftists who infiltrated the Tea Party to try to create reactions among ignorant people like Congressman Cohen. Yeah, Tea Party is kind of like the Klan. Again, Congressman, the Klan was a bunch of Democrats. The Klan was a bunch of racist pig Democrats, Congressman. Well, I’m just gonna say it. You know, we’re being told we need to be civil with this kind of guy. Did this guy not get President Obama’s Tucson memo? Notice even with Anderson Cooper sort of the kid-glove treatment. What Anderson Cooper facilitates here is for Cohen to keep saying this stuff. There’s no condemnation. There’s just a curiosity from Anderson Cooper.
‘Are you saying…? Are you sure…? Do you really mean…?’
‘Yes, I do. I’m doubling down on it.’
The KKK was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party back in its day. Somebody want to try to tell me that Robert Byrd was a Republican ever? This guy is totally ignorant of his history. Totally ignorant! Now, let’s move on to F. Chuck Todd. This morning on NBC they had a discussion there about Congressman Cohen and his remarks that you just heard, and here’s what F. Chuck Todd said…
TODD: The only way these House guys think they can get attention is to do these things, and that’s why it’s all the House noticed. All the ‘civility’ comments are coming from the senators. He’s got a history of throwing rhetorical bombs.
RUSH: Oh, ‘he’s got a history of throwing rhetorical bombs,’ so we’re gonna tolerate this. Wasn’t this all predictable, folks? We knew damn well the ‘incendiary rhetoric’ and the ‘uncivil talk’ was not gonna stop on the left, and we also know the media was going to explain it and justify it and say, ‘Well, you know, the only way they can get noticed is this kind of rhetoric. They’re losers! The only way they can get noticed is to throw these rhetorical bombs.’ Not one word of condemnation from F. Chuck Todd. Nope! Only a demand that we put it in context and understand it. What a corrupt business journalism has become. No moral compass whatsoever.
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Iuliia Tore
As Qatar Airways continues to rapidly rebuild its network across the globe and in the U.S., the airline has announced it will operate four weekly flights to San Francisco – the fifth new destination launched by the national carrier of the State of Qatar since the start of the pandemic – from December 15, 2020. The San Francisco service will be operated by Qatar Airways’ state-of-the-art Airbus A350-900, featuring 36 seats in the award-winning Qsuite Business Class and 247 seats in Economy Class with passengers enjoying free Super Wi-Fi broadband internet until January 2021.
The World’s Best Airline and the only Middle East carrier operating to San Francisco has continued to grow and innovate during the pandemic with industry-leading flexible booking policies, robust safety measures and a dependable network, all providing strong levels of reliability for passengers. Throughout the pandemic, Qatar Airways continued operations to the U.S. with flights to both Chicago and Dallas-Fort Worth.
Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker, said, “We are thrilled to welcome San Francisco as our newest destination and our ninth current gateway in the U.S. As we navigate the crisis, we have made it a priority to not only reinstate our existing destinations and be the airline travelers can rely on, but to also grow our network and increase connectivity with new and relevant destinations for our customers to enjoy.”
“As the gateway to Silicon Valley and the vibrant tech economy, the San Francisco Bay Area is a globally important destination, both from a business and leisure perspective. Populated with many people wanting to visit friends, families or business partners overseas, Qatar Airways is perfectly positioned as the reliable airline partner to enable traffic in and out of the area. We are excited as we launch this new destination, making it easier for our passengers to reunite with their loved ones, having taken more than 220,000 Americans home to the U.S. via scheduled and chartered flights amid the pandemic.”
San Francisco International Airport Director, Mr. Ivar C. Satero, said, “We are proud to welcome Qatar Airways’ new nonstop service between San Francisco and Doha this December. As airlines restore travel destinations around the world, we applaud the vision of Qatar Airways to make this new route a reality, and we look forward to offering a world-class airport experience to travelers from its network.”
Business Class passengers on this flight can enjoy the award-winning Qsuite Business Class seat with its enhanced privacy, including sliding privacy doors and the option to use a ‘Do Not Disturb (DND)’ indicator. The Qsuite seat layout is a 1-2-1 configuration, providing passengers to the Middle East and beyond with the most spacious, fully private, comfortable and socially distanced Business Class product in the sky.
The addition of San Francisco will build onto Qatar Airways’ current service to some of the most vibrant cities in the U.S., including Boston (BOS), Chicago (ORD), Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW), Houston (IAH), Los Angeles (LAX), New York (JFK), Philadelphia (PHL) and Washington, D.C. (IAD). By mid-December, the carrier will fly 55 weekly flights to nine destinations in the U.S. that will connect onto hundreds of American cities through partnerships with American Airlines and JetBlue. Qatar Airways codeshares on all American Airlines flights within the U.S., Mexico and Central America. The new service will offer excellent connections from the U.S. to global destinations in Africa, India (subject to NOTAMS), Nepal, Pakistan and South Africa, amongst others, via the best, most customer-friendly airport in the Middle East that consistently leads the way in safety and security measures.
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Judge William Newsom, father of California Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom, dies
Local // Bay Area & State
Sam Whiting Dec. 13, 2018 Updated: Dec. 13, 2018 1:13 p.m.
Judge William Newsom, father of California Gov.-elect...
1of74Judge William Newsom and his son Mayor Gavin Newsom were both honored at the 20th Anniversary of the American Ireland Fund. Mayor Gavin Newsom was honored at this dinner at the St. Francis Hotel.Photo: Deanne Fitzmaurice / The Chronicle 2004
2of74Retired state justice William Newsom at a press conference in the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco Calif., to ask that the men convicted in the 1976 schoolbus kidnapping in Chowchilla be released on parole on Monday, February 14, 2011.Photo: Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle
3of74Mayor Gavin Newsom takes his oath of office with William Newsom at right in the city hall rotunda. Jennifer Siebel beside him who is carrying Gavin's niece Talitha Callan.Photo: Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle 2008
4of74Notable Deaths of 2018Photo: Antonella Ragazzoni / Eyeem/Getty Images/EyeEm
5of74Penny Marshall, 1943-2018: Penny Marshall, the trailblazing director of smash-hit big-screen comedies like "Big" and "A League of Their Own" who first indelibly starred in the top-rated sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," died in her Los Angeles home on Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, due to complications from diabetes. She was 75.
Photo: Nick Ut, AP
6of74Ken Berry, 1933-2018: Ken Berry, an actor and dancer who played the affable and clumsy Capt. Wilton Parmenter in the 1960s sitcom "F Troop," died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018. He was 85. After “"F Troop," Berry went to on to star in "Mayberry R.F.D.," a spin-off of "The Andy Griffith Show," where Berry appeared during the show’s final year.
7of74George H.W. Bush, 1924-2018: George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander and World War II hero whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, died Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, at his Houston home. He was 94.Photo: Marcy Nighswander
8of74Charles "Chuck" Harrison, 1931-2018: Charles Harrison, an industrial designer who modernized more than 750 products, from the first plastic garbage can to the 1958 View-Master, served as the first black executive to work at Sears, Roebuck and Company starting in 1961. He died of a bacterial infection Nov. 29, 2018, in Santa Clarita, Calif. Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images
9of74Bernardo Bertolucci, 1941-2018: Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci, whose films include 'Last Tango In Paris' and 'The Last Emperor', has died in Rome aged 77, Italian media said on November 28, 2018.
Photo: Valery Hache / AFP / Getty Images 2012
10of74Stephen Hillenburg, 1961-2018: Stephen Hillenburg, who used his dual loves of drawing and marine biology to spawn the absurd undersea world of "SpongeBob SquarePants," died Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, of Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was 57.Photo: Charles Sykes, AP
11of74Devin Lima, 1977-2018: Devin Lima, singer for the pop band LFO, died Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018 after battling Stage 4 cancer. He was 41.Photo: Gregg DeGuire
12of74William Goldman, 1931-2018: William Goldman, the screenwriter and Hollywood wise man who won Academy Awards for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All the President’s Men" and also converted his novels "Marathon Man," "Magic" and "The Princess Bride" into screenplays, died Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. He was 87.
Photo: AP
13of74Roy Clark, 1933-2018: Country star Roy Clark, the guitar virtuoso and singer who headlined the cornpone TV show "Hee Haw" for nearly a quarter century and was known for such hits as "Yesterday When I was Young" and "Honeymoon Feeling," died Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, due to complications from pneumonia at home in Tulsa, Okla. He was 85.Photo: Harold Filan, AP
14of74Stan Lee, 1922-2018: Stan Lee, the creative dynamo who revolutionized the comic book and helped make billions for Hollywood by introducing human frailties in Marvel superheroes such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk, died Monday, Nov. 12, 2018. He was 95.Photo: REED SAXON
15of74Sondra Locke, 1944-2018: Actress and director Sondra Locke, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her first film role in 1968’s "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" and went on to co-star in six films with Clint Eastwood, died Nov. 3 at her Los Angeles home of cardiac arrest stemming from breast and bone cancer. She was 74.
Photo: Gilbert Tourte, ASSOCIATED PRESS
16of74Willie McCovey, 1938-2018: Willie McCovey, the sweet-swinging Hall of Famer nicknamed "Stretch" for his 6-foot-4 height and those long arms, died Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. He was 80. A first baseman and left fielder, McCovey was a .270 career hitter with 521 home runs and 1,555 RBIs in 22 major league seasons, 19 of them with the Giants. He also played for the Athletics and Padres.Photo: RHH, AP
17of74Whitey Bulger, 1929-2018: James "Whitey" Bulger, the South Boston mobster and FBI informer who was captured after 16 years on the run and finally brought to justice in 2013 for a murderous reign of terror that inspired books, films and a saga of Irish-American brotherhood and brutality, was found beaten to death Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, in a West Virginia prison. He was 89.Photo: Donaldson Collection, Getty Images
18of74James Karen, 1923-2018: James Karen, a prolific and beloved character actor whose hundreds of credits included memorable appearances in "Poltergeist" and "The Return of the Living Dead," died Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94. Millions knew him as the friendly man with the glasses in TV ads for Pathmark. Others remembered him as the foreman in "Return of the Living Dead," the boss in "The China Syndrome" or the notorious Mr. Teague, the real estate developer who moves the headstones — but not the bodies — in "Poltergeist."Photo: Barry King, WireImage
19of74Paul Allen, 1953-2018: Paul G. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates before becoming a billionaire philanthropist, technology investor and owner of several professional sports teams, died Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, in Seattle at age 65. Allen died from complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, just two weeks after announcing he had restarted treatment for the cancer that he had previously fought off in 2009.
Photo: Don Ryan, Associated Press
20of74Scott Wilson, 1942-2018: Actor Scott Wilson, best known for his roles as an itinerant murderer in "In Cold Blood" and as moral compass Hershel Greene on AMC's "The Walking Dead," died Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018, after battling leukemia. He was 76.Photo: Richard Shotwell, AP
21of74Marty Balin, 1942-2018: Marty Balin, a patron of the 1960s "San Francisco Sound" both as founder and lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane, shown above with Balin at left, and co-owner of the club where the Airplane and other bands performed, died Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, in Tampa, Fla. He was 76.Photo: Associated Press
22of74Mac Miller, 1992-2018: Mac Miller, the platinum hip-hop star whose rhymes vacillated from party raps to lyrics about depression and drug use, and earned kudos from the likes of Jay-Z and Chance the Rapper, died Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, at age 26.Photo: Scott Roth, AP
23of74Burt Reynolds, 1936-2018: Burt Reynolds, the handsome film and television star known for his acclaimed performances in "Deliverance" and "Boogie Nights," commercial hits such as "Smokey and the Bandit" and for an active off-screen love life which included relationships with Loni Anderson and Sally Field, died Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, at age 82.
Photo: Art Zelin/Getty Images
24of74Bill Daily, 1927-2018: Bill Daily, the comic sidekick to leading men on the sitcoms "I Dream of Jeannie" and "The Bob Newhart Show," died Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018, of natural causes in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was 91.
Photo: Mark J. Terrill
25of74Paul Taylor, 1930-2018: Paul Taylor, a towering figure in American modern dance who, in a career that spanned more than six decades, created a vast body of work that reflected both the giddy highs and the depraved lows of the human condition, died on Aug. 29, 2018, in Manhattan. He was 88.Photo: ANDREA MOHIN, New York Times
26of74Neil Simon, 1927-2018: Neil Simon, a master of comedy whose laugh-filled hits such as "The Odd Couple," "Barefoot in the Park" and his "Brighton Beach" trilogy dominated Broadway for decades, died on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018, in Manhattan. He was 91.Photo: Gary Stuart
27of74John McCain, 1936-2018: Senator, war hero and GOP presidential candidate John McCain died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018. He was 81.Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP
28of74Robin Leach, 1941-2018: Robin Leach, whose voice crystalized the opulent 1980s on TV's "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," died, Friday, Aug. 24, 2018. He was 76.Photo: Charles Sykes
29of74Barbara Harris, 1935-2018: Barbara Harris, whose intelligence, impish good looks and winsomely neurotic manner brightened Broadway musicals in the '60s and films such as "Nashville," "Freaky Friday" and "A Thousand Clowns" died Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, at age 83.Photo: Marty Lederhandler, AP
30of74Kofi Annan, 1938-2018: Kofi Annan, a charismatic global diplomat from Ghana and the first black African to become United Nations secretary-general who led the world body through one of its most turbulent periods, died Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018, in Bern, Switzerland, at age 80.
Photo: Mary Altaffer, AP
31of74Aretha Franklin, 1942-2018: Aretha Franklin, the undisputed "Queen of Soul" who sang with matchless style on such classics as "Think," "I Say a Little Prayer" and her signature song, "Respect," and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, died Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018, from pancreatic cancer at her home in Detroit. She was 76.Photo: Amy Sancetta, AP
32of74Charlotte Rae, 1926-2018: Charlotte Rae, who played a wise and patient housemother to a brood of teenage girls on the long-running sitcom "The Facts of Life" during a career that encompassed many other TV roles as well as stage and film appearances, died Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018, at her Los Angeles home. She was 92.
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33of74Adrian Cronauer, 1938-2018: Adrian Cronauer, the man whose military radio antics inspired a character played by Robin Williams in the film "Good Morning, Vietnam," died Wednesday, July 18, 2018. He was 79.
During his service as a U.S. Air Force sergeant in Vietnam in 1965 and 1966, Cronauer opened his Armed Forces Radio show with the phrase, "Goooooood morning, Vietnam!" Williams made the refrain famous in the 1987 film, loosely based on Cronauer’s time in Saigon.Photo: Charles Krupa, Associated Press
34of74Nancy Sinatra, 1917-2018: Nancy Sinatra Sr., the childhood sweetheart of Frank Sinatra who became the first of his four wives and the mother of his three children, died Friday, July 13, 2018. She was 101.
35of74Tab Hunter 1931-2018: Tab Hunter, the blond actor and singer who was the heartthrob of millions of teenage girls in the 1950s, and received new attention decades later when he revealed that he was gay, died Sunday, July 8, 2018. He was 86.
Photo: Jordan Strauss, Associated Press
36of74Richard Swift 1977-2018: Richard Swift, who has been in bands such as The Shins, The Arcs and The Black Keys, has died at the age of 41. A representative for Swift said he died Tuesday, July 3, 2018 in Tacoma, Wash.
Photo: Wade Payne, Associated Press
37of74Harlan Ellison, 1934-2018: Harlan Ellison, who emerged as a major figure in the New Wave of science fiction writers in the 1960s and became a legend in science fiction and fantasy circles for his award-winning stories and notoriously outspoken and combative persona, died Wednesday, June 27, 2018, in Los Angeles. He was 84.Photo: Steve Barber, AP
38of74 Joe Jackson, 1928-2018: Joe Jackson, the fearsome stage dad of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson and their talented siblings, who took his family from poverty and launched a musical dynasty, died Wednesday, June 27, 2018, in Las Vegas. He was 89.Photo: MICHAEL A. MARIANT, AP
39of74 Donald Hall, 1928-2018: Donald Hall, a former poet laureate of the United States who found a universe of meaning in the apples, ox carts and ordinary folk of his beloved rural New England, died Saturday, June 23, 2018, at his home in Wilmot, New Hampshire. He was 89.
Photo: JIM COLE
40of74 Charles Krauthammer, 1950-2018: Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and pundit who helped shape and occasionally dissented from the conservative movement as he evolved from "Great Society" Democrat to Iraq War cheerleader to denouncer of Donald Trump, dies Thursday, June 21, 2018, at age 68. Krauthammer had said publicly a year ago he was being treated for a cancerous tumor in his abdomen and earlier this month revealed that he likely had just weeks to live. Photo: MICHAEL TEMCHINE
41of74Anthony Bourdain, 1956-2018: The acclaimed celebrity chef and "Parts Unknown" travel show host was found dead of apparent suicide in his hotel room while in Paris on Friday, June 8.Photo: Jim Cooper, AP
42of74Kate Spade, 1962-2018: Kate Spade, a fashion designer known for her sleek handbags, was found dead in her Park Avenue apartment Tuesday, June 5, 2018, in an apparent suicide, police said. She was 55.
Photo: Bebeto Matthews, Associated Press
43of74Philip Roth, 1933-2018: Philip Roth, the prize-winning novelist and fearless narrator of sex, death, assimilation and fate, from the comic madness of "Portnoy’s Complaint" to the elegiac lyricism of "American Pastoral," died Tuesday, May 22, 2018, in a New York City hospital at age 85.
Photo: Richard Drew, AP
44of74 Clint Walker, 1927-2018: Clint Walker, the towering, strapping actor who handed down justice as the title character in the early TV western "Cheyenne," died Monday, May 21,2018, at a hospital in his longtime home of Grass Valley, Calif., at age 90. His film credits included "The Ten Commandments" and "The Dirty Dozen." Photo: AP
45of74 Tom Wolfe, 1931-2018: Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of "New Journalism" who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wit to such novels as "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "A Man in Full," died of an infection Monday, May 14, 2018, in a New York City hospital. He was 88. Photo: Bebeto Matthews, AP
46of74 Margot Kidder, 1948-2018: Margot Kidder, who starred as Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve in the "Superman" film franchise of the 1970s and 1980s, died Sunday, May 13, 2018, at her home in Livingston, Montana. She was 69. Photo: AP
47of74Scott Hutchison, 1981-2018: Scott Hutchison, the singer for Scottish indie rock outfit Frightened Rabbit, was found dead on Friday, May 11, 2018, near South Queensferry, Scotland. The singer was 36.Photo: Frank Hoensch/Redferns
48of74Verne Troyer, 1969-2018: Verne Troyer, who played Dr. Evil’s small, silent sidekick "Mini-Me" in the "Austin Powers" movie franchise, died Saturday, April 21, 2018. He was 49.Photo: Dan Steinberg
49of74 Avicii, 1989-2018: Avicii, the Grammy-nominated electronic dance DJ who performed sold-out concerts for feverish fans around the world and also had massive success on U.S. pop radio, died Friday April 20, 2018. He was 28. The Swedish performer, born Tim Bergling, was found dead in Muscat, Oman.
Photo: Amy Sussman, AP
50of74Barbara Bush, 1925-2018: Barbara Bush, the snowy-haired first lady and mother of a president whose plainspoken manner and utter lack of pretense made her more popular at times than her husband, President George H.W. Bush, died Tuesday, April 17, 2018, in Houston. She was 92.Photo: Doug Mills, AP
51of74 Carl Kasell, 1934-2018: Newscaster Carl Kasell, a signature voice of NPR who brought his gravitas to "Morning Edition" and later his wit to "Wait, Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!" dies Tuesday, April 17, 2018. He was 84. NPR said Kasell died from complications from Alzheimer’s disease in Potomac, Maryland. He retired in 2014. Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty
52of74 Harry Anderson, 1952-2018: Harry Anderson, the actor best known for playing an off-the-wall judge working the night shift of a Manhattan court room in the television comedy series "Night Court," was found dead in his North Carolina home Monday, April 16, 2018. He was 65. Anderson also starred in the series "Dave's World" and appeared on "Cheers" as con man Harry "The Hat" Gittes. Photo: Richard Drew, AP
53of74 R. Lee Ermey, 1944-2018: R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine who made a career in Hollywood playing hard-nosed military men like Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s "Full Metal Jacket," died Sunday morning, April 15, 2018, from pneumonia-related complications. He was 74. Photo: Jack Hanrahan, AP
54of74 Milos Forman, 1932-2018: Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, whose American movies "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus" won a deluge of Academy Awards, including best director Oscars, died Saturday, April 14, 2018, at Danbury Hospital, near his home in Warren, Connecticut. He was 86. Photo: Gregorio Borgia, AP
55of74 Art Bell, 1945-2018: Art Bell, a radio host best known for a paranormal-themed nightly show syndicated on hundreds of stations in the 1990s, died at his home in southern Nevada Friday, April 13, 2018. He was 72. Bell hosted the popular radio talk show "Coast to Coast AM" before he left the airwaves in 2002. Photo: Aaron Mayes, AP
56of74Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, 1936-2018: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the former wife of Nelson Mandela revered by many in South Africa as the "Mother of the Nation," but criticized by others over a brutal apartheid-era killing by her thuggish bodyguards, died in a Johannesburg hospital on Monday, April 2, 2018, after being admitted with a kidney infection. She was 81.Photo: Greg English
57of74Steven Bochco, 1943-2018: Steven Bochco, the Emmy-winning television writer-producer who brought "Hill Street Blues," "L.A. Law" and "NYPD Blue" to the small screen, died in his sleep after a battle with cancer on Sunday, April 1, 2018. He was 74.Photo: Chris Pizzello, AP
58of74Rusty Staub, 1944-2018: Rusty Staub, the orange-haired outfielder who became a huge hit with baseball fans in two countries during an All-Star career that spanned 23 major league seasons, died Thursday, March 29, 2018, after an illness in a hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 73. Affectionately dubbed "Le Grand Orange," Staub was a six-time All-Star and the only player in major league history to have at least 500 hits with four teams. Popular with fans and teammates all over the United States and Canada, he was most adored in New York and Montreal. Photo: Ron Frehm, AP
59of74Linda Brown, 1943-2018: Linda Brown, center, who as a Kansas girl was at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, died Sunday, March 25, 2018, at age 75. Her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll the family in an all-white school in Topeka, and the case was sparked when he and several black families were turned away. The NAACP’s legal arm brought the lawsuit to challenge segregation in public schools, and Oliver Brown became lead plaintiff in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision by the Supreme Court that ended school segregation. Photo: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Getty
60of74Louise Slaughter, 1929-2018: Veteran U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York, a Kentucky blacksmith's daughter who became the first woman to chair the powerful House Rules Committee, died Friday, March 16, 2018, at a Washington hospital where she was being treated after falling in her home. She was 88.Photo: J. Scott Applewhite, AP
61of74Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018: Stephen Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, died Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at his home in Cambridge, England. He was 76. The best-known theoretical physicist of his time, Hawking wrote so lucidly of the mysteries of space, time and black holes that his book, "A Brief History of Time," became an international best-seller, making him one of science's biggest celebrities since Albert Einstein. Photo: MENAHEM KAHANA, Getty
62of74Roger Bannister, 1929-2018: Roger Bannister, who as a lanky medical student at Oxford in 1954 electrified the sports world and lifted postwar England's spirits when he became the first athlete to run a mile in under 4 minutes, died Saturday, March 3, 2018, in Oxford at 88.Photo: Anonymous
63of74David Ogden Stiers, 1942-2018: Actor David Ogden Stiers, best known for his role as the snooty Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III on the popular TV show "MASH," died Saturday, March 3, 2018 at his home in Newport, Ore., after a battle with cancer. He was 75.Photo: ROBYN BECK
64of74Nanette Fabray, 1920-2018:Nanette Fabray, the vivacious actress, singer and dancer who became a star in Broadway musicals, on television as Sid Caesar's comic foil and in such hit movies as "The Band Wagon," died Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, at her home in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., at age 97.Photo: Anonymous, AP
65of74Rev. Billy Graham, 1918-2018:The Rev. Billy Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counselor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, died at his home in North Carolina Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. He was 99.Photo: JOHN BAZEMORE, AP
66of74Vic Damone, 1928-2018: Vic Damone, whose mellow baritone once earned praise from Frank Sinatra as "the best pipes in the business," died Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018, in Florida at the age of 89. Damone's easy-listening romantic ballads brought him million-selling records and sustained a half-century career in recordings, movies and nightclub, concert and television appearances. Photo: Bobby Bank, WireImage
67of74John Mahoney, 1940-2018: John Mahoney, who as the cranky, blue-collar dad in "Frasier" played counterpoint to pompous sons Frasier and Niles, died Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018. Mahoney was 77.Photo: Reed Saxon
68of74 Dennis Edwards, 1943-2018: Dennis Edwards, a Grammy-winning former member of the famed Motown group the Temptations, died Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018, in Chicago after a long illness. He was 74. Photo: David Redfern, Redferns via Getty Images
69of74Mort Walker, 1923-2018:Comic strip artist Mort Walker, a World War II veteran who satirized the Army and tickled millions of newspaper readers with the antics of the lazy private "Beetle Bailey," died Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018, at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 94.Photo: Craig Ruttle, AP
70of74Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929-2018:Ursula K. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her Earthsea books, died Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, at her home in Portland, Oregon, at 88.Photo: Dan Tuffs, Getty Images
71of74Dolores O'Riordan, 1971-2018:Dolores O'Riordan, whose urgent, powerful voice helped make Irish rock band The Cranberries a global success in the 1990s, died suddenly on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, at a London hotel. She was 46.
Photo: Bruno Bebert, AP
72of74Mark E SmithMark E Smith from post-punk band, The Fall, the fall died at the age of 60 in January. Smith formed The Fall when punk hit 1970s Manchester, and the gray industrial English city sprouted innovative bands including Joy Division and The Buzzcocks. Irascible and inimitable, Smith kept The Fall going for four decades and more than 30 albums. He was the band's only permanent member, hiring, firing and falling out with several dozen musicians along the way.Photo: Frans Schellekens/Redferns
73of74John Young, 1930-2018
This 1965 photo made available by NASA shows John Young during the Gemini 3 mission. NASA says the astronaut, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, died on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. He was 87. (NASA via AP)Photo: AP
74of74Jerry Van Dyke, 1931-2018:Jerry Van Dyke, the younger brother of Dick Van Dyke who struggled for decades to achieve his own stardom before clicking as the dim-witted sidekick in television's "Coach," died Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 in Arkansas. He was 86.Photo: Gabe Palacio, Getty Images
Retired Appeals Court Judge William Newsom, a relic of San Francisco’s Catholic-school old guard and the father of Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom, died Wednesday morning in his home in Pacific Heights. He was 84.
His death was confirmed by Nathan Click, spokesperson for Gavin Newsom. The cause of death was not given, but the elder Newsom had suffered from chronic illness for several years.
In his honor, flags at the state Capitol were ordered to be flown at half staff by Newsom’s old friend, Gov. Jerry Brown. Newsom had been an environmental lawyer in the 1970s when Brown, serving his first stint as governor, appointed him to the judiciary.
“Anne and I extend our deepest condolences to the entire Newsom family,” the governor said in a statement, referring to his wife, Anne Gust Brown. “Bill was a longtime friend, a champion of the environment and someone whom I was proud to appoint to the superior court and court of appeal.”
William Alfred Newsom III was born Feb. 15, 1934, in San Francisco and raised in the Marina District. His grandfather had opened the first neighborhood branch of the Bank of America, in the Mission District in 1929, and his father was a building contractor.
Newsom was raised in the Jesuit tradition and attended St. Ignatius High School at the old campus on Stanyan Street, where his classmate was Gordon Getty, the businessman, investor and son of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, with Brown a few years behind. Newsom’s father had managed the first two political campaigns of Brown’s father, Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, who was California governor from 1959-67 and previously state attorney general. And Getty, whose parents were divorced, moved into the Newsom household. Both those connections proved helpful to Newsom.
As was tradition with Catholic San Franciscans of a certain social class back then, Newsom crossed the street from his high school to attend the University of San Francisco, along with his pal Getty. After earning his B.A. in French literature in 1955, Newsom attended law school at Stanford University, while also earning a master’s degree in English literature. His first plan was to be an English teacher, but it did not stick.
“I changed my mind and said, ‘I'm getting too old. I've got to do something to make a few dollars.’ So I went into law,” Newsom said, according to a transcript of the California Appellate Court Legacy Project.
He took a job at the California Supreme Court and started polishing his quips. When later asked about his work there, he suggested that some of the justices did not mind a drink here and there.
“Sometimes I’d be asked to work on a case and other times to pick up a case,” he told The Chronicle in 1982.
In 1967, after spending a few years in Rome working for a subsidiary of Getty Oil, Bill Newsom announced his return to San Francisco by running for the Board of Supervisors. When that failed, he moved to Squaw Valley and opened a solo law practice in Tahoe City. He was early on in his dedication to protection of the environment in general, and mountain lions specifically.
This caught the attention of Jerry Brown, who became governor the first time around in 1975. Newsom never minded making light of the fact that his friend at one time had pursued the priesthood.
“He was a little younger; but he went into the Jesuit order,” Newsom once said. “I became convinced that I didn’t want to be a Jesuit partly as a result of knowing Jerry.”
Brown got back at Newsom upon appointing him to the Placer County Superior Court, by describing him as “my token Irish Catholic.”
Three years later, in 1978, Brown elevated Newsom to the Court of Appeal, the state’s second-highest court. Newsom was only 44, and right away he made headlines by advocating for the decriminalization of narcotics users.
“Our laws are a travesty, and there isn’t any hope of them working,” Newsom said, perhaps seeing into the future. “You will never stop people from importing and selling heroin.”
By 1982, Newsom, called Billy in the Irish bars, was considering a run for the mayorship of San Francisco.
“Politics. It’s the Irish malady,” he told The Chronicle’s Jerry Carroll in an interview conducted over lunch at the Washington Square Bar & Grill.
When that failed, he turned to his old friend Getty and became administrator to the Getty Trust.
Newsom’s marriage to Tessa Menzies, in 1966, ended in divorce after six years. When asked years later about his romantic life, Newsom said, “It’s kind of an odd thing to say, but I’m still going rather steadily with my ex-wife. It was a very amiable divorce. Neither of us remarried and, in my case, it’s not likely.”
Newsom lived out his years in a house at Fillmore Street and Pacific Avenue. For half a century or more, he was a regular at Sam’s Grill in the Financial District, meeting for lunch or dinner with Gordon Getty and local businessman George Miller.
“One thing I loved about Judge Newsom is that he was a Renaissance man,” said John Briscoe, owner of Sam’s. “He had a command of literature and history, as well as the law. He was also a masterful political player. I admired him greatly.”
Newsom served on the Board of Regents for Santa Clara University, which his son attended. He also served on the boards of the Environmental Defense Fund and the Mountain Lion Foundation, among others.
Newsom was predeceased by his ex-wife, Tessa. Survivors include his son, Gavin Newsom, and daughter, Hilary Newsom Callan, both of Kentfield.
Donations may be made to the Justice William Newsom Fund, the San Francisco Foundation, One Embarcadero Center No. 1400, San Francisco, CA 94111
Services are pending.
Sam Whiting is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: swhiting@sfchronicle.com Instagram: @sfchronicle_art
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The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) (a film retrospective by Mark R. Leeper).
December 27, 2020 | By MarkRLeeper | Reply More
Trivia question: what day of the week is “The Day the Earth Stood Still”? Answer later in the article.
The Day The Earth Stood Still is a sentimental favorite among Fifties science fiction films. It is certainly good but not nearly as good as its reputation would make it. What you have is a story
of militant pacifists from outer space who come to Earth to say “be nice and don’t fight or our robots are going to kick some ass.”
This has never been my idea of an inspiring message. And the mere fact that it isn’t the aliens themselves but their robotic police does not make the message one iota more palatable, at least not for me. I think that the concept that aliens were going to come down and keep peace-or at least limit warfare-like some sort of super-parents is less than appealing.
The film begins with a subjective sequence showing an approach to Earth from space. Once again we see that the 1950s’ fascination with flying saucers is used in a film, in fact more than some of
the films that just had references. Here the flying saucer which we saw the first sequence actually lands in a park in Washington D.C. The military immediately surrounds the craft. From the saucer comes a mysterious alien, Klaatu, who is almost immediately shot due to paranoia on the part of the military guards sent to meet him. The saucer again opens and out comes a nine-foot-tall robot who destroys all the weapons aimed at the saucer, then turns himself into a statue. Klaatu is taken to a hospital but heals himself faster than Earth medicine could. He requests an audience with all world leaders and is refused. He escapes from his hospital to find out for himself what humans who are not politicians are all about.
At a science fiction convention I attended, The Day The Earth Stood Still was used as an example of a science fiction film that is not also a horror film. That seems to be the general perception by most fans, yet I think looking at the film there definitely is an element of horror in the film. I see this in two aspects. First is the way Klaatu is handled in the early parts of the film. Often his face is hidden or we see him from behind or in shadow. This combined with Bernard Herrmann’s menacing music is clearly intended to make Klaatu seem threatening. And certainly the robot Gort is intended to be frightening. He kills when he has to and stands implacably the rest of the time. On subsequent viewings one realizes that Gort kills only two soldiers in the course of the film and then only because they are threatening him with rifles.
Patricia Neal is in love at the beginning of the film and discovers she doesn’t really like her intended during the course of the film. One of the things she does not like is his assumption that he should be a dominating male. In some ways, this film is years ahead of its time. The other major lead and certainly the only Earth-person of much real interest value in the film is Sam Jaffe as Prof. Barnhardt, a thinly disguised imitation of Albert Einstein. Jaffe was a great character actor who seemed equally at home playing German scientists or Gunga Din. The generation who was growing up seeing ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’ may who have come to think of him as Dr. Zorba on the TV show ‘Ben Casey’.
There are a number of nice touches in the film. Several well-known news commentators of the period agreed to appear as themselves adding an air of authenticity. Names like Elmer Davis are not familiar now, but were certainly so at the time of the release of the film. We also get a feel for the contemporary Cold War paranoia. Helen Benson jumps to the conclusion that Carpenter is a spy. Also the Christ symbolism is a bit blatant. Klaatu, who takes on the name Carpenter (initials J.C.), is hated in spite of his message of peace. He is killed but returns from the dead to meet with people and then to ascend into the heavens. Imaginative visual touches include Gort’s strange death-ray lens and a rather interesting set for the internals of the saucer. It has been suggested that, as in the short story ‘Farewell To The Master’ by Harry Bates on which the story is based, the robot is really the boss and not the human. I see no internal information that is conclusive either way, but the film is marginally more interesting if Klaatu is actually running interference for the true master Gort.
Some impressive scenes with Gort and the score by Herrmann give this film most of what is good about it.
I give it a high +1 on the -4 to +4 scale.
Trivia answer: And what day of the week was ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’? It was a Tuesday. Bobby did not have school the day he went to Prof. Barnhardt’s house but did have school the next day so presumably that was a Sunday. That night Klaatu returns to the house and tells the professor that the demonstration will be two days hence.
© Mark R. Leeper 2020
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Category: Films, MEDIA, Scifi
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half, a short reception by doug baldwin in the third quarter and a big 57-yard connection with tyler lockett in the fourth. the seahawks wrap up the nfc west, their third division title in four seasons with a 24-3 win. while the defense kept the rams out of the end zone, they also put a hurting on one of l.a.'s biggest offensive weapons, jared goff. the quarterback took a vicious hit from richard sherman at the end of a 15-yard run in the fourth quarter. goff exited the game and has been placed in concussion protocol. that looked rough. >>> the patriots have claimed michael floyd off waivers, one day after he was cut by the cardinals following his dui arrest early monday morning. floyd played in 13 games for arizona this season, catching 33 passes for a career low 446 yards. >>> all right, in college football, the minnesota golden gophers are boycotting all football activities to protest the university's decision to indefinitely suspend ten members of the team in connection with an alleged sexual assault incident in september. minnesota suspended them based on standards for conduct a
half, a short reception by doug baldwin in the third quarter and a big 57-yard connection with tyler lockett in the fourth. the seahawks wrap up the nfc west, their third division title in four seasons with a 24-3 win. while the defense kept the rams out of the end zone, they also put a hurting on one of l.a.'s biggest offensive weapons, jared goff. the quarterback took a vicious hit from richard sherman at the end of a 15-yard run in the fourth quarter. goff exited the game and has been...
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the first half and tyler lockett opened the fourth quarter with a run for a score. seattle with the solid grip on the nfc west winning big 40-7 there. wasn't all good news for the seahawks, earl thomas was carted off the field with a broken leg after colliding with a teammate early in the second quarter of last night's blowout. with a tweet that he sent out later in the game, thomas reveals the hit has him thinking about early retirement. feel bad for him there. less clear than in previous years, the playoff committee had more to mull over to determine which four teams in the championship. alabama, followed by clemson back in the playoff for the second straight season. at number three, ohio state looks for its second title and making their first trip to the college football playoff are the washington huskies, taking on alabama in the peach bowl, while the tigers and buckeyes meet at the fiesta bowl on new year's eve. >>> president-elect donald trump expands his search for secretary of state. what we're learning about the new potential picks. >>> plus, a fake clinton conspiracy story
the first half and tyler lockett opened the fourth quarter with a run for a score. seattle with the solid grip on the nfc west winning big 40-7 there. wasn't all good news for the seahawks, earl thomas was carted off the field with a broken leg after colliding with a teammate early in the second quarter of last night's blowout. with a tweet that he sent out later in the game, thomas reveals the hit has him thinking about early retirement. feel bad for him there. less clear than in previous...
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Just Because You Didn’t Kill Someone Doesn’t Mean You’re Not a Murderer
If you read that headline and scratched your head, then you’re like many onlookers of the U.S. criminal justice system to whom concepts like “felony murder” seem unnecessarily aggressive. Roughly speaking, felony murder can occur when the intent of an individual is not to commit murder, but a person dies as the result of some other felony crime that the person committed. Florida lists a number of crimes where a felony murder charge may be in play. Those include (among several others):
Aggravated fleeing
While it certainly makes sense to charge someone with murder for a crime like arson or human trafficking if someone should die as a result of their actions, the charge of felony murder is rife for abuse.
The most recent case that has folks scratching their heads and justifiably outraged is that of a 15-year-old boy who was charged, found guilty, and sentenced under felony murder when a police officer shot and killed one of the four boys that he was with the night of a burglary spree. The 15-year-old boy was then given a 65-year sentence for the “murder” of a 16-year-old who was shot in the neck by a police officer while attempting to flee the scene.
A grand jury ruled that the shooting was justified, so the officer was never charged with any crime, but under Alabama’s accomplice liability, the 15-year-old boy was charged with murder.
Accomplice Liability in Florida
In Florida, you can be charged with a crime that another person commits under what is known as accomplice liability. As an example, let’s say that you provide a car to individuals that you know are going to use the car to commit a burglary. Not only would you be charged with the burglary, but you could also be charged with any other crime committed during the burglary, including if a murder occurs.
In other words, even if you have no intent to commit murder nor were involved in the murder in any way, you can still be charged with the murder if it occurs.
What is Florida’s Felony Murder Rule?
Sometimes there’s a difference between what the law specifically states and how it is employed by prosecutors. In Florida, felony murder can be employed as aggressively as possible. Even an individual who loans a car to someone who intends to commit a burglary can be charged with murder if someone dies during the home invasion.
The case above shows just how far the felony murder can be taken, and it carries with it the full sentence of first or second-degree murder, depending on the circumstances. That means defendants will often find themselves staring down the barrel of a death penalty conviction or life imprisonment for a death they had no hand in causing.
Do You Need a Top-Quality Criminal Defense Attorney?
If you do, please contact the Skier Law Firm, P.A of West Palm Beach. We handle high-profile murder cases and routine DWI offenses and we’ll ensure you get the best defense possible.
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By The Skier Law Firm, P.A. | Posted on July 5, 2018 Tags: Felony Murder, West Palm Beach Criminal Defense Lawyer, West Palm Beach Criminal Defense Lawyers
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News The best cities in the UK for a post-lockdown break
Posted on 10th January 2021 by Florence Derrick
Travel may be difficult, or even off limits, for now - but that doesn't mean we can't make plans for the future. We hope that articles like this one will help you plan your next experience with confidence, whenever that may be.
From London to Liverpool, Edinburgh to Brighton, it’s hard to choose between some of the best cities in the UK. Of course, unless you’re lucky enough to live in one of them, these cities are off-limits for now. The UK is under lockdown until mid-February at least, meaning that domestic travel is off the cards.
There’s a strict travel ban between Scotland and England, and it’s not allowed to travel between Wales, Northern Ireland and England unless for essential reasons.
However, it’s a perfect time to plan for a post-lockdown staycation. Whether you’re a fan of beaches, buildings or culture, here are some of the UK’s must-visit cities, to act as inspiration for when we can travel domestically again.
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Best cities in the UK for beaches
Pastel-painted beach huts, seven miles of golden sands, landscaped Victorian parks, land trains, cliff lifts, and the world’s first (and only) pier-to-shore zip line, Bournemouth ticks all the boxes for a classic UK holiday by the seaside. Often warmer than the rest of the UK, with temperatures in July averaging at 17°C, it’s easily one of the best cities to visit in the UK for cool off in the new seaside fountains or at one of the four Blue Flag beaches. The only trouble is picking between Alum Chine, Durley Chine, Fisherman’s Walk or Southbourne.
Don’t miss:
The Russell-Cotes art Gallery and museum. Housed in a spectacular Grade II listed villa at the top of East Cliff, the museum’s amazing art nouveau interiors and stained glass skylights mean you’ll leave with some share-worthy holiday snaps. Inside, you’ll find an acclaimed collection of Japanese ceramics as well as Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and a new exhibition (until April 2021) of the gallery’s prized artworks seen through a new lockdown lens. The museum is open from 10am to 5pm Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and it’s best to pre-book online, as visitor numbers are limited. An adult ticket will set you back £7.50 while for kids and students it’s £3.63 (and children under 5 go free).
Where to stay in Bournemouth:
Check in to the Hilton Bournemouth for luxurious rooms with panoramic views of Bournemouth Bay plus an indoor heated pool and Sky bar, or book one of the Hampton by Hilton‘s bright, modern rooms, which come with breakfast and WiFi. Both score 4.5 out of 5 on our new cleanliness ratings system.
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Bournemouth airport is just four miles from the city centre, or you can drive to Bournemouth from London in just over two hours or catch the (slightly quicker) train from London Waterloo.
The ancient lanes of Brighton’s ex-fishing village centre are now strung with quirky shops and one-off bars, its exuberant Royal Pavilion and unapologetically tacky pier pulling in the crowds. Brighton’s nightlife lights up the south coast all year round, with live music, theatre and comedy rounding out the city’s arts scene – look out for the many socially distant, COVID-friendly incarnations that are being dreamed up now.
The world’s tallest moving observation experience, Brighton’s British Airways i360. You’ll take in 360-degree views as your viewing pod glides slowly up to 450 feet. Adult tickets will cost £15 and children can visit for £7.50. Book online in advance and you’ll get a small discount.
Where to stay in Brighton:
Base yourself on the seafront at the opulent Hotel du Vin, where you’ll find a sweeping staircase leading to quirky rooms, some with rolltop baths. Alternatively, book at the quirky A Room with a View, crowned one of the most unusual UK staycation spots by yours truly.
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At only an hour away by rail, Brighton makes a great weekend away from London. Coming from elsewhere? The easiest way to get here is to fly to London Gatwick and take the regular fast train from the airport to the city.
Best cities in the UK for architecture
Few cities are as beautiful as Cambridge, its dreamy spires rising up from the green fields around the River Cam, making it one of the best cities to visit in the UK for architecture buffs. Drink it all in by taking a walk along ‘the Backs’ of the college, snapping some photos of King’s College Chapel (currently closed to the public), or partaking in an essential Cambridge activity – a spot of punting on the river. The city is dominated by the stately facades of its university colleges, and the vibrant student population keeps the food and bar scene interesting.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden. For a fun, free day out, explore this 16-hectare teaching and research garden. Home to over 8,000 plants, it was opened in 1762. Spot more than 100 species of birds, reptiles, and amphibians too. The garden is open 10am to 4pm and you’ll need to book online before your visit. An adult ticket costs £6 – kids under 16 go free.
Where to stay in Cambridge:
The best hotel in town is the chic Varsity, in the thick of the colleges and with its own spa and roof terrace. There are just 48 individual rooms, many with lovely views over the city, and it scores top marks on our COVID-friendly cleanliness scale. If you’re a bit more budget-conscious then you can’t go wrong with a room at the Premier Inn, with comfy beds and free WiFi, just to the east of the city centre.
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Cambridge is well-serviced by the railway, with nearby Peterborough connecting to the major north-south line between Plymouth and Aberdeen, and trains from London can be surprisingly affordable. London Stansted airport is only 30 miles down the road as well.
Scotland’s capital makes one of the most romantic city breaks in the UK at any time of the year. Couples flock there for blustery walks to the top of Arthur’s Seat in winter, springtime strolls by the Water of Leith, summer’s epic Fringe Festival (the UK’s largest) and the party to end all parties, Hogmanay, at each year’s end – it’ll be a bit more muted this year than usual, but it’s still a beautiful place to bring in 2021. And that’s before we even mention the castle, the Royal Mile or the whisky. Make sure fit it all in with our 24hr video guide to the city, which you can watch here.
Getting an overview of Scottish history at the National Museum of Scotland, which has re-opened with coranvirus protection measures in place. The Made in Scotland, Changing the World exhibition is an insight into the scientific and technological inventions made in Scotland over the last 300 years, and is fun for adults and kids alike. The museum is open daily 10am-4.30pm (seasonal opening hours) and entrance is free, although every visitor must pre-book timed tickets online.
Where to stay in Edinburgh:
If Edinburgh is one of the best cities to visit in the UK then the Sheraton Grand Hotel and Spa is one of the best places to stay. Book one of its opulent rooms for castle views and access to the fabulous thermal circuit in the One Spa. The hip, budget Motel One Edinburgh Royal is another good choice, with bright, modern rooms with touches of tartan.
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Edinburgh makes an easy last-minute getaway, thanks to direct, reliably cheap flights from many regional airports and a well-served train station. Journeys from the south and Midlands feature a dramatically beautiful stretch of the East Coast line via Berwick upon Tweed.
Once known as the Second City of the British Empire, Glasgow is a vibrant melting pot of historic architecture and contemporary culture, making it one of the best cities to visit in the UK for sampling both. Stately Georgian buildings abound, as do hip bars and restaurants (currently operating under coronavirus-related restrictions), and the ex-industrial heartland of the Clyde is today a revamped and rejuvenated area of real cultural clout. Find out more with our top 11 things to see and do in Glasgow.
A fine feast at Porter & Rye. Try their porterhouse steak for two, to taste world-famous Scottish beef at its best. Don’t forget to book your table in advance – most places are taking pre-bookings only.
Where to stay in Glasgow:
You’ll get a friendly Glasgow welcome wherever you go, but One Devonshire Gardens Hotel du Vin is a cut above the rest, with kilt-wearing concierges to meet you at the door. The rooms are pretty special too – some even have standalone baths in the bedroom. For more wallet-friendly accommodation, check in to the Z Hotel where you’ll find snug rooms and a reception/bar serving complimentary breakfast.
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Glasgow is served by two airports but Glasgow International is the go-to airport for domestic flights to the rest of the UK (Glasgow Prestwick runs only short-haul flights to Europe). There are trains to Glasgow every 40 minutes from London and it’s only an hour between here and Edinburgh.
Best cities in the UK for culture
Liverpool has England’s largest collection of museums and galleries outside London, a vibrant music scene and superb shopping – and, of course, a football team or two. Take the famous ferry across the Mersey, explore the historic Albert Dock, see the Liver Building, and hit the Beatles trail around this rejuvenated ex-industrial powerhouse.
Liverpool has dozens of museums and galleries but you can’t miss the Tate Liverpool gallery at the Royal Albert Dock. Explore an expansive collection of British and international modern and contemporary art in peaceful surroundings. Entry is free, but you’ll need to pre-book a timed ticket online. The gallery is open Monday to Sunday, 10am-5.50pm.
Where to stay in Liverpool:
It has to be the Hope Street Hotel, for its independent spirit, fabulous London Carriage Works restaurant, and unrivalled location between the city’s two cathedrals – some rooms have terraces with views of both. On a budget? Once again, the Z Hotel comes up trumps, with its compact rooms, central location, and terrific prices: rooms start at £60 a night.
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Liverpool is easily reachable by road, although you may want to take advantage of cheap flights if coming from further afield – Belfast, Edinburgh, and Castletown (Isle of Man) airports operate direct flights to Liverpool.
Where to start? With world-leading museums perhaps, or the fantastic shopping to be had? How about the diverse cuisines on offer or the endless, eclectic bars? What about the copious green space and endless attractions? You get it. London has it all – in spades. The highlights? Start with the British Museum (booked a timed ticket online), Covent Garden, the London Eye, the Tower of London, the Shard…
Even those who’ve done it all might have missed this one. In 2016, the ArcelorMittal Orbit in the Olympic Park launched a brand new attraction: a helter-skelter slide all the way down the UK’s tallest sculpture. It’s the world’s longest and tallest tunnel slide, and predictably enough, more than rivals the London Eye for spectacular views of the city. You can book adult tickets online from £16.75. Child tickets cost from £10.75, or pick up a family of four ticket from £53.
Where to stay in London:
Book a room at the stylish Andaz London and you’ll get five-star service and chic boutique style in one very attractive package – the 19th-century ex-Great Eastern railway hotel. There are five bookable bars and restaurants, and an easy favourite is Eastway, for reliable brasserie dishes, including great steaks. Or, save your money for those swanky skyscraper restaurants and head to the Z hotel: there are several dotted around the city in Soho, Shoreditch, Piccadilly and Victoria, each with the trademark small but perfectly formed rooms.
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As the hub of England and the UK, London has excellent transport links to all corners of the country and beyond, with five major airports located around Greater London; Luton, Stansted airport, Gatwick, Heathrow, and London City. With so much choice, it’s easy to find good city break deals to London. Once you land all you’ve got to do is hop on a coach or the good-value easyBus by easyJet to get into the centre of London. Alternatively, come by train to get straight to the heart of the city, with Kings Cross and London St Pancras providing quick access from the Midlands, the north of England, and Scotland, while London Waterloo or Paddington are the main endpoints for services from the West Country and Wales.
Portsmouth has long been a naval heavyweight, with the harbour’s strategic location exploited by every monarch since Henry VII. Today the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is home to the HMS Warrior, HMS Victory, and the Mary Rose, plus the National Museum of the Royal Navy. The D-Day Museum is worth the short detour out of town, while the Spinnaker Tower should be climbed for its maritime views our over the Solent – and the chance to test your head for heights on its see-through floor.
The D-Day Museum. Book adult tickets online for £9 (£4.50 for children) to save money compared to on-the-door prices. The museum is a fascinating introduction to the history of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy – don’t miss the 59-metre long Landing Craft Tank that carried 10 tanks to Normandy for D-Day. The D-Day Museum is open daily from 10am to 5.30pm.
Where to stay in Portsmouth:
The Marriott Portsmouth has plush rooms and a heated pool in a good, central location. Alternatively, try Florence House, where luxurious, homely rooms fill a lovingly restored Edwardian house. Breakfast, WiFi and parking are all included.
Portsmouth is well connected to other south coast cities by rail, with Southampton (pictured below) to the west (30 minutes), and Brighton to the east (80 minutes). Southampton Airport is 20 miles away from the city centre, with trains connecting to Portsmouth.
*Published January 2021. Any prices are lowest estimated prices only at the time of publication and are subject to change and/or availability.
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